The map is actually produced from IAEA data, not from measurements, so no it won't help.
On the contrary, the idea is that these measurements are so difficult/expensive to make that it's better to choose a place far from nuclear plants which would skew them. We can't just measure antineutrinos worldwide (at least for now).
unless those buying the seeds sign a contract which clearly states they assume all responsibility for what the seeds do to their environment
Well, I might not have the same perspective on "muh freedom", but you shouldn't be allowed to sign such a contract at all, because the scope obviously surpasses you. In an ideal world with an ideal justice system, such a contract should be void and both those who sold and those who used the seeds are responsible for the damage.
Sterile seeds have little to do with that, by the way, as they have been easy to produce and have been used for a long time already (sterility can be either desired or undesired depending on the crop, but usually it's just a side effect from hybridisation).
What this paper says is only valid if "chip and signature" is an accepted method of payment, which is completely stupid and only caused by the widespread opposition in America to chip and pin. It's really like the story of the snake biting itself.
"The U.S. currently accounts for 47% of global credit and debit card fraud even though it generates only 27% of the total volume of purchases and cash".
You really should not insist that the method used in much of the rest of the world, where fraud is 50% lower, is less secure. Because it really isn't.
Though I'm sure if you ever manage to switch, you will make sure to render your implementation completely flawed and useless, starting with idiotic "chip and signature" payments.
Except it just doesn't happen, because the chip and pin system has not been broken yet (not in a meaningful, practical, usable way anyway).
And if the card gets hacked from a database leak of some company that had your number stored, it's not chip and pin so you are fully covered.
I really have trouble understanding all this opposition to chip and pin from Americans (not that I care a lot).
Have you missed the part where this laws doesn't exist and it's just a bunch of companies trying to get the government to write it? And another company trying to get the government not to write it.
What does it have to do yet with the incompetent morons who were voted into power? We can talk again once the law actually exists (which won't happen).
The thing is, if all there is between you and the place you want to invade is water, you can just sail to the place. If between you and the place you want to invade are a bunch of hostile countries, you have to own them first.
On a site like/. it's assumed that you are so used to reading sloppy wording that editors can write "has" instead of "has support for"?
The activity sensors probably senses whether the device user is active or not. Now does it mean physical activity, or actually using the device, I don't know.
That's because of the way you do it. Every single of your nuclear plants is most probably completely different from all the others, maintenance is also probably done by many different companies... every new plant is built like it was the first one you ever built, and every plant is maintained like it was the only one you had, so you never make economies of scale (but each politician who builds a plant gets to please a friend's company, yay).
NB: I'm just guessing for Ontario, based on how things are often done in North America and observations from an uncle whose job is to check the safety of nuclear plants.
Well, it has been standardised for a long time. Decimal separator is either a comma or a period (with a comma being recommended) and the thousands separator is either nothing or a space.
International law is quite clear and simple on this matter, unless there are special agreements (like in the EU) taxes should be collected by the country you live in, not the country you bought goods from, and if you buy things abroad, you should be refunded taxes by the foreign country, and pay taxes at home.
Well, maybe it's America's connectivity to the rest of the world that sucks then... when I had this 24M/1M connection in my small French city (well, actually it's a somewhat big city for me, but when I say there are 70 000 inhabitants, people usually tell me it's a town...) I could easily reach it, especially for bittorrent downloads.
So you received between 200 and, say 1000$ in 5 years ? Woah, that's almost 20$ a month !
Or three dollars, in the likely event that there were many more 10$ rebates than 100$ ones.
Bah, I don't think of it as "boycott", I just tend to avoid anything which seems to have anything to do with any kind of religion when I have a choice. And what do women's right have to do with not buying a make of biscuits ? I am capable of some discernment, mind you.
As for basketball : well this sport isn't in my culture at all. The other names I have never heard of.
I don't see a problem. They *are* cults, aren't they ? In France, being a "cultual organisation" (not sure that it's the right way to say it in English, it's the religious equivalent to a "cultural organisation", which promotes music, painting, whatever) just means you pay less taxes if you stay within some limits as to your activities (or else you have to become a cultural organisation, or create a parallel one). The Catholic Church is a cult and has cultual organisation. Same for the Unified Protestant Church, the Quakers (though I doubt these guys are registered in France), the Amish, or any other wackos who want some legal recognition.
By the way, does the compagny "Quaker" have anything to do with the religious group ? I didn't know it before moving to Canada, and I always try to avoid buying their thing because I don't know if they're involved in religious things which I certainly don't want to support.
Back when I was in France, my DSLAM used Alcatel hardware. Alcatel is a French company.
"plurality of top sites are in US". I laugh at that. As a Frenchman, the vast majority of the websites I visit everyday are hosted in Europe, even now that I live in Canada. The European backbone infastructure is quite decent, if you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Exch ange_Points_by_size for example:)
Korea is a silly example indeed, next time choose a better one.
I'm not sure what a CLEC is. Once again, back in France, I had not just unmetered *local* calling, but unmetered *international* calling. To around 30 countries (of course, Canada, the US, and most countries in the EU, but also Taiwan, Singapore, China and Argentina for example). The ISP also provided a SIP server so that you can call for free to about everywhere you need even if you're not at home, as long as you have an internet access (using Ekiga, for example). For example, as my parents in France are still using this provider, I simply use their account from my Canadian (sucky) internet connection to call Canada or France for free, nice heh ? This ISP is Free.fr, in my "big" city (around 70 000 inhabitants) I had 24Mbit ADSL, with (cable-like) television and free international phone for 30 euros/month (all included, except some paying channels of course)... in their 300-inhabitants town, my parents can only have 8Mbit and no television for the same price, though... but the nearest >100 000 inhabitants city is 150 kilometres away so you can't really expect to have the same service.
Surely you mean anti-everyone-who-isn't-themselves ? I don't know many French people who like French people. Heh, I am French and I dislike the French almost as much as I dislike the rest of the world...
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The map is actually produced from IAEA data, not from measurements, so no it won't help. On the contrary, the idea is that these measurements are so difficult/expensive to make that it's better to choose a place far from nuclear plants which would skew them. We can't just measure antineutrinos worldwide (at least for now).
unless those buying the seeds sign a contract which clearly states they assume all responsibility for what the seeds do to their environment
Well, I might not have the same perspective on "muh freedom", but you shouldn't be allowed to sign such a contract at all, because the scope obviously surpasses you. In an ideal world with an ideal justice system, such a contract should be void and both those who sold and those who used the seeds are responsible for the damage.
Sterile seeds have little to do with that, by the way, as they have been easy to produce and have been used for a long time already (sterility can be either desired or undesired depending on the crop, but usually it's just a side effect from hybridisation).
O RLY
Different countries usually have different laws, for one thing. But you probably don't know that if you're American.
Your solution, on the other hand, would be... to not observe some laws near borders? That's not how legal systems work.
Well, this is Canada, not France.
The sea-floor elevation maps are vastly less precise (because you can't just use a radar from satellite to measure sea-floor).
What this paper says is only valid if "chip and signature" is an accepted method of payment, which is completely stupid and only caused by the widespread opposition in America to chip and pin. It's really like the story of the snake biting itself.
"The U.S. currently accounts for 47% of global credit and debit card fraud even though it generates only 27% of the total volume of purchases and cash". You really should not insist that the method used in much of the rest of the world, where fraud is 50% lower, is less secure. Because it really isn't.
Though I'm sure if you ever manage to switch, you will make sure to render your implementation completely flawed and useless, starting with idiotic "chip and signature" payments.
Except it just doesn't happen, because the chip and pin system has not been broken yet (not in a meaningful, practical, usable way anyway). And if the card gets hacked from a database leak of some company that had your number stored, it's not chip and pin so you are fully covered. I really have trouble understanding all this opposition to chip and pin from Americans (not that I care a lot).
Have you missed the part where this laws doesn't exist and it's just a bunch of companies trying to get the government to write it? And another company trying to get the government not to write it. What does it have to do yet with the incompetent morons who were voted into power? We can talk again once the law actually exists (which won't happen).
Yeah well, mandatory ablation of the testicles and prostate at birth would prevent a LOT of cancers. Now is that really a good idea, though?
The pics in http://images.google.com/images?q=%EB%A7%88%EC%9E%AC%EC%9C%A4 are more representative of his status.
Yeah, the French will massively start reading books in English if they don't find extracts digitised by Google on the interweb.
Or not. Maybe they'll just go to the library, or bookstore, or amazon.fr, or fnac.fr, or any other place where they can already find this.
The thing is, if all there is between you and the place you want to invade is water, you can just sail to the place. If between you and the place you want to invade are a bunch of hostile countries, you have to own them first.
On a site like /. it's assumed that you are so used to reading sloppy wording that editors can write "has" instead of "has support for"?
The activity sensors probably senses whether the device user is active or not. Now does it mean physical activity, or actually using the device, I don't know.
Now, please explain how an OS can possess sensors?
That's because of the way you do it. Every single of your nuclear plants is most probably completely different from all the others, maintenance is also probably done by many different companies... every new plant is built like it was the first one you ever built, and every plant is maintained like it was the only one you had, so you never make economies of scale (but each politician who builds a plant gets to please a friend's company, yay).
NB: I'm just guessing for Ontario, based on how things are often done in North America and observations from an uncle whose job is to check the safety of nuclear plants.
Well, it has been standardised for a long time. Decimal separator is either a comma or a period (with a comma being recommended) and the thousands separator is either nothing or a space.
But if you bought things in Montreal and went back to the US, you must have seen at the border the papers you have to fill and send to Québec and Canada to have your GST and TVQ refunded. So you simply paid the same as if you had bought these things in your country.
International law is quite clear and simple on this matter, unless there are special agreements (like in the EU) taxes should be collected by the country you live in, not the country you bought goods from, and if you buy things abroad, you should be refunded taxes by the foreign country, and pay taxes at home.
Well, maybe it's America's connectivity to the rest of the world that sucks then... when I had this 24M/1M connection in my small French city (well, actually it's a somewhat big city for me, but when I say there are 70 000 inhabitants, people usually tell me it's a town...) I could easily reach it, especially for bittorrent downloads.
So you received between 200 and, say 1000$ in 5 years ? Woah, that's almost 20$ a month ! Or three dollars, in the likely event that there were many more 10$ rebates than 100$ ones.
Bah, I don't think of it as "boycott", I just tend to avoid anything which seems to have anything to do with any kind of religion when I have a choice. And what do women's right have to do with not buying a make of biscuits ? I am capable of some discernment, mind you.
As for basketball : well this sport isn't in my culture at all. The other names I have never heard of.
I don't see a problem. They *are* cults, aren't they ? In France, being a "cultual organisation" (not sure that it's the right way to say it in English, it's the religious equivalent to a "cultural organisation", which promotes music, painting, whatever) just means you pay less taxes if you stay within some limits as to your activities (or else you have to become a cultural organisation, or create a parallel one). The Catholic Church is a cult and has cultual organisation. Same for the Unified Protestant Church, the Quakers (though I doubt these guys are registered in France), the Amish, or any other wackos who want some legal recognition.
By the way, does the compagny "Quaker" have anything to do with the religious group ? I didn't know it before moving to Canada, and I always try to avoid buying their thing because I don't know if they're involved in religious things which I certainly don't want to support.
- Back when I was in France, my DSLAM used Alcatel hardware. Alcatel is a French company.
- "plurality of top sites are in US". I laugh at that. As a Frenchman, the vast majority of the websites I visit everyday are hosted in Europe, even now that I live in Canada. The European backbone infastructure is quite decent, if you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Exc
h ange_Points_by_size for example :)
- Korea is a silly example indeed, next time choose a better one.
- I'm not sure what a CLEC is. Once again, back in France, I had not just unmetered *local* calling, but unmetered *international* calling. To around 30 countries (of course, Canada, the US, and most countries in the EU, but also Taiwan, Singapore, China and Argentina for example). The ISP also provided a SIP server so that you can call for free to about everywhere you need even if you're not at home, as long as you have an internet access (using Ekiga, for example). For example, as my parents in France are still using this provider, I simply use their account from my Canadian (sucky) internet connection to call Canada or France for free, nice heh ? This ISP is Free.fr, in my "big" city (around 70 000 inhabitants) I had 24Mbit ADSL, with (cable-like) television and free international phone for 30 euros/month (all included, except some paying channels of course)... in their 300-inhabitants town, my parents can only have 8Mbit and no television for the same price, though... but the nearest >100 000 inhabitants city is 150 kilometres away so you can't really expect to have the same service.
- Haha, the last argument of the already defeated.
Sleep wellSurely you mean anti-everyone-who-isn't-themselves ? I don't know many French people who like French people. Heh, I am French and I dislike the French almost as much as I dislike the rest of the world...