Agreed. We've decided to abandon our Polonium-210 poisoning plan and are switching to Amercium-241 as per recommendation. It's also funnier that way. Anyone have some spare fire detectors?
They could always claim he ran it through some visualisation program (like the winamp one) and used mp3s to fuel the patterns, or played it for his plants.
You left out one, the choice of 'older people' and people who just want a browser for a browser, not a pet project inspiring a few years learning coding...
4- switch to another browser that has the feature they want.
If my mother doesn't find the feature she wants in an app, she just goes to make some tea, then find an app that offers it.
Not saying your choices aren't valid, merely that people are prone to bandwagon jumping just as oft as to brand loyalty. Firefox can't cater everything to everyone, but the knee-jerk reaction of some of its fans of 'fix it yourself if you have an issue, instead of complain' just won't help Firefox with market share.
Like Linux, sometimes I think half the stigma regarding it isn't the product, but the users.
I count several americans as friends, and have stayed there for protracted durations (please don't hurt me but i LOVE Texas). On the balance was very pleasant.
Thing is, most aren't even aware of some of the issues that irk other countries, because it just doesn't make news unless you're directly involved. Rather hard to hold any blame on them for things they don't know and aren't responsible for.
Just also being European and Canadian, I get to see the perceptions from various other countries, and see how the 'international stance' of governments effect them. Trouble is people tend to not differentiate individuals from the group, and goverment attitude from the population's attitude. Which in-turn pisses off the innocent American, it quickly polarizes into an 'us versus them', and it's now a self-fufilling stereotype.
So easy to dismiss that too saying it's their fault for electing them, but well, to modify a saying: "You never really know someone, until after you elect them".
*WHO* would have invaded Canada that supposedly being near the americans would prevent? American
military presence didn't help China in WWII, Vietnam, South Korea (it helped them win, but didn't stop the attempt). I'd imagine had the old USSR really wanted to, they'd have made the attempt. Only country I can think of that 'hates' Canada would have been Spain and Portugal fishermen over fishing. Even the 'fight' with Denmark over Hans Island is sneaking up flags and hiding bottles of booze. Maybe Greenpeace would invade to stop the seal hunt.
More than snow and porn I'd imagine. Even more if you count perscription drugs and medical services to all those americans sneaking across:P
Remove american products? Already done and without trying...everything is made in china now days. McDonalds and fast food? It's Timmies I see the long lines at.
I do agree with Canada having its own matters to deal with, its own share of goverment corruption and scandals. Have yet to see some of the same magnitude, but there are problems. Ours seem more misuse of funds, kickbacks and the like.
Will the firewall work? Probably not overly. Equated to physical items, it's akin to at the border searching and seizing drugs. None tries to make a case on the Columbian druglord that doesn't step foot in the country, nor just sigh as it enters going 'oh well, freedom of choice'. Stop at the gate and deal with what happens in your own turf.
Americans are not the prob with the world it's the floks that think the U.S. owes them something
The issue with the americans most have isn't that others feel they lack their own troubles, it's american interests sticking their nose into things and disrupting them even more. That sense of entitlement is the american view, not the world. A lot of countries pride themselves on self-reliance, not feeling owed.
Softwood is more a matter of fact than one of supposed emo: FreeTrade is free trade, not collecting duty (over 5 billion dollars) on an item supposedly shouldn't be tariffed. NAFTA and the WTO agreed, but the US felt it isn't obligated (kind of like the UN and Iraq, or the Geneva Conventions and Gitmo). They did finally agree to pay back 80% of the 'illegally' collected duty.
As for the binlingualism crack, I believe the next up language after French in Canada is Chinese, although I can't recall if it's Canto or Mandy. I'm not adverse to learning.
Btw, we love NAFTA...now mind honouring it? That softlumber bullshit is amusing.
Quebec wanted independence ever since the dust settled on the Plains of Abraham. They also want the perks of staying...think of Quebec more as a prima donna throwing a tantrum rather than seditionists. The west has been noisy every since they got oil and the novelty of the railway wore off.
Canadian freedom was gained the Canadian way:
Canada: Um..hey, Queen?
Queen: Yes Dear
Canada: Can we um..try this Independance thing? Sounds kind of fun and well you've been so busy lately...
Queen: I don't know...
Canada: We'll even keep you on the money, and you can put a Governor General here to watch over us...pullleeeezzzeee?
**May not be entirely historically factual
4-lane roads intersection with stop signs? They work. Hard part is determining whose "You go first" takes precedence.
As for 'saving your life'? Um...if this is another 'we single handly stormed Normandy and liberated the planet' crap, WWII started in '38...you guys were a few years late showing, showed up fresh, and took the credit for the North African campaign, Lenningrad, and the Battle over Britain. Probably want credit for the convoys in the Atlantic too.
I won't disparage the deaths and efforts of the Americans who served and fought, it wasn't their fault the timing, and they did the best they could and assuredly helped immensley. But the idiots who weren't there, thinking they are owed for the actions of others? If you aren't a vet, stfu.
All fair and well, provided you have jurisdiction to remove the site, or don't mind footing the taxes for the legal battle if not (if even illegal at all in their host country).
I'd rather them just block it so it can't enter the country, let the host country deal with the site themselves, and have our tax money spent on things inside the country that need help. There's more than enough things that money could go towards instead.
If however the source of the child porn is inside our borders, then certainly don't just block: pursue, prosecute and punish the perverted paedo perps.
Who granted those rights, you, someone else? If either, they can be REVOKED. You claim "right" to "sick days", I hate to inform you but you don't have a "right" except by "Agreement" between you and your employer (and sometimes by law). Change Employers or your employer changes the agreement and your rights change.
And so too could a higher power revoke the rights they grant. Unless there is a still higher power then the higher power keeping them enforcing it, and so on. "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away"?
Shows your ignorance. There is a HUGE level of forgiveness in that "story" one that points to redemption. Further there is a great deal of mercy that is also shown in that story. But since it is just a "story" and "mythology" to you, you don't actually know what the story is or even how it ends
Depends if you stop with Hebrew Scripture or go onto the New Testemant. Do you believe in a paradise on earth remade, or ascendancy into heavens. As for 'forgiveness', while A&E might need some, their children did not. 'Original Sin' is existant would be a strike against God for no mercy on the children, and for allowing them to come into being after the 'first sin'. The mercy would have came in striking A&E down at that moment and preventing the 'damned future' of their potential offspring. A good portion of it comes off as ego, manipulative, pride and spiteful (like Job-while his suffering for their bet was rewarded, his original family got the grave only).
Actually, you don't know anything about me, or my views on comparative religions. And this is not my view of why they have the same ideals.:-D
That is true, which is why I'm refraining from assuming your views as best I can and not indulging in cheap shots. The problem with having had this discussion with many in the past: you slip into old positions and forget what was said in THIS discussion, and what is a memory of before.
Uncredited knowledge? Hardly, you just don't like the credit as it is given
You missed my meaning. I am more refering to how some people view it entirely as baseless and factless, while I found that, while oblique, there is some real science in there. I've had that discussion with several, how some of the foods cause health problems weeks later, so aren't easily traced back to the food, and yet it is on a 'bad list'
Yet you miss the very point of mercy and forgiveness found in the story you quoted above. How come I saw it, and you didn't?
Got caught up in the genocide of neighbours, God claiming he's wrathful and demanding to be feared, and the damnnation of mortals that don't fall into ranks. It is one thing to forgive your servants, another to forgive your foes or those who disagree. Even Moses didn't get into the Promised Land for a simple verbal slipup while exasperated over a bunch of whiners.
You granted yourself the right to life, liberty (true freedom) and Happiness? Hardly a view of an atheist. That would make you your own creator, but I remember that has always been the case, man has always wanted to be "as god".
I myself personally? Of course not. Of course that doesn't make much sense, as I've also the right to several sick-days per year, but that didn't make my employer a deity. One need not be a god to recognise 'rights'. Making it so it is impossible to infringe on them would take a deity, but claiming something to be a right and trying to protect it can be done by man.
I don't recall God as written as an American, but the 'life, liberty and happiness' are the American credo. By men for men. The LLH rights are just recognizing humans as peers, not subordinate to another. We went through serfs and slavery and eventually got out of it on our own.
Biblically humans were given life, and kicked out of happiness for taking a liberty (i.e. eating a forbidden fruit). So much for forgiveness and not visiting the sins of the father upon the children, but that's another tale.
Claiming that only from God came those ideals really is demeaning, in that people like Confucious who hadn't read the Bible still managed to come out with morality independantly, yet you would take that away from them. Of course Confucious was hardly atheist himself, but neither were the Aztecs. A religious bent doesn't make one automatically noble. Weakness in this vein of thought is one can simply say 'god acts in mysterious ways' and that a deity inspired some to great charity, while those who didn't were merely weak or choose not to listen.
It doesn't take a diety to want harmony, nor some divine providence to realise actions to others can be revisited upon you: to a avoid waves, don't splash about. The next lesson then is cooperation can benefit both. Even some species of animals realise this. Those two fundemental concepts (or rather really the flipsides of the same: reciprocity) are pretty much the cornerstone of morality. Everything past that is pretty much exploration and codifying that concept as it applies to various facets of life.
Funny how a book more that 3000 years old accurately portrays man's most basic nature, even if you consider it mythology. They were a lot smarter back then.
'smarter'? Arguable. They did have some uncredited knowledge only contemporarily relearned (like the touching of corpses not being in your best interests, yet just the other century doctors would go from morgue to maternity with contaminated hands), but I'd hardly consider knowing basic human behaviour as being smarter, only observant. Our baser instincts are selfish and shortsighted, and effort is required to realise the benefits of a more selfless social structure, but like a rock gathering momentum easier once ingrained.
I'd be happy to have a theological discussion on Torah and the rest of the scriptures if you want, but somehow I don't see you as wanting to do the research and actually read the thing.
Ah assumptions assumptions, you know what they say about those? I've already read the Bible a few times, from Genesis to Revelations, touched the Torah and skimmed the Apocryphia... I happen to LIKE mythology. Lack of belief doesn't equate with lack of knowledge: I also watch and enjoy BattleStar Galactica, but don't tremble in fear of Cylons at night.
The biggest problem atheist have, is that atheism by definition has no moral compass, no absolute, even theoretical, to base anything on. And one thing I do know, is that man can justify just about anything in his own mind given time enough to think on it.
And one of the common justifications for actions has always been "it was god's will", either to excuse themselves, or from a sense of fatalism.
I'd disagree that an atheist has no moral compass either: for the good of society AND self seems a lot more concrete and definable then the whimsical desires of a mythical creature.
Take away the Creator, and you have no "unalienable rights", only "rights" that man grants to himself.
Yet from the perspective of the atheist, that's exactly what those Biblical 'rights' are: rights man granted himself.
Your first error - it matters very much when you apply the differential force. Sure, doing it at the last moment won't move the impact point much - duh. In real life, you perform the diversion months, or years before the impact - and orbital mechanics dictates that it doesn't actually take much force (proportionally) to make a huge difference in the impact point over time.
The second error is that you don't bury the bomb in the asteroid - you detonate it at a point some distance over the asteroid. (Why? We'll see that in the next error.),
Which has what to do with them burying a nuke 800 meters under the surface (as per the movie), detonating it less than a month out? He's modeling the movie, where it starts off only 18 days away from impact...so lessen the time window by the training,travel etc the rest of the movie showed. They used oil drillers to drill down for the bomb placement...
The flaws you point in his example however are the flaws they made in the movie. You said he's doing it wrong, ergo the movie did it wrong, which was his point?
I work in the control room at a racetrack, where we do filming and broadcasting horse and car races.
In addition to the DVD recorders we've also a bank of VHS VCRs taping raw footage from the cameras. They are primarily for archival purposes and for use in inquiries, but we also sell recordings of the races to the public. Yes, the majority of requests now seem to be more for DVDs, but we still go through boxes of T20 tapes for public consumption. Also judges when asking for tapes of race ask for SVHS, not DVDs (then complain they can't play the SVHS on their VHS-only VCR, but that's another matter).
Considering the head office just sent us a new trio of VCRs for use, I think news of it's demise have been slightly exaggerated. Still a few more years of use left in them yet.
Of amusement, a local television station asks us for tapes as well, but they want Beta which is one format we can't do.
GEOS....did many an essay on its word processor, although never had a use for the database in it (altho was fun to play with). Remember a calculator function in it as well, although I don't recall a spreadsheet.
Suddenly feeling nostalgic for the thing....although the load time would likely make me scream.
Looks at the population density per province, not a national whole. It's a lot higher once you remove the territories (i.e. most are near the 38th and in the Golden Horseshoe area). Almost the entirety of the populace (99.7%) is in little over half the country's landmass (59%).
What fanfiction do you read? In the majority of fan fiction I've came across, it all used the original characters, occassionally introducing original characters (flagged as "OC" and often heavily criticised for imblance), and for the most part are just plot deviations or continuations OF THE ORIGINAL EVERYTHING.
Just check out FanFiction.net for a million instances of it.
...excepting that some people live in rural areas where there is no cable, no line-of-sight wireless (terrain preventing), no fiber for DSL. They lack the option (unless you think they should relocate JUST for internet speed).
My area only got DSL availability within the last two years, and I know of plenty who still have no ability. Sure there is sat modems, but all in all those aren't really a fun solution.
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Agreed. We've decided to abandon our Polonium-210 poisoning plan and are switching to Amercium-241 as per recommendation. It's also funnier that way. Anyone have some spare fire detectors?
Thank you Vizzini
They could always claim he ran it through some visualisation program (like the winamp one) and used mp3s to fuel the patterns, or played it for his plants.
You left out one, the choice of 'older people' and people who just want a browser for a browser, not a pet project inspiring a few years learning coding...
4- switch to another browser that has the feature they want.
If my mother doesn't find the feature she wants in an app, she just goes to make some tea, then find an app that offers it.
Not saying your choices aren't valid, merely that people are prone to bandwagon jumping just as oft as to brand loyalty. Firefox can't cater everything to everyone, but the knee-jerk reaction of some of its fans of 'fix it yourself if you have an issue, instead of complain' just won't help Firefox with market share.
Like Linux, sometimes I think half the stigma regarding it isn't the product, but the users.
:D
I count several americans as friends, and have stayed there for protracted durations (please don't hurt me but i LOVE Texas). On the balance was very pleasant.
Thing is, most aren't even aware of some of the issues that irk other countries, because it just doesn't make news unless you're directly involved. Rather hard to hold any blame on them for things they don't know and aren't responsible for.
Just also being European and Canadian, I get to see the perceptions from various other countries, and see how the 'international stance' of governments effect them. Trouble is people tend to not differentiate individuals from the group, and goverment attitude from the population's attitude. Which in-turn pisses off the innocent American, it quickly polarizes into an 'us versus them', and it's now a self-fufilling stereotype.
So easy to dismiss that too saying it's their fault for electing them, but well, to modify a saying: "You never really know someone, until after you elect them".
As for exports: http://www40.statcan.ca/l01/cst01/gblec04.htm
More than snow and porn I'd imagine. Even more if you count perscription drugs and medical services to all those americans sneaking across
Remove american products? Already done and without trying...everything is made in china now days. McDonalds and fast food? It's Timmies I see the long lines at.
I do agree with Canada having its own matters to deal with, its own share of goverment corruption and scandals. Have yet to see some of the same magnitude, but there are problems. Ours seem more misuse of funds, kickbacks and the like.
Will the firewall work? Probably not overly. Equated to physical items, it's akin to at the border searching and seizing drugs. None tries to make a case on the Columbian druglord that doesn't step foot in the country, nor just sigh as it enters going 'oh well, freedom of choice'. Stop at the gate and deal with what happens in your own turf.
The issue with the americans most have isn't that others feel they lack their own troubles, it's american interests sticking their nose into things and disrupting them even more. That sense of entitlement is the american view, not the world. A lot of countries pride themselves on self-reliance, not feeling owed.
Softwood is more a matter of fact than one of supposed emo: FreeTrade is free trade, not collecting duty (over 5 billion dollars) on an item supposedly shouldn't be tariffed. NAFTA and the WTO agreed, but the US felt it isn't obligated (kind of like the UN and Iraq, or the Geneva Conventions and Gitmo). They did finally agree to pay back 80% of the 'illegally' collected duty.
As for the binlingualism crack, I believe the next up language after French in Canada is Chinese, although I can't recall if it's Canto or Mandy. I'm not adverse to learning.
It isn't, he said he's american :P
Btw, we love NAFTA...now mind honouring it? That softlumber bullshit is amusing.
Quebec wanted independence ever since the dust settled on the Plains of Abraham. They also want the perks of staying...think of Quebec more as a prima donna throwing a tantrum rather than seditionists. The west has been noisy every since they got oil and the novelty of the railway wore off.
Canadian freedom was gained the Canadian way:
Canada: Um..hey, Queen?
Queen: Yes Dear
Canada: Can we um..try this Independance thing? Sounds kind of fun and well you've been so busy lately...
Queen: I don't know...
Canada: We'll even keep you on the money, and you can put a Governor General here to watch over us...pullleeeezzzeee?
**May not be entirely historically factual
4-lane roads intersection with stop signs? They work. Hard part is determining whose "You go first" takes precedence.
As for 'saving your life'? Um...if this is another 'we single handly stormed Normandy and liberated the planet' crap, WWII started in '38...you guys were a few years late showing, showed up fresh, and took the credit for the North African campaign, Lenningrad, and the Battle over Britain. Probably want credit for the convoys in the Atlantic too.
I won't disparage the deaths and efforts of the Americans who served and fought, it wasn't their fault the timing, and they did the best they could and assuredly helped immensley. But the idiots who weren't there, thinking they are owed for the actions of others? If you aren't a vet, stfu.
All fair and well, provided you have jurisdiction to remove the site, or don't mind footing the taxes for the legal battle if not (if even illegal at all in their host country).
I'd rather them just block it so it can't enter the country, let the host country deal with the site themselves, and have our tax money spent on things inside the country that need help. There's more than enough things that money could go towards instead.
If however the source of the child porn is inside our borders, then certainly don't just block: pursue, prosecute and punish the perverted paedo perps.
I would like to object to your obviously insulting tone and stereotypical comment...
..but there's a Leafs game tonight and need to hit the beer store before the weekend, so consider yourself lucky.
For some reason couldn't help envision, somewhere in the world, a mad scientist perking up: "Is that a challenge?".
Depends if you stop with Hebrew Scripture or go onto the New Testemant. Do you believe in a paradise on earth remade, or ascendancy into heavens. As for 'forgiveness', while A&E might need some, their children did not. 'Original Sin' is existant would be a strike against God for no mercy on the children, and for allowing them to come into being after the 'first sin'. The mercy would have came in striking A&E down at that moment and preventing the 'damned future' of their potential offspring. A good portion of it comes off as ego, manipulative, pride and spiteful (like Job-while his suffering for their bet was rewarded, his original family got the grave only).
That is true, which is why I'm refraining from assuming your views as best I can and not indulging in cheap shots. The problem with having had this discussion with many in the past: you slip into old positions and forget what was said in THIS discussion, and what is a memory of before.
You missed my meaning. I am more refering to how some people view it entirely as baseless and factless, while I found that, while oblique, there is some real science in there. I've had that discussion with several, how some of the foods cause health problems weeks later, so aren't easily traced back to the food, and yet it is on a 'bad list'
Got caught up in the genocide of neighbours, God claiming he's wrathful and demanding to be feared, and the damnnation of mortals that don't fall into ranks. It is one thing to forgive your servants, another to forgive your foes or those who disagree. Even Moses didn't get into the Promised Land for a simple verbal slipup while exasperated over a bunch of whiners.
I don't recall God as written as an American, but the 'life, liberty and happiness' are the American credo. By men for men. The LLH rights are just recognizing humans as peers, not subordinate to another. We went through serfs and slavery and eventually got out of it on our own.
Biblically humans were given life, and kicked out of happiness for taking a liberty (i.e. eating a forbidden fruit). So much for forgiveness and not visiting the sins of the father upon the children, but that's another tale.
Claiming that only from God came those ideals really is demeaning, in that people like Confucious who hadn't read the Bible still managed to come out with morality independantly, yet you would take that away from them. Of course Confucious was hardly atheist himself, but neither were the Aztecs. A religious bent doesn't make one automatically noble. Weakness in this vein of thought is one can simply say 'god acts in mysterious ways' and that a deity inspired some to great charity, while those who didn't were merely weak or choose not to listen.
It doesn't take a diety to want harmony, nor some divine providence to realise actions to others can be revisited upon you: to a avoid waves, don't splash about. The next lesson then is cooperation can benefit both. Even some species of animals realise this. Those two fundemental concepts (or rather really the flipsides of the same: reciprocity) are pretty much the cornerstone of morality. Everything past that is pretty much exploration and codifying that concept as it applies to various facets of life.
'smarter'? Arguable. They did have some uncredited knowledge only contemporarily relearned (like the touching of corpses not being in your best interests, yet just the other century doctors would go from morgue to maternity with contaminated hands), but I'd hardly consider knowing basic human behaviour as being smarter, only observant. Our baser instincts are selfish and shortsighted, and effort is required to realise the benefits of a more selfless social structure, but like a rock gathering momentum easier once ingrained.
Ah assumptions assumptions, you know what they say about those? I've already read the Bible a few times, from Genesis to Revelations, touched the Torah and skimmed the Apocryphia... I happen to LIKE mythology. Lack of belief doesn't equate with lack of knowledge: I also watch and enjoy BattleStar Galactica, but don't tremble in fear of Cylons at night.
And one of the common justifications for actions has always been "it was god's will", either to excuse themselves, or from a sense of fatalism.
I'd disagree that an atheist has no moral compass either: for the good of society AND self seems a lot more concrete and definable then the whimsical desires of a mythical creature.
Yet from the perspective of the atheist, that's exactly what those Biblical 'rights' are: rights man granted himself.
Which has what to do with them burying a nuke 800 meters under the surface (as per the movie), detonating it less than a month out? He's modeling the movie, where it starts off only 18 days away from impact...so lessen the time window by the training,travel etc the rest of the movie showed. They used oil drillers to drill down for the bomb placement...
The flaws you point in his example however are the flaws they made in the movie. You said he's doing it wrong, ergo the movie did it wrong, which was his point?
I work in the control room at a racetrack, where we do filming and broadcasting horse and car races.
In addition to the DVD recorders we've also a bank of VHS VCRs taping raw footage from the cameras. They are primarily for archival purposes and for use in inquiries, but we also sell recordings of the races to the public. Yes, the majority of requests now seem to be more for DVDs, but we still go through boxes of T20 tapes for public consumption. Also judges when asking for tapes of race ask for SVHS, not DVDs (then complain they can't play the SVHS on their VHS-only VCR, but that's another matter).
Considering the head office just sent us a new trio of VCRs for use, I think news of it's demise have been slightly exaggerated. Still a few more years of use left in them yet.
Of amusement, a local television station asks us for tapes as well, but they want Beta which is one format we can't do.
Whose to say it isn't two fleets currently engaged in joint exercises buzzing the kiwis?
GEOS....did many an essay on its word processor, although never had a use for the database in it (altho was fun to play with). Remember a calculator function in it as well, although I don't recall a spreadsheet.
Suddenly feeling nostalgic for the thing....although the load time would likely make me scream.
He also used an intern as a humidor...don't think he holds marriages THAT sacred.
Looks at the population density per province, not a national whole. It's a lot higher once you remove the territories (i.e. most are near the 38th and in the Golden Horseshoe area). Almost the entirety of the populace (99.7%) is in little over half the country's landmass (59%).
a ndsociety/population/population2001/density2001
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/people
Blame it on people mistaking mod points for popularity points.
I'm still liking how the first post about a flaw of FF being that it 'exposes children to myspace' gets called flamebait instead of humourous.
What fanfiction do you read? In the majority of fan fiction I've came across, it all used the original characters, occassionally introducing original characters (flagged as "OC" and often heavily criticised for imblance), and for the most part are just plot deviations or continuations OF THE ORIGINAL EVERYTHING.
Just check out FanFiction.net for a million instances of it.
**change "fiber for DSL" to simply "too far, lines too poor, simply not offered"
...excepting that some people live in rural areas where there is no cable, no line-of-sight wireless (terrain preventing), no fiber for DSL. They lack the option (unless you think they should relocate JUST for internet speed).
My area only got DSL availability within the last two years, and I know of plenty who still have no ability. Sure there is sat modems, but all in all those aren't really a fun solution.
1.5.0.7 and I ran into it this morning. First time for me though, didn't pay it much heed other than just restarting FF to get it to work.