Makes a change as it is usually American companies suing the Canadian government for billions in lost profits due to things like banning poisons. The ACs link, http://www.pressprogress.ca/5_...
You really think that the military would have sympathy for a leftist socialist rebellion? Because that will be how it will be spun and probably the reality as the rightist at heart have always been pro-government. Just have to look at the history of arms being used against the government, mostly labor movements in the 19th century and the military (often private) won every time.
I think it depends on where you grew up. I'm also Canadian, 15 years odd older then you and I was taught at a very early age that the cops (VPD) were the biggest danger out there.
How so? As long as it is actually on topic and appropriate, such as now talking about totalitarian ideologies, it is not Godwins law. To quote your link,
Godwin's law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Nazis – often referred to as "playing the Hitler card". The law and its corollaries would not apply to discussions covering known mainstays of Nazi Germany such as genocide, eugenics, or racial superiority, nor, more debatably, to a discussion of other totalitarian regimes or ideologies,[citation needed] if that was the explicit topic of conversation, because a Nazi comparison in those circumstances may be appropriate, in effect committing the fallacist's fallacy, or inferring that an argument containing a fallacy must necessarily come to incorrect conclusions. Whether it applies to humorous use or references to oneself is open to interpretation, because this would not be a fallacious attack against a debate opponent.
Resize all currency (bills) to make them easier for the blind to use
In Canada we just have brail on the notes, which are now made of plastic as another saving, they're supposed to last a longer though not as long as loonies ($1 coin named after the Loon on it) or toonies ($2 coin).
Saw a link that claimed that America is responsible for over 12 million dead since WWII. When you consider how many wars America has started since 1945 it is believable. Not even the USSR routinely started wars on the other side of the planet.
Steam engines need massive amounts of water, as it boils away or more usually, cold water is used to condense the steam so that it can be reboiled and reused to turn a turbine. Just because the heat source changes to thorium doesn't change the fact that it is a steam engine producing electricity. Seems to me that liquid fluoride being used as coolant would still need water to cool it down as well.
Interesting, if he's right it means that it is even more important to do something about CO2 as the cosmic rays are going to do half the warming and the CO2 the other half, so perhaps a 2 degree warming without CO2 and a 4 degree warming with our CO2 additions. To quote your wiki article,
In 2011 he has shown together with Shlomi Ziskin that the solar variability explains about half the 20th century warming, with the other half attributable to anthropogenic forcing[13]
Solar magnetic activity is easy to measure (using sunspots and the aurora) and has been measured since 1755 and the latest cycle was lower then normal which may be one of the reasons for the "pause" at the beginning of this century. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which has some nice graphs of solar activity (peaked in the '50's) and a section on the effects on climate (small, hard to find correlations).
It won't be NAFTA II, it's the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Treaty and Canada has already sorta agreed to it, including the various IP law extensions. Note that last year the previous government quietly slipped through a copyright extension, on lyrics IIRC, due to pressure from the Americans.
The North American Free Trade Zone is getting replaced by the Trans Pacific Free Trade Zone and from what I hear, to join you have to harmonize various IP laws
It's hard to say how much work Lyn did and whether she deserved copyright though even if that type of copyright sharing was declared illegal, the authours can still truly collaborate such as Terry did with the recent Long Earth series
Everything is based on previous works, look at how good Disney has done building on the works of previous creators. It's how learning works and having a large public domain allows much more to be created.
Actually quite a few of Terry Pratchett's books were also copyrighted by Lyn Pratchett. eg the closest at hand is Maskerade, Copyright 1995 (C) Terry and Lyn Pratchett. If copyright ended at death, we'd see similar copyrights much more.
I said 14 years or perhaps 28 years, and meant from publication or registration, not 70 fucking years after death which I agree is insane. Now whether the wife who supported her husbands writing should get any benefit after her husband gets hit by a truck we can disagree on.
When you're terminally ill with a family and skilled enough to possibly produce a best seller, knowing that they're going to benefit long enough to get independent is motivation to write a book. Why bother if your family isn't gong to benefit. Cutting off copyright at the instance of death will not encourage people close to the end of life.
The creator might have dependents. Nothing wrong with the heirs getting the copyright for up to 14 or even 28 years. Long enough for any dependents to become independent and still goes into the public domain in a timely manner.
The English did pretty well with armies composed of freemen armed with longbows. Even the heavy cavalry wasn't really professional in to-days sense, rather composed of people who owed fealty.
Just because models get updated does not mean the premise is flawed. It may just mean that variables are known more accurately. Consider other science where there is consensus like the theory that stars get their energy from nuclear fusion. The consensus is pretty high that the Sun is powered by nuclear fusion which leads to models showing the Sun is getting more dense due to an increasing ratio of helium to hydrogen and a more dense Sun burning hotter. Some models show that in 500 million years the oceans will boil and some models show it happening in a billion years. Just because both models disagree and keep getting adjusted does not mean that the basic premise that the Sun experiences nuclear fusion is wrong. It just means that there are variables that we're unsure of.
Think of the case where you have 9 people 1% above average and one person 11% below average. 90% of people above average. I'd suggest that you learn some critical thinking before ranting about others lack of thinking.
The government that was passing maximum wage laws to keep those workers in their place? Bloody criminals, thinking that just because there was a shortage of workers, they should get more pay. Bastards even wanted the freedom to move around looking for more pay. There were peasant revolts all over Europe after the black death thinned out the workers and sadly not one succeeded.
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Who wants welfare?
Large companies such as Walmart so they can pay out lower wages.
Who wants free shit?
Right wing farmers as well as most large businesses
Who wants hate speech laws?
Point, as the left remembers how hate speech has been used to promote violence
Who wants to repeal the first amendment?
Both wings though it is usually the right that takes it to the extreme of executing people for speech.
Who wants to tell everybody else "You can't own that"?
The right has filled the prisons with people convicted of owning stuff
Who wants to fine you for "mis gendering" somebody?
Good point as the right would rather throw people in jail based on their perceived gender rather then a simple fine.
Makes a change as it is usually American companies suing the Canadian government for billions in lost profits due to things like banning poisons.
The ACs link, http://www.pressprogress.ca/5_...
You really think that the military would have sympathy for a leftist socialist rebellion? Because that will be how it will be spun and probably the reality as the rightist at heart have always been pro-government. Just have to look at the history of arms being used against the government, mostly labor movements in the 19th century and the military (often private) won every time.
I think it depends on where you grew up. I'm also Canadian, 15 years odd older then you and I was taught at a very early age that the cops (VPD) were the biggest danger out there.
How so? As long as it is actually on topic and appropriate, such as now talking about totalitarian ideologies, it is not Godwins law. To quote your link,
Probably Australia as they invented polymer bills and have the experience.
Resize all currency (bills) to make them easier for the blind to use
In Canada we just have brail on the notes, which are now made of plastic as another saving, they're supposed to last a longer though not as long as loonies ($1 coin named after the Loon on it) or toonies ($2 coin).
(PS for the record Australia discovered the wonders of 'rounding' in 1991 twenty two years before Canada demonetised the penny!)
Canada never demonitised the penny, or any other bills or coins. Just stopped minting them. Banks will probably always accept them.
Saw a link that claimed that America is responsible for over 12 million dead since WWII. When you consider how many wars America has started since 1945 it is believable. Not even the USSR routinely started wars on the other side of the planet.
Steam engines need massive amounts of water, as it boils away or more usually, cold water is used to condense the steam so that it can be reboiled and reused to turn a turbine.
Just because the heat source changes to thorium doesn't change the fact that it is a steam engine producing electricity.
Seems to me that liquid fluoride being used as coolant would still need water to cool it down as well.
Interesting, if he's right it means that it is even more important to do something about CO2 as the cosmic rays are going to do half the warming and the CO2 the other half, so perhaps a 2 degree warming without CO2 and a 4 degree warming with our CO2 additions. To quote your wiki article,
Solar magnetic activity is easy to measure (using sunspots and the aurora) and has been measured since 1755 and the latest cycle was lower then normal which may be one of the reasons for the "pause" at the beginning of this century. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which has some nice graphs of solar activity (peaked in the '50's) and a section on the effects on climate (small, hard to find correlations).
It won't be NAFTA II, it's the Trans-Pacific Free Trade Treaty and Canada has already sorta agreed to it, including the various IP law extensions. Note that last year the previous government quietly slipped through a copyright extension, on lyrics IIRC, due to pressure from the Americans.
The North American Free Trade Zone is getting replaced by the Trans Pacific Free Trade Zone and from what I hear, to join you have to harmonize various IP laws
It's hard to say how much work Lyn did and whether she deserved copyright though even if that type of copyright sharing was declared illegal, the authours can still truly collaborate such as Terry did with the recent Long Earth series
Everything is based on previous works, look at how good Disney has done building on the works of previous creators. It's how learning works and having a large public domain allows much more to be created.
Actually quite a few of Terry Pratchett's books were also copyrighted by Lyn Pratchett. eg the closest at hand is Maskerade, Copyright 1995 (C) Terry and Lyn Pratchett.
If copyright ended at death, we'd see similar copyrights much more.
I said 14 years or perhaps 28 years, and meant from publication or registration, not 70 fucking years after death which I agree is insane.
Now whether the wife who supported her husbands writing should get any benefit after her husband gets hit by a truck we can disagree on.
When you're terminally ill with a family and skilled enough to possibly produce a best seller, knowing that they're going to benefit long enough to get independent is motivation to write a book. Why bother if your family isn't gong to benefit.
Cutting off copyright at the instance of death will not encourage people close to the end of life.
The creator might have dependents. Nothing wrong with the heirs getting the copyright for up to 14 or even 28 years. Long enough for any dependents to become independent and still goes into the public domain in a timely manner.
Mexico has a 100 year copyright. I'm also sure that America can bully other countries to follow suite, why else spend so much on military
The English did pretty well with armies composed of freemen armed with longbows. Even the heavy cavalry wasn't really professional in to-days sense, rather composed of people who owed fealty.
Just because models get updated does not mean the premise is flawed. It may just mean that variables are known more accurately.
Consider other science where there is consensus like the theory that stars get their energy from nuclear fusion. The consensus is pretty high that the Sun is powered by nuclear fusion which leads to models showing the Sun is getting more dense due to an increasing ratio of helium to hydrogen and a more dense Sun burning hotter. Some models show that in 500 million years the oceans will boil and some models show it happening in a billion years. Just because both models disagree and keep getting adjusted does not mean that the basic premise that the Sun experiences nuclear fusion is wrong. It just means that there are variables that we're unsure of.
Think of the case where you have 9 people 1% above average and one person 11% below average. 90% of people above average.
I'd suggest that you learn some critical thinking before ranting about others lack of thinking.
The government that was passing maximum wage laws to keep those workers in their place? Bloody criminals, thinking that just because there was a shortage of workers, they should get more pay. Bastards even wanted the freedom to move around looking for more pay.
There were peasant revolts all over Europe after the black death thinned out the workers and sadly not one succeeded.