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Somebody up the page claims that the BC Motor Vehicle Act prohibits the use of earphones, except when integrated with a communications system on a motorcycle.
Looking at the MVA, I can't find any reference to that or even to electronic devices, perhaps an incomplete or old copy.
According to CTV, https://bc.ctvnews.ca/can-you-...

According to the BC Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, headphones can be used while driving, but only for the purpose of hands-free communication. That means listening to music on your headphones while behind the wheel is illegal. All music must come through your vehicle's sound system.

As well, headphones must only be worn in one ear, and you must put it into your ear before you start driving. If you're caught breaking these laws you could be fined $167.

The RCMP have backdoor access to Blackberry. https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...

It is better to start investigating whether mental health services could help that person live a better life

In America, we call these mental health facilities "prisons", and they are currently benefiting over 2 million citizens. But only 60% have serious mental health issues. But we are working to increase that percentage, and the corresponding profits.

Unfortunately we have a Conservative Party here in Canada that would dearly love to privatize our prison system and start incarceration for profit American style. They already made some moves in that direction a few years back and promptly were handed their collective asses on a platter for that along with their muzzling of federally employed scientists and statistical analysts.

What scares me more about what is happening in Canada is the worst asshole racists are starting to come out of the closet now that the US has one huge racist criminal asshole as President.

The statistical information is useful only in as much as defining areas that need different types of policing. It is a shame to see the popular attitude toward law enforcement at such a low that the good and necessary work done by kind and decent individuals goes unnoticed. WHO would you rather have taking care of a traffic accident or a mass shooting or a home invasion, a bunch of vigilante asshole rednecks or decent professional law enforcement personnel? I am sick and tired of the news media portraying police as bunch of misbegotten misanthropic bullies with billy clubs, guns and mace!

Why the hell aren't they charged with attempted murder?
Shit, a cop was recently convicted of attempted murder in Toronto for the 7 bullets he put into the perp after killing him with 2 shots. He did get off the murder charge though.
Even then they suspended him with pay, while waiting appeal, which is insane. (Appeal refused)
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...

Oh yes, it isn't murder if a cop shoots someone in the USA if they feel threatened.
From the wiki article on murder,

In the United States, in some states and in federal jurisdiction, a killing by a police officer is excluded from prosecution if the officer believes they are being threatened with deadly force by the victim. This may include such actions by the victim as reaching into a glove compartment or pocket for license and registration, if the officer thinks that the victim might be reaching for a gun.[30]

With the citation,

Joseph Goldstein (July 28, 2016). "Is a Police Shooting a Crime? It Depends on the Officer's Point of View". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 1, 2016. Retrieved July 29, 2016. "The longstanding official deference to the viewpoint of police officers is enshrined in the laws of some states and Supreme Court rulings."

A couple more citations quickly looking,
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/03...
https://www.latimes.com/nation...

Bonus question:

How come poor countries can afford it but the US can't?

Even in NON-poor countries, they are having trouble keeping up healthcare for all and the costs are starting to weigh in heavily.

Healthcare problems in the UK

Canada isn't that much better than US

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

Exactly!

ctvnews

"But if a court says someone should be extradited to faces charges in another country, the ultimate decision is up to a politician."

AFTER the court decides, a POLITICIAN will make the ultimate call. Why is everyone blind to this?

Tax returns can be interesting. Just reading about Santa's, seems the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) considers some of it unusual such as getting paid in cookies and carrots. He also claims the Northern Residents Deduction. Good news is that he's put all the email and phone scammers on the naughty list.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politic...

yup. once in 2015 and another one this year. Montreal dont give a crap about environment

You haven't been keeping track of how the average Canadian feels about America since Trump and us being a national security threat. Though we do feel sympathy for the average American. For example, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...

Fair point. Most of the world (including Canada) aren't too fond of the Trump administration. And yet the darker side of populism has made inroads elsewhere, including Canada (e.g., see Ford brothers.)

You haven't been keeping track of how the average Canadian feels about America since Trump and us being a national security threat. Though we do feel sympathy for the average American. For example, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...

The issue is that the GP selected a very disreputable source for their claims. If those claims were true then it would seem wise to select a source with a good reputation and history of accurate reporting.

Nothing in the GGP's quote from Wikipedia indicated that Rebel Media has a history of inaccurate reporting. Just because a source reports news that supports a political belief opposed to your own, does not make it inaccurate.

In the particular case, quoted by the GGGP, of a hoax hate crime involving the cutting of a Muslim girl's hijab, a few seconds of searching turns up corroborating stories from CTV news, the Toronto Sun, and CBC. None of them specifically make the link with the way several politicians condemned the crime (before it was revealed to be a hoax) and quietly ignored it afterwards: that is a particular editorial slant taken by Rebel Media. But it doesn't seem to be untrue, nor especially misleading.

Childhood Obesity Linked to Early Start on Solid Food

Childhood Obesity Linked to Divorce

Childhood obesity linked to health habits

Childhood Obesity Linked to Mom's Lifestyle and Diet Choices

Childhood obesity linked to cold virus

Childhood Obesity Linked to Fast Food Toys

Childhood Obesity Linked to Vitamin D Deficiency

"I didn't see anything in the article saying she was in the US."

Right. I was confusing her with Maria Butina:

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/w...

I got got irritated and wanted to waste their time too.

Careful with going through those prompts, you could only be confirming a valid number, and get even more calls.

I've also heard you might trigger a call to a 'premium' pay to call if you press buttons or try to call back and you get a huge hit on your bill (think a 976 number for instance).

This crap should be shut down by now.

Good luck with that. Many of these calls have been shown to originate from the exact same call centre as legit companies outsource their crap to.

As long as the industry can convince the lawmakers that they need to be allowed to do caller ID spoofing for their supposedly legitimate calls, the companies who use these call centres in India (or wherever) have created a condition where they insist their 'real' calls outweighs our ability to not receive calls with fake caller ID. Literally industry demands that this bullshit be possible so they can save money, and lawmakers have agreed.

The now entrenched of outsourcing customer support to idiots in call centres where there is cheap labour is precisely why this crap hasn't been shut down.

If you see a number you don't recognize don't answer, and don't be so sure that wasting their time won't cause you even more grief.

When a crime happened in Ottawa that the police wanted potential witnesses for, they turned to cell phone users as well, but in a slightly less invasive manner:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/...

TL;DR, they got the cell phone numbers of people near the scene at the time and texted them asking if they had information on the crime.

I imagine it wouldn't be hard to have cell phone providers offer this service to police *without* disclosing the numbers.

"We want to text everyone who was in proximity of X,Y on YYYY:MM:DD at HH:MM this message: 'foobar' ... here's our warrant, thanks."

"York University researchers are warning that climate change is causing the country to become increasingly habitable to the blood-sucking bugs, which migrate by clinging to travelling birds and deer. Jianhong Wu, the director of the York Institute for Health Research, says the tick population will grow exponentially in the coming years in many parts of Ontario."

They just need to cover the surface of the Atlantic ocean with trillions of shade balls:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech...

That would prevent all that water evaporating into the atmosphere. Though I do wonder where the water evaporating from the reservoirs would have gone.

Things changed a lot since 2006 (and that pamphlet is based on even older data from the turn of the century). Here's something from this decade. Estrogen reduces inflammatory response. As for blood suger, you've got it backwards:

In addition, recent research has shown that post-menopausal females exhibit increased incidence of type 2 diabetes, reduced insulin sensitivity, increased fat mass and increased systemic inflammatory markers [48]. These same features are seen in ovarictomized rodents, suggesting that estrogen may play a role in reducing the incidence of type 2 diabetes, insulin insensitivity and weight gain in aging females [48]. Human studies have suggested that HRT may protect against obesity-induced insulin resistance in older women in part by inducing increases in heat shock proteins (HSPs) [49–51]. These data suggest that estrogen and HRT could help limit the onset of type 2 diabetes in aging females [24, 49].

Who doesn't want a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, and less weight gain.

Estrogen has been shown to provide damage protection in a range of other tissues, beyond muscle and bone, including cardiac, neural, hepatic and vascular tissues

Who doesn't want better protection for their bones, heart, brain, liver and circulatory systems?

Also, the benefits are now main-stream knowledge, including the big prize - a longer, healthier life.

Women using hormone replacement therapy were found to be 30 per cent less likely to die than those not on hormone therapy, the study found.

Women who use hormone replacement therapy to relieve the symptoms of menopause significantly improve their chances at a longer life due to a decreased risk of heart attack or stroke, according to new research.

A study conducted at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles looked at the health records of more than 4,200 women who received coronary calcium scans between 1998 and 2012. The scans measure the amount of calcium in the heart’s arteries. Higher calcium levels indicate plaque build-up, which increases the risk of having a heart attack or stroke.

Heart disease and stroke are the second and third most common causes of death in Canada, behind cancer, according to Statistics Canada.

Hormone replacement therapy users were also found to be 20 per cent more likely to have a coronary calcium score of zero, the lowest possible score. And 36 per cent were less likely to score above 399, indicating a high risk for heart attack and severe atherosclerosis -- a hardening and narrowing of the arteries. Estrogen is believed to have a beneficial effect on heart health and cholesterol levels because it increases the flexibility of blood vessels and arteries, allowing for better blood flow.

“Hormone replacement therapy resulted in lower atherosclerosis and improved survival for all age groups and for all levels of coronary calcium,” he said.

What's not t like. Helps explain why my cholesterol levels are crazy good (HDL more than twice the target value, LDL less than half the target value), and why my red and white blood cells last much longer than average (less wear and tear from being forced through plaque-filled blood vessels). It also reduces the risk of strokes because it counter-acts hardening of the arteries.

Ad the liver damage? That was a concern when people were using horse estrogen. Human estrogen doesn't have the same effect. And electrolyte balance (hyperkalemia) is a risk factor when using ethinyl estradiol (also linked to diabetes) and spironolactin, not when using estradiol and cyproterone acetate. Too bad that the US doesn't allow the use cyproterone acetate, unlike most of the rest of the world.

So that leaves just

Joey Bada$$ proved it!

Nope. Estrogen increases muscle mass and tone, even without exercise. The effects are enhanced with exercise, and can be quite striking. Also increases lifespan..

So her lifespan is probably longer than most women (since most aren't on HRT), and definitely longer than if she had stayed a man. Between the two, she's probably gained a decade - and a decade that will be of the same or better quality than a man 20 years younger because of the reduction of risk of stroke, heart attack, hip fractures, better muscle tone, better, more youthful skin appearance, reduced risk of melanomas, etc.

Finally - a simple pill to extend life span - and it's cheap. Who needs expensive beauty cremes that falsely claim to reduce wrinkles when you can get the real thing? Too bad it's not for non-transsexual XY dudes (or female-to-male transsexuals), just genetic and transsexual women need apply. Guys are stuck with just getting older and pruney, and dying younger. But hey, it's your funeral.

Officially, they say the RCMP leads the process but your are probably right:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics...

There have been plenty of real advances in the last few years, not just speed improvements. For me, the most impressive thing was Generative Adversarial Networks in 2014, but there have been plenty of advances. The most recent article I read was on Relational Reasoning https://www.technologyreview.c... .

Here as some more recent advances
Turing Learning - https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ne...
Evolution Strategies - https://www.technologyreview.c...
Bayesian Program Synthesis - https://techxplore.com/news/20...
Gaussian Processes - https://www.wired.com/2017/02/...
AI Passes Standard Intelligence Test - https://phys.org/news/2017-01-...
Semi-Supervised Learning For Handwriting Recognition - https://phys.org/news/2016-12-...
Lipreading - https://www.technologyreview.c...
One-Shot Learning - https://www.technologyreview.c...
Differentiable Neural Computer - http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-...
Bayesian Program Learning - http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech...

Can't you people leave him alone for a single day? He finished up his orb business, then left the middle east to arrive at Israel, had a great time at the Holocaust museum and randomly decided to confess to outing an Israeli spy in front of Netanyahu - but all you people can do is make fun of his tiny, tiny hands.

People are so quick to jump on the FIT program and green energy costs here in Ontario. They seem to forget the billion dollars we have to pay off in order to cancel a contract for a couple of gas turbine generating stations to be built so the Liberals could win those seats in an election. In a statement concerning the rate hikes a couple of years ago (2 or 3) raising wages were responsible for approximately half of the hike. There are a lot of people making over $100k in the power companies.

Except that the FIT program and subsidies are directly responsible for those energy costs. Not those "gas power plants" that they cancelled and screwed the province over. See that link above that says "global news" where the provincial Liberal government openly states that it's the "green energy program" aka FIT that's the direct cause of the high electricity prices. Maybe you can enjoy reading this article instead. Or perhaps you can read this one. You know where the blame falls directly on the green energy program and the FIT system. Or perhaps even this one. Yeah, it all falls back to one place. Then you can get into this bullshit.

We've had the same thing happening in Ontario and in BC. Because of similar problems Just remember the bullshit they peddled that that it was supposed to lower electricity costs too. Which is why every place they've been installed, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed. And in many working.

Greenpeace hasn't had credibility since the 1980's. It's all about filling someones pocket at the expense of fear mongering, it's also the same reason why people are being more critical of environmental groups. There's a reason why in Canada people who live outside of Toronto label it a watermelon organization. That's communist and anti-industrialist on the inside, environmentalist on the outside before some braindead nut starts screaming "racism." Their absolute insane brand of environmentalism also gives life to garbage like the Line 9 protests.(There is more garbage on it, just search) Where environmentalists started screaming about the "doom of the environment" because the direction of flow for the pipeline was reversed. I'm not even kidding, they were protesting a pipeline changing the direction of transfer because a newer and safer one had been built -- and this one would be used at a lower capacity.

Then again, this is the same environmentalism that also gave birth to the protests against pipelines and transporting goods by rail car. Think on that for a second, they're happier having said goods transported by transport trucks.

It is simply a marketing tactic. Canada is not exactly an ideal spot to locate such a backup in any case given their hate speech legislation and tactic of slapping very heavy fines on people who might have offended one of an infinite number of gender pronoun protected groups.

Actually, it's not hate speech legislation. It's inciting hatred legislation. Our hate speech laws target recruitment of other people to incite harm to a group.You can threaten to harm someone, and that's a law unto itself (assault), but no matter how disgusting it is, unless you're trying to get others to join you, it's not hate speech.

You are free to be as racist as you want, and to shout it to the world. One person did, and while hate charges were considered, they did not apply. He was just charged with simple assault.

Likewise, you can discriminate against gays but as long as you're not telling others to harm them, you're fine.

That's the two key elements to the law - first, you have to incite others to join you, and second, you have to be threatening to harm. Just saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese)" isn't hate speech, and even saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese) and think they should be killed" isn't hate. But saying "I hate (gays|Jews|Chinese), and we should form a group to kill all of them" is hate speech because you're inviting others to harm.

Enjoy your high-latency low-bitrate limited-bandwidth bluetooth audio, and don't complain when the audio falls out of sync with video. :-p

And you'll scream in 3d surround sound as your proper exploding Samsung catches fire.

Noted that blutooth is evil beyond the pale, but bttery fires are just fine. Here is an acceptable situation:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/business...

http://wallstreams.com/samsung...

http://thenextweb.com/in/2016/...

Yeah, you might want to re-think your talking points.

That's not true. In cases of wrongful imprisonment there are plenty of cases of people suing and winning.

Ivan Henry won 8m in 2010: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Réjean Hinse won 13.1m in 1997: http://www.ctvnews.ca/feds-que...

Ron and Linda Sterling won 925k in 2004: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I could go on, there are plenty of other cases where victims of wrongful imprisonment were compensated.

We know you have managed to elude the most powerful intelligence apparatus on Earth, and we see your Telepresence bot rolling around. It must be really cramped in there. But you're no match for Philadelphia Mr. Snowden! Stay away!

On August 1, 2015 Hitch-Bot met its end in a pool of its own of torn circuits in a place called corner of Elfreth's alley.. Some of us who realize that robot lives matter, will never forget.

Which is why I updated the Wikipedia page for Elfreth's Alley 'History section' to also note the simple fact that "The Hitchbot was murdered here." But this historical fact was CRUELLY REVERTED by user 'Beyond My Ken'. When you visit grand old Philadelphia you are surrounded by revisionist history guarded by bastard liars. Spit on those despicable old bricks in remembrance of Hitchbot.

Canada Post mail walkers are working on a contract that expired in 2011. This is just another ploy of the management to get the workers to agree to a 30% slash in wages http://bc.ctvnews.ca/canada-po...

What's wrong with a wild taxi?

I think it is good when regulated industries are challenged. This is not to say they should always win, but it is a good thing.

When an industry is regulated, they typically give reasons for the regulations. Safety is normally a big one. In exchange, the regulated industry typically gets certain things outside the 'market'... be it high pricing or monopolies of some kind...

It is always useful to see if the 'unregulated' world is really as dangerous and scary as they say it is. It is equally as important to find out if the regulated world is as safe it is.

I'm from the developing world where informal taxis are quite popular. They were not a big deal. You had a lot to fear from both legal and informal taxis.

Now is there a possibility you will be robbed, sexually assaulted, or just taken a longer route for a larger price? Of course there is.

Here's a better question. Do regular Taxis prevent this. In Toronto recently, it made the news that an Uber Driver sexually assaulted a person.

But people in regulated professions sexually assault people all the time (doctors, teachers...)

And hey, a quick news google search reveals cases in Toronto where regular cab drivers have committed crimes.
http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/toro...

For me and countless others, I don't see the purported benefits of regulated taxis. Uber has worked well for me and countless other people. The supposed problems of unregulated taxis just haven't turned up.

It clearly is not an inferior service. People use it and love it and the rating system is pretty good as well.

Again, this is not anti-regulation post. It is on a case by case and industry by industry situation. Building regulations have a huge benefit. If anyone has lived in a country without building regulations, they know the issues of building collapses and fires.

But taxis, hair stylists (yes, Ontario decided these need to be regulated as well for some reason)... these are the kinds of industries that need to be challenged.

Try going outside. You appear to be in a condo in Vancouver. You may be on heroin.

It's been so cold in Canada in the last three years we've broken dozens if not hundreds of cold record temperature records:

http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/febru...

We've not broken one for warm/hot, just record cold.

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

"Environment Canada has released its list of top weather stories over the past year, and the long winter chill took top spot."

The Great Lakes attained 92 per cent ice coverage for the first time in 35 years, sea ice was back on the East Coast and ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence was its thickest in 25 years."

Frost in late may/early June? Welcome to Canada, eh?

http://www.quintenews.com/2015...

Niagra falls has frozen about 7 times in 200 years. Last year and the year before were two of those times.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Plus, you know, the Arctic sea ice has grown so much - because it's unseasonabley cold and hs been for a decade according to the NOAA - that we have to redraw the maps becvause of eht INCREASE IN ARCTIC SEA ICE. There's more of it now than when "global warming" started.

I'd have to say, as a Canadian living in Canada you don't see a lot of global warming here. More like the next ice age.

One scientist who predicted this in 2008 had his work vetted by CERN and NASA and botttom line: 27 more years of this cold then it'll warm again.

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

Look at the number of temperature records set for cold and hot worldwide. I believe that explains why they're so desperate to prove a hot climate record. It's because they keep trying to prove one, keep being corrected when it's pointed out it's not really a record in a field of so many cold weather records.

Can't say there's any sign of warming in Canada. The current Indian Summer, a first in a decade is not a sign the planet is warming, Sparky.

Except that people are no longer "better off year after year." Even for those who work, many are already over-qualified, so sending them back to school for more education (and more debt) is not the solution.

The research found the country's overqualification rate among university grads aged 25 to 34 climbed to 40 per cent last year, up from about 32 per cent in 1991. In 2014, there were 582,000 people in the overqualified category, 795,000 identified as "rightfully qualified" and 77,000 unemployed, the study said.

Over the same period, the analysis showed the proportion of grads employed in positions that matched their credentials decreased to 55 per cent from 62 per cent.

The numbers also reveal something else interesting. While recent grads are doing better, as they age they fall into the over-qualified bracket. This is what happens when you have year after year of increasing "grade inflation." The younger you are, the more your education has been inflated, so older people who had the same education with less grade inflation are now over-qualified, in part because many jobs are being dumbed down through the years.

So why should an employer hire someone who is, in fact, more educated because they are older (even though they have the same degree) when they can get by with paying less for someone younger?

I'm waiting on these so I can become a robot overlord.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/health/b...

And the police never disagree with a corporation's accusation of shoplifting?

In some countries, corporations hire private security to protect their goods.Not surprisingly, in countries where the government claims it serves the people, not the corporations. And serves neither.

Until someone manages to get on TV and show how easy it is to spy on children that way, then you'll see consumers demanding security.

Doesn't seem to have happened, News articles are already popping up over it, and nothing is going on. It'll likely take either a very serious case(death, kidnapping, etc) to happen, or government regulators stepping in and requiring proper security certification on networked devices. I expect that if there's even a hint of that happening a self-regulating body will suddenly spring into existence by said companies though.

"As I have a daughter, I know better. Of course bias is a big part of it, expressed verbally and non-verbally. Parents and grand-parents who give their daughters princess dresses for christmas and act gleefully if the daughter wear it, express a bias."

Not only that. In Germany, they found out that teachers are unconscious biased against lower class pupils on the sole first-name the kids have. Because lower class parents often name their kids like celebrities or characters in TV-shows, while the more educated classes name their kids more traditionally.

If the kids are called Kevin, Bejoncé, Kanye or Ronny for example, they get lower grades for the same content.

The bias has even a name, it's called 'Kevinism'.

https://namecurator.wordpress....

http://www.ctvnews.ca/kevin-ch...

No, "Ape" is a very specific term used to specify members of Hominoidea. It is unfortunate many are ignorant of the meaning of the term and use it improperly to include monkeys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Humans are apes - specifically, great apes. (aka Hominidae aka "hominids"). "Hominids" simply means human-like. It used to mean only humans, then it included other extinct human-like creatures and now it generally includes all hominidae. While "hominid" (or alternatively "great ape") is a more specific term, it is certainly NOT a more correct term, merely the Family of the SuperFamily.

One could say that humans are mammals and it would be no less correct. Humans are animals, chordates, mammals, primates, apes, and also great apes.

It's unfortunate that the Google facial recognition software was not aware that humans don't like being reminded that they are indeed very closely related to other great apes and could easily be confused with gorillas by a non-human intelligence. Our indignance at the notion we're apes that look a lot like gorillas is rather silly -- like zebras being offended at being miscategorized as ordinary horses.

Granted, I understand the racist implication that those flagged erroneously as gorillas are somehow less human than others. Thankfully, the computer isn't racist. It merely wasn't sophisticated enough to discern the difference given the input, the algorithm, and its training.

I'm impressed it figured out the object in the photo was a living thing and got the kingdom, phylum, class, order, superfamily, family and sub-family correct. If it had chosen chimp or bonobo, it would have been even closer.

Heck, check out this comparison of a gorilla baby and a human baby -- no one would have blinked an eye if the software said the gorilla was a human baby. http://intentblog.com/wp-conte...

Another cute gorilla baby -- a bit older: http://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly...

Terribly inaccurate performance. We're chimps, dammit.

No, "Ape" is a very specific term used to specify members of Hominoidea. It is unfortunate many are ignorant of the meaning of the term and use it improperly to include monkeys.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Humans are apes - specifically, great apes. (aka Hominidae aka "hominids"). "Hominids" simply means human-like. It used to mean only humans, then it included other extinct human-like creatures and now it generally includes all hominidae. While "hominid" (or alternatively "great ape") is a more specific term, it is certainly NOT a more correct term, merely the Family of the SuperFamily.

One could say that humans are mammals and it would be no less correct. Humans are animals, chordates, mammals, primates, apes, and also great apes.

It's unfortunate that the Google facial recognition software was not aware that humans don't like being reminded that they are indeed very closely related to other great apes and could easily be confused with gorillas by a non-human intelligence. Our indignance at the notion we're apes that look a lot like gorillas is rather silly -- like zebras being offended at being miscategorized as ordinary horses.

Granted, I understand the racist implication that those flagged erroneously as gorillas are somehow less human than others. Thankfully, the computer isn't racist. It merely wasn't sophisticated enough to discern the difference given the input, the algorithm, and its training.

I'm impressed it figured out the object in the photo was a living thing and got the kingdom, phylum, class, order, superfamily, family and sub-family correct. If it had chosen chimp or bonobo, it would have been even closer.

Heck, check out this comparison of a gorilla baby and a human baby -- no one would have blinked an eye if the software said the gorilla was a human baby.
http://intentblog.com/wp-conte...

Another cute gorilla baby -- a bit older:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly...

Maybe there were too many women involved in building the craft compared to the number of men; they should ban that too. Or to "prevent sexual tension", perhaps they should just get it over with and ban women from approaching within several kilometers of all facilities at all related to rocketry. Then they'll finally fix Soyuz's reliability problems!

Do you have a link to the murdering bitch's retraction?

Here's a recent link where she denies changing her position in any way. I'm afraid she's still a murdering bitch.

Diverting 93% of the water to grow lettuce in the desert since 1920 had nothing to do with it.

Also, ignore the arctic ice that's been increasing for three years, the antarctic ice that's always grown and hit a new record in 2014, snow in Hawaii, and the great lakes that have frozen early,and that have frozen over compete the last two years. Ignore Niagara falls that has frozen over two years in a row and ignore all the record cold around the country. Ignore the fact we kill killed half the worlds trees in the last 100 years and where we do theres drought and ignore the fact the IPCC did not admit trees ate CO2 until 2010. Ignore the fact NAS falsified the CO2 hypothesis in 2010 and ignore the fact the climate models now have 95% error.Ignore the fact corals have genes that upregulate to ignore acidification and warming and ignore the fact pollution (I'm especially looking at you big oil) has gotten worse while we're distracted by this nonsense. Ignore the fact not a single IPCC prediction ever came true.

And especially ignore NAA/NOAA when they say "there has been no warming this century"

Creation science, social science, climate science... if you have to add "science" to a word to give it legitimacy, it's not science any more than the Democratic People's republic of North Korea is a democracy. Real sciences yield natural laws to quote Feynman.

Instead, look at 01% of a country that is 2% of the world.

Refs:
1) Ice
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/i...
http://news.ku.dk/all_news/201...
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/ear...
http://www.nasa.gov/content/go...

2) records:
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/vide...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
http://www.staradvertiser.com/...
https://www.facebook.com/video...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/febru...
http://www.latimes.com/local/l...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

3) Trees:
http://www.pri.org/stories/201...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
http://www.agu.org/news/press/...

You're right - it's not a law, but an acknowledgement that the right to assisted suicide a a constitutional right. Lets hope the government doesn't use the notwithstanding clause to cater to their base for the next election.

People can suffer from a non-terminal disease that still leaves them in pain, unable to fend for themselves, and with zero hope of recovery, so I think it's a good thing that they didn't limit it to the terminally ill. If you had to decide between being hooked up to machines, unable to fend for yourself for even basic needs, always in pain, without even the hope of dying because it's not terminal, I think many would opt for help in shuffling off their mortal coil.

And I see people here calling you names and talking about how a freak of nature you are. They do this via anonymous log in but it happens and you cannot deny it. It has even happened in this article posting over the same damn post I started replying to. Or does your LGBT club shield you from those comments? They will not shield a lot of others. And even if they did, you as well as anyone else will always know what others are thinking and saying- even if they do not say it to your face.

I was outed on slashdot a decade ago, so it was inevitable that someone would eventually try to use it against me. After that had been going on for a while, I changed my signature to send the signal that I'm not ashamed of being a transsexual, and neither should others be. It's all part of "paying it forward." :-)

If they were to log in, or at least make salient points as to why they feel the way they do, I would be happy to engage them in dialog. In the meantime, I think most people don't really have a problem with it.

When you tell a friend and they say "Is that all? I thought it would be something bad." you know they're good with it. I lost one friend over it. I was disappointed, but that's old news. As for the people around me, we talk about it on occasion - usually after I make a joke that only works because I'm trans and someone present didn't know, so I have to explain why it's so funny to everyone else. Drives my sisters nuts, because most of them think I should be ashamed. But sometimes I get a laugh out of them, and I think that finally they're "getting it." Sort of. Hopefully.

Yes, adults torment kids. So do other kids. And they've been charged and convicted. We also run regular PSAs reminding kids that sharing a "special" photo of another kid is distributing child pornography (yes, kids have been convicted for that. And courts are now allowing parents and the media (with the parents consent) to name the victims who have committed suicide, to put a face to the act.

We're not there bet, but we're making remarkable progress on multiple fronts.

Have we suddenly forgotten how totally crappy public transport in India is? Where 6 men can rape a woman to death with a steel pipe in a crowded pubic bus and nobody intervenes? Or the 6 guys who raped a Swiss tourist who was bicycling? Or this copycat rape where the bus driver and bus conductor refused to let the woman off the bus, drove to an isolated spot, raped her, and 5 others also joined in? Or the police refusing to listen, instead laughing when the family tried to report their two girls missing - they were later found raped and hanged?

Have we forgotten the Indian practice of bride burning if the wife doesn't bring what the groom and his family considers an adequate dowry with her?

On second thought, let me rephrase that. Have we suddenly forgotten how much of a sh*thole India is if you're a woman and you're not high-caste and moneyed? The problem isn't Uber, or this crass venue-shopping. The problem is India.

You should read up on Canada's "Lobbying laws"
http://www.ocl-cal.gc.ca/eic/s...

They are not the same as the US and are rather strict and they have charged people for doing it.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics...

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/woman-sev...

"But Toronto doesn't have a "strong mayor" like many American cities."

But it did have one just as corrupt as any american big city mayor...\

Not true.

For all of Rob Ford's many faults (incompetence, buffoonery, substance abuse, etc), corruption isn't one of them.

In fact, Rob Ford was sued for libel when he complained about a corrupt city deal for a 20-year contract that never went to public tender as required by law.

Rob Ford was ultimately victorious, and awarded legal costs:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/12/27/rob_ford_libel_trial_judge_dismissed_6m_lawsuit_against_toronto_mayor.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/defamation-lawsuit-against-rob-ford-thrown-out-by-judge/article6752053/

And Rob Ford won on appeal:

http://toronto.ctvnews.ca/rob-ford-defamation-lawsuit-victory-upheld-by-appeal-court-1.1904082

Because goodness knows, nobody's been assaulted by a licensed taxi driver.

Or you could try doing something about crazy people with a crack addiction that are begging you to put them in jail and help them with their addiction. Instead of waiting until they kill someone and then pushing some random religious agenda cause muslims.

http://bc.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-shooter-tried-to-rob-vancouver-mcdonald-s-with-stick-1.2068636