It is NOT a crime to not report the observation of a beating or death. Yet it is a crime to take advantage of a faulty slot machine? Something is F'd. While it may seem petty compared to turning a blind eye to beatings or death, one typically doesn't benefit when witnessing another person get beaten. If a bank machine is broken and gives you more money than you deserve, then you benefit from that incident.
Actually in many cases you are obligated by law to report accidents, injuries, and render assistance. This is true if you drive a car and also see "Maritime Law". YMMV. In Ontario, for example, any motor vehicle collision inflicting over $1000 in damage must be reported to the police.
I pulled into a gas station a couple of years ago and the pump was set to $0.12 per gallon. I filled up and noticed it. So I told the owner, hoping for a free tank of gas. They made me pay the difference. Plus I probably paid another ATM transaction fee. Sucks being honest! And if the machine wasn't malfunctioning would they have somehow charged you less?
I can't have someone sign a paper contract, and then go and change everything around, and them make them bound to said contract. Obviously you're not my cellphone provider.
I wonder if USA would allow a reporter or somebody to be extradited from here to NZ over this? Considering the USA (or the *AA) got Sweden to enforce a law that doesn't exist there, I wouldn't be surprised if the USA extradited someone to New Zealand for a law that isn't enforced there.
It's not even the courts - it's treated as a contempt of Parliament, so it goes before the Privileges Committee (i.e. a select committee of MPs). It's nice to see lawmakers censoring people themselves for once, instead of getting courts, agencies and administrative bodies to do it for them!
Normally I associate New Zealand as having a very open and non-corrupt national government... I think that's just normal patriotism.
"I'm not aware of any significant/recent examples of $COUNTRY's government being inept or corrupt, therefore it must be a beacon of hope in the world."
I feel schools have a duty to give children the skills they will need in order to make it. The purpose of school is to teach kids how to continue learning after they have left school.
Simply getting them to learn what buttons to press to get a mail merge in MS Word isn't going to cut it. They need to learn what a mail merge is, and how to find out how to do it in $SOFTWARE.
By your logic, since MSO2007 is the new de facto standard, schools that taught any previous version would not have "give[n] children the skills they will need in order to make it."
We have become so much more complicated these days, where now we take simple ideas that are difficult to work around like using the letter "i" or the "click" and suing people that use them for large amounts of money. Or rather the laws have become so complex that common sense can be bypassed by obscure combinations of clauses and loopholes.
It doesn't surprise me that the Ontario Government will want to do this, too.
Of course, whether it makes sense to do so will not matter to the Ontario government. What matters is it doesn't cost them anything, and it makes them look like they've done something for the environment.
Consider, for example, how quickly the Ontario passed a ban on incandescent lightbulbs after the idea was first raised in Australia.
Star Trek is (was) about the only TV show that uses user-submitted content. I'm sure most production companies are too afraid of the legal repercussions of using unsolicited material.
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What is funny about the Fox 11 coverage isn't that they claim anonymous Internet users can behave badly. What is funny is that they compare this to actual real-world terrorism, which, to take it mildly, is quite a different matter. Yeah, but Fox has been doing this ever since they discovered the "terrorism" escape clause to Godwin's Law.
It's also not just the local affiliates. As Stephen Colbert* pointed out on Wednesday night, Bill O'Reilly accuses the Daily Kos of being "radical" for allowing uncensored comments on their website.
(*Sorry if the direct link doesn't work. Blame Comedy Central, not me!)
What is funny about the Fox 11 coverage isn't that they claim anonymous Internet users can behave badly. What is funny is that they compare this to actual real-world terrorism, which, to take it mildly, is quite a different matter. Yeah, but Fox has been doing this ever since they discovered the "terrorism" escape clause to Godwin's Law.
It's also not just the local affiliates. As [url=http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/index .jhtml?ml_video=90419]Stephen Colbert*[/url] pointed out on Wednesday night, [url=http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/16/bill -oreilly-smears-yearlykos/]Bill O'Reilly[/url] accuses the Daily Kos of being "radical" for allowing uncensored comments on their website.
(*Sorry if the direct link doesn't work. Blame Comedy Central, not me!)
This sort of thing is a compounding issue. In fact, this sort of activity has tripled in the last six months. I read that on wikipedia somewhere. Wikipedia should really rethink their policy of having elephants as admins.
also... i'm pretty sure if windows was a person he would punch himself in the genitals if he was asked to. That would require Windows to be an OS with balls...
"... to assess why it is back-up power generators failed..." I've been a grammar nazi for many years, but it looks like the enemy has unleashed new weapons.
It is my understanding that hispeed connections in Europe are on the order of 2MBPS; in Canada it's still only about 1/2 MBPS.
Faster than 56K, sure, but still a non-competitive oligopoly of the phone company (Bell, which owns all the phone infrastructure) and the cable company (Rogers in Ontario, Videotron in Quebec, Shaw in the West, etc.).
I don't know what's worse, the Canadians who look to the US and say we don't need to improve things because it's better up here, or the US citizens who look up to Canada and say "look at how good they have it up there". If we both looked to Europe (and Japan, in this case), we'd realize that we're both pretty far behind.
Also, it's hard to imagine Britannica being unable to find loads of mistakes in Wikipedia.
I find this pseudo-meta-flamewar between Wikipedia and Britannica to be rather fascinating, because in a way, it can be like an unintentional symbiosis:
- Wikipedia fanboys write articles like TFA pointing out errors in Britannica, which Britannica can use to improve their next version (or current online articles)
- Due to the popularity of Wikipedia, intellectuals and others write papers and articles on inaccuracies (e.g. in scientific articles) in Wikipedia articles, often in defense of Britannica's integrity (or at least in comparison of the two). These papers can conceivably be used as references for the very articles they mean to identify as erroneous.
Of course this is very tongue-in-cheek, but fascinating nonetheless.
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"I'm not aware of any significant/recent examples of $COUNTRY's government being inept or corrupt, therefore it must be a beacon of hope in the world."
We get that all the time in Canada.
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Simply getting them to learn what buttons to press to get a mail merge in MS Word isn't going to cut it. They need to learn what a mail merge is, and how to find out how to do it in $SOFTWARE.
By your logic, since MSO2007 is the new de facto standard, schools that taught any previous version would not have "give[n] children the skills they will need in order to make it."
Teach Office Suites, not MS Office.
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It doesn't surprise me that the Ontario Government will want to do this, too.
Of course, whether it makes sense to do so will not matter to the Ontario government. What matters is it doesn't cost them anything, and it makes them look like they've done something for the environment.
Consider, for example, how quickly the Ontario passed a ban on incandescent lightbulbs after the idea was first raised in Australia.
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Star Trek is (was) about the only TV show that uses user-submitted content. I'm sure most production companies are too afraid of the legal repercussions of using unsolicited material.
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It's also not just the local affiliates. As Stephen Colbert* pointed out on Wednesday night, Bill O'Reilly accuses the Daily Kos of being "radical" for allowing uncensored comments on their website.
(*Sorry if the direct link doesn't work. Blame Comedy Central, not me!)
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It's also not just the local affiliates. As [url=http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/inde
(*Sorry if the direct link doesn't work. Blame Comedy Central, not me!)
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This sort of thing is a compounding issue. In fact, this sort of activity has tripled in the last six months. I read that on wikipedia somewhere. Wikipedia should really rethink their policy of having elephants as admins.
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Well, a quarter if you don't count dupes.
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Perhaps, but if so it is a valid grammatical construction disguised as a grammatical clusterfuck.
Therefore, the enemy still has a new weapon: syntactic cloaking devices.
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I don't know about GPP, but I did not read TFA, and I didn't even read the summary, either.
In fact, I stopped reading at "Study Proves..." in the title.
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Tell my family I loved them.
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It was hard to read through that block of text, but looking closely, it explains why:
"Officials say the power outage may affect some websites, including the site that hosts Slashdot.org's preview button."
It all seems to be back up now.
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It is my understanding that hispeed connections in Europe are on the order of 2MBPS; in Canada it's still only about 1/2 MBPS.
Faster than 56K, sure, but still a non-competitive oligopoly of the phone company (Bell, which owns all the phone infrastructure) and the cable company (Rogers in Ontario, Videotron in Quebec, Shaw in the West, etc.).
I don't know what's worse, the Canadians who look to the US and say we don't need to improve things because it's better up here, or the US citizens who look up to Canada and say "look at how good they have it up there". If we both looked to Europe (and Japan, in this case), we'd realize that we're both pretty far behind.
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Coincidence? I think not!
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I find this pseudo-meta-flamewar between Wikipedia and Britannica to be rather fascinating, because in a way, it can be like an unintentional symbiosis:
- Wikipedia fanboys write articles like TFA pointing out errors in Britannica, which Britannica can use to improve their next version (or current online articles)
- Due to the popularity of Wikipedia, intellectuals and others write papers and articles on inaccuracies (e.g. in scientific articles) in Wikipedia articles, often in defense of Britannica's integrity (or at least in comparison of the two). These papers can conceivably be used as references for the very articles they mean to identify as erroneous.
Of course this is very tongue-in-cheek, but fascinating nonetheless.
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No, but I noticed your signature.
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