Oh right. I'm going to sell my vote for access to DirecTV. As if there are absolutely no other issues to consider when electing a government.
Also, it's not illegal to acquire or use satellite signal receivers or dishes from the United States. It's illegal to sell them, and for a good reason. They don't provide any Canadian content and they don't provide Canadian commercials.
Why is this bad, you ask? Because the television industry is huge. It creates jobs, and employed people pay taxes. Taxes give us infrastructure, medicare and whatever else we need.
I showed up at a Second Cup (coffee shop) downtown about 15 minutes after the specified time. I had my laptop with me so the/. people would recognize me.
They did. They grabed me, pulled me into a booth in the corner and the meetup began for me. One of them grabbed my laptop, booted it up and started installing Gentoo Linux on it after finding out that it runs Win98. Another one started a long monologue that praised Linux and bashed Microsoft. A third one was wearing a tinfoil baseball cap and handing out his PGP key to anyone who entered the coffee shop.
After brainwashing me for a while, my fellow slashdotters and I went for a beer (for which I paid, for some unexplicable reason). The rest of the evening is a blur, as one beer turned into more than I can count. Kind of like the Linux Beer Hike, but without the hiking.
This is somewhat offtopic, but ceramics are not as breakable as people think (teacup hitting a concrete floor).
There are hammers made out of ceramics and internal combustion engines. These are pretty much the most extreme applications - both involve high resistance to impact and high pressures.
The hammers actually outlast steel hammers, and ceramic engines are almost impossible to wear out. I'm not sure if it's the price or the engineer knowledge that's keeping them from being widely used. After all, the properties of steel and aluminum are well known to all engineers - those of ceramics aren't.
What about all positive impact of the movie? I'm speaking of all the merchanise that will be sold, extra buckets of popcorn and large drinks, promotional tie-ins and so on.
Granted, most of the money will end up in George's pockets, but the middle man will still make a few extra bucks.
Is the relaxing of moral views really such a good thing? Today we accept cloning. Tomorrow we accept euthanasia of clones who are not healthy. The day after, we accept killing old people who are not healthy. Then we accept killing all people with uncurable diseases. Sure, we have strenuous procedures and laws for all of these, but we're still guilty of clensing the human race. (Rememeber Hitler?)
These are all logical steps. Maybe not within 4 days, 4 years or 4 generations, but they are certainly possible.
The loss of high moral standards is not always a good thing.
If this bill is passed, how will it affect canadians? Aren't most (if not all?) electronic devices made for both countries, and not just the USA or just for Canada?
If so, will Canada be forced to follow this bill simply because there are no other devices available on the market?
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Future technologies may give us speeds which double, triple or even increase hundredfolds our current speed records.
So if you're sending a ship to a system that's 50 light-years away and a propulsion system capable of light speed is invented 100 years later, our ship would be passed by the new one, no?
So why don't we hold off deep-space exploration until we have the technology for it?
Perhaps it would help if you sat down and looked at how much money you're losing per month. Then add your income to that figure. You now have how much you have to get extra per month to break even.
Then figure out if 82% of readers (200,000 accounts?) paying $5 for 3 months of ad-free browsing will get you enough money. That's $20 per year per user, or about $400,000 per year if only 10% of those 200,000 accounts subscribe (I wouldn't hold my breath for a subscription rate of over 25%).
I sure hope that's all you guys need to break even. If not, it's time to go back to the drawing board.
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According to your reasoning, laws punishing killers take away my freedom to shoot who I want legally.
The passage you quoted only enforces the entire Declaration; it simply says that the articles above (being of good intent) cannot be used for malicious intent. How is this any different than a government law which prohibits using the legal system for criminal activities?
Many good shows have been cancelled before. And maybe it's better that way. Once they reach their peak, they start to degenerate rather fast - just look at the Simpsons, which should have been dropped after season 7.
Many other excellent shows have been cancelled before hitting their prime, (My So-called Life and Freaks And Geeks come to mind), but this isn't the case here - Futurama is terrific, and I don't think it can get any better, only worst.
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Oh right. I'm going to sell my vote for access to DirecTV. As if there are absolutely no other issues to consider when electing a government.
Also, it's not illegal to acquire or use satellite signal receivers or dishes from the United States. It's illegal to sell them, and for a good reason. They don't provide any Canadian content and they don't provide Canadian commercials.
Why is this bad, you ask? Because the television industry is huge. It creates jobs, and employed people pay taxes. Taxes give us infrastructure, medicare and whatever else we need.
It's all about getting a piece of the pie.
Unless you're not very familiar with the works of C.S. Lewis, you would know that he's written much better "Christian propaganda" books.
Pick up The Screwtape Letters and come back to post after reading it.
I showed up at a Second Cup (coffee shop) downtown about 15 minutes after the specified time. I had my laptop with me so the /. people would recognize me.
They did. They grabed me, pulled me into a booth in the corner and the meetup began for me. One of them grabbed my laptop, booted it up and started installing Gentoo Linux on it after finding out that it runs Win98. Another one started a long monologue that praised Linux and bashed Microsoft. A third one was wearing a tinfoil baseball cap and handing out his PGP key to anyone who entered the coffee shop.
After brainwashing me for a while, my fellow slashdotters and I went for a beer (for which I paid, for some unexplicable reason). The rest of the evening is a blur, as one beer turned into more than I can count. Kind of like the Linux Beer Hike, but without the hiking.
I can't wait till the next one.
Design News had an article about this type of car in January. You can find it here.
Next plan, please.
I already wear a pair of glasses. I don't wish to slap another one on top of them, or get polarized lenses.
So people can whore karma by converting the units.
While not really cutting-edge news, interactive interviews, Ask Slashdot and book/movie reviews do fall into the investigative journalism category.
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(The reviews may be more opinion than news, but it's still original
However, I agree that the story selection process has many faults.
This is somewhat offtopic, but ceramics are not as breakable as people think (teacup hitting a concrete floor).
There are hammers made out of ceramics and internal combustion engines. These are pretty much the most extreme applications - both involve high resistance to impact and high pressures.
The hammers actually outlast steel hammers, and ceramic engines are almost impossible to wear out. I'm not sure if it's the price or the engineer knowledge that's keeping them from being widely used. After all, the properties of steel and aluminum are well known to all engineers - those of ceramics aren't.
What about all positive impact of the movie? I'm speaking of all the merchanise that will be sold, extra buckets of popcorn and large drinks, promotional tie-ins and so on.
Granted, most of the money will end up in George's pockets, but the middle man will still make a few extra bucks.
I was actually gonna post the same thing - I never read his stories, only comments attached to them. I figure it's more entertaining.
"Elbonia - where gambling and prostitution are not only legal, they're mandatory." - Dilbert
(or was that Elstonia?)
It will be a while before MS et al. will have the authority to enforce laws. They're best they can do is press charges.
Is the relaxing of moral views really such a good thing? Today we accept cloning. Tomorrow we accept euthanasia of clones who are not healthy. The day after, we accept killing old people who are not healthy. Then we accept killing all people with uncurable diseases. Sure, we have strenuous procedures and laws for all of these, but we're still guilty of clensing the human race. (Rememeber Hitler?)
These are all logical steps. Maybe not within 4 days, 4 years or 4 generations, but they are certainly possible.
The loss of high moral standards is not always a good thing.
Despite being mosty offtopic, the parent post does make an excellent point.
Does anyone refer to the start of World War II as 9/1? Or to Independence Day as 7/4? New Year's Day as 01/01?
Please come up with a proper name for this date if you need it that badly.
Too bad Memento came out in 2000, making it a (potential) contender for last year's Oscars.
If this bill is passed, how will it affect canadians? Aren't most (if not all?) electronic devices made for both countries, and not just the USA or just for Canada?
If so, will Canada be forced to follow this bill simply because there are no other devices available on the market?
I saw page 1.
I saw page 2.
I clicked on the link to page 3 and got this:
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Future technologies may give us speeds which double, triple or even increase hundredfolds our current speed records.
So if you're sending a ship to a system that's 50 light-years away and a propulsion system capable of light speed is invented 100 years later, our ship would be passed by the new one, no?
So why don't we hold off deep-space exploration until we have the technology for it?
Well, the disc mounted. Files were retrievable. Unfortunately, the uid and gid of all the files was set to 4294967295.
That's really terrific memory. I can't remember the UID and GID of a file if it's not displayed on screen.
Perhaps it would help if you sat down and looked at how much money you're losing per month. Then add your income to that figure. You now have how much you have to get extra per month to break even.
Then figure out if 82% of readers (200,000 accounts?) paying $5 for 3 months of ad-free browsing will get you enough money. That's $20 per year per user, or about $400,000 per year if only 10% of those 200,000 accounts subscribe (I wouldn't hold my breath for a subscription rate of over 25%).
I sure hope that's all you guys need to break even. If not, it's time to go back to the drawing board.
Moderators: I'd rather you replied than moderate this message up or down.
According to your reasoning, laws punishing killers take away my freedom to shoot who I want legally.
The passage you quoted only enforces the entire Declaration; it simply says that the articles above (being of good intent) cannot be used for malicious intent. How is this any different than a government law which prohibits using the legal system for criminal activities?
Look for yourself.
Many good shows have been cancelled before. And maybe it's better that way. Once they reach their peak, they start to degenerate rather fast - just look at the Simpsons, which should have been dropped after season 7.
Many other excellent shows have been cancelled before hitting their prime, (My So-called Life and Freaks And Geeks come to mind), but this isn't the case here - Futurama is terrific, and I don't think it can get any better, only worst.
If you have that much trouble with acronyms, I suggest using acronymfinder.com.
Heh a friend of mine misheard a couple of us talking about the upcoming movie (Goldmember) and asked:
"Who is Hardmember?"