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Luckily now he's just going to go to jail for some relatively minor stuff.

Thus far no one seems interested in prosecuting. The article itself implied it due to the complications of dealing with another country. The people involved in the outing had an interview on CTV:

The Smoking Gun says it has turned over the information it has uncovered to the FBI, but no charges have been laid against any PrankNET member. While local police have investigated each prank, the FBI and the RCMP have not confirmed whether a cross-border investigation is underway.

Now people are whining about the noise and environmental impact.

NIMBYs have been whinnying and blocking wind farms for years. Near Boston, Cape Cod is a good place for offshore wind farms however NIMBYs including Kennedy has opposed them.

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Now people are whining about the noise and environmental impact.

People are generally ignorant, foolish, and short sighted when dealing with things outside their realm of knowledge.

Now people are whining about the noise and environmental impact.

And yet, despite the right-wing horror stories (with their purely anecdotal basis), Canada's national healthcare system remains extremely popular, with Canadians expressing high levels of satisfaction with the care they're getting. See? Only about 90% of Canadians express satisfaction with their system! There has to be something wrong with it!

"He expressed severe disappointment in Canada for showing up on our watch list for piracy next to China and Russia."

The same watch list that was quickly shown to be completely bogus with respect to the data used to put Canada on it? It's almost like the U.S. doesn't care whether its "watch list" looks like a bad piece of propaganda, because here he is referring to it even after it is shown to be wrong. And he demonstrated his ignorance in front of an international audience, no less. What a disappointing performance by Senator Hatch.

Oh well, at least it isn't as bad as mistakenly thinking that the 9/11 terrorists entered the U.S. from Canada, which is a myth that still pops up from time to time even among people who should know better (e.g., like John McCain and the current head of the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security). I guess we should get used to being blamed.

How much do military pilots make? Do you feel unsafe with them?

US military pilots? Yes, I feel unsafe with them.

It's common knowledge and scientific fact that Marijuana produces immediate, temporary changes in thoughts, perceptions, and information processing. The cognitive process most clearly affected by marijuana is short-term memory. reflex and response time. (*Marijuana Intoxication," Psychopharmacology 76 (1982): 278-81. *Deadwyler, S.A. et al., "The Effects of Delta-9-THC on Mechanisms of Learning and Memory." Neurobiology of Drug Abuse: Learning and Memory. Ed. L. Erinoff. Rockville, MD: National Institute on Drug Abuse 1990. 79-83. *Block, R.I. et al., "Acute Effects of Marijuana on Cognition: Relationships to Chronic Effects and Smoking Techniques." Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 43 (1992): 907-917.)

At some doses, marijuana affects perception and psychomotor performances- changes which could impair driving ability. This hasn't been linked to highway driver safety but it does have the same requirement meeting most state DWI standards where even under a legal limit, if you are impared, you can be cited. (*Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. "Legalization: Panacea or Pandora's Box". New York. (1995):36. *Swan, Neil. "A Look at Marijuana's Harmful Effects." NIDA Notes. 9.2 (1994): 14. *Moskowitz, Herbert and Robert Petersen. Marijuana and Driving: A Review. Rockville: American Council for Drug Education, 1982. 7. *Mann, Peggy. Marijuana Alert. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985. 265.)

These impairments have also been shown in testing samples of MS patients using Pot. It found that in some instances, being high increased the response time compared to patient who weren't high. They were on average 50 percent slower. Granted, this was a look at people with MS, but I have personally witnessed the same behavior in perfectly fine people. When I used to work with people that got high on the job, they would rail about how good they were doing and all I could think of was how much bullshit it was because I had to work harder to keep things going smooth. And yes, I worked with these people sober where they performed much better at their assigned tasks.

Now, it is true that none of the information I presented showed a specific link between the driving abilities of a person who is high and their likelihood of getting into an accident. But I also don't need specific links to any action to know the sun will rise in the morning and set in the evening. I don't care how pedantic you want to be, it is obvious that being high presents more of a danger then not being high does. It should also be noted that there is no test that can be performed to tell if someone is high or not. All they can do is look for THC concentrations being released from fat cells. THC is released slower then it is absorbed so it doesn't always rise to the concentration required for detectable psychoactivity. There is also no standard baseline for concentration levels in the brain that would allow detectable psychoactivity or evidence someone was high. So unless someone openly admitted to being high on an illegal drug after having an accident, the statistics simply won't be there in the first place.

I'm a Canadian, and while our government has loads of problems, they are of the "the free market doesn't always work perfectly" kind, not the "everything the government touches turns to shit" kind.

Is the freemarket the reason Canadians have the come to the US for surgeries? Yea, in the US if you can pay you can have the surgery without waiting a long tyme whereas if you depend on National Health Care in Canada you do wait. A Liberal MP, Belinda Stronach went to California for surgery for her breast cancer, not because of the cost or waiting period but because "the U.S. hospital was the best place to have it done due to the type of surgery required."

And it's not just those who can afford it in the US who get good care, those who can't afford it can get good care too. I am an excellent example. As a college student without health insurance I was riding my bike one day after classes when I was hit by a moving van. At the accident scene I was picked up by a helicopter and flown to the best hospital for my type of injury in the area. I spent about a month in the hospital then lived in a rehabilitation house where I lived another 1 1/2 months. After leaving there I was in therapy about 3 months. My medical bills, which because I did not have insurance I could not afford, came to more than $120,000. I couldn't even afford to pay $1,200 never mind that much but I still got medical treatment.

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If you were vomiting, it probably was NOT the flu. See: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20030114/flu_not030114/Health?s_name=&no_ads= Flu symptoms: coughing, sneezing, runny nose, achy muscles, fatigue, lethargy, fever Things not on the list: vomiting, diarrhea Nausea and vomiting from the flu can occur, especially in children, but they are not the hallmark of the disease. If you were "power hurling," you almost certainly did not have the flu.

But the great thing is that there are umpteen different ways to use most of that free software in open-source operating systems. Virtualization is probably the most reliable, but the progress in Wine has been astounding and it works great for running VirtualDub, and can use Windows video encoders like the XviD binaries for Windows. And I've been watching online television from CTV in Firefox using the Silverlight plugin, so that is a testament to progress in Mono.

adequacy.org seems interesting. Never seen that before.

Actually The Republic: they're more like devil's advocates here, it's a local paper but pretty often writes about grandiose ideas. He'll write contradictory articles in the hopes of getting people talking and thinking.

Blame America first is like Blame yourself (myself) first. It's a wisdom and humbleness that should be more universal.

The author got in most trouble for writing this one article: http://republic-news.org/archive/52-repub/repub_52_potvin_conf.html

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070413/Kevin_Potvin_070413/20070413?hub=Politics

Non-experts who disagree with experts are a dime a dozen in any field, but for some reason, global warming seems to be the only field where they make headlines.

There's biology, disagreeing laymen get a LOT of press on that. And epidemiology.

Really? Because I often wonder why it happens every goddamn time we elect the Conservatives, and why nobody remembers this the next time.

Yeah, damn those conservatives! That Paul Martin guy for instance. What will they do next??

I know that feeding partisan trolls is usually a bad idea, but your brand of nonsense is just SOOOO tempting!

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090227/stem_cells_090228/20090302?hub=Health

A bunch of this crap already fell through the skies in Canada and hit the Atlantic Ocean on Friday. And NORAD phoned ahead to warn Calgary it was coming. So the collision might be unprecedented but the falling space junk is not...

I'm not trying to make a judgment here but the American media frenzy is an interesting contrast to the Canadian "whatever, eh" reaction.

And the scariest thing here is how bad their math was, predicting it would hit somewhere in Alberta and then having it land off the coast of AFRICA. Someone move a decimal place?

It's also about formats, though. I download TV shows from TPB, and you know what? I can watch every single one of those shows for free with my bunny ears, but I refuse to be tied to a TV schedule. For me, TPB is the 21st century version of a VCR.

Luckily, up here in Canada, CTV and their subsidiaries have realized that they can broadcast on the Internet, make money off of advertising (business as usual, for them) and their customers won't be robbed by the cable companies.

Now, if only Hulu would extend their contracts to other countries.

You're right. And I don't get that reaction on the part of the media. It's weird that in all this time I've never seen a flag-draped coffin arriving in the U.S. in the news. That policy isn't as respectful as it might seem, because the preferences of the families are probably quite mixed.

Here in Canada there was a huge outrage when it was decided by the government that the media would not be permitted to attend and record the arrival of our deceased soldiers from Afghanistan. The issue came to a head when some of the families wanted the media there -- ostensibly so that others across the country could share in the grieving. Eventually the government realized it was a mistake to force the issue one way or the other against the wishes of the relevant family, and now it is entirely their choice whether the media is there or not. That's a much better and more respectful arrangement than having the government forcing the issue. Thanks to the debate it's far better than what we had before.

This kind of debate is the way democracy is supposed to work, and the media is part of the equation. Shutting them out discourages proper democratic debate over the issues. Apparently the Thai government doesn't get this, and wants to roll things back to the 19th century. It's idiotic lese-majeste law is a symptom of a more serious problem than respecting the monarchy. If the Thai king wished to put Thailand on the road to a modern democracy he could push to abolish the law.

You have to ask why a monarch who is such a great guy needs the law to protect him from insults anyway. If I want to call Queen Liz an old hag, I can. That's freedom. The Thai monarch can't take it like Liz can?

... whatever I saw not long ago, I'd described as a "fridge on fire falling from the sky". The picture does not serve justice to what I saw. http://edmonton.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20081125/meteorite_search_081125?hub=EdmontonHome

...travels through RIM(TM)'s central server in Canada

Canada, eh? That's one of those unstable, oil-rich nations run by a fundamentalist dictator, that supports all kinds of terror, right?

This decision is already being reviewed and will likely be tossed by the Carleton Student Council.

But hey lets bash for a while anyways as though we don't know that this is already out of date.

More information on the brain size/intelligence correlation: "Canadian researchers examined the brains of 100 people who were given extensive IQ tests before they died and found a correlation between cerebral volume and intelligence." http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051223/brainsize_intelligence_20051223/20051223?hub=SciTech

"With respect to the question of brain size and intelligence, the most recent review I know of (there have been others) concerning the correlation between IQ and head size looked at 25 separate studies (going back to the turn of the century), comprising 39 independent normal samples (total N = 51,931; Wickett, et al. in press). They report that most correlations range between r = .10 to r = .30, with an n-weighted mean of r = .194. This is highly statistically significant, though head dimensions clearly do not explain very much of the variation in IQ.

More interestingly, 4 recent studies of this question for the first time derived estimates of brain size from high quality magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), instead of using external cranial dimensions. All 4 studies show much higher correlations: Willerman et al. (1991) report an estimated correlation of r = .35 (N = 40); Andreasen et al. (1993) found a correlation of r= .38 (N = 67); Raz et al (in press) found a correlation of r = .43 (N = 29); and Wickett et al

The Canadian operation has "good strong sales and good earnings over the last several quarters"
the Canadian subsidiary had no choice but to seek the court's protection, which he said "was triggered by the filing in the United States."

Perhaps, "Blame the US" should be invoked? :-)

it would be beneficial to those reading your post to know who the hell you are referring to.

No, it would not, because the concerns have been resolved.

it also helps to put in a link to lend credence to your claims

Well, let's see here. There's a few possible responses that spring to mind.

1) Exactly what difference does it make to me if the bottom feeders infesting this place think I've got "credence" or not? None worth any effort that I can see.

2) Those who are too stupid to figure out how to use this new "Google" thing on their own -- y'know, I'm perfectly cool with that kind of moron questioning my "credence". Shows their level of insight and intelligence to everybody nicely.

3) "Claims"? CLAIMS? You mean, you cretin, it even crossed your mind for a MOMENT that Canada is not actually the most fantastic country in the world in every conceivable way, and specifically in the ways I mention!?!?!

Yeah, we'll go with 3) for now. Even though it is just slightly into the workday here so it's stretching our non-bottom-feederness a tad. That's it, though, talk amongst yourselves now.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20081009/canadian_banks_081009/20081009?hub=TopStories

Nope. I'd just like know what this does at all to prevent anything.

Clearly it prevents your kid from exceeding 80mph. That would eliminate a certain degree of street and highway racing...

"An Ontario couple on their way home from celebrating their 17th wedding anniversary are the innocent victims of a street race between two young men, police say....Police say the two racing vehicles were travelling 150 km/h in the 80 km/h zone..."

"Earlier this year, Toronto cab driver Tahir Khan was killed after two teens were allegedly street racing along Mount Pleasant Avenue, reaching speeds of up to 140 km/h in the 50 km/h zone."

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060528/crash_fatal_060528/20060528?hub=CTVNewsAt11

"Orlando Fla... FHP investigators said Eleazar Rodriguez Jr. was traveling more than 100 m.p.h. when he was cut off by the Eclipse.

Investigators said the Eclipse apparently hit the Oldsmobile and sent it into oncoming traffic, where it clipped a truck. The people inside the truck said the Oldsmobile came right at them."

http://www.wesh.com/news/14287006/detail.html?subid=10100244

Sure the kids might still speed, and do 80mph. But as fast as 80mph is its a lot slower than 100mph and beyond. And it might have prevented the race from occurring all if the drivers knew the cars were speed-capped anyway.

Its obviously not going to stop all accidents, but it might stop a few, and I don't think anyone can really make a coherent argument that limiting the kids to 80mph is ever going to be a credible threat to their lives. The potential liklihood for a "need" to do 100mph to escape a collapsing bridge in an earthquake notwithstanding. ;)

At least in some provinces. I moved to Ontario from BC. It's more of a rat-race where I live now, but one of the nice things is that the police here are investigated by a special unit which has very strict rules about non-bias. They're not part of the police department, they're not allowed to associate with depts they may be investigating, and when one is called in they're generally pulled from out-of-area.

In BC (and apparently Alberta), such investigations are in fact internal, and as such a lot of shit tends to pass that shouldn't.

One of note that always brings a chill down my spine is the Ian Bush case. See here, here, and here/ /here. Also note that the blood-spatter expert who testified against the police was later disciplined on "unrelated matters"

At least in some provinces. I moved to Ontario from BC. It's more of a rat-race where I live now, but one of the nice things is that the police here are investigated by a special unit which has very strict rules about non-bias. They're not part of the police department, they're not allowed to associate with depts they may be investigating, and when one is called in they're generally pulled from out-of-area.

In BC (and apparently Alberta), such investigations are in fact internal, and as such a lot of shit tends to pass that shouldn't.

One of note that always brings a chill down my spine is the Ian Bush case. See here, here, and here/ /here. Also note that the blood-spatter expert who testified against the police was later disciplined on "unrelated matters"

At least in some provinces. I moved to Ontario from BC. It's more of a rat-race where I live now, but one of the nice things is that the police here are investigated by a special unit which has very strict rules about non-bias. They're not part of the police department, they're not allowed to associate with depts they may be investigating, and when one is called in they're generally pulled from out-of-area.

In BC (and apparently Alberta), such investigations are in fact internal, and as such a lot of shit tends to pass that shouldn't.

One of note that always brings a chill down my spine is the Ian Bush case. See here, here, and here/ /here. Also note that the blood-spatter expert who testified against the police was later disciplined on "unrelated matters"

A comparison of news outfits in and out of the US, all of them top stories:

US (MSNBC):
Discovery or doom? Collider stirs debate

UK (BBC):
'Big Bang' experiment starts well (from today, since I neglected to grab their story yesterday)

Canada (CTV):
Scientists hope to find 'God particle' in mini Big Bang

I also caught a teaser for a news program on a US channel (not sure which network) yesterday: "Will the world end tonight? More at 11!"

we'd never see police in "The West" do anything like this, would we?

Absolute power corrupts absolutely

Tell that to Maple Leaf Foods. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080821/maple_leaf_list_080821/20080825?hub=Specials

I have not taken the time to really dig up proper citations.

Eivind.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20080817/copyright_crusade_080817/20080817/?hub=SciTech&subhub=PrintStory

I bought a webcam from Staples, found the quality poor, and returned it. I could have sworn I did a factory reset, but six months later I started received emailed videos from some families rec room. :S (At the time, I was out of the country, and thought someone had stolen my home security video system, and was a bit freaked out...) But it turns out someone bought the refurb camera I returned, which still had my email notification in it.

So unintentionally, I was being email bombed by videos from someone else's house. I contacted the ISP of the originating videos repeatedly (Eastlink), which repeatedly ignored me. It took me going to the CTV and getting the story on national news to embarrass Eastlink into immediately contacting the people and resolving the problem. (Staples contacted me upon seeing the story, was incredibly apologetic, claimed they were putting new refurb policies in place, and said they could have tracked down the buyer for me. I didn't realized they could have done this; it would have been an easier route than the media...)

Contacting the media really worked to get the attention of the ISP. They did make me sound like a bit of pervert (sheeesh, it was a mistake, I wanted the videos stopped from the start!), but at least it had the desired result...

not to be in the US.

Oh, please. Australia banning Fallout 3, Canadian judge overruling a parent's normal punishment, and Britain is officially insane.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/11/america/hate.php
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=6aaf855a-47e3-4e3f-8709-5b53dcfffff0
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/06/25/noindex/nbaby.xml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2008/06/25/noindex/nchild.xml

I'll stick with the imperfect USA.

Canada, being so close to the US, still appears to have a little sense:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080628/steyn_commission_080628/20080628?hub=TopStories

Yeah right... keep smoking pot, then add frinking for added fun. Please forget what I wrote...

And don't forget to add denial of reality and delusion to the mix... http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070501/marijuana_psychotic_070501?s_name=&no_ads=

news.google.com ... search for amazon ... http://www.ctv.ca/gallery/html/tribe_080530/photo_0.html

This project is cursed:
French skydiver's hopes deflate as balloon escapes Updated Tue. May. 27 2008 8:06 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff
French skydiver Michel Fournier's massive helium balloon appeared to break free from its moorings Tuesday, soaring into the sky and deflating his hopes to set a new world record for highest jump. It was the second straight day that Fournier's hopes were cut short.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080526/skydiver_freefall_080527/20080527?hub=CanadaAM

Being detained by customs does not give you a criminal record. If you're a non-citizen, it may indeed cause trouble in entering the country again. To get a criminal record, you must be tried and convicted of a crime.

This happens elsewhere too. In the latest Israel-Hezballah conflict victims were paraded in a show for journalists. Here's another list of staged incidents, including one woman who's house was destroyed twice in the same day in two different locations. It even happens in Canada .

>a limited bandwidth... this has the side effect of making them look more like a finite combination of sine waves
Phew! You had me worried for a minute there. First it's those darn Swiss making planet-destroying black holes, and now we have to worry about infinite bandwidth! You could spend literally all day counting an infinite combination of sine waves!

You appear to be equating or comparing a service provider's network with a consumer's wireless LAN. Apples and oranges.

The authorities, of course, aren't interested in all of the hops those kiddie pron packets took. They're only interested in the destination. And some people just aren't interested in exposing themselves to being suspected of wrong doing when this stuff is certainly happening already.

I hold issue with your terminology and request a clarification. Are you asserting that fertility declines in those with a high standard of living, or that birth rates decline in those with a high standard of living? I could agree with the latter but I would argue against the former.

Some factors that would make the birth rate decline make sense:
- Higher standard of living means you aren't working a farm to sustain your family so you don't need more child labor to help out
- Higher standard of living means better health care which means more of your progeny survive to adulthood and you don't need to replace them on a regular basis.
- Higher standard of living also means better health care for you which means you're in no hurry to start making babies for fear of dying before you get a chance.
- Higher standard of living provides you more time to pursue your career and hobbies both due to the aforementioned health care, as well as not having to work 16 hours a day to earn a living wage. This means however that there is less time to dedicate to a family. A quick google search confirms that we're waiting longer to procreate, at least in Canada, on average.

I can't think of anything that would make fertility decline, however.

Besides being a (former) talking head on Fox's Red Eye, Rachel Mardsen has been accused of harassment in the past. You might also note from the same article that she has falsely accused a man of sexual harassment. Ms. Mardsen target in the sexual harassment case claimed she sent him sexual e-mails and photographs.

I had a similar thing happen when I returned a webcam but forgot to remove my email address from it. It took a national news story to shame the ISP into notifying their customer (they ignored my requests to look up the IP address and notify their customer; however, the day the news story aired, the problem was immediately resolved).

These all browser lock.

Link to the most recent Canadian one. The pilot reporting a autopilot problem sure does sound like borked avionics...

Canadian students rank third in the world in science: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20071204/pisa_test_071204/20071204?hub=SciTech (USA rated in at 29th)