In Canada bottles are ~330ml but a beer at a pub is still a whole pint (~500ml). It is a different culture if you think of a modern bottle of beer as a pint. I can't imagine that.

You just stop ordering "a pint of brand X" and order "a brand-X". If Canadians can do it, you'll be okay.

It creates jobs and gives every red-blooded male an excuse to double his tool collection (at least the stuff like socket sets where you can get great bargains), what are we waiting for?

Actually, in metric it'd make sense to order a half litre which gets you almost an extra 2 tablespoons of beer.

Because (1) the webpage would get blocked for the people who need to use proxies and (2) you don't want to give everyone the same proxies.

He did contact Hotmail about it. He got a form letter response, replied again and hasn't heard anything. Yahoo keeps just sending him generic, irrelevant articles from their knowledge base. Neither company is "contact-able" in any useful way.

Few Canadians heat their homes with electricity since there are much cheaper options available. It may contribute to the use of energy sources (oil and natural gas, mostly) but it does not significantly contribute to the use of electrical energy. So the nuclear plants aren't directly keeping Canadians thawed out.

It depends, if the path to being perceived as qualified is gated by events which are more likely to happen to males then it's not hard for the top 15 people perceived as the most qualified to be male. It only takes a small bias towards seeing men as more talented at each rung of the ladder for the upper echelons to be almost completely male.

What about the research showing that people judge the same job applicatant as less competent when they have a female or non-white sounding name? If there's a bias in the assessment of how good a speaker is, then if you come up with all white males, it seems reasonable to revisit the process used to make the selection. The number of women getting selected for orchestras rises when auditions are done blind. Obviously blind selection doesn't work for invited speakers so the only option is more conscious re-evaluation of who could have been invited.

Or by choice. In a two-weeks of vacation world, I've walked out of a crappy job and spent a few months checking things out and figuring out what I wanted to do next. I could've done it while I was still working but I had enough savings and wanted a break. Ended up making up the savings I spent in a year or so at the new job too.

They really think that because they "paid their dues" to the system that the system needs to stay in place forever. Their disgust is reserved for new entrants who don't understand how the system "needs" to work.

Insist that they order a car to your specs. You'll have to wait but I know people who regularly do it with Audis and VWs. I almost did for my last car but they found one 10 hours away that was almost exactly what I wanted so I opted not to wait the 6-8 weeks. At least in Canada, I haven't found a VW or Audi dealer who won't place a factory order with fewer options than anything on their lot.

Are there actually STEM spaces going unfilled that could be filled with lower tuition? I paid higher tuition in engineering than programs considered non-professional but there were more applicants for engineering positions than spots available. Lowering my tuition instead of raising it wouldn't have created 1 more grad from the program. Actually, the labs & class space for new engineering programs came partly out of the additional tuition. Raising tuition didn't discourage students from applying and there are if anything more applicants for newer cost-recovery programs, though that might be due to PR & flashy names.

People don't power sailboats with purely green energy either. It's possible though difficult to put on enough solar to not need to use the engine for power generation (navigation equipment, refrigeration, lights, etc.). You're not going to get enough power for propulsion in port or low wind. You can't coat the decks in solar panels, even if they were more rugged, since you need good traction on deck and an arch can only hold a few panels. Plus the sails cast large shadows. Wind generators don't do much below 15 knots of wind. Tow generators supposedly work well but only while you're moving and they reduce your speed. Even if you could generate enough power, you'd need a monstrous battery bank to be able to accept it. Boats may be more efficient per mile than planes but they're not totally clean.

Glad that worked out for you. It is odd that Apple says to add contractors to the client's license for App Store distribution but not for B2B: https://developer.apple.com/support/ios/enrollment.html