It's already illegal in Canada. Our criminal code practically outlaws dirty thoughts. Writing in your diary about sex with someone under 18 is enough to get you brought up on child pornography charges. Apparently it is much better if you go out and actually do the deed with a 14 year old (age of consent here).
A few months ago my grandmother's ISP started using the sorbs.net blacklist which blocks quite a few gmail servers. At least half the e-mails I sent her were returned because of the blacklist. I eventually gave up on e-mailing her through gmail because it was so unreliable.
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I've driven to Ottawa from here (Waterloo) a few times, and along many sections of the 401 and 416 you pretty much have to go 130-140 in the left lane unless you want to be stuck doing 90 in the right lane. In four trips, I've seen exactly one police car stopped by the side of the road, and they weren't catching speeders (good for me since I was doing 150!).
You can buy vouchers for cinemas at a specially discounted rate at the university here, and a lot of businesses give them out as incentives to employees. Basically, the cinema sells a bunch at once and gives a slight discount on each ticket (a couple of dollars). The vouchers are good for one ticket to see anything (i.e. they're not the "no passes accepted" type of pass). When I go see a movie with my family, I usually just buy a set of vouchers, because the discount adds up when you've got 6+ people going at once.
So, we head down to the cinema to get our tickets, and find they're not accepting these vouchers for Episode III. It was the first time they'd not accepted the vouchers for any movie they'd *ever* shown. Apparently good old George had a memo sent around saying if any cinema sold tickets for less than full price, he'd have the studio screw them over by cancelling their distribution contract. The general consensus was that he was afraid discounted tickets would affect the opening record he desperately wanted to set. Greedy bastard. We ponied up the cash to see that piece of trash at the regular price, though.
I was going to suggest exactly the same thing. My er6is are a godsend in noisy environments. When I stick them in my ears, I can't even hear a person talking beside me. An added bonus is that because there's no background noise, you don't need to turn up the volume as much. Of course, there are cons, like the inability to hear warnings, phones, and such, but you have to take that into account when you decide to use them. I keep the phone where I can see it ringing, keep an eye on the receptionist when I'm waiting for an appointment, etc. They're basically like earplugs that can play music.
Etymotic also makes sound attenuators for use when you actually want to be able to hear what's going on. They reduce sound by approximately 20dB in a fairly linear way, which is great for obnoxiously loud concerts, clubs, etc. They're pretty cheap, too.
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Gapless playback works perfectly on my old 30GB 5G with updated firmware.
This is completely legal here in Canada.
There goes my morning...
Works for me. Of course, UW is 5 minutes down the road :)
The Clinton haircut incident is made up (beyond the basics that he did have a haircut on Air Force One at LAX). http://politus.blogspot.com/2004/04/debunked-clint ons-haircut-at-lax.html
These are PLU codes, and they're standardized all over the place. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Look-Up_codes
A few months ago my grandmother's ISP started using the sorbs.net blacklist which blocks quite a few gmail servers. At least half the e-mails I sent her were returned because of the blacklist. I eventually gave up on e-mailing her through gmail because it was so unreliable.
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You've obviously never heard of Rainbow Foil or the Clever Little Clock ;)
So what did you do? :)
If only Nikon could get me the D200 I ordered Dec 8...
"...obviously a major malfunction."
I've driven to Ottawa from here (Waterloo) a few times, and along many sections of the 401 and 416 you pretty much have to go 130-140 in the left lane unless you want to be stuck doing 90 in the right lane. In four trips, I've seen exactly one police car stopped by the side of the road, and they weren't catching speeders (good for me since I was doing 150!).
Backslashdot, eh?
The colour iPod distortion problem? I'm going to guess "never".
You can buy vouchers for cinemas at a specially discounted rate at the university here, and a lot of businesses give them out as incentives to employees. Basically, the cinema sells a bunch at once and gives a slight discount on each ticket (a couple of dollars). The vouchers are good for one ticket to see anything (i.e. they're not the "no passes accepted" type of pass). When I go see a movie with my family, I usually just buy a set of vouchers, because the discount adds up when you've got 6+ people going at once. So, we head down to the cinema to get our tickets, and find they're not accepting these vouchers for Episode III. It was the first time they'd not accepted the vouchers for any movie they'd *ever* shown. Apparently good old George had a memo sent around saying if any cinema sold tickets for less than full price, he'd have the studio screw them over by cancelling their distribution contract. The general consensus was that he was afraid discounted tickets would affect the opening record he desperately wanted to set. Greedy bastard. We ponied up the cash to see that piece of trash at the regular price, though.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4288772. stm
It's around 95 euros at most of their resellers.
I was going to suggest exactly the same thing. My er6is are a godsend in noisy environments. When I stick them in my ears, I can't even hear a person talking beside me. An added bonus is that because there's no background noise, you don't need to turn up the volume as much. Of course, there are cons, like the inability to hear warnings, phones, and such, but you have to take that into account when you decide to use them. I keep the phone where I can see it ringing, keep an eye on the receptionist when I'm waiting for an appointment, etc. They're basically like earplugs that can play music.
Etymotic also makes sound attenuators for use when you actually want to be able to hear what's going on. They reduce sound by approximately 20dB in a fairly linear way, which is great for obnoxiously loud concerts, clubs, etc. They're pretty cheap, too.
With integrated IBM clit.