...does not qualify as censorship by the government of Canada.
Especially since Volpe is not a member of the governing party. The Liberals are currently in opposition. Volpe is a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal party--or perhaps was, after the donations-from-kids scandal.
However, this sort of qualifies as abuse of power to censor legitimate political satire--but not quite, because the chicken-shit Tory smear campaign artist who put the site up didn't have the guts to say who he was. There is no reason any ordinary citizen would feel the need to hide his identity when publishing legitimate satire.
This is what I love about Slashdot: Reply to a post on privacy/politics, and get an education in shotgun types.:) Couple more questions:
Gauge is determined by how many "pure" lead balls of the bore diameter it would take to weigh one pound.
I take it this measurement was created when guns commonly fired lead balls that would occupy the entire bore diameter. I've heard of 'slug' rounds for shotguns. Is that essentially the same thing?
So, when choosing a shotgun for a particular purpose, I guess you have to decide several things:
Bore (gauge)
Shot size (are shells color-coded according to the shot size?)
Type of barrell--When would you want a wider pattern?
So if Dick had been hunting Quayle--I mean, quail--with a straight-bore 12 gauge loaded with buckshot, not only would his friend have no head, but any birds he happened to hit would be pretty much vaporized. On the other hand, with a back-bored 28 gauge, any birds (and friends) he happened to hit would still have all of their parts attached.
...but here is a list of acronyms to get you excited about it.
What? But it makes perfect sense!
All we have to do is yEnc the H.264 stream, RAR is apart, make the PAR files, GPG each package, and verify the MD5 sums after it's been e-mailed to AES!
But since the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Otherwise he could go MIA and we'll all end up on KP--oops, wrong argument.
Somebody should compile a list of observations from Terry Pratchett novels.
Unfortunately, due to the pervasive profundity of Prattchett's prose, such a list would end up being a bookshelf filled with all of his novels--a bookshelf I happen to have at home.
Thanks for the clarification. Actually, my misconception wasn't so much about velocity as about the bore of the gun and the size of the pellets. To clarify further:
Do higher gauge numbers have a smaller bore size?
Do higher gauge numbers tend to use smaller pellets?
If lower gauge numbers have a larger payload, but similar velocity, do they have a larger charge?
IANAGU (...not a gun owner); I've got enough other expensive hobbies.;)
As a Texas resident I can guarantee you we wouldn't use a 20 gauge. Most likey we'd use a 12 gauge..or a 30-06.
The difference, for those unfamiliar with shotgun gauge measurements:
12 gauge:
- BLAM!!
- *croak*
20 gauge:
- bang!
- Hey!
- bang!
- Stop shooting me, man!
- bang!
- Ow! That one broke the skin!
- bang!
- Okay, okay! We'll take the cameras down, just put the gun away, Mr. Vice President!
(Actually Cheney shot his 'friend' with a 28-gauge, at close range. If it had been a 12-gauge, the guy would have no head.)
...in this case, it's like they tied the bottom rope to the middle guy's ankle...
We need to mod this up to a 6. I also studied this disaster in school, but this simple paragraph does a much better, simpler job of explaining the cause than any other I've heard.
If yes I think all US centric websites are screwed. The content will just move to international waters...
Looks like I have to step up development on that floating server farm design.:P
I guess the US government had better get that wall up in a hurry to stop the flood of illegal immigrants--that is, American IT pros flooding into Mexico to the huge server parks that are bound to spring up in Tijuana, Mexicali, and other cities.
The internet does not revolve around the US you know.
"It is the copyright that finances creation in movies, computergames, music and other culture... the closing of The Pirate Bay is good for all of us that apreciate new Movies and entertainment..."
Does anyone really believe this? A good movie makes money because people want to see it in the theater, and buy products based on it. For a current example, Pixar's "Cars" comes to mind. Is there any doubt that the toys alone will pay for the movie's production? Even when you consider the non-trademarked knockoffs that cheap toy manufacturers will produce? (Look out; they'll be the next target.)
As for "all of us that apreciate new Movies and entertainment", does anyone really believe that the theaters showing the newest Rob Schneider movie (for example) will be any less empty with TBP shut down?
PB/TPB down
PRESSRELEASE
For immediate publication
May 31, 2006
The police defrauded of the film industry to close down Piratbyrån
The police carried out today a razzia against The Pirate Bay, the world's bigest Bittorrent - tracker. The side has in several years been a node in the world for culture interested people in countries over the whole world. All from own produced essays to obscure Japanese music to video's of Schlagerfinalen has spridits with the aid of the technology.
On the actual servrarna has no illegal material existed. Torrent-filerna, länka as people uses in order to be meshed and to load the desired material contains only text that meagre is copyright protected.
"Antipiratbyrån has clearly misleaded the police in this case" states Tobias's Andersson on Piratbyrån. "one seems to have convinced it-inkompetenta police that servrarna in question is fulfilled with copyright protected materials. This is a coarse misuse of wealth money."
"concurrent has a majority other sides as existed on nearby servrar been confiscated. Häri lies the coarsest övertrampet. Antipiratbyrån has evidently defrauded the police to at the same time close down your antagonists, Piratbyrån."
"Piratbyrån has in 3 years seemed for an open debate around copyright questions and patents. We are a lot of agitated over that the film industry does not dare to take the debate, without wants to defraud politicians and police to outlaw antagonist and a big part of the Swedish people."
"purely practical means this såklart nothing pursues the world's file splitters. The exists
other thousand's sides or networks for them that few the the wants to have. People change only place.
Fildelningen functions equally a skin to draw, a cuts' head of grows the soon out 2 new. "
Piratbyrån was started the summer 2003 in order to elucidate and to discuss copyright questions. Piratbyrån means that the copyright in many cases has played out their role and instead in order to protect tex artists nearer prevents the creation and göder a few. Since the start has approximately 60 000 members registered itself on the homepage where one debates in forums and changes advice. Piratbyrån has also hållt presentations in the parliament, pursued various campaigns and the started world's bigest bittorrent-tracker ThePirateBay.org
__________________________________________
The Pirate Bay wild duck piratbyran ice down after a raid on our National Inspectorate of Strategic Products, our wild duck more customers server's are hold. We will post office mother INFO carcasses soon carcasses we know it.
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About Me
Note: Don't ask me about the parts that didn't translate; I just copy and paste. I have no clue what the "wild duck... carcasses" in the last paragraph are about.
The average flight attendant or pilot receives many times more radiation exposure than a nuclear power worker.
I'm sure that's true in most cases. I know Canada's nuclear industry is very well-regulated and safe. But I was in Japan in 1999, when the Ibaraki nuclear 'incident' happened. The nuclear industry, like any other, can be dangerous if safety procedures are not followed. And instead of something obvious like a big piece of machinery crashing down on you, a nuclear accident kills you without you ever realizing what hit you.
Despite the fact that the nuclear industry is one of the safest, it is psychologically more intimidating to know that you could be killed by invisible rays instead of a big chunk of steel.
I hadn't dug that far into the site. It's amazing that a third of the world's uranium supply (soon to be half, according to the site) is concentrated in northern Saskatchewan... um, Ontario?
And since that map is posted on a Canadian site, I think it more likely illustrates Ontarians' inability to think of any other part of Canada being the center of the country for any reason!
Unfortunately, that oil is proving to be more of a vulnerability than a strength with the current US administration. Any country that supplies a lot of oil to the US...
...um, maybe I should load up on supplies and move to the back woods of Manitoba before Dubya realizes who is really buttering his bread. I'll be sure to stock up on Canadian Bacon.
Re:And the upgrade went online on August 4th...
on
Mars Rover Upgraded
·
· Score: 1
...then the rover goes on a rampage, killing every human on Mars.
It will most likely will be installed in airports and schools...
Airports? Maybe. Schools? Are you kidding? With the way educational budgets are shrinking, the schools of the future will be lucky if they have anything more than a trench dug outside where the science lab used to be.
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Especially since Volpe is not a member of the governing party. The Liberals are currently in opposition. Volpe is a candidate for the leadership of the Liberal party--or perhaps was, after the donations-from-kids scandal.
However, this sort of qualifies as abuse of power to censor legitimate political satire--but not quite, because the chicken-shit Tory smear campaign artist who put the site up didn't have the guts to say who he was. There is no reason any ordinary citizen would feel the need to hide his identity when publishing legitimate satire.
This is what I love about Slashdot: Reply to a post on privacy/politics, and get an education in shotgun types. :) Couple more questions:
I take it this measurement was created when guns commonly fired lead balls that would occupy the entire bore diameter. I've heard of 'slug' rounds for shotguns. Is that essentially the same thing?
So, when choosing a shotgun for a particular purpose, I guess you have to decide several things:
So if Dick had been hunting Quayle--I mean, quail--with a straight-bore 12 gauge loaded with buckshot, not only would his friend have no head, but any birds he happened to hit would be pretty much vaporized. On the other hand, with a back-bored 28 gauge, any birds (and friends) he happened to hit would still have all of their parts attached.
What? But it makes perfect sense!
All we have to do is yEnc the H.264 stream, RAR is apart, make the PAR files, GPG each package, and verify the MD5 sums after it's been e-mailed to AES!
But since the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Otherwise he could go MIA and we'll all end up on KP--oops, wrong argument.
Unfortunately, due to the pervasive profundity of Prattchett's prose, such a list would end up being a bookshelf filled with all of his novels--a bookshelf I happen to have at home.
Thanks for the clarification. Actually, my misconception wasn't so much about velocity as about the bore of the gun and the size of the pellets. To clarify further:
IANAGU (...not a gun owner); I've got enough other expensive hobbies. ;)
The difference, for those unfamiliar with shotgun gauge measurements:
12 gauge:
- BLAM!!
- *croak*
20 gauge:
- bang!
- Hey!
- bang!
- Stop shooting me, man!
- bang!
- Ow! That one broke the skin!
- bang!
- Okay, okay! We'll take the cameras down, just put the gun away, Mr. Vice President!
(Actually Cheney shot his 'friend' with a 28-gauge, at close range. If it had been a 12-gauge, the guy would have no head.)
We need to mod this up to a 6. I also studied this disaster in school, but this simple paragraph does a much better, simpler job of explaining the cause than any other I've heard.
Because nVIDIA isn't a three-letter acronym starting with A*, which is probably this analyst's rationale for starting this pump-and-dump "prediction".
*A for "analyst", which of course starts with "anal".
Don't forget all of those Solaris/Matrox boxes filling the shelves at Best Buy.
...
Made you look! :P
Looks like I have to step up development on that floating server farm design. :P
I guess the US government had better get that wall up in a hurry to stop the flood of illegal immigrants--that is, American IT pros flooding into Mexico to the huge server parks that are bound to spring up in Tijuana, Mexicali, and other cities.
But it will soon. The key word is around, not in.
Does anyone really believe this? A good movie makes money because people want to see it in the theater, and buy products based on it. For a current example, Pixar's "Cars" comes to mind. Is there any doubt that the toys alone will pay for the movie's production? Even when you consider the non-trademarked knockoffs that cheap toy manufacturers will produce? (Look out; they'll be the next target.)
As for "all of us that apreciate new Movies and entertainment", does anyone really believe that the theaters showing the newest Rob Schneider movie (for example) will be any less empty with TBP shut down?
PB/TPB down
PRESSRELEASE
For immediate publication
May 31, 2006
The police defrauded of the film industry to close down Piratbyrån
The police carried out today a razzia against The Pirate Bay, the world's bigest Bittorrent - tracker. The side has in several years been a node in the world for culture interested people in countries over the whole world. All from own produced essays to obscure Japanese music to video's of Schlagerfinalen has spridits with the aid of the technology.
On the actual servrarna has no illegal material existed. Torrent-filerna, länka as people uses in order to be meshed and to load the desired material contains only text that meagre is copyright protected.
"Antipiratbyrån has clearly misleaded the police in this case" states Tobias's Andersson on Piratbyrån. "one seems to have convinced it-inkompetenta police that servrarna in question is fulfilled with copyright protected materials. This is a coarse misuse of wealth money."
"concurrent has a majority other sides as existed on nearby servrar been confiscated. Häri lies the coarsest övertrampet. Antipiratbyrån has evidently defrauded the police to at the same time close down your antagonists, Piratbyrån."
"Piratbyrån has in 3 years seemed for an open debate around copyright questions and patents. We are a lot of agitated over that the film industry does not dare to take the debate, without wants to defraud politicians and police to outlaw antagonist and a big part of the Swedish people."
"purely practical means this såklart nothing pursues the world's file splitters. The exists other thousand's sides or networks for them that few the the wants to have. People change only place. Fildelningen functions equally a skin to draw, a cuts' head of grows the soon out 2 new. "
Piratbyrån was started the summer 2003 in order to elucidate and to discuss copyright questions. Piratbyrån means that the copyright in many cases has played out their role and instead in order to protect tex artists nearer prevents the creation and göder a few. Since the start has approximately 60 000 members registered itself on the homepage where one debates in forums and changes advice. Piratbyrån has also hållt presentations in the parliament, pursued various campaigns and the started world's bigest bittorrent-tracker ThePirateBay.org
__________________________________________
The Pirate Bay wild duck piratbyran ice down after a raid on our National Inspectorate of Strategic Products, our wild duck more customers server's are hold. We will post office mother INFO carcasses soon carcasses we know it.
post office curse village Piratbyran at 5:28 AM 47 co intended
About Me
Note: Don't ask me about the parts that didn't translate; I just copy and paste. I have no clue what the "wild duck... carcasses" in the last paragraph are about.
So now they'll have Otto and ROC?
"We have to blow the computer!"
Nah, The Mao Dynasty would be more accurate.
I'm sure that's true in most cases. I know Canada's nuclear industry is very well-regulated and safe. But I was in Japan in 1999, when the Ibaraki nuclear 'incident' happened. The nuclear industry, like any other, can be dangerous if safety procedures are not followed. And instead of something obvious like a big piece of machinery crashing down on you, a nuclear accident kills you without you ever realizing what hit you.
Despite the fact that the nuclear industry is one of the safest, it is psychologically more intimidating to know that you could be killed by invisible rays instead of a big chunk of steel.
I hadn't dug that far into the site. It's amazing that a third of the world's uranium supply (soon to be half, according to the site) is concentrated in northern Saskatchewan... um, Ontario?
And since that map is posted on a Canadian site, I think it more likely illustrates Ontarians' inability to think of any other part of Canada being the center of the country for any reason!
China or Russia? No, the primary source of high-quality uranium is much closer.
And if they're second- or third-generation nuclear workers, they've got two or three belly buttons to compare to their uranium!
The world's number one uranium producer. Okay, it's not weapons-grade, but it's next-door to the country with the most enriching facilities.
I'll just go buy that bunker in Brochet now...
...is spam Spamcop?
Unfortunately, that oil is proving to be more of a vulnerability than a strength with the current US administration. Any country that supplies a lot of oil to the US...
(Reads a top-15 US oil importers statistic)...
...um, maybe I should load up on supplies and move to the back woods of Manitoba before Dubya realizes who is really buttering his bread. I'll be sure to stock up on Canadian Bacon.
...then the rover goes on a rampage, killing every human on Mars.
What? That's why we don't see any, right?
Airports? Maybe. Schools? Are you kidding? With the way educational budgets are shrinking, the schools of the future will be lucky if they have anything more than a trench dug outside where the science lab used to be.
How many people read this and thought "Okay, what have they done with Norton now?"
"Slander is spoken. In print it's libel." -J. Jonah Jameson, Spiderman