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I-8 in Southern California has these too. A number of years ago I was stopped in the middle of the night at a "border checkpoint" in the hills/mountains by Jacumba while on I-8. And yes to you anal folks Jacumba is not on I-8, but it is the closest town to where I was. This was probably no more than 6 or 7 kms from the border and no direct/official access for dozens of kms at a guess. Driving in pitch black and then I see lights like out of the Close Encounters movie, where the helicopter comes up the road except I was the one moving. I thought the aliens had landed. Then as I crested the hill I realized that they were portable arc lights and there was some sort of checkpoint set up. I though a murderer had escaped a local prison or something. That is the only time I'd ever seen something like that in Canada. All they wanted was to look for Mexicans in my back seat and trunk (the boot, for all you English English speakers). They didn't know I had a dozen in the glove box. Then they let me go. FWIW, I did stop in Jacumba once. They have a hot springs "spa" there and its bar looks like the modern equivalent of one in the town at the end of The Outlaw Jose Wales where the silver lode had run out. Mind you the town kind of had that look too (at least at that time).

I've met people from Red Deer. The description "cave men" is pretty close, but I think "hillbilly" is a little more succinct.

The Mayan calendar was more accurate... 365.2420 days, vs. Gregorians 365.2425, when the actual value was 365.2422.

Ugh. Every time I see garbage like this modded insightful, I loose a little more hope for my fellow slashdotters. Goddammit people, when you read something and think "huh, I didn't know that!", your first reaction should be to look it up, NOT to hit the "mod insightful" button!

Here's a link to a book that talks about where that claim originated, and why it's wrong. Link should take you to the relevant page, but, just in case, it's "Early Astronomy" by Hugh Thurston, page 202/203.

For those too lazy to read it, here's the tl;dr version: the Mayan calendar is 365 days. It has no leap days or leap years. While there's evidence that the Mayans knew that the solar year was longer than 365 days, their calendar doesn't reflect that knowledge. The original claim was made by a guy who died in 1931, and he got his conclusion by making some silly mathematical mistakes.

Actually, Logo could do a lot more than drawing - it was basically an adaptation of LISP

I googled logo javascript, and got lost of hits.

Let's keep going with it. InfoWorld from May 1981 says the same thing. Computerworld pushes the date back to March, and uses the term as though it were common (and not in all-caps.) That's as early as I can dig in publications.

Let's keep going with it. InfoWorld from May 1981 says the same thing. Computerworld pushes the date back to March, and uses the term as though it were common (and not in all-caps.) That's as early as I can dig in publications.

By digging aroung you can find rare earth in North America. Some examples:

IAMGOLD Corp. - Niobec Niobium Mine
MDN Inc - Crevier Deposit : Niobium, Tantalum and Zirconium resource
Dios Exploration Inc. : Lithium, Niobium and Rare Earths

By digging aroung you can find rare earth in North America. Some examples:

IAMGOLD Corp. - Niobec Niobium Mine
MDN Inc - Crevier Deposit : Niobium, Tantalum and Zirconium resource
Dios Exploration Inc. : Lithium, Niobium and Rare Earths

By digging aroung you can find rare earth in North America. Some examples:

IAMGOLD Corp. - Niobec Niobium Mine
MDN Inc - Crevier Deposit : Niobium, Tantalum and Zirconium resource
Dios Exploration Inc. : Lithium, Niobium and Rare Earths

http://www.google.ca/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html

It's not too bad, if you're happy with essentially the same information being passed as for a Google search for every page you visit.

Saw this on Wired a few weeks ago. Looks dangerous indeed. I prefer my caffeine in liquid or solid, not gaseous, form, TYVM.

(Yes, I'm aware that an inhalant powder is technically solid; don't get pendantic).

While unemployment is an ordeal for anyone, it still appears to be more traumatic for men. Men without jobs are more likely to commit crimes and go to prison. They are less likely to wed, more likely to divorce, and more likely to father a child out of wedlock. Ironically, unemployed men tend to do even less housework than men with jobs and often retreat from family life, says W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia.

Or http://books.google.ca/books?id=YNB14HvzcnUC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=unemployed+men+do+less+housework+than+their+working+wives&source=bl&ots=Vyxd4vG2-2&sig=R6mtEy0XA8-wbRKgnyw_TSdYpTk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JmtCT7jYGsTt0gG-rJzoBw&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=unemployed%20men%20do%20less%20housework%20than%20their%20working%20wives&f=false

How do you account for that? The fact is, men do less of the housework, even when both partners work outside the home an equal amount.

#2 - what does a study of lesbians have to do with how men and women interact? Really?

#3 - No, it's not a "fair summary". A "fair summary" would be that a dirty car is a possible indicator or poor overall hygiene, and a clean car is a possible indicator of good overall hygiene. Given ONLY that variable, women would conclude that the guy with the slob car is probably a slob. Or would you conclude otherwise - that the guy with the clean car is more likely to be a slob?

#4 - that is not a "control group" - it didn't control for the variable that was being tested - the car itself. It put the same guy in a dirty car and a clean car. The dirty car was cheap, the clean car was expensive. To conclude that women were more attracted to the guy in the clean car because it was more expensive is not supported, since they didn't properly control for filth. If they had, they would have run the same test with an expensive dirty car and a clean cheap car.

Or they could have had two clean cars, one expensive, and one cheap. And two dirty cars, one expensive and one cheap. To conclude that "women care about cars while men don't" is not supported by the study, which is fatally flawed. It's "junk science." Then again, the NEJM did a study of double-blind studies, and found 1/3 of them to be fatally flawed (and this wasn't even a double-blind study).

So no, they did not have proper controls in the study. Saying that they did because they had men in the study is ridiculous.

#5 - You're the one who made a lot of assumptions. And nowhere does the study ask about difficulty in obtaining orgasm, contrary to what you just wrote. Did you actually READ the questions? Obviously not. It DID look at things like "opportunity lost" factors because they were relevant. Your attempt to misrepresent the results is just as bad as the original article, which was not supported by the research, and was just page hit bait.

#6 - No, it's not misdirection - the original point was that to classify women as gold-diggers is unfair, and not supported by the evidence, which shows women do more of the housework even when everything else is kept equal, and that may

There are more women than men in the workforce (though Canada beat the US by several years). And after re-reading my post, I still don't see what you are referring to when you write that "the link points out a correction for this."

There are other studies that show that men don't do their fair share ...

As for gender and violence, it IS pretty cut-and-dried.

91% of United States rape victims were female and 9% were male, with 99% of the offenders being male and 1% of the offenders being female.

So, rapists are men 99% of the time, and the victims were women more than 90% of the time. I honestly don't know how you can't get much more cut-and-dried than that.

Also - the car study - a dirty old Ford Fiesta to a clean new car??? (not the same as todays' version, btw). You might as well say that women are more attracted to men who take a bath once in a while.

For the female orgasm study, I think the real point was missed. Here's the salient quote:

From the analysis, they found that 121 of these women always had orgasms during sex, while 408 more had them "often". Another 762 "sometimes" orgasmed while 243 had them rarely or never. Such figures are similar to those for western countries.

The majority of women with partners didn't have orgasms often. It's known that financial stress causes "performance stress" for men ... so it would also explain why couples where there is more $$$ == better sex. Also, more $$$ == better health, and more likelihood to be able to see a doctor to get help for things like problems attaining orgasm - for both sexes. It's not as simple as the headline makes it out to be. And let's be honest - it's also a lot harder for people to get in the mood when there are job problems, money problems, and/or health problems.

Which brings me back to my main point - labeling women as gold-diggers is superficial, to say the least. It would be like me saying almost all men are rapists just because almost all rapists are men.

Financial, job, and in-the-home equality are part of the solution. Another part of the solution is better jobs, period! A sour economy brings out the worst in people, eroding their self-confidence, their resiliency, their willingness to see things as other than "us vs them."

There are more women than men in the workforce (though Canada beat the US by several years). And after re-reading my post, I still don't see what you are referring to when you write that "the link points out a correction for this."

There are other studies that show that men don't do their fair share ...

As for gender and violence, it IS pretty cut-and-dried.

91% of United States rape victims were female and 9% were male, with 99% of the offenders being male and 1% of the offenders being female.

So, rapists are men 99% of the time, and the victims were women more than 90% of the time. I honestly don't know how you can't get much more cut-and-dried than that.

Also - the car study - a dirty old Ford Fiesta to a clean new car??? (not the same as todays' version, btw). You might as well say that women are more attracted to men who take a bath once in a while.

For the female orgasm study, I think the real point was missed. Here's the salient quote:

From the analysis, they found that 121 of these women always had orgasms during sex, while 408 more had them "often". Another 762 "sometimes" orgasmed while 243 had them rarely or never. Such figures are similar to those for western countries.

The majority of women with partners didn't have orgasms often. It's known that financial stress causes "performance stress" for men ... so it would also explain why couples where there is more $$$ == better sex. Also, more $$$ == better health, and more likelihood to be able to see a doctor to get help for things like problems attaining orgasm - for both sexes. It's not as simple as the headline makes it out to be. And let's be honest - it's also a lot harder for people to get in the mood when there are job problems, money problems, and/or health problems.

Which brings me back to my main point - labeling women as gold-diggers is superficial, to say the least. It would be like me saying almost all men are rapists just because almost all rapists are men.

Financial, job, and in-the-home equality are part of the solution. Another part of the solution is better jobs, period! A sour economy brings out the worst in people, eroding their self-confidence, their resiliency, their willingness to see things as other than "us vs them."

Quoting someone else's opinion is hardly a rebuttal.

"Rebuttal"? Are we in some form of debate here? Who's keeping points?

I think your knee jerk reaction proves the GP's point/the quote a lot more than you realize. You're picking a fight where there's none to be had (and yes, I'm part of this too now, thanks for giving me the opportunity!), one which could have been avoided if you weren't so... passionate... about (your) religion

IT ISN'T HIS FIELD. HE IS IGNORANT about the subject.

Oh, so then only religious people can talk about religion then? Isn't that circular logic?

No sir, the relevant "field" here, if you can call it that, is the field of doing good things, and being human. I do think everybody qualifies

How many athiest organizations

I didn't bother to count, but they seem to exist.

Then again, should I have counted? Did your faith tell me I should keep count? Did your faith tell you that you should keep count? Do tell, how many religions teach their followers to keep track of their good deeds so they can use it as some sort of ammunition to pose as morally superior?

How many athiests are against vengeance? How many are for doing good to those who harm you?

Probably as many as Christians who do the same (but for the third time, are we in a competition on whose moral dick is bigger?)

Show me someone who claims to have never done wrong, and I'll show you a liar.

Hold on. Let me find a mirror.

Almost everyone does some good, and everyone does some wrong.

Interesting rhetoric, but what's your point?

As an engineer on Chrome security this particular FUD really bothers me. The BSI takes privacy very seriously, and would never make such a recommendation if Chrome did anything like what you suggest. To the contrary, Chrome has an exceptionally responsive privacy team and a very clear and simple privacy policy. It identifies any feature that can exchange data with Google services, and provides clear instructions for opting out. More importantly, the vast majority of features that can exchange any such data are explicitly opt-in.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=b3898c60dc422629d987a5755bc450e6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official This looks like poisonous flash material...

- Taking a picture of London's double-deck red bus: common place.
- Taking a picture of London's double-deck red bus in front of the Big Ben: common place.
- Doing selective desaturation with Photoshop: common place.
- THINKING about taking a picture of the red bus in front of the big Ben and selectively decolorizing the picture: common place (only takes a semi-professional photographer).
- But DOING it is now Copyright Justin Fielder, thank you very much.

[Insert your worst insult here] you!

Wait until the tourist board for the "Leaning Tower of Pisa" get a hold of this!.

"Well it is not like anyone is even shown evidence that the holocaust ever happened"

You can go to Europe and look for yourself. Several of the Nazi prison camps have been preserved. There are lots of records as well, many of them kept by the Nazis themselves, others eyewitness accounts from liberators, citizens and observers of many different nations.

If you don't believe a scientist, you're free to check what he says. You might have to invest a considerable amount of time, but you can. If you don't want to do it personally, there are others who will, and do. Priests... not so much.

"As for Canada (my country as well), I believe you are wrong. I don't think anything is really said about hate speech."

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=canada%20hate%20speech%20laws&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHate_speech_laws_in_Canada&ei=664cT-eiMOb00gGpus3KAQ&usg=AFQjCNGr3grkKI0DzF70DLOo_yZAbIK8Bw

or, if you prefer, the actual criminal code (check sections 318 and 319):

http://laws.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/FullText.html

Don't "believe," find out. It's a little bit of work to see evidence of the holocaust with your own eyes (originals, anyway). It's beyond your reach to verify all of science, but you can do spot checks if you feel like it, and things like the computer you typed your message on verify some of the rest. But that last thing you could have checked in about thirty seconds with an elementary Google search.

Except that he probably found it off the internets

So.. who is paying for her rescue? And are they volunteers who are willing to risk their life to save some chick out on a whim?

Yeah ... they are. All guys, too. Have you SEEN her?

I dont' have the exact location, but the approximate site is on western Ellesmere Island, near 80degN, 86deg 25'W, just west of Eureka. I've been to Eureka, which is mainly a weather station on the north side of Slidre Fiord, right on the coastline (if you move east along the shore in Google Maps you'll see it). It has a nice airstrip up the hill that Hercules and other large military aircraft can land at. In the fall (usually September) the base gets resupplied by an icebreaker, so theoretically it is possible to steam all the way up there with a big instrument and offload it, and then move it by road. The PEARL station is a 15km drive to the west from there. It's quite pleasant at Eureka in the summertime (up to 15C). In the winter, well, I wouldn't want to be there, but 24 hours of darkness and bitter cold is probably good for astronomy, and it is much more accessible than the Antarctic pole. Although it wouldn't get continual coverage all the way to the horizon, at 80 degrees north you could still track a target 24 hours a day over most of the northern sky in winter.

People are right that building on permafrost is a challenge, but one that is probably a lot easier than building on ice. Likewise, yes, communication would have to be by satellite, but that's true in Antarctica too. On the whole this is indeed a much more accessible location.

IMAX theatres do (at least they claim to).

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=imax+12000+watts+sound

There is here.

But according to this map of pakistan and surrounding area, it looks as though the only way for the oil to get from China without going through the Strait of Hormuz would be to come directly from Iran. I guess that is why they are building a port. It also raises the scary question that if Iran "expanded" its influence then China would still get its oil but the US would not. I am not sure if it is possible for land shipments of oil on the border between Iraq and Iran given the mountainous terrain.

Oh my god.

You have absolutely no idea about the subject you're broaching, do you?

Seriously, you need to hit pause on your ego, (Arguing to 'win' in order to preserve the illusion of you're dominance or whatever, rather than arguing to determine the true nature of reality?? Ugh.), and you need to do some heavy research into the matter, because you are right now utterly wrong about. . , well, everything. Just start with Cleckley. The Mask of Sanity is a quick read, and one of the founding documents in the study of the phenomenon.

Let's get started. . .

Um, no. No, actually, the overwhelming majority of them are not; they may be psychopaths, but they are not as stupid as that. A few do indeed harm humanity at large, or even just the people around them, and they can be dealt with as they do what they do. Until they do wrong, however, they deserve punishment no more than anyone else who has done no wrong. They have no interest in warring with us, and we should have no interest in warring with them.

You're making the classic assumption that psychopaths think the way you do. They do not. A pathogenic bacteria or virus is not technically at war with its host either, but they still do what they are designed by nature to do. It still behooves the host to try to remove the infection.

I also can't help but notice that you're lumping accidents in with deliberate acts. That smacks of conspiracy theorism.

Holy shit. A) The term "Conspiracy" has been co-opted to ridicule people who point out that corruption exists and wish to see it prevented. B) Accidents like the ones I mentioned would have been prevented if psychopathic negligence hadn't been allowed to occur in the first place.

That's an awfully convenient definition: any person who has a trait you don't like isn't human. Isn't that something psychopaths do?

I barely know where to start with such a statement.

First of all, I was very specific. The trait under discussion is not just 'any trait' as you blithely suggest. Some people naturally smell really bad, and I don't like that, but they're still human.

The trait we are talking about here is the Inability to Empathize. It is, in essence, the defining quality which makes a psychopath a psychopath, and all the other problems are rooted on that foundation.

And yes, absolutely, if you do not have the ability to empathize, you are little more than a biological machine.

And yes, psychopaths do certainly use the tactic of trying to dehumanize their victims, but they are doing so on false grounds. They are trying to dehumanize thinking, feeling HUMANS, and they use lies and manipulations to do so, usually based on differences in culture or skin color. By VERY stark contrast, I am pointing at medical facts which nobody denies exist, and which are directly responsible for all manner of destruction and chaos visited upon human populations.

Do you see the oh-so-subtle difference? Are we quite clear?

In other words, silence them because of what they might do, based on a particular outlook and worldview. That's only slightly less unconscionable than killing them outright. The worst thing about democracy is that everyone gets a vote, but that's also the best thing about it, and there's really no way around it. If you don't want the possibility of silencing anybody, then you must not allow the possibility of silencing anybody.

This is dogmatic parrot-speak which fails to take into account the existence of psychopaths. Democracy and the legal syste

Google could make it happen, a dedicated Android (Linux) version for desktop would be a guaranteed success

You mean Microsoft and Google could make it happen; since Microsoft (apparently) owns significant portions of Linux. The Arab Spring never touched the Western world Intellectual Property.

References:
http://www.google.ca/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=linux+companies+that+pay+royalties+to+microsoft&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest

http://www.techdrivein.com/2011/07/list-of-companies-that-pay-royalties-to.html

http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/microsoft_news/231601809

SCO is not dead, it just metastasized itself to the different legal departments of various corporations.

I believe that there is growing scientific evidence of a link between blood sugar spikes and dementia. I have read of scientists who hypothesize that one of the reasons older people get dementia is that their ability to moderate their blood sugar levels decreases as they get older. This seems perhaps to link in with TFA. Here is a preliminary survey of the scientific literature.

The fact that you think this kind of behavior is unremarkable and should be let to slide is a symptom of just how far society in general has fallen under the sway of the psychopath and its version of reality.

This exchange is a fascinating one, documenting how psychopaths think and act. We can all learn from it.

Read Hervey Cleckley's Mask of Sanity (free download) to get some insight. He was one of the original scientists who pioneered research into a field which is arguably at the core of every major problem humanity is currently dealing with.

Unfortunately, the actual clinical definitions are anything but clear or universally adopted throughout medicine and science.

In any case, "Psychopath" fits this case to a Tee.

One of the founding researchers on the subject was Hervey Cleckly. His book, The Mask of Sanity is essential reading. And bloody interesting, too.

Horse crap. Toronto starting building a system like this in 2001. A large portion of the downtown including almost the entire financial district has been using this technique since 2004. It's called Deep Water Lake Cooling and takes 4 degree Celsius water from a point 5 km offshore and 83 metres deep in Lake Ontario. The water is treated first and much of it goes to the municipal water system directly, but some is diverted to the closed loop heat exchangers used in the cooling system and then on to the municipal water supply so that there is no waste heat transmitted back to the lake. All the buildings connect to this heat exchanger. Toronto has 2.5 million people and the financial district is around 20 square blocks. There are at least 140 buildings on the system now, including most if not all of the up to 80 story sky scrapers that occupy the core of the area. It is the largest system of its kind in the world. It has a capacity (PDF File) to cool 29,000,000 square feet (about 2.7 million sq metres) of office space. And if that doesn't beat all, it was mentioned on Slashdot in 2004.

Usually when people (or corporations) rant against "slavery", they are ranting against "white slavery" or prostitution. Like the article says; "... intervention and rescue of people being held, forced to work or provide sex against their will...". Of course these same people are in denial of the fact that many people deliberately get into "sexual slavery" (i.e. prostitution) because the money is good. Of course, there will be people coercing their employees, just like in the industrial sector.

Too bad all (or at least most) of the talk about "slavery" is only about prostitution. Too bad, because a lot of large corporations like the Fox television network use Chinese prison slaves to make novelty products for distribution in the United States (like Homer Simpson slippers).

Not to mention that industrial slavery is rampant in North America. It's a crime that nobody in the Conservative movement wants to talk about.

Additional References:
The Virgin Trade
AND
Youtube

Usually when people (or corporations) rant against "slavery", they are ranting against "white slavery" or prostitution. Like the article says; "... intervention and rescue of people being held, forced to work or provide sex against their will...". Of course these same people are in denial of the fact that many people deliberately get into "sexual slavery" (i.e. prostitution) because the money is good. Of course, there will be people coercing their employees, just like in the industrial sector.

Too bad all (or at least most) of the talk about "slavery" is only about prostitution. Too bad, because a lot of large corporations like the Fox television network use Chinese prison slaves to make novelty products for distribution in the United States (like Homer Simpson slippers).

Not to mention that industrial slavery is rampant in North America. It's a crime that nobody in the Conservative movement wants to talk about.

Additional References:
The Virgin Trade
AND
Youtube

Looks like you can see the minivan on Google street view

Misogynist - a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women.

Casual sexism is misogyny

Hags, dogs, whores, bitches. It's amazing how much hate you can pack into a few syllables. How do you spot a woman-hater? By the way they talk about women, treat women, react to women, represent women. Bitching about women, slagging off women â" even the language used to describe such slander comes from misogyny. The ubiquitous verbal violence supports physical violence and nobody, male or female, minds. If I were called a Paki in the street, I would have some hope of it being taken seriously. If I were called a slag â" as I was last summer by a man on a bicycle, in Stepney â" nobody would consider it report-worthy.

When a workplace misogynist comes calling

Beauty and misogyny: harmful cultural practices in the West pp 115ff, dealing with the workplace.

Misogeny isn't just about the greek root word, and not all misogynists are looking to beat the pulp out of women.

I used to live in Alberta, but that was years ago when the tar sands were just beginning their major expansion. They used tailings ponds then, they do now -- even more of them. You're right there are reclaimed areas, but the area of active mines and tailings ponds is even greater now than 10 years ago because the operations have greatly expanded. If you are referring to steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) that some companies like to tout as a wonderful new technology that avoids mining, it was used years ago too. It's not like they've switched over to use exclusively subsurface techniques or even mainly. Both operations are going full bore and getting ever bigger. They are projected to do so for decades, and although they don't have the same level of effect on the surface as open-pit mining, SAGD is still much more energy-intensive production than conventional oil and gas (they burn a LOT of natural gas to heat up the oil to get it to flow).

Have doubts? A short hop to google maps shows everything. Zoom in further and you can see the wellpads and roads used for the SAGD and other subsurface projects.

I don't know how you've managed to come up with the myth that "We don't use tailings ponds anymore". There are more than ever. Apparently the few dollars the oil industry spends on commercials has managed to fool some of the gullible people.

Look, the basic reality is: there's more demand for oil than ever, the conventional supply is dwindling, so companies are greatly expanding the unconventional sources which happen to take more energy per barrel of oil and generate more CO2 per barrel than conventional oil. Anyone who thinks the situation in Alberta will lead to anything but increasing CO2 emissions is living in a fantasy land. The sad thing is, neither the Alberta government, the Canadian federal government, nor most of the people living in Alberta give a damn, especially if changing the situation would amount to even 1% of the huge profits they rake in. In 50 years when Alberta has depleted most of its oil and gas and its agriculture and cities are withering in the arid heat, with rivers dwindling due to the smaller icefields in the Rockies, they'll probably be asking for handouts from the rest of the country. At which point we can say "You made your choice. I hope the money was worth it. Live with it like the rest of us."

Probably the biggest problem to addressing the 'population issue' is that the areas of the world where environment movements tend to exist tend to also exist alongside groups which love population growth.

Big cities like New York, Toronto, London... tend to have a lot of 'green movements'.
Yet they're also places which keep advocating high immigration rates for both political reasons (diversity...) as well as special economic reasons (prop up the housing industry, cheap immigrant labor...). More often than not the same groups in the green movement are the same who love increasing population.

It's one of the reasons why things like pollution/Capita are tricky. A lot of people seem to think per Capita measures are the ultimate measure. But it doesn't take into account societal and cultural choices.

For example, we compare two societies.

1. A huge population like India where the consumption/capita is very low. (545 kg in oil equivalence)
2. A sparsely population country like Iceland with high consumption/capita (17338 kg)

source: http://www.google.ca/publicdata (energy use per capita).

Now many who just look at the per capita measures like to rant how inefficient and wasteful western people are. Yet don't look at the per capita numbers alone. Look at the society as a whole.

Icelandic society provides a high standard of living for everyone and keeps its population reasonable. That each Icelandic person lives much better than an Indian is not a problem... as the Icelandic society has managed to keep its population small.

Put simply... is the solution to shove everyone in to a city and make everyone live like they're in Tokyo? Only for those who like to measure everything in per capita use and don't want to look at the greater functioning of society.

And this seems like a very easy thing to computise. You digitize the shredded documents. You run a program that looks for similarities around the edges. You stick likely candidates together and either ask for human confirmation or run a text recognition algorithm to see if the result makes sense.

This sort of approach has been used before, as far back as 1969, as described in this excerpt from an issue Popular Mechanics:

The job of reassembling 30,000 pieces of an Egyptian temple at Karnak is being given an assist by an IBM computer... The pieces are coded and photographed, and the photos matched with the help of the computer.

More recently, software developed at Tel Aviv University is being used to piece together thousands of hand-written document fragments.

ISPs could move to that model too. But they don't want to. They prefer to charge flat rates and then throttle people who use it more.

They tried to do that in Canada and everybody went apeshit crazy. The federal government got involved and there were protests in the street (really) and ultimately the isps were ordered to abandon it. To be fair the the ISPs wanted to charge a monthly fee with a low cap plus something stupid like $2.50 /GB for overages.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=canada+usage+based+billing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

I just fucking Googled it. Last result on the first page nails it.

You know I was going to argue the exact same thing. Except I was going to use facts and figures. However when I looked up US spending it is comparable percentage wise to China and Russian GDP spending. The US spends more money but they get less bang for their buck. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2034rank.html Use google to compare spending. Pretty cool! http://www.google.ca/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ms_mil_xpnd_gd_zs&idim=country:USA&dl=en&hl=en&q=us+military+spending

With Hollywood accounting, all movies are failures on paper.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=star+wars+david+prowse+profit

Well: Google says... "Iron Mountain has lost a backup tape belonging to GE Money with approximately 650,000 JC Penney customer records on it, and 150,000 of those records include customer social security numbers." Among others.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=define%3Aautodidact

autodidact/ôtddakt/
Noun: A self-taught person.

http://www.etsmtl.ca/nouvelles/2011/Voiture-solaire

http://translate.google.ca/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.etsmtl.ca%2Fnouvelles%2F2011%2FVoiture-solaire&act=url

Anyways, I work 5 minutes from ETS, maybe I can drop by tomorrow and take a look.

"an individual is getting high and receives a call that their friend or family member was in an accident or some other tragedy. They are in a need to get to that friend/family member. If they could do something to suppress the high affect, they would have less "problems" getting to their friend."

Have you ever been high? If you are in a high adreneline situation, you sober right the fuck up pretty quick. Weed isn't that hardcore of a drug that you can just get lost in like heroin or ketamine. Even when drunk, i have "scared" myself sober in emergency situations.

So I think your hypothetical situation is a very silly justification for massaging this incredebile find to your own ends.

Also FYI, every animal on this planet, down to the lowliest sea slug has canabanoid receptors.

Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111905007067

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=sea+slug+endocannabinoid+system&btnG=Search

For more information, I highly recomend the Horizon documentary Cannibis the Evil Weed which has the above as well as more information.

"an individual is getting high and receives a call that their friend or family member was in an accident or some other tragedy. They are in a need to get to that friend/family member. If they could do something to suppress the high affect, they would have less "problems" getting to their friend."

Have you ever been high? If you are in a high adreneline situation, you sober right the fuck up pretty quick. Weed isn't that hardcore of a drug that you can just get lost in like heroin or ketamine. Even when drunk, i have "scared" myself sober in emergency situations.

So I think your hypothetical situation is a very silly justification for massaging this incredebile find to your own ends.

Also FYI, every animal on this planet, down to the lowliest sea slug has canabanoid receptors.

Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378111905007067

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=sea+slug+endocannabinoid+system&btnG=Search

For more information, I highly recomend the Horizon documentary Cannibis the Evil Weed which has the above as well as more information.

Not really. This site isn't even new. It is a carbonatite intrusion that was discovered years ago. But REE prices were low then, and it didn't proceed to development. The deposit has sat there until REE prices have risen. This isn't poor stewardship, it's market forces.

There is quite a bit of background in the PDF document on the company's website, including the fact that the initial discovery of the carbonatite intrusion was due to the Nebraska Geological Survey and the US Bureau of Mines in the 1970s, when they drilled a borehole to determine the cause for a gravity anomaly detected in regional geophysical mapping (i.e. it was your tax dollars at work that first found it). This was followed up by a company called Molycorp in the 1970s to 1980s, who did a program of 106 drillholes and chemical analyses to figure out what REE concentration and volume was there (carbonatites are well known for exotic and sometimes valuable minerals). A bunch of their maps and geochemical data are scanned in and available from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Molycorp found decent amounts of some REE elements, especially niobium, but not enough to be profitable at the 200m-or-so depth of the intrusion, which is eroded and buried beneath younger sediments. There is no surface expression. It's fairly flat farmland. Based on the map at the company's website, the center of the intrusion is about here, just to the SW of Elk Creek, which is a tiny town SE of Lincoln, Nebraska. The company cited in the press releases has bought out the company that previously held the exploration rights in this area. They've re-done analyses from the cores drilled by Molycorp. It is probably only because of the increased market prices for REE that they have become interested.

This is a very different type of deposit from the ones in China -- a "hard rock" deposit. That would probably make it more expensive to mine than the REE-rich clays found in China, even leaving aside the difference in labor costs and concerns about environmental impact. It's tough to compete when you're talking about crushing up solid rock 200m+ below the surface versus scraping up clay on a dry lake bottom. Concentrations will have to be correspondingly higher.

It's also an exaggeration to say that the US has "plenty" of oil. The US produces about half of what it uses, and US production has been in decline since the 1970s not due to regulations or "not going after it", but because practically all the big deposits on land have already been found and the only big deposits left are offshore where it is 10x as expensive to find and develop them. Most of the production onshore is from old fields late in their production history, hence the decline in rates. There may be quite a bit left, but it's like squeezing the last bit of water out of a sponge -- a lot slower.

The basic problem whether oil, gas, or REE deposits is the fact that they are non-renewable and the US has already thoroughly explored for the easy/large deposits and depleted them. Natural gas isn't so bad because of recent technological improvements that have opened new areas to exploration (e.g., coal-bed methane and shale gas), but even for that the US imports a lot of the natural gas it uses from Canada.

The basic story is: the easy stuff is already found and depleted. There's plenty left in some senses, but it is lower grade and more expensive to develop even if you ignore issues like regulation. It's not as if you could reverse the decline in oil production in the US by dropping regulations, for example. It's the geology and the normal behavior of non-renewable resources that limits

Oracle is trading at around $30 a share with a market cap of ~ $153 billion.
Google is trading at around $600 a share with a market cap of ~$194 billion.

That is to say, Oracle isn't small, and while Google's bigger, it would have to use nearly half its own net worth to gain a controlling share of Oracle.