The Bloc Quebecois is a federal quebecois nationalist party.
The Party Quebecois is a separatist quebecois nationalist party at the provincial level.
There's some overlap between both, but there's also a strong group of non-separatist nationalists in the Bloc who once in the province are party-agnostic (esp. as the only alternatives to the PQ right now are Tory-lite and Duplessis-wannabe) - admittedly the pushes of the conservatives in Quebec indicates that they're weakening slightly, but the reason there hadn't been a single tory elected in Quebec since 1995 was basically that.
The last time around, I was 11 and the question was pretty damn clear to me - "are you giving to power to government to negotiate an arrangement that can go from confederation to complete independence". Was it vast and overreaching, yes and that was an issue, but unclear was ridiculous grasping at straws.

That is because the police got very tired of the hassle and expense the massive inquiries that inevitably followed when some moron pointed a replica gun at someone, and a police marksman shoots them.

Personally if you point a replica gun at someone, especially a policeman don't whine when you get shot.

A yardstick that works only and specifically for the case you're trying to prove hardly seems fair.

Yes, I still have it. The setup and backend are not exactly user-friendly, and it makes some assumptions about how the data gets entered, though. Of course, they were safe assumptions for the way the courses worked where I went.

http://www.epa.gov/oecaagct/ag101/cropmajor.html

>> It is somewhat lacking in the pure entertainment aspect -- the writing isn't as tight, and the production values are clearly less polished. But it makes up for that, at least for me, in the... texture?

> The phrase you're looking for is "snobishness." There are a few less-harsh synonyms you could use, but it's the same general feeling of "my choice is better than yours" that folk who watch community theater over a TV broadcast of the same play have.

That would be if I said it was better and ended at that. I said it makes up for that, at least for me.

And that is true. For example, check out Thomas J McDonald on Major League Woodworking. What makes me like him is that he is flawed. I can see myself being him someday. The characters on Bones? They're cartoons. T-Chisel is just a regular Boston Irish Joe making some of the most amazing furniture I have ever seen. I like it because I can relate to it (not the amazing furniture part -- at least not yet -- just the occasionally stammering, sometimes upset, plain old human with flaws part)

No, I can see the characters and the stereotypes they're supposed to be. You've got the GM, the crazy chick, the uber asian gamer, the fat mom ignoring her kids and family... I get the characters. They're just bad, and badly acted. It looks like the series is for people who don't play MMOs so they can feel justified when they make fun of people who do play them.

There really isn't a whole lot to the series where I felt like I was missing something by not having seen season 1.

Why can't we hold Apple to the same standard as M$? Everyone expects full legacy support for their 15 year-old 8-bit code to work in Vista or Win7 64-bit and yell and scream if they can't do it with having to do a rewrite. Frankly, I'd prefer it is M$ did drop the support for the legacy garbage that my company keeps around and force them to develop some decent functioning apps. Just had to point out the double standard though.

It makes perfect sense if the explict purpose of doing the job the first time is to confirm the system works so that when you do it for real is does'nt end up like the current situation.

The first time through you don't even have to know how many classrooms you have, just a long list of student names and the subjects they have chosen (which again doesn't have to be real, just an approximation).

This way you know that the software can perform the function it's designed too. You know that the german student with the umlat in his name doesn't crash the system and that you can actually fit all the students into all the classes they want without having to hire more teachers that specialise in a certain subject.

Nah. Like I said, I did it from the students' point of view. So the rooms were already set up, and class sizes were 25 90% of the time. But if you needed to take 5 courses that semester, and there were, say, 15 sections for 2 of them and 5 sections for the other 3, it would tell you all the possible ways you could get that to work.

I watched what I think was the first episode of season 2.

That was awful. Thankfully it was only 5 minutes.

I see why it's online and not on TV.

One of my projects for a comp sci class in college was a scheduling system, of sorts. It was done from the student's point of view, though. I'd set it up by importing data from a CSV done in Excel, and it would know which lab sections belonged with which lecture sections of a course. It allowed you to specify preferred class times and teachers from what was available. You would enter in what required courses you needed to take, and additionally enter in several optional courses, only one of which you could take, and it would give you a list of all possible schedules, sorted from most desirable to least.

The schedule creation was done in a PHP script which is about 6KB in size, and the whole thing is about 140KB, csv not included.

Given the number of stars in the universe, it's very unlikely to observe the small percentage that is experiencing "very unlikely" conditions.

Especially moderation.

Also, he never heard of multiplayer games and required teamwork, apparently...