Around here the natives worshiped a type of tree as a god as it supplied them with so much. They also believed that departed ones souls migrated to a tree after death so yes worshiping a tree does give comfort after losing a loved one. At least their is a physical useful tree unlike some religions that have an imaginary place that is presented as heaven and yet has a description closer to hell unless you worship gold, especially when considering spending eternity there. To have the gall to think that there can only be one type of comfort when considering what happens after death and the gall to consider one "pagan" superstition worse then stoning people to death, the inquisition or routinely burning people alive. Seems every religion has horror stories and even the non-religous have them as well.
By the '80's most people considered Japanese to be inexpensive quality and not luxury and that is why they created the new brands, to compete with Mercedes rather then Volkswagen. This may have varied by area with some places holding onto the jap crap idea. China, while capable of producing quality still mostly produces crap for foreign markets at this point in time. I have no idea of how good of quality the stuff they produce for domestic is but they don't seem to have the Japanese striving for perfection when it comes to manufacturing or engineering.
As the AC says, by the '80's Japanese stuff was considered quality, really you have to go back to the '50's for the real Japanese crap phase. I had multiple Datsuns and Nissans from a '69 to a '86 and excepting the cheap sheet metal they were all very good quality and ran until they rusted out, hundreds of thousands of miles. It was American that were crap and you see it in articles here where people talk about how quality has improved and you can actually get over a 100,000 miles easily now. I always go wtf.
Yet it is rich people (think Rudolf Hearst) that have been responsible for pushing for laws that put millions of Americans (and millions of non-Americans) in jail and totally ruining their lives to protect their businesses (pulp paper) from new technologies (efficiently separating hemp fiber for paper), not unions. Even now it is industry groups pushing harsh penalties for interfering with their business models (control and distribution of intellectual property) and pushing the American Government to bully other governments to follow along.
I agree that that is the real motivation but for public consumption it was first child porn and now internet bullies. A little while ago Rogers published how many law enforcement requests for info they'd had over the last year, mostly for subscriber info which they gave out without a warrant. Forget the actual number but it was huge, something like 3/4s of a million IIRC, and that was just Rogers. Why the hell the government needs that many subscribers info becomes the question, it sure isn't all child porn and other illegal activities.
Maybe. The fruit of the poisonous tree isn't absolute here, note that the conviction of the child pornographer who this case was about did not get his conviction overthrown.
While Canada was set up to have a more powerful federal government then America due to us watching the American civil war, the Provinces do have some sovereignty, there are things the feds can't interfere with such as property rights and the Provinces each have their own representative of the Crown in the persons of the Lieutenant Governors who have to give royal assent to bills passed by the Provincial Legislatures before they actually become law.
Canada also has pretty strong privacy laws for business, so in theory American companies are bared from even bidding for various things. Of course with our open and transparent Conservative government most of the privacy laws don't seem to be enforced as what they actually meant was that the citizens would be open and transparent to the government.
Already heard a cop bitching how much harder it'll make investigating child porn. As if he couldn't go to a judge and get a warrant when he has clear evidence, especially as this ruling also lowers the bar for getting a warrant.
Sounds amazingly like a list of what the Liberal Party of BC has accomplished. Of course our Liberals are the right wing party who are in no way associated with the Liberal Party of Canada or any other Liberal Party as the right wing here keeps self destructing and when people vote third party, the right wingers move to the 3rd party and take it over. Right wing leaders seem to keep getting caught with envelopes full of money (or safety deposit boxes full of $1000 bills in the case of Mulroney). Of course as our glorious open and transparent leader shows, mostly the right is interested in forcing their morals on everyone and they can't help thinking of the children (or in some cases the baby sitter) and sex. The truth is all politicians are shit and the longer they're in power the worse they become.
Give out work permits to Mexicans, Ecuadorians and who ever else wants to work in the fields. The employers pay for them to come into the country, pay them at least minimum wage, look after their housing etc, and when the work is finished, pay their trip home. Prices will rise somewhat but its a rich country and can afford to pay workers a realistic wage to work. It's what we've been doing in Canada for a while.
Shit is not pollution, it is a naturally occurring substance which is a key component for healthy plants and key to photosynthesis, which contributes to the greening of the planet. As well as the vegetation which I rely on for food. So obviously the more shit the better, perhaps in your drinking water. It's interesting reading up on the history of the germ theory of disease and the amount of denial there was over the idea that shitting i your drinking water led to some horrible outbreaks of disease. Much of the denial was economic, expensive to have sewers, and laziness, its hard to wash after wiping your bum. Then of course the whole idea of little invisible things that kill just doesn't pass the common sense test.
Actually he went back to 1703 to bribe the House of Lords to force the new copyright law to be limited to 14+14 years and then have everything go into the public domain "for the advancement of learning" as even then the elected representatives were corrupt and were going to follow the publishers advice and make copyright forever "for the authours" who would get a one time small payment from the publishers. The "for the starving artists" argument goes back a ways.
The waves would go further up the beach or past the beach and when retreating take some of the sand or soil with them, especially if the ground was not compacted. Its amazing how waves can rearrange the landscape, especially when driven by a big storm.
The Panama Canal has to use locks to connect the Pacific and Atlantic because they have different sea levels.
I think this is the perfect example to show as proof, even to someone with a low I.Q. Physical proof doesn't need scientific demonstration.
Except the fact that the Panama Canal goes over a hill and the tides are probably enough to cause a difference in sea level on either side of the Isthmus. Wind is probably a better example for someone with a low IQ, for the high IQ people here probably nothing will work as they're convinced of their superiour intellect and not open to learning.
Welcome to a world with winds which can pile up whole oceans so one side is higher then the other. Welcome to a world with different temperatures where parts of the oceans can expand more then other parts. Welcome to a world with ocean currents where parts of the ocean can be higher then other parts. Welcome to a world where people post without giving any thought that their simple view of the world might be incomplete.
There's lots of things that we need some of and will kill us in excess. Look at fertilizer, plants need shit but it doesn't mean we want to live in shit and we've learned it is much healthier to keep the shit around us to an absolute minimum. Took a lot of sick people and there was always people screaming that shit is good, it is too expensive to keep under control and it has always been that way. Now no one denies that it is bad to live in shit. It's the same with CO2, we need some to trigger our breathing reflex, plants need some for photosynthesis, and too much will kill. We can argue about how much is too much and what the affects will be and the economics of dealing with it but to stick your head in the sand and claim that there is no affect is stupid.
Yes, our government keeps breaking our laws as well, seems a continuous stream of laws getting overturned by the Supreme Court and now they're attacking the Supreme Court. Unluckily the government gets to appoint Supreme Court justices and a bunch are retiring so we're likely to end up like you with a partisan court that rules along party lines instead of whether something is Constitutional. Luckily the PM seems to be having a hard time finding judges who qualify and agree with his politics. Other positions that are supposed to non-partisan are also getting eliminated, castrated or having flaming partisan people appointed as well. Elections Canada castrated by the "Fair Elections Act" (see sig) the new privacy commissioner being the guy who wrote the anti-privacy laws that were struck down and so on. The problem with multiple parties is we can end up with a defacto dictatorship by one party winning a third of the vote.
It's an article on Canada so $20 hockey stick would be more appropriate. I don't think that I've ever seen a cricket bat in a store though I do regularly drive past a field where there are often cricket matches. There's always the old fallback of an axe.
Seems to be in style. People demand transparency in their governments so the politicians promise transparency. Whether they mean it and change their minds or just flat out lie is hard to say but being politicians I wouldn't trust them.
I meant actual secret court proceedings rather then where the court itself is secret as what you say is basically true. Shouldn't post so fast when distracted.
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Around here the natives worshiped a type of tree as a god as it supplied them with so much. They also believed that departed ones souls migrated to a tree after death so yes worshiping a tree does give comfort after losing a loved one. At least their is a physical useful tree unlike some religions that have an imaginary place that is presented as heaven and yet has a description closer to hell unless you worship gold, especially when considering spending eternity there.
To have the gall to think that there can only be one type of comfort when considering what happens after death and the gall to consider one "pagan" superstition worse then stoning people to death, the inquisition or routinely burning people alive.
Seems every religion has horror stories and even the non-religous have them as well.
By the '80's most people considered Japanese to be inexpensive quality and not luxury and that is why they created the new brands, to compete with Mercedes rather then Volkswagen. This may have varied by area with some places holding onto the jap crap idea.
China, while capable of producing quality still mostly produces crap for foreign markets at this point in time. I have no idea of how good of quality the stuff they produce for domestic is but they don't seem to have the Japanese striving for perfection when it comes to manufacturing or engineering.
As the AC says, by the '80's Japanese stuff was considered quality, really you have to go back to the '50's for the real Japanese crap phase. I had multiple Datsuns and Nissans from a '69 to a '86 and excepting the cheap sheet metal they were all very good quality and ran until they rusted out, hundreds of thousands of miles. It was American that were crap and you see it in articles here where people talk about how quality has improved and you can actually get over a 100,000 miles easily now. I always go wtf.
Yet it is rich people (think Rudolf Hearst) that have been responsible for pushing for laws that put millions of Americans (and millions of non-Americans) in jail and totally ruining their lives to protect their businesses (pulp paper) from new technologies (efficiently separating hemp fiber for paper), not unions. Even now it is industry groups pushing harsh penalties for interfering with their business models (control and distribution of intellectual property) and pushing the American Government to bully other governments to follow along.
I agree that that is the real motivation but for public consumption it was first child porn and now internet bullies.
A little while ago Rogers published how many law enforcement requests for info they'd had over the last year, mostly for subscriber info which they gave out without a warrant. Forget the actual number but it was huge, something like 3/4s of a million IIRC, and that was just Rogers. Why the hell the government needs that many subscribers info becomes the question, it sure isn't all child porn and other illegal activities.
Maybe. The fruit of the poisonous tree isn't absolute here, note that the conviction of the child pornographer who this case was about did not get his conviction overthrown.
While Canada was set up to have a more powerful federal government then America due to us watching the American civil war, the Provinces do have some sovereignty, there are things the feds can't interfere with such as property rights and the Provinces each have their own representative of the Crown in the persons of the Lieutenant Governors who have to give royal assent to bills passed by the Provincial Legislatures before they actually become law.
Canada also has pretty strong privacy laws for business, so in theory American companies are bared from even bidding for various things. Of course with our open and transparent Conservative government most of the privacy laws don't seem to be enforced as what they actually meant was that the citizens would be open and transparent to the government.
Already heard a cop bitching how much harder it'll make investigating child porn. As if he couldn't go to a judge and get a warrant when he has clear evidence, especially as this ruling also lowers the bar for getting a warrant.
Sounds amazingly like a list of what the Liberal Party of BC has accomplished. Of course our Liberals are the right wing party who are in no way associated with the Liberal Party of Canada or any other Liberal Party as the right wing here keeps self destructing and when people vote third party, the right wingers move to the 3rd party and take it over. Right wing leaders seem to keep getting caught with envelopes full of money (or safety deposit boxes full of $1000 bills in the case of Mulroney).
Of course as our glorious open and transparent leader shows, mostly the right is interested in forcing their morals on everyone and they can't help thinking of the children (or in some cases the baby sitter) and sex.
The truth is all politicians are shit and the longer they're in power the worse they become.
That's last century. Now they buy the voters with borrowed money.
Give out work permits to Mexicans, Ecuadorians and who ever else wants to work in the fields. The employers pay for them to come into the country, pay them at least minimum wage, look after their housing etc, and when the work is finished, pay their trip home. Prices will rise somewhat but its a rich country and can afford to pay workers a realistic wage to work. It's what we've been doing in Canada for a while.
Shit is not pollution, it is a naturally occurring substance which is a key component for healthy plants and key to photosynthesis, which contributes to the greening of the planet. As well as the vegetation which I rely on for food. So obviously the more shit the better, perhaps in your drinking water.
It's interesting reading up on the history of the germ theory of disease and the amount of denial there was over the idea that shitting i your drinking water led to some horrible outbreaks of disease. Much of the denial was economic, expensive to have sewers, and laziness, its hard to wash after wiping your bum. Then of course the whole idea of little invisible things that kill just doesn't pass the common sense test.
That's the difference between inflation (low) and the cost of living (high).
Actually he went back to 1703 to bribe the House of Lords to force the new copyright law to be limited to 14+14 years and then have everything go into the public domain "for the advancement of learning" as even then the elected representatives were corrupt and were going to follow the publishers advice and make copyright forever "for the authours" who would get a one time small payment from the publishers.
The "for the starving artists" argument goes back a ways.
The waves would go further up the beach or past the beach and when retreating take some of the sand or soil with them, especially if the ground was not compacted. Its amazing how waves can rearrange the landscape, especially when driven by a big storm.
I think this is the perfect example to show as proof, even to someone with a low I.Q. Physical proof doesn't need scientific demonstration.
Except the fact that the Panama Canal goes over a hill and the tides are probably enough to cause a difference in sea level on either side of the Isthmus.
Wind is probably a better example for someone with a low IQ, for the high IQ people here probably nothing will work as they're convinced of their superiour intellect and not open to learning.
Welcome to a world with winds which can pile up whole oceans so one side is higher then the other.
Welcome to a world with different temperatures where parts of the oceans can expand more then other parts.
Welcome to a world with ocean currents where parts of the ocean can be higher then other parts.
Welcome to a world where people post without giving any thought that their simple view of the world might be incomplete.
There's lots of things that we need some of and will kill us in excess. Look at fertilizer, plants need shit but it doesn't mean we want to live in shit and we've learned it is much healthier to keep the shit around us to an absolute minimum. Took a lot of sick people and there was always people screaming that shit is good, it is too expensive to keep under control and it has always been that way. Now no one denies that it is bad to live in shit.
It's the same with CO2, we need some to trigger our breathing reflex, plants need some for photosynthesis, and too much will kill. We can argue about how much is too much and what the affects will be and the economics of dealing with it but to stick your head in the sand and claim that there is no affect is stupid.
Try surviving on salt water.
Yes, our government keeps breaking our laws as well, seems a continuous stream of laws getting overturned by the Supreme Court and now they're attacking the Supreme Court. Unluckily the government gets to appoint Supreme Court justices and a bunch are retiring so we're likely to end up like you with a partisan court that rules along party lines instead of whether something is Constitutional. Luckily the PM seems to be having a hard time finding judges who qualify and agree with his politics.
Other positions that are supposed to non-partisan are also getting eliminated, castrated or having flaming partisan people appointed as well. Elections Canada castrated by the "Fair Elections Act" (see sig) the new privacy commissioner being the guy who wrote the anti-privacy laws that were struck down and so on.
The problem with multiple parties is we can end up with a defacto dictatorship by one party winning a third of the vote.
It's an article on Canada so $20 hockey stick would be more appropriate. I don't think that I've ever seen a cricket bat in a store though I do regularly drive past a field where there are often cricket matches.
There's always the old fallback of an axe.
He does stop now and again to pop another Viagra. Fucking perverts think that everyone else is like them.
Seems to be in style. People demand transparency in their governments so the politicians promise transparency. Whether they mean it and change their minds or just flat out lie is hard to say but being politicians I wouldn't trust them.
I meant actual secret court proceedings rather then where the court itself is secret as what you say is basically true.
Shouldn't post so fast when distracted.