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  1. Space is the Place

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    2 hours ago, Tracker said:

    You are correct in that Einstein saw quantum mechanics as " spooky action at a distance" and tried his best to ignore it. However it has persisted and has been repeatedly proven by such experiments as they have been able to design. Quantum mechanics are used to design all current electronics, so it is tangible and even has theological implications. For example, it is a tenet of quantum mechanics that nothing can exist without being aware of by an conscious being. It also supports the propositions of "The Holographic Universe"- a book that I have treasured for a long time.

    Bohr famously said, " If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you are wrong. If you think you do not understand quantum mechanics, you are right".

    Einstein was also skeptical that black holes actually existed, even though his math and equations predicted they do.

  3. Around The NHL 2022-23

    in Winnipeg Jets Discussion

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    2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:

    What’s crazy about the Weber contract is that there’s 3 years left so NASH thought he’d be playing at 40.

    This was also one of the contracts that triggered the NHL to put in the 8 year max contract rule, as this was a 14 year contract, front loaded so that he only gets paid $1M a year with a $7.8M cap hit in each of the final 3 years.  

    The contract was designed to be bought out in those years or traded to a team like Phoenix.  

  5. Canadian Politics

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    1 hour ago, Wideleft said:

    But that would require campaign platforms that look beyond the current election cycle.  Unfortunately, 30 - 35% of Canadians just don't buy into that way of thinking.  See climate change, homelessness, child care, long term care etc etc.

    I'm currently reading "Too Dumb For Democracy" by David Moscrop.  He cites neurological (and so far - not sociological or psychological) studies that show the human brain in many cases is still evolving from "survival mode" and into "survival in the future mode".  This would certainly help explain why a solid chunk of people (even people who lead relatively comfortable lives) vote against society's best interests because they can't appreciate or embrace long-term thinking.

    It's very thought-provoking.

    It would also require trust in elected officials that they can competently plan past the election cycle.

    I wonder how much of this is people don't buy into it and how much is it with a lack of trust or seeing a lack of vision from elected officials.

  7. The RIP 2023 Thread

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    It is a tough pill to swallow and dissapointing when it turns out that people we idolize and look up to aren't the people we hoped them to be.

    In any given population of people there is going to be a wide range of people from really horrible to really great (and everything in betwen).  Being a hockey player, actor, or any kind of celebrity doesn't automatically make you a great person.   It just makes you great at some things that happen to make you famous.

    At the end of the day, take care of yourself, be careful of who you idolize and make sure the people you choose to emulate are deserving, and represent the kind of person you want to be.

  8. Manitoba Politics

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    27 minutes ago, GCJenks said:

    The saddest thing to me is that none of the opposition have an alternate plan that is reasonably palatable. Wab out proclaiming that they should meddle with Hydro or MPI to ensure lower monthly payments is not the right answer either. Hydro is in the mess it is from all the interference by previous NDP governments.

    It seems so simple to me, but no political party seems to talk about it (so I must be wrong?). Wouldn't the easiest most efficient way to affect this change be to raise the Provincial Personal Exemption? Allow us to keep more of our own money that we earn, instead of taking it and then trying to find ways to give it back? 

    I think the government thinks they win more brownie points by someone getting a physical cheque in hand a few times a year vs the smaller tax savings of seeing a few hundred dollars extra on your pay cheque split over 26ish pay periods.

    Would certainly seem easier (and cheaper) to administer your way.

  11. Space is the Place

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    9 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

    To put this into context, Sirius is 8.611 light years from Earth (just over 50 trillion miles away). At 9 miles per second, it will take 5.8 trillion years for that star to reach Earth. Since the Sun will consume Earth in 7.5 billion years, I’d say we have more pressing concerns. But to add more context to 8.6 lights years and distance, the Moon is 239,000 miles from Earth, which equates to 1.3 light seconds. 

    It actually won't reach the consumed Earth.

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    Sirius appears bright because of its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to the Solar System. At a distance of 2.64 parsecs (8.6 ly), the Sirius system is one of Earth's nearest neighbours. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it is expected to increase in brightness slightly over the next 60,000 years, reaching a peak magnitude of −1.68. After that time, its distance will begin to increase, and it will become fainter, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's night sky for approximately the next 210,000 years, before Vega, another A-type star and more luminous than Sirius, becomes the brightest star.[26]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius

  12. Random News Items

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    https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/heata_offers_free_hot_water/

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    Heata has developed a novel way to use the waste heat generated by servers: mounting them on domestic hot water tanks to cut energy bills for homeowners.

    The company, whose services now include cloud compute, 3D rendering and ways to help landlords improve the efficiency of their housing stock, has hooked up with cloud provider Civo to offer the compute resources for running some workloads.

    Heata started as a project within energy company British Gas to help customers living in fuel poverty, something many can sympathize with at the moment. It has now been spun out with investment from British Gas, Innovate UK, and also Civo, a cloud-native service provider that focuses exclusively on workloads running with Kubernetes.

    The initial concept developed by the company involved using heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs, according to Heata Co-founder and CTO Chris Jordan.

     

  13. Random News Items

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    http://www.pubmanitoba.ca/v1/contact-us/media/pubs/2021-2025-nr/nr-mpi-2023-rates.pdf

    MPI to raise rates by an average of 1.54%

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    • On July 12, 2022, MPI filed a general rate application (GRA) seeking an overall rate decrease of 0.9%. The application was updated on October 12, 2022 and the revised rate sought was 0.05%. In Order 4/23 dated January 11, 2023, the Public Utilities Board varied the application and ordered a rate decrease of 3.8%, effective April 1, 2023.
       

    • The rate decrease is offset by the removal of a 5.0% capital release as applied for by MPI and approved by the Board. This results in an average increase in premiums paid by ratepayers of 1.54%.
       

    • Rates paid by individual ratepayers will vary depending on: driving record of the registered owner; vehicle make, model and year; purpose for which the vehicle is driven; and the territory in which the registered owner resides.
       

    • The Board noted significant increases in operating expenses, driven in large part by staff increases. On a corporate-wide basis, including all lines of MPI’s business, the budgeted staff positions have increased from 1,939 in the pre-Covid budget year 2019/20 to 2348 in the 2023/24 budget. MPI indicated that 34 FTEs will be temporary staff. Salary and benefits costs are 55% of MPI’s total operating costs.
       

    • The Board also noted the increases in MPI’s IT renewal project, titled Project Nova. Project Nova was included in the 2020 GRA with a budget of $106.8 million (costs and contingency included). In 2021, the budget was increased to $128.5 million. In this GRA, the completion timeline was extended from three years to five years and the budget was increased to a range of $257 million to $289.9 million.
       

    • The Board has ordered MPI to provide several reports pertaining to Project Nova to allow it to monitor the project’s expenses.

     

  17. There are awful human beings out there...

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    42 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:

    This unfortunately was not uncommon back then. Not trying to excuse his actions, but it was half a century ago. Times have changed...hopefully he feels guilty about it...Im not sure what could be done about it now, outside of Tyler taking responsibility and providing some kind of assistance. Unfortunately there are a bunch of artists from that era who have songs that literally talk about "sexy" minors. Even as young as 13.

     

  18. Game 35 vs Minnesota

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    19 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

    Open multiple part question for the group: 

    Jets have 2 more games this month and 15 in January. Given that right now most of their injured players are pegged at “2 weeks +” for return date, should they be contemplating a trade now to get through the rough patch? And since Chicago is all in on a tank job and looking to move one or both of Toews and Kane, would it be worth going after them and what would it cost?

    The problem with trading this early is the extra 2 months of salary you need to take on.   Especially if you are going to take on big salaries like Toews or Kane (max 50% retention without a 3rd team getting involved).

    Don't make rash decisions.  The team built a decent buffer to hopefully weather this storm.  They will fall in the standings, but as long as you can stay in playoff contention and make the push back up when everyone is back.

  21. US Politics

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    18 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:

    Here is the MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

     

    Brings back the nightmare of when he was president.  

    1. See a news item.  
    2. Not sure if it is real or a parody
    3. Go look it up
    4. Turns out it is real
    5. Not sure if I should be surprised or not

     

    BTW:  For anyone who was interested in buying one for the cheap prices of $99.  You don't even get a card.  You are buying a "digital card".

  22. US Politics

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    6 minutes ago, Tracker said:


    The pressure of the DOJ investigations appears to be getting to Trump, as he is now under the impression that he is a superhero.

    Image

     


    Yes, an ex-president posted a picture of himself as some sort of grifting Superman whose superpower appears to be financial fraud. On top of it all, Trump has lasers coming out of his eyes.

    Why lasers? Who knows.

    The image above is part of a video that will not be embedded here because doing so would give Trump’s failing social media platform attention, but the video is even crazier than the image above.

    Trump’s presidential campaign 3.0 has been a disaster. He is not campaigning. He has no campaign staff. In fact, there doesn’t appear to be an actual presidential campaign.

    Donald Trump has fooled the media into covering him for years with promises of a major announcement. Unless the announcement is that he is turning over all of the classified documents that he stole from the United States government, Trump has nothing newsworthy to say.

    Trump has gone from running the Republican Party to overseeing a cult that specializes in propaganda that would make the regime in North Korea blush.

    The DOJ poses the biggest threat of criminal prosecution that Trump has faced in his life, and so far, he is not showing signs of mentally holding up well.

    laser_dr_evil.jpg

  23. Canadian Politics

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    8 minutes ago, HardCoreBlue said:

    I think I’m between the two comments here. On the one hand absolutely no matter what party, no matter what platform and ideology, lead with grace, humility, integrity and honesty. On the other hand, I find the argument everyone’s bad not productive. It feels like a what about argument deflecting away from the seriousness of the behaviour and at times deflecting to something that is no where near the seriousness of the original behaviour being discussed. 

    I don't think excuses should be made for bad behaviour.   It should be called out, and the fact "everyone is bad" shouldn't be an excuse.

    We also shouldn't lower our expectations because one party is worse or not criticize a party because they aren't "as bad".  In the long term, a party who isn't subject to criticism and forced to answer questions on how they behave and their platform will regress and become something worse.

  24. Canadian Politics

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    33 minutes ago, Wideleft said:

    Nah.  This is the same kind of generalization as "they're all crooks" which further leads to voter apathy.

    I don't think it is a bad thing to aspire to have the leaders of our country to be more than simply "they are better than what is on the right".

    I would like to see leadership in any party that can inspire the population and build trust across historical party lines.   A foolish dream?   Perhaps.  But this country is starting to become more and more divided.  And something needs to be done to start uniting the population or we will cease to be a country.

  25. Random Video Thread

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    https://www.everplans.com/articles/rich-guy-buries-million-dollar-bentley-to-prove-point

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    One of the richest and most powerful men in Brazil, Thane Chiquinho Scarpa, made waves when he announced plans to bury his million-dollar Bentley so he could drive around the afterlife in style. He received lots of media attention and was criticized for the extravagant gesture. Why wouldn’t he donate the car to charity? How out of touch with reality is this guy? He still went ahead with the ceremony.

    But, there’s a twist. (Of course there is. Why else would we be covering this story?)

    Moments before lowering the car in the ground he revealed his genuine motive: To create awareness for organ donation.

    “People condemn me because I wanted to bury a million dollar Bentley, in fact most people bury something a lot more valuable than my car,” Scarpa said during a speech at the ceremony. “They bury hearts, livers, lungs, eyes, kidneys. This is absurd. So many people waiting for a transplant and you will bury your healthy organs that will save so many lives.”

     

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