Then you'd have the censorship patrol coming after you because of the BDSM implications, because tickling leads to spanking, spanking leads to flogging...
My son is 5, and the only major kids' program (and computer game series, to keep on topic) we don't let him watch is Barney. Why not, considering that we let him watch Hot Wheels, Spiderman, and other shows where people and robots battle and blow things up?
Because Barney teaches the wrong values!
Barney teaches that if you be nice to everyone, tackle all of your problems with love and kindness, and shamelessly rip off old non-copyrighted songs and put sappy new words to them, life will be just hunky-dory, and everyone will love and respect you.
What a load of rich creamery butter!
If you live your life according to the values taught by Barney, you will get the living snotcakes stomped out of you everywhere from the preschool playground to the unemployment line--which is where you will spend a lot of time if you hug every potential employer who interviews you (and ask them to be your 'special friend').
If you live your life according to the values taught by Spiderman, you will fight for what is right, and take risks to achieve your goals. You will know that, no matter how good you try to be, not everyone will be your 'special friend'; you will have enemies, and will have to learn to deal with them.
Life without conflict is merely existence. I'm not saying you should give your 3-year-old unrestricted access to DOOM 3, but instead of shielding kids from conflict, teach them how to deal with it. After all, if you were an employer, who would you rather hire: Spiderman or Barney?
Try Googling "Bernard Haldane" if you ever get contacted by these 'employment counsellors'. I needed to dig down to the 60th page of search results before I found a page that wasn't owned by the company. Every result I found that was not owned by Haldane was a report of some kind of fraud investigation, or complaints by people who had been unhappy with their 'services'.
Fortunately, I escaped from their trap without signing an NDA, so I can give details of how they sell their vapor-service on request.
I don't think that's a stupid question at all. Undersea listening posts are meant to detect weak sound waves generated in the water by submarines, but I'm sure they would also detect the strong sound waves generated in the crust by an earthquake (which generate weak sound waves in the water). They probably wouldn't do it as well as a purpose-built seismometer, but with additional software, and commnunication links to the right places, they could provide some additional detection ability.
Of course, the US Navy would never allow them to be used for that purpose because the scientists might hear a [classified] sound from a [classified] vessel whose whereabouts are [classified].
...where can independant Canadian artists who are not affiliated with the labels sign up to receive their cut of this tax?
They can't, because these greedy independent artists are taking money out of the hands of hard-working recording industry exectutives. The recording industry needs to hunt down these indie pirates, who in some cases are actually making a substantial profit by the abhorrent practice of selling their music directly to their fans, and take their rightful cut!
Damned musicians, making money off their own music! Won't someone please think of the poor starving children of the record company execs?!
I think Orwell's Animal Farm may be a more appropriate analogy for the current situation, with the pigs in charge, and all of the sheep who blindly follow them.
And, of course, there's the aptness of the name of the HPIC (the head pig in charge)...
"Could you outline all of your secret projects, and everything that you do not what your competitors to know about?"
If I were in charge of a company like Google, I would love to have 'analysts' ask me questions like this. It would be so much fun watching them react to all of the misinformation I would feed them.
I went to H&R Block once. Only once. Half a bloody hour into the session, the ~cough~ 'tax professional' looked at one of my T4's and asked me "What is this 'CUPE union'?"
For the non-Canadians, CUPE is the Canadian Union of Public Employees, one of the largest unions in the country. It's like an American tax preparer never having heard of the Teamsters or the UAW.
Show me a link to a paper published in Nature or Science, or the New England Journal of Medicine, hell, even in the IEEE journal, and I'll check it out. A book on Amazon? Anyone can get any pseudoscientific crap published, and can even get a few Ph.D's to sign off on it, and will sell a million copies if it happens to relate to the FUD-du-jour.
Until I see something credible, I'm not going to put on tin-foil underwear for the hour or so I use my laptop each day, or wear sunglasses while I stare at my 19" CRT, or hold my cell phone away from my head for the 5 minutes I use it each day.
Yes, microwaves are dangerous. They heat you up, especially the water in your outer tissues. But I'm a lot more worried about the gazillion-watt microwave source 150 million km away than I am about the tiny transmitters in the city around me.
There are other mechanics [geocities.com] at work.
Umm... Your reference is a geocities page?
And you're saying that I should be concerned about the few hundred milliwatts coming from my laptop, but apparently have no concern about the few hundred kilowatts coming from the radio station in the next building? Or the few thousand watts/square meter of microwave radiation I get from the sun on a clear day?
Then again, Thunder Bay residents probably don't get much sun through their snowsuits, so it might be a shock to their systems!
Then again, with no alcohol on campus, the students could just drive their Ski-Doos to the local pub--sorry, I mean bar. West coast lingo has taken over my lexicon since I escaped from the prairies.
This comes as the British Columbia Institute of Technology, or BCIT, is about to introduce its own Mechanical Engineering degree for those who have completed the two-year Mecanical Design diploma. Previously, the only way for a Mechanical Technology graduate at BCIT to finish his Engineering degree in two years was to transfer to Lakehead.
Let's look at the pros and cons of finishing your degree at Lakehead as compared to BCIT:
Pros:
Well-established degree program
Cons:
Summer school bridge program required
No wireless Internet
A tin-foil-hat president
Moving from Vancouver, BC to Thunder Bay, Ontario for two consecutive winters
Anyone else see a slight enrolment falloff coming?
People are reading paper newspapers less and online news sources more...
People are also driving horses and buggies less and driving cars more. If newspaper companies had a clue, they would stop printing paper editions altogether, and eliminate their immense printing and distribution costs, not to mention saving millions of trees.
Newspapers have to be the single greatest waste of paper outside of government. And today, with news spreading around the world almost as soon as it happens, anything that is printed and distributed is old news. How many gigawatts of energy are wasted every year to bring people 'news' that is hours old, and has already been analyzed to death on a thousand websites?
Newspapers need to reinvent themselves. They need to do what the first major newspapers did when they got started: Get people the news they want, faster than anyone else. Today, that means going beyond websites to RSS feeds, mobile device subscriptions, etc.
Imagine this scenario: A reporter is on his way somewhere when news happens. He pulls out his PDA, activates the live feed to his personal RSS-enabled website (which is a sub-page of a major newspaper's site), and starts dictating the story, using the built-in camera to stream video. The editor sees the feed coming in, classifies it according to topic, and an alert goes out to anyone who has subscribed to those topics. The reporter's PDA, in addition to streaming live video and audio, automatically transcribes his voice into text. People see, hear, and read the story on their computers, PDAs, cell phones, and RSS-enabled TVs.
Soon, a TV crew arrives, sets up their cameras, raises the dish on the van, and starts transmitting higher-quality video, but they have missed the start of the story, beaten to the scoop by a newspaper reporter.
That is the future of news reporting. And if the major newspapers don't set it up, someone else will.
...prevent giant business partners and competitors and the like profiting from doing things with our software and users we didn't authorize.
The ironic part of this is how the Mac became popular. When Apple's Mac team started to market the Mac, they figured there were three programs any home user would want: word processor, spreadsheet, and database. So that's all they marketed. Sales were mediocre at best, despite what was arguably one of the world's best TV commercials.
The Mac really took off when a little company called Aldus wrote a desktop publishing program called PageMaker.
Source: Keynote speech by Guy Kawasaki, former 'evangelist' for Macintosh.
If being an American means anything, it means respect for the constitution.
When the president takes his oath of office, isn't the heart of that oath a promise to preserve and protect the constitution? And if so, is there some sort of check (or balance) to slap down a president that diminishes or damages the constitution?
IANACLPOAAFTM (I am not a constitutional law professor, or an American for that matter), but as someone who lives just north of the 49th parallel, I am going to be very worried if this particular president diminishes the American constitution any more than he has already, without any repercussions from the system of checks and balances that is supposed to prevent him from being able to do so. I'll be particularly worried if the next part of the constitution 'W' diminishes or destroys is the 22nd amendment.
Never mind a fictional leader; look at a real-life 20th century leader who rallied his citizens to his cause, blaming an ethnic group most of them had little use for anyway for all of their problems, polarizing his population into absolute patriots and absolute traitors, manipulating the gullible news media, and finally gaining special emergency powers to defeat what he had by then convinced everyone was a dire threat to life, liberty, and apple pie--or, in this case, streudel.
And then think how many other leaders have successfully played from this deck of cards throughout history.
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Then you'd have the censorship patrol coming after you because of the BDSM implications, because tickling leads to spanking, spanking leads to flogging...
My son is 5, and the only major kids' program (and computer game series, to keep on topic) we don't let him watch is Barney. Why not, considering that we let him watch Hot Wheels, Spiderman, and other shows where people and robots battle and blow things up?
Because Barney teaches the wrong values!
Barney teaches that if you be nice to everyone, tackle all of your problems with love and kindness, and shamelessly rip off old non-copyrighted songs and put sappy new words to them, life will be just hunky-dory, and everyone will love and respect you.
What a load of rich creamery butter!
If you live your life according to the values taught by Barney, you will get the living snotcakes stomped out of you everywhere from the preschool playground to the unemployment line--which is where you will spend a lot of time if you hug every potential employer who interviews you (and ask them to be your 'special friend').
If you live your life according to the values taught by Spiderman, you will fight for what is right, and take risks to achieve your goals. You will know that, no matter how good you try to be, not everyone will be your 'special friend'; you will have enemies, and will have to learn to deal with them.
Life without conflict is merely existence. I'm not saying you should give your 3-year-old unrestricted access to DOOM 3, but instead of shielding kids from conflict, teach them how to deal with it. After all, if you were an employer, who would you rather hire: Spiderman or Barney?
They've been claiming the world's best operating system for years.
That's changed then; I was nearly suckered by them about two years ago, and at the time they had almost all of the Google results for their name.
Try Googling "Bernard Haldane" if you ever get contacted by these 'employment counsellors'. I needed to dig down to the 60th page of search results before I found a page that wasn't owned by the company. Every result I found that was not owned by Haldane was a report of some kind of fraud investigation, or complaints by people who had been unhappy with their 'services'.
Fortunately, I escaped from their trap without signing an NDA, so I can give details of how they sell their vapor-service on request.
...that created life as we know it; it was an Intelligent Hacker!
Besides, I get an annoying Rick James song stuck in my head when I see that name.
Then it morphs into "Ya can't fetch this!" and makes me want to claw my ears out.
Cool. My apologies to the US Navy.
I don't think that's a stupid question at all. Undersea listening posts are meant to detect weak sound waves generated in the water by submarines, but I'm sure they would also detect the strong sound waves generated in the crust by an earthquake (which generate weak sound waves in the water). They probably wouldn't do it as well as a purpose-built seismometer, but with additional software, and commnunication links to the right places, they could provide some additional detection ability.
Of course, the US Navy would never allow them to be used for that purpose because the scientists might hear a [classified] sound from a [classified] vessel whose whereabouts are [classified].
They can't, because these greedy independent artists are taking money out of the hands of hard-working recording industry exectutives. The recording industry needs to hunt down these indie pirates, who in some cases are actually making a substantial profit by the abhorrent practice of selling their music directly to their fans, and take their rightful cut!
Damned musicians, making money off their own music! Won't someone please think of the poor starving children of the record company execs?!
I think Orwell's Animal Farm may be a more appropriate analogy for the current situation, with the pigs in charge, and all of the sheep who blindly follow them.
And, of course, there's the aptness of the name of the HPIC (the head pig in charge)...
If I were in charge of a company like Google, I would love to have 'analysts' ask me questions like this. It would be so much fun watching them react to all of the misinformation I would feed them.
I went to H&R Block once. Only once. Half a bloody hour into the session, the ~cough~ 'tax professional' looked at one of my T4's and asked me "What is this 'CUPE union'?"
For the non-Canadians, CUPE is the Canadian Union of Public Employees, one of the largest unions in the country. It's like an American tax preparer never having heard of the Teamsters or the UAW.
...and you won't be able to uninstall the bundled software like Alimentary Explorer and Windows Memory Player.
Riiiiiight.
Show me a link to a paper published in Nature or Science, or the New England Journal of Medicine, hell, even in the IEEE journal, and I'll check it out. A book on Amazon? Anyone can get any pseudoscientific crap published, and can even get a few Ph.D's to sign off on it, and will sell a million copies if it happens to relate to the FUD-du-jour.
Until I see something credible, I'm not going to put on tin-foil underwear for the hour or so I use my laptop each day, or wear sunglasses while I stare at my 19" CRT, or hold my cell phone away from my head for the 5 minutes I use it each day.
Yes, microwaves are dangerous. They heat you up, especially the water in your outer tissues. But I'm a lot more worried about the gazillion-watt microwave source 150 million km away than I am about the tiny transmitters in the city around me.
You're right. We should put an immediate stop to the single greatest source of microwave radiation absorbed by humans. Quick! Let's put out the Sun!
Umm... Your reference is a geocities page?
And you're saying that I should be concerned about the few hundred milliwatts coming from my laptop, but apparently have no concern about the few hundred kilowatts coming from the radio station in the next building? Or the few thousand watts/square meter of microwave radiation I get from the sun on a clear day?
Then again, Thunder Bay residents probably don't get much sun through their snowsuits, so it might be a shock to their systems!
...what else is there to do in Thunder Bay?
Then again, with no alcohol on campus, the students could just drive their Ski-Doos to the local pub--sorry, I mean bar. West coast lingo has taken over my lexicon since I escaped from the prairies.
This comes as the British Columbia Institute of Technology, or BCIT, is about to introduce its own Mechanical Engineering degree for those who have completed the two-year Mecanical Design diploma. Previously, the only way for a Mechanical Technology graduate at BCIT to finish his Engineering degree in two years was to transfer to Lakehead.
Let's look at the pros and cons of finishing your degree at Lakehead as compared to BCIT:
Pros:
Cons:
Anyone else see a slight enrolment falloff coming?
...Hex!
People are also driving horses and buggies less and driving cars more. If newspaper companies had a clue, they would stop printing paper editions altogether, and eliminate their immense printing and distribution costs, not to mention saving millions of trees.
Newspapers have to be the single greatest waste of paper outside of government. And today, with news spreading around the world almost as soon as it happens, anything that is printed and distributed is old news. How many gigawatts of energy are wasted every year to bring people 'news' that is hours old, and has already been analyzed to death on a thousand websites?
Newspapers need to reinvent themselves. They need to do what the first major newspapers did when they got started: Get people the news they want, faster than anyone else. Today, that means going beyond websites to RSS feeds, mobile device subscriptions, etc.
Imagine this scenario: A reporter is on his way somewhere when news happens. He pulls out his PDA, activates the live feed to his personal RSS-enabled website (which is a sub-page of a major newspaper's site), and starts dictating the story, using the built-in camera to stream video. The editor sees the feed coming in, classifies it according to topic, and an alert goes out to anyone who has subscribed to those topics. The reporter's PDA, in addition to streaming live video and audio, automatically transcribes his voice into text. People see, hear, and read the story on their computers, PDAs, cell phones, and RSS-enabled TVs.
Soon, a TV crew arrives, sets up their cameras, raises the dish on the van, and starts transmitting higher-quality video, but they have missed the start of the story, beaten to the scoop by a newspaper reporter.
That is the future of news reporting. And if the major newspapers don't set it up, someone else will.
...was not submitting a patent request for 'one-click Worsley-Twisting'.
The ironic part of this is how the Mac became popular. When Apple's Mac team started to market the Mac, they figured there were three programs any home user would want: word processor, spreadsheet, and database. So that's all they marketed. Sales were mediocre at best, despite what was arguably one of the world's best TV commercials.
The Mac really took off when a little company called Aldus wrote a desktop publishing program called PageMaker.
Source: Keynote speech by Guy Kawasaki, former 'evangelist' for Macintosh.
When the president takes his oath of office, isn't the heart of that oath a promise to preserve and protect the constitution? And if so, is there some sort of check (or balance) to slap down a president that diminishes or damages the constitution?
IANACLPOAAFTM (I am not a constitutional law professor, or an American for that matter), but as someone who lives just north of the 49th parallel, I am going to be very worried if this particular president diminishes the American constitution any more than he has already, without any repercussions from the system of checks and balances that is supposed to prevent him from being able to do so. I'll be particularly worried if the next part of the constitution 'W' diminishes or destroys is the 22nd amendment.
Never mind a fictional leader; look at a real-life 20th century leader who rallied his citizens to his cause, blaming an ethnic group most of them had little use for anyway for all of their problems, polarizing his population into absolute patriots and absolute traitors, manipulating the gullible news media, and finally gaining special emergency powers to defeat what he had by then convinced everyone was a dire threat to life, liberty, and apple pie--or, in this case, streudel.
And then think how many other leaders have successfully played from this deck of cards throughout history.
Didn't he say in the second episode of the first season (The Naked Now), something like...
I am fully functional, and trained in multiple techniques...
...and give Tasha Yar a robotic ride?