Yup!

If that’s what it takes, maybe the public needs a kneecapping department for government accountability.

I found it really unintuitive at first because I kept thinking of the CD-ROM spindle as rigid. Once I realized that the whole system wobbled I had an awesome brain-candy moment and it all made sense.

I would have thought Toroidal Void would be a band name, they could open for The Spherical Cows.

How about we switch to ACTUAL public healthcare, not one where hospitals and doctors offices have to turn a profit delivering services at a price set by the government?

Derp, that IS right, will correct.

13 year old small pickup with a 2L and 5-speed: best car I ever bought. No computers, can haul a half ton of stuff and only uses 7-8L/100KM when commuting.

If the energy source is coal

Comparing one fossil fuel to a worse one is not a valid argument. Electricity generation is being pushed towards nuclear and renewables for the foreseeable future.

You don’t have to know what the need is today. But knowing how ridiculously expensive it is to install later should be all the warning people need.

Humans don’t need any additional gasses to survive. The only reason we use methane is that it was once very cheap and we didn’t know how bad it was in the longterm. All of our other needs are met by electricity (energy), water, or a trip to a store, if for some reason the xXxBox9080 needs a compressed gas cylinder in 2030 you can go pick it up. Throwing resources in a literal hole in the ground today because we might find a use for it tomorrow is not good planning.

Also because we’re already stressing electric infrastructure with what we use now

This is propaganda.

On the hottest day last week Ontario hyrdo demand was ~24000MW, last night it went as low as 12000MW. There is room to almost double the baseload in Ontario, with actually smart appliances and controls (not Smart^TM shit) a ton of fossil fuel heating loads could be replaced with electric without needing any grid level upgrades.

Methane has to be compressed for both transportation in pipes and storage in tanks, a very energy expensive process. Or it can be chilled down and condensed to a liquid for bulk transportation in ships, also a very energy expensive process. Every single joint and valve in the distribution network has the potential to leak, and many of them do, the same goes for storage tanks. Also pressure regulators (like the one on the side of your house) have to vent to bring down the pressure when the network house pressure is too high.

Natural gas distribution networks are extremely leaky.

Any time you say nuclear power most people think of Homer Simpson and Fukushima. Canada could be cranking out reactors and fuel for local and international use but it’s ‘too dangerous.’

Unless the round trip efficiency of synthesized methane (synthesis, transportation and re-capture) is better than solar/hydro/nuke electricity it doesn’t make sense build our own hydrocarbons. There are also the cumulative health effects of burning methane in your house and that it is serious greenhouse gas.

The boat salesman says you need a boat.

YOU pay for the infrastructure, YOU pay for the maintenance, YOU pay for the gas. Why would they stop now?

And anyone who isn’t a conventional, heterosexual man.

Because american cops are afraid you will use it to cook meth.

I feel like if this guy can be given a raw deal (pardon the pun) because of the emergency circumstances of a forest fire then the same should go for religious dietary “restrictions.”

Your choice of god(s) should not impose an extra burden on the rest of the emergency response infrastructure. Accommodate everyone or no one.

That’s what I get for using autocorrect.

Jazz Jackrabbit

Epic game music, up there with Sonic for getting stuck in your head.

There is one installed but I don’t have a phoneline to my house >_<

You aren’t looking at it from the corporate perspective. They OWN you, you are their property for 8 hours a day and if they want you to sit there and suffer you will or you will be fired for “theft of time.” It’s very simple.

There are NO parties in Canada that represent non-corporate interests.

When your government commits crimes against its country wholesale, there is nothing you can do that even compares. Abuse self-checkouts, cook your taxes, split your internet connection across 3 houses. You will never do a thousandth of the damage they do to you.