Handsome Rob

The NDP too? Guess everybody that isn't a Liberal screeching like a Banshee? CBC's Vote Compass is miscalibrated. Have you noticed? babblers have.

Next week will be 50 years, Vostok 1 returned Gagarin successfully. Heck of a lot of accomplishments, much farther still to go. Also hoping political infighting doesn't continue to gut NASA.

I can't either, but I still can't help but think that. Regardless, unless they have a reset to Harcourt days I don't believe I'll be voting NDP. I don't disagree.

Seeing as Provincial & Federal NDP are one in the same, I suspect Punked is the best person to answer this question. I know they have such things built into the party constitution, I do not know if the above applies in that regard. The incoming leader may not, at any rate, have a choice.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/09/12/bc-ndp-women-minority-ridings.html The B.C. NDP has set aside 25 ridings for female and minority candidates to contest in the next provincial election. The selection of the ridings follows a motion at the party's annual convention last November that required the party to nominate women to run in at least 30 per cent of seats not currently held by the NDP. The motion required an additional five riding nominations be restricted to persons from ethnic and other minority groups that are under-represented in the legislature. As separate motion also required that women be nominated to run in any seats vacated by NDP MLAs who won't be running in the next election. Thus far an additional five seats have been reserved for women, making a total of 25 seats reserved for female and minority candidates. There is some other stuff in the constitution as well. The great thing for the BC NDP and the province is that when James replacement is named Moe will have to quit, and we will not let the door hit him in the butt on the way out.

Consider the budget shortfall trying to replace $1.6 billion in essentially free money from the feds. What kind of tax will replace it, and how much more will that cost?

I hope Dix wins, Cummins takes the Conservative leadership, and Clark gets a run for her money. Best possible result IMHO. Farnworth seems to me to be Glen Clark reincarnated.

Don't care. Better it comes out of the coffers of the feds than my pocket. Boy did we ever spend the money on that party, city of Vancouver will take a while to recover from the Olympic Village. All in all, lots of reason to be pissed at the Liberals, not much reason to be pissed at the HST. It's probably a good thing compared to the alternatives, half the people crying about it were adamant Olympic supporters. Still lots of reason to be wary of the NDP, especially the current group. The BC Conservatives are also a growing player, to what extent we'll see. I wouldn't be surprised, wouldn't expect, but wouldn't be surprised to see a Liberal minority.

Hasn't this argument pretty much been established as a waste of time? Neither side will ever quantify "Proof." CON majority = Dead registry Anything else = It lives Arguing the same things over and over again for the next 10 years isn't going to change that fact. The only question I have remaining that I still think an answer exists to is; 'Why did it need to be whipped? What else is there that isn't seen?'

85% of it goes to Europe, might not be a knockout punch but could be a heck of a speed bump at a really bad time. countries like Italy, France, and Spain relied on Libya in 2010 for as much as 22 percent, 16 percent, and 13 percent of total crude consumption, respectively – a supply not easily replaced on short notice. Europe receives over 85 percent of Libya's crude exports. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2011/0223/Europe-rethinks-dependence-on-Libyan-oil

Although I don't agree that there is proof of meddling in another back yard, I do agree that France has a greater role that is currently reported, and will be exposed. Would have been a perfect opportunity for WikiLeaks if it wasn't wasted on a political agenda.

To quantify, 2008 results. Ontario's traditional heavyweight election role is arguably heavier than it's ever been.

Michael, sorry, you took this far too seriously. I tried to avoid that at the top. I heard the idea and quickly put some thoughts on paint. The placement of particular individuals was thrown on quickly because people need to be placed for it to make a remote amount of sense. They are not placed to enhance the idea, they are placed satirically, with people arguably who were the most destructive/extreme reaching further from 'centre.' I usually read this board for pretty interesting debate, I thought I could extract some, and failed miserably. Too much satire/poor humour and far too goofy in delivery. Learned my lesson. The colours are meant to indicate a Green/Yellow/Orange/Red transition in the natural sense of heat. People/parties are placed just to fill in the blanks with a tiny shot of thought as to where, nothing sophisticated. I agree it doesn't make sense because it's so far out of the box in thinking, but it is an interesting idea I thought.

I live in one of these cities, the Conservative-Liberal margin was a bare 22 votes, that went to judicial recount. There are a lot of swing ridings in the GTA. You can't have change without trying, and voting really isn't much trying.

DISCLAIMER: Below is a crude MS Paint image. Please, no criticism of the artwork. Also note I've done my best to make fun of all political figures and parties equally in an entirely satirical fashion. Spectrum I'm curious of opinions on both the idea and positioning.

American Airlines FA Pic Yup, sign 'em up for MMA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Air_Marshal_Service

A lot. I just read their have been 3 ballistic launches out of Vandenburg since June, not counting space launches, can't remember the source. When you have thousands of military aircraft, they need to practice, lots of AFB's around their, especially edwards.

Consider your viewpoint at the bottom, like a triangle, you are the fulcrum and the two endpoints are the airplane. The further away the airplanes are, the greater the distance between them. 3 dimensional seperation. A variance of 10-15,000 ft can easily cause huge difference in contrail formation, from air saturation, temperature differences, differences in combustion, differences in air pressure, etc, etc. I have no idea what standards are used in that chart, but aviation uses a standard lapse rate of -1.98c/1,000 ft. Far and away from the numbers quoted. Their are two other rates for varied conditions. Actual temp aloft right now: http://www.flightplanning.navcanada.ca/cgi-bin/Fore-obs/fd.cgi STN YVR - VANCOUVER. BC 24000 - 2452-31 = Winds from 240 @ 52 knots & -31c, during a cold winter air mass and a ground temperature in the 10c range. In summer months when ground temp is 30c, these numbers plummet. The atmosphere also does some strange things and it's not unusual to hold warm air aloft. Regardless, the numbers quoted were completely anecdotal, off the top of my head to illustrate the massive differences in environment possible. Depending on conditions, it's not unusual for a contrail to hang around. Water from evaporation condensed into visible form = cloud. Water from jet exhaust condensed into visible form = cloud. There is little difference chemically between the two.

Start up cost for CATSA was $2 billion, around $300 million/year in operating expense, around $150-200 million/year in capital costs. 10 years later, $7 billion dollars, at least. Those numbers are very, "Ballparked." What exactly has this money done, what incidents has it prevented that TC security prior failed to do? In 8 years at Canada's 2nd busiest airport, I've never once seen a success story, including 1/2 dozen friends who's paycheque says CATSA, not sub-contractors. Most of them will privately say that it's a joke, but never publically. Yet their are way more CT scanners in this airport alone than the regional district of 3 million+ people. Another gun registry or what? Wasted money is wasted money regardless of how you justify it.

Fair. It's junk science, but it doesn't quell the fact that crossing the street in a busy city is far and away more dangerous than stepping foot on a commercial airliner. Let's not start on our radiation and pollutant exposure living in cities, and rising cancer rates. Obviously rudimentary security is necessary, but we're getting more than a little carried away. Things like forcing people through the back-scatter peep-hole box with zero long term study even on the books for exposure. Especially cumulative exposure for things like crew.

Like this: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199--the-israelification-of-airports-high-security-little-bother?bn=1

Sorry, it's totally anecdotal. The odds came from googling, "Odds of death from;" Exception being the air terror, which came from This. They're not accounting for people dying in falling buildings obviously, just the ones in the aluminum pipe in the sky.

As somebody that goes through screening every working day (Non-passenger), I can tell you that they make incompetent look like a life-long dream. Stuff gets through what they do screen all the time, we play games with them. Start with one inanimate object, then two, then three, when we finally get caught it resets back to zero. Couple years back, a pistol magazine full of bullets was found in the washroom right behind Transborder security, what a nightmare that is, all passengers come back, all luggage comes back, all aircraft bridges pulled, re-screening everybody in the sterile terminal. Beyond that, their are hundreds of ways to defeat it: -Catch a regional from a rural airport without security and connect, your baggage ramp transfers and isn't screened. -Send it cargo, still isn't close to even marginal screening. -Binary explosives, their is no defense against these besides EDT, which is far too time consuming to deploy beyond random checks. -Get a job as a baggage handler, and get full access with your little card same day, even if you're a Somallian refugee whom they eventually decide, isn't supposed to have clearance. -Body cavities, no reasonable defense against this. -People have experimented with implantation, like the British "Breast Bombs." List goes on and on... Moral of the story, if somebody wants to do something bad on an airplane, and they do grade 10 level homework, they will and their is nothing we can do about it. By far the biggest factor in post 9/11 security is the locking of the flight deck door. And I still don't understand, if I'm going to area C, I can bring my coffee through door A but not door B, even though they both go to the same place. Whoever is sitting around dreaming this stuff up has an incompetence rate far and above the civil service bureaucracy. Odds of death from: Aerial Terrorism: 10,408,947 to 1 Fireworks Discharge: 615,488 to 1 Dog Attack: 147,717 to 1 Plane Crash: 135,000 to 1 Lightening: 83,930 to 1 Legal Execution: 58,618 to 1 Assault by Gun: 325 to 1 Motor Vehicle Crash: 100 to 1 Stroke: 23 to 1 Cancer: 7 to 1 Heart Disease 5 to 1

Very much not the same conditions. The stars in Orion's belt look really close together, but really they are light years apart. From your perspective as an observer, and angular distance of a few inches could equate to dozens or even hundreds of miles in the distance. A contrail from a 744 climbing through 25,000 at -5 is going to look vastly different from a Lear at 52,000 ft and -35. Air pressure varies all over the place, moisture content and saturation vary all over the place, there are temperature inversions aloft..... Consider the idea of a heavy step climbing on an oceanic crossing, say with a full load of fuel cruising at 26,000/0 until enough is burned for the next climb. The contrail is faint, but slowly starts to show up as the airplane climbs. However the cool air descends and the contrail dissipates. From your position, 'right next to it,' 2 miles above at 38,000 and -20, is a 737 heading for Toronto, and the contrails are just billowing out. They linger for an hour before the winds aloft stretch them out into a mares tail cirrus cloud practically invisible. Or perhaps underneath the barometer is falling a large volume of warm moist air is rising.

NOTAM for LA. KZLA Los Angeles Area Control Centre LOS ANGELES A2832/10 NOTAM number– THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS ARE REQUIRED DUE TO NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER WEAPONS DIVISION ACTIVATION OF W537 Restricted airspace ajacent to Vandenburg AFB/Spaceport, in Canada this would be class F, down there MOA. IN THE INTEREST OF SAFETY, ALL NON-PARTICIPATING PILOTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID W537. IFR TRAFFIC UNDER ATC JURISDICTION SHOULD ANTICIPATE CLEARANCE AROUND W537 AND CAE 1176. CAE 1155 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION. CAE 1316 & CAE 1318 WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION. CAE 1177 WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR OCEANIC TRANSITION. W537 ACTIVE, CAE 1176 CLOSED. SURFACE – FL390 Restrictions are from Surface to 39,000 ft., 09 NOV 20:00 2010 UNTIL 10 NOV 01:00 2010. CREATED: 08 NOV 20:52 2010 I would assume that CAE is either a Standard Instrument Departure or airway designations for pacific ocean crossing, but, no IFR or further experience to say accurately.