It's relative, a few murders makes Surrey the murder capital. Surrey is also the biggest (or soon will be) city in BC though it is part of the Greater Vancouver Area.
The battery may have died 2 seconds before. Why else would he be wearing earbuds plugged into the phone? Anyways it's illegal in BC to have earbuds in both ears while driving or using the earbud to listen to music.
Somebody up the page claims that the BC Motor Vehicle Act prohibits the use of earphones, except when integrated with a communications system on a motorcycle. Looking at the MVA, I can't find any reference to that or even to electronic devices, perhaps an incomplete or old copy. According to CTV, https://bc.ctvnews.ca/can-you-...
According to the BC Superintendent of Motor Vehicles, headphones can be used while driving, but only for the purpose of hands-free communication. That means listening to music on your headphones while behind the wheel is illegal. All music must come through your vehicle's sound system.
As well, headphones must only be worn in one ear, and you must put it into your ear before you start driving. If you're caught breaking these laws you could be fined $167.
Just last week, I had an ambulance, sirens and lights going, coming up behind me. I pulled over and watched the idiot behind me, possibly this same person, not slow down, pass me close enough that I was bracing for getting rearended by a vehicle going at least 80 km/h and keep going. This is why driving with earbuds blocking your ears should be punished as distracted driving. Scared the shit out of me with how close the idiot passed me. Judging by how hard the ambulance driver hit his horn, they weren't impressed either. Luckily it was a 4 lane highway giving room for the ambulance to pass the idiot.
It's much simpler to stay on budget when you only have so much cash on hand to spend. Even more important are the physical affects. Spend cash, both the pleasure and disgust areas of the brain light up, that disgust part slows down spending. Use a card, only the pleasure part of the brain lights up, making it easier to spend money and even leading to an addiction.
(3) No person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2)
(a) if he establishes that the statements communicated were true;
(b) if, in good faith, the person expressed or attempted to establish by an argument an opinion on a religious subject or an opinion based on a belief in a religious text;
(c) if the statements were relevant to any subject of public interest, the discussion of which was for the public benefit, and if on reasonable grounds he believed them to be true; or
(d) if, in good faith, he intended to point out, for the purpose of removal, matters producing or tending to produce feelings of hatred toward an identifiable group in Canada.
Working doesn't have to be for profit, especially with the shit American prisons put out, something to do with the workers not giving a shit I'd guess. I spent a month in (not USA) prison 40 odd years ago, work was building firebreaks or working on the prison farm. Pay was $1-$5 a day, which at the time allowed buying necessities like soap and time passers like cards and cigarettes and chocolate bars to gamble with. Now I live by a prison, see the prisoners cleaning up the road, building forestry trails and similar.
Really, and what country would that be? Again, you can't refute that America has the largest number of immigrants in the world, every single fucking year.
Well, it depends on how you measure. Most years, in absolute numbers, you're right though just quickly looking, for example in the 50's, Canada had higher absolute numbers and was very close in the early 20th century. If you measure by percentage, then even Switzerland is ahead of the US and Canada lets in quite a larger percentage then the USA. It's a lot easier to have a million immigrants when you're population is close to 350 million, you end up getting the people who were refused in other countries such as Canada, which has been bringing in close to 300,000 a year with a population of 35 million. You'd have to triple your immigration to be comparable.
Why do you suppose that is?
Due to America having lots of good land and having a larger quota so people who can't have their first choice settle with America. Americans have also been running a powerful propaganda campaign for a long time. People actually believe that it is a country where hard work will mean advancement.
Sure, we had slavery, just like most all of the rest of the globe had back through 1800s
You had slavery much longer then most countries, though you did get rid of it before Brazil. Even in the late 18th century slavery was discouraged here with laws like children of slaves being freed at 21 years of age.
What other "refugees" are you claiming?
Well 50,000 Tories in the late 18th century due to their political believes. Lots of slaves ran here in the first half of the 19th century. Indian tribes would cross the border to escape the American Army who was out to kill them off and steal their land. More recently, lots of people who didn't want to be forced to go fight wars overseas, especially those avoiding going to Vietnam.
I didn't claim we're perfect...we've got a lot wrong with us. That doesn't make us the crapper that I frequently read about here, or in tabloid journalism. FWIW, I've been to ~50 countries (including living in two others for twelve years), and yet to see one that's got it any better.
You're not a bad country, it's just the attitude, the exceptionalism that turns people off. You're freedoms are different then other countries and if you want to own weapons, America is great. If you want to preach hatred, America is great. If you want to stop people from talking about sex, America has traditionally been great though the internet has changed that. There are a lot of negative things about America along with the good. It wasn't that long ago that you officially had segregation, and those policies still echo. Your political system seems very corrupt. You have millions of people in jail, partially due to the war on drugs. The war on drugs is an example of Federal overreach and ignoring your Constitution. At that, with that wonderful Constitution, there's a lot of not following it along with a refusal to update it. Just think of the 2nd amendment for example.
When you claim to be so much better then others and your actions are not better, you get more then your fair share of hate.
If America is such a wonderful country rather then having the best propaganda machine, why does my country have a 250 odd year of accepting political refugees from America? First it was people who had the wrong politics and talked about it, then it was people of the wrong colour, who had no rights due to their colour, then it was people of a different colour who were being genocided. More recently it was people trying to avoid having to kill people of the wrong colour and people not wanting to be raped by a system that rewards the worst in society with young male ass to literally fuck. Now that's freedom.
Yes, and Hitler, a harmless vegetarian, only exercised his free speech rights and all it took was others to successfully argue that he was wrong to prevent WWII.
Yes, socialism made housing too expensive, socialism made mental healthcare too expensive and that black market is pure socialism. I guess it was socialism that also caused Hearst to manipulate things to make hemp illegal so his business wasn't threatened by cheap paper as well and socialism that created the private prison industry. Is there nothing that socialism isn't responsible for? Shit it even made Obama pass a law forcing people to buy insurance from private insurance companies.
No censorship, no ads (unless the video creator included them in their videos), no risk of being shut-down without notice for some faked copyright claims or community standards violations -- in short, the ability to sleep soundly at night without worrying about what YouTube is going to break tomorrow.
Until the big copyright holders start using that video search engine to find copyright violators and along with the big ISP's, start blocking you. Both big content and big ISP, who are often the same today, don't want you hosting content and competing or using bandwidth. It's ideas like yours that make net neutrality important though copyright is always going to trump net neutrality.
You're obviously not understanding available to the public with a bunch of bad examples. A good example is a mall, and you are still very limited in how you can protest in a mall, and will be kicked out if you are being disruptive in your protest, and it is not hard to hit the disruptive point, just interfere with shoppers. But yes, you can stand quietly on the side and offer pamphlets. Even protesting in a government owned and operated building can see you thrown in jail. Try protesting during a trial in a court house if you don't believe me.
Yes, Democracy, as shitty as it is, seems to work better then the other alternatives, ideally you get some balance, eg the over regulators against the under regulators and most important, regular changes in government. it seems all governments get complacent and corrupt after a while, usually 8-10 years it seems. The problem with the free market is keeping it free. You can have government interference and private interference, and even worse the private interference working through government. Capitalists, who thrive under a free market, hate it as the goal is to have a non-free market where people are forced to use products due to monopolies and cartels.
Given a void in governance or a weakness, a corrupt, unjust and authoritarian group without any rule of law, will arise to fill the void
Now I understand that some prefer the East Indian type companies, or the type of company that ruled the Congo in the 19th century and would also prefer warlords but personally, that is not my preference.
You're ignoring human nature. Executives would just think they can do the job, won't make stupid mistakes and won't be caught screwing up as they're better.
I guess I never used Blockbuster, used to usually rent 7 movies for 7 days for $7 while avoiding the new releases. Google charges $4+ for old movies. Meanwhile, Netflix is $12 a month for unlimited, there's various free options including Youtube,, used DVD's go for a dollar and there's the library.
The prices Google shows are way too high, You're lucky to find something for $4. I just use the library, cheap and enough selection and doesn't eat into the internet quota of 250 GBs.
The problem that the AC seems to state is a shortage of legal phones, thus making illegal phones more important. There's been multiple stories here about how prisons handle phones, they charge a fortune and have a shortage of phones. Better would be reasonable access to phones for the prisoners.
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It's relative, a few murders makes Surrey the murder capital. Surrey is also the biggest (or soon will be) city in BC though it is part of the Greater Vancouver Area.
Who do you vote for? All 3 parties are in favour of distracted driving laws, along with the public.
The battery may have died 2 seconds before. Why else would he be wearing earbuds plugged into the phone? Anyways it's illegal in BC to have earbuds in both ears while driving or using the earbud to listen to music.
The battery may well have also died shortly before getting pulled over.
Somebody up the page claims that the BC Motor Vehicle Act prohibits the use of earphones, except when integrated with a communications system on a motorcycle.
Looking at the MVA, I can't find any reference to that or even to electronic devices, perhaps an incomplete or old copy.
According to CTV, https://bc.ctvnews.ca/can-you-...
Neither is a man wearing earphones connected to a phone with a dead battery
Which may well have died 2 minutes before.
Just last week, I had an ambulance, sirens and lights going, coming up behind me. I pulled over and watched the idiot behind me, possibly this same person, not slow down, pass me close enough that I was bracing for getting rearended by a vehicle going at least 80 km/h and keep going.
This is why driving with earbuds blocking your ears should be punished as distracted driving. Scared the shit out of me with how close the idiot passed me. Judging by how hard the ambulance driver hit his horn, they weren't impressed either. Luckily it was a 4 lane highway giving room for the ambulance to pass the idiot.
It's much simpler to stay on budget when you only have so much cash on hand to spend.
Even more important are the physical affects. Spend cash, both the pleasure and disgust areas of the brain light up, that disgust part slows down spending. Use a card, only the pleasure part of the brain lights up, making it easier to spend money and even leading to an addiction.
Just have to take it to court. To quote the actual law, https://laws-lois.justice.gc.c...
Just build a wall along the Mason Dixon line, or so. Big thing is to make sure Washington DC is on the other side of the wall.
Working doesn't have to be for profit, especially with the shit American prisons put out, something to do with the workers not giving a shit I'd guess.
I spent a month in (not USA) prison 40 odd years ago, work was building firebreaks or working on the prison farm. Pay was $1-$5 a day, which at the time allowed buying necessities like soap and time passers like cards and cigarettes and chocolate bars to gamble with.
Now I live by a prison, see the prisoners cleaning up the road, building forestry trails and similar.
Really, and what country would that be? Again, you can't refute that America has the largest number of immigrants in the world, every single fucking year.
Well, it depends on how you measure. Most years, in absolute numbers, you're right though just quickly looking, for example in the 50's, Canada had higher absolute numbers and was very close in the early 20th century.
If you measure by percentage, then even Switzerland is ahead of the US and Canada lets in quite a larger percentage then the USA. It's a lot easier to have a million immigrants when you're population is close to 350 million, you end up getting the people who were refused in other countries such as Canada, which has been bringing in close to 300,000 a year with a population of 35 million. You'd have to triple your immigration to be comparable.
Why do you suppose that is?
Due to America having lots of good land and having a larger quota so people who can't have their first choice settle with America. Americans have also been running a powerful propaganda campaign for a long time. People actually believe that it is a country where hard work will mean advancement.
Sure, we had slavery, just like most all of the rest of the globe had back through 1800s
You had slavery much longer then most countries, though you did get rid of it before Brazil. Even in the late 18th century slavery was discouraged here with laws like children of slaves being freed at 21 years of age.
What other "refugees" are you claiming?
Well 50,000 Tories in the late 18th century due to their political believes. Lots of slaves ran here in the first half of the 19th century. Indian tribes would cross the border to escape the American Army who was out to kill them off and steal their land. More recently, lots of people who didn't want to be forced to go fight wars overseas, especially those avoiding going to Vietnam.
I didn't claim we're perfect...we've got a lot wrong with us. That doesn't make us the crapper that I frequently read about here, or in tabloid journalism. FWIW, I've been to ~50 countries (including living in two others for twelve years), and yet to see one that's got it any better.
You're not a bad country, it's just the attitude, the exceptionalism that turns people off. You're freedoms are different then other countries and if you want to own weapons, America is great. If you want to preach hatred, America is great. If you want to stop people from talking about sex, America has traditionally been great though the internet has changed that.
There are a lot of negative things about America along with the good. It wasn't that long ago that you officially had segregation, and those policies still echo. Your political system seems very corrupt. You have millions of people in jail, partially due to the war on drugs. The war on drugs is an example of Federal overreach and ignoring your Constitution. At that, with that wonderful Constitution, there's a lot of not following it along with a refusal to update it. Just think of the 2nd amendment for example.
When you claim to be so much better then others and your actions are not better, you get more then your fair share of hate.
If America is such a wonderful country rather then having the best propaganda machine, why does my country have a 250 odd year of accepting political refugees from America? First it was people who had the wrong politics and talked about it, then it was people of the wrong colour, who had no rights due to their colour, then it was people of a different colour who were being genocided. More recently it was people trying to avoid having to kill people of the wrong colour and people not wanting to be raped by a system that rewards the worst in society with young male ass to literally fuck. Now that's freedom.
Did you know that the first Bill of Rights was the Bill of Rights of 1689?
Yes, and Hitler, a harmless vegetarian, only exercised his free speech rights and all it took was others to successfully argue that he was wrong to prevent WWII.
Yes, socialism made housing too expensive, socialism made mental healthcare too expensive and that black market is pure socialism.
I guess it was socialism that also caused Hearst to manipulate things to make hemp illegal so his business wasn't threatened by cheap paper as well and socialism that created the private prison industry.
Is there nothing that socialism isn't responsible for? Shit it even made Obama pass a law forcing people to buy insurance from private insurance companies.
No censorship, no ads (unless the video creator included them in their videos), no risk of being shut-down without notice for some faked copyright claims or community standards violations -- in short, the ability to sleep soundly at night without worrying about what YouTube is going to break tomorrow.
Until the big copyright holders start using that video search engine to find copyright violators and along with the big ISP's, start blocking you.
Both big content and big ISP, who are often the same today, don't want you hosting content and competing or using bandwidth.
It's ideas like yours that make net neutrality important though copyright is always going to trump net neutrality.
You're obviously not understanding available to the public with a bunch of bad examples.
A good example is a mall, and you are still very limited in how you can protest in a mall, and will be kicked out if you are being disruptive in your protest, and it is not hard to hit the disruptive point, just interfere with shoppers. But yes, you can stand quietly on the side and offer pamphlets.
Even protesting in a government owned and operated building can see you thrown in jail. Try protesting during a trial in a court house if you don't believe me.
Yes, Democracy, as shitty as it is, seems to work better then the other alternatives, ideally you get some balance, eg the over regulators against the under regulators and most important, regular changes in government. it seems all governments get complacent and corrupt after a while, usually 8-10 years it seems.
The problem with the free market is keeping it free. You can have government interference and private interference, and even worse the private interference working through government. Capitalists, who thrive under a free market, hate it as the goal is to have a non-free market where people are forced to use products due to monopolies and cartels.
Don't forget
The Second Law of Human Governance
Given a void in governance or a weakness, a corrupt, unjust and authoritarian group without any rule of law, will arise to fill the void
Now I understand that some prefer the East Indian type companies, or the type of company that ruled the Congo in the 19th century and would also prefer warlords but personally, that is not my preference.
Because bigger government is always the answer...
Well it seems to be an arms race with bigger corporations. What do you suggest? Surrender?
You're ignoring human nature. Executives would just think they can do the job, won't make stupid mistakes and won't be caught screwing up as they're better.
I guess I never used Blockbuster, used to usually rent 7 movies for 7 days for $7 while avoiding the new releases. Google charges $4+ for old movies. Meanwhile, Netflix is $12 a month for unlimited, there's various free options including Youtube,, used DVD's go for a dollar and there's the library.
The prices Google shows are way too high, You're lucky to find something for $4. I just use the library, cheap and enough selection and doesn't eat into the internet quota of 250 GBs.
The problem that the AC seems to state is a shortage of legal phones, thus making illegal phones more important.
There's been multiple stories here about how prisons handle phones, they charge a fortune and have a shortage of phones.
Better would be reasonable access to phones for the prisoners.