I was planning on taking dual citizenship here in Korea, I may just actually go ahead and renounce my Canadian citizenship instead. Canadians need to wake up. Harper is screwing us non-stop and Canadians don't realize how good his minority government actually was for us.
Catch captcha has been around for awhile, but it doesn't even have to be a video. It could be 4 animated gifs. A computer would have a hard time deciphering an animated gif of a cat running across a room. But for a human they're very easy. Easier than recaptcha.
I was in a big city, my aunt is in a town of 80,000.
However, if big cities are having congestion problems it would mean that the average Canadian is having those problems and its your experience that is atypical. The top 10 metro areas in Canada contain over 50% of the population of Canada and all are bigger than Halifax. But my aunt is evidence that it isn't just a big city problem. I would say you got quite lucky to see the specialist as fast as you did, and frankly it's probably unheard of in Canada. The fact that you were in the arctic tells me you aren't telling us the whole story. The average Canadian doesn't just hang out there.
You really don't have to go far in Canada to find someone complaining of wait times. The wait times for specialists and surgeries are completely out of control in some areas.
Canada is great for picking up the tab, but when it comes to overall access I find the Korean system to be much better. Korea has a co-pay with the government, but most things are significantly cheaper than the American system. But if you want to talk about cost: uninsured doctor's visit in Canada is in the neighbourhood of $150 uninsured doctor's visit in korea is about $14
Cost of living is fairly similar overall as well. Canada's system needs a completely overhaul. it's become bloated and broken, and if it continues it will collapse. It really isn't an example of a great system any more. People cannot get the healthcare they want when they need it. Some people linger with debilitating conditions for months or years unless they want to pay for it by going to the states or another country.
Korea does need to improve the way it handles more serious issues though. A friend's daughter was born with a heart condition a small hole, she had to have surgery last christmas, around 8 years old. Cost about $8,000. I'm told this would be several times the price in the US, but $8,000 is no small burden.
I blew my ankle and couldn't walk for over a month without crutches and had constant pain and randomly lost all ability to stand on it, it took me 6 months to get to the first specialist, and 2 years before they finally sent me to a surgeon.
My aunt currently has 2 "large" (As the doctor has described them) hernias, which means she can't do her job as a personal caretaker and has been on the list to see the specialist for several months already, with an expected wait time for surgery of about a year.
Don't make assumptions. It makes you look like an idiot.
The last time I was in Canada, family doctor's appointments were first come first serve, and the next available appointment was always over a week away or longer. Go to emergency or the clinic? forget it. They were running stories at the time of people dying in the waiting room of emergency because they'd been left there 24 hours without proper attention. At the after hours clinic you were looking at usually 3-4 hour wait minimum at one place, a hospital at least 12-24 hours, and the midway place (semi-hospital, more than a clinic) over 8 hours. Then once you go into those places, they acted as if you were a burden, wrote you a prescription as fast as they could, and barely talked to you at all, that includes the family doctor. It wasn't a joke. You had 2 questions? you had to make 2 appointments.
For the tiny fee I'll take the doctor I can see whenever I want and who genuinely seems interested in taking care of me.
As a Canadian who moved to South Korea a few years ago, fuck Canadian medicare.
sure if I get cancer, it might be better for me under the Canadian system. Everything else? I've never had so much joy visiting a doctor.
When I was in Canada last they were implementing the "write your question down, no more than 25 words and for the love of god don't speak unless spoken to" appointments for the family doctors where I lived and scheduling them for 3 weeks next friday.
You know what I want to do if I want to see my doctor in Korea? I walk over to his office and 9 times out of 10 I see him in under 5 minutes. I tell him the problem and then he'll ask me 3 more times "Nothing else? are you sure? how about that problem you had a bit ago?" it costs me $2.
I need to see a specialist? I do the exact same thing. I don't need to spend 8 months with my doctor doing pointless and endless tests, then get put on a list for a year while I wait for the only guy in a city of over a million people to get around to seeing me, all the while I'm suffering whatever the problem is. Costs me an extra $6-$10 to do that.
prescriptions? covered as part of national healthcare. a few days prescription for your run of the mill stuff is nothing, $2-$3
You get into more heavy stuff, cancer, heart disease, organ transplant, yeah you want to be in Canada but only for the out of pocket stuff. But your day to day general health care, not even a competition even with the slightly increased out of pocket.
Is the Canadian system better than the American? Yeah. Is it better than Korea for serious medical stuff? only financially. is it better than Korea overall though? Well, depends on your perspective. For me, as someone who does tend to go to the doctor now and then for stuff, and has to get a regular prescription renewal, I'm pretty damn happy with it.
Looking at the example image, I see a next bus, I see some "scheduled" times and that's it.
If I look at a stop in Korea, I see live times of all the buses, I can click an individual route to see when the next 2 buses are (which tells me their current stop, how many stops away they are and the expected arrival time), I can further click to see an entire route list of all stops and see the general position of every single bus on the route as well as which ones are low floor buses.
This was basically all put together by a 17 year old Korean kid while he was in school, but hey, good job Google!
I always thought that was pretty secure because the machine couldn't tell which picture was a cat? What about combining video and cat captcha. 4 videos, one of which is a cat. But it could be a close video, or a zoomed out one where the cat is running around. A computer really shouldn't be able to decode that. Use a large enough database and they'll never solve it.
I see The New Republic doesn't seem to have a single story about ACTA in their pages.. yet the europeans are out protesting it in droves...Europeans want to protect privacy and suddenly someone from America is all over them.. I also notice the Standford law review doesn't return a single article written about that either..
Clean up your own house before you go telling others how to run theirs.
It's the culture of fear. It's hard for the media and other figures to justify their moral crusade if they can't use a scary word like "pedophilia" to refer to 25 year olds who are attracted to a 16 year old because she's built like a pin-up girl.
A good driver cannot anticipate sudden lane changes, cars pulling out of side streets, people opening their doors, kids darting into traffic, etc. Good drivers are careful, they're not clairvoyant. These are exactly the kinds of statements spouted by assholes who think they're being smart and clever.
But isn't that the point of this new system? They said "prove to us you're a good driver" I'd say that if you're just stopping sharply but not actually getting in to accidents you're doing showing that you're a bad driver, in fact quite the opposite. They didn't say "prove to us your car is in a safe environment"
searching dodgy websites for content of unknown quality
This really only happens if you go to google and type "Free downloads" or something like that. I would suggest that anyone with half a clue should be able to avoid any "dodgy" sites, but this is pretty common propaganda from the various groups involved. According to them every single download is infected with thousands of virus and spyware, when the reality is with very little effort, I haven't picked up anything bad in 20 years.
Driving in a busy city with bad traffic all around can cause frequent sharp braking. You can leave space between you and the next guy all you want, until someone suddenly changes lanes without signalling, pulls out from a side street, space, etc without checking, opens their door into traffic, a guy on a bicycle, a pedestrian not paying attention, etc
what a fucking joke. Even in a major Canadian city the speed is terrible. I went from 3/1 in the downtown sector of a top 5 Canadian city because some wire didn't run the right way on that block to 100/80 everywhere in south Korea. I pay less than I do there, if I want service, a guy comes out when I want him to, he calls before he comes and if for some reason I can't make the time, he'll ask me when he wants me to drop by. There is no cap no throttling (other than the underseas cable) Rogers only hope is that Canadians never take the time to genuinely educate themselves.
My pirating depended initially on employment. If I was working, I bought games, if I wasn't, I pirated them.
Now that I'm older with steady income, pirating depends on user reviews. If I want something, I buy it. If I hear a loud chorus of "OMG stay away from this its awful" then I'll download it to see if it is really that bad. Like say Stronghold 3.
This has gone on for..a very long time.. back to BBS days, but at that time I was a junior high student and had zero income, so it was all pirating. Someday I'll get around to buying a copy of exile: escape from the pit..Actually I was copying floppies before that too. I remember using a program called "copyright" to strip the protection off floppies to copy them.
Given that long history, I can almost certainly state that you'd have to be an idiot to get malware from a pirated game. This is nothing more than ghost stories told by the software industry to scare people off. This is probably..hmm.. 25 years of pirating and not one virus from a floppy, bbs file, torrent, etc Especially torrents. Unless the industry goes ahead and tries to seed a tainted copy of their own game, it is pretty rare that you'd run across someone trying to put a virus in a scene release.
It's called a generalization. I'd suggest you learn the basics of communication before you attempt to engage in it again.
You simply cannot speak to every single case that may exist in the world. It's impossible to do so. Why don't you take the article and summary to task for being so surprised that she's poor? It's just another one of a million individual cases that shouldn't be out of place at all right?
Everyone can come up with some anecdotal special case, but they're pretty much meaningless when you're having a big-boy discussion, but what to expect from someone who immaturely hides behind anonymity?
Actually it's not that surprising. It would be more surprising if this person was middle class. Why? The Middle class are complacent. They've got just enough to keep them happy. Not enough to make them really want to rule the world, and not so little that they really had to work hard for it.
Despite being poor, they do have the advantage of learning to work hard and appreciate everything. I know it's not a horribly PC thing to say, but it is the reality.
You take your average poor kid and your average middle class kid and you'll probably find that the poor kid will work a little harder. Try a little more Now they may have less opportunity and less resources, but when they get them, they're much less likely to waste them.
On the flip side you'd expect rich people to be really lazy, but that's not the case. Upper class/rich people have power and status dreams which drive them that middle class people don't have. Middle class people would like those things, but they often see them as fantasies, not really attainable.
Rich people got it, and they don't want to lose it.
They did this already, it was utter shit. When google+ first got released, my search results went sideways. Despite using Google in English, going to the English domain google.ca (For Canada) because I was either in Korea, or added Google+ to my account while in Korea (despite never using the service in Korean language) all my logged in news archive searches were only returning Korean language results from Korean language papers in Korea. It wouldn't even search the English language papers in Korea.
Normal news searches seemed to return the same stuff in any language, but an archives search was totally broken. I filed a couple bug reports, went to google groups to report it, etc nothing happened.
Finally after bringing it up on several Google+ slashdot stories someone who works for Google saw it, and after a few weeks or a couple months or so, I noticed it had finally been fixed.
However it is far more indicative of Google, and other large companies, behaviour. Frankly I'm not remotely interested in their "customization" because I've already seen how these companies customize things. For them its completely impossible to believe that an English speaker could be in a country that doesn't speak English as an official language. Intel used to automatically make my laptop's wireless drivers install in Korean (despite the OS being set to English), many of the big player's websites would default to a Korean version. Some had a way to change it, but EA for example will not let you leave the Korean version of their website. As long as companies are this narrow-minded and ignorant I'm not remotely comfortable in letting them "customize" my experience.
My prediction is that Canada will invade and you won't even be aware of it. That was the point of the sarcasm. Private gun ownership has always been allowed in Canada. It continues to be, and there are tons of rifles all over the country. Millions of them, in private ownership. You're on the internet. before stepping in it twice you could at least google it.
No, people who would rise up in bloody battle against a government they thought was fucking them over. But you keep trying to intentionally miss the point and pretend you're clever.
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I was planning on taking dual citizenship here in Korea, I may just actually go ahead and renounce my Canadian citizenship instead.
Canadians need to wake up. Harper is screwing us non-stop and Canadians don't realize how good his minority government actually was for us.
Catch captcha has been around for awhile, but it doesn't even have to be a video. It could be 4 animated gifs. A computer would have a hard time deciphering an animated gif of a cat running across a room. But for a human they're very easy. Easier than recaptcha.
I was in a big city, my aunt is in a town of 80,000.
However, if big cities are having congestion problems it would mean that the average Canadian is having those problems and its your experience that is atypical. The top 10 metro areas in Canada contain over 50% of the population of Canada and all are bigger than Halifax. But my aunt is evidence that it isn't just a big city problem. I would say you got quite lucky to see the specialist as fast as you did, and frankly it's probably unheard of in Canada. The fact that you were in the arctic tells me you aren't telling us the whole story. The average Canadian doesn't just hang out there.
You really don't have to go far in Canada to find someone complaining of wait times. The wait times for specialists and surgeries are completely out of control in some areas.
Canada is great for picking up the tab, but when it comes to overall access I find the Korean system to be much better. Korea has a co-pay with the government, but most things are significantly cheaper than the American system. But if you want to talk about cost:
uninsured doctor's visit in Canada is in the neighbourhood of $150
uninsured doctor's visit in korea is about $14
Cost of living is fairly similar overall as well. Canada's system needs a completely overhaul. it's become bloated and broken, and if it continues it will collapse. It really isn't an example of a great system any more. People cannot get the healthcare they want when they need it. Some people linger with debilitating conditions for months or years unless they want to pay for it by going to the states or another country.
Korea does need to improve the way it handles more serious issues though. A friend's daughter was born with a heart condition a small hole, she had to have surgery last christmas, around 8 years old. Cost about $8,000. I'm told this would be several times the price in the US, but $8,000 is no small burden.
I blew my ankle and couldn't walk for over a month without crutches and had constant pain and randomly lost all ability to stand on it, it took me 6 months to get to the first specialist, and 2 years before they finally sent me to a surgeon.
My aunt currently has 2 "large" (As the doctor has described them) hernias, which means she can't do her job as a personal caretaker and has been on the list to see the specialist for several months already, with an expected wait time for surgery of about a year.
Don't make assumptions. It makes you look like an idiot.
The last time I was in Canada, family doctor's appointments were first come first serve, and the next available appointment was always over a week away or longer. Go to emergency or the clinic? forget it.
They were running stories at the time of people dying in the waiting room of emergency because they'd been left there 24 hours without proper attention.
At the after hours clinic you were looking at usually 3-4 hour wait minimum at one place, a hospital at least 12-24 hours, and the midway place (semi-hospital, more than a clinic) over 8 hours.
Then once you go into those places, they acted as if you were a burden, wrote you a prescription as fast as they could, and barely talked to you at all, that includes the family doctor. It wasn't a joke. You had 2 questions? you had to make 2 appointments.
For the tiny fee I'll take the doctor I can see whenever I want and who genuinely seems interested in taking care of me.
As a Canadian who moved to South Korea a few years ago, fuck Canadian medicare.
sure if I get cancer, it might be better for me under the Canadian system. Everything else?
I've never had so much joy visiting a doctor.
When I was in Canada last they were implementing the "write your question down, no more than 25 words and for the love of god don't speak unless spoken to" appointments for the family doctors where I lived and scheduling them for 3 weeks next friday.
You know what I want to do if I want to see my doctor in Korea?
I walk over to his office and 9 times out of 10 I see him in under 5 minutes.
I tell him the problem and then he'll ask me 3 more times "Nothing else? are you sure? how about that problem you had a bit ago?"
it costs me $2.
I need to see a specialist? I do the exact same thing. I don't need to spend 8 months with my doctor doing pointless and endless tests, then get put on a list for a year while I wait for the only guy in a city of over a million people to get around to seeing me, all the while I'm suffering whatever the problem is.
Costs me an extra $6-$10 to do that.
prescriptions? covered as part of national healthcare. a few days prescription for your run of the mill stuff is nothing, $2-$3
You get into more heavy stuff, cancer, heart disease, organ transplant, yeah you want to be in Canada but only for the out of pocket stuff. But your day to day general health care, not even a competition even with the slightly increased out of pocket.
Is the Canadian system better than the American? Yeah.
Is it better than Korea for serious medical stuff? only financially.
is it better than Korea overall though? Well, depends on your perspective. For me, as someone who does tend to go to the doctor now and then for stuff, and has to get a regular prescription renewal, I'm pretty damn happy with it.
Looking at the example image, I see a next bus, I see some "scheduled" times and that's it.
If I look at a stop in Korea, I see live times of all the buses, I can click an individual route to see when the next 2 buses are (which tells me their current stop, how many stops away they are and the expected arrival time), I can further click to see an entire route list of all stops and see the general position of every single bus on the route as well as which ones are low floor buses.
This was basically all put together by a 17 year old Korean kid while he was in school, but hey, good job Google!
I always thought that was pretty secure because the machine couldn't tell which picture was a cat? What about combining video and cat captcha. 4 videos, one of which is a cat. But it could be a close video, or a zoomed out one where the cat is running around. A computer really shouldn't be able to decode that. Use a large enough database and they'll never solve it.
I see The New Republic doesn't seem to have a single story about ACTA in their pages.. yet the europeans are out protesting it in droves...Europeans want to protect privacy and suddenly someone from America is all over them..
I also notice the Standford law review doesn't return a single article written about that either..
Clean up your own house before you go telling others how to run theirs.
It's the culture of fear.
It's hard for the media and other figures to justify their moral crusade if they can't use a scary word like "pedophilia" to refer to 25 year olds who are attracted to a 16 year old because she's built like a pin-up girl.
A good driver cannot anticipate sudden lane changes, cars pulling out of side streets, people opening their doors, kids darting into traffic, etc. Good drivers are careful, they're not clairvoyant.
These are exactly the kinds of statements spouted by assholes who think they're being smart and clever.
But isn't that the point of this new system? They said "prove to us you're a good driver" I'd say that if you're just stopping sharply but not actually getting in to accidents you're doing showing that you're a bad driver, in fact quite the opposite.
They didn't say "prove to us your car is in a safe environment"
This really only happens if you go to google and type "Free downloads" or something like that.
I would suggest that anyone with half a clue should be able to avoid any "dodgy" sites, but this is pretty common propaganda from the various groups involved. According to them every single download is infected with thousands of virus and spyware, when the reality is with very little effort, I haven't picked up anything bad in 20 years.
Looks like this is their 25th according to imdb.
which movie are you referring to?
http://www.imdb.com/company/co0216680/
Driving in a busy city with bad traffic all around can cause frequent sharp braking. You can leave space between you and the next guy all you want, until someone suddenly changes lanes without signalling, pulls out from a side street, space, etc without checking, opens their door into traffic, a guy on a bicycle, a pedestrian not paying attention, etc
Far too many outside forces.
what a fucking joke.
Even in a major Canadian city the speed is terrible.
I went from 3/1 in the downtown sector of a top 5 Canadian city because some wire didn't run the right way on that block to 100/80 everywhere in south Korea.
I pay less than I do there, if I want service, a guy comes out when I want him to, he calls before he comes and if for some reason I can't make the time, he'll ask me when he wants me to drop by.
There is no cap
no throttling (other than the underseas cable)
Rogers only hope is that Canadians never take the time to genuinely educate themselves.
Yeah, I tried the demo. to be honest I preferred the originals. The art style of the remakes just never grabbed me.
My pirating depended initially on employment. If I was working, I bought games, if I wasn't, I pirated them.
Now that I'm older with steady income, pirating depends on user reviews. If I want something, I buy it. If I hear a loud chorus of "OMG stay away from this its awful" then I'll download it to see if it is really that bad. Like say Stronghold 3.
This has gone on for..a very long time.. back to BBS days, but at that time I was a junior high student and had zero income, so it was all pirating.
Someday I'll get around to buying a copy of exile: escape from the pit..Actually I was copying floppies before that too. I remember using a program called "copyright" to strip the protection off floppies to copy them.
Given that long history, I can almost certainly state that you'd have to be an idiot to get malware from a pirated game. This is nothing more than ghost stories told by the software industry to scare people off. This is probably..hmm.. 25 years of pirating and not one virus from a floppy, bbs file, torrent, etc Especially torrents. Unless the industry goes ahead and tries to seed a tainted copy of their own game, it is pretty rare that you'd run across someone trying to put a virus in a scene release.
It's called a generalization. I'd suggest you learn the basics of communication before you attempt to engage in it again.
You simply cannot speak to every single case that may exist in the world. It's impossible to do so. Why don't you take the article and summary to task for being so surprised that she's poor? It's just another one of a million individual cases that shouldn't be out of place at all right?
Everyone can come up with some anecdotal special case, but they're pretty much meaningless when you're having a big-boy discussion, but what to expect from someone who immaturely hides behind anonymity?
Actually it's not that surprising. It would be more surprising if this person was middle class.
Why?
The Middle class are complacent. They've got just enough to keep them happy. Not enough to make them really want to rule the world, and not so little that they really had to work hard for it.
Despite being poor, they do have the advantage of learning to work hard and appreciate everything. I know it's not a horribly PC thing to say, but it is the reality.
You take your average poor kid and your average middle class kid and you'll probably find that the poor kid will work a little harder. Try a little more
Now they may have less opportunity and less resources, but when they get them, they're much less likely to waste them.
On the flip side you'd expect rich people to be really lazy, but that's not the case. Upper class/rich people have power and status dreams which drive them that middle class people don't have. Middle class people would like those things, but they often see them as fantasies, not really attainable.
Rich people got it, and they don't want to lose it.
Especially now that they're going to customize the results to your social network. I wonder how they got those pictures..
They did this already, it was utter shit.
When google+ first got released, my search results went sideways. Despite using Google in English, going to the English domain google.ca (For Canada) because I was either in Korea, or added Google+ to my account while in Korea (despite never using the service in Korean language)
all my logged in news archive searches were only returning Korean language results from Korean language papers in Korea. It wouldn't even search the English language papers in Korea.
Normal news searches seemed to return the same stuff in any language, but an archives search was totally broken.
I filed a couple bug reports, went to google groups to report it, etc
nothing happened.
Finally after bringing it up on several Google+ slashdot stories someone who works for Google saw it, and after a few weeks or a couple months or so, I noticed it had finally been fixed.
However it is far more indicative of Google, and other large companies, behaviour. Frankly I'm not remotely interested in their "customization" because I've already seen how these companies customize things. For them its completely impossible to believe that an English speaker could be in a country that doesn't speak English as an official language. Intel used to automatically make my laptop's wireless drivers install in Korean (despite the OS being set to English), many of the big player's websites would default to a Korean version. Some had a way to change it, but EA for example will not let you leave the Korean version of their website. As long as companies are this narrow-minded and ignorant I'm not remotely comfortable in letting them "customize" my experience.
Good luck with that. Unless you can donate millions of dollars the only thing you can do as an average citizen is grab your gun and revolt.
Why would you be amazed? This is pretty much par for the course here these days..
My prediction is that Canada will invade and you won't even be aware of it.
That was the point of the sarcasm. Private gun ownership has always been allowed in Canada. It continues to be, and there are tons of rifles all over the country. Millions of them, in private ownership. You're on the internet. before stepping in it twice you could at least google it.
No, people who would rise up in bloody battle against a government they thought was fucking them over. But you keep trying to intentionally miss the point and pretend you're clever.