This is an actual official transport canada incident investigation report with no spin whatsoever concluding the facts of an actual aviation incident in which people were injured. The timing to coincide with the labour dispute is purely coincidence. The article goes further than that however and quotes how the pilot's union is pushing for better regulations. so basically the Union has grasped on to this report as an excuse to spin for their agenda. As for ""coming close to wildcat strikes" they have actually been ruled by a judge to have already participated in illegal strike action through fake sick calls. so they've already crossed that line. Nothing in this article on the management point of view.
I think you really nailed it in the last line. Sleeping in the cockpit should be illegal. it's just not a good idea. I have no problem with the flight crew taking alternate naps while the other is in control. but don't sleep while at the controls themselves, go somewhere else. Some long haul planes used to have a bunk for that purpose, or even use a different seat (one of the flight attendant ones? or a jump seat? or a spare first class seat? or whatever else, just not one with a yoke in front of it!
I was once forced to take a computer fundamentals course with a similarly ridiculous number of horrid test questions. Some of my favourites: - How many ports are on the back of a computer? (which computer? what peripherals? what level of technology??) - Which of the following is a non-impact printer:
a) dye sublimation
b) laser
c) ink jet
d) dot matrix
e) daisy wheel (only one choice allowed)
Other favoured questions from courses over the years: - in a geography course asking what body of water the mackenzie river flowed in to: a) Pacific Ocean b) Atlantic Ocean c) st lawrence seaway d) Hudson Bay (in fact it is none of those, it's the arctic ocean, when this was brought to the attention of the teacher he informed us it was proof that we couldn't trust teachers (which we knew already) but refused to remove the question from the test)
And many many more questions that I don't remember the exact details of over the years.
ground source heat pumps sound interesting, but I'm unsure on the cost effectiveness of a retrofit. I too have been considering a tankless heater (though in my case venting it will be tricky as they prefer a wall vent for them) One thing my parents did, but I'm not sure on the cost effectiveness, was to re-side the house, with extra insulation between the shell of the house and the new siding. (they practically built a new house around their house) One other one that I wonder about is solarwater heating, I've been told that it is now at the point where it is cost effective, however it certainly isn't intuitive in a northern climate.
Where I live I am not aware of any energy discounts or rebates from the utilities, but rates have steadily increased for quite a while. I have spent a lot of money making my house more energy efficient, everything from upgrading to a high efficiency furnace, adding substantial insulation to my attic, replacing all my single pane leaky drafty windows with double glazed (triple glazed on the big picture window in the front), argon filled, low-e coated ones, replacing every bulb in the house with either CFL or LED, replacing weatherstripping on all the doors, and I'm just starting the process of replacing my appliances with more efficient ones. Turning off my computer at night, moving my server to a VPS... Through all of this, my monthly utility usage has plummeted, but my monthly bills have remained virtually unchanged. I would hate to imagine what would happen if I hadn't been doing all the upgrades!
There are quite a few "dimmable" CFL and LED bulb choices... I have yet to find any that dim the way an incandescent bulb does. they dim from 100% down to about 20%, if you're looking to use the under 20% range, tough luck. (I have 12 dimmable fixtures in my house, and I would love to get them off incandescent... but not until a good replacement appears)
What the lesson should be: - We already have the resources and abilities to tackle real crimes using new technologies. no new laws are required.
What lesson law enforcment/government will likely spin on this one: - Criminals are now using new technologies, we need more draconian laws to allow us to catch every single one of them.
bitcoin may hide the monetary side of things, but ther weren't selling bitdrugs, the real product had to get sent somewhere some how, That was most likely the weak link.
I too am in Calgary, Even at -30, run the glow plugs a couple of times and hold on the starter until it catches, My fiance's gas car, and my company gas work truck can't say the same. (I don't have a webasto, though I have considered it, and although I have a block heater, my trips are usually not planned far enough in advance to make use of it) A healthy diesel will give you some heat even in stop and go traffic, though not as much as a gas vehicle, make sure your thermostat and heater core are in good shape. I do however enjoy my heated seats on those days. On a side note, my father's Volkswagen TDI is also that reliable, and none of these vehicles have been garage parked (my last 2 would never fit)
Of course I've never tried a north american made diesel in those temperatures, so it's likely that just like a lot of the engineering in them, it just isn't up to the german or japanese standards of the vehicles I have experience with. (Mercedes, Volkswagen, and Mitsubishi small diesels)
On the bright side, In Canada it's still fully legal for us to just download whatever we want and watch it (personal use only)(note, the Harper government is working very hard to change the existing law to make this illegal, but it hasn't happened yet). Of course the companies COULD allow us to buy their product and make some money off of us, but they are far too short sighted for that.
I found a few problems here: 1) it fails to search more often than it succeeds, even for movies I know for a fact are available on one of the services it claims to search 2) if it does find something in a general search, it doesn't tell you which of the services it was found on, nor provide a link to go to it 3) I never did manage to get the android app to find any movies at all, and it assumed portrait mode and wouldn't do landscape.
I think the "sports car" bit was about the proposed acceleration after the stop, not the braking before it, which tends to be affected a lot by horsepower and torque, and not so much by ABS
The problem is (from many years observing other drivers on the road) extremely few motorists have even the faintest clue what a yield sign means. Many people think they mean stop, or merge, or nothing at all, but very few people treat them like "yield" We have a lot of very poorly designed entrance ramps around here where they use a yield instead of a merge (because they didn't build a lane long enough to actually merge) the occasional person stops, most people try to merge (much to my chagrin when I'm on the roadway they are illegally "merging" on to and have to stand on the brakes to avoid a collision because they can't accelerate enough to merge properly but try anyway) We also have a yield at a T intersection near my house with excellent visibility and no matter if people are coming or not everybody comes to a full and complete stop, sits for a few moments, and then continues (we can't even get people to do that at actual stop signs!)
I think a more appropriate change that I would love to see, is the ability to treat a red light as a stop sign. I can see no safety reason why one should have to wait for a light to turn green if there is no traffic coming. Come to a full and complete stop, and then proceed if it is safe to do so.
Around here, Police officer noticing you in passing = warning (as long as you are nice), Police officer operating a speed trap = 80-90% chance of a ticket (100% chance if you aren't nice) and Peace officer = ticket every single time (no matter how nice you are)
Unfortunately the "general fund" is very lucrative for the communities, so lucrative in fact that almost every town, village, hamlet, and rural county in my province has created an entire force of officers who's sole jobs are traffic enforcement, in fact they aren't ALLOWED to do any other policing because they aren't actually police officers, just "peace officers" these are towns so small that they do not even have a police department, but they do have 2 "municipal enforcement" officers who have no other role than issuing traffic fines. My problem with this isn't the municipalities increasing law enforcement, it's that they aren't having any effect on real crime because everyone knows that these people aren't allowed to catch real criminals. If you're lucky they'll run the license plate of each person they stop and call the real police if they find an outstanding warrant, however I've talked to a couple of them who say they won't because if they have to wait with the criminal for the real police to show up it takes too much time, time that they could be writing more tickets for other people.
This is such a blatant abuse of this revenue generation system that I feel very strongly that there is a need to change the system so that the local communities can't keep the money. If they want to increase traffic surveillance for safety reasons, they can, but it should never be for revenue generation.
wouldn't that bunch of stuff "gifted to them" include the list of postal codes? As in the ones created before they stopped being an arm of the government?
Is it better to fear that all rocks are actually bears? you'd never accomplish anything. Only by your mind processing what is a bear and what is a rock will you succeed.
I don't believe in "magic" but that doesn't stop me from running the other way first, and then evaluating what danger signal my mind had reacted to once I'm in a safe place. I trust my senses to tell me when there is danger, knowing full well that my senses will sometimes deceive me. Nothing about that makes me believe in magic, it simply means that I can evaluate the risk benefit ratio of reacting to cues I may not have had time to fully process.
Considering that it is likely illegal for a Canadian company to store any confidential client details in an American data centre (due to PATRIOT and other laws that specifically contravene Canadian privacy laws) it's not just a "huge advantage" it's essential.
What many people forget though is that they are always subject to the laws of their own place of residence, in addition to the laws of the location where their servers reside, the location where their DNS is hosted, and the location where their TLD is hosted. Regardless of what you plan to do, you're often best to limit all those things to as few jurisdictions as possible just to try to keep the rules straight, let alone wanting to be at the whims of any ridiculous law passed in any of those jurisdictions.
Hosting your blog against some specific government/religion/ethnic group in a place with actual free speech doesn't help if you yourself still live in a place without free speech.
I'm curious to know what issue they had with Alberta hosting? (speaking as an Albertan) My understanding is that the laws are virtually identical on this stuff between the 2 provinces?
The interest rate was also zero, there was no stock market, or way of investing. Poverty was rampant, and most of what you would buy with your money today simply didn't exist (not that you would likely have had any anyway unless you were of noble birth)
Saying the situation in the middle ages is in any way at all comparable or possible in today's world is a false and dishonest premise with which to start a discussion.
Would you prefer a system where your gradnfather's wealth permitted you to live off it indefinitely without lifting a finger of your own to work? Obviously for you that would be great. But imagine if that was common place for everyone, for the economy as a whole that would be a disaster. In fact that situation would actively cause inflation because it just isn't a sustainable situation. If nobody needs to work (because they already have enough money to be wealthy) then how to you get people to work?
Actually, this does not appear to be the case, they talk specifically about anonymous. Which means that they can not have that sort of control.
This, if done properly, (and without being able to see the end product, it's impossible to tell if it is being done properly) would give nobody any more power than they already have, it would simply simplify existing transactions and allow us to migrate away from paper and coin. I actually am glad the Mint is doing this, they are one of the few entities I would trust with this initiative as they are likely not in it for a profit motive being a crown corporation, nor are they high enough up the food chain to likely be doing it for a power/surveillance motive. Their most likely motive is simply to reduce their costs of minting coins.
Now of course neither you nor I can speak with any certainty as to how the end product will turn out, it could be better than I imagine, or worse than your nightmares, but at least the system as described in the article is on the right track.
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This is an actual official transport canada incident investigation report with no spin whatsoever concluding the facts of an actual aviation incident in which people were injured. The timing to coincide with the labour dispute is purely coincidence.
The article goes further than that however and quotes how the pilot's union is pushing for better regulations. so basically the Union has grasped on to this report as an excuse to spin for their agenda.
As for ""coming close to wildcat strikes" they have actually been ruled by a judge to have already participated in illegal strike action through fake sick calls. so they've already crossed that line.
Nothing in this article on the management point of view.
I think you really nailed it in the last line. Sleeping in the cockpit should be illegal. it's just not a good idea. I have no problem with the flight crew taking alternate naps while the other is in control. but don't sleep while at the controls themselves, go somewhere else. Some long haul planes used to have a bunk for that purpose, or even use a different seat (one of the flight attendant ones? or a jump seat? or a spare first class seat? or whatever else, just not one with a yoke in front of it!
I was once forced to take a computer fundamentals course with a similarly ridiculous number of horrid test questions. Some of my favourites:
- How many ports are on the back of a computer? (which computer? what peripherals? what level of technology??)
- Which of the following is a non-impact printer:
a) dye sublimation
b) laser
c) ink jet
d) dot matrix
e) daisy wheel
(only one choice allowed)
Other favoured questions from courses over the years:
- in a geography course asking what body of water the mackenzie river flowed in to:
a) Pacific Ocean
b) Atlantic Ocean
c) st lawrence seaway
d) Hudson Bay
(in fact it is none of those, it's the arctic ocean, when this was brought to the attention of the teacher he informed us it was proof that we couldn't trust teachers (which we knew already) but refused to remove the question from the test)
And many many more questions that I don't remember the exact details of over the years.
ground source heat pumps sound interesting, but I'm unsure on the cost effectiveness of a retrofit. I too have been considering a tankless heater (though in my case venting it will be tricky as they prefer a wall vent for them)
One thing my parents did, but I'm not sure on the cost effectiveness, was to re-side the house, with extra insulation between the shell of the house and the new siding. (they practically built a new house around their house)
One other one that I wonder about is solarwater heating, I've been told that it is now at the point where it is cost effective, however it certainly isn't intuitive in a northern climate.
Where I live I am not aware of any energy discounts or rebates from the utilities, but rates have steadily increased for quite a while. I have spent a lot of money making my house more energy efficient, everything from upgrading to a high efficiency furnace, adding substantial insulation to my attic, replacing all my single pane leaky drafty windows with double glazed (triple glazed on the big picture window in the front), argon filled, low-e coated ones, replacing every bulb in the house with either CFL or LED, replacing weatherstripping on all the doors, and I'm just starting the process of replacing my appliances with more efficient ones. Turning off my computer at night, moving my server to a VPS...
Through all of this, my monthly utility usage has plummeted, but my monthly bills have remained virtually unchanged. I would hate to imagine what would happen if I hadn't been doing all the upgrades!
There are quite a few "dimmable" CFL and LED bulb choices... I have yet to find any that dim the way an incandescent bulb does. they dim from 100% down to about 20%, if you're looking to use the under 20% range, tough luck. (I have 12 dimmable fixtures in my house, and I would love to get them off incandescent... but not until a good replacement appears)
What the lesson should be:
- We already have the resources and abilities to tackle real crimes using new technologies. no new laws are required.
What lesson law enforcment/government will likely spin on this one:
- Criminals are now using new technologies, we need more draconian laws to allow us to catch every single one of them.
bitcoin may hide the monetary side of things, but ther weren't selling bitdrugs, the real product had to get sent somewhere some how, That was most likely the weak link.
I too am in Calgary, Even at -30, run the glow plugs a couple of times and hold on the starter until it catches, My fiance's gas car, and my company gas work truck can't say the same. (I don't have a webasto, though I have considered it, and although I have a block heater, my trips are usually not planned far enough in advance to make use of it) A healthy diesel will give you some heat even in stop and go traffic, though not as much as a gas vehicle, make sure your thermostat and heater core are in good shape. I do however enjoy my heated seats on those days. On a side note, my father's Volkswagen TDI is also that reliable, and none of these vehicles have been garage parked (my last 2 would never fit)
Of course I've never tried a north american made diesel in those temperatures, so it's likely that just like a lot of the engineering in them, it just isn't up to the german or japanese standards of the vehicles I have experience with. (Mercedes, Volkswagen, and Mitsubishi small diesels)
On the bright side, In Canada it's still fully legal for us to just download whatever we want and watch it (personal use only)(note, the Harper government is working very hard to change the existing law to make this illegal, but it hasn't happened yet). Of course the companies COULD allow us to buy their product and make some money off of us, but they are far too short sighted for that.
I found a few problems here:
1) it fails to search more often than it succeeds, even for movies I know for a fact are available on one of the services it claims to search
2) if it does find something in a general search, it doesn't tell you which of the services it was found on, nor provide a link to go to it
3) I never did manage to get the android app to find any movies at all, and it assumed portrait mode and wouldn't do landscape.
I think the "sports car" bit was about the proposed acceleration after the stop, not the braking before it, which tends to be affected a lot by horsepower and torque, and not so much by ABS
Not to mention that in the jurisdiction I live in, a legal stop has a duration of 3 seconds, not 0.
The problem is (from many years observing other drivers on the road) extremely few motorists have even the faintest clue what a yield sign means. Many people think they mean stop, or merge, or nothing at all, but very few people treat them like "yield"
We have a lot of very poorly designed entrance ramps around here where they use a yield instead of a merge (because they didn't build a lane long enough to actually merge) the occasional person stops, most people try to merge (much to my chagrin when I'm on the roadway they are illegally "merging" on to and have to stand on the brakes to avoid a collision because they can't accelerate enough to merge properly but try anyway)
We also have a yield at a T intersection near my house with excellent visibility and no matter if people are coming or not everybody comes to a full and complete stop, sits for a few moments, and then continues (we can't even get people to do that at actual stop signs!)
I think a more appropriate change that I would love to see, is the ability to treat a red light as a stop sign. I can see no safety reason why one should have to wait for a light to turn green if there is no traffic coming. Come to a full and complete stop, and then proceed if it is safe to do so.
Around here, Police officer noticing you in passing = warning (as long as you are nice), Police officer operating a speed trap = 80-90% chance of a ticket (100% chance if you aren't nice) and Peace officer = ticket every single time (no matter how nice you are)
Unfortunately the "general fund" is very lucrative for the communities, so lucrative in fact that almost every town, village, hamlet, and rural county in my province has created an entire force of officers who's sole jobs are traffic enforcement, in fact they aren't ALLOWED to do any other policing because they aren't actually police officers, just "peace officers" these are towns so small that they do not even have a police department, but they do have 2 "municipal enforcement" officers who have no other role than issuing traffic fines. My problem with this isn't the municipalities increasing law enforcement, it's that they aren't having any effect on real crime because everyone knows that these people aren't allowed to catch real criminals.
If you're lucky they'll run the license plate of each person they stop and call the real police if they find an outstanding warrant, however I've talked to a couple of them who say they won't because if they have to wait with the criminal for the real police to show up it takes too much time, time that they could be writing more tickets for other people.
This is such a blatant abuse of this revenue generation system that I feel very strongly that there is a need to change the system so that the local communities can't keep the money. If they want to increase traffic surveillance for safety reasons, they can, but it should never be for revenue generation.
wouldn't that bunch of stuff "gifted to them" include the list of postal codes? As in the ones created before they stopped being an arm of the government?
Is it better to fear that all rocks are actually bears? you'd never accomplish anything. Only by your mind processing what is a bear and what is a rock will you succeed.
I don't believe in "magic" but that doesn't stop me from running the other way first, and then evaluating what danger signal my mind had reacted to once I'm in a safe place. I trust my senses to tell me when there is danger, knowing full well that my senses will sometimes deceive me. Nothing about that makes me believe in magic, it simply means that I can evaluate the risk benefit ratio of reacting to cues I may not have had time to fully process.
Considering that it is likely illegal for a Canadian company to store any confidential client details in an American data centre (due to PATRIOT and other laws that specifically contravene Canadian privacy laws) it's not just a "huge advantage" it's essential.
And that's what so many people forget. Getting your data to a safe spot doesn't help unless you yourself are in a safe spot too.
What many people forget though is that they are always subject to the laws of their own place of residence, in addition to the laws of the location where their servers reside, the location where their DNS is hosted, and the location where their TLD is hosted. Regardless of what you plan to do, you're often best to limit all those things to as few jurisdictions as possible just to try to keep the rules straight, let alone wanting to be at the whims of any ridiculous law passed in any of those jurisdictions.
Hosting your blog against some specific government/religion/ethnic group in a place with actual free speech doesn't help if you yourself still live in a place without free speech.
I'm curious to know what issue they had with Alberta hosting? (speaking as an Albertan) My understanding is that the laws are virtually identical on this stuff between the 2 provinces?
The interest rate was also zero, there was no stock market, or way of investing. Poverty was rampant, and most of what you would buy with your money today simply didn't exist (not that you would likely have had any anyway unless you were of noble birth)
Saying the situation in the middle ages is in any way at all comparable or possible in today's world is a false and dishonest premise with which to start a discussion.
Would you prefer a system where your gradnfather's wealth permitted you to live off it indefinitely without lifting a finger of your own to work? Obviously for you that would be great. But imagine if that was common place for everyone, for the economy as a whole that would be a disaster. In fact that situation would actively cause inflation because it just isn't a sustainable situation. If nobody needs to work (because they already have enough money to be wealthy) then how to you get people to work?
Actually, this does not appear to be the case, they talk specifically about anonymous. Which means that they can not have that sort of control.
This, if done properly, (and without being able to see the end product, it's impossible to tell if it is being done properly) would give nobody any more power than they already have, it would simply simplify existing transactions and allow us to migrate away from paper and coin. I actually am glad the Mint is doing this, they are one of the few entities I would trust with this initiative as they are likely not in it for a profit motive being a crown corporation, nor are they high enough up the food chain to likely be doing it for a power/surveillance motive. Their most likely motive is simply to reduce their costs of minting coins.
Now of course neither you nor I can speak with any certainty as to how the end product will turn out, it could be better than I imagine, or worse than your nightmares, but at least the system as described in the article is on the right track.