No worse than running your battery out, finding a flat tire, car won't start, etc. People who drive already have a backup plan - for me it's a call to AAA and an Uber. I drive cars into the ground so I'm pretty good at this by now. "Forgetting to charge" has a pretty stiff feedback loop, so I don't think it will be that frequent. Like "forgetting to fill up", which happened to me once - after a 3 mile walk with a gas can I remembered not to do that again.
So, let's see. It's a call to AAA or Uber...and you just got 4-10" of snow, that'll be a 2-8hr wait, and there won't be any "easy charge" service rolling out the block to start with either. To do a charge, you're going to have to roll off the other vehicle and it'll be ICE, likely diesel or natural gas for the generator...and, and, and.
A 3 mile walk is nothing, how about 25 miles? Plenty of places like that even in Southwestern Ontario between gas stations. Lots of 180km+ areas like that too, gets worse when you get into northern ontario but that's the reality. Try not to freeze to death either, or pray you can get cell service and the provincial police will ask someone to come and rescue you on a snowmobile.
Many countries have set a deadline by which no more new ICE vehicles can be sold. It tends to be either 2030 or 2040. But in truth by then there will be no consumer demand for them anyway. And manufacturer that is not switching it's focus to EVs, is committing suicide.
Yeah that's nice, but the reality is if you live outside of a city. ICE is the only way life goes forward. That's life in the US, doubly so in Canada. Unless battery technology jumps in leaps and bounds and becomes dirt cheap by then, and can hold enough of a charge to get you 500km/300mi in a single trip with no issues when it's -35C or colder outside.
You sure it didn't have anything to do with them 'deleting' front-facing pages that were serving child porn, but leaving the CP accessible if you knew the URL's? Or...didn't you hear about that?
Seems like what the politicians of the EU and UK are currently spewing, I'm spot on. Especially when they tell people and countries that you have to surrender your sovereignty to a "higher power" if you don't want to have the weight of bureaucracy to eat your face.
Nah, they're not enemies of the people for chasing numbers or not chasing facts. Being factual or correct was never a requirement for the free press. Free press is like free speech: you aren't limited to only saying or reporting the "correct" things.
And have you asked the question as to why the media is trusted less then politicians these days?
Half joking there, but as above, you aren't owed truthful news. If you want a truthful non-biased news network, build one yourself. That may involve you cleaning up your room and get you life together first though.
Hard to do especially when the government is now handing out cash and tax breaks to news media instead of letting them sink or swim on their own.
That's what we tell the left when they complain. Don't like how few women are in [insert industry]? Start your own company and hire some women. Don't like how men get paid more? Work harder and do a better job.
Unfortunately for you, it appears few conservatives practice what they preach to the left. There are certainly new alternative media sources trying to take a bite out of MSM's lunch, and some even boast how they're the future for news reporting as people lose trust in the MSM. Problem is they too chase after viewers and money, not facts.
Well why don't we just look at the state of "go make your own." Look at the youtube replacement, that was host-killed, payment-killed, and unable to stay afloat because leftwing groups attacked them. Then go look at a twitter replacement like gab.ai, where the left went out of their way to try and ruin them. Look at the various chan splits, where damn it's like those same people who identify as left turn around and make shit up in order to get their hosting closed. You notice anything in all of these cases? There is "suddenly" a flood of child porn, or other obscenity, or speech that's inciting, and so on.
Later rinse repeat, the same things happen every time someone tries to make a competitor.
Speaking of media, no you are not correct. Media don't act as the "enemy of the people" but they act as opportunists and money maker (e.g. viewer rating).... Most of these extremists will also reject any evidence that demystify those fabricated stories.
Well you just proved my point. They're chasing numbers, not fact, they don't care if their reporting is correct, only how many people it can draw. That is how the media is the enemy of the people, they don't care for fact, objectivity, dividing lines between news and opinion.
The whole "reject evidence that demystify those stories" is a very common trend in all mainstream media today, especially with the people who listen to mainstream sources and accept them without any reservation. Let me give you an example, because there's an easy one at hand. Pope can say "there isn't a far-leftwing bias problem on universities because xyz mainstream site says so." I can show however, that students fear speaking out, fear having open opinions contrary to what's being pushed at universities, and the number of student unions, teachers unions and so on that run far-left workshops that in some cases are mandatory. They will, however, not believe this regardless of any evidence presented.
Therefore, media is NOT the enemy of the people but it is those who spread the fake news as an alternative fact. Opinions in news are acceptable but listeners themselves must understand and do their own research on what to believe and/or agree. Don't just take an easy way out by blaming on the whole media.
So, what do you do when the vast majority of the media is controlled by a handful of companies, +90% of the reporters identify as democrat/progressive/green/ndp/liberal, openly state that they insert favorable points into their articles, and actively restricted "uncomfortable" stories that would paint their brand of politics/leaders/view in a bad light? Are you saying that the vast majority of that media isn't the problem now? Keeping in mind that the same view points and actions are being uniformly acted upon in multiple countries, with suppression of stories/articles or even crime statistics that go against the narrative being presented by the current ruling political party.
Wow, you really are a miserable git, aren't you Mashiki? Lighten up.
This is my bored reply unfortunately, if you wanted miserable you'd have to go look back half a year when the CPC decided to become "liberal lite" and Scheer decided to piss all over the party charter.
By the way it's not "you guys" any more.
Are you saying that the UK is no longer a collective union of various counties and townships under the control of a centralized government? If that's true, then you're simply fucked.
I never thought I'd hear the far left being against the first amendment, but here we are.
Been going on for the better part of 15 years now, you musta missed it. But it's the same far left pushing "hate speech" laws, and demanding the revocation of uncomfortable speech to avoid hurting a persons feelings. Wanna see the end of the line? Look to Europe where speech is controlled, and you can be arrested and detained for having an unpopular opinion. Or be detained and arrested for simply publishing the truth, and it's "uncomfortable" to the ruling government of the day.
This kind of crap is dangerous. First it's Trump from the far-right demonizing the media as "enemy of the people".
Well first, Trump isn't far-right. If he was, then Bill Clinton would be the invocation of Mao reborn. Second, he's right about the media acting as the "enemy of the people." Anyone who grew up in the 70's or 80's can see this because they were exposed to various bits of propaganda from all sides. There were brief periods where the news media was simply about news, the problem today is that nearly every news organization in the US and Canada is controlled by a few companies. It doesn't matter if you listen to CTV(Canada) or CBS(US) they're both parroting the same point of view. Now the part where it gets ugly, because we have seen by the documents and emails coming out of wikileaks that in the US, that large media organizations and reporters were colluding with only one side of the political isle, repeatedly(that's the democrats if you haven't read them - you should). In Canada, it's a case where the parent companies have directly influenced, controlled, and mettle in news coverage to make it more favorable to the corporations controlling interest.
Ask yourself how the media isn't acting as an enemy of the people in those cases. They're going out of their way to publish not what is in the public interest, but what is in the interest of the corporate board, whether it be pushing a political agenda and labeling it as news, or simply burying news because it would hurt their financial requirement to shareholders. That's far and removed from the media of even the 1990's, or even early 00's.
That's the constitution. But considering you guys over in the UK decided to revoke nearly every section of the Magna Carta, and the Bill of Rights, and replace them with a system that's fast driving the UK into a neo-fudal state, it shouldn't be a surprise you messed that up.
The epidemiologists and endocrinologists and developmental physiologists are the people who actually know about this stuff, and they mostly in consensus.
If you mean "mostly in consensus" is "these people need psychological help" you bet. And that the "gender identity" phenomenon is more of a social contagion then anything else, it's something that 99% of cases the person grows out of by their late teens. Or that we actually have no idea what things like puberty blockers do long term, except in the several cases of causing rare cancers and organ failure. I'll bet $5 that every person that reads this comment, can remember or think of a time when they or someone else as a kid made the statement of "I want to be a train/car/truck/plane/etc, when I grow up!" And the response is "no kiddo, you can't." But it's perfectly fine to indulge in telling a 4 year old boy or girl that they really are the opposite gender, then reinforcing it.
Or that there's plenty of cases like David Reimer and the absolute fucking psychopath named John Money that did the shit in the original case is the basis of all modern "sexuality and gender identity is mutable." Money is another case of Benjamin Spock bullshit run amok by adherents, despite them causing traumatic harm to not only their patients, but enabling it in other people that studied their theories. Basic ethics of today wouldn't allow for taking a 13yr old boy and forcing them to act female under threat of punishment or enabling the pseudo-science of putting kids on their back when sleeping is what's causing SIDS.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you haven't been on a college campus in decades, and probably haven't spoken to anyone who has anything to do with higher education in at least that long.
Guess you lost that one. Not to mention that 4 of Canada's top 10 universities are within 150km of me, and the top mathematics is within that range too.
When you say "like anything I've seen", why don't you tell us what you've "seen"?
Well I just did, unfortunately you couldn't "see" it. Why don't you go a head and pick a US source like campus reform or FIRE and see how much of a similarity there is. I'll wait for that dawning realization.
If it's anything like what I've seen in your other comments, it will be equally imaginative. My guess is that what you've "seen" really means, "what I've read on Breitbart and the Daily Caller".
Considering the number of times you've made a statement and simply been proven wrong by surface information, that's probably not a *guess* you should take. My guess is that you live in a social/educational bubble and haven't "seen" what is actually going on. And if "what I've read" means the ottawa citizen, the globe and mail, national post, and various local newspapers besides what I hear from people who are actually in tenured positions. And the amount anti-free speech, pro-authoritarian, and sexism that goes on because of humanities these days. Along with actions by various dept., heads at various universities that act in concert to punish people for stepping out of line, you're simply showing how ignorant you really are.
*Believe* whatever you want. But don't try to push bullshit, especially when student union dues are funding marxist groups, violent environmentalist groups, and questioning this is a good way to be "unofficially" disciplined by aligned groups. Or that teachers unions are funding communist groups, and viewpoints contrary to progressivism, marxism and communist bents, mean that you're attacked by student newspapers, or false-flagging assault claims, claiming people are fascists/nazis in campaigns on campuses.
Nobody lives on Antarctica permanently because there's no good reason to.
Correction: Nobody wants to live on antarctica because the energy/self sufficiency costs to keep people alive would be astronomical and nobody wants to sink in the costs for unknowns. Consider how much money, and emergency life-line links are required to keep Resolute, NVT going. And that's with the ability to land aircraft in the summer, and drive in the winter. Hell even in remote areas of Canada where you're still 3-6hrs one-way from a city of 2500-5k people figure you're paying 250-5000% of an increase on everything, and that's with stable road links you can drive in all-year-round. I've lived in -46C(-68C w/windchill) areas of Canada in the winter, unless it's important you're better off living pretty much anywhere else.
Spoken like someone who has no idea what it takes to get tenure.
If it's like anything I've seen at universities in Canada or the US these days, it involves no science. Promoting marxist ideology, pushing reallllllly fucking hard on soft sciences especially humanities, then railing realllllly fucking hard on STEM, and doing whatever you can to siphon off money from the engineering dept., so they have to ship in O2 from a lab instead of manufacturing it on-site. Then acting in a smug and superior manner while telling people that STEM needs more women.
He regularly engages them in very thoughtful and respectful arguments. That's why I like him so much more than many others.
You mean like the time he went all-in-for with 'gender identity' and pseudoscience surrounding it? Nah, sorry that shit doesn't fly. Guy's a hack, always was. Mr. Wizard was a far better role model, and challenged people to think. Not only that but encouraged "kitchen top science" you know the stuff that people used to do. Too bad, things are so screwed up that most of the stuff that came even in the early 80's science kits couldn't be sold these days.
How can you extinguish the fire of open source software by dousing it with gasoline?
Codes of conduct. Using CC to revoke permissions on updates, or simply start engaging in lawfare. See the current shit show regarding Old School Renaissance(OSR) for example. There's plenty of ways to be a complete prick in open source, fuck everyone and burn your name to the ground while you're doing it.
Oh come on now. Just look at all those progressives rallying on Twitter saying that using your real name will cut down on abuse! See it's already working in your case, you're being abusive(sorry problematic) towards them and "suddenly" your account no longer works. Just look at all those sites that want you to comment/login/etc with using FB as a front end. I'm sure this will all work out well, they'll just make sure you're silenced and cheer about it like little authoritarian thugs that they really are. You don't need that speech anyway, and you're much better being told what speech is acceptable.
By the way, don't ask the ACLU for help. These days they're saying that people who are accused of things are too needy, and don't really need due process to boot.
Sure, but if you're a gamer you're shit outta luck until more companies invest in vulkan as their development API. Upside, it's becoming more of a reality since it's got the backing of a console(switch), android and linux, that's besides windows for native support. And with Sony deciding to pull a Microsoft and starting to censor the piss out of games, and Nintendo refusing to? Gonna be a very interesting time in the next few years for video game development.
300 miles apart, last hurricane that hit the area was what 450-500mi across? Yep, not going to be hit by one storm at all. Or those 750-1300mi long rain/snow/ice/freezing rain storms that are common through the plains-texas-georgia then smashing up along the east coast because of all that warm tropical air. Just think a little bit, a winter storm in the US can knock out electricity from Ontario Canada through to Georgia to Kentucky, dump 3' of snow all along the east coast along I75, and you can have another day or two of it still coming at you with a complete mixed bag including a few inches of freezing rain, and the tail end of it is spawning t-storms in Florida.
and, at least in the US, few have any sympathy for them. They like to play the victim card over how terrible they're treated but, the reality is, they have few to blame other than themselves.
It's like this in Canada as well. Roughly 4 companies control 90% of the media here, that's everything from radio and TV to print publications. It's actually bad enough that the "controlling company" for one media organization(CTV owner Bell), was using the news org, to push propaganda and directly meddled in news coverage. A reporter lies? It's sexist, racist, you're a nazi. The media company they work for? Circle the wagons, drag out the personal attacks. It's very rare that reporters are canned up here for egregious abuse of the public trust.
Lose the bias, sensationalism, personal agendas and personal attacks against political parties and / or people they dislike and just report the damn news. Returning to their professional roots will go a long way in re-establishing some credibility as journalists and "news" as a whole.
Well that would be a really hard thing for some media organizations like the Toronto Star(affectionately known in Canada as The Red Star for it's communist bent), and the CBC which has been repeatedly hit for sensationalism, personal agendas, personal attacks against anyone who doesn't toe a left-wing line. Under the previous government, they were at least held to account on this in parliament, even when the ombudsman refused to take the issue on, or simply stated that "the CBC's fact were accurate and true" when it was the exact opposite. The sad thing is, the Toronto Star has some really good reporters and one of them is a top-notch person in terms of getting things done. But the general slant of the articles itself(everything from sexist air conditioning to protesting bike lanes is racist), is one of the reasons it's a failing news paper. And the further it goes with stories like that, the harder it's circulation numbers drop.
I think it's tough. Trudeau is a typical politician.
He isn't a typical politician, he's a puppet. He won the Liberal Party nomination not because of his ideas, or skills, or forward thinking, or anything to help Canada. He won it because of his last name. The media propped him up, went out of their way to silence issues, and refused to carry other issues. Here's a good one, "carbon tax" the previous election the Liberals and NDP lost exactly on this issue. The media went out of their way to soft-pedal it, or even openly state that it wasn't a liberal party agenda item. This is after Trudeau Jr., said that he wanted to implement it.
Want to know where the real power lies in Canada? Look up G.M. Butts. He's the same person who was behind many of Kathleen Wynne's(Liberal Party of Ontario) ideas during her tenure as Ontario's Premier. I'll now remind you that the Ontario Liberal Party is so small after that tenure, that it can fit into a 1996 Ford minivan and is no longer an officially recognized political party.
Maybe Trudeau Jr., should go look back to what his father did in the 70's. When his government told the media that their entire purpose was to steer public opinion, and they weren't doing a good enough job of it. In Canada, his government(liberals) were the source of pushing the quality of media down to the levels it is now. It actually got bad enough that numerous journalists left Canada for the US because it was stifling the press.
Thanks for the links, but for the second part, I'm still not sure what's there to cheer about.
That depends on your view point. Is having your own country stand on it's own two feed good or bad?
If that's what they want to do and want to cheer about, why not kick them now, before they do something crazy?
For the SEA countries? Yes. China has been a belligerent in that area for years, it's something that isn't covered in western media.
For example, since you speak of Canada... did conservatives cheer in 2015 when they had plans to prepare for Trudeau coming into power?
Yeah, us conservatives told people he wasn't ready then hold onto your asshole because you're gonna get the government you voted for. True to turn at this point, the only upside is he's likely going to be unable to inflict 8 years of problems.
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No worse than running your battery out, finding a flat tire, car won't start, etc. People who drive already have a backup plan - for me it's a call to AAA and an Uber. I drive cars into the ground so I'm pretty good at this by now. "Forgetting to charge" has a pretty stiff feedback loop, so I don't think it will be that frequent. Like "forgetting to fill up", which happened to me once - after a 3 mile walk with a gas can I remembered not to do that again.
So, let's see. It's a call to AAA or Uber...and you just got 4-10" of snow, that'll be a 2-8hr wait, and there won't be any "easy charge" service rolling out the block to start with either. To do a charge, you're going to have to roll off the other vehicle and it'll be ICE, likely diesel or natural gas for the generator...and, and, and.
A 3 mile walk is nothing, how about 25 miles? Plenty of places like that even in Southwestern Ontario between gas stations. Lots of 180km+ areas like that too, gets worse when you get into northern ontario but that's the reality. Try not to freeze to death either, or pray you can get cell service and the provincial police will ask someone to come and rescue you on a snowmobile.
Many countries have set a deadline by which no more new ICE vehicles can be sold. It tends to be either 2030 or 2040. But in truth by then there will be no consumer demand for them anyway. And manufacturer that is not switching it's focus to EVs, is committing suicide.
Yeah that's nice, but the reality is if you live outside of a city. ICE is the only way life goes forward. That's life in the US, doubly so in Canada. Unless battery technology jumps in leaps and bounds and becomes dirt cheap by then, and can hold enough of a charge to get you 500km/300mi in a single trip with no issues when it's -35C or colder outside.
It's basically ivory tower, champagne socialists, limousine liberals and so forth in action. Don't know why this is a surprise for so many people.
You sure it didn't have anything to do with them 'deleting' front-facing pages that were serving child porn, but leaving the CP accessible if you knew the URL's? Or...didn't you hear about that?
Getting colder. Keep trying.
Seems like what the politicians of the EU and UK are currently spewing, I'm spot on. Especially when they tell people and countries that you have to surrender your sovereignty to a "higher power" if you don't want to have the weight of bureaucracy to eat your face.
Nah, they're not enemies of the people for chasing numbers or not chasing facts. Being factual or correct was never a requirement for the free press. Free press is like free speech: you aren't limited to only saying or reporting the "correct" things.
And have you asked the question as to why the media is trusted less then politicians these days?
Half joking there, but as above, you aren't owed truthful news. If you want a truthful non-biased news network, build one yourself. That may involve you cleaning up your room and get you life together first though.
Hard to do especially when the government is now handing out cash and tax breaks to news media instead of letting them sink or swim on their own.
That's what we tell the left when they complain. Don't like how few women are in [insert industry]? Start your own company and hire some women. Don't like how men get paid more? Work harder and do a better job.
Unfortunately for you, it appears few conservatives practice what they preach to the left. There are certainly new alternative media sources trying to take a bite out of MSM's lunch, and some even boast how they're the future for news reporting as people lose trust in the MSM. Problem is they too chase after viewers and money, not facts.
Well why don't we just look at the state of "go make your own." Look at the youtube replacement, that was host-killed, payment-killed, and unable to stay afloat because leftwing groups attacked them. Then go look at a twitter replacement like gab.ai, where the left went out of their way to try and ruin them. Look at the various chan splits, where damn it's like those same people who identify as left turn around and make shit up in order to get their hosting closed. You notice anything in all of these cases? There is "suddenly" a flood of child porn, or other obscenity, or speech that's inciting, and so on.
Later rinse repeat, the same things happen every time someone tries to make a competitor.
Speaking of media, no you are not correct. Media don't act as the "enemy of the people" but they act as opportunists and money maker (e.g. viewer rating). ... Most of these extremists will also reject any evidence that demystify those fabricated stories.
Well you just proved my point. They're chasing numbers, not fact, they don't care if their reporting is correct, only how many people it can draw. That is how the media is the enemy of the people, they don't care for fact, objectivity, dividing lines between news and opinion.
The whole "reject evidence that demystify those stories" is a very common trend in all mainstream media today, especially with the people who listen to mainstream sources and accept them without any reservation. Let me give you an example, because there's an easy one at hand. Pope can say "there isn't a far-leftwing bias problem on universities because xyz mainstream site says so." I can show however, that students fear speaking out, fear having open opinions contrary to what's being pushed at universities, and the number of student unions, teachers unions and so on that run far-left workshops that in some cases are mandatory. They will, however, not believe this regardless of any evidence presented.
Therefore, media is NOT the enemy of the people but it is those who spread the fake news as an alternative fact. Opinions in news are acceptable but listeners themselves must understand and do their own research on what to believe and/or agree. Don't just take an easy way out by blaming on the whole media.
So, what do you do when the vast majority of the media is controlled by a handful of companies, +90% of the reporters identify as democrat/progressive/green/ndp/liberal, openly state that they insert favorable points into their articles, and actively restricted "uncomfortable" stories that would paint their brand of politics/leaders/view in a bad light? Are you saying that the vast majority of that media isn't the problem now? Keeping in mind that the same view points and actions are being uniformly acted upon in multiple countries, with suppression of stories/articles or even crime statistics that go against the narrative being presented by the current ruling political party.
No, guess again.
So you *are* speeding towards neo-fudalism then.
Wow, you really are a miserable git, aren't you Mashiki? Lighten up.
This is my bored reply unfortunately, if you wanted miserable you'd have to go look back half a year when the CPC decided to become "liberal lite" and Scheer decided to piss all over the party charter.
By the way it's not "you guys" any more.
Are you saying that the UK is no longer a collective union of various counties and townships under the control of a centralized government? If that's true, then you're simply fucked.
I never thought I'd hear the far left being against the first amendment, but here we are.
Been going on for the better part of 15 years now, you musta missed it. But it's the same far left pushing "hate speech" laws, and demanding the revocation of uncomfortable speech to avoid hurting a persons feelings. Wanna see the end of the line? Look to Europe where speech is controlled, and you can be arrested and detained for having an unpopular opinion. Or be detained and arrested for simply publishing the truth, and it's "uncomfortable" to the ruling government of the day.
This kind of crap is dangerous. First it's Trump from the far-right demonizing the media as "enemy of the people".
Well first, Trump isn't far-right. If he was, then Bill Clinton would be the invocation of Mao reborn. Second, he's right about the media acting as the "enemy of the people." Anyone who grew up in the 70's or 80's can see this because they were exposed to various bits of propaganda from all sides. There were brief periods where the news media was simply about news, the problem today is that nearly every news organization in the US and Canada is controlled by a few companies. It doesn't matter if you listen to CTV(Canada) or CBS(US) they're both parroting the same point of view. Now the part where it gets ugly, because we have seen by the documents and emails coming out of wikileaks that in the US, that large media organizations and reporters were colluding with only one side of the political isle, repeatedly(that's the democrats if you haven't read them - you should). In Canada, it's a case where the parent companies have directly influenced, controlled, and mettle in news coverage to make it more favorable to the corporations controlling interest.
Ask yourself how the media isn't acting as an enemy of the people in those cases. They're going out of their way to publish not what is in the public interest, but what is in the interest of the corporate board, whether it be pushing a political agenda and labeling it as news, or simply burying news because it would hurt their financial requirement to shareholders. That's far and removed from the media of even the 1990's, or even early 00's.
That's the constitution. But considering you guys over in the UK decided to revoke nearly every section of the Magna Carta, and the Bill of Rights, and replace them with a system that's fast driving the UK into a neo-fudal state, it shouldn't be a surprise you messed that up.
The epidemiologists and endocrinologists and developmental physiologists are the people who actually know about this stuff, and they mostly in consensus.
If you mean "mostly in consensus" is "these people need psychological help" you bet. And that the "gender identity" phenomenon is more of a social contagion then anything else, it's something that 99% of cases the person grows out of by their late teens. Or that we actually have no idea what things like puberty blockers do long term, except in the several cases of causing rare cancers and organ failure. I'll bet $5 that every person that reads this comment, can remember or think of a time when they or someone else as a kid made the statement of "I want to be a train/car/truck/plane/etc, when I grow up!" And the response is "no kiddo, you can't." But it's perfectly fine to indulge in telling a 4 year old boy or girl that they really are the opposite gender, then reinforcing it.
Or that there's plenty of cases like David Reimer and the absolute fucking psychopath named John Money that did the shit in the original case is the basis of all modern "sexuality and gender identity is mutable." Money is another case of Benjamin Spock bullshit run amok by adherents, despite them causing traumatic harm to not only their patients, but enabling it in other people that studied their theories. Basic ethics of today wouldn't allow for taking a 13yr old boy and forcing them to act female under threat of punishment or enabling the pseudo-science of putting kids on their back when sleeping is what's causing SIDS.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that you haven't been on a college campus in decades, and probably haven't spoken to anyone who has anything to do with higher education in at least that long.
Guess you lost that one. Not to mention that 4 of Canada's top 10 universities are within 150km of me, and the top mathematics is within that range too.
When you say "like anything I've seen", why don't you tell us what you've "seen"?
Well I just did, unfortunately you couldn't "see" it. Why don't you go a head and pick a US source like campus reform or FIRE and see how much of a similarity there is. I'll wait for that dawning realization.
If it's anything like what I've seen in your other comments, it will be equally imaginative. My guess is that what you've "seen" really means, "what I've read on Breitbart and the Daily Caller".
Considering the number of times you've made a statement and simply been proven wrong by surface information, that's probably not a *guess* you should take. My guess is that you live in a social/educational bubble and haven't "seen" what is actually going on. And if "what I've read" means the ottawa citizen, the globe and mail, national post, and various local newspapers besides what I hear from people who are actually in tenured positions. And the amount anti-free speech, pro-authoritarian, and sexism that goes on because of humanities these days. Along with actions by various dept., heads at various universities that act in concert to punish people for stepping out of line, you're simply showing how ignorant you really are.
*Believe* whatever you want. But don't try to push bullshit, especially when student union dues are funding marxist groups, violent environmentalist groups, and questioning this is a good way to be "unofficially" disciplined by aligned groups. Or that teachers unions are funding communist groups, and viewpoints contrary to progressivism, marxism and communist bents, mean that you're attacked by student newspapers, or false-flagging assault claims, claiming people are fascists/nazis in campaigns on campuses.
Nobody lives on Antarctica permanently because there's no good reason to.
Correction: Nobody wants to live on antarctica because the energy/self sufficiency costs to keep people alive would be astronomical and nobody wants to sink in the costs for unknowns. Consider how much money, and emergency life-line links are required to keep Resolute, NVT going. And that's with the ability to land aircraft in the summer, and drive in the winter. Hell even in remote areas of Canada where you're still 3-6hrs one-way from a city of 2500-5k people figure you're paying 250-5000% of an increase on everything, and that's with stable road links you can drive in all-year-round. I've lived in -46C(-68C w/windchill) areas of Canada in the winter, unless it's important you're better off living pretty much anywhere else.
Spoken like someone who has no idea what it takes to get tenure.
If it's like anything I've seen at universities in Canada or the US these days, it involves no science. Promoting marxist ideology, pushing reallllllly fucking hard on soft sciences especially humanities, then railing realllllly fucking hard on STEM, and doing whatever you can to siphon off money from the engineering dept., so they have to ship in O2 from a lab instead of manufacturing it on-site. Then acting in a smug and superior manner while telling people that STEM needs more women.
He regularly engages them in very thoughtful and respectful arguments. That's why I like him so much more than many others.
You mean like the time he went all-in-for with 'gender identity' and pseudoscience surrounding it? Nah, sorry that shit doesn't fly. Guy's a hack, always was. Mr. Wizard was a far better role model, and challenged people to think. Not only that but encouraged "kitchen top science" you know the stuff that people used to do. Too bad, things are so screwed up that most of the stuff that came even in the early 80's science kits couldn't be sold these days.
How can you extinguish the fire of open source software by dousing it with gasoline?
Codes of conduct. Using CC to revoke permissions on updates, or simply start engaging in lawfare. See the current shit show regarding Old School Renaissance(OSR) for example. There's plenty of ways to be a complete prick in open source, fuck everyone and burn your name to the ground while you're doing it.
Oh come on now. Just look at all those progressives rallying on Twitter saying that using your real name will cut down on abuse! See it's already working in your case, you're being abusive(sorry problematic) towards them and "suddenly" your account no longer works. Just look at all those sites that want you to comment/login/etc with using FB as a front end. I'm sure this will all work out well, they'll just make sure you're silenced and cheer about it like little authoritarian thugs that they really are. You don't need that speech anyway, and you're much better being told what speech is acceptable.
By the way, don't ask the ACLU for help. These days they're saying that people who are accused of things are too needy, and don't really need due process to boot.
Throwing flaming condoms of liquor at people pretending they are NPCs is generally frowned upon.
You sure? That sounds like the start of a pretty good party, or street riot.
Sure, but if you're a gamer you're shit outta luck until more companies invest in vulkan as their development API. Upside, it's becoming more of a reality since it's got the backing of a console(switch), android and linux, that's besides windows for native support. And with Sony deciding to pull a Microsoft and starting to censor the piss out of games, and Nintendo refusing to? Gonna be a very interesting time in the next few years for video game development.
300 miles apart, last hurricane that hit the area was what 450-500mi across? Yep, not going to be hit by one storm at all. Or those 750-1300mi long rain/snow/ice/freezing rain storms that are common through the plains-texas-georgia then smashing up along the east coast because of all that warm tropical air. Just think a little bit, a winter storm in the US can knock out electricity from Ontario Canada through to Georgia to Kentucky, dump 3' of snow all along the east coast along I75, and you can have another day or two of it still coming at you with a complete mixed bag including a few inches of freezing rain, and the tail end of it is spawning t-storms in Florida.
and, at least in the US, few have any sympathy for them. They like to play the victim card over how terrible they're treated but, the reality is, they have few to blame other than themselves.
It's like this in Canada as well. Roughly 4 companies control 90% of the media here, that's everything from radio and TV to print publications. It's actually bad enough that the "controlling company" for one media organization(CTV owner Bell), was using the news org, to push propaganda and directly meddled in news coverage. A reporter lies? It's sexist, racist, you're a nazi. The media company they work for? Circle the wagons, drag out the personal attacks. It's very rare that reporters are canned up here for egregious abuse of the public trust.
Lose the bias, sensationalism, personal agendas and personal attacks against political parties and / or people they dislike and just report the damn news.
Returning to their professional roots will go a long way in re-establishing some credibility as journalists and "news" as a whole.
Well that would be a really hard thing for some media organizations like the Toronto Star(affectionately known in Canada as The Red Star for it's communist bent), and the CBC which has been repeatedly hit for sensationalism, personal agendas, personal attacks against anyone who doesn't toe a left-wing line. Under the previous government, they were at least held to account on this in parliament, even when the ombudsman refused to take the issue on, or simply stated that "the CBC's fact were accurate and true" when it was the exact opposite. The sad thing is, the Toronto Star has some really good reporters and one of them is a top-notch person in terms of getting things done. But the general slant of the articles itself(everything from sexist air conditioning to protesting bike lanes is racist), is one of the reasons it's a failing news paper. And the further it goes with stories like that, the harder it's circulation numbers drop.
I think it's tough. Trudeau is a typical politician.
He isn't a typical politician, he's a puppet. He won the Liberal Party nomination not because of his ideas, or skills, or forward thinking, or anything to help Canada. He won it because of his last name. The media propped him up, went out of their way to silence issues, and refused to carry other issues. Here's a good one, "carbon tax" the previous election the Liberals and NDP lost exactly on this issue. The media went out of their way to soft-pedal it, or even openly state that it wasn't a liberal party agenda item. This is after Trudeau Jr., said that he wanted to implement it.
Want to know where the real power lies in Canada? Look up G.M. Butts. He's the same person who was behind many of Kathleen Wynne's(Liberal Party of Ontario) ideas during her tenure as Ontario's Premier. I'll now remind you that the Ontario Liberal Party is so small after that tenure, that it can fit into a 1996 Ford minivan and is no longer an officially recognized political party.
Maybe Trudeau Jr., should go look back to what his father did in the 70's. When his government told the media that their entire purpose was to steer public opinion, and they weren't doing a good enough job of it. In Canada, his government(liberals) were the source of pushing the quality of media down to the levels it is now. It actually got bad enough that numerous journalists left Canada for the US because it was stifling the press.
Thanks for the links, but for the second part, I'm still not sure what's there to cheer about.
That depends on your view point. Is having your own country stand on it's own two feed good or bad?
If that's what they want to do and want to cheer about, why not kick them now, before they do something crazy?
For the SEA countries? Yes. China has been a belligerent in that area for years, it's something that isn't covered in western media.
For example, since you speak of Canada... did conservatives cheer in 2015 when they had plans to prepare for Trudeau coming into power?
Yeah, us conservatives told people he wasn't ready then hold onto your asshole because you're gonna get the government you voted for. True to turn at this point, the only upside is he's likely going to be unable to inflict 8 years of problems.