So what you are saying is that there are no Democracies on Earth? Every country has limits on freedom of speech and some even use speech to take away the right to vote, though I think America and perhaps Nigeria are the only one that takes it to that extreme.
I want to point out that in the United Kingdom, the entire parliaments can be dissolved by the Queen who has absolute power and can't be removed from office.
So I'm not sure what your point is.
While the Queen can dissolve parliament and perhaps should more often, it just means an election for a new parliament and if she abuses that power then Parliament will exercise its supremacy and kick her, and perhaps her family, out. They did this in 1688 to James II and his descendents. A better example would be the USA where the collage of electors can elect anyone they want to President while staying within the constitution.
They're paid by unit of work done by the prisoners as well as per capita. Very lucrative business having slaves where the upkeep is paid for by the tax payers and the profits of the labor go to the stock holders. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
The hunter gatherers that lived around where I now live worked for 2 weeks out of the year. The ones a bit further away in a crappier situation had to work an hour or 2 a day. And they were all fairly stable. Lots of hunter gathers lived in very rich areas where food was laying about for the picking or showed up in a predictable manner. The locals also had a few people per settlement whose job (for lack of a better word) was remembering everything. What they lacked was a government and much in the way of business.
In most countries the government has mandated pricing which is very low compared to pricing in the US. I do not know what their justification for these prices are, but they are dictated to the manufacturer.
The US pricing is set by the manufacturer, not the government.
The difference is purchasing power, same as why Walmart has such cheap prices. One large purchaser, whether public or private, can demand cheaper prices and the supplier has to get by with lower profits. This is the way the market works.
Patents are 20 odd years. The problem is when the patent is running out, the pharmaceutical company changes something small, often just the manufacturing process, perhaps a different buffer, or sometimes a slightly different formulation, and re-patents. Then the pharmaceutical company markets the hell out of the new patented drug since it has a high profit margin where the now generic drug is just as good but no longer profitable. This is one of the problems of drug marketing, the best drug according to the pharmaceutical companies is the most profitable, not the cheapest that works just as well.
Don't forget the slave labour that keeps America productive and raises industry profits.
According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people.
Jefferson, while perhaps not being a practicing Christian, was pretty close to one, and that was a long time ago. Jews also seem to have an acceptable excuse for not being a Christian in the States.
That might be a bit harder, since the non-Christians will at least mention their Christian opponents religion frequently, even if the Christians don''t. And they will....
As a non-American exposed quite a bit to American politics, I've mostly noticed Christians bragging about being moral and harping on non-Christians not being moral. I would expect non-Christians to go on about supposed Christians and their lack of morals as from what I know about Christs teachings, being successful in politics is completely incompatible with Christianity.
I think if you're summoned to court as a potential witness, you're not allowed to sit at the trial as listening to others testimony may influence your testimony. The one time I was summoned, I spent the whole trial in a room beside the court room waiting to see if I was called.
They're needing more and more skilled workers in the industries that the prison system runs. Plus violent low lives cost more to guard and aren't as productive. It won't be long before only the people with some money in the bank are sent to prison.
They are all about reducing the size, power, and involvement in daily life of government. If they got what they wanted you wouldn't "quintuple the prison population" in a few decades which would avoid this problem. I think that privatizing the police and courts would accelerate the rate of imprisoning people just as reducing the size of the part of government that runs the prisons has driven the quintupling of the size of the prison population that was mentioned in the summary. It is not the government that is profiting off of the large prison population (besides the campaign funding).
Does a non-christian have a realistic chance of getting voted into office? Can someone run for office without religion being mentioned? Theory (the constitution) and practice are two different things.
Another reason for the high number of children from religous backgrounds having lots of sex is simple repression. After growing up without being touched or loved for being themselves they'll happily have sex just for the physical contact and attention. Throw in not knowing about safe sex and you get a high pregnancy rate.
Genetics are just the blueprints or perhaps potential. Environment has a huge affect. Malnutrition in children causes them to be physically smaller and have a lower IQ. The mother drinking lots of alcohol during pregnancy causes children who have different ratios in their body build, eg the distance between their eyes compared to the rest of their face and also in extreme cases not even being able to add 2+2 and in less extreme cases lower IQ or maybe better to just say less intelligence. The jails are full of people who had the misfortune to have had an alcoholic mother and never met their genetic potential. And alcohol is just one cause (though very well studied) of people not growing to their genetic potential. You can have the best blueprint for a bridge but if someone uses poor quality materials and takes short cuts the bridge can be faulty.
Pray the Supreme Court shows some sanity? Seems most parts of this law are unconstitutional from unreasonable searches to stepping on the Provinces toes by passing legislation regulating private property. Also be a bonus if a bunch of election results were thrown out forcing bye-elections and removing the Conservatives majority but I doubt that that would happen, they''ll just go on about it being anti-democratic and prorogue Parliament until people forget the truth and believe their attack ads. I'll write my MP again but he honestly believes the bullshit about intellectual property and if anything this law doesn't go far enough to protect the rights of the artists ctrl-w publishers.
Hey, my beneficent government is going to make an exception (the only one) to that when they finally obey the US governments rules. That is why our version of DRM is better then yours where you only have fair use.
Here it would be quicker to crawl to the shop (only 10 miles) and bring it home on floppies. 5 months to download it with the wife bitching the whole time about how she wants to use the phone.
They agree with you, at least judging from their ads. "Buy a copy today". I've never heard them offering a licence, just a purchase, with the presumed limitation that you can't copy for profit.
When copyright first came about, around the beginning of the 18th century, the elected house defaulted to copyright was about the publishers being able to make money forever from the works of the artists. The unelected house argued this down to the publishers being able to make money for 14 years (with a possible extension for another 14 years) for the advancement of learning, which was passed into law. 80 odd years later the Americans copied this, changing the advancement of learning into the advancement of the Arts and Sciences and expanded copyright to include maps and charts. Since then the elected government has changed this into copyright for infinity -1 for the publishers to make money and maybe throw a bone to the artists. The goal of copyright according to the elected part of government has always been about the publishers making money. It is only unelected people who think that copyright should be for the advancement of society. As we have become more democratic, so has copyright became about the publishers profiting. I wish I could think of a fair way to have government that includes unelected members of society in a fair way.
Meanwhile, I've bought DVDs that have some stupid Macrovision copy protection on them, and I can't play them on my Tivo's DVD drive because my TV has a built-in VCR, and something about it triggers the copy protection so the picture keeps dimming in and out.
So that is what the wife keeps bitching about on the DVD recorder + VCR I bought her. Thanks for the heads up. On a similar note, a DVD we borrowed from the library, with lots of scratches, could not play on any of our DVD players. It plays fine on the computer with VLC which will soon be illegal thanks to pressure from the Land of the Free.
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So what you are saying is that there are no Democracies on Earth? Every country has limits on freedom of speech and some even use speech to take away the right to vote, though I think America and perhaps Nigeria are the only one that takes it to that extreme.
I want to point out that in the United Kingdom, the entire parliaments can be dissolved by the Queen who has absolute power and can't be removed from office.
So I'm not sure what your point is.
While the Queen can dissolve parliament and perhaps should more often, it just means an election for a new parliament and if she abuses that power then Parliament will exercise its supremacy and kick her, and perhaps her family, out. They did this in 1688 to James II and his descendents.
A better example would be the USA where the collage of electors can elect anyone they want to President while staying within the constitution.
One thing I want to know is: What methods are they going use to determine if somebody is pirating?
Bandwidth consumption of course. Has the nice side affect of saving them the money to update their infrastructure as well.
They're paid by unit of work done by the prisoners as well as per capita. Very lucrative business having slaves where the upkeep is paid for by the tax payers and the profits of the labor go to the stock holders.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
The hunter gatherers that lived around where I now live worked for 2 weeks out of the year. The ones a bit further away in a crappier situation had to work an hour or 2 a day. And they were all fairly stable.
Lots of hunter gathers lived in very rich areas where food was laying about for the picking or showed up in a predictable manner.
The locals also had a few people per settlement whose job (for lack of a better word) was remembering everything. What they lacked was a government and much in the way of business.
In most countries the government has mandated pricing which is very low compared to pricing in the US. I do not know what their justification for these prices are, but they are dictated to the manufacturer.
The US pricing is set by the manufacturer, not the government.
The difference is purchasing power, same as why Walmart has such cheap prices. One large purchaser, whether public or private, can demand cheaper prices and the supplier has to get by with lower profits. This is the way the market works.
Patents are 20 odd years. The problem is when the patent is running out, the pharmaceutical company changes something small, often just the manufacturing process, perhaps a different buffer, or sometimes a slightly different formulation, and re-patents. Then the pharmaceutical company markets the hell out of the new patented drug since it has a high profit margin where the now generic drug is just as good but no longer profitable.
This is one of the problems of drug marketing, the best drug according to the pharmaceutical companies is the most profitable, not the cheapest that works just as well.
Don't forget the slave labour that keeps America productive and raises industry profits.
According to the Left Business Observer, the federal prison industry produces 100% of all military helmets, ammunition belts, bullet-proof vests, ID tags, shirts, pants, tents, bags, and canteens. Along with war supplies, prison workers supply 98% of the entire market for equipment assembly services; 93% of paints and paintbrushes; 92% of stove assembly; 46% of body armor; 36% of home appliances; 30% of headphones/microphones/speakers; and 21% of office furniture. Airplane parts, medical supplies, and much more: prisoners are even raising seeing-eye dogs for blind people.
From http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8289
Jefferson, while perhaps not being a practicing Christian, was pretty close to one, and that was a long time ago. Jews also seem to have an acceptable excuse for not being a Christian in the States .
That might be a bit harder, since the non-Christians will at least mention their Christian opponents religion frequently, even if the Christians don''t. And they will....
As a non-American exposed quite a bit to American politics, I've mostly noticed Christians bragging about being moral and harping on non-Christians not being moral. I would expect non-Christians to go on about supposed Christians and their lack of morals as from what I know about Christs teachings, being successful in politics is completely incompatible with Christianity.
I should have been more specific, as meaning higher office. And I can see being a practicing Jew as being acceptable to American Christians.
I think if you're summoned to court as a potential witness, you're not allowed to sit at the trial as listening to others testimony may influence your testimony.
The one time I was summoned, I spent the whole trial in a room beside the court room waiting to see if I was called.
They're needing more and more skilled workers in the industries that the prison system runs. Plus violent low lives cost more to guard and aren't as productive. It won't be long before only the people with some money in the bank are sent to prison.
They are all about reducing the size, power, and involvement in daily life of government. If they got what they wanted you wouldn't "quintuple the prison population" in a few decades which would avoid this problem.
I think that privatizing the police and courts would accelerate the rate of imprisoning people just as reducing the size of the part of government that runs the prisons has driven the quintupling of the size of the prison population that was mentioned in the summary. It is not the government that is profiting off of the large prison population (besides the campaign funding).
Does a non-christian have a realistic chance of getting voted into office? Can someone run for office without religion being mentioned?
Theory (the constitution) and practice are two different things.
Another reason for the high number of children from religous backgrounds having lots of sex is simple repression. After growing up without being touched or loved for being themselves they'll happily have sex just for the physical contact and attention. Throw in not knowing about safe sex and you get a high pregnancy rate.
I think they mean the second meteorite that has been known to hit a roof worldwide. The other one hit a woman after going through the roof and bouncing off a radio causing a nasty bruise.
http://www.michaelbloodmeteorites.com/SylacaugaHulittHodgesW.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodges_meteorite
Genetics are just the blueprints or perhaps potential. Environment has a huge affect. Malnutrition in children causes them to be physically smaller and have a lower IQ. The mother drinking lots of alcohol during pregnancy causes children who have different ratios in their body build, eg the distance between their eyes compared to the rest of their face and also in extreme cases not even being able to add 2+2 and in less extreme cases lower IQ or maybe better to just say less intelligence. The jails are full of people who had the misfortune to have had an alcoholic mother and never met their genetic potential. And alcohol is just one cause (though very well studied) of people not growing to their genetic potential.
You can have the best blueprint for a bridge but if someone uses poor quality materials and takes short cuts the bridge can be faulty.
Pray the Supreme Court shows some sanity? Seems most parts of this law are unconstitutional from unreasonable searches to stepping on the Provinces toes by passing legislation regulating private property.
Also be a bonus if a bunch of election results were thrown out forcing bye-elections and removing the Conservatives majority but I doubt that that would happen, they''ll just go on about it being anti-democratic and prorogue Parliament until people forget the truth and believe their attack ads.
I'll write my MP again but he honestly believes the bullshit about intellectual property and if anything this law doesn't go far enough to protect the rights of the artists ctrl-w publishers.
Hey, my beneficent government is going to make an exception (the only one) to that when they finally obey the US governments rules. That is why our version of DRM is better then yours where you only have fair use.
Here it would be quicker to crawl to the shop (only 10 miles) and bring it home on floppies. 5 months to download it with the wife bitching the whole time about how she wants to use the phone.
They agree with you, at least judging from their ads. "Buy a copy today". I've never heard them offering a licence, just a purchase, with the presumed limitation that you can't copy for profit.
When copyright first came about, around the beginning of the 18th century, the elected house defaulted to copyright was about the publishers being able to make money forever from the works of the artists. The unelected house argued this down to the publishers being able to make money for 14 years (with a possible extension for another 14 years) for the advancement of learning, which was passed into law.
80 odd years later the Americans copied this, changing the advancement of learning into the advancement of the Arts and Sciences and expanded copyright to include maps and charts.
Since then the elected government has changed this into copyright for infinity -1 for the publishers to make money and maybe throw a bone to the artists.
The goal of copyright according to the elected part of government has always been about the publishers making money. It is only unelected people who think that copyright should be for the advancement of society. As we have become more democratic, so has copyright became about the publishers profiting.
I wish I could think of a fair way to have government that includes unelected members of society in a fair way.
Meanwhile, I've bought DVDs that have some stupid Macrovision copy protection on them, and I can't play them on my Tivo's DVD drive because my TV has a built-in VCR, and something about it triggers the copy protection so the picture keeps dimming in and out.
So that is what the wife keeps bitching about on the DVD recorder + VCR I bought her. Thanks for the heads up.
On a similar note, a DVD we borrowed from the library, with lots of scratches, could not play on any of our DVD players. It plays fine on the computer with VLC which will soon be illegal thanks to pressure from the Land of the Free.
The US government has been behind most of my rights getting taken away and I have no voice over the US government along with billions of other people.
You're forgetting Mulroney and his safety box full of $1000 bills.