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Actually I couldn't find the name of the font that inspired me until I just booted my old desktop. The Pigiarniq font solves basically the same, and they did well.

I think that the term you'd be looking for would be 'displacement'.

Thanks, "displacement" may work. Another word I thought of when I read the above was "distort" and I'll try it too.

My house needs to be heated. I'm outside of NG range, so my main choices are electric or propane. Right now propane is substantially cheaper than electric - but with the right setup(like a geothermal heat pump), electric would be cheaper.

I rent now but it's kind of like "rent to own". When the building is transfered to me I plan on converting the heating as well. Right now a boiler in the basement, burning propane, provides heating with only 1 thermostat covering the building. What I want to do is first improve the insulation, my apartment on the first floor can get warm while the apartments above will be cold. Then if feasible I want to use a geothermal heat pump as well. I'll use radiant floor heating and create heating zones for each apartment controlled by thermostats in each apartment. A person would be able to have the bedroom warming up before they hit the sack then lower the temp once they're out the door. The kitchen zone would then warm up before they got up so the floor wasn't cold while cooking. Now, do I really expect people to setup the room like that? No, but they will have the ability.

It'd just take a large capital investment - which isn't worth it at this time.

Yea, I hope I'll be able to save enough after a few years, I want to get a loan for it but still want to make sure I have at least most of the money. I could either take out a second mortgage or an equity line of credit, then roll it into a new mortgage when interest is low.

If it gets bad enough - you see more people driving electric cars because they're cheaper.

I think it was late last year but it of been early this year when I read about a study the "Economist" had that basically said those in the US pay something like 17% of their income on transportation. When oil prices are low they'll drive expensive gas guzzlers but when oil prices are high they drive fuel efficient vehicles.

On to your list of links... I found #4 interesting, because it considers not charging for CO2 emissions a subsidy.

In a way I consider a subsidy myself. Instead of the government giving the money, it's future generations who will have to pay. The Inuit in Nunavut are already paying. And not just for Global Warming, but for industrial pollution as well. Although the Inuit neither make nor consume Polychlorinated biphenyl, known to be highly toxic, their blood as been shown to have high PCB levels. Heck they even have high levels of DDT.

I hate to say it, but I think that they need to stop concentrating on reducing energy usage for a while and concentrate on appliance longevity. Chopping 10% off the electricity usage of an appliance makes sense when it lasts 20 years, but the average today is often less than 10, and for some is as low as 5, on average.

Oh, I'm in total agreement. It seems nobody takes pride in making something that can be handed down to grand and great grand children today. I lost it but about 15 years ago I had the shell of a Zippo lighter with the graving of a Chinese dragon that was made in the 1930's. It was in great shape. Design today is for planned obsolescence. Things should be made to last a long tyme, then easy to recycle. There's a good book partially on this, "Natural Capitalism". It has case studies of how company X improved it's bottom line by cleaning up pollution,

medical care... Kyoto... gun control...

Seriously though, the argument that population is too decentralized to support broadband doesn't wash. As we speak wireless broadband is being made available to every community in Nunavut, and you don't get a population density lower than that.

It's a question of political will and nothing else.

Also, unlike Vista and OS X, Linux provides comprehensive support for languages such as Gaelic and Welsh.

I believe this to be false, and I am assuming it is coming from someone who has never used OS X. I just looked in System Preferences, and they are indeed there under International (you need to look under its native name, e.g. "Cymraeg" for Welsh -- it's hidden under the "Edit" button). OS X was built with Unicode in mind. OS X even comes with built-in support for the Inuktitut (Eskimo) language for chrissakes!! (Try visiting http://www.gov.nu.ca/inuktitut/ in Safari --- that is rendered in the default font!!)

I use both Linux and OS X heavily, but stuff like this doesn't lend the Linux camp any credibilty IMHO.

Another problem with the left is that they ignore economics. When the economists crunch the numbers, they often find that even assuming GW is real, adaption is simply the cheaper option as compared to prevention. To put it simply, doing anything about GW that would actually make a difference could be far more expensive than it is worth. It may be easier to build some flood walls than buy a zillion solar panels, for example. I rarely find that the left is even willing to engage in this debate, probably because they are on very weak footing there.

Do you have any economic links for this? Is Tuvalu supposed to build a seawall all around their islands? Or what about those who depend on glaciers for their water like at Mount Kilimanjaro? And the Inuit of northern Canada, Nunavut, who depend on seals?

Ooh, if you think I'm liberal because of this post, then you're right, I am a liberal. But not what passes as liberal today, instead I'm a liberal, classical liberal, like Thomas Jefferson was, pro liberty and small government.

Now that Inuits finally get Nunavut they're in danger of loosing it.

Some other facts about Nunavut:

Kilometers of highway: 20

Cost of 2 Litres of milk: $5.75 (CND)

Largest city: Iqaluit, pop. 6,000

Pretty sickening that you have had to live under the occupation by "coalition forces" for so long. I wonder if this is what's in store for the Iraqis. I firmly believe that you should ask th U.N. to tell the American gov't to set aside some nice prime coastal real estate for the North American Indians. And why not not??? They did it for the Israelis. Your claims would be much more valid than their's were.

Well, Canada did it for some of their natives.

Well, I thought I read on a Government of Canada Website that it hadn't been decided yet, but perhaps they have chosen NU:

http://www.gov.nu.ca/