Actually, skipping the preliminary, the BNA act begins " It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation that, on and after a Day therein appointed, not being more than Six Months after the passing of this Act, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada; and on and after that Day those Three Provinces shall form and be One Dominion under that Name accordingly."
It's not the most the most inspired reading. The Yanks do have us beat when it comes to founding documents. Actually, they've got pretty much everyone beat, just for including the concept of the 'pursuit of happiness' being important. Since when did a government ever care about its people's happiness? At most they would prefer that most of the people be more or less content so that they don't revolt, but that's about it. Of course, the US as envisioned by its founding fathers, and the US today are arguably quite different.
Nope, but Homo sapiens neanderthalensis is darn close. If you saw one shaved and wearing a suit your first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!". Unless you're a cannibal, that is.
But in mainstream, paper books will be dead in next 10-20 years.
Meh, they should be dead by now and they aren't so I'm not going to hold my breath. When they have a nice, very affordable (under $100), DRM free reader which supports multiple formats, then you can start the count down. Until then its a gimmick to get you to pay more than you should for digital content which costs them dick all to produce but which they want to charge you as much or close to as much as they charged for the dead tree version.
You're right about not being able to 'remake' it, but still NH should have their old man of the mountain. Perhaps do a realistic portrait in stone, like Rushmore, except of a generic old male citizen. They could have a contest for Mr. Old Man New Hampshire (no bathing suit category hopefully) and the winner could serve as the model.
Or this aggravation, when you're searching for a solution to a problem, find a forum where someone has asked exactly the question you're asking, and the only reply is "Google it. Google is your friend."
Google might be my friend, but that asshat sure as hell isn't Google's friend, the poster's friend, nor anyone's. Answer the fricken question, or STFU and stop adding to the noise.
Exactly. I think copyright was a good idea in its original form. The public domain is the first priority for the good of the nation as a whole, but hows about granting a monopoly on revenue from the work for a limited time to the original creator as an incentive and a reward? Great idea. But if it can't be made to work because greedy corporations like Disney keep pushing for extensions until the term is effectively unlimited, then it's screwed and we should return to the first priority, which is the public domain.
Hoist the jolly roger and set sail, me hearties. Copyright is dead, long live the public domain (or what we'll make pass for such)! YAarrr!
Thanks, perhaps I'll give it a try. I don't really care what it looks like since I prefer a really spartan desktop, hidden task bar, and keyboard shortcuts for most used programs. With that, alt+space, and alt+f2, I rarely need to go poking around the task bar (or kicker or whatever they're calling it now).
Not sure why that's modded funny. I suspect it's a reflection of what many feel. If copyright law is broken, then it's broken. The only reasons for obeying it are fear of being caught, or a belief that it's important to obey the law just because it is the law regardless of whether or not one personally considers it broken, or asinine, or wrong. That's not enough for a lot of folk.
The purpose of a boycott is to send the message that you'd rather go without than to support the seller's actions.
Not for me it isn't. For me it is very simply about me not putting money into their coffers. And it isn't a grand crusade which will have to be regarded as failed if insufficient others join in, it's very personal, having to do with my own sense of what's right and what isn't. It would be nice if others also acted in such a way as to not enrich RIAA labels (EMI, Sony, Universal, Warner, etc), but it isn't necessary, nor does it have to be extreme.
Simply vote your conscience with your wallet (or by withholding the contents of your wallet). I wouldn't even go so far as to say that you've no right to whine if you support the RIAA labels. Personally, I'd rather you didn't, but on the 'he who pays the piper' principle, perhaps you should be most vocal of all.
Comment there also refers to an option in synaptic for accomplishing this. Here is a page which describes how to. That's probably easiest, unless its a command line only server or something.
Could the material in a bomb power a small data centre sized reactor? Because the limiting factor in a data centre I have to interact with isn't space anymore, it's electricity. If so we'd like to order one along with a small reactor. Thanks.
One of America's most successful comedies, Seinfeld, was full of awful people. Perhaps the aversion to awful people comedies is more on the part of network perceptions than what Americans actually like. This may also be why they fail so dismally at adapting popular British shows.
When the device dries, the detergent and fabric softener are left behind
Exactly! Our clothes are full of soap! My washing machine empties into a large laundry room sink, and even an additional rinse will have soap in the water discharged. Clean as we conceive it isn't like factory original clothing, but is full of soap. Millions of people are walking around thinking that their clothes are clean and fresh blithely unaware that they are really full of soap! Ah well, it has probably been extensively tested on animals and found to be safe enough, so I suppose no harm done (except, perhaps, to the original animals tested on).
Gotta watch out for that street language. They try and confuse you by using different words and such, but we're on to what 'fu' means in street language, yesiree bob.
Yep. I knew an octogenarian who was lucky to get effective treatment (surgery and chemo) for bowel cancer. A doctor noticed she still had the constitution of a horse and decided to go ahead, but there was serious discussion of not going ahead based on age. Those treatments can kill anyone who is fragile to begin with.
What concerns is me is how many otherwise hale and hearty elders are being denied effective treatment on knee jerk consideration of age?
I've got a hauppage board and I can't get mythtv to work on ubunutu 8.04 which is an otherwise 'user friendly' linux distro. Granted, I haven't tried hard enough to earn my Myth TV Linux merit badge, but then it's not important enough to me to sweat it, I just want to be able to watch the occasional show and I can do that with VLC. But for anyone for whom that is a make or break issue, I wouldn't recommend Linux for them. Either that or get a Windows box and make that your TV. Or, and here's a revolutionary idea, get a TV and make that your TV.
I think you're reading too much into the disrespect thing.
S'truth, esp. given that this isn't some individual artist's master piece, but a commercial product of a big studio. But there are practical reasons for leaving it alone, namely, it isn't finished. If you're not a big fan, then you can wait, and if you are a big fan, wouldn't you rather see it with all the special effects and music? Do you really want your first exposure to be a work print?
should said 2 year be arrested for distribution of child porn and forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life?
Damn right, the little perv. And round up all the people involved in taking ultrasound pictures of fetuses before they're even born. Before they're even born for god's sake!
Oh, it's the end times, it's the end times alright.
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Actually, skipping the preliminary, the BNA act begins " It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation that, on and after a Day therein appointed, not being more than Six Months after the passing of this Act, the Provinces of Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick shall form and be One Dominion under the Name of Canada; and on and after that Day those Three Provinces shall form and be One Dominion under that Name accordingly."
It's not the most the most inspired reading. The Yanks do have us beat when it comes to founding documents. Actually, they've got pretty much everyone beat, just for including the concept of the 'pursuit of happiness' being important. Since when did a government ever care about its people's happiness? At most they would prefer that most of the people be more or less content so that they don't revolt, but that's about it. Of course, the US as envisioned by its founding fathers, and the US today are arguably quite different.
That robust frame of theirs was probably good for endurance, but those tasty suckers sure couldn't run fast!
Poor neanderthals. Probably thought they were the top of the food chain too, until H.s.s. came along.
H. neanderthalensis != H. sapiens
Nope, but Homo sapiens neanderthalensis is darn close. If you saw one shaved and wearing a suit your first thought wouldn't be "Mmmm, lunch!". Unless you're a cannibal, that is.
But in mainstream, paper books will be dead in next 10-20 years.
Meh, they should be dead by now and they aren't so I'm not going to hold my breath. When they have a nice, very affordable (under $100), DRM free reader which supports multiple formats, then you can start the count down. Until then its a gimmick to get you to pay more than you should for digital content which costs them dick all to produce but which they want to charge you as much or close to as much as they charged for the dead tree version.
You're right about not being able to 'remake' it, but still NH should have their old man of the mountain. Perhaps do a realistic portrait in stone, like Rushmore, except of a generic old male citizen. They could have a contest for Mr. Old Man New Hampshire (no bathing suit category hopefully) and the winner could serve as the model.
Or payed for a vid, added it to your favorites, only to have it disappear because of a DMCA notice. Would you get a refund in that case?
Or this aggravation, when you're searching for a solution to a problem, find a forum where someone has asked exactly the question you're asking, and the only reply is "Google it. Google is your friend."
Google might be my friend, but that asshat sure as hell isn't Google's friend, the poster's friend, nor anyone's. Answer the fricken question, or STFU and stop adding to the noise.
Exactly. I think copyright was a good idea in its original form. The public domain is the first priority for the good of the nation as a whole, but hows about granting a monopoly on revenue from the work for a limited time to the original creator as an incentive and a reward? Great idea. But if it can't be made to work because greedy corporations like Disney keep pushing for extensions until the term is effectively unlimited, then it's screwed and we should return to the first priority, which is the public domain.
Hoist the jolly roger and set sail, me hearties. Copyright is dead, long live the public domain (or what we'll make pass for such)! YAarrr!
Thanks, perhaps I'll give it a try. I don't really care what it looks like since I prefer a really spartan desktop, hidden task bar, and keyboard shortcuts for most used programs. With that, alt+space, and alt+f2, I rarely need to go poking around the task bar (or kicker or whatever they're calling it now).
Not sure why that's modded funny. I suspect it's a reflection of what many feel. If copyright law is broken, then it's broken. The only reasons for obeying it are fear of being caught, or a belief that it's important to obey the law just because it is the law regardless of whether or not one personally considers it broken, or asinine, or wrong. That's not enough for a lot of folk.
Does KDE 4 now have keyboard shortcuts where you can assign keys to quick launch often used programs?
The purpose of a boycott is to send the message that you'd rather go without than to support the seller's actions.
Not for me it isn't. For me it is very simply about me not putting money into their coffers. And it isn't a grand crusade which will have to be regarded as failed if insufficient others join in, it's very personal, having to do with my own sense of what's right and what isn't. It would be nice if others also acted in such a way as to not enrich RIAA labels (EMI, Sony, Universal, Warner, etc), but it isn't necessary, nor does it have to be extreme.
Simply vote your conscience with your wallet (or by withholding the contents of your wallet). I wouldn't even go so far as to say that you've no right to whine if you support the RIAA labels. Personally, I'd rather you didn't, but on the 'he who pays the piper' principle, perhaps you should be most vocal of all.
Just do whatever you can manage.
apt-spy doesn't appear to be available for ubunutu 8.04
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "apt-spy"
Here's an interesting page which mentions an alternative called netselect-apt
http://www.go2linux.org/find_the_fastest_debian_mirror-apt-spy_and_netselect-apt
Comment there also refers to an option in synaptic for accomplishing this. Here is a page which describes how to. That's probably easiest, unless its a command line only server or something.
For the same reason that you'll upgrade to 9.10 instead of waiting for 11.04: Features.
Until KDE 4 is ready for prime time, I'm going to stick with 8.04 LTS.
Could the material in a bomb power a small data centre sized reactor? Because the limiting factor in a data centre I have to interact with isn't space anymore, it's electricity. If so we'd like to order one along with a small reactor. Thanks.
One of America's most successful comedies, Seinfeld, was full of awful people. Perhaps the aversion to awful people comedies is more on the part of network perceptions than what Americans actually like. This may also be why they fail so dismally at adapting popular British shows.
When the device dries, the detergent and fabric softener are left behind
Exactly! Our clothes are full of soap! My washing machine empties into a large laundry room sink, and even an additional rinse will have soap in the water discharged. Clean as we conceive it isn't like factory original clothing, but is full of soap. Millions of people are walking around thinking that their clothes are clean and fresh blithely unaware that they are really full of soap! Ah well, it has probably been extensively tested on animals and found to be safe enough, so I suppose no harm done (except, perhaps, to the original animals tested on).
Gotta watch out for that street language. They try and confuse you by using different words and such, but we're on to what 'fu' means in street language, yesiree bob.
Sssh, Don't mention the war.
Yep. I knew an octogenarian who was lucky to get effective treatment (surgery and chemo) for bowel cancer. A doctor noticed she still had the constitution of a horse and decided to go ahead, but there was serious discussion of not going ahead based on age. Those treatments can kill anyone who is fragile to begin with.
What concerns is me is how many otherwise hale and hearty elders are being denied effective treatment on knee jerk consideration of age?
with 150$ and a month you can steal 460billion dollars worth of mp3s
Interesting. And where might one go to pawn these mp3s? I would happily settle for a thousandth of the value.
I've got a hauppage board and I can't get mythtv to work on ubunutu 8.04 which is an otherwise 'user friendly' linux distro. Granted, I haven't tried hard enough to earn my Myth TV Linux merit badge, but then it's not important enough to me to sweat it, I just want to be able to watch the occasional show and I can do that with VLC. But for anyone for whom that is a make or break issue, I wouldn't recommend Linux for them. Either that or get a Windows box and make that your TV. Or, and here's a revolutionary idea, get a TV and make that your TV.
I think you're reading too much into the disrespect thing.
S'truth, esp. given that this isn't some individual artist's master piece, but a commercial product of a big studio. But there are practical reasons for leaving it alone, namely, it isn't finished. If you're not a big fan, then you can wait, and if you are a big fan, wouldn't you rather see it with all the special effects and music? Do you really want your first exposure to be a work print?
should said 2 year be arrested for distribution of child porn and forced to register as a sex offender for the rest of their life?
Damn right, the little perv. And round up all the people involved in taking ultrasound pictures of fetuses before they're even born. Before they're even born for god's sake!
Oh, it's the end times, it's the end times alright.
My favourite is himmelfahrt. Sounds like some form of disgusting flatulence, but actually means ascension to heaven.