Thinkinoutsidethebox

Running the country based on polls... The environment takes backstage as economics move up. The ballooning debt is catching voters attention. Let's see, buy an aging pipeline for 4.5b, spend another 20b (mostly to foreign interests) and 3 to 10 years floundering around trying upgrade and expand it and then sell it back to Kinder for 1b. Makes sense to me.

Yea, and we know how that turned out... Government fixing problems they made by creating more.

That, we (he) had a choice... I mean Khad's situation in Quantomino. It was Americans torturing a detainee that killed American citizens, what were we as Canadian citizens supposed to do, go down there and protest? Threaten the Americans? Give them ten million not to touch him?

What makes it even more an insult to the indigenous is that the 60s scoop was 100‰ Canadian, there was no outside influence. Khadr's case was in an American run system, We had no choice in the matter. We are the five year old trying to stop big brother from burning ants with a magnifying glass, we just get brushed off.

Well, it appears #1 is about to happen... How much time have they wasted so far? Maybe next year?

Cheap autonomous vehicles would increase city traffic tenfold. Think about it, everybody from birth to death will be able to ride in these things along with delivering everything from kids to lunch to papers to diapers. Want to go shopping? Send it traveling around the block with your junk while your in the store. Baby's crying? Send it off for a soothing ride around town while you monitor it from the comfort of your couch. Don't feel like cooking? Feeling romantic? Need that widget? Need to show someone something across town? This is the tip of the iceberg.

The lawyer already knows that, I wouldn't be talking to him/her if it wasn't the case. Nonsense, there would be no justice system if everybody were presumed innocent. The French seem to be getting along just fine, maybe...

Exactly, call it what it is... They "presume" the crime was committed by a certain individual, that's why he/she is being held. A judge or jury should have no bias either way as it's their job to base their decisions on facts, evidence and the law.

"Presumed innocent till proven guilty".... If that's the case why is anyone spending time in jail before thier court date? They should just get a note or call at home stating (We presume you are innocent but there is a bunch of evidence and eyewitness stating you drove a van through a crowd of people so we request your presence at court at 9am may 5th. Thank you, have a nice day.) The reason they are are incarcerated is they are presumed guilty, we should stop feeding ourselves this childish crap.

The fact he was elected shows there is still a hint of democracy left in the US. That being said I have no doubt he is looking into ways to become the supreme leader or at least skirting the two term president rule.

"In German" in Germany...

So you're as bad as the rest of us? You should be all upset because he didn't speak Mohican then...

So what are you envisioning? Star Trek where humans all work together against a common enemy? On there they still have different colors though. Star wars still has rogue humans of all shapes and colors. Unless your thinking clone armies of course. The human experiment is a fascinating thing, it seems no matter how many times we bring ourselves to the brink of annihilation we never go over that edge. It feels to me like there are unseen forces in play that want us to move forward. It feels to me AI is going to be the next big challenge to human existence. We haven't even designed and built it yet but what some are envisioning logic says humans will no longer have a purpose. I guess it'll all be in the programming but super intelligent AI would see we are killing our host.

It's an interesting dilemma, as stated earlier the world needs a smaller population but on the other hand families should be larger. What's the human population to do? I heard on the radio awhile back there are people setting up communal living in apartment buildings. Maybe something like this? https://www.canadianarchitect.com/features/the-cohousing-option/ with this your neighbors would essentially be family.

Well according to you the French should be outraged if he doesn't.

That's baloney, you could clone humans and there would be the same discrimination there is today, visible differences have nothing to do with it. Ask Hitler... And it has nothing to do with moving forward as a species. Today humans are working harder than ever to exacerbate the human race, war was unsuccessful, disease isn't working, starvation isn't going to do it so maybe AI will be the ticket. If AI is going to be as intelligent as they say then logically it'll see what we are doing and proceed to wipe us out. Besides, being all the same would be boring as hell.

To Argus, my opinion... The past is the past, use it as a reference, learn from it and move on. Trudeau is just acknowledging what actually happened, to me apologizing for what the dominant population has done the last couple generations actually makes sense. We did some really bad stuff to indigenous people and we need do what we can to correct it and move on. I don't understand this "tribal" thing you speak of. The masses worshipping some imaginary entity, superstar, politician or whatever makes no sense. Why not just be good people and live for the earth and each other? Think with your mind, not mob mentality. It's interesting how little wealth is actually worth without genuine happiness.

Although I believe we should be raising our own children and not sending them off to child corals to be raised by strangers I also believe each person is an individual. "Family" by definition is a group of people tied together by succession and technically we are all "family" if you go back far enough. As children grow and become independent they form their own social circles and move on, father/mother/brother/sister become a title family members have, there are many reasons these individuals are not always part of each other's lives. There is no reason to treat family any different than other members of the human race. Why does the world population need to mix? What's wrong with different colors/body types/gender/language/cultures etc.? I think it's stupid people need to believe this is inevitable. I'd say easier, what is the truth anymore? Every individual's idea of the "truth" is contained somewhere within this wonderful form of technology, it's easier than ever to adjust people's perspective for your desired purpose. Canada is doing what it does best, following whatever global trend happens to be in fashion. Trudeau is no different than those before him. LOL, well, we made him our leader

French when he was cussing Trump

Is Emmanuel Macron speaking French in Washington?

Your explanation reinforces my point, Canada is not making any commitment to reducing global CO2 emissions output, we are no different than the Americans. Exactly, it's supply and demand, the same as drugs, guns and many problems in society. I think earth could comfortably sustain ten billion people but today's population is consuming at the rate of twenty billion, everybody thinks the planet is an endless source of raw materials. And of course we are doing everything in our power to develop another being (AI) that's going to compete with us for earth's limited resources, this truly is ridiculous. We are drifting off topic though

And Canada, doubling oilsands output is not reducing CO2 emissions...

Here you go... Out of the world’s approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, 1.5 billion speak English — that’s 20% of the Earth’s population. However, most of those people aren’t native English speakers. About 360 million people speak English as their first language. In addition to being widely spoken, English is by far the most commonly studied foreign language in the world, followed by French at a distant second. "Supposed to do"? It's law that the prime minister speaks English? Actually, rereading the second sentence it sounds like your contradicting your own argument. We will probably windup speaking Russian before any of your scenarios take place. Although this is off topic the vast majority windup speaking english. So if you move to China or India they better learn English? Good luck with that... One noisy contributor to a forum is probably easier to ignore than a whole province

The huge evaporative losses would be from turning steam back to water and yes your ideas are possible. One of the problems include location of plant to potential consumers, locating the plant in the center of an urbanized area would be by far the most economical and efficient but how would you feel about having a nuclear power station in your back yard? We could easily cut energy consumption in half using ideas like yours as well as many others but human attitudes forbid it, we are not built to operate efficiently. Here's some interesting information on various plant efficiencies https://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/72369-compare-the-efficiency-of-different-power-plants/ . This is the amount of heat that's converted to electricity compared to what's lost to the environment (waste). So a plant that's 30% efficient means 30% of heat energy is actually converted to electricity and 70% is lost as waste, this does not include conversion and transmission losses. This is heat we are just pumping into the atmosphere... Here's another interesting link to efficiency of a typical gasoline powered car https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/atv.shtml just think if we could get that up to ninety percent plus! Petroleum is a very high density and reasonably safe source of fuel, this is why it's so hard to replace. A typical battery pack for an electric car adds 1200lbs to the weight of an equivalent gas powered car full of fuel and has less than half the range.

Yeah yeah, that has nothing to do with Trudeau speaking French to the French people. English is a language, other than that we have no differences in "culture". Again this has nothing to do with speaking French to the French.