Given that YouTube is unregulated, I bet we start seeing fake videos hit the networks... In the 50's we had the red scare. In the next election there migth be a YouTube scare.
Any time our organization gets a call from a telemarketer, I would sic our marketing person on them in retaliation.
Hopefully that will no longer need to happen. Just before reading this article, I got a junk mail, and the guy at the company I spoke with told me about the Canadian Marketing Association's do not contact list.
I registered it for all the names and contacts I could think of in our organization. (Personally, I have a cell phone and a PO box. My mailbox at home is duct-taped shut with "RTS - No junk!!!!!!!!!" written on the tape.)
Oh and, Quebec is one of the very rare provinces/states/territories in North America that is running serious studies about having a proportional representation modeled election and parliament.
BC and PEI both have already had referenda on this topic, and BC plans to re-ask the question in 2009. Quebec, as you say, is looking into it. Ontario will have a referendum in 2007 on the topic, following the report of the Citizens' commission report, due out in early next year.
Four out of ten provinces, representing over two-thirds of the Canada's population, is not "rare".
Of course, as a proportion of (Canada + US + China)'s population, then maybe this could be considered "rare".
Thanks goodness! While this release is only one day early by Mozilla's standards, it's a full three days before it's due to be on Slashdot!
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As a foreigner living here, I find that American culture often needs a little help to laugh at itself. Parker and Stone may have made doing so mainstream
Some of the corsets were very complicated. They had 30 or 40 of these little tubes running everywhere, carrying these little cables, each doing its little job, lifting things up or releasing little linked metallic plates. There was a huge amount of stuff going on beneath the clothes.
So in a way, it's like they were each wearing their own little internet!
Chances are it was a birth that produced the 300,000,000th American, because international flights that bring in new immigrants don't tend to arrive in the early morning.
Well, no, it`s because bureucrats in the immigration department don`t work that early in the morning.
About 10 years ago the developers of Excel went and did a survey of what their customers were using Excel for. Turns out the vast majority of people were using Excel to make lists. Shopping lists. Laundry lists. People to Kill. That sort of thing....What they did was study the way people use the software and make it better for what they are doing.
But did they ask *why* people were using Excel that way? Microsoft's hypothesis assumes that people used Excel for lists because they don't know what it's used for. I think reality was quite different:
"I paid big bucks for MS Office 95 so I can write a letter, but I don't have any decent use for Excel. To console myself, I'll use it to make a list...
"People to Kill: (1) the guy who forced me to buy this program I dont use. (2) Co..."
Okay, so I asked around on the Wikimedia IRC channel.
Ashley`: Is that how big it is? I would've thought it would be humongous.
RealGrouchy: someone is saying "I'd expect it to be compressed since it is text, so you coudl probably get it down to 2gb"
RealGrouchy:...I would suspect, though, that it is already fairly compact
TimStarling: it depends on how they are distributing it
Ashley`: And I would suspect that a mobile device would have issues with that much compressed dayta.
TimStarling: they're not storing it in the same format as us, because we don't make our database dumps public
RealGrouchy: +1 informative, TimStarling
Yeah, I've seen the blue mail boxes that they have in the US. They look pretty flimsy and ugly if you ask me. Heck, the ones here in Canada do too.
You want a post box with character?Here is a post box with character. Those red UK ones were made to last long after e-mail renders them useless. Heck, we have one in our downtown just sitting there because it wasn't built, it was designed.
and finally, if it's left up to the Republicans, it will be named Reaganium
(well, actually, it would be called Reaganium-VI, because by the time element 118 is named, five other elements will have already been renamed after Reagan. Including Oxygen.).
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There are 130,000 US troops, plus a large contingent of private support workers, and a relative handful of bureaucrats.
I'd expect many of them to be Republicans. (although I don't think this is quite what you meant)
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Heh, except North Korea...
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Um... Wikipedia anyone?
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This bombing creates a big dilemmma for PayPal: do they add the "bombing PayPal fee" to the culprit's account before or after they lock him/her out?
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You didn't mention what kind of startup you are. You wouldn't happen to specialize in dispute resolution, do you?
"Hey Joe, the VC isn't coming in so easily for our dispute resolution company."
"Maybe we need a better business model..."
"Yeah, but who has the time to come up one of those in today's environment?"
"Meh, let's just ask Slashdot."
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Any time our organization gets a call from a telemarketer, I would sic our marketing person on them in retaliation.
Hopefully that will no longer need to happen. Just before reading this article, I got a junk mail, and the guy at the company I spoke with told me about the Canadian Marketing Association's do not contact list.
I registered it for all the names and contacts I could think of in our organization. (Personally, I have a cell phone and a PO box. My mailbox at home is duct-taped shut with "RTS - No junk!!!!!!!!!" written on the tape.)
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What use to me is a cell phone if I have to leave it on the other side of town?
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That's because the contest has nothing to do with Wikipedia; it just uses Wikipedia's content as a standard block of compressable data.
Just like how the numbers in a Sudoku puzzle have nothing to do with math; they're simply a set of nine characters/symbols.
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Hell, if it takes Chavez to get the US back to pen-and-paper ballots, then all the better.
Is there some way we can get Kim Jong-Il to invest in Diebold?
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Can it draw a bath?
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Maybe Firefox should relocate to Hell.com
/ducks
They wouldn't be able to accommodate Iceweasel, though. That would cause it to freeze over.
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BC and PEI both have already had referenda on this topic, and BC plans to re-ask the question in 2009. Quebec, as you say, is looking into it. Ontario will have a referendum in 2007 on the topic, following the report of the Citizens' commission report, due out in early next year.
Four out of ten provinces, representing over two-thirds of the Canada's population, is not "rare".
Of course, as a proportion of (Canada + US + China)'s population, then maybe this could be considered "rare".
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Thanks goodness! While this release is only one day early by Mozilla's standards, it's a full three days before it's due to be on Slashdot!
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Keep in mind that those two are (were?) Canadian.
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So in a way, it's like they were each wearing their own little internet!
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Well, no, it`s because bureucrats in the immigration department don`t work that early in the morning.
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Yes, it is perfectly normal. Sony is at it too.
They told me to keep it under wraps, but I can`t help it! Sony leaked to me the name of their next gaming console, to succeed the PS3.
Don`t tell anybody! It`s not supposed to be public until they can devise a code name for the project!
It will ship with the name... "PlayStation 4".
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I'm sorry, what does this have to do with George W. Bush and the War on Terror?
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Given Microsoft's reputation (particularly here on slashdot), I would expect that by "open", they mean "by the way, we've left the back door open".
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But did they ask *why* people were using Excel that way? Microsoft's hypothesis assumes that people used Excel for lists because they don't know what it's used for. I think reality was quite different:
"I paid big bucks for MS Office 95 so I can write a letter, but I don't have any decent use for Excel. To console myself, I'll use it to make a list...
"People to Kill: (1) the guy who forced me to buy this program I dont use. (2) Co..."
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Okay, so I asked around on the Wikimedia IRC channel.
...I would suspect, though, that it is already fairly compact
Ashley`: Is that how big it is? I would've thought it would be humongous.
RealGrouchy: someone is saying "I'd expect it to be compressed since it is text, so you coudl probably get it down to 2gb"
RealGrouchy:
TimStarling: it depends on how they are distributing it
Ashley`: And I would suspect that a mobile device would have issues with that much compressed dayta.
TimStarling: they're not storing it in the same format as us, because we don't make our database dumps public
RealGrouchy: +1 informative, TimStarling
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Yeah, I've seen the blue mail boxes that they have in the US. They look pretty flimsy and ugly if you ask me. Heck, the ones here in Canada do too.
You want a post box with character? Here is a post box with character. Those red UK ones were made to last long after e-mail renders them useless. Heck, we have one in our downtown just sitting there because it wasn't built, it was designed.
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If the name will be auctioned off, it will be named GoldenPalace.comium.
If the name will be put to a vote, it will be named Stevium Colbertium.
and finally, if it's left up to the Republicans, it will be named Reaganium
(well, actually, it would be called Reaganium-VI, because by the time element 118 is named, five other elements will have already been renamed after Reagan. Including Oxygen.).
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Come on!
:P
MacBook Pros will never be cool!
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Google would say, "Hey, that's a creative and cool way to learn more about the alternatives to a difficult question!"
Microsoft would say, "You must wear this scarlet letter of shame for having second thoughts about joining the Microsoft Collective(tm)."
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