Not a bad idea. How about seeding the internet with lots of legitimate-looking email addresses to cause spammers to waste time and resources?
It'd take some time to create the pages of addresses, even if automated, and the incidental cost to spammers of an extra million invalid email addresses would be negligible.
Basically, good guys spend time to create these, bad guys don't notice much difference. I wish it were so easy, "sigh".
The real question is, "why do people buy from spammers?" Or, "why does comment spam increase page rank scores?"
Now, where's that "your idea won't work because..." form? That thing is hilarious.
They can ask him to change the domain name and remove the logo, and it could be argued that they're just doing basic trademark defence, but they ought to know that he's under no obligation to make the changes. Of course, they ought to have known about and also considered the Streisand effect.
At least they were polite and not bumptious, censorious douche nozzles about it.
Want to stop the decline? Make a version of LibreOffice or another FOSS odt/odt editor that works on my tablets.
Has anyone made a truly useful, fully functional office suite on tablets?
I don't have one, so can't say, but it seems from what I've read in passing that it's an issue that hasn't been solved well, except maybe on Apple products?
I haven't heard much good about MS Office on tablets, but again, I don't know the state of tablet & office technology.
ISOhunt had 5-6 million dollars - presumably from hosting ads along with links?
That makes the "we weren't hosting any infringing content ourselves" defense, which I've always been sympathetic toward, somewhat inconsequential.
The fact that the site (owners) profited to the tune of multiple millions of dollars by facilitating copyright infringement kind of rubs me the wrong way. Had they done it for not much more than hosting fees I'd be more aligned with them receiving a "shut down, now" penalty.
And before I'm called a corporate shill, I fight the mess that copyright laws have become by boycotting the big content producers. They haven't made one single cent from me in many years, nor have I pirated any of their content. I've learned that I just don't need what they're selling.
If one unit of carbon is burned, how many units of co2 is created?
I recall reading somewhere that it would be > 1 unit of co2 due to the binding with a pair of oxygen atoms / molecules, but I'm not up on chemistry.
I guess if there are 3,000,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon left in the ground and we were to burn a total post-industrial-revolution quantity of 1,000,000,000,000 tonnes, that should be more than a trillion tonnes of co2 release?
Yeah guy, you schooled me. You can't write a script to make those seemingly-minor tweaks to the mysqldump output?
Of course I can. But would prefer not to have to, which speaks to the GP poster.
FWIW psql can barely import PG's own dumps. I think in the realm of rdmbs you'll find that product A's software for outputting to product B's import format is _always_ at least slightly broken.
This is, sadly, true - no argument from me.
Well, I don't know about pg_dump & pg_restore yet but I think I need to check it out now that you mention it, so thanks for the heads-up.
The article didn't say that at all. It said they were moving away from MySQL ENTERPRISE licensing. MariaDB rebases off of current MySQL. They're still using MySQL - just not paying Oracle licenses. Maybe Oracle should re-think the pricing model if it wants to keep customers. Maybe they don't want to keep customers....
Google swaps out MySQL, moves to MariaDB 'They're moving it all,' says MariaDB Foundation headman
...
Google's widespread MariaDB push may be an attempt by the Chocolate Factory to shift developer allegiance from MySQL to MariaDB, and in doing so dilute Oracle's influence over the open source database ecosystem.
...
the Chocolate Factory now runs on a custom MySQL 5.1 build, Cole said in his talk at XLDB. But now Google is moving to MariaDB 10.0. This version of MariaDB is roughly equivalent to MySQL 5.6
Translation: I've never read the Postgres docs and I see no reason to start now!
PostgreSQL is a great database - why are there so many assholes like yourself responding to posts about it with bile?
You'd have to be illiterate to read my post as a knock against PG - I said, in fact that "I'm itching for a good reason to switch."
And, in case you're both illiterate and stupid, I also said, "I'm playing with it now, and growing more comfortable with psql", so no, I haven't read all the doc's, but had the schema page open in another tab at the time of posting.
And unlike you, others have posted things like the \connect DB_NAME as a handy trick instead of use DB_NAME, so... thanks for nothing?
"Issues with double quotes vs single quotes vs ticks" = someone writing code in 2013 that isn't using bound parameters.
This isn't about using bound parameters. It's about encapsulating the data within the client app, not an external application. More a case of someone posting on Slashdot in 2013 about something that they don't remotely understand.
It's about create table `tab1` (`name` varchar(20) default "" not null); being dumped via mysqldump but not loading in psql.
For the record, mysqldump --no-data --compatible=postgresql is how to get properly-quoted fields for table (re-)creation.
It's about COMMENT ON COLUMN table.column IS "a comment"; not working because double quotes have special meaning: single quotes required.
So, now you're less ignorant than you were before posting. You're welcome.
"" No way to "use dbname" for switching DBs inside psql - must quit and restart with different dbname ""
You should STFU and RTFM before throwing FUD. A simple \c dbname does the trick. (The c stands for connect if you need a fucking mnemonic)
Too late, asswipe, the \connect trick was pointed out long ago by someone who is not suffering douche-bag-itis. Also pointed out reasonably by Greg.
It's a tough choice: remain ignorant or learn from someone like you. Guess it isn't really a choice - I learnt from the user above and you brought... nothing.
* mysqldump | psql doesn't work even with --compatibe=postgresql: ints have precision (int(11)) and comments don't work the same
If MySQL has a --compatible=postgresql option that doesn't actually produce PostgreSQL-compatible output, then that's pretty unambiguously MySQL's fault, and not something that PostgreSQL can do a great deal about.
True, and I'm certainly not putting blame on Postgres, but it would be nice if they had a pg_mysql_import_from_dump as MySQL's compatibility is b0rked.
I see various scripts out there, on Github for example, that claim to aid in the transfer. But it seems the consensus that manual fiddling is required. Perhaps I should make a name for myself by building something that eases the process. A "pg_mysql_import_from_dump" as it were.
No way to "use dbname" for switching DBs inside psql - must quit and restart with different dbname
\connect, or alternatively, use schemas instead of databases and SET SEARCH_PATH.
Ah, good idea. Schemas are an option but if transferring a, say, Drupal install over, one doesn't want to have to ensure that the schema is prepended onto all SQL. I prefer to have individual DBs. So when in psql, I shall try \connect. And... it works perfectly. Thank you.
Issues with double quotes vs single quotes vs ticks - no opinion on which is best way to go but would be nice if a translation were available
I think what's missing is an easy upgrade path from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
For example:
* mysqldump | psql doesn't work even with --compatibe=postgresql: ints have precision (int(11)) and comments don't work the same
* Inside psql there isn't a handy "show create table" feature (that I've found)
* No way to "use dbname" for switching DBs inside psql - must quit and restart with different dbname
* Issues with double quotes vs single quotes vs ticks - no opinion on which is best way to go but would be nice if a translation were available
* The commands aren't as easily memorable: \d vs show tables: another area where some compatibility would be nice. I kind of prefer the show tables, show databases, show create table style instead of \d, \l, \(can't do it in psql, use pg_dump)
Those are some things off of the top of my head.
Makes it so much more work to switch - each dumped table must be manually tweaked to load into psql.
I'm playing with it now, and growing more comfortable with psql but not sure I'm going to dump, edit, import all tables in all|any databases so I can have... 2 db servers running on my box.
I'm itching for a good reason to switch.
It's a shame that the new recently that Google is dropping MySQL didn't end with "and they're going to use Postgres" -- they have the resources to make a conversion suite / patches that would make it easy for a large scale adoption to occur.
Before anyone bothers to carefully craft a response to the poster above, have a look at his comment history: this is one of the clearest examples of a Microsoft shill that I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Hang on a second. I read a page and a half of his / her posting history, and that's not a shill. I'm throwing away the mod points I've used in this thread to correct the unfair accusation. And, for the record, I hate MicroSoft (and Apple, and am very wary of Google).
I thought you'd uncovered one of those guys from a year or two ago that always got a lengthy first post on any MS or Google story with gushing, orgasmic MS-will-save-the-world or Google-will-destroy-western-civilisation diatribe.
This guy, MaWeiTao, has plenty of posts that have nothing to do with MS what-so-ever.
And in those that do refer to MS, things like:
I agree that Ballmer needs to go; Microsoft does have some fundamental problems. However, I take issue with how you dismissive you are of the things on your list. That many of those products have struggled is due more to poor perception than actual lack of quality.
Windows 8 may have it's issues but it's a legitimately good OS. Like it or not, it's been incredibly influential for user interface design. Notice that the flat look is in; so much so that even Apple has abandoned skeuomorphics in favor of the look. Windows 8's bigger problem is the persistent bad press.
...
It's difficult to deny that Microsoft doesn't deserve what they're getting. As a Windows Phone user myself I've found myself increasingly disenfranchised what seems like general indifference towards the platform from Microsoft.
are things you may disagree with, but they aren't the words of a bloody shill.
This is likely a better example of a possible shill: http://slashdot.org/~DCTech... They had uids in the 2,500,000 range, lengthy first-posts made at the moment the story went live, subscribers...
Great - he's the same twunt that claimed that no radiation could possibly survive past the fence enclosing Fukushima - at about the same time the first explosion happened.
His reaction was to say, "Oops, seems a bit worse than I thought", right? No, of course not. Even though there's corium blown a mile and a half from the reactors. Even though there were multiple melt-downs. Even though on-site experts with experience in nuke plants claim they don't know exactly what's going on (unlike omniscient Lewis fucking Page). Even though arguably the most dangerous steps still lie ahead - removal of spent fuel from its pool in the now-reinforced reactor 4 building.
So no, he's a blight on El Reg and I, for one, shall not be reading what his bullshit apologist rantings have to say; I'll remain here in reality and hope for the best with the spent fuel and radioactive water storage.
And let's not forget that reactor 4, where the spent fuel pool boiled / leaked dry, was not in operation at the time of the 'quake / tsunami.
News from reality, instead of from Page's ridiculous pro-nuclear, nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong, ignore-those-explosions ranting:
INADVERTENT CRITICALITY
"There is a risk of an inadvertent criticality if the bundles are distorted and get too close to each other," Gundersen said.
He was referring to an atomic chain reaction that left unchecked could result in a large release of radiation and heat that the fuel pool cooling system isn't designed to absorb.
"The problem with a fuel pool criticality is that you can't stop it. There are no control rods to control it," Gundersen said. "The spent fuel pool cooling system is designed only to remove decay heat, not heat from an ongoing nuclear reaction."
...
Removing the rods from the pool is a delicate task normally assisted by computers, according to Toshio Kimura, a former Tepco technician, who worked at Fukushima Daiichi for 11 years.
"Previously it was a computer-controlled process that memorized the exact locations of the rods down to the millimeter and now they don't have that. It has to be done manually so there is a high risk that they will drop and break one of the fuel rods," Kimura said.
"3taps Statement Regarding craigslist’s Misuse of the CFAA
3taps is obviously disappointed in the Judge's ruling and believes that by making public information publicly available on the Internet, without a password, firewall, or other similar restriction, craigslist has authorized, and continues to authorize, everyone to access that information.
I'll admit I didn't read the *entire* post, but the "without... firewall" part stuck out to me.
Craigslist put an IP block in place against 3taps. Whether it was with a firewall like iptables or whether it was enacted within the Craigslist software, it seems 3taps' argument has fallen apart already. There was, for all intents and purposes, a firewall in place to block them.
Introduced a number of bills that provided funding to the development of the Internet. And as said by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn:
as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication.
The very pioneers of the Internet have acknowledged his contributions despite all the maligment he gets from the neckbeard crowd.
Thanks for the interesting quote.
One minor correction, I don't think it's "neckbeards" that malign Gore, it's the right-wingers. They seem to need to hate everything that isn't part of their tribe and aren't hesitant to make up stuff to hate against.
Yes, and you don'e want to eat it, or breath it in. But, that does not mean that there is anything necessarily wrong with a large piece of meat coming in contact with lead for a short while.
In my understanding, the problem is that the spent shots that sit in waterways contaminate them. They can also be ingested by ducks, fish, etc. Then those critters get eaten and the lead bio-accumulates.
Hell, the medical community puts mercury into injections, and expect you to inject it directly into your blood steam.
There are different types of mercury with different effects on the body.
A group of unelected, unaccountable functionaries with no medical training will be decided what forms of treatment get covered.
Yeah, that describes private health care perfectly. Not Canadian (nor any other western industrialized country's) health care.
However, if there is only one thing that unites Canadians almost unanimously it is this: no. fucking. private. health. care.
My mom got a hip replacement on our socialized health care, plus ages in hospital with chemo treatments for two different bouts of cancer.
Also has faced 30 years of health complications due to that. It'd have bankrupted our family had they lived less than 200km farther south.
In BC I pay < $200 / month for health care for 2 adults. That's risen >100% in past 10 years. Includes everything but prescriptions and dentists. Unsure about eye-tests; might not be covered.
I get to walk in to clinic, or get booked with specialist professor of medicine at UBC. I walk in, show health card - see doctor, leave. Pay nothing.
Hospital visits are the same.
Waiting times: 7-10 days for specialist dermatologist (fairly urgent). Maybe 2 months for allergenist.
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Not a bad idea. How about seeding the internet with lots of legitimate-looking email addresses to cause spammers to waste time and resources?
It'd take some time to create the pages of addresses, even if automated, and the incidental cost to spammers of an extra million invalid email addresses would be negligible.
Basically, good guys spend time to create these, bad guys don't notice much difference. I wish it were so easy, "sigh".
The real question is, "why do people buy from spammers?" Or, "why does comment spam increase page rank scores?"
Now, where's that "your idea won't work because..." form? That thing is hilarious.
They can ask him to change the domain name and remove the logo, and it could be argued that they're just doing basic trademark defence, but they ought to know that he's under no obligation to make the changes. Of course, they ought to have known about and also considered the Streisand effect.
At least they were polite and not bumptious, censorious douche nozzles about it.
(posting AC due to moderating comments here)
I am pretty sure that even if you post as AC, your moderations get undone.
I gave the lone mod point to a post, then responded as AC later in the thread for the same reason you have.
When I checked the score on the post I moderated, it was back to default.
Want to stop the decline? Make a version of LibreOffice or another FOSS odt/odt editor that works on my tablets.
Has anyone made a truly useful, fully functional office suite on tablets?
I don't have one, so can't say, but it seems from what I've read in passing that it's an issue that hasn't been solved well, except maybe on Apple products?
I haven't heard much good about MS Office on tablets, but again, I don't know the state of tablet & office technology.
ISOhunt had 5-6 million dollars - presumably from hosting ads along with links?
That makes the "we weren't hosting any infringing content ourselves" defense, which I've always been sympathetic toward, somewhat inconsequential.
The fact that the site (owners) profited to the tune of multiple millions of dollars by facilitating copyright infringement kind of rubs me the wrong way. Had they done it for not much more than hosting fees I'd be more aligned with them receiving a "shut down, now" penalty.
And before I'm called a corporate shill, I fight the mess that copyright laws have become by boycotting the big content producers. They haven't made one single cent from me in many years, nor have I pirated any of their content. I've learned that I just don't need what they're selling.
Open-source documentation is like an insomniac cat. Theoretically it exists somewhere, but no one's ever seen it.
Don't over-generalize. The open-source PostgreSQL project has the best documentation of a software project that I have ever seen, open- or closed-source.
Oh, also wanted to add, #postgresql on irc://chat.freenode.net is superb - the best IRC support I've ever seen.
I'm in awe of RhodiumToad over there particularly.
> The Linux man pages (documenting the Linux API)
No.
They sure could use more examples, but FreeBSD has better man pages that qualify as "good".
Better than Linux / GNU and certainly better than, for example:
dir /?
Bell Canada land lines: $2+ / month touch-tone fees.
And pulse dialing is not available according to Bell.
Touch-tone, that new-fangled tech from the 1970s...
Fuck you Bell.
If one unit of carbon is burned, how many units of co2 is created?
I recall reading somewhere that it would be > 1 unit of co2 due to the binding with a pair of oxygen atoms / molecules, but I'm not up on chemistry.
I guess if there are 3,000,000,000,000 tonnes of carbon left in the ground and we were to burn a total post-industrial-revolution quantity of 1,000,000,000,000 tonnes, that should be more than a trillion tonnes of co2 release?
Yeah guy, you schooled me. You can't write a script to make those seemingly-minor tweaks to the mysqldump output?
Of course I can. But would prefer not to have to, which speaks to the GP poster.
FWIW psql can barely import PG's own dumps. I think in the realm of rdmbs you'll find that product A's software for outputting to product B's import format is _always_ at least slightly broken.
This is, sadly, true - no argument from me.
Well, I don't know about pg_dump & pg_restore yet but I think I need to check it out now that you mention it, so thanks for the heads-up.
The article didn't say that at all. It said they were moving away from MySQL ENTERPRISE licensing. MariaDB rebases off of current MySQL. They're still using MySQL - just not paying Oracle licenses. Maybe Oracle should re-think the pricing model if it wants to keep customers. Maybe they don't want to keep customers....
Not so, from what El Reg says:
Translation: I've never read the Postgres docs and I see no reason to start now!
PostgreSQL is a great database - why are there so many assholes like yourself responding to posts about it with bile?
You'd have to be illiterate to read my post as a knock against PG - I said, in fact that "I'm itching for a good reason to switch."
And, in case you're both illiterate and stupid, I also said, "I'm playing with it now, and growing more comfortable with psql", so no, I haven't read all the doc's, but had the schema page open in another tab at the time of posting.
And unlike you, others have posted things like the \connect DB_NAME as a handy trick instead of use DB_NAME, so... thanks for nothing?
"Issues with double quotes vs single quotes vs ticks" = someone writing code in 2013 that isn't using bound parameters.
This isn't about using bound parameters. It's about encapsulating the data within the client app, not an external application. More a case of someone posting on Slashdot in 2013 about something that they don't remotely understand.
It's about create table `tab1` (`name` varchar(20) default "" not null); being dumped via mysqldump but not loading in psql.
For the record, mysqldump --no-data --compatible=postgresql is how to get properly-quoted fields for table (re-)creation.
It's about COMMENT ON COLUMN table.column IS "a comment"; not working because double quotes have special meaning: single quotes required.
So, now you're less ignorant than you were before posting. You're welcome.
"" No way to "use dbname" for switching DBs inside psql - must quit and restart with different dbname ""
You should STFU and RTFM before throwing FUD. A simple \c dbname does the trick. (The c stands for connect if you need a fucking mnemonic)
Too late, asswipe, the \connect trick was pointed out long ago by someone who is not suffering douche-bag-itis. Also pointed out reasonably by Greg.
It's a tough choice: remain ignorant or learn from someone like you. Guess it isn't really a choice - I learnt from the user above and you brought... nothing.
Hell, you can't even quote properly!
I'd say the reference book has likely become outdated and current info is easily found on the internet.
But books like the Perl Camel book - much more than merely a reference - those are valuable for long after their topic is upgraded.
My 2 cents. Good luck...
Some fair points, but...
* mysqldump | psql doesn't work even with --compatibe=postgresql: ints have precision (int(11)) and comments don't work the same
If MySQL has a --compatible=postgresql option that doesn't actually produce PostgreSQL-compatible output, then that's pretty unambiguously MySQL's fault, and not something that PostgreSQL can do a great deal about.
True, and I'm certainly not putting blame on Postgres, but it would be nice if they had a pg_mysql_import_from_dump as MySQL's compatibility is b0rked.
I see various scripts out there, on Github for example, that claim to aid in the transfer. But it seems the consensus that manual fiddling is required. Perhaps I should make a name for myself by building something that eases the process. A "pg_mysql_import_from_dump" as it were.
No way to "use dbname" for switching DBs inside psql - must quit and restart with different dbname
\connect, or alternatively, use schemas instead of databases and SET SEARCH_PATH.
Ah, good idea. Schemas are an option but if transferring a, say, Drupal install over, one doesn't want to have to ensure that the schema is prepended onto all SQL. I prefer to have individual DBs. So when in psql, I shall try \connect. And... it works perfectly. Thank you.
Issues with double quotes vs single quotes vs ticks - no opinion on which is best way to go but would be nice if a translation were available
MySQL being wildly non-standard.
Again, not disagreeing.
I think what's missing is an easy upgrade path from MySQL to PostgreSQL.
For example:
Those are some things off of the top of my head.
Makes it so much more work to switch - each dumped table must be manually tweaked to load into psql.
I'm playing with it now, and growing more comfortable with psql but not sure I'm going to dump, edit, import all tables in all|any databases so I can have... 2 db servers running on my box.
I'm itching for a good reason to switch.
It's a shame that the new recently that Google is dropping MySQL didn't end with "and they're going to use Postgres" -- they have the resources to make a conversion suite / patches that would make it easy for a large scale adoption to occur.
Before anyone bothers to carefully craft a response to the poster above, have a look at his comment history: this is one of the clearest examples of a Microsoft shill that I've ever seen on Slashdot.
Hang on a second. I read a page and a half of his / her posting history, and that's not a shill. I'm throwing away the mod points I've used in this thread to correct the unfair accusation. And, for the record, I hate MicroSoft (and Apple, and am very wary of Google).
I thought you'd uncovered one of those guys from a year or two ago that always got a lengthy first post on any MS or Google story with gushing, orgasmic MS-will-save-the-world or Google-will-destroy-western-civilisation diatribe.
This guy, MaWeiTao, has plenty of posts that have nothing to do with MS what-so-ever.
And in those that do refer to MS, things like:
are things you may disagree with, but they aren't the words of a bloody shill.
This is likely a better example of a possible shill: http://slashdot.org/~DCTech... They had uids in the 2,500,000 range, lengthy first-posts made at the moment the story went live, subscribers...
(posting to undo accidental troll moderation)
See the articles (latest link included) by El Reg's Lewis Page :
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/21/omg_new_crisis_disaster_at_fukushima_oh_wait_its_nothing_again/
Great - he's the same twunt that claimed that no radiation could possibly survive past the fence enclosing Fukushima - at about the same time the first explosion happened.
His reaction was to say, "Oops, seems a bit worse than I thought", right? No, of course not. Even though there's corium blown a mile and a half from the reactors. Even though there were multiple melt-downs. Even though on-site experts with experience in nuke plants claim they don't know exactly what's going on (unlike omniscient Lewis fucking Page). Even though arguably the most dangerous steps still lie ahead - removal of spent fuel from its pool in the now-reinforced reactor 4 building.
So no, he's a blight on El Reg and I, for one, shall not be reading what his bullshit apologist rantings have to say; I'll remain here in reality and hope for the best with the spent fuel and radioactive water storage.
And let's not forget that reactor 4, where the spent fuel pool boiled / leaked dry, was not in operation at the time of the 'quake / tsunami.
News from reality, instead of from Page's ridiculous pro-nuclear, nothing-can-possibly-go-wrong, ignore-those-explosions ranting:
3Taps responds:
"3taps Statement Regarding craigslist’s Misuse of the CFAA
3taps is obviously disappointed in the Judge's ruling and believes that by making public information publicly available on the Internet, without a password, firewall, or other similar restriction, craigslist has authorized, and continues to authorize, everyone to access that information.
I'll admit I didn't read the *entire* post, but the "without ... firewall" part stuck out to me.
Craigslist put an IP block in place against 3taps. Whether it was with a firewall like iptables or whether it was enacted within the Craigslist software, it seems 3taps' argument has fallen apart already. There was, for all intents and purposes, a firewall in place to block them.
Introduced a number of bills that provided funding to the development of the Internet. And as said by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn:
as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication.
The very pioneers of the Internet have acknowledged his contributions despite all the maligment he gets from the neckbeard crowd.
Thanks for the interesting quote.
One minor correction, I don't think it's "neckbeards" that malign Gore, it's the right-wingers. They seem to need to hate everything that isn't part of their tribe and aren't hesitant to make up stuff to hate against.
Dear America
We like Canada more than you
Sincerely
Everyone else.
Dear Everyone,
We're working hard to fix that.
Love,
Stephan Harper
Yes, and you don'e want to eat it, or breath it in.
But, that does not mean that there is anything necessarily wrong with a large piece of meat coming in contact with lead for a short while.
In my understanding, the problem is that the spent shots that sit in waterways contaminate them. They can also be ingested by ducks, fish, etc. Then those critters get eaten and the lead bio-accumulates.
Hell, the medical community puts mercury into injections, and expect you to inject it directly into your blood steam.
There are different types of mercury with different effects on the body.
TL;DR, except saw this part:
A group of unelected, unaccountable functionaries with no medical training will be decided what forms of treatment get covered.
Yeah, that describes private health care perfectly. Not Canadian (nor any other western industrialized country's) health care.
However, if there is only one thing that unites Canadians almost unanimously it is this: no. fucking. private. health. care.
My mom got a hip replacement on our socialized health care, plus ages in hospital with chemo treatments for two different bouts of cancer.
Also has faced 30 years of health complications due to that. It'd have bankrupted our family had they lived less than 200km farther south.
In BC I pay < $200 / month for health care for 2 adults. That's risen >100% in past 10 years. Includes everything but prescriptions and dentists. Unsure about eye-tests; might not be covered.
I get to walk in to clinic, or get booked with specialist professor of medicine at UBC. I walk in, show health card - see doctor, leave. Pay nothing.
Hospital visits are the same.
Waiting times: 7-10 days for specialist dermatologist (fairly urgent). Maybe 2 months for allergenist.