Considering what's coming out in the papers I think the first thing should be is to publish the finances of the politicians and make sure that they are paying their "fair share" of taxes. The companies are doing what they are legally allowed to do. They have to minimize the tax they pay or else the shareholders will either sue or have the members of the board removed. While we may not like it and think that they should be paying more taxes the solution to the problem is for the politicians is to change tax law so that the ways to write off expenses are no longer valid.
Of course by closing the offshore tax havens then the politicians would have to pay more tax themselves and they wouldn't want that.
Especially when you have to wait for the SMS to show up. It's not guaranteed to be instantaneous. Your carrier could be busy.
What happens if you are someplace where the reception sucks and you can't get your SMS right away? Are they going to offer you an alternative way to log in? I'm only wondering because some applications and sites that currently use Facebook for access don't let you sign up/in with another method. Since I don't want Facebook tracking me I avoid those sites.
Jeez, just use an offline password manager and then all you need to do is have to remember one strong password.
Two people who have never stepped inside a data centre in their life!
So in order to work on a computer you have to bring a whole pod down which would disconnect everything in that pad. F*cking brilliant. Or do all the cables follow it down while you work on whatever computers are in that pod?
Maybe they also designed the first generation of HP blades where you had to bring the whole rack down in order to work on the power supplies. God I hated those things after working on the IBM blades where if you had to change a power supply you hot swapped it assuming you had enough power to run the blades.
It's not really a method to determine if you are at fault for an accident. They just want more of peoples data.
There's no way to tell if the message I sent was created by me dictating the message or by me typing the message in. Or I could have been distracted by a message coming in by looking at it on the lock screen. It would show up as unread on the system even though I've seen it.
It doesn't say licensing, it says operating a motor vehicle. So someone from Canada driving through the state has given their implicit consent according to this law.
It seems like if you want to protect your privacy you have to read through every law of every country/state/province/county that you intend to pass through just in case you might run into trouble.
Yes, because taxi drivers have never assaulted a customer. We only hear about the ride sharing drivers assaulting their customers because it's a fairly new service.
We need a better way to get the bad drivers out of the industry whether they are driving a taxi or for a ride sharing service. What we don't need is a service specifically for woman, another specifically for the LGBT community, another for Muslims,... because then we'll never ride to show up conveniently as any drivers will be so spread out.
Cats and collisions with buildings kill magnitudes more birds than windmills ever will. Just this weekend one walkway between two buildings in my city killed over 30 birds. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... But lets stop building windmills that kill many fewer birds.
There's no way the third country is going to have low electricity rates. Nuclear power plants may be able to produce power cheaply after they are built but they are massively expensive to build. About four or five years ago the Ontario government put out a proposal to build a couple of reactors and the lowest bid was $13B per reactor. You either pay that back through higher taxes or higher electricity rates (depending on where you are).
Plus it takes a long time to build reactors even if you ignore all of the planning processes. You can have solar farms and wind farms up and running, at least partially, within the first year after getting permission to build. Large dams take a long time to build and geothermal plants are in the short to medium term depending on the scale.
Also, not that I'm advocating the higher prices but if they were to increase then the demand would go down a bit so their carbon footprint would be less than half because they could cut back the production at the coal plants.
It's not whether or not a process takes more energy to extract the oil from the ground than what can be recovered it's whether or not money can be made by doing it. I don't know the numbers but I'd be interested in seeing if we actually get more energy from the gasoline from tar sands. A lot of energy is used to get it out of the sands, then to refine the oil, and all of the transportation.
Fuel is a convenient way of moving energy from one area to another. It's energy dense and fairly safe when handled properly. Until we have another method that is as easy to use and provides the same distance on a charge/refill then we'll probably be stuck with fossil fuels.
Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia power production companies might have something to say about that. Hydro Ottawa has a dam that is on the Ottawa River that is meant to run all of the time to provide base load power. There are tunnels drawing water off of Niagara Falls in order to generate electricity constantly.
When people spend billions of dollars to build these huge dams they are not there to provide peak power. They need to be run as much as possible in order to get the investment back.
I wouldn't lump New Zealand in there with Australia. Australia is much worse than NZ in many things political and until recently it was a probably only a bit worse than Canada. For Internet surveillance Australia is worse, losing rights might be a tie, and on the environment Canada is worse. Now that Harper is out things might change for the better but it's not going to become a paradise. The Liberal party that came into power is keeping most of the new powers that the old Harper government brought in to fight terror with Bill C-51. I'd be very surprised if the government doesn't sign the TPP. The environment will get better but it's hard to do worse when your last Prime Minister made Tony Abbott look good.
I've thought about moving to New Zealand but it's very hard (impossible?) to do after 40 and it is a very expensive place to live.
From the control room, "Hey Steve, check out the third guy in line with the blue t-shirt. He's blinking a heck of a lot. Must be nervous about something. Make sure you select him for advanced screening."
Yes, but if I was going to go after a particular business/office I'd have a bunch of cheap ones made up with some custom vendor that might sell something to them and mail it to them with the company's compliments to give out to everyone.
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Wouldn't it just be simpler to pass a law requiring all terrorists to report what they are going to do 24 or 48 hours before they do it?
Considering what's coming out in the papers I think the first thing should be is to publish the finances of the politicians and make sure that they are paying their "fair share" of taxes. The companies are doing what they are legally allowed to do. They have to minimize the tax they pay or else the shareholders will either sue or have the members of the board removed. While we may not like it and think that they should be paying more taxes the solution to the problem is for the politicians is to change tax law so that the ways to write off expenses are no longer valid.
Of course by closing the offshore tax havens then the politicians would have to pay more tax themselves and they wouldn't want that.
Especially when you have to wait for the SMS to show up. It's not guaranteed to be instantaneous. Your carrier could be busy.
What happens if you are someplace where the reception sucks and you can't get your SMS right away? Are they going to offer you an alternative way to log in? I'm only wondering because some applications and sites that currently use Facebook for access don't let you sign up/in with another method. Since I don't want Facebook tracking me I avoid those sites.
Jeez, just use an offline password manager and then all you need to do is have to remember one strong password.
Two people who have never stepped inside a data centre in their life!
So in order to work on a computer you have to bring a whole pod down which would disconnect everything in that pad. F*cking brilliant. Or do all the cables follow it down while you work on whatever computers are in that pod?
Maybe they also designed the first generation of HP blades where you had to bring the whole rack down in order to work on the power supplies. God I hated those things after working on the IBM blades where if you had to change a power supply you hot swapped it assuming you had enough power to run the blades.
It's not really a method to determine if you are at fault for an accident. They just want more of peoples data.
There's no way to tell if the message I sent was created by me dictating the message or by me typing the message in. Or I could have been distracted by a message coming in by looking at it on the lock screen. It would show up as unread on the system even though I've seen it.
It doesn't say licensing, it says operating a motor vehicle. So someone from Canada driving through the state has given their implicit consent according to this law.
It seems like if you want to protect your privacy you have to read through every law of every country/state/province/county that you intend to pass through just in case you might run into trouble.
Or go find some independent artists and listen to some truly talented musicians.
Yes, because taxi drivers have never assaulted a customer. We only hear about the ride sharing drivers assaulting their customers because it's a fairly new service.
We need a better way to get the bad drivers out of the industry whether they are driving a taxi or for a ride sharing service. What we don't need is a service specifically for woman, another specifically for the LGBT community, another for Muslims, ... because then we'll never ride to show up conveniently as any drivers will be so spread out.
640k laws ought to be enough for anybody
I hope you mean dipping it in artificial pancake syrup because as a Canadian I find the waste of real maple syrup to be appalling.
You could use duct tape or aluminum tape. Or don't get a black laptop.
with Facebooks real name policy. /s
Cats and collisions with buildings kill magnitudes more birds than windmills ever will. Just this weekend one walkway between two buildings in my city killed over 30 birds. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... But lets stop building windmills that kill many fewer birds.
There's no way the third country is going to have low electricity rates. Nuclear power plants may be able to produce power cheaply after they are built but they are massively expensive to build. About four or five years ago the Ontario government put out a proposal to build a couple of reactors and the lowest bid was $13B per reactor. You either pay that back through higher taxes or higher electricity rates (depending on where you are).
Plus it takes a long time to build reactors even if you ignore all of the planning processes. You can have solar farms and wind farms up and running, at least partially, within the first year after getting permission to build. Large dams take a long time to build and geothermal plants are in the short to medium term depending on the scale.
Also, not that I'm advocating the higher prices but if they were to increase then the demand would go down a bit so their carbon footprint would be less than half because they could cut back the production at the coal plants.
It's not whether or not a process takes more energy to extract the oil from the ground than what can be recovered it's whether or not money can be made by doing it. I don't know the numbers but I'd be interested in seeing if we actually get more energy from the gasoline from tar sands. A lot of energy is used to get it out of the sands, then to refine the oil, and all of the transportation.
Fuel is a convenient way of moving energy from one area to another. It's energy dense and fairly safe when handled properly. Until we have another method that is as easy to use and provides the same distance on a charge/refill then we'll probably be stuck with fossil fuels.
Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia power production companies might have something to say about that. Hydro Ottawa has a dam that is on the Ottawa River that is meant to run all of the time to provide base load power. There are tunnels drawing water off of Niagara Falls in order to generate electricity constantly.
When people spend billions of dollars to build these huge dams they are not there to provide peak power. They need to be run as much as possible in order to get the investment back.
No they aren't. Many people said the same thing if Bush won the second time or if Obama won either time and they are still living in the US.
I wouldn't lump New Zealand in there with Australia. Australia is much worse than NZ in many things political and until recently it was a probably only a bit worse than Canada. For Internet surveillance Australia is worse, losing rights might be a tie, and on the environment Canada is worse. Now that Harper is out things might change for the better but it's not going to become a paradise. The Liberal party that came into power is keeping most of the new powers that the old Harper government brought in to fight terror with Bill C-51. I'd be very surprised if the government doesn't sign the TPP. The environment will get better but it's hard to do worse when your last Prime Minister made Tony Abbott look good.
I've thought about moving to New Zealand but it's very hard (impossible?) to do after 40 and it is a very expensive place to live.
Ottawa has a fair bit of tech work. There's a decent hub in Kitchener-Waterloo.
From the control room, "Hey Steve, check out the third guy in line with the blue t-shirt. He's blinking a heck of a lot. Must be nervous about something. Make sure you select him for advanced screening."
Twins or triplets?
You're getting a 20 week vacation from them talking about their new child. Enjoy it while it lasts!
Yes, but if I was going to go after a particular business/office I'd have a bunch of cheap ones made up with some custom vendor that might sell something to them and mail it to them with the company's compliments to give out to everyone.
IBM had a chassis to hold 14 blades. Probably too heavy to shave with but damn fine computers.
So it suits the company perfectly then.