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He tells the Post that the interlock devices now available are zero-tolerance -- "if any amount of alcohol is present, they will lock you out".

10 Ridiculous Instances Of Zero Tolerance In Schools — 10 October 2015

In March 2013 at Park Elementary School in Maryland, an eight-year-old boy was suspended for ... biting his Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun.
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In 2010, a 12-year-old girl named Alexa Gonzalez was arrested for doodling [a short] message on her desk in green marker. ... Alexa Gonzalez was placed in handcuffs and marched out of school by police in front of her classmates and the staff of Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, New York.
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In 2014, at Stuart Draft Elementary School, a fifth grader was told that she couldn't use ChapStick because it was considered a medication, and she would need a prescription. While most of us wouldn't see ChapStick in this light, the school district saw it differently.

Now you don't always know the context behind these things, but there's clearly something wrong here. Bottom line is that this kind of thing is used to bully the population, and isn't that different in spirit from the Chinese Social Credit System.

One day, someone is going to eat a vanilla-extract flavoured pancake, and then his wife is going to give birth halfway to the hospital, because his car refused to start, and then it will be on Fox News for weeks and weeks, because of how the New Left is now horning in on their traditional territory.

'Secret' Nuclear Missile Launch Code During Cold War Was '00000000' — 5 December 2013

According to Blair, the White House ordered the codes be installed in 1962 despite objections from the U.S. Strategic Air Command, which worried the extra layer of security would delay launching missiles in the event of an emergency.

SAC was so concerned the car wouldn't start at the worst possible time, they effectively flipped the bird to the Commander-in-Chief behind his back.

"The locks had been installed," recalled Blair, "but everyone knew the combination."

Nothing like a zero-tolerance giggle (times eight) at Kennedy's expense behind his back.

Rule Makers, Rule Breakers (2018) by Michele Gelfand.

The military is the iconic example of tightness. ... "The military is like a machine built out of hierarchy," American marine Steve Colley told me in an interview in 2017. "And if you break the hierarchy, you're breaking the machine." ... "We have standards for things as seemingly insignificant as how we dress and as complicated as how to maintain the most advanced battle tank in the world," described James D. Pendry ... "Meeting seemingly insignificant standards is as important as meeting the most complicated ones—meeting one establishes the foundation for meeting the other."

I get making a big deal out of the seemingly insignificant (even the Pop-Tart gun). But what goes under the name "zero tolerance" typically involves horrifically disproportionate responses, while all the people paid to be in charge wander around vacuously explaining that their hands are tied. Inevitably, some ridiculous outcome arises that is not a good look for the human species.

Well, that's because Canadians already pay almost $4000 a year to the government, which takes its cut and then pays the health companies on behalf of that worker. For a family of four, it's about $12,000 in "free" health-care taxes.

The average US worker pays about $2200 a year, or $5000 a year for a family of four.

So many wonderful subcultures have been culturally appropriated and destroyed by mainstream invasion.

There are also subcultures that have died off because no one new came in.

Remember that white girl who wore the Chinese dress to prom?

First, no, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Second, what? Chinese culture isn't a subculture. There are more chinese people than westerners.

I think he might be talking about https://www.today.com/style/te...

Cultural appropriation. One of the least sane aspects of far leftists, where you are permitted to go nuts on a person because you aren't from the culture, and somehow this beautiful young lady in a beautiful dress isn't actually wearing the dress because it looks great, but wearing it to insult the Chinese.

Some of these people take it the whole way to believing that their culture's food be not "appropriated" This person took a shitfit about bone broth, which apparently using the gelatin contained in bones is Chinese only. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Then there is https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/... A mother who threw her daughter a geisha themed tea party was being abused by these whackos until a Japanese person chimed in and informed them all that Japanese culture borrows aspects from other cultures, and is actually flattered by others borrowing aspects of theirs.

tl;dr version - the person you are replying to is one of those people who loves to keep the "we" and "them" to just "we".

They were outraged that Gal Gadot raised her arm - and horrors!!! To Twitter and scream!! Wonder Woman Gal Gadot had no armpit hair!! https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...

Some men remove the hair from their faces on a daily basis. The horror!

It may not be a good game because of catering to the perpetually offended. There is one fact I know: If you cater to the people that aren't your customers at the expense of your customers, then you will absolutely lose customers, and the people you catered to will move on to fuck with something else.

This has been learned the hard way in more than just EA's case. The destruction of the Star Wars golden goose by Kennedy and Johnson. Especially when they not only refused criticism, they attacked and ridiculed anyone who disagreed with them.

How'd that work out?

In the world of entertainment, it is pretty important that you produce entertainment that your customers want.

And if you produce a game based on a event like WW2, it needs to be accurate, because the customer is pretty well versed.

And yeah - an alternative universe WW2 game could be made. And as long as it's known as an alternative game, its all good.

But speaking to that - you get interesting things when you cater to those people. The latest Wonder Woman movie which did indeed have a war setting, which did indeed have social Justice oversight - still outraged some of the easily offended.

They were outraged that Gal Gadot raised her arm - and horrors!!! To Twitter and scream!! Wonder Woman Gal Gadot had no armpit hair!! https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...

What is worse, Wonder woman as a member of an immortal race of only women could not give true consent, therefore she was raped!!! https://slate.com/human-intere...

The point is good people, if you are dealing with a group who cannot be satisfied, there is no point in dealing with them at all.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...

That bullshit made me more irate than anything out of the SJW crowd. I first heard about it when I watched Neil Degrasse Tyson's conversation with Katy Perry and she commented that she didn't know that cultural appropriation was a thing. She was very sad about it. Unfortunately Dr. Tyson didn't know enough to tell her it's NOT.

To me it is beyond belief that people would think that, but make no mistake - it is truly mental illness. Most people find it charming that other people are interested in their culture. to wit:

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...

A mother threw a party for her little girl, and the little girl dressed as a Geisha. Mom posted a picture of it. A cultural appropriation kook took her to task for her "racism". Finally a Japanese citizen verbally curb stomped "ginzers" for being the real racist, explaining that Japanese actually like other people showing an interest in their culture, and that the Japanese regularly adopt aspects of other cultures as a matter of course.

Human culture is derived from human culture, and nobody fucking owns it.

Exactly. And culture is a living sort of thing. If I want to make and eat pirogues, I can do it without offending the ginzers of the world because I have that in my so called heritage. But I don't have a bit of moor in me, so in ginzer's world I guess I can't enjoy it. I wonder how ginzers feels about Tex-Mex food? I can dress like a traditiaonal Ukranian, but not wear a serape? so many rules in the brave new world.

My theory is the cultural appropriation police have arisen in response to a decline in organized religion. The busybodies who always want to tell everyone else what to do are still with us. They used to be part of some god-bothering cult. Now they're part of a people-bothering cult. Same shit, different day.

That's a pretty good hypothesis. Those Cultural Appropriation police can kiss my fuzzy yellow butt.

Did you get that peer reviewed?

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/...

Do you know what the suicide rate is amongst the old?

No offense... I think you're 100% wrong and don't think there is really good evidence for that position.

i think Mush may be exploring the world of strange .

It seems the objection to the plant was due to pollution concerns, and does not match your characterisation.

Question: Why does a company want to build it's own power plant in the first place? Because electricity prices are too high. That does match my characterization.

also does not match your characterisation (yes, I looked it up).

Apparently not very well, the Liberals have been in power in Ontario since the early 00's. That's also federal, not provincial. I mean, when the huffington post has an article like that. Or you can take the communist NDP's view on it.

You can't have it both ways.
I agree that the meaning of fake news should be very limited, and my definition would be more limited than yours, but that is not how it's used. In reality it's like a slogan which sweeps up a whole category of things. As soon as you interact with people you have to take in account how they use the words. At the same time as soon as someone comes with measures that sound very specific, like suppressing fake news, that may sound good and you end up supporting them because of the narrow interpretation. You have to be very well aware what it's real life interpretation will be.
Such as 'suppress anything which can be linked to Russia becomes Fake NewsRussiaRussia Todayguests on Russia Today.
For instance http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/t...

There is no indication at all that RT's reporting drops as low as the narrow interpretation of fake news even if it had been total propaganda. I would not qualify propaganda as fake news. Parent post is valid in the practical interpretation of fake news.

However, the idea of UBI, or at least, the sane version, is that it would be implemented in an "economy of plenty" where automation was producing goods and services at much lower costs and much higher availability. Those conditions are hand-wavey; we can't quantify them yet, so it's problematic to try and predict the costs of living, etc. But that's why UBI or similar will be required; workers will be out and automation will be in. It's not today's landscape that defines the need.

Uhm, no.

UBI was not conceived, as an idea, as a response to rising automation and the prospect of large masses of unemployed people. This prospect, due to the current automation and AI hype, which I believe to be vastly overblown (as it was in the past - yes, lots of people will lose their current jobs, but most of them will find other ones), is being used currently to additionally argue in favour of some sort of UBI. That, however, is rather beside the point.

UBI was originally conceived as an idea that radically simplifies and cheapens the various types of state aid given to people, while at the same time removing the stigma attached with them. There are many potentially "sane" variants of UBI, with one being the Negative Income Tax (NIT) proposed by Rhys-Williams and Milton Friedman. Another option is the Guaranteed Livable Income (GLI) scheme proposed by the Green Party of Canada, where everyone is given a payment, but those who have jobs essentially pay this back via taxes, so in the end it ends up being a sort of welfare payment that the unemployed (and poorly paid) collect.

The point being, if I just pay out EVERYONE e.g. $1500 a month (or whatever), I don't have to (as a state/government) worry about checking who qualifies for welfare, pension assistance, subsidies for their energy bills, food stamps, or whatever else I was already giving out to those in need. I can eliminate all those programs, all the costs associated with them, all the employees associated with them. I don't have to go around chasing welfare recipients to see if they're attending their retraining course, going to job fairs, applying for work, or not delivering pizza on the side without declaring their income. Furthermore, I've removed the stigma from getting welfare (since EVERYONE gets it, both the millionaire and the homeless bum on the street) which often traps people in a cycle of dependence and poverty. The end result, since the people who have a job will repay this money via taxes, is more or less the same as today: people without a job, poor people, people in need, get monetary assistance from the government. At a lower total cost to the government than today - hypothetically.

Now, there are lots of details to work out - do we still need minimum wage laws? Will companies that use low-cost labour (e.g. fast food joints) "piggy-back" on UBI and skim the profits by just paying their employees a UBI "top-up" rather than the full salary, offloading costs to the government? What exactly should the UBI amount be, per month? How do you to the "claw-back" via taxes to make it fair and still motivate people to work? How do you prevent people moving from low-UBI jurisdictions to high-UBI jurisdictions just to make more money by doing nothing? How does one qualify for UBI in the first place? Etc., etc.

Almost none of these are related to automation and mass joblessness however, and none require a futuristic economy of plenty.

Remember some years ago when Rick Santorum was running for the Republican nomination, and he got Google-bombed?
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/25...

The lib-left thought it was hilarious, and guffawed a lot. When Rick Santorum complained, Google essentially said "not our problem".

When it turns out that Google-fixing might have hurt Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency, things are totally different. The lib-left goes full-feminist "That's not funny". Google doesn't consider this to be "not our problem"; they're all over it like flies over shit.

I guess it depends on who's ox is being gored. Guess which party Silicon Valley supports.

If you read up on McKinsey it reads like a crackpot cult. Unfortunately a lot of CEOs listen to and hire McKinsey - these clowns are also responsible for insurance companies lowballing payouts and delaying claims - http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...

It may be of interest that Sundar Pichai CEO of Google is a former McKinsey.

We're now doing a lot more with a lot less.

"We", Kimosabe? The folks losing their jobs will be doing a lot less because they now have a lot less, unless and until they find other jobs with equivalent pay. Of course those at the top will be doing a lot more with a lot more, and the newly unemployed people can surely take comfort in that while they're struggling to make the next mortgage payment, right?

... a net win for society...

Still subscribing to that ol' trickle-down theory, are you? Heck, even the bastards at the IMF have finally realized that it's bullshit.

You might look older but you get to live longer.

I stopped going to movies because all you see anymore are superhero movies. When's the last time a movie came out in the ballpark of Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, or even Ferris Bueller? I honestly have no idea and I couldn't even tell you the names of two movies in theatres right now.

In addition, therre is this weird trend toward the 90 pound woman who kills every man that gets in her way, and is somehow stronger than the incredible hulk. And the even stranger one of the Wonderwoman movie, which for some reason was promoted as some sort of breakthrough, a never before seen strong capable woman in a movie. What? Aliens, Terminator, and lots of others have had that in the current era. Even then, they missed the boat as feminists were angry because Gal Gadot shaved her armpit hair, which is apparently submission to the patriarchy. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

So between endless and now boring reboots, Comic book grade school level, and socially annoying movies, I'll just watch TCM for my cinemafix, than you very much.

it's based in biological systems developed to maximize species survival.

Okay, but why judge random people on what maximizes the survival of the species?

Because that's what we do. Me judging a woman as attractive or not is based upon my own particular reaction to her.

I asked my wife about this over lunch. Who does she want to see in a movie as a leading man. She said well built men who are muscled well, but not body builder types. Also "ruggedly" handsome, and not pretty boy. That's a judgement. That's what she likes.

Coupled with who we each decided to marry - i isn't much of a surprise.

The more important question in my mind is should men not be allowed to have leading ladies in movies that they find attractive? I have no intention of having Roseanne Barr or some other unattractive woman as a romantic lead. I think that Queen Latifa, who is gorgeous, would make a really bad "Wonder Woman" Side note, Third wave feminists were upset that Gal Gadot didn't have hair on her armpits, http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2... SRSLY?

So we are moving to a brave new world, where women have to be morbidly obese, unshaven, and probably ugly in order to be acceptable. https://www.buzzfeed.com/erika...

You mean like http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e... ?

It's a good way to prevent commuters from resting their heads against the windows but you think no company would try to find ways to get more ads?
You know what they'll do? Can't literally prevent muting it, but they make it so using the menu to get to the mute, stops your video or restarts it or some crap, to discourage people from stopping the ads from playing.

Obviously you run ads to be so defensive about it, run long now.

I agree that's pretty evil; but I also submit that it has nothing to do with beaming signals into cochlear implants.

Nice try, though.

Run ALONG now.

For the line of work I'm doing, I get paid quite well.

Uh, no. Not even close. You're making a lower middle class wage for a Canadian city!

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...

Only on creimer's mother ship is making 70% below average being "paid quite well".

For an obese middle-aged virgin mental patient, it's remarkable, sure.

You mean like http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e... ?

It's a good way to prevent commuters from resting their heads against the windows but you think no company would try to find ways to get more ads?
You know what they'll do? Can't literally prevent muting it, but they make it so using the menu to get to the mute, stops your video or restarts it or some crap, to discourage people from stopping the ads from playing.

Obviously you run ads to be so defensive about it, run long now.

Look, I don't like Hilary Clinton. But I like you much less. You are a slavering right wing rumor mongering nut who disgraces all technologists, if you even are one.

The NYT article you linked lays out some interesting and potentially troublesome background, yes, but does not accuse Clinton of wrongdoing. There was an FBI investigation, but apparently based on a book written by a Breitbart editor: some New York agents were feuding with the Justice Department and basing their investigation in part on media accounts[46] and in particular on the book Clinton Cash, written by Peter Schweizer, a senior editor-at-large for Breitbart News. The NYT clarified their position in an editorial that states Does the new batch of previously undisclosed State Department emails prove that big-money donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation got special favors from Mrs. Clinton while she was secretary of state? Not so far...

So you can get down from your trump horse now. Unlike Hilary Clinton, who was investigated multiple times and cleared every time, Donald Trump is a notorious scofflaw who stands a good chance of going down in history as the first president to leave office in handcuffs.

One does not follow the other. Testosterone is a major necessity for males, and is used in much more than sperm production.

TFA doesn't mention testosterone being down.

Ol Olsoc does. https://www.healio.com/endocri...

http://www.webmd.com/men/news/... http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/d...

A low Testosterone level in a male decreases sperm count. In on of those weird twists of fate, supplementing testosterone will lower it even further. http://www.webmd.com/men/featu... So one of the keys to healthy sperm production is to ensure the body is producing it's very own testosterone, not via creams or injections.

Is the trend of lower testosterone levels responsible for the trend of lower sperm count? Correlation is not causation, but even if it were some other cause, that cause would be lowering testosterone levels at the same time.

And my original posting which notes that males are being inundated with phytoestrogens in the west, is not crackpot-ism. Even the NIH is getting involved. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p... It is worth noting that in opposition to the politico-economic interests demanding that phyto-estrogens be completely safe for males, they note :

"Further investigation is needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn. In the meantime, caution would suggest that perinatal phyto-oestrogen exposure, such as that found in infants feeding on soy-based formula, should be avoided.

And let us not forget all of the estrogen mimics like Bisphenol-A, Phthalates, Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), and beef growth hormones. These chemicals have been and many are still used

So really, it doesn't matter if TFA doesn't mention Testosterone level. Testosterone levels are relevant to Sperm count, and Testosterone levels are also related to estrogen loads. Conjecture on that is a completely valid path of discussion. Sperm count is down, and males are exposed to a lot of chemicals that are proven to do just that. Making discussion that speaks to these facts being somehow off limits doesn't make a lot of sense.

He may well be a moron, but also right

Apparently, the US of A doesn't like the prescription it metes onto others, right?

You're jumping to the end too quickly.

Blacks are convicted of crimes more often, certainly. Does that mean they're more violent, or that they get caught more? Or that they live in worse situations than whites? Are Asians particularly good at math, or do Asian parents favour certain qualities that lead to more favourable math outcomes? Are they in more stable communities so their kids have a better opportunity to study math? Is it cultural or innate? Are women actually bad at navigating, or is it that we're less likely to take little girls out to go camping and get experience at navigating? Is that your own bias, since I've always heard that women are better at navigating?

We actually have statistics that white people just aren't convicted as often for drug offences despite having similar or higher rates of use and dealing. Based on conviction data, a machine learning system would internalise the bias that blacks are more likely to have an involvement with drugs, despite that not being true. Garbage in, garbage out, right?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/e...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/...

(Notice that those articles are from 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2014—this is not new data.)

So generalities are not necessarily based in reality. Indeed, your claim that 'Asians are good at math' is particularly bad since Asia is HUGE and there's no way everyone from that area of the world is good at math. And as a half-Chinese guy that's okay at math but much worse than my white partner, and who knows plenty of Chinese people that have no affinity for math at all, I feel like a lot of these generalities are based on folklore and a few selective tests that aren't really representative of ability.

The USA and Canada are not the bastions of equal opportunity that they purport to be, not for everyone. First Nations people in Canada and black people in the USA are consistently disadvantaged through broad government policy.

So all this to say that getting good, clean data for machine learning systems that remove human bias is incredibly difficult, since most humans are unwilling to admit their biases don't necessarily have a basis in reality, or are the wrong conclusions drawn from incomplete knowledge of data.

Citations needed, thanks. Especially about Trump being racist, I dare you to find it.

Ask the judges who have ruled that his ban on Muslims discriminated by race.. Ask the judge he accused of being biased because he was a Mexican. Ask the justice department, which twice took his company to court for racial discrimination - Trump countersued for slander, then entered into a consent not to do it again - and did it again. here's a quote from the first hit from "donald trump racist"

In May, Trump implied that Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge presiding over a class action suit against the for-profit Trump University, could not fairly hear the case because of his Mexican heritage.

“He’s a Mexican,” Trump told CNN. “We’re building a wall between here and Mexico. The answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings — rulings that people can’t even believe.”

Curiel, it should be noted, is an American citizen who was born in Indiana. As a prosecutor in the late 1990s, he went after Mexican drug cartels, making him a target for assassination by a Tijuana drug lord.

Even members of Trump’s own party slammed the racist remarks.

“Claiming a person can’t do their job because of their race is sort of like the textbook definition of a racist comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said, though he clarified that he still endorsed Trump

The comments against Curiel didn’t sit well with the American public either. According to a YouGov poll released in June, 51 percent of those surveyed agreed that Trump’s comments were not only wrong, but also racist. Fifty-seven percent of Americans said Trump was wrong to complain against the judge, while just 20 percent said he was right to do so.

Racist, sexist bigot. That's Donald Trump.

And what form does this "perving out" take? Please enlighten us.

Why should I have to justify to you what creeps women out?

In fact, here's the link: http://www.thegetrealmom.com/blog/womensrestroom.

Ok, an extremely rare incident occurred, as a result of which, some women were made temporarily uncomfortable.

Not a very good justification for discrimination.

Another link: http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle/man-in-womens-locker-room-cites-gender-rule/65533111

It was a busy time at Evans Pool around 5:30pm Monday February 8. The pool was open for lap swim. According to Seattle Parks and Recreation, a man wearing board shorts entered the women's locker room and took off his shirt. Women alerted staff, who told the man to leave, but he said "the law has changed and I have a right to be here."

the man returned a second time while young girls were changing for swim practice.

Creepy but no one got harmed. And, almost certainly not a transgendered person. Hell, most likely he was a pervert who heard all the right wing pundits saying perverts were allowed in change rooms now so he decided to give it a try and failed!

And another: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/06/u-of-t-bathrooms-voyeurism_n_8253970.html

The University of Toronto (U of T) is temporarily changing its policy on gender-neutral bathrooms after two reports of voyeurism in a student residence.

Gender-neutral is something quite different.

In fact, you should really be more careful with your citations as you seem to have an unfortunate habit of excluding a critical paragraph that undercuts your entire point.

Melinda Scott, dean of students at University College, told campus newspaper The Varsity that some washrooms in the college's residences will now be separated by gender for "those who identify as men and those who identify as women."

"At the same time, there remains at least one gender-neutral washroom per floor and per house,” Scott said.

“The purpose of this temporary measure is to provide a safe space for the women who have been directly impacted by these events and other students who may feel more comfortable in a single-gender washroom in the wake of these incidents."

ie, the remedy to this voyeur was the exact policy you're arguing against!!

And what form does this "perving out" take? Please enlighten us.

Why should I have to justify to you what creeps women out?

In fact, here's the link: http://www.thegetrealmom.com/blog/womensrestroom. Ask her yourself.

Another link: http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle/man-in-womens-locker-room-cites-gender-rule/65533111

It was a busy time at Evans Pool around 5:30pm Monday February 8. The pool was open for lap swim. According to Seattle Parks and Recreation, a man wearing board shorts entered the women's locker room and took off his shirt. Women alerted staff, who told the man to leave, but he said "the law has changed and I have a right to be here."

the man returned a second time while young girls were changing for swim practice.

And another: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/10/06/u-of-t-bathrooms-voyeurism_n_8253970.html

The University of Toronto (U of T) is temporarily changing its policy on gender-neutral bathrooms after two reports of voyeurism in a student residence.

Two women showering in Whitney Hall, a residence at U of T's University College, reported they saw a cellphone reach over the shower-stall dividers in an attempt to record them, in two different incidents, police Const. Victor Kwong told The Toronto Star.

"The purpose of this temporary measure is to provide a safe space for the women who have been directly impacted by these events and other students who may feel more comfortable in a single-gender washroom in the wake of these incidents."

You can have progressive taxation and universal healthcare or increasing inequality and more illness

Yep, the "progressive" solution is to make everyone equally sick. (Except for the chosen few, who will be more equal than others.)

Your choice.

I'm making my choice and staying in the US. You, please, make yours and move to Venezuela. It really is awesome out there — haven't you heard of Venezuelan diet, for example? Lose 19 pounds per year — and keep them off for as long as your country remains "progressive"! Guaranteed!

This thread is full of ignorance...

...Says the person who is the exception but thinks he's the rule.

Firstly rents, in major canadian cities, "cheaper" means moving 1-2 hours away from your place of work. You pay more to live closer to downtown and not waste 4 hours commuting a day. Im sure major american cities are the same.

Nope. Places like Toronto and Vancouver are the Canadian equivalent to NYC and San Francisco -- weird HCOL areas that are very much unlike the rest of America. Most American cities have plenty of inexpensive housing close to the city center. It's just that stereotypical middle-class white people are too cowardly to live there.

(After flipping a coin and guessing you're in Toronto instead of Vancouver, I'll point out that Detroit is only a couple hours down the road. Go see [an extreme example] for yourself if you don't believe me.)

Secondly, mortgages, we are in a housing bubble and only a fool buys anywhere near the top of a bubble.

No, "you" are in a housing bubble. Not "we." Buying in Toronto or Vancouver (or NYC or San Francisco) is clearly a bad idea, but that's not nearly as true for, say, Ottawa, Winnipeg or Montreal.

And yeah i dont have 2 million for a "starter" house thanks.

The median home price in Canada (not "starter home," just "home" in general) is $500,000, not $2M (Canadian dollars).

At any rate, if "find a cheaper apartment or buy" doesn't work in your current city, that doesn't mean the advice is inapplicable; it just means you also need to change cities!

Hah. Nope. You miss all those stories in the news and even here on /. over the last couple of years of people being forced to train their replacements and being replaced by H1B's? Guess so, there's no shortage of stories on it. These companies are gaming the system. Just like companies in Canada are abusing the TFW(temporary foreign worker) program. The difference between H1B and TFW if anyone is wondering is that a TFW can work any job. The shittiest companies at the very bottom(janitorial/fast food), to big name companies like Royal Bank of Canada have been caught gaming the system up here too.

This type of stuff is what causes violent revolutions, and neither governments or businesses seem to give a shit that they're contributing to something that will bite them in the ass. Only upside is down there in the US, Trump wants to gut and fix that program. In Canada, Trudeau decided to undo what the conservatives had put in place in order to limit how companies could abuse the TFW program.

Nothing but a race to the fucking bottom, and it's very easy to see where this shit started. Those people who used to seasonally work as farm workers(fruit/tobacco/etc). When I was a teen, you could make 30-50% more per hour then min wage. Then the government changed the rule to allow imported foreign labor. Hourly wages went away, people were paid by weight/count. And people who lived in the country stopped doing the work because it was an absolute shit wage being paid.

You mean like this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/a... Yet if I turn the tables and ask for a free space from black people then I'm a horrible racist. Another example is my Google search turned up a slew of "Dear White People" style articles. There's even a movie. These types of things are only directed at white people in general as all other people are protected classes. I wonder what would happen if there was an article like "Dear Black People, stop murdering at 7x the rate of everyone else" (fact if you're curious) or "Dear Gay people, stop adding ever more letters after your special interest groups". Hmm, probably would get called every bad name in the PC playbook. I'm a fairly simple person, one set of rules that everyone uses sounds pretty reasonable. If saying a given thing about one group would be racist then saying it about another should be held to that same standard.

What speech codes? Like treating people with respect? And which words or phrases are now criminalized?

Not using people's "right" pronouns could get you fined in NY
In Canada it's basically illegal to insult anyone or say or do something they don't like: "A teenager was later arrested for growling and woofing at two Labrador dogs in public, a café owner was investigated for showing biblical passages on a TV screen, and an LGBT group was arrested under section 5 for protesting anti-gay persecution in the Middle East. While one would hope such a law would only be used in extraordinary circumstances, it's actually very common."
40% of millenials are OK with making "offensive" speech illegal
The overwhelming majority of college staff are leftists and colleges overwhelmingly limit speech on campus
EU is banning anything that is politically sensitive: "To paraphrase Humpty Dumpty, hate speech means just what those in power choose it to mean – neither more nor less. And now, continent-wide censorship has been forced upon us by the powerful, and they will decide what the rest of us can and cannot say and can and cannot hear, all with the aim of dictating what we can and cannot think."

I could go on...

Let me toss in. That prices are so screwed up, that even leftwing sites like Huffington Post and the CBC are talking about it. And these prices are directly related to "green energy" plans and policies. That there are ~600k people who are in arrears 4mo or more. The largest hydro company in Ontario has 1.3m customers and serves 75% of the province to put that in perspective. That it's driving businesses out of the province to anywhere else that's cheaper.

A sporting goods chain, Forzani's, was hit by a $1.7 million fine. In there also it mentions a clothing chain, Suzy Shier, being fined $1 million.
http://infofranpro.wikidot.com...

Sears was recently fined over tires.
http://www.autoserviceworld.co...

Here's one more from Micheal's, an arts and crafts store, for $3.5 million!
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

Sears has previously been fined over pricing on other products but I can't find a source. In fact, many retailers seem to have issues related to advertised and actual pricing, and the Competition Bureau, rightfully, takes them to task for it.

Retailers in Canada, Amazon among them, should know better. The history and fines have been set.

Jesus, no kidding.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

This sort of tribunal exists in NAFTA and has never lead to this result.

Are you just ignorant or are you paid by multinational companies?

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

Because they all look so much like men NOT! Plenty of women would kill to look like her.

He's just saying that because Blackberry (then RIM or Research In Motion), after making a big hype about how secure they were, gave the keys to Saudi Rrabis, the United Arab Emerites, and the RCMP

Just days after BlackBerry’s CEO stressed the company's network has no back doors for law enforcement, a news report alleges the RCMP obtained the ability to decrypt communications on BlackBerry devices.

Vice reports that the RCMP was able to crack PIN-to-PIN messages related to Operation Clemenza, a large-scale probe into organized crime in Quebec. The investigation launched in 2010 and resulted in dozens of arrests in 2014.

The RCMP isn’t keeping it a secret that it used BlackBerry communications to crack the case. It states on its website that its use of these messages marked “the first time that this technique was used on such a large scale in a major investigation” in North America.

"Over one million private messages were intercepted and analyzed as evidence using the PIN to PIN interception technique," the RCMP said.

But according to Vice, court documents show the RCMP had access to a BlackBerry decryption key — a piece of code that would allow any communications between two BlackBerry devices to be hacked and read.

Having caved in, he's doubling down rather than admitting he should have refused, fought in court, and pulled service out of countries that demanded access.

1812 wasn't a war involving Canada-as-a-country, since it wasn't even a country back then. It was a war between the US and the UK. The people of Canada lost, having to remain loyal subjects of a foreign crown. Canada is lucky not to have turned that bad over the years, but back then it was still a big loss for Canada, just like if the US lost its independence war.

Lol, Canada wasn't a country back then, but neither was the US. You were just a collection of loose colonies or that fact isn't taught in school anymore ? As for the people of Canada having lost, Jesus man the colonists up north didn't want regime change. That's why they sided with the crown and beat you up. They couldn't give a rat's ass about your revolutionary ideals.

The motto of the US should be : We've been in the regime change business, since 1777. Seems nothing has changed since then eh ? Born bullies, always bullies.

You failed to understand his point. There was no "Canada" - there were British settlers who lived north of the United States. When the US rebelled, they came up with a new name and established themselves as an independant country, which the world eventually recognized. Canada at the time was simply unclaimed land and didn't become a country for many years later. Your argument makes about as much sense as saying the United States teamed up with England to fight the French in the colonial wars. It makes no sense because the United States didn't exist at the time, they were just British subjects, and the same goes for Canada at that time. Also, might I point out something? You irrationally assume every American is aggressive and bullying, you assume this list was drafted by every citizen of the United States, and you display a sense of nationalism far greater than mine. I have met many Canadians and on the whole found them to be friendly, polite, and pretty well educated. You, however, are the exception to this - you don't see the irony in accusing Americans of being xenophobic when you're the one who started this, you have no sense of class to deliver your argument professionally, and your best attack is a pathetic barb on a healthcare system you clearly don't understand (in fact, you don't even understand your own.)

You are writing this, because you were told so but you never did your research. Also you are missing the point that there are lot of wealthy people of color?

What makes you believe that serfs in Europe had different treatment? In Europe, most of the poor were also treated as the property of the state. Just look at conscription practices, naval military recruiting practices, and industrial labor practices. A lot of affluent families in Europe are descendants of the noblemen, of the serf/slave owners. However since there one race in Europe, there was nobody to blame. So they decided to blame rich.

If you have not noticed poor people are treated as a second class citizens irrespective of the race, sex, or national origin. Trying to pin everything on race is shortsighted and unwise.

Here is the link to Huffington Post, which details Top 10 countries where slavery is legal? Couch SJW are recommended to spend their energies and time to address existing issues to abolish slavery TODAY, rather than working on something what is an imaginary issue to get brownie points.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

I wonder how the USA would rate if as many people were still using well water? Not the city water is much better. How much of that is polluted again?
http://www.the-american-intere...
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

I can suggest some other mandatory certifications to allay consumers' fears and help them make political statements:

• "Grown in Vermont" — replace by your state or an even lesser locale as needed.
• "Fair Paid" — all of the workers involved were paid at least double the national minimum wage.
• "Minority Grown" — no Whites among the workers involved. Optional sub-certifications can be added to specify, which racial minority in particular was involved.
• "Grown by Whites" — no, scratch that, that's like sooo racist...
• "Femininely Grown" — for the fish without bicycles.
• "LGBT Farmed" — to help all those LGBT farmers in their struggle for acceptance.
• If you identify as some other Foo-American, I sincerely apologize for failing to mention Foo — it was outrageously exclusionary and harmful of me. As soon as the hurt from my unwittingly virtually punching you in the face subsides, feel free to add the "Foo Raised" or "Proudly made by Foo" at the top of this list and we shall all cheer.

The compliance with each label's statute shall be monitored and enforced by the Attorney General and penalties for violations shall be up to $1000 per day per person.

Now, of course, if we interpreted the Commerce Clause of the Constitution as broadly as we do the First Amendment, none of this would be possible... But, hey, what good is a Democracy, if the majority can not impose its will on an (unpopular) minority?

Results from a study on McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. showed indications. Here's one report on huffingtonpost.ca.

Third-wave feminism is pretty much dead nowadays, and 4th wave is having a very hard time figuring who they should hate.

The "experiment" in Dauphin, Canada lasted 4 years and seems like it was terminated for political reasons, not because of failure. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....

This was interesting: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

https://motherboard.vice.com/r...

"Forget documented a decline in doctor visits, an 8.5 percent reduction in the hospitalization rate, and more adolescents continuing into grade 12"

Just for ease of reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2...

Paranoid bullshit.

Idiot that hasn't been paying attention.

Banning of expression and speech banning wrongthink
Banning of speech on university campuses and another banning costumes and another safe spaces, and no dissent safe spaces and pro-racial segregation. Did I miss anything, or do you need a few dozen more examples? This isn't isolated, you can find more examples of every single one.

Renewable power is quite competitive these days, and there's huge potential for it in Canada, but it's an illusion to think that it isn't big business these days..

At any rate, General Fusion is a start-up, and very much not big business.

And Japan. It's not just IP to worry about, it's a whole host of things. Under NAFTA Canada became the most sued country and most of those were to remove our environmental protections. At least we're in an election right now and if we can get the Conservatives out we have at least a HOPE of at least renegotiating it. Then again, a guy I work with just voted (advanced voting) and somehow accidentally checked the wrong box...sometimes I want to give up...