Around here (west coast of Canada) it is almost always a batch of unusually pure heroin that causes a flurry of overdose deaths. Best so far has been making sure that people injecting illegal drugs do it around trained medical personal. Insite ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insite ) has had close to 500 overdoses and zero deaths and as a bonus by supplying clean needles has cut down communicable disease.
There was a famous study on rats which were given access to all the morphine (the researchers couldn't get heroin) they wanted. Two groups, one in a really nice cage with lots of toys and no overcrowding and one in a horrible overcrowded cage with nothing to do. The rats in the first cage hardly ever took the morphine and usually took it in a party attitude whereas in the overcrowded horrible cage the majority of rats quickly became addicted. The Russian city is probably a really horrible place to live.
If Paracetamol came in 20% to 80% purity and you had no way of knowing besides testing the number of people dieing of Paracetamol overdosing would go way up.
In Vancouver there is a safe injection site, just celebrated their 10th anniversary. Supplies clean needles, a safe spot to shoot up with nurses available. While there has been quite a few overdoses (484 out of 276178 visits) there hasn't been any deaths due to the availability of medical attention and it has also cut way down on communicable disease due to clean needles. The addicts love it as it removes most of the fatal risks involved in addiction. The Conservative federal government tried their hardest to close it and only failed because the Supreme court said it violated the rights of addicts to remove something that made their lives much safer (section 7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.). The government then made regulations that would ensure another such clinic will never open. This attitude that addicts should die because they're doing bad stuff is equivalent to murder in the same way that not throwing that rope at your feet to the drowning person because you don't like them is murder. Perhaps manslaughter would be more legally accurate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insite
The "No True Scotsman" defense. Actually you sound like a centrist, probably fiscally responsible unlike all the conservatives I've met and socially liberal. I agree with you but would never call myself a conservative as I have no urge to control peoples bedroom behaviour or stop them having fun as long as it doesn't hurt others.
Also as a father of an autistic son, I have to agree with the AC. What I will add is that the autism should be taken into consideration when/if accused of wrong doing. My son has enough communication difficulties that if the police showed up and accused him of anything, he'd probably come across as guilty, lack of eye contact and verbal responses would probably trigger a cops guilt sense. Same with court, it would be important for Judge and jury to understand he has communication problems and lack of eye contact and short uptight explanations are normal for him. Being autistic doesn't mean he doesn't know right from wrong excepting some really corner cases.
Can I read my paperback novel at the red light? Yep legal, can I drink my coffee and read the ingredients at the lights? yep.
Can I close my eyes and snooze for 30 seconds at the lights?
Actually those are all covered by distracted driving laws (the napping can be covered by impaired as you're obviously overtired if you need to nap at the light and being overtired is more dangerous then a couple of beers) and illegal.
That's not always true. While you naturally get leaders, in a small society it can be simple respect that creates the leader, eg the best hunter leads the hunting expedition, the guy who is close to 70 years old probably learned a lot and such. People respect and listen to well respected people, even if they don't follow their advice. Look at cultures such as the Inuit.
Not so much as apathy as other more immediate worries. With downsizing, outsourcing, the end of local manufacturing and the dismantling of the social safety net, most people have no time for politics.
The Canadian Supreme Court has interpreted our (Canadian) right to not be unreasonably searched and seized as a right to privacy. I think the 3rd amendment can be interpreted as a right to privacy as well as having someone move in with you screws with your privacy.
And yet many hunter gatherer societies were communistic as well as various modern communes, kibbutzes and such. The problem with communism is the lack of government creates a vacuum that is often filled by authoritarians, especially once the communistic society grows bigger then where everyone knows each other.
A good chunk of the galaxy is hostile to life. The galactic core and areas of extreme star formation for example. Both due to radiation, hot blue gigantic stars put out a lot of radiation and then go supernova and the stars are close enough that the odds of a close enough encounter to perturb a planets orbit go up. A large star may perturb the Earths orbit from a light year, or as others mentioned, trigger more objects falling in from the Oort cloud or such. Many stars also have non-circular orbits that take them through the core periodically.
Areas of star formation are more radioactive due to massive blue stars and resulting supernovas when the massive star dies. More star formation happens in the arms.
In BC the mental health services have been cut way back, at that just this week the municipalities got together to beg the Provincial government to re-open the main mental health facility as there are so many homeless and otherwise mentally ill people who's only recourse is the police who know that they're not equipped to deal with them. The government turned them down, the heartless bastards.
Sweet16? 16 bit pseudo machine included in the Apple II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16. The p-System was also a 16 bit virtual machine that ran on the 1MHz Apple II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal Both ran 16 code on a 1 MHz 8 bit CPU. Going back further there were probably 16 bit mini-computers running at about 1 MHz such as the PDP-11, hard to find speeds in MHz besides one of the newest and fastest running at 10 MHz. Interestingly it is likely that PDP-11 programmers will be needed till 2050 due to usage in nuclear reactors.
But why should we be rushing to give our wealth to the wealthy? That's the problem with the carbon tax when you're surrounded by states without it, they get the work and wealth. It seems everything is set up to redistribute the wealth to the already wealthy. For your interest I'm in BC which has a carbon tax.
Everything in access is pollution and if an Oracle appeared and stated that climate change would not happen no matter the amount of CO2 we added to the atmosphere, the Oracle should be treated like if she stated gravity didn't exist. Anyone can do the experiment that shows CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we have the example of Venus. All the Oracle could state was that we've put negligible CO2 into the system so far.
Sadly the non-Harper vote will probably be even more split and Harper will get another majority with 30% of the vote next time. He'll call that an overwhelming mandate and continue on.
Actually the problem started when gold was no longer backed by gold, supposedly their is a lot more paper gold then metallic gold and its been that way for a long time though its probably got worse.
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Around here (west coast of Canada) it is almost always a batch of unusually pure heroin that causes a flurry of overdose deaths. Best so far has been making sure that people injecting illegal drugs do it around trained medical personal. Insite ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insite ) has had close to 500 overdoses and zero deaths and as a bonus by supplying clean needles has cut down communicable disease.
I was responding in the general case. This particular case seems to have lots of evidence against the suspect.
There was a famous study on rats which were given access to all the morphine (the researchers couldn't get heroin) they wanted. Two groups, one in a really nice cage with lots of toys and no overcrowding and one in a horrible overcrowded cage with nothing to do. The rats in the first cage hardly ever took the morphine and usually took it in a party attitude whereas in the overcrowded horrible cage the majority of rats quickly became addicted.
The Russian city is probably a really horrible place to live.
If Paracetamol came in 20% to 80% purity and you had no way of knowing besides testing the number of people dieing of Paracetamol overdosing would go way up.
In Vancouver there is a safe injection site, just celebrated their 10th anniversary. Supplies clean needles, a safe spot to shoot up with nurses available. While there has been quite a few overdoses (484 out of 276178 visits) there hasn't been any deaths due to the availability of medical attention and it has also cut way down on communicable disease due to clean needles. The addicts love it as it removes most of the fatal risks involved in addiction.
The Conservative federal government tried their hardest to close it and only failed because the Supreme court said it violated the rights of addicts to remove something that made their lives much safer (section 7. Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.). The government then made regulations that would ensure another such clinic will never open.
This attitude that addicts should die because they're doing bad stuff is equivalent to murder in the same way that not throwing that rope at your feet to the drowning person because you don't like them is murder. Perhaps manslaughter would be more legally accurate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insite
The "No True Scotsman" defense. Actually you sound like a centrist, probably fiscally responsible unlike all the conservatives I've met and socially liberal.
I agree with you but would never call myself a conservative as I have no urge to control peoples bedroom behaviour or stop them having fun as long as it doesn't hurt others.
Also as a father of an autistic son, I have to agree with the AC. What I will add is that the autism should be taken into consideration when/if accused of wrong doing. My son has enough communication difficulties that if the police showed up and accused him of anything, he'd probably come across as guilty, lack of eye contact and verbal responses would probably trigger a cops guilt sense. Same with court, it would be important for Judge and jury to understand he has communication problems and lack of eye contact and short uptight explanations are normal for him.
Being autistic doesn't mean he doesn't know right from wrong excepting some really corner cases.
Can I read my paperback novel at the red light? Yep legal, can I drink my coffee and read the ingredients at the lights? yep.
Can I close my eyes and snooze for 30 seconds at the lights?
Actually those are all covered by distracted driving laws (the napping can be covered by impaired as you're obviously overtired if you need to nap at the light and being overtired is more dangerous then a couple of beers) and illegal.
That's not always true. While you naturally get leaders, in a small society it can be simple respect that creates the leader, eg the best hunter leads the hunting expedition, the guy who is close to 70 years old probably learned a lot and such. People respect and listen to well respected people, even if they don't follow their advice. Look at cultures such as the Inuit.
Not so much as apathy as other more immediate worries. With downsizing, outsourcing, the end of local manufacturing and the dismantling of the social safety net, most people have no time for politics.
Came across this interesting link yesterday, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
The Canadian Supreme Court has interpreted our (Canadian) right to not be unreasonably searched and seized as a right to privacy.
I think the 3rd amendment can be interpreted as a right to privacy as well as having someone move in with you screws with your privacy.
And yet many hunter gatherer societies were communistic as well as various modern communes, kibbutzes and such. The problem with communism is the lack of government creates a vacuum that is often filled by authoritarians, especially once the communistic society grows bigger then where everyone knows each other.
A good chunk of the galaxy is hostile to life. The galactic core and areas of extreme star formation for example. Both due to radiation, hot blue gigantic stars put out a lot of radiation and then go supernova and the stars are close enough that the odds of a close enough encounter to perturb a planets orbit go up. A large star may perturb the Earths orbit from a light year, or as others mentioned, trigger more objects falling in from the Oort cloud or such.
Many stars also have non-circular orbits that take them through the core periodically.
Even those ejected by supernova and such?
Areas of star formation are more radioactive due to massive blue stars and resulting supernovas when the massive star dies. More star formation happens in the arms.
In BC the mental health services have been cut way back, at that just this week the municipalities got together to beg the Provincial government to re-open the main mental health facility as there are so many homeless and otherwise mentally ill people who's only recourse is the police who know that they're not equipped to deal with them. The government turned them down, the heartless bastards.
Sweet16? 16 bit pseudo machine included in the Apple II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16. The p-System was also a 16 bit virtual machine that ran on the 1MHz Apple II, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSD_Pascal
Both ran 16 code on a 1 MHz 8 bit CPU. Going back further there were probably 16 bit mini-computers running at about 1 MHz such as the PDP-11, hard to find speeds in MHz besides one of the newest and fastest running at 10 MHz. Interestingly it is likely that PDP-11 programmers will be needed till 2050 due to usage in nuclear reactors.
Thanks, I'll change my complaint to "it is non-obvious how to create a diff from a change set"
But why should we be rushing to give our wealth to the wealthy? That's the problem with the carbon tax when you're surrounded by states without it, they get the work and wealth. It seems everything is set up to redistribute the wealth to the already wealthy.
For your interest I'm in BC which has a carbon tax.
Everything in access is pollution and if an Oracle appeared and stated that climate change would not happen no matter the amount of CO2 we added to the atmosphere, the Oracle should be treated like if she stated gravity didn't exist. Anyone can do the experiment that shows CO2 is a greenhouse gas and we have the example of Venus. All the Oracle could state was that we've put negligible CO2 into the system so far.
That and no way to download a change set as a simple unified diff. Sometimes don't want to clone a huge project,especially when short of bandwidth.
Sadly the non-Harper vote will probably be even more split and Harper will get another majority with 30% of the vote next time. He'll call that an overwhelming mandate and continue on.
Actually the problem started when gold was no longer backed by gold, supposedly their is a lot more paper gold then metallic gold and its been that way for a long time though its probably got worse.
Carbon tax only works if most everyone implements it, otherwise business goes where it isn't as it is cheaper.