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Not unless free transport, and free accommodations for those who have to travel for more than a couple of hours in each direction, are also provided. The government could stock abortion pills at more remote clinics—I mean, unless there's some unusual shelf-stability issue I don't know about. They just don't.

It kills insects and microorganisms (just like it kills almost anything else). So the net effect would be preservative, and it's still used as such in a few obscure contexts despite its toxicity—the American FDA allows very small quantities as a preservative in eye makeup, for instance.

Given the mess on the floor of that one room, there may have been a considerable amount of cinnabar (mercury sulfide) pigment present. And liquid mercury was widely used in Chinese alchemy. Plenty of possibly routes for contact, either accidental or intentional.

Okay, so . . . non-decaying corpse? My first thought is that there were high quantities of mercury involved, doubly so since it was mentioned earlier in the episode.

My car is 25 years old and never ran anything over.

That's in part because your car is 25 years old. Designs have changed over time to increase the sizes of blind spots (as an unintended consequence of things like strengthening the support pillars for the roof to increase rollover survivability).

Some countries won't allow you to declare your work to be in the public domain (although Canada isn't one of them). Declaring it CC-0 does about the same thing while working around that issue.

So few of the Conservative candidates have been willing to talk to anyone that it's been looking downright bizarre. I mean, you're not required to go door-to-door, but refusing debates and nearly all media interviews isn't normal. Is Ford really that afraid of what they might say?

Not really. HTML has a formal standard and definition that covers how to properly handle most corner cases that can arise when displaying it. Markdown has no overarching formal standard and exists in multiple dialects which are not always compatible with each other.

On the gripping hand, HTML involves more keystrokes (and technically speaking you need to include a bit of boilerplate in the file for it to be proper HTML). So it depends on whether you're willing to do a bit more typing to make sure that no one can possibly confuse your italics with boldface.

So . . . how do we fix it? What passes for the local news around here at least tried (gave an overview of every riding within their catchment area and tried to interview all the major-party candidates, although several refused, including nearly all of the Conservatives), but most people don't pay any attention to them anymore—the only reason I even saw the segments is that I live with my elderly parents, and my mother still gets her news from the TV. Signage-wise, I've seen a few large signs for the Conservative incumbent here, and a few small NDP signs. There's no guarantee of anything on the Internet reaching anyone in particular. Maybe we should be suggesting that owners of unsold billboard space offer it up in the name of civic duty? Otherwise, I'm all out of ideas.

Handwritten HTML with limited tags works just as well for many purposes (just forbid div, span, and a few others and the complexity you see in most webpages evaporates). The important part is using a text-based format from which information can be extracted even if the fancier display protocols become obsolete.

Nope, "toonie" is the nickname of the two-dollar coin and perfectly fine in context. (I suppose it's also a double-whammy, since I don't recall the US having a two-dollar denomination . . .)

No, and there are extant subsidized programs that require people participating in them to work under certain conditions for a time after graduation. As long as it's disclosed clearly and in advance, I don't see anything wrong with it. So any program imposing public service on medical students after graduation couldn't ethically be applied to those now in school, but could reasonably be imposed on anyone who first enrolls after the condition is set and publicized.

At the rate the US is going, they're going to end up calling it "Cyclops".