You have a broken arm. Do you really have something better to be doing?

The last few times I went into Emerg at my local Canadian hospital, I received excellent care. People with life threatening or deteriorating conditions were seen immediately. Those who were either stable, or who should have just gone to a walk-in clinic had to wait longer.

Good idea. Which state gets to be Chechnya?

They are. China has 14 nuclear reactors operating, are constructing another 25. More are planned. Here's hoping their safety systems are sufficient.

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Actually, I'd prefer energy policy changes that help mitigate GW over the medium to long term. Wealth redistribution may or may not be a useful social goal, but that's not really relevant here.

My personal view is that we should expend more effort into advanced nuclear technologies. LFTR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor looks particularly promising. This can be augmented with wind/solar/hydro etc where it makes sense to build them. If we need 100% proof that GW will destroy us before acting, we have to wait to be destroyed first. This is a stupid position, hence models and predictions, as imperfect as they are.

Yes we should! Stupid walking balls of allergens....

I must have missed the part of the story where the whole movie was ruined and they had to throw out the footage and start again from scratch. Or are you claiming that the unauthorized upload ruined the movie, causing it to be really bad? That actually makes more sense. X-Men: Origins was terrible.

Spoken like someone with the cranial structure of a Neanderthal.

FTFY

But how do you save it to a write only location? Easy, just use syslog and send it to a remote server.

And where do you keep the private key? Oh, easy, just dump it in /etc. That can't possibly be a problem.

No, you own the government. And it's not one of those limited liability deals either. You have part ownership of all the public lands and assets, and part ownership of the debt too. That's not to say that selling off everyone's houses is a wise plan for debt reduction, but at some point the hyperbole has to stop.

Tree planters (in Canada, at least) use Silvicool tarps too keep caches of seedings from cooking in the sun. They're a white tarp with aluminized Mylar on one side. I can attest that they're really quite effective.

Odd. While the link told me what a snow rake is, I had to google around for a half an hour to find out why I'd want one. For those people living in wintery places with sane building codes, the problem is this: US roofs are apparently designed for a ground snow load of 0.45 kPa (10 pounds per sq foot) to 1.4 kPa (30 psf). Canadian roofs seem to be designed for loads between 5-20 kPa (100-400 psf).

The moral of the story is to design your house for the 30 year snowfall.

But I *am* better. My Mac usage is probably coincidental.

This is not actually true. Business will upgrade if there's a business case for it. If the vendor will continue to support a twenty year old app? Great. Otherwise, they'll solve the problem some other way.

I even have an anecdote. I worked at a sawmill that kept a DOS machine around to download data from the hand held timber moisture meter. It was probably a really expensive instrument when it was purchased, but was old, and the manufacturer had never made Windows drivers. So the DOS machine was considered a business necessity. However, new moisture meters are only $500, which is substantially less than the cost of maintaining an old computer and software.