This simply is not so. Have no fear my friend, because the NWP represents enormous value to Canada. Those who want to use it will pay handsomely, and this in turn will pay for Canada's defence of her Northern sovereignty. Those who argue that it is an International waterway will be the first to cry for help from Canada when their oil tanker hits an iceberg, and it will be Canadians who will be left with with another Exxon Valdez disaster. So Canada will mightily defend her territory, and it is in the best interests of the U.S., Russia, China and others that Canada be happy, well paid, and a willing participant in the movement of goods through the North.
As for the manifest destiny bluster from the South - ignore it. The U.S. has neither the time, massive resources, or manpower to have a prayer of ever annexing Canada. What they gonna do? Put one cop in every town 500 miles apart? They can barely manage tiny Iraq, let alone the second largest country on earth.
Then maybe this whole thing is a ruse to trigger an election and they have no intention of ever passing the bill. It makes them look good to CRIA lobby, yet doesn't actually mean they have to do anything. If elected they will move the entire issue to the bottom of the legislative pile. Much like the Liberals always do with pot laws.
Just get a treadmill and do two or three miles a night, every night. Don't skip days. You need at least thirty minutes of exercise a day. Take some vitamins, and eat something every couple of hours (not a full course meal.
There is no real need to go out at all as long as you get stay active and eat consistently and in moderation. Try to avoid the obvious pig-out foods like pizza or cheetos.
You will lose weight over a long period of time, so don't expect spectacular losses. If you lose a pound a month you'll be doing fine and in a year you'll have lost quit a bit.
"Sadly, there are plenty of Mac hipsters out there who do think that it is totally immune."
Are there? Show me a quote or two where somebody has actually written that. NOBODY actually believes Mac OS is totally immune, not even the most fervent of hipsters.
We're not talking about a grocery clerk or even an attorney, we're talking about a judge who has been given power beyond that which is given to an average citizen. And in many cases these judges are also elected. They are necessarily held to a higher standard and therefore their privacy and conflict of issue is very much a public issue.
Punishing a judge who is honest by calling him stupid for being honest is wrong on several levels, lax moral judgement being not the least of them. We don't need conflicted, secretive, private hypocrites passing judgement in morality cases.
"Well, if you expand your search to a "judge who was not stupid enough to expose his public interest in pornography", you will find more hits."
Given a choice between an honest judge who is upfront about his interests and a dishonest one who hides his conflict of interest, which would you choose?
Also according to Wiki and the Human Development Index (HDI), only five of the twenty-seven member states of the EU have a higher standard of living than the U.S. (currently twelfth, down four from the previous Index).
Purchasing power is part of the equation of the HDI, and until this year, the purchasing power of most EU nations was significantly lower (meaning the same goods cost more) than North American countries and a handful of countries around the world. If this shift in marketing focus for the Wii is accurate, we should see a significant drop in U.S. purchasing power and hence, its HDI ranking.
While I appreciate your humor, I hasten to point that NOTHING is ever free when it comes to health care. Even in Canada. In Alberta, families pay premiums, which for a family can be anywhere from one to two thousand a year. Though I believe those over 65 are exempt. A similar scheme exists in British Columbia. In Ontario, I believe employers pay all health care premiums.
The point is that health care is NOT free in Canada. This is a popular misconception (or lie as some would argue) perpetuated by some in the U.S.. Somebody always has to pay.
I also use Sprint's service in the S.F. Bay Area and I'm impressed with it. The no-cap policy is what first attracted me but now it's the reliability that has made it worth it. It's a very good service.
What sales figures. You aren't offering any and your say so simply isn't proof of anything.
So what if most games aren't original? So what if they are shareware (which Ambrosia's are not by the way - they're bone fide commercial games). Even games have to be ported it still takes Mac developers to do it.
There are LOTS of games for the Mac, and every thing developers have asked for, they've gotten, from OpenGL to Intel.
Years ago game developers asked for, and got, OpenGL for the mac. Many developers have being developing for the Mac for years and show no sign of letting up. They have a happy and prosperous relationship with Apple.
But it already supports at least two platforms (the iPhone being the third), and has for two years. Apple has a long history of defying those who say it can't do something. Some predicted that it's retail operations would fail within two years. They couldn't have been more wrong. It sells and supports more products than Dell yet you say it is incapable of maintaining two platforms? It does this while creating, selling, and supporting both the hardware and software. This sounds like a very mean, well organized and highly capable organization (that just reported a year-over-year increase in revenue of 43% by the way).
"I would say it's not practical for a company Apple's size to maintain dual platforms."
What size would that be? It has $24B+ a year in revenue, $3.5B in net profit (more profitable than Sony), $15B+ in cash, and 21K+ empoyees. Surely you don't think this is a small company.
Tax, fine, whatever. It amounts to the same thing - a thinly disguised cash grab by unscrupulous money grubbing governments. I'm not talking about clearly dangerous speeders who are an obvious public danger; anyone driving 80 in a 30 zone would be an example of that, I'm referring to those pulled over, or worse, photographed, for going 10-15 over. They are in the grey area and are easily victimized by police farming operations.
Maybe these things don't happen where you live and that's why you're so quick to defend the actions of your local government, but in some places it is an obvious velocity tax disguised as a fine. So please, don't generalize that it is the same everywhere - it's not.
You know, the word "porn" is not actually a dirty word. You can actually use it and not offend anybody on this site. There is no need to use the oh-so-trendy internet codeword "prOn".
You are of course right about the public's taste for lurid and torturous punishment of the accused.
They are legal in some provinces (the Western most three) in Canada and illegal in others. Same for Europe, legal in some places illegal in others. There is no universal law.
As for the demographics of this site, there are many, many users from elsewhere outside of North America.
Fonts, and more specifically legacy fonts. Windows can generally ONLY use Windows fonts and OpenType/TrueType. Macs can USE ANY type of font (InDesign can even use Windows PostScript on a Mac). There are literally millions of PostScript binary fonts in the world. If you work in the prepress/printing business 95% of your jobs will be from Mac users. You would be unable to use many of their fonts in Windows.
Binary files. See above. Same reasons. Millions of files still exist.
How many windows users do you know who actually use color calibrated monitors? These are required in high-end publishing and it is extremely easy to achieve on a Mac. Not so in Windows.
Mac Pros come with dual ethernet built-in. These means that in Leopard you can marry the two for double the bandwidth and network redundancy, not to mention multi-homing. No farting around.
If needed you can run Windows on your Mac, but you can't run OS X on your PC (at least not easily).
Those reasons should suffice for now. The Mac OS really is easier to use for publishing that Windows is. It's just the way things are arranged and set up. Ask any professional publisher what kind of files they generally get from Windows users and you'll see what I'm talking about.
"If your friend would just move out of Virginia (or DC) to one of the other 49 states, he wouldn't have that problem. Radar detectors are legal everywhere in the US except for those places."
Presuming his friend actually lives in the United States.
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This simply is not so. Have no fear my friend, because the NWP represents enormous value to Canada. Those who want to use it will pay handsomely, and this in turn will pay for Canada's defence of her Northern sovereignty. Those who argue that it is an International waterway will be the first to cry for help from Canada when their oil tanker hits an iceberg, and it will be Canadians who will be left with with another Exxon Valdez disaster. So Canada will mightily defend her territory, and it is in the best interests of the U.S., Russia, China and others that Canada be happy, well paid, and a willing participant in the movement of goods through the North.
As for the manifest destiny bluster from the South - ignore it. The U.S. has neither the time, massive resources, or manpower to have a prayer of ever annexing Canada. What they gonna do? Put one cop in every town 500 miles apart? They can barely manage tiny Iraq, let alone the second largest country on earth.
Maybe they love their home?
There's no way Nigeria could invade Australia.
Then maybe this whole thing is a ruse to trigger an election and they have no intention of ever passing the bill. It makes them look good to CRIA lobby, yet doesn't actually mean they have to do anything. If elected they will move the entire issue to the bottom of the legislative pile. Much like the Liberals always do with pot laws.
So that says the there are fewer Euros to the loonie, which means the loonie has risen versus the Euro.
Jan. 01, 1999: Euro = 1.8123 CDN$
July 30, 2008: Euro = 1.5935 CDN$
What was your point again?
Just get a treadmill and do two or three miles a night, every night. Don't skip days. You need at least thirty minutes of exercise a day. Take some vitamins, and eat something every couple of hours (not a full course meal.
There is no real need to go out at all as long as you get stay active and eat consistently and in moderation. Try to avoid the obvious pig-out foods like pizza or cheetos.
You will lose weight over a long period of time, so don't expect spectacular losses. If you lose a pound a month you'll be doing fine and in a year you'll have lost quit a bit.
My two cents.
It is used entirely appropriately.
Check Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style".
http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fourth-William-Strunk/dp/020530902X
"Sadly, there are plenty of Mac hipsters out there who do think that it is totally immune."
Are there? Show me a quote or two where somebody has actually written that. NOBODY actually believes Mac OS is totally immune, not even the most fervent of hipsters.
Frankly no, you did not.
We're not talking about a grocery clerk or even an attorney, we're talking about a judge who has been given power beyond that which is given to an average citizen. And in many cases these judges are also elected. They are necessarily held to a higher standard and therefore their privacy and conflict of issue is very much a public issue.
Punishing a judge who is honest by calling him stupid for being honest is wrong on several levels, lax moral judgement being not the least of them. We don't need conflicted, secretive, private hypocrites passing judgement in morality cases.
"Well, if you expand your search to a "judge who was not stupid enough to expose his public interest in pornography", you will find more hits."
Given a choice between an honest judge who is upfront about his interests and a dishonest one who hides his conflict of interest, which would you choose?
Good luck finding a judge who can truthfully say they have never had any interest in pornography.
Also according to Wiki and the Human Development Index (HDI), only five of the twenty-seven member states of the EU have a higher standard of living than the U.S. (currently twelfth, down four from the previous Index).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
Purchasing power is part of the equation of the HDI, and until this year, the purchasing power of most EU nations was significantly lower (meaning the same goods cost more) than North American countries and a handful of countries around the world. If this shift in marketing focus for the Wii is accurate, we should see a significant drop in U.S. purchasing power and hence, its HDI ranking.
While I appreciate your humor, I hasten to point that NOTHING is ever free when it comes to health care. Even in Canada. In Alberta, families pay premiums, which for a family can be anywhere from one to two thousand a year. Though I believe those over 65 are exempt. A similar scheme exists in British Columbia. In Ontario, I believe employers pay all health care premiums.
The point is that health care is NOT free in Canada. This is a popular misconception (or lie as some would argue) perpetuated by some in the U.S.. Somebody always has to pay.
I also use Sprint's service in the S.F. Bay Area and I'm impressed with it. The no-cap policy is what first attracted me but now it's the reliability that has made it worth it. It's a very good service.
What sales figures. You aren't offering any and your say so simply isn't proof of anything.
So what if most games aren't original? So what if they are shareware (which Ambrosia's are not by the way - they're bone fide commercial games). Even games have to be ported it still takes Mac developers to do it.
There are LOTS of games for the Mac, and every thing developers have asked for, they've gotten, from OpenGL to Intel.
Years ago game developers asked for, and got, OpenGL for the mac. Many developers have being developing for the Mac for years and show no sign of letting up. They have a happy and prosperous relationship with Apple.
http://www.ea.com/platform_mac.jsp
http://www.feralinteractive.com/
http://www.insidemacgames.com/
Guess he should've got the Sprint plan instead.
But it already supports at least two platforms (the iPhone being the third), and has for two years. Apple has a long history of defying those who say it can't do something. Some predicted that it's retail operations would fail within two years. They couldn't have been more wrong. It sells and supports more products than Dell yet you say it is incapable of maintaining two platforms? It does this while creating, selling, and supporting both the hardware and software. This sounds like a very mean, well organized and highly capable organization (that just reported a year-over-year increase in revenue of 43% by the way).
"I would say it's not practical for a company Apple's size to maintain dual platforms."
What size would that be? It has $24B+ a year in revenue, $3.5B in net profit (more profitable than Sony), $15B+ in cash, and 21K+ empoyees. Surely you don't think this is a small company.
Not to mention that Canada, though low density and mostly clumped near its Southern border, is 5500 kilometres wide.
Tax, fine, whatever. It amounts to the same thing - a thinly disguised cash grab by unscrupulous money grubbing governments. I'm not talking about clearly dangerous speeders who are an obvious public danger; anyone driving 80 in a 30 zone would be an example of that, I'm referring to those pulled over, or worse, photographed, for going 10-15 over. They are in the grey area and are easily victimized by police farming operations.
Maybe these things don't happen where you live and that's why you're so quick to defend the actions of your local government, but in some places it is an obvious velocity tax disguised as a fine. So please, don't generalize that it is the same everywhere - it's not.
You know, the word "porn" is not actually a dirty word. You can actually use it and not offend anybody on this site. There is no need to use the oh-so-trendy internet codeword "prOn".
You are of course right about the public's taste for lurid and torturous punishment of the accused.
They are legal in some provinces (the Western most three) in Canada and illegal in others. Same for Europe, legal in some places illegal in others. There is no universal law.
As for the demographics of this site, there are many, many users from elsewhere outside of North America.
Fonts, and more specifically legacy fonts. Windows can generally ONLY use Windows fonts and OpenType/TrueType. Macs can USE ANY type of font (InDesign can even use Windows PostScript on a Mac). There are literally millions of PostScript binary fonts in the world. If you work in the prepress/printing business 95% of your jobs will be from Mac users. You would be unable to use many of their fonts in Windows.
Binary files. See above. Same reasons. Millions of files still exist.
How many windows users do you know who actually use color calibrated monitors? These are required in high-end publishing and it is extremely easy to achieve on a Mac. Not so in Windows.
Mac Pros come with dual ethernet built-in. These means that in Leopard you can marry the two for double the bandwidth and network redundancy, not to mention multi-homing. No farting around.
If needed you can run Windows on your Mac, but you can't run OS X on your PC (at least not easily).
Those reasons should suffice for now. The Mac OS really is easier to use for publishing that Windows is. It's just the way things are arranged and set up. Ask any professional publisher what kind of files they generally get from Windows users and you'll see what I'm talking about.
"If your friend would just move out of Virginia (or DC) to one of the other 49 states, he wouldn't have that problem. Radar detectors are legal everywhere in the US except for those places."
Presuming his friend actually lives in the United States.