So what? They won seats, and split the vote on the right so much the conservatives were down to two seats. It was either fold up a very old political party or merge with reform. They did the latter. See Wikipedia: "Reform had also failed in 1997 to establish itself as the clear right-wing alternative to the Liberal Party. The Progressive Conservative Party, which had been steadily rebuilt under Charest, enjoyed a modest revival in the 1997 election. It won 20 seats, up from the dismal two it had won during in the 1993 election. The split in the right-wing vote between Reform and the PCs allowed the Liberals to win a second majority government with only 40% of the vote, the combined vote of the Reform and the PCs in 1997 equalled the same amount. Political observers noted that it was a divided right which allowed the Liberals to gain a second majority government, and claimed that if the two parties did not put away their differences, the result would repeat itself."
The NEP was actually enacted between the years of 1980 and 1985. Canada never say "twenty-five cent a gallon gasoline", despite this fine program.
If you look at the top 5 oil producing nations in the world, only Canaa charges its citizens full retail. Given the staggering rise in heating oil costs (ie, what use to cost $750 a season now costs $5000, many poeple have given up their homes because of this) and the trend towars national policy, not provincial, being in charge of that kind of oil gives some wiggle room in a country where the government subsidizes home, heat and shelter for poeple in its safety net. Or we could just run the thing like a US business, which is where Harper et al want to do for some reason. I'm sure that they're one of the most clueless and corrupt parties in Canadian political history is just a coincidence.
Again, from Wikipedia:
The NEP was introduced in the wake of the energy crises of the 1970s. Because of high oil prices, several economic problems that were beginning to manifest themselves through the 1970s were accelerated and magnified. Inflation was most commonly between 9 and 10 percent annually[1] and prime interest rates over 10 percent.[2] Unemployment was epidemic in the eastern provinces.[3] The NEP was designed to promote oil self-sufficiency for Canada, maintain the oil supply, particularly for the industrial base in eastern Canada, promote Canadian ownership of the energy industry, promote lower prices, promote exploration for oil in Canada, promote alternative energy sources, and increase government revenues from oil sales through a variety of taxes and agreements.[4] The NEP's Petroleum Gas Revenue Tax (PGRT) instituted a double-taxation mechanism that did not apply to other commodities, such as gold and copper (see "Program details" item (c), below). The program would "... redistribute revenue from the [oil] industry and lessen the cost of oil for Eastern Canada..." in an attempt to insulate the Canadian economy from the shock of rising global oil prices[5] (see "Program details" item (a), below). By keeping domestic oil prices below world market prices, the NEP was essentially mandating provincial generosity and subsidizing all Canadian consumers of fuel.[6]
- The "oil sands" were a benefit, but did not substantially increase Canadian oil production. Oil production in Canada has been rising at a fairly steady rate for the past 50 years
Yeah and it dropped in 72 and didn't recover until 95 again.
Sure, and under Liberal rule the country ran well. Under Conservative rule it went downhill very quickly: education, health care, prisons, foreign affairs, defense - all these have been chipped away by either federal or provincial conservatives and the damage never undone.
One quick example: when I went to school in the 70s high school had grade thirteen, which was optional but was, in a sense, like first year college, but free. The Ontario premier (a failed teacher) did away with this and found a way to save a few bucks by having school start early. This mean getting up at 5:30 to catch a bus in rural areas and kids are out by 2:30. That being enough out of sync with the 9-5 world of the parents that it caused problems oh an the results are in - kids don't learn well this way according to recent studies. Who would?
It's hard to keep crazies in mental hospitals now because of rules brought in by the same whacko, and he gutted the prison system - no more educational/training programs, no more daily legal services. You just rot there now. Recenlty a large federal prison near here in Kingston had to shit their farm down that has been in use for ages - they grew their own vegegetables. That got shut down even though the alternative - having food trucked in - was more expensive. Somebody got bribed, there isn't a single good thing to come of that deal for anybody but the company providing the food.
The conservatives a a pack of treasonous cunts who have absolutely decimated what Canada is and what Canada could have been if it were not for the mean spirited, greedy corrupt pack of not-very-smart-poeple we jokingly refer to as "the conservative party".
And he is far, far from innocent. This is about a oil sands. A long long time ago Canada was - not so much - an oil producing nation, then they figured out how to get oil out of the oil shale ("tar sands"). Suddenly Canada had a few trilliion dollars of goo to exploit. What does a country do when it finds a windfall like that? Help its poeple or exploit the shit out of it and get what you can on the world market (then blame the Suadi's for the price of oil)?
At the time the PM was Pierre Trudeau, as fine of a PM as this country has ever known. Now, some countries, like, oh, Britain, consider fuel to be an essential resource and it's nationalized. Trudeau made some noise that maybe that wasn't a terrible idea and Canada want to do something *like* that.
Boom. That was it. Suddenly from out west a new political party popped up, the "reform" party, With the usual American style Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt they managed to scare the electorate to the point where they trounced the more liberal conservative party to the point where it had only 2 seats, then consumed it.
And who was the guy that spearheaded the reform party out west and ushered in a USA style way of doing things? Steven Harper. Who used to live in Toronto.
Starting with the first oil crisis in the late 70s American big oil interests have pumped a lot of money into Canada to get the government they want - and they got it in the form of Vice President Harper who gave us Bush's wars and we sell all the oil to the US - America gets most of its oil from Canada and very little from Saudi check for yourself.
Canada has enough oil and so few poeple that we could be having twenty-five-cent a gallon gasoline or heating oil - the latter being pretty important in a country that gets -44 degree weather and relies on oil in rural settings almost exclusively. Instead the oil is sold to the US at Saudi prices and American oil companies benefit.
No PM in recent history has done more to damage Canada than Harper. And oh look, it wasn't even a legitimate vote. Is there any doubt we're the 51's state or that _Syriana_ could be re-shot in a more, um, northern clime?
I used to get "sinus infections" a lot up until 5 years ago. Usually in the spring and the fall. Doc said it's cause of all the mold in the air then. *cillin isn't that useful for this and the last time he gave me Ciprio. Awful stuff. Makes you utterly lactose intolerent and one bowl of clam chowder let me now what cholera must feel like.
Turns out though, that oregano oil is chesaper, safer, quicker and more effective than any antibiotics I've ever tried. I don't even get them any more. But, everyone who has a "head cold" - which is often how a sinus infection presents, should try this.
Oregano oil is really really strong. This does bit a little, but you fell better pretty much immediatly. Oregano oil is one of the strongest anti fungals known, it's anti-viral and kills bacteria so well a recent university of bristol (?) study fond it not only kills MRSA (as Mayo found out) but does do so in stupid low concentrations.
It's also good in pizza and/or spaghetti sauce. Use one drop.
Notes: 1) all synthetic medicine has side effects. avoid antibiotics if you can 2) i've seen more bad advice on this page than I'm even used to on/. - wow. 3) make sure you get organic oregano oil. when you concentrate things this much any traces of pesticide or what have you become significant. you want to avoid that.
Why is this idea that life happened *once*? Precursor reactions invariably happened many times all over the place. Who knows how many time it almost began and didn't quite make it, or began and got wiped out. Eventually, obviously, it happened and life fanned out from there. But I'm guessing it happened all over the place and not just one time in one place. The odds would seem to be against that.
"Higher CO2 helps some plants (poison ivy comes to mind) grow but not others"
No. Just no. You might want to do a little research into the subject before you go making stuff up like that.
*ALL* terrestrial and aquatic plant life on earth is carbon limited. Plants also grow faster when its warmer too.
These are simple experiments you can do for yourself and have been documented, oh, about a million times in the last century going back (from articles I can pull off the top of my head) since the 50s.
You can check for yourself, during the 70s and 80s "the next ice age" was mentioned quite a bit. try news.google.com/archivesearch and look for yourself.
"global warming" popped up in 1985.
althoiugh it was first mentioned in the popular press in 1953
These guys make a pretty credible and robust case for 600, not 10,000 years. CERN just reproduced some of their results (which the director of CERN put a gag order on).
Correct. I created alt.aquaria (indirectly) and alt.sex (indirectly) and comp.fonts and all the aquaria groups and alt.prose and christ knows what else.
Brian Reid was my best friend on the net back then (and still is) and he created alt. It wasn't created for warez, it was created because Brian was pissed off his recipes group got turfed by Gene Spafford. John Gilmore wanted alt.drugs so they created those two groups, quietly snuck the into decwrl and the rest is history. alt.aquaria was the 7th alt group
Henry Hardy wrote hos masters thesis on this. You can check for yourself online.
Don't forget.NATO which was slipped in the root one day when a general called IANA ans asked for it. It was deprecated over the next decade and one day in 1996 or 7 Postel said "there's 7 tlds" "Uh, what about.NATO John? That's 8" (click click click") ok NOW there's 7 tlds, and he took it out of the root.
Things used to be a tad more loose than they are now. You don't want to know the story behind the Iraqi tld.
And the interesting thing about.ARPA domains is they never expire.
If you own any IP addresses, you own a.ARPA domain.
The hot tip is to put your nameservers under.ARPA simpy delegate a subdomain to yourself. They work just fine as A, MX or NS records.
The problem is no ICANN registrar I can find will accept a domain ending in.ARPA as a nameserver. This is a bug and should be fixed. I've had no luck in 3 years getting this to happen. It would be nice if it did though.
Depends where you are. North of Madoc, between the highway and Algonquin park, for examples, there's zero coverage.
But, if you're in Toronto, every coffee shop has free wireless. In the 2 mile stretch of Yonge st between Bloor and Lawrence, there are 11 Starbucks; 3 on one block (at Eglington).
"Yes, because others became faster. They did so by using JIT and such. Then Opera did the same thing, and now all browsers are basically the same performance wise."
For everything except Javasctipt, sure. But Chrome is head and shoulders faster for JS than anything else.
I've used Opera since version 3 and agree completely with the above post. I still use it, but have to use Chrome with facebook; no other browser works (at least for me) if you leave it open for hours and hours, it just gets slower and slower until it's unusably slow. I use Chrome for FB. But I still use Opera for everything else because it's the only browser that gets complex forms right under all circumstances.
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- The reform party never won an election.
So what? They won seats, and split the vote on the right so much the conservatives were down to two seats. It was either fold up a very old political party or merge with reform. They did the latter. See Wikipedia: "Reform had also failed in 1997 to establish itself as the clear right-wing alternative to the Liberal Party. The Progressive Conservative Party, which had been steadily rebuilt under Charest, enjoyed a modest revival in the 1997 election. It won 20 seats, up from the dismal two it had won during in the 1993 election. The split in the right-wing vote between Reform and the PCs allowed the Liberals to win a second majority government with only 40% of the vote, the combined vote of the Reform and the PCs in 1997 equalled the same amount. Political observers noted that it was a divided right which allowed the Liberals to gain a second majority government, and claimed that if the two parties did not put away their differences, the result would repeat itself."
The NEP was actually enacted between the years of 1980 and 1985. Canada never say "twenty-five cent a gallon gasoline", despite this fine program.
If you look at the top 5 oil producing nations in the world, only Canaa charges its citizens full retail. Given the staggering rise in heating oil costs (ie, what use to cost $750 a season now costs $5000, many poeple have given up their homes because of this) and the trend towars national policy, not provincial, being in charge of that kind of oil gives some wiggle room in a country where the government subsidizes home, heat and shelter for poeple in its safety net. Or we could just run the thing like a US business, which is where Harper et al want to do for some reason. I'm sure that they're one of the most clueless and corrupt parties in Canadian political history is just a coincidence.
Again, from Wikipedia:
The NEP was introduced in the wake of the energy crises of the 1970s. Because of high oil prices, several economic problems that were beginning to manifest themselves through the 1970s were accelerated and magnified. Inflation was most commonly between 9 and 10 percent annually[1] and prime interest rates over 10 percent.[2] Unemployment was epidemic in the eastern provinces.[3] The NEP was designed to promote oil self-sufficiency for Canada, maintain the oil supply, particularly for the industrial base in eastern Canada, promote Canadian ownership of the energy industry, promote lower prices, promote exploration for oil in Canada, promote alternative energy sources, and increase government revenues from oil sales through a variety of taxes and agreements.[4] The NEP's Petroleum Gas Revenue Tax (PGRT) instituted a double-taxation mechanism that did not apply to other commodities, such as gold and copper (see "Program details" item (c), below). The program would "... redistribute revenue from the [oil] industry and lessen the cost of oil for Eastern Canada..." in an attempt to insulate the Canadian economy from the shock of rising global oil prices[5] (see "Program details" item (a), below). By keeping domestic oil prices below world market prices, the NEP was essentially mandating provincial generosity and subsidizing all Canadian consumers of fuel.[6]
- The "oil sands" were a benefit, but did not substantially increase Canadian oil production. Oil production in Canada has been rising at a fairly steady rate for the past 50 years
Yeah and it dropped in 72 and didn't recover until 95 again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Oil_Production_1960_to_2020.png
blah blah blah... It was a blatant attempt by the Liberal party to buy votes.
Clearly the oil industry still has some Wikipedia edits to make to bring history in line with their "official" version.
We have always been at war with Oceana, too.
Sure, and under Liberal rule the country ran well. Under Conservative rule it went downhill very quickly: education, health care, prisons, foreign affairs, defense - all these have been chipped away by either federal or provincial conservatives and the damage never undone.
One quick example: when I went to school in the 70s high school had grade thirteen, which was optional but was, in a sense, like first year college, but free. The Ontario premier (a failed teacher) did away with this and found a way to save a few bucks by having school start early. This mean getting up at 5:30 to catch a bus in rural areas and kids are out by 2:30. That being enough out of sync with the 9-5 world of the parents that it caused problems oh an the results are in - kids don't learn well this way according to recent studies. Who would?
It's hard to keep crazies in mental hospitals now because of rules brought in by the same whacko, and he gutted the prison system - no more educational/training programs, no more daily legal services. You just rot there now. Recenlty a large federal prison near here in Kingston had to shit their farm down that has been in use for ages - they grew their own vegegetables. That got shut down even though the alternative - having food trucked in - was more expensive. Somebody got bribed, there isn't a single good thing to come of that deal for anybody but the company providing the food.
The conservatives a a pack of treasonous cunts who have absolutely decimated what Canada is and what Canada could have been if it were not for the mean spirited, greedy corrupt pack of not-very-smart-poeple we jokingly refer to as "the conservative party".
...and they can't run again. If we don't weed out these fuckkers they'll just find new ways to do it.
Whether he's to blame or not, he's accountable.
And he is far, far from innocent. This is about a oil sands. A long long time ago Canada was - not so much - an oil producing nation, then they figured out how to get oil out of the oil shale ("tar sands"). Suddenly Canada had a few trilliion dollars of goo to exploit. What does a country do when it finds a windfall like that? Help its poeple or exploit the shit out of it and get what you can on the world market (then blame the Suadi's for the price of oil)?
At the time the PM was Pierre Trudeau, as fine of a PM as this country has ever known. Now, some countries, like, oh, Britain, consider fuel to be an essential resource and it's nationalized. Trudeau made some noise that maybe that wasn't a terrible idea and Canada want to do something *like* that.
Boom. That was it. Suddenly from out west a new political party popped up, the "reform" party, With the usual American style Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt they managed to scare the electorate to the point where they trounced the more liberal conservative party to the point where it had only 2 seats, then consumed it.
And who was the guy that spearheaded the reform party out west and ushered in a USA style way of doing things? Steven Harper. Who used to live in Toronto.
Starting with the first oil crisis in the late 70s American big oil interests have pumped a lot of money into Canada to get the government they want - and they got it in the form of Vice President Harper who gave us Bush's wars and we sell all the oil to the US - America gets most of its oil from Canada and very little from Saudi check for yourself.
Canada has enough oil and so few poeple that we could be having twenty-five-cent a gallon gasoline or heating oil - the latter being pretty important in a country that gets -44 degree weather and relies on oil in rural settings almost exclusively. Instead the oil is sold to the US at Saudi prices and American oil companies benefit.
No PM in recent history has done more to damage Canada than Harper. And oh look, it wasn't even a legitimate vote. Is there any doubt we're the 51's state or that _Syriana_ could be re-shot in a more, um, northern clime?
FMA instruction? Fuck Microsoft and Apple?
Does it take an operand, too? Or is there a variant to replace Adobe for Apple?
Great instruction though. ISAGN.
Skip the first 15 minutes of chair shuffling: http://vimeo.com/18279777
I used to get "sinus infections" a lot up until 5 years ago. Usually in the spring and the fall. Doc said it's cause of all the mold in the air then. *cillin isn't that useful for this and the last time he gave me Ciprio. Awful stuff. Makes you utterly lactose intolerent and one bowl of clam chowder let me now what cholera must feel like.
Turns out though, that oregano oil is chesaper, safer, quicker and more effective than any antibiotics I've ever tried. I don't even get them any more. But, everyone who has a "head cold" - which is often how a sinus infection presents, should try this.
Oregano oil is really really strong. This does bit a little, but you fell better pretty much immediatly. Oregano oil is one of the strongest anti fungals known, it's anti-viral and kills bacteria so well a recent university of bristol (?) study fond it not only kills MRSA (as Mayo found out) but does do so in stupid low concentrations.
It's also good in pizza and/or spaghetti sauce. Use one drop.
Here's how you treat your sinuses with it: http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/medicine/oregano/sinus/
Notes: /. - wow.
1) all synthetic medicine has side effects. avoid antibiotics if you can
2) i've seen more bad advice on this page than I'm even used to on
3) make sure you get organic oregano oil. when you concentrate things this much any traces of pesticide or what have you become significant. you want to avoid that.
Why is this idea that life happened *once*? Precursor reactions invariably happened many times all over the place. Who knows how many time it almost began and didn't quite make it, or began and got wiped out. Eventually, obviously, it happened and life fanned out from there. But I'm guessing it happened all over the place and not just one time in one place. The odds would seem to be against that.
Yes but not in Palo Alto - they did the hardware, but Xerox El Segnudo did the now famous GUI Star software.
"Higher CO2 helps some plants (poison ivy comes to mind) grow but not others"
No. Just no. You might want to do a little research into the subject before you go making stuff up like that.
*ALL* terrestrial and aquatic plant life on earth is carbon limited. Plants also grow faster when its warmer too.
These are simple experiments you can do for yourself and have been documented, oh, about a million times in the last century going back (from articles I can pull off the top of my head) since the 50s.
Your "search" is about articles that talk about how global cooling didn't exist in the 70s.
Why doin't you try an actual search of newspapers and magazines in the 70s and 80s. The yields a different result.
"the next ice age" have way to "the ozone hole" which gave way to global warming.
it's always some damn thing or another. many people were convinced in 1900 that halley's comet would cause the death of all mankind.
it's always some damn thing or another.
You can check for yourself, during the 70s and 80s "the next ice age" was mentioned quite a bit. try news.google.com/archivesearch and look for yourself.
"global warming" popped up in 1985.
althoiugh it was first mentioned in the popular press in 1953
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/climate/.images/med_greenhouse_effect.jpg
These guys make a pretty credible and robust case for 600, not 10,000 years. CERN just reproduced some of their results (which the director of CERN put a gag order on).
1 hr. David Suzuki. Well worth watching
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/ideas/climate/poles/
Correct. I created alt.aquaria (indirectly) and alt.sex (indirectly) and comp.fonts and all the aquaria groups and alt.prose and christ knows what else.
Brian Reid was my best friend on the net back then (and still is) and he created alt. It wasn't created for warez, it was created because Brian was pissed off his recipes group got turfed by Gene Spafford. John Gilmore wanted alt.drugs so they created those two groups, quietly snuck the into decwrl and the rest is history. alt.aquaria was the 7th alt group
Henry Hardy wrote hos masters thesis on this. You can check for yourself online.
Don't forget .NATO which was slipped in the root one day when a general called IANA ans asked for it. It was deprecated over the next decade and one day in 1996 or 7 Postel said "there's 7 tlds" "Uh, what about .NATO John? That's 8" (click click click") ok NOW there's 7 tlds, and he took it out of the root.
Things used to be a tad more loose than they are now. You don't want to know the story behind the Iraqi tld.
And the interesting thing about .ARPA domains is they never expire.
If you own any IP addresses, you own a .ARPA domain.
The hot tip is to put your nameservers under .ARPA simpy delegate a subdomain to yourself. They work just
fine as A, MX or NS records.
The problem is no ICANN registrar I can find will accept a domain ending in .ARPA as a nameserver. This is a bug and
should be fixed. I've had no luck in 3 years getting this to happen. It would be nice if it did though.
(as for the subject I miss http://swiss.frog.museum/
No it wasn't. I was there on day one. You weren't.
I created alt.sex way back, and that filtered the sex of regular usenet, so there's precedent for this.
It'll work. You can make noise about it in a few years if I'm wrong. And suck up accordingly if I'm not.
If we can suspend the rhetoric for a moment and stick to actual science, can somebody tell me if there is a flaw in the logic or premises of page 8 of this document: http://www.climate-skeptic.com/Climate%20Presentation%20Annotated%201-1-2010.pdf
Danke.
"I still think it's a poorly worded phrase."
Yeah. Embarrassingly poorly worded.
"Fishkeeping is a thinking person's hobby."
Except for those damn cichlid people.
Richard
http://killi.net/
The diet of Pacu is fruit. How dangerous can they be?
Depends where you are. North of Madoc, between the highway and Algonquin park, for examples, there's zero coverage.
But, if you're in Toronto, every coffee shop has free wireless. In the 2 mile stretch of Yonge st between Bloor and Lawrence, there are 11 Starbucks; 3 on one block (at Eglington).
"Yes, because others became faster. They did so by using JIT and such. Then Opera did the same thing, and now all browsers are basically the same performance wise."
For everything except Javasctipt, sure. But Chrome is head and shoulders faster for JS than anything else.
Stuff like this is why that's significant: http://rs79.vrx.net/interests/computers/sw/js/demos/year/20/1/1/
I've used Opera since version 3 and agree completely with the above post. I still use it, but have to use Chrome with facebook; no other browser works (at least for me) if you leave it open for hours and hours, it just gets slower and slower until it's unusably slow. I use Chrome for FB. But I still use Opera for everything else because it's the only browser that gets complex forms right under all circumstances.
Domain names aren't trademarks, they're ways to address a node on a network.
The network works just fine even though both Delta Airlines and Delta faucets have a trademark for "Delta".
Nobody turns on their tap and expects to hear airline schedules.