Yes, the current government has already done things like threaten to bring Verizon into the country and limit their access to spectrum auctions to make sure these companies do what our glorious leaders wants, I mean to promote competition.
The Canadian courts think that our right against unreasonable search is actually a right to privacy and it's not just the government that has to respect that right, businesses have to respect rights as well. Another example is that the courts have ruled that companies can't do drug tests for no reason whereas down the States it seems to be standard procedure even if (off-work) drug use has no bearing on the job.
The big difference between Australia and the UK compared to Canada is that Canada's constitution includes a bill of rights and the Supreme Court isn't shy about striking down laws as unconstitutional and the same with lesser courts including throwing out ill gotten evidence so here it's actually the courts requiring warrants and the government can't (actually this one will) just pass unconstitutional laws without ramifications.
I see that yesterday was 25.8 C which seems warm for Yellowknife though I was surprised the record for today is 32.5 in 1989, higher then the record for where I am and today at 29 is considered quite hot with the news full of forest fires. I also went to http://climate.weather.gc.ca/c... and looked at the last few months. You're right that it hasn't been that hot though for Yellowknife I don't know much but what did strike me was the lack of precipitation, which I understand has been going on for 3 years. A big problem with Manitoba and the rest of the Prairies is simple mis-management of wet lands so there's no buffer.
That's why Mexico is such a safe place, you can hire a corporation to protect you from the other businesses and with such a small government the economy is doing so well that everyone can afford to hire private protection.
Re the trees, he's right, there are more trees. If you cut down one large tree you will get 100's of seedlings competing to replace it. Of course the bio mass of all those seedlings (technically trees) is very small relative to the large tree but if all we're doing is counting stems... There's also the grassland, which requires regular fires to remain grassland, which are reverting to forest. In that case the question is whether grassland is better then forest and how quick it'll revert to grassland without active management. And tree farms. Many people say great, we're farming but when you only remove stuff from the soil and never add anything back, the soil gets depleted and eventually you can't grow a decent tree.
Go north, the Northwest Territories are burning up due to heat and drought. Shit the highway to Yellowknife melted today (due to fire). Anyways in my part of N. America we're getting record high temperatures and lots of fires. It's like last winter, super warm everywhere but the eastern part of N. America and the people there think that is the whole world.
Don't be stupid. Plants breathe oxygen just as we do. Some also use CO2 for nutrition via photosynthesis but that isn't actually breathing and in the dark they don't use it but still need oxygen.
Plausible denialability says that the higher-ups will honestly not know about what the junior staff member is doing, instead they just mention how such and such wiki article is wrong or such.
When Canada switched to dollar coins, the mint actually gave some thought to those kinds of problems and made the coin non-round and slightly bigger then a quarter (our coinage was always the same size as American coins, no idea about the current dollar coins) . Then they lost the dies, stuck a loon on the coin and now we have loonies.
I remember when banks made their money by lending out depositors money, and paid the depositors as well, absolutely no fees and they paid cashiers to interact with the public. Back then certain businesses such as banks had a nice steady income and profit, now they expect to make record profits every year and if their profits only increase with inflation they're a failure.
If only my federal government balancing the budget slowed down inflation, even down to US levels would be great. Things are a lot more complicated then deficit spending, things like low interest rates, the ever increasing price of housing, price of gas going up for the slightest reason, price of food going up due to lack of rain in places and flooding in other places, the ever increasing need for big business to make bigger profits year after year. Shit I'd be happy if my income increased at the official inflation rate instead of stagnating.
Yes that is a flaw but I was under the impression that the two spot isn't used. Usually for bills, now mixed, here you have ones, twos, fives, tens and twenties with larger bills going under the tray.
In Canada, which is probably similar to the States, there is only a couple of keys needed to open most pumps (at least a year or so ago) and the thieves would put in their own reader (or maybe it was a tap) and skim a lot of cards.
American cash registers are smaller then we have in Canada? Typically 5 coin trays and 5 bill trays I believe. When the one was changed to a coin it took the spot that the single occupied, same with the deuce, replaced by the toonie. And yes 2 dollar bills and now coins are as common as any other denomination, well thousands are getting very rare now as they aren't made any longer and every time one shows up at the bank they're removed from circulation.
In Canada we've always had a two dollar denomination, used to be a bill and is now a coin. It's very useful, 5 twos or 10 ones to equal $10. Never could understand the American rejection of the $2 bill. From the governments perspective, dollar notes are the worse due to their short lifetime (our paper money was as well made as American paper money). Dollar coin lasts for years and now that we've gone plastic the bills will last much longer as well.
The real problem is that wealth makes people act like spoiled children and having a bunch of spoiled children move into your town is the shits. Rich people feel more entitled, have less empathy, are less generous and often are just arseholes. There have been numerous studies to back this up as well and the more the spread between the wealthy and the poor grows, the worse things will become. Perhaps it'll lead to successful revolts or perhaps it'll be like the peasant revolts that started in the 14th century and had zero successes. One article, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
The history of the discovery of pulsars shows that sometimes aliens are seriously considered. In this case, given the distances involved, the energy requirements make it unlikely to be artificial.
It is generally considered that certain fundamental rights exist outside of law so while American law governs America, it does not mean that America should just ignore rights outside of America. Even worse America has a long history of actually forcing regime change, which breaks sovereignty.
If America truly does threaten your freedoms I assume you must be doing something unsavory and special.
Yes, the evil of playing my legally bought DVD on my computer after breaking the encryption on it.
The difference is that it is America that is a direct threat to my personal freedom and the personal freedom of much of the world. Remember, for most Americans Constitutional freedoms only apply to American citizens and the rest of us are fair game.
It's not me that is making it an either/or proposition. There are some posters who always claim that business is inherently better then government due to government having a monopoly on force. I agree that you can have government without the regulatory bodies that exist to help the regulated industries though how to get there I'm not sure.
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Yes, the current government has already done things like threaten to bring Verizon into the country and limit their access to spectrum auctions to make sure these companies do what our glorious leaders wants, I mean to promote competition.
The Canadian courts think that our right against unreasonable search is actually a right to privacy and it's not just the government that has to respect that right, businesses have to respect rights as well.
Another example is that the courts have ruled that companies can't do drug tests for no reason whereas down the States it seems to be standard procedure even if (off-work) drug use has no bearing on the job.
The big difference between Australia and the UK compared to Canada is that Canada's constitution includes a bill of rights and the Supreme Court isn't shy about striking down laws as unconstitutional and the same with lesser courts including throwing out ill gotten evidence so here it's actually the courts requiring warrants and the government can't (actually this one will) just pass unconstitutional laws without ramifications.
I see that yesterday was 25.8 C which seems warm for Yellowknife though I was surprised the record for today is 32.5 in 1989, higher then the record for where I am and today at 29 is considered quite hot with the news full of forest fires. I also went to http://climate.weather.gc.ca/c... and looked at the last few months. You're right that it hasn't been that hot though for Yellowknife I don't know much but what did strike me was the lack of precipitation, which I understand has been going on for 3 years.
A big problem with Manitoba and the rest of the Prairies is simple mis-management of wet lands so there's no buffer.
That's why Mexico is such a safe place, you can hire a corporation to protect you from the other businesses and with such a small government the economy is doing so well that everyone can afford to hire private protection.
Re the trees, he's right, there are more trees. If you cut down one large tree you will get 100's of seedlings competing to replace it. Of course the bio mass of all those seedlings (technically trees) is very small relative to the large tree but if all we're doing is counting stems...
There's also the grassland, which requires regular fires to remain grassland, which are reverting to forest. In that case the question is whether grassland is better then forest and how quick it'll revert to grassland without active management.
And tree farms. Many people say great, we're farming but when you only remove stuff from the soil and never add anything back, the soil gets depleted and eventually you can't grow a decent tree.
Go north, the Northwest Territories are burning up due to heat and drought. Shit the highway to Yellowknife melted today (due to fire).
Anyways in my part of N. America we're getting record high temperatures and lots of fires. It's like last winter, super warm everywhere but the eastern part of N. America and the people there think that is the whole world.
Don't be stupid. Plants breathe oxygen just as we do. Some also use CO2 for nutrition via photosynthesis but that isn't actually breathing and in the dark they don't use it but still need oxygen.
America does it all the time. The most common is Cuba, another recent example was a huge fine given to a French bank for doing business with Iran.
Plausible denialability says that the higher-ups will honestly not know about what the junior staff member is doing, instead they just mention how such and such wiki article is wrong or such.
When Canada switched to dollar coins, the mint actually gave some thought to those kinds of problems and made the coin non-round and slightly bigger then a quarter (our coinage was always the same size as American coins, no idea about the current dollar coins) . Then they lost the dies, stuck a loon on the coin and now we have loonies.
I remember when banks made their money by lending out depositors money, and paid the depositors as well, absolutely no fees and they paid cashiers to interact with the public. Back then certain businesses such as banks had a nice steady income and profit, now they expect to make record profits every year and if their profits only increase with inflation they're a failure.
If only my federal government balancing the budget slowed down inflation, even down to US levels would be great.
Things are a lot more complicated then deficit spending, things like low interest rates, the ever increasing price of housing, price of gas going up for the slightest reason, price of food going up due to lack of rain in places and flooding in other places, the ever increasing need for big business to make bigger profits year after year. Shit I'd be happy if my income increased at the official inflation rate instead of stagnating.
Yes that is a flaw but I was under the impression that the two spot isn't used. Usually for bills, now mixed, here you have ones, twos, fives, tens and twenties with larger bills going under the tray.
In Canada, which is probably similar to the States, there is only a couple of keys needed to open most pumps (at least a year or so ago) and the thieves would put in their own reader (or maybe it was a tap) and skim a lot of cards.
American cash registers are smaller then we have in Canada? Typically 5 coin trays and 5 bill trays I believe. When the one was changed to a coin it took the spot that the single occupied, same with the deuce, replaced by the toonie. And yes 2 dollar bills and now coins are as common as any other denomination, well thousands are getting very rare now as they aren't made any longer and every time one shows up at the bank they're removed from circulation.
In Canada we've always had a two dollar denomination, used to be a bill and is now a coin. It's very useful, 5 twos or 10 ones to equal $10. Never could understand the American rejection of the $2 bill.
From the governments perspective, dollar notes are the worse due to their short lifetime (our paper money was as well made as American paper money). Dollar coin lasts for years and now that we've gone plastic the bills will last much longer as well.
The real problem is that wealth makes people act like spoiled children and having a bunch of spoiled children move into your town is the shits. Rich people feel more entitled, have less empathy, are less generous and often are just arseholes. There have been numerous studies to back this up as well and the more the spread between the wealthy and the poor grows, the worse things will become. Perhaps it'll lead to successful revolts or perhaps it'll be like the peasant revolts that started in the 14th century and had zero successes.
One article, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/ru...
Maybe you should read the book of dryeo which clearly states that slashdot user #100693 has ownership of the world.
The history of the discovery of pulsars shows that sometimes aliens are seriously considered. In this case, given the distances involved, the energy requirements make it unlikely to be artificial.
It is generally considered that certain fundamental rights exist outside of law so while American law governs America, it does not mean that America should just ignore rights outside of America. Even worse America has a long history of actually forcing regime change, which breaks sovereignty.
If America truly does threaten your freedoms I assume you must be doing something unsavory and special.
Yes, the evil of playing my legally bought DVD on my computer after breaking the encryption on it.
Even further north (and perhaps west) and you're back in the States. Quickly Googling I see this, http://www.epa.gov/climatechan....
The difference is that it is America that is a direct threat to my personal freedom and the personal freedom of much of the world. Remember, for most Americans Constitutional freedoms only apply to American citizens and the rest of us are fair game.
It's not me that is making it an either/or proposition. There are some posters who always claim that business is inherently better then government due to government having a monopoly on force.
I agree that you can have government without the regulatory bodies that exist to help the regulated industries though how to get there I'm not sure.
Move north.