I'm not sure it is legal, I just think The City of Vancouver bylaw enforcement team turns a blind eye to seniors waving tennis rackets with "Park Hear" scotch-taped onto them.
I recently got back from a trip to Latin America. Blackerries were *everywhere,* with everyone BBMing like mad. iPhones were almost non-existent, with a smattering of older Android devices. I think we tend to take an America / Western Europe approach when in fact it's apparent that BB remains strong in 'emerging' markets.
The problem I have with 'drone' is there isn't a clear definition of what a 'drone' is.
A thousand-kilogram General Atomics MQ-1 Predator raining freedom (via Hellfire missiles) down upon terrorists is a 'drone' as is one-kilo quadcopter taking webcam pictures of some housing development.
Back in my day, the former was a 'drone' and the latter was a 'remote controlled plane.'
They were spying on the militaries of countries they were at war with
They were spying on British Citizens too... If you went to your shortwave in your attic and typed out a coded message that you sent across the Channel to occupied Europe, Bletchley Park would decode it.
How long has it been since BlackBerry has had more than a negligible share of the consumer market?
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I recently returned from trips to Mexico City and Bogota. 'Berries were in the hands of everyone you saw, all BBMing like mad. Occasionally you saw an older Android device, almost zero iPhones.
Because under the socialist Obama administration, there's no point to innovating and trying to increase your company's profits: the taxman is going to take it all.
Because under a Republican administration, there's no point to innovating and trying to increase your company's profits:
With infrastructure crumbling, education failing and the middle class fading the environment that fosters capitalist success is fading away. Better to start up in a country like Germany that creates an environment where it's worthwhile trying to innovate.
I'm a huge James Bond fan. Usually the movies are released in the UK a week or two before North America. Still doesn't mean I'd watch a version filmed off the projection screen with a hand (or face) -held camera. Life's too short to watch crap like that.
Who in the smeg watches these 'handy-cammed' movies? The quality must be crap. If you have the time to watch this stuff, go get a Golden Retriever and spend the time walking him / her instead. The Golden'll be up for the walk, I guarantee it.
I'm 47. When I was a kid there was no pox vaccine - When my brother caught it he had the pox everywhere - Inside his mouth, on his tongue, genitals. He lay in a dark room crying for a week in pain, with terrible headaches, with my parents up at night with nothing they could do. Why on EARTH would you subject a kid to that, when with one jab you're protected?
That's child abuse.
Even with milder cases I have friends today who are still scarred from scratching from the terrible itching when they were kids.
A Vancouver father is calling on parents to vaccinate their children for chickenpox after his son nearly died from the disease while his immune system was compromised during chemotherapy.
Jason Lawson's 10-year-old son Beckett has been in and out of hospital for most of his life for cancer treatment, but Lawson says one of the scariest moments came when the boy caught chickenpox from a classmate at school.
I think part of the animosity comes out of frustration. As the article states, having kids generates emotional and biochemical reactions in parents - You wind up deeply loving these fun crazy little maniacs. Loving what they do and what they say. Loving watching them grow and develop personalities and understand the world.
People with kids want to convey those feelings to the childless, but it's impossible - There's no means to convey those emotions, no language to explain it, there's no means for the childless to 'get it..'
Concrete example in my case: I loved my nieces and nephew, but didn't have this emotional response until I had my own kids.
So trying to explain what it's like is like trying to describe "blue" to a blind man - So it leads to frustration that manifests as animosity.
I certainly don't express it to my childless friends, but I'm sure others do...
Sorry, no; its used by a lot of people all the time.
Excluding wireless speakers, give me a few examples of how bluetooth is used in WiFi tablets (like the tablet in question) 'by a lot of people all the time.'
How about this deal? Let's ban all handguns and assault weapons in the USA. If, 20 years from now, the homicide rate been reduced you can have them all back.
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) the bus & metro fares amount for about 35% of the operating costs of the transit system. Only 2/3s comes from taxes - So no, the services are not 'fully funded by taxes.'
You can argue about suicides until you're blue in the face, but the facts remain: In the USA, more than any other western country, more kids shoot their siblings. More kids shoot themselves. More drunks shoot either other, widowing mothers and orphaning kids. More men shoot their wives. More criminals shoot 7-11 clerks, taxicab drivers and people in movie theatres. More cops shoot teenagers because the cops think their iPod is a gun.
The USA has said this is fine and this is the society they want to live in, but to the rest of us it is batshit crazy and we want no part of it. Handguns do not belong in a civilized society. Full stop.
Homicides at the hand of armed gangstars commited against law abidding non gun owners would go up
This is a fallacy.
Hand grenades are banned in the USA - They are highly restricted. However, hand-grenade homocides are not up as a result of hand grenades being banned.
If guns are out of circulation, then many fewer people have them, including criminals.
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Vancouver PNE by any chance?
I'm not sure it is legal, I just think The City of Vancouver bylaw enforcement team turns a blind eye to seniors waving tennis rackets with "Park Hear" scotch-taped onto them.
I recently got back from a trip to Latin America. Blackerries were *everywhere,* with everyone BBMing like mad. iPhones were almost non-existent, with a smattering of older Android devices. I think we tend to take an America / Western Europe approach when in fact it's apparent that BB remains strong in 'emerging' markets.
The problem I have with 'drone' is there isn't a clear definition of what a 'drone' is.
A thousand-kilogram General Atomics MQ-1 Predator raining freedom (via Hellfire missiles) down upon terrorists is a 'drone' as is one-kilo quadcopter taking webcam pictures of some housing development.
Back in my day, the former was a 'drone' and the latter was a 'remote controlled plane.'
Bikes aren't dangerous ... bimbos in SUVs are dangerous. Cell phone drivers are dangerous. Bikes are devices. People are the problem.
The fact that 'people are the problem' are what makes bikes dangerous.
If you're behind the wheel of a Smart car and you're hit by a bimbo in an SUV you get up and walk away.
If you're on a bike you're a dead skidmark if you're lucky and in a wheelchair for the rest of your life if you're not.
Loud pipes are compensation for 75 year old technology
Incorrect. "Loud pipes" are compensation for a small penis.
I've already argued endlessly with these guys
Waste of breath / pixels. After all, this is Slashdot, where perfect is the enemy of good and the edge use case wins every time.
They were spying on the militaries of countries they were at war with
They were spying on British Citizens too... If you went to your shortwave in your attic and typed out a coded message that you sent across the Channel to occupied Europe, Bletchley Park would decode it.
How long has it been since BlackBerry has had more than a negligible share of the consumer market?
[anecdote]
I recently returned from trips to Mexico City and Bogota. 'Berries were in the hands of everyone you saw, all BBMing like mad. Occasionally you saw an older Android device, almost zero iPhones.
[/anecdote]
Because under the socialist Obama administration, there's no point to innovating and trying to increase your company's profits: the taxman is going to take it all.
Because under a Republican administration, there's no point to innovating and trying to increase your company's profits:
With infrastructure crumbling, education failing and the middle class fading the environment that fosters capitalist success is fading away. Better to start up in a country like Germany that creates an environment where it's worthwhile trying to innovate.
But the earth is only 6,000 years old?!?
An American congressman told me so, so it must be true.
I'm a huge James Bond fan. Usually the movies are released in the UK a week or two before North America. Still doesn't mean I'd watch a version filmed off the projection screen with a hand (or face) -held camera. Life's too short to watch crap like that.
Who in the smeg watches these 'handy-cammed' movies? The quality must be crap. If you have the time to watch this stuff, go get a Golden Retriever and spend the time walking him / her instead. The Golden'll be up for the walk, I guarantee it.
You decided to start WW I and WW II
How did some white kid working in a coal mine in Wales 'decide' to start WW 2?
"Unnecessary?"
Based on what science, exactly?
I'm 47. When I was a kid there was no pox vaccine - When my brother caught it he had the pox everywhere - Inside his mouth, on his tongue, genitals. He lay in a dark room crying for a week in pain, with terrible headaches, with my parents up at night with nothing they could do. Why on EARTH would you subject a kid to that, when with one jab you're protected?
That's child abuse.
Even with milder cases I have friends today who are still scarred from scratching from the terrible itching when they were kids.
The reasons are similar. It's based on fear and misinformation
No, it's based on facts. It's the anti-vaxxers who operate based on misinformation.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A Vancouver father is calling on parents to vaccinate their children for chickenpox after his son nearly died from the disease while his immune system was compromised during chemotherapy.
Jason Lawson's 10-year-old son Beckett has been in and out of hospital for most of his life for cancer treatment, but Lawson says one of the scariest moments came when the boy caught chickenpox from a classmate at school.
I think part of the animosity comes out of frustration. As the article states, having kids generates emotional and biochemical reactions in parents - You wind up deeply loving these fun crazy little maniacs. Loving what they do and what they say. Loving watching them grow and develop personalities and understand the world.
People with kids want to convey those feelings to the childless, but it's impossible - There's no means to convey those emotions, no language to explain it, there's no means for the childless to 'get it..'
Concrete example in my case: I loved my nieces and nephew, but didn't have this emotional response until I had my own kids.
So trying to explain what it's like is like trying to describe "blue" to a blind man - So it leads to frustration that manifests as animosity.
I certainly don't express it to my childless friends, but I'm sure others do...
Sorry, no; its used by a lot of people all the time.
Excluding wireless speakers, give me a few examples of how bluetooth is used in WiFi tablets (like the tablet in question) 'by a lot of people all the time.'
Why would they include it?
Agree that almost no one uses it, so no need to include it, but Bluetooth does make for an easy way to move files from one device to another.
Not unlike the IR ports on laptops a decade ago...
If you are not a criminal, present evidence to the police that you are not a criminal
Incorrect. Present nothing. Say nothing. Do not open your mouth. Stare into space. Daydream. Meticulously mentally design a house in your mind.
Repeat after me:
Silence
Silence
Silence
My washing machine repairman is awesome, you insensitive clod.
How about this deal? Let's ban all handguns and assault weapons in the USA. If, 20 years from now, the homicide rate been reduced you can have them all back.
Fair?
The services are fully funded by taxes
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) the bus & metro fares amount for about 35% of the operating costs of the transit system. Only 2/3s comes from taxes - So no, the services are not 'fully funded by taxes.'
You can argue about suicides until you're blue in the face, but the facts remain: In the USA, more than any other western country, more kids shoot their siblings. More kids shoot themselves. More drunks shoot either other, widowing mothers and orphaning kids. More men shoot their wives. More criminals shoot 7-11 clerks, taxicab drivers and people in movie theatres. More cops shoot teenagers because the cops think their iPod is a gun.
The USA has said this is fine and this is the society they want to live in, but to the rest of us it is batshit crazy and we want no part of it. Handguns do not belong in a civilized society. Full stop.
Homicides at the hand of armed gangstars commited against law abidding non gun owners would go up
This is a fallacy.
Hand grenades are banned in the USA - They are highly restricted. However, hand-grenade homocides are not up as a result of hand grenades being banned.
If guns are out of circulation, then many fewer people have them, including criminals.
I imagine even the Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy faded away if you took it 'out of range.'
I got the sense that in Adams's vision of "The Guide" all the data was locally cached.