As long as speed limits are seen by the government as a source of revenue, they not likely to do anything to significantly improve adherence to the speed limits. It's also an approach allowing police to pull over pretty much any vehicle on the road - approximating a warrant-less search. Hence, it seems like an interesting idea but very unlikely likely to happen.
The "''Peter Principle'': people in a workplace are promoted until they reach their ''level of incompetence.'' ... because we wrongly assume that people who are good at their jobs will also be good at jobs that are one rung up on the corporate ladder -- so we promote them." Why am I not surprised that the research suggesting that randomly promoting people might be better is based on a computer model?
A review of mandatory arrest laws for anyone accused of domestic violence: given roughly equal domestic homicide rates beforehand, now "in states with mandatory arrest laws, the homicides are about 50 percent higher today than they are in states without the laws."
It's a little disturbing to think that they'd pay that little attention that something like this could happen, let alone have it take 3 months for someone to notice. Of course, if you look at prison rape, there's a lot that people can get away with in there.
Earlier this week the company said it would be charging 99 cents, plus fees and taxes, for two hours of the crackling log, with the money - matched by Shaw - donated to local charities.
Given how much time I've seen that fireplace, I'm not sure that this change is for the better. I wonder how big the backlash was?
Naturally you get a followup comment like "When asked for further comment, Dan Maceluch, a spokesman for Dr. Suzuki, said that he did not mean the statement to be taken literally." As with most such 'apologies' it seems something to be taken with a grain of salt.
Part of me wants to hate Shaw for this, but another part of me realizes that the CRTC is really the underlying entity to blame here. Still wish the CRTC would get rid of the restrictions requiring a minimum of crappyCanadian content on airwaves in Canada. It's one of the reasons why I avoid Canadian radio... and one of the reasons why I no longer subscribe to cable.
Citing the British Association of Anger Management the article claims that "[t]he number of women found guilty of murder, vicious assault or other attacks has risen by 81 per cent since 1998." That's a pretty dramatic increase.
