I remind you the NDP Beard led all the polls before the last national election and was clearly going to be the next PM but fucked it up with two months of talking about trans issues rather than the economy and security.
Correction, economy and security. Canada likely wouldn't survive as a nation if the NDP became the leaders. Especially with the complaints of what they're doing now at a provincial level.
Likely just that. If you're in Canada, you can file a complaint to the CCTS over the lack of broadband in your area. The other option is maybe look up a nearby TPIA, then see about setting up an independent ISP buying off of them. One of the jobs I did out in Alberta a few years ago was simply that. A local community(about 500 people), paid an upfront fee got a 3rd party to drop lines, then subcontracted the connection to Telus in their case. Worked out to being roughly the same cost minus the upfront fee about $1500/per-property.
Bingo. They also got slapped by the CRTC several times in the last decade. Two cases that stand out, the first was with GAS(last mile) to DSL customers, and wanting to charge TPIA(third party companies that lease the last mile) 150% tariff rates. Bell and it's buddies(Rogers, Telus, and a couple of others) though they had this in the bag. This led to a stand-off between the CRTC and the Harper Conservatives, along with the minister of industry. With a direct threat that they'd have their mandate for regulation pulled if they sided with Bell and this anti-competitive action. Needless to say the CRTC fell in line with the government.
The second was with Bell's streaming service, where they weren't billing their DSL or cell customers for data being used while watching their own streaming service but billing people who were using netflix(despite netflix having provided caching boxes to bell) for data use, and taking it out of their monthly cap. They got slapped hard for it and got levied with an injunction for anti-competitive practices.
This is more of the same for Bell. The current shitshow is Bell trying to block TPIA's from getting access to fiber links for high speed internet, in some cases like in Oxford and Middlesex counties(Ontario), they've acted in a manner to block TPIA's from laying their own fiber - with the CRTC having to step in. This is after Bell saying they had "no interest" in laying fiber to remote communities in the heaviest populated part of Canada(Windsor to Montreal, QC corridor)
Not from on-going monitoring, from prior user-submitted complaints. Maybe they have been banned or asked to delete tweets before, that kind of thing.
Why don't you go look through some of the people who threatened/demanded/doxed the Covington kids. Many of them have very long histories of abusive actions(open threats, doxing, harassment, stalking, etc) of other people, that have been reported to twitter and twitter has done nothing. The sad fact is you can without much trouble find user reports against those accounts where twitter "didn't find any ToS violations." All it really says is that the people who investigate these abusive cases are perfectly fine with some types of abuse if they're 'against the right kind ideological enemies.' The current game of TERF vs non-TERF is a good example of this if you want to see it in action.
But one only has to take a look over the last 4 years to see what's happened. If you don't fall in line with the current progressive groupthink, twitter will come after your account for the smallest infraction. Even if you're directly quoting some progressive threatening, harassing and/or doxing someone. But leave the original tweets up.
Can I put you in touch with Fastnal? Cause our company uses those tiny ass-as-shit screws that are used in cellphones and laptops in our products. They have no problems getting them to either import or doing batch runs of 2000 units, we use one of their local branch offices and have yet to see a delay or missed shipment.
When nuclear is used, the baseload for the design(s) is to hold around 60-70% of all the generation for a specific area. Gen II reactors have a cleanup cost that's high, Gen I are astronomical. The reason those old reactors keep being used is because environuts keep protesting the replacement of aging nuclear plants. See the glorious fuckup that led to in Japan for instance, since replacing PWR designs with Gen III were and are still stuck in the courts. You can see similar circumstances in the US, and you can see the same in Canada for example with the Chalk Lake medical reactor, which was supposed to be shutdown over a decade ago. Court cases tying up the replacement, leading to massive overruns, then nimbys and more environmental bullshit. Now Darlington Nuclear(Toronto) is supplying most of those isotopes and other countries which have nuclear reactors have had to pick up the slack. Europe for example relies now mostly on French reactors for their medical isotopes.
Chalk Lake if you're wondering supplied most of the world's medical isotopes(between 70-80%), for everything from targeted radiation treatments, to short-lived radioactive used for MRI's and CT scans.
Both PV and the high induction motors used in those windmills require rare earths among other materials which is actually far worse for the environment and don't recoup their cost within the lifetime before failure(30 years).
It's kinda like all those people screeching batteries are the future. Seriously if you think that nuclear energy is dirty, it has nothing on either of those. On top of that the Gen III and Gen IV reactors can use multiple forms of fuel in varying quantities to create a stable reaction, unlike Gen I and Gen II which required very specific amounts of uranium and/or plutonium in their fuel rods.
Many jobs are stressful. Most of them don't get the same free pass for killing/harming people as American cops and military do. Nope, not feeling sorry for the cop or empathy for him.
When was the last time you assisted in the arrest in domestic violence case, where one of the parties started attacking you with a knife? 'Cause that's shit happens more often then you think. Or ran into a burning building without respirator gear, or dove off a peer to rescue a kid drowning.
Sorry, the stress that you actively face as a cop is different then having a rack of servers going down. Sure you're more likely to be killed if you're working on a fishing boat, or as a logger. But you're not expected to put your life on the line to do your job, you can refuse. You don't get that option as a cop.
The US has it's own problems regarding policing, and it has more to do with it's organizational structure then anything else. If you really want to change how the police are, go be one and work from the bottom up. This isn't even getting into the various things that say the black communities(and their leaders) demanded from governments and police to deal with crime, drugs, and so on. That they now blame on the police.
These little psychos need to be very publicly judged.
No, they need to be judged by their peers. Nothing more, nothing less. Otherwise you see the same lying bullshit and witch hunting as what went on with the high schoolers from Covington. Trials by mobs have no place in a democracy, nor do kangaroo courts.
China decided to make it into a political one, when they started pushing the "Canada is full of white supremacists" as the reasoning for the arrest of the executive. Likely the only reason Trudeau has kept his mouth shut is because everytime in the last 3 years he's opened it on any case, he's managed to piss everyone off. And we're 9mo or less out from a federal election - with the Liberal Party(Trudeau) polling at 3rd place, and him having a popularity of under 30%
The evidence of the text and emails he made are right there in the indictment. The evidence will be easy for any jury or judge to understand. He's toast. It's kind of pathetic to rationalise this away and yet...
Nope, that's not what the docket says. The docket states that his previous testimony didn't match a previous statement based on a text message. Said message was over 2 years old, and they went back fishing because he used the wrong wording.
It's rather sad that you don't realize that this is the same stunt the Muller has pulled in the past, and has had dozens of cases overturned because of it. Those were all 'process crimes' aka testimony not matching the exact phrasing.
Except there is evidence right there in the indictment to support the charges. If you bothered to read it that is.
Except there isn't, if you bothered to read it. Since it relies on the testimony of another person who lied through their teeth so badly that they can't even be considered a witness now.
But let's shake this out so everyone gets it: Stone voluntarily makes statements to the FBI. Stone voluntarily surrendered his passport and ageed to various restrictions that haven't been broken. And is effectively a zero flight risk. The entire case boils down to 'process crimes' which effectively amount to railroading a person because what they said didn't match exactly what they said previously(which is what the docket says). FBI engages in pre-dawn no-nock raid with 30+ armed agents in full tactical gear(now ask yourself why). He's been released on 250k bail, and the original sureties still stand that he hasn't broken.
Is that making any sense to anyone?
Now add in some of the other stuff like refusal to disclose a full defense to other individuals as required as law. Or that Muller and his cadre of lawyers some of which are known, have repeatedly fallen back to this tactic when they can't actually find anything to nail a person with. And this was the same method that was used in the Enron case...where nearly everyone got off free, because the courts found those actions(the same as these) a gross violation of civil and legal rights and protections.
Sure thing, that's what they keep telling everyone. Of course if they were really serious, they'd be pushing to modernize parts of the world where slash & burn farming is still the norm.
So...what's wrong with that again? Strange how I didn't hear many people complaining about the film adaptions of LotR or The Hobbit. The only ones who really did were people who'd hoped that more 'loreish' characters would be included like Tom Bombadil. Original stories weren't the way to go, otherwise Disney wouldn't be panicking like hell that they've managed to destroy a franchise and piss off the hardcore fan base.
Sad thing is the crazy people who actually worry about this don't realize they are the butt of a colossal joke and actually get upset when you try to explain it to them.
What's funny, and I live in the great lakes area is that a few years ago they were going on about how the lakes were going to dry up and the water levels of the lakes had never been so low! They had been lower several times and in some cases for decades. Few years later, you had the same people screaming that it was global warming that caused the lakes to not freeze over - instead of a "stuck" high pressure system. Few years later it was so cold that we still had ice on the lakes in June and July, that was only a couple of years ago.
No, it's people who make generalized comments about a group they don't like that you have to worry about, lumping them together under one label.
Really? So who was leading the charge labeling people nazi's? It wasn't liberals, it wasn't conservatives either, or libertarians. But the plethora if idiots that call themselves progressives. How about the mantra that disagreement is violence/hate speech/etc? Same deal. How about claiming that free speech is violence? Noticing a trend here yet? Like how actual words that "mean bad stuff" are watered down the point that they become useless.
Remember when you could simply use godwins law, when someone idiot started spewing that everyone who disagreed with them was a nazi and worse then hitler? And now those same people use it against anyone that they don't like. Did you miss the progressive feeding frenzy with the kids at the mall, and the idiots using "smiling" and "smirking" as a claim of white supremacy.
It's not liberals or conservatives you have to worry about. It's the progressives, who just like the communists of yesteryear are lining up to redefine words and make sure you're guilty of a hate crime.
The UK Daily Mail, a well-known source of ill-informed and reactionary garbage.
And it's still one of the only sources in both the US and Canada that will cover topics in our own countries that the media(NBC/CBS/ABC/USA Today/Wapo in the US, and CBC, CTV, Global, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star in Canada), refuse to cover for various reasons. Mostly because "it makes illegals look bad" or "somethingsomething dats racist" crap.
I'd love to hear how they could have kept Luke the same as in the original films, explain the time gap, and make him not suck like CGI Yoda did when doing action scenes.
Simple. Give the movie a time-jump with an extended era of peace. You could then weave in multiple plots from multiple books, ranging from the Thrawn trilogy and attempt to restart the empire to Han and Leia's kids becoming force users and being targeted by the empire and resurrected emperor.
Then tidy it all up by creating either animated/live action TV mini-series, or staggered movie releases dealing with each plot line.
Being an old fart, nobody will miss you if you can't post any more.
Well let's be fair. If you have a blue check mark, you're probably pining out to be added to a disability list anyway. At least that old fart, has useful skills they can pass down to another generation.
The biggest problem is that people and towns are cheapskates that only consider the solution until next election and not a solution for 50+ years.
That's not really the problem. The problem is that there's more that can be done for more people with $460k vs $40k to restring a street, especially if the threat of a disaster only happens every 4-10 years. Don't forget that underground utilities have a massive number of other problems like frostlines, trees cracking the casing, weather heave(ground shift from temperature swings) and so on. The costs in these cases come from either the utility or PUC, and are factored over the service period for the lines.
When they restrung my street, it wasn't because of a storm, or anything else. It was because the power lines had been in service since 1890, not even the massive tornado events back in the 1970's required a restring of the lines. In this case the age did, a few years prior they replaced the sewer and waterlines. Not because they weren't working or there were problems, but because when they were put in place they were laid with quality materials. Where cities were using lead pipes still in the 1900's, the town I lived in had voted to go with galvanized pipes which cost around $1/ft more then lead.
Subtropics, tropics or desert huh? Gotta admit, the time I spend in FL and can flip off the winter is great. That transition from damned cold to damned warm though always makes me feel ill for the first couple of days.
I've lived here too long to ever consider going back to true cold. I've felt -76 wind chills and -20's far too many times growing up to last a life time and then some. Cold literally hurts me [nerve necropathy and thyriod issues] and I will NEVER go back to those conditions:(
Worst case I've been in was working in a deployment crew in northern Alberta stringing backup telecom equipment to remote cities and town. We got down to -44C and a steady windchill of -64C, even the computers started having problems especially since the vehicles we worked from weren't retrofitted for winter use, so no insulation those were still being flown out from Ontario. Though, those ass cold nights to make for some great star gazing. Wish I wasn't down in southern ontario for the eclipse last night though, you get enough light pollution just from the general population to wash things out.
Completely clear skies, a tad cold [46F], camera would not pick it up well, but worth the watch. The red part was cool too:)
You're calling 46F cold, that's short sleeves weather. It was -31C(-24F) tonight, with 40% humidity and no cloud cover which made for excellent watching. In this neck of the woods it's almost always overcast in the winter.
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I remind you the NDP Beard led all the polls before the last national election and was clearly going to be the next PM but fucked it up with two months of talking about trans issues rather than the economy and security.
Correction, economy and security. Canada likely wouldn't survive as a nation if the NDP became the leaders. Especially with the complaints of what they're doing now at a provincial level.
Likely just that. If you're in Canada, you can file a complaint to the CCTS over the lack of broadband in your area. The other option is maybe look up a nearby TPIA, then see about setting up an independent ISP buying off of them. One of the jobs I did out in Alberta a few years ago was simply that. A local community(about 500 people), paid an upfront fee got a 3rd party to drop lines, then subcontracted the connection to Telus in their case. Worked out to being roughly the same cost minus the upfront fee about $1500/per-property.
Bingo. They also got slapped by the CRTC several times in the last decade. Two cases that stand out, the first was with GAS(last mile) to DSL customers, and wanting to charge TPIA(third party companies that lease the last mile) 150% tariff rates. Bell and it's buddies(Rogers, Telus, and a couple of others) though they had this in the bag. This led to a stand-off between the CRTC and the Harper Conservatives, along with the minister of industry. With a direct threat that they'd have their mandate for regulation pulled if they sided with Bell and this anti-competitive action. Needless to say the CRTC fell in line with the government.
The second was with Bell's streaming service, where they weren't billing their DSL or cell customers for data being used while watching their own streaming service but billing people who were using netflix(despite netflix having provided caching boxes to bell) for data use, and taking it out of their monthly cap. They got slapped hard for it and got levied with an injunction for anti-competitive practices.
This is more of the same for Bell. The current shitshow is Bell trying to block TPIA's from getting access to fiber links for high speed internet, in some cases like in Oxford and Middlesex counties(Ontario), they've acted in a manner to block TPIA's from laying their own fiber - with the CRTC having to step in. This is after Bell saying they had "no interest" in laying fiber to remote communities in the heaviest populated part of Canada(Windsor to Montreal, QC corridor)
Not from on-going monitoring, from prior user-submitted complaints. Maybe they have been banned or asked to delete tweets before, that kind of thing.
Why don't you go look through some of the people who threatened/demanded/doxed the Covington kids. Many of them have very long histories of abusive actions(open threats, doxing, harassment, stalking, etc) of other people, that have been reported to twitter and twitter has done nothing. The sad fact is you can without much trouble find user reports against those accounts where twitter "didn't find any ToS violations." All it really says is that the people who investigate these abusive cases are perfectly fine with some types of abuse if they're 'against the right kind ideological enemies.' The current game of TERF vs non-TERF is a good example of this if you want to see it in action.
But one only has to take a look over the last 4 years to see what's happened. If you don't fall in line with the current progressive groupthink, twitter will come after your account for the smallest infraction. Even if you're directly quoting some progressive threatening, harassing and/or doxing someone. But leave the original tweets up.
Can I put you in touch with Fastnal? Cause our company uses those tiny ass-as-shit screws that are used in cellphones and laptops in our products. They have no problems getting them to either import or doing batch runs of 2000 units, we use one of their local branch offices and have yet to see a delay or missed shipment.
When nuclear is used, the baseload for the design(s) is to hold around 60-70% of all the generation for a specific area. Gen II reactors have a cleanup cost that's high, Gen I are astronomical. The reason those old reactors keep being used is because environuts keep protesting the replacement of aging nuclear plants. See the glorious fuckup that led to in Japan for instance, since replacing PWR designs with Gen III were and are still stuck in the courts. You can see similar circumstances in the US, and you can see the same in Canada for example with the Chalk Lake medical reactor, which was supposed to be shutdown over a decade ago. Court cases tying up the replacement, leading to massive overruns, then nimbys and more environmental bullshit. Now Darlington Nuclear(Toronto) is supplying most of those isotopes and other countries which have nuclear reactors have had to pick up the slack. Europe for example relies now mostly on French reactors for their medical isotopes.
Chalk Lake if you're wondering supplied most of the world's medical isotopes(between 70-80%), for everything from targeted radiation treatments, to short-lived radioactive used for MRI's and CT scans.
Both PV and the high induction motors used in those windmills require rare earths among other materials which is actually far worse for the environment and don't recoup their cost within the lifetime before failure(30 years).
It's kinda like all those people screeching batteries are the future. Seriously if you think that nuclear energy is dirty, it has nothing on either of those. On top of that the Gen III and Gen IV reactors can use multiple forms of fuel in varying quantities to create a stable reaction, unlike Gen I and Gen II which required very specific amounts of uranium and/or plutonium in their fuel rods.
Many jobs are stressful. Most of them don't get the same free pass for killing/harming people as American cops and military do. Nope, not feeling sorry for the cop or empathy for him.
When was the last time you assisted in the arrest in domestic violence case, where one of the parties started attacking you with a knife? 'Cause that's shit happens more often then you think. Or ran into a burning building without respirator gear, or dove off a peer to rescue a kid drowning.
Sorry, the stress that you actively face as a cop is different then having a rack of servers going down. Sure you're more likely to be killed if you're working on a fishing boat, or as a logger. But you're not expected to put your life on the line to do your job, you can refuse. You don't get that option as a cop.
The US has it's own problems regarding policing, and it has more to do with it's organizational structure then anything else. If you really want to change how the police are, go be one and work from the bottom up. This isn't even getting into the various things that say the black communities(and their leaders) demanded from governments and police to deal with crime, drugs, and so on. That they now blame on the police.
These little psychos need to be very publicly judged.
No, they need to be judged by their peers. Nothing more, nothing less. Otherwise you see the same lying bullshit and witch hunting as what went on with the high schoolers from Covington. Trials by mobs have no place in a democracy, nor do kangaroo courts.
China decided to make it into a political one, when they started pushing the "Canada is full of white supremacists" as the reasoning for the arrest of the executive. Likely the only reason Trudeau has kept his mouth shut is because everytime in the last 3 years he's opened it on any case, he's managed to piss everyone off. And we're 9mo or less out from a federal election - with the Liberal Party(Trudeau) polling at 3rd place, and him having a popularity of under 30%
I read the document. Stone isn't in a real good place, no matter what the kooks think.
Why not go compare the exec trials from enron? Give you a hint though, it's similar. And they were thrown out as well.
The evidence of the text and emails he made are right there in the indictment. The evidence will be easy for any jury or judge to understand. He's toast. It's kind of pathetic to rationalise this away and yet...
Nope, that's not what the docket says. The docket states that his previous testimony didn't match a previous statement based on a text message. Said message was over 2 years old, and they went back fishing because he used the wrong wording.
It's rather sad that you don't realize that this is the same stunt the Muller has pulled in the past, and has had dozens of cases overturned because of it. Those were all 'process crimes' aka testimony not matching the exact phrasing.
Except there is evidence right there in the indictment to support the charges. If you bothered to read it that is.
Except there isn't, if you bothered to read it. Since it relies on the testimony of another person who lied through their teeth so badly that they can't even be considered a witness now.
But let's shake this out so everyone gets it:
Stone voluntarily makes statements to the FBI.
Stone voluntarily surrendered his passport and ageed to various restrictions that haven't been broken. And is effectively a zero flight risk.
The entire case boils down to 'process crimes' which effectively amount to railroading a person because what they said didn't match exactly what they said previously(which is what the docket says).
FBI engages in pre-dawn no-nock raid with 30+ armed agents in full tactical gear(now ask yourself why).
He's been released on 250k bail, and the original sureties still stand that he hasn't broken.
Is that making any sense to anyone?
Now add in some of the other stuff like refusal to disclose a full defense to other individuals as required as law. Or that Muller and his cadre of lawyers some of which are known, have repeatedly fallen back to this tactic when they can't actually find anything to nail a person with. And this was the same method that was used in the Enron case...where nearly everyone got off free, because the courts found those actions(the same as these) a gross violation of civil and legal rights and protections.
Yeah good times or something.
Sure thing, that's what they keep telling everyone. Of course if they were really serious, they'd be pushing to modernize parts of the world where slash & burn farming is still the norm.
So...what's wrong with that again? Strange how I didn't hear many people complaining about the film adaptions of LotR or The Hobbit. The only ones who really did were people who'd hoped that more 'loreish' characters would be included like Tom Bombadil. Original stories weren't the way to go, otherwise Disney wouldn't be panicking like hell that they've managed to destroy a franchise and piss off the hardcore fan base.
Sad thing is the crazy people who actually worry about this don't realize they are the butt of a colossal joke and actually get upset when you try to explain it to them.
What's funny, and I live in the great lakes area is that a few years ago they were going on about how the lakes were going to dry up and the water levels of the lakes had never been so low! They had been lower several times and in some cases for decades. Few years later, you had the same people screaming that it was global warming that caused the lakes to not freeze over - instead of a "stuck" high pressure system. Few years later it was so cold that we still had ice on the lakes in June and July, that was only a couple of years ago.
No, it's people who make generalized comments about a group they don't like that you have to worry about, lumping them together under one label.
Really? So who was leading the charge labeling people nazi's? It wasn't liberals, it wasn't conservatives either, or libertarians. But the plethora if idiots that call themselves progressives. How about the mantra that disagreement is violence/hate speech/etc? Same deal. How about claiming that free speech is violence? Noticing a trend here yet? Like how actual words that "mean bad stuff" are watered down the point that they become useless.
Remember when you could simply use godwins law, when someone idiot started spewing that everyone who disagreed with them was a nazi and worse then hitler? And now those same people use it against anyone that they don't like. Did you miss the progressive feeding frenzy with the kids at the mall, and the idiots using "smiling" and "smirking" as a claim of white supremacy.
It's not liberals or conservatives you have to worry about. It's the progressives, who just like the communists of yesteryear are lining up to redefine words and make sure you're guilty of a hate crime.
The UK Daily Mail, a well-known source of ill-informed and reactionary garbage.
And it's still one of the only sources in both the US and Canada that will cover topics in our own countries that the media(NBC/CBS/ABC/USA Today/Wapo in the US, and CBC, CTV, Global, Globe and Mail, Toronto Star in Canada), refuse to cover for various reasons. Mostly because "it makes illegals look bad" or "somethingsomething dats racist" crap.
I'd love to hear how they could have kept Luke the same as in the original films, explain the time gap, and make him not suck like CGI Yoda did when doing action scenes.
Simple. Give the movie a time-jump with an extended era of peace. You could then weave in multiple plots from multiple books, ranging from the Thrawn trilogy and attempt to restart the empire to Han and Leia's kids becoming force users and being targeted by the empire and resurrected emperor.
Then tidy it all up by creating either animated/live action TV mini-series, or staggered movie releases dealing with each plot line.
Being an old fart, nobody will miss you if you can't post any more.
Well let's be fair. If you have a blue check mark, you're probably pining out to be added to a disability list anyway. At least that old fart, has useful skills they can pass down to another generation.
The biggest problem is that people and towns are cheapskates that only consider the solution until next election and not a solution for 50+ years.
That's not really the problem. The problem is that there's more that can be done for more people with $460k vs $40k to restring a street, especially if the threat of a disaster only happens every 4-10 years. Don't forget that underground utilities have a massive number of other problems like frostlines, trees cracking the casing, weather heave(ground shift from temperature swings) and so on. The costs in these cases come from either the utility or PUC, and are factored over the service period for the lines.
When they restrung my street, it wasn't because of a storm, or anything else. It was because the power lines had been in service since 1890, not even the massive tornado events back in the 1970's required a restring of the lines. In this case the age did, a few years prior they replaced the sewer and waterlines. Not because they weren't working or there were problems, but because when they were put in place they were laid with quality materials. Where cities were using lead pipes still in the 1900's, the town I lived in had voted to go with galvanized pipes which cost around $1/ft more then lead.
In that case let's roll with: California. Where they can find the money to give free shit to illegals, but not controlled burns that kill people.
Down here 60 is winter coat weather lol.
Subtropics, tropics or desert huh? Gotta admit, the time I spend in FL and can flip off the winter is great. That transition from damned cold to damned warm though always makes me feel ill for the first couple of days.
I've lived here too long to ever consider going back to true cold. I've felt -76 wind chills and -20's far too many times growing up to last a life time and then some. Cold literally hurts me [nerve necropathy and thyriod issues] and I will NEVER go back to those conditions :(
Worst case I've been in was working in a deployment crew in northern Alberta stringing backup telecom equipment to remote cities and town. We got down to -44C and a steady windchill of -64C, even the computers started having problems especially since the vehicles we worked from weren't retrofitted for winter use, so no insulation those were still being flown out from Ontario. Though, those ass cold nights to make for some great star gazing. Wish I wasn't down in southern ontario for the eclipse last night though, you get enough light pollution just from the general population to wash things out.
Completely clear skies, a tad cold [46F], camera would not pick it up well, but worth the watch. The red part was cool too :)
You're calling 46F cold, that's short sleeves weather. It was -31C(-24F) tonight, with 40% humidity and no cloud cover which made for excellent watching. In this neck of the woods it's almost always overcast in the winter.