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"Government officials confirm the mission was lost".

Now you might doubt the veracity of that statement and keep your tinfoil hat on, but it doesn't get more certain than that.

This: "rumors are going around that" story is simply a few hours older than the "it has been confirmed that"....
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...
http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/0...

1 single volcano puts off more carbon monoxide that all the cars ever built. Yet we are still alive.

Grow up people, global warming is a giant lie.

Hey you dumb fuck carbon monoxide is not the gas at issue with the known and recorded atmospheric gas imbalance. The higher levels of CO2 created by recent human activity are causing a rapid average global atmospheric warming. To deny the science and the evidence that every reputable scientist in the field is reporting is also becoming a rather stupid platform. Anyone who claims that carbon monoxide is the problem here is a complete absolute ignorant idiot. The same as the idiots who claim that atmospheric warming does not cause weather anomalies, or about as logical as the tired old saw used by some shills posting here that "AGW does not equal weather".

More extreme weather events on average created by AGW is a sound hypothesis. And indeed we are seeing the increase in global atmospheric CO2 cause increased average temperatures and changes to the jet stream that cause more extreme anomalous weather events. Areas are becoming dryer and hotter and soon some areas adjacent to deserts that are currently inhabited may become uninhabitable. Areas of India and Southern Europe are starting to see more extreme heat events that kill. All of these things have been predicted and are being proved true.

In Canada we have seen a direct correlation between the pine beetle forest die off in British Columbia and the statistically recorded increases in average winter and summer temperatures in the pine beetles range. To deny the evidence of the destruction being caused by human caused climate change is idiotic and at worst a deliberate attempt by morons in the petro chemical industry and their shills in Washington to deflect the blame away from the causes!

Power bills in Canada can be insanely expensive because of massive mismanagement over decades, and paying back money borrowed over that time. Hell, the billing system for Ontario basically didn't work for over a year. Some utilities in Canada have some great linemen working for them, but I would not trust whoever runs their offices to screw in a light bulb.

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

It's one of those subjective rights, like the right not to have cruel and unusual punishment or unreasonable searches.
Up here the Canadian Supreme Court recently set new guidelines, 30 months for Federal, 18 months for Provincial. 5 to 4 decision with the minority voting it was too short. Murderers are being released as well as many others. The real problem is austerity where the government hasn't been hiring Judges.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The bigger issue IMHO is Luxottica. Ever wonder why a few pieces of plastic and metal you place on your face cost $200+ before you even buy lenses for them? And why those Taiwanese mail-order glasses places can sell you frames for only $15? It's because one company owns or has controlling interest in most of the popular eyeglass brands and a large fraction of stores worldwide, and they rig the prices.

Well, put in a less cumbersome way, Luxottica owns most of the "optical shops" out there, including a lot of the ones attached to your optometrist's office. It's a virtual monopoly. The actual real cost of eyeglasses is well under $20 - the frame is just a few pieces of metal and plastic which costs about $3 (even the fancy metals, OK, make it $5). The lenses are all mass manufactured - Nikon, Canon, etc, sell them for a few dollars apiece - these are not complex multi-element lenses with precise alignments after all.

It's so bad, in Canada a lot of prescriptions do not have the "PD" value on them (pupil distance - the distance between your pupils). This is because they want you to believe it takes a lot of specialty equipment to measure it, so you need your doctor or the optical store to measure it (and keep it secret from you).

The reason for this was a new online optical store Clearly Contacts started up and you enter in your prescription and they cut you a new set of glasses or contacts for around $35, including shipping, in about a week. (Of course, being in the province that Clearly Contacts is HQ'd in, the law states that the PD value must be measured and filled in). But they have a printable ruler and instructions on how to measure it if you're not so lucky.

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

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/...

The bigger issue IMHO is Luxottica. Ever wonder why a few pieces of plastic and metal you place on your face cost $200+ before you even buy lenses for them? And why those Taiwanese mail-order glasses places can sell you frames for only $15? It's because one company owns or has controlling interest in most of the popular eyeglass brands and a large fraction of stores worldwide, and they rig the prices.

Well, put in a less cumbersome way, Luxottica owns most of the "optical shops" out there, including a lot of the ones attached to your optometrist's office. It's a virtual monopoly. The actual real cost of eyeglasses is well under $20 - the frame is just a few pieces of metal and plastic which costs about $3 (even the fancy metals, OK, make it $5). The lenses are all mass manufactured - Nikon, Canon, etc, sell them for a few dollars apiece - these are not complex multi-element lenses with precise alignments after all.

It's so bad, in Canada a lot of prescriptions do not have the "PD" value on them (pupil distance - the distance between your pupils). This is because they want you to believe it takes a lot of specialty equipment to measure it, so you need your doctor or the optical store to measure it (and keep it secret from you).

The reason for this was a new online optical store Clearly Contacts started up and you enter in your prescription and they cut you a new set of glasses or contacts for around $35, including shipping, in about a week. (Of course, being in the province that Clearly Contacts is HQ'd in, the law states that the PD value must be measured and filled in). But they have a printable ruler and instructions on how to measure it if you're not so lucky.

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

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/...

It would be interesting to see if they could use an alternative.

(again, Canada never deregulated our banks, so none failed or needed bailouts)

Sorry to burst your bubble of Canadian Exceptionalism, but Canadian Banks Got $114 Billion From Governments During Recession. this is data based on the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and works out to $3400 per capita. This was tenfold the amount Canadian taxpayers spent on the auto industry bailout.

Just put all my belongings into it as well as maxed out my cards and took several loans.

Oh, is this you?

Thing is, the trade off doesn't even have to be there. Things can be 'smart' without using the cloud. We just have to demand they work this way.

For example, Nest thermostats didn't work during an internet blackout, leaving people in Canada freezing. Many 'smart' things use the cloud because their designers followed the trend or wanted access to behavioral data.. not because it's a good design.

Nest source:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

Companies like this guy's write them, because they make millions.

Here is what's boring brother;

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/tech...
https://www.theguardian.com/te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

maybe firemen could become hobby pyromaniacs in their spare time, and thus reduce the waiting time . . . ?

They already thought of that. About 100 firefighters a year are convicted as serial arsonists in North America.

https://i.cbc.ca/1.4394567.151...

Would you stop in that spot if a semi truck was backing up there?

Sakreesian in my opinion wrote the threat letter that "forced" her to pull out of the university talk in 2014.

The threat letter made much of a mass shooting in Canada where a man walked into an engineering campus and deliberately singled out the women. He clearly blamed women and specifically feminists for his lack of success in life. The bastard shot and murdered fourteen innocent women. The letter writer promised to do another event that was similar if Sarkeesian's talk was not cancelled.

1. These awful murders took place in 1989. Given the sheer volume of gun murders in America these days, the idea that an undergraduate or someone else of approximately that age will use an event from more than 25 years ago as the pilot light for their rage seems improbable. Sadly, there are so many newer tragedies nearer in time and proximityin a young man’s mind.

2. This shooting took place in Canada. As fond of their northern neighbours as I am sure Americans are, most US citizens can’t tell you the first thing about Canada apart Céline Dion and Wayne Gretzky. As the gangster Al Capone remarked: I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Please ask yourself, what are the odds that an American student:
in Utah would choose
    a rampage that predates his birth, 25 years ago
  in French Canada
on the other side of North American continent the cause for his burning and immediate rage
  let alone be aware of it?

So, who would know about it? The connection seems so remote, so very remote until you add two facts. Ms. Sarkeeskian was raised in California but she was born in Canada. After obtaining her undergraduate degree went to York in Toronto. In ... Canada.

Draw your own conclusions.

Obviously Canada's a massive place, second only to Russia in size but given the relative proximity to Québec, Toronto is the nearest large city to Montréal, and the rarity of mass slaughters in Canada, doubtless the memory of that shooting casts a long shadow in the Dominion of Canada in general and for women in higher education in particular. That it was on the quarter century anniversary that year means awareness – for Canadians – was doubtless acute. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

As yourself which seems more likely:
  An American male undergraduate knowing about this horrific massacre?
Or a woman university student in Canada?

In summary, I think she's a fraud.

Who would be removing stories giving details of this case from google.ca?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
All I see is "Details of the case are subject to a publication ban". How often does that happen in the U.S.? All we know is somebody threw a trailer hitch that killed somebody. Which begs the question what else are they doing?

Are they something that survived the previous interglacial periods

Some methane was released at the end of the last ice age, but not enough to trigger a feedback loop. But current temperatures have exceeded interglacial temps, so we don't know what could happen. There is evidence for a runaway methane release about 110M years ago.

The arctic contains about 1400 Giga-Tonnes of methane. A release of 50 GT would be equivalent to a doubling of current atmospheric CO2 levels.

The Clathrate Gun is possibly the biggest danger in delaying agressive action on global warming.

I nearly hit a jaywalker with his face buried in his cell phone maybe a week or two ago. He walked out into the street from behind an SUV and I hit the horn and slammed on the brakes. I would have expected him to look up and then crap himself but he didn't look up or even miss a step.

Consider yourself lucky then. A local mayor was cycling, nearly hit a jaywalker, and was scolded by said jaywaker (who was texting) for not looking where he was going..

Yes, the jaywalker stepped out right in front of a cyclist who nearly hit her. She didn't consider how lucky she was that at worst, it was only a cyclist instead of 2 tons of metal (injuries would be far lower) or perhaps she should return back to the days of her youth and remember when she was taught to look both ways before crossing the street.

You know it's bad when the texters really do think they own the road.

lets see.
Tesla's CObalt is currently coming from Canada, with Idaho starting up as well
Lithium is coming from Northern Mexico, along with Nevada.
Nickel does come from Australia,Indonesia, and Japan, so, those will be imported.
Steel and Aluminum are from all over, including America.
However, these are the RAW materials. As it stands, IIRC, Model 3 is about 93% American made. Corvette, like its speed, does not touch it.,

So if the data is suppressed (and your article confirms it is not collected at all in some jurisdictions), how do you know there is a trend of gun violence specifically in poor black neighbourhoods

By paying attention. Something that most people don't do now. When the CBC is saying the same thing, there might, maybe, possibly, maybe, be something there.

Or you can ignore it all, along with people saying the same thing. Take your pick.

In addition to Alain's comments about the UK customers, there was also 100K Canadians affected: http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Also, while no one was known to be affected, Argentina's Equifax employee portal was found to be gated by the username/password admin/admin: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

Can you provide just one single example of a confirmed case of this happening?

You mean like the case of Thomas Lobel? Which started at the age of 3.

It depends on the jurisdiction, but actually most places do try to involve children in medical decisions even when they are that young, or younger. I wasn't much older than that when I had to sign medical consent forms for surgery, and refusal would have resulted in my death (or legal intervention).

Yeah and in most places, you can't consent until you hit the "mens rea" age. In most places that's the age of 12, a few places it's as low as 9. Even in places where it's under the age of 12, the courts routinely rule that the child is incapable of fundamentally understanding the situation before them.

You seem to be saying that cancer patients should get priority, and if that means diverting money from other treatments then so be it because cancer is life-threatening and represents a greater need.

And they should, and that's not happening.

However, no sane healthcare system works that way. I'm also going to have to ask for a citation that there is a line and transgender people at at the front of it.

Oh so naive. And if you think it's just in Canada, search in your own backyard and you'll find something similar.

CBC recently had a story on the 5 Canadian diplomats and families affected. They also speculated that since Canada has better relations with Cuba it's unlikely the Cuban government is behind this. The story also mentions that since Russia has a large diplomatic presence in Cuba, has been known to harass foreign diplomats and also has the know how to possibly develop this kind of high tech weapon that they are a possible suspect.

In formal debate, yes, informal web discussion, not really. Nevertheless, Open up the hanger, HERE COMES THE PLANE!! VRRRRRRRRRoooooommmm......Omm nonn nomm.

And if you go back even farther, coffee wasn't really a part of American households until after World War I when returning veterans bought back a taste for it, having had it in their rations.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undert...

Sounds like coffee took off in the US at the same time that it industrialized (like tea in Britain). Caffeine is quite useful when your life revolves around a clock. Not so much when you're a farmer who rises and rests with the sun.

Remember that in WWII, something like 70% of the population still lived on farms. Now it's less than 10%. Take a trip through Kansas and you'll see plenty of 4/5ths abandoned towns that were full in the 40's and 50's.

No I don't think so. The modern age of coffee-fueled offices is entirely a product of Maxwell House's 1950s advertising with the slogan, "Take a coffee break." I kid you not. The modern "coffee break" is the result of an ad campaign. It was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams.

Before that time, coffee was only consumed in the home, probably at breakfast and after supper. And if you go back even farther, coffee wasn't really a part of American households until after World War I when returning veterans bought back a taste for it, having had it in their rations.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/undert...

The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World (CBC Massey Lecture) by Wade Davis

The 2009 CBC Massey Lectures, "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World"

I'll give you an A for effort, but it still won't apply for many reasons:

1. This isn't Canadian law, rather it's specific to the Quebec province. Unless you live in Quebec, it's moot.
2. The section you mentioned is only in reference to "nullifying and impairing" these rights. Unless you're in some position of authority, it's completely irrelevant.
3. For the subsection on harassment, you might want to look at Canada's definition of harassment: Somebody will have to cause you fear for the safety of yourself or your property. Making trannie insults certainly doesn't qualify.
4. This page you referenced but didn't link is again for a complaint against a person of authority. If you had read just a few words prior to the part you marked in bold, you can even see that it's talking about employment.

So no, you can't sue anybody based on this.

It also relates to individual members of that group.

Dude, you even quoted a portion that says otherwise: Every one who, by communicating statements in any public place, incites hatred against any identifiable group

More importantly, you'd have a very difficult time trying to get your government to prosecute for anything I've ever said, because it doesn't meet any of the standards required for a criminal sanction:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
http://www.thecourt.ca/warman-...

Furthermore, hate speech in Canada is very rarely prosecuted to begin with. If you did actually sue somebody successfully over this, it would certainly be listed among the landmark Canadian hate speech decisions listed in wikipedia, which it certainly doesn't appear to be.

Any section of the public doesn't specify a minimum number, in part because even promoting hatred against ONE member of the protected group will affect other members of the group (chilling effect, intimidation etc).

I haven't said anything that could be construed as intimidation or a chilling effect.

Same as if someone firebombs a muslim's car, they have committed a hate crime against a section of the public distinguished by religion, even if the car was only owned by one person.

Firebombing a car isn't speech, so a whole different standard applies. Furthermore, it would need to be proven that this was done because of the person's religion. If you just firebomb a random person's car, you're not going to be prosecuted for a hate crime.

Anyways, what are you claiming that you won? Wheel of Fortune?

And how exactly do you propose I find which company "MADE" the glasses, when I place an order for American Paper Optics, and receive a pair of glasses which say "American Paper Optics" but actually turn out to be counterfeit.

> First I like it because it's another reason not to give your data to so-called 'social' sites.

Just because you don't post photos of your backyard swimmimg pool doesn't mean that Google won't. The City of Hamilton (in Canada) uses Google Maps to catch building code infractions. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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

So who is verifying the safety of these ultrasonic output. Maybe I am being paranoid, but the US diplomats in Cuba were recently attacked in their residences with ultrasonic devices that were undetectable, except for the symptoms (severe hearing loss, migraine headaches, nausea).

It's probably several orders of magnitude different in energy output, but I would still like to think some accountable government organization signed off on this usage - not just the company feeling that its okay. After all, if you are playing detectable music too loud then you can hear it and your ears start hurting. In this case there would be no warning signs until damage was done. The FDA did years of testing on prenatal ultrasound devices before they became routine in their usage. So who do these companies go to for verifying the safety of this technology before deployment. Or is just the honor system?

This kind of reminds me of the deployment of back scatter x-ray machines for security at U.S. airports that had not been studied for dosing amounts on humans (and ended up giving extremely high exposures). There are news stories from 2010 speaking about the controversies regarding the health effects of the machines, but there are also news stories in 2007 about the machines being deployed and I believe there were limited deployments between 2003 and 2005 (if memory serves me correctly). NOTE: I used google news to search up the old articles.

It's not always about the celebrities. Just look at the food guides that have been issued by many governments over the past 50 years. They are highly affected by lobbying of the food industry. This was much worse in the past relative to today, but I remember being floored when I learned that it wasn't 100% based on nutritional science.

Global Affairs Canada has confirmed at least one Canadian diplomat in Cuba has been treated in hospital after suffering headaches and hearing loss.

The information comes a day after the U.S. government said it believed some of its diplomats in Havana had been targeted with a covert sonic device that left them with severe hearing loss.

The Canadian diplomat's family members were also affected and treated.

"We are aware of unusual symptoms affecting Canadian and U.S. diplomatic personnel and their families in Havana. The government is actively working - including with U.S. and Cuban authorities - to ascertain the cause," said Brianne Maxwell, a Global Affairs Canada spokesperson.

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

With or without massive government incentives which sees taxpayers rebating high-end cars for people who can afford them but get the rebates anyhow?

Ontario's rebates on pricey electric cars draw fresh criticism
Progressive Conservatives question changes after top Liberal staffer joins Tesla

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

And yet, given that the half-life of a software engineer is 3 years, and that most won't even be looked at after 40, perhaps women going into careers that last longer and provide higher lifetime earnings are smarter than men.

Software engineering is a dead-end career.

And now the idea that coding is not going to secure you a bright future is not just in the business mags - it's gone mainstream.

Those people should be deported. Just like what would happen if I entered any other country illegally.

Well, apparently, Canada doesn't with refugees from US...

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

Our council has installed flashing red lights embedded into the road right on the kerbside specifically to target screen zombies. It still doesn't help.
The problem is absolutely people concentrating on their devices instead of the potential danger around them. I ride a motorbike and I almost hit these people every_single_day. I've actually broken my horn button from using it so much to get these fuckwits to pay attention.

The mayor of a local suburban city nearly mowed down a pedestrian who just stepped out onto the street in the middle between two cars. Without stopping, and then chewed out the mayor for nearly hitting her. She was on her phone and of course, never looked both ways to make sure her path was clear.

The mayor wrote up an "apology" on Facebook that garnered a lot of attention.

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

This was the middle of the street - an intersection with a crosswalk was only a few more steps away.

What I don't get is what is so damned interesting on the phone that one completely forgets the rules their parents taught them when they were young, like looking both ways before crossing the street. I mean, this is something so basic. Considering the potential risk - injury is extremely common. People have knocked out their teeth from walking into lampposts, benches and other sidewalk furniture. People have fallen down street elevator holes (they walk right into the raised door and fall into the basement), or into water fountains.

So what is so damn interesting that it's worth risking minor injuries that are quite preventable? Or major injury - I can't imagine anything on the screen being so interesting that would justify even spending a day in a hospital.

Yes, I've tried it - I wanted to look up something on my phone and I just couldn't do it and walk without the fear of running into something or someone. I stepped aside and finished looking up the information - there wasn't anything on it I could justify spending hours at a doctor's office getting fixed up for - it was cheaper time-wise to step aside, spend 30 seconds with the phone in relative safety, then resume walking to my destination. Quicker too, since if I got injured, it could be hours at a doctors office, or days at a hospital, or 30 seconds simply stopped safely out of the way.

Oh, it looks like I found where some of that Canadian healthcare money is coming from.

Canadian defence spending among lowest in NATO . . .
Military expenditure (% of GDP)

Maybe the US should stop picking up the slack for NATO.

Hmmm....

Report Says Canada’s Socialized Medicine Failing Canadians

Canada’s socialized health care is driving more than 63,000 Canadians out of the country for medical assistance — largely to the U.S.

A new report from the Fraser Institute, a conservative think-tank, estimates that more than 63,459 Canadians traveled to find the health care that is often unavailable in Canada, usually due to long wait times for operations. That number is a 40 percent increase from the previous year, CTV News reports.

The Pitfalls of Single-Payer Health Care: Canada’s Cautionary Tale

"This is That" is a statire news show:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/thisis...

Meet the man who went unpaid as an intern for 35 years

After being offered an unpaid position as CEO of his company, Bill Marshall has had enough and is blowing the whistle on unpaid internships.

"For 35 years they just kept telling me I was getting on the job experience ... now I know I was being taken advantage of." ....

I won't deny that I've had personal motives to study it for decades, even before it hit public awareness. And my name has never been Bob (or any variant).

I don't hide the fact that I'm a male-to-female transsexual, because there's nothing to be ashamed of. And here, there's not really any stigma any more. Even if my birth certificate didn't now say I was born female, it doesn't mean that I would run into much in the way of problems.

I've never encountered problems using the women's bathroom, and ironically, even the latest Texas bathroom bill would require me to use the women's bathroom. That's what happens when you make it dependent on the birth certificate - you pass a stupid law, you just look stupid to the rest of the world. Again.

Even Estonia and Bolivia allow transgender individuals to serve in the military. Canada's military just tweeted that they are promoting the recruiting of transgender individuals. in direct response to Trump's proposed ban.

Why is it that the US military is, according to Trump, composed of people who can't adapt to change, either on their own or with training? 18 other countries have done so, with no problems. Additionally, there are 2500 transgenders currently serving in the US military, and plenty more who have served, including former Navy SEALS. Where were the problems all these years?

Trump is just throwing shit at the wall in an effort to distract from his screw-ups with Russia, Jeff Sessions, the failed vote to repeal Obamacare, etc.

Last year, then defence secretary Ash Carter cited a study by the RAND Corporation think-tank that said there were about 2,500 active-duty service members and 1,500 service members who were transgender.

Where were the riots, the mutinies, the refusals of people to work alongside them? Oh, right - they didn't happen.

The political left doesn't like to admit it, but the real problem here are the unvaccinated third-worlders sneaking into the United States and other civilized nations illegally.

Here is a good description of the horrible problem that is occurring:

Their journeys spanned 400 days, involved crossing 15 borders on three continents

At the time, they were living alongside dozens of other African migrants who had fled their home countries and had travelled a well-trodden migration route that snakes north from Brazil through Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico.

So we have people coming from the worst parts of Africa, like Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and who very well may have never received any sort of proper vaccination at any point during their lives.

They travel in large groups in unsanitary conditions (which is a great way to spread disease!) throughout 15+ countries. Many of these countries they pass through are also rather awful third-world, or at best second-world, nations, where vaccinations are non-existent or minimal, and disease runs rampant. So not only are these illegal aliens spreading whatever diseases they have along the way, they're picking up new/additional diseases as they travel.

Then they end up in nations like the United States, Canada, Australia or those of Europe, where they enter illegally and bypass any medical screening that might have detected their diseases. They end up supporting themselves through crime and other black market or under-the-table means, typically ignoring any sort of regulations, screening, or medical care meant to prevent the transmission of diseases. Then leftists in these civilized countries wonder why disease is on the rise!

Like it or not, President Trump is right: border security is extraordinarily important. It isn't just about the economy. It's about making sure that unvaccinated, disease-carrying third-world illegal aliens do not enter the USA and other civilized nations. Sadly, leftist politicians willingly or unwillingly ignore this reality, and now we have new outbreaks of diseases that were eliminated in civilized countries decades ago.

Exactly what I was going to post

Fat = more estrogen = less sperm

Not to mention the other parts of our diet.

Try the massive contamination of drinking water with estrogen from birth control pills as well as the estrogen mimickers such as soy products.

Every time Mr. Skinny Jeans gets a soy Cappuccino along with his Tofu smoothie, goodbye a little of the Mr. and hello a little more of the Ms.

I'm all for reproductive rights, but if you even mention the possibility that all those birth control pills are screwing up the hormonal balance of literally everything that uses water, at least in the U.S., holey moley, the feminists will scream bloody murder.

Repeat after me: "Nothing, nothing on Earth matters more than MY reproductive rights!! Not my health, not your health, not the frogs and fishes health. NOTHING!!!"

Estrogen

Estrogen

Estrogen

There have been days when there are more than 100 such posts distributed throughout various stories - or even in one story. It doesn't bother me because I know who I am. I'm very much aware of my imperfections, and I admit to them, so what's the big deal. I have no secrets, so it's not like they'll ever "discover" anything that can be used to embarrass me.

Now this isn't to say I'm against privacy - to the contrary, I'm very much in favour of the individual's right to privacy, as well as freedom of speech, except for speech that incites hatred. These rights are not "natural rights", but human rights, defined by humans, and as such we get to decide what the limits are. It has to be balanced against accountability. As such, people who post anonymously really can't be taken seriously because they're hiding from being accountable. If they won't take themselves seriously, why should anyone else?

Different countries strike different balances. This is an example of a very unbalanced system of human rights:

The five teenagers, aged 14 to 16, can be heard laughing as they record more than two minutes of the man struggling to stay afloat in a pond near his family's home.

The boys can be heard taunting the man, saying that he was "going to die."

"Ain't nobody going to help you, you dumb bitch. You shouldn't have got in there," one of the boys says.

When the victim, Jamel Dunn, 31, slips beneath the water, a voice can be heard saying "he dead" and there is laughing.

One of the teens then suggested calling police but was dismissed by his friends.

Here the law makes it clear that everyone has a legal obligation to come to the assistance of someone in distress. Contrast that to this:

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in a 2012 legal argument, summarized that across the U.S. there's no general duty to render aid to someone in distress.

On Friday, the office of State Attorney Phil Archer issued a statement saying that charges were unlikely.

"We were asked to make a preliminary review of the video regarding any potential charges for failure to provide aid," the state attorney's office said. "Unfortunately, there is currently no statute in Florida law that compels an individual to render, request or seek aid for a person in distress. We are, however, continuing to research whether any other statute may apply to the facts of this case."

This depraved indifference extends throughout the US justice system

"You don't have the duty to rescue someone if that person is in danger. The blind man is walking in front of a car and you do not have a duty to stop him absent some relation between you," Kennedy said in arguments on the Affordable Care Act.

Kennedy added that there are "some severe moral criticisms of that rule, but that's generally the rule."

There's a real need to either scrap the constitution and begin from scratch, or split the country up. Then again, it won't see the tricentenial, not with people feeling they have no obligations towards each other, even when someone is dying and needs help - and kids are learning they don't even have to do something as simple as call 911.

unfortunately this is not the case in Canada, HBO Now requires an active cable subscription with the HBO package (a minimum of $80 CDN) if someone knows another streaming service that has current HBO shows, I'd love to know about it.

this artical is from 2016, but there has been no progress on this front that I can find.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Amazon Prime does more for northern food security than federal subsidies, say Iqaluit residents

Tell me, when was the last time that you welded a large-diameter zirconium-alloy pipe and X-rayed it for defects, with any possible sign of imperfection meaning having to cut it off and start from scratch?

Not to take away from your point, but... this is not an uncommon requirement for any important infrastructure. A bridge went up near me which connected two boroughs. There were several months of delays when inspectors did x-ray checks of the welds and determined they had not been done to the rigorous standards set in the contract. "They had to grind (each weld) out, cut it out and gouge it out and fix it"

I can't wait for someone from Canada to be denied entry for whatever reason and then some stupid fucker mention the Ban while explaining that Canada wasn't part of it.

You haven't been keeping up to date.

Foote was diagnosed with cancer in April 2004, and returned to Edmonton for treatment at the Cross Cancer Institute. But the disease had taken a firm grip, and he died one month later, leaving behind a will which left only a tiny fraction of his $220 million US estate to his family. (Anne got an annuity, the children got $100,000 each, according to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The bulk of his fortune was left to the Edmonton Community Foundation and The Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund in Melbourne, Australia.

Bentley, his longtime friend, was executor of the will. He believes Foote had given his children what they really needed — which was not his vast fortune.

"He felt that if he gave his children an education and money to buy a house and left them a small amount in his will that that was enough," he said. "If they're educated they can make a living."

The family didn't see it that way. Anne and five of his children filed suit in what became a long and bitter challenge of the will, which also directed her to move out of Foot Nort within two years.

The justice hearing the case in Alberta Court of Queen's Bench called the will "mean spirited" noting that it "essentially disinherited his immediate family."

But despite that, the challenge failed in 2009

Sounds like a Hallmark Movie-of-the-Week.