I second this. Hydroelectric power is super viable in Canada, and the province of Manitoba obtains emissions free power for the entire province and manages to make a lot of money by selling the excess to surrounding provinces and the US, all at rates that make coal and oil power look really high, utilizing hydroelectric power.
Solar power in Canada is about as smart as setting up a beach resort in Flin Flon, for all the same reasons.
I could see a pretty substantial maintenence cost associated with keeping acres and acres of solar panels dust and snow free. The latter, in particular, might make you wince.
I was thinking about this, and the designers are morons. We don't need a fancy electronic interface. That's just pork. What would work best would be having a system where you simply feed your paper voting card into an "electronic box" which would use the same technology used to grade multiple choice quizes for ages to determine who you voted for before sending the voting slip to a big bag of votes in case they need to be recounted. Giving every voting booth a big fancy CRT in an extremely breakable box is just begging to be gamed.
Sorry, I was wrong. According to the wikipedia article, Asparatame creates spikes of aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol, and further breakdown products including formaldehyde and formic acid. Saccharin doesn't alter insulin response, and sucralose doesn't seem to have any insulin response either. I don't know where I got the idea.
Unfortunately, most sugar substitutes cause a dramatic increase in insulin levels without a similar increase in actual sugar levels in the blood. This means that consuming this stuff, even if it's 0 calories, will basically suck any sugar in your blood into fat cells, which would be fine, except it makes you hungry and cranky prematurely.
Lawmakers have no place in the classroom. They don't understand children, they don't understand the classroom, they don't understand how to govern people who don't have any rights. It would be like teachers trying to balance the federal budget.
Makes me glad I voted against that pinhead Maguinty in the last election, pulling shit like this.
Unfortunately, that 20,000 would come from the taxpayers. Instead, a lawsuit ought to focus on the people involved, to dissuade them from affronts to justice in the future.
That's hardly fair. I've been reading about how Americans treat their kids like shit for years. Are you an elementary school kid playing doctor with someone around your age? BAM. You're going to be sent to desexualization programming where the kids are subjected to discredited techniques used to "cure" homosexuals in the 1930s. Are you an eagle scout who forgot your scout knife and brought it to the front desk so you can get it back at the end of the day? BAM. Expelled, and you should hope you don't get in legal trouble over this.
It's disgusting. Every time I read another story like it, I despair for the children whose lives are being destroyed.....for the children.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I can't help but think that specifically catering to women is the opposite of equality. If women can't be arsed to dedicate themselves to the highest paying jobs in the economy, then fine. Let them rot as the stereotypes they have only themselves to blame for being.
This makes sense to me. After the big changes to the brain, DNA took a back seat to cultural differences, right? So why wouldn't the beings with the shorter lifespans and less powerful minds require greater amounts of evolution to stay competitive?
The reason what happens happens with respect to politics is partially because people want to believe that most people are fundamentally good. If you believe that most people are fundamentally good, then rather than assume that this person is fundamentally evil, you have to assume that something outside of himself provoked him, and to stop more fundamentally good people from being pushed into terrible actions, all these pet agendas ought to be pursued.
You live, you win. You die, you lose. Any talk about not letting people with guns take your stuff is ultimately made redundant by the fact that you let people with guns take your stuff all the time. What do you think taxes are?
I'd like to send my thoughts to the shooter, as well as the victims.
College is a time of unthinkable often unheard sacrifice for many people. People give up everything to go, working terrible jobs for years to save enough to get started, leave everyone and everything they know to live in an isolated world, and find their isolation enforced by bitter poverty and relentless work. For a lot of people, this is their only chance at a future; If they fail, they'll be trapped with a minimum wage job and tens of thousands of dollars of debt they have no way to pay back and nothing tangible to show for it. For a lot of people, this time is an amplifier, sending all their insecurities, all their fears, all their self-hatreds into overdrive, changing it from something indistinguishable from the background noise of life to a roar, deafening and all-encompassing.
If this is the truth for the shooter, I'm sorry you couldn't be saved. You have ended your future and stolen others. I'll shed a tear fall for you and your fallen life, and your senseless, useless, meaningless death.
For anyone reading this, facing the same path, please know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and that there are people who know what you're going through. It's the hardest thing you'll ever have to do, but persevere, and don't become like this wasted life, because those who fight for the future they want are the ones who carry the heaviest burden, and the ones who shine the brightest.
"Outside the US" is one of those ignorant little sayings that sounds good but is meaningless, like "In Europe". Where in Europe? Sweden? Turkey? The Netherlands? Russia? There are some countries on that list that I'd really enjoy living in, and some that you couldn't pay me to live in.
I don't like the "don't raise taxes" part. That's not to say I want the government spending too much, but it's our duty to pay back as much of the irresponsibly derived debt as possible, so future generations don't have to deal with it.
Hey, I like your style. There aren't enough people in the world who bother to think beyond "us vs. them". I tried explaining this to people a couple years ago, but the whole concept seemed beyond their capacity to understand, like trying to explain Newton's theory of gravity to followers of Aristotle.
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Uh oh. It snowed in Sarnia.
Where is your solar powered God now?
I second this. Hydroelectric power is super viable in Canada, and the province of Manitoba obtains emissions free power for the entire province and manages to make a lot of money by selling the excess to surrounding provinces and the US, all at rates that make coal and oil power look really high, utilizing hydroelectric power.
Solar power in Canada is about as smart as setting up a beach resort in Flin Flon, for all the same reasons.
I could see a pretty substantial maintenence cost associated with keeping acres and acres of solar panels dust and snow free. The latter, in particular, might make you wince.
I was thinking about this, and the designers are morons. We don't need a fancy electronic interface. That's just pork. What would work best would be having a system where you simply feed your paper voting card into an "electronic box" which would use the same technology used to grade multiple choice quizes for ages to determine who you voted for before sending the voting slip to a big bag of votes in case they need to be recounted. Giving every voting booth a big fancy CRT in an extremely breakable box is just begging to be gamed.
If you reduce all parties to a single binary choice (Left or right), you'll fail no matter how you vote, and no matter how many choices you have.
If you take a CS degree in Alberta, then working in a virtual world removed from the real world is probably your best idea. :P
Sorry, I was wrong. According to the wikipedia article, Asparatame creates spikes of aspartic acid, phenylalanine, methanol, and further breakdown products including formaldehyde and formic acid. Saccharin doesn't alter insulin response, and sucralose doesn't seem to have any insulin response either. I don't know where I got the idea.
Unfortunately, most sugar substitutes cause a dramatic increase in insulin levels without a similar increase in actual sugar levels in the blood. This means that consuming this stuff, even if it's 0 calories, will basically suck any sugar in your blood into fat cells, which would be fine, except it makes you hungry and cranky prematurely.
Would megavolts really be responsible to be sending? I mean, that much potential could do something to the poor operators on the train.
This post reminds me of pseudo-intellectuals who are very proud of themselves, but don't have jobs.
Lawmakers have no place in the classroom. They don't understand children, they don't understand the classroom, they don't understand how to govern people who don't have any rights. It would be like teachers trying to balance the federal budget.
Makes me glad I voted against that pinhead Maguinty in the last election, pulling shit like this.
Unfortunately, that 20,000 would come from the taxpayers. Instead, a lawsuit ought to focus on the people involved, to dissuade them from affronts to justice in the future.
Well he WAS a crime....inal a criminal.
That's hardly fair. I've been reading about how Americans treat their kids like shit for years. Are you an elementary school kid playing doctor with someone around your age? BAM. You're going to be sent to desexualization programming where the kids are subjected to discredited techniques used to "cure" homosexuals in the 1930s. Are you an eagle scout who forgot your scout knife and brought it to the front desk so you can get it back at the end of the day? BAM. Expelled, and you should hope you don't get in legal trouble over this.
It's disgusting. Every time I read another story like it, I despair for the children whose lives are being destroyed.....for the children.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but I can't help but think that specifically catering to women is the opposite of equality. If women can't be arsed to dedicate themselves to the highest paying jobs in the economy, then fine. Let them rot as the stereotypes they have only themselves to blame for being.
And if they're all debt slaves to the Chinese, that's ok too.
This makes sense to me. After the big changes to the brain, DNA took a back seat to cultural differences, right? So why wouldn't the beings with the shorter lifespans and less powerful minds require greater amounts of evolution to stay competitive?
The reason what happens happens with respect to politics is partially because people want to believe that most people are fundamentally good. If you believe that most people are fundamentally good, then rather than assume that this person is fundamentally evil, you have to assume that something outside of himself provoked him, and to stop more fundamentally good people from being pushed into terrible actions, all these pet agendas ought to be pursued.
You live, you win. You die, you lose. Any talk about not letting people with guns take your stuff is ultimately made redundant by the fact that you let people with guns take your stuff all the time. What do you think taxes are?
I'd like to send my thoughts to the shooter, as well as the victims.
College is a time of unthinkable often unheard sacrifice for many people. People give up everything to go, working terrible jobs for years to save enough to get started, leave everyone and everything they know to live in an isolated world, and find their isolation enforced by bitter poverty and relentless work. For a lot of people, this is their only chance at a future; If they fail, they'll be trapped with a minimum wage job and tens of thousands of dollars of debt they have no way to pay back and nothing tangible to show for it. For a lot of people, this time is an amplifier, sending all their insecurities, all their fears, all their self-hatreds into overdrive, changing it from something indistinguishable from the background noise of life to a roar, deafening and all-encompassing.
If this is the truth for the shooter, I'm sorry you couldn't be saved. You have ended your future and stolen others. I'll shed a tear fall for you and your fallen life, and your senseless, useless, meaningless death.
For anyone reading this, facing the same path, please know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and that there are people who know what you're going through. It's the hardest thing you'll ever have to do, but persevere, and don't become like this wasted life, because those who fight for the future they want are the ones who carry the heaviest burden, and the ones who shine the brightest.
"Outside the US" is one of those ignorant little sayings that sounds good but is meaningless, like "In Europe". Where in Europe? Sweden? Turkey? The Netherlands? Russia? There are some countries on that list that I'd really enjoy living in, and some that you couldn't pay me to live in.
A small note, a lot of it isn't your tax dollars, it's your great grandkids' tax dollars. I mean, it's not like there's a balanced budget.
You see, I don't know about Lorne Micheals, but Jon Stewart is sane. That means he's not equipped to understand the subtleties of company policy.
I don't like the "don't raise taxes" part. That's not to say I want the government spending too much, but it's our duty to pay back as much of the irresponsibly derived debt as possible, so future generations don't have to deal with it.
Hey, I like your style. There aren't enough people in the world who bother to think beyond "us vs. them". I tried explaining this to people a couple years ago, but the whole concept seemed beyond their capacity to understand, like trying to explain Newton's theory of gravity to followers of Aristotle.