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Yup. I think that recently happened to Manitoba.

http://www.newswire.ca/news-re...

Cell phone use (talking and texting) has skyrocketed over the last decade. The accident rates have not risen in correlation with it.

Wrong. Accidents caused by distracted driving have increased dramatically. For example, see here:

"In 2013, distracted driving fatalities surpassed both impaired and speed related fatalities in fatal motor vehicle collisions investigated by the OPP. A total of 78 persons died in distracted driving related collisions compared to 57 impaired driving deaths and 44 speed related deaths last year.

After the release of the first Fast and Furious movie, there was a massive increase in performance and after market part sales. At the time I was working for one of the major distributors and the growth they experienced was massive. An industry that was already alive at the time (classic restorations repro parts) also noted a major increase in sales.

BTW, do you know how much of an increase in sex toy sales there was after the release of the book "50 shades of grey"? HUGE amounts.
http://www.newswire.ca/en/stor...

Entertainment has a direct influent on a very large portion of the population and you are surrounded by proof.

Maybe you aren't as influenced since you sound smart enough to make decisions based on logic but I assure you that's not the case of a large percentage of the population. Most people pick their clothing based on what characters and shows they like let alone what they eat and drink.

France electricity prices do not reflect the actual cost. This is not a free market situation.

Most electrical systems are not "free market" systems, as rates are heavily regulated by rate commissions and production is tightly controlled by government planning and approval. In any case, can you demonstrate that France's electricity price is not real? I'm pretty sure rate payers there don't see more than the billed amount get debited each month from their accounts. From a taxation perspective France is also lower than Denmark, so what's your point again?

Even for existing technology nuclear is not really competive, actual 3rd generation projects see immensive cost explosion

There's a couple of reasons for this:

1. We haven't been building them, so building few units at a time is expensive. Curiously though constructing over 50 units over 15 years didn't bankrupt France in the 1970s and 1980s.
2. China is actually building them on time and on budget thanks to volume purchasing, high levels of standardization and coordination.
3. Environmentalists' pushback is creating a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy in that they delay construction projects, these then escalate in cost and the same environmental groups subsequently complain about delays and budget overruns.

So it can and has been done, all it takes is determination and united will.

thorium is currently just vapourware

Complete and utter vaporware, just like the other vaporware that was actually ready for deployment in 1994, but was killed by political action (although the concept having survived in Russia). As for LFTR, you are right, there are currently no ready and licensed designs, but that doesn't mean that we can't pursue them. The physics is clear, as is most of the chemistry. What needs to be really worked out are the operating principles and doing all of the detailed work to actually get a permitted design off the ground. If we'd spent a small fraction of the money sunk into renewables into these nuclear projects we could have had a design ready to roll a decade ago (we had the IFR, as I said before, but that was killed for political reasons).

Record labels pirate their own artists work: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/January2011/10/c9214.html

So let's add:

sonymusic.com
emi.com
riaa.com
etc.

The actual press release and individual settlement details (apologies for the karma whoring). Yet to be ratified by the stakeholders.

Yeah, and Aurora is... owned by Rogers. Look at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/February2008/13/c9876.html

After the incident was publicized, the Ontario Ministry of Education was investigated and two teachers were suspended.

That is a very misleading statement. Very much indicative of your entire posts's dittohead spin. There was one teacher suspended and the teacher was suspended before the investigation in other words, the school's administration was doing its job - not promoting "islamic hate" as you claim.

Here's the press blurb the government issued that summarized the investigation.

It took me less time to debunk your post with google than it took you to write it in the first place. Next time, could you at least try to do a little background research before parroting the limbaugh "orthodoxy?"

I ordered the IBM X41 Thinkpad Tablet a couple weeks ago, and got the bios-based 3 years of computrace along with it. I got the CD, but I'm still waiting for the tablet. It says that it's an activation CD, so I'm hoping that you can activate it via windows, but have it work without worrying about the OS.

System Requirements:
Windows XP
Internet Explorer 6 And Above

This article for more:
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/Februar y2005/01/c8968.html

What? Microsoft is part of this Agility Alliance?

I actually like this quote from NewsWire from this text.

"The EDS Agility Alliance promises to take industry collaboration and innovation to a new level by applying the assets and expertise of key industry leaders and partners to a single vision," said Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Single vision means monopoly right? That's weird, why is "collaboration" and "single vision" in the same sentence?

Adhominem eh? :)
1. I bother to link because I can.
2. You obviously cannot appreciate the libraries offered and therefore you draw fast and wrongfull assumption about their usefulness (~120 downloads in the past 24 hours)
3. Award winning it is. Check out this, and this, and this and this and this, or just search this.
Just because you are incapable of grasping it, that doesn't means that you have the right to bitch about it. (Well, you actually can bitch about it, /. ) For a healthy exercise, do try to optimize any existing algorithm that's designed for *speed*, and to gain, shall we say, 1%, then, you'll surely appreciate 40%.
f) I know that the webpage isn't perfect, but considering my time spending for university, girlfriend, work, research, weight lifting, reading and optimizing those things I *can* and *love*, I think that the webpage is quite cool for now.
g) I would bring myself that low to say that you, and whoever moded you up, are idiots.

NAFTA threatens environmental protection will FTAA be any better? NAFTA threatens public services will FTAA be any better?

Lower barriers to trade is a good Idea, but the FTA, NAFTA, and FTAA has little to do with trade, and everything to do with making governments subservient to trans-national corporations.

If you simply tax liquor, that only serves to drive the cost up. With the system I outlined, the price stays the same, because the government buys in volume at low cost, sells to the consumer at the regular price, and then puts the difference towards the coffers. Both the consumer/citizen and the government win.

The owners & employees of the privatised liquor store aren't living out of the pocket of the taxpayer

No, because the liquor stores are profitable, they don't need any tax subsidization, but rather they generate money to supplement tax revenue. Hell, you can LOWER taxes, because the liquor stores generate supplemental revenue for the goverment.

Last year it generated $1.7 billion dollars towards government programs, and note that's after costs.

I remember looking through some websites of UK companies who specialise in custom, low-power x86 compatible embedded systems. They had a product that they had created for a client which was a GPS transmitter in a can.

I'm sure these aren't that uncommon, I know Budweiser and Coors have already had promotions like this before.

You won't be able to use GPS to scan for the cans because they only start operating when opened. Yeah, some device to detect electronics might work close-up but you'd need to be close-up to every can. You may detect which pallet has a winning can in at the factory but you still wouldn't be able to track it to it's final destination or guarantee you'll be around when that can goes on sale

That article too, is light on details, but it claims that Coors Light was able to use a GPS based device in a bottle to locate winners and give them their prize.

Does anyone have any more details on how this system works? Does it only work if I decide to drink my Coke/Coors outside in an area with a good cell phone signal, and then only if I don't move for a minute after activating the GPS receiver?

Took the words right out of my mouth. I've be writting GUIs and graphics applications for X since X11R3. Xlib has a bit of a curve to it, but if you have any background at all in computer science and graphics, it isn't too hard to understand the abstractions. The X Window System has a long and interesting history.

Xlib still has a lot going for it, espcially in terms of availability on the various UNIX variants out there and one of it's often overlooked features, especially by younger less experienced developers: network portability. This feature is absolutely wonderful inside a corporate or research environment where your workstation isn't necessarily where you run your code and/or do your work.

Xlib + Xt + Motif + MotifTools (or whatever they are called today) is still a viable, useful toolchain for developing applications. Canada's latest civilian Air Traffic Control Enroute system (CAATS) uses Xlib + Xt + Motif for it's extremely customized UI. (It's not for the faint of heart -- no help ballons there). The Canadian Military also adopted a system based on the same underlying technology (from the same vendor) for it's ATC enroute and local control.

As always, the right tool for the right job, but also, the right developer for the right job helps a lot too. You wouldn't let a kid loose with a jackhammer, so why let an inexperienced software developer loose with Xlib + Xt + Motif? :-)

I don't know about you guys but since the SARS scare, I've been checking out for deals to go to Toronto. Some people might say I'm crazy, but hey! Check this out: Free Trip to T.O.

Even so, the lifetime power consumption of an 100W bulb (250kW) is costing you C$10.75 - are you seriously suggesting that that's negligable compared to what you paid for the bulb itself? Let me know, I can mail you some lightbulbs from the US...how many 100W bulbs do you want for one of those CANDUs? I've always wanted to have my own nuclear power station, but the American designs are all too big to fit in my garage.

Meanwhile, some of your countrymen are concerned that Price Caps on Ontario Electricity Could Mean Replay of California's Electricity Crisis. Good luck with that...

"The US doesn't _need_ tarrifs, which is why it doesn't have any. "

That is a bald-faced lie (you might also want to find out what the US is doing in regards to steel, it's the same back-stabbing).

The US government is very happy to force tarrifs, taxes, etc, on imports. They don't like it when an unrefined resource producing country like Canada has a competitive advantage, even though it makes more sense economically for both parties (as you pointed out: the US gets the resources it wants, Canada gets the refined goods it wants, companies make the money they want).

If you wonder why this situation exists, it is because the US government continues to pander to special interest groups. Why do they do this? Because, as the most recent election showed, voting for a republocrat is throwing away your vote -- only a few people, the special interest groups, get to decide the entire fate of the country.

In addition to the Versign scams, we have these idiots to deal with.

This of course has nothing to do with the ineptitude of these idiots.

The solution to dealing with these creeps naturally is to do business with a reputable, knowledgeable outfit, and the idiots seem to be kept at bay.

.mike

It seems that Shaw, my provider, Cogeco and even Rogers are sufficiently prepared for this event. Of course old Ted Roger is going to lose a bit of his shirt on this thing and they have been slow to react because of their interests in @home and partnerships with AT&T, and there are still lots of people questioning if Rogers can support all of their customers. Atleast 10% may be without service tonight.

Shaw made the conversion months ago, mostly due to poor service from Excite, especially with email.

But thank god for out socialist interfering government, because by 2004 they are promising us broadband in every pot. Now if everyone had a computer too. Even the CRTC is not going to interfere with the net at this point anyway. Beside it is because of there regulations that I pay less for my cable service, only $40 Cnd, that is like 5 US, and I get more bandwidth and better service.

We may not be able to support a useful military, but we all can get streaming video of the latest war to our home from cnn.

Excuse me while I download the latest Suse version.

It is 40 below and I don't give a ...

[Note: I own Corel Stock]

There may be a difference between Canadian and US regulations (but presumably he would have to follow both since the stock trades in both countries), but in the US for an insider stock sale (which was back in 1997, for those who haven't read the details) you have to file a Form 144: 'Intention To Sell Restricted Securities' but you can do it anytime prior to, upto and including, the day of the sale. (see this Insider Trades FAQ)

I also want to comment that from reading the allegations it sounds like a pretty weak case in that MC made an effort to ensure that sales would meet expectations, and didn't know until 25 days AFTER he sold the shares that those efforts weren't successful.

Also it should be noted that he sold the stock when it was at around C$8 and its now about C$10 so anyone that has held on to the stock was better off than having put it in the bank.

[Note: I own Corel Stock]

There may be a difference between Canadian and US regulations (but presumably he would have to follow both since the stock trades in both countries), but in the US for an insider stock sale (which was back in 1997, for those who haven't read the details) you have to file a Form 144: 'Intention To Sell Restricted Securities' but you can do it anytime prior to, upto and including, the day of the sale. (see this Insider Trades FAQ)

I also want to comment that from reading the allegations it sounds like a pretty weak case in that MC made an effort to ensure that sales would meet expectations, and didn't know until 25 days AFTER he sold the shares that those efforts weren't successful.

Also it should be noted that he sold the stock when it was at around C$8 and its now about C$10 so anyone that has held on to the stock was better off than having put it in the bank.

Here is a link to the news release that went out last January which stated the tax was being delayed.

The most relevant portion of the release stated that:

The letter also advises the Copyright Board that all members of the CPCC have agreed to delay collecting the levy on blank audio recording media until the Board renders it's decision on the proposed levy or until December 31, 1999, whichever is earlier.

I haven't seen anything which indicated that the "CPCC Board" has "rendered it's decision" yet.

Does anybody else know if this "board" has come to a decision yet?