I'd like to see your data as I've just spent quite a bit of time trying to research BC's historic lumber industry, its hard to find it in one convenient place. I'd like to see any evidence of government subsidizing mills as well, especially in comparison to America giving tariffs straight to industry, using tariffs to jack up the price of lumber to create more profits and the American governments habit of cutting taxes for industry and making it up by borrowing trillions of dollars. Be good to take into consideration the cutting of dead pine beetle damaged trees as well. As far as I can see, the industry grew until about 1990 and has been rocky since, bottoming out in 2003 and 2008 and growing since in recovery from the banking crisis. Unluckily the Americans are very heavily propagandized, so I have a feeling its like so many other things, namely that your news and government scream about other countries while ignoring that they do the same things themselves. Witness the recent shit about the dairy industry, with no mention about the sugar industry, the corn industry, the massive subsidies to the American dairy industry etc. Just this focus on Canada bad because America doesn't run a big enough trade surplus and you having a President who brags about not knowing the facts.
Its hard and expensive to prepare for natural disasters. Up here, a big earthquake is going to happen, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next century. Slowly stuff gets upgraded but it costs money and the budget is only so big. Then there are things like fires that are quite unpredictable. Where do you start? How much money do you spend? And if you are successful, people think it was never a problem to begin with and a waste of money. Which brings up the next problem, a lot of people don't like paying taxes and certain politicians run on a platform of tax cuts, and win. Less money to go around means less money for things that are unlikely.
Don't forget, you're aiming at a moving target. That diagonal transmission may end quick as the satellite goes under the horizon and another satellite needs to be located and aimed at. I assume the radio signal has to be directional for maximum bandwidth.
Do you really blame the changing weather patterns on liberals? Here, somewhat further north, the problem is wet warm springs causing lots of undergrowth which then drys out and burns really well. I guess everything could be burned every year in a controlled way but it'll take a lot of controlled burns, every year. Very expensive so the conservatives won't go along with it.
Controlled burns can only do so much. When you get a good wind pushing the flames, they move fast and can jump upwards of a mile. I don't know about California, but up here (BC), the problem is the warm springs lately cause so much undergrowth which then drys out in the summer and leaves the forests full of tinder dry fuel. Can't burn the whole Province with controlled burns.
It's funny because I've lost count of how many mills have shut down up here with the excuse of trade violations by America. Most of the time. it is at least partially the lack of easily accessible lumber. The only reason we still have any lumber industry is the huge demand from the States, which just can't produce enough domestically to meet demand and the fact that Americans don't mind (or don't know about) the extra $20-30 grand it adds to the price of a house.
Well as an American, you should be well aware that you guys break trade agreements all the time, especially with this administration, but at least with the agreements with Canada, going back to Reagan at least. See softwood lumber disputes and how it is ruled over and over that America is breaking their trade agreements.
Don't you mean Feds can regulate inter-state commerce if needed? In Canada, the Feds could regulate time zones in the name of inter-Provincial commerce but don't.
Beyond that, these sorts of external tests have absolutely no way to tell the difference between a congested uplink somewhere in the specific network path between Sprint and Skype versus "throttling." It's entirely plausible, and fairly likely, that no targeted throttling whatsoever is even occurring.
You compare the speed of straight Skype vs Skype over a VPN. If the VPN is consistently faster, then Skype is being throttled. If they're both consistently slow, then its network congestion.
That's how the market works. Businesses are free to buy what they can afford, including government rules to help their bottom line. At that it is probably inevitable in a market as the market rewards the most efficient, and it is more efficient to buy laws then to actually produce a better product. In theory democracy could counteract this, but you need a functioning democracy.
Are you saying that new fab plants are cheaper, as in a 7nm plant is way cheaper then a 25nm plant? Likewise with the speed of process shrinking? I guess that is why Intel seems to be taking forever to do another process shrink.
Weird that the US Feds can block it, but I guess your States don't have much power. According to https://www.timeanddate.com/ti... it is mostly up to the municipalities up here though I guess the Province can override.
Interesting, seems the feds have a lot of power. Thanks. The page also links to Canada, https://www.timeanddate.com/ti... which states that it is mostly decided at the municipal level though I'm pretty sure the feds put out guidelines, namely following the US lead. I'll note that my Premier (BC) recently stated that the Province won't change due to keeping in sync with our trading partners, presumably Washington and south. Since municipalities are a Provincial thing, I guess the Province can override them.
Can't Oregon decide without involving the feds? Pretty sure up here in Canada, it is a Provincial thing, at that there are municipalities in the east of BC that just don't change time and I'm pretty sure they didn't ask Ottawa though I could be wrong.
Eastern or western Washington? There's an hour difference between the west and east ends of a time zone. I lived in Creston BC for a while, right on the border of PST and MST. They just didn't change time so in the summer it was the same time as the rest of BC and in the winter, the same as Alberta. It was fine. Here in the Vancouver area, I think I'd prefer staying on standard time but really I'd just like to stop the change, which seems harder and harder with age. We'll probably follow Washington if they change.
And BC hopefully. Our Premier recently stated that we won't change because we want to stay in sync with our trading partners, namely Washington I presume as we're already out of sync with Alberta mostly (parts of BC stay on mountain time all year round and more municipalities are considering it)
Should explain that to the Americans, or perhaps you were going for a funny mod? Even with sticking to trade agreements, nations can have different privacy laws and such which make it hard for a company such as Facebook to operate in their country.
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At one time, buildings had lots of windows. Shame that that seems to have gone away with artificial light.
I'd like to see your data as I've just spent quite a bit of time trying to research BC's historic lumber industry, its hard to find it in one convenient place. I'd like to see any evidence of government subsidizing mills as well, especially in comparison to America giving tariffs straight to industry, using tariffs to jack up the price of lumber to create more profits and the American governments habit of cutting taxes for industry and making it up by borrowing trillions of dollars.
Be good to take into consideration the cutting of dead pine beetle damaged trees as well.
As far as I can see, the industry grew until about 1990 and has been rocky since, bottoming out in 2003 and 2008 and growing since in recovery from the banking crisis.
Unluckily the Americans are very heavily propagandized, so I have a feeling its like so many other things, namely that your news and government scream about other countries while ignoring that they do the same things themselves. Witness the recent shit about the dairy industry, with no mention about the sugar industry, the corn industry, the massive subsidies to the American dairy industry etc. Just this focus on Canada bad because America doesn't run a big enough trade surplus and you having a President who brags about not knowing the facts.
Its hard and expensive to prepare for natural disasters. Up here, a big earthquake is going to happen, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps next century. Slowly stuff gets upgraded but it costs money and the budget is only so big. Then there are things like fires that are quite unpredictable. Where do you start? How much money do you spend? And if you are successful, people think it was never a problem to begin with and a waste of money. Which brings up the next problem, a lot of people don't like paying taxes and certain politicians run on a platform of tax cuts, and win. Less money to go around means less money for things that are unlikely.
Don't forget, you're aiming at a moving target. That diagonal transmission may end quick as the satellite goes under the horizon and another satellite needs to be located and aimed at. I assume the radio signal has to be directional for maximum bandwidth.
Do you really blame the changing weather patterns on liberals? Here, somewhat further north, the problem is wet warm springs causing lots of undergrowth which then drys out and burns really well. I guess everything could be burned every year in a controlled way but it'll take a lot of controlled burns, every year. Very expensive so the conservatives won't go along with it.
Controlled burns can only do so much. When you get a good wind pushing the flames, they move fast and can jump upwards of a mile.
I don't know about California, but up here (BC), the problem is the warm springs lately cause so much undergrowth which then drys out in the summer and leaves the forests full of tinder dry fuel. Can't burn the whole Province with controlled burns.
It's funny because I've lost count of how many mills have shut down up here with the excuse of trade violations by America. Most of the time. it is at least partially the lack of easily accessible lumber. The only reason we still have any lumber industry is the huge demand from the States, which just can't produce enough domestically to meet demand and the fact that Americans don't mind (or don't know about) the extra $20-30 grand it adds to the price of a house.
You're right that the more comparisons the better.
Never thought of the BBQ industry, but it makes sense.
Well as an American, you should be well aware that you guys break trade agreements all the time, especially with this administration, but at least with the agreements with Canada, going back to Reagan at least. See softwood lumber disputes and how it is ruled over and over that America is breaking their trade agreements.
Don't you mean Feds can regulate inter-state commerce if needed? In Canada, the Feds could regulate time zones in the name of inter-Provincial commerce but don't.
Yes, and one of the agreements to be in the club is agreeing on the order of succession before any of us change it.
Beyond that, these sorts of external tests have absolutely no way to tell the difference between a congested uplink somewhere in the specific network path between Sprint and Skype versus "throttling." It's entirely plausible, and fairly likely, that no targeted throttling whatsoever is even occurring.
You compare the speed of straight Skype vs Skype over a VPN. If the VPN is consistently faster, then Skype is being throttled. If they're both consistently slow, then its network congestion.
That's how the market works. Businesses are free to buy what they can afford, including government rules to help their bottom line.
At that it is probably inevitable in a market as the market rewards the most efficient, and it is more efficient to buy laws then to actually produce a better product.
In theory democracy could counteract this, but you need a functioning democracy.
Are you saying that new fab plants are cheaper, as in a 7nm plant is way cheaper then a 25nm plant? Likewise with the speed of process shrinking? I guess that is why Intel seems to be taking forever to do another process shrink.
Weird that the US Feds can block it, but I guess your States don't have much power. According to https://www.timeanddate.com/ti... it is mostly up to the municipalities up here though I guess the Province can override.
Interesting, seems the feds have a lot of power. Thanks. The page also links to Canada, https://www.timeanddate.com/ti... which states that it is mostly decided at the municipal level though I'm pretty sure the feds put out guidelines, namely following the US lead.
I'll note that my Premier (BC) recently stated that the Province won't change due to keeping in sync with our trading partners, presumably Washington and south. Since municipalities are a Provincial thing, I guess the Province can override them.
Can't Oregon decide without involving the feds? Pretty sure up here in Canada, it is a Provincial thing, at that there are municipalities in the east of BC that just don't change time and I'm pretty sure they didn't ask Ottawa though I could be wrong.
And if you have Inuit genes? Actually most northern Europeans should have evolved to handle short days as well.
Eastern or western Washington? There's an hour difference between the west and east ends of a time zone.
I lived in Creston BC for a while, right on the border of PST and MST. They just didn't change time so in the summer it was the same time as the rest of BC and in the winter, the same as Alberta. It was fine. Here in the Vancouver area, I think I'd prefer staying on standard time but really I'd just like to stop the change, which seems harder and harder with age. We'll probably follow Washington if they change.
Easier then changing time zones. It's like becoming a vegetarian by only eating plants instead of eliminating meat.
And BC hopefully. Our Premier recently stated that we won't change because we want to stay in sync with our trading partners, namely Washington I presume as we're already out of sync with Alberta mostly (parts of BC stay on mountain time all year round and more municipalities are considering it)
Should explain that to the Americans, or perhaps you were going for a funny mod?
Even with sticking to trade agreements, nations can have different privacy laws and such which make it hard for a company such as Facebook to operate in their country.
The Statute of Westminster says,
And while my country can't decide on the order of succession of the British Monarch, the UK can't decide on the order of of succession of the Canadian Monarch and neither of us can decide on the order of succession of the Australian Monarch etc.
You are correct.