I think this is really the point that the OP was making. This mother sounds like someone who has an extremely naive and narrow view of people around them. Granted this might be a cherry-picked quote to portray her as such.

~97% of electricity produced in Quebec comes from hydro. A lot of that is exported too (~$1 billion per year). HydroQuebec is also investing significantly in alternative energy sources because their hydro capacity is expected to peak in the next decade. Alternatives include biomass, wind, thermal, etc. It's a good thing. They do have a gas plant which is currently not used due to the huge surplus.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... (2011)

+1 this. I came for the increased bandwidth and lower costs, I stay for the sense of morality. They recently increased my broadband plan pricing by about 12%; I didn't even bat an eyelash - still much cheaper than the major telcos.

And over time as the technology improves they will make fewer and fewer mistakes. Are they the future? Yes. But I believe widespread adoption even in a single country is at least 50 years away. It boggles me that people are pursuing self driving cars when we don't even have automated trains yet.

This ignores the fact that without the trolling and threats, Yik Yak might be a service that people want to use and benefit from. Your comment could just as easily be applied to the internet in general. I don't think society has a very bright future if every time the trolls move in, we simply let the forum or medium "die off". This is already happening with most sites that allow comments on news articles - the trolls have prevented any meaningful discussion and the commenting is shut down. It is not a good thing.

No, I don't think there's a law that will adequately address the issue without harming other freedoms, but letting potentially useful services die off because of random assholes seems too far in the other direction.

To my knowledge Quebecker isn't really a derogatory term by itself, but then I am not from Quebec. Similarly I don't think "newfie" is derogatory (someone from Newfoundland), though the term is often used in many negative contexts. Quebecois is more of an official french term for someone from Quebec, though I've heard it used in both english and french contexts.

As a Canadian I really do wonder about it sometimes too. It's not like we're an asshole-free territory. Some of my close friends are assholes. Maybe we just have less per capita?

I bet their harassment victims could give them the number for a suicide hotline.

I'm not sure if the trademark is an issue, but I would definitely say it is confusing. When I saw the title "Power Rangers", and that they had professional actors (as far as Katee Sackhoff goes), and good production quality, I assumed this was some kind of licensed spinoff.

/Didn't read TFA, didn't finish watching TFM, and definitely hated TFS.

When I read the summary I was thinking the same thing. Of course as you say it's mostly a problem when instructing others to do stuff with those files. The admins for our prod environment are ridiculously bad at figuring these things out.

This is interesting. I was not close to my father when he died (I was about 20), which I regret very much now, and I would absolutely love to come across any videos of him talking about anything. I recently rewatched a video from his second marriage ceremony. Certainly I cried, it made me sad, but it enriched me to see video of him as a happy person. Afterwards I felt closer to him. I would love to see videos of him talking about things he did in his life.

I wonder if your view on this depends on how close you were to a relative before they died. Those who were close don't want to be reminded of what is missing?

Eeep, I'm sorry you had a bad experience, but marrying younger makes you far more likely to get divorced and end up in the "reject bin" you speak of. http://www.thecanadianencyclop... Much better advice (statistically), would be to suggest living with someone for several years BEFORE getting married.

It's free rides for a particular market (Seoul), not free rides for Koreans.

By who? A foreign government agency with no jurisdiction?

Yup. In 2009 the country's average was 7 incidents per day. List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001

Now of course, X years from now when everything has stabilized, will their government repeal these rules and delete the database? It's not really relevant since most likely they will have been overthrown by the insurgents or the US again.