Screw the Environment, Save Auto Industry Jobs

This makes me angry. The Liberals and Conservatives have been handing over my hard earned money to Ontario's auto industry. No surprise there, both parties are visionless panderers.

 

But now the NDP is joining them, promissing to spend 2 billion dollars a year on making new cars.

 

GLOBAL WARMING WAS NOT CAUSED BY PEOPLE TAKING THE BUS!!!!!

 

How can you pretend to be in favour of the environment and subsidize car and house construction? Per capita, Canadians are the number 4 carbon emitters in the world! We produce less carbon than Saudi Arabia. Thank goodness for that. Hummer driving Americans emit more carbon, which makes sense. Urban sprawl Australia has us beet to.

 

But we release 3 times more carbon than the average Sweed. 3 times! Twice the amount of Frenchmen. Oil crazy rich Norwegians emit significantly less then we do.

 

And if that wasn't bad enough, an other ranking ranks us ahead of Australia and Saudi Arabia, just behind the United States!

 

 

A+ For True Blod with Anna Paquin

Step one: get TMN
Step two: set your DVR for Sunday night after Entourage (or watch it
later in the week on TMN on demand).
Step Three: Watch True Blood, the best new series this year, perhaps
this century.

The 26 year old Canadian Anna Paquin is sublime in this vampire series
set in New Orleans.

The premier totally sucked me in and I felt I was a part of the humid
Louisiana diner where most of the first show is set.

Regardless of your blood type, try True Blood.

Entourage was also DVR worthy this Sunday, as was Weeds, on Showcase.
In fact, Weeds was so good I watched it "live", including commercials.

With all this good TV, I'm almost happy Summer is over!

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Canadian Ecstasy

A new study has found that Canada is one of the top suppliers of the drug ecstasy.

Police became suspicious when they noticed people excited to be in Canada.

- Conan O'Brien

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End Corporate Welfare, vote NDP

The Conservatives are spending my hard earned money on car plants! Car
plants!

Let businesses fail (and succeed). Support people. Vote NDP.

If people aren't buying Fords, they are buying Toyotas. And guess
where they are made. Yes, Ontario.

The car industry is a zero sum game. You can't expect Toyota to open
car plants and not have competitors close some.

Companies need to make business decisions, they don't need governments
encouraging them to make bad ones.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080903.wharperwindsor0903/BNStory/National/home

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Chrome is the Best New Browser Since Firefox

I just, just downloaded Chrome, the new Internet Browser by Google. So perhaps it is a bit premature to give a review.

However, here it is:

Cnn.com works. Streaming video works on CNN. Youtube works (Google owns it). Competitor Dailymotion works. Bookmarks are there and they can be managed (deleted, moved, create new folder, etc...).

Here is what works better in Chrome than in Internet Explorer 7:

-You can easily go incognito (although Chrome recommends you literally watch your back; sound advice!)

-Gmail

-Mobile Me

-Internet searching. The address bar is now also the search bar!

-DNS redirect. You hate Rogers' new advertising infested DNS redirect. Good, you should. And you will never see it again if you use Chrome!

-Blogger (owned by Google) definitely loads faster.

-The tabs are at the top (makes more sense).

-The status bar at the bottom auto appears when you scroll over a link. 

So far, I'm impressed. I can't say for sure that non-Google inc. pages load faster, but they definitely don't load any slower.

My only gripe so far is that to access your favourites/bookmarks, you have to have the bookmarks bar visible. This needlessly takes up screen real estate. Ironically, you can add bookmarks without the bar. On the plus side, you can type the fist few letters of the page you are trying to get to and if it is in your bookmarks, Chrome will offer the page as a suggestion. This is probably faster if you have your typing hands available. But if you have your keybord out of the way because you are eating lunch, the lack of a quick bookmark button is anoying. Although if you open a new tab, the bookmark bar will be there...