Wasn't it Lincoln who castrated the Constitution? Or perhaps it was whoever passed the Alien and Sedition acts shortly after they helped write the Constitution.
Many non-Americans don't have such a history of denying basic human rights to parts of the population leading to fear that those people are going to rise up and demand those rights, leading to the need to arm yourself.
Most of Ontario (and Quebec) is basically bedrock, the Canadian Shield, which was scoured clean by the glaciers. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The current surface expression of the Shield is one of very thin soil lying on top of the bedrock, with many bare outcrops. This arrangement was caused by severe glaciation during the ice age, which covered the Shield and scraped the rock clean.
The lowlands of the Canadian Shield have a very dense soil that is not suitable for forestation; it also contains many marshes and bogs (muskegs). The rest of the region has coarse soil that does not retain moisture well and is frozen with permafrost throughout the year. Forests are not as dense in the north.
Taiga soil tends to be young and poor in nutrients. It lacks the deep, organically enriched profile present in temperate deciduous forests.[25] The thinness of the soil is due largely to the cold, which hinders the development of soil and the ease with which plants can use its nutrients.[25] Fallen leaves and moss can remain on the forest floor for a long time in the cool, moist climate, which limits their organic contribution to the soil; acids from evergreen needles further leach the soil, creating spodosol, also known as podzol.[26] Since the soil is acidic due to the falling pine needles, the forest floor has only lichens and some mosses growing on it. In clearings in the forest and in areas with more boreal deciduous trees, there are more herbs and berries growing. Diversity of soil organisms in the boreal forest is high, comparable to the tropical rainforest.[27]
If you have any citations for rich soil existing in the tundra, I'd be interested .
How long does it take for the seeds to ripen? Here the Big Leafed Maple flowers early in the spring and drops its keys late in the fall, so about 8-9 months. Short season means seeds don't develop. Maple syrup production is also dependent on the correct weather in the spring, warm days and cold nights. How the weather ends up in the far north is a big question mark.
Birch syrup around here, makes interesting beer. As for bananas, it is surprising how many people have them growing in their yards around here now a days, along with palm trees. The bananas even produce fruit the odd year.
Yes, I'm actually aware of my countries flag. I'm also aware of how maples grow here in the west, though not so much in the east, which is why I raised some questions. Too many people think trees are like Ents, just pick up and move.
How long does it take for a Maple to mature enough to produce syrup? Do Maples require other pioneer species to create fertile soil for them? Are other trees better for adapting to the more northern areas? Lots of variables involved in eco-systems moving.
And how long will it take for those Maples to grow in Northern Ontario? Is the soil suitable? Here, maples prefer rich bottom land soil. Are there other tree species that can move north faster and/or adapt faster? Here, Alders are the primary pioneer species, not surprisingly as they can fix their own nitrogen. There's also the question of whether warming will cause more or less rainfall. The Maples around here love rain.
It also correlates with fetal alcohol syndrome. Here in Canada, a large part of the prison population has fetal alcohol syndrome, which not only lowers IQ, but makes people more compulsive. Another question is whether people with low IQ are more likely to be criminals or just more likely to be caught.
China doesn't have extradition treaties with most of the world and the clout to force other countries to extradite whether strictly legal or not. Not being in China, I have zero worries about them. Being in the west, I do worry I might accidentally log into some American computer and lose my freedom and worse.
Well Slashdot broke on my dial-up connection when it switched to HTTPS (pages hardly ever fully loaded) as well as a lot of pages suddenly needing reloaded. You depend on the cache a lot more with a 26.4 KBs connection. Then there is the issue of small timers who want to serve a web page from home, using an old computer and dynamic hostname. Seems like another move to make sure that only large companies can serve content on the internet.
The Courts do not set public policy nor do they create Legislation.
In common law countries such as the USA, in the absence of legislation or in the case of conflicting legislation, including conflict between the legislature and the Constitution, the courts do create law and set public policy. For a quick overview, read the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I'll quote one sentence
Common law, as the body of law made by judges,[7][8] stands in contrast to and on equal footing with statutes which are adopted through the legislative process, and regulations which are promulgated by the executive branch (the interactions are explained later in this article)
And the Beatles almost didn't get signed by anyone. Used to be a lot more labels, including some that took chances and were patient enough to allow a band to develop. Looks also wasn't as important, used to be ugly singers.
i'm just sitting here waiting for one of these idiots to actually pass this stuff, then realize that because All of these so far are worded horrendously. it means they can't block or filter the Bad stuff. Like child pornography. Or DMCA violations. Or fake pharmacy sites.
Kneejerk legislation in response to uninformed opinion is _Always_ awful.
Are you saying that net neutrality stops a court order? Or are you saying that an ISP should be able to play at being a court?
Why can't they charge high bandwidth users more? That's how it works here with net neutrality, you pay different amounts depending on how much data you're likely to use. I pay for a 250 GB cap, which I can use to watch Netflix or a webcam of a fire. I could pay for 10GBs or 500GBs as well. It is none of my ISP's business what I watch, just how much bandwidth I use. Just like the phone company shouldn't be able to stop me from phoning someone whose politics they don't like, my ISP (and there is only one serving me) shouldn't be able to censor what websites I use. That censorship that you are currently in favour off could change. Best to have no censorship
Your State elections are considered minor? Here we get low turnout for municipal, often due to people not being aware of the issues/who is running. Most municipalities, at least here in BC, don't have political parties so harder to blindly vote on tribalism. Seems better to have low turnout then uninformed turnout.
Another advantage we have here (Canada) is simple elections. Federal is one election, Provincial is a completely different election. For both you vote for one member of the legislature. Municipal are on a different day again, but more complex. Counting almost always is over, or at least close enough to over to call it, the night of the election.
A voting system should be easily understandable by the voters and should not allow extra votes to be injected into the system. Blockchain fails the first and may fail the second as even knowing your vote was correctly counted, you probably don't know if other votes were actually cast by real flesh and blood legal voters.
Paper is pretty secure here, where most anyone and especially members of all parties, can watch the whole process. Equally important is that the process is so simple that the average person can easily understand the process. With your idea, no matter how secure it actually is, the average person will not understand it and it will appear to be a black box. Trust in the system is as important, if not more so, as having a trustworthy system.
Perhaps it is the governing coalition idea that creates problems? Personally I like it when the government can not do whatever it wants and some important legislation (single payer healthcare) has been passed due to the need to keep the 3rd party happy. Currently, due to the need for a supply and confidence agreement between my Provinces government and the Greens, we'll probably get some form of proportional representation, something the people seem to want based on the last referendum, which saw the pro side lose with 59% support (60% threshold). Supply and confidence agreements allow the passing of laws that the government does not agree with whereas coalitions mean the parties always voting as a block and needing more concessions. At least in Canada, the voters also have a habit of punishing parties that abuse the minority government, forcing too early of an election. Knowing this, the parties try harder to work together. Personally, I like government by consensus, though the major parties don't.
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Wasn't it Lincoln who castrated the Constitution? Or perhaps it was whoever passed the Alien and Sedition acts shortly after they helped write the Constitution.
Many non-Americans don't have such a history of denying basic human rights to parts of the population leading to fear that those people are going to rise up and demand those rights, leading to the need to arm yourself.
Most of Ontario (and Quebec) is basically bedrock, the Canadian Shield, which was scoured clean by the glaciers.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What forests there are, are Boreal in nature, partially due to the crappy soil. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you have any citations for rich soil existing in the tundra, I'd be interested .
How long does it take for the seeds to ripen? Here the Big Leafed Maple flowers early in the spring and drops its keys late in the fall, so about 8-9 months. Short season means seeds don't develop.
Maple syrup production is also dependent on the correct weather in the spring, warm days and cold nights. How the weather ends up in the far north is a big question mark.
Birch syrup around here, makes interesting beer. As for bananas, it is surprising how many people have them growing in their yards around here now a days, along with palm trees. The bananas even produce fruit the odd year.
What seems to be happening where I am is no record hot days but lots of record runs of above normal temperatures.
Been quite warm, again, here in the north. It's nice not getting much snow anymore but it does cause water issues in the summer.
Ontario is huge. When talking about northern Ontario, are we talking about around Lake Superior or around James Bay?
Yes, I'm actually aware of my countries flag. I'm also aware of how maples grow here in the west, though not so much in the east, which is why I raised some questions. Too many people think trees are like Ents, just pick up and move.
How long does it take for a Maple to mature enough to produce syrup? Do Maples require other pioneer species to create fertile soil for them? Are other trees better for adapting to the more northern areas? Lots of variables involved in eco-systems moving.
And how long will it take for those Maples to grow in Northern Ontario? Is the soil suitable? Here, maples prefer rich bottom land soil. Are there other tree species that can move north faster and/or adapt faster? Here, Alders are the primary pioneer species, not surprisingly as they can fix their own nitrogen.
There's also the question of whether warming will cause more or less rainfall. The Maples around here love rain.
Next question. Does a low IQ correlate with more crime or getting caught more often?
It also correlates with fetal alcohol syndrome. Here in Canada, a large part of the prison population has fetal alcohol syndrome, which not only lowers IQ, but makes people more compulsive.
Another question is whether people with low IQ are more likely to be criminals or just more likely to be caught.
China doesn't have extradition treaties with most of the world and the clout to force other countries to extradite whether strictly legal or not.
Not being in China, I have zero worries about them. Being in the west, I do worry I might accidentally log into some American computer and lose my freedom and worse.
Well Slashdot broke on my dial-up connection when it switched to HTTPS (pages hardly ever fully loaded) as well as a lot of pages suddenly needing reloaded. You depend on the cache a lot more with a 26.4 KBs connection.
Then there is the issue of small timers who want to serve a web page from home, using an old computer and dynamic hostname. Seems like another move to make sure that only large companies can serve content on the internet.
The Courts do not set public policy nor do they create Legislation.
In common law countries such as the USA, in the absence of legislation or in the case of conflicting legislation, including conflict between the legislature and the Constitution, the courts do create law and set public policy.
For a quick overview, read the first paragraph of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I'll quote one sentence
The early Intel Atoms aren't vulnerable as they didn't do speculative execution and are closer to 10 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And the Beatles almost didn't get signed by anyone. Used to be a lot more labels, including some that took chances and were patient enough to allow a band to develop. Looks also wasn't as important, used to be ugly singers.
i'm just sitting here waiting for one of these idiots to actually pass this stuff, then realize that because All of these so far are worded horrendously. it means they can't block or filter the Bad stuff. Like child pornography. Or DMCA violations. Or fake pharmacy sites.
Kneejerk legislation in response to uninformed opinion is _Always_ awful.
Are you saying that net neutrality stops a court order? Or are you saying that an ISP should be able to play at being a court?
Why can't they charge high bandwidth users more? That's how it works here with net neutrality, you pay different amounts depending on how much data you're likely to use. I pay for a 250 GB cap, which I can use to watch Netflix or a webcam of a fire. I could pay for 10GBs or 500GBs as well. It is none of my ISP's business what I watch, just how much bandwidth I use.
Just like the phone company shouldn't be able to stop me from phoning someone whose politics they don't like, my ISP (and there is only one serving me) shouldn't be able to censor what websites I use. That censorship that you are currently in favour off could change. Best to have no censorship
Your State elections are considered minor? Here we get low turnout for municipal, often due to people not being aware of the issues/who is running. Most municipalities, at least here in BC, don't have political parties so harder to blindly vote on tribalism. Seems better to have low turnout then uninformed turnout.
Another advantage we have here (Canada) is simple elections. Federal is one election, Provincial is a completely different election. For both you vote for one member of the legislature. Municipal are on a different day again, but more complex.
Counting almost always is over, or at least close enough to over to call it, the night of the election.
A voting system should be easily understandable by the voters and should not allow extra votes to be injected into the system. Blockchain fails the first and may fail the second as even knowing your vote was correctly counted, you probably don't know if other votes were actually cast by real flesh and blood legal voters.
Paper is pretty secure here, where most anyone and especially members of all parties, can watch the whole process. Equally important is that the process is so simple that the average person can easily understand the process.
With your idea, no matter how secure it actually is, the average person will not understand it and it will appear to be a black box. Trust in the system is as important, if not more so, as having a trustworthy system.
Perhaps it is the governing coalition idea that creates problems? Personally I like it when the government can not do whatever it wants and some important legislation (single payer healthcare) has been passed due to the need to keep the 3rd party happy. Currently, due to the need for a supply and confidence agreement between my Provinces government and the Greens, we'll probably get some form of proportional representation, something the people seem to want based on the last referendum, which saw the pro side lose with 59% support (60% threshold).
Supply and confidence agreements allow the passing of laws that the government does not agree with whereas coalitions mean the parties always voting as a block and needing more concessions.
At least in Canada, the voters also have a habit of punishing parties that abuse the minority government, forcing too early of an election. Knowing this, the parties try harder to work together.
Personally, I like government by consensus, though the major parties don't.