"If deregulation is so bad, then why - more than a decade after it occurred in the UK - do my parents pay a fraction what they used to, and they can't remember when they last had a power outage? Their quarterly electricity bill is less than half my two monthly bill here in Toronto."
There's one little problem with your comparison. Hydro One, the the quasi-crown utility that supplies Ontario with its electrons, has to be one of the worst run utilities in North America. I lived in Ottawa when the Harris government was attempting to sell then Ontario Hydro. It was obvious to me then why they wanted to dump this crown jewel. Not not reap a quick buck, as many suspected, but because the companies debts had at that point exceeded it's net worth! Twenty years of building nuclear power plants, instead of buying cheap and plentiful hydro-electric power from Manitoba and Quebec had left them with a massive infrastructure deficit.
That's why your rates are as high as they are, and partially why you were sitting in the dark last week. Meanwhile, Quebec was completely unaffected, and Manitoba has one of the lowest electricity rates in the world ($0.035/Kwh, IIRC).
I could be completely off on this, it's been a couple of years.
I seem to recall having a conversation in 1998 on exactly this with one of the fellows working for the RCMP Forensic Lab, responsible for identifying guns for the (then) new Canadian Firearms Registration Act. He said they got around this by using muzzle velocity as the determining factor on what constituted a weapon that needs to be registered.
Under the new law, even some air pistols could qualify as a controlled weapon. Unfortunately, the program has been an unmittigated disaster, costing over $1 billion when it was supposed to cost $2 million, and with nearly half of all provincial governments refusing to prosecute "offenders", if you consider Joe Farmer Rifle-owner or Frank Hobbyist a felon. Punk Ass Hot Piece is still out at large, and nothing in the Act will stop him.
Well, this would seem to be a pretty clear reason why Microsoft desperately needs to be split up. It's partners, competitors, whatever you they choose to call them today, can't cooperate with one branch of the beast without pissing off the other. Clearly, the OS arm and the apps arm of Microsoft need to part ways, so that partners can be partners, and competitors can be competitors.
Third: iPhoto is a decent cataloging program, and one designed to be used easily and generate more revenue streams for apple in the form of booklets and print costs. But it looks very polished and useful.
Go figure. It took Apple to make.NET work properly.
Forwarning: I'm working off of high school physics here.
In the NYT article, they mention that it takes a higher energy event to create the muon and tau neutrinos. To quote:
Since the Sun produces only electron neutrinos -- the production of muon and tau neutrinos require higher-energy events, like matter falling into black holes or an exploding star -- that means some of them must change into muon or tau neutrinos.
Presumably (remember, IANAP), that would mean that muon and tau neutrinos are of a higher energy than electron neutrinos. Yet this article says that the sun's electron neutrinos are changing into muon and tau neutrinos. This would mean that they are heading to a higher energy state, thus they are gaining energy in the depths of space!
<Homer>In this house we obey the laws of THEMRODYNAMICS!</Homer>
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There's one little problem with your comparison. Hydro One, the the quasi-crown utility that supplies Ontario with its electrons, has to be one of the worst run utilities in North America. I lived in Ottawa when the Harris government was attempting to sell then Ontario Hydro. It was obvious to me then why they wanted to dump this crown jewel. Not not reap a quick buck, as many suspected, but because the companies debts had at that point exceeded it's net worth! Twenty years of building nuclear power plants, instead of buying cheap and plentiful hydro-electric power from Manitoba and Quebec had left them with a massive infrastructure deficit.
That's why your rates are as high as they are, and partially why you were sitting in the dark last week. Meanwhile, Quebec was completely unaffected, and Manitoba has one of the lowest electricity rates in the world ($0.035/Kwh, IIRC).
You know its coming.
I could be completely off on this, it's been a couple of years.
I seem to recall having a conversation in 1998 on exactly this with one of the fellows working for the RCMP Forensic Lab, responsible for identifying guns for the (then) new Canadian Firearms Registration Act. He said they got around this by using muzzle velocity as the determining factor on what constituted a weapon that needs to be registered.
Under the new law, even some air pistols could qualify as a controlled weapon. Unfortunately, the program has been an unmittigated disaster, costing over $1 billion when it was supposed to cost $2 million, and with nearly half of all provincial governments refusing to prosecute "offenders", if you consider Joe Farmer Rifle-owner or Frank Hobbyist a felon. Punk Ass Hot Piece is still out at large, and nothing in the Act will stop him.
then what the hell is a Ken doll?
Great, now Mattel's gonna SLAPP my ass.
Well, this would seem to be a pretty clear reason why Microsoft desperately needs to be split up. It's partners, competitors, whatever you they choose to call them today, can't cooperate with one branch of the beast without pissing off the other. Clearly, the OS arm and the apps arm of Microsoft need to part ways, so that partners can be partners, and competitors can be competitors.
Go figure. It took Apple to make
Forwarning: I'm working off of high school physics here.
In the NYT article, they mention that it takes a higher energy event to create the muon and tau neutrinos. To quote:
Presumably (remember, IANAP), that would mean that muon and tau neutrinos are of a higher energy than electron neutrinos. Yet this article says that the sun's electron neutrinos are changing into muon and tau neutrinos. This would mean that they are heading to a higher energy state, thus they are gaining energy in the depths of space!<Homer>In this house we obey the laws of THEMRODYNAMICS!</Homer>