'Tain't your money, dude—you didn't actually pay a cent into this, and I'm sure there's a clause in whatever fine print you signed that says they can freeze or close your account for any or no reason. Never count on loyalty bonus programs. Not only can your account vanish without warning, but so can the entire program (if the company files for bankruptcy, for example).
:cough: "Twins HinaHima" :cough: (Admittedly only about a third of a feature film in runtime, but that's close enough for me. However, I haven't been able to find any English-language information on just how much of the work the AI was responsible for.)
You're assuming they're doing this in their free time. I wouldn't be surprised if they were being supported by foreign interests hiding behind a gofundme campaign—in other words, this is their job.
I guess "Temporary Housing for Workers is Temporary" doesn't make a sufficiently clickbait-y headline.
You've got a bunch of buildings, too large to be easily moved, in an awkward location where they're not very useful. You can't sell them because nobody wants them. So your options are to bulldoze them or let them decay in place. Period.
The article can't even seem to decide whether the disposal of these buildings is objectionable for environmental reasons or because it's a "waste of taxpayer money". (My guess is that the latter isn't true and that building them to minimum standards with the intention of writing them off was the cheapest thing to do at the time.) Should the environmental issues be more thoroughly considered for future, similar construction? Yes, but that doesn't help with the buildings that are already there.
While I can't recall ever having seen the numbers, I believe we may have a fentanyl deficit with the US. I demand that Trump figure this into his bizarre and biased trade calculations!
I'm not sure that "to keep the same level of service" is a good metric. Some parts of the country are chronically underserved when it comes to government services, and the nature of required services may also shift over time. The need for government workers in areas like environmental oversight and fighting cybercrime has risen a lot in the past few decades.
Hmm. In the absence of something like bodycam footage, difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was anything more than a communications screwup going on here. Not pressing charges was probably the correct decision. That doesn't mean there was no wrongdoing (or that there was), just that hauling it into court with no chance of a conviction wouldn't have helped anyone.
The main lesson to be taken from this is that you probably shouldn't run off into the woods in winter without the correct clothing and equipment no matter who or what is chasing you. Ultimately, that's what killed this guy.
Growing oranges in a greenhouse in Canada is not impossible . . . but you're not going to do it on the scale or at the price you'd need to make store-brand orange juice from them. Selling the actual oranges as premium produce in select Canadian markets would be possible, although not many people would be able to afford them.
The problem is that the standards for "Made in [country]" labels are pretty lax. We need different ones for "Packaged in Canada", "Processed in Canada (but with some foreign ingredients)", "Made in Canada by a foreign-owned company", and "Actually 100% Made in Canada from domestic ingredients by a Canadian company".
Or maybe what we really need is a, "The US had a hand in producing this" label. I don't think most of us have much problem with buying something from, say, Belgium or Ecuador.
Appliances have potentially serious failure modes that don't involve battery fires. (We had one here a couple of weeks ago, which would have flooded out our basement if I hadn't been able to cut power to the pump involved.) Being able to cut the power completely and instantly is not negotiable for a lot of appliances. I wasn't even taking battery fires into consideration when I wrote about failure modes—I was talking about things that already happen to plug-in appliances right now.
Yes, the added weight and complexity are likely not all that significant here, but they're sufficient that, even without the power-cutting issues, they outweigh any benefit of attaching a battery to the appliance directly. It's just not a particularly useful idea when you get pretty much the same benefits with none of the downsides by incorporating the batteries into the building's power system separately.
Adding batteries to a device has one advantage: portability. It also has mutiple disadvantages: batteries add weight, add design complexity, and make it more difficult to fully shut off power in an emergency.
Major household appliances aren't portable, and are subject to failure modes where you really do want to cut all the power right now and make sure it stays that way. Thus, the disadvantages of adding batteries directly to an appliance outweigh the advantages.
A power wall using this new battery tech would be great, though.
Clarity is not normally something headlines are all that concerned with (some are intentionally opaque, but this one is just joking around). Anyway, I think the "[foo], [bar]ed" structure was a lot more common some decades before the Internet—I had no trouble parsing it, but this marks the first time in a while that I've seen it, and I can see how it might be unfamiliar to some audiences.
The most unserious thing about this is that the author appears not to realize that Carney's job as a candidate is to, duh, campaign. That means emphasizing planned policies that will appeal to voters. Unfortunately, the carbon tax has become political poison and scrapping it is the only sensible thing he could do in the context of appealing to the public.
I'd think I was reading the Beaverton instead of the Globe, except that this piece, while unserious, isn't funny enough.
Shame perhaps isn't quite the right concept, but you're going to have a hard time using nonviolent tactics against an opponent whose response to them is lethal violence—that is, they kill anyone who refuses to comply until people either start to comply or they run out of people, and they are quite willing to run out of people. Nonviolent tactics worked in India against the British because they wanted the labour of the Indian people, and therefore wiping them out wasn't in the cards. (Executing people, even those they considered "lesser", effectively at random also didn't fit in with their concept of moral superiority.) The same tactics would not have worked against Hitler.
In this case . . . I don't know. Trump has demonstrated depraved indifference to the survival of everyone including his countrymen, so it would come down to the beliefs and behaviour of people at the lower levels, who are not going to be consistent. They don't believe they need our labour, so that excuse is out.
I expect it'll drop down further on its own, since some things that were set up before the US election are still trickling through the system. By next year, there won't be much of that left.
Quebec always marches to a different drummer. Nevertheless, I expect they will be dropping the Tesla vehicles from their list sooner or later. They may just not want to make any more adjustments so close to a launch.
Sturgeon's Law in action again.