In the West of Canada, it's fairly common. Most people have been hunting at some point in their lives.
Outside of the ultra-urban areas, it's fairly common.
Not everyone lives in Toronto and Montreal - both of which have active military bases and students in college and university who have done so.
It's just not a typical subject of conversation. And they don't travel around with handguns - most use shotguns or rifles for hunting and don't have our fascination with military-style weapons or ordinance.
First rule of understanding Canada - it's a big place and has a multi-cultural mosaic.
I notice you post as an AC. Most Canadians get summer jobs in the SYEP and other military programs to pay for college, and many with PhDs or Masters paid for their college education through military scholarships.
The pool of Canadians (per capita) available for reserve call up is fairly large.
They just don't make a big deal about it like we do - we talk and don't volunteer, they just do it and don't make a big deal about it.
You might be thinking about those with combat experience - I'm talking about military training and weapons experience which is what they said in the article.
Unlike Americans, most Canadians have had some level of military training, and have easy access to explosives and hunting rifles - in point of fact, Canadians have twice as many guns per person than Americans do, they just don't use them to kill people in civilian life.
Thus, it's not that unusual for any Canadian to have both experience and training in these things.
That said, it's more likely CSIS or the RCMP are trying to justify their budgets and just plain hate Canadians legal rights to privacy as enshrined in the Canadian Constitution.
(caveat - I used to be on the other side of riots when I was in the Canadian Army)
I mean, just because Romania, Bulgaria, and Lithuania have four times the internet speed and pay one-twentieth the cost that we do for Internet speeds and storage, doesn't mean we need to get the government involved, right?
What do you want - service?
At a reasonable price?
That's only for corporations and research universities - they get 1000 Gbps while we crawl around at 8... if we're lucky enough to live in a big city.
I have a Mac Mini from 2004. I'm looking at buying this - at the staff/faculty discount at the UW bookstore - and hooking it up to my 1080p LCD HDTV set using the HDMI port.
I can get gently used accessories for about $10 down at UW surplus.
Move on already - we will buy it, cause it does what WE want.
I'll be picking one of these up with the staff/faculty discount at the UW bookstore.
Don't need a monitor - can run the HDMI direct into my 37 inch HDTV set and use the wireless keyboard - and hook it up to a $60 wireless N router for my iPad too.
My first job that wasn't on a farm or building houses was as a Power Engineer. We had some old transformers and other devices which had large quantities of oil for lubrication, which would get dirty.
We mopped it up using bales of cotton, spread out. Then we picked it up and squeezed the oil out and ran that through a recycle/strain process.
This is why I use HTML6 on a 1000 Gbps Net2 IPv6 backbone.
Because it makes the poorly coded Flash apps faint with jealousy.
Real coders have already made the leap to the real Net2 - it's only you in the backwaters like the USA that use old archaic IPv4 over sub-standard 20 Gbps Net that even bother to use Flash.
In related news, the one armed man was found hacking off other people's arms to present right-handed thumbprints, and the war amputees were found applying wax to other patrons thumbs to get ADA-compliant access to the library, before the severe - or severed - lack of arms shut down the entire system.
Using wave technology, which varies in cycles, you can store desalinated water at times of peak flow.
A tidal generator can have many forms - some, which look like buoys, are basically upside-down wind turbines that use the flow of water instead of air to move the blades, while others can use permeated cells. Desalination plants have been around since before WW II, naturally, as have tidal generators.
Delivery of energy supply is one of the main problems with desalination - the process uses a lot of energy, so using local sources such as tidal power makes more sense than trying to string extra power to the plant.
Not that you'd want to drink the swampy and/or briny water in many lowland tidal areas...
As this is how conspiracy theories start, when people not familiar with anti-trust investigations in the USA fail to understand how things work in this country.
(caveat - I have owned and worked for MSFT and owned Apple - not holding either stock at the moment)
Great, so then, you're NOT the target market for these devices.
Now, go get a degree in Sales and Marketing, and you might understand what that means.
Most people today can't tune their own cars, due to the changes since the old days. It makes little sense to market tablets to geeks - there just aren't enough of us in comparison to people who just "consume" and don't want to know how things work.
You've run up against the problem - you want the market to deliver products that you want, in a form factor you want, at a price and time that you want. But the most optimal solution for market clearing of buyers and sellers is to deliver them to non-geeks who just want to use them and will be easier to "service".
Markets are like that. And, nowadays, so is technology. The optimal consumer is a teenage Japanese girl.
Do you understand the actual inner device workings of the electronics in your HDTV set?
I used to hand-crank chip designs using oscilliscopes - most "tech geeks" today have no idea how that works. We also used to hand-tune our floppy and hard disk drives.
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In the West of Canada, it's fairly common. Most people have been hunting at some point in their lives.
Outside of the ultra-urban areas, it's fairly common.
Not everyone lives in Toronto and Montreal - both of which have active military bases and students in college and university who have done so.
It's just not a typical subject of conversation. And they don't travel around with handguns - most use shotguns or rifles for hunting and don't have our fascination with military-style weapons or ordinance.
First rule of understanding Canada - it's a big place and has a multi-cultural mosaic.
I notice you post as an AC. Most Canadians get summer jobs in the SYEP and other military programs to pay for college, and many with PhDs or Masters paid for their college education through military scholarships.
The pool of Canadians (per capita) available for reserve call up is fairly large.
They just don't make a big deal about it like we do - we talk and don't volunteer, they just do it and don't make a big deal about it.
You might be thinking about those with combat experience - I'm talking about military training and weapons experience which is what they said in the article.
Unlike Americans, most Canadians have had some level of military training, and have easy access to explosives and hunting rifles - in point of fact, Canadians have twice as many guns per person than Americans do, they just don't use them to kill people in civilian life.
Thus, it's not that unusual for any Canadian to have both experience and training in these things.
That said, it's more likely CSIS or the RCMP are trying to justify their budgets and just plain hate Canadians legal rights to privacy as enshrined in the Canadian Constitution.
(caveat - I used to be on the other side of riots when I was in the Canadian Army)
Any peer reviewed journal normally involves about 40 back and forth reviews.
As to open source ... the only ones I know about are for my line of work, things like open source BioMed, or Cell Communication and Signaling.
My guess is your particular field has similar open source, but peer-reviewed, journals.
If you have the pre-beta Verizon iPad, the one that is coming out in January 2011 and was shown at E3, you shouldn't have all these vulnerabilities.
The problems so far are only showing up on the AT&T iPad.
Everybody is using the iPad anyway.
This is so very reminiscent of the end of the VHS-Betamax wars - and in case you wondered, the iPad is VHS, fwiw.
If any of these are upskirt videos, that's illegal in most Western states and is a felony.
As Perez Hilton now knows.
Doesn't matter WHY you committed the felony, it just matters that you DID it.
I mean, just because Romania, Bulgaria, and Lithuania have four times the internet speed and pay one-twentieth the cost that we do for Internet speeds and storage, doesn't mean we need to get the government involved, right?
What do you want - service?
At a reasonable price?
That's only for corporations and research universities - they get 1000 Gbps while we crawl around at 8 ... if we're lucky enough to live in a big city.
And I should point out most of our campus runs on Gigabit Internet2 already.
It's you peons who are living in the dark ages, with your 8 Mbps Net speeds ...
Dude - you aren't the target market.
I have a Mac Mini from 2004. I'm looking at buying this - at the staff/faculty discount at the UW bookstore - and hooking it up to my 1080p LCD HDTV set using the HDMI port.
I can get gently used accessories for about $10 down at UW surplus.
Move on already - we will buy it, cause it does what WE want.
Seriously, I can pick up barely used Mac screens and keyboards for $10 each at the UW surplus.
Why pay retail?
I'll be picking one of these up with the staff/faculty discount at the UW bookstore.
Don't need a monitor - can run the HDMI direct into my 37 inch HDTV set and use the wireless keyboard - and hook it up to a $60 wireless N router for my iPad too.
We actually had about half the PCBs in BC in one of the rooms there.
Some of the old devices were from before WW II - we had light bulbs from the Edison company (DC current filaments).
My first job that wasn't on a farm or building houses was as a Power Engineer. We had some old transformers and other devices which had large quantities of oil for lubrication, which would get dirty.
We mopped it up using bales of cotton, spread out. Then we picked it up and squeezed the oil out and ran that through a recycle/strain process.
Cotton works very well.
More sane would be a tax on commenters on news sites instead.
No problem, I'll just switch carriers.
After all, this is America and there is no way we wouldn't have free enterprise with low barriers to entry for multiple data carriers, right?
Right?
Um ... hello?
This is why I use HTML6 on a 1000 Gbps Net2 IPv6 backbone.
Because it makes the poorly coded Flash apps faint with jealousy.
Real coders have already made the leap to the real Net2 - it's only you in the backwaters like the USA that use old archaic IPv4 over sub-standard 20 Gbps Net that even bother to use Flash.
Now excuse me, I have to check on beamtime.
In related news, the one armed man was found hacking off other people's arms to present right-handed thumbprints, and the war amputees were found applying wax to other patrons thumbs to get ADA-compliant access to the library, before the severe - or severed - lack of arms shut down the entire system.
technically, that's what a fuel cell is.
You could store the tidal energy by cracking the water H20 into H2 and O2 and then use it in a fuel cell.
But each conversion process means you lose part of the energy.
And since they need non-brackish drinking water, making it directly is more efficient.
I'm sorry, but we're talking reality here.
Nuclear fusion has been 20 years in the future since the World's Fair in NY before I was born.
It's still 20 years in the future.
But we do have flying cars, jetpacks, and TV/cell wristwatches.
Using wave technology, which varies in cycles, you can store desalinated water at times of peak flow.
A tidal generator can have many forms - some, which look like buoys, are basically upside-down wind turbines that use the flow of water instead of air to move the blades, while others can use permeated cells. Desalination plants have been around since before WW II, naturally, as have tidal generators.
Delivery of energy supply is one of the main problems with desalination - the process uses a lot of energy, so using local sources such as tidal power makes more sense than trying to string extra power to the plant.
Not that you'd want to drink the swampy and/or briny water in many lowland tidal areas ...
As this is how conspiracy theories start, when people not familiar with anti-trust investigations in the USA fail to understand how things work in this country.
(caveat - I have owned and worked for MSFT and owned Apple - not holding either stock at the moment)
Great, so then, you're NOT the target market for these devices.
Now, go get a degree in Sales and Marketing, and you might understand what that means.
Most people today can't tune their own cars, due to the changes since the old days. It makes little sense to market tablets to geeks - there just aren't enough of us in comparison to people who just "consume" and don't want to know how things work.
You've run up against the problem - you want the market to deliver products that you want, in a form factor you want, at a price and time that you want. But the most optimal solution for market clearing of buyers and sellers is to deliver them to non-geeks who just want to use them and will be easier to "service".
Markets are like that. And, nowadays, so is technology. The optimal consumer is a teenage Japanese girl.
Interesting what happens when Microsoft loses the top spot.
They get lawyers to go sue other, more successful, more innovative firms.
Sore losers.
Do you understand the actual inner device workings of the electronics in your HDTV set?
I used to hand-crank chip designs using oscilliscopes - most "tech geeks" today have no idea how that works. We also used to hand-tune our floppy and hard disk drives.