Canada does not provide for mental health in any meaningful way. The government talks a good talk but that is it. If you don't have private insurance that covers mental health, you don't get access to anything except family doctors prescribing pills. There are basically no psychologists in the public health system and very, very few psychiatrists such that the only sure way to get access to one is to be hospitalized or committed to an institution. The Canadian health care system does not cover everything. It does not cover dental, nor prescription drugs, nor mental health care, and oddly you often have to pay out of pocket for a podiatrist.
The natural resource sector does not pay for any welfare, any more than any other business does in its taxes.
Seriously, where the heck did you get your information? You must have just made it up on the spot.
The math doesn't add up. 8 short winter hours of sunlight is required to gather and store enough energy (batteries lose ability to store electricity the colder it gets) to heat its own substrate and accumulated snow from say -20 to +1 C, and keep the water liquid till it is drained somewhere. Yes the water has to go somewhere, not just the side of the road unless you want skating rinks there that gradually move toward the centre of the road as it accumulates. So you have to keep it liquid a long time and distance.
Since parts of this are devoted to outputting light, only part can be devoted to solar cells if any. Or are they going to power it from the grid? How much will that cost. Probably more than keeping existing road building materials and plowing and sanding as needed.
This... I have worked with equipment that was built by southerners supposedly rated for 40 below. When it got cold, it failed and we had to rebuild the equipment to work as needed. Considering we spent nearly a million dollars on the particular piece of equipment (a gas analyzer shed), altogether it sucked. This is just one example of many.
I like the idea. I don't think it is anywhere near enough thought out. Nor do I think we have materials that can meet the environmental requirements for places with any significant winter. I think if it works it is better suited to desert and semi arid hot environments.
What are you going to do in -20 degree C temperatures or colder (many places in the US have this, including Idaho), when snow plows catch the edge of a tile and rip up yards of it at a time, when studded tires or sand laid down scratch the shit out the glass... in northern areas sand is used not salt for icy roads, it is too cold to use salt. Embedded cat eyes are not used because they get torn up by plow blades and lines on the road have to be repainted every spring where there is any significant winter season; cat-eye-like strips that get torn off early in the winter are used, but like I say, they need to be replaced because they are torn away. People who live in the south never seem to think of these things (keep that in mind when California car magazines review tires and their traction results for another example). And I have to think that these entrepreneurs looking for financing are betting on this. In more general, how about how stones in treads will scratch the shit out of it, in general and especially when traffic from construction sites drive on it? Roads are built knowing they have significant wear and that they have to be continually resurfaced. Who in the U.S. hasn't driven on sections of interstate that basically have shallow ruts in the concrete. I'd think clear diamond would be more appropriate than glass. How much would that cost?
Never understood this. If the company still makes a profit, they can still pay dividends, yeah? The whole stock price chasing thing is fucking things up.
Oh fuck right off. To take these people's words as the last word in what democracy is, is ludicrous. Considering the modern form of democracy was at best decades old is being generous. So basing anything on such a small sample size is idiotic. The US is similar to a democracy and has been around for 240 years. Sure it might still commit suicide, it sure has people like you hoping it does, but it hasn't yet. Great Britain and France finally became democracies and other than being taken over by Germany France has survived and came back from that, and the UK's democracy has never faltered. The is further proof that quoting ancient fossils is stupid. Their messages are false ones and have been for a couple centuries. You don't understand because you don't want to understand. And just because a theory from the past occasionally holds true in the modern world doesn't justify relying on every quote from that time period as being a golden truism to live by. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
He also owned slaves. And banged a lot of them. Do you propose we bring back slavery too. So what if you are the only one who hasn't made use of all the things people have learned in the last 240 years or so. Other people have. That is why they think you are an idiot for thinking that the first and best method to change the system comes from someone who died two centuries ago during a period where people thought diseases were caused by vapours, banging your house maid slave for fun was reasonable, and ahem, having a revolution/civil war every generation or so would be reasonable. Even if it totally disrupted everyone's life for the worse. Yeah, 1860 to 1865 aside from abolition sure benefited a lot of families didn't it (end sarcasm). Seems more peaceful methods would be better to try first.
The other thing is that a memorandum/treaty was signed agreeing that Russia would respect Ukraine's borders if Ukraine agreed to get rid of their nuclear arsenal. This happened when the Soviet Union broke up. So Ukraine was one of the first countries to get rid of their nuclear arsenal. Now Russia violated that agreement. Part of the agreement was that the U.S. and Britain and maybe others had agreed to help counter any violation.
Sure... They didn't want to recognize that it hadn't ended because 'believing' it was over was politically advantageous, cheaper, and required less work. Look we won the cold war! Now we can save money. Notice the quotes around 'believe'.
Guess you missed the part about an international treaty being signed between Russia and Ukraine and many other parties to recognize Ukrainian borders, not invade it, etc. in turn for Ukraine getting rid of its nuclear weapons. Russia violated that treaty when they invaded Crimea, and even admitted doing so. And now there is the 'militant commander' piece of shit in eastern Ukraine who admits he came from Crimea along with most of his other cohorts dressed in plain Russian combat uniforms and balaclavas. Only a retard would try to claim they aren't Russian special forces. You lose the argument.
Odd also considering Obama's lame ass sanctions on Russia for their Ukraine incursions. Then again, maybe this is the key note item of 'lame ass' sanctions: buying rockets from someone you are berating for violations of a treaty between Russia and other western countries, made to respect Ukraine borders after Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons. I wonder if Russia would be willing to trade off their incursions by selling Ukraine those idle boosters to allow Kiev to re-nuclear weaponize themselves. A little detente could go a long way.
Part of the problem is agriculture. It creates a lot of forest field boundaries which are where deer like to live, never mind the grass fields being replaced by so nutritious grains. So we've given them an ideal environment which has helped increase their population more than even accounting for less predators would cause. There would have to be way more predators around than when we first modified the environment, and since deer live close to where people live, we'd have many neighbourhoods with wolves and cougars too. Not ideal. And it isn't just road accidents that are a problem with too many deer, you get unhealthy populations.
So by culling them, we keep the population healthier, need less predators where kids and families live, and help reduce car/deer accidents that often kill people. The one thing about hunting I totally disagree with, is taking the biggest healthiest specimens, usually so people can brag about the biggest rack. This causes the healthy deer you want to breed to be removed from the gene pool. Better to take average deer, and let the non-human predators that are around take the weak.
I was thinking about the information that HP was thinking of getting into this market. What went though my mind was, "and you thought their ink jet cartridges are expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet!" But Apple, that's a whole other thing altogether. Even HP will look cheap if Apple gets into the market place.
Yeah same as the GM engineers who didn't 'call out' their company for their shitty ignition switch, or Toyota engineers for their shitty firmware. If they did their job any better strictly for their companies, they would have killed off all their market.
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Canada does not provide for mental health in any meaningful way. The government talks a good talk but that is it. If you don't have private insurance that covers mental health, you don't get access to anything except family doctors prescribing pills. There are basically no psychologists in the public health system and very, very few psychiatrists such that the only sure way to get access to one is to be hospitalized or committed to an institution. The Canadian health care system does not cover everything. It does not cover dental, nor prescription drugs, nor mental health care, and oddly you often have to pay out of pocket for a podiatrist.
The natural resource sector does not pay for any welfare, any more than any other business does in its taxes.
Seriously, where the heck did you get your information? You must have just made it up on the spot.
For unscrupulous nursing homes.
Oil and other resources in abundance.
Good link.
Just replied to the same response you had. :)
The math doesn't add up. 8 short winter hours of sunlight is required to gather and store enough energy (batteries lose ability to store electricity the colder it gets) to heat its own substrate and accumulated snow from say -20 to +1 C, and keep the water liquid till it is drained somewhere. Yes the water has to go somewhere, not just the side of the road unless you want skating rinks there that gradually move toward the centre of the road as it accumulates. So you have to keep it liquid a long time and distance.
Since parts of this are devoted to outputting light, only part can be devoted to solar cells if any. Or are they going to power it from the grid? How much will that cost. Probably more than keeping existing road building materials and plowing and sanding as needed.
This... I have worked with equipment that was built by southerners supposedly rated for 40 below. When it got cold, it failed and we had to rebuild the equipment to work as needed. Considering we spent nearly a million dollars on the particular piece of equipment (a gas analyzer shed), altogether it sucked. This is just one example of many.
I like the idea. I don't think it is anywhere near enough thought out. Nor do I think we have materials that can meet the environmental requirements for places with any significant winter. I think if it works it is better suited to desert and semi arid hot environments.
What are you going to do in -20 degree C temperatures or colder (many places in the US have this, including Idaho), when snow plows catch the edge of a tile and rip up yards of it at a time, when studded tires or sand laid down scratch the shit out the glass... in northern areas sand is used not salt for icy roads, it is too cold to use salt. Embedded cat eyes are not used because they get torn up by plow blades and lines on the road have to be repainted every spring where there is any significant winter season; cat-eye-like strips that get torn off early in the winter are used, but like I say, they need to be replaced because they are torn away. People who live in the south never seem to think of these things (keep that in mind when California car magazines review tires and their traction results for another example). And I have to think that these entrepreneurs looking for financing are betting on this. In more general, how about how stones in treads will scratch the shit out of it, in general and especially when traffic from construction sites drive on it? Roads are built knowing they have significant wear and that they have to be continually resurfaced. Who in the U.S. hasn't driven on sections of interstate that basically have shallow ruts in the concrete. I'd think clear diamond would be more appropriate than glass. How much would that cost?
I have a good name for this new fangled device you are suggesting. You could call it the E-lectronic Typewriter!
Never understood this. If the company still makes a profit, they can still pay dividends, yeah? The whole stock price chasing thing is fucking things up.
Imagine that. And how much money did that cost? [end sarcasm]
Oh fuck right off. To take these people's words as the last word in what democracy is, is ludicrous. Considering the modern form of democracy was at best decades old is being generous. So basing anything on such a small sample size is idiotic. The US is similar to a democracy and has been around for 240 years. Sure it might still commit suicide, it sure has people like you hoping it does, but it hasn't yet. Great Britain and France finally became democracies and other than being taken over by Germany France has survived and came back from that, and the UK's democracy has never faltered. The is further proof that quoting ancient fossils is stupid. Their messages are false ones and have been for a couple centuries. You don't understand because you don't want to understand. And just because a theory from the past occasionally holds true in the modern world doesn't justify relying on every quote from that time period as being a golden truism to live by. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
He also owned slaves. And banged a lot of them. Do you propose we bring back slavery too. So what if you are the only one who hasn't made use of all the things people have learned in the last 240 years or so. Other people have. That is why they think you are an idiot for thinking that the first and best method to change the system comes from someone who died two centuries ago during a period where people thought diseases were caused by vapours, banging your house maid slave for fun was reasonable, and ahem, having a revolution/civil war every generation or so would be reasonable. Even if it totally disrupted everyone's life for the worse. Yeah, 1860 to 1865 aside from abolition sure benefited a lot of families didn't it (end sarcasm). Seems more peaceful methods would be better to try first.
The other thing is that a memorandum/treaty was signed agreeing that Russia would respect Ukraine's borders if Ukraine agreed to get rid of their nuclear arsenal. This happened when the Soviet Union broke up. So Ukraine was one of the first countries to get rid of their nuclear arsenal. Now Russia violated that agreement. Part of the agreement was that the U.S. and Britain and maybe others had agreed to help counter any violation.
Sure... They didn't want to recognize that it hadn't ended because 'believing' it was over was politically advantageous, cheaper, and required less work. Look we won the cold war! Now we can save money. Notice the quotes around 'believe'.
Guess you missed the part about an international treaty being signed between Russia and Ukraine and many other parties to recognize Ukrainian borders, not invade it, etc. in turn for Ukraine getting rid of its nuclear weapons. Russia violated that treaty when they invaded Crimea, and even admitted doing so. And now there is the 'militant commander' piece of shit in eastern Ukraine who admits he came from Crimea along with most of his other cohorts dressed in plain Russian combat uniforms and balaclavas. Only a retard would try to claim they aren't Russian special forces. You lose the argument.
The cold war restarted when Putin weaseled in, but the west didn't want to recognize it.
Odd also considering Obama's lame ass sanctions on Russia for their Ukraine incursions. Then again, maybe this is the key note item of 'lame ass' sanctions: buying rockets from someone you are berating for violations of a treaty between Russia and other western countries, made to respect Ukraine borders after Ukraine gave up their nuclear weapons. I wonder if Russia would be willing to trade off their incursions by selling Ukraine those idle boosters to allow Kiev to re-nuclear weaponize themselves. A little detente could go a long way.
FTFY: 'one party, two feces'
Solider metal.
It's OK, they are building little Voight-Kampff test machines to weed them out if necessary.
Part of the problem is agriculture. It creates a lot of forest field boundaries which are where deer like to live, never mind the grass fields being replaced by so nutritious grains. So we've given them an ideal environment which has helped increase their population more than even accounting for less predators would cause. There would have to be way more predators around than when we first modified the environment, and since deer live close to where people live, we'd have many neighbourhoods with wolves and cougars too. Not ideal. And it isn't just road accidents that are a problem with too many deer, you get unhealthy populations.
So by culling them, we keep the population healthier, need less predators where kids and families live, and help reduce car/deer accidents that often kill people. The one thing about hunting I totally disagree with, is taking the biggest healthiest specimens, usually so people can brag about the biggest rack. This causes the healthy deer you want to breed to be removed from the gene pool. Better to take average deer, and let the non-human predators that are around take the weak.
I'm keeping a two year supply in my basement.
I was thinking about the information that HP was thinking of getting into this market. What went though my mind was, "and you thought their ink jet cartridges are expensive, you ain't seen nothing yet!" But Apple, that's a whole other thing altogether. Even HP will look cheap if Apple gets into the market place.
But it can be.
Yeah same as the GM engineers who didn't 'call out' their company for their shitty ignition switch, or Toyota engineers for their shitty firmware. If they did their job any better strictly for their companies, they would have killed off all their market.