Liberal by Alberta standards, I guess. You guys even have one MP that isn't a conservative!

Yeah, because destroying backwaters half way around the world is a surefire way to make the US 'free'.

Whereas the US just cut the shortwave coils out of German immigrant's radios. The american broadcasts were ridiculously scripted as well.

A lot of stuff 'flew' during the war that people wouldn't normally stand for, like say, internment of 'enemies', food & fuel rations, etc.

Polio isn't one of them. Polio is/was getting close. Smallpox is gone except at the CDC and a Russian equivalent that doubles as a bioweapons facility; gone in the wild.

#2 is rinderpest, a disease that used to plague cattle and various other 4 legged things like buffalo.

Yeah, this is the problem with the TB vaccine, it shows (properly, I suppose) that you've been exposed to TB.

In Canada we only use it in high risk areas now, mostly reserves in the far north.

There is a big difference between republican voters, and republicans in office.

Republican voters generally claim to want smaller government, reduced spending and deficits, etc. Republican governments on the other hand never do these things.

Corporations are people too, you insensitive clod!

I haven't seen the desk-type imprint machine in ages. Must be 20 years, maybe 10 - 15 years in backwater areas.

Though the last time I got my car towed, the driver had some sort of miniature impression rig. Which still makes sense, if you're out of range of network and whatnot...

Also in Cuba, they had one down there. Which sorta makes sense too.

The $1 iphone charger I took apart was such a poor design and construction. Very little isolation, so unsafe. two transistor resonant style switching setup, cheapest there is. Too small output capacitors making the output very noisy. Though it claimed 1A, it was dropping out by 300mA. Not even close. No input filtering at all. no fuse. I'm surprised the things work at all, really.

That's not to say that it isn't possible to make a good charger for less than a .. whatever ripoff pricing apple charges, $30? There should be room to profit on a $5-10 charger, and meet all standards... But the $1 ones are absolute garbage, and no one should use them, ever.

I think 'Prone to' is fine here. Apparently the iPhone chargers are more prone to starting on fire than a standard charger would be expected to. It's a relative thing.

Ford Pintos were prone to starting on fire. Not even a small minority of them actually did, though.

Seems like standard procedure for the "accountable and transparent" Harper Government.

My HP 1631 (circa 1985) most certainly doesn't run Windows 2000, you insensitive clod.

Some company bought a division of a company that makes an IC that apple uses. Wow.

Renesas is the merger of partial-spinoffs of semiconductor divisions from NEC, Hitachi, and Mistubishi, for people that don't recognize the brand.

Then they should revoke them every few years and have a lottery for who gets a new one.

of course companies will be massively butthurt by that, though.

Well, had they abandoned them in the theater they'd have cost $700k to taxpayers.

With the refurb, the sunk cost is then $1005k. So effective cost for the police having them is $305k, not $5k.