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We get a lot of meat-heads going out to the bars in Vancouver, but lately it seems we're having shootings, some of them pretty bad. It seems to me this is an attempt to stop this sort of thing from happening. That and the fights, stabbings, etc.

One thing to note, this is not all bars, only those who want in on the system and are willing to shell out for it. There will be a lot of bars in the Vancouver area that don't want in on the system, or can't afford to do it, so it won't happen for them. Largely the ones doing this will be the uber-hip trendy bars anyway. I could care less.

He's not the only idiot.

Toronto Police issued a challenge yesterday to other internet providers to follow Microsoft's lead and shut down free, anonymous chat rooms

But then again, I haven't been lurking at the easy to find chat rooms that morons like Microsoft and the like have been making available. Maybe there are chat rooms out there that are all dressed up and easy to find for children (like at disney or the cartoon network) that have no controls and that are simply just too easy for predators to infiltrate (unlike IRC where ops and network admins prevent spamming, and the technology isn't as exploitable as Microsoft's crap, and you have to be pretty clue'd to find the place anyways as opposed to an 8 year old neophyte on a web board).

There's also a "child exploitation conference" going on in Toronto this week, the Toronto Police probably just spouted that crap off to look good.

• Bill Gates donates $100m to UN fund to fight Aids
  
• Bill Gates Donates $37 Million to Combat Hepatitis B in China
  
• Donates $25m to help fight AIDS in Nigeria
  
• Gates Donates Millions to Schools
  
• Gates donates $70 million to develop meningitis vaccine
  

If all Canadians sing that badly, it's no wonder the RIAA's turned a blind eye to your entire country.

Look dude, we said we're really sorry about Anne Murray. What more do you want?

An apology for William Shatner.

(I note that Jim Carrey also shows up in that list....)

However, as you've also given us Neil Young, I'm willing to let the rest of them slide. (Huevos Rancheros gets you extra credit. I'd list others, but I'm not about to spend tons of time plowing through that site....)

Canada fell to 8th place behind the United States in the UN rankings.

The issue was that World Wrestling Federation was using the "WWF" name in a context they'd agreed not to use it in. That's what the agreement was about. World Wildlife Fund had been around for ages before WWE came into being, and it seemed more than reasonable of them to allow WWE to use "WWF" within a limited context. When they started using it in a more expanded context, WWF understandably objected.

Ok, so I'm a nature-geek, but I thought it was pretty cool that they won that case. I figured with all the money WWE had, WWF wouldn't have a chance.

Here's a decent article on the subject: WWF Responds to Name Change

I thought they moved the SUNShine Girl to the second last page now.
Seems it's only the UK Sun that still has a "Page 3".

Poor Nintendo... a mere $572 million in profits. How can they ever survive? Seems hopeless, eh?

With such pathetically unoriginal titles like Pikmin, Warioware, and Metroid Prime, it seems like the Gamecube is little more than trash that they through out because they refuse to let well-enough alone.

What Nintendo really needs is to start pumping out some derivative First-Person shooter titles with laggy internet support so I can get my ass kicked by cocky assholes with bad grammar.

• Bill Gates donates $100m to UN fund to fight Aids
  
• Bill Gates Donates $37 Million to Combat Hepatitis B in China
  
• Donates $25m to help fight AIDS in Nigeria
  
• Gates Donates Millions to Schools
  
• Gates donates $70 million to develop meningitis vaccine
  

The slow restart is inexcusable. If this happened in winter, there'd be thousands of dead people.

Lets not be too alarmist, in canada there was a power outage in 98 that lasted weeks , there was no mass death. And that was CANADA, in WINTER. Think about it.

(posting as a reply to my post to avoid it being drowned in the masses of replies to the main article)

http://www.canoe.ca/ Television/aug8_future-sun.html

"I actually forgot this week was our last episode. I scheduled something else -- a meeting of my math club," Cohen says on the phone from Los Angeles. "This group of TV writers, we're interested in math and we get together to talk about it. But I'm sure I'll be able to race home to watch it."

I thought anyone with a few bucks and a few days could do that kinda thing no problem? Why would a bunch of retired NASA guys be wasting there time with this? Geeze, a self-directed, small plane capable of flying the atlantic is *sooo simple*. one could even be built to carry reasonable payload of some kind if one wished.

I thought anyone with a few bucks and a few days could do that kinda thing no problem? Why would a bunch of retired NASA guys be wasting there time with this? Geeze, a self-directed, small plane capable of flying the atlantic is *sooo simple*. one could even be built to carry reasonable payload of some kind if one wished.

Here's one, found from a simple friggin' Google search:

http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicRush/may7_rush-can.htm l

Relevant snippet:

But in rock 'n' roll, it ain't over till it's over. And even after the trio went their separate ways at the conclusion of the album, there were more challenges.

"Geddy went away to do the mastering. I went away on a golfing trip as soon as we finished (last February)," Lifeson says.

"It had been 14 months (making the record), and in the past, we spent four to six months making a record ... I just had to go. I felt badly, because everything was dumped on Geddy, to do the mastering and make all those decisions."

Even as he was hitting the links, Lifeson was on the phone four or five times a day with Lee, who was forced to deal with unexpected glitches that didn't emerge until late in the recording process.

"We found problems that we didn't hear in mixing that were apparent in mastering. To get the kind of levels (we wanted), we had digital distortion. We remixed a couple of songs half-way through the mastering, through the remix, back to mastering," says Lifeson.

"The poor guy (Lee) was doing this on his own. It really shook him up."

Still, Lifeson took a final, mixed-and-mastered version of "Vapor Trails" with him to Hawaii for a holiday with his wife. And even then, he couldn't bring himself to listen to the finished product until late in the two-week vacation, when he settled onto the beach, slid the finished disc into his Discman, and pressed play.

"I was really thrilled by the fact that I heard the songs and I really liked the songs a lot. I was really proud of the work we did. It all unfolded for me," he says with obvious satisfaction.

"When I got back, I called him and said, 'Ged! The album is great! We did a great job! We got through it, we stuck to everything we believed in and we did it!'

"He said: 'I don't know what to think. I think it's awful.' I said, please do me a favour. Just don't put it on for a couple of weeks. Be relaxed and open'."

Lifeson said he's still not sure Lee is at a point where he has separated himself from the trauma of finishing the album, to where he can listen to it as a whole. But given how intense an experience creating "Vapor Trails" was, that's not surprising.

Unless you're the premier of a very squirrely province!

Speaking as another, more politically-and-culturally-minded anglophone in Quebec, for the benefit of all those on slashdot, while I agree that "hated minority" is an overstatement, it may not be too far off the mark and I would hardly call it igorance. It's an awareness. Not only are Anglophones in minority but they have fewer privilages with respect to their language than francophones. Anytime a government takes specific steps to inconvenience or discriminate against one group of people for reasons of beliefs, language, culture, etc, there is a problem.

This is not a case of poor application of "linguistic" equal opportunity. Nor is this a case of poor reasoning, "Oh, look, we have more than twice as many francophones as anglophones, therefore the french type on all signs should be at least twice as large!" This is not even a case of ignorance on the part of the Quebec government -- No, these laws are clear, direct, were passed with intent, designed to be abused.

Many laws specifically refer to english as it relates to french and many laws use the mother tounge of a citizen or of his parents as justification to alter the rules.

Case in point, English public schooling is a perticularly sticky topic here in Quebec: It's all here. Many francophone parents are realizing that learning proper English is important in today's world. Not that we all won't still have our mother tounges, with which we can speak whenever we want, but for business and academics, for critical technical discussion, English is the prefered medium. But because of close-minded aspirations of nationalism and cultural purity, generations of governements here in Quebec have managed to legislate, against the will of many Quebecers, any purely francophone couple sending their children to English school. This is discrimination against potential anglophones. One of many. Immigrants are not permitted to study in English-language schools either.

It is also wise to note that the Quebec laws are only operating under a loophole in Canadian law. Otherwise they would not be constitutional and certainly a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

And if you're confused or maybe you disagree with my appraisal of the situation citing bais or prejudice, you need only look up a few choice addresses of either Levesque or Parizeau to get a good impression right from the horses mouth.

Let's see... 8% interest on Microsoft's $49 billion in cash works out to be $430,000 per hour. And that's just interest on savings. Take into account $2 billion/quarter profits, and that's another $913,000/hour. They could afford to give away $1000 every 3 seconds and still be profitable!

Why run a contest at all? Just buy every non-MSN instant messager user (78 million people) for $11 cash/month... and still be profitable!

Just don't enter Climax (Sask) illegally with pigeons

>The word "American" does not include people from Canada and Mexico, although the word "North American" does. Looks like you Canadians are no better at geography that we are.

First off, I said this continent; how you read that as just North America, well, your comprehension skills (and geography skills) need a lot of work. At the very best, you could have suggested that because of the Panama Canal I forgot South America, but that still includes that pesky Central America. But I haven't even started yet...

I can assure you of one thing, we're much better at english than you. In fact, we're also better at geography, by a large percentage. More importantly, we even know more about your country than you do. But there's more!

11% of you don't know where you live.
83% of you don't know where you were bombing before Iraq.
25% of you don't know where Canada is (would you like some help?).

Now, from your very own "American" dictionary:

American
adj.

1. Of or relating to the United States of America or its people, language, or culture.
2. Of or relating to North or South America, the West Indies, or the Western Hemisphere.
3. Of or relating to any of the Native American peoples.
4. Indigenous to North or South America. Used of plants and animals.

n.

1. A native or inhabitant of America.
2. A citizen of the United States.
3. American English.

So, we can either invent a new, derogatory word for you (I like this option), or we can make all our sentences longer, by qualifying our meaning of "American" each time, such as: "That person, he is a United States American" (Yuck).

Now, run that geography idea by me again, flunky.

Ask the Canadians about hard wood lumber

Okay lets try.

How do you feel about hard wood lumber quantaman?

Thank you for that question quantaman, Well I strongly object to them, the U.S. has been trying this for years and every time it gets struck down by a NAFTA tribunal (or is it a court can't remember), either way I heard the ruling was supposed to be due this past thursday but got delayed, hopefully it will come out soon and the insane (23%) tariffs will be gone. I've heard that the American complaint seems to be that the Canadian government didn't make the lumber companies pay for the trees or something but the Canadian system just uses a different method of payment (stumpage fees), the main reason why the Canadian lumber industry was so much more sucessful is because of a massive modernization a few years ago and probably also low labour costs due to the low Canadian dollar, why should we be punished for your over valued dollar?

If you haven't figured it out yet, Free software is free.
Really? Well I was under the impression that you can pay for GLPed software! Besides you ignored the question with regards to BSD based software, do you want to pay tariffs for OS X?

They raise the price for their own citizens whose per capita income may already be below the current price of many applications.
Yeah, those poor western Europeans (whom I was thinking of).

Do you expect the next generation of Americans make their living playing first person shooters?
No when due to free trade other economies like South Korea and India raise their standard of living by actually being allowed to make money by selling to the U.S. start wanting their own products and services then the next generation of Americans will haev to fill that need. Hey that kind of sounds like capitalism! The fact is that with trade everyone benefits, including you! True you might suffer a little bit at first while trying to adapt and at the end you might not still be the allmighty super power but your standard of living will be higher, and isn't that what's important?


I am an American and tariffs on offshored code would benefit me and all my countrymen. Perhaps you have your own reasons for wanting to see a weak America, quantiman Al-Husseini. Yes I will excuse you for being naive, but only if your highest level of education was a taliban religious school.

Hey I respent that, I don't belong to the taliban! I'm a proud comrade of the Republic of Soviet Canuckistan!!

Just make sure you leave your pigeons behind and don't bring them to Climax, Saskatchewan.

I really don't consider this flame bait at all. In fact, I think that there are some good points here. It was actually just this afternoon that I submitted this smaller version of the story, which can be found here and here. The story was rejected, and I figured the reason it was rejected was because it wasn't really news. It was just something of an advisory. And nothing may materialize on the 6th, so there may be absolutely no point covering this.

And that's the reason I'm not so sure if this should be covered here. So I don't think this will cause those dastardly script kiddies to make a bigger mess. But I'm sure it'll make sysadmins take the usual precautions (ie. apply software patches, disable unnecessary services, etc.) So maybe something good can come from this.

I can see a WHOLE set of problems... http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWeirdNews0105/31_kidgun-p ar.html

Or how about the illegal [as the WTO ruled] tarrif on Softwood lumber?

Same problem as above--Canada's socialist, anti-market subsidies propped up softwood lumber producers so they could dump their products in the US. Just like in the case being discussed, the US applied a corrective measure. If the Canadian industry can't handle a little competition, that's not our problem.

The point here is that the WTO has ruled that the Canadian government does not unfairly subsidize the softwood lumber industry. The Canadian softwood producers are not 'propped up' by 'socialist, anti-market subsidies'. Canada does use a different system (from the U.S.) for the sale of logging rights, but it is not intrinsically unfair. Unless, of course, you wish to make the assertion that the WTO is a bastion of 'leftist' and 'socialist' thinking.

Until recently, the Canadian dollar was at all-time historic lows against the U.S. dollar--consequently, Canadian products became cheaper (relatively) in the American market. Now, the Canadian dollar has jumped in value about fifteen percent in the last year or two--Canadian goods will become more expensive. We should also consider the possibility that the American softwood lumber industry is inefficient and uncompetitive, and should be subjected to market forces instead of hiding behind protectionist tariffs.

Yep. Leftists and socialists such as yourself think it's peachy for every country but the US to prop up uncompetitive industries, using far more nationalist propaganda than anything you'll ever see in US markets. But if the big, bad US of A, which probably sent soldiers to fight for your freedom to bitch at some point, tries to defend its own markets, oh, what a monster.

Hypocrite.

They were also fighting for their own 'freedom to bitch'. In case you're wondering, Canada too has paid in blood for the right of its citizens to bitch. Battles like Vimy Ridge and Ypres in WWI, and the Juno Beach landing in WWII are as well known to Canadians as events like Leyte Gulf or Pearl Harbor are to Americans. Feel free to discuss differences of opinion about international trade policy, but don't insult the millions of men and women in other countries who have also died for our freedom.

The United States is one of the world's largest markets. If it engages in unfair trade practices, it distorts commerce for the rest of the world. If it chooses to employ protectionist tariffs while purportedly supporting free trade...'hypocrite' indeed.

Watch Kurosawa's "The Hidden Fortress." It's the EXACT SAME STORY as Star Wars, only in feudal Japan. Lucas has admitted as such (though the reference escapes me).

>I would definitely buy water there if it was the only place to buy water, no matter how bad it is. I have no choice and I have nowhere to file a grievance.

So, you're in the same boat, however I disagree with you that there's nowhere to file a grievance. It takes less than 30 minutes to fill out a small claims suit. Sue them under antitrust regulations if they have a monopoly and aren't providing a safe service. Seems clear and cut. You'd win without a lawyer.

>Suing large companies usually gets you nowhere.

Tell that to McDonald's. All they did was serve coffee that was "too hot" and lost millions of dollars. Imagine the result if they purposely served poisoned coffee.

>Who do you think is going to win in a case like that, someone making 30,000 a year or a corporation making 30 billion a year?

Clearly, the person in the right. And sometimes (eg. again, McDonald's coffee lady) it isn't the person in the right, and even then, it isn't always the person with the most money.

>Also look at MS. They make an inferior product that beats out better software that's free.

The product might be inferior, but it isn't hurting anybody (and if it is, MS already told you in BIG LETTERS not to use it for that purpose). The fact is people are paying for it because they want it. That might be because of better marketing. Whatever the reason, especially today, you don't need MS software to "survive". Sure, you might need it for your job, but even then, learning Microsoft Windows isn't going to leave you impaired in any way.

>Politcal scandals nowadays tend to either be about personal doings which are no one's else's business or involve corporations themselves, like Halliburton. The corporate scandals tend to be along the lines of Enron, which is an obvious reason for more regulation.

Hmmm, I have heard in the US that newspapers tend to be like this. In Ontario, they prefer to focus on what the government is ruining. In my case, the "big things" tend to be:

- Is the government ruining education, is privatization of the phone system/hydro a good thing, (locally) how bad did the city screw us over on RIM park, etc, etc.

Rarely do the leaders get their personal lives exposed, except in a few trashy newspapers, or as part of the "editorial" section. Hey, why not take a look at my local paper and see for yourself! :)

(If the registration is a PITA, and it certainly is, try the Sun)

>The point being that it's nice in theory to do that but people are not always in a position to help themselves (just like how communism is nice in theory).

It all depends on how much you believe in something. We're all selfish at heart, and most people, when pushed, will change their minds to suit their needs.

Right now I'd love to tax the hell out of all my competing businesses, but if mine went flat, I couldn't care less. That's human nature. And it's that selfishness (which that conservative is showing in abundance!) that is the reason why people can, and should, be responsible for themselves. Even when they are pretending they aren't, they really are.

SARS can live on in patients The damned thing can stick around for at least a month.

Theres no industrial strength encryption for telephones readily available that hasnt been defeated these days

Yes there is.

Or you could be like this guy: Man puts faith in name tag After all, not everyone carries a barcode reader.

You forgot "Rush", rockin since 1971. ;) They also recieved the "Star of Canada"

I think you mean the "Order of Canada". The star really isn't a symbol for Canada.

For those not located north of the USA. Poutine is a Qubecois delicacy. Lots of calories for those cold days.


Some facts about poutine:

What it is -- French fries, cheese curds, gravy.
When invented -- Believed to be in 1957 by restaurant owner Fernand Lachance. Originally, it was sauceless with just fries and cheese curds.
How named -- Lachance used the French-Canadian word "poutine" to describe the gooey mess made by french fries and cheese curds. Poutine originally was a trifle made with leftover cake or cookies, custard and fruit.
Fat content -- About 60 grams a serving.
Where available -- Fast-food restaurants and chains such as Chez Ashton, Mike's, McDonald's in Quebec, and in some Burger Kings and Harvey's across Canada.
Quote -- "If you don't want to get fat, just eat it without the sauce." -- Lachance.

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And more frightening yet, many Canadians are in favor.

Sure, online polls are worthless, but the fact of the matter is that nobody up here would care enough to cheat on this one.

The Globe and Mail had a similar online poll on the same sort of question with less suggestive answers (In favour? Yes/No), but it still came close to being an even split for and against.

My favourite remark on the matter came in the form of a letter to the editor... "So, rather than allowing those draconian American border guards to fingerprint us, our government should pre-emptively do it the "Canadian way." Mr. Coderre says he's a chess player. Is he always in the habit of checkmating himself?"

5 -- You tested at a 3rd grade level on the math section of the SATs

4 -- You'd rather be golfing than reporting on the biggest NASA disaster since the Challenger

3 -- You honestly believe that the moon is twenty-five pentillion billion miles away from Earth, and that a rickety old spaceship normally travels about 3 to 4 times the speed of light

2 -- It beats working for a living
... and the number 1 reason to become a television news anchor

1 -- It's the only job where you won't get fired for wearing makeup

Yet another original Top 5 from *nix.org!

he was practically falling over himself to get killed!

That's because Brent Spiner wanted to kill off Data. Here are some more details.

• Paramount is in it for the $$$ and not the fans
• He's getting too old for the part

The Chicago Blackhawks must have missed that memo.

You could tell when she walked off stage and was amongst the fans. Her mike hand got pulled away from her mouth, yet she was still singing. and thats after she mentioned in this article http://jam.canoe.ca/JamCountryTwain/jan24_twain-su n.html that she wouldn't be lip-synching.

The most likely thing is that the thing nintendo originally referred to as the "Megaton" announcement was probably just this.

As for all that stuff about the Megaton announcement being "the thing that will deliver a deathblow to one of nintendo's major competitors" and "the thing that will make gamecubes just fly off the shelves", that was probably just the rumor sites blowing wishful thinking out of proportion.

That said, the Game Boy Advance SP is nothing to sneeze at, and nintendo probably considers the Game Boy a bigger thing than the Game Cube anyway, rightfully so at least considering their sales for the GBA are about an order of magnitude higher. I just wish they'd announced something (*cough* Pokemon Online? *cough*) to placate those of us who have gamecubes :)

1.) The Alliance has never supported hate groups of any kind. That's just silly.

2.) The Liberals are owned by corporations more than anyone else. When was the last time BCE paid Tiger Woods to golf with Stephen Harper (leader of the Alliance)?

This is just about the saddest thing I have ever read about Canada.

I live in Canada, and I thank you for your kind empathy.

There have been hundreds of similar publication bans in Canada, ever since the original Bernardo/Homolka ban. Many of the bans are even more restrictive than the original. A while back the National Post had an article to the effect "There is an ongoing trial in British Columbia, and we aren't even allowed to say what the charge is. In fact, we have already stepped beyond the proscribed ban." Maybe the article was referring to Pickton, I don't know.

We have a seriously corrupt government, placated by a grossly complacent populace. It's been a while since Canada was the "True North, Strong and Free."

I can only be thankful that I live in the land of Freedom to the south.

Be thankful -- and vigilant!

Here are a few more tidbits about Canada -- perhaps you will find them even sadder:

There are currently over a dozen farmers who have done jail time for the same crime: selling wheat without going through their provincial wheat board.

The president of the NCC is facing jail time for running an ad that is critical of the government. Even though the Supreme Court of Alberta has ruled the law unconstitutional, the government is continuing with the prosecution.

If any Canadian liberals/socialists on SlashDot start bleating about "at least we're not like Americans," tell them to stick it up their ass.

Well, it is the Toronto Star.

The Globe and Mail is read by the people who own the country. (It's Toronto's national newspaper, except for the National which is Toronto's other national newspaper.) The Toronto Star is read by the people who whine when they don't run the country. The Toronto Sun is read by the people who don't care who runs the country, so long as she has big tits on page 3. Weeklies like NOW offer insight into: politics or performance art? (With the establishment's hand up their sock-puppet bum.)
-- Adapted from Yes, Prime Minister

Since we'll be decriminalizing pot possession (up to 30 grams) after Christmas up here (in Canada).

Pot penalties out of whack, MPs say

That would be Karma Whore. Not to be confused with with any of the following :

Crack Whore, Assistant Crack Whore, Crack Whores Who Remember 9/11, A little known band called the Absolute Whores, Media Whores, or even Evil Lesbian Media Whores

The 'Popstars' series, where they audition and market a band was created originally in New Zealand (then Australia copyrighted it...bugger). The movie The Full Monty was written by a New Zealander. The movie The Truman Show was written by a NZer.

Xena, Hercules, yadda yadda.

Probably one of the most famous crimes in Britain last century was the Great Train Robbery in 1963, which formed the factual underpinning for the film and book. Most of the 15 men involved in the heist were caught; one of them, Ronnie Biggs, escaped from jail in a rather daring manner and became something of a celebrity as a result. Last year he returned from Brazil, aged 71, to give himself up. A Google for Biggs and the great train robbery should give you a wealth of information, but here's a link to get started:

http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSScienceNews/train_may7-ap .html

From meempool
(I can heartily recommend Leisure Town, it's twisted.
I find the comment in the Forbes article about comic books not making a profit, and that the publishers treat them as R&D for ancillerary rights to be quite intriuging...)

Whatever happened to comic books? In the 1940s millions of Americans read comics not only for Superhero stories, but Romance, Cowboys, War, History, Literary Adaptations and more. Readers were lured away whenever another medium provided their "fix" cheaper, easier or better, beginning with television in the '50s. By the early '80s the only genre still dominated by comics was Superheroes, and 1989's hugely profitable Batman signaled the beginning of the superheroic exodus from comics to film. Since then comicbook sales have plummeted, from $850 million in 1993 to $275 million in 2000 and still falling fast. Leading publishers Marvel and DC Comics both now treat comics solely as Research and Development: they lose millions printing the comics, but earn far more selling licenses for movies, cartoons and toys. Comics' core audience, traditionally pre-teens, is now 18-30 and getting older every year. Is this the death of comics? Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, plays Gandalf to an unofficial fellowship out to save comics by migrating to the Internet! Join the revolution with Justine Shaw's Nowhere Girl, Patrick Farley's Electric Sheep, Tristan Farnon's Leisure Town, Derek Kirk's Small Stories, Jenn Manley Lee's Dicebox, Cat Garza's Magic Inkwell and more!

All those topics and more would make great, interesting Slashdot headlines. But no, instead we get "MAME adds support for yet-another-coin-op-arcade-game". What world do you slashdot editors live in??

Here's a news story about it. (Which was in my submission yesterday. Whine, whine :^)

- Huge advances in technology as the drowning, disease, salt, and famine problems are quickly worked on and finally solved.
- Unification of people as they struggle to work on these problems.
- Reduced war.

All this is, of course, assuming countries don't get grabby on the resources. I guess I'm just not a big believer that the world is about to end up as one big Mad Max movie.

I think you'll find, strangely enough, some Canadians like me saying they'd enjoy a little global warming (although not many!). If it were actually happening this quickly, it could have prevented this. (Yes, I've heard the suggestion that global warming is just a shift in weather patterns. Well, if it is such a misnomer, let's work on stopping people using it!)