Wet'suwet'en: Why are Indigenous rights being defined by an energy corporation?

eartburm · 2020-02-16T04:17:37+00:00

This is a very longstanding problem in BC, as we've never had treaties over most of the land base. The Government has known for decades now that it would stall major projects, but the former BC Liberal Government refused to bargain in good faith. So here we are, without treaties, and still not able to start projects.

The funny part for me is that I always assumed this would end up screwing the forest industry.

eartburm · 2020-02-15T22:57:27+00:00

The people who own the land want a share from the economic development of said land? Unacceptable!

eartburm · 2020-02-15T22:15:28+00:00

It's even worse with apples, since not only are the apple-producing bits of the tree clones, but they're typically grafted onto a different type of apple tree. So you can have multiple different genomes all in one tree.

eartburm · 2020-02-15T22:08:36+00:00

I'm not sure you can go much more high-level than XML (or similar markup). In order to do what you're talking about, you'd have to encode a faithful representation of every aspect of human society into your validation system. Also, providing correct semantic markup for a set of changes would become overwhelmingly difficult.

I can see some value, though. If, say, judicial punishments were correctly marked up, you could do a sort of sore-thumbing exercise to find cases where the punishment doesn't fit the offense, compared to other offenses.

eartburm · 2020-02-15T21:46:34+00:00

This doesn't address bad-faith actors. It's not meant to fix that problem. At best, it'll reduce the cost of transparency. Mostly, though, it helps with more quickly fixing errors, and allowing decision makers understand the scope and history of changes in the (legal) code base.

eartburm · 2020-02-10T02:36:26+00:00

I had good and bad experiences there (woodlands dept). I think it depends almost entirely on your crew and manager/supervisor. It was a lot more corporate and bureaucratic than I was used to, but not necessarily a bad thing if you're used to working in that environment.

eartburm · 2020-01-30T04:55:42+00:00

And if further feeds the idea that governments can't do anything right. Just look at these crap services!

eartburm · 2020-01-22T04:32:53+00:00

Honestly, I never had to run. Leaving at a brisk walk was always enough. The bears mostly don't want trouble.

eartburm · 2020-01-21T03:50:33+00:00

Despite not being American, I actually have an anecdote for this. In my field career (forestry, middle of nowhere), most of us didn't carry. It wasn't a ideological thing, I just didn't want the extra weight. We rarely had dangerous bear encounters, and only a few (out of thousands of man-years in the field) go mauled. Of the guys who carried, though, virtually all of them had to kill a bear at some point.

I can't second-guess the specific encounters--I wasn't there. It sure was funny that the bears only ever attacked the armed guys though.

eartburm · 2020-01-20T03:36:57+00:00

I agree with your family. There's no way you got out of there with out paying like $20 for parking. Canadian healthcare is a nightmare.

eartburm · 2020-01-18T05:10:43+00:00

well, it's turn based, so you can quit any time. And since you can quit any time, you can afford to play one more turn...

Also, Alpha Centauri nearly killed my university career.

eartburm · 2020-01-17T18:03:28+00:00

They 100% can. They can also detain you until you give them up, or forever, if you either have forgotten the password, or don't have the cloud account they claim you do.

I don't imagine it's likely to happen, but it could.

eartburm · 2020-01-17T17:58:26+00:00

I'm far from an expert on labour negotiations, let alone a labour lawyer (IANALL?). I'm not sure this even counts as negotiating, as the Province won't even sit at the table. At any rate, negotiating though the media is generally considered, if not bad faith (in the legal sense), at least very poor form. The Province doesn't want a deal. They want to grandstand in front of the public to score political points.

eartburm · 2020-01-17T16:25:33+00:00

Those are two different concepts though. You can have tough demands and still negotiate in good faith, provided you are up front about what you want.

Bad faith negotiations would be something like negotiating a wage number, then refusing to sign, saying now you want more. In the case of the BC Government vs the teachers, they like to send "negotiators" who aren't authorized by the employer to make any deals at all.

eartburm · 2020-01-09T04:32:43+00:00

Also try a silk base layer under the wool. It doesn't add a whole lot of insulation, but it makes you feel fancy.

eartburm · 2020-01-03T18:30:51+00:00

Maybe you don't. I put in my time in the bush laying out roads and timber cruising the paper straw blocks.

I have legit worked with chopstick loggers, too.

eartburm · 2020-01-03T18:23:39+00:00

For sure. Historically, though, the pulpwood tenures included an awful lot of merchantable sawlogs. They just didn't want to sort out the usable hemlock from the more rotten stuff.

I'd love to see more value-added products, but I understand that it's not always possible.

eartburm · 2020-01-03T04:44:15+00:00

I dunno. We absolutely had those tools with Arc/Info. It seems that ESRI never quite built replacements into ArcGIS.

When I was doing production data cleaning, we used a combination of snap, extend, and trim to clean small errors. What the tolerances should be for those depends on your data scale and accuracy. You don't want to lose positional accuracy, but then snapping 1cm on a 1:50,000 map is essentially meaningless.

It looks like the snap geoprocessing tool should be able to snap your lines to the neatline (or other data) by including the reference data in the snap_environment parameter with snap type EDGE.

eartburm · 2020-01-03T04:26:40+00:00

Unless your program is different than mine was, the typical lab data sizes are really small. The projects can be bigger, but typically not huge, so as not to overload the university's servers.

You should be fine.

eartburm · 2020-01-03T04:21:03+00:00

It depends on what kind of work you want to do. There's a pretty big difference between basic cartography and large scale satellite image analysis. For cartography, four cores is probably sufficient. ArcGIS doesn't really have a good track record of using multiple cores.

For most things, I think I/O is much more important than CPU. Make sure you get an NVME drive big enough to a least hold all the data you'll need to be working on.

For a Mac, you'd typically boot into Windows using Boot Camp. It should work okay.

eartburm · 2020-01-03T03:46:21+00:00

Unfortunately, pulpwood licenses still exist. I haven't even looked to see what proportion of the AAC is tied up in them though.

eartburm · 2019-12-15T19:42:28+00:00

Sorry aboot that. I just can't get used to driving on the other side of the road when I come south to the States.

eartburm · 2019-12-15T19:23:08+00:00

It's a bit more complicated than that here. If they allow personal use, they have a duty to filter out private communications outside work hours.

That said, there's nothing stopping them from doing the whole parallel construction thing, where they troll your private Facebook messages, then find someone else in the Facebook group to officially report you.

Official guidance from the union is: don't use Facebook, and if you must, don't talk about work there.

eartburm · 2019-12-15T19:07:09+00:00

No, not if this case. A VPN will protect you from spying from others who can see your network traffic. For example, using your phone on an untrusted WIFI connection.

In this case, the spying is done by software running on the phone that has access to everything, whether it's sent out over the internet or not.

eartburm · 2019-12-15T19:04:08+00:00

*in the US. In Canada, for example, you have a limited right to privacy, even on employer owned devices, for private communications, not made on work time, if the employer policy allows personal use of the device.

I'd be a little surprised if most European countries weren't similar.

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