Sounded to me like the AC was saying he doesn't want people to push greed and privation as "The Right Way". Greed is one thing that can impact others negatively including the push for big government. Same with privation as it is way of enclosing the commons and stealing from everyone.
Here it is a little bit different. Federally it does depend on what you paid in, and is an extension of the country wide pension system. It is hard to get an early federal disability pension and not worth it if you are young. Most people, including all I currently know, are on the Provincial disability plan, which is a type of welfare, you get more money then an employable person but the limits are hard coded. X amount for living expenses and Y amount for rent, with Y varying depending on receipts though rent has increased fast enough that most everyone qualifies for the maximum.
Mostly none, one has a late '70's Ford Fairmont held together with duct tape and bailing wire. Mostly bikes as can't afford gas.
How much is spent on food? If you had to, you could live on $2 a day on food, drink water, eat ramin soup that are like.49 a bag.
Not for long, especially here in BC. Food gets more expensive the less you buy and to really take advantage of deals you need money to put out (20 lbs of potatoes aren't much more then 5lbs but you need the $8 for the big bag and if you only have $5) and the room to keep it. I know I'm not very wealthy and save a lot of money just having a freezer and being able to take advantage of sales and buying large packages of food.
It is not that they are not given enough money, it is that they think they are entitled to many things and don't think they can survive without um. Homeless can be the same story, or it could be because they dropped out of school. Unless they are retarded, I don't feel sorry for them. Everyone is given a chance at an education.
Up to 25% of the population is mentally disabled, but because it is not visible it is ignored. Most of the street people have mental problems of some type and due to the austerity measures back in the early '80's, there is no support for them. Just because a disability is invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Where I am (BC), most disability is just a better class of welfare, same government department paying, just a bigger check ($200?), better medical coverage and no hassle about looking for work. There is also Federal disability which is just early Social Security (Canada Pension Plan, CPP) which can be not bad if you paid enough in when working but hard to get and usually for 50+ year olds.
That's even worse then the people I know who IIRC get $750 including $450 for rent and since rent is $500 they have $250 to pay everything else. This is BC where food is much more expensive. Medical is free if you're low income and disability covers medication and in the case of one of the people I now, wheel chair and prosthetic leg.
Where the hell do you live that welfare/disability pays enough to buy endless beer and meth? I know a couple of people on disability and they have a fuck of a time just eating satisfactorily, little well being able to buy more then a 6 pack of beer once a month. There's also one fuck of a lot of homeless people around and they sure don't look like they're having a great life, especially when the weather turns to shit.
In theory, the 72 hour thing isn't supposed to be punishment, though in practice having to spend any time in jail is punishment and if you are remanded into custody and spend months waiting for trial, that can be pretty punishing as well. The point is that if not convicted, you should not be put on a list, records should be destroyed or at least locked up. For example in Canada, they're supposed to destroy your fingerprints 6 months after acquittal or 1 year after a stay of charges and other records buried. Not only that, but it takes a Judges order, usually at sentencing, to be put on the sex offenders list. Same with things like firearms restrictions, happens as part of sentencing, when appropriate rather then a blanket class of people with restrictions on their rights forever.
For toilet paper, Poplar (Cottonwood) seems to be preferred. Used to cut it when I was young and it went to the Scott Paper mill. Now they have acres of hybrid Poplar growing along the banks of the (lower) Fraser river, all owned by Scott Paper and earmarked for toilet paper.
By softwood do you mean the traditional softwood equals conifer or referring to species such as the various Poplar that have softwood? Either way, an inch or two growth of girth per year is pretty impressive. Are they pollacking (cutting the top of and allowing it to grow back) them?
It has been a long time since I've done silviculture but if I remember, we'd plant at 8ft which is 300 trees an acre and thin them down to 12ft which is 200 trees per acre. To measure, you'd take random plots, eg throw a weighted flag into the air and wherever it landed, take a piece of rope to measure a circle and count the trees in the plot, repeat after going in a pre-chosen direction x distance (important to be random rather then the easy route). I forget the length of rope but it worked out to the radius of a 100th of an acre so easy to work out how many trees per acre. Tree growth is going to depend on a lot of things (soil, altitude, type of tree etc) so hard to have a standard chart
Until you are taken in front of a Judge and formally charged with a crime, the State should not be able to hold you excepting the reasonable time it takes to be put in front of a Judge, 72 hours is often considered that reasonable time. Upon being charged with a crime, the Judge can order that you are kept in jail or released with conditions pending trial. For murder, the Judge is likely to order that you are kept in jail or if released, there will be a large bail condition as well as other conditions. If charges are dropped, then you are released. Otherwise eventually, in a reasonable time, there is a trial and found guilty or acquitted. If acquitted you are released and your records should be locked up or destroyed. Note that even if accused of murder, you are allowed to roam the street freely until charged and brought before a Judge on those charges and if the prosecution decides to drop the charges, perhaps due to lack of evidence, you are once again free to roam the streets. The point is that it takes a Judge to order your freedom to be removed, a simple accusation is not enough, at least in a free country.
Canada, where any work done by the government is owned by the crown and under the Queens copyright. Copyright is purely statutory here with no mention in the Constitution and traditionally the people have had access to anything under the Queens copyright with perhaps a reasonable fee for a copy. This government, which is very authoritarian and controlling (voted in on a ticket of openness of course) has decided to keep government science under wraps, mostly environmental and climate science and one of the ways that they have done that is by claiming IP secrets and it seems that crown copyright actually does not run out unless the government makes an effort. By keeping data on stuff like the arctic sea ice data closed, and your Congress insisting only on open data, a bunch of science is taken out of the picture. Of course this government is owned by the oil industry as well
Lots of science is closed. One example is my right wing government who has layered on 7 layers of bureaucracy between the scientists and the public and in the end declared that all publicly financed science is protected IP that is under copyright forever. This means that unless we're lucky enough that some Americans were involved in the research, it is totally closed to the taxpayers who paid and there has been cases where the Americans couldn't publish due to working with Canadians on Arctic sea ice and the right wingers closing the science. I'm a small government type who never the less believes that government does have to finance some science and when my taxes pay for it, well it should be public but that is not the right wing way. (Look at actions, not what they claim)
I'd think 30 years would be the minimum from planting to harvest, and that would be for quick growing Poplars. Here (BC) it is closer to 60 years, but the tree farms aren't really your traditional farm.
Yes and no. Like so many things, they need husbanding. Soil will run out of nutrients and need to be replenished. I've heard that often you can only get 3 good harvests before the growth and quality start deteriorating. Of course that will depend on how good the soil is to begin with.
That really depends on the type and size of the tree. Around here, it is mostly Cottonwood that is used for toilet paper, big straight wild trees as often or not. Cottonwood is mostly useless as lumber so it doesn't make sense to use for lumber. Up until a couple of decades ago, Hemlock was also used for paper, as they only grew about a hundred feet tall, were nice and straight so easy to handle and were considered inferior for lumber. That changed as they ran out of the more desirable wood but lots still goes for pulp. Up the page someone else mentions farmed Pine being used for pulp as it is a simpler use for the trees as they're thinned. It's hard to use a pecker pole for lumber though it is happening a lot more now. You see 8` 2x4s that are actual several pieces of wood with finger joints holding them together.
GMO is just a tool. It can be used to grow lots of pretty, non-nutritive, long lasting food or nutritive food. As long as their is a higher profit margin for non-nutritive food that looks really nice and stores and ships really well, that is what GMO (and regular selective breeding) will be used for. Now whether a diet of food that is lacking in minerals and vitamins hurts people is something that I think can be argued. Note that growing nutritive food also includes things like crop rotation and leaving fields fallow, which can also eat into profits.
If those companies had any brains they'd be making paper from hemp which is far cheaper to grow than trees and has a much higher yield per acre year.
Then both the hippies and people such as yourself would be happy!
Hearst made sure that wouldn't happen, as he had heavily invested in wood pulp paper. It's amazing that such a useful plant such as Hemp can be made illegal in such a short time, capitalism at its best.
Forest fires are part of the cycle. Most every (natural) stand of Douglas Fir owes its existence to fire as they are shade intolerant. Vancouver Island has burned about every 1000 years. Trees such as the Jack Pine depend on fire to open their cones. Lodgepole are similar. Clearcuts also burn, especially in the days (30+ years ago here) when if a tree wasn't 16 inches at the top, it was left. Where I am, the last fire was about 95 years ago, which was when it was first logged.
Most people never get called on their 3 felonies per day, so it can be used to single out people no more guilty than typical.
Most people don't do 3 felonies a day. I personally haven't done a felony in over 30 years (when I last visited the USA) and 95% of the worlds population seldom if ever visit the "Land of the Free" which is the only place that has felons (a class of people who have their rights curtailed forever, originally so the King could take their property (fief)).
"Poison tree" argument also doesn't apply to Canadian law. Courts regularly use "poisoned" evidence here. That said, there's no case because they include this clause in their terms:
Yes and no. Section 24.2 of the Charter states,
(2) Where, in proceedings under subsection (1), a court concludes that evidence was obtained in a manner that infringed or denied any rights or freedoms guaranteed by this Charter, the evidence shall be excluded if it is established that, having regard to all the circumstances, the admission of it in the proceedings would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
(1) the seriousness of the Charter-infringing conduct (focusing on a review of how society would view the actions of the state), (2) the impact of the breach on the Charter-protected interests of the accused (focusing on a review of how the state's actions affected the accused), and (3) society's interests in the adjudication of the case on its merits (focusing on a review of the importance and reliability of the evidence).
It's hard to measure but statistically uranium miners have a high death rate from cancer. There has also been some radioactive slurry pond leaks down in Navajo territory that also boosted cancer rates quite a bit. All in all, mining uranium may be more dangerous then mining coal, at least per pound. Of course the saving grace is that much less needs to be mined so over all it is much safer but it is totally misleading to claim it is 100% safe.
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Sounded to me like the AC was saying he doesn't want people to push greed and privation as "The Right Way". Greed is one thing that can impact others negatively including the push for big government. Same with privation as it is way of enclosing the commons and stealing from everyone.
Here it is a little bit different. Federally it does depend on what you paid in, and is an extension of the country wide pension system. It is hard to get an early federal disability pension and not worth it if you are young.
Most people, including all I currently know, are on the Provincial disability plan, which is a type of welfare, you get more money then an employable person but the limits are hard coded. X amount for living expenses and Y amount for rent, with Y varying depending on receipts though rent has increased fast enough that most everyone qualifies for the maximum.
Do they have a smart phone? how much they paying?
The ones I know all have land liines
What kind of car to they have?
Mostly none, one has a late '70's Ford Fairmont held together with duct tape and bailing wire. Mostly bikes as can't afford gas.
How much is spent on food? If you had to, you could live on $2 a day on food, drink water, eat ramin soup that are like .49 a bag.
Not for long, especially here in BC. Food gets more expensive the less you buy and to really take advantage of deals you need money to put out (20 lbs of potatoes aren't much more then 5lbs but you need the $8 for the big bag and if you only have $5) and the room to keep it. I know I'm not very wealthy and save a lot of money just having a freezer and being able to take advantage of sales and buying large packages of food.
It is not that they are not given enough money, it is that they think they are entitled to many things and don't think they can survive without um. Homeless can be the same story, or it could be because they dropped out of school. Unless they are retarded, I don't feel sorry for them. Everyone is given a chance at an education.
Up to 25% of the population is mentally disabled, but because it is not visible it is ignored. Most of the street people have mental problems of some type and due to the austerity measures back in the early '80's, there is no support for them.
Just because a disability is invisible doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Where I am (BC), most disability is just a better class of welfare, same government department paying, just a bigger check ($200?), better medical coverage and no hassle about looking for work. There is also Federal disability which is just early Social Security (Canada Pension Plan, CPP) which can be not bad if you paid enough in when working but hard to get and usually for 50+ year olds.
That's even worse then the people I know who IIRC get $750 including $450 for rent and since rent is $500 they have $250 to pay everything else. This is BC where food is much more expensive. Medical is free if you're low income and disability covers medication and in the case of one of the people I now, wheel chair and prosthetic leg.
Where the hell do you live that welfare/disability pays enough to buy endless beer and meth? I know a couple of people on disability and they have a fuck of a time just eating satisfactorily, little well being able to buy more then a 6 pack of beer once a month.
There's also one fuck of a lot of homeless people around and they sure don't look like they're having a great life, especially when the weather turns to shit.
In theory, the 72 hour thing isn't supposed to be punishment, though in practice having to spend any time in jail is punishment and if you are remanded into custody and spend months waiting for trial, that can be pretty punishing as well.
The point is that if not convicted, you should not be put on a list, records should be destroyed or at least locked up.
For example in Canada, they're supposed to destroy your fingerprints 6 months after acquittal or 1 year after a stay of charges and other records buried. Not only that, but it takes a Judges order, usually at sentencing, to be put on the sex offenders list. Same with things like firearms restrictions, happens as part of sentencing, when appropriate rather then a blanket class of people with restrictions on their rights forever.
For toilet paper, Poplar (Cottonwood) seems to be preferred. Used to cut it when I was young and it went to the Scott Paper mill. Now they have acres of hybrid Poplar growing along the banks of the (lower) Fraser river, all owned by Scott Paper and earmarked for toilet paper.
By softwood do you mean the traditional softwood equals conifer or referring to species such as the various Poplar that have softwood?
Either way, an inch or two growth of girth per year is pretty impressive. Are they pollacking (cutting the top of and allowing it to grow back) them?
It has been a long time since I've done silviculture but if I remember, we'd plant at 8ft which is 300 trees an acre and thin them down to 12ft which is 200 trees per acre.
To measure, you'd take random plots, eg throw a weighted flag into the air and wherever it landed, take a piece of rope to measure a circle and count the trees in the plot, repeat after going in a pre-chosen direction x distance (important to be random rather then the easy route). I forget the length of rope but it worked out to the radius of a 100th of an acre so easy to work out how many trees per acre.
Tree growth is going to depend on a lot of things (soil, altitude, type of tree etc) so hard to have a standard chart
Until you are taken in front of a Judge and formally charged with a crime, the State should not be able to hold you excepting the reasonable time it takes to be put in front of a Judge, 72 hours is often considered that reasonable time.
Upon being charged with a crime, the Judge can order that you are kept in jail or released with conditions pending trial. For murder, the Judge is likely to order that you are kept in jail or if released, there will be a large bail condition as well as other conditions.
If charges are dropped, then you are released. Otherwise eventually, in a reasonable time, there is a trial and found guilty or acquitted. If acquitted you are released and your records should be locked up or destroyed.
Note that even if accused of murder, you are allowed to roam the street freely until charged and brought before a Judge on those charges and if the prosecution decides to drop the charges, perhaps due to lack of evidence, you are once again free to roam the streets. The point is that it takes a Judge to order your freedom to be removed, a simple accusation is not enough, at least in a free country.
Canada, where any work done by the government is owned by the crown and under the Queens copyright. Copyright is purely statutory here with no mention in the Constitution and traditionally the people have had access to anything under the Queens copyright with perhaps a reasonable fee for a copy.
This government, which is very authoritarian and controlling (voted in on a ticket of openness of course) has decided to keep government science under wraps, mostly environmental and climate science and one of the ways that they have done that is by claiming IP secrets and it seems that crown copyright actually does not run out unless the government makes an effort. By keeping data on stuff like the arctic sea ice data closed, and your Congress insisting only on open data, a bunch of science is taken out of the picture.
Of course this government is owned by the oil industry as well
Lots of science is closed. One example is my right wing government who has layered on 7 layers of bureaucracy between the scientists and the public and in the end declared that all publicly financed science is protected IP that is under copyright forever.
This means that unless we're lucky enough that some Americans were involved in the research, it is totally closed to the taxpayers who paid and there has been cases where the Americans couldn't publish due to working with Canadians on Arctic sea ice and the right wingers closing the science.
I'm a small government type who never the less believes that government does have to finance some science and when my taxes pay for it, well it should be public but that is not the right wing way. (Look at actions, not what they claim)
I'd think 30 years would be the minimum from planting to harvest, and that would be for quick growing Poplars. Here (BC) it is closer to 60 years, but the tree farms aren't really your traditional farm.
In that era, upper class women often dappled in (higher) mathematics, with womans magazines often having mathematical puzzles.
Wasn't he also present on the famous rainy holiday when Mary Shelly wrote Frankenstein?
Yes trees are a renewable resource.
Yes and no. Like so many things, they need husbanding. Soil will run out of nutrients and need to be replenished. I've heard that often you can only get 3 good harvests before the growth and quality start deteriorating. Of course that will depend on how good the soil is to begin with.
That really depends on the type and size of the tree. Around here, it is mostly Cottonwood that is used for toilet paper, big straight wild trees as often or not. Cottonwood is mostly useless as lumber so it doesn't make sense to use for lumber.
Up until a couple of decades ago, Hemlock was also used for paper, as they only grew about a hundred feet tall, were nice and straight so easy to handle and were considered inferior for lumber. That changed as they ran out of the more desirable wood but lots still goes for pulp.
Up the page someone else mentions farmed Pine being used for pulp as it is a simpler use for the trees as they're thinned. It's hard to use a pecker pole for lumber though it is happening a lot more now. You see 8` 2x4s that are actual several pieces of wood with finger joints holding them together.
GMO is just a tool. It can be used to grow lots of pretty, non-nutritive, long lasting food or nutritive food. As long as their is a higher profit margin for non-nutritive food that looks really nice and stores and ships really well, that is what GMO (and regular selective breeding) will be used for. Now whether a diet of food that is lacking in minerals and vitamins hurts people is something that I think can be argued.
Note that growing nutritive food also includes things like crop rotation and leaving fields fallow, which can also eat into profits.
If those companies had any brains they'd be making paper from hemp which is far cheaper to grow than trees and has a much higher yield per acre year.
Then both the hippies and people such as yourself would be happy!
Hearst made sure that wouldn't happen, as he had heavily invested in wood pulp paper. It's amazing that such a useful plant such as Hemp can be made illegal in such a short time, capitalism at its best.
Forest fires are part of the cycle. Most every (natural) stand of Douglas Fir owes its existence to fire as they are shade intolerant. Vancouver Island has burned about every 1000 years. Trees such as the Jack Pine depend on fire to open their cones. Lodgepole are similar.
Clearcuts also burn, especially in the days (30+ years ago here) when if a tree wasn't 16 inches at the top, it was left. Where I am, the last fire was about 95 years ago, which was when it was first logged.
Toilet paper is usually, at least around here, made from Poplar, mainly Cottonwood though the farmed Poplar are hybrids.
Most people never get called on their 3 felonies per day, so it can be used to single out people no more guilty than typical.
Most people don't do 3 felonies a day. I personally haven't done a felony in over 30 years (when I last visited the USA) and 95% of the worlds population seldom if ever visit the "Land of the Free" which is the only place that has felons (a class of people who have their rights curtailed forever, originally so the King could take their property (fief)).
"Poison tree" argument also doesn't apply to Canadian law. Courts regularly use "poisoned" evidence here. That said, there's no case because they include this clause in their terms:
Yes and no. Section 24.2 of the Charter states,
It depends on a few things, from wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's hard to measure but statistically uranium miners have a high death rate from cancer. There has also been some radioactive slurry pond leaks down in Navajo territory that also boosted cancer rates quite a bit. All in all, mining uranium may be more dangerous then mining coal, at least per pound. Of course the saving grace is that much less needs to be mined so over all it is much safer but it is totally misleading to claim it is 100% safe.