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posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:10 AM on September 27, 2008

[this is good]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:45 AM on September 14, 2008

Do animals act unethically when they kill other animals?
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:18 AM on August 7, 2008

Not to single out Eideteker, as I've seen this sort of attitude from many other people here, but his sort of nonsense is why I visit Metafilter a lot less often than I used to.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:25 PM on April 18, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:09 PM on March 4, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:43 PM on February 11, 2008

I am actually in Cairo at the moment, arriving last Saturday from Ottawa. I fully expected to have no connectivity here during my visit, but even Saturday night was able to find WiFi near my hotel that allowed me to send a couple of important emails back home. On Sunday both our office and the hotel had fairly good connectivity, and since then I think Egypt is back to perhaps 80% of normal.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 11:17 PM on February 5, 2008

The Laura Washington piece is too poor to read.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 11:08 AM on January 29, 2008

Cory Doctorow has done a great deal of good work on Internet law issues, particularly DRM, which is more than I expect his attackers in this thread have done.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:04 AM on April 17, 2007

Nice to see Hall and Oates finally having some political impact.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:29 AM on November 10, 2006

Who levied the tariff: Canada Border Services Agency or Canada Revenue Agency?

I would give Border Services a call. I don't see a tariff over 20% for shoes in the regs, and I think shoe imports from the US are listed as tariff-free for importers.

Plus, look into getting a customs broker to handle this in future.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tranquileye at 7:28 AM on October 17, 2006

Maybe there should be more government involvement in the economy like that.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:41 AM on May 31, 2006

For some reason I couldn't stop laughing. And that's wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:35 AM on May 26, 2006

Thanks folks! Excellent help.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tranquileye at 10:14 AM on February 16, 2006

Looks like a meteor or similar object to me. No evidence suggesting it's an alien spacecraft, that's for sure.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:53 AM on January 22, 2006

One concern I have about the ID argument is a general one: if God has intervened in evolutionary processes in the past, what was His mechanism for doing so? Did God simply will that certain changes take place? Did He have to intervene physically to modify genes or the environment? Did He use proxies (angels)? And if the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then what evidence of any sort is there for these supposed interventions? If they happened, they left no trace.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 1:04 PM on January 20, 2006

1. Jack Layton Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (100%)
2. Gilles Duceppe Leader of the Bloc Quebecois (80%)
3. Paul Martin Leader of Liberal Party of Canada, Prime Minister of Canada (60%)
4. Stephen Harper Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada (40%)

:-)
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:57 PM on January 17, 2006

jasper411, I am sure you have checked the foreign student tuition fees, which are much higher than for Canadians.

I drive the 401 quite a bit (I live in Ottawa and go to school at U of T) and would echo others who suggest the train.

U of T and McGill are probably the two best schools in Canada, but they are also very large (U of T especially) and overwhelming for undergrads. You might want to look at Concordia as well (which is also mostly downtown in Montreal).
posted to Ask Metafilter by tranquileye at 12:47 PM on January 10, 2006

I just looked up "gender discrimination" in the dictionary and there were the Air New Zealand and Qantas logos next to the definition.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 2:47 PM on November 29, 2005

It was the quote in the second-to-last paragraph that got me.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:39 AM on October 11, 2005

Well, this is a better fit then Roberts replacing O'Connor.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:52 AM on September 5, 2005

First of all, I believe that what someone blogs on their own time is really their business. There are a number of cases where it could impact on their work life: if they are criticizing their employer or co-workers, talking about company processes, publishing hate speech, and so on. Otherwise, it really shouldn't matter if they want to publish something.

I think it is very telling that this sort of article appears in an academic publication. The dean of my faculty once... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 6:47 AM on July 15, 2005

realcountrymusic, drop me a line.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tranquileye at 8:06 AM on June 27, 2005

I'm looking for a DVD recorder to transfer mostly home movies and Tivo-captured content to DVD.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tranquileye at 7:36 AM on May 5, 2005

And better than the last two Star Wars movies.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:21 AM on April 27, 2005

So fake fake fake fake, from the get-go.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 12:36 PM on April 20, 2005

What monju said.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:58 PM on April 7, 2005

Anyone notice Kevin give the shocker?
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:15 AM on April 2, 2005

Um, it has a sort of Birch Society/Lyndon LaRouche/New World Order sort of feel to it.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:04 AM on March 18, 2005

A note at the bottom of the page linked reads as follows:

Note added: A small number of enquiries have been received from people seeking to locate this book [about the Seven Dwarfs]. The enquirers have apparently not realized that while the newspaper article is quoted verbatim, it is presented here ironically, to illustrate typically absurd claims of the hoax. One does not smell poison gas, let alone pass through clouds of it, and live to recount the experience. This... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:54 AM on March 18, 2005

Wow. Thank is actually going to be WORSE.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:06 PM on March 16, 2005

Wow. The Bank is actually going to be WORSE.

I didn't think that was possible. Really.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:07 PM on March 16, 2005

Might be a bad cookie. Try deleting any Google cookies.
posted to Ask Metafilter by tranquileye at 12:42 PM on February 1, 2005

Canada strongly supported the US invasion of South Vietnam

Chomsky tends to exagerate, which hurts his arguement that none of us have the moral high ground.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:47 AM on February 1, 2005

To answer the question... it's always hanging by a thread. The real scandal is that so many people just don't vote.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:26 AM on December 17, 2004

Can't copyright an idea.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:49 AM on December 16, 2004

I don't have simple answers to the questions raised in this thread. Within some international development circles, "aid" is a very problematic notion. It connotes mega-projects, bloated bureaucracies, and decades of failed paradigms; see Graham Hancock's Lords of Poverty. There is a wide spectrum that runs from purely humanitarian aid and disaster relief all the way to infrastructure development and building civil society. Arguments rage as to the usefulness of any of these approaches.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:37 AM on December 6, 2004

The game's fun. And my costume is just a dark suit, fedora hat, and glowing purple eyes.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 2:19 PM on November 5, 2004

I'm quite frightened today, even living up here in Canada. But just when you think you have it all, W, it begins to slip away.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:45 AM on November 3, 2004

I can see it from Toronto, not that I have much interest in it. I assume the blocking is a cost saving measure that also serves as a metaphor for the current administrations attitude toward the rest of the world.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:49 AM on October 27, 2004

Bush will (barely) win the popular vote, but Kerry wins the Electoral College and the Presidency.

Bush   49.1% for 267 electoral votes
Kerry   48.9% for 271 electoral votes
Nader  01.1% for    0 electoral votes
Others 00.9% for    0 electoral votes
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:34 AM on October 26, 2004

Someone kill this thread.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:26 AM on October 23, 2004

The Internet is a network of networks, all running the same or compatable protocols (TCP/IP, etc.) for data communications. Networks and parts of those networks, like individual servers, can come and go and there is still an Internet. Some networks might be private -- VPNs and WASTE networks -- but they are still a network and part of the Internet.

NIPRNET and SIPRNET sound like seperate, secure data networks, perhaps not connected to or part of the Internet, using... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 8:09 AM on October 14, 2004

Here we go again. Quite sad, actually, since it would seem that his parents may be responsible in part for their son's death. A friend of a friend of mine refused conventional cancer treatment for more than a decade due to her religious "beliefs" and died a long and very painful death. We all have to try to construct our own loves as best we can, but seeing suffering extended past the point of life is a form of self-torture.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:56 AM on October 14, 2004

[this is good]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 7:16 AM on October 11, 2004

bye bye.
posted to MetaTalk by tranquileye at 12:46 PM on October 1, 2004

Congrats to emptybowl; he has been added to my list of MiFi Post Nazis, along with Smart Dalek.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 4:56 PM on September 23, 2004

How can you leave al-Qa'ida off your list? Most evidence -- including statements by their leaders and members -- points very clearly to their responsibility for the September 11th attacks. The planes hitting those buildings was not an accident.

Perhaps you are asking who on "your" side is to blame for not stopping the attacks. Again, that seems reasonably clear: the whole system of national security, bureaucratic and political, failed. The biggest problem seems... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 9:56 AM on September 11, 2004

From the book:

John Birch
B Company
3rd Shore Party
11th Marine Regiment
May ’65-Feb. ’66

After training we went to Hawaii with the first Marine Brigade and got orders. They said: "Well you’re going back to invade California. Thirty days leave. A mock invasion. Get to see your parents and all that stuff... go anywhere on the mainland!" Off we sailed. Three mornings later after the sun had... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:53 AM on August 27, 2004

I wonder if spotlighting Kerry's Vietnam experience as the right is doing is about Kerry or Iraq. Both, I suppose.
posted to MetaFilter by tranquileye at 10:54 AM on August 27, 2004