You're right. Then again, it's pretty much always been that way.
At the same time, someone with no education and a basic criminal check can work at International airports and have direct contact with luggage, cargo, and Aircraft. From my experience too, you're not subject to security checks of anything they carrying through employee security checkpoints. Same goes for working with trains, buses etc..
I could work in a meat processing plant, again, no criminal checks or even Visa required in some cases and spread Viruses, or contaminate meat in another fashion. (READ: Maple Leaf product recall).
I can still buy semi-automatic or automatic weapons, walk into a shopping mall and 'terrorize' hundreds of people before being taken out. No license required.
If I want to run a Bunsen Burner in my shed doing what tickles my fancy, people get specious and call the cops.
I suppose all these examples just point at a need for 'regulation' but if you threaten guns, people scream its a basic right, threaten my airfare and people shrug, threaten my meat and people say you'll lose jobs and raise prices, regulate hobby-labs and people say it's because it will help the drug problem. The only thing I notice is that people see what they want.
Obviously you don't understand how with the affects of the Internet change our short term and long term memories.
Here on Slashdot, we'll often see the news reel within the same day or several times in the same week. How can you expect us to remember some Italian bombshell with crazy hair from the early 90's.
"It's funny because I was just talking to a friend about a 'hobby' I and some friends do and he was floored at the cost. Got me thinking it might be time to find a new, cheaper hobby lol..."
I would debate that going to strip bars and getting loaded is a hobby.
I'm originally from Nova Scotia, been in Quebec for 3 years.
The Bloc is special, they're not 'bent' on breaking up Canada but I have more of an understanding now of the things Quebec culture deals with and can't help to sympathize. I don't feel it is any different from most places in Canada feeling disconnected from the 'rest'.
Another thing that is infectious is the French and their willingness to stand up against bad government, although not as obviously these days I find people are more openly political, regardless of the party you swear votes too. Could be too, I'm in Montreal and we have a big mixing pot of ideas, peoples and cultures.
I have to admit I am no political guru but when you look at a party who actually has plans, advocates them well, has a leader who communicates fluently and can debate smartly I wonder why these guys haven't had better numbers. I suppose it is because Jack Layton doesn't attack the other parties in the media like the other leaders so the majority of voters seems to overlook them. He is simply not in the press shouting about a past scandal or taxes.
Honestly out of the three 'major' non-conservative parties(Liberal, Green, NDP), the NDP have been the best choice for Canadians but the average Joe and Jane Canadian seem to get caught up in the Liberal-Conservative arcade.
They won't win in my area because of Gilles Duceppe is the Bloc representative here, but I'm hoping the momentum will keep growing for them.
Sure, mark parent as funny, but who knows, there may a viable method to harnessing Solar Winds.
To quote Wikipedia,"The Earth's Moon has no atmosphere or intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently its surface is bombarded with the full solar wind."
Unfortunately it is for the kids. The entire series since Ep. 1 was obviously aimed at kids. Hardcare fans new and old that were older than 15 certainly can't relate to much. The plot, dialog and acting was simple to follow, simple enough for an 8 year old.
This new movie is certainly an extention of that. If it was meant to be for the real fans, it would have been live action. American adults don't relate to cartoons in the masses like Japan and others, which is a different debate. From what I've seen of Trailers the animation style is also aimed for kids (compare with Beowulf).
So prepared to be disappointed, or go read the books/comics.
Thanks for mentioning that but it wasn't my point. Examples of moving to most countries where talked about in those discussions. I remember reading about UK to US, Dutch to US, African to US, US to US, Canada to US, Australia to US and a few others.
I know this is Slashdot but didn't we go over this with the Australian looking to move to Canada and get IT work?
Didn't every situation involving moving to a different country get discussed in the pool of opinions during that "ask slash" or is our humble questioner looking for an actual job offer within the forum?
I was thinking the same thing, this is obivously great marketing, not to meantion free advertising. Not sure of how Epic of a fail this is.
Sure, we're saying 'duh' but I remember how many kids use to use Bablefish for their French class-work and how terrible it was translation of anything beyond one or two words, and then they'd continue to use it.
I also have a Traditional Chinese character as a tattoo that I got on a whim, it wasn't until I finally met a nice Chinese speaking girl who was king enough to confirm the character stood for what I was told it did.
I wasn't exactly trying to make things personal. It was just that if you read you're original post out loud with a southern accent you'd fit the stereotype.
I congratulate you on your 20+ years of Internet service but after all your years, haven't you learned that in a Public FORUM, such as this one, tends have people that do not use abbreviations because it is a poor way to express an educated opinion.
I highly doubt you're writing on a cell-phone or your Myspace wall, so flame me all you want. I thought your post was foolish and was written, by a redneck. No sources, poor grammar, and interesting choice of abbrivations.
So, this is a rant. Please don't quote me on this because my opinion may change moments after posing. So there's a bit of a rant I've been meaning to write for a while now and I keep putting it off since I am officially wearing the Slashdot user-mod hat tonight. Now, I take it off.
"Does slashdot need user moderators?"
Well if it is the type of user that is harming how a posting is viewed, then no we don't need those users. I have been hesitant to tell these users and to quote my favorite comedian, George Carlin, "Go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself."
I know this is cynical but the only real benefit to Slashdot having users is that some users turn into editors. This directly benefits Slashdot as a whole, the articles, the summaries, the slash-polls, it is essentially the editors doing this for themselves.
Sure, every user loves to be on the winning side of the Slashdot-Techmeme war but honestly if you're harming the rating of a comment by calling it something it is not that find a different post to moderate, if it's worthy of the type of moderation tag you want to give 5 times today, which I doubt is any. I wouldn't wish this kind of nonsensical modding to users on Afterslash, or any other pointless news site that you stupid people migrate to.
Slashdot and open source is not really obligated to please users (but it helps revenue). We are not obligated to give you the rights to even look at the articles without a login but we do, so we can then give you moderator rights which you can't seem to use properly. If you mod correctly we benefit from seeing a system that we thought, would make a person without a login, be able to view a post based on how funny, informative or interesting it is. If I want to laugh but I get an informative post, this a blatant misuse of the mod-system, it's wrong and only makes me more angry!
So, if you are one of those users who are stupid, maybe more uneducated, and don't know whether a post is funny or interesting or maybe you're on Prozac then please go away. Find another site to mod posts on (preferably closed source) as we have had enough of it!
Now that I've got that out of my system, I'm off to start a race of Wookiees, because I have a very hairy chest.
It's funny but we've been battling this kind of thing in MUDs for decades. It's a similar environment and you end up having a few power-users, a few hardcore RPers, and a a lot of in-betweens that just hack'n'slash because it is fun for them.
Galaxies attempted to give the player a reason to be a average Joe with professions and a classless system. Although I didn't play it extensively I think like most players out there, if the developer give us a reason to be part of the Universe instead of being the Universe than we'll be happy to. Keeping multiple servers based on game play preference like in WoW would be useful, so long as you enforce them, which WoW doesn't do. RPers can run the story where they want, PvPers can power there way through skills and fight each other Good vs evil, and In-betweeners can play on a Wow like quest realm.
Lots of developement? You bet, but it would be finally taking the lessons from the other MMORPGs and making something good for a change.
I don't know much about these cars however I do know about my iPod. If they started at zero charge wouldn't that mean they would sit on the road for 24 hours charging before wanting to move, else they wouldn't get the most life from their batteries, no?
I guess it depends on what you feel is interesting, some people like golf, others like Windsurfing.
Hey! Just because you hate Jar Jar doesn't mean you can take it out on Yoda man, that's just not cool. Besides, it's off topic, regardless of how close your phrase was to the dialog.
Does anyone know if he was Unionized? That would mean that the company 'tried' to fire him but didn't have the legal grounds and the Union backed him. Happens all the time.
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Indeed, I think we've had this sort of thing for a while in Record players, they call it Direct Drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_SL-1200
At the same time, someone with no education and a basic criminal check can work at International airports and have direct contact with luggage, cargo, and Aircraft. From my experience too, you're not subject to security checks of anything they carrying through employee security checkpoints. Same goes for working with trains, buses etc..
I could work in a meat processing plant, again, no criminal checks or even Visa required in some cases and spread Viruses, or contaminate meat in another fashion. (READ: Maple Leaf product recall).
I can still buy semi-automatic or automatic weapons, walk into a shopping mall and 'terrorize' hundreds of people before being taken out. No license required.
If I want to run a Bunsen Burner in my shed doing what tickles my fancy, people get specious and call the cops.
I suppose all these examples just point at a need for 'regulation' but if you threaten guns, people scream its a basic right, threaten my airfare and people shrug, threaten my meat and people say you'll lose jobs and raise prices, regulate hobby-labs and people say it's because it will help the drug problem. The only thing I notice is that people see what they want.
[J]
Here on Slashdot, we'll often see the news reel within the same day or several times in the same week. How can you expect us to remember some Italian bombshell with crazy hair from the early 90's.
[J]
I would debate that going to strip bars and getting loaded is a hobby.
[J]
The Bloc is special, they're not 'bent' on breaking up Canada but I have more of an understanding now of the things Quebec culture deals with and can't help to sympathize. I don't feel it is any different from most places in Canada feeling disconnected from the 'rest'.
Another thing that is infectious is the French and their willingness to stand up against bad government, although not as obviously these days I find people are more openly political, regardless of the party you swear votes too. Could be too, I'm in Montreal and we have a big mixing pot of ideas, peoples and cultures.
[J]
I have to admit I am no political guru but when you look at a party who actually has plans, advocates them well, has a leader who communicates fluently and can debate smartly I wonder why these guys haven't had better numbers. I suppose it is because Jack Layton doesn't attack the other parties in the media like the other leaders so the majority of voters seems to overlook them. He is simply not in the press shouting about a past scandal or taxes.
Honestly out of the three 'major' non-conservative parties(Liberal, Green, NDP), the NDP have been the best choice for Canadians but the average Joe and Jane Canadian seem to get caught up in the Liberal-Conservative arcade.
They won't win in my area because of Gilles Duceppe is the Bloc representative here, but I'm hoping the momentum will keep growing for them.
[J]
To quote Wikipedia,"The Earth's Moon has no atmosphere or intrinsic magnetic field, and consequently its surface is bombarded with the full solar wind."
So ha!
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I can see Alaska's future is holy one alright; think of all those untapped assets just waiting to be found in Alaska.
[J]
Unfortunately it is for the kids. The entire series since Ep. 1 was obviously aimed at kids. Hardcare fans new and old that were older than 15 certainly can't relate to much. The plot, dialog and acting was simple to follow, simple enough for an 8 year old.
This new movie is certainly an extention of that. If it was meant to be for the real fans, it would have been live action. American adults don't relate to cartoons in the masses like Japan and others, which is a different debate. From what I've seen of Trailers the animation style is also aimed for kids (compare with Beowulf).
So prepared to be disappointed, or go read the books/comics.
[J]
Slow news day.
[J]
Didn't every situation involving moving to a different country get discussed in the pool of opinions during that "ask slash" or is our humble questioner looking for an actual job offer within the forum?
[J]
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I was thinking the same thing, this is obivously great marketing, not to meantion free advertising. Not sure of how Epic of a fail this is.
Sure, we're saying 'duh' but I remember how many kids use to use Bablefish for their French class-work and how terrible it was translation of anything beyond one or two words, and then they'd continue to use it.
I also have a Traditional Chinese character as a tattoo that I got on a whim, it wasn't until I finally met a nice Chinese speaking girl who was king enough to confirm the character stood for what I was told it did.
[J]
I congratulate you on your 20+ years of Internet service but after all your years, haven't you learned that in a Public FORUM, such as this one, tends have people that do not use abbreviations because it is a poor way to express an educated opinion.
I highly doubt you're writing on a cell-phone or your Myspace wall, so flame me all you want. I thought your post was foolish and was written, by a redneck. No sources, poor grammar, and interesting choice of abbrivations.
Don't be ashamed, it's alright.
[J]
Best redneck response ever. '..their'(instead of there) 'pres' '...sats at 40-50k' Classic, tell me you're real!
[J]
So, this is a rant. Please don't quote me on this because my opinion may change moments after posing. So there's a bit of a rant I've been meaning to write for a while now and I keep putting it off since I am officially wearing the Slashdot user-mod hat tonight. Now, I take it off.
"Does slashdot need user moderators?"
Well if it is the type of user that is harming how a posting is viewed, then no we don't need those users. I have been hesitant to tell these users and to quote my favorite comedian, George Carlin, "Go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself."
I know this is cynical but the only real benefit to Slashdot having users is that some users turn into editors. This directly benefits Slashdot as a whole, the articles, the summaries, the slash-polls, it is essentially the editors doing this for themselves.
Sure, every user loves to be on the winning side of the Slashdot-Techmeme war but honestly if you're harming the rating of a comment by calling it something it is not that find a different post to moderate, if it's worthy of the type of moderation tag you want to give 5 times today, which I doubt is any. I wouldn't wish this kind of nonsensical modding to users on Afterslash, or any other pointless news site that you stupid people migrate to.
Slashdot and open source is not really obligated to please users (but it helps revenue). We are not obligated to give you the rights to even look at the articles without a login but we do, so we can then give you moderator rights which you can't seem to use properly. If you mod correctly we benefit from seeing a system that we thought, would make a person without a login, be able to view a post based on how funny, informative or interesting it is. If I want to laugh but I get an informative post, this a blatant misuse of the mod-system, it's wrong and only makes me more angry!
So, if you are one of those users who are stupid, maybe more uneducated, and don't know whether a post is funny or interesting or maybe you're on Prozac then please go away. Find another site to mod posts on (preferably closed source) as we have had enough of it!
Now that I've got that out of my system, I'm off to start a race of Wookiees, because I have a very hairy chest.
[J]
It's funny but we've been battling this kind of thing in MUDs for decades. It's a similar environment and you end up having a few power-users, a few hardcore RPers, and a a lot of in-betweens that just hack'n'slash because it is fun for them.
Galaxies attempted to give the player a reason to be a average Joe with professions and a classless system. Although I didn't play it extensively I think like most players out there, if the developer give us a reason to be part of the Universe instead of being the Universe than we'll be happy to. Keeping multiple servers based on game play preference like in WoW would be useful, so long as you enforce them, which WoW doesn't do. RPers can run the story where they want, PvPers can power there way through skills and fight each other Good vs evil, and In-betweeners can play on a Wow like quest realm.
Lots of developement? You bet, but it would be finally taking the lessons from the other MMORPGs and making something good for a change.
[J]
I don't know much about these cars however I do know about my iPod. If they started at zero charge wouldn't that mean they would sit on the road for 24 hours charging before wanting to move, else they wouldn't get the most life from their batteries, no?
I guess it depends on what you feel is interesting, some people like golf, others like Windsurfing.
[J]
Hey! Just because you hate Jar Jar doesn't mean you can take it out on Yoda man, that's just not cool. Besides, it's off topic, regardless of how close your phrase was to the dialog.
Does anyone know if he was Unionized? That would mean that the company 'tried' to fire him but didn't have the legal grounds and the Union backed him. Happens all the time.
Half the fun of getting the EEEpc Linux is installing the ultra-slim version of XP yourself.
Maybe it is maybe Microsoft though of appealing to the market through reverse psychology, the Geeks buy it with XP so they can put Linux on it...
[J]
I have an old telex printer here that prints out some pretty interesting piece of art from time to time, though, they're pretty abstract.
I suppose you have somewhat of a point however it doesn't stop anything, it just slows it down to some extent.
The Child porn has been around longer than the internet I'm sure.
[J]
Hang on, read the translation:
The Canadian government has been the victim of a massive cyber in June and July 2007.
Obviously all the google filtering is keeping out the porn so the populous horny and confused. I mean, who doesn't think Harper is sexy?
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