The whole system depends on growth. Businesses need an expanding consumer base, and an expanding labour force to keep wages low. Then there's the problem of the aging population. If the majority of the population is retired, who is going to do the work that needs doing, little well the work that would be nice to happen.
How do the rent controls work there? Here, it just limits how fast you can jack up the rents to the rate of inflation + a couple of percent (actually it was just changed to the rate of inflation). You can start at any number you want and the same when changing tenants. There are also workarounds involving upgrades to the building that allow faster rent increases.
Around here, property taxes can be deferred until the retiree dies, moves into assisted living or such and the property sells for a fantastic amount. The only losers are the kids who don't get quite as high of an inheritance for being smart enough to be born in the right place. I feel so sad that some people might have to work more for a living instead of getting basically a lottery win.
I live in Woodstock. Bought my house 3 years ago. If I was looking to buy it now, I couldn't afford it. And my house is about the only affordable housing left in that area. All the new construction there now costs twice as much as my house.
This is a big problem where I am. Developers want the maximum return on their investment, so they don't build cheap housing, rather they buy it and tear it down and build something expensive. There's actually a fair amount of vacancies in certain areas due to no one being able to afford the rent. There's also a shit load of expensive condos for sale. Meanwhile the number of affordable rentals is dropping fast.
I don't know about California, but around here there's a lot of money laundering, mostly by foreigners, who are happy to sit on vacant property rather then have the hassle of actually renting it out. For a Chinese billionaire, having assets in the west that their government doesn't know about is the important thing.
Ah, a Chinese looking to stash their ill gotten gains I expect. Or perhaps a lottery winner who thinks they worked hard to pick the winning ticket and deserve the winnings.
Yes, IP, all the shit that was in the TPP and we got rid of after you bailed. The dairy wine and especially automobiles changes are minor, eg we already pay our workers over $15 an hour and yes, we'll have to go into debt like you to keep our dairy industry rather then a regulated market and I never did hear anything about wine, probably something to do with the tariffs we imposed in retaliation for the illegal softwood lumber tariffs. From http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x...
Chapter 20 of the USMCA, entitled "Intellectual Property Rights," runs to 63 pages, and encompasses a wide range of IP issues. Much of the text concerns statements of policy, objectives, and best practices, largely reflecting current Canadian IP law. While, the USMCA may require a variety of changes in Canadian law, the following four changes are likely of greatest significance:
Data protection term for biologics increased from eight years to ten years
Copyright term increased from life of the author plus 50 years to life of the author plus 70 years
Introduction of a patent term adjustment procedure to compensate for Patent Office delay in issuing a patent
Pre-Established Damages for trademark counterfeiting
Lots of other info available at DDG. What is really sad is all the people that bitched about the TPP are so accepting of the new NAFTA, whose main purpose seems to be to do the TPP shit. I guess it just depends on which team is pushing it. I guess we're lucky they didn't use it to harmonize with Mexico's 100 year copyright term. Can't have a public domain you know, might eat into Disney's profits from using the public domain.
Reagan pushed the original America-Canada free trade agreement, Clinton expanded it to include Mexico. The Republicans are the ones who have just pushed us into accepting a bunch more IP shit including extending copyright because America was only running a small trade surplus with us and has a President too stupid to look up facts. It is America that elected a reality TV star (and previously an actor) who strongly believes in IP to protect his brand and make sure his great grandchildren can profit of his work. The really scary thing is a lot of Americans actually cheer the reality TV star turned politician. How the fuck anyone can actually cheer a politician, no matter what their stripe, I don't know.
They're still trying, and with the new NAFTA crafted by a reality TV star, they might succeed. We have the 15 GB tax (only reason a household would use more then 15 GBs a month is due to legally streaming from companies that rip off the artists, so we the people, should pay a tax that in theory would help pay the artists who signed a bad contract) http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201... Then we have the move to tax or censor HTML links, this link should cover it, but it is currently not loading properly in my old browser, http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRend... Also at the same link should be info on other shit they want in our revised copyright act. Unluckily we have an 800LB gorilla behind a lot of this shit.
You might have a moral case there, but unfortunately, you don't have a legal one.
Actually he does. The courts have been pretty consistent that in return for the media levy, we're allowed to copy music for non-profit reasons. Unluckily that doesn't cover video, though if they get their 15GB tax (only reason anyone uses over 15GB a month is to stream shit and since the streaming companies pay shit, us consumers can pay a tax which in theory will go to the artists who are getting ripped off by the capitalists) perhaps that'll change.
This is what happens when you live besides a corrupt kleptocracy. Look at the new NAFTA, basically same as the old with a bunch of new IP shit thrown in. What are we supposed to do, invade the States? They're 10 times larger and have a huge credit card to buy weapons with and a previous right wing government (whose party was wiped out afterwards) sold us out in the name of free trade, which we adjusted to. Living next to a fascist state that is much larger and crazy enough to routinely remove peoples freedoms worldwide and believes only their people deserve rights makes it hard to do much. Sure wish that you guys would do something about your corrupt system, didn't see the party that brought free trade to you getting wiped out
The cop shot someone when the someone was not a threat. That should be a murder charge as shooting someone who is not a threat should not be tolerated. Had a case up here not long ago where the cop got acquitted of murder as the knife wielding person was a threat. The cop did get convicted of attempted murder for the 6 bullets he put in him after the 2 (3?) that killed the perp. There needs to be more consequences for people misusing and removing peoples freedom to live by misusing firearms. You want an armed society, the armed people better be responsible with those arms and in my experience, there are too many who aren't.
Malathion is one of the safest organophoshate pesticides as most people have an enzyme that breaks it down. Others are not so safe. Remember this class of chemicals was invented to kill people, quickly, and directly works on the nerves by screwing with the chemical that turns off nerve impulses.
However, I also blame the ignorant members of Congress, past and present, who ONLY considered that higher MPG might mean less air pollution, not the extra expenses we all quietly pay to get our rolling computers fixed, the complexity that befuddles the average person/mechanic and the extra wasted man-hours dealing with that complexity.
You're blaming the wrong people, well mostly. Governments (its a first world thing) are responsible for pushing clean and efficient, people demanded clean, as the city air used to be horrible, at least here. And there is only so much oil. Getting it can involve supporting horrible people, making a big mess digging it up now a days and there is a chance that CO2 affects the climate. Car companies come up with all this other expensive shit. A car company decided to make the heating and air conditioning push button and controlled by a computer with resulting high costs to troubleshoot. A car company decided to save money by putting unrelated stuff on the same bus, including re-purposing computers in ways that make trouble shooting expensive. Even the safety stuff the government now makes mandatory was usually developed and pushed by the car companies. And there, once again government is responding to a wish from the voting public for maximum safety. The real problem is capitalism and the way people are. The automobile industry is mature and competitive, so they have to come up with gadgets and push them to sell cars and now the gadgets are complex and proprietary.
It's nice not to have to lift each piece of firewood over your head to put it in the truck. Also nice to be able to drop the firewood out of the truck without it bouncing away and having to move it again. I'm probably getting old, but I like to minimize the work rather then maximize it and most new trucks are way too high and hard enough to get in, little well put anything else in. Nice to be able to see that boat that you're towing, especially when backing up to the lake.
That's only true to a point and at some point, laws have to be flouted so they can be changed. America was founded by flouting laws. Slavery was ended by flouting laws. Segregation was also ended by flouting laws, people insisting they could ride at the front of the bus even if illegal. Now prohibition is slowly going away due to people flouting the laws. Some of these laws would never have changed if people had just discussed them with the law makers. Take prohibition, if everyone obeyed the law, there wouldn't be an argument to end it. Shit my government was convinced in 1973 that prohibiting marijuana was stupid and unethical but it took until last week to end the prohibition. 45 years of people flouting the law before the law was changed and the opposition is still talking about re-illegalizing it, for the same stupid reasons that it was illegal for so long. For some things, people are all emotional and do not respond to logic and arguing against their believes gets you nowhere.
The Queen is a bad example as She rules with Parliament and while you're right about her having various reserve powers, if She uses them in a way that is unconstitutional (and the Constitution is unwritten and can be changed by Parliament, at least after brexit), She can and will be deposed, probably in a nice way like Edward VIII, in a mean way like James II or with extreme prejudice like Charles the 1st. Better example is the King of Saudi Arabia, and even he bends to international pressure.
Huh? I was talking about free trade allowing tons of products in with HCFS rather then us producing stuff with cane sugar and exporting it to the US. Cane sugar has almost no tariffs on it into Canada, C$31 a tonne compared to C$372 a tonne for America and even higher for Europe and higher again at C$1079 a tonne in Japan. Source, which admittedly might be biased, https://sugar.ca/International.... Cane sugar is quite cheap in the grocery store here.
I live in a country that has a Constitution that says only citizens are allowed to vote, unlike you. Also a country that never did the no taxation without representation thing, unlike you. Now how much tax and residence are arguments that you can make but if you're an American, you should be in favour of tax paying residents having the vote. Or perhaps you could amend your Constitution and perhaps your history.
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What the fuck are you defending from?
Thank the softwood tariffs for at least some of these costs, 10 or 20 grand IIRC.
The whole system depends on growth. Businesses need an expanding consumer base, and an expanding labour force to keep wages low. Then there's the problem of the aging population. If the majority of the population is retired, who is going to do the work that needs doing, little well the work that would be nice to happen.
How do the rent controls work there? Here, it just limits how fast you can jack up the rents to the rate of inflation + a couple of percent (actually it was just changed to the rate of inflation). You can start at any number you want and the same when changing tenants. There are also workarounds involving upgrades to the building that allow faster rent increases.
Around here, property taxes can be deferred until the retiree dies, moves into assisted living or such and the property sells for a fantastic amount. The only losers are the kids who don't get quite as high of an inheritance for being smart enough to be born in the right place. I feel so sad that some people might have to work more for a living instead of getting basically a lottery win.
I live in Woodstock. Bought my house 3 years ago. If I was looking to buy it now, I couldn't afford it. And my house is about the only affordable housing left in that area. All the new construction there now costs twice as much as my house.
This is a big problem where I am. Developers want the maximum return on their investment, so they don't build cheap housing, rather they buy it and tear it down and build something expensive. There's actually a fair amount of vacancies in certain areas due to no one being able to afford the rent. There's also a shit load of expensive condos for sale. Meanwhile the number of affordable rentals is dropping fast.
I don't know about California, but around here there's a lot of money laundering, mostly by foreigners, who are happy to sit on vacant property rather then have the hassle of actually renting it out. For a Chinese billionaire, having assets in the west that their government doesn't know about is the important thing.
Another Chinese looking to stash their ill gotten gains.
Ah, a Chinese looking to stash their ill gotten gains I expect.
Or perhaps a lottery winner who thinks they worked hard to pick the winning ticket and deserve the winnings.
Yes, IP, all the shit that was in the TPP and we got rid of after you bailed. The dairy wine and especially automobiles changes are minor, eg we already pay our workers over $15 an hour and yes, we'll have to go into debt like you to keep our dairy industry rather then a regulated market and I never did hear anything about wine, probably something to do with the tariffs we imposed in retaliation for the illegal softwood lumber tariffs.
From http://www.mondaq.com/canada/x...
Lots of other info available at DDG. What is really sad is all the people that bitched about the TPP are so accepting of the new NAFTA, whose main purpose seems to be to do the TPP shit. I guess it just depends on which team is pushing it.
I guess we're lucky they didn't use it to harmonize with Mexico's 100 year copyright term. Can't have a public domain you know, might eat into Disney's profits from using the public domain.
Reagan pushed the original America-Canada free trade agreement, Clinton expanded it to include Mexico. The Republicans are the ones who have just pushed us into accepting a bunch more IP shit including extending copyright because America was only running a small trade surplus with us and has a President too stupid to look up facts. It is America that elected a reality TV star (and previously an actor) who strongly believes in IP to protect his brand and make sure his great grandchildren can profit of his work.
The really scary thing is a lot of Americans actually cheer the reality TV star turned politician. How the fuck anyone can actually cheer a politician, no matter what their stripe, I don't know.
It's a shame the victim doesn't have the means to take it to the Supreme Court, and even if he did, who knows how they'd rule for sure.
They're still trying, and with the new NAFTA crafted by a reality TV star, they might succeed.
We have the 15 GB tax (only reason a household would use more then 15 GBs a month is due to legally streaming from companies that rip off the artists, so we the people, should pay a tax that in theory would help pay the artists who signed a bad contract) http://www.michaelgeist.ca/201...
Then we have the move to tax or censor HTML links, this link should cover it, but it is currently not loading properly in my old browser, http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRend...
Also at the same link should be info on other shit they want in our revised copyright act.
Unluckily we have an 800LB gorilla behind a lot of this shit.
You might have a moral case there, but unfortunately, you don't have a legal one.
Actually he does. The courts have been pretty consistent that in return for the media levy, we're allowed to copy music for non-profit reasons. Unluckily that doesn't cover video, though if they get their 15GB tax (only reason anyone uses over 15GB a month is to stream shit and since the streaming companies pay shit, us consumers can pay a tax which in theory will go to the artists who are getting ripped off by the capitalists) perhaps that'll change.
This is what happens when you live besides a corrupt kleptocracy. Look at the new NAFTA, basically same as the old with a bunch of new IP shit thrown in.
What are we supposed to do, invade the States? They're 10 times larger and have a huge credit card to buy weapons with and a previous right wing government (whose party was wiped out afterwards) sold us out in the name of free trade, which we adjusted to.
Living next to a fascist state that is much larger and crazy enough to routinely remove peoples freedoms worldwide and believes only their people deserve rights makes it hard to do much. Sure wish that you guys would do something about your corrupt system, didn't see the party that brought free trade to you getting wiped out
The cop shot someone when the someone was not a threat. That should be a murder charge as shooting someone who is not a threat should not be tolerated.
Had a case up here not long ago where the cop got acquitted of murder as the knife wielding person was a threat. The cop did get convicted of attempted murder for the 6 bullets he put in him after the 2 (3?) that killed the perp. There needs to be more consequences for people misusing and removing peoples freedom to live by misusing firearms.
You want an armed society, the armed people better be responsible with those arms and in my experience, there are too many who aren't.
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Malathion is one of the safest organophoshate pesticides as most people have an enzyme that breaks it down. Others are not so safe. Remember this class of chemicals was invented to kill people, quickly, and directly works on the nerves by screwing with the chemical that turns off nerve impulses.
However, I also blame the ignorant members of Congress, past and present, who ONLY considered that higher MPG might mean less air pollution, not the extra expenses we all quietly pay to get our rolling computers fixed, the complexity that befuddles the average person/mechanic and the extra wasted man-hours dealing with that complexity.
You're blaming the wrong people, well mostly. Governments (its a first world thing) are responsible for pushing clean and efficient, people demanded clean, as the city air used to be horrible, at least here. And there is only so much oil. Getting it can involve supporting horrible people, making a big mess digging it up now a days and there is a chance that CO2 affects the climate.
Car companies come up with all this other expensive shit. A car company decided to make the heating and air conditioning push button and controlled by a computer with resulting high costs to troubleshoot. A car company decided to save money by putting unrelated stuff on the same bus, including re-purposing computers in ways that make trouble shooting expensive.
Even the safety stuff the government now makes mandatory was usually developed and pushed by the car companies. And there, once again government is responding to a wish from the voting public for maximum safety.
The real problem is capitalism and the way people are. The automobile industry is mature and competitive, so they have to come up with gadgets and push them to sell cars and now the gadgets are complex and proprietary.
It's nice not to have to lift each piece of firewood over your head to put it in the truck. Also nice to be able to drop the firewood out of the truck without it bouncing away and having to move it again.
I'm probably getting old, but I like to minimize the work rather then maximize it and most new trucks are way too high and hard enough to get in, little well put anything else in. Nice to be able to see that boat that you're towing, especially when backing up to the lake.
That's only true to a point and at some point, laws have to be flouted so they can be changed. America was founded by flouting laws. Slavery was ended by flouting laws. Segregation was also ended by flouting laws, people insisting they could ride at the front of the bus even if illegal. Now prohibition is slowly going away due to people flouting the laws.
Some of these laws would never have changed if people had just discussed them with the law makers. Take prohibition, if everyone obeyed the law, there wouldn't be an argument to end it. Shit my government was convinced in 1973 that prohibiting marijuana was stupid and unethical but it took until last week to end the prohibition. 45 years of people flouting the law before the law was changed and the opposition is still talking about re-illegalizing it, for the same stupid reasons that it was illegal for so long.
For some things, people are all emotional and do not respond to logic and arguing against their believes gets you nowhere.
The Queen is a bad example as She rules with Parliament and while you're right about her having various reserve powers, if She uses them in a way that is unconstitutional (and the Constitution is unwritten and can be changed by Parliament, at least after brexit), She can and will be deposed, probably in a nice way like Edward VIII, in a mean way like James II or with extreme prejudice like Charles the 1st.
Better example is the King of Saudi Arabia, and even he bends to international pressure.
Huh? I was talking about free trade allowing tons of products in with HCFS rather then us producing stuff with cane sugar and exporting it to the US. Cane sugar has almost no tariffs on it into Canada, C$31 a tonne compared to C$372 a tonne for America and even higher for Europe and higher again at C$1079 a tonne in Japan. Source, which admittedly might be biased, https://sugar.ca/International.... Cane sugar is quite cheap in the grocery store here.
Lots of HFCS here in Canada, yea free trade.
I live in a country that has a Constitution that says only citizens are allowed to vote, unlike you. Also a country that never did the no taxation without representation thing, unlike you. Now how much tax and residence are arguments that you can make but if you're an American, you should be in favour of tax paying residents having the vote. Or perhaps you could amend your Constitution and perhaps your history.