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warpus
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I've been told this might not be 100% accurate, as I don't think you can legally grow at home in Manitoba. But not really sure.
In Canada we also value life > property, so somebody breaking into your home doesn't mean you can just shoot them. You are allowed to defend yourself, but you are expected to retreat if you can
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So, if someone breaks into my house and I grab my gun I cannot shoot them even if they start raping my wife who does not have gun? I have to let them finish what ever tasks they came to do while I wait in the back yard?
amadeus
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warpus
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I'm not an expert, but in that case it sounds like you are defending somebody from bodily harm who is unable to do so themselves. I bet you would probably have problems if you walked up to the assailant and shot him in the head without trying anything else first though.
The distinction I wanted to make is that in Canada you technically can't "buy a gun to defend your plants". If somebody broke into your house to steal your plants, you couldn't defend those plants with a gun. So the heading of that map is kind of deceiving. What you can legally do is own plants and legally own a gun. And if somebody broke into your house and threatened your life, and you couldn't retreat, you could then use that gun to protect yourself. And you can be gay all you want of course
The distinction I wanted to make is that in Canada you technically can't "buy a gun to defend your plants". If somebody broke into your house to steal your plants, you couldn't defend those plants with a gun. So the heading of that map is kind of deceiving. What you can legally do is own plants and legally own a gun. And if somebody broke into your house and threatened your life, and you couldn't retreat, you could then use that gun to protect yourself. And you can be gay all you want of course
Zardnaar
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World map. I like it.
Spoiler Heh :
I don't have a map by itself, but I've just read this article in the Grauniad about an island having been revealed off Greenland's coast by shifting ice.
So maybe all maps we have are ‘altered’?
Scientists discover ‘world’s northernmost island’ off Greenland’s coast
Researchers say the tiny island in Greenland – roughly 30 metres across – was exposed by shifting pack ice
(to see the pic, check the article or click here, cannot embed)
Scientists have discovered a new island off the coast of Greenland, which they say is the world’s northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice.
“It was not our intention to discover a new island,” polar explorer and head of the Arctic station research facility in Greenland, Morten Rasch, said of the find last month. “We just went there to collect samples.”
The scientists initially thought they had arrived at Oodaaq, an island discovered by a Danish survey team in 1978. Only later, when checking the exact location, they realised they had visited another island 780 metres to the north-west.
“Everybody was happy that we found what we thought was Oodaaq island,” said Swiss entrepreneur Christiane Leister, creator of the Leister Foundation that financed the expedition.
“It’s a bit like explorers in the past, who thought they’d landed in a certain place but actually found a totally different place.”
The small island, measuring roughly 30 metres (100ft) across and a peak of about 3 metres, consists of seabed mud as well as moraine – soil and rock left behind by moving glaciers. The team said they would recommend it is named “Qeqertaq Avannarleq”, which means “the northernmost island” in Greenlandic.
Several US expeditions in the area have in recent decades searched for the world’s northernmost island. In 2007, Arctic veteran Dennis Schmitt discovered a similar island close by.
The scientists said that although the new island was exposed by shifting pack ice, its appearance now was not a direct consequence of global warming, which has been shrinking Greenland’s ice sheet.
Rene Forsberg, professor and head of geodynamics at Denmark’s National Space Institute, said the area north of Greenland has some of the thickest polar sea ice, though he added it was now 2-3 metres thick in summer, compared with 4 metres when he first visited as part of the expedition that discovered Oodaaq in 1978.
Any hope of extending territorial claims in the Arctic depends on whether it is in fact an island or a bank that may disappear again. An island needs to remain above sea level at high tide.
“It meets the criteria of an island,” Forsberg said. “This is currently the world’s northernmost land.” Although he did warn: “These small island come and go.”
Researchers say the tiny island in Greenland – roughly 30 metres across – was exposed by shifting pack ice
(to see the pic, check the article or click here, cannot embed)
Scientists have discovered a new island off the coast of Greenland, which they say is the world’s northernmost point of land and was revealed by shifting pack ice.
“It was not our intention to discover a new island,” polar explorer and head of the Arctic station research facility in Greenland, Morten Rasch, said of the find last month. “We just went there to collect samples.”
The scientists initially thought they had arrived at Oodaaq, an island discovered by a Danish survey team in 1978. Only later, when checking the exact location, they realised they had visited another island 780 metres to the north-west.
“Everybody was happy that we found what we thought was Oodaaq island,” said Swiss entrepreneur Christiane Leister, creator of the Leister Foundation that financed the expedition.
“It’s a bit like explorers in the past, who thought they’d landed in a certain place but actually found a totally different place.”
The small island, measuring roughly 30 metres (100ft) across and a peak of about 3 metres, consists of seabed mud as well as moraine – soil and rock left behind by moving glaciers. The team said they would recommend it is named “Qeqertaq Avannarleq”, which means “the northernmost island” in Greenlandic.
Several US expeditions in the area have in recent decades searched for the world’s northernmost island. In 2007, Arctic veteran Dennis Schmitt discovered a similar island close by.
The scientists said that although the new island was exposed by shifting pack ice, its appearance now was not a direct consequence of global warming, which has been shrinking Greenland’s ice sheet.
Rene Forsberg, professor and head of geodynamics at Denmark’s National Space Institute, said the area north of Greenland has some of the thickest polar sea ice, though he added it was now 2-3 metres thick in summer, compared with 4 metres when he first visited as part of the expedition that discovered Oodaaq in 1978.
Any hope of extending territorial claims in the Arctic depends on whether it is in fact an island or a bank that may disappear again. An island needs to remain above sea level at high tide.
“It meets the criteria of an island,” Forsberg said. “This is currently the world’s northernmost land.” Although he did warn: “These small island come and go.”
So maybe all maps we have are ‘altered’?
Chukchi Husky
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tjs282
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That's a fun map!
I think assigning The Hobbit to South Africa is a bit of a stretch, though. Just because Tolkien happened to be born there, doesn't make him South African (Wiki says his family moved back to England when he was 3...).
I mean, was Nelson Mandela's autobiography not widely translated...?
So the US result is most likely due to Scientologists trying to spread the Word of the Great Prophet, Elron Hu (Bard), to every Thetan on the planet (though if that's true, I'm a little surprised that Dianetics wasn't the chosen candidate...)
I think assigning The Hobbit to South Africa is a bit of a stretch, though. Just because Tolkien happened to be born there, doesn't make him South African (Wiki says his family moved back to England when he was 3...).
I mean, was Nelson Mandela's autobiography not widely translated...?
This is a map of "book [by author] from this nation which has been translated into the most languages" -- which is not necessarily the same thing as "most popular book ever written [by author] from this nation"
So the US result is most likely due to Scientologists trying to spread the Word of the Great Prophet, Elron Hu (Bard), to every Thetan on the planet (though if that's true, I'm a little surprised that Dianetics wasn't the chosen candidate...)
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And, besides, Tolkien was an Englishman's Englishman, so old-fashioned as to be Catholic and despise the Irish at the same time.
warpus
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Using FIFA rules I believe Tolkien would have the ability to make one switch to a new nationality. However, he is dead
warpus
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This is a totally not to scale public transit map of the Greater Toronto Area.. plus nearby cities usually not considered to be in the GTA like Hamilton and Waterloo. Altogether this map includes a region with a population of about 9 million.
Commuter rail in green, subways in dark pink, light rail in purple, and bus rapid transit in orange. The one blue line is the express rail link from downtown Toronto to Pearson airport.
The city I live in (not on this map) is getting added to this network soon! We are getting a rail connection via the Kitchener line (on the left).. but getting all the way to Union station (downtown Toronto) would take about 4 hours. That's one hour longer than the existing rail link between downtown {my city} and Union station.. But this would be cheaper.. So all in all, it's exciting to be further connected with regional transit, but we'll see about schedules and pricing. So far it seems like there will only be weekday service during rushhour.. They are calling it a pilot project.. If it expands to include weekends and if they don't change their "travel anywhere (on the rail lines on the map) for $15" weekend pass.. In theory I could get around large parts of inhabited Ontario for $15.. Right now getting to Union station would cost you at least $40 each way via rail and $30 via bus.
Commuter rail in green, subways in dark pink, light rail in purple, and bus rapid transit in orange. The one blue line is the express rail link from downtown Toronto to Pearson airport.
The city I live in (not on this map) is getting added to this network soon! We are getting a rail connection via the Kitchener line (on the left).. but getting all the way to Union station (downtown Toronto) would take about 4 hours. That's one hour longer than the existing rail link between downtown {my city} and Union station.. But this would be cheaper.. So all in all, it's exciting to be further connected with regional transit, but we'll see about schedules and pricing. So far it seems like there will only be weekday service during rushhour.. They are calling it a pilot project.. If it expands to include weekends and if they don't change their "travel anywhere (on the rail lines on the map) for $15" weekend pass.. In theory I could get around large parts of inhabited Ontario for $15.. Right now getting to Union station would cost you at least $40 each way via rail and $30 via bus.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
This looks insufficient for 9M people. But why have public transport when you got CARS.
warpus
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It is.. but the map does not show these forms of public transit:
- Commuter GO bus lines (connecting municipalities, they complement the GO rail network)
- Streetcar lines (only in Toronto proper, they complement the subway network)
- Local bus lines
There is also about 100km from Waterloo (left of map) to union station (downtown Toronto). It's not all built up in between those two city centres. Waterloo(plus the adjacent town of Kitchener) have a public transit network of their own, but the only thing you see on the map is their LRT line. You can imagine a myriad of local feeder and local bus routes there, for instance.
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Sidenote: you've seriously convinced me that we should have a GTA game set in Toronto. could have some Scott Pilgrim references for those with Canadian sensibilities
That aside, is there any point to such a map if it doesn't even show any streets, at least major ones, for reference?
That aside, is there any point to such a map if it doesn't even show any streets, at least major ones, for reference?
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