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Energy may not be so much of an issue here in Quebec, where electricity is USD$0.05/kWh (residential rate) and 99%+ of it comes from hydroelectric power.

Recently there has been a push to farm "dry-land" salmon. In other words, the salmon live in large tanks on land, rather than in pens in the sea. At the moment a company is trying …

That's kind of how Nintendo worked the Wii (with "worse" hardware) against the PlayStation and XBox.

I don't find Costco necessarily cheaper than anywhere else. For example, if I'm careful and search flyers, local supermarkets will often have better prices. For me, Costco has good…

A few years ago I visited a small coffee plantation in Panama. The owner told us that Costco was the best customer for coffee growers by far, in terms of fair price, reliability, a…

There has been a vaccine for dogs and cats for a while now, not sure why it hasn't been released for humans yet. Lyme can be really horrible. Some people we know have a 30-somethin…

I learned to love WordPerfect. I still miss the ability to "Reveal Codes" and see exactly where it had placed the non-printing codes to turn on/off bold, italics, to change margins…

Not to mention raising local temperatures by as much as 16°F https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-...

It used to be a thing in India, I have read, that people would want to associate themselves with a prestigious university, even if they dropped out. It would be written like this (…

In Canada, I have to report my (small) self-employment income. The other thing I have to do is enter deductions like moving expenses, tuition, charitable donations, medical expense…

I went to their website. They have four things in their online shop, and all are "sold out" (never available?). Looks cool, but are they actually producing anything?

As far as I can see, the cameras are not live. Timestamps on the video seem to be off by many hours (12 hours for a camera in Taiwan, 1:40 for a camera in Calgary, 15:30 for a came…

Not really related, but worth repeating: there's an old saying, "A gentleman is one who knows how to play the accordion, but doesn't".

When I was a volunteer in Africa, my school's English teacher was furious because none of the students in his class had done the homework. His solution: to bring them into the staf…

I would suspect that the vast majority of bullying ends when the victim is able to escape from the bully -- by changing schools, etc. We hear about victims snapping and beating up …

> such cases were easily resolved Hah! In any case, it is a curious argument that, in order to show that stronger people should not hurt weaker people, you think it's okay for stro…

You are correct (source: I was a volunteer in Lesotho many moons ago).

If you enjoy The X-Files, you really should check out Millennium, by the same creator (Chris Carter) and broadcast at roughly the same time. It's very intense, with an Emmy-deservi…

I would bet that you can find used calculus textbooks quite easily. I did chemical engineering long ago (how long? Computerized process control was just being introduced into the c…

Compute! was very much aimed more at the home market that Byte (which appealed more to IT professionals). At the time, though, Compute! and Compute's Gazette (for Commodore compute…

I was in Lesotho, a small country completely surrounded by South Africa (when the White farmers were expanding and taking all the Africans' farmland, they left Lesotho because it w…

From 1988-91, I was a volunteer teacher in Africa. I lived in a hut without running water or electricity, and I had a subscription to Byte. There was also almost nothing to read, s…

If you click on a city's name, you can see a list of all flights arriving and departing. Some of the arriving ones will be in flight, and you can click on the flight number to view…

That sounds wonderful. Our experience with an Ioniq 6 has been less spectacular. First of all, in winter the range drops from 520km to about 350km, and charging takes about 50% lon…

There was a Toronto Commodore magazine called The Transactor that was my absolute favourite. It covered everything from the CBM 4032 and 8032 through the various Amigas. The magazi…