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If the price of oil goes too high their economy will bottom out, in my opinion. If it is cheaper to manufacture in one's own country with high labor costs than to ship from China, then industry will move back to countries where they plan on selling.

George H. Bush enacted the regulations that targeted acid rain. It was quite controversial at the time. What happened to conservative ideology since then? Conservatives used to be quite pro-science, knowing that it gave them the technological edge in many aspects of society. Now they just deny...

Tapas restaurants are good for that. You can just order as much as you want. I recall sushi restaurants being similar.

The family packs go on sale often enough that I routinely have leftover meat. Six steaks for six euro? I'm all over that. Still, more meat than the wife and I will sensibly eat.

Now there is some necromancy I can support! What is toffutti and Earth balance spread? You can get some fresh wild mushrooms at the market here on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I should try to remember this recipe.

I see you never learned the difference between weather and climate.

Actually, gravity (as a force) is fake. Say two planes start off with a 1 km north-south separation and start flying due East. If they fly in straight lines (with respect to the Earth's surface), they will eventually cross paths and collide. That is all gravity is: an apparent acceleration of...

I was biking this afternoon in a field that was 2 meters below sea level. Luckily a hefty chunk of my taxes is spent to pump water.

I've never seen a nuclear bomb either...

You do realize that you are only posting a single years worth of averages, correct? Somehow you do not see the clear sinusoidal annual variation of temperature... but you expect to be able to see a lack of a pattern over 3 decades of data? Not to mention all the other statistical fallacies of...

At least the way the Conservatives are doing it: Do you see that? It won't be balanced until 2015/2016, are the Conservatives going to be re-elected? They had better count on it, or the NDP or Liberals will be wrongly taking credit for this. If the top 5% of income earners continued to pay...

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I am a big fan of electoral reform in Canada, usually making it my priority for voting. I am not a fan of the first past the post system, because as I see it, we don't end up with rule by the majority, we just end up with rule by the largest group of victors. People I talked to in Canada don't...

I absolutely suck at flipping eggs. Normally, for me, breakfast amounts to 1-2 shots of moka. On weekends I might have an early lunch that amounts to a sort of brunch. Lately I have been trying to recreate an omelette that an Indian friend made for me. It is just eggs, onion and green (hot)...

These are actually some old findings, subtitled Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure. The basic idea being that, although the actual health related costs of smokers (and obese people) are higher, because non-smokers and the thin live longer, they run up higher costs in total...

In this thread I'd like to pose just that question, to you the reader, what is an appropriate level of "gun" control? I use the quotes because the idea of gun control typically extends past what one might consider a gun. Is an anti-aircraft gun still a gun or a cannon? Is a cannon a gun? Is a...

I always thought that the Calvinists drew Christianity to its logical conclusion: unconditional election. The basic idea being, God who is omnipotent and omniscient created you. Now God knew before hand that He would create you, and knew before hand whether you would be sent to heaven or not...

Not safe for work warning, right off the bat. Take a look at the very... interesting website of Wim Delvoye, a Belgian conceptual artist. Featuring such wonders as the Cloaca Machine. What does modern art mean to you?