Agreed; and it will become more of a problem as water becomes less predictable. Problem is, for most atomic generators, that also holds true.

Investment in research is definitely needed, but building existing systems isn’t going to solve the issues either.

When does Jones realize that no matter what happens, it doesn’t end well for him?

Already seen it multiple times in Africa. First thing China does is sets up a local Chinese enclave to run the port. The enclave has its own security. If the victim nation tries to do anything about it, the port shuts down until they relent. If they try to take the port by force, it gets seized and held by the security forces, and may refuse to do any local shipping until the nation caves.

Does anyone actually see Russia joining? The only belt and road candidate I can imagine from BRICS is South Africa.

However. There’s quite a few second-tier BRICS hangers on (Indonesia, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Sudan, etc) that I can imagine could be quite excited about belt and road, at least in the short term.

Good news is: CBC is planning to focus more on local news, finally giving PostMedia some competition.

There’s always the option to vote NDP.

Why not? It gives Russia 20 years to subsume Ukraine, so they’ll be fine with it, and Ukraine will be given the choice of “take it or be cut off from all further funding.”

Well… that’s one way to do things. For the past 20 years, I’ve refused all shipments via UPS from the US. I always ask sellers who they plan to ship through, and if it’s UPS, I tell them that’s a deal breaker. I also encourage others not to accept shipments via UPS from the US.

I’d switch to this method but it’s just such a headache to go through the dispute process.

I did have one parcel that arrived via UPS in 2020. They dropped it at the door without ringing, and sent the bill for their customs processing in the mail. I called them up and demanded they drop the fees because a) I don’t accept international packages from UPS (as the local UPS guy knows), and b) they have no evidence I ever received the package. When they investigated the signature, it wasn’t mine, but was the delivery person’s.

They dropped the charges.

Oh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.

I don’t get it. Current nuclear power solutions take longer to set up, have an effectively permanently harmful byproduct, have the (relatively small) potential to catastrophically fail, almost always depend on an abundant supply of fresh water, and are really expensive to build, maintain and decommission.

If someone ever comes up with a functional fusion reactor, I could see the allure; in all other cases, a mix of wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and solar, alongside energy storage solutions, will continually outperform fission.

I suspect that the reason some countries like nuclear energy is that it also puts them in a position of nuclear power on the political stage.

Are those nine year olds also allowed to vote?

I’m waiting for the catch. They already name washed themselves; I expect them to be exploiting some new market that isn’t aware of who they are and what they do.

Whenever I hear about Canada and the White House in the same sentence, it reminds me of that little event in 1812….

Thank you, CBC. I’ve had it with PostMedia.

…on procedural or technical grounds.

That’s the important bit; I had been thinking that they were just dodgy complaints, but it’s really that the forms weren’t filled out correctly or the right paper didn’t get to the right person on time.

I’m not sure how much age has to do with it; Boomers have shown they’re just as willing to give up their privacy if it makes things more convenient for them.

It’s true that the people born after the advent of loot boxes have never known real privacy or ownership, but I know that I raised my kids to know the value of both. There’s a phrase in my house: “always read the contract.” If the contract doesn’t seem balanced, it’s expected to modify it. If the other party rejects the modifications, it’s fine to reject their terms and do something else.

Just because someone says you have to agree to a contract doesn’t mean you do. And that often opens up options for ownership that you’d otherwise miss.

They just can’t get a break, can they?

So… it actually happened?

Oh, I thought I’d already made it clear that the west has totally failed to do the right thing here.

One of the best historical examples may be the Persian empire.

It’s definitely natural; it may be in humanity’s best interest to direct and curb it though. Unfortunately, that always seems to lead to corruption and inequality.