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Comment Re:Google? wtf (Score 2) 23

>"Switching from Microsoft to Google is like switching from Hitler to Mussolini. Move to Libre Office or the like."

Yeah, really.

But 20 million cells? That seems ridiculous. Why aren't they using a database for something that huge?

Anyway, I had to check... LibreOffice Calc supports more than 1 billion cells from 16,384 columns by 1,048,576 rows. Hope the machine has a lot of RAM if trying to push that :)

Comment Re: climate change is real (Score 1) 29

Ach, get real. There was kilometers of ice on top of Canada just a few thousand years ago, but the melting was not caused by Indians burning oil and coal in their caves. Ice ages are caused by tiny oscillations in the earth orbit and solar activity and it will all happen again unfortunately. All our coal and oil burning may postpone it a little, if we are lucky.

Comment Re: It's giving away nothing and gets political co (Score 1) 29

Canada is a relatively small country, similar to Italy, Spain or Poland, so there is not too much money lying around there. However, if there is a large Asian client who wants oil badly enough, then it will be funded. The Trans mountain pipeline has expanded by 3x with private money since it was built a few years ago with public money - Not a bad investment.

Comment Re: Chain of thoughts (Score 1) 29

Sanity always prevails in the end, but it can take a while. One thing the climate doomers ignore is petrochemia - we need lubricants, waxes, adhesives, coatings and polymers which almost exclusively come from oil. Burning oil is kinda stupid, since there are better uses for it, so it is a problem that will eventually solve itself.

Comment Re:Annoying but actually reasonable (Score 2) 154

>"It can very well be true, though, that one government entity is not allowed to share personal data with another government entity."

It could be. But it also seems ridiculous and incompetent in this case. Both entities already know me, my address. And both know my vehicle, VIN, etc. One just knows an annual odometer reading that the other does not. Not like this is sensitive data or could be abused at that resolution.

I shouldn't assume the worst, but it APPEARS like they want to force people to try and be tracked.

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