Canada has a right wing government, the libertarians teamed up with the moral police types so they have to pretend that they aren't spending massive amounts of money on surveillance to half their base and that the only spending they're doing is to put the godless in jail to the other half of their base. It's easier to please the libertarians if they can hide how much surveillance they're using to enlarge our prison system and keep tabs on political undesirables such as the opposition parties..
Venus is a counter argument to the idea that without plate tectonics and/or a strong magnetosphere the atmosphere would be stripped away. At that some theorize it is the plate tectonics (and life) that remove carbon allowing our atmosphere to be as thin as it is.
A lot of people are simply ignorant, as in uneducated and a common lack in education is how not to start a family when you're suffering raging hormones. Ignorance can be fixed with education but many people don't want other people getting educated due to religious and similar beliefs. There are also those who due to circumstances beyond their control, have defective minds, a common one is fetal alcohol syndrome where some poor kid is born to an alcoholic mother and their brain just does not work properly. In the worse cases they can't do simple math. Should we continue to punish these unfortunate souls?
That was the original idea of the minimum wage, just enough to own a home and have a small family. If you wanted luxuries and/or savings then you had to make more money which was how it worked as most good jobs just needed experience. The old cliche of starting out in the mail room and ending up as VP used to happen and for others it was being an assistant or dumb labourer and then an apprentice and eventually a tradesman. Since then the wage gap has widened, the cost of living has gone up much faster then inflation and now minimum wage isn't even enough to support one person in many places.
I used to pick apples and made about $200 on a good day, average was about $150 a day, probably about 10 hours work, it was all contract work. Of course that was over 30 years ago. Now they import Mexicans and others from Central America, pay them $15 an hour plus lodging, plus airfare, plus the fees to get them temporary visas. This is Canada where we never had illegals, felons and such driving the labour market down. The real problem is that the middle men have this attitude that their wages should go up way faster then inflation because without them the apples won't get sold so there are whole classes of people who get paid more and more for doing the same job as they've always done and that money has to come from somewhere and since the lower classes are the least organized, their real wages drop.
Everyone wanted to shoot incompetent officers. CBC radio has been running a series on WWI which is basically personal accounts of Canadian soldiers that were recorded some time back. What a horrid way that war was run, minimum training, useless actions and basically hell. Probably easy to find it online as most CBC radio programming is made available online.
And of course homegrown should be like home brewed, basically unregulated excepting the ingredients (no ripping people off with mis-labeled seeds), amount to a limited degree (here you are allowed to only brew so much beer a year but it's totally unenforced) and of course homegrown should only be for personal use but limited gifts and such should be allowed.
What evidence is there that smoking is healthier then using heroin? As far as I know there is none. Heroin when used correctly will make you constipated and sleepy, cigarettes will increase your odds of dieing by a large amount. They are both addicting with cigarettes usually being considered worse to quit but being addicted is not unhealthy as long as you have a steady supply which is the reason that highly intelligent, wealthy heroin users are productive members of society whereas poor heroin users are forever looking at getting their next hit. If someone is in pain, why should they not have access to a substance that allows them to better function as well as allowing them to handle their pain.
Didn't know that Pershing didn't allow American troops to be used as replacements, though at the late stage that America joined in it may have been an easier choice. For Canada and probably Australia and New Zealand, we were still early on the road to total independence, when the UK declared war, we were automatically at war. By the end of the war we were equal signatories to the Treaty of Versailles.
Not sure about the history of Australia in the world wars, especially the first one but I assume it was similar to Canada where we lost 2 generations of fine young men. WWI was particularly bad as the English considered Canadians to be cannon fodder and threw our lives away like crazy.
America also didn't lose 2 generations of young men as much of the rest of the industrialized countries did. Percentage wise America suffered very few loses in WWI and also came out of WWII pretty good in percentage of loses.
There was the savings and loan meltdown in the early '80's when they were deregulated. That was the first sign about the dangers of de-regulation with the big difference that people went to jail then. Now they get huge bonuses as rewards for screwing the worlds finances.
I've heard good arguments that one of the reasons to ban child labour and introduce universal education was due to automation, there were more workers then there were jobs so children were taken out of the labour pool. To a lesser degree the same with woman where they were encouraged to stay home as a full time house wife instead of working in the sweat shop. The child labour thing continues with education being extended to older and older. When I was in school a large portion of students finished schooling in grade 10 and went to work, then everyone had to finish 12 and now spend a few years in collage.
The rights of 'first class citizens" are still respected, I'm sure our rulers have exempted themselves from this shit. The problem is the whole idea of 'first class citizens'
His real point was that they wouldn't have tolerated this. They took action against a number of other rights violations that they knew of at the time, and general warrants were unconstitutional, so there's absolutely zero reason to think they would have let something this huge slide.
Of course most of them would have tolerated this as long as it was being used against loyalists or any of the sub-human types, read up on how the colonists who were not in favour of revolution were treated. Just like now, what they wouldn't tolerate was this being used on them.
What I saw here (Fraser Valley) was there used to be lots of rows of trees along property lines for windbreaks and then suddenly everyone was cutting them down to expand useable land. Stupid in the long run. BC just got its first small solar plant which is also not forward looking, we have some of the sunniest spots in Canada and use hydro. Solar would be perfect for supplementing the hydro in summer when there is worry about low reservoirs and hydro can be ramped up and down very easy to respond to changes in solar. Same for wind.
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Canada has a right wing government, the libertarians teamed up with the moral police types so they have to pretend that they aren't spending massive amounts of money on surveillance to half their base and that the only spending they're doing is to put the godless in jail to the other half of their base. It's easier to please the libertarians if they can hide how much surveillance they're using to enlarge our prison system and keep tabs on political undesirables such as the opposition parties..
Some crystals also have some of the qualities of life
Venus is a counter argument to the idea that without plate tectonics and/or a strong magnetosphere the atmosphere would be stripped away. At that some theorize it is the plate tectonics (and life) that remove carbon allowing our atmosphere to be as thin as it is.
A lot of people are simply ignorant, as in uneducated and a common lack in education is how not to start a family when you're suffering raging hormones. Ignorance can be fixed with education but many people don't want other people getting educated due to religious and similar beliefs.
There are also those who due to circumstances beyond their control, have defective minds, a common one is fetal alcohol syndrome where some poor kid is born to an alcoholic mother and their brain just does not work properly. In the worse cases they can't do simple math. Should we continue to punish these unfortunate souls?
That was the original idea of the minimum wage, just enough to own a home and have a small family. If you wanted luxuries and/or savings then you had to make more money which was how it worked as most good jobs just needed experience. The old cliche of starting out in the mail room and ending up as VP used to happen and for others it was being an assistant or dumb labourer and then an apprentice and eventually a tradesman.
Since then the wage gap has widened, the cost of living has gone up much faster then inflation and now minimum wage isn't even enough to support one person in many places.
I used to pick apples and made about $200 on a good day, average was about $150 a day, probably about 10 hours work, it was all contract work. Of course that was over 30 years ago. Now they import Mexicans and others from Central America, pay them $15 an hour plus lodging, plus airfare, plus the fees to get them temporary visas. This is Canada where we never had illegals, felons and such driving the labour market down.
The real problem is that the middle men have this attitude that their wages should go up way faster then inflation because without them the apples won't get sold so there are whole classes of people who get paid more and more for doing the same job as they've always done and that money has to come from somewhere and since the lower classes are the least organized, their real wages drop.
Everyone wanted to shoot incompetent officers. CBC radio has been running a series on WWI which is basically personal accounts of Canadian soldiers that were recorded some time back. What a horrid way that war was run, minimum training, useless actions and basically hell. Probably easy to find it online as most CBC radio programming is made available online.
Create 1000's of jobs balanced by destroying 1000's of them in marine based industries
The above AC is right.
I think the poster means standardized like alcohol, if you buy 40% by volume alcohol, it should be 40%, perhaps plus or minus 1%
And of course homegrown should be like home brewed, basically unregulated excepting the ingredients (no ripping people off with mis-labeled seeds), amount to a limited degree (here you are allowed to only brew so much beer a year but it's totally unenforced) and of course homegrown should only be for personal use but limited gifts and such should be allowed.
What evidence is there that smoking is healthier then using heroin? As far as I know there is none. Heroin when used correctly will make you constipated and sleepy, cigarettes will increase your odds of dieing by a large amount. They are both addicting with cigarettes usually being considered worse to quit but being addicted is not unhealthy as long as you have a steady supply which is the reason that highly intelligent, wealthy heroin users are productive members of society whereas poor heroin users are forever looking at getting their next hit.
If someone is in pain, why should they not have access to a substance that allows them to better function as well as allowing them to handle their pain.
Didn't know that Pershing didn't allow American troops to be used as replacements, though at the late stage that America joined in it may have been an easier choice.
For Canada and probably Australia and New Zealand, we were still early on the road to total independence, when the UK declared war, we were automatically at war. By the end of the war we were equal signatories to the Treaty of Versailles.
The British did treat the colonials as even more disposable crap. To lazy to look up citations but they are out there.
Not sure about the history of Australia in the world wars, especially the first one but I assume it was similar to Canada where we lost 2 generations of fine young men. WWI was particularly bad as the English considered Canadians to be cannon fodder and threw our lives away like crazy.
America also didn't lose 2 generations of young men as much of the rest of the industrialized countries did. Percentage wise America suffered very few loses in WWI and also came out of WWII pretty good in percentage of loses.
There was the savings and loan meltdown in the early '80's when they were deregulated. That was the first sign about the dangers of de-regulation with the big difference that people went to jail then.
Now they get huge bonuses as rewards for screwing the worlds finances.
I've heard good arguments that one of the reasons to ban child labour and introduce universal education was due to automation, there were more workers then there were jobs so children were taken out of the labour pool. To a lesser degree the same with woman where they were encouraged to stay home as a full time house wife instead of working in the sweat shop.
The child labour thing continues with education being extended to older and older. When I was in school a large portion of students finished schooling in grade 10 and went to work, then everyone had to finish 12 and now spend a few years in collage.
Who are we? America never had a treaty to assist the Ukraine if they were invaded.
I probably misunderstood your parent comment, easy to do in a forum. Sorry
The rights of 'first class citizens" are still respected, I'm sure our rulers have exempted themselves from this shit. The problem is the whole idea of 'first class citizens'
To quote you,
His real point was that they wouldn't have tolerated this. They took action against a number of other rights violations that they knew of at the time, and general warrants were unconstitutional, so there's absolutely zero reason to think they would have let something this huge slide.
If you call having to kill the land owners cheap.
Of course most of them would have tolerated this as long as it was being used against loyalists or any of the sub-human types, read up on how the colonists who were not in favour of revolution were treated. Just like now, what they wouldn't tolerate was this being used on them.
What I saw here (Fraser Valley) was there used to be lots of rows of trees along property lines for windbreaks and then suddenly everyone was cutting them down to expand useable land. Stupid in the long run.
BC just got its first small solar plant which is also not forward looking, we have some of the sunniest spots in Canada and use hydro. Solar would be perfect for supplementing the hydro in summer when there is worry about low reservoirs and hydro can be ramped up and down very easy to respond to changes in solar. Same for wind.
Luckily Harper has been having a hard time even finding qualified judges as extreme as his government.