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  1. Re:So? on Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except I can find redeeming content on various parts of other websites that provide actual information. I don't with twitter, or facebook. Both can die in a blaze of their own fiery doom for all I care.

  2. Re:Standard profit meme on What US Health Care Needs · · Score: 1

    The reason it works more or less in Mass. is because of 3 things. Excessively high taxes, it's the state level, and excessively high taxes.

  3. Re:Standard profit meme on What US Health Care Needs · · Score: 2, Informative

    Too bad the Dem's in the US want this brilliant idea to micromanage every single freaking point of the healthcare system. Sorry but systems like socialized insurance in Canada, are wholly incompatible with the Dem view of how it should be done. Only the feds know the right way to do it. To point out the obvious, in Canada, the feds do nothing to the healthcare system unless it's run federally aka reservations and government(RCMP/Mil/etc). It's all in the hands of the provinces.

    The republicans have the right idea in the US. Federally mandated control of the healthcare system is flawed.

  4. Re:I love religious hypocracy. on Utah Attorney General Tweets Execution Order · · Score: 0, Troll

    Obvious question. Why would people grant him mercy when they've shown none to their victims? RoI vs RoS thanks. I prefer it being on the RoS.

  5. Re:PDF plugin, OK. PDF built-in? Not so sure... on Google Builds a Native PDF Reader Into Chrome · · Score: 0

    Tip: Poster is probably Canadian or speaks UK English. Poured over is a common phrase in both countries.

  6. Re:What a joke on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't understand this anti-intellectual campaign. Is it so hard to understand that if you don't have a degree then chances are you don't know what you are talking about?

    Actually the problem people have is with the arrogance and egotism of people who have pieces of paper. Simply because I don't have a piece of paper, doesn't mean I don't have a clue on how to plot my own weather maps and provide valid meteorological data to other sources. I can do both. But I've got no paper, but I have been studying weather since I was a kid. So 22 years give or take.

    The interesting thing is, I can say the same about people in many scientific fields. The reality is, many academia believe that if you have a piece of paper your knowledge is more worthy then the guy who doesn't. Even if your paper is from another distant field that isn't related.

    To sum it up, a 4 year education doesn't mean you have enough experience to understand more then the guy on the ground who's been doing it for 40 years without the same. You probably don't.

  7. Re:Storm chasers say they have as much right to wa on Tornado Scientists Butt Heads With Storm Chasers · · Score: 1

    Funny. I'm an amateur, but I'm also trained for on the ground reporting to Environment Canada. I really don't make a huge distinction here. But then again I've been having fun doing this for the last 8 years, and have been watching storms since I was 5.

  8. Re:This is why the US is "anti"-Islamic-terrorist on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    Let me know how those what was it? 6 wars of attempted annihilation worked out.

  9. Re:Dark Ages on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 1

    Yes because it's very easy to compare the difference between a state executing a person for horrific crimes against other people. Over a group of people, executing a person because they had sex with some guys daughter. Or a group of men stoning a women to death because she refused to cover herself head-to-toe in a burlap sack.

  10. Re:Gaining My Support on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 1

    The Bloc are left of the NDP and hyper-nationalistic(Quebec sovereignty is the only sovereignty that should exist) to boot. One only needs to look at their policy and compare. It's exactly the same as the NDP with more entitlements. The only reason that they get as many seats as they do is because they can't remove or add seats properly to the provinces, because Quebec refuses to sign the charter. So really that leaves you Conservatives, Liberals and NDP.

  11. Re:Gaining My Support on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 1

    The NDP has good ideas, I've always liked them as idea party. For governing? Forget it, every province they've ever touched is going to be living through 3-5 generations of paying back the massive entitlement projects that they ran through and trying to fix their credit rating. Ontario for example has only a mere $60b from the NDP.

    I personally hope you're not one of those Canucks that votes because the party makes you feel good, but you really do sound like it. Sorry, but we haven't even hit the tax reach yet because boomers are going to be working an extra 3-10 years. Well I suppose if you like seeing 60-70% of your taxes goto the government it's okay for you, someone has to pay for all that CPP.

  12. Re:I love moderates on Pakistani Lawyer Wants Mark Zuckerberg Executed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Reformation vs no reformation. It's pretty easy to figure out which ones went through which 700 years ago.

  13. Re:Oh Canada on Bill Proposes Canadian Cellphone Unlocking Rights · · Score: 1

    $85k is about $32k more then the average citizen makes in Canada per year. The median wage here is $52k, the reality is anyone in the 50-72k range are living from paycheque to paycheque in most places. If you live somewhere like Alberta $80k is about the same as $50k/yr due to the patch.

    You know though, when I get my $1500/net and walk away with between $600-700/week and I haven't even started on anything other then federal, provincial and CPP I'm not sure I believe you. And it's going to cost me even more money per week to live because we're moving from a mixed tax rate to a HST here. I'm not made of money.

  14. Re:The first planned spam... on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    Add in duty books, tickets, nearly every court document in existence still has to have a paper backup copy. And of course government, not only does it have to be in triplicate, but the more the merrier.

  15. Re:Actually that's not quite right... on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 1

    True, very true. Realities in modern policing is there's so much crap you've got to sift through, you'd be in a bad spot if someone was doing something and you either didn't look into it, or refused to pass information along.

  16. Re:Actually that's not quite right... on FBI's Facebook Monitoring Leads To Arrest In England · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Second thing is, how come the FBI is doing this on behalf of the UK? Isn't the FBI's juristiction only in the US?

    Yep the FBI only has jurisdiction in the US, but law enforcement everywhere shares data with each other. It's been like that for 100 odd years, no shortage of pissing matches or anything either. Canada shares with the US, US shares with Canada, both of which share with all of the EU. Japan shares with everyone, and so on.

    Short answer: There's no shortage of law enforcement sharing information everywhere. It's actually not spying if you're looking at publicly supplied information. Spying would be the bilateral phone and data mining agreement that various nations have to look after each other.

  17. Re:Sometimes I just want to watch a bad movie. on Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates · · Score: 2, Funny

    What exactly were you expecting?

    Shakespeare being recited in Latin, while the other persons head was being beaten in? Blood splatters everywhere...with a touch of humanism.

  18. Re:sure. on Starbucks Frees Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Since starbucks is the creation of lots of money, and nothing to spend it on. Lowering the price is the opposite. I've never liked their coffee anyway. Second cup is much better.

  19. Re:Sure fire 100% guaranteed way on Uwe Boll, Other Filmmakers Sue Thousands of Movie Pirates · · Score: 1

    I made my choice years ago. Not to watch any of it. But if I was going to, I'd toss a Jolly Roger on my car and drive around yelling YAARRRR! At passing motorists.

  20. Re:ipv6 on DTV Transition - One Year Later · · Score: 1

    People not making sense is common here. You should know that, I know it. I don't make sense half the time, the rest I'm just spiralling into madness. It's the caffeine, it drives we follow.

  21. Re:Polygraph on The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA · · Score: 1

    Yup! Of course Dudley Do-Right being the man of the hour, maybe it should be Royal Cartoon Mounted Police.

  22. Re:Polygraph on The Truth About the Polygraph, According To the NSA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There's a reason why in Canada they're not considered an instrument reliable for court. But the RCMP use it for hiring you. Yep just gonna go over here...

  23. Re:bad apple policies on Australian Buyers Say They Were Told "No iPad Without Accessories" · · Score: 1

    That's because two neighbors didn't do the thing that cops are paid to do. Enforce laws, keep the peace, and figure out why two neighbors are fucktards. Both of them are idiots, the one that went for the gun was the bigger of the two. One started pushing, the other pushed back until the other grabbed a gun in a threatening manner. Tip for anyone who has drug-addled nitwits in their neighborhood. They probably know the law better then you do, which in itself a bit of irony. But it's because they've been through the system, or know people who've been through the system and will give away said information/tips.

    Angsty teenagers and so on can whine all they want about the cops. But this is a fine example of what happens when things escalate, and you are somewhere that doesn't have castle doctrine.

  24. Re:Suicide Rates on Foxconn May Close Factories In China · · Score: 1

    Not really. The problem with that chart is that some suicides which are actual suicides aren't recorded. While others that are, shouldn't be. Nature of policing world wide, some acts aren't the same everywhere.

    An example: In Canada, anything that you can do which causes your death and is deliberate and planned is considered suicide. In various parts of Europe, Asia and the US: It requires that it be by your own hand. So popping pills to die or hanging yourself, is suicide. But jumping in front of a train is not. That's considered something like "fault vehicular death" or something similar. In other cases, death by sexual acts may be classed as suicide(auto erotic asphyxiation) for example, may also be counted as suicide.

  25. Re:Helium 3 on ITER Fusion Reactor Enters Existential Crisis · · Score: 1

    The problem is every environmental nut that is around goes "OH NOES NUKLEAR!" and something happens to some nuclear related project here or there. The problem is you don't know what success or failures are until you progress down that path.