jadero

I'm very impressed by the compassion of your response. It would have been so much easier to downvotes and move on, my first instinct.

That makes me think that there need to be dedicated locations, perhaps with a few critical utilities already in place. The numbers of people living there and their reasons for living there would be a useful measure of how well we're doing in providing proper shelter.

Those locations need to have ready access to various services, not parked on the outskirts. Maybe it's worth giving up a park or two. Keeping them central and visible would be an important part of getting communities on board with proper social housing programs.

I have no doubt that, in certain climates or certain times of year, some people would deliberately choose to live there for adventure or lifestyle reasons, but I don't see anything wrong with that.

Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device.

I take "a pendulum-like device" to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.

Gauges measured stress on the metacarpals during punches and slaps on padded-dumbbell targets created with a pendulum-like device.

I take "a pendulum-like device" to mean they suspended either the arms or the targets and swung them to a collision.

Oh that's not good. Obviously, I've chosen to allow js, but basic stuff should work without it.

Heh. I gave up trying to figure out voting a long time ago. I find it both fascinating and disturbing that there are people out there who see anything I write as worthy of a dowvote. :)

Which is disgusting! Their job is supposed to be about doing what is best for the people who live here, not whatever best serves the interests of their party. If there were a system that was good for the people while eliminating the concept of parties, every party should be glad to do the work of implementing it.

Where I live in Southern Saskatchewan, farmers are digging out shelter belts very rapidly. I would imagine that their low till, zero till, and high-cut headers (leaves taller stubble) are even better at keeping the soil and capturing snow over winter than a row of trees every few hundred metres.

I remember vaguely an article from a few decades ago that claimed Montreal was the only Canadian city that at least tried to do snow clearing right.

Saskatoon, for example, is abysmal and always has been.

I once heard that property taxes would have to increase by a lousy $50/year to bring Saskatoon snow clearing up to Montreal standards. That's when I finally realized that governments at all levels, as they are currently organized, are basically useless when it comes to figuring out how to best serve the population.

Anyone who hasn't followed that link needs to do so now! It's got human cadaver arms manipulated with fishing line and guitar tuning knobs. It's got a link to an article titled "Your Face: Punching Bag or Spandrel?"

You can't possibly find a better way to spend 10 minutes!

I worked with a guy in the 1990s who smoked like a chimney and was a serious cyclist. He did the "Ride across Saskatchewan" a few times, placing quite well while smoking a pack of cigarettes along the way. Madness and he said half the fun was how much it pissed everyone off to get passed by someone sucking on a cigarette.

One thing to watch out for is that anyone with an iPhone or using something like Air Guard on Android can easily discover that your bike is tagged. If well hidden or inaccessible, that might deter the thief. If not well hidden, it might take only a moment to deal with.