I really don't know why the Canadian government is involved in these negotiations at all as the treaty doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of being ratified. Mostly because it would require an amendment to our Charter of Rights and Freedoms in order to become law as it will be kicked out of court on it's ear otherwise.
No man; no organization is above the law, or the will of the people, the ultimate source of all authority.
The difference between theory and practice is much greater in practice than in theory.
Quite a number of people and organizations are, de facto, above the law; "the will of the people" has long been diluted to the point of insignificance and there is very little you can do to affect it (and nothing you will do will affect it).
Note: The above is not addressed to the parent poster but applies equally to whoever reads this comment, in any country.
The difference is that in a representative Democracy, the white majority can vote 51% to kill all asians, or any other minority they don't like. In the Athenian Democracy Socrates was killed by just such a vote. They didn't like his writings, so they majority had him killed.
In the U.S. Republic where the law reigns supreme, and those laws protect individual rights, they above scenarios can not happen.
Can a sufficient majority (in both houses + president) change the laws to make such an option legal?
And before you mention that "goddamned piece of paper", can a sufficient majority amend it and therefore make said option constitutional?
If the answer to both questions is "yes" then I don't see a difference from any other "democracy".
Continuing on that tangent, what navigation apps for smartphones are considered "the best" regardless of the platform (Android, Symbian, Win-Mobile, etc.)?
I wouldn't be surprised if neanderthals were kept as sex slaves. H. Sapiens were after all more intelligent.
Interesting. Do you have some data to support this claim? According to the sources linked to in the Wikipedia page, Neanderthals made and used tools and weapons, controlled fire, constructed complex shelters and traps and their brains were larger than those of modern humans.
Considering that they were also much stronger than H. sapiens, I tend to doubt your hypothesis.
Nobody should ever release anything that doesn't instantly work worldwide! Especially when it's free!!
You seem to have missed the point entirely. My post was not a criticism of Google. I am happy for you and the other US residents that can use Google Voice (for free, as you have mentioned) but it is a bit hard for me to get excited about the technology when I personally cannot use it. So if you have any information about when it will be available in, say, Canada, I will thank you for it (once you wake me up:-). Otherwise, your reply was surprisingly unhelpful.
Weight training is boring and a tremendous waste of human time and effort. Millions of hours of human effort are squandered every day in the gym for no appreciable gain to society whatsoever.
To encourage invention or innovation, the system MUST go back to the original reason for patent protection in the first place.
To protect revenue streams, prop up failing business models and raise barriers to entry (all under the guise of "encourag[ing] invention or innovation"), the system works just fine as it is, thank you.
If you're a home user, use Windows Easy Transfer to save all your settings to an external drive, reinstall, then recover your settings from the external drive. Reinstall all apps.
That's what I suspected.
There are quite a lot of non-Microsoft applications I accumulated over the years. I don't believe that Windows Easy Transfer will migrate their settings (which are all over the place).
we've been using Vista exclusively [...] We've completed our Migration to Windows 7 x64 two weeks ago. That's 10 desktops and 20 laptops. Everyone that has moved to Vista to 7 is glad that their computer is now faster.
Good for you.
However, I heard that there is no clear migration path from WinXP to Win7. How do those that skipped Vista supposed to upgrade?
Eventually it may be possible that the brain itself could be replaced with an artificial unit (and our conciousness "Transeferred").
No, it won't be transferred, just copied. It is similar to a forked process (sorry, no car analogies this time) -- identical but not the same one.
Of course, if you replace it by parts, and leave enough time for the rest of the brain to adapt to the change before replacing the next part, it may work (provided that the brain has redundancy mechanisms so that no memories or personality traits are lost when a bunch on neurons are replaced with artificial ones), but that sounds more complicated to implement.
Thereâ(TM)s even a considerable backlash (as there should be), when an interracial couple is prevented from marrying, as was recently the case in Louisiana
From reading your link, I understand that they were not "prevented" from marrying, just referred to a different JP.
As to the comments that "it's a locked down console platform", the digital camera market (esp. pro- and semi-pro dSLRs) is probably more mission-critical in terms of stability expectations than the console market. Yet the major digicam makers haven't done anything so daft as to lock themselves down to a few SKUs of memory cards.
At last! After years, nay - decades, of trying, I finally got my own personal stalker. You are very endearing, stonecypher, if a tad predictable.
I hope you'll do us the service of shutting up about your fantasies about our police. You know nothing about them, and we have enough of them that individuals who make poor choices which are regurgitated by the media can make us look a lot worse than we actually are.
Go flip through an Orwell book and masturbate to how urbane you are.
Ouch, stonecypher, that hurt! Are you accusing me of infidelity? I really thought we had a good thing going, especially since you've been piling on the attention. I could never choose Orwell over you, sweetie.
stonecypher, my dearest fellow! Are you really going over all my posts, trying to educate me whenever you deem them wrong? Such concern! Such devotion! I am truly touched!
when you're wrong, people get annoyed with you
So far the upset party consists mostly of yourself but you're doing it in such an entertaining matter that I am eagerly awaiting the next installment.
Hi, 1993 calling. We've had FTL information transfer since the first co-vibrated Bose Einstein condensate. Since your knowledge of science appears to be based largely in science fiction, you may believe you know what this is under the name "ansible".
FTL communication was laboratory demonstrated sixteen years ago. Stop telling yourself that you know things you don't actually know.
Oh, hello stonecypher. I thought I recognized your style.
The analysis you constructed from a single off-handed remark on "stable wormholes" is quite amusing. Do continue.
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Two words: "notwithstanding clause".
The difference between theory and practice is much greater in practice than in theory.
Quite a number of people and organizations are, de facto, above the law; "the will of the people" has long been diluted to the point of insignificance and there is very little you can do to affect it (and nothing you will do will affect it).
Note: The above is not addressed to the parent poster but applies equally to whoever reads this comment, in any country.
Can a sufficient majority (in both houses + president) change the laws to make such an option legal?
And before you mention that "goddamned piece of paper", can a sufficient majority amend it and therefore make said option constitutional?
If the answer to both questions is "yes" then I don't see a difference from any other "democracy".
Fair enough. And since you obviously have the facts, please cite those "most independent benchmarks" for our education.
Continuing on that tangent, what navigation apps for smartphones are considered "the best" regardless of the platform (Android, Symbian, Win-Mobile, etc.)?
And here I was, all ready to welcome our new overlords...
Interesting. Do you have some data to support this claim?
According to the sources linked to in the Wikipedia page, Neanderthals made and used tools and weapons, controlled fire, constructed complex shelters and traps and their brains were larger than those of modern humans.
Considering that they were also much stronger than H. sapiens, I tend to doubt your hypothesis.
You seem to have missed the point entirely. :-). Otherwise, your reply was surprisingly unhelpful.
My post was not a criticism of Google. I am happy for you and the other US residents that can use Google Voice (for free, as you have mentioned) but it is a bit hard for me to get excited about the technology when I personally cannot use it. So if you have any information about when it will be available in, say, Canada, I will thank you for it (once you wake me up
Wake me up when Google voice is available outside the US.
Sturgeon's Revelation is alive and well.
One always has to sift through piles of garbage to find the hidden gems.
Connect the machines to dynamos.
To protect revenue streams, prop up failing business models and raise barriers to entry (all under the guise of "encourag[ing] invention or innovation"), the system works just fine as it is, thank you.
Legal attack?
sudo mod parent up
What company was that? Goatse?
doing a bit over 31.5 Msec/year.
That's what I suspected.
There are quite a lot of non-Microsoft applications I accumulated over the years. I don't believe that Windows Easy Transfer will migrate their settings (which are all over the place).
Good for you.
However, I heard that there is no clear migration path from WinXP to Win7.
How do those that skipped Vista supposed to upgrade?
No, it won't be transferred, just copied. It is similar to a forked process (sorry, no car analogies this time) -- identical but not the same one.
Of course, if you replace it by parts, and leave enough time for the rest of the brain to adapt to the change before replacing the next part, it may work (provided that the brain has redundancy mechanisms so that no memories or personality traits are lost when a bunch on neurons are replaced with artificial ones), but that sounds more complicated to implement.
From reading your link, I understand that they were not "prevented" from marrying, just referred to a different JP.
They don't? What about the chipped cartridges then?
Batteries, on the other hand...
At last! After years, nay - decades, of trying, I finally got my own personal stalker. You are very endearing, stonecypher, if a tad predictable.
Yes, the media, along with the knaves at your supreme court sure do make it seem so.
Ouch, stonecypher, that hurt! Are you accusing me of infidelity? I really thought we had a good thing going, especially since you've been piling on the attention. I could never choose Orwell over you, sweetie.
stonecypher, my dearest fellow!
Are you really going over all my posts, trying to educate me whenever you deem them wrong?
Such concern! Such devotion! I am truly touched!
So far the upset party consists mostly of yourself but you're doing it in such an entertaining matter that I am eagerly awaiting the next installment.
Oh, hello stonecypher. I thought I recognized your style.
The analysis you constructed from a single off-handed remark on "stable wormholes" is quite amusing.
Do continue.