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I'm driving from Ottawa to Moose Jaw this August. I would rather take this route rather than the default suggestion, because I'd like to see my own country first, it's shorter in distance (although not in time), I have a place to crash in Winnipeg, and I won't have to worry about arriving in Chicago at the wrong time.

This feature is very useful. Before, to find out how long the trans-Canada route was, I had to make three separate trips and add the distances manually to get the total.

I'm driving from Ottawa to Moose Jaw this August. I would rather take this route rather than the default suggestion, because I'd like to see my own country first, it's shorter in distance (although not in time), I have a place to crash in Winnipeg, and I won't have to worry about arriving in Chicago at the wrong time.

This feature is very useful. Before, to find out how long the trans-Canada route was, I had to make three separate trips and add the distances manually to get the total.

I Copied this from an old post ::

I think the Grand parent is refereing to "fractional reserve banking"
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=fractional+re serve+banking [google.ca]

He got it a little bit wrong.
All banks (not just big ones) in Canada and America (most of europe) are allowed to create, and destroy money.

In most countries there is some form of control on much money and how they can create
    * Reserve Ratio
    * Over Night Lending Rate
But for the last several hundred years these controls have been degrading in most of the world.
To the point where the amount of money in the system is almost entirely determined by the free market.

If you want to be edjucated on the Issue watch "the money masters" it is on Google video and it is really good, but it is starting to show its age as the authors theory on money need refinment given resent economic events in the last 20 years

another good one is "moneyasdebt.net"
The major issue is that very very few people actually understand how money is created, and who does it, and why they do it.

The ability to create money represents a masive wealth transfer from eveybody else to the people that can create the money.

Who do you think should create money?

I think the Grand parent is refereing to "fractional reserve banking"
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=fractional+re serve+banking

He got it a little bit wrong.
All banks (not just big ones) in Canada and America (most of europe) are allowed to create, and destroy money.

In most countries there is some form of control on much money and how they can create
  * Reserve Ratio
  * Over Night Lending Rate
But for the last several hundred years these controls have been degrading in most of the world.
To the point where the amount of money in the system is almost entirely determined by the free market.

If you want to be edjucated on the Issue watch "the money masters" it is on Google video and it is really good, but it is starting to show its age as the authors theory on money need refinment given resent economic events in the last 20 years

another good one is "moneyasdebt.net"
The major issue is that very very few people actually understand how money is created, and who does it, and why they do it.

The ability to create money represents a masive wealth transfer from eveybody else to the people that can create the money.

Who do you think should create money?

Google is your friend.

Unsourced sibling aside...

The TV station wasn't closed, it merely lost its license to broadcast over the air. This means that it can now only be viewed using cable.

You seem confused - "unusual circumstances" doesn't really explain anything, and the constitution wasn't "tampered", Chavez declared a referendum, and 92% of voters wanted a new constitution. Hard to see what's wrong with that.

After my first comment in this thread, I did some research, and found this documentary about the failed Venezuelan coup in 2002. After watching that, I can't really blame Chavez for not renewing the license of a private TV station, they seem to lie through their teeth. Also, Chavez is so tolerant of opposition that after regaining power following the 2002 coup, he didn't go around and exile or imprison everybody involved. Some have most probably been charged for their actions, but some prominent leaders from the coup government are still supposedly part of public life in Venezuela.

Dr. Timothy Ball, the first Canadian Ph.D. in Climatology, had his educational credentials challenged for question GW.

I love finding little things like this in these articles. Watch this report by the CBCs Fifth Estate.

A wonderful little piece of information from that documentary - around 28-34 minutes in, it talks about Dr. Tim Ball.

Here's prior art:

http://groups.google.ca/group/rec.food.restaurants /browse_thread/thread/f1ced676166674c8/a6ff632976a 53b37?lnk=st&q=%22search+engine%22+%22zip+code%22& rnum=6&hl=en#

You don't work in the government, do you?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A+*.gov+ +%22internet+explorer+only%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+viewed+in+IE%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22internet+explorer+required%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+in+internet+explorer%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.osescanada.com/visa.htm

You don't work in the government, do you?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A+*.gov+ +%22internet+explorer+only%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+viewed+in+IE%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22internet+explorer+required%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+in+internet+explorer%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.osescanada.com/visa.htm

You don't work in the government, do you?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A+*.gov+ +%22internet+explorer+only%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+viewed+in+IE%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22internet+explorer+required%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+in+internet+explorer%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.osescanada.com/visa.htm

You don't work in the government, do you?
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A+*.gov+ +%22internet+explorer+only%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+viewed+in+IE%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22internet+explorer+required%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=SITE%3A*.gov++ %22best+in+internet+explorer%22&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.osescanada.com/visa.htm

>That is sooooo untrue. In countries where guns are illegal, criminals don't use guns very often. In countries where guns are legal, deranged college students use them to kill their fellow students.

Canada isn't a country anymore then?

In fact, lets look up "canada shooting" in news.google.ca. Oh look, another story, totally unrelated, posted 7 hours ago. Canada's gun laws really do work! Obviously it's just a misprint by the thousands of newspapers covering these stories. And 12 hours ago, ya, another misprint. And 22 hours ago. What's up with the news here, they can't report anything right!

These are all unrelated stories. As a country like the USA has ten times the population, and therefore for the same crime rate ten times the same number of crimes, I expect I should see much more than one story posted per hour if I look up "USA shooting", right? But I don't, I find the number to be less. Why is that, if you are correct? Perhaps more misprints. It's an epidemic, I tells ya!

Google "end to end checksumming zfs" and READ ON.

>You obviously live in a major metropolitan area.

If you call a population of about 205,000 people an obviously major metropolitan area, then sure, you're right.

You can easily verify these claims here. It's hard to find a nice apartment in this province in a city large enough to hold a decent job in for under $800, assuming you either want a large 1 bedroom or a cramped 2 bedroom. A hellhole can be had for about $600, but most of them haven't seen repairs, never mind upgrades, for at least 50 years (I know, many of my friends rent for around $650 a month, let's see: Heating permanently on maximum, upstairs bathroom belches out sewage because there's a pipe that hasn't been fixed for decades, another one's bathroom ceiling poured water for 2 weeks because the landlord couldn't be arsed to send a plumber out, etc, etc).

The "4 bedrooms" apartments for under $500 are just rooms in a flop house (literally, by definition, as it is shared quarters). Popular with the students, but only a smidge better than single room occupancy.

>Try more like 4-500, for a real nice place, in the majority of the country that isn't a large city.

I'd like to know where you're talking about. Here's a sleepy town nearby me. Population 10,000. I went to school there a long time ago (Go Lancers!). Most people living around there were farmers. Rent starts at $580 a month. I'd love to check smaller places, but they tend not to have anything to rent at all, and if they do, it's hard to compare because there's only the one place.

>In a city? 30k will be what you make flippin burgers.

That would be nice. Unfortunately, burger flippers workers make $8/hr here. At 40 hours a week, that's $16,000 a year (vacation pay doesn't count, since we're talking average lifestyle, which means average 2 weeks vacation).

>and streets that AREN'T STRAIGHT god I hate developments

Heh, Kitchener being the odd place it is means it has incredibly curvy roads (check it out on google maps) since the grid system was only used for 10 years. However, it isn't the "big city" thing. It's that way because Kitchener used the original Mennonite cart tracks for roads. In our case it's nothing to do with making it look nice, it's just done that way because it's always been done that way. Did I mention the Mennonites designed our main streets to intersect three times (King and Weber) and the road directions aren't magnetically aligned, but are aligned to the river?

>and makes sure you're always sliding on the edge of fucking disaster come wintertime when things ice up. ... how did I wind up ranting about that? er. time for beer.

You sure you're not from here? :-)

I know plenty of people that "get by" on $25 - $30k a year here, but it's more getting by than enjoying anything in life. *sigh*

Hard to believe the summariser is not aware of the thoughts of Chairman Gates:

Gates shed some light on his own hard-nosed business philosophy. "Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software," he said. "Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

(article).

This has been accurately compared to "drug dealer tactics" by an astute Brazilian (another market at great risk of Microslop exploitation).

Ya know what? Fuck you Gates and the demon you rode in on.

You're right: objects in nature are so amusing.

You can convert .pdf to html through the browser: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlin etools.html
There are others too with a simple Google-ing

As mentioned, the list is fairly rich in content and loses lots of the formatting and special characters through conversion.

The SEGS plants at Kramer Junction in the Mojave Desert have been operating since the 1980's and are the largest solar plants in the world producing 354 MW.

Nevada Solar One is 64MW of solar thermal (3rd largest solar plant) and set to come online this year.

Stirling Energy Systems has a CPUC approved contract with SCE for a 500MW parabolic stirling solar thermal plant.

This document details a lot of the 100 year history of solar thermal attempts.

SHPEGS is our not-for-profit design project to adapt solar thermal to moderate climates by combining it with geothermal and heat pump technology. There is more information and links here.

better is google patents [faster and sexier]

omg

Tom

You do realize that 200,000mg of Hg => 200g of Hg

Mercury density according to Google is 5.427g/ml (or cm^3 for the metric impaired). So, 200g = <37ml of Hg. That's just over 2 tablespoons of mercury from 40,000 bulbs. Not much if you ask me.

If this leaches into water it is still nothing. You probably get more from the "silver" fillings over lifetime than from this source. Now, there are other sources of mercury including tuna (from coal power plants contaminating oceans then into tuna and stuff).

http://www.grinningplanet.com/2004/08-10/mercury-i n-fish-article.htm

And methylmercury is much more nasty than elemental Hg. Elemental (or metalic form) can be excreted from the body. The organic type just binds with your vital organs until you die (from Hg or unrelated reasons!).

• This program was intended for small power producers with a limit of 10MW. The 40MW is a press release to claim "The Biggest" and supposed to be built in 10MW stages. According to the rules there is a hard limit at 10MW. The $0.42/kWh was intended to provide a Solar PV cost study and these guys are trying to bend the rules to take advantage of the program. The 40MW will be difficult to do without getting a rule change.
• The solar insolation in Sarnia is very low for 6 months of the year and non-existent at winter solstice with 8 hours of low angle daylight. Canada has 2 peaks in electrical usage (August and February) as opposed to a warmer climate with a single summer peak. In February there is no real output from a Solar PV panel and the EROEI of Solar PV in this location is 50% of locating the same panel in the Mojave desert. They would have to pick up the solar field every fall and snowbird it to Arizona for the winter for it to put out any power.
• Solar Insolation at Sarnia in kWh/m2 on a 43degree panel (from above nasa link):
  Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May. Jun. Jul. Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. avg.
  1.89 2.67 3.30 4.21 4.92 5.16 5.19 4.85 4.21 3.18 1.97 1.60 3.60
• The 40MW is peak output at noon on summer solstice. The plant is going to produce a lot less output for the rest of the year. They should rate output of intermittent power in MWh/day average and not in MW. MW makes sense for a coal or nuclear plant where the output is constant.

The SHPEGS project is an open renewable design project that is attempting to take advantage of the Canadian climate that has high summer solar insolation and cold winter temperatures and provide base-load renewable electricity and thermal storage from a direct/indirect hybrid solar collection system built with common materials.

I dunno... it can get scarier.

Err... I was gonna link to a few images, but forget it. Too many to choose from :p

http://images.google.ca/images?q=stallman&ndsp=20& svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozil la:en-US:official&hs=Wc4&start=0&sa=N

Then again, in the same product line, GHz (and perhaps cache amount) is often the only thing that can decide how fast a chip is compared to another.

You are using the GHz info as correctly as possible. There are other mitigating factors that are too ubiquitous for most to comprehend but at the end of the day, you probably won't notice them playing WOW.

In many cases, the true difference is here and here: to confirm, I'm not talking about the overall rates of stock trading, but more so the graph as Google displays what the stocks are doing. Typically the more profitable a company is, the better their product offerings are overall. It's at least a good factor to consider, IMHO.

Then again, in the same product line, GHz (and perhaps cache amount) is often the only thing that can decide how fast a chip is compared to another.

You are using the GHz info as correctly as possible. There are other mitigating factors that are too ubiquitous for most to comprehend but at the end of the day, you probably won't notice them playing WOW.

In many cases, the true difference is here and here: to confirm, I'm not talking about the overall rates of stock trading, but more so the graph as Google displays what the stocks are doing. Typically the more profitable a company is, the better their product offerings are overall. It's at least a good factor to consider, IMHO.

Ask and ye shall receive. Square Watermelons.

An abbreviation of the term for the National Socialist political party , a political party headed by Adolf Hitler from 1921 to 1945. The Nazi party ideology was strongly anticommunist, anti-Semitic, racist, nationalistic, imperialistic and militaristic.

Anyway, by Goldwin's Law, the discussion is over, and I've lost. But I still get to mod you.

Open land and cheap power, yeah, that's it.

The Smart Roadster was pretty cool. Too bad they never brought it here.

Google says 100 mpg = 2.35 L/100km

Aikon-

A few years back I registered apfbiolectronics.com (APril fools bioelectronics. Made up a name and had a friend design a website about affordable medical devices for the masses

I took an arm crash dump at random from google and then posted a complaint to linux-kernel and linux-arm about how linux crashed and killed my test monkey and could they hurry up and fix it so we could move on with human trials.

• 2 offers for help
• 1 plea to scrap the project immediately in the name of all things good in this world (man I wish I still had that email).
• A thread debating the validity of my post
• Someone telling me that he hopes I used a scratch monkey
• Someone used my post to back up his bug report
• 12 days later someone posted a report on their lug's mailing list.
• Two YEARS later someone referenced it on the linux advocacy newsgroup

The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank

A few years back I registered apfbiolectronics.com (APril fools bioelectronics. Made up a name and had a friend design a website about affordable medical devices for the masses

I took an arm crash dump at random from google and then posted a complaint to linux-kernel and linux-arm about how linux crashed and killed my test monkey and could they hurry up and fix it so we could move on with human trials.

• 2 offers for help
• 1 plea to scrap the project immediately in the name of all things good in this world (man I wish I still had that email).
• A thread debating the validity of my post
• Someone telling me that he hopes I used a scratch monkey
• Someone used my post to back up his bug report
• 12 days later someone posted a report on their lug's mailing list.
• Two YEARS later someone referenced it on the linux advocacy newsgroup

The sad thing is I'm never ever going to top that prank

One is if there were some reason people needed a server in their homes. Probably not a huge market but one that linux can serve if there was a really nice user friendly server version, which there isn't right now. Server editions are tuned for the expert linux users. What could this application be. Just guessing but suppose everyone had an Xbox 360 in each room, and they needed a common place to put all the music and videos?

There's already a server designed exactly for these purposes (and I have to say, it's pretty sweet -- for home users to administer, even in beta, it is LIGHT YEARS ahead of any/every *nix o/s in existence.
Windows Home Server

-AC

They do this in areas that are completely unrelated to Katrina as well.. This road now exists, and doesn't in fact go through those buildings or those fields. That construction project in that area took almost 2 years to complete and Google shows it as it was before it began. I doubt it's a conspiracy, but probably due to being a cloudy day during the last pass of the satellite.

I think the accurate Google Earth Service will be the one you pay subscription for. Can anyone Confirm?
I spent some time looking thru online map services, including this comparative one Flash Earth All of them look pre-Katrina to my untrained eye.

I did find documentation on a lighthouse (mentioned in news articles) which had collapsed, but was visible in Google maps.
Google Map of West End Lighthouse
Image of Lighthouse Documenting its Collapse
Lighthouse Society Rebuilding Efforts

I've never been happy with Firefox's memory footprint either.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309
Firefox/2.0.0.3

%CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
72.5 14.6 254748 114524 ?? R 1:34PM 53:30.45 /Applications/Firefox.app

1 Window, 4 tabs open:
http://maps.google.ca/
http://www.google.com/reader/view/
http://slashdot.org/
http://www.pcmag.com/

Web Developer Extension
Javascript Debugger (not open)
Netcraft Toolbar
GrApple Theme

By way of comparison, here are the same numbers for Safari (1.3.2 (v312.6)) with the same 4 tabs opened:

%CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
9.0 8.5 209612 66564 ?? S 6:43PM 0:58.24 /Applications/Safari.app/

And for Opera:
Version 9.10
Build 3588
Platform MacOS X
System 10.3.9

Same 4 tabs opened.

%CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND
3.5 11.9 258548 93216 ?? S 7:02PM 0:47.31 /Applications/Opera.app

Is that enough for you AC? Yeah, I thought so ...

(
By the time I finished testing the other browsers, ps -auxm was reporting - FF keeps my laptop toasty, burning the CPU cycles -- it's the google.

70.8 14.4 256140 113096 ?? R 1:34PM 70:11.16 /Applications/Firefox.app
)

Yes! The strafe jumping bug/feature was so cherished by the Quake 3 community that when iD patched Quake 3 to fix it, the community went ape-shit forcing iD to patch the game again to reintroduce the bug!

This is the only related link that I could find.

...just not a common term for it.

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+sku& btnG=Google+Search&meta=

and if you look in the results ...

A uniquely identifiable line within a product range. A particular product may have many different variation s eg 20 percent extra free, price marked etc. each of these variation would be a unique SKU.
www.applause.hu/terms_e.htm

but i will agree that SKU is generally used to refer to the code of the product, not the product itself.

I couldn't easily find the KinderStart web site via Google search results funny enough; however if you type kinderstart.com into your address bar you'll get there. Really hard to find on Google for some weird reason.

it'll be built into all of the major shopping cart software inside of a week

Already is, there's a thriving industry in the US providing sales/use taxes by City, County and State because they change so frequently making it impossible to keep up on your own. Here's a quick google of same

The fun starts when you get ZipCodes that span City, County or State boundaries...and also when you start having to apply taxes historically because of crediting returns, etc.

That's a mighty wide brush you're painting with there...

There are good people in music/artist promotion as well, although I don't dispute that there's no shortage of sleazeballs in the RIAA ranks

Knowing how to squeeze a buck out of art is a very valuable skill. Good promotion skills, networks, industry knowledge, contact knowledge, etc. There seems to be a prevailing attitude that since we can distribute electronically now, all a band needs to do is post some MP3s and viola! Instant success via massive online sales to grateful slashdotters...

I don't mean to defend the racketeering that goes on right now - those practices are immoral and their demise is inevitable (although apparently not without a bunch of kicking and screaming). Courtney Love wrote a good outline of how fucked this situation is which raised my respect for her considerably (if from none to some qualifies as considerable). search for it on google

I'm in several bands and writing, recording and performing art in addition to your day job is lots and lots of work. Work that is immensely enjoyable and rewarding, I'm not complaining about it, but my bands would be absolutely thrilled to connect with someone who could help us promote ourselves, book tours and get heard. We'll happily cut that skillset into the meagre existing revenues. Not everyone in the business side of music is out to get you. Some of them genuinely care about the artists and the art and they're damn good at what they do.

And come to think of it, there's no shortage of prima-donna, money-grubbing, asshole musicians either... ;)

Of course, this guy's main crime is being poor. If OTOH he was a highly paid CEO, his disability would have automatically disqualify him from legal problems just like this lady.

From their about google page:

"Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

What I like to do is download the windowsrge.swf, then cut out the middle man by running it directly in full screen mode in the stand alone linux flash player. The trick is to run it up front on your linux box and then tell someone that you have really screwed up your windows dual boot and could they help fix the windows registry!