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Well, according to this: http://o.canada.com/business/i..., the a gram of cocaine is $480 in New Zealand, whereas a gram of marijuana is $10 - $15 in Canada. I hope this explains things for you.

After parthogenesis is perfected, a few women will go for it. And the rest will go for men as usual, for a variety of reasons: * More fun! * Simpler/cheaper procedure, no need for pills/equipment. A handful one-night stands is all a woman really need from men anyway. * Men are useful for painting walls, fixing car tires, removing snow, carrying stuff from shops, . . . * Alimony

That depends on how many men are going to put up with that shit. Seema a fiar number are dropping out of that mess.

I think it's like this - what is in it for men? That one night stand might get you accused of rape, or certainly you might get nailed for child support intil the offspring graduates college if you being used as an insemination utility is successful. And a man who donates sperm had better understand that he can now be liable for child support. http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/23/...

For those who don't want to read the link, a man who donated sperm to a lesbian couple was successfully sued for child support when the couple fell on financial hard times.

Lest we think this is a isolated case: http://www.canada.com/news/nat...

A retroactive child support suit after 20 years.

And this guy won, but tell me, you gonna donate? http://www.cbsnews.com/news/pa...

So if you are willing to sign your life and fortune and good name away for a piece of ass, have at it. Just go in with both eyes open. Because if she wants your money, she's gonna get it, sepecially if you do it th eold fashioned way.

IOW, you'll get screwed multiple times and ways.

The BMO ATM was not hacked two weeks ago, it was hacked two YEARS ago. http://o.canada.com/news/bmo-a...

Why not a nice tattoo like this one : http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/20...

Because it is already somebody's else "intellectual property".
Try something innovative like bar codes. You can even start new company - International Barcode Machines.

Oh, it is already done - face recognition software.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/boston-police-used-facial-recognition-software-concertgoers-will-it-really-stop-suspicious-298540

Why not a nice tattoo like this one : http://wpmedia.o.canada.com/20...

The US is positioning US marines in Australia, fully armed and munitioned (so called firing range practice), as a measure against China .... Hmm, to me it sounds like more the number you would need to take over and occupy the Australian government parliament should they disobey.

You poor soul.

Australia counters Chinese threat
Ascendant China spurs increased military spending in Australia

There is a very large gap between your thinking and reality. Think of the Marines as a "trip wire" protecting Australia.

You know, that one that's more secure than the Android phone that runs apps on an Android based OS.

And yet, Blackberry has only been losing marketshare in the security arena, with even its own Canadian government leading the charge against Blackberry's security claims.

Not while the mega-conglomerates control the news AND the cables it runs on. And, of course, the Senators who would vote on it.

In Canada, corporations cannot run political ads during campaigns. Campaign financing is very much regulated. Unfortunately it is the Harper "Conservatives" that are doing everything possible to get more corporate money into politics following all the overspending trouble conservatives are in since their last elections,

http://www.vancouverobserver.c...

http://www2.canada.com/ottawac...

http://www.macleans.ca/politic...

as you can see, Canada election spending is very miniscule compared to American. I rarely see any election ads on television, and when I do, those tend to happen near elections.

Anyway, people may vote, like in the US. But there has been no misrepresentation of Net Neutrality in any media campaigns. CRTC is probably helpful here too. This has helped keep Canada's internet unbiased. Now, if I could just get an upgrade from this 3Mbps/300kbps ADSL line speed I've had for 10+ years ....

'Frightening' projection for Arctic melt The Arctic Ocean could be free of ice in the summer as soon as 2010 or 2015 - something that hasn't happened for more than a million years, according to a leading polar researcher.

Yes, it's true! A top expert says the Arctic could be ice free by 2010!

You think there's no risk to wearing contacts?

http://o.canada.com/news/stude...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Lasik is actually quite safe.

Plus, you'd scoop up a lot more oceanic plant and animal life trying to extract that plastic material.

Or not

http://www.canada.com/calgaryh...

Wrong. These aren't Neural networks , and they aren't "trained". They are a simulation of understood physics ....

While they aren't Neural Networks, they do simulations in hindcasting mode, using historical data and tweeking program parameters until the resulting output resembles historic results. This is necessary because while they are very good at simulating the understood physics, the amount of physics they understand is embarrassingly small compared to the total system.
Additionally when you reference link that uses a Freeman Dyson quote and labels it a myth, you have assume a significant burden of proof, especially when the reference also links to

I have studied their climate models and know what they can do. The models solve the equations of fluid dynamics and do a very good job of describing the fluid motions of the atmosphere and the oceans. They do a very poor job of describing the clouds, the dust, the chemistry and the biology of fields, farms and forests. They do not begin to describe the real world that we live in.
They are full of fudge factors that are fitted to the existing climate, so the models more or less agree with the observed data. But there is no reason to believe that the same fudge factors would give the right behaviour in a world with different chemistry, for example in a world with increased CO2 in the atmosphere.
Fighting climate 'fluff'

You'll really have to do better if you expect to be convincing.

I worked for Natural Resources Canada's library system in 2011. My friend worked at Transportation Canada.

They closed Transportation Canada's library system. It no longer exists. Who knows what happened to the information there, if it even exists any more. My friend told me they housed some of the world's foremost research on transportation science, and were called upon by international colleagues to provide them with information.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

They did a similar thing to the library at the Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Environment Canada

http://o.canada.com/news/last-...

This government has a war on science and knowledge and actively prohibits scientists from speaking to the media without government approval.

http://scienceblogs.com/confes...

The Conservative government does not care about facts. They have policies they want to implement, and they will do WHATEVER it takes to ensure those policies are enacted. Even if it means destroying our scientific heritage.

This so much. Both the PS4 and Xbox One are a trip back to the crusty 80s video tape recorder. The aesthetic design of the previous console generation was much more elegant in my opinion.

It's like talking about Americans when actually talking about people from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Canada because thay all live on continents with "America" in the name.

Surely the US Senate should be able to get it right, right? http://o.canada.com/2013/08/01/canada-homeland-map/

Oh. Right.

Yup. Under the current administration, Canada is in some ways worse than the States with respect to domestic policy – it's just that the world is emphatically not watching, because – hey – it's Canada. Who cares?

Environmental charities are officially enemies of the state, budget watchdogs have to file freedom of information requests with their own money to get the information their mandates require, environmental protection and first nations rights have been gutted at the documented request of petroleum lobbies, it is now illegal to cover your face at a protest, activism of any kind is being branded as terrorism, and tens of millions of dollars are spent on blatant openly-reviled propaganda, while poverty is a growing problem.

Canada's a mess.

But, I am fortunate enough to be a white male.

And Jennifer Pawluck, the photographer, was a light-skinned student living in Montreal, who hardly looks like the type the Canadian police would go rounding up just for kicks, even assuming the Canadian police would do that to somebody of color (which I highly doubt anyways).

It seems obvious that you will think only the best of the cops no matter how much evidence to the contrary there might be.

No, what's obvious is I don't accept your strawmen characterizations as facts. I never disputed the accounts of the two protests you linked to, for example.

Colored people in New York were being arrested for no reason and then held for a day or two while they try to come up with charges. This was the policy as handed down from the top. I'm not going to do any more research for you, you can use Google as easily as I can.

What makes it my research? You claim the point, you provide the evidence. I do the same when asked of me, and often I do it in advance.

However, I'm actually familiar with this story, and it was a quota system. And this is why I'm insistent on you providing the evidence for your claims, because this story identifies the problem as "stop-and-frisk", and says they actually let go nearly 9 out of 10 people. It's also in New York City, not Montreal, Canada. It's still an appalling story, but the details matter.

How about Waco, people won't come out of their building they just kill them all.

Again, an extreme example, and again, missing several details, such as the nature of the compound (heavily armed religious cult with an End of Times complex), the length of the standoff that occurred before the building was finally assaulted with heavy equipment (51 days), or dispute about who started the fire (there's even evidence from witnesses inside the building that it was the Branch Davidians).

Or that cop that went on the killing spree.

Are you talking about Dorner, the fired cop with a grudge who went after other cops? I don't know. See, you can list a bunch of examples from the top of your head, that doesn't make them true or easy to know what exactly you are referencing so I can verify it.

While there's police abuse that occurs far too often, that doesn't mean some random student from Montreal just happened to have been rounded up and had nothing to do with student protests or didn't have a political reason for photographing and sharing online some graffiti that depicted the assassination of a hated police commander.

As long as they guarantee the right within reasonable boundaries, what's the problem with registering...? Unless you believe that your government is already fascist, in which case it's too late to worry about it.

Hello, welcome to Canada. The following line allows the courts and government to strip away any right if they can "demonstrate" why they can should be allowed to do so, so here are a few examples.

1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

That there little line has allowed: Warrantless stops(AKA the RIDE program), to allow the searching of cell phones without a password without a warrant--despite the fact that Sec. 8 states no unreasonable search and seizure. Oh and we don't have property rights here.

I could go on, but there's really no point.

They're innovative though. The latest arguments about why studies can't be released is to protect IP.
http://www.canada.com/Scientist+calls+confidentiality+rules+Arctic+project+chilling/7960894/story.html
At least the Chinese government didn't get elected on a platform of openness.

And the F-35 replaces the F-18, F-15, F-16, A-8, A-10 and the Harriers. The 3 versions they will have is a huge SAVINGS because it replaces so many other planes.

F-18, F-15, A-10, Harriers: 2 engines
F-35, F-16: single engine.

A major issue over replacing Canada's CF-18s with F-35s was that the F-35 has a single engine. Our ancient CF-18s definitely need to be replaced, but the F-35 IMHO is not the right plane for Canada: these fighters will cover a vast northern expanse, they can't always glide to the nearest airfield if a lone engine fails.

A recent report said there were 228 incidents since 1988 where CF-18 pilots had to shut down one engine during flight, or an average of 9.5 times a year. These were "precautionary" and the report doesn't reveal if any were actual failures, or would lead to one if kept running, but it's clear a second engine was very beneficial despite additional maintenance and parts to support a 2-engine plane.

On the other hand, a single-engine fighter can be taken out by one bird. It's a CT-155 Hawk and not an F-16 like the title says, but that's still a $30million loss.

The F-35's unit cost will likely exceed $250 million when they're finally delivered. Canada still has around 100 CF-18s in service. There's no way Canada's buying enough to replace them all.

Well read this then, and other articles like it:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/10/18/pol-navigable-waters-protection-budget-bill.html

or:
http://o.canada.com/2012/10/29/after-federal-changes-to-waterways-rules-89-per-cent-of-protected-lakes-lap-on-conservative-shores/

The changes to the Navigable Waters Protection act (which is almost as old as Canada) have been changed in bill C-45, so that a huge majority of Canadian lakes and Rivers will no longer have environmental protection. Perhaps coincidently, 89% of those lakes and rivers that will STILL have protection under the new changes, are in Conservative Ridings.

"Bill C-45 would mean tens of thousands of lakes and rivers will no longer be covered by the NWPA, leaving protection for just 97 lakes, 62 rivers and the three oceans." http://www.lethbridgeherald.com/letters-to-the-editor/bill-c-45-will-do-away-with-protection-for-waterways-11313.html

Now who is spreading disinformation? Is it you for denying that anything is wrong?

Nortel was subject to an organized, sustained industrial espionage effort conducted by Chinese companies. Huawei was specifically named by Brian Shields, Systems Security Advisor for Nortel at the time of the attacks (at the time Huawei supposedly were even copying Nortel's instruction manuals). Shields petitioned Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2004, because even the CEO's computer had been compromised.

The rootkits employed on Nortel hardware were sophisticated enough to survive formatting. it wasn't until recently that Canadian Security and Intelligence Service became interested in the role Huawei had in Nortel's demise

I suggest the story of Nortel's demise has not been fully revealed. Nortel presented with a sudden, public exanguination and it has been a mystery in Canadian IT industry. This is not just another "golden parachutes" story.

Thank you for posting these links in one convenient location. I'm working my way through them and ... just ... "Wow".

I was vaguely aware of some of the allegations previously, but not the extent of them.

I've considered us to be engaged in a "cyber-war" for quite a while, but still there's more I have to do to lock down my systems.

Nortel was subject to an organized, sustained industrial espionage effort conducted by Chinese companies. Huawei was specifically named by Brian Shields, Systems Security Advisor for Nortel at the time of the attacks (at the time Huawei supposedly were even copying Nortel's instruction manuals). Shields petitioned Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 2004, because even the CEO's computer had been compromised.

the rootkits employed on Nortel hardware were sophisticated enough to survive formatting. it wasn't until recently that Canadian Security and Intelligence Service became interested in the role Huawei had in Nortel's demise

I suggest the story of Nortel's demise has not been fully revealed. Nortel presented with a sudden, public exanguination and it has been a mystery in Canadian IT industry. This is not just another "golden parachutes" story.

The taxes appear to only apply to physical media, however, and only to music. So it's legal to copy music onto a blank CD or cassette for personal use, but not to copy in other circumstances. The Copyright Board was planning to extend the tax to iPods, which would make it legal to copy for personal use onto them as well, but that was overturned.

Yes, the taxes are on physical media, but they cover the distribution and use of all those bits and bytes. It implicitly covers computers as the medium where the music is stored prior to being transferred to a disc. Since we're looking at "reasonable doubt" territory, can a prosecutor prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the music was never intended to go onto CDs?

And while it technically does apply only to mp3s, the RCMP has stated that they're not actively pursuing individual infringement - and they're not happy about being bullied (by US policy) into enforcing the laws against larger, for-profit organizations. So when the feds won't initiate actions, and the provinces can't be bothered to enforce it (RCMP does enforcement in many provinces and all federal enforcement) ... where do you think that is going to leave the law?

The taxes appear to only apply to physical media, however, and only to music. So it's legal to copy music onto a blank CD or cassette for personal use, but not to copy in other circumstances. The Copyright Board was planning to extend the tax to iPods, which would make it legal to copy for personal use onto them as well, but that was overturned.

I have to pay ~$170 for two vials of insuline every 1 1/2 weeks, which keep me ALIVE...

You know what's really fucked up? Diabetes is cured. With the insuline scam Big Pharm runs in the US, fat chance we'll ever see it here.

The greater vancouver area is where most of the gang violence takes place, not in the inner city. In any case, the homicide rate is still about half that of Seattle Vancouver's murder rate low by North American standards. Property crime on the other hand is a bit of a problem Vancouver crime among worst in North America.

> I believe other uranium mines in Canada were also in bedrock, but could be mistaken

No such luck at the big mines in Saskatchewan - all sandstone containing high pressure water. They've had three floods at the Cigar Lake mine, one of which might have caused the global spike in uranium prices in 2006, and the flood just last year has again prevented production from starting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Lake_Mine

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=bc3d9f35-ab74-4235-a751-1bdf904fad96&k=88454

Therefore, the government’s position appears contradictory. If indeed naturopaths offer “safe and effective” treatment, then why wouldn’t they be covered? However, if these services do not meet the evidentiary standard laid out by our health-care system, then why is the government giving what surely amounts to tacit approval of naturopathy?

Oh, well you know for insulin and the pancreas they killed around 10,000 in London, Ontario alone just trying to figure out what was going on.

The more you know...but if your morals are getting in the way of saving the life of type 1 diabetics. I understand, try a starvation diet, it's much the same thing.

The problem with a never ending and profitable drug treatment is that is kind of removes the incentive to develop a cure.

Skippus, the current government we have up here was elected by fraudulent means.

They're actively blocking the investigation into voter oppression with the line "They should have filed the complaint before they found out about the fraud!" The head investigator into the biggest case of voter oppression had his budget cut by seven million dollars and was forced into early retirement last week. A recent court decision found that fraudulent votes for a CPC candidate were greater than the difference, forcing a by-election.

Several senior members of the government are under investigation for election fraud, including the head of the Ethics Committee.

The party has plead guilty to breaking election law in the last three elections, and responded by appointing those that did the fraud into Senate positions. (Our senate is appointed for life!)

That sounds to me like a coup happened. A silent coup. Like Quebec's Quiet Revolution, but malevolent.

The 80% of us that did NOT vote for the current bag of asshats are waiting patiently for the investigations to conclude.

Far too patiently, if you ask me. Far too patiently...

Stewie's lucky it's not the US or he'd be leaving Parliament Hill in a custom-fitted pine suit.

I am mad enough to riot and drag people bodily from the Hill.

I like that image: custom-fitted pine suit. And, as for dragging people from the Hill -- when are "the troops" going to do what they do in tin-pot dictatorships and throw the government out (or in prison) and force new elections? That would be the ultimate (and most delicious) irony: the troops imprisoning "support out troops" Harper.

And it's insightful - we're precariously close to the 4th box to use in defense of liberty (1: soap box, 2: ballot box, 3: jury box, 4: ammo box).

Posting anon to preserve mod points (Maow).

Skippus, the current government we have up here was elected by fraudulent means.

They're actively blocking the investigation into voter oppression with the line "They should have filed the complaint before they found out about the fraud!" The head investigator into the biggest case of voter oppression had his budget cut by seven million dollars and was forced into early retirement last week. A recent court decision found that fraudulent votes for a CPC candidate were greater than the difference, forcing a by-election.

Several senior members of the government are under investigation for election fraud, including the head of the Ethics Committee.

The party has plead guilty to breaking election law in the last three elections, and responded by appointing those that did the fraud into Senate positions. (Our senate is appointed for life!)

The 80% of us that did NOT vote for the current bag of asshats are waiting patiently for the investigations to conclude. Stewie's lucky it's not the US or he'd be leaving Parliament Hill in a custom-fitted pine suit.

I am mad enough to riot and drag people bodily from the Hill.

unable to work out who the writer was but they likely worked on diabetes

I realize that insulin is a huge cash cow for Big Pharma in the US, but hopefully they are not so brazen as to actively lobby the FDA to attempt to prevent the cure (discovered 6 years ago) from reaching the millions suffering from this disease. Suspiciously, I haven't seen any major US news outlets reporting on this interesting and insanely good news for those that suffer from the disease.

Because nobody ever tampers with these kinds of things
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=eb936079-122d-4d64-9c0d-9be2730f7a6b

Medicine will improve thanks to that.

Not necessarily. These days, medicine only effectively improves if it is profitable. I offer as a case in point that diabetes has been cured (make note of the date). But, as the cure for diabetes is not going to be nearly as profitable as insulin sales, especially in the US, the chances of a cure ever being approved or even acknowledged in the US by advertising controlled media or Big Pharm controlled government agencies are slim to none. What's great about $1000 sequencing, at least to medical companies, is it can be sold for $10,000 or more... which is affordable enough that insurance can pay for it. I'd like to hear more about the practical applications... though they aren't necessary for me personally to be interested in such technology. Discovery itself is rewarding to mankind as a whole, if not to an individual for-profit company. I wish that medical companies weren't run like Microsoft or Adobe, but they truely are: "Buy our new expensive patented drug that does the same thing as the last drug we sold that is now cheap because the patent on it has just run out. The more expensive drug is better!" Its not cynicism when that is reality.

As I already said, Jews do not generally impose their religious rules on non-Jews, and the ultra-orthodox are not an exception.

Yeah, sure they don't.

Perhaps you should be. Not that I really think people should be so worried about this kind of stuff. If the terrorists wanted to cause problems, there's so many other things they could blow up than air planes. Taking a bomb on a passenger train would probably cause just as much, if not more damage than taking one on an airplane.

This is far from reality. In a bureaucracy, the way to get ahead is to tell the senior leadership what they want to hear. I can assure you that government bureaucrats in North America are well aware that there is no mileage in pushing AGW as a serious issue. In the US, we just had the spectacle of virtually all of the major candidates for the Republican presidential nomination falling over themselves in rejecting the notion that their could possibly be something to AGW. In Canada, the federal government has, for some time, been backsliding on environmental issues, particularly those concerning climate change e.g., http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=fc976a67-2f9a-424c-a98d-704785dde80c&k=91227 . And the notion that there are significant economic interests that are pushing AGW is laughable.

Dang. I forgot that search results are different for different people (or browsers). Here's the top link in my search, and if you dig further you can find dozens of articles written by Canadian doctors and government health bureucrats about the same problem:

LINK - http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-204_162-681801.html

LINK - http://www.canada.com/health/Patient+care+jeopardized+drug+shortage+crisis+doctor/6378698/story.html

And so on.

• Certainly it is, if it was identified and treated as such by investigators, for example by maintaining and documenting the chain of custody. If it was in an evidence locker and then mysteriously ends up in the dishwasher then we could talk about destruction of evidence.
• Certainly it is not, if it's just one of the hundreds of coffee cups that the murderer has touched in the course of his lifetime. At that rate, the entire universe is evidence for something or other, and we mustn't destroy any of it.

It comes down to who gets to decide whether or not a specific item is evidence. In the first pass, that task usually falls to the police. Secondarily, it falls to the courts. Dozens of Perry Mason episodes notwithstanding, you can't usually just walk into the courthouse with a coffee cup and say, "This proves that the murderer was at the scene of the crime."

But interesting and significant exceptions do arise. In the case of Robert Dziekanski, a man who died after repeated Tasering while detained by police at Vancouver International Airport, a video shot by a bystander was confiscated by police and only reluctantly returned to its owner after intense media pressure. That video was treated as evidence by the inquiry, as were police emails that eventually surfaced. On the basis of this evidence, the inquiry concluded that officers deliberately misrepresented their actions during investigations into the incident and at the inquiry.

The authenticity of the video was not challenged. Ironically, this may have had something to do with the police having had it for some time in their custody.

Vic has been part of some rather amusing drama as of late. Apparently, the "family values" man was divorced after knocking up his parliamentary assistant, as disclosed on a Twitter account with handle 'Vikileaks' who had access to the divorce proceedings. A local Ottawa newspaper then sent a twitter message with a honeypot link to Vikileaks in an attempt try to ascertain the IP address behind this account, and it led back to a Canadian parliament IP address. The Conservatives are now accusing the NDP of a smear campaign. I notice that Wikipedia has been sanitized since last night to remove any mention of Vikileaks.

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/canada/article/1101662--toews-and-twitter-tit-for-tat-turns-tawdry

http://blogs.canada.com/2012/02/15/vikileaks-attacks-vic-toews-on-twitter/

It's been tried. The Canadian Supreme Court declined to hear that case on the grounds that it did not meet the standards of a class action suit. Consequently Canada is in the perverse situation where Monsanto reaps all the financial benefit of distributing Roundup Ready Canola into the ecosystem, but bears no responsibility for the damage it does to people who don't want it.

That case was just two farmers trying to get class action status though. If this one is 300,000 farmers, then I suspect they'll have a much better chance.

Well, that only goes so far. When you have parents refusing to vaccinate their children then all the childhood diseases that were deadly will start to come back again through carriers. I can't understand why parents would refuse this. If you told someone that lived through one of those outbreaks that cost hundreds (thousands?) of lives that there was a preventative measure that was rejected, they'd think you were off your rocker.

Case in point: a few years ago a Christian group told parents to withhold the mumps vaccine. Guess what happened? Yep, there was an outbreak. Holy shit! Who would've thought that would happen?!

You can't help stupid people. You really can't. That particular example wasn't life threatening, but it could have implications later in life such as sterility (probably a good thing they can't pass those genes on.)

I guess that our definition of "easy" is different. Most OnStar boxes that I have seen reside behind truck/cargo area panels. These require a decent amount of effort to remove or even destroy to rip out. Once you have access to the box then you can just pull out the antenna or cut the modem wire.

However, this does NOT disable the GPS tracking ability.

Easy to me would be a portable and concelable jammer of cell and GPS signals.

The key to most successful auto-theft is to look like the owner getting into the car, start it and get out of the area. NOT digging around in the trunk/cargo area looking suspicious.

As far as my dubious concepts, here are two links for support.
GPS leads to chop shop. (there were many of these if you search)
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=68129266-9628-4bdf-a7f8-52265fdaa318

FBI report states that technology has lead to a decline in auto-theft
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2011/09/fbi-reports-a-decline-in-auto-theft-in-2010.html

Your personal attribution of the deepening cost vs benefit ratio somewhat applies. If you examine the cause of that "deepening" wouldn't it be all of the technological factors that previously discussed?

Thousands of people affected!!! http://www.canada.com/Commercial+satellite+malfunction+leaves+thousands+offline/5513305/story.html

I've run a voting booth for a Canadian federal election. Here's how it works.

A voter approaches and must be found on the list, and not marked as having already voted with an absentee ballot. I had a problem or two there.

I tear a perforated strip off the ballot and stuff it in a bag while giving an eligible voter the ballot. The strips are not identified but serve as a check on the number of ballots in the box.

At the end of the voting, all ballots are counted by hand. There is no electronic counting. The number of voters is validated by the names crossed off the list, by the paper strips, and by the ballots themselves. It's ridiculously easy to tell what a vote is as the ballot is all black with white names and a white circle for the voting mark. Party representatives may observe the counting.

Once the count is done, you report it to the head of the polling station. All ballots and documents are secured inside the taped-up ballot box kept.

There's only one real opportunity for fraud, and that's in the deciding for which candidate a ballot has been cast or if a ballot has been spoiled. That fraud has assuredly happened - and was completely ignored, with orders to destroy the ballots. It was a travesty, but at least the cheating side didn't win.

Couldn't the pilot "deal with" the co-pilot by waiting for him to use the bathroom and then not opening the door when he comes back?

If it can happen accidentally, he could no doubt do it on purpose. Then again, if the "take the door off its hinges" thing works, that could thwart the whole plan.

what has become of Conrad Black?

I'm happy to report that the recalcitrant crook has been sent back to prison . I confess I particularly enjoyed the reports of the fragrant Barbara fainting in the court room. That Connie submitted his letters of reference written by fellow inmates was also a delightfully humbling detail.

Vancouver housing prices weren't the cause of the riot. Neither were disaffected youth angry about the cost of living.

While the housing market is grossly overinflated, the rental market is sane. Young people simply rent instead of buying, and rent quite nice places too because the main driver of inflating housing costs are foreign investors buying up all the condo stock. Metro Vancouver's unemployment rate (7.6%) is lower than Canada's overall, and has been pretty constant for the last decade. There's no large, pent up reservoir of anger.

Employment rate is not always the best indicator as people are often underemployed. The common term is the "working poor" and it is well documented:

"""" Seth Klein with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says that's because a lot of British Columbians make very low wages. "They can't make ends meet. They're faced with terrible trade-offs between paying the rent, feeding the kids, or heating the house." """
- http://www.news1130.com/news/local/article/241285--bc-has-highest-child-poverty-rate-of-all-canadian-provinces

""" The poverty rate for people of all ages in BC also rose to 12 percent. It was the highest overall poverty rate of any province for the 11th consecutive year. """
- http://mostlywater.org/bcs_poverty_rate_still_highest_canada

""" Despite the manipulation of statistics by various government agencies, more people are hungry in this country and in this province than we have seen for a long time. Food banks are multiplying, each one reporting that there is not enough in contributions to meet the need. It is reported that 700,000 people in Canada rely on food banks to feed themselves and their families... The fact is that the majority of the poor in Canada and in British Columbia are working. """

- http://www2.canada.com/oceansidestar/news/story.html?id=418878d9-429c-4361-acf5-c06f05079302

Also, I'm not sure how renting from foreigners who are driving up and/or controlling condo prices contributes to peace of mind.

Maybe nuclear power is just a "make work" type jobs program which actually hurts the economy overall.

Another propaganda from mdsolar? What surprise!

While I support this project and Nevada could use 100s of these (if they prove viable), your sir, are an idiot. Picking on one of the smallest, least efficient nuclear generators. How about picking on something like Darlington Power station?

http://www.opg.com/power/nuclear/darlington/

2,500 eployees. 3,500MW. 0.71 employee/MW. Looks like this project is "inefficient" even when comparing to slightly less efficient and old, CANDU reactors. But then making this comparison is retarded, isn't it? Maybe the final, producing cost per MW is what is important?

Furthermore, your understanding of load capacity is bewildering. 80% is not small. Try 17% load capacity for PV solar in Ontario with 25% daily average being theoretical max possible, anywhere. Wind gets you 30-40%. Or do you expect 100% uptime from this facility? No maintenance?? No breakdowns?? That would be something!

Anyway, Ontario, Canada will end up significantly increasing their energy costs primarily due to "clean energy initiatives".

http://www.canada.com/More+nukes+green+energy+billion+year+Ontario+electricity+plan/3871719/story.html?id=3871719

The government admitted last week that green energy programs will be responsible for more than half of the expected 46 per cent increase in electricity rates over the next five years.

The plan calls for $14 billion to be spent on wind power, $9 billion on solar projects, $4.6 billion on new hydro-electric generation, $4 billion on biomass energy, $1.8 billion on natural gas plants, $9 billion on transmission lines and $12 billion on conservation programs.

Solar in Ontario is retarded ($0.80/kWh), but that's another story. (cheaper to burn $300/bbl oil to generate electricity FFS)

Finally, all the renewable-only fanatics preach that there will be a lot less electricity consumption in the future. So, what do you think their electric cars will run on? PIxie dust? Currently, I use 20,000kWh/year for electricity (including geothermal heat) and another 25,000kWh/year from gasoline. Yes.. electricity consumption will go down once we shift gasoline => electricity...