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No, I was not thinking about "Magic Chef". Master Chef microwave.

How's that?

It takes exactly 6 minutes to grill the chicken to 170 degrees, and about 10 minutes to make the pasta.

Let's break it down then for you..

0:00 Turn on the grill ( https://www.amazon.ca/Breville... ) and pre-heat to 420 degrees. While grill is heating, open chicken and season.

0:04 Grill is ready, put chicken on grill. Cook to 170 degrees. While cooking pull out a pot, fill with water, pull out the pasta and portion it out.

0:10 Chicken is done, pull it off and put pot on the stove and bring it to boil.

0:16 Water is boiling, add pasta. Slice up the chicken breasts.

0:26 Pasta cooked, pull off stove and drain. Dump in bowl and add roast garlic olive oil.

0:28 Portion meals into containers.

0:32 Done.

Ok, so it takes 32 minutes.. big deal.

I could cut that time down more if I didn't put the grill on the stove top to use the hood vent to vent the grill. That water would almost be at a boil by the time the chicken was done.

Point being, it's still a hell of a lot quicker than spending 75 minutes a week driving to get food, only to have to scarf it down once I get back to the office.

Thanks. That explains why this eye dropper I first bought for around 3$ is now going for 35.71$

https://www.amazon.ca/Apotheca...

I still recommend looking around.

I'm really particular about mice and keyboards and I'm using a $7.99 "Minibird" gaming mouse on my systems right now: https://www.amazon.ca/ICAN-Min...

Wired, excellent resolution that can be set on the mouse and only two side buttons for forwards and back (all that I want). The original has gone for two years and I have two others in constant use as well. I don't know why you can't see the mouse on Amazon.com - I got mine at Canada Computers for $7.99 CDN each.

I tried it because I was frustrated with more expensive gaming mice that only lasted six to nine months.

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B018M...

How about a piece of toast with an image of Darth Vader on it?

A gun could make sense if you are always prepared for trouble, but by arming everyone you have also armed the bad guys. And they have the advantage.

Reality didn't play out this way though. In areas with high legal gun ownership, bad guys seem to be afraid of accosting random people.

Hey Apple, somebody already fixed that problem for you for only $8.99: https://www.amazon.ca/Mosiso-K... You can wash it up in your kitchen sink too :)

"This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" - This is a great book..
https://www.amazon.ca/This-Tim...

Every speculative bubble is 'different' then the last time.. Tulips, dot-com, subprime loans, Bitcoin. Every one is "different" right?

The problem is that, somewhat alarmingly, the word "consciousness" is often used in the literature as if it entailed or implied more than just the qualities of experience. Dijksterhuis and Nordgren, for instance, insisted that "it is very important to realize that attention is the key to distinguish between unconscious thought and conscious thought.

So they're redefining thought so broadly that most animals are conscious too by their definition and the pretending they have some revolutionary insight when all they have done is confused themselves about what they are talking about.

Babies are not conscious. I could see my child make the transition from not recognizing herself to recognizing herself in a mirror; that's a pretty strong test thought not definitive in itself.

Humans do not innately learn consciousness at all, and it was a very recent discovery and it is something that is taught, not picked up automatically:
https://www.amazon.ca/Origin-C...

Helen Keller's own accounts of her youth strongly support that idea.

Here is the free and clear Amazon link for "Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate" .

Don't feed the whale, folks. Don't let creimer make a few pennies off the death of your local economy!

Were these just available in Canada? I was buying these years ago but the company disappeared. I loved them because they were 1.5v rather than 1.2 volts.

https://www.amazon.ca/Pure-Ene...

Man, you eat that? Can I mail you some of these?

this ones does a snazzy job for me https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0072... and my phone in my pocket handles the calls.

In anticipation of the release of part 2, I'm re-reading Harbinger by Ian McKinley

Amazon link

Ya, it's a self published fantasy book. But it's not your run of the mill high fantasy. The author calls it "fantastic realism" where it is a fantasy world, but there isn't some stupid powerful magic to save the day.

Home Depot saw your order for a meat tenderizer and did their best to help...

...Myself, I wish that I could also get LED bulbs that changed colour temperature gradually depending on the time of day, and that they wouldn't be expensive and hackable (Like Phillips ... ). I live in the North where some winter days are darker than summer nights, and thus artificial light is important all day.

I wanted to try Phillips wake-up light but thought they were too expensive for something that might not work
I had an old digital picture frame that wasn't being used by a family member.
I quickly created and saved about 50 pictures that gradually moved from black to orange to yellow.
photoshop -> adjust brightness -> save
I set the digital picture frame to auto turn on at 6am. It worked!
embarrassing hack? maybe.

You make a valid point, but have you considered an HDCP converter box?

Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP Converter, 2.2 to 1.4

Even for those there exists these cassette adapters to serve as AUX-IN

There are even Bluetooth ones: https://www.amazon.ca/Audio-Ca...

Great, so we can look forward to more great Amazon sellers like this guy. Don't worry though, Amazon will refund the money of the dozens of people affected (after an investigation and after your funds have been held up for possibly months depending on when you figure out the seller is fraudulent).

The best part is where they still need to "investigate" each case even though dozens of people have the same issue, and there's even a fricking Reddit thread about the scammy seller.

He even wrote a small book as a followup. You Have The Right To Remain Innocent.

https://www.amazon.ca/HomeSpot...

You quote the lowest end drives of equal capacity, how about we do an FAIR comparison since people usually want decent storage for games, mp3's and movie/youtube rips. Note that the recent Doom 2016 was over 50GB or 1/10 the size of a 500GB drive. So ten 50GB games would easily take up a small 500GB drive.

8TB Hard drive $300 CDN

2TB SSD - $800 CDN

That's 2.5 times the cost of an 8GB for 4x less space. So lets make it equal.

$800x4 (2TB drives) = $3200 vs 300 for equivalent sized SSD, that's still 10x the cost, given 8TB drives have come down to reasonable prices while a 2TB HDD is $100 and a 2TB SSD is $800, 8x as much as a 2TB HD.

Samsung 2TB

Amazon 2TB SSD

Seagate 8TB

Amazon 8TB HDD

You quote the lowest end drives of equal capacity, how about we do an FAIR comparison since people usually want decent storage for games, mp3's and movie/youtube rips. Note that the recent Doom 2016 was over 50GB or 1/10 the size of a 500GB drive. So ten 50GB games would easily take up a small 500GB drive.

8TB Hard drive $300 CDN

2TB SSD - $800 CDN

That's 2.5 times the cost of an 8GB for 4x less space. So lets make it equal.

$800x4 (2TB drives) = $3200 vs 300 for equivalent sized SSD, that's still 10x the cost, given 8TB drives have come down to reasonable prices while a 2TB HDD is $100 and a 2TB SSD is $800, 8x as much as a 2TB HD.

Samsung 2TB

Amazon 2TB SSD

Seagate 8TB

Amazon 8TB HDD

The real risk inherent in genetically modified organisms involves the fact that genetic manipulation is becoming increasingly arbitrary, with new techniques that essentially allow building up of genomes or sections of them from human-designed or computer-designed combinations of the basic letters AGTC.

Thus it will become possible to create organisms that are almost arbitrarily different than existing organisms.

It is far from inconceivable that one of these substantially-artificial organisms could take over a large ecosystem niche from existing organisms, AND have a second, unanticipated and quite possibly negative effect.

I can't be more specific about the threat than that, and importantly, neither can the proponents of unleashing arbitrary GMOs into ecosystems.
The risk probability may be very low, but the severity could be compensatingly extremely high, due to the self-replicating nature of the threat, and also the fact that until it happens, its negative effect would be an unknown unknown and would be almost impossible to mitigate rapidly enough.

The following, while it is a science fiction novel, illustrates plausible scenarios, given the near impossibility of controlling the spread of new arbitrary artificial pathogens:

https://www.amazon.ca/Windup-G...

I read this book, what, 17 years ago? https://www.amazon.ca/Corporat...

On average, American's commit three felonies a day. You're probably one of them, even if you don't smoke pot or live with someone who does.

https://www.amazon.ca/Three-Fe...

The South is wacko. This book should be required reading.

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Great...

From the blurb: "Our markets are hindered by overcomplex regulations that debilitate the political and economic processes they were created to support; the rule of law has become the rule of lawyers."

Learn about unintended consequences of regulations.

The fundamental premise that underlies the whole IPCC "science" is false. An atmospheric greenhouse does not exist, at least not in the way described by the greenhouse gas fear brigade. Yes, the science is clear and anyone taking the time to read it will see that the whole carbon reduction frenzy is nothing more than a circus for and of the bamboozled.

Dr Christopher Essex says: "I have been at this for more than 30 years. I got to madness as a conclusion long ago. But now I have accepted that humans are inherently limited...". He wrote about it 10 years ago in his book Taken by Storm. Now Joseph E. Postma has come to the same conclusion.

Why don't people open their eyes, read the material, and stop this ridiculous scam?

Contractors live in two states - either working, in which case they're not bringing in new customers, or not working, in which case they're out looking for new customers. Better that they read some of Weinberg's books..

Pekka Himanen wrote an interesting book about the protestant work ethic, which is what you're describing, and how it's being supplanted. Clearly not everyone has gotten the memo yet.

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Hacke...

Maybe. But since I have to pay $100 just to read the manual for this "free" software, I really don't feel that I can evaluate it properly.

What the ever loving fuck are you talking about? Unless you're saying you need to become a gold member subscriber to get access to the manual (meaning the Pfsense: The Definitive Guide book, which, along with a pile of other stuff, comes with that gold membership.) In that case, you're a complete idiot, and probably aren't capable of setting up said firewall in the first place.

Getting started guide: https://www.pfsense.org/getting-started/
Hardware selection guide: https://www.pfsense.org/hardware/
Install guide: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Installing_pfSense
Tutorials: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tutorials
Full Documentation Wiki: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Main_Page
Forum: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php

All of these are free. The forums are some of the best of any open source product as far as activity and usefulness.

Incidentally, the book is also available in paperback form from Amazon.ca for $48 CAD (about $40 US), so even if you did insist on having that book as your pfSense "manual," you still don't have to pay $100 for it. The Kindle version is even cheaper, at $36 CAD. http://www.amazon.ca/Pfsense-Definitive-Christopher-M-Buechler/dp/0979034280

There do appear to be versions of those that cheap. On the other hand:

http://www.amazon.ca/Streaming...

http://www.amazon.ca/Amazon-Fi...

So I suspect there's some variation in capability.

There do appear to be versions of those that cheap. On the other hand:

http://www.amazon.ca/Streaming...

http://www.amazon.ca/Amazon-Fi...

So I suspect there's some variation in capability.

"What country is forced to borrow all of its currency from a central bank? Central banks aren't the source of money. If the US decides to print more money, they do that. They don't borrow it."

Nearly every country on the planet borrows it's currency - at interest - from central banks. In the United States, it is called the "Federal Reserve". It is a private central bank that has a monopoly over American currency creation. The U.S. government does not print more money if it needs it. That has not been allowed since the central banks took over America in 1913 via the Federal Reserve Act.

Here in Canada, the situation is bad but not quite as dire as that of the USA. Unlike the FED, the Bank of Canada does not have a monopoly on currency creation. It is estimated that about 5% of all Canadian currency is printed debt free.

The Bank of Canada (BOC) is not a government entity unto itself; it is a 'special' type of corporation set up to liason between the central banks and the Canadian government. The only member of the Federal government on the board of directors of the BOC is the deputy minister of finance, and he does not have the right to vote. The implications of this are obvious.

If you do not believe that countries borrow money at interest from central banks instead of printing their currency debt free, then you do not understand the central banking business.

Here is some research material to get you started:

The Creature from Jekyll Island

Money as Debt

When they tell someone with a walking stick they can't have it anymore either.

Guessing Disney forgot that you can buy walking sticks with camera mounts (no endorsement intended on the link - just the first returned result for "walking stick with camera mount")

What is happening in Greece now will inevitably happen to every country who allow the central banks to provide their currency.

The basic concept of central banking is that a country borrows it's currency from the central banks - and is required to pay back the principal + interest. However, it is mathematically impossible to pay back the principal + interest from a pool of money containing only the principal. As a result, the banks will eventually own all real property and assets (collateral) of every country that they "do business" in.

This is where income tax comes in. Contrary to popular belief, income tax dollars do not go toward roads, schools and hospitals. Income tax (YOUR hard earned money) goes to pay the interest on the money the government borrowed from the banksters (instead of the government printing their currency debt-free) in an effort to keep the banksters from taking real-world commodities. For example, Canada lost its national railroad - Canadian National Railway - to the banksters in the 1970's. CNR is now a private corporation, and of all people, Bill Gates is a large shareholder.

The CRA/IRS are little more than glorified collection agencies for the banksters, supported by the federal government.

The practice of "fractional reserve banking" - that is, creating money (out of thin air) and lending it out at interest - is one of the biggest ponzi schemes ever developed; and is practiced by every commercial bank in the modern world.

Nearly every country on the planet has been swept into this scam. The few exceptions, interestingly enough, are (alleged terrorist/axis of evil) countries such as Iran and North Korea.

The only country that I am aware of that has rejected the central banksters and taken control of their own banking system is Iceland. Instead of getting a 'bailout' or 'stimulus package' (borrowing more money to pay the interest and delay the inevitable collapse), Iceland threw the crooked banksters in jail and disconnected from the central banking system. The rest of world really needs to follow suit.

For further information on the central banking ponzi scheme, I strongly encourage everyone to watch Money as Debt and read The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin.

we may have some ideas about how the brain works — at an electro-chemical level — it has been well studying and documented. a good text would be by neurologist — john eccles:

http://www.amazon.ca/Evolution...
http://home.earthlink.net/~joh...

as for treating a simulation of the brain as having the same qualities as a real functioning brain is to fear getting wet from a simulation of a rainstorm. there are scientists which would disagree that human consciousness is actually simulable in this way:

one of the worst mistakes in cognitive science.. is to suppose that in
the sense in which computers are used to process information, brains
also process information. (john searle, cognitive scientist, 1990)*

* Is the Brain a Digital Computer?
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/...

Wasn't there a sci-fi paperback 25 years ago sold with the intent that the profits were supposed to go towards putting saran wrap in space?

http://www.amazon.ca/Project-S...

The gender wage gap is a myth. When you control for all the extraneous variables, men and women are paid the same. The reality is that men are paid more because they are willing to take uglier, riskier jobs, move longer distances for them, work longer hours, have more experience and qualifications in occupations with stronger demand, are willing to demand higher salaries, and are less likely to leave their career tracks for family obligations. Sorry to burst your politically correct bubble.

http://www.amazon.ca/Why-Earn-More-Warren-Farrell/dp/0814472109/

The wage-gap argument doesn't even make sense. Just imagine if a company could get the same productivity out of women and pay them 30% less. It would have an enormous competitive advantage over every other company in its industry and all the companies would quickly be forced to either hire all women themselves or go out of business, not because of any misguided government interference, but purely because of overwhelming free-market forces. The same argument applies for women in the boardroom. If they gave a company a distinct competitive advantage, every company would already be forced by the market to have lots of them.

The rules in "Code Complete" make for good code. Just read it and do everything it says.

I imagine because it costs more for Amazon to ship across borders, thus not stealing so much of the market share.

I don't see how that would be an issue, given that Amazon Canada has its own presence.

Not my photos but here's an artbook of published iPhone photos. Perhaps you can share how many photos you've published? http://www.amazon.ca/The-Best-...

More evidence for my hypothesis that MBA managers are driving the American economy into the ground. Contrast him with Steve Jobs who was not an MBA. He brought the company back from the edge, after being destroyed by another MBA, Jim Sculley.

If you want a strong perspective against MBA's, I recommend reading John Ralston Saul's "The Unconscious Civilization" . Here is part of a summary of his arguments against MBA's:

They fear all the most effective qualities of capitalism itself (risk, innovation). “No matter how badly the MBAs are doing, they just go on hiring clones of themselves.” They preach capitalist ideology, but only simulate it through unproductive preoccupations like mergers and acquisitions. Their incomes skyrocket, the economy founders, the middle class erodes.

They profit by flipping between nationalization and privatization; “an unnecessary move in either direction merely makes money for the political friends of the party in power”. Privatization of government functions is foolish, as business is better suited to fuelling real growth.

Contrast this with real innovators like Elon Musk, who has created disruptive companies in four separate sectors (banking, transportation, space launching, and energy production). Please note that he is NOT an MBA and openly says that he disagrees with their methods.

An MBA is not the problem. An MBA is just a document that says you know how to run a business. Like SSL (and any other college degree) though, the cert is only as good as the issuer. CS has the same problem: idiots with masters+ only because they're able to shut up and do the busy work at some chump college (or respected college with an overinflated reputation) to get their paperwork.

The true problems come when the people in charge don't balance everything properly. If Lutz got what he wanted and GM was run by the engineers... You'd get entire product lines of Pontiac Aztec clones. Great camping vehicle, but it looks like somebody replaced your glasses with a steaming load of diarrhea.

More evidence for my hypothesis that MBA managers are driving the American economy into the ground. Contrast him with Steve Jobs who was not an MBA. He brought the company back from the edge, after being destroyed by another MBA, Jim Sculley.

If you want a strong perspective against MBA's, I recommend reading John Ralston Saul's "The Unconscious Civilization" . Here is part of a summary of his arguments against MBA's:

They fear all the most effective qualities of capitalism itself (risk, innovation). “No matter how badly the MBAs are doing, they just go on hiring clones of themselves.” They preach capitalist ideology, but only simulate it through unproductive preoccupations like mergers and acquisitions. Their incomes skyrocket, the economy founders, the middle class erodes.

They profit by flipping between nationalization and privatization; “an unnecessary move in either direction merely makes money for the political friends of the party in power”. Privatization of government functions is foolish, as business is better suited to fuelling real growth.

Contrast this with real innovators like Elon Musk, who has created disruptive companies in four separate sectors (banking, transportation, space launching, and energy production). Please note that he is NOT an MBA and openly says that he disagrees with their methods.

Disney didn't write the story in the Lion King, right? It's an age old story. They don't write _any_ of their own stories...even Lilo and Stitch was just something they bought...

The Lion King is a Broadway musical comedy in animated form, rich in music, drama and spectacle.

The live stage adaptation would call on to become a legend in its on right. The geek doesn't have the least understanding of all the elements that must come together to make a theatrical project a success.

There have been countless productions in all media that draw on the same sources as Disney. It surprises me when the geek has heard of any one of them. It surprises me more when he knows the primary sources and can see their limitations.

The Brothers Grimm, for example, collected folk tales that had already been hammered into publishable form by a generation of scholars and enthusiasts, and some would be later retrofitted to serve a nationalistic Germanic folk-myth. Philip Pullman translated fifty of his favorites into modern English, averaging a little less than ten pages each. That's fine for the fireside, but it doesn't work for the theater. Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

The idea was that copyright and patents encouraged people to share information so that it wouldn't be lost.

The idea was to encourage the production of something new --- something that would in the end eclipse the old, a real advance and not a trivial derivative. The geek in 2015 is still willing to put enormous effort into an literal, slavish, fan remake of the fifty-year old Star Trek: TOS.

If you are in the market for something new and less pretentious in space opera, you have to look to Marvel and Disney ---- who could and did take an obscure funny animal character and make him into something far more interesting and entertaining than a Wookie, an Ewok or a Jar-Jar Binks

Read the Singularity series by William Hertling

Book 1: Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears

Heh, nobody can stand against the mighty #GOP... except #TJR The Justice Riders! (Where "a pro-Union posse of diverse multinationals" is particulary apt.)

Perhaps Kinshasa is the place where the disease got a foothold in the human population, but unless people were having sex with chimps, I would be more inclined to consider a far more compelling origin story.

The modern polio vaccine was grown on simian livers indiscriminate of any other pathogenic bodies which were present. Some of the doctors at the time were abject in their concerns over the limitations and dangers present in those early methods.

Read Dr. Mary's Monkey for the details. -It's a story which includes some notorious figures from the last century, including both the CIA and none other than Lee Harvey Oswald, to name a few. But don't let the "the hell?" factor dissuade you. Truth is nearly always stranger than fiction.

For those unwilling to read a book, (which is going to be nearly everybody given our the nature of our internet-speed attention spans today), here is an interview with the author which covers the bases fairly well:

Interview with Edward T. Haslam