The geese are better than all the kids running around. Besides the geese have been using the area for far longer than Ottawa has been around.

It's in the middle of a city. In Canada we prefer not to have firearms discharged within our cities and towns. We're strange that way.

Because nothing major is going to happen in the next couple of years it's in human nature to do nothing about it as we think tend to think the future will have the best possible outcome.

Actually I was thinking more about the fact that you are going to reduce food production by reducing sunlight to the planet.

My problem with it is that in general people aren't as smart as we believe we are. We keep coming up with new things that have terrible side effects but when something new comes along we don't possibly believe that anything could go wrong with it. Maybe we are just hopelessly optimistic.

So you want to reduce the amount of growth in plants by reducing the amount of sunlight they get?

That worked so well with DDT.

And if the engineer was stopped from making the changes then he should have gone to the proper regulatory officials with evidence of the cover up.

I've got a coffee machine that grinds the beans and does single servings. I hate the waste generate by the Keurigs.

The politicians will like the savings until they realize that a base will be closed in their state or riding then they will oppose them. No politician is going to volunteer to have a base shut down or reduced in capacity in their area. They are more concerned about getting re-elected.

It's like the tanks that the army doesn't want. The jobs are spread out over such a wide area that there's so many politicians who are fighting to keep the program alive even though it's a waste of money.

Automation and global cheap labour have existed for centuries. The pace of change, it's scope, and the impact of communication and shipping technologies are greater than before.

The IOC didn't hold a gun to NBC and force them to pay all that money. NBC made a bid for the rights to show the Olympics and offered what they thought they could pay. Not saying that the IOC aren't a bunch of greedy bastards. Just that they took bids from all the of greedy networks and NBC happened to win the rights.

The Olympics stopped being about amateur sports a long time ago.

You could argue that just because someone wins that they aren't worthy.

Mandatory insurance is not health care reform. Yes I realize that there is more to the ACA than that but really if you want to provide health care for your citizens there are a lot better solutions out there. Unfortunately there is a fear of socialized health care in the US.