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You can do everything right and get taken out by an accident. So far I've dodged a loose trailer that came off next to me going the opposite direction, a rock dislodged by a marmot…

A440 is higher than earlier tunings. Baroque is often A415 and A392 can be used for French harpsichord music. Equal temper results in each key being so many semitones above or belo…

Lots of rodents in Alberta. The neighbourhood cats keep the mice and hantavirus down. Aircraft are often infested with mice. We need more bullsnakes.

Trump sanctions against ICC members and at least one human rights rapporteur has effectively debanked these people and made it very difficult for them to travel. Protecting Rule of…

Back in the 50's tonsillectomies were a regular rite of passage for kids, especially in colder places where kids spent more time indoors exposed to smoke. A couple years after movi…

So far not mentioned are a few Hebpew letters incorporated into Cyrillic (sh, ts, ch) somebody handier with Unicode can post them

File a small claims court action for each traffic stop demanding the maximum SCC amount. You can claim against the PD, who can join Focus or other provider as defendant. Don't forg…

Xerox in my time there skewed compensation to the salespeople while turning a blind eye to the software developers who made the sale possible.

There's been the odd idiot wearing headphones mowed down on train tracks. The trains air horn didn't get the message through. The Air Zound is wonderful. You can get pedestrians' a…

Here in Canada a Family Protection clause is common in insurance policies which covers you and your family in the case of hit and run, uninsured or under insured up to your liabili…

Assembler programs are written for different environments: Ordinary applications, Accessing OS facilities the compiler language can't access, extending the OS, Device control, enha…

As an ancient mainframe Assembler programmer, I first learned Assembler from studying the code generated by the compiler. There are traps in compiler languages calling user written…

Not yet discussed is that European countries have standards mandating lower hoods that are not as hazardous to pedestrians in a collision. Getting hit by a pickup or high profile S…

While many IBM products are beautifully designed, IBM also has a long tradition of dreadful implementations. JES3 and COLT (Canadian On-line Teller) come to mind. IBM had a traditi…

You need to keep your nose on the grindstone for years to progress to glider cross country flying. Then you end up as an instructor and have to finagle time in your own glider. The…

A separated Alberta would become a de facto Puerto Rico in thrall to the US without any votes.

The Forever Canadia https://www.forever-canadian.ca/ petition collected over 400,000 signatures from Alberta electors. Then Danielle moved the goalposts to make it easier for the I…

Arabic speakers are not necessarily Arabs. Indigenous populations became Arabic speakers during the spread of Islam. We saw the same in Latin America with Spanish and Catholicism.

This will open a giant can of worms. Hobbyists, bad actors and military will be taking advantage.

Once bacteria set up house deep inside a tooth, they are sheltered from the immune system while dispatching bacteria into the blood system. I've had infected tooth removed and foun…

The locked cockpit door has been implicated in a number of pilot suicides: German Wings, Egypt Air, MH370 and possibly others. Then there's Helios that crashed near Athens. The pre…

Nabokov writes so beautifully in English. Not mentioned is that Russian is well populated with loan words from other European languages (especially technology terms) , but about th…

During Petzold’s preliminary hearing on Oct. 1, 2023, the Crown called RCMP [supposed] digital forensic expert Const. Wilson Yee to explain his analysis of the email on Marguerite’…

The US could issue a notice of an Alert Area where military operations are in progress AND could coordinate with Dutch airspace authorities. US AWACS has the capability to identify…