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Comment Re:Not at all what it seems (Score 2) 168

lot of financial issues in Canada and it isn't anything new
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http://www.cbc.ca/news2/intera...
Canadians had no financial issues until Harper took power. We were on track to pay off the national debt.

Libraries are hardly used to begin
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cost a significant amount to create and maintain
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They are expensive, and a huge tax burden
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Everything in those libraries are turned into ebooks
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Comment Preliminary injunction (Score 1) 211

I guess it would take a litigator to notice this, but it's quite unusual that a preliminary injunction denial would be getting this kind of appellate attention.

In the first place, it was unusual for an interlocutory appeal to be granted from the denial of the preliminary injunction motion. In federal court usually you can only appeal from a final judgment.

Similarly, apart from the fact that it's always rare for a certiorari petition to be granted, it's especially tough where the appeal is not from a final judgment, but just from a preliminary injunction denial which does not dispose of the whole case.

Comment Re:This is frightening (Score 1) 312

I think the strongest candidates for the Great Filter are Life originating, Multi-cellular Life evolving, Intelligent Life evolving, and the existence of an environment that remains continually-habitable for 4 billion years.

For all of the filtration events in the past that weren't serious, I can't see any evidence that these four aren't doozies. I certainly lean towards the filtration of the past explaining our solitude, rather than a filtration in the future.

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