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Worst secret ever, I've seen this 'saucer' before, it's been in books and magazines since the 60s I even saw the video of them trying to hover it, which didn't work very well. This thing never worked properly and never made it past the initial design phase. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Canada_VZ-9_Avrocar http://books.google.ca/books?id=Apaa01aJLIcC&pg=PA26&lpg=PA26&dq=Avrocar&source=bl&ots=Qe24u-CGlp&sig=R44-T1xDEeQGMbUkX8YcVU33Q7A&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nwtzULChIIfFyAG76ICwDA&ved=0CFUQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=Avrocar&f=false

More like ten minutes ago. One Canadian dollar really is worth 1.0251 US dollars. Ten and a half years ago it was at an all-time low of 61.2 cents.

I call bullshit. Nitrates add to oxidative stress and the link between them and cancer is pretty well studied.

http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&q=cancer+nitrates&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=

I rent. Quiet street, no traffic. If I so choose, a 1 minute walk gets me to the nearest intersection, where I can listen to cars and radios, if I so choose.

I rent. If I want, a simple phone call to one person ends my relationship and I can move. If you own, now what? Agents and notaries and taxes and blah blah blah... What a waste of time and energy.

Also, architecturally, I've seen some buildings on busy streets in Montreal that have angled windows. I suspect that having two parallel rows of straight facades on either side of a street creates an echo chamber as sound reflects back and forth between two buildings.

Look at this.

Rick Mercer has gone out and talked to Americans and had many an interesting conversation. If that doesn't say something about the mindset of Americans, I don't know what does.

Here, watch the video if you'd like a sample: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7111005509913775935

See what I did there. I used a comedian's skit where he puts a camera in someone's face and airs the best reactions to make a point. Interesting that, wouldn't you say? Might even relate to the point you're trying to make.

Aw, heck. Just Google it.

The probability of him being accused of racism escaping any documentation is rather low. Roth hunting down some of that documentation and citing it for Wikipedia would help settle the mini-feud properly, strengthen the public record for future historians and make Wikipedia that much better.

Then there's the question of motivation: Whether or not Roth is speaking honestly about the source of the books central incident, he could have reason to deny the Broyard allegation: If Roth's explanation is true he'd want the record set straight. If it's false he might want it erased to hide his embarrassment.

I'll ignore the fact that the source of the book (the 'spook' comment), and the source of a major sub-plot (the fictional 'fact' that Silk was part Black and 'passing' as white) are two entirely unrelated issues.

According to this http://maps.google.ca/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&q=mount+fuji+map&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Mt+Fuji&gl=ca&t=p&ll=35.241133,138.952332&spn=1.323484,2.425232&z=9&vpsrc=6

They should be able to divert it to the water and make Japan bigger.

I don't know if this has ever been done before.

wouldn't that be 0.0002c? (extra zero) https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=72.42048km+per+second+%2Fc

http://www.google.ca/search?q=how+to+disappear
http://www.amazon.ca/How-Disappear-Digital-Footprint-without/dp/1599219778
thats how i'd start.

Given a choice of govt bonds or savings account at roughly 0% or APPL at a PE around 15, eh, I'd chose APPL.

I dunno about you, but I would choose AAPL instead of these guys APPL.

Given a choice of govt bonds or savings account at roughly 0% or APPL at a PE around 15, eh, I'd chose APPL.

I dunno about you, but I would choose AAPL instead of these guys APPL.

845,000 Google results on "Extraordinary Rendition", is that enough citations for you?

-AC

That website is almost as stupid sounding as your post.

I don't waste good time typing things to people who sound stupid, but I'm going to do everyone a favour who reads your post and thinks it makes sense:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2012/05/linux-hardware-support-myths-a.html

Result one of many for the query: https://www.google.ca/search?q=linux+supports+more+out+of+the+box+hardware+than+windows

Interestingly, my own post above is result #2 for me.

Your comment about Torvalds makes no sense; he hasn't had a lick of anything to do with drivers in a very long time, but if you knew anything about day to day maintenance of the kernel, you'd know that already. And your DVD isn't worth a cent to your argument and makes my point for me -- you're accustomed to installing Windows drivers I said, so you don't care I said, and you admitted it. Thanks for that.

On Linux, put in a LiveCD and go. Period. Almost every damn time, on hardware over ten years old to brand new.

Thought puzzle: if you were right, the LTSP wouldn't exist.

I don't think linking to skepticalscience helps your case at all, the site is clearly being run by people who have already decided AGW is real and happening. They're not being objective about it, they label others as "deniers" on a regular basis. Take a look at the chart they're using vs a google search for the same chart. Why is their chart different than the rest? All the other charts show that real temperatures most closely match Hansen's scenario C, which involved CO2 emissions ceasing to increase past 1990. Guess what? CO2 emissions continued to increase past 1990, and yet the data best fits that scenario. Secondly, don't complain that "speculation of one scientist somehow mutates into an absolute prediction". I didn't say that it was an absolute prediction, nor did I say that all climate scientists were in agreement with the statement. I presented you with multiple references to extreme predictions, as per the original comment. Why is it that you'll argue so vehemently with anyone who questions the AGW theories, but you're absolutely silent when these "extreme predictions" get posted? You're clearly not objective about the subject, you've already drawn your conclusions.

Here's the actual link for the search

Please educate yourself about the LFTR design.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=thorium+remix+2011

Watch the 1st five seconds and then you won't want to stop it.

LFTR is a gold mine waiting to happen
but greedy people would rather keep their monopoly alive.

The blog provides the coordinates, 2915'34.29"N 09534'08.85"W, so you can view the formation on Google maps. If you check it out in map view, it still shows the original river bend with no cut-through.

Irrelevant. They ship it in refrigerated trucks. In case you haven't noticed, your neighborhood UPS or Fedex delivery truck is not refrigerated.

<sarcasm>Yes and it's such a shame that all present and future online grocery delivery businesses are contractually obligated to use UPS or Fedex for delivery. And it's practically criminal that UPS and Fedex are fundamentally incapable of introducing new types of trucks into their fleet to meet new demand requirements...Yes-sir-ee what an intractable problem we've been delt.</sarcasm>

Are you really that stupid? I'm sorry, I have to ask because if you don't understand this simple concept you should get help.

Ummm...how complicated is it to make a refrigerated truck full of ice cream? They drive through my neighborhood all the time. Sometimes they ring little bells.

Have they really?
Perhaps they just tend to make a different sort of mistake in the media these days, or maybe they're better at covering it up.

I suppose it's a lucky thing that other religious groups aren't causing problems.

Thankfully, they're tackling the problem at the source by ensuring people get a proper education around such issues, all around the world.

Have they really?
Perhaps they just tend to make a different sort of mistake in the media these days, or maybe they're better at covering it up.

I suppose it's a lucky thing that other religious groups aren't causing problems.

Thankfully, they're tackling the problem at the source by ensuring people get a proper education around such issues, all around the world.

Have they really?
Perhaps they just tend to make a different sort of mistake in the media these days, or maybe they're better at covering it up.

I suppose it's a lucky thing that other religious groups aren't causing problems.

Thankfully, they're tackling the problem at the source by ensuring people get a proper education around such issues, all around the world.

You can see it from http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=florida+landfill+&hl=en&ll=27.587986,-80.500882&spn=0.000038,0.017488&sll=29.778682,-81.243896&sspn=1.575704,2.238464&hq=landfill&hnear=Florida,+United+States&t=h&fll=27.577906,-80.490282&fspn=0.012572,0.017488&layer=c&cbll=27.58799,-80.500341&panoid=KtXQgty0SWZWNunOTdK8IQ&cbp=12,145.38,,0,0&z=16 but when you get close http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=florida+landfill+&hl=en&ll=27.578761,-80.495582&spn=0.000038,0.017488&sll=29.778682,-81.243896&sspn=1.575704,2.238464&hq=landfill&hnear=Florida,+United+States&t=h&fll=27.577906,-80.490282&fspn=0.012572,0.017488&z=16&layer=c&cbll=27.578681,-80.495545&panoid=4sxvj9m1jeRyUC_iaxXKVg&cbp=12,88.53,,0,0 you can really enjoy the experience.

You can see it from http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=florida+landfill+&hl=en&ll=27.587986,-80.500882&spn=0.000038,0.017488&sll=29.778682,-81.243896&sspn=1.575704,2.238464&hq=landfill&hnear=Florida,+United+States&t=h&fll=27.577906,-80.490282&fspn=0.012572,0.017488&layer=c&cbll=27.58799,-80.500341&panoid=KtXQgty0SWZWNunOTdK8IQ&cbp=12,145.38,,0,0&z=16 but when you get close http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=florida+landfill+&hl=en&ll=27.578761,-80.495582&spn=0.000038,0.017488&sll=29.778682,-81.243896&sspn=1.575704,2.238464&hq=landfill&hnear=Florida,+United+States&t=h&fll=27.577906,-80.490282&fspn=0.012572,0.017488&z=16&layer=c&cbll=27.578681,-80.495545&panoid=4sxvj9m1jeRyUC_iaxXKVg&cbp=12,88.53,,0,0 you can really enjoy the experience.

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=us%20patent%20d616795&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fpatents%2FUSD616795.pdf&ei=QgjzT83yEK7z6wHGidSqCA&usg=AFQjCNGQb0OHNdLgBVX7yqHS5k9qJ-Z9Gg

I am not an auto fanatic either so I don't know if they've ever been forced to defend their patent but they do have, for example, a design patent (or, as you call it, a "look-and-feel" patent) on a bumper design which I'm sure some auto people could describe as "patents of questionable validity and worth". Now, if nobody has infringed it, they wouldn't have been forced to enforce it but the fact that they patented it suggests they were willing to fight anyone who attempted to copy them...

Alright, I'll bite...

Being generous in our definition of "4 million", and checking Wikipedia for the list of metropolitan areas by size ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas ), we come up with this:

10 Boston–Cambridge–Quincy, MA–NH MSA 4,591,112 4,552,402 +0.85% Boston–Worcester–Manchester, MA–RI–NH CSA
11 San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont, CA MSA 4,391,037 4,335,391 +1.28% San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA CSA
12 Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA MSA 4,304,997 4,224,851 +1.90% Los Angeles–Long Beach–Riverside, CA CSA
13 Detroit–Warren–Livonia, MI MSA 4,285,832 4,296,250 0.24% Detroit–Warren–Flint, MI CSA
14 Phoenix–Mesa–Glendale, AZ MSA 4,262,236 4,192,887 +1.65% primary census statistical area
15 Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA MSA 3,500,026 3,439,809 +1.75% Seattle–Tacoma–Olympia, WA CSA

6 cities we need to check for airports, ok.

Boston: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=airports+near+boston,+ma&hl=en&ll=42.272228,-71.111755&spn=0.58735,1.349945&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=32.875467,86.396484&hq=airports&hnear=Boston,+Suffolk,+Massachusetts,+United+States&t=m&fll=42.256984,-70.9758&fspn=0.587492,1.349945&z=10

Within a 30 mile drive of downtown Boston, there's 10 airports.

San Francisco: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=airports+near+san+francisco,+ca&hl=en&ll=37.527154,-122.203674&spn=0.629504,1.349945&sll=42.272228,-71.111755&sspn=0.58735,1.349945&hq=airports&hnear=San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&t=m&z=10

Within a 30 mile drive of downtown San Francisco, there's 10 airports.

San Bernadino/Ontario California, ok you got me there... there's only 1 airport that comes up on the search, but zooming out a bit (in case you didn't already know the geography) reveals that you're within 30 miles of Los Angeles... do you *really* want me to come up with a list of airports within 1 hour of LA?

I could continue, but do I need to to expound on the point? People think "airport" means "international terminal", but they're wrong. An airport is somewhere you can get a plane that flies you to where you want to go. I don't think there's a single metropolitan area in the world with a population over 500,000 that has only one airport within an hour's drive... they're all over the place, and you *can* get a domestic hop from a small or private airport, you just won't find most major airliners servicing out of there... and it's not because they can't, it's because they prefer to fly larger planes, and need longer runways to accommodate them.

Alright, I'll bite...

Being generous in our definition of "4 million", and checking Wikipedia for the list of metropolitan areas by size ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas ), we come up with this:

10 Boston–Cambridge–Quincy, MA–NH MSA 4,591,112 4,552,402 +0.85% Boston–Worcester–Manchester, MA–RI–NH CSA
11 San Francisco–Oakland–Fremont, CA MSA 4,391,037 4,335,391 +1.28% San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA CSA
12 Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario, CA MSA 4,304,997 4,224,851 +1.90% Los Angeles–Long Beach–Riverside, CA CSA
13 Detroit–Warren–Livonia, MI MSA 4,285,832 4,296,250 0.24% Detroit–Warren–Flint, MI CSA
14 Phoenix–Mesa–Glendale, AZ MSA 4,262,236 4,192,887 +1.65% primary census statistical area
15 Seattle–Tacoma–Bellevue, WA MSA 3,500,026 3,439,809 +1.75% Seattle–Tacoma–Olympia, WA CSA

6 cities we need to check for airports, ok.

Boston: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=airports+near+boston,+ma&hl=en&ll=42.272228,-71.111755&spn=0.58735,1.349945&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=32.875467,86.396484&hq=airports&hnear=Boston,+Suffolk,+Massachusetts,+United+States&t=m&fll=42.256984,-70.9758&fspn=0.587492,1.349945&z=10

Within a 30 mile drive of downtown Boston, there's 10 airports.

San Francisco: http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=airports+near+san+francisco,+ca&hl=en&ll=37.527154,-122.203674&spn=0.629504,1.349945&sll=42.272228,-71.111755&sspn=0.58735,1.349945&hq=airports&hnear=San+Francisco,+California,+United+States&t=m&z=10

Within a 30 mile drive of downtown San Francisco, there's 10 airports.

San Bernadino/Ontario California, ok you got me there... there's only 1 airport that comes up on the search, but zooming out a bit (in case you didn't already know the geography) reveals that you're within 30 miles of Los Angeles... do you *really* want me to come up with a list of airports within 1 hour of LA?

I could continue, but do I need to to expound on the point? People think "airport" means "international terminal", but they're wrong. An airport is somewhere you can get a plane that flies you to where you want to go. I don't think there's a single metropolitan area in the world with a population over 500,000 that has only one airport within an hour's drive... they're all over the place, and you *can* get a domestic hop from a small or private airport, you just won't find most major airliners servicing out of there... and it's not because they can't, it's because they prefer to fly larger planes, and need longer runways to accommodate them.

Nature's End

"It is 2025 and the planet is rapidly approaching environmental death. Dr. Gupta Singh, a Hindu guru with a Jim Jones-like following, has proposed the suicide, by lottery, of one-third of the world's population. His followers have elected a Depopulationist majority in Congress..."

Possibly a little outdated but I recall it being a very good read.

"Currently the regime discourages dissent and protests through beatings and jailings"

FYI: So does canada.. just sayin...

With more that 50% of all lawyers being in the USA, what do you expect?

Note: actual numbers are between 50-80% as per Google:
http://www.google.ca/ /search?q=percentage+of+lawyers+in+the+world

See, that analysis is incorrect.

The whole point of investing in Facebook is to buy into the growth. Clearly, the IPO price and the trailing P/E does not reflect a "normal" P/E, because Facebook is considered to not be a mature company, which is why you must look at the forward P/E. If you want a comparison with stocks that are overvalued on a P/E basis, just take a look at Amazon or Salesforce.com (actually at negative EPS right now on Google), both of which have shown crazy valuations for quite some time. Also, the mandatory Google comparison would tell you that at IPO, Google was also overvalued on a trailing P/E basis (priced at $85, last 4Q earnings at $1.26 => P/E = 67.5).

That being said, I agree with you. Facebook looks like a poor investment to me even considering growth prospects, but my analysis is as bad as any other (arguably, worse). It's just that trailing or forward P/E should not discourage you from investigating the stock further (believe me, shorting CRM when its P/E was over 300 was a bad decision, as crazy as it sounds).

According to Steve Linux and Google are a cancer!

Absolutely, if you have bullets there could no other possible use for them than to kill people...

Absolutely, if you have bullets there could no other possible use for them than to kill people...

Oops, sorry. I thought you were replying to this person:

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I've had Experts Exchange blocked for years now.

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I've had Experts Exchange blocked for years now.

http://millenniata.com/m-disc/

http://www.google.ca/search?q=m-disc

Would you like to buy some thousand-year-old snake oil? That's great, I brewed some yesterday.

The proof of millenial sotrage is when you find some thousand-year-old copies that are still readable. Hieroglyphs carved on temple walls count. So does ink on cured calfskin. No form of digital storage has yet got that sort of track record. It may last a thousand years; alternatively, it may not. Come back in nine hundred and ninety nine years and tell us how it's doing.

http://millenniata.com/m-disc/

http://www.google.ca/search?q=m-disc

It's worse than that.

The current government in Canada has threatened any scientist that talks to the media with censure. If they say anything that's "outside message", they lose their funding.

Too many links to list, here's a google search.

The message is "there are no environmental concerns in Canada."

In the 1950s Robert G. Heath began using deep brain stimulation for many illnesses including depression.

Electrical self-stimulation of the brain in man

Modulation of emotion with a brain pacemaker

http://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=Deep+Brain+Stimulation+in+Neurological+and+Psychiatric+Disorders&btnG=

Really? What did you search for? I got over 5 million hits on Google with "concrete leach", the first of which was a Wikipedia article which describes the problem quite nicely.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=concrete%20leach&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np

Straights kill a gay, HUGE outrage even when their motive wasn't over the sexual orientation.

Well if straight-bashing by gays was as common an activity as gay-bashing appears to be for some straights, then heterosexuals might be a bit more suspicious of motives any time straights get assaulted by gays.

Gays kill a straight, who cares?

When has it ever happened that one or more gays have killed a straight just for being heterosexual? I'm not talking a spurned or jealous lover-wannabe crime of passion, although I expect even those would be extremely rare or non-existent (religious straight male twits can get pissed off at lesbians for being uninterested in them, but wiser people who aren't egotists accept that not everybody wants to jump their bones and that their energy is best spent on those who show a mutual interest). Instead, I'm talking about a hate crime where one or more gay people targeted a heterosexual complete stranger, just for being straight? Because gays being gravely assaulted or killed by complete strangers just for having been gay, that does happen a lot, even if it's somewhat less common in North America in the last 20 years than it was in the 70s and 80s.

In the early 90s, I once got dirty looks leaving the hot tub at the Vancouver Aquatic Centre because, being straight, I didn't realize that I was oblivious to all the signals. I didn't even realize for years that the others in the tub were gay and feeling protective of one of the few places where they could relax and let their guard down (and maybe something else). Unless they're involved in criminal enterprises, that's about as nasty as gays tend to get. Nearly 20 years later, I laugh at how clueless I was, and I wouldn't if I had been in any danger. That wouldn't be the case if I had been a lone whitey in a bad gang-ridden neighbourhood or, now, a homie walking through an upper-scale white neighbourhood.

Think about this for a moment:

Nobody has ever seen a real dinosaur. We're separated in time from them by millions of years. Sure, we can make some great guesses but the fact is that we aren't going to get it perfectly right.

Look at what happens if you haven't seen the critter...

WTF are you talking about? Nobody forced anything on anyone. The mormons followed the legal, established process for prop 8.

Haha, no, they didn't.

The total number of American catholic missionaries in Africa in 1963 was 901 ... By the 1960s, some 9000 Protestant American missionaries were working in Africa ... Of the Protestants, one-quarter were ordained clergy; 1,000 were medical missionaries; and the remainder were "general" missionaries or instructors in industrial, agricultural, and other subjects.

I posit that the percentage of Catholic missionaries overall might have been higher once you factor in Europeans. However, you can see that from this small sample at least, the significant majority were Protestants, most of whom are not against contraceptives at all. They'd still be likely to be pushing for abstinence outside marriage, which in turn means historically that they'd be less likely to be promoting contraceptives outside marriage.

Looks like it's time to read about wandering planets.

I don't know where in the world you're living. In the US, most crossings that I encountered were at right angles and a simple "turn left"/"turn right" is sufficient. In the European cities that I've visited so far, this can quickly be too little information. I regularly come across situations where a simple "turn left" voice command is just not enough to distinguish between the two or three options that may be there (I'm not kidding, these crossings exist). Without a map showing which way I'm supposed to take, I'd be completely lost.

And most good GPS navigation systems will say "bear left", rather than "turn left" when there's multiple choices.

Most cities that have these kinds of intersections have replaced them with roundabouts, which eliminate the problem you describe. (if you want a good example of the kind of issue being described, go to http://maps.google.ca/?ll=48.853153,2.369013&spn=0.011366,0.027874&t=h&z=16 (or in case Slashdot mangles the link, search for "Place de la Bastille, Paris, France")

How is ITER disappointing: how many decades of research have they performed without inching perceptibly closer to positive power output, and with each iteration (pun noted) you yet another large expensive facility full of potentially dangerous (flying neutrons engendered more radioisotopes), useless (structures become unsound when enough of the atoms in their engineered parts change and the alloys no longer have their specified characteristics) remains.

Cannibalising as a mistake: I'm with you here and the amount spent on ringtones, petfood or any of the other frivolous stuff we humans can't quite do without would seem to be better sources for this money. Still, I hardly think shaving off one to five percent of the money from ITER will hurt it very much -- heck, with the amounts we're talking about, shaving ITER by one to five thousandths wouldn't hurt ITER at all but could provide oceans of seed cash for other alternatives.

Middle East wars etc.: totally with you on that one. Wasn't it the cut in Navy funding with Gulf War 2 that drove Bussard, for instance, to seek other funding in the "Should Google Go Nuclear" video?

cheers...ank

That's not the definition of irony. That's the idiot's definition of irony. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&site=&source=hp&q=irony&oq=irony&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=592l1387l0l1647l5l5l0l0l0l0l72l350l5l5l0&gs_l=hp.3..0l10.592l1387l0l1648l5l5l0l0l0l0l72l350l5l5l0.frgbld.
education it's free.

Richard Aborn, one of the bill's backers, said, 'We know from lots of studies and lots of data now that violent criminals very often begin their careers as nonviolent criminals. And the earlier you can get a nonviolent criminal's DNA in the data bank, the higher your chances are of apprehending the right person.'"

So when some senator discovers that youth who question authority are more likely to be delinquent, what then? Cotton swab for every child that talks back in class? Hair sample from any child that throws a tantrum at daycare.

It's an undeniable fact that a comprensive DNA database of the citizenship would help police do their job. Obviously that's not the only consideration; if it were, why not give the cops unlimited power?

The powers we give the police, like the power we give to anybody, should be meted out carefully with an eye to balancing the pros and cons. We should be asking ourselves: why are we considering more power for police? Crime has been trending down for decades. If anything, striking a better balance now would mean revoking powers, not adding to them.