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You obviously haven't been in Alberta long.
I've been here my whole life, and the -34c in winter is normal.

Same here, and -34 is a lot less normal than it used to be.

the +5c in winter is also normal.

And a bit more normal, and a bit longer than usual.

The temperatures this winter are well within the normal range for Alberta (and sure, there may have been a record broken here or there for a specific day, but if the same temperature had happened a few days earlier or later it probably wouldn't have broken the record.)

It's not the temperatures, but the average is definitely warmer. When I was younger long stretches from -15 to -25 were considered pretty typical, now people start treating it like a bit cold snap. And it's not just my imagination, Edmonton is averaging 3C warmer in the winter.

Not according to the minister of justice who is responsible for this case:

âoeAt each stage of the extradition process in Canada, there is careful balancing of the interests of the person sought for extradition against Canadaâ(TM)s international obligations. The person sought is able to challenge their extradition at multiple levels, both before the superior and appellate courts in Canada, and by making submissions to me on the issue of surrender. â

https://www.canada.ca/en/depar...

A state has more control of its operations and many of the federal laws are actually just bribes to the state. We will give you an extra billion dollars if you do these actions. A State can choose not to implement the idea and not take the money.

How do you think it works in Canada? Constitutionally, healthcare is mostly a Provincial function with the Feds responsible for a few groups, federal prisoners, veterans, natives on reserve, Inuit, maritime, some refugees as well having quarantine powers. The power the Feds do have is taxation, so, from https://www.canada.ca/en/healt...

The Canada Health Act establishes criteria and conditions for health insurance plans that must be met by provinces and territories in order for them to receive full federal cash transfers in support of health.

Canada requires you to put down 20% if the house is $1m or more.

Where is the science that any of that is actually bad for either cows or humans? The FDA has some of the strictest regulations in the world, yet you say they're letting farmers poison the population with milk?

Fortunately, Health Canada puts their research online:

• Report of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Expert Panel on rbST
• Report of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Expert Panel on Human safety of RBST

Executive summary: it's much worse for cows than for people, but there are still some concerns about immune responses in some people. So it's mostly about the health of the cows (and the milk produced by potentially unhealthy cows) rather than a direct effect of rbST in milk on humans.

Yaz

Where is the science that any of that is actually bad for either cows or humans? The FDA has some of the strictest regulations in the world, yet you say they're letting farmers poison the population with milk?

Fortunately, Health Canada puts their research online:

• Report of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association Expert Panel on rbST
• Report of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Expert Panel on Human safety of RBST

Executive summary: it's much worse for cows than for people, but there are still some concerns about immune responses in some people. So it's mostly about the health of the cows (and the milk produced by potentially unhealthy cows) rather than a direct effect of rbST in milk on humans.

Yaz

Here in Ontario emissions from power generation have been going up despite the government going mad with wind and solar. Yes, the remaining coal plants have been shut down -- and the nukes (60% of power) and hydroelectric have been dialed back to provide space on the grid to accommodate the mandated 'first to the grid' rule for this stuff. But to fill in the fluctuations and sags in wind they have also been aggressively adding gas turbines -- so overall emissions are rising.

Never trust an AC without links. From this site it appears that Ontario's carbon emissions fell from 2005 to 2016. And all of Canada is down from 2006 despite economic and population growth.

Here in Ontario emissions from power generation have been going up despite the government going mad with wind and solar. Yes, the remaining coal plants have been shut down -- and the nukes (60% of power) and hydroelectric have been dialed back to provide space on the grid to accommodate the mandated 'first to the grid' rule for this stuff. But to fill in the fluctuations and sags in wind they have also been aggressively adding gas turbines -- so overall emissions are rising.

Never trust an AC without links. From this site it appears that Ontario's carbon emissions fell from 2005 to 2016. And all of Canada is down from 2006 despite economic and population growth.

Well, that's the problem actually. The Third Safe Country agreement between the US was supposed to deal with this problem, but it has a big loophole: it only applies to people arriving at official border crossings.

This is why there is such a hullabaloo about families deliberately stepping just across the border at Roxham Road, in full view of RCMP officers, and yards away from the official crossing at Lacolle. They are instantly arrested, but they then can claim asylum as the Third Safe Country agreement doesn't apply.

Also, it's a bit more than four: it averaged about 55 a day last year, totaling 20,593 just crossing between official border stations. This year, numbers are about the same -- 1970 in March, for example ( https://www.canada.ca/en/immig... ).

Canada has been granting asylum to about 50% of them at the moment.

I want to live with people, like those in Canada or the Nordic states that share my opinion.

Please, describe the immigration process for moving to Canada or "the Nordic states" permanently... It doesn't appear you can just "decide" to immigrate to any country you choose.

FTA:

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today strengthened its commitment to net neutrality by declaring that Internet service providers should treat data traffic equally to foster consumer choice, innovation and the free exchange of ideas. As such, the CRTC today is publishing a new framework regarding differential pricing practices.

The CBC basically got it wrong by generalizing the word services when in fact the government is talking about data types (data stream, web, email, voip...etc).

The government is basically saying they will not allow ISPs to throttle data types that are considered to be bandwidth consuming. The broad strokes here are that Netflix won't be going at a snail's pace and your gaming bandwidth won't dry up in Canada or the ISP will face regulatory charges and also be required to compensate users for breaking the law.

tl;dr: this is a set of "non-interference" regulations that bind ISPs from screwing over their customers.

The H-1B visa was a mistake. Even in Canada, employers have to go through a lengthy Labour Market Impact Assessment process before they can hire a temporary foreign worker, and some companies have had their privileges to do so revoked because they misrepresented their case and made it look like Canadians weren't available to do the job. We also have tighter salary laws. Extreme sub-market wages hurt everyone in the end—including the company, which ends up with damaged morale, weakened culture, and subpar work caused by inadequate training.

https://www.canada.ca/en/servi...

Saving $500K/year AND getting people better access to information is a good thing.

Except that number is manufactured. Did you know that many governmental institutions rent space from themselves? For example, the library is in a government owned building, but the DFO has to pay premium rent for each square foot of space to one of these other Canadian government departments. Then there are the heating and power costs. Although the space has to be heated anyways regardless of its use, they factor that into the costs of operating that library. Do you think they employ an army of librarians? Or maids to dust the books? Or exterminators to hunt bookworms? No, the library is a storage space and if we have anything in Canada it's tons of space. The $500k figure might just be for rent, power, and heating most of which they will continue to pay to themselves even after the library is gone. You really have to have worked as a bureaucrat in Canada to understand this madness.

Secondly, if you have ever tried to get access to information, scientific or otherwise, from any Canadian federal, provincial, or territorial government website, you know that it is a crapshoot. Sometimes you hit a good site (or at least one that isn't terrible), and then for some reason they feel the need to change it next month and make it terrible so that it fits the nonsensical shitty guidelines constantly under development by CIOs and lawyers (of all people) who are completely disconnected from the reality of how their clients use their sites. Better access to information? They should have shipped it all to Google. I wouldn't be surprised if that's where those dumpsters went after all, because our bureaucrats are wicked sneaky sometimes.

If I leave a stack of copied CDs (ones I own myself) that I made for backup purposes (since my CDs quite easilly scratch) accidentily on a table in a foodcourt and someone takes them with them, would I be sueable for infringement of copyright?

"Everything EXCEPT Christianity is allowed to be taught in schools now."

Not where I live. Christianity was very much forced down our throats, and many of the teachers agreed with me that this wasn't fair. I was punished on many occasions for leaving the room during The Lord's Prayer, without a note from my parents that said we were Jehovah's Witness or whatever else. I do not believe that religion can be taught by force. That's where I'm coming from. I would like to see religion taught from the perspective of getting people to think about morality. This does include people discussing the hypocrisy of Christians when it comes up. Please don't take offense to that.

I fully support any Christian who wants to practice their faith though. I'm sorry if I'm not entirely familiar with the theistic battles in the U.S.. What I see of them, looks an awful lot like coercion though. Keep in mind that very little of anything other than "the media" comes out of the U.S.. That is what the world sees, not necessarily the reality. The same is true of the Arab world, I'm fairly certain of that.

Like you said, the application was not clustered, did you not make it clear to your client that they are not protected in that situation and they should accept the risk or else cough up some money.

Yes I did. There was a complete plan, the money was there as well, but because managment wanted to look good (read: Not spend money and come in "under budget") they never signed off.

In case your application ever gets clustered, you could perhaps lower the cost of the contract by taking something less critical like 'same day' repear instead of '2 hours' or something.

It is clustered now and the contract was (when I left) still the same. Why? Because Murphy, they want / need to get the cluster back in a sane state as quickly as possible, the DB is at the core of the business (call center, Web Interface, IVR) if they don't have it, they can't do business.

secondly, I have been dealing with sun support and it is nothing special compared to IBM or HP. I don't think it is 100% worth the money. although you almost have no other choice then to pay, going without support is impossible for serious businesses.

I've dealt with HP and SUN, not with IBM though.

What I can say about HP is that the company in itself is a little bit suspect. The last shop I worked for bought a VA7400 besides the XP512. The VA never really worked. Before I left it decided to croak pretty serisouly, the recommendation from HP?

"Well, the VA ain't supported anymore as it is EOL (now that we bought Compaq and they are better with medium sized Storage than we are). We can cut you a deal on it though!".

Yeah, great service, really.

Don't get me started on the XP512, it's basically a Hitchachi array with HP Logo and Firmware. It is beyond me why anybody would buy this (politics of course) as the only place you can get support from is HP. If you buy the Sun Array though (also Hitachi) it is Hitachi through and through and at least you can get support from several different vendors.

So no, my experience with HP support isn't all that glorious.


perhaps these things just don't happen in europe? i never saw a sun engineer that had to fly over some part from i don't know where. these guys get stuck in trafic jams and sometimes screw up the outage window.

Last time I checked Toronto was in Canada, not in Europe. You know, the thing on top of the USA?