While the comment itself is insightful, where you put it is a bit trollish. This is a discussion about Canada and you jumped in with your pro-American comment. I (as a Canadian) found your comment out of place.
While the Prime Minister is appointed he is the leader of the party that dominates parliament. So in practice the people vote along party lines to get a certain PM. The power of the house of lords has been curtailed quite a bit over history, especially at the beginning and end of the 20th century. They can only delay bills, 1 month for monetary bills (new taxes etc) and 2 sessions of parliament or 1 year for other bills. I believe that much of the opposition against the current police state has actually come from the house of lords. I personally think that having a second house who's members don't have to worry about reelection to allow delays for second thoughts on legislation is actually a good idea.
This is Canada, we don't have felons. I have never understood the American attitude that if you did a serious crime and served your time that you are forever a second class citizen without basic rights such as voting or in your case (2nd amendment) ownership of a firearm. Here in Canada even murders can vote and usually can own a firearm once their sentence is over. Exceptions to owning a firearm can be made by a judge in cases of crime involving misuse of a firearm though.
This is Canada, there is no crime. The artists get compensated every time I back up my computer or screw up and make a coaster. Just because drinking is a crime in certain countries should we in Canada have to pay the penalty?
In Canada it is even questionable whether downloading for personal use is copyright infringement. I know you can legally (by invitation) come into my house and use my burner to make personal copies of all my CDs though for me to make them and give them to you is copyright infringement.
Actually (in a majority government) the PM has way more power then the US president. (S)He can do whatever they want and the party whip makes sure parliament votes for it. Remember Mulrony pushing through the free trade deal and the GST. Didn't matter how much opposition there was and when the Senate tried to stop it he just appointed a bunch more Senators. At least in the States Congress has quite a bit of independent power and can even remove the president. Just to bad they only exercise that power over nasty things like blow jobs.
Even North America isn't really accurate as it includes Mexico which is quite different then Canada and the US. And of course we don't have the same technical standards. We use metric here and even our gallons are real:) Unluckily quite a few of our standards do overlap though. IIRC both tyres and tires are correct spelling here while color is not.
I'm in Canada but it is a lot like the States that way. Most tires are not rated for high speeds. I worked in a tire shop for a while and it was amazing the crap that some people had on their wheels not to mention that most people don't ever check their tire pressure. Most speedometers I've seen top out at around 180 kmh/s.
Trying to turn corners with one hand while fiddling with the gear shifter is easily as dangerous as a phone. You aren't supposed to shift when in a corner. You shift before the corner.
What scares me about people driving at speeds of 100+ MPH is how many vehicles are not safe at those speeds. In particular tires are often not rated at those speeds and they overheat and blow up. Doesn't matter too much how good of a driver you are or the fact that you are on a safe piece of road, if your front tire blows you're in trouble.
No, but there are lots of people who have lost much valuable property because they were accused of breaking drug laws. Basically in civil forfeiture the government sues your property, accuses it of being involved in breaking the law and seizes it. Good luck proving otherwise. Quick overview, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forfeiture
The radiation density is something most people never think about. Not only would there be more supernova but also areas rich in star formation also put out quite a bit of radiation. Even now in our galaxy there is a large percentage of it that is inhabitable and not only that but I understand the majority of stars are in orbits around the core that are elliptical enough to pass close or through the core regularly. Another problem with areas of space that are packed with stars is the odds that other stars will pass by close enough to perturb the orbits of any planets is quite a bit higher.
According to a different article I read they were volunteers from the Natives in the same area, so it is not at all surprising they were related. No trolling of databases involved
I read about this yesterday in the Vancouver Province. It seems this guy regularly traveled back and forth between the Yukon and the Coast. That is quite a bit more then a 100 miles and very rugged terrain. Also according to the article I read about half of these relatives were in BC and half in the Yukon. The paper left you with the impression that he had a wife in each locality. Of course this is a tabloid type paper so I wouldn't trust the science reporting to far.
What makes you think that the FBI isn't filtering everything that goes through the post office? And as for the telephone exchanges, remember that all kinds of money was given to the telco companies to upgrade their switches to allow easy wiretapping and filtering so definitely the FBI can filter phone calls. The biggest threat to government is the citizenry so of course they are monitoring everything they can to reduce the threat.
Interesting paper, unluckily when I look at figure #4 the discrepancy between the temperature curve and most others I have seen jumps out. eg look at the graphs here, http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ most of which show much higher recent temperatures then Lassen does. Further reading shows the same problems that lots of studies (both pro and con) of solar effects on global climate, selective filtering and using statistics (lies, lies and statistics in the words of Sam Clemens). Anyways it did inspire me to do some more research and most authours are in agreement with Lassen up till the 20th century when the warming generally gets more and more out of phase with the solar cycle. It is a real problem trying to find time to research this, there are a lot of variables, especially in the filtering methods. Unluckily Lassen doesn't really show why varying solar cycle lengths would affect the TSI (total solar insolence) but it does appear you are partially correct. Part of the current warming trend is solar induced and I'd guess if the solar trend reverses then the warming trend will slow down and possibly stall for a bit. The problem is we are still left with the fact that we are adding CO2 to the atmosphere at an accelerating rate and CO2 green house properties are pretty basic science. Anyways thanks for the link to an interesting paper.
The orbit of Mars is very eccentric and Milankovitch wobbles much more pronounced then Earths. Quite a likely candidate. Here's a quick overview of Martian seasons, http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/bauregger/seasons.html note how the seasons are not equal in length due to orbital eccentrics.
I just love throwing the fact the sun's activity matches our warming trends
I keep hearing this repeated yet all studies that I have read show that the amount of solar activity in recent times has very little affect on the Earths climate. For Mars and to a lesser degree Earth one of the main driving forces for long term climate change is variations in their orbits around the Sun. The orbit of Mars is very eccentric, with the orbit currently varying from 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU over a Martian year. Over geological time scales this changes quite a bit and has a large affect on long term climate change. The same thing happens with the Earth. Right now summer in the northern hemisphere happens when the Earth is the furthest from the Sun. At other times this is reversed, This variation causes long term climate change. Also in both Mars and Earths case the orbits varies in eccentrically, also causing long term climate change. For Mars this is one of the main causes of climate change.
Soyuz is not the miraculously safe rocket that most people like to pretend it is.
Isn't safe rocket an oxymoron? My point was that having the rocket blow up does not automatically mean a death sentence for the crew. I think it is still amazing that the crew survived both T-10-1 and 18a. 18a was blasting pretty well straight down when the escape system kicked in.
I don't know about that. Personally I didn't start hating them until I migrated to the IBM PC in the early 80's. Before that they were just another software vendor.
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While the comment itself is insightful, where you put it is a bit trollish. This is a discussion about Canada and you jumped in with your pro-American comment.
I (as a Canadian) found your comment out of place.
While the Prime Minister is appointed he is the leader of the party that dominates parliament. So in practice the people vote along party lines to get a certain PM.
The power of the house of lords has been curtailed quite a bit over history, especially at the beginning and end of the 20th century.
They can only delay bills, 1 month for monetary bills (new taxes etc) and 2 sessions of parliament or 1 year for other bills.
I believe that much of the opposition against the current police state has actually come from the house of lords.
I personally think that having a second house who's members don't have to worry about reelection to allow delays for second thoughts on legislation is actually a good idea.
One company, one product. It does work with iphones though, can't bundle another companies product so Apple has to offer unlocked iphones in France.
This is Canada, we don't have felons. I have never understood the American attitude that if you did a serious crime and served your time that you are forever a second class citizen without basic rights such as voting or in your case (2nd amendment) ownership of a firearm.
Here in Canada even murders can vote and usually can own a firearm once their sentence is over. Exceptions to owning a firearm can be made by a judge in cases of crime involving misuse of a firearm though.
This is Canada, there is no crime. The artists get compensated every time I back up my computer or screw up and make a coaster.
Just because drinking is a crime in certain countries should we in Canada have to pay the penalty?
In Canada it is even questionable whether downloading for personal use is copyright infringement. I know you can legally (by invitation) come into my house and use my burner to make personal copies of all my CDs though for me to make them and give them to you is copyright infringement.
Actually (in a majority government) the PM has way more power then the US president. (S)He can do whatever they want and the party whip makes sure parliament votes for it. Remember Mulrony pushing through the free trade deal and the GST. Didn't matter how much opposition there was and when the Senate tried to stop it he just appointed a bunch more Senators.
At least in the States Congress has quite a bit of independent power and can even remove the president. Just to bad they only exercise that power over nasty things like blow jobs.
Even North America isn't really accurate as it includes Mexico which is quite different then Canada and the US. And of course we don't have the same technical standards. We use metric here and even our gallons are real :) Unluckily quite a few of our standards do overlap though. IIRC both tyres and tires are correct spelling here while color is not.
I think that "RNA" was actually in use even earlier and is still used a bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA#RNA_genomes
I'm in Canada but it is a lot like the States that way. Most tires are not rated for high speeds. I worked in a tire shop for a while and it was amazing the crap that some people had on their wheels not to mention that most people don't ever check their tire pressure.
Most speedometers I've seen top out at around 180 kmh/s.
What scares me about people driving at speeds of 100+ MPH is how many vehicles are not safe at those speeds. In particular tires are often not rated at those speeds and they overheat and blow up. Doesn't matter too much how good of a driver you are or the fact that you are on a safe piece of road, if your front tire blows you're in trouble.
No, but there are lots of people who have lost much valuable property because they were accused of breaking drug laws.
Basically in civil forfeiture the government sues your property, accuses it of being involved in breaking the law and seizes it.
Good luck proving otherwise.
Quick overview, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forfeiture
The radiation density is something most people never think about. Not only would there be more supernova but also areas rich in star formation also put out quite a bit of radiation.
Even now in our galaxy there is a large percentage of it that is inhabitable and not only that but I understand the majority of stars are in orbits around the core that are elliptical enough to pass close or through the core regularly.
Another problem with areas of space that are packed with stars is the odds that other stars will pass by close enough to perturb the orbits of any planets is quite a bit higher.
According to a different article I read they were volunteers from the Natives in the same area, so it is not at all surprising they were related.
No trolling of databases involved
According to a different article I read, they asked for volunteers in the area where they found him.
I read about this yesterday in the Vancouver Province. It seems this guy regularly traveled back and forth between the Yukon and the Coast. That is quite a bit more then a 100 miles and very rugged terrain.
Also according to the article I read about half of these relatives were in BC and half in the Yukon. The paper left you with the impression that he had a wife in each locality.
Of course this is a tabloid type paper so I wouldn't trust the science reporting to far.
What makes you think that the FBI isn't filtering everything that goes through the post office? And as for the telephone exchanges, remember that all kinds of money was given to the telco companies to upgrade their switches to allow easy wiretapping and filtering so definitely the FBI can filter phone calls.
The biggest threat to government is the citizenry so of course they are monitoring everything they can to reduce the threat.
Interesting paper, unluckily when I look at figure #4 the discrepancy between the temperature curve and most others I have seen jumps out. eg look at the graphs here, http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/ most of which show much higher recent temperatures then Lassen does.
Further reading shows the same problems that lots of studies (both pro and con) of solar effects on global climate, selective filtering and using statistics (lies, lies and statistics in the words of Sam Clemens).
Anyways it did inspire me to do some more research and most authours are in agreement with Lassen up till the 20th century when the warming generally gets more and more out of phase with the solar cycle.
It is a real problem trying to find time to research this, there are a lot of variables, especially in the filtering methods.
Unluckily Lassen doesn't really show why varying solar cycle lengths would affect the TSI (total solar insolence) but it does appear you are partially correct. Part of the current warming trend is solar induced and I'd guess if the solar trend reverses then the warming trend will slow down and possibly stall for a bit.
The problem is we are still left with the fact that we are adding CO2 to the atmosphere at an accelerating rate and CO2 green house properties are pretty basic science.
Anyways thanks for the link to an interesting paper.
The orbit of Mars is very eccentric and Milankovitch wobbles much more pronounced then Earths. Quite a likely candidate.
Here's a quick overview of Martian seasons, http://pweb.jps.net/~gangale3/bauregger/seasons.html note how the seasons are not equal in length due to orbital eccentrics.
I just love throwing the fact the sun's activity matches our warming trends
I keep hearing this repeated yet all studies that I have read show that the amount of solar activity in recent times has very little affect on the Earths climate.
For Mars and to a lesser degree Earth one of the main driving forces for long term climate change is variations in their orbits around the Sun.
The orbit of Mars is very eccentric, with the orbit currently varying from 1.38 AU to 1.67 AU over a Martian year. Over geological time scales this changes quite a bit and has a large affect on long term climate change.
The same thing happens with the Earth. Right now summer in the northern hemisphere happens when the Earth is the furthest from the Sun. At other times this is reversed, This variation causes long term climate change. Also in both Mars and Earths case the orbits varies in eccentrically, also causing long term climate change. For Mars this is one of the main causes of climate change.
Soyuz is not the miraculously safe rocket that most people like to pretend it is.
Isn't safe rocket an oxymoron? My point was that having the rocket blow up does not automatically mean a death sentence for the crew. I think it is still amazing that the crew survived both T-10-1 and 18a. 18a was blasting pretty well straight down when the escape system kicked in.
Soyuz_T-10-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-10-1 blew up on the launch pad. The crew survived due to the Launch Escape System.
c) It was our contribution to the international space station.
I don't know about that. Personally I didn't start hating them until I migrated to the IBM PC in the early 80's. Before that they were just another software vendor.