Even better example is the British Columbia Liberal Party who are much further right then the unrelated Federal Liberal Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wow, I'm glad we've retained our Freedom of Speech here in the US.
Guess it must suck to live in a liberal gulag where only approved thoughts may be voiced.
We didn't want child porn to be legal and we also didn't want a government that routinely ignores its Constitution to make things illegal. We at least have a government that usually follows the Constitution and a Supreme Court Court that forces them. You guys get a government that routinely breaks your Bill of Rights, especially the 1st amendment and a Supreme Court that allows it. Just think of all the laws that Congress has passed limiting speech that the courts agree with. Here the government can Constitutionally ban giving away military secrets.
I live in a bible belt and the local churches spend a lot of time attacking homosexuality with no legal consequences. Even Trinity Western University which forces students to sign a covenant which allow only sex between a husband and wife has no legal problems besides not being able to claim discrimination when the bar associations (3 or 4 out of 10 Provincial IIRC) refuse to accept their law students to the bar. While we don't have as strong free speech protections as America due to not wanting to allow child porn, our protections are pretty strong, just can't incite violence or share pictures of kids being sexually abused.
Even then, if the surveillance was presented the right way, eg "catching them evil loyalists", most would have been fine with it. Remember that during the revolution legislative powers were used regularly to remove the rights of the evil Tories.
Too lazy to Google but various studies have shown that an income of around $80,000 a year (depending on where you live) gives the maximum happiness. Enough to live comfortably with no stress about paying for necessities and not so much money as to cause stress from being too rich.
It's wealth rather then income which measures the top 1% and according to some Swiss bank. worldwide it is just over $750,000 in assets to be in the top 1% worldwide.
Which raises the question about which takes more mental power, spending leisure time watching TV or telling and listening to stories without benefit of writing.
The problem is that so many people give in to the anti-gun position of "if it is modern, then the Constitution doesn't cover it" bullshit reasoning that we are completely losing our rights on all fronts.
It works the other way as well. How often have you heard someone say that a vehicle is a privilege rather then a right? Same with other transport such as airline where the government can deny you the "privilege" of traveling on a whim without telling you. I've very seldom needed a gun, once to take out a bobcat that was in the chicken coup and a couple of times for food. Where I live and in much of the country owning a vehicle and being allowed to use it is basically a necessity. Funny enough, in my country owning a firearm is not a right but it takes a Judge to deny my privilege of being able to own a firearm (law does limits the types) whereas my driving privileges can be removed through simple administrative process. And of course I wouldn't be allowed to own a firearm in the States due to one stupid thing that was not firearm related that I did close to 40 years ago rather then having to have a Judge purposely remove my firearm privileges which only happens when you've done something stupid with a firearm here.
OK, present day Canada where we're having an election on Monday. 3 way race with the incumbents having done quite a few things differently then any party before. Generally the 2 main parties have been more as you describe but the incumbents have taken the Authoritarianism to new heights. It's actually questionable whether the current government will resign if they don't win a majority (the other parties are adamant about not working with them) and at this point it's hard to see them getting an honest majority.
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While often true, sometimes the parties are different, with the extreme example being 1930's Germany. Especially in a Parliamentary system where Parliament is pretty well supreme, a lot of damage can be done by a government that sets out to radically change things including dismantling democracy.
True, but this is a different stellar system then the solar system. As we have observed stellar systems with up to 7 stars in their system, it is really hard to judge how much material is in this particular system but there could easily be a red dwarf that is currently being disassembled and reassembled.
The bailouts should have COME WITH Antitrust legislation and a breakup. Especially since the reason we bailed them out is that they are "Too big to fail".
Actually the bailed out banks should have probably been nationalized (the US owning all/most of the shares), and then once things were settled you could break them up a lot more easily (since the public owns them). Few contracts / loopholes.
But that's Socialist. Every time I hear someone claim that Obama is a socialist, I think of how he handled the banks.
You're confusing the authoritarian line with the economic line. Fun facts, anarchists have traditionally been leftists and libertarianism started out as a leftist philosophy. Generally rightist, at least the successful ones, are authoritarian, sometimes they want small government so the government doesn't interfere with their authoritarianism, think of the mafia or the Mexican drug cartels, both right wing business types who want less government interference in their businesses. Take a look at the political compass, http://www.politicalcompass.or... and perhaps take their test. Here's their take on the 2012 US election, http://www.politicalcompass.or... Here's an article on libertarian socialism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The kernel of truth in astrology is that the season of your birth affects your life. This is true today, where studies show that those born closer to the beginning of the school year are more successful in life and was true in societies where food was more plentiful at certain times of the year. Classic case of getting causation and correlation mixed up and chasing after the wrong thing.
And someone will tell you that philosophy has nothing to do with mathematics. Always have found it interesting how language has changed over the years.
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academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.
2. : college or university studies (as language, philosophy, literature, abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (as reason and judgment) as opposed to professional or vocational skills.
The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberal, "worthy of a free person") to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate,...
Actually any hunter gatherer tribes that lived in a rich land were in a post-scarcity environment. Where I live the natives only had to work a couple of weeks a year to meet their food needs (salmon harvest) and just moved around as other resources such as firewood became scarce. What has always been scarce are the rich lands, whether a salmon stream or good farmland and a consistent environment. A couple of years of drought will screw most societies, whether hunter gatherer or farmer, same with natural disasters such as a massive volcanic eruption causing a few years of no summer. And of course those with shittier lands are always trying to take the better lands so people of all types had to be prepared to fight to keep their home. A true post scarcity economy would have to include not having to worry about being killed for your stuff.
We're talking about a country that had institutionalized slavery up till 150 years ago, slaves who had their child rearing abilities removed resulting in a string of broken families that is still going on. A country that invented the term poor white trash. A country that still has the class distinction of "felon" where certain people have rights permanently removed, often for actions that hurt no-one besides giving offense. A country that puts police in their schools and arrests kids, often for such stupid things as being brown with a clock. A country that produced a Constitution that said all men are created equal and then in a clause said that some of those men were worth 3/5ths of other men. A country that is very good at the propaganda with the meme that there are no classes in your country and anyone who can come up with a $100 million can be President.
No write ins here. I have often voted for the Rhinoceros Party, even if they are a bunch of Marxist-Lennonists but I've always liked Groucho and John and their promises were more realistic. Fix the environment by banning it, get rid of crime by getting rid of all laws. Annex America and make them a territory. And of course repeal that pesky Law of Gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Sadly last election there were only 3 choices on the ballot where there used to be at least a dozen.
Being Canadian, if I could be PM, my simple directive would be "do the right thing"
Mostly I mean that we have to keep vigilant. Vaccines seem to have been much more beneficial then harmful but things like the flu vaccine are more questionable for a healthy person. There's always the danger that in search of profits we may get vaccines where the harm vs benefit ratio is not beneficial. GMO are worst as what is beneficial depends more on viewpoint. Is it more beneficial to have a beautiful tomato that sits on the shelf for a week looking good but has no nutrition? Is it beneficial to have a roundup resistant crop that allows massive use of roundup for a few years until the weeds become roundup resistant and everyone has to buy a more expensive herbicide? It's not clear cut and I agree with you about oversight and regulation and allowing companies to put GMO free on their products with the only government oversight is making sure they're honest. I do worry that we'll get complacent and automatically trust things, especially things put out be companies whose primary motive is making money.
In Canada there was a huge public backlash when the government wanted to start spying on our internet activities. Took 3 or 4 tries before they could sneak the law through (on the pretense of stopping bullying) and the mother of the girl who they used as the victim was actually crying while saying that she did not want this. The problem is the government is more focused then the citizens and they just keep trying while most people are just trying to get by. Bill C51, our equivalent of the patriot act, is an election issue but so are other things and with the right more united then everyone else and also being good at pressing hot button issues, they are likely to continue their tyranny of the minority.
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Even better example is the British Columbia Liberal Party who are much further right then the unrelated Federal Liberal Party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wow, I'm glad we've retained our Freedom of Speech here in the US.
Guess it must suck to live in a liberal gulag where only approved thoughts may be voiced.
We didn't want child porn to be legal and we also didn't want a government that routinely ignores its Constitution to make things illegal.
We at least have a government that usually follows the Constitution and a Supreme Court Court that forces them.
You guys get a government that routinely breaks your Bill of Rights, especially the 1st amendment and a Supreme Court that allows it. Just think of all the laws that Congress has passed limiting speech that the courts agree with.
Here the government can Constitutionally ban giving away military secrets.
I live in a bible belt and the local churches spend a lot of time attacking homosexuality with no legal consequences.
Even Trinity Western University which forces students to sign a covenant which allow only sex between a husband and wife has no legal problems besides not being able to claim discrimination when the bar associations (3 or 4 out of 10 Provincial IIRC) refuse to accept their law students to the bar.
While we don't have as strong free speech protections as America due to not wanting to allow child porn, our protections are pretty strong, just can't incite violence or share pictures of kids being sexually abused.
Even then, if the surveillance was presented the right way, eg "catching them evil loyalists", most would have been fine with it. Remember that during the revolution legislative powers were used regularly to remove the rights of the evil Tories.
Too lazy to Google but various studies have shown that an income of around $80,000 a year (depending on where you live) gives the maximum happiness. Enough to live comfortably with no stress about paying for necessities and not so much money as to cause stress from being too rich.
It's wealth rather then income which measures the top 1% and according to some Swiss bank. worldwide it is just over $750,000 in assets to be in the top 1% worldwide.
You should tell the Grizzly and Polar Bears.
Which raises the question about which takes more mental power, spending leisure time watching TV or telling and listening to stories without benefit of writing.
Easily tested by dropping a cat and a human upside down at various heights to compare their turn upright reflex
The problem is that so many people give in to the anti-gun position of "if it is modern, then the Constitution doesn't cover it" bullshit reasoning that we are completely losing our rights on all fronts.
It works the other way as well. How often have you heard someone say that a vehicle is a privilege rather then a right? Same with other transport such as airline where the government can deny you the "privilege" of traveling on a whim without telling you.
I've very seldom needed a gun, once to take out a bobcat that was in the chicken coup and a couple of times for food. Where I live and in much of the country owning a vehicle and being allowed to use it is basically a necessity.
Funny enough, in my country owning a firearm is not a right but it takes a Judge to deny my privilege of being able to own a firearm (law does limits the types) whereas my driving privileges can be removed through simple administrative process. And of course I wouldn't be allowed to own a firearm in the States due to one stupid thing that was not firearm related that I did close to 40 years ago rather then having to have a Judge purposely remove my firearm privileges which only happens when you've done something stupid with a firearm here.
OK, present day Canada where we're having an election on Monday. 3 way race with the incumbents having done quite a few things differently then any party before. Generally the 2 main parties have been more as you describe but the incumbents have taken the Authoritarianism to new heights.
It's actually questionable whether the current government will resign if they don't win a majority (the other parties are adamant about not working with them) and at this point it's hard to see them getting an honest majority.
The trick is not to block all JavaScript, just most. For example, for this page I'm allowing 2 out of 10 scripts origins, slashdot.org and fsd.com. Not perfect but helps security and gets rid of stupid videos and other ads.
While often true, sometimes the parties are different, with the extreme example being 1930's Germany. Especially in a Parliamentary system where Parliament is pretty well supreme, a lot of damage can be done by a government that sets out to radically change things including dismantling democracy.
True, but this is a different stellar system then the solar system. As we have observed stellar systems with up to 7 stars in their system, it is really hard to judge how much material is in this particular system but there could easily be a red dwarf that is currently being disassembled and reassembled.
The bailouts should have COME WITH Antitrust legislation and a breakup. Especially since the reason we bailed them out is that they are "Too big to fail".
Actually the bailed out banks should have probably been nationalized (the US owning all/most of the shares), and then once things were settled you could break them up a lot more easily (since the public owns them). Few contracts / loopholes.
But that's Socialist. Every time I hear someone claim that Obama is a socialist, I think of how he handled the banks.
You're confusing the authoritarian line with the economic line. Fun facts, anarchists have traditionally been leftists and libertarianism started out as a leftist philosophy. Generally rightist, at least the successful ones, are authoritarian, sometimes they want small government so the government doesn't interfere with their authoritarianism, think of the mafia or the Mexican drug cartels, both right wing business types who want less government interference in their businesses.
Take a look at the political compass, http://www.politicalcompass.or... and perhaps take their test. Here's their take on the 2012 US election, http://www.politicalcompass.or... Here's an article on libertarian socialism, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The kernel of truth in astrology is that the season of your birth affects your life. This is true today, where studies show that those born closer to the beginning of the school year are more successful in life and was true in societies where food was more plentiful at certain times of the year.
Classic case of getting causation and correlation mixed up and chasing after the wrong thing.
And someone will tell you that philosophy has nothing to do with mathematics.
Always have found it interesting how language has changed over the years.
liberal arts
noun
plural noun: liberal arts
North American
academic subjects such as literature, philosophy, mathematics, and social and physical sciences as distinct from professional and technical subjects.
2. : college or university studies (as language, philosophy, literature, abstract science) intended to provide chiefly general knowledge and to develop general intellectual capacities (as reason and judgment) as opposed to professional or vocational skills.
The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberal, "worthy of a free person") to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate, ...
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Actually any hunter gatherer tribes that lived in a rich land were in a post-scarcity environment. Where I live the natives only had to work a couple of weeks a year to meet their food needs (salmon harvest) and just moved around as other resources such as firewood became scarce.
What has always been scarce are the rich lands, whether a salmon stream or good farmland and a consistent environment. A couple of years of drought will screw most societies, whether hunter gatherer or farmer, same with natural disasters such as a massive volcanic eruption causing a few years of no summer. And of course those with shittier lands are always trying to take the better lands so people of all types had to be prepared to fight to keep their home.
A true post scarcity economy would have to include not having to worry about being killed for your stuff.
We're talking about a country that had institutionalized slavery up till 150 years ago, slaves who had their child rearing abilities removed resulting in a string of broken families that is still going on. A country that invented the term poor white trash. A country that still has the class distinction of "felon" where certain people have rights permanently removed, often for actions that hurt no-one besides giving offense. A country that puts police in their schools and arrests kids, often for such stupid things as being brown with a clock.
A country that produced a Constitution that said all men are created equal and then in a clause said that some of those men were worth 3/5ths of other men.
A country that is very good at the propaganda with the meme that there are no classes in your country and anyone who can come up with a $100 million can be President.
No write ins here. I have often voted for the Rhinoceros Party, even if they are a bunch of Marxist-Lennonists but I've always liked Groucho and John and their promises were more realistic. Fix the environment by banning it, get rid of crime by getting rid of all laws. Annex America and make them a territory. And of course repeal that pesky Law of Gravity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sadly last election there were only 3 choices on the ballot where there used to be at least a dozen.
Being Canadian, if I could be PM, my simple directive would be "do the right thing"
Mostly I mean that we have to keep vigilant. Vaccines seem to have been much more beneficial then harmful but things like the flu vaccine are more questionable for a healthy person. There's always the danger that in search of profits we may get vaccines where the harm vs benefit ratio is not beneficial.
GMO are worst as what is beneficial depends more on viewpoint. Is it more beneficial to have a beautiful tomato that sits on the shelf for a week looking good but has no nutrition? Is it beneficial to have a roundup resistant crop that allows massive use of roundup for a few years until the weeds become roundup resistant and everyone has to buy a more expensive herbicide?
It's not clear cut and I agree with you about oversight and regulation and allowing companies to put GMO free on their products with the only government oversight is making sure they're honest.
I do worry that we'll get complacent and automatically trust things, especially things put out be companies whose primary motive is making money.
Frankly, having two or more parties is just about keeping people happy with thinking they have a choice, I don't like any of them anymore.
Generally I agree but Harper has taken Canada in a whole new direction that the majority don't like.
But it is our own fault for electing them.
It's an interesting election here with currently a 3 way tie. 2/3rds of the voters are against Harper but he is likely to get in again
In Canada there was a huge public backlash when the government wanted to start spying on our internet activities. Took 3 or 4 tries before they could sneak the law through (on the pretense of stopping bullying) and the mother of the girl who they used as the victim was actually crying while saying that she did not want this. The problem is the government is more focused then the citizens and they just keep trying while most people are just trying to get by.
Bill C51, our equivalent of the patriot act, is an election issue but so are other things and with the right more united then everyone else and also being good at pressing hot button issues, they are likely to continue their tyranny of the minority.