Updating the phone is the weak spot of Android. However, I'm not sure what the benefit of not needing to install apps to use them have, other than perhaps cause confusion to end users about what app they are even using at any given moment. Unless done well, this has the potential to be a security nightmare.

I'm having doubts you've ever seen or heard snowmobiles in their natural environment. They scream their presence and it's heard loud and clear even kilometres away. The only thing I can think of with a comparable sound is rigs using their engine retarder brakes. Good luck hearing a car even a block away. When the only really effective snow vehicle advertises it's position like that, any snowmobile that doesn't do that is going to mean the difference between victory and defeat in a snowy battlefield. There can be no more important military spending than to make sure that the Canadian army can win a war on home turf. Even if they don't build many of them, it's important for them to do the research so that they can build them quickly if the need arose. If that means some soldiers have to go without for the short term, so be it. We're not fighting a war at the moment.

I think that's why he failed. He's just an Arctic policy expert. Snowmobiles are excellent vehicles in any place where snow falls... and in Canadian winters, that's just about freakin' everywhere. It's not about the Arctic, this is about being able to fight a war in the wintertime better than anyone else can. Afghanistan gets snow in the winter, and snowmobiles get to drive just about anywhere, so avoid roadside bombs. They could have been very useful in Afghan winters for swift strike teams. If it snows, and it's wartime, this is a good idea. Everyone always complains how our soldiers don't get the gear they need, and when the government tries to change that, people whine and complain again. I'm Canadian, and I think this is a great idea.

"there's a mathematical proof of the existence of God"

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That was funny.

No wait... you're serious?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Fucking idiot.

The anecdotal evidence you present is actually evidence against your assertion that everything is going fine.

You say you're smart, but you can't see the obvious reasons in front of you that what is happening is very bad. Foreign students aren't a bad thing, but in the numbers they come in, and the financial barriers to entry in universities, it's like flies sitting on the still twitching corpse of the USA educational system. What they are doing is gathering the knowledge and expertise gathered by the USA over the last 100 years, and taking it home with them. To them, it's a very worthwhile venture, that is why they pay. But for local USA students looking for jobs after they graduate it's not a rosy picture... they will be enrolling in ever smaller numbers. The USA system will never disappear, as there will always be that elite core of the rich and brilliant, but the age where college is possible for the common man is coming to an end, so naturally as the local enrolment dwindles, you will see a much larger proportion of foreigners.

There will always be someone hungrier who will take the job, regardless of how many people complain that these companies aren't worth working for. This is what corporations like McDonald's or WalMart, and obviously this NZ airline rely on. It may sound counter-intuitive, but somewhat a somewhat bad economy lets these companies flourish because there is less choice. In some ways the system is rigged against the common man, and regulation is required to put an end to such practice. The free market will NOT sort this out on it's own.

Because Game of Thrones is trying (somewhat successfully) to worm it's way into our culture. Once something is a part of our culture, in some ways it belongs to everyone. Seeing all the illegal downloads shows me that people value access to their culture far more than they value obeying some antiquated and corrupt laws.

If you read the TFA, they say this is likely a mountain entirely built up by wind-borne sediment. Assuming they can access various layers of sediment, then yes, it's possible. Even still, the walls of a deep crater do sound like a better candidate to examine rock strata.

Chechnya. Twice. And before you say it's an internal matter, it's no more an internal matter than if they had invaded Ukraine. The strong splinter states of the USSR got their freedom. The weak ones got steamrolled. In Moscow, Chechens aren't considered Russian... so how could this truly be an internal matter?

The government was never very nice, you just woke up to it. If you truly want that fantasy government back, go buy yourself a flat of beer, switch the channel to Maury, disconnect your internet, and for God's sake, don't read anything!

Notice I never gave you any voting advice... it's because you don't need to worry about that. How and if you vote never really matters.

I think they could do better if they had a 2d mesh of individually controlled apetures that had switchable nozzles that could easily switch between extruding gel and resin. The printing speed would be ridiculously fast.

With a bacteria that can infect plants and cause them to suck nitrogen out of the air... let out of control on a large scale, this may affect the world in a drastic way, much like how the first oxygen producing microbes first appeared on earth.

Back in it's day, the Stileproject operated from Canada for years and years, and hosted new shocking shit daily. Stile himself checked with authorities and everything was just fine. WTF happened with this site that is so different? Selective enforcement because the site operator is a mouthy prick?

He may be remembered as the USA's Alberto Fujimori.

I've never tried DuckDuckGo, but did today because of this article. I chose a type of search that I do often and tried it on Duck, Google, and Bing. (Searching for a specific string on a large forum website.) Google, my usual favourite, came in last. Middle was Bing, and for some reason, DuckDuckGo was the best, and found things for me I had never before known about. I was mildly impressed. I know this is totally anecdotal, but it made me happy. That, along with the slightly better privacy, made me switch today. Also, I think it's important to punish Google for rolling over for the US government. They were somewhat good at standing up to the Chinese government for privacy issues, yet did nothing when the USA decided to do far worse. In my opinion, they've lost every bit of good will they've gained with their "don't be evil" slogan and policies. They're no better morally than Goldman Sachs, Monsanto, or Microsoft, the slow slide into corruption is now complete. On to the next underdog...