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ng everyone s been through a power outage and with the north american infrastructure deficit getting bigger and bigger with each passing year those towers and wires don t stay up because it s just their nature to stay up you know it s a problem that will have to be addressed sooner or later whether it be because we want to or because we have no choice but to get a load of those kilovolts the modern power delivery infrastructure is pretty much unchanged from the dawn of the electrical age we have central power plants be they nuclear hydroelectric natural gas or what have you and from them power lines reach out to connect cities and continents the interconnections of the power grid make it possible for electricity generated in one place to fill the demands of another but it can also lead to cascading blackouts such as the one experienced in the northeast ten years ago it s highly centralized and centralized systems are highly vulnerable to disruption the potential of a decentralized power generation system is just that right now potential still it s more feasible now than it ever has been before solar and wind generators have been steadily dropping in price for decades and as prices decrease and efficiencies increase their possibilities become more and more apparent even now canadian tire sells a line of personal wind turbines for 800 before tax admittedly that s a fair chunk of change and the turbines only generate six hundred watts of power but that s more than enough to run say a desk fan during a sustained power outage in the middle of a heat wave six hundred watts is a hell of a lot better than zero for people particularly sensitive to heat it could be the difference between life and death and the greater the extent to which personal generating systems like these are adopted the more the price will go down i m not saying that power generation would be completely decentralized of course there will always be a need for consistent baseload generation of the sort that consistent generators like hydro geothermal and nuclear excel at nevertheless if every house and apartment had its own wind turbine and solar panel along with a battery bank to be charged when generating conditions are good that would vastly decrease the strain on the system as a whole a system that isn t strained is a system that can be more effectively maintained and it s resilient we shouldn t be satisfied with brittle fragile infrastructures that are brought low by storms we should tolerate them if need be but only as long as need be posted by phoebe barton at 09 40 1 comment labels electricity infrastructure society thursday may 10 2012 to form a more fabulous union a few of the lines still have to be drawn but mostly the paint s had a long time to dry ten years ago the idea of same sex marriage in the united states wasn t on the political radar in any significant way today new mexico is the only state where it isn t specifically recognized or prohibited while full same sex marriage is presently on the books in new york connecticut massachusetts vermont new hampshire and iowa and washington and maryland are working on updating their laws accordingly in most of the rest of the country and across the entire former confederate states of america same sex marriage is not only prohibited those prohibitions are enshrined in the state constitutions contrast this to the canadian experience where over the course of two years it went from not being recognized anywhere to everyone except alberta the northwest territories nunavut and prince edward island having brought it in already before the federal government acted and you know what in the last ten years canadian society hasn t collapsed because of what some people would likely call a betrayal or abandonment of traditional marriage i m sure that if you brought this up to some of the bigots who headed up the recent victorious anti same sex marriage campaign in north carolina you know the ones who say they re not anti gay but pro marriage you would get some special pleading or a dismissal of the canadian experience as irrelevant but that s how it is the battle lines have been drawn and for many people this sort of thing is a battle yesterday the supporters of equality received some unexpected reinforcements that is president obama granted it didn t come entirely out of nowhere vice president biden s recent expression of support clearly was a sounding rocket sent up to determine reactions though obama s fresh stance on this issue does potentially create a new vulnerability for him in the coming election it s still the right thing to do besides in addition to at last providing a way to distinguish him from romney it s a way for him to shore up his support among his base to recapture a part of the hope and change days of 2008 without actually having to do anything dark blue indicates full recognition of same sex marriage light blue indicates limited rights light red indicates that it is banned by law and the darker reds indicate it is banned by individual state constitutions this file created by lokal_profil is used in accordance with the creative commons attribution share alike 2 5 generic license it was made available under though obama already has the authority to indefinitely detain whoever he wants without the necessity for a trial or a charge and to order the extrajudicial assassinations of american citizens with drone attacks that doesn t mean he can do anything he wants the system itself prohibits it how much of that hope and change platform philosophy was he able to implement during his congressional majority back before the tea party tidal wave in 2010 while his expression of support is an energizing gesture undoubtedly reassuring to lgbt people who have seen people who want to restrict them and limit them win votes from coast to coast it s just a gesture there s not even any room for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the establishment of an official definition of marriage the way things stand thirty eight states would need to vote in favor for that to pass and thirty states have officially defined marriage in their constitutions if something as innocuous as the equal rights amendment couldn t pass with a few outliers held up in the main by that same hard core of ex confederate states there ll have to be a seismic shift in american culture before the situation changes much the lines have been drawn and attitudes will harden people tend to get like that when they see the prospect of equality denied them though the opponents of same sex marriage are ultimately on the wrong side of history there s going to be a damn lot of history that has to unfold before people figure that out posted by phoebe barton at 12 49 no comments labels culture equality law society friday december 2 2011 they re whipping attawapiskat so attawapiskat maybe you ve never heard of it it s a first nations community on the s hore of james bay a couple of weeks ago hardly anyone outside of northern ontario would have heard of it but now it s rampaging across national news i myself heard about it a bit earlier than when it broke into the headlines from a post on boing boing talking about the dire straits the community was in with winter approaching and its shelter inadequate when you consider just how cold it gets in northern ontario in december the town declared a state of emergency and for days the feds did nothing which i m sure is totally in keeping with how the constitution gives the federal government exclusive legislative authority over first nations and their lands just like the census and the military and canada post i was hesitant about making a post on the matter because to be perfectly honest i m not really up to speed on this subject and was unwilling to stumble into making an ass of myself now though things have changed earlier this week the federal government announced that it was taking direct control of attawapiskat s funding and organizing an audit to figure out how the 90 million invested in it since 2006 mind you the government has been particularly careful to avoid noting the timescale involved but the attawapiskat first nation s audited schedule of funding from the year ended march 31 2011 is pretty clear in that the total amount of federal funding received for that year was 17 6 million considerably less than an f 35 in other words for me it s not surprising that the government s first reaction seems to have been seize control harper acting dictatorial is honestly nothing new it s not surprising but it is extremely regrettable in my mind seizing control of finances in situations like this should require the presentation of a great deal of evidence justifying it whereas from what i ve seen in the media the government s takeover of attawapiskat s finances has been more along the lines of we think you re misappropriating funds so we re just going to take over right now not just for that reason though also because it feeds into the extremely negative historical precedent that seems to have been established with regard to the federal government versus the first nations what i get from the government s actions is the sense that yet again it s telling us that those indians just can t look after themselves sigh the history of canada s treatment of its first nations population is a sad and sorry one a centuries long litany of theft and abuse with the ultimate goal being for the first nations as a distinct group to cease to exist i m not editorializing here this was stated explicitly in 1931 by duncan campbell scott at the time canada s deputy superintendent general of indian affairs here s a relevant quote from his the administration of indian affairs in canada it is the opinion of the writer that by policies and activities such as have been outlined the government will in time reach the end of its responsibility as the indians progress into civilization and finally disappear as a separate and distinct people not by race extinction but by gradual assimilation with their fellow citizens incidentally the idea of a government official in 1931 referring to natives as fellow citizens is something of a laugh in its own right second class citizens would be more appropriate after all it was not until 1960 that first nations people were allowed to vote in federal elections while retaining their treaty status 1960 this isn t deep past stuff this is within prime minister harper s own lifetime that doesn t sound much like equal citizenship to me and if it s not equal what the hell kind of citizenship is it anyway my point is that i feel the government has a particular responsibility to the first nations considering the role the canadian government has had in bluntly fucking the first nations for practically as long as there has been a canadian government the fact that it s not the current government that did those things is immaterial it is still the government of canada and by dint of being canada s government still bears the responsibility to set things right this should have been a time for the government to walk carefully but i m forgetting myself this is stephen harper s majority the government doesn t have to give a fuck about anything aside staying in power because what are you going to do about it huh four years is an awfully long time posted by phoebe barton at 10 13 4 comments labels government people society tuesday november 22 2011 the krokodil hunters i know it s saying a lot for a government to be proactive i mean there are so many pointless things it could be doing now to crush its opposition because that s really what the voting public wanted still outside of unusual issues like the laws against human cloning governments seem to not really give much concern about the future this is a problem in many respects manifesting not only at the macro level say issues regarding the future of the world as a whole but at the micro level as well for concerns that are more relevant to the everyday it s as if governments have something against making stitches in time but i m confident that the government of canada in particular will do absolutely nothing about anything important until it s almost or already too late recently i stumbled upon the latest thing that ottawa will probably ignore until it s already become a serious problem krokodil the latest drug out of russia for those looking for an inexpensive high apparently it s gaining popularity in russian drug circles and has been pushing into eastern and central europe partially because it can be got for a twentieth of the price of heroin you get what you pay for though and in the case of krokodil you get scaly green skin around the injection site that s where the name comes from crocodile in russian after that of course it eats your flesh the skin around the injection site is damaged by the drug thanks to its ingredient list including such wonderfully healthful things as red phosphorous gasoline and hydrochloric acid then gangrene will set in and you better hope you didn t like your skin very much because you re not going to have nearly as much of it anymore i first heard about krokodil via an article io9 ran on it last week check it out but be advised that it is very not mind safe i don t expect it to be the last time this drug gets into the news especially not in vancouver the reason for that is simple the key ingredient to make krokodil is codeine and one of the reasons behind krokodil use in russia is that codeine is easily available there off the shelf in any pharmacy just like it is in canada i m not sure if there s any in these tablets though codeine is used medically as a painkiller and in canada you ll find it in such things as tylenol 1 2 3 and 4 it can also be used to manufacture desomorphine which is the key ingredient in krokodil it s apparently not that hard to make it either articles i ve found describe it being cooked in kitchens and with a high that doesn t last much longer than an hour there s a lot of krokodil cooking going on it s also difficult to get off once you re on it with painful withdrawal symptoms lasting for a month once you re on it unless you re very lucky you ll most likely be dead within three years krokodil is still a very new drug apparently it only emerged around 2002 in siberia but these things have a definite way of spreading i would not be surprised to see accounts of krokodil usage coming out of vancouver s downtown eastside in the near future and once those accounts start coming out the health aspect is going to be tremendous now i think there s the possibility to short circuit it before it starts to regulate the availability of codeine in the pharmacies as in the united states where it is a schedule ii drug under the controlled substances act alongside cocaine opium and morphine codeine isn t the only painkiller out there and it s not as if it d be unavailable in a climate of restriction as for myself though i d rather see it a ...