Will be picking up a 16GB/Wifi iPad on Friday, not out locally (gray market expensive) so I have waited until I am in an iPad available area (Singapore in this case). Currently working on figuring out how to write iPad applications :p Will put all my technical books on the iPad (I stopped...

Boring - no really boring a big tunnel like they did in KL is more interesting than the "Big Dig" :p http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_Tunnel

I don't think many people agree with the "church" (actually more of a cult if you read some of their guidelines - like limiting/breaking contact with family members, etc.) -- left or right. The media is not a major factor - just the existence of said video through you-tube would provide gas to...

If a language is displaced by another, words needed for that culture get absorbed into the language - and you have a slightly different dialect. As far as languages developed over tens of thousands of years - I see no modern equivalent of stone or cave painting writing in modern languages :o...

That is because there is no common language. I went to an Indian concert in LA - when first invited - I said I would not understand because I did not speak the language, but was told - it was common i.e several of the Indians I was going with also would not understand the language of the...

There are a few reasons why it is this way - one is of course the financial axis was located in Britain, then in the United States - but I doubt it will continue there - it is likely to move to Asia in the future (axis - meaning the centre of money flows, which brings scientists, which brings...

Language is a tool used to communicate - right now English is the most common tool used to communicate with in Canada - but I have never favoured official languages because tools change. In fact someone that spoke english 700 years ago and someone today - would have a hard time communicating...

I was able to walk into a beer store at the age of 15 and buy beer, the LCBO at the age of 16. I was only asked for ID once. By treating alcohol as some special - forbidden fruit - you are more likely to end up creating binge/irresponsible drinkers (of any age).

Especially since it has already been pretty well decided that the rails used will be shared with other traffic like GO - using only one of those rails for traffic to and fro the airport will only screw up GO....

It is funny reading this thread.... Today, Bangkok's high speed rail service to airport started full operation. As a baseline a public taxi from the airport downtown is around 350 baht (11 - 12 CAD). The high speed train (express version) will cost 100 baht .... or 150 baht after the...

Ahem, none of those you listed met the standard..... none where "blowing themselves up"..... They just committed war crimes by targeting a civilian population, but they were not willing to meet their maker in doing so :p

I whole-heartedly agree, BUT I believe we should use the population numbers from the year 1500 :) Please leave, we have too many white people :o

I know his views are abhorrent to you (at least on this topic), but at least he is being honest about them (at least I am assuming he is). Even if I disagree vehemently, I prefer people be not to be two-faced about it (as long as he does not treat individuals with disrespect). I just hope his...

I pointed that out earlier that our constitution does allow some leeway for extending rights - which differs from the American constitution. The courts in this manner are following the constitution.

The only use for an elected GG is to displace the monarchy without changing the nature of how we are governed - or at least as little as possible. Just electing the GG does not make much sense.

First, the BNA act had more to do with the structure of government in Canada - what each government was responsible for, what the courts were responsible for - very little "interpretable" constitutional powers. As far as the country is dynamic, therefore the constitution should be as...

I prefer the way alcohol is sold here (although I would not consider it the "legal way" - just the way it is), you can buy beer at the 7/11, sometimes you see people out in front drinking a beer with friends, you can buy it with street food, at night on the main street a bar industry has brown...

I think Israel would be close - there president is for the most part ceremonial - atlthough elected by parliament. Really, if you want a non-political elected head of state - it would have to be laid out in the constitution at the time of amending. If the constitution states these are the...

In my opinion - the unwritten constitution attitude of judges (I remember one justice on the supreme court mentioning that it did not matter what the constitution actually said) these days is a big problem because in 1982 we went from from a largely unwritten constitution to a written one. With...

Hey, that was not a complete graph - I am not on there :p