Going through BC would be shorter, but there's that little matter of the Rocky Mountains in the way. The route to Hudson's Bay is flat and easier to build through.
If you want to look beyond oil I would like to see you use more of that uranium you have around Great Slave Lake. Send that directly to Asia too, where they will be only too happy to use it.
I hope Canada makes a huge deal with China to ship their oil through Hudson's Bay. The union folks who once supported Obama will be mightily impressed by the number of tankers taking it straight to Asia.
Rail-shpping crude is dangerous and will add about $5/bbl to the cost of Canadian oil, but let's see what rail shipment of that oil looks like. If there are derailments we'll lose a town here and a town here, but let's hope that burns will at least be covered by Obamacare..
We have grown used to using Google to search everything on the Web. If we suddenly are no longer able to google one particular kind of content, someone will offer their own search engine, supported by specialized advertising, for it. Economics will dictate that specialized search engines will not try to compete with Google in general search, so in a fairly short time I can see "googling" be replaced by use of a number of search engines for different kinds of activity. An unintended consequence may be that the half-mystical "deep Web" that Google cannot access will become just another specialized search arena, equal to all the others.
You young whippersnappers have so little appreciation for the value of technology. At the pharmacy, I can do a tap-the-terminal NFC payment faster than you can use cash, and with no annoying change to carry around. It navigates me to the early bird special at the diner. It remembers every doctor in town for me. I can make the print in the Kindle app as large as I need when I'm reading books. It can track annuities of any complexity the brokerage can throw at me. It schedules my HOA meetings and lets me get high-res video of the kids on my lawn.
Despite all my dating in Japan, it happened that my eventual wife came from a totally unexpected third country. The universe has a habit of doing the unexpected.
The same is true in any large city, even in a sunny place, compared to the desert. Are the people of Los Angeles depressed because their skies are whiter than Arizona's?
Don't forget that the whole idea of setting species against species came from the mind of famed Earth-raping corporate apologist Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring.
But he speaks the truth, for this is a much-commented on phenomenon. Look through some profiles. How many men put a height requirement in their profiles? Now look at how many women.
My own solution to this problem was a radical one, and is not for everybody, but it definitely worked: move to Japan.
"My advice is to find a really good partner when you're in college, and don't graduate until you do"
Wrong, wrong, wrong! This may have worked in the past, but today's campuses have become hothouses of bizarre academic hothouse culture that excludes engineering types more firmly than it ever did before. The moment you step out of the STEM cultural ghetto into any part of campus where women are to be found, your every dating attempt will be interpreted as rape and you will constantly be pestered to 'check your privilege', whatever that means.
The good news is that you will graduate into a public culture that is more nerd-friendly than it ever was before. Be that guy who helps the women at work with their computers. Join clubs and organizations that interest you. Offer to edit the newsletter, keep track of membership or run the website, and that's when you will meet women in quantity. Real women, who share your interests and who you can possibly stay with.
Not by itself, but the value of the ISS is in finding out how long-term exposure to microgravity affects humans doing everyday tasks. When we do apply humans in high-value space activities, this knowledge will be vital.
Gold was ancestrally popular because each country could print no money exceeding its share of the world's gold (and in early times had to actually circulate bullion coins as money), and the supply of gold increased at a modest amount each year that roughly matched the total value of fungible goods and services in each country. This meant that an ounce of gold traded for about the same quantity of goods century in and century out, with no inflation or deflation.
Then the industrial revolution dramatically increased the rate at which a country's fungible goods and services grew each year. Gold production increased slightly too with better mining methods, but not by enough to allow money to increase at a fast enough rate to remain a neutral medium of exchange. That meant that in technology-driven societies gold keeps increasing in "value" every year compared to goods and services, causing people to hoard it out of circulation compared to any money whose supply is less limited. So central banks developed, which attempt to maintain neutral currencies by continually checking to see how goods and services are changing each year, and adjusting the money supply to match.
Central banks vary a lot in how well they do at keeping the money supply trimmed to match its country's goods and services. Some ratings are: excellent - Switzerland; fairly good - US, poor - Greece and Argentina.
The experiment ended one morning when the HARES mouse cage was found empty, with a note neatly printed in Comic Sans:
As socially enlightened rodents we have decided to quit this stupid study and accept Salon's offer of a columnist position, which we will fill cooperatively.
For the same reason that it wouldn't work in Argentina. Any successful cryptocurrency gets its tradable value from the perception that the money supply is strictly limited, as in the days when currencies were based on the issuing country's gold reserve. For a cryptocurrencies,money supply is limited by some publicly available and testable mathematical formula.
For any government whose dreams exceed its revenue, this means instant and long-lasting austerity. It would be like the Euro, but even stricter.
On the whole range of technology issues, the Greatest Generation Democrats of JFK's day were totally unlike today's Marin County Mothers Against Everything. Apollo was thought of as the crowning achievement of the New Deal, right up there with Atoms for Peace and the Green Revolution (the kind that meant high-tech agriculture).
This year's Republican budget would cut NASA by $300 million over last year, not large in proportion to its funding, as part of an overall attempt to slow down the crazy federal spending of the last few years. It is the Greens who have longer-term plans for, basically, eliminating manned programs entirely:
"The Green Party advocates a reduction of human-staffed space flight due to the high cost and risk for human life and the availability of automated technology that can perform necessary functions in space-based research." This stance is in line with the general attitude of such people to any technology above stone axes.
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Going through BC would be shorter, but there's that little matter of the Rocky Mountains in the way. The route to Hudson's Bay is flat and easier to build through.
If you want to look beyond oil I would like to see you use more of that uranium you have around Great Slave Lake. Send that directly to Asia too, where they will be only too happy to use it.
I hope Canada makes a huge deal with China to ship their oil through Hudson's Bay. The union folks who once supported Obama will be mightily impressed by the number of tankers taking it straight to Asia.
Rail-shpping crude is dangerous and will add about $5/bbl to the cost of Canadian oil, but let's see what rail shipment of that oil looks like. If there are derailments we'll lose a town here and a town here, but let's hope that burns will at least be covered by Obamacare..
This story is about blog posts. But the obvious fear is that this policy will spread to general search results on Google.
We have grown used to using Google to search everything on the Web. If we suddenly are no longer able to google one particular kind of content, someone will offer their own search engine, supported by specialized advertising, for it. Economics will dictate that specialized search engines will not try to compete with Google in general search, so in a fairly short time I can see "googling" be replaced by use of a number of search engines for different kinds of activity. An unintended consequence may be that the half-mystical "deep Web" that Google cannot access will become just another specialized search arena, equal to all the others.
One word: metoprolol. The downside is that you might start falling asleep in meetings.
ALL stutterers can sing without showing the trait.
You young whippersnappers have so little appreciation for the value of technology. At the pharmacy, I can do a tap-the-terminal NFC payment faster than you can use cash, and with no annoying change to carry around. It navigates me to the early bird special at the diner. It remembers every doctor in town for me. I can make the print in the Kindle app as large as I need when I'm reading books. It can track annuities of any complexity the brokerage can throw at me. It schedules my HOA meetings and lets me get high-res video of the kids on my lawn.
That's why if you go anywhere in Europe, all you see a depopulated wasteland. They have been using NFC/EMV terminals for years.
Despite all my dating in Japan, it happened that my eventual wife came from a totally unexpected third country. The universe has a habit of doing the unexpected.
The same is true in any large city, even in a sunny place, compared to the desert. Are the people of Los Angeles depressed because their skies are whiter than Arizona's?
Don't forget that the whole idea of setting species against species came from the mind of famed Earth-raping corporate apologist Rachel Carson, in Silent Spring.
Whitewash the whole built environment, like Greek villages? Albedo hackers, meet the solar panel supporters. Popcorn!
But he speaks the truth, for this is a much-commented on phenomenon. Look through some profiles. How many men put a height requirement in their profiles? Now look at how many women.
My own solution to this problem was a radical one, and is not for everybody, but it definitely worked: move to Japan.
"My advice is to find a really good partner when you're in college, and don't graduate until you do"
Wrong, wrong, wrong! This may have worked in the past, but today's campuses have become hothouses of bizarre academic hothouse culture that excludes engineering types more firmly than it ever did before. The moment you step out of the STEM cultural ghetto into any part of campus where women are to be found, your every dating attempt will be interpreted as rape and you will constantly be pestered to 'check your privilege', whatever that means.
The good news is that you will graduate into a public culture that is more nerd-friendly than it ever was before. Be that guy who helps the women at work with their computers. Join clubs and organizations that interest you. Offer to edit the newsletter, keep track of membership or run the website, and that's when you will meet women in quantity. Real women, who share your interests and who you can possibly stay with.
Not by itself, but the value of the ISS is in finding out how long-term exposure to microgravity affects humans doing everyday tasks. When we do apply humans in high-value space activities, this knowledge will be vital.
Gold was ancestrally popular because each country could print no money exceeding its share of the world's gold (and in early times had to actually circulate bullion coins as money), and the supply of gold increased at a modest amount each year that roughly matched the total value of fungible goods and services in each country. This meant that an ounce of gold traded for about the same quantity of goods century in and century out, with no inflation or deflation.
Then the industrial revolution dramatically increased the rate at which a country's fungible goods and services grew each year. Gold production increased slightly too with better mining methods, but not by enough to allow money to increase at a fast enough rate to remain a neutral medium of exchange. That meant that in technology-driven societies gold keeps increasing in "value" every year compared to goods and services, causing people to hoard it out of circulation compared to any money whose supply is less limited. So central banks developed, which attempt to maintain neutral currencies by continually checking to see how goods and services are changing each year, and adjusting the money supply to match.
Central banks vary a lot in how well they do at keeping the money supply trimmed to match its country's goods and services. Some ratings are: excellent - Switzerland; fairly good - US, poor - Greece and Argentina.
The experiment ended one morning when the HARES mouse cage was found empty, with a note neatly printed in Comic Sans:
As socially enlightened rodents we have decided to quit this stupid study and accept Salon's offer of a columnist position, which we will fill cooperatively.
Yours in solidarity,
-Algie
For the same reason that it wouldn't work in Argentina. Any successful cryptocurrency gets its tradable value from the perception that the money supply is strictly limited, as in the days when currencies were based on the issuing country's gold reserve. For a cryptocurrencies,money supply is limited by some publicly available and testable mathematical formula.
For any government whose dreams exceed its revenue, this means instant and long-lasting austerity. It would be like the Euro, but even stricter.
Of one of those mall cop Segways newly equipped with ordnance mount points.
On the whole range of technology issues, the Greatest Generation Democrats of JFK's day were totally unlike today's Marin County Mothers Against Everything. Apollo was thought of as the crowning achievement of the New Deal, right up there with Atoms for Peace and the Green Revolution (the kind that meant high-tech agriculture).
This year's Republican budget would cut NASA by $300 million over last year, not large in proportion to its funding, as part of an overall attempt to slow down the crazy federal spending of the last few years. It is the Greens who have longer-term plans for, basically, eliminating manned programs entirely:
"The Green Party advocates a reduction of human-staffed space flight due to the high cost and risk for human life and the availability of automated technology that can perform necessary functions in space-based research." This stance is in line with the general attitude of such people to any technology above stone axes.
--Platform, Green Party
We could get along without square tomatoes, but THIS is the reason we need GMO.
...For the same reason that South Africans don't: because the odds of being T-boned are somewhat less than the odds of being shot.