What are you doing? Commuting from Vancouver to Toronto?
I used to drive from Southern Ontario to Indiana every week, did that for years. My grandparents old van on the other hand they took it from Ontario to Florida every year, plus they'd take trips all over Canada and the US in it. My car was on it's 17th year, and the van will be 20 years old in two months.
Or a car analogy. When your at 300,000 miles and your second engine you might as well give it up and upgrade to something a bit newer.
Your analogy is bad. If you're on your second engine by 300k miles, you're doing something seriously wrong. Any car engine made in the last 15-17 years can easily get 500k miles before their first rebuild. Before the subframe in the front of my saturn broke(love those salty winter roads here in Canada), my car was already at 550k miles(885k km) and that's not even a record on the Series 1 or Series 2 engines, the 'hand me down' van(it has a 3.8L 3800 series) I got from my grandparents has 680k miles on it. I use it for the winter driving, in fact I'm more likely to replace the transaxle first.
In Canada: S.1 stipulates, " The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
In other words all following sections including the "fundamental freedom" in S.2 exist at the behest of the government, courts, and all that jazz. This is why we have "hate crime" kangaroo courts up here, which could and in some cases still do walk all over you and your case will never be seen by a jury, or even a judge. But by appointed bureaucrats.
Good post, while I'm not in your spot I did break my back in two spots a few years ago. Walking is agony, but I still do it. Usually I take a few breakthrough pain pills first then it becomes a race between "how far can I go, and how much will I pay for this." I used to do resistance paddling in a heated pool, until I found that it aggravated my back and in turn increased the pain. Luckily I can get around mostly on butrans(buprenorphine transdermal patch) for pain medication.
That's probably a good thing, we were tired of tapping into our national twinkee reserve and shipping them south to the US, just like you keep trying to get us to open our strategic national maple syrup reserve.
You seem to be forgetting that in Quebec, the majority of your renewable electricity comes from hydro-electric dams. While in Ontario, they use wind and solar and our rates have done nothing but soar through the roof. We're still on track for 2016, and being the most expensive place in North America for electricity.
That's fine. After all, your post still continues to make no sense. If it did, then you would know that--indeed in Canada wetland areas are the same as natural habitat. That there are plenty of predators in the mix, there aren't enough though to keep the population in check. And you're still ignorant enough to believe that neither deer nor geese have natural predators. I welcome you to take a trip to the "wilds of canada" and find out exactly what happens in that lovely circle of life.
Right, they could have sent a team of guys in on a cargo plane, to land at an unsecure airport, to fight their way through an unknown number of assailants
I realize that this is difficult to understand for people, including Americans who don't have a clue. But they actually violate the airspace and land wherever they want, or do paradrops to exfil ambassadors in the event of danger. That's why said teams exist. As you might remember, embassies are sovereign territory of the nation that they represent.
There are two different teams, one from Africom, and a second in Europe. And yes, actually they do *throw special forces guys* into an unknown situation, they walk up and say: "I need X men for an operation" and they're briefed in the air and on-route to the situation. Very difficult to understand isn't it?
And yet you wonder why people don't take Benghazi trolls seriously?
Perhaps you should actually become more informed on the issue then. There's plenty of factual information on this, and there wasn't any BS in my sentence, the only BS is coming from the administration who sat by and didn't let the teams roll out. And the people who believe what the uniformed media keeps trying to pass off as truth.
Perhaps if humans hadn't encroached on their natural habitat they wouldn't be such a nuisance.
I'm going to just call you a damned idiot. The reason why we have so many canadian geese now is because the government back in the 70's instituted programs to reduce hunting and protect them. It's the same reason why you find deer in suburban areas, where the areas haven't expanded, and the population in the wild has exploded so much that they're starving to death due to a lack of predators. A very fine example of over populations of deer in the US: Michigan, and Ohio.
Up here in Canadaland, we have an assload of wetland areas. There are three in my area where the geese stay all winter, they never used to. They stay because the provincial government got this brilliant idea to feed the damned things all winter long. Carpet of goose shit indeed, we don't use drones here, we use starter pistols and blanks in shotguns and rifles to scare them away.
How does one become a "truther" over a factual event? We know that Obama, and the Obama administration directly lied to the public over what caused it. We know the administration lied and said there was no available military assets, but there were. Including exfil teams standing by 24/7 for instances just like that. We know that one person managed to hold out for 12 hours on the roof of the embassy *after* the guys who were defending the embassy had died. We know that someone within the administration told them to stand down and *not* defend. We also know that it was al qaeda affiliated, it wasn't spontaneous, and that the ambassador had requested more protection--but the administration turned it down. After all, blowing $150k on battery powered cars and charging stations for embassies in europe was more important.
And we also know that right up until it came out, that the administration refused the truth of the matter. This isn't anything new, it's the continuing pattern of the administration. Much like Fast and Furious(the gun walking scandal), much like Ft. Hood was really a Jihadi attack--but they're trying their best to make it "work place violence."
And we also know that in the case of the first two scandals, if the media actually did their job and factually reported it, instead of bending over backwards to kiss his ass. He wouldn't be president right now.
They pretty much ensured that data dumping will ensue, on levels never before seen. It's going to be pretty damned interesting considering that Greenwald is a hell of a leftist, and is railing like never before.
As a Google+ user, I definitely don't want Google and Facebook to capture the same market. People are definitely part of the reason why I prefer G+ over Facebook.
You may wish to "explain" this, for my old, cranky, mid-30's, anti-social pov, which sees both full of narcissistic trash.
You mean besides leaving americans high and dry, and bending over backwards to kiss Obama's ass on every scandal that's come out of his administration.
There's a much simpler answer. It's not even seasonal, the lack of wood in general doesn't foster that type of ecosystem. Once you're above the treeline you're not going to find much if any wood, except that which has either made the trip via humans, or by natural disasters.
However, the eighties was when focus shifted from producing goods to just earning money.
Apparently you should just swing back to the 1930's and see where that statement is wrong. "Producing goods" walked away when governments decided Keynesian economics were the way to go.
Really? I didn't know they were responsible for the implementation of Keynesian economic policy during the age of the great depression in the 1930's, and were fundamental in it's acceptance in the 1920's. Useful tip: Keynesian economics is what creates bubble economies.
In all of those cases factual observation+results were the name of the day. In the field mentioned above, 99% of it is based on computer models. The same models that can't predict the path of a hurricane, or whether it's going to be pissing rain on Canada for the next 14 days(though common wisdom says it will be).
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What are you doing? Commuting from Vancouver to Toronto?
I used to drive from Southern Ontario to Indiana every week, did that for years. My grandparents old van on the other hand they took it from Ontario to Florida every year, plus they'd take trips all over Canada and the US in it. My car was on it's 17th year, and the van will be 20 years old in two months.
Or a car analogy. When your at 300,000 miles and your second engine you might as well give it up and upgrade to something a bit newer.
Your analogy is bad. If you're on your second engine by 300k miles, you're doing something seriously wrong. Any car engine made in the last 15-17 years can easily get 500k miles before their first rebuild. Before the subframe in the front of my saturn broke(love those salty winter roads here in Canada), my car was already at 550k miles(885k km) and that's not even a record on the Series 1 or Series 2 engines, the 'hand me down' van(it has a 3.8L 3800 series) I got from my grandparents has 680k miles on it. I use it for the winter driving, in fact I'm more likely to replace the transaxle first.
The only part that's wrong is your post.
In Canada: S.1 stipulates, " The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
In other words all following sections including the "fundamental freedom" in S.2 exist at the behest of the government, courts, and all that jazz. This is why we have "hate crime" kangaroo courts up here, which could and in some cases still do walk all over you and your case will never be seen by a jury, or even a judge. But by appointed bureaucrats.
Great idea for those of us that can't walk
Good post, while I'm not in your spot I did break my back in two spots a few years ago. Walking is agony, but I still do it. Usually I take a few breakthrough pain pills first then it becomes a race between "how far can I go, and how much will I pay for this." I used to do resistance paddling in a heated pool, until I found that it aggravated my back and in turn increased the pain. Luckily I can get around mostly on butrans(buprenorphine transdermal patch) for pain medication.
We got twinkies back, we can reclaim place again.
That's probably a good thing, we were tired of tapping into our national twinkee reserve and shipping them south to the US, just like you keep trying to get us to open our strategic national maple syrup reserve.
That title goes to Mexico. So cheer on, someone else has you beat on this.
You seem to be forgetting that in Quebec, the majority of your renewable electricity comes from hydro-electric dams. While in Ontario, they use wind and solar and our rates have done nothing but soar through the roof. We're still on track for 2016, and being the most expensive place in North America for electricity.
which would cost more the drone. plus more waste, and inefficiencies.
Really? Can you explain how a $0.03/shot costs more than a $56k-140k drone.
That's fine. After all, your post still continues to make no sense. If it did, then you would know that--indeed in Canada wetland areas are the same as natural habitat. That there are plenty of predators in the mix, there aren't enough though to keep the population in check. And you're still ignorant enough to believe that neither deer nor geese have natural predators. I welcome you to take a trip to the "wilds of canada" and find out exactly what happens in that lovely circle of life.
Right, they could have sent a team of guys in on a cargo plane, to land at an unsecure airport, to fight their way through an unknown number of assailants
I realize that this is difficult to understand for people, including Americans who don't have a clue. But they actually violate the airspace and land wherever they want, or do paradrops to exfil ambassadors in the event of danger. That's why said teams exist. As you might remember, embassies are sovereign territory of the nation that they represent.
There are two different teams, one from Africom, and a second in Europe. And yes, actually they do *throw special forces guys* into an unknown situation, they walk up and say: "I need X men for an operation" and they're briefed in the air and on-route to the situation. Very difficult to understand isn't it?
And yet you wonder why people don't take Benghazi trolls seriously?
Perhaps you should actually become more informed on the issue then. There's plenty of factual information on this, and there wasn't any BS in my sentence, the only BS is coming from the administration who sat by and didn't let the teams roll out. And the people who believe what the uniformed media keeps trying to pass off as truth.
Perhaps if humans hadn't encroached on their natural habitat they wouldn't be such a nuisance.
I'm going to just call you a damned idiot. The reason why we have so many canadian geese now is because the government back in the 70's instituted programs to reduce hunting and protect them. It's the same reason why you find deer in suburban areas, where the areas haven't expanded, and the population in the wild has exploded so much that they're starving to death due to a lack of predators. A very fine example of over populations of deer in the US: Michigan, and Ohio.
Up here in Canadaland, we have an assload of wetland areas. There are three in my area where the geese stay all winter, they never used to. They stay because the provincial government got this brilliant idea to feed the damned things all winter long. Carpet of goose shit indeed, we don't use drones here, we use starter pistols and blanks in shotguns and rifles to scare them away.
Don't bother, SuperKendall is a Benghazi truther.
How does one become a "truther" over a factual event? We know that Obama, and the Obama administration directly lied to the public over what caused it. We know the administration lied and said there was no available military assets, but there were. Including exfil teams standing by 24/7 for instances just like that. We know that one person managed to hold out for 12 hours on the roof of the embassy *after* the guys who were defending the embassy had died. We know that someone within the administration told them to stand down and *not* defend. We also know that it was al qaeda affiliated, it wasn't spontaneous, and that the ambassador had requested more protection--but the administration turned it down. After all, blowing $150k on battery powered cars and charging stations for embassies in europe was more important.
And we also know that right up until it came out, that the administration refused the truth of the matter. This isn't anything new, it's the continuing pattern of the administration. Much like Fast and Furious(the gun walking scandal), much like Ft. Hood was really a Jihadi attack--but they're trying their best to make it "work place violence."
And we also know that in the case of the first two scandals, if the media actually did their job and factually reported it, instead of bending over backwards to kiss his ass. He wouldn't be president right now.
They pretty much ensured that data dumping will ensue, on levels never before seen. It's going to be pretty damned interesting considering that Greenwald is a hell of a leftist, and is railing like never before.
That's a good and fair response, and covers a fair bit in itself.
As a Google+ user, I definitely don't want Google and Facebook to capture the same market. People are definitely part of the reason why I prefer G+ over Facebook.
You may wish to "explain" this, for my old, cranky, mid-30's, anti-social pov, which sees both full of narcissistic trash.
You could put 4 of your friends in the trunk of the car and save a tone of money . . .
A lot of the drive-in's up here in Canada have a lower rate if you bring more than 4 people with you. Usually 30-50% off the ticket price.
True enough on that. After all, all that BS must be tasty. There's no other explanation.
You mean besides leaving americans high and dry, and bending over backwards to kiss Obama's ass on every scandal that's come out of his administration.
Meanwhile, unless I'm mistaken, kids in Europe go to college for free
If by "free" you mean "pay through your taxes" then I guess so.
There's a much simpler answer. It's not even seasonal, the lack of wood in general doesn't foster that type of ecosystem. Once you're above the treeline you're not going to find much if any wood, except that which has either made the trip via humans, or by natural disasters.
For those who missed the reference and didn't click the links, this is a reference to Fahrenheit 451.
Anyone who didn't get the references need to: Go back to highschool chemistry, and read more books.
However, the eighties was when focus shifted from producing goods to just earning money.
Apparently you should just swing back to the 1930's and see where that statement is wrong. "Producing goods" walked away when governments decided Keynesian economics were the way to go.
Really? I didn't know they were responsible for the implementation of Keynesian economic policy during the age of the great depression in the 1930's, and were fundamental in it's acceptance in the 1920's. Useful tip: Keynesian economics is what creates bubble economies.
In all of those cases factual observation+results were the name of the day. In the field mentioned above, 99% of it is based on computer models. The same models that can't predict the path of a hurricane, or whether it's going to be pissing rain on Canada for the next 14 days(though common wisdom says it will be).
Not exactly difficult. Unless of course you're getting your news from the major networks.