Monday, September 8, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Facebook to force everyone to change to the new layout soon, but people are rallying to have a choice
Facebookers Rally For Choice
Why don't they ask users what people like and dislike about the 2 layouts and then fix what people don't like and use what people like, to fix up the new layout so most people like it?
Conservatives Don't Want You To Know Why People Died from Lysteria
Impolitical: Harper listeriosis investigation called out by union
... The Conservative government changes to the inspection procedure resulted in people dieing. And they plan on reducing inspections more - even after the deaths!
... The Conservative government changes to the inspection procedure resulted in people dieing. And they plan on reducing inspections more - even after the deaths!
The Harper government has changed the way government inspectors do their work at meat plants such as the Maple Leaf facility in Toronto.
A new system, which began on March 31, puts an emphasis on the auditing of company records instead of direct visual inspections.
And, while Mr. Harper has emphasized a $113-million boost in funding
for food and product safety in the 2008 budget, the union said the
Tories actually have plans to slash funding for food safety programs.
Tory
spending plans would see funding for food safety programs cut by almost
30 per cent from 2006 to 2011, the union said. It cited numbers from
the Treasury Board of Canada Reports on Plans and Priorities.
Figures
from the same source suggest the Conservatives would cut food safety
staff by 19 per cent during the same period, the union said.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Russian allies condemn Georgia
Al Jazeera English - Europe - Russian allies condemn Georgia
Members of the group said they
were "deeply concerned about an attempt by Georgia to solve the
conflict in South Ossetia by force, which has led to numerous
casualties among the civilian population and peacekeepers and entailed
grave humanitarian consequences," the declaration said.
LHC will not destroy the universe in 5 days
LHC will not destroy the universe in 5 days - Boing Boing
“Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth – and the planet still exists.”
More Cyclists Means Fewer Accidents
Urban Surprise: More Bicyclists Means Fewer Accidents | LiveScience
In Toronto, this summer, there have been many more cyclists than ever. And, there have been fewer reports of serious accidents.
Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”
Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean.” | The LA Progressive
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
Besides insulting Obama with a Step-N’-Fetch-It, “darkie musical”
swipe, people who know her say she refers regularly to Alaska’s
Aboriginal people as “Arctic Arabs” – how efficient, lumping two
apparently undesirable groups into one ugly description – as well as
the more colourful “mukluks” along with the totally unimaginative
“f**king Eskimo’s,” according to a number of Alaskans and Wasillians
interviewed for this article.
NASA to Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun
NASA - NASA to Explore "Secret Layer" of the Sun
It is a place in
the sun's atmosphere, about 5000 km above the stellar surface,
where magnetic fields overwhelm the pressure of matter and
seize control of the sun's gases. It's where solar flares
explode, where coronal mass ejections begin their journey
to Earth, where the solar wind is mysteriously accelerated
to a million mph.
U.S. deserter did not want to take part in torture
TheStar.com | Canada | U.S. deserter feared torture orders
Only last February did he discover that his government had sanctioned
new rules on how terrorism suspects could be interrogated. He believes
it's torture and when he realized he might be asked to be a part of it,
he fled.
Let's Get Back To Peacekeeping
DTK: Peacekeeping: We Don't Do It Anymore
The fact is that Canadians should be in charge of what their military is doing. At this time, we are not. The Liberals failed to steer the military in to the post Cold War peacekeeping force that we wanted. The Conservatives are taking that military force and using it aggressively. Neither party deserves to be leading this country if they aren't carrying the morals and values of Canadians with them.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Tories blasted on food safety
HealthZone.ca - News & Features - Tories blasted on food safety
accusing the Harper government of undermining food safety in the same way the Mike Harris Tories weakened water safety in Walkerton, Ont., a decade ago.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Yet another iPhone lawsuit
Yet another Iphone lawsuit springs forth - The INQUIRER
In other words, “I bought it because it was pretty, but now I’ve realised it doesn’t really work very well and I’m angry abut being such a sucker”.
You are footing the bill for the pre-campaign ads for Harper
LeDaro: Harper the King
An attempt has already begun to fool the public again with election flyers sent by mail, and the public is footing the bill.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Internet Explorer 8 is a resource hog - stick with Firefox 3
IE8 is a resource hog - The INQUIRER
In a multi-tab browsing session against 10 websites under Vista, IE8 grabbed
about 380MB of memory, in contrast with 250MB consumed by IE7 and just 159MB by
Firefox 3.0.1. That makes IE8 nearly one and-a-half times more memory intensive
than IE7 and well more than twice as greedy as Firefox.
Nonetheless, Firefox displayed websites faster than both IE7 and IE8,
according to the test report, although it didn't present any timing figures. The
test report conjectured that Firefox uses "a more efficient rendering engine
employing fewer threads in exchange for faster linear performance."
In a multi-tab browsing session against 10 websites under Vista, IE8 grabbed
about 380MB of memory, in contrast with 250MB consumed by IE7 and just 159MB by
Firefox 3.0.1. That makes IE8 nearly one and-a-half times more memory intensive
than IE7 and well more than twice as greedy as Firefox.
Nonetheless, Firefox displayed websites faster than both IE7 and IE8,
according to the test report, although it didn't present any timing figures. The
test report conjectured that Firefox uses "a more efficient rendering engine
employing fewer threads in exchange for faster linear performance."
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