Really? We don't need to ship oil to the US? I guess that's why we have such a glut of refining capacity right. Well I guess we don't, because every time someone wants to go and build a refinery here some group of environmentalists throw a hissy fit. They even throw a hissy fit at expanding and updating existing refineries. So that's why it would be shipped to refineries in the US right? But, I guess the US has no pollution controls, no labor safety and lower wages then Canada? Well I guess the last one is mostly true. Wages in the US are lower than Canada now.

So now you know why we'd ship it to the US, but since the US environmentalists keep throwing a hissy fit too. Canada will sell it to whoever wants to buy it. It has nothing to do with "wages, pollution controls, or wages." It has all to do with environmentalists and them throwing a fit.

By the way, have you ever been to a reclaimed area? Like a coal mine, or an exhausted oil sand area. Places where nothing was growing before, and now it's in a pristine state. Yeah, I guess it's pretty dirty...

Probably none. Despite the whining that people go on about the government here in Canada, they actually do productive things. They have stepped in the past to deal with issues from "autonomous government agencies" like the CRTC, but I'm sure someone is going to whine and cry about my post anyway.

If that was true, then in places like Canada, we wouldn't be paying $0.60kWh for solar energy, when nuclear is $0.05kWh, and natural gas is $0.07-0.09kWh. Don't even get me started on wind with it being as high $0.83kWh. Then again, you guys in the states seem to throw a hissy fit every time we want to sell you oil, or even build pipelines to ship it to you. Energy independence? Only if it fits an environmentalist agenda for some people.

I can't say there's much of anything interesting at all. Since a lot of the stuff, except what's covered in your last sentence has been done by the old ECU's since the 90's. Even varying supply voltage has been under control since around 1996, the variation of voltage for ECU connected components was down to 0.03v, it's 0.01v these days. It doesn't *have* to be any better than that when the tolerance is +/- 0.04v per sensor. There isn't really a problem with injectors though. It's not hard to figure out the pulse timing per injector when measured against the cam and crank sensors. Even the TBI injectors that came up in the late 80's through 90's before MPFI became the mainstream used only a crank sensor.

The case law on this stuff is a mile long in terms of fraud here. If they're looking to be criminally charged, they're going about it the right way.

Why land a rather large rocket? Seriously. This same discussion took place pre-Apollo when engineers thought we'd have to land a large rocket on the moon. Their solution then would work equally well now. Send a lander with a small, lightweight return-to-orbit ascent stage. Leave the Earth-return rocket in orbit awaiting the ascent stage with sample. Your landing/takeoff mass problem is thus solved.

Granted, you now need an automated docking procedure in Mars orbit, but I can't imagine that would be more difficult to engineer than trying to orchestrate a much heavier land-and-return rocket setup.

It's government. Last time I did a government job here in Canada, there were old as dirt IBM and netware servers made in 1988 running everything.

Well....

Yes. It's called mens rea. And it depends on where you live, in some cases it's 9 years old in Canada it's 12 years old. That's the legal definition of "sentient and fully autonomous" while knowing the difference between "right and wrong."

/. turning into gawker/vox/etc. You want it, you got it! Clickbait all the time baby!

Probably fairly easy, since the US has treaties in place for trans-national bank accounts.

I'm a canuck citizen, I have bank accounts at: Chase, Wells Fargo and Toronto-Dominion(US). I walked into Wells Fargo in Florida a couple of years back to do some banking for my grandmother the Power of Attorney, I opened an account there in 8 minutes. I own property in Florida, I'm not a US resident, I've never held a green card, I have had a work permit back 15 years ago though.

I live in Canada, and sure people like the public services here ... as long as they can get them. Then again, I've been waiting 9 months to see a ENT specialist...dem public services...

Oh look, someone left the stormfront open again.

Somehow I'll trust the chaos computer club calling it a intranet over your definition.

Yeah, I really don't see a problem here. Even up here in "liberal canada" you drive drunk, you get your car towed and impounded, then you can end up anywhere between a steep fine, and a criminal conviction. In fact, the problem was considered so serious at one time that the RIDE program was given a defacto bypass on our new charter of rights and freedoms. Allowing the program to operate as an unlawful search.

While not so much of a problem in most of the country now, there are many areas where it is even 35+ years later after the DUI laws were put in place.