No government in history
with a monetary system
ever intended to pay off all its debt.
The little engine that could |
"These barrels are no longer landlocked, so they're tracking the global price rather than that landlocked lower price they were seeing for the last couple of years,"
"What they're (truckers) doing is putting at risk their market share," he said. "If they thought it was competitive before, it's only going to get worse." Negotiations collapsed Thursday as Bob Simpson of Team Transport Services, which represents about 40 employers, asserted that demands by the truckers amount to an average 30 percent rate increase, plus 30 percent more in other monetary demands.From a fourth, myself: These truckers are mostly Sikhs and that has a bearing. We paid an extra $1200 to get a Super B truckload of lumber delivered to our truss plant two weeks ago, double the going rate. The lumber was two weeks overdue because no trucks could be found in the interior of BC. One mill even refused new orders until trucks would come to clear out the mill yard. No change is expected for 4 to 6 weeks. Just like the drivers you see in the Port of Vancouver pictures, most of the lumber truck drivers are Sikhs and, quite reasonably, they don't like to drive on poor winter roads. The last delivery problem we had was because of the Diwali festival long weekend in November when Sikhs headed home to celebrate. Can you find a single story highlighting the Sikh angle on this strike?
Good men but not into St. Patrick's day.
Thanks to Mark Twain for help with the headline. “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.” |
My beloved little pony You can comb its lovely hair. The video shows how. |
"Experts point to China as the undisputed leader in global cyber warfare. China is believed to have hacked the Australian intelligence apparatus, Indian government networks and departments within the Canadian government. The U.S. suspects China of both sabotage and espionage of American defense networks, private corporations, industrial organizations, research facilities and industrial assets"
US #4 |
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"America remains the sole state to capitalize on its shale oil and gas resources.... The shale revolution was more than just the result of applying the dual techniques of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal well drilling to underground hydrocarbon reservoirs. Rather, the US energy revolution was the product of a mature oil and gas drilling industry, replete with robust supply chains. The boom depended on a unique set of mineral rights that provided landowners with a financial incentive to invite drillers on to their land, on a deep pool of capital, and on a variety of small wildcatting firms willing to take on the risk of drilling exploratory wells. . . .
Despite having some of the thicker—and therefore easier to drill—shale in Europe, faulted stratigraphy, stunted support infrastructure, and a byzantine regulatory environment are preventing Britain from imitating America’s shale success."
Example from The Star |
"They found complex 3D plumes of brain activity propagating through the brain that clearly differed from the two-dimensional activity found in mammals. These findings show that the layered neuronal organization of the neocortex is not required for waves to propagate, and raise the intriguing possibility that the 3D plumes of activity perform computations not found in mammals.
The authors note that during the course of evolution, birds replaced the three-layered cortex present in their reptilian ancestors with nuclear brain structures. "Presumably, there are benefits to the seemingly disorganized, nuclear arrangement of neurons in the avian brain that we are far from understanding".Plumes in the sleeping avian brain (Science Daily News)reporting on work at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.
Who you calling bird brain? |
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"Go for it" |
Nice guy who is wrong |