The term Canada was in use for about 300 years before the 1867 Confederation as the Dominion of Canada, which is just one in a long series of 'Canada' names for the area immediately above the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence.
Canada comes from the Iroquois word 'Kanata', which means villiage, or settlement. It was in common use anywhere the Iroquois were - which includes the area above the Great Lakes - but also below, and around.
While we're at it, Fort York did not become Toronto, York did.
Fort York was a British military garrison, and York, the town, grew up around it. As a matter of fact, Fort York is almost smack dab in the middle of Toronto - you can go and visit it if you'd like. There just wasn't much of a town there at the time - and I hardly think that the American troups went to "York" to trash the town, and ignore the Fort. The Fort WAS the target.
Also York is where the American troops committed arson.
See above.
Fort York was exploded by the retreating British.
True... but a detail, given the situation. When the Americans do 99% of the damage during the battle, it's a bit specious to tell me I'm wrong becuase the British did the remaining 1%. But I might also add that your statement reinforces my point - Fort York was the target. It was destroyed by the British to deny the Americans use of it.
Incidentally, the Americans also burned the Parliment buildings at York. T'was the Parliment of Upper Canada.
Ummmm... wrong. Upper Canada didn't *have* a parliament - it had a legislative assembly. Parliament is very similar to congress in that way... original usage was a meeting or session - nowadays, it also refers to a place or a body. The "1st Parliament of Upper Canada", which ran from 1792-1796, refers to a meeting of the Legislative Assembly, not a specific place.
The Parliament buildings you refer to didn't really exist, either - when in Session, the legislative assembly used nondescript government buildings - I could be wrong, but I don't think they were even dedicated for the purpose (I'd have to look that up).
But you can go back to telling the Americans they don't know nuthin now.
Your assumption, not mine. The only thing I've assumed is that not everybody is very familiar with the history of countries other than their own.
They did in retaliation for the torching of Parliament in Montreal
a) Parliament has never been in Montreal.
b) The torching you're referring to is Fort York, now Toronto.
c) There was no Canada, and no parliament, till 1867.
d) The first parliament was (very briefly) in Charlottetown, PEI, and then moved to Kingston, Ontario, as a provisional capital. It stayed there until Queen Vickie got pissed with the lobbyists from Kingston & Toronto both wanting to be named the capital, and screwed them both over by naming Bytown (now Ottawa) as the capital instead.
It seems to me that theoretically using a DVCS would be useful even on a 2 person project that I'm doing right now,
Never mind a 2 person project - I find it VERY usefull for my current one man project.
It's an application that has parts for windows, parts for linux, and parts that have to run on both.
When I'm running windows, I do my windows work - when in linux, my linux work. Pushing and pulling to and from my file server, where I've got my "master" repositories, makes life soooooo much easier when I'm constantly switching back and forth - I find I don't even have to *think* about where I am on the other platform - I just do my thing for the one I'm on, and what few confilicts I do wind up having are embarassingly trivial to fix.
Uh, so if you hate the stuff you steal*, then it's not illegal? Maybe I should go steal a car that I hate...
* Yes, I know some will argue to the ends of time that it isn't stealing, it's "just" copyright infringement.
first - no, it's not stealing - but it is illegal. At no point did I say it WAS legal.
What I did say, was this - if anything, I think they should be *encouraging* people to pass their "stuff" around - because I think the net effect is MORE sales for them, not less. And that benefits everybody (the artists the least, unfortunatly).
I think it's fairly obvious that a group watching it's life-blood sucked away by illegal downloading is going to get over-zealous in this fight.
And that's the crux of the issue there - it has not been established, nor has it come even CLOSE to being established, that downloading is the cause of their problems - and you can make the case that the illegal downloading actually INCREASES their sales.
I have a huge music collection - 90% CD/DVD/vinyl, 10% downloads. One of the things I have is the top 100 songs for every year from 1940 to 2007 - including all the lyrics. It took me years to collect all that.
It's really interesting to hear the changing styles as the years and decades go by. But would I have paid to get the rap crap that started to show up big time since about 1998 or so? No freaking way - the RIAA cannot claim lost sales there, or for any country songs that are included - because I hate both.
On the other hand, my teenage daughter has since gone out and purchased Aqualung, and a bunch of Beatles albums, because she liked what she heard in my collection. Another of her friends is now a major Glenn Miller fan, and has also bought CDs. Others of her friends, and mine, have also purchased CDs and DVDs based on some of my downloads.
I'm a major blues fan. There are an obscene number of local or regional bands out there that are every bit as good, or better, than the major stars - and the ONLY way I could have possibly heard of Larry McCray from Michigan is by downloading his stuff on spec, and giving it a listen. (NEW SALE). Playing it for my friend in Ohio (NEW SALE). Playing Papa Chubby from NYC for friends in the southern USA (NEW SALES). Running into Aussies in music chat rooms and playing the Bondi Cigars for them (NEW SALES).
However, the security of systems relies at some point on the obscurity of certain pieces of data.
if it relies on obscurity, then it's not secure, period.
Whether it be a user password or a map of a network topology, the information itself has no real reason to be made public just for the sake of openness, one could argue.
A user password IS a secret, and is intended to be. Internal network topology is a way of organizing a network for administrative purposes, and is in NOT designed, nor CAN be be designed, to provide security.
Some topologies make it easier to secure certain things, yes - but that is an administrative consideration in selection of a topology made to make implementing security easier; it is not, in itself, a security measure.
Lastly.... the information was not sought "just for the sake of openness" - it was sought as part of the process to discover who had been engaged in criminal behaviour.
is the crime worth the possible destruction of the entire network at the hands of hackers?
If knowing which particular device is enough to give hackers the ability to destroy an entire network, there's a butt load and a half of network administrators working for the state that need to be fired - and the sooner, the better.
- if a study agrees with my preconceived notions, then it's a good, unbiased, valid result.
- if a study disagrees with my preconceived notions, it is the result of vested interests and bias.
the overall mortality rate of those who take these drugs long term is the same or higher than those who do not.
Given long enough a term, LIFE is fatal. What's your point?
Sorry, but I think that your contention of your entire comment that blocking is bad has about as much scientific validity as "Four legs good, two legs bad". It's a political polemic that has exactly zero to do with usefulness or efficacy.
Seriously, if you start your thought process with "I only pulled a B in something, but couldn't you fix..." when the people working on it have bachelor's degrees (or master's or PhD's) in the subject area, it probably would not solve the problem
I don't know what I hate more on slashdot.... seeing somebody spout off when it's obvious to anybody with even passing familiarity in the field in question that they're full of it, or seeing somebody get shat upon when they ask a perfectly valid question in an attempt to try to learn something new
You are describing the Ideal of Communism. I was describing the Reality.
The reality is that there has never been a communist state, anywhere in the world, at any time.
Soviet Russia is probably best described as an oligarchy that used communist philosophy to justify it's existence - but it was never, at any point, even close to being communist.
Hell - in many ways, it wasn't even very socialist.
Maybe on the east coast but that's a relatively small number of Canadians. Here in Ontario we say it like normal.
Family from Newfoundland (fodder's a townie from Mundy Pond, mudder's a bayman from Grand Bank), and I grew up in Labrador - and I have NEVER heard anybody in my life say 'aboot'
And if a Newfie is unfamiliar with a particular mangling of the english language, then it just doesn't exist.
Last time I checked it still didn't run SQL 2005, Exchange, office 2007, etc. I think that it's funny (or cute even) to think that linux is ever going to beat windows. (at least in the near future)
Isn't that kinda/sorta like saying that a ferrari sucks becuase you can't shove a ford engine into it?
And are you sure that it wasn't just a false positive? I've triggered a few of those myself over the years - and no, I did not have an infection.
The problem with huristics and/or statistical analysis is that some things WILL fall outside the bell curve, or be incoreectly classified. That's just reality.
I guess they don't give a shit if they die at 30 from lung cancer, but they do care if they have to pay *anything* to make their own environment cleaner.
It's hard for most people to worry about what's going to happen to themselves when they're 30 when they're too busy working their butts off to try to feed the family supper that night.
This situation is the the everywhere. Kind of makes you think how shortsighted we think.
Farsight is a luxury only for those who are not fighting for survival on a daily basis.
Speaking as an owner of many.ca,.com and other domain names, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) is by far the most annoying to deal with.
[deletia]....
Frankly, CIRA should contract out the whole thing to Godaddy. They would run it far better and cheaper.
I call bullshit, on absolutly everything you've said. I've had multpile.ca domains myself, and been responsible for many others over the years, and have never had to go through anything even remotely what you're describing.
Yeah, I know, every company does that. The problem is we keep telling them that we don't mind by continually buying stuff from them.
Not quite - they all have the same legal verbiage in their contracts, so it's not something that CAN be used to discriminate. You either get internet access from one of them.... or you do without the internet, period.
Show me an ISP that does NOT reserve the right to change the contract arbitrarily, and they'll have my business tomorrow.
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No I'm not, and yes, I am.
Canada comes from the Iroquois word 'Kanata', which means villiage, or settlement. It was in common use anywhere the Iroquois were - which includes the area above the Great Lakes - but also below, and around.
Fort York was a British military garrison, and York, the town, grew up around it. As a matter of fact, Fort York is almost smack dab in the middle of Toronto - you can go and visit it if you'd like. There just wasn't much of a town there at the time - and I hardly think that the American troups went to "York" to trash the town, and ignore the Fort. The Fort WAS the target.
See above.
True ... but a detail, given the situation. When the Americans do 99% of the damage during the battle, it's a bit specious to tell me I'm wrong becuase the British did the remaining 1%. But I might also add that your statement reinforces my point - Fort York was the target. It was destroyed by the British to deny the Americans use of it.
Ummmm ... wrong. Upper Canada didn't *have* a parliament - it had a legislative assembly. Parliament is very similar to congress in that way ... original usage was a meeting or session - nowadays, it also refers to a place or a body. The "1st Parliament of Upper Canada", which ran from 1792-1796, refers to a meeting of the Legislative Assembly, not a specific place.
The Parliament buildings you refer to didn't really exist, either - when in Session, the legislative assembly used nondescript government buildings - I could be wrong, but I don't think they were even dedicated for the purpose (I'd have to look that up).
Your assumption, not mine. The only thing I've assumed is that not everybody is very familiar with the history of countries other than their own.
a) Parliament has never been in Montreal.
b) The torching you're referring to is Fort York, now Toronto.
c) There was no Canada, and no parliament, till 1867.
d) The first parliament was (very briefly) in Charlottetown, PEI, and then moved to Kingston, Ontario, as a provisional capital. It stayed there until Queen Vickie got pissed with the lobbyists from Kingston & Toronto both wanting to be named the capital, and screwed them both over by naming Bytown (now Ottawa) as the capital instead.
Canadian Bacon: great movie.
Zamboni: invented & built in California. Who'da thunk?
Never mind a 2 person project - I find it VERY usefull for my current one man project. It's an application that has parts for windows, parts for linux, and parts that have to run on both. When I'm running windows, I do my windows work - when in linux, my linux work. Pushing and pulling to and from my file server, where I've got my "master" repositories, makes life soooooo much easier when I'm constantly switching back and forth - I find I don't even have to *think* about where I am on the other platform - I just do my thing for the one I'm on, and what few confilicts I do wind up having are embarassingly trivial to fix.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
2007 estimates put the population of Iran at 70.4 million people, good for the 17th largest country in the world. Hardly a 'small' market
I think we should hook PJ up with NYCL ... Can you imagine how hot they'd look, what with her red dress reflecting off of his armour? :-)
This just in: Blacks and women are now considered to be people. Film at 11.
I hope they've got a full metric buttload - I can see this being slashdotted from hell to back, if it goes through
first - no, it's not stealing - but it is illegal. At no point did I say it WAS legal.
What I did say, was this - if anything, I think they should be *encouraging* people to pass their "stuff" around - because I think the net effect is MORE sales for them, not less. And that benefits everybody (the artists the least, unfortunatly).
And that's the crux of the issue there - it has not been established, nor has it come even CLOSE to being established, that downloading is the cause of their problems - and you can make the case that the illegal downloading actually INCREASES their sales.
I have a huge music collection - 90% CD/DVD/vinyl, 10% downloads. One of the things I have is the top 100 songs for every year from 1940 to 2007 - including all the lyrics. It took me years to collect all that.
It's really interesting to hear the changing styles as the years and decades go by. But would I have paid to get the rap crap that started to show up big time since about 1998 or so? No freaking way - the RIAA cannot claim lost sales there, or for any country songs that are included - because I hate both.
On the other hand, my teenage daughter has since gone out and purchased Aqualung, and a bunch of Beatles albums, because she liked what she heard in my collection. Another of her friends is now a major Glenn Miller fan, and has also bought CDs. Others of her friends, and mine, have also purchased CDs and DVDs based on some of my downloads.
I'm a major blues fan. There are an obscene number of local or regional bands out there that are every bit as good, or better, than the major stars - and the ONLY way I could have possibly heard of Larry McCray from Michigan is by downloading his stuff on spec, and giving it a listen. (NEW SALE). Playing it for my friend in Ohio (NEW SALE). Playing Papa Chubby from NYC for friends in the southern USA (NEW SALES). Running into Aussies in music chat rooms and playing the Bondi Cigars for them (NEW SALES).
Hell - I should be getting a bloody commission.
if it relies on obscurity, then it's not secure, period.
A user password IS a secret, and is intended to be. Internal network topology is a way of organizing a network for administrative purposes, and is in NOT designed, nor CAN be be designed, to provide security.
.... the information was not sought "just for the sake of openness" - it was sought as part of the process to discover who had been engaged in criminal behaviour.
Some topologies make it easier to secure certain things, yes - but that is an administrative consideration in selection of a topology made to make implementing security easier; it is not, in itself, a security measure.
Lastly
If knowing which particular device is enough to give hackers the ability to destroy an entire network, there's a butt load and a half of network administrators working for the state that need to be fired - and the sooner, the better.
To sum up:
- if a study agrees with my preconceived notions, then it's a good, unbiased, valid result.
- if a study disagrees with my preconceived notions, it is the result of vested interests and bias.
Given long enough a term, LIFE is fatal. What's your point?
Sorry, but I think that your contention of your entire comment that blocking is bad has about as much scientific validity as "Four legs good, two legs bad". It's a political polemic that has exactly zero to do with usefulness or efficacy.
I don't know what I hate more on slashdot .... seeing somebody spout off when it's obvious to anybody with even passing familiarity in the field in question that they're full of it, or seeing somebody get shat upon when they ask a perfectly valid question in an attempt to try to learn something new
The reality is that there has never been a communist state, anywhere in the world, at any time. Soviet Russia is probably best described as an oligarchy that used communist philosophy to justify it's existence - but it was never, at any point, even close to being communist. Hell - in many ways, it wasn't even very socialist.
Family from Newfoundland (fodder's a townie from Mundy Pond, mudder's a bayman from Grand Bank), and I grew up in Labrador - and I have NEVER heard anybody in my life say 'aboot' And if a Newfie is unfamiliar with a particular mangling of the english language, then it just doesn't exist.
Isn't that kinda/sorta like saying that a ferrari sucks becuase you can't shove a ford engine into it?
Never mind Maine - there are parts of Canada are further south than parts of Northern California. Look on a map for Point Pelee sometime .....
And are you sure that it wasn't just a false positive? I've triggered a few of those myself over the years - and no, I did not have an infection. The problem with huristics and/or statistical analysis is that some things WILL fall outside the bell curve, or be incoreectly classified. That's just reality.