it is sad that NEITHER of the major political parties are one whit interested in this little thing known as the preservation of civil rights
it is even sadder that over 99% of your citizens are not one whit interested in this little thing known as the preservation of civil rights (based on the voting trends).
I don't care what the faceless "agencies" know about me because I have nothing to hide from them, and it won't embarrass me if they know my dirty secrets, as long as they don't tell my dirty secrets to my friends.
I have two words for you:
com-pro-mise[kom-pruh-mahyz] - verb (used with object) to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize
lev-er-age[lev-er-ij] - noun power or ability to act or to influence people, events, decisions, etc.; sway
If that was Stephen Harper being responsive to the public during a minority, let God have mercy on our souls if he ever gets a majority.
And yet, this is exactly what heâ(TM)s about to get unless everybody who gives a damn gets off their lazy bums and votes against him. And, yes, it includes you!
You missed my point. What I am concerned about is NOT proportional representation. That is the least of our worries. I want representational democracy. I want my MP to be able to vote his/her own mind, not be told by the party leader how to vote.
So, what you really want is a mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system, which would allow you to vote for the candidate (regional) to represent your personal interests and for the party (proportional) that aligns with your world view.
That way, you could decouple the two and make individual MPs less beholden to the party leader.
Unfortunately the referendum we had in Ontario resulted in a massive failure since the people could not wrap their minds around the concept.
Incidentally, the NDP and the Greens supported the change, while the Libs and the PC opposed it.
I'd say that the the definition of "Roguelike" has evolved to mean a game developed by a self-appointed "dev team" who are too "elite" to communicate with mere mortals and have marked 468 bugs(*) as "fixed" while not releasing a single line of source in over 7 years.
A habitable world in another star system say 20 years travel away is hardly too far to "know what happened".
I think your scale is a little off, there are no star systems within "20 years travel" using our current technology.
Let's go over some fun facts.
The closest known exoplanet, habitable or otherwise, is almost 10.5ly away (orbiting Epsilon Eridani). That's about 10^14 km.
The fastest man-made object was the Helios 2 which achieved a record speed of 252,792 km/h at its perihelion.
So, if we could manage to send a probe to that planet, moving at an average speed that equals the above, it would take close to 45,000 years to arrive. That's 45 thousand years.
Just for comparison (source): The total span of human recorded history is about 5,000 years. The wheel was invented about 7,000 years ago. Cultivation of grains started about 10,000 years ago. Use of fibers to make baby-carriers, clothes, bags, baskets, and nets began about 26,000 years ago. Harpoons, needles, and saws were invented at roughly that time. Homo neanderthalensis became extinct about 29,000 years ago. The oldest known cave paintings date from about 31,000 years ago; the oldest known figurative art (Venus of Hohle Fels) from about 35,000 years ago. The Cro-Magnon colonisation of Europe happened about 40,000 years ago.
So, during the time equal to what it would take our probe to arrive, the human race progressed from cave-dwelling mammoth hunters with stone blades as their most sophisticated tools to what you see today.
take this: a mosquito is capable of walking over a small water patch: can we walk over the ocean?
There has been precedent. (Although the Sea of Galilee is fresh water while the oceans are salt water, so the lower surface tension can come into play).
As a software developer with no particular preference to work specifically at either GOOG or MSFT, I am mostly interested in several factors:
1) Will this "hiring war" result in higher wages and better terms across the industry (as other companies will strive to keep their employees from jumping ship)?
2) Will this positive effect spread to places where neither company has a large presence (due to the mobility of the workforce and increased pressure on competitors)?
3) Will it also precipitate to places working with less "trendy" technologies (due to pool depletion)?
Only complete idiots and morons like you have to resort to insulting somebody when they obviously lack the intelligence and ability to argue with somebody civilly.
People from other parts of the two american continents that are not part of the United States of America find people that are from the United States of America insistence that they are just "Americans" rather dumb.
I am a Canadian, "from other parts of the two american continents that are not part of the United States of America" by your definition, and have yet to meet a person that shares your sentiment.
One of the reasons that "Americans" is the accepted term to refer to people from the US is that we already have "North Americans", "South Americans" "Central Americans", "Latin Americans", etc. to refer to various subgroups of people from the American continent.
If you think about it, the people from "the two american continents" have almost nothing in common as a group -- culturally, linguistically, historically, ethnically or racially -- apart from residing on the same geographical continent (in contrast to, say "Africans", "Europeans", etc.).
What reason can there be for anybody to define themselves as "Americans" in the sense of "people from the American continent"? The population is too diverse for the term to have any reasonable meaning (except in the geographical sense but then it is too broad, like "Eurasian" or "Western-hemisperer" -- it just isn't used broadly enough to merit a specific term).
On the other hand, if you're being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic, I will preemptively concede the argument and move on to more interesting discussions.
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it is even sadder that over 99% of your citizens are not one whit interested in this little thing known as the preservation of civil rights (based on the voting trends).
A decade ago, Experts Exchange used to be a usable site. Nowadays, I advocate avoiding it. Stack Overflow should take care of your needs.
Is there similar info for Canada?
I have two words for you:
com-pro-mise [kom-pruh-mahyz]
- verb (used with object)
to expose or make vulnerable to danger, suspicion, scandal, etc.; jeopardize
lev-er-age [lev-er-ij]
- noun
power or ability to act or to influence people, events, decisions, etc.; sway
This is what you're looking at should the Conservatives manage to win a majority today.
And yet, this is exactly what heâ(TM)s about to get unless everybody who gives a damn gets off their lazy bums and votes against him. And, yes, it includes you !
So, what you really want is a mixed member proportional representation (MMP) system, which would allow you to vote for the candidate (regional) to represent your personal interests and for the party (proportional) that aligns with your world view.
That way, you could decouple the two and make individual MPs less beholden to the party leader.
Unfortunately the referendum we had in Ontario resulted in a massive failure since the people could not wrap their minds around the concept.
Incidentally, the NDP and the Greens supported the change, while the Libs and the PC opposed it.
Whereas copyright tends to focus on protecting middlemen's ability to make money from the artists' work...
I'd say that the the definition of "Roguelike" has evolved to mean a game developed by a self-appointed "dev team" who are too "elite" to communicate with mere mortals and have marked 468 bugs(*) as "fixed" while not releasing a single line of source in over 7 years.
(*) Yes, I counted.
I think your scale is a little off, there are no star systems within "20 years travel" using our current technology.
Let's go over some fun facts.
The closest known exoplanet, habitable or otherwise, is almost 10.5ly away (orbiting Epsilon Eridani). That's about 10^14 km.
The fastest man-made object was the Helios 2 which achieved a record speed of 252,792 km/h at its perihelion.
So, if we could manage to send a probe to that planet, moving at an average speed that equals the above, it would take close to 45,000 years to arrive. That's 45 thousand years.
Just for comparison (source):
The total span of human recorded history is about 5,000 years.
The wheel was invented about 7,000 years ago.
Cultivation of grains started about 10,000 years ago.
Use of fibers to make baby-carriers, clothes, bags, baskets, and nets began about 26,000 years ago. Harpoons, needles, and saws were invented at roughly that time.
Homo neanderthalensis became extinct about 29,000 years ago.
The oldest known cave paintings date from about 31,000 years ago; the oldest known figurative art (Venus of Hohle Fels) from about 35,000 years ago.
The Cro-Magnon colonisation of Europe happened about 40,000 years ago.
So, during the time equal to what it would take our probe to arrive, the human race progressed from cave-dwelling mammoth hunters with stone blades as their most sophisticated tools to what you see today.
Groceries Over IP? What's the RFC number?
And you missed the part that he was fined by the BC Human Rights Tribunal (not by a court) for "discrimination" (not for violence).
Guy Earle is a dick but those tribunals are an abomination.
Find your citations here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/2011/04/21/bc-zestys-comedian-lesbian-insults.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Human_Rights_Tribunal
You are welcome.
Also see here.
Lengthening the time of the amber light decreases accidents without the trade-off.
they consider themselves an empire?
There has been precedent.
(Although the Sea of Galilee is fresh water while the oceans are salt water, so the lower surface tension can come into play).
As a software developer with no particular preference to work specifically at either GOOG or MSFT, I am mostly interested in several factors:
1) Will this "hiring war" result in higher wages and better terms across the industry (as other companies will strive to keep their employees from jumping ship)?
2) Will this positive effect spread to places where neither company has a large presence (due to the mobility of the workforce and increased pressure on competitors)?
3) Will it also precipitate to places working with less "trendy" technologies (due to pool depletion)?
Mod parent up!
"These rooms ARE regulated...just not by the almighty US Government."
Example: http://www.winallpoker.com/2011/03/31/full-tilt-poker-stars-new-partnerships/
Oh, the irony!
Are you suggesting that ~40% of Canadians lack a sense of humour?
Not very polite of you.
What is this "free world" you speak about and what planet is it on?
Not really. The Hebrew word is YOM, which literally means "day". There are other words that mean "stage" or "period of time".
I am a Canadian, "from other parts of the two american continents that are not part of the United States of America" by your definition, and have yet to meet a person that shares your sentiment.
One of the reasons that "Americans" is the accepted term to refer to people from the US is that we already have "North Americans", "South Americans" "Central Americans", "Latin Americans", etc. to refer to various subgroups of people from the American continent.
If you think about it, the people from "the two american continents" have almost nothing in common as a group -- culturally, linguistically, historically, ethnically or racially -- apart from residing on the same geographical continent (in contrast to, say "Africans", "Europeans", etc.).
What reason can there be for anybody to define themselves as "Americans" in the sense of "people from the American continent"? The population is too diverse for the term to have any reasonable meaning (except in the geographical sense but then it is too broad, like "Eurasian" or "Western-hemisperer" -- it just isn't used broadly enough to merit a specific term).
On the other hand, if you're being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic, I will preemptively concede the argument and move on to more interesting discussions.
True, karydophilia is quite rampant in the military.