Vancouver. where you get to enjoy that miserable drizzle and lousy weather! no wonder it has one of the highest suicide rates in Canada!:)
I've never heard of a high suicide rate here (although we do have a few teenagers each year kill themselves over bullying). Lethbridge Alberta has a fairly high suicide rate in the winter among univeristy students, as UofL is entirely connected via underground tunnels, so you can spend an entire semester without going outside. Ugh! (<PLUG>See the film "waydowntown" for a similar theme</PLUG>)
Re drugs, also note that the Canadian Supreme Court last year ruled that cannabis (marijuana) must be made available to those who have been deemed to need it for medicinal purposes. There are now contracts in the praries for marijuana farms.:)
What right does the government have to infringe on the rights of private corporations?
Nothing else is large enough to be able to stop corporations. Indeed, national governments are not large enough, as transnationals now wield more power, and are able to crush whole economies at their whim by moving factories and other plants, or by pulling out investment at key times, triggering currency collapses (witness the Asian currency crisis of 1998).
The government is you. If you don't like the government, get involved and make it how you want it to be. Obviously you cannot do a lot on your own, but it's a damn sight better than doing nothing. Government corruption is a clear sign of citizen apathy - in every nation where participation is higher, the quality of governance improves.
Canada's consistently been rated the best country in the world to live in, based on quality of life, health, citizen involvement, etc. In fact, Vancouver, my city (which has a pretty good high-tech scene to boot), is the #2 city, after Geneva.
If I left Vancouver, it is highly unlikely I'd move to the US. I'd probably make a break for Copenhagen, London, or Hamburg instead.. those Europeans are much more enlightened in the ways of what Truly Matters in Life than us North Americans.
The problem is arising quite simply because the polls close in the eastern provinces a few hours before they close in the west, and the ratings-hungry media insist on publishing the polling data as soon as some polls are closed.
Because there's a 4.5 hour time difference between east and west, it isn't necessarily realistic to expect all the polls to close at once. However, it would be quite simple to prevent the media from publishing *any* polling results until all the polls across the country were closed. We are ending up in a mess because local media in the east is reporting results, but national broadcast of this data is prohibited - obviously difficult to enforce, and also considered censorship, curtailment of liberty, yadda yadda.
So, Elections Canada should simply not release any data regarding the vote count until all the polls are closed. However, the media will still want to use exit polling data in their broadcasts - since this also pretty much counts as "polling results", these should not be published either - but then we get into the same censorship issue.
So, we're back to the tradeoffs between individual liberty and the good of the society as a whole...
The science fiction "Trigon Disunity Trilogy" (Emprise, Enigma, Empery, by Michael P. Kube-McDowell) has an interesting drive mechanism: projected gravity wells.
In effect, drives at both the front and rear of the cylindrically-shaped craft project gravity wells in front and behind the craft - a positive well in front and a negative one behind. In effect, the craft ends up on a steep slope, constantly falling downhill. To the passengers, the front of the craft is "down", and the rear is up - so one travels to the destination feet-first. To decelerate, the slope is reversed (gradually), and the craft flips around so the passengers don't fall on their heads!
It's been some years since I read the series but it presents an interesting perspective on early 21st century space development, and the 1000 years of human civilization that follows.
Nor do I consider it lefty, as it advocates US protectionism. Any genuine lefty
would not advocate artificially protecting American jobs at the expense of jobs in Third World countries. That is
an ugly and arbitrary promotion of the interests of one nationality at the expense of interests of people outside
that group. Right wing.
"artificially protecting American jobs at the expense of jobs in Third World countries" could merely imply being against free trade agreements such as NAFTA and World Trade Organization principles, which does not imply right-wing. Free trade has done lots of ugly things to first world and third world workers alike.
Moreover, just because something does not fit the traditional mold of "left wing" does not imply that it is "right wing". Politics and principles are not boolean, nor even on a one-dimensional scale: read about the Pournelle Political Axes, and why the traditional "left and right" model is harmful.
But it is my fear, that even geek girl logic is still askewed from geek guy logic!!!!!
Rest assured that geek female logic is much more similar to geek male than regular female is to regular male. Unless she's one of the perverse kind that claims they are a geek but are really just someone doing a geek-like job, but are ickily normal in all other ways.
But it would seem to be better to goto alcohol for legacy vehicle that
are on the road now. Would that not have a better effect in the short term than slowly selling electric vehicles. Henry Ford
himself wanted to use alcohol. Would help farmers.
Alcohol could be used on existing vehicles with some engine modification. As for some of the reasons why alcohol was not used originally (especially as a fuel additive, when it looked like petroleum was the way to go for the primary fuel source), read here about the secret move to get lead used instead.
I'm in the SOHO router business myself, so a lot
of what I've been doing lately is keeping tabs on
the competition. One of the best centralized information sources on this type of product is at
practicallynetworked.com, with lots of reviews, summaries of features, troubleshooting, etc.
So far there are no products with a 100 Mbps link to the WAN, but as others have pointed out, the 'net will have to get a whole lot faster before it will make any difference to your access speed.
This could make it more difficult for prying eyes (e.g. ISPs, CIA, CSIS, MI6..) to search passing packets for keywords. It wouldn't be secure, but you'd need to look at the entire application layer packet to know it's gzipped, and have enough contextual information to decrypt it properly.
The cool thing about CSS is it lets the author specify fancy layouts, colours etc, but older browsers etc do not rely on them at all - the heirarchical nature of the document remains intact.
If you have to hook a propane tank to a fuel cell, you're probably NOT going to get electricity cheaper than it's sold "on the grid."
You'll be more independent, but you won't want to burn an extra tank to turn natural gas into cash.
Actually, it may still be worthwhile, depending on the value of the electricity in your area. Natural gas yields more energy via a fuel cell (by stripping the hydrogen and then processing that), than by burning, which is how electricity is probably being generated in your area (certainly for California). It would come down to the price spread between what the power companies pay for the natural gas and what they charge for the electricity they generate, and the retail price of natural gas.. YMMV.
> Yes, that's right - open a window once in a while.:)
What about cities where the outdoor air is so polluted (smog, ground level ozone, NOx..) that
as yucky and dusty the indoor air may be, it's still better than the outdoor air?
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I've never heard of a high suicide rate here (although we do have a few teenagers each year kill themselves over bullying). Lethbridge Alberta has a fairly high suicide rate in the winter among univeristy students, as UofL is entirely connected via underground tunnels, so you can spend an entire semester without going outside. Ugh! (<PLUG>See the film "waydowntown" for a similar theme</PLUG>)
Re drugs, also note that the Canadian Supreme Court last year ruled that cannabis (marijuana) must be made available to those who have been deemed to need it for medicinal purposes. There are now contracts in the praries for marijuana farms. :)
Nothing else is large enough to be able to stop corporations. Indeed, national governments are not large enough, as transnationals now wield more power, and are able to crush whole economies at their whim by moving factories and other plants, or by pulling out investment at key times, triggering currency collapses (witness the Asian currency crisis of 1998).
The government is you. If you don't like the government, get involved and make it how you want it to be. Obviously you cannot do a lot on your own, but it's a damn sight better than doing nothing. Government corruption is a clear sign of citizen apathy - in every nation where participation is higher, the quality of governance improves.
Too much effort to get off the couch... let someone else do it.
If I left Vancouver, it is highly unlikely I'd move to the US. I'd probably make a break for Copenhagen, London, or Hamburg instead.. those Europeans are much more enlightened in the ways of what Truly Matters in Life than us North Americans.
Because there's a 4.5 hour time difference between east and west, it isn't necessarily realistic to expect all the polls to close at once. However, it would be quite simple to prevent the media from publishing *any* polling results until all the polls across the country were closed. We are ending up in a mess because local media in the east is reporting results, but national broadcast of this data is prohibited - obviously difficult to enforce, and also considered censorship, curtailment of liberty, yadda yadda.
So, Elections Canada should simply not release any data regarding the vote count until all the polls are closed. However, the media will still want to use exit polling data in their broadcasts - since this also pretty much counts as "polling results", these should not be published either - but then we get into the same censorship issue. So, we're back to the tradeoffs between individual liberty and the good of the society as a whole...
In effect, drives at both the front and rear of the cylindrically-shaped craft project gravity wells in front and behind the craft - a positive well in front and a negative one behind. In effect, the craft ends up on a steep slope, constantly falling downhill. To the passengers, the front of the craft is "down", and the rear is up - so one travels to the destination feet-first. To decelerate, the slope is reversed (gradually), and the craft flips around so the passengers don't fall on their heads!
It's been some years since I read the series but it presents an interesting perspective on early 21st century space development, and the 1000 years of human civilization that follows.
I cannot reach the site from 216.15.foo.bar, either. Maybe they're blocking everyone?
"artificially protecting American jobs at the expense of jobs in Third World countries" could merely imply being against free trade agreements such as NAFTA and World Trade Organization principles, which does not imply right-wing. Free trade has done lots of ugly things to first world and third world workers alike.
Moreover, just because something does not fit the traditional mold of "left wing" does not imply that it is "right wing". Politics and principles are not boolean, nor even on a one-dimensional scale: read about the Pournelle Political Axes, and why the traditional "left and right" model is harmful.
Rest assured that geek female logic is much more similar to geek male than regular female is to regular male. Unless she's one of the perverse kind that claims they are a geek but are really just someone doing a geek-like job, but are ickily normal in all other ways.
Alcohol could be used on existing vehicles with some engine modification. As for some of the reasons why alcohol was not used originally (especially as a fuel additive, when it looked like petroleum was the way to go for the primary fuel source), read here about the secret move to get lead used instead.
So far there are no products with a 100 Mbps link to the WAN, but as others have pointed out, the 'net will have to get a whole lot faster before it will make any difference to your access speed.
This could make it more difficult for prying eyes (e.g. ISPs, CIA, CSIS, MI6..) to search passing packets for keywords. It wouldn't be secure, but you'd need to look at the entire application layer packet to know it's gzipped, and have enough contextual information to decrypt it properly.
password: cypherpunks
I think the NYTimes has made "cypherpunks" permanently unavailable, the jerks.
Writing style sheets
Web Design Group's CSS Guide
ZDNet's CSS primer
W3C's CSS Guide
A full list of CSS properties (cheat sheet!)
The cool thing about CSS is it lets the author specify fancy layouts, colours etc, but older browsers etc do not rely on them at all - the heirarchical nature of the document remains intact.
You'll be more independent, but you won't want to burn an extra tank to turn natural gas into cash.
Actually, it may still be worthwhile, depending on the value of the electricity in your area. Natural gas yields more energy via a fuel cell (by stripping the hydrogen and then processing that), than by burning, which is how electricity is probably being generated in your area (certainly for California). It would come down to the price spread between what the power companies pay for the natural gas and what they charge for the electricity they generate, and the retail price of natural gas.. YMMV.
> Yes, that's right - open a window once in a while. :)
What about cities where the outdoor air is so polluted (smog, ground level ozone, NOx..) that
as yucky and dusty the indoor air may be, it's still better than the outdoor air?