The census is incredibly important data for the government and policy making decisions. It guides the future of Canada. Being opposed to this is pretty much only something libertarian crazies would do. Honestly, no or lessened census data is basically flying blind.
Pot laws at least in Canada have little to nothing to do with libertarians. The vast majority of Canadians approve of pot legalization. It is opposed by social conservatives. But support of marijuana legalization is the norm in much/most of Canada.
Let me point out that is fiction, it doesn't even count for an n of 1. And specialization to some degree is important.
BUT
How many people here can honestly say they believe that the people who said that the earth is the centre of the universe are actually intelligent specialists that happen to be out of their field?
What % would you argue fit that descriptor? 1%?.1%? less?
I believe that the planet earth is the outside of the universe. The surface of the planet facing inwards. As you get closer to the center of the universe everything gets smaller and smaller. That is not to say that anything actually shrinks, that would be ridiculous. What happens is that one unit of distance is comparatively smaller compared to here on the outer edge known as earth. If you think of it this way the big bang would have occurred near the centre on the universe, and stars swirl around on the inside, sort of like a snow globe in space. If we really want to learn about the nature of the universe we should be working towards the outer edge, that is to say the earth's 'core' as the uninformed scientists of the world like to call it.
There is another theory that the universe works much like a video game and simply wraps around when you make it to an edge (one of the edges cuts through Camden I hear). But do remember that this 'theory' is total bullshit. Arbitrarily making Camden the wrap around point makes no sense.
The problem Toyota had existed purely between the seat and wheel. Pretty certain that no problem existed at all. People simply stomped down the gas instead of the brakes or some other simple mistake and then blamed Toyota. The mistake Toyota made was that they treated these people respectfully rather than calling them a bunch of lunatics and summarily dismissing their claims.
Either they aren't enough lumens (sometimes by a lot) or they are directional. This might not be a big problem if someone designed your house with floodlight style bulbs in mind but they didn't. So for MOST purposes, not all CFLs are the best option.
Once these two issues get sorted out they will crush the market. I believe they will crush the market so completely that lightbulbs will come with the house and will turn into something you get at a hardware store once every 20 years. Houses will be designed with them in mind since they have some design advantages. They are cold, so you can safely enclose them and cram them into tight places. They are nigh immortal, so you can put them in places that don't need to be even remotely accessible. Embedded into the ceiling behind a screwed down panel suddenly seems reasonable. Same with putting lights VERY high in homes with a loft.
Of course changes won't be apparent for a number of years since homes change rather slowly in north america. But in Japan where they treat houses like disposable camera You'll start seeing some of the effects the new lighting has on homes.
Pretty sure that you could eat a CFL and not get ill from it. I mean aside from the problem of eating glass... Though LED lights would be nice I agree.
"a surface used to produce lift for flight through the atmosphere - or occasionally through another gaseous or fluid substance." was the first defn on google search for 'wing'.
I would say the number of users that have trouble (not transactions since accounts that do 100,000 transactions worked out the bugs) is closer to 1/4 or 1/5. They took about 60$ from me in past. It really is quite common to see them screw people over.
I believe the portion of the bible you are looking for would be the first commandment. I know you guys like to think that "Oh, that guy is crazy. My religion isn't like that" (Which is a fallacy by the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ). But religion just fucking sucks.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." (Note God himself directly telling you to OVERTHROW AND BREAKDOWN other religions. If that isn't direct I don't know what you want.)
"He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
I'm sure I could find 30more citations like above showing that "the LORD your God, is a jealous God" and is totally intolerant of other religions. Suggesting otherwise is either impressively ignorant, willful denial or an outright lie.
I don't think there is any consitutional ammendment you can pass to stop people from being cowards. And you certainly can't blame Islam for people being cowards.
I guarantee GUARANTEE that if Rackspace was made aware of a group organizing a bible burning and using hateful speech on one of their sites they would take it down too. This has nothing to do with fear or the constitution to them. It has to do with company policy. This is actually really simple.
Book burning is pretty obviously more hateful than cartoon drawing. Summary is silly. I imagine that a group organizing a book burning probably had something that constitutes hate speech on their site. Violates the ISPs rules. Simple.
There is a big difference between being a dick or making jokes or disliking some group and talking about it and hate speech. Hate speech is only a very small step below inciting violence.
BTW, they are free to burn the Quran. Not an issue at all. Have at it. But Rackspace is also free to drop them. Rackspace has no obligation to keep customers that violate their EULA (even if we all agree that eulas are stupid).
Uhhhh it works as a tractor beam just fine. FTFA: "The device works by shining a hollow laser beam around tiny glass particles. The air surrounding the particle heats up, while the dark center of the beam stays cool. When the particle starts to drift out of the middle and into the bright laser beam, the force of heated air molecules bouncing around and hitting the particle's surface is enough to nudge it back to the center."
So if you take two or more lasers place them on opposite sides of where you want to pull something. Point the lasers at the object. Then slowly turn the beams towards the middle. Tada. You've pulled your object to you.
In other news, I only use repulsive forces on with hand to pick up things (other forces too minor to consider), yet some how I still manage to pull things towards myself.
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Its possible that he just didn't think data was very important to making decisions. When you have ideology who needs facts?
The census is incredibly important data for the government and policy making decisions. It guides the future of Canada. Being opposed to this is pretty much only something libertarian crazies would do. Honestly, no or lessened census data is basically flying blind.
Pot laws at least in Canada have little to nothing to do with libertarians. The vast majority of Canadians approve of pot legalization. It is opposed by social conservatives. But support of marijuana legalization is the norm in much/most of Canada.
Let me point out that is fiction, it doesn't even count for an n of 1. And specialization to some degree is important.
.1%? less?
BUT
How many people here can honestly say they believe that the people who said that the earth is the centre of the universe are actually intelligent specialists that happen to be out of their field?
What % would you argue fit that descriptor? 1%?
Why is there no iPod challenger to my nice mahogany chair? Your question is sorta pointless...
I believe that the planet earth is the outside of the universe. The surface of the planet facing inwards. As you get closer to the center of the universe everything gets smaller and smaller. That is not to say that anything actually shrinks, that would be ridiculous. What happens is that one unit of distance is comparatively smaller compared to here on the outer edge known as earth. If you think of it this way the big bang would have occurred near the centre on the universe, and stars swirl around on the inside, sort of like a snow globe in space. If we really want to learn about the nature of the universe we should be working towards the outer edge, that is to say the earth's 'core' as the uninformed scientists of the world like to call it.
There is another theory that the universe works much like a video game and simply wraps around when you make it to an edge (one of the edges cuts through Camden I hear). But do remember that this 'theory' is total bullshit. Arbitrarily making Camden the wrap around point makes no sense.
Apple has an mp3 player cheaper than any Android phone that I'm aware of + an arbitrary app store limitation.
Colour me unimpressed.
The problem Toyota had existed purely between the seat and wheel. Pretty certain that no problem existed at all. People simply stomped down the gas instead of the brakes or some other simple mistake and then blamed Toyota. The mistake Toyota made was that they treated these people respectfully rather than calling them a bunch of lunatics and summarily dismissing their claims.
LEDs or LED bulbs? because in the bulbs the board/wiring/anything other than the LEDs themselves is likely to break first afaik.
I do think that LED bulbs are plenty capable of 100,000 hours with more development and refinement. Didn't know we were there...
So you are saying that OIL will reach some form of PEAK before alternatives come about?
No it doesn't.
"they just don't offer basic phones anymore."
/. might have to evict you.
Turn in your nerd license please. In fact that was so bad
Incandescents = 800hrs
CFLs = 11,000hrs
LEDs = 40,000
Hmmmmm
...Just screw them in until they turn on. 10% breakage makes me picture you using a wrench to get them in.
Americans and their crazy systems of measurement. How may lightbulbs' mercury would it take to fill a Volkswagen?
Either they aren't enough lumens (sometimes by a lot) or they are directional. This might not be a big problem if someone designed your house with floodlight style bulbs in mind but they didn't. So for MOST purposes, not all CFLs are the best option.
Once these two issues get sorted out they will crush the market. I believe they will crush the market so completely that lightbulbs will come with the house and will turn into something you get at a hardware store once every 20 years. Houses will be designed with them in mind since they have some design advantages. They are cold, so you can safely enclose them and cram them into tight places. They are nigh immortal, so you can put them in places that don't need to be even remotely accessible. Embedded into the ceiling behind a screwed down panel suddenly seems reasonable. Same with putting lights VERY high in homes with a loft.
Of course changes won't be apparent for a number of years since homes change rather slowly in north america. But in Japan where they treat houses like disposable camera You'll start seeing some of the effects the new lighting has on homes.
Pretty sure that you could eat a CFL and not get ill from it. I mean aside from the problem of eating glass... Though LED lights would be nice I agree.
"a surface used to produce lift for flight through the atmosphere - or occasionally through another gaseous or fluid substance." was the first defn on google search for 'wing'.
I find your name fascinating.
I would say the number of users that have trouble (not transactions since accounts that do 100,000 transactions worked out the bugs) is closer to 1/4 or 1/5. They took about 60$ from me in past. It really is quite common to see them screw people over.
I believe the portion of the bible you are looking for would be the first commandment. I know you guys like to think that "Oh, that guy is crazy. My religion isn't like that" (Which is a fallacy by the way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman ). But religion just fucking sucks.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
"Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images." (Note God himself directly telling you to OVERTHROW AND BREAKDOWN other religions. If that isn't direct I don't know what you want.)
"He who sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
I'm sure I could find 30more citations like above showing that "the LORD your God, is a jealous God" and is totally intolerant of other religions. Suggesting otherwise is either impressively ignorant, willful denial or an outright lie.
http://www.theodoresworld.net/pcfreezone/Product_361_PrSpare2.jpg You can even get it on a t-shirt.
I don't think there is any consitutional ammendment you can pass to stop people from being cowards. And you certainly can't blame Islam for people being cowards.
I guarantee GUARANTEE that if Rackspace was made aware of a group organizing a bible burning and using hateful speech on one of their sites they would take it down too. This has nothing to do with fear or the constitution to them. It has to do with company policy. This is actually really simple.
Book burning is pretty obviously more hateful than cartoon drawing. Summary is silly. I imagine that a group organizing a book burning probably had something that constitutes hate speech on their site. Violates the ISPs rules. Simple.
There is a big difference between being a dick or making jokes or disliking some group and talking about it and hate speech. Hate speech is only a very small step below inciting violence.
BTW, they are free to burn the Quran. Not an issue at all. Have at it. But Rackspace is also free to drop them. Rackspace has no obligation to keep customers that violate their EULA (even if we all agree that eulas are stupid).
Quote? And I would argue that he is in a rather unique position. Also, tons of dictators have attempts on their life.
*with my hand
Uhhhh it works as a tractor beam just fine. FTFA:
"The device works by shining a hollow laser beam around tiny glass particles. The air surrounding the particle heats up, while the dark center of the beam stays cool. When the particle starts to drift out of the middle and into the bright laser beam, the force of heated air molecules bouncing around and hitting the particle's surface is enough to nudge it back to the center."
So if you take two or more lasers place them on opposite sides of where you want to pull something. Point the lasers at the object. Then slowly turn the beams towards the middle. Tada. You've pulled your object to you.
In other news, I only use repulsive forces on with hand to pick up things (other forces too minor to consider), yet some how I still manage to pull things towards myself.