That's not totally true. Here we had someone selling marijuana seeds (by mail and the internet) to Americans. The seeds are illegal to the tune of a couple of hundred dollar fine here. America extradited him and threw him in jail for 5 years. Strictly speaking we shouldn't have extradited him as the crime needs to be roughly equivalent in both jurisdictions. We don't extradite a murderer without guarantees of no death penalty, yet under American pressure and a Conservative Pro-American, anti-crime government we extradited someone for a minor crime. Marc Emery is the name to Google if curious.
In my country where the right to move to a new locality is a Constitutional right, there are also property rights so people who want to move can't just boot other people out of their homes and move in. Makes moving much harder if you don't have money to pay off the people who you want to displace though the option of being homeless is always there, though most people are not eager to take that route.
And yet BC and Ontario are the only parts of Canada creating jobs. BC is the only Province to have balanced its budget this year. Meanwhile the conservative paradise of Alberta has once again imploded due to the oil bubble exploding with a 5 Billion dollar deficit and the people actually got so pissed off that they voted in the socialists after 3 and a half decades of conservative rule. I also have news for you, even in private industry you often have people standing around while the heavy machinery works as inevitably you will need 3 shovels to work around the obstruction that has stopped the heavy machinery. You've probably never worked in a job that involves getting your hands dirty and co-ordination between machinery and workers and think it would be more efficient to stop work when finesse is required to work around the water line until a crew can show up or perhaps park the expensive heavy machinery so the driver can get out and spend a couple of hours working the shovel, at least he's being productive 100% of the time even if the job costs way more.
Actually Canada was created to have a strong Federal Government as the Fathers of Confederation had just watched the failure of the American experiment (States having quite a bit of independence) in the form of the civil war (they were also worried about the Union turning north for more conquests). Since then the courts have given the Provinces more and more power which is the opposite of the USA where the Federal Government has acquired more and more power with the support of the courts. In both cases the founding documents were not clear on certain things which is why it has had to go to the courts and some things are worse in Canada such as inter-Provincial trade.
Actually we may be at the end of the inter-glacial and temperatures should be dropping, Look at the 800,000 year graph in your link. As for causes, in the short geological time scale (last few millions of years) Milankovitch cycles have probably the most consensus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... Longer term you have the arrangements of the continents amongst other climate drivers.
Which creationism story? Seems like the stories about Coyote, the trickster creating us is probably the most accurate. As for the theory of evolution, do you also feel the same about the theory of gravity? It is only a theory.
Lately it has been close to zero days of snow. When I was a kid it was often weeks. Of course we get a lot of rain which I always hated for biking due to wearing glasses and there was one time I thought I lost an eye due to a hail stone.
It probably depends on the type of snow you get. I grew up in Vancouver and as kids biked a lot but no way could you bike in the wet sticky snow that often falls (or at least used to fall) in Vancouver. Most people can't even drive in it, especially the ones from back east who would brag about how good they could drive in the snow.
Anti-science is one similarity. The enlightenment was as much a scientific revolution and now science is under attack and distrusted, especially by governments as science is at heart anti-authoritarianism. Examples include the climate change deniers and the anti-vaccinationers.
Some of our closest relatives spend all their time fucking instead of killing and are quite peaceful after all the fucking. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Anyone can buy a law, if they have enough money. You cannot buy a moral.
Of course you can buy morals. Just takes a big advertising budget, time and a message that resonates.. Examples include how drinking and driving has become immoral, throwing out litter, a bit further back, shitting in the river that we drink from or dumping your sewage in the gutter and in process, smoking tobacco. Doesn't always work 100%, eg illegal drugs but it is amazing how many people believe heroin is pure evil.
$5000 ($100 minimum), but they will claim that they can sue for much higher damages. BTW, commercial is $20,000 per infringement or under criminal law, $1,000,000 or 2 years
Sorry, a lot of people think that indiscriminately using a chainsaw is the solution when really it is skilled pruning, concentrating on the repressive parts. A small government is just as capable of infringing on peoples rights.
Always been a right to access American entertainment. Turn on the TV and point the antenna south worked most of my life and the habit was started by my creators who did the same thing. Are you saying I don't have the right to point my antenna anywhere I like? Or in todays world, pay netflix for content and use a relay to get that content?
Heard an interview with Michael Geist (sp?) who is probably the expert on Canadian copyright law and he pointed out that whether legal or not is a grey area currently and a Canadian court would likely rule it legal but who knows until the courts rule including appeals. (The Canadian courts have not been sympathetic to copyright holders when it comes to personal copying which is why I can borrow music from you and make legal copies and then give you back your music,)
Of course you can copy a work such as a book, a Canadian (Federal court IIRC) judge even said so when ruling that photocopying machines are legal. You just aren't allowed to distribute it, especially for money where the police might even get involved. But at least in Canada your free to make copies of works that you own. Of course this government did pass a law making it illegal to break any type of copy protection (with an exception for VHS tapes)
You don't have a problem with the telcos keeping all this info indefinitely and giving it to the government on request? The telcos have even less responsibilities to the public then the government has and are entrenched enough that it is pretty hard for them to be replaced. And my federal government was created with a bit more power then yours as they had just witnessed your civil war and didn't want to go there.
I'm thinking of my country where the government is introducing bills to enable spying on citizens and getting rid of the oversight of the spy agencies. Small government is fine if we get rid of the parts that infringe on our rights but small government is not fine if all that's left is the parts that infringe on our rights. It is also not fine for the government to farm it out to private industry as this law seems to be doing though I guess you can do without a phone and avoid the telcos. But then you can avoid a job and not pay taxes as well yet some call it thieving.
Freedom has to be balanced, this law gives the telcos the freedom to collect data and share it with the government and probably monetize the data any way they want as well. Yet people are complaining about it along with the government having the freedom to spy on its citizens.
The problem is that the Libertarians are right in some ways. The government does need periodic pruning and certain laws do need to get thrown out. It's just too easy for certain types to take advantage and prune the wrong parts of government and throw out the laws that were actually passed for good reasons and others cheer as all they care about is small government rather then good government.
So true, first we need to get rid of the checks and balances as they're all bloat. The bureaucracy involved in things like "Freedom of Information" laws needs to be cut along with bullshit like the government having to keep records of meeting with campaign contributors and other important people. Ideally we can reduce the government down to one man who can dictate to us how wonderful small government is.
Australia has experimented with various alternate voting methods including compulsory voting, still get the authoritarian right wing types in government. Here in Canada (and the UK) where we also have first past the post elections, having more parties has also resulted in the authoritarian right wingers getting in leading to the tyranny of the minority situation.
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That's not totally true. Here we had someone selling marijuana seeds (by mail and the internet) to Americans. The seeds are illegal to the tune of a couple of hundred dollar fine here. America extradited him and threw him in jail for 5 years.
Strictly speaking we shouldn't have extradited him as the crime needs to be roughly equivalent in both jurisdictions. We don't extradite a murderer without guarantees of no death penalty, yet under American pressure and a Conservative Pro-American, anti-crime government we extradited someone for a minor crime.
Marc Emery is the name to Google if curious.
In my country where the right to move to a new locality is a Constitutional right, there are also property rights so people who want to move can't just boot other people out of their homes and move in. Makes moving much harder if you don't have money to pay off the people who you want to displace though the option of being homeless is always there, though most people are not eager to take that route.
While we do need the water due to the drought, I doubt that California wants to export what they have.
And yet BC and Ontario are the only parts of Canada creating jobs. BC is the only Province to have balanced its budget this year. Meanwhile the conservative paradise of Alberta has once again imploded due to the oil bubble exploding with a 5 Billion dollar deficit and the people actually got so pissed off that they voted in the socialists after 3 and a half decades of conservative rule.
I also have news for you, even in private industry you often have people standing around while the heavy machinery works as inevitably you will need 3 shovels to work around the obstruction that has stopped the heavy machinery. You've probably never worked in a job that involves getting your hands dirty and co-ordination between machinery and workers and think it would be more efficient to stop work when finesse is required to work around the water line until a crew can show up or perhaps park the expensive heavy machinery so the driver can get out and spend a couple of hours working the shovel, at least he's being productive 100% of the time even if the job costs way more.
Actually Canada was created to have a strong Federal Government as the Fathers of Confederation had just watched the failure of the American experiment (States having quite a bit of independence) in the form of the civil war (they were also worried about the Union turning north for more conquests). Since then the courts have given the Provinces more and more power which is the opposite of the USA where the Federal Government has acquired more and more power with the support of the courts.
In both cases the founding documents were not clear on certain things which is why it has had to go to the courts and some things are worse in Canada such as inter-Provincial trade.
Actually we may be at the end of the inter-glacial and temperatures should be dropping, Look at the 800,000 year graph in your link.
As for causes, in the short geological time scale (last few millions of years) Milankovitch cycles have probably the most consensus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.... Longer term you have the arrangements of the continents amongst other climate drivers.
Which creationism story? Seems like the stories about Coyote, the trickster creating us is probably the most accurate.
As for the theory of evolution, do you also feel the same about the theory of gravity? It is only a theory.
Lately it has been close to zero days of snow. When I was a kid it was often weeks. Of course we get a lot of rain which I always hated for biking due to wearing glasses and there was one time I thought I lost an eye due to a hail stone.
It probably depends on the type of snow you get. I grew up in Vancouver and as kids biked a lot but no way could you bike in the wet sticky snow that often falls (or at least used to fall) in Vancouver. Most people can't even drive in it, especially the ones from back east who would brag about how good they could drive in the snow.
Would you really trust any random stranger with your car? Generally people don't look after other peoples stuff as well as their own.
Anti-science is one similarity. The enlightenment was as much a scientific revolution and now science is under attack and distrusted, especially by governments as science is at heart anti-authoritarianism. Examples include the climate change deniers and the anti-vaccinationers.
Some of our closest relatives spend all their time fucking instead of killing and are quite peaceful after all the fucking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
Anyone can buy a law, if they have enough money. You cannot buy a moral.
Of course you can buy morals. Just takes a big advertising budget, time and a message that resonates.. Examples include how drinking and driving has become immoral, throwing out litter, a bit further back, shitting in the river that we drink from or dumping your sewage in the gutter and in process, smoking tobacco.
Doesn't always work 100%, eg illegal drugs but it is amazing how many people believe heroin is pure evil.
$5000 ($100 minimum), but they will claim that they can sue for much higher damages.
BTW, commercial is $20,000 per infringement or under criminal law, $1,000,000 or 2 years
Sorry, a lot of people think that indiscriminately using a chainsaw is the solution when really it is skilled pruning, concentrating on the repressive parts. A small government is just as capable of infringing on peoples rights.
Always been a right to access American entertainment. Turn on the TV and point the antenna south worked most of my life and the habit was started by my creators who did the same thing.
Are you saying I don't have the right to point my antenna anywhere I like? Or in todays world, pay netflix for content and use a relay to get that content?
Heard an interview with Michael Geist (sp?) who is probably the expert on Canadian copyright law and he pointed out that whether legal or not is a grey area currently and a Canadian court would likely rule it legal but who knows until the courts rule including appeals. (The Canadian courts have not been sympathetic to copyright holders when it comes to personal copying which is why I can borrow music from you and make legal copies and then give you back your music,)
Of course you can copy a work such as a book, a Canadian (Federal court IIRC) judge even said so when ruling that photocopying machines are legal. You just aren't allowed to distribute it, especially for money where the police might even get involved. But at least in Canada your free to make copies of works that you own. Of course this government did pass a law making it illegal to break any type of copy protection (with an exception for VHS tapes)
You don't have a problem with the telcos keeping all this info indefinitely and giving it to the government on request? The telcos have even less responsibilities to the public then the government has and are entrenched enough that it is pretty hard for them to be replaced.
And my federal government was created with a bit more power then yours as they had just witnessed your civil war and didn't want to go there.
I'm thinking of my country where the government is introducing bills to enable spying on citizens and getting rid of the oversight of the spy agencies.
Small government is fine if we get rid of the parts that infringe on our rights but small government is not fine if all that's left is the parts that infringe on our rights. It is also not fine for the government to farm it out to private industry as this law seems to be doing though I guess you can do without a phone and avoid the telcos. But then you can avoid a job and not pay taxes as well yet some call it thieving.
Freedom has to be balanced, this law gives the telcos the freedom to collect data and share it with the government and probably monetize the data any way they want as well. Yet people are complaining about it along with the government having the freedom to spy on its citizens.
The problem is that the Libertarians are right in some ways. The government does need periodic pruning and certain laws do need to get thrown out. It's just too easy for certain types to take advantage and prune the wrong parts of government and throw out the laws that were actually passed for good reasons and others cheer as all they care about is small government rather then good government.
Big government is the problem
So true, first we need to get rid of the checks and balances as they're all bloat. The bureaucracy involved in things like "Freedom of Information" laws needs to be cut along with bullshit like the government having to keep records of meeting with campaign contributors and other important people.
Ideally we can reduce the government down to one man who can dictate to us how wonderful small government is.
Australia has experimented with various alternate voting methods including compulsory voting, still get the authoritarian right wing types in government. Here in Canada (and the UK) where we also have first past the post elections, having more parties has also resulted in the authoritarian right wingers getting in leading to the tyranny of the minority situation.
To a degree you can use the magnetic field. There's also the difference in how a solar sail reacts against the solar wind vs light.