Do you have to have trial by jury in the States? Here in Canada it is something that you can elect to have or you can have trial by judge. Seems to me that being accused of child porn you would be safer going without a jury.
The other day I was trying to fix my Ubuntu installs monitor resolution so I navigated to an old Win98 partition, found the inf file for my monitor and double clicked it expecting to have the file load in a text editor. Instead I got a dialog asking if I wanted to execute the file or load it in a text file. This could of easily been a script to delete everything in $HOME that arrived on a USB drive. Pretty easy to execute if the malware is on a file system that doesn't support permissions and the OS helpfully offers to execute it.
Capitalism is pretty competitive at producing corpses. The slave trade was driven by capitalism and killed a lot of people. The genocide of the native people of the America's seen a lot of corpses so people could make money. As well as undertakings such as the railroads and one I was just reading about, the Panama canal (and railroad).
It seems weird that TV stations would rather be on UHF then lo-VHF. The VHF lo band carries much further then UHF so I wonder what the attraction of UHF is.
I don't know about Canadian law, but in the US, there are some interesting variations.
Can the police raid your house because they think there are drugs inside? No. Not without a warrant.
Now say a police officer walks up to your house and knocks on the door. He could be there for any reason. "Have you seen anything suspicious lately?" When you open the door, he sees several kilos of what appears to be drugs, and an uzi sitting on the coffee table, can he raid the house? Yes.
Actually I think in Canada, even after seeing the several kilos of what appears to be drugs on the table they still have to go get a warrant. Of course they are going to sit right outside your door, or even inside, and have no problem getting a warrant. As usual I'm not a lawyer and just going by what I read in the local papers.
Actually having an Autistic son, it was quite surprising how little equipped the average doctor was to diagnose him. While when he started preschool the people there immediately knew there was something different about him the doctors kept just sending us to more specialized specialists until we made quite a few trips to childrens hospital with a lot of testing including MRI's and things before he was diagnosed. Also when he started school he was not talking and very frustrated with attempting to communicate. The school principal started out not even believing in autism but after the first year agreed that autism was a real disability.
You are correct about the coalition not having much support yet the main argument that I heard in advertisements, letters to the editor etc was the democracy card. The Conservatives got 37% of the vote, far from a sweeping mandate when over 60% voted anyone but the Conservatives and the threat of the coalition was to remind the Conservatives that people were split and expected the Conservatives to remember that.
Ideally in the UK system the seats in the House of Commons should be split 40-30-30. Then the PM is whoever can pass a vote of confidence in the Commons. This is what has been happening in Canada lately. What is funny is when the 3 minority parties announced they were going to defeat the government last December, the Governor General actually had to make an executive decision and prorogued Parliament. The governing Conservatives actually convinced people that it was undemocratic for the opposition parties to form a government. Of course the American system is different enough that that wouldn't work there.
Lamerickism is an excellent example that too many people don't know about. A theory of evolution that was different then Darwinism that made predictions and was scientifically disproved by experimentation. Also of interest as even after being disproved quite a few people continued to believe in it.
You do realize that socialism is when the government owns various businesses, eg if the government had nationalized the banks and fired the management that screwed things up so much would be socialism. Capitalism is when business strives to make as much profit as possible. And what could be more profitable then buying the government and getting tax money given to you. That is why the management of the banks deserved such large bonuses, they brought in lots of money with only having to pay of some government people. Very profitable and capitalist. What I think you are dreaming about is a free market, which of course is not very capitalist as it is hard to maximize profits when you have to compete. Also if your taxes dropped. Your employer would drop your wages and various businesses would raise their prices as being in a monopoly position the only thing that limits what they charge is how much consumers can afford.
If, on the other hand, there is a permanent personal tax cut and I suddenly have another $100 in my monthly check, that money will go to work immediately. I have plenty of little jobs about the place that might call for hiring a construction worker or two, for a day or two.
Be nice if it worked that way. In reality your employer can cut your wages by $100, the oil companies can jack up the price of fuel since you have more money to spend. Same with the cable company and phone company and all the other defacto monopolies as they have to increase their profit margines. Groceries etc that depend on the price of fuel increase in price as well. The lower wage earners who only get a $50 tax cut are really hurting. People like you with luck will break even and the very rich have more money to put in their mattress.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. And haven't we been taught that all conspiracy theories are products of paranoid minds. So obviously these cops, government officials and contractors are innocent because conspiracies only happen in paranoid minds
Hey we agree!:-) I also want to add that a lot of Canadian and EU patients are being turned away by Government Hospitals, because politicians have decided cutting expenses is more-important. They are false-calling it "universal" even though it clearly is not.
Where do you get this information? I haven't heard anything about patients getting turned away from hospitals and that is the kind of thing that would make the news here in Canada. Using your pacemaker example. Someone I know recently went to the doctor, was diagnosed that they need a pacemaker now. Less then 12 hours later he had a temporary pacemaker. Couple of weeks later he had a permanent pacemaker installed. Total cost to him, zero dollars. We also seem to have less taxes then Americans from what I read here.
That raises the question, how the hell can a ballot be so badly designed that (discounting purposely spoiled ballots) there can be any question about the intent of the voter? When I vote (Canada) there is like an inch between the boxes and as you say a quick glance is all that it takes to see which box was checked.
Huh? In Canada there is currently no lawsuits and the money that is collected from the media levies goes to the artists, not the record companies. Of course the media industries are trying to change this to US style laws.
There is a smaller levy (21 cents IIRC) on blank CD media. There is none on DVD media or flash etc. Of course there is also a levy on blank cassettes. I've noticed that the couple of cheap MP3 players my family has purchased come with a couple of songs on them. I presume this is to work around any future levy on blank media.
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In Canada it is questionable whether downloading stuff is even illegal. Especially music, which has a levy on blank media to pay for sharing.
Ok, thanks for the explanation. A little bit surprising that judges would try insist on trial by jury though I guess it could affect an appeal.
Do you have to have trial by jury in the States?
Here in Canada it is something that you can elect to have or you can have trial by judge. Seems to me that being accused of child porn you would be safer going without a jury.
The other day I was trying to fix my Ubuntu installs monitor resolution so I navigated to an old Win98 partition, found the inf file for my monitor and double clicked it expecting to have the file load in a text editor.
Instead I got a dialog asking if I wanted to execute the file or load it in a text file. This could of easily been a script to delete everything in $HOME that arrived on a USB drive. Pretty easy to execute if the malware is on a file system that doesn't support permissions and the OS helpfully offers to execute it.
Capitalism is pretty competitive at producing corpses. The slave trade was driven by capitalism and killed a lot of people. The genocide of the native people of the America's seen a lot of corpses so people could make money. As well as undertakings such as the railroads and one I was just reading about, the Panama canal (and railroad).
It seems weird that TV stations would rather be on UHF then lo-VHF. The VHF lo band carries much further then UHF so I wonder what the attraction of UHF is.
Management is worth a lot more now a days, just ask them.
Actually just to make things less clear, mules are occasionally fertile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule#Fertility
I don't know about Canadian law, but in the US, there are some interesting variations.
Can the police raid your house because they think there are drugs inside? No. Not without a warrant.
Now say a police officer walks up to your house and knocks on the door. He could be there for any reason. "Have you seen anything suspicious lately?" When you open the door, he sees several kilos of what appears to be drugs, and an uzi sitting on the coffee table, can he raid the house? Yes.
Actually I think in Canada, even after seeing the several kilos of what appears to be drugs on the table they still have to go get a warrant. Of course they are going to sit right outside your door, or even inside, and have no problem getting a warrant. As usual I'm not a lawyer and just going by what I read in the local papers.
We're talking about Canada, which has some strict privacy laws. So they may not be able to disclose it whether they would like to or not.
Yes, I was vaccinated against small pox and polio and that was it. Caught measles, mumps and chickenpox. Never caught german measles which is a different disease from regular measles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_measles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles
Actually having an Autistic son, it was quite surprising how little equipped the average doctor was to diagnose him.
While when he started preschool the people there immediately knew there was something different about him the doctors kept just sending us to more specialized specialists until we made quite a few trips to childrens hospital with a lot of testing including MRI's and things before he was diagnosed.
Also when he started school he was not talking and very frustrated with attempting to communicate. The school principal started out not even believing in autism but after the first year agreed that autism was a real disability.
You are correct about the coalition not having much support yet the main argument that I heard in advertisements, letters to the editor etc was the democracy card.
The Conservatives got 37% of the vote, far from a sweeping mandate when over 60% voted anyone but the Conservatives and the threat of the coalition was to remind the Conservatives that people were split and expected the Conservatives to remember that.
Ideally in the UK system the seats in the House of Commons should be split 40-30-30. Then the PM is whoever can pass a vote of confidence in the Commons.
This is what has been happening in Canada lately. What is funny is when the 3 minority parties announced they were going to defeat the government last December, the Governor General actually had to make an executive decision and prorogued Parliament. The governing Conservatives actually convinced people that it was undemocratic for the opposition parties to form a government.
Of course the American system is different enough that that wouldn't work there.
Lamerickism is an excellent example that too many people don't know about. A theory of evolution that was different then Darwinism that made predictions and was scientifically disproved by experimentation.
Also of interest as even after being disproved quite a few people continued to believe in it.
http://www.ecomstation.com/
You do realize that socialism is when the government owns various businesses, eg if the government had nationalized the banks and fired the management that screwed things up so much would be socialism.
Capitalism is when business strives to make as much profit as possible. And what could be more profitable then buying the government and getting tax money given to you. That is why the management of the banks deserved such large bonuses, they brought in lots of money with only having to pay of some government people. Very profitable and capitalist.
What I think you are dreaming about is a free market, which of course is not very capitalist as it is hard to maximize profits when you have to compete.
Also if your taxes dropped. Your employer would drop your wages and various businesses would raise their prices as being in a monopoly position the only thing that limits what they charge is how much consumers can afford.
If, on the other hand, there is a permanent personal tax cut and I suddenly have another $100 in my monthly check, that money will go to work immediately. I have plenty of little jobs about the place that might call for hiring a construction worker or two, for a day or two.
Be nice if it worked that way. In reality your employer can cut your wages by $100, the oil companies can jack up the price of fuel since you have more money to spend. Same with the cable company and phone company and all the other defacto monopolies as they have to increase their profit margines. Groceries etc that depend on the price of fuel increase in price as well.
The lower wage earners who only get a $50 tax cut are really hurting. People like you with luck will break even and the very rich have more money to put in their mattress.
Sounds like a conspiracy theory to me. And haven't we been taught that all conspiracy theories are products of paranoid minds.
So obviously these cops, government officials and contractors are innocent because conspiracies only happen in paranoid minds
Quoting the AC above me as I've had the same results. Privoxy is very good and fairly light weight.
I never realized weather.com had popups. I use privoxy and the basic popup blocking in mozilla seamonkey.
Sorry but authoritarian != far or any, for that matter, right. Fascist and Nazi governments were far left. National SOCIALISM, anyone?
If you actually looked into it, you would find that once Hitler took over the National Socialist party all the socialists were purged.
Hey we agree! :-) I also want to add that a lot of Canadian and EU patients are being turned away by Government Hospitals, because politicians have decided cutting expenses is more-important. They are false-calling it "universal" even though it clearly is not.
Where do you get this information? I haven't heard anything about patients getting turned away from hospitals and that is the kind of thing that would make the news here in Canada.
Using your pacemaker example. Someone I know recently went to the doctor, was diagnosed that they need a pacemaker now. Less then 12 hours later he had a temporary pacemaker. Couple of weeks later he had a permanent pacemaker installed. Total cost to him, zero dollars.
We also seem to have less taxes then Americans from what I read here.
That raises the question, how the hell can a ballot be so badly designed that (discounting purposely spoiled ballots) there can be any question about the intent of the voter?
When I vote (Canada) there is like an inch between the boxes and as you say a quick glance is all that it takes to see which box was checked.
Huh? In Canada there is currently no lawsuits and the money that is collected from the media levies goes to the artists, not the record companies. Of course the media industries are trying to change this to US style laws.
There is a smaller levy (21 cents IIRC) on blank CD media. There is none on DVD media or flash etc. Of course there is also a levy on blank cassettes.
I've noticed that the couple of cheap MP3 players my family has purchased come with a couple of songs on them. I presume this is to work around any future levy on blank media.