You think the US is bad? Canada is worse, although our CR law is somewhat saner.
Netflix has about 1/10th the stuff you guys get in the States because the 2 content owners also own the telcos, so they surprisingly don't want to sell the IP to Netflix.
Vudu won't play in Canada. Neither will Amazon Instant. We don't have Redbox. We can get some movies from the library though.
Honestly, if they'd set up for-pay streaming / downloading music for money back in 1999, I doubt I've have ever pirated any movies or music. I used to buy a lot of CDs, sometimes stuff just to see what it sounded like.
It's still easier to pirate in some countries (e.g. Canada) than just buy stuff. I've started buying more movies now because my home theater shows the limits of the ripped movies (mostly sound, there's not much ranger in the ripped versions)
And most (90%) of my music is legit indie rock lists.
Assuming Florida applies their ingenious law in a race-neutral manner, of course -- hahahaha.
Oh, totally:
Mom sentences to 20 years for firing warning shots at abusive ex who was violating a peace bond.
Huh, I guess Florida just plain doesn't like black people.
Shh, he's on a roll.
You know who else wanted a final solution to this thread?
Huh, it seems I have nothing to add but posted anyway.
SLASHDOT FOREVER!
If you're in a fight as an adult you fight to kill and let fly with everything you have. This might be IT.
You want to dance? Take a salsa class.
You asked, and I quote, "How do you overload a ship? It has a load line on the side of the hull. If there's too much stuff on it, everyone knows just by looking."
You can overload the ship by a poorly distributed, yet still under-limit, load. These super-heavy containers are in an unknown position on the ship. What happens is as the ship rolls, pitches, and yaws, the extra instability from the imbalance puts an above-spec strain on the structural components of the ship.
Ship bends.
Ship breaks.
Salvagelarity ensues.
Moments, how do they work?
If you load the shit out of the topmost containers, it gets tippy as fuck. As an example of "huh", there's a thing that's going on the mast of a ship that I've worked on. The thing doesn't weigh that much -- although it's being loaded by crane, I could lift it by myself.
To compensate, way more ballast than I can lift is going in the hull.
... short of multi-megaton nuclear warheads, we CANT cause earthquakes.
When the Libyians blew up PanAm 103, the fuselage impact registered as an earthquake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103#Fuselage_impact
No no no... you're still missing it. The problem isn't the Earth, that's another proximate cause. The cause is gravity! No... wait... that's just another proximate cause, too. Ah, yes... mass, my old nemesis... we meet again...
Go to spin class.
You can't spell "assassin" without "ass".
Check up or check out, get that prostate examined before it kills you!
I was a C student. Given the number of raises I've had in the last 9 years, I'm going to suggest I'm a pretty decent engineer. There were a couple of times when I was explaining what some semiconductors were doing and how the electrons travelled through the system and I just got shocked faces.
"Wait, you actually know what's going on?"
Everyone thought I was a slacker that should have flunked out. I just never cared about grades.
One of the mandatory math classes at my alma mater had (still has?) a 70% failure rate. I got a D the first time I took it, which put me in the elite top 1/3 of math there. My (now ex) wife didn't see it that way, it was more of a "YOU SHOULD GET As ALL THE TIME!!" Seriously, of the four co-op students I was on term with, I was the only one that passed that class.
There was an expression going around when I was in school: "shoot for the stars and you might get the moon." I added "aim for the moon and try to clear the ditch."
I just didn't care about my grades. Since graduation, nobody's cared about them either. If I wasn't at the bottom of my class, graduating GPS wise, I was in the bottom 10% for sure. Of course, I had more time for hobbies and family.
In college, your grades are primarily a reflection on how smart you are.
Not even close. Your college grades are determined by:
1. Understanding the material.
2. Part marks.
3. Knowing the professors.
4. Planning.
5. Reading old exams.
I still remember in one signals class, the guy next to me asked how I did for one of the homework questions, and I told him I didn't do it because it looked awful. He told me it took him several hours to solve.
"[First name], it's worth 1/2 of 1%."
"... you son of a bitch."
But hey, what do I know, I've just got an engineering degree on my wall here next to my PE certificate.
A lot of people don't read that.
My co-worker has a taxi company's app. They want full permission for everything. I didn't load it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appbuilder.u66459p124918
Same with the Cineplex app. Way too many permissions for something that's just showing a ticket:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fivemobile.cineplex&hl=en
Old programmers never die, they just hit account block limit.
