90 odd cents in Edmonton according to the CBC today. The story is that America pays so little for oil sand oil that it has lowered the price in Alberta. Here in BC the last refinery has to buy oil from Kuwait even though the pipeline ends next door to them. Seems the feds keep giving it to China instead of us. I'd swear Harper is a secret Chinese agent.
The original Statute of Anne that the American version was based on was even simpler. The full name was "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of Copies, during the Times therein mentioned" The wiki page has the interesting history of it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
If someone writes a best seller then dies, what is wrong with their heirs being able to profit for a reasonable time? People write their memoirs when on their death bed so their widow will have some income. Much simpler just to have a limited copyright, the 14+14 years that the original had seems good enough.
When my son needed a portable computer for school, a netbook was perfect. I could afford it and he used it from grade 9 to grade 12. A toy it was not. Now if I had to get him something for school, about the only choice would be a second hand netbook as I'm not rich enough to get him a full featured notebook, especially one small enough to easily carry around and tablets are even more expensive when you consider having to have a data plan and needing to run things like Excel.
While it is true that the founders often used legal means such as letters of attainment (passing a law declaring someone guilty so they can be stripped of their property, freedom and often whipped or hung) or by people such as Judge Lynch who would pretend that their court was legal (the Continental Congress passed a law retroactively giving Charles Lynch immunity) to terrorize those opposing the revolution there was also the common practice of painting boiling tar on Conservatives then covering them with feathers.
It has been business that has demanded government provide roads, firefighters, schooling etc. Business demands socializing these things that aren't cost effective. Insurance companies used to pay for firefighters. Then there was a couple of bad fires and the insurance companies demanded government take care of it. Business wanted cheap roads to move their goods so they demanded government roads. They wanted an educated work force as workers who can read are more productive so they demanded government run schools. Here we are now, a society geared for socializing infrastructure for the benefit of business and they don't want to pay for it.
If pressed these days they usually sidestep it and say "but it was warmer before!", as if the Earth can somehow warm itself spontaneously.
Actually the Earth does warm itself somewhat spontaneously. Huge volcanic eruptions happen spontaneously and the continents rearrange themselves spontaneously. Both of these can cause global warming and the Earth has spent aprox. 80% of its life in hothouse conditions. The only reasons that global warming is a problem is that our civilization will probably end with global warming and may well end with global nuclear war and Home Sapiens has evolved during ice-house conditions. (Look at how well Homo Neanderthal handled natural global warming.) Long term (10's of millions of years) it doesn't really matter, what does matter is that it affects us personally and especially affects our children and there children and so on.
I haven't seen Bowling for Columbine but if Moore was claiming that Canada was not more gun restrictive then America he was wrong. Handguns have been highly regulated since the 1920's and things like assault rifles are also highly regulated. Canadians have lots of rifles and shotguns with very few handguns. Personally I see the problem as being handguns rather then firearms when it comes to the high number of gun related deaths in America. With the claims that the 2nd amendment is mostly about being able to raise up against the government, banning handguns would have no affect on that capability.
Most of the civilized world considers things like speech, assembly and association to be fundamental rights that can only be taken away by due process of the law. If a judge judges that a convicted person is a threat to online gamers then as part of sentencing the judge can order the convicted criminal not to participate in online activities such as gaming.
If someone has been convicted of a crime that implies that they are liable to re-offend and it involves online gaming or similar then the judge can ban them at sentencing like in the rest of the civilized world. Same goes for putting them on any other list including sex offenders and firearm owners. This called due process and in many countries is a right.
I understand that sex offenders have an unusually high recidivism rate
This is a common misunderstanding as two minutes on Google will show. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender#Recidivism sex offenders have a recidivism rate of 5.3% (or 43% when considering any crime rather then sex crimes) compared with 68% for non-sex crime recidivism. The way it's done in Canada is at sentencing the judge can include things like being put on the sex offender registry and being banned from certain activities if appropriate.
It reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defence within the rule of law, and condemned James II of England for "causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law".
The ritualistic stuff in Leviticus was to insure it got taught to the next generation as it made it seem important to their souls survival in the afterlife
Judaism didn't have an after life when Leviticus was written. It was all about not offending the spiteful, jealous god that they worshiped back then. While some things made sense such as the ban on pork, other things seem to have just been whimsical such as the ban on wearing cloth made out of 2 different plants (fibers). There could also have been rules against unhealthy things such as shitting close to your drinking water.
First would be defining God. Probably 300 million definitions just in America. Locally God is traditionally defined as a Western Red Cedar (Arborvitae) tree which obviously does exist, can supply many actual needs and will smite you if you don't show the right respect when cutting one down. So as long as we all agree that God is a Cedar tree you're right that God is a fact and the vast majority of people when confronted by a tree will agree that it exists.
Carbon comes from the ground. Volcanoes year after year emit carbon and in the past there has been extreme volcanism emitting large amounts of carbon. Venus is an example of how much carbon an Earth sized planet emits. On Earth we have biological and geological sequestrating of carbon. All the limestone and related minerals were created from atmospheric carbon. This works through weathering and with increasing heat, rain fall often increases causing more weathering and more sequestrating of carbon. In the long run this will limit the effects of increased CO2. Biological sequestrating has also removed perhaps halve of all the carbon that has been released over 4.5 million years. Releasing this carbon as we're doing increases the CO2 level of the atmosphere and CO2 being a greenhouse gas, why would it not cause warming?
There is a mechanism to fix this called a constitutional amendment. In this case the amendment has already been proposed, at that it was the first one ever proposed and has been ratified by 11 States. Since it has no expiry date it is not too late to pass it, just like the second proposed amendment was finally passed as the 27th amendment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_the_First
You mean like Nixon? I'm over 50 and conservatives have always been about promoting business and their morality. Though at the end of the '70's they did learn that borrow and spend was a better way to get votes then tax and spend like the left did.
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90 odd cents in Edmonton according to the CBC today. The story is that America pays so little for oil sand oil that it has lowered the price in Alberta. Here in BC the last refinery has to buy oil from Kuwait even though the pipeline ends next door to them. Seems the feds keep giving it to China instead of us. I'd swear Harper is a secret Chinese agent.
The original Statute of Anne that the American version was based on was even simpler. The full name was "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of Copies, during the Times therein mentioned"
The wiki page has the interesting history of it, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne
If someone writes a best seller then dies, what is wrong with their heirs being able to profit for a reasonable time? People write their memoirs when on their death bed so their widow will have some income.
Much simpler just to have a limited copyright, the 14+14 years that the original had seems good enough.
When my son needed a portable computer for school, a netbook was perfect. I could afford it and he used it from grade 9 to grade 12. A toy it was not.
Now if I had to get him something for school, about the only choice would be a second hand netbook as I'm not rich enough to get him a full featured notebook, especially one small enough to easily carry around and tablets are even more expensive when you consider having to have a data plan and needing to run things like Excel.
While it is true that the founders often used legal means such as letters of attainment (passing a law declaring someone guilty so they can be stripped of their property, freedom and often whipped or hung) or by people such as Judge Lynch who would pretend that their court was legal (the Continental Congress passed a law retroactively giving Charles Lynch immunity) to terrorize those opposing the revolution there was also the common practice of painting boiling tar on Conservatives then covering them with feathers.
When you consider dry land area, Mars is only slightly smaller then Earth.
It has been business that has demanded government provide roads, firefighters, schooling etc. Business demands socializing these things that aren't cost effective. Insurance companies used to pay for firefighters. Then there was a couple of bad fires and the insurance companies demanded government take care of it. Business wanted cheap roads to move their goods so they demanded government roads. They wanted an educated work force as workers who can read are more productive so they demanded government run schools.
Here we are now, a society geared for socializing infrastructure for the benefit of business and they don't want to pay for it.
If pressed these days they usually sidestep it and say "but it was warmer before!", as if the Earth can somehow warm itself spontaneously.
Actually the Earth does warm itself somewhat spontaneously. Huge volcanic eruptions happen spontaneously and the continents rearrange themselves spontaneously. Both of these can cause global warming and the Earth has spent aprox. 80% of its life in hothouse conditions.
The only reasons that global warming is a problem is that our civilization will probably end with global warming and may well end with global nuclear war and Home Sapiens has evolved during ice-house conditions. (Look at how well Homo Neanderthal handled natural global warming.)
Long term (10's of millions of years) it doesn't really matter, what does matter is that it affects us personally and especially affects our children and there children and so on.
I haven't seen Bowling for Columbine but if Moore was claiming that Canada was not more gun restrictive then America he was wrong. Handguns have been highly regulated since the 1920's and things like assault rifles are also highly regulated. Canadians have lots of rifles and shotguns with very few handguns.
Personally I see the problem as being handguns rather then firearms when it comes to the high number of gun related deaths in America. With the claims that the 2nd amendment is mostly about being able to raise up against the government, banning handguns would have no affect on that capability.
You could say the same thing about most western countries, with some variability about which minorities boost the homicide rate.
Most of the civilized world considers things like speech, assembly and association to be fundamental rights that can only be taken away by due process of the law. If a judge judges that a convicted person is a threat to online gamers then as part of sentencing the judge can order the convicted criminal not to participate in online activities such as gaming.
If someone has been convicted of a crime that implies that they are liable to re-offend and it involves online gaming or similar then the judge can ban them at sentencing like in the rest of the civilized world. Same goes for putting them on any other list including sex offenders and firearm owners.
This called due process and in many countries is a right.
I understand that sex offenders have an unusually high recidivism rate
This is a common misunderstanding as two minutes on Google will show. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender#Recidivism sex offenders have a recidivism rate of 5.3% (or 43% when considering any crime rather then sex crimes) compared with 68% for non-sex crime recidivism.
The way it's done in Canada is at sentencing the judge can include things like being put on the sex offender registry and being banned from certain activities if appropriate.
That's the problem with a Bill of Rights that's only a regular law, too easy to change.
The Bill of Rights of 1689 said otherwise. To quote Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689
It reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defence within the rule of law, and condemned James II of England for "causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed and employed contrary to law".
The ritualistic stuff in Leviticus was to insure it got taught to the next generation as it made it seem important to their souls survival in the afterlife
Judaism didn't have an after life when Leviticus was written. It was all about not offending the spiteful, jealous god that they worshiped back then.
While some things made sense such as the ban on pork, other things seem to have just been whimsical such as the ban on wearing cloth made out of 2 different plants (fibers). There could also have been rules against unhealthy things such as shitting close to your drinking water.
Is goat skin really that expensive in a goat herding society?
First would be defining God. Probably 300 million definitions just in America. Locally God is traditionally defined as a Western Red Cedar (Arborvitae) tree which obviously does exist, can supply many actual needs and will smite you if you don't show the right respect when cutting one down. So as long as we all agree that God is a Cedar tree you're right that God is a fact and the vast majority of people when confronted by a tree will agree that it exists.
And how are they going to finance making a plant? Perhaps by picking bottles?
There's quite a demand for blacksmiths. The one I know spends a lot of time teaching and likely makes more money then you.
Since so many corporations are already paying zero taxes, why would lowering them make any difference?
Usually it is things like phosphorus availability that limits plant growth, not CO2.
Carbon comes from the ground. Volcanoes year after year emit carbon and in the past there has been extreme volcanism emitting large amounts of carbon. Venus is an example of how much carbon an Earth sized planet emits.
On Earth we have biological and geological sequestrating of carbon. All the limestone and related minerals were created from atmospheric carbon. This works through weathering and with increasing heat, rain fall often increases causing more weathering and more sequestrating of carbon. In the long run this will limit the effects of increased CO2.
Biological sequestrating has also removed perhaps halve of all the carbon that has been released over 4.5 million years. Releasing this carbon as we're doing increases the CO2 level of the atmosphere and CO2 being a greenhouse gas, why would it not cause warming?
There is a mechanism to fix this called a constitutional amendment. In this case the amendment has already been proposed, at that it was the first one ever proposed and has been ratified by 11 States. Since it has no expiry date it is not too late to pass it, just like the second proposed amendment was finally passed as the 27th amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_the_First
You mean like Nixon? I'm over 50 and conservatives have always been about promoting business and their morality. Though at the end of the '70's they did learn that borrow and spend was a better way to get votes then tax and spend like the left did.