You say "Canadians don't have private insurance companies forcing them to use the HMO approved doctors.". The entire system is like an HMO (referral based in network coverage). In the US, with a PPO, I can walk into any specialist I want and make an appointment. I can also easily get a second opinion from another specialist. Try either of these in Canada.
In the US an HMO is not the only option. In Canada it is.
Sorry, are you suggesting that people remain ignorant of an underling health problem so that they don't undergo "unnecessary" procedures and the government does not spend money unnecessarily? Are you also claiming this is somehow better?
I am an American living in Canada with a legal permit. I have been here 4 years working and paying taxes. I am completely ineligible for Provincial insurance. I pay for my own insurance (I am required by law) and I am extremely limited to who I can see. An American in Canada, with out insurance, would simply be turned away unless it was an extreme emergency situation. The inverse in not true. Canadians, who can afford it, go over the border for medical services that are difficult to come by in Canada.
The health services in Canada are not as good for the average Canadian as the health services in America are for the average American. It seams to me that most Canadians don't care as much about the quality of care as they do that everyone receives the same care. As long as those people are not new immigrants of excluded types.
The name of the bike you are, presumably, referring to is called a penny farthing. They worked by direct drive. The cranks were tied directly into the front hub. You would generally get the largest wheel your legs would allow so that you could travel as fast as possible. The bigger diameter of the front wheel the further you would go with one rotation.
Interestingly the first geared bicycles, that resemble the ones we ride now, were called safety bicycles. Presumably this was because you were closer to the ground and had less distance to fall. However the invention of gearing on the safety bicycle allowed a rider to travel much faster than would of even been possible on a penny farthing. Bicycles today are far more dangerous than a penny farthing. Even going downhill, the penny farthing rider is limited to how fast they can pedal (the cranks never stop spinning) but todays bicycles employ multiple gearing ratios and free wheels/hubs that allow for extremely fast speeds. As I understand it penny farthings quickly died out after the invention of the safety bicycle.
There are just as many flags flying on all sorts of building and homes as their are in the States. Canadians frequently sew canadian flags on their bags/back packs. Canadian symbolism is everywhere even on the new bike racks they are putting up around my neighborhood. Canada preaches "peace keeping", no guns, multi-cultism, universal health care (of the Canadian variety), and other politically identifiable Canadian things to your children and your immigrants. Schools reinforce these notions in the same way that all countries encourage their citizen children to be "better" in those ways that the people who care consider better. Somehow pretending that you are better than Americans because you don't do these things is diluted and silly.
And this gets me to another point. Canada, and some of her people, far to often define them selves as how they are different from Americans. This is, frankly, sad. Canada is a great country full of great people who care very much for the land they call home. Canada, her populous and her officials should stop defining them selves based on the standards of another country or how they differ from those standards but instead declare she is a great country regardless of how others behave or define them selves. Canada should find its own path.
We only need one language, and it's English. Oh is that what the article summary was written in?
These plans went awry when an Israeli registrar realized the Hebrew word ICANN thought meant "hippopotamus" was an expletive and threatened to involve the Israeli government. I realized the article thought meant domains!
No Galileo was convicted of being a heretic because of a book he wrote and published "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" in which he mocked the pope.
I don't know where you live but I live in Toronto and fly to the states five or six times a year.
In the Toronto Airport (YYZ) it usualy takes under thirty minutes to clear through both US customs (yes you clear through US customs while still in Canada) and security. A direct flight to Florida takes about 2 and a half hours.
To be safe I usualy show up 90 minutes before my flight departs and usualy have about an hour wait when I get to the terminal.
I don't know where you fly out of by 4 hours is absurd and I am not sure you have ever actually experienced that sort of delay or were embellishing to make a point.
In fact the YYZ web site states that you should show up 2 hours early for flights with both international and US destination.
So that puts you at at most 5 hours to fly from Toronto to Florida or 9 hours or more to fly to Europe.
Put your keyboard in the dish washer. Make sure the drying cycle is turned off (the heat can damage your keyboard). Allow the keyboard to dry completely.
nearmidformat !? I can only assume you think pictures taken with sub $500 digital cameras look almost as good as a typical medium format camera. That is complete hogwash.
Very few pro-level cameras approach the quality of even a mid range medium format traditional camera. Modern films and paper capture an amazing amount of detail and color and the dynamic range of digital does not even approach that of professional low contrast film/paper.
DYI Home digital printing sucks!!! Most ink jet inks fade within a few months. The best option for home printing is Dye Sublimation and than you are stuck with post card size prints unless you want to spend a few thousand dollars. You are better off taking your digital images to a lab and having them print your image on traditional color paper.
On the flip side you you buy a used medium format setup for $1,000 and set up your own color darkroom in your bathroom for $250. Traditional color printing and development is not as hard as some might want you to believe and the enlargements will blow your mind! Much better than anything you can get from digital today especially at the price point.
Digital photography is fun and all but the quality just does not yet match medium format.
The page would call a java applet method the method would contact the server and than update the webpage via javaScript.
I now perfer AJAX mostly because I dislike java and I think it's a more elegant approach but that does not change the fact java applets can interact with a page using JavaScript.
I think he was defining a word to better explain his/her position.
On the page you linked to.
16. An armed force.
Also...
3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might.
The term "absolute power" might be more clear. That is the power to initiate force with out the fear of retaliation. According to most libertarian theorists that is what differentiates Government from other organizations.
Microsoft can certainly influence others but it can not "force" (meaning physical force) others to act with out the fear of the Government reacting and either putting a stop to the force and/or dolling out justice.
Libertarians and other like ideologies spend a lot of time clearly defining words in order to more clearly communicate the absoluteness of the ideology.
"You've got that one backwards. A lot of different Open Sauces, and you know what's in each one of them. Microsoft is trying to make one closed sauce for everybody and God only knows what's in it."
The problem with Open sauce is that you must first./configure and make before you can eat.
Would that not cause drag on the cars movement? Wouldn't you car have to work harder just to move, burning more gas and thus negating any energy you might gain?
It is a real question I slept through physics class:-)
The software does not belong to who ever wants to use it and the software does not belong to the person who buys it. The software belongs to the person or persons who created it. It was from their effort that it was created. Their hands and minds a responsible for the work. With out them the work would have never existed.
The creators and ONLY the creators have the right to say what can and can not be done with the software. These are the same ideas and laws that protect the authors of GPL software.
The point is not whether or not a sale will be lost. The point is the author or authors should have control over there own work and how they want it distributed.
"It's great if you aren't going to use it often, but if it keeps getting wound and unwound, wrapped around rollers, and pressed against a read head, it will wear out."
If the Internet was provided by the county(state FL) I live in.
Then you would only be able to use the Internet on Sat and Wed if you address ends in odd numbers or Sun and Tus is you address ends in even numbers and only between the hours of 4:00PM and 10:00 AM.
Slashdot Mirror
You say "Canadians don't have private insurance companies forcing them to use the HMO approved doctors.". The entire system is like an HMO (referral based in network coverage). In the US, with a PPO, I can walk into any specialist I want and make an appointment. I can also easily get a second opinion from another specialist. Try either of these in Canada.
In the US an HMO is not the only option. In Canada it is.
Sorry, are you suggesting that people remain ignorant of an underling health problem so that they don't undergo "unnecessary" procedures and the government does not spend money unnecessarily? Are you also claiming this is somehow better?
I am an American living in Canada with a legal permit. I have been here 4 years working and paying taxes. I am completely ineligible for Provincial insurance. I pay for my own insurance (I am required by law) and I am extremely limited to who I can see. An American in Canada, with out insurance, would simply be turned away unless it was an extreme emergency situation. The inverse in not true. Canadians, who can afford it, go over the border for medical services that are difficult to come by in Canada.
The health services in Canada are not as good for the average Canadian as the health services in America are for the average American. It seams to me that most Canadians don't care as much about the quality of care as they do that everyone receives the same care. As long as those people are not new immigrants of excluded types.
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/english/public/pub/ohip/eligibility.html
The name of the bike you are, presumably, referring to is called a penny farthing. They worked by direct drive. The cranks were tied directly into the front hub. You would generally get the largest wheel your legs would allow so that you could travel as fast as possible. The bigger diameter of the front wheel the further you would go with one rotation.
Interestingly the first geared bicycles, that resemble the ones we ride now, were called safety bicycles. Presumably this was because you were closer to the ground and had less distance to fall. However the invention of gearing on the safety bicycle allowed a rider to travel much faster than would of even been possible on a penny farthing. Bicycles today are far more dangerous than a penny farthing. Even going downhill, the penny farthing rider is limited to how fast they can pedal (the cranks never stop spinning) but todays bicycles employ multiple gearing ratios and free wheels/hubs that allow for extremely fast speeds. As I understand it penny farthings quickly died out after the invention of the safety bicycle.
-Will
You, sir/ma'am , are an idiot.
The place does not matter but giving two shits about what you are doing does. I am most productive when I care.
-ev0l
I think this is a far more interesting and depressing graph. I just don't get it.
-Will
As an American living in Canada I call bull.
There are just as many flags flying on all sorts of building and homes as their are in the States. Canadians frequently sew canadian flags on their bags/back packs. Canadian symbolism is everywhere even on the new bike racks they are putting up around my neighborhood. Canada preaches "peace keeping", no guns, multi-cultism, universal health care (of the Canadian variety), and other politically identifiable Canadian things to your children and your immigrants. Schools reinforce these notions in the same way that all countries encourage their citizen children to be "better" in those ways that the people who care consider better. Somehow pretending that you are better than Americans because you don't do these things is diluted and silly.
And this gets me to another point. Canada, and some of her people, far to often define them selves as how they are different from Americans. This is, frankly, sad. Canada is a great country full of great people who care very much for the land they call home. Canada, her populous and her officials should stop defining them selves based on the standards of another country or how they differ from those standards but instead declare she is a great country regardless of how others behave or define them selves. Canada should find its own path.
-Will
PS: The weather sucks up here.
No Galileo was convicted of being a heretic because of a book he wrote and published "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems" in which he mocked the pope.
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http://webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Galile
-Will
I don't know where you live but I live in Toronto and fly to the states five or six times a year.
In the Toronto Airport (YYZ) it usualy takes under thirty minutes to clear through both US customs (yes you clear through US customs while still in Canada) and security. A direct flight to Florida takes about 2 and a half hours.
To be safe I usualy show up 90 minutes before my flight departs and usualy have about an hour wait when I get to the terminal.
I don't know where you fly out of by 4 hours is absurd and I am not sure you have ever actually experienced that sort of delay or were embellishing to make a point.
In fact the YYZ web site states that you should show up 2 hours early for flights with both international and US destination.
So that puts you at at most 5 hours to fly from Toronto to Florida or 9 hours or more to fly to Europe.
According to Nation Master, who gets there information from the CIA fact book, the USA is 17th in oil consumption per capita.
Interesting to note: Luxembourg is number 7 and most of the largest consumers per capita are Island Nations.
Does not work for me either. Tries to open it in Quicktime. It also tries to open in Quicktime if I double click on the unzipped file.
There was a Mac OS update that I installed yesterday so maybe this problem is already fixed.
If the above demonstration "works" for you I would suggest you run software update and see if that does not fix the problem.
Will.
Dish washer with the drying cycle turned off.
Put your keyboard in the dish washer. Make sure the drying cycle is turned off (the heat can damage your keyboard). Allow the keyboard to dry completely.
Workes for me.
nearmidformat !? I can only assume you think pictures taken with sub $500 digital cameras look almost as good as a typical medium format camera. That is complete hogwash.
Very few pro-level cameras approach the quality of even a mid range medium format traditional camera. Modern films and paper capture an amazing amount of detail and color and the dynamic range of digital does not even approach that of professional low contrast film/paper.
DYI Home digital printing sucks!!! Most ink jet inks fade within a few months. The best option for home printing is Dye Sublimation and than you are stuck with post card size prints unless you want to spend a few thousand dollars. You are better off taking your digital images to a lab and having them print your image on traditional color paper.
On the flip side you you buy a used medium format setup for $1,000 and set up your own color darkroom in your bathroom for $250. Traditional color printing and development is not as hard as some might want you to believe and the enlargements will blow your mind! Much better than anything you can get from digital today especially at the price point.
Digital photography is fun and all but the quality just does not yet match medium format.
Linux has ...
Aieeeeeee! Kernel Panic!!!
But you have probably never seen it.
It is? Can you back this up ?
The "CIA - The World Factbook 2004" tells me other wise. Factbook summary
According to the above link the United States has the second GDP - per capita in the world. France and Germany are 21 and 20.
Do you have another source that will tell me diffrent?
I think he was defining a word to better explain his/her position.
...
On the page you linked to.
16. An armed force.
Also
3. Strength or force exerted or capable of being exerted; might.
The term "absolute power" might be more clear. That is the power to initiate force with out the fear of retaliation. According to most libertarian theorists that is what differentiates Government from other organizations.
Microsoft can certainly influence others but it can not "force" (meaning physical force) others to act with out the fear of the Government reacting and either putting a stop to the force and/or dolling out justice.
Libertarians and other like ideologies spend a lot of time clearly defining words in order to more clearly communicate the absoluteness of the ideology.
eMusic
"You've got that one backwards. A lot of different Open Sauces, and you know what's in each one of them. Microsoft is trying to make one closed sauce for everybody and God only knows what's in it."
./configure and make before you can eat.
The problem with Open sauce is that you must first
Would that not cause drag on the cars movement? Wouldn't you car have to work harder just to move, burning more gas and thus negating any energy you might gain?
:-)
It is a real question I slept through physics class
Will
No you are missing the point.
The software does not belong to who ever wants to use it and the software does not belong to the person who buys it. The software belongs to the person or persons who created it. It was from their effort that it was created. Their hands and minds a responsible for the work. With out them the work would have never existed.
The creators and ONLY the creators have the right to say what can and can not be done with the software. These are the same ideas and laws that protect the authors of GPL software.
The point is not whether or not a sale will be lost. The point is the author or authors should have control over there own work and how they want it distributed.
Will
"It's great if you aren't going to use it often, but if it keeps getting wound and unwound, wrapped around rollers, and pressed against a read head, it will wear out."
Humm are you thinking what I am thinking?
Will
If the Internet was provided by the county(state FL) I live in.
Then you would only be able to use the Internet on Sat and Wed if you address ends in odd numbers or Sun and Tus is you address ends in even numbers and only between the hours of 4:00PM and 10:00 AM.