For some contrast, in Canada the Constitutional limit for trail by jury is 5 years. Maximum sentence 5 years less a day, no jury. Maximum sentence 5 years plus a day, the defendant can elect trial by jury, his choice. No sentence is exactly 5 years. Not sure how I feel about this, in some ways it is good, especially as generally we have good judges in Canada. On the other hand, a jury seems like a right. For civil cases you have to (partially?) pay for the jury and is rare I believe but I'm not very knowledgeable on civil trials.
Actually the Canadian federal government does not pay 100% of health funding in Canada. They do pay a good percentage (which is shrinking due to austerity and the current assholes in power refusing to even talk to the Provinces, little well compromise) which varies on how rich the individual Province is. Here in BC the average working person has to pay more and more in the way of premiums to offset the income tax cuts the government is so fond of.
Just because something is short term beneficial does not mean it is long term beneficial. There's also the problem that some moves benefit a small group while harming a large group. Fatten up the animals, good for the farmer. Encourage the evolution of anti-biotic resistant e. coli, bad for society.
If the people keep electing corrupt government, they'll probably elect corrupt judges. Really what needs fixing is the overall corruption and probably the whole election process that allows corrupt people to keep getting elected.
We need a worldwide effort from every single nation to capture specimens of every mosquito species. Once this is done, all mosquito species should have their genes resequenced so that all males are made sterile, thus destroying this creature in every habitat, worldwide. This entire species has no redeeming value whatsoever, and should be completely eradicated.
Great, wipe out another pollinator and then wonder why the environment is deteriorating. You do realize that male mosquitoes often live on pollen and are a pollinator, as well as many types of mosquito don't bother people. As stupid as indiscriminately using DDT for everything until resistance was bred instead of treating it more like the nuclear option. We're currently doing the same now with anti-biotics.
An yet the raptors made a serious comeback after DDT use was cut back. Yesterday I went to the local dump and counted 30 eagles. It's important to have carrion eaters around to slow down disease spread and eagles are very good at eating carrion.
in all probability or else they'd be using DDT, which is legal for malaria control. DDT is a good example of a failure of capitalism. A wonder chemical that was pushed as a money maker as hard as the chemical company could and while it succeeded in bringing malaria under control in temperate climates, in tropical climates mosquitoes evolved resistance. We're seeing the same thing now with anti-biotics. Drug companies have pushed the use so much that even live stock uses tons and it is routinely used for useless things like viral infections as well as being overused for much else and now bacteria are becoming more and more anti-biotic resistance and soon we will be back to early 20th century conditions when so many died of simple infections.
Seems to have worked out well. We're not cutting people's heads off and burning them alive anymore.
For now. It's amazing how quick people can descend into that kind of stuff, probably just a few days of empty grocery stores and no TV ^W Internet is enough. Lots of people will get violent if they don't get their Facebook fix.
Are you really having such serious problems with terrorism? Nobody told me about it
A terrorist has been defined as someone against fossil fuels, or believing in climate change or against the current government, so yes, many Canadians are terrorists and they need to be preemptively arrested and locked up.
Promises of small government and tax breaks will get the votes. This what I hate about "Libertarians", they have little problem with this type of government as they're cutting taxes and shrinking government even though it's the oversight part that's being removed.
They've been attacking privacy ever since they got in. Harpers paranoid and is the most secretive politician ever yet doesn't believe in the privacy of the common person.
There's also the fact that paternity tests have been made illegal in certain feminist-dominated jurisdictions.
There's only one jurisdiction that has banned it and considering it is a country where the men are known for fucking it's just as likely its the men who banned it rather then having to take responsibility for their actions.
Two points. Population growth stops as soon as people, especially women, are educated and wealthy enough to be secure. This has happened in most of the developed world. The problem is that our economic system depends on endless growth so population growth stopping is frowned on.
Mars is actually close to the same size as the Earths dry land area. Solar insolation is about 40% of the Earth with less cloud cover and generally clearer skies. The atmosphere is very thin but not totally useless, it can be mined, it allows some erosion so dust particles are at least rounded, thick enough to stop vacuum welding and possibly can support flight. The wet past may have concentrated minerals much as on Earth though that's just a guess at this time. The big problems are distance and radiation. Possibly the finings (small dust particles) may be a problem as well.
You need to look up how the conservative part of the population was treated during the American war of secession. Hint, painting someone with boiling tar can be quite terrorizing as well as being hung without even a trial.
It's a free country, you have just as much right to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy your own laws. Of course being a free country means others have the right to outbid you.
Heard Randy Bachman bitching about politicians using his music for campaigning, seems they really like the song Taking Care of Business. In particular the American ones who create a shell company to run their campaign which goes bankrupt after the election so it's not even worth suing. My government recently changed the copyright laws due to some media not allowing them to use their copyrighted stuff in their attack ads so they made an exemption for themselves as they're the tough on crime party and can't be seen breaking the law.
Why the hell would they want violent people in prison? Cuts into profits as you need more guards, more secure prisons and can't rent out their labour as easy.
But my government keeps going on about how making drugs legal means the children will have an easier time acquiring them. Same government keeps going on how these free trade agreements are going to make us rich.
IBM was (is?) split into different fiefdoms and the PC division hated OS/2 and loved Windows and at the end they had enough pull to force the cancellation of OS/2-PPC when MS was going to refuse any special pricing if IBM continued with OS/2 development. Gartner also didn't particularly like OS/2 as well.
I'll use the cost to build California's "High Speed Rail" system as an example. It would be cheaper, and more effective, to offer every man woman and child in California, 20 free round trip tickets via Airlines, and that is before a single train is run. The estimated one way price (as of today) is approximately $20 more than the cheapest flights available (and doesn't include ongoing government subsidies)
So you're suggesting using heavily subsidized airlines instead of rail? Without government subsidizes airline travel would be much more expensive, just think of the price of building and operating an airport as well as the market power the private airports would have with their own airline.
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For some contrast, in Canada the Constitutional limit for trail by jury is 5 years. Maximum sentence 5 years less a day, no jury. Maximum sentence 5 years plus a day, the defendant can elect trial by jury, his choice. No sentence is exactly 5 years.
Not sure how I feel about this, in some ways it is good, especially as generally we have good judges in Canada. On the other hand, a jury seems like a right. For civil cases you have to (partially?) pay for the jury and is rare I believe but I'm not very knowledgeable on civil trials.
Actually the Canadian federal government does not pay 100% of health funding in Canada. They do pay a good percentage (which is shrinking due to austerity and the current assholes in power refusing to even talk to the Provinces, little well compromise) which varies on how rich the individual Province is. Here in BC the average working person has to pay more and more in the way of premiums to offset the income tax cuts the government is so fond of.
Just because something is short term beneficial does not mean it is long term beneficial. There's also the problem that some moves benefit a small group while harming a large group. Fatten up the animals, good for the farmer. Encourage the evolution of anti-biotic resistant e. coli, bad for society.
If the people keep electing corrupt government, they'll probably elect corrupt judges. Really what needs fixing is the overall corruption and probably the whole election process that allows corrupt people to keep getting elected.
We need a worldwide effort from every single nation to capture specimens of every mosquito species. Once this is done, all mosquito species should have their genes resequenced so that all males are made sterile, thus destroying this creature in every habitat, worldwide. This entire species has no redeeming value whatsoever, and should be completely eradicated.
Great, wipe out another pollinator and then wonder why the environment is deteriorating. You do realize that male mosquitoes often live on pollen and are a pollinator, as well as many types of mosquito don't bother people.
As stupid as indiscriminately using DDT for everything until resistance was bred instead of treating it more like the nuclear option. We're currently doing the same now with anti-biotics.
An yet the raptors made a serious comeback after DDT use was cut back. Yesterday I went to the local dump and counted 30 eagles. It's important to have carrion eaters around to slow down disease spread and eagles are very good at eating carrion.
in all probability or else they'd be using DDT, which is legal for malaria control.
DDT is a good example of a failure of capitalism. A wonder chemical that was pushed as a money maker as hard as the chemical company could and while it succeeded in bringing malaria under control in temperate climates, in tropical climates mosquitoes evolved resistance.
We're seeing the same thing now with anti-biotics. Drug companies have pushed the use so much that even live stock uses tons and it is routinely used for useless things like viral infections as well as being overused for much else and now bacteria are becoming more and more anti-biotic resistance and soon we will be back to early 20th century conditions when so many died of simple infections.
Seems to have worked out well. We're not cutting people's heads off and burning them alive anymore.
For now. It's amazing how quick people can descend into that kind of stuff, probably just a few days of empty grocery stores and no TV ^W Internet is enough. Lots of people will get violent if they don't get their Facebook fix.
The ones in the Conservative party seem to be supporting this.
Are you really having such serious problems with terrorism? Nobody told me about it
A terrorist has been defined as someone against fossil fuels, or believing in climate change or against the current government, so yes, many Canadians are terrorists and they need to be preemptively arrested and locked up.
Promises of small government and tax breaks will get the votes. This what I hate about "Libertarians", they have little problem with this type of government as they're cutting taxes and shrinking government even though it's the oversight part that's being removed.
They've been attacking privacy ever since they got in. Harpers paranoid and is the most secretive politician ever yet doesn't believe in the privacy of the common person.
There's also the fact that paternity tests have been made illegal in certain feminist-dominated jurisdictions.
There's only one jurisdiction that has banned it and considering it is a country where the men are known for fucking it's just as likely its the men who banned it rather then having to take responsibility for their actions.
Two points.
Population growth stops as soon as people, especially women, are educated and wealthy enough to be secure. This has happened in most of the developed world.
The problem is that our economic system depends on endless growth so population growth stopping is frowned on.
Mars is actually close to the same size as the Earths dry land area. Solar insolation is about 40% of the Earth with less cloud cover and generally clearer skies. The atmosphere is very thin but not totally useless, it can be mined, it allows some erosion so dust particles are at least rounded, thick enough to stop vacuum welding and possibly can support flight. The wet past may have concentrated minerals much as on Earth though that's just a guess at this time.
The big problems are distance and radiation. Possibly the finings (small dust particles) may be a problem as well.
You need to look up how the conservative part of the population was treated during the American war of secession. Hint, painting someone with boiling tar can be quite terrorizing as well as being hung without even a trial.
Not everyone has your ethics. This seems like a general problem, too many people who would rip others off take it for granted everyone is the same.
The children already have an easy time acquiring drugs... act up a bit, Ritalin and a host of other drugs can be theirs totally legally.
Not so much in my country but it is sure easy for kids to get the illegal ones compared to the regulated alcohol and tobacco.
It's a free country, you have just as much right to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy your own laws. Of course being a free country means others have the right to outbid you.
Heard Randy Bachman bitching about politicians using his music for campaigning, seems they really like the song Taking Care of Business. In particular the American ones who create a shell company to run their campaign which goes bankrupt after the election so it's not even worth suing.
My government recently changed the copyright laws due to some media not allowing them to use their copyrighted stuff in their attack ads so they made an exemption for themselves as they're the tough on crime party and can't be seen breaking the law.
Why the hell would they want violent people in prison? Cuts into profits as you need more guards, more secure prisons and can't rent out their labour as easy.
But my government keeps going on about how making drugs legal means the children will have an easier time acquiring them.
Same government keeps going on how these free trade agreements are going to make us rich.
IBM was (is?) split into different fiefdoms and the PC division hated OS/2 and loved Windows and at the end they had enough pull to force the cancellation of OS/2-PPC when MS was going to refuse any special pricing if IBM continued with OS/2 development. Gartner also didn't particularly like OS/2 as well.
I'll use the cost to build California's "High Speed Rail" system as an example. It would be cheaper, and more effective, to offer every man woman and child in California, 20 free round trip tickets via Airlines, and that is before a single train is run. The estimated one way price (as of today) is approximately $20 more than the cheapest flights available (and doesn't include ongoing government subsidies)
So you're suggesting using heavily subsidized airlines instead of rail? Without government subsidizes airline travel would be much more expensive, just think of the price of building and operating an airport as well as the market power the private airports would have with their own airline.
If I, as a Canadian win, does the American government still take 50+%?
Lottery winnings are not taxable in Canada.