I also have never voted for a candidate that has won:) and have dual citizenship (UK) and having spent almost all my life in Canada would not vote anywhere else. Wife is also First Nations as well as my son.
Anti-terrorism Act, 2015 An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts
You can start here, https://openparliament.ca/bill... and I guess I should actually read the full bill as well, unluckily this government likes to pass big bills which makes for hard reading, especially for non-lawyers.
I'd guess that Beck gets a lot of income from his special events and needs the tax write offs.Seems to be pretty common with foundations (being tax havens). There's been talk here of just getting rid of the tax write off for donations as the government has really been using the taxman to punish those they don't like and one of their favourites is getting really anal about what a charitable organization is and once one government does it so will the next. Personally I like the local Mennonites, all labour is volunteer so they only have small overhead and seem to support much the same things as I do (eg homelessness locally and various disaster relief) and don't push their beliefs except through the action of being nice people.
Actually it worked pretty good, the number of parties in Parliament doubled, we had a string of minority governments which slowed down on the ass fucking from the politicians and I prefer it to the current government spending 100's of millions of dollars of tax payer money to tell us what a good job they've done. Elections weren't totally funded from the public purse either, though donations are limited to only from flesh and blood people and limited to just over a $1000.
You could come to Canada where it's the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) being used to target environmentalists and left leaning groups, have declared that anyone anti-oil is a terrorist, if you object to the government monitoring everything then this week you must be a terrorist (before, you were supporting the bullies and before that, the child molesters). Passed an anti-terrorist law that makes the patriot act look tame (law enforcement can break any law except rape in chasing down terrorists), honoured their promise of open government by being so secretive that we're jealous that you guys have the open Obama and lately want to charge anti-Israel groups with hate crimes as talking boycott is not just exercising free speech. The truth is that all the governments seem to be doing the same thing.
(parties are required to record their electoral spending and get it back on a "how many votes did you get" basis).
sounds like after the election the parties are reimbursed based on "how many votes did you get" basis, which is sorta how it was done here (parties got so much money based on the last election results)
Australia still publicly funds elections? Here in Canada, the first thing the Conservatives did when they got their majority was cancel that. They also got the Supreme Court to rule that before the writ is actually dropped, there are no limits to spending so it's getting to be like the States where the election campaign starts the day after the polls close and since they have the money to run ads constantly for years, they get their message out about how horrible the others are. Wish there was some sort of truth in advertising laws when it comes to elections as they outright lie in some of their ads. Back on topic, the pollsters have done quite bad in 3 out of 4 Provincial elections here, getting the results totally wrong. It seems partly due to the supporters of the side that didn't do as well as the predictions staying home on election day.
And why the hell is posting failing due to my "failing to prove I'm human". Oh, I seem to have been logged out. Slashdot is really trying to drive users away
In Canada, reporting results before all the polling stations are closed has been illegal for quite a while to prevent that. Now it's changing as it is too easy to get early results from outside the country and while the times the polls close can be juggled a bit, it is a problem when a country stretches across 5.5 time zones.
Sadly it has taken government legislation/regulation to stop people from shitting in the drinking water (there was a lot of denial-ism about the idea of little invisible bugs making people sick and the idea of spending money to separate the sewer and drinking water systems) as well to force cooks (and Doctors) to wash their hands and the meat industry to not package rotten meat and rat poison in sausages as well as an almost endless list of other shortcuts that people do to save time and money. I hate government regulation yet I also hate the fact that people/business don't think long term and will deny the evidence that some moves such as shitting in the drinking water are bad. Ideally science would show evidence and people would act rationally based on that evidence rather then going into denial.
They're still not the same species. There's things like the mitochondrial DNA that is lost as well as other things like the intestinal fauna and even the cultural parts that get passed on by example from parent to child may be important. A Mammoth born to an African Elephant is not going to the same as a Mammoth born to a Mammoth on the Arctic steppes.
After Hitler got control of the National Socialist German Labour Party, he had the actual socialists killed off. Even where I am, after the local Conservative party self destructed, they took over the local Social Credit party and after that self destructed, they took over the Liberal party. They might have liberal in their name but they are not liberal. Still there are probably fools around who confuse the label with the product.
I'm not trying to justify this move (or the opposite), just countering the argument that the middle class doesn't benefit from the government throwing around money. Where I am (BC), the government basically gave the phone system that us taxpayers created away to private industry as private industry is always supposed to be better. Now I get the internet over a 26.4 dial-up connection which has been going down almost weekly due to copper thieves and takes 8+ hours to get fixed. So not only no internet but not even any phone service so if I need to dial 911, it means driving a few miles down the road to where cell service exists. When it made the news the other day, Telus claimed that the copper wiring can carry more data then fiber, so no, they aren't going to use the government handouts they've gotten to run fiber. The real problem is as much industry as anything and if they were operating in a competitive market we probably wouldn't be having this discussion as even the poor would have access to fast enough internet for a reasonable price, especially considering the tax money that has been given to the telcos etc.
Even if they could settle for a nice steady income instead of record profits every quarter. I sure don't get raises every quarter or even every year, meanwhile prices continue to go up. Groceries predicted to increase 12-22% this year. Gas went up again today, almost back to its all time high back when it was $150 a barrel and so on. Meanwhile we get this continuous propaganda about how horrible the idea of businesses paying taxes while they benefit from those taxes in so any ways.
The government has spent billions of dollars subsidizing broadband for the middle class. Actually everyone but the middle class benefited the most as the poor can't afford it and the rich could have afforded it anyways. Now it can be argued that much of those billions were wasted by expecting private enterprise to actually invest those subsidies on infrastructure but it was still tax payers money given to private industry to supply broadband to the middle class.
I thought that the Confederates expected support from the UK due to their heavy dependence on the Souths' cotton. Of course seeing the way the wind was blowing, the UK stockpiled cotton and started growing it in India and wasn't affected much by the war and could stay neutral.
So what you are saying is that the owners of the business should be taxed on the companies income. Lets see, if I suddenly put a million dollars in the bank, the taxman will come calling and take a good bit. So if Apple puts 40 billion into the bank, the shareholders should have to pay their share of it. Sound like a good idea, Apple can bank billions in some island somewhere and the share holders can pay the taxes. Should really help companies get investment and do wonders for the stock market. We can take it a step further. The average worker can only write so much off, the standard deduction basically. Businesses should be the same, a basic write off and that's it. Then their owners pay tax on the gross revenue of the business just like I pay on my gross income and can't claim a Rolls to drive to work or a Mansion to sleep in between work. At that I can't even write off bus fair, lunch.or a ticket to the capital to speak to my government.
Mod points are for making good posts more visible and it is even more important and less of a waste to give them to a good AC post as they start at zero. They are not for rewarding people with karma. I often use most of my mod points making good AC posts more visible to people reading at +1 or higher.
Yes, I got misled by the page on GPS-RTG where the RTG units used were much bigger. Still think that an RTG isn't really practical for this lander which was really an afterthought to the overall mission.
For a space launch, the RTG needs to be protected in case of launch failure and will weigh more then 12 kg. The ones currently used weigh 57 kg compared to Philae's 21 kg. I also question whether putting a heat source (300+ watts of heat to equal the required 32 watts) on an ice ball would be smart
My understanding is that the typical RTG is well over a hundred pounds (57 kg according to wiki) and this lander only weighed 21 kg. The typical RTG also produces an order of magnitude more power then this lander used and having 4,400 watts of thermal power on an iceball is not the smartest move. RTG's have their uses, but not on little landers or micro-sats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No he plead guilty and was extradited. Extradition is when you are forcefully sent to another country for their justice system to take care off. When extradited you can plead guilty or fight in court and once he was at the mercy of the American courts he took a plea bargain which included others not being prosecuted and serving part of his time in Canada. Note that Canada did not hold up its end of the deal as the Conservatives hate marijuana and seem to think it is on the par as Tylenol for killing children or aspirin for killing adults ( aprox 300 deaths a year). Tylenol is a horrible way for someone to die as it destroys their liver. Wiki has a good overview including various links to the original sources, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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I also have never voted for a candidate that has won :) and have dual citizenship (UK) and having spent almost all my life in Canada would not vote anywhere else. Wife is also First Nations as well as my son.
Bill-C51 is the official number. The full name is
Anti-terrorism Act, 2015
An Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts
You can start here, https://openparliament.ca/bill... and I guess I should actually read the full bill as well, unluckily this government likes to pass big bills which makes for hard reading, especially for non-lawyers.
I'd guess that Beck gets a lot of income from his special events and needs the tax write offs.Seems to be pretty common with foundations (being tax havens). There's been talk here of just getting rid of the tax write off for donations as the government has really been using the taxman to punish those they don't like and one of their favourites is getting really anal about what a charitable organization is and once one government does it so will the next.
Personally I like the local Mennonites, all labour is volunteer so they only have small overhead and seem to support much the same things as I do (eg homelessness locally and various disaster relief) and don't push their beliefs except through the action of being nice people.
Actually it worked pretty good, the number of parties in Parliament doubled, we had a string of minority governments which slowed down on the ass fucking from the politicians and I prefer it to the current government spending 100's of millions of dollars of tax payer money to tell us what a good job they've done.
Elections weren't totally funded from the public purse either, though donations are limited to only from flesh and blood people and limited to just over a $1000.
You could come to Canada where it's the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) being used to target environmentalists and left leaning groups, have declared that anyone anti-oil is a terrorist, if you object to the government monitoring everything then this week you must be a terrorist (before, you were supporting the bullies and before that, the child molesters). Passed an anti-terrorist law that makes the patriot act look tame (law enforcement can break any law except rape in chasing down terrorists), honoured their promise of open government by being so secretive that we're jealous that you guys have the open Obama and lately want to charge anti-Israel groups with hate crimes as talking boycott is not just exercising free speech.
The truth is that all the governments seem to be doing the same thing.
Australia still publicly funds elections?
No. When did they?
Your comment above,
(parties are required to record their electoral spending and get it back on a "how many votes did you get" basis).
sounds like after the election the parties are reimbursed based on "how many votes did you get" basis, which is sorta how it was done here (parties got so much money based on the last election results)
You forgot Newfoundland time, which is a half hour different from Atlantic.
Australia still publicly funds elections? Here in Canada, the first thing the Conservatives did when they got their majority was cancel that. They also got the Supreme Court to rule that before the writ is actually dropped, there are no limits to spending so it's getting to be like the States where the election campaign starts the day after the polls close and since they have the money to run ads constantly for years, they get their message out about how horrible the others are. Wish there was some sort of truth in advertising laws when it comes to elections as they outright lie in some of their ads.
Back on topic, the pollsters have done quite bad in 3 out of 4 Provincial elections here, getting the results totally wrong. It seems partly due to the supporters of the side that didn't do as well as the predictions staying home on election day.
And why the hell is posting failing due to my "failing to prove I'm human". Oh, I seem to have been logged out. Slashdot is really trying to drive users away
In Canada, reporting results before all the polling stations are closed has been illegal for quite a while to prevent that. Now it's changing as it is too easy to get early results from outside the country and while the times the polls close can be juggled a bit, it is a problem when a country stretches across 5.5 time zones.
Sadly it has taken government legislation/regulation to stop people from shitting in the drinking water (there was a lot of denial-ism about the idea of little invisible bugs making people sick and the idea of spending money to separate the sewer and drinking water systems) as well to force cooks (and Doctors) to wash their hands and the meat industry to not package rotten meat and rat poison in sausages as well as an almost endless list of other shortcuts that people do to save time and money.
I hate government regulation yet I also hate the fact that people/business don't think long term and will deny the evidence that some moves such as shitting in the drinking water are bad. Ideally science would show evidence and people would act rationally based on that evidence rather then going into denial.
They're still not the same species. There's things like the mitochondrial DNA that is lost as well as other things like the intestinal fauna and even the cultural parts that get passed on by example from parent to child may be important.
A Mammoth born to an African Elephant is not going to the same as a Mammoth born to a Mammoth on the Arctic steppes.
After Hitler got control of the National Socialist German Labour Party, he had the actual socialists killed off.
Even where I am, after the local Conservative party self destructed, they took over the local Social Credit party and after that self destructed, they took over the Liberal party. They might have liberal in their name but they are not liberal. Still there are probably fools around who confuse the label with the product.
Memories, Dark Side of the Moon in real quadrophonic on an 8 track
I'm not trying to justify this move (or the opposite), just countering the argument that the middle class doesn't benefit from the government throwing around money.
Where I am (BC), the government basically gave the phone system that us taxpayers created away to private industry as private industry is always supposed to be better. Now I get the internet over a 26.4 dial-up connection which has been going down almost weekly due to copper thieves and takes 8+ hours to get fixed. So not only no internet but not even any phone service so if I need to dial 911, it means driving a few miles down the road to where cell service exists. When it made the news the other day, Telus claimed that the copper wiring can carry more data then fiber, so no, they aren't going to use the government handouts they've gotten to run fiber.
The real problem is as much industry as anything and if they were operating in a competitive market we probably wouldn't be having this discussion as even the poor would have access to fast enough internet for a reasonable price, especially considering the tax money that has been given to the telcos etc.
Even if they could settle for a nice steady income instead of record profits every quarter. I sure don't get raises every quarter or even every year, meanwhile prices continue to go up. Groceries predicted to increase 12-22% this year. Gas went up again today, almost back to its all time high back when it was $150 a barrel and so on. Meanwhile we get this continuous propaganda about how horrible the idea of businesses paying taxes while they benefit from those taxes in so any ways.
The government has spent billions of dollars subsidizing broadband for the middle class. Actually everyone but the middle class benefited the most as the poor can't afford it and the rich could have afforded it anyways.
Now it can be argued that much of those billions were wasted by expecting private enterprise to actually invest those subsidies on infrastructure but it was still tax payers money given to private industry to supply broadband to the middle class.
I thought that the Confederates expected support from the UK due to their heavy dependence on the Souths' cotton. Of course seeing the way the wind was blowing, the UK stockpiled cotton and started growing it in India and wasn't affected much by the war and could stay neutral.
So what you are saying is that the owners of the business should be taxed on the companies income. Lets see, if I suddenly put a million dollars in the bank, the taxman will come calling and take a good bit. So if Apple puts 40 billion into the bank, the shareholders should have to pay their share of it. Sound like a good idea, Apple can bank billions in some island somewhere and the share holders can pay the taxes. Should really help companies get investment and do wonders for the stock market.
We can take it a step further. The average worker can only write so much off, the standard deduction basically. Businesses should be the same, a basic write off and that's it. Then their owners pay tax on the gross revenue of the business just like I pay on my gross income and can't claim a Rolls to drive to work or a Mansion to sleep in between work. At that I can't even write off bus fair, lunch.or a ticket to the capital to speak to my government.
Mod points are for making good posts more visible and it is even more important and less of a waste to give them to a good AC post as they start at zero. They are not for rewarding people with karma. I often use most of my mod points making good AC posts more visible to people reading at +1 or higher.
I got misled by the description of the GPS-RTG, which has been used on quite a few missions and is much larger.
Yes, I got misled by the page on GPS-RTG where the RTG units used were much bigger. Still think that an RTG isn't really practical for this lander which was really an afterthought to the overall mission.
For a space launch, the RTG needs to be protected in case of launch failure and will weigh more then 12 kg. The ones currently used weigh 57 kg compared to Philae's 21 kg.
I also question whether putting a heat source (300+ watts of heat to equal the required 32 watts) on an ice ball would be smart
My understanding is that the typical RTG is well over a hundred pounds (57 kg according to wiki) and this lander only weighed 21 kg. The typical RTG also produces an order of magnitude more power then this lander used and having 4,400 watts of thermal power on an iceball is not the smartest move.
RTG's have their uses, but not on little landers or micro-sats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They're still too heavy for a little lander like this one.
No he plead guilty and was extradited. Extradition is when you are forcefully sent to another country for their justice system to take care off. When extradited you can plead guilty or fight in court and once he was at the mercy of the American courts he took a plea bargain which included others not being prosecuted and serving part of his time in Canada. Note that Canada did not hold up its end of the deal as the Conservatives hate marijuana and seem to think it is on the par as Tylenol for killing children or aspirin for killing adults ( aprox 300 deaths a year). Tylenol is a horrible way for someone to die as it destroys their liver.
Wiki has a good overview including various links to the original sources, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...