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Now the passengers will know they are flying to the wrong city earlier in the flight.

But it won't stop passengers booking flights to Sydney, Nova Scotia instead of Sydney, Australia
https://www.thestar.com/news/g...

Stil, it wasn't the pilots who made the Stuttgart/Edinburgh error, unlike this pilot who accidentally keyed in Melbourne instead of Kuala Lumpur and turned a 9 hour flight into a 1 hour flight
https://www.theguardian.com/au...

Yet Vancouver continues to dump raw, unprocessed sewage into the Puget Sound:

https://www.thestar.com/vancou...

no, they don't 'dump' it. The sewers overflow during heavy rain events, causing this. A lot of older cities have this problem, only resolved by millions of dollars of work separating the storm drains from the sewers.

Eg. Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/king-county-fined-118500-for-sewer-overflow-violations/

Yet Vancouver continues to dump raw, unprocessed sewage into the Puget Sound:
https://www.thestar.com/vancou...

They publically talk about 12 acres of development. Actually, they're going after 350-to-500 acres of prime waterfront property. in return for contributing to an LRT (Light Rapid Transit) line, Google/Alphabet wants a big chunk of waterfront real estate. *AND A PERMANENT CUT OF PROPERTY TAXES IN THE AREA*. This makes the Amazon New York deal look positively beneficial for New York. See https://www.thestar.com/news/g...

Look, you can try the "but look...people funding" it's EEEEVVVVVVIIIIILLLLL. On the other hand, I can look from my own damn backyard and see the gigantic clusterfuck that "renewables" did to Ontario.

Right wing news? Sure. Centerist? That's not a problem either. How about far-left wing? Oh well what the fuck. How about the CBC? Well damn this is just great. This "unbiased assessment" from multiple media outlets here in Canada is pretty good at explaining just how much the entire thing "broke" Ontario's electrical system. This is the same bullshit now going on in multiple US states, the exact same shit. FiT(Feed in Tariff) programs, paying extremely high rates, with very specific companies who have/had an interest, causing the electricity price to go right through the roof. Oh and those "green energy jobs" that progressives, environmentalists and leftist cow on about? They don't appear. But boy oh boy do businesses flee. And of course Ontario isn't a on-off either, there's Germany, and Greece, and Spain, and Italy, and, and, and, and...

~10 years years ago, if you lived in the most populous place in Canada(between Windsor and Ottawa), you payed between 0.045 and 0.085kWh. Today you pay between 0.085 and 0.185kWh. Businesses fled. People fled. The electricity rate is so out of reach for the poor that they had to mandate under law no winter electrical disconnection just to make sure people wouldn't freeze to death. These rates for electricity hit the poor so bad, that a few years ago that charities ran out of money in December to cover heating costs. The winter period in Southern Ontario is generally late-October to as late as the end of May, you'll find that most people don't consider spring starting until the May 24 weekend, even then seeing 4C daytime highs happens often enough.

Look. Believe whatever you want about useful idiots, "because oil." Then dig your head out of your ass and then look to British Columbia. Same bullshit. Then look to Alberta under the NDP, same bullshit. Then look back to Ontario. 'Hey boys what happened to the Liberal Party of Ontario that held a majority status from 2003 to 2017?' Oh, they are no longer a recognized political party, and can fit in a 1986 Dodge Minivan? Well hot shit.

However in America the first Amendment prevents me from being put in jail from my viewpoints

Why are the Kikes so un-American?

Maybe the Chinese can also seek to "liberate" the hotbeds of shameless free thinking Canada where free speech is being crushed?

At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.

Capitalism is irreconcilable with a livable climate and as humans can't change the laws of nature "What changed for me was hearing the argument for the existence of a climate debt, which is the idea that in order to address the crisis . . . which was created by the wealthiest countries in the world and is being felt most acutely by some of the poorest countries in the world, there needs to be a process of redress.

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/

Core inequalities need to be tackled through redistribution of wealth and technology. And this was explained to me as a chance to heal the world; to heal some of the deepest and most lasting wounds left by colonialism. And I suddenly saw that though this crisis continues to be existentially terrifying, it could also be a catalyst for really inspiring change and social justice."

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2014/09/13/facing_climate_change_headon_means_changing_capitalism_naomi_klein.html

(OTTMAR EDENHOFER, UN IPCC OFFICIAL): Basically it's a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization. The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War... First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole.

Christiana Figueres, leader of the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history."

Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth (D-CO), then representing the Clinton-Gore administration as U.S undersecretary of state for global issues, addressing the same Rio Climate Summit audience, agreed: "We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."

Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister: "No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits.... climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world."

Daphne Muller, green-progressive-liberal writer for Salon: "This moment requires we the people to rethink democracy as a global mechanism for enacting policy for and by the planet."

Peter Berle, President of the National Audubon Society: "We reject the idea of private property."

David Brower, a founder of the Sierra Club: "The goal now is a socialist, redistributionist society, which is nature's proper steward and society's only hope."

Mikhail Gorbachev, communist and former leader of U.S.S.R.: "The emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and emerging 'environmentalization' of our civilization and the need for vigorous action in the interest of the entire global community will inevitably have multiple political consequences. Perhaps the most important of them will be a gradual change in the s

Trump's Lies

All False statements involving Donald Trump

Trump’s Lies Have Grown Far More Frequent—and More Dangerous

The 25 Worst Lies From Donald Trump’s First 200 Days

Donald Trump has said 3084 false things as U.S. president

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Trump lies about having ‘no financial interests in Saudi Arabia’

Trump's Relentless Lying Threatens Our Democracy.

This Is as Obvious and Blatant a Presidential Lie as You're Going to See

It’s True: Trump Is Lying More, and He’s Doing It on Purpose

President Trump Made 1,950 Untrue Claims in 2017. That's Making His Job Harder

I agree. Given that Canada has signed on to the US copyright system, there is no need to look for alternative/additional compensation methods. It should be one or the other. According to the new rules, the Log Drivers Waltz will not be public domain until 2072. Crazy.

Tricked? Do you even know what you're talking about? Any trade agreement, but *especially* one with IP provisions (which the TPP and the new USMCA is heavy in) will massively favor the US. This isn't even slightly a surprise - while most manufacturing has moved from the US, they still own a majority of IP. It almost seems to be the sole driver and main focus of any trade deal they do nowadays. Tricked by Trudeau, LOL! Here's some more reading from Michael Geist in support: Canada capitulates on copyright in new USMCA deal. Just one of the many areas Canada was forced to give up ground in, and those far outnumber any slight areas Canada gained ground in.

How about 2,300 examples and counting?

http://projects.thestar.com/donald-trump-fact-check/

It is also quite clear from your post history that you really do not like Trump. Like you really, really do not like Trump. If you were less vehemently opposed to him, I might take what you say a lot more seriously.

I don't think you get how this works. You don't have to be in favor of someone to criticize them. In fact, the most critical people might be the ones who are...most critical.

However, if you do have some third party systematic analysis of this that you have used to form your own opinion, I would be more than happy to read it and change my mind.

Brother, you've come to the right place:

Here is a comprehensive list of every false claim Donald Trump has made since Inauguration Day to two weeks ago, listed in reverse chronological order and cross-referenced by topic. There are 2,083, and again, that's not counting the past two weeks. Each false claim is accompanied by a citation, and apparently they were pretty conservative when making this list because I can name at least 24 false claims not listed here that Trump made in June and July. This list is under continual review and has been open to challenges. None have been successful so far. Other such projects have put the number at just over 3,000, but let's give our big, wet, boy the benefit of the doubt, shall we?

http://projects.thestar.com/do...

Now, the most expansive (and I do mean expansive) list of the false claims of Barack Obama, assembled by a some nutty alt-right too-crazy-for-Breitbart blogger out of rural Pennsylvania, is 1,375. And that's over eight years. Trump as amassed his 2,083 over the course of 1.5 years. That puts him on course to out-lie Barack Obama by a ten to one margin.

So yes, we haven't seen anything of this scale before. Also, we haven't seen a degenerate president collude with a hostile foreign power to sway an election and attempt to pay them back with policy. So ithe difference isn't just qualitative, it's quantitative. Treason trumps hyperbole every time.

More likely it was "The program didn't have the intended effect of getting more people on benefits to take on part time work or start their own businesses, so we shut it down" or something along those lines.

That at least would make some sense. But if you were a "making sense" type of person you would probably not kill a pilot program that only had about 4,000 participants only a year and a bit into its three year scheduled trial, because then you wouldn't really be able to draw very reliable conclusions about the actual impact of the program.

Killing the program at this point seems more like: "We are philosophically opposed to the entire notion and we don't have any interest in the potential that the results of the trial might be counter to our expectations, thus it is a waste of resources."

I personally was not very fond of the Ontario program, as it did not really seem to me like a very good trail of a basic income system, but it does seem pretty stupid to kill it off before we could get useful info from it.

The fact that all the Ontario political parties said they would finish the trial when it was first implemented, and that the winner of the recent election pledged to keep the pilot running during the election makes this decision a little extra irritating. Saying "we are going to kill this program and our new program will be great" rather than waiting until the new program was read to be released also seems a bit wonky.

This article from February https://www.thestar.com/news/g... seems mostly positive, but really one can't draw any strong conclusions until all the data is in.

Unblocked version on Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/busine...

If you think this administration is the first one to practice intentional disinformation and lying to the American public as a policy you haven't been paying attention.

I don't think this administration is practicing intentional disinformation and lying to the American public as a policy. I think they're doing it as a strategy, to make the truth irrelevant. There's a big difference, and it's all about the sheer volume of lies. And not just lies about important things, but about trivial things (crowd size, for example). Lies about things that nobody really cares about.

It's a literal assault on the truth, and it's unprecedented.

people will be much more likely to believe your blatant falsehoods.

It's not my "blatant falsehoods" that are at issue. It's the blatant falsehoods of Trump, his administration, his congressional quislings, the Republican Party, the Internet Research Agency, and the Kremlin that are important. I'm just a guy on the Internet. I can't affect your world.

As a gesture of generosity, I'm providing the link to a comprehensive list of the documented blatant falsehoods that Trump and his administration have proferred since his inauguration. This is not my list. It was compiled by the Toronto Star and includes thorough documentation and citations:

http://projects.thestar.com/do...

Well folks that sums it up. We no longer can question anyone's honesty because "Trump".

That's correct. Honesty no longer matters. Truth no longer matters. That's what the entire Trump presidency has been about: destroying norms, including the most basic ones about Americans hating serial liars and expecting honesty. The biggest inauguration ever. The hugest victory ever. I never paid that woman $130,000. I did, but I didn't know why. I met with the Russians to talk about adoption. I refused to enact sanction on Russia, even though they were in a law I signed, but there's no quid pro quo. I'm happy with my legal team. I hire the best people. I have full confidence in General Flynn. Obama was born in Kenya. I have a very good brain. Nobody respect women more than me. I watched Muslims celebrating in the streets of New Jersey after 9/11. I graduated top of my class at Wharton. I never spoke to any Russians. There is no evidence of collusion. It's all a witch hunt. The tax cuts hurt me financially.

I could go on. The Toronto Star has compiled a list of every falsehood Donald Trump has uttered since being sworn in. They update it every few weeks, and it looks like the last time was on April 22, 2018, so the list has almost certainly grown since then. That these were lies is irrefutable. It's not a matter of interpretation, or context. There is no other possible conclusion other than that we have entered into a post-truth era. What's true and who lies no longer matters. (FYI: The list is in reverse chronological with the newest shown first).

http://projects.thestar.com/do...

Norway.

They can't really offer tax breaks

That's actually the fun part.
Toronto isn't offering them.

No, it's the 35 year old female boinking her underage students.

I wish I had been one of those students.

Just remember, she can say you victimized her, https://www.thestar.com/news/w... , and http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new... , and https://nypost.com/2017/12/20/...

One of these days, and it won't be long, a female teacher will screw a little boy, and he'll be the one arrested.

For all they knew, the tattoo could have been an artifact of previous poor life choices, and nothing more than a joke.

If it was a joke, he could have just crossed it out with another tattoo.

Plus based on your reasoning, if you consider a very clear unambiguous DNR tattoo plus a tattooed signature a potential joke, I suppose you would be crazy enough to consider a DNR written on a piece of paper to be a joke as well.

A tattoo is not a legal document.

Not only this is circular reasoning, but it's completely false. Here is the example of a will engraved on a tractor fender that a guy wrote as he was dying or a tractor accident. That will was legally valid. That is what is taught in law schools still today.

Furthermore, it's common practice before an amputation or a serious surgery to mark the body part that is about to be worked on with a black marker which says "CUT HERE" while the patient is fully awake to ensure that the surgeon works on the correct area when the patient is unconscious. So in essence, this black marker fail-safe protocol becomes an extension of the wishes of the unconscious patient.

So it's no wonder that the patient borrowed that similar idea and chose to use a tattoo as a DNR fail-safe in case his paperwork wouldn't be immediately found by first responders or ER doctors.

Normally, this kind of information can be included in a medical bracelet or a medical pendant, if the guy had a family member that didn't want him to die. Getting the DNR tattooed on himself would at least insure that the family member in question couldn't dispose of the DNR by ripping off the bracelet or ripping off the pendant before first-responders arrived.

Imagine if it HAD been a joke, and the family sued the pants off the hospital for denying treatment to their family member without a formal DNR request?

Imagine the reverse actually.

Like I said earlier since the fender on the tractor was considered a valid legal document more than 65+ years ago, and that this is what is currently taught in law school, that legal documents can look like anything, it stands to reason that the DNR tattoo would be considered legally valid as well (unless a conflicting DNR paper could be found instead).

So if that tattoo directive had been ignored, I really do believe that the family would have had good grounds to sue the hospital. Plus, had the family been a bunch of Jehova's witnesses, they would have had good grounds for suing the hospital for religious discrimination as well.

Meanwhile in Canada Loblaws (the largest groceries chain and drug store chain) ordered 25. Earlier this month (November 2017) they displayed the all-electric class 8 truck delivered from BYD. Seems like Walmart is behind and so is Tesla.

Though the truck from BYD doesn't have the range of the Tesla truck it seems to be aimed for local deliveries instead of the long-haul market.

What an odd post. So, this article is about "Scalpers in Canada".. Yet you quote 17 U.S.C. 109 which is a US law?
Did you know that reselling tickets use to be against the law in Most of Canada (my home provice of Ontario for sure).

Did you know that the "right of first sale" is under constant attack in the US as well (see Omega vs Costco).

Ontario allowed reseling to try to let people sell their tickets for valid reasons (cant make teh event for example). But this encouraged electronic scalping with bots and Ontario is working on plans to fight this.

https://www.thestar.com/news/q...

Then BBC will do the same, and AMC, and CBS, and pretty soon you've got 6 or 7 streaming services with narrow offerings, shaky infrastructure and buggy apps. And they'll all stuff their channel with thousands of hours of meaningless low-budget crap to complement their 3 good shows.

And then they'll go bankrupt, or they'll kill off the streaming service. Following those disastrous forays into streaming content, either they or the new owners will license their content to one or more of the surviving streaming services. It's already happening..

Eventually the streaming market will reach a new equilibrium, with a small handful of players because people don't like overchoice or over paying.

When is the media going to start mention that the driver is a diagnosed schizophrenic? and on antipsychotic medication? I find it oddly puzzling this and him beating up his mother leading to a stint in juvenile detention facility haven't been talked about really at all.

WRONG, you stupid sonofabitch. Jean Chretien kept Canada out of Iraq when George W. Bush invaded.

https://www.thestar.com/news/c...

Many western governments have these kinds of things which are really just relics and traditions of the past. No it's not necessary, but old people like to hold on to the past. Hell, just look at Parliament's Sergeant-at-arms - there's nothing practical about this guy's uniform.

Did you know that 40% of people in Ontario who required medical care have gone to the US for treatment?

Can you cite where that came from? I'm trying to look and the closest I found was that back in 2008, a survey found 43% of Ontarians would *consider* traveling for faster care for "certain services" (though I can't find what services exactly)

https://www.thestar.com/life/h...

Next, I'm not saying I believe every word, but it's easy to find a WaPo article trying to debunk Trump's remarks on how poor the Canadian system is. One part of the article also took shots at a study by the Fraser Institute that they estimate about 50k Canadians travel abroad for care, noting that 50k isn't a lot out of a population of 35 million.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Of course, if we take the Fraser report at face value, there could be even more Canadians than the 50k number going south (since the Fraser study could only investigate patients who sought care through their doctors, not those who arranged it privately themselves)

But digging further, I found another article posted on AARP.org, some non-partisan organization.

http://www.aarp.org/politics-s...

Some of the talking points in this last article I recall are featured on the Healthcare Triage youtube channel. Not working for that channel, but I like their videos.

Sounds great for those with garages, but what about the hundreds of thousands that park on the street in cities? You can't exactly have large charging cables crossing the sidewalk every 20 feet.

Toronto electric car owner stuck trying to charge car on the street

You're right the article is shit. But I can fill in some of the blanks, at least from here in Canada. Toronto last year saw a 34% increase in the number of pedestrians being hit. There's fault and issues across the board, but the number of people being hit has increased. Whether it's drivers not signalling, cyclists being aggressive and thinking they're gods unto themselves and cutting off cars, or pedestrians not paying attention(because they've got shit jammed in their ears) and getting smeared by trucks/cars/buses, or those same vehicles not paying attention to crosswalk signs. Seems big cities have a problem, the small city I live in had 3 pedestrian hits last year. The pedestrian walked into traffic each time, and weren't paying attention.

WTF have you been smoking?

Reality. What have you been snorting where you don't realize this has been happening? You can be fined for it. That environmentalists push for it. That the favorite blame game is "Monsanto". That the brainchild was the environmentalism of the 70's and 80's, and is such a bad problem that provinces and states now actively encourage planting it. Want to bury your head in the sand? Feel free. The reality is far different, and is probably one of the best examples of environmentalism running amok to the point where it actively damages the environment. Hell if you dig hard through provincial records for example here in Ontario from the 1980's you can find environmental groups actively pushing for the use of broad-spectrum herbicides in order to control particular plant species and stating that the destruction and loss of native species outweighs the bad in controlling others.

A few reports of particular cities banning weeds over a certain height does NOT support your claim that not more than a year or two ago in most North America you could be fined for growing milkweed. And no support for "environmentalists pushing" for such weed laws.

WTF have you been smoking?

Reality. What have you been snorting where you don't realize this has been happening? You can be fined for it. That environmentalists push for it. That the favorite blame game is "Monsanto". That the brainchild was the environmentalism of the 70's and 80's, and is such a bad problem that provinces and states now actively encourage planting it. Want to bury your head in the sand? Feel free. The reality is far different, and is probably one of the best examples of environmentalism running amok to the point where it actively damages the environment. Hell if you dig hard through provincial records for example here in Ontario from the 1980's you can find environmental groups actively pushing for the use of broad-spectrum herbicides in order to control particular plant species and stating that the destruction and loss of native species outweighs the bad in controlling others.

The people being treated with antidepressants are mostly suffering from clinical depression, which is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain.

That's just a myth invented by drug companies to sell more drugs.

http://www.thestar.com/news/in...

Long ago it was believed that schizophrenia was caused by "bad parenting" (cold domineering mothers and psychologically detached fathers). That has been utterly debunked.

Actually, you're wrong here too. It simply became unpopular.

The cause is mostly determined by genetics and prenatal nutrition.

Strike 3. Cause remains unknown.

We know it's not genetics because kids put up for adoption by schizophrenic parents are no more likely to have schizophrenia than the average person.

This shows again a COMPLETE lack of understanding mental health.

Not a clever thing to say when your "understanding" is limited to a myth invented to sell drugs:

Drugs are used to mitigate a lack of certain neurochemicals in the brain, a PHYSICAL condition.

A myth for which there is literally zero evidence.

http://www.thestar.com/news/in...

All it takes is one complaint. Obviously the people they are dealing with won't complain because they're English. However, the law is clear. Even internal business communications for companies with more than 50 employees must be in French, though they can also be accompanied by a translation. There are 54 companies that have been granted exemptions.

And for businesses that have more than 50 employees, the law is even more strict. They’re required to use French in everything from internal communications to computer software – and to obtain a certificate from the Office québécois de la langue française, the provincial agency that regulates language, attesting to this “generalized” use of French.

Also, see Article 141 subsection 8 of bill 101

(8) une politique d’embauche, de promotion et de mutation appropriée;

or "an appropriate policy of hiring, promotions, and transfers" - appropriate meaning policies to encourage the business to be able to operate completely in French.

If two people are equally qualified, and one doesn't speak french, the one that does gets hired. Hey, don't blame me - I protested against this law for a couple of weeks, and almost got arrested.

The irony is that the exact same arguments were made about the "classic civil rights movement" at the time. Like how Tommie Smith and John Carlos protested the anthem at the 1968 olympics and were kicked out off the team in response. People like you cite them as legit in order to denigrate Kaerpnick while they themselves support Kaepernick.

You don't even know you are a cliche.

In October, Aviva Insurance began cancelling the policies of clients found to be driving for UberX. Politicians and police now have concrete proof that UberX drivers are not covered by their personal policies and yet police have no plans to take action; this, while they tow hundreds of cars during the “parking blitz.”
According to Uber’s own numbers, there are now 20,000 uninsured UberX drivers on Toronto’s roads.
This begs the question: Which is the greater societal crime to which enforcement resources should be allocated, illegal parking or uninsured vehicles?
https://www.thestar.com/opinio...

"While the possible legality of the Uber taxi system (or how it may be regulated) remains to be seen, what is clear is the huge risk the current system poses from an insurance and liability perspective."
https://www.chinneck.ca/the-hi...

"A crash involving an Uber driver carrying a passenger is grabbing headlines in Toronto after the driver’s insurance company refused to cover his claim — and dropped him. The reason? The driver, Tawfiqul Alam, had personal auto insurance, but was using his car for commercial purposes." http://www.lfpress.com/2015/08...

This is similar to what Ontario is looking at as well. Especially since things like disability and so on pay literally shit. If a person is unable to work, and is on disability they're capped to a maximum of $1,100/mo. You may get back some money via various programs like housing allowance(upto $350/mo) when you file income taxes. You may be able to apply for welfare(I say may) because I know people on disability who were unable to. And that's what you're expected to live on. Around here an appt in the poorer areas is still going to run you $770/mo. Income assisted housing? At least a 3 year wait at this point.

It's been guessed that the program would remove welfare, disability and roll it into a UBI program which would cap out at $23k/year(which is the poverty level). As you earn money, the amount is deducted from your UBI, until you pass the minimum $23k level at which point it fully falls off.

I know a few people who'd be able to actually survived on a UBI, because they're barely scraping by now on disability. And they've been fighting with workmans compensation for 16 years after being injured on the job. Just remember here in Ontario: Workers Comp is for the employer, not the worker. There was even a huge report showing that workers comp was turning down people who should be paid by the system because they're no longer able to work. So anyone working in Ontario who get's hurt? You're looking at a life in poverty, and that's if you're lucky. I've met more people on the streets during volunteer work then I can count who can't work and were either kicked off comp or simply refused. Most recent case was a guy who's leg had been crushed by heavy machinery and couldn't walk and required a PSW for day-to-day life. Who now basically lives at the local Lutheran church because that's the only one would help him.

One guy hit 39. He ran 2 miles in less than 11 minutes 5 days a week as a warm up. I'll restate for the slow - BMI is meaningless.

There are two reasons you're wrong, both independent:

1. BMI is a predictor of body fat percentage not health or fitness, so saying "BMI is useless because here's a fit guy with a high BMI" is a complete non sequiteur. It also doesn't predict the price of gold. Doesn't make it useless.

BMI is not a predictor of body fat percentage. The fact that you can be 39 and be lean, or 20 and be fat indicates just how flawed BMI is as a predictor of obesity. The NIH and other respectable entities came to this conclusion after much study. Why are you arguing against them?

2. No one said BMI is a perfect predictor of obesity. The claim is it's 95% accurate for men.

You lack an understanding of exactly what was stated. BMI doesn't predict body fat percentages anymore than IQ predicts success. What it claims is that if BMI (IQ) states you're obese (successful) then there's a 95% chance it's correct, at least for the range of subjects studied. In the total pool of subjects, however, it misses an astonishingly large percentage of those that are obese, and it's still wrong, because it's only a correlation of 2 measurements that trend with the desired measurement but by themselves have no direct relationship to what you're trying to measure. If you want to measure body fat percentages, then measure those factors that give you that percentage. Height alone has no bearing in this measurement. If you included breadth and depth, and an accurate volume calculation, then you'd be getting somewhere, but that's impractical from a pure length measurement standpoint.

It's like taking height and adding it to IQ. CEOs (successful people) tend to be taller. (You're probably already getting the drift here)

If you have a BMI over 30 then you should definitely go and get yourself checked out somehow with another technique (a clue, if you can grab rolls of fat and you have a BMI of over 30 then hoo boy do you have weight to lose).

That is the use of BMI.

Your "clue" is a non-sequitor - if you can grab rolls of fat, it doesn't matter what your BMI is, you have weight to lose.

Your non-sequitor does lead to a different question: why not do the "pinch an inch" test? Then again, it's not very accurate either and prone to measurement error. It's still far more accurate than BMI will ever be. BMI is nothing more than a height / weight chart with designated lines on it. It's attempting to force everyone into a single "average" for lack of a better term. And we all know how all humans are average, right?

Out of 4,063 pilots, not a single airman fit within the average range on all 10 dimensions.... if you picked out just three of the ten dimensions of size — say, neck circumference, thigh circumference and wrist circumference — less than 3.5 per cent of pilots would be average sized on all three dimensions.

Less than 40 of the 3,864 contestants were average size on just five of the nine dimensions and none of the contestants — not even Martha Skidmore — came close on all nine dimensions.

But while Daniels and the contest organizers ran up against the same revelation, they came to a markedly different conclusion about its meaning. Most doctors and scientists of the era did not interpret the contest results as evidence that Norma was a misguided ideal. Just the opposite: many concluded that American women, on the whole, were unhealthy and out of shape.

You appear to fall into the contest organizers group. Also:

The B.M.I. tables are excellent for identifying obesity and

No, even the base of the ecosystem has been disrupted. https://www.thestar.com/news/w...

Your track record of providing facts and/or credible sources is pretty abysmal

No, even the base of the ecosystem has been disrupted. https://www.thestar.com/news/w...

https://www.thestar.com/news/w...

https://www.thestar.com/news/w...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/wo...

These hospitals have only been deliberately attacked since the Russian air force arrived and since the U.S. is nowhere near where these attacks are taking place the only logical, unalterable conclusion is Russia is deliberately bombing hospitals.

Okay Russian trolls?

"And 70 per cent of patients saw a complete stop to the progression of the disease, while 40 per cent saw a reversal in symptoms such as vision loss, muscle weakness and balance loss."

Also, 70 + 40 = 110, WTF?

An article in the Toronto Star about this indicates that, of the 24 patients, "seven saw their symptoms deteriorate even after the transplant", although "this progression levelled off after about two years, Freedman said." (24-7/24)*100 ~= 70, so 70 percent apparently had no progression of symptoms after the treatment.

As for the 40%, presumably 30% saw a stop in the progression of the disease but no reversal of symptoms, 40% saw a reversal, and 30% saw no immediate stop although it appears that the progression at least leveled off after 2 years.

Tell you what, how about you learn to give a citation or fuck off? The first hit from google says just about the opposite; the observed person could be guilty of indecent exposure.

https://www.thestar.com/news/2...

In remaking Stelco into U.S. Steel Canada Inc., the Pittsburgh parent committed to a number of binding undertakings, 31 in all. Chief among them were production levels (an increase in annual steel production to at least 4.3 million tons a year) and employment (no fewer than 3,950 full-time employees).

Seven years later, in September, 2014, the Canadian operation was granted protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, which is still winding its way through the courts. So that pretty much tells you that events did not unfold as planned.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion...

Australia? British Columbia? Ontario for "green energy." As someone else mentioned, you can move a company from Ontario to Michigan and buy Ontario electricity cheaper then it's being sold for in the province.

Not sure what you're implying here, but you would have a very hard time convincing me that, somehow, Donald Trump is not an intelligent and decent person. Despite some of his wacky outbursts, he is in no way unfit to be president of the US, and might be exactly what this country needs right now.

I don't know about intelligent or not, since that's very hard to judge, but he's ignorant, not at all decent, and wildly unqualified to be President. He doesn't know about basic aspects of US military and foreign policy, like the nuclear triad which combines with his terrible ideas about using nukes as a serious threat instead of conventional troops. This combines with his general deep misunderstandings of basic issues in international relations http://www.vox.com/2016/3/28/11318722/trump-foreign-policy.

As for being a decent person, decent people don't attack war heroes for being POWs http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317, they don't suggest they'll pay legal fees for supporters who engage in violence http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/trump-attacks-mccain-i-like-people-who-werent-captured-120317, and then lie about it http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/15/fact-check-trump-claims-he-never-said-hed-pay-legal-fees-for-rally-attendees-who-hit-protesters/. They don't have such thin skins that they get upset over a comment about the size of their hands and then proceed to reference the size of their genitalia on at a Presidential debate http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/03/04/donald-trumps-obsession-with-size-surfaces-in-crude-ways.html .These are only a few examples.

He's an unqualified, egotistical blowhard. It is a deep shame that the party of Lincoln has been reduced to this.

That doesn't happen. Nobody does that.

Bullshit it doesn't happen. It's happened in Seattle, and it's happened in Toronto Canada, and those are the two off the top of my head.