When the former Canadian PM Paul Martin was asked if he ever smoked marijuana, his answer was something like "I don't smoke anything, but the wife used to make these wonderful brownies"
There was a case in Canada, back in the '50's I believe, where a guy picked up a woman at the bar (drinking age was 21 back then), went back to her place and was having sex when her parents came home. He ended up charged with statutory rape and the Judge very apologetically convicted him and sentenced him to 5 years as the way the law was written he was guilty. Shortly after this the law was changed to reasonable believe.
That "oil" is actually bitumen, a tar like substance which needs massive amounts of water and energy to extract some useful gasoline. The amount of waste is quite high when it comes to refining tar into just about anything else. The Conservatives have really pushed the political correct name of "oil" sands for the tar sands in the hope that people will believe it is oil they're digging up. Currently Northern Alberta is successfully competing with China for the worlds most polluted area and it is only going to get worse especially with the government shutting down most environmental science and anything else that could break their cash cow.
Actually the way the continent[s] are laid out really affects the rock weathering as the Earth doesn't usually have icy poles. Super continents have a dry interior, land mass mostly distributed north and south catch more rain, varying amounts of mountains, the depth of the oceans and so on all affect the climate over geological time.
The Sun has been getting hotter since its birth, with a 25% increase in output so far. It'll continue getting hotter until the oceans boil and the Earth is uninhabitable. The numbers I've heard are closer to a billion years vs the 3 billion in the summary. The reason for the increased output is that as the Sun ages, it converts hydrogen into helium and gets denser, being denser it burns hotter therefore converting more hydrogen into helium. Eventually in about 5 billion years it'll run short of hydrogen, start fusing helium and expand into the red giant phase.
Most of the Countries of the Middle East are pretty capitalist, especially some of the Sheikdoms and Kingdoms. As for Russia, they've switched from their brand of Socialism to Capitalism so of course the average Russians health has dropped. As for their Constitution, they probably follow it as much as America follows theirs.
The same can be said about Capitalism. The number of totalitarian right wing states currently out number the current number of totalitarian left wing states. Thing is that when you're one of the well off cast the totalitarianism is not very visible. Anyways if you really like right wing countries that practice capitalism due to their freedom you could move to the middle east or Russia.
Re: your sig. Democracy here in Canada is 38% taking away the rights of 62% due to having more then 2 parties. Funniest was when the other parties tried to work together the minority screamed undemocratic and prorogued Parliament to stop the majority.
Most people do because it costs more to avoid paying those taxes. I could run purple gas in my lawn mower saving a couple of bucks a year but the hassle and cost to go get the purple gas makes it not worth it. If I was running a turf farm and used hundreds of gallons of gas a year then it would be worth using purple gas. I could also create a bunch of corporations in various countries and save a few dollars in taxes but once again the hassle and cost out weigh simply paying the tax. If I was much richer then the tax savings of multiple corporations would be cost effective.
The greed and the concept of copyright piracy goes back to the beginning of copyright. When the first copyright law was written the publishers were pushing for it to be forever and even then claimed it was for the artists. Ever since that original 14+14 year term has been lengthened a bit at a time and the stuff that can be copyrighted has been extended until now when it is close to unlimited. This has happened in multiple countries often with the countries pointing at each other and claiming they have to keep up with the other country and the elected legislatures have been the worse at lengthening it. (The House of Lords put the brakes on extensions a few times including insisting on the original 14+14 term and stating the reason for copyright was to advance learning rather then make publishers rich)
Not only that but with multiple political parties the Conservatives got their majority with 38% of the people who bothered to vote. Tyranny of the minority is what we have here.
I thought America still had the concept of felons, a special class of people who have certain rights removed including voting on how they are taxed. With 1% of the adult population in prison the percentage of people prevented from voting on taxes and laws must be non-negligible.
Are thought to be members of rival gangs. I doubt they go worry about evidence. Then there are the people who are just in the way, journalists, cops and even politicians.
As I said, the Parliament was in very bad need of electoral reform including ideally giving the established older colonies seats in Parliament. I wouldn't call it feudal no more then I'd call America feudal for not giving Puerto Rico voting seats in Congress. (did any territories have a vote in congress?) It wasn't until something like 1947 before the UK seriously considered giving an American colony (Newfoundland) seats in Parliament and most people would agree that feudalism was long over by then. Even now places like the Falkland Islands don't have a seat in Parliament. Same can be said about Guam not having a seat in Congress. Colonies almost by definition don't have seats in the parent governments legislature and many colonies were run by businesses rather then government including a few of the American colonies starting that way.
The anti-science people are merely Republicans. There's actually very little conservative about them, and when you ask them about certain aspects of government relationship with people, they'll go left of Stalin and insist upon an extremely authoritarian police state that tells people what to do.
What is it about Americans that they don't recognize that right wing conservatives can be just as authoritarian as left wing socialists. They both come in extremes including the extreme authoritarian types who push their workd view on you whether you want it or not. General Pinochet is a good example of a right wing free trader who was definitely a tyrant. Nelson Mandela is an example of a left winger who was not a tyrant. Personally I've always been more scared of Conservatives as they like to use government to control peoples behaviour in all aspects including money whereas socialists usually just want to control peoples money witrh the left wanting to spread it around and the right wanting to hog it all. There's a reason that conservatives (called Tories) were tarred and feathered during the American Revolution and then driven out of the country. I'd like to drive the Tories out of my government as well.
Huh? George Washington lost to the French who were the only ones still operating with a system ran by Dukes, Earls (actually they didn't have Earls) and a Monarch who thought he was appointed by God. Now the English at the time of George Washington had a Parliament who was partially elected (the elected House controlled the purse) by the land owners and larger renters but was in need of electoral reform with whole cities without representation and ridings (electoral districts) with only a couple of voters who were quite happy to sell their vote to a rich business man. It had been 80 years since the last King who thought he was appointed by God was booted out by Parliament which finally was in undisputed control (The Supremacy of Parliament). So the King had about the same political power as the current Queen though he was more vocal. The Lords did have one house of Parliament so they could slow down and affect the democratic process and do things like push for limited copyright when the elected people were going to make it forever. It was Parliament that enacted the laws that pissed off the colonists, a partially elected Parliament who did not represent the colonists and truthfully represented the rich, who were a mixture of business men who didn't want competition and landed gentry who thought they were special because of their parents.
The story I heard was that he and Heinlein made a bet about who could create the best religion. Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land and as far as I'm concerned won.
That would be perfect. Your boss can drop your pay by the amount of taxes you're saving and he can have more money. You with your reduced income can now pay all those extra fees, tolls etc, perhaps even to your boss so he'll have even more money.
The 1st Amendment says "Congress will make no law". All your examples are (should be) handled locally, not federally. Of course the 14th was passed without thinking things through and there hasn't been another amendment to fix it.
Where in the Bill of Rights does it limit rights to citizens? I don't remember the First Amendment saying Congress can make laws limiting free speech as long as foreigners are involved and I don't remember the 4th referring to the right of citizens to be secure. Sad what you're saying considering your sig.
Slavery implies no choice. You have chosen to take advantage of civilization and work and get nice stuff and now you don't want to pay. You could have chosen to not take advantage of civilization and not pay taxes. If you don't like paying taxes, quit working and don't pay them. Instead you sound like someone who went to a restaurant, ate a nice dinner and then bitched about getting a bill with the threat of prison if you don't pay.
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When the former Canadian PM Paul Martin was asked if he ever smoked marijuana, his answer was something like "I don't smoke anything, but the wife used to make these wonderful brownies"
There was a case in Canada, back in the '50's I believe, where a guy picked up a woman at the bar (drinking age was 21 back then), went back to her place and was having sex when her parents came home. He ended up charged with statutory rape and the Judge very apologetically convicted him and sentenced him to 5 years as the way the law was written he was guilty.
Shortly after this the law was changed to reasonable believe.
That "oil" is actually bitumen, a tar like substance which needs massive amounts of water and energy to extract some useful gasoline. The amount of waste is quite high when it comes to refining tar into just about anything else.
The Conservatives have really pushed the political correct name of "oil" sands for the tar sands in the hope that people will believe it is oil they're digging up.
Currently Northern Alberta is successfully competing with China for the worlds most polluted area and it is only going to get worse especially with the government shutting down most environmental science and anything else that could break their cash cow.
What makes you think the AC was talking about humanity?
Actually the way the continent[s] are laid out really affects the rock weathering as the Earth doesn't usually have icy poles.
Super continents have a dry interior, land mass mostly distributed north and south catch more rain, varying amounts of mountains, the depth of the oceans and so on all affect the climate over geological time.
The Sun has been getting hotter since its birth, with a 25% increase in output so far. It'll continue getting hotter until the oceans boil and the Earth is uninhabitable. The numbers I've heard are closer to a billion years vs the 3 billion in the summary.
The reason for the increased output is that as the Sun ages, it converts hydrogen into helium and gets denser, being denser it burns hotter therefore converting more hydrogen into helium. Eventually in about 5 billion years it'll run short of hydrogen, start fusing helium and expand into the red giant phase.
Most of the Countries of the Middle East are pretty capitalist, especially some of the Sheikdoms and Kingdoms.
As for Russia, they've switched from their brand of Socialism to Capitalism so of course the average Russians health has dropped. As for their Constitution, they probably follow it as much as America follows theirs.
The same can be said about Capitalism. The number of totalitarian right wing states currently out number the current number of totalitarian left wing states. Thing is that when you're one of the well off cast the totalitarianism is not very visible.
Anyways if you really like right wing countries that practice capitalism due to their freedom you could move to the middle east or Russia.
Re: your sig. Democracy here in Canada is 38% taking away the rights of 62% due to having more then 2 parties. Funniest was when the other parties tried to work together the minority screamed undemocratic and prorogued Parliament to stop the majority.
Give it some time. I'm sure cold fjord will show us how the Japanese government is scrupulous than the US.
He seems to get Sundays off.
Most people do because it costs more to avoid paying those taxes. I could run purple gas in my lawn mower saving a couple of bucks a year but the hassle and cost to go get the purple gas makes it not worth it.
If I was running a turf farm and used hundreds of gallons of gas a year then it would be worth using purple gas.
I could also create a bunch of corporations in various countries and save a few dollars in taxes but once again the hassle and cost out weigh simply paying the tax. If I was much richer then the tax savings of multiple corporations would be cost effective.
The greed and the concept of copyright piracy goes back to the beginning of copyright. When the first copyright law was written the publishers were pushing for it to be forever and even then claimed it was for the artists. Ever since that original 14+14 year term has been lengthened a bit at a time and the stuff that can be copyrighted has been extended until now when it is close to unlimited.
This has happened in multiple countries often with the countries pointing at each other and claiming they have to keep up with the other country and the elected legislatures have been the worse at lengthening it. (The House of Lords put the brakes on extensions a few times including insisting on the original 14+14 term and stating the reason for copyright was to advance learning rather then make publishers rich)
More authoritarian then the Democrats.
Not only that but with multiple political parties the Conservatives got their majority with 38% of the people who bothered to vote. Tyranny of the minority is what we have here.
I thought America still had the concept of felons, a special class of people who have certain rights removed including voting on how they are taxed. With 1% of the adult population in prison the percentage of people prevented from voting on taxes and laws must be non-negligible.
Are thought to be members of rival gangs. I doubt they go worry about evidence.
Then there are the people who are just in the way, journalists, cops and even politicians.
As I said, the Parliament was in very bad need of electoral reform including ideally giving the established older colonies seats in Parliament. I wouldn't call it feudal no more then I'd call America feudal for not giving Puerto Rico voting seats in Congress. (did any territories have a vote in congress?)
It wasn't until something like 1947 before the UK seriously considered giving an American colony (Newfoundland) seats in Parliament and most people would agree that feudalism was long over by then. Even now places like the Falkland Islands don't have a seat in Parliament. Same can be said about Guam not having a seat in Congress. Colonies almost by definition don't have seats in the parent governments legislature and many colonies were run by businesses rather then government including a few of the American colonies starting that way.
The anti-science people are merely Republicans. There's actually very little conservative about them, and when you ask them about certain aspects of government relationship with people, they'll go left of Stalin and insist upon an extremely authoritarian police state that tells people what to do.
What is it about Americans that they don't recognize that right wing conservatives can be just as authoritarian as left wing socialists. They both come in extremes including the extreme authoritarian types who push their workd view on you whether you want it or not. General Pinochet is a good example of a right wing free trader who was definitely a tyrant. Nelson Mandela is an example of a left winger who was not a tyrant.
Personally I've always been more scared of Conservatives as they like to use government to control peoples behaviour in all aspects including money whereas socialists usually just want to control peoples money witrh the left wanting to spread it around and the right wanting to hog it all.
There's a reason that conservatives (called Tories) were tarred and feathered during the American Revolution and then driven out of the country. I'd like to drive the Tories out of my government as well.
Huh? George Washington lost to the French who were the only ones still operating with a system ran by Dukes, Earls (actually they didn't have Earls) and a Monarch who thought he was appointed by God.
Now the English at the time of George Washington had a Parliament who was partially elected (the elected House controlled the purse) by the land owners and larger renters but was in need of electoral reform with whole cities without representation and ridings (electoral districts) with only a couple of voters who were quite happy to sell their vote to a rich business man. It had been 80 years since the last King who thought he was appointed by God was booted out by Parliament which finally was in undisputed control (The Supremacy of Parliament). So the King had about the same political power as the current Queen though he was more vocal. The Lords did have one house of Parliament so they could slow down and affect the democratic process and do things like push for limited copyright when the elected people were going to make it forever.
It was Parliament that enacted the laws that pissed off the colonists, a partially elected Parliament who did not represent the colonists and truthfully represented the rich, who were a mixture of business men who didn't want competition and landed gentry who thought they were special because of their parents.
The story I heard was that he and Heinlein made a bet about who could create the best religion. Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land and as far as I'm concerned won.
That would be perfect. Your boss can drop your pay by the amount of taxes you're saving and he can have more money.
You with your reduced income can now pay all those extra fees, tolls etc, perhaps even to your boss so he'll have even more money.
The 1st Amendment says "Congress will make no law". All your examples are (should be) handled locally, not federally.
Of course the 14th was passed without thinking things through and there hasn't been another amendment to fix it.
Where in the Bill of Rights does it limit rights to citizens? I don't remember the First Amendment saying Congress can make laws limiting free speech as long as foreigners are involved and I don't remember the 4th referring to the right of citizens to be secure.
Sad what you're saying considering your sig.
I used to keep guppies that had live births, I've also gutted dog fish which had fetuses inside.
Slavery implies no choice. You have chosen to take advantage of civilization and work and get nice stuff and now you don't want to pay. You could have chosen to not take advantage of civilization and not pay taxes. If you don't like paying taxes, quit working and don't pay them. Instead you sound like someone who went to a restaurant, ate a nice dinner and then bitched about getting a bill with the threat of prison if you don't pay.