March 07, 2009
Global warming believers build in the escape hatch
As many people have heard, a new study admits that the Earth has not been warming as predicted, but actually cooling off.
But leave it to the global warming crowd to turn this into a win-win for them.
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November 09, 2008
Angry in the Great White North is reworked
As people who have been reading my blog for while know, when I go quiet for a few days, there is usually a major technical change in the works. This was no exception. Welcome to the leaner, streamlined, Angry in the Great White North.
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September 09, 2008
Jack Layton catching Stephane Dion's Google wave
Maybe you have to have worked in the industry, but I am quick to catch evidence of who is taking the Web as a serious channel for information distribution.
Right now, the NDP is clearly laughing at the Liberals, using Stephane Dion's strength as a Google search term to spread the NDP message.
Update: And laughing at the Conservatives too!
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September 01, 2008
Gustav a category 5 disappointment for the global warming crowd
Nothing like a good storm to blame on global warming, Western industrialization, Church-sanctioned misogyny, and the Great Pumpkin.
But when that storm fizzles, you can almost taste the disappointment in the air.
Which is surprising, really. if you think about it, global warming ought to reduce the intensity of hurricanes.
If you think about it. But then who has time to think when there is all that fear-mongering to do?
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July 04, 2008
The end of the Internet as we know it?
Imagine that your ISP blocked access to every site on the Internet. Then as a subscriber, you paid a monthly fee for access to basic blocks of sites, as well as extra fees for other sites not in the basic package.
Apparently this will define access to the Internet for Canadians in 2010.
I know, it sounds nuts.
Part of me wonders if I was directed to this story by someone wanting to embarrass me.
But then the idea has just plausible enough to make me think it could be true.
In any case, it's fascinating, and I figured I can't be faulted for letting you read the story and judge for yourself.
Ah, for all I know, this is just an urban legend I've never heard of before.
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June 25, 2008
Skipping the problem of replacing the fuel source
I swing between amusement and frustration when I read comments from well-meaning environmentalist types who think that if all bought electric cars, we wouldn't need oil.
It belies a fundamental ignorance of how the world works, and makes me nervous about these people ever being in charge.
In particular, I'm looking at a comment on the Liberal Party discussion board, in which the person posting says the world will be so different in 10 years when we stop using petroleum to power transportation having switched to electricity.
I shake my head. What did they teach these people in science class in high school?
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March 26, 2008
Welcoming James Curran to Intense Debate
Liberal blogger James Curran has installed the Intense Debate commenting system. Here's hoping it will encourage blog readers to visit blogs from "the other side" more often.
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March 22, 2008
An important consideration when shutting off government funding -- the spread of pornography!
The Conservative government has reduce or cut off funding to a number of programs, including quasi-private special interest groups. Though I have no problem with the government vacating these areas, there are some unintended consequences to be considered.
In particular, of course, is having government computers help out with the spread of online pornography.
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March 10, 2008
Micro-satellites the plan or the compromise?
An interesting report recommends that Canada develop its own launch capability for satellites. I haven't seen the report myself, but the newspaper report does not mention if the question of a launch facility and where it would be located. There's the rub. Picking a launch site is tricky, and it affects things like the size of the payload. The report apparently pushes for Canada to develop a micro-satellite capability. That might be a good idea, or it might just the best we can manage being a northern country.
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December 17, 2007
SlickCash, Brian Fabian, Facebook, spam, and Al Qaeda
A Toronto firm is in trouble for allegedly trying to crack open Facebook's data files. Given the reputation of the holding companies in this porn empire, it seems like they were looking for email addresses. I wonder if an interest in Al Qaeda four years ago was also just an attempt to get email addresses.
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December 02, 2007
Terrible news as weather deaths continue to drop
How will environmentalists succeed at terrifying people into following them by threatening death at the hands of planetary weather when the evidence shows a steady and dramatic decline in weather-related deaths?
The first thing, of course, is to point out that Big Oil is somewhere in the picture. That way the environmentalists can skip trying to actually refute the data.
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October 24, 2007
Arctic UAVs and the Arrow
The Canadian military is considering the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to patrol the Arctic. Getting our hands on some, though, might be a bit tricky. Maybe we should consider designing and building our own.
A new Avro Arrow for the 21st century? Why not?
And hopefully a happier ending this time around.
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We could always buy them from China.........I understand we have good friends in high places there.........Moe Strong or maybe Jean Cretin could broker a great deal........LOL
I agree that it would be nice to have them designed and built in Canada, but just think of the Politicing over who and where they would be built.......Perhaps in the interest of National Security, we could all pull together and "get it done" this time.
Posted by: Capndan at October 24, 2007 03:23 PM (Pitb6)
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If they are to be a foreign purchase, then may I suggest that Israel has some of the best ones.
Posted by: Alain at October 24, 2007 04:01 PM (yugrZ)
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I would encourage Canada to have its own domestic military aircraft program, but to equate a Canadian built UAV with one of the worlds great supersonic interceptor aircraft is stretching it a bit.. as well as being a tad insulting..
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Posted by: Mark Collins at October 24, 2007 04:27 PM (r1nRl)
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kursk, I would respectfully disagree. Though the some of the challenges of a UAV pale to that of making a supersonic interceptor, the software/datalink component along with the remote control elements I think make up for it in new an interesting ways. Size (and speed) isn't everything.
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We have the technology in Canada, the airframes, the engines, the electronics/robotics, but nobody's integrated it because the players are all too small to carry the required blue-sky research. Clever hardware is expensive. No doubt, the Americans can produce an integrated and clever solution for less money, but they haven't succeeded in selling outside America. So we'll get back to the old Liberal idea of subsidizing winners, but the bureaucrats always prefer going with low-bidders and off-the-shelf, obsolete, junk (think Sperwer or VW Iltis or MLVW or the used submarines). A Tory dimwit like Flaherty will never be able to get his head around anything like a Canadian UAV.
Nope. I don't see any way of getting to a good, useful solution. Sorry!
Posted by: JJ Joseph at October 24, 2007 05:47 PM (kTp0G)
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Gentlemen, we can fix this.
We have the technology.
We can create, Canada's first unmanned arial drone.
Better, faster, more resistant to cold weather.
Posted by: southernontarioan at October 24, 2007 06:15 PM (x+pNy)
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Why does not Canada work at designing a manned aircraft to replace the aging buffalos and Auroras? For example, an aircraft with the same airframe but different equipment for different roles. If you combined the transport, surveillance and search and rescue needs of DND you could perhaps easily come up with an order of 40 or so planes. Bombardier already makes planes of a similar size to what would be required. Harper could maybe address Canada's needs and score points with Quebec's manufacturing sector at the smae time.
Posted by: stephen at October 24, 2007 06:29 PM (9EORK)
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Of course we could buy a few UAV's as well!
Posted by: stephen at October 24, 2007 06:30 PM (9EORK)
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JJ Joseph: The Australians definitely, and perhaps others in Asia, are interested in the Global Hawk:
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/World/STIStory_163972.html
Note also "AustraliaÂ’s decision to provisionally join the US NavyÂ’s BAMS [Broad Area Maritime Surveillance] program..."
http://www.yaffa.com.au/defence/current/5-1099.htm
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Stephen: As to Bombardier, see this post:
"Marine pollution surveillance aircraft"
http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/12/marine-pollution-surveillance-aircraft.html
However the Q Series does not have the range or endurance to do what the Aurora does. Designing and building an all-new aircraft to do that is simply beyond the capabilities of Bombardier at any reasonable price. Even the plane the US and Australia are buying, the P-8 Poseidon, is based on the 737 airframe.
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/p8-poseidon-mma-longrange-maritime-patrol-and-more-02980/
And will be used in tandem with BAMS UAVs. I would suggest for Canada a combination of the Q Series for east and west coast limited range surveillance, together with BAMS for the long range surveillance mission off all three coasts. Q Series could be sent up north when specifically required. It is unlikely we will need the weapons capabilities of the P-8 (though that would be nice to have could we afford them).
Mark
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Mark Collins noted that:"The Australians definitely, and perhaps others in Asia, are interested in the Global Hawk"
Yes, you're correct, but nobody else has actually purchased the system. The cost is staggering for a "little" plane about the size of a Twin Otter. The Global Hawk's total cost of $123,000,000 each dwarfs the P-8's puny $70,000,000 unit price. This is really exotic stuff!
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Whatever the gov't decides to do, you can guarantee it'll be the wrong decision and cost the taxpayer a large fortune.
Posted by: Feldwebel Wolfenstool at October 25, 2007 08:03 AM (GN3Xe)
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Long one - sorry, all. In My Humble Opinion we're pursuing UAV's for all the wrong reasons, and only two right ones.
The two right reasons are that a UAV is a whole lot cheaper to operate than a patrol aircraft, and we don't care nearly as much when it crashes. Indeed, only the second reason necessarily holds true in the Great White North.
The UAV is being controlled by a team perhaps thousands of miles away, but HOW??? How do we communicate with the UAV? A dedicated control link needs satellites - the north is a notorious communications black hole, and there are no cellphone towers up there - and satellites don't come cheap. Indeed, you need a lot of satellites in circumpolar orbit, because a single satellite in geostationary orbit can't "see" all of the Canadian north.
So we're talking a large number of dedicated circumpolar satellites - useful for a lot of other things at the same time, but enormously expensive nonetheless - or a UAV so capable that it only needs occasional access to its control team and can fly the whole mission by itself. I.E., it would also be enormously expensive.
Let's see all the things our UAV must do:
- Fly a LONG way, preferably fast. This means high-altitude; and we can't have our UAV's colliding with civil airliners up there, so it must operate in (or above) ICAO airspace - in other words, REALLY high. An advanced turbine engine, at $1+ million each, and MNPS-compliant navigation suite (needed anyways) that can be flight-planned by its team on the ground; another $1+ million each.
- Stay there a long time once it gets there. They can stay considerably longer if they can watch from high altitude, but that doesn't happen very often in the north due to clouds. They'll have to go low-level frequently, and turbines are notoriously inefficient at low altitudes - which is why the old Argus had piston engines, and the Aurora has turboprops. So you're talking a LOT of fuel, and a BIG airframe to carry it - and a bigger engine to push it through the sky, and more fuel for the bigger engine; you get the picture.
- Have full anti-icing capability, and know when to use it. No point flying over the North for most of the year without full de-icing capabilities. You have your EO (electro-optic) turret out and are watching something - fly through a small cloud and get icing on the lens - you're blind, and if your UAV can't clean the lens itself, it'll have to fly all the way home for it. And if the engine or control surfaces can't de-ice themselves, it'll crash and we'll need a new one.
- A very high-capability surveillance suite. Radar can look through clouds, and spot just about anything moving, and image small structures, and sweep vast swathes of terrain in a hurry - but such a radar is cutting-edge and extremely pricy, and needs a lot of very clean power (i.e. a bigger engine again), and requires a whole lot of data storage; and the EO turret needs a lot of storage too, and you CAN NOT send high-detail live video feeds home in real time via satellite, not via any satellite that Canada possesses. So it'll have to store everything for post-mission interpretation in our to-be-built ultramodern facility at our UAV's home Base.
- Is this UAV starting to sound real expensive to anybody else? And there's another big drawback to this UAV; it's mostly good for surveillance of the Great White North, and recent governments (notably Liberal ones) have cheerfully neglected that role. I suggest the money ain't there for that role under a Conservative government either, and particularly not a minority one - and particularly not the HUGE $$$$$ needed for uniform 24/7 coverage of the whole North, which to be honest about it, Canada has survived so far without.
Whereas, a proper fleet of manned aircraft can do anything a UAV can do, a lot smarter, and can interpret live video in the aircraft as they're receiving it, and report back on the juicy bits. They can do this all over the world, not just in the Arctic, and they can track submarines (which are still out there - oh yes they are!), and if you give them a weapons bay, they can even shoot at stuff.
However it is a national tragedy when one of them crashes.
Posted by: Jim at October 25, 2007 08:36 AM (J9iuk)
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So exactly how do UAVs help strengthen our claim to the arctic. If having automated unmanned surveillance helps sovereignty then we are far behind the US (and others) who have long surveilled by satellite. Sovereignty over the waterways depends on our claims to the islands, which is built by peoples lives, past and present. That the Northwest Passage is an internal waterway is obvious to those of us that live, work and hunt here, but it needs to be settled through international law before we try to "enforce" our claims.
Posted by: Clare at October 25, 2007 08:18 PM (pmIj0)
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Steve, I agree that if we're going to acquire UAVs that it should be all-Canadian technology. I'm not sure those American drones can withstand life above the Arctic Circle!
But really, why all the paranoia? Who do we need to spy on in the Arctic? It's not Santa invading, is it?
http://www.humblenarrator.com/2007/10/26/canadian-military-readies-for-imminent-north-pole-offensive-by-toy-militia/
Posted by: Michael Parkatti at October 26, 2007 06:28 PM (kjIoo)
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...i think sadly Canadians, me included, don't realize how BIG THE NORTH is.
I just looked at a map of Canada and realized Baffin Island is as long as Alberta!
Gadzooks!
One little UAV won't be able to do it, let alone a fleet of them.
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September 26, 2007
Janine Krieber labels the BlackBerry a terrorist's tool
The wife of Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion, Janine Krieber, recently gave a speech at Queen's University. It was an official Liberal Party event, and the audience was treated to Krieber's insights into the ins and outs of terrorism.
And guess what? Apparently the BlackBerry from Canada's RIM would make a real good tool for terrorists.
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Posted by: Feldwebel Wolfenstool at September 26, 2007 11:59 AM (GN3Xe)
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Dr. Janine Krieber, an expert on terrorism is telling us that terrorists can use the Blackberry as a tool to possibly attack Canadian targets??
It seems to me she is acknowledging we have terrorists living in our midst .. in Canada .. in Toronto .. on the Prairies too ???
We can't ban the Blackberry, but we can do our best to stop the terrorists and Liberals too ..!!!!
Posted by: Observer at September 26, 2007 12:26 PM (bmkgb)
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Ms. Kreiber must think that Garth Turner is Dion's Number One terrorist since he has a BB glued to his hands! I wonder if GT will make the No-Fly List??? LOL
Posted by: A Haltonite at September 26, 2007 12:31 PM (jrXo5)
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If you think this is news, then you're a little bit of a moron.
Posted by: Jason Cherniak at September 26, 2007 12:41 PM (iKlx3)
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If you DON'T think this is news, then you're a BIG moron. If Harper's wife was blathering on and saying such stupid things, you would think it was big news.
Posted by: Barbara at September 26, 2007 12:58 PM (zM/PA)
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But, the Blackberry is a great tool to be used by terrorists. Keeping that a secret (which it isn't) would be harmful to counter-terrorism operations. We should worry more about combating terrorism than profits of a company. If she said that briefcases can be used to deliver bombs, would you get upset too? In any case, how would this hurt RIM's sales? Would someone avoid buying a Blackberry because someone else who buys one might be a terrorist? Maybe people that sell the devices should be informed so that if they spot suspicious persons they can report them to CSIS. Maybe Rogers should monitor email traffic for red flags.
Also, don't take her out of context. It's not like she said: "Hello everyone, Blackberries are used by terrorist, bye". She was giving a talk about terrorism in general, and
I'm not a fan of the Liberals nor Dion, but why go off on this? There are plenty more things to get upset about.
Posted by: jonny_eh at September 26, 2007 01:22 PM (ZQ7AG)
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Never having met or seen or listened to Dr. Janine Krieber I found the sound clip very enlightening. I'd like to take bets on when she becomes 'pretty sure' terrorists find that telephones, cell phones, semtex, C-4, and AK-47's are 'real good tools' for terrorists along with blackberrys. When so-called 'experts' prattle on like this I begin to wonder if we haven't as a nation plunged over the precipice.
Posted by: Antenor at September 26, 2007 01:31 PM (VLWCg)
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Antenor, please keep in mind the audience.
She wasn't telling this to terrorism experts, and we don't know what was said before or after.
Let's criticize things worth criticizing.
Posted by: jonny_eh at September 26, 2007 01:40 PM (ZQ7AG)
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Perhaps the liberal party is just catching on. Coming to realize we do have terrorist living amongst us. It is hard to believe knowing what she is suppose to be an expert on, and her husband calling for the immediate withdrawal of Canadian troops.
I do hope they keep Dion as the leader of the liberal party, and he demands an election.
Posted by: Honey Pot at September 26, 2007 03:33 PM (ilL1b)
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The way the latest polling in Quebec has put the Liberals below the NDP there will not be any election, unless they want to get rid of their nemesis, who also happens to be their leader.
Blackberries are their least worry.
Posted by: Libby at September 26, 2007 04:43 PM (TqMcX)
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...time for a Blackberry registration program.
Posted by: tomax7 at September 26, 2007 06:17 PM (jHhd0)
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Posted by: Libby at September 26, 2007 07:02 PM (pzotf)
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Of course your blackberry is always "on", so is the computer, cell phone, cordless phone...terrorists tools indeed, all kinds of whackos come through these devices. Her argument sounds simplistic, a 14 yr old could come up with the same talking points.
Posted by: kelly at September 26, 2007 10:53 PM (pdf5D)
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Using a communication tool that is easily monitored by law enforcement is a "good" tool for terrorists?
Good for us law abiding citizens maybe.
Posted by: dkjones at September 27, 2007 05:17 PM (ClxyY)
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So can we expect a Federal Blackberry Registry?
No Blackberries, no Funerals?
Posted by: john at September 27, 2007 08:14 PM (nranl)
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Why go off on it? Because it's a retarded thing to say. Comment on how technology assists terrorism, maybe, but don't list specific companies. It makes it seem like Blackberries enable terrorism.
Posted by: Lore_Weaver at September 28, 2007 12:49 PM (dtsfj)
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I could be wrong, but my guess is this lady wears the pants inside the Dion household. That's not a good thing. It's bad enough my Party is saddled with a bland inept milquetoast like Dion. It is worse to know his balls are in his wife's pants.
Truth be told, I'd rather have Janine as my leader than her manservant Dion.
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No Blackberries, no Funerals?
Ha! I love it!
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Cripes! Is this the best shot to be taken at the Liberals today? Bloggers and those who post comments -- from whichever political corner -- would be far more effective were they to avoid this kind of shoddy attack, give credit when and where it's due (horrors!) and provide solid critiques when the other guys screw up.
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September 14, 2007
Ms Dewey should just shut up and search!
Check out Ms Dewey, and then you'll understand why Google has nothing to worry about.
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Posted by: Fred at September 14, 2007 12:18 PM (tlZTB)
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It has a couple of canned responses to make it seem like it understands your query. Click on the "Best of Dewey" button to see what I mean.
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want.
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While waiting, she seemed to be converting cm to inches but dividing by 25.4 instead of 2.54. I wasn't paying alot of attention so I could be wrong.
I did the "best of dewey" button a few times. The second time I was assaulted by a bleeped out rant by the woman, that would be wholly unappropriate for my 2 year old son.
MS shoots and misses again.
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...dunno about Bob, but Firefox insists of posting twice out of the blue for some reason...sorry.
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Posted by: at September 14, 2007 08:01 PM (t3+Tr)
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Does she look like a cartoon paper clip?
Posted by: at September 14, 2007 10:31 PM (tgNL5)
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P.S. This shows why government attempts to limit monopolies are a waste of time. Any company which achieves a
de-facto monopoly position (that is, excluding
de-jure monopolies which are created and enforced by the government at gunpoint) will by virtue of its market domination become deaf and blind to the needs of it customers and will inevitably ride its old, cash-cow products to doom while smaller, nimbler and more attentive competitors steal their lunch.
Note that patent and copyright laws however are government attempts to
assist the creation of monopolies, and they are of course enforced at gunpoint, and their only result in practice, far from benefiting the public, is to make it more difficult for small companies and individuals to compete with large companies (the ones who can afford legions of lawyers and huge political bribes, er, donations).
Posted by: at September 14, 2007 10:45 PM (tgNL5)
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I checked out Ms. Dewey as I'd never heard of it, not surprising really as I don't use MSN or MSNBC. The interesting thing and why I won't use it is the requirement that you have Macromedia installed. I don't use this as it just slows things down and causes other problems while surfing.
Posted by: Phillip at September 15, 2007 02:23 PM (R8+GR)
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I also checked out Ms. Dewey as I'd never heard of it, not surprising really as I don't use MSN or MSNBC. The interesting thing and why I won't use it is the requirement that you have Macromedia installed. I don't use this as it just slows things down and causes other problems while surfing.
Posted by: Phillip at September 15, 2007 02:26 PM (R8+GR)
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Double post as Firefox returned a 500 error the first time.
Posted by: Phillip at September 15, 2007 02:27 PM (R8+GR)
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I think that Ms. Dewey should follow Clippy.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070211
Waste of time while the interface loads.
Waste of time trying to scroll through the results.
And she won't STFU when you are following the results!
Easy on the eyes though.
Of course, Googling "Janina Gavankar" gets far more results than Ms. Dewey does...
Posted by: Another Sean at September 15, 2007 11:59 PM (ns5q/)
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Dumbest idea for a search engine...
ever.
Only from the so-called "minds" at Microsh*t could something this retarded see the light of day.
Surely the architects of this pathetic effort must be a little embarrased at the end result...?
mhb23re
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Posted by: mhb at September 16, 2007 09:50 PM (2/Us5)
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Ms Dewey is funny when you first try it out.
-- Agreed.
You enter queries to see if you elicit funny responses. It's a game.
-- Agreed.
But then later you stop playing and start working.
-- If you must.
Then Ms Dewey becomes a liability.
-- No, then Ms. Dewey becomes Google.
When designing for usability you have to think about how people will use the page.
-- Agreed.
Seems obvious, but with Ms Dewey, the thinking is that people will use the page for entertainment.
-- Agreed.
I think if you checked, you would realize that people use search engines to find something entertaining, and not to be entertained. And moreover, that's what they want.
-- Smart a**.
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Doug
Posted by: ss_doug at September 17, 2007 01:21 PM (8jv8g)
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Ms.Dewey doesn't do it for me.though I may look up her soft-porn.
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September 02, 2007
Mickey Mouse's two-dimensional ears
Just a post about a curious observation about Mickey Mouse. Rendered in 3D, Mickey's ears are stubbornly two-dimensional. I wonder how much trouble that was for modern animators.
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Posted by: tomax7 at September 03, 2007 12:29 AM (jHhd0)
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Very slow. I also have a killer cold but can't get any rest because the kids have it too. Keeping them topped off with fluids. So yeah, I've been watching MMC all day and it really did strike me that the software engineers probably had to figure out how to incorporate these weird 2D ears into the 3D world rendered by the computer. Remember guys, I am a computer engineer by training, so this sort of thing always interests me.
And anyway, having a post on Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney will be good for search engine traffic in the long term.
But you want the political stuff, right? OK, some Garth Turner stuff coming right up!
Posted by: Steve Janke at September 03, 2007 05:20 AM (82+9s)
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Ooooh. Garth Turner stuff. I don't know why but this fills me with glee.
The only thing I know about the MMC is that a great many of today's "stars" ie. Brittany Spears, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling were members of the club. MCC is like a greenhouse that grows celebrities. Strange that.
Posted by: muttsrus at September 03, 2007 06:44 AM (HALNh)
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As a studio, Walt Disney has been very successful at nurturing new talent. I suppose most spend their careers providing content for Disney properties, but a few break out beyond that.
Posted by: Steve Janke at September 03, 2007 07:27 AM (82+9s)
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Are the ear style part of the Mickey Mouse character and trademarked?
Posted by: at September 03, 2007 10:47 AM (svOaL)
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...I believe they are trademarked. At least the angle and placement of the nose, ears, and such. I used to be at Geocities (7273) as the Homeland neighbourhood volunteer help and people would get emails or letters from Disney telling them to pull any cartoons and images of Disney characters and Pooh the bear.
I read somewhere Mickey was drawn the way 'he is' because that was the easiest method to draw a figure. Circles.
From an engineering standpoint, would the thin legs support such a round mass?
Does Mickey need to go on a diet and does Weight Watchers have a special diet for Micky Mouse?
(helping with your search engine ranking)
I would have to say that Diesny have played a lot of cartoons over the years and that some of the cartoon portrayed sex, violence, and yearning for bipartisan politics.
Mr. Disney would be proud of the theme parks located in California and Florida named Disneyland and Disneyworld.
Many tourists have also visited Disneyland in Europe, located in Paris, France.
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Work with me, digging up the ground to put a new pad for the trailer to sit on - I don't want to go outside...
Long weekend? What long weekend?
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August 25, 2007
Another redesign of the blog
Yeah, I did it yet again. I just can't seem to hit that point where I'm totally satisfied with the way Angry in the Great White North looks and performs. Sometimes when I fiddle with the design I move farther away from that mysterious point. This one, I think, is getting closer. Let me explain some of the changes.
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I like it. Simple and clean.
Posted by: ferrethouse at August 25, 2007 11:56 PM (N8BWX)
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Viewing the re-designed site on my Mac PowerBook G4 with Safari 2.0.4, the stuff that's supposed to be in the right sidebars appears beneath the post, not beside it. Same computer with Firefox 2.0.0.6, however, displays the right sidebars where they're supposed to be.
Otherwise, I think the new look is much superior to its predecessor. Much easier to read and navigate.
Posted by: Scott Gilbreath at August 26, 2007 12:33 AM (7zAJr)
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I like it, change sometimes is a good thing and agree with the others.
Posted by: badbeta at August 26, 2007 02:54 AM (NAqnY)
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Thanks Scott. I see where the problem is. I can fix that easily enough.
Posted by: Steve Janke at August 26, 2007 06:45 AM (3/y8I)
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OK, that's fixed Scott. Give it about 15 minutes to 30 minutes from the time of this comment to propagate the change across all pages. The home page has already been done.
Posted by: Steve Janke at August 26, 2007 06:58 AM (3/y8I)
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The new look? It is marvelous and very appealing all around.
Well done Steve.
Your blog is very important to us and has a prominent place on our Start Bar.
Keep doing your very important work it is priceless.
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From the Scribner-Bantam English Dictionary:
Conservative:
1.
opposed to change in social and political institutions
Makes us dinosaurs crazy when you do this, Steve. LOL
(actually, it does load a bit faster now -and it's not all that different)
Though I
did really like it way back when the whole screen was blue...
Posted by: up north at August 26, 2007 10:53 AM (VLPd7)
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Looks good.
Loads faster for me.
Posted by: Peter S. at August 26, 2007 11:29 AM (5hdOB)
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I like it! It's clean, easier to read, and downloads faster. Bravo...keep up the GR-8 work!
Posted by: 'been around the block at August 26, 2007 12:25 PM (87YyB)
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Greetings. Your excellent postings are a testiment to your large and loyal traffic. Personally I find this blog very hard to read. There is too much White without enough contrast. It produces glare. If your sidebars were a muted contrasting colour it would make it SO much easier on the eyes.
I read your posts and enjoy them but seldom comment or linger looking for other info because of this. Hope this helps. Cheers.
Posted by: sandra at August 26, 2007 03:03 PM (A/RmO)
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I forgot to mention that some others now have the option to be notified of other comments on the same posting. It is a great help as many of us don't have the time to keep going back to the site to see what other comments have been added. This way we get the info throught our email. Great way to got dialogue going. Cheers.
Posted by: sandra at August 26, 2007 03:10 PM (A/RmO)
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I very much enjoy the commentary on this blog, but not the site's setup. The easiest to read sites I visit regularly are Dust My Broom, and Small Dead Animals, maybe you could try their style.
It does load a lot faster now, though.
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Nice redesign and it loads a whole lot faster. Also, the color scheme is much easier on the eyes. I think your on the right track with this design.
Posted by: phil n at August 27, 2007 09:34 AM (Pb/F0)
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Makes us dinosaurs crazy when you do this, Steve.
in fact this ones
MAD, oops I might have gone ot but "up north" made say it. I'm just a victim.
Posted by: DrWright at August 27, 2007 11:26 AM (7G7PK)
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Makes us dinosaurs crazy when you do this, Steve.
In fact this ones MAD, oops I might have gone ot but "up north" made me say it. I'm just a victim here.
Click my URL if you want to know what I'm getting at.
It looks less cluttered,
Ps my dinosaur is gone
Posted by: DrWright at August 27, 2007 11:34 AM (7G7PK)
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REALLY like this redesign Steve!
Posted by: mecheng at August 27, 2007 12:06 PM (qFcf9)
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Your blog looks great!
And - a bonus - it has substance, too. ;-)
Posted by: Gabby in QC at August 27, 2007 02:21 PM (E2GmW)
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Looks good, Steve. However, I still have a horizontal scrollbar, for no reason that I can see. Have you got a right margin or pad somewhere that you don't need?
DG
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i see the word
"angry" in the banner is now highlighted... did you catch hell for highlighting
"white" and decide to change it?
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Yes I did neo. Well, not hell. But when I looked at it, I wondered if I was emphasizing the wrong word. I was just playing on the colour white, but obviously white is more than just a colour. I thought I was being paranoid, and then someone emailed me to say that the emphasis could be misconstrued. Clearly I should have followed by gut, and so I re-did it. And I think it actually looks better!
Darrel, not sure where the scroll bar is coming from. I've looked at the site using a div viewer, and there are no rogue divs that I can find.
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August 15, 2007
China warned off cheating at the Olympics but the focus is on drugs and not genetics
Dick Pound of the World Anti-Doping Agency is warning China in no uncertain terms that if they are caught sending doped athletes into Olympic competition, then the Olympics will be a disaster.
True enough. I think the Chinese will work very hard to hide their doping program. But then what about the genetically-enhanced super-athletes?
Huh?
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Posted by: Bruce at August 15, 2007 12:50 PM (NuGVb)
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...still don't know why the Olympics, let alone China are in the same sentence.
Pride, arrogance? Like 1939 Nazi Germany? 1980 Moscow?
Posted by: tomax7 at August 15, 2007 07:18 PM (jHhd0)
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I would give a damn, if the Olympics were anything more than a government propaganda exercise.
Even the poor little Canadian government, in it's wimpy Marxism-lite way, milks it for everything the taxpayers are worth. Whereas other governments feel the need to prove their legitimacy by demonstrating that they can make citizens into supermen, the Canadian knobs justify their existence by showing their incredible kindness to the slow, weak and lame by sending them to compete without any real chance of success (except occasionally in very new, obscure sports).
You probably heard about the new coin issued for the Vancouver Olympics --- "the worlds first coin commemorating the sport of wheelchair curling". A new sport! We win! In your face, Tajikistan!
Posted by: at August 15, 2007 08:29 PM (tgNL5)
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Yes, because no doping occurs by athletes in Western countries. Why come down on solely on China? The American track sprinters have an atrocious record when it comes to doping but I don't see anyone accusing the States of running a secret doping program.
I think the articles you cite allude to the source of the problem and that is the financial rewards that come with success. So much money is offered for a gold medal that people are willing to do whatever it takes to win.
I don't think the Chinese government is necessarily running a state-sponsored program, but by providing excessive financial incentives to win and poorly regulating their sports with inadequate anti-doping programs they risk having doping get out of control.
Posted by: at August 16, 2007 01:53 PM (ucyrd)
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>I don't think the Chinese government is necessarily running a state-sponsored program...
They don't have to "run" it. They just expect these hill-are-high-emperor-is-far-away programs to have a batch of mystery athletes ready for 2008, and their dope blood levels allowed to subside a few weeks prior to opening ceremonies.
Posted by: Phil at August 20, 2007 09:23 PM (tHxPe)
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...the beat goes on:
WASHINGTON — An Ohio importer recalled nearly 250,000 SpongeBob SquarePants address books and journals manufactured in China because the bindings might contain hazardous levels of lead paint, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294166,00.html
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August 14, 2007
Newton, Leibniz, the Kerala School, and the gulf between invention and contribution
The question is raised about who invented calculus.
Let me answer that question. Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz share that honour. The Kerala School might have come up with the Taylor expansion of trigonometric functions, but that is not the same as calculus. Nor did they contribute their discovery to the body of human knowledge.
No need to rewrite the history books on this one, even if it means evil Westerners retain the credit for something good.
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Lol.
Giving the Kerala credit is like giving the caveman who had 1 rock in his left hand and 1 rock in his right hand, then figured out he had 2 rocks, credit for the Theory of Relativity.
Posted by: Reid at August 14, 2007 01:35 PM (kSy1A)
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Great article Steve.
This claim makes me even more furious then when those jerks decided that Pluto is not a planet. At least they came up with some defined criteria for what is and what is not a planet.
Posted by: mecheng at August 14, 2007 01:52 PM (qFcf9)
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Reid-
Counting to 2 has always been with us. It was the limit of modern mathematics for a million years. Once man learned to count to three in the Kerala Institute, modern science soared.
Posted by: JJJoseph at August 15, 2007 03:32 AM (R5RR5)
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Interesting that Europeans or English are tripping over themselves to give credit for something as profound as the creation/ discovery of Calculus to Malayalam/ Keralese without so much as a whimper.
Usually, if you follow papers from India, the people there are blaming imperialism or colonialism for some discovery or the other being stolen, unrecognized or some other form of malfeasance depressing their greatness.
There will be more of this as the western world's affliction of self-loathing manifests itself in, what hitherto would have been unbelievable, increasingly self-inflicted self-delusions.
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July 23, 2007
Cialis (tadalafil) warning from Health Canada targets all-natural male potency product Zencore Tabs
The latest Health Canada warning is one of a long line of warnings targeting male potency products. Marketed as all-natural, Health Canada seems to repeatedly find that these products contain medically significant concentrations of sildenafil (Viagra), vardenafil (Levitra), and tadalafil (Cialis). These compounds are effective, but also require a prescription, since they all have serious side effects and interactions with other drugs.
Checking out a bit about this industry, I wonder if these health industry manufacturers routinely spike their male potency products in order to make they work. I say routinely, because I found a scientific paper on how to efficiently check for this problem, suggesting it is a widespread problem.
Of course, having had absolutely no reason whatsoever to have used any of these products at any time, I have had to depend on what I could find out on the internet.
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"Of course, having had absolutely no reason whatsoever to have used any of these products at any time..."
When I showed my wife this line, she said "get real".
Now I don't know if she's talking about you Steve or me...
;-)
hehehe
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As I have made it clear, I have no idea if it actually works. None whatsoever.
In any case, the herbal supplement to the tadalafil analog is just as likely to do nothing at all, or else why would the tadalafil be there. The problem is, of course, that the herbal supplement portion is the only thing listed on the box.
Posted by: Steve Janke at July 23, 2007 12:21 PM (eGtvb)
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Posted by: Judith at July 23, 2007 12:50 PM (47ktC)
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I remember as a teen, the only "natural potency product" we needed had a middle picture folding out...
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high time preference. It's a matter of personal choice, like everything else in life, and government should just butt out.
But it raises the question - are more and more people nowadays exhibiting a high time preference, choosing to spend their money on risky pleasure today instead of being more cautious, saving their money, and maximizing pleasure over the long term? And if so, why? Government has their fingerprints all over this one. The average real return on financial savings is extremely low (i.e. after taxes and government-created inflation). Creating a small business built for long term profits is generally not a worthwhile option to pursue, because of inflation, taxes and high regulatory barriers. Government nanny-state policies promise that even you live your life like a reckless idiot, you'll still get welfare and unlimited free health care for life - and the less money you earn and save, the more free assistance your children will get. In other words, your government is entirely built around the idea that people are like stupid, hedonistic teenagers, and every policy they implement simply rewards and reinforces this behavior. People in government award themselves lavish, inflation-protected salaries and gold-plated benefits in return for the humble service they perform as the nannies of all these hapless fools. But even they are guilty of high time preference, because eventually there will be so many unfit, barely-working, stupid, useless ninnies in their care that the tax base (in real wealth, not in nominal dollars) will dry up and sooner or later they'll be left looking like fools.
So instead of more zealous oversight by Health Canada, it's a lot less oversight that you want. People with a solid stake in the future and who acquire property with their own work are unlikely to risk everything for a four-hour, um, election.
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Reinvigorate your blog statistics
I've been using a new statistics and metrics package called reinvigorate. Here are my impressions, and what I've learned about site metrics using this package that can apply to anyone.
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