I've camped out in the interior at 30 below and on the wet coast, which is more like Scotland, at a couple of degrees above freezing and camping out in wet is worse. Tents have a habit of leaking, clothes don't dry out or you have to sleep in them all night to dry them out and even that heavy sleeping bag doesn't keep you warm when damp. Much rather camp out below freezing.
'Tis funny, but reading the comments, it seems no-one understands why the Electoral Collage came into existence, at least according to the Federalist Papers. In summary, to have wise non-politicians, non-bureaucrats (and non-partisan, as there were no parties at the time) to pick the chief executive of the country in a time when communication between the States was slower. A chief executive who was never supposed to have the powers that the post now holds. The Senate was the body that was supposed to take care of evening out the rights of the individual States including preventing the urban people from running slipshod over the rural people or the opposite.
No, the USSR was a federated republic consisting of, IIRC, 15 republics. While it's true that they had socialist in their name, they also had soviet (democratic) in their name and a constitution (that they didn't actually follow). Generally most forms of socialism are heavy on democracy, sadly they usually get taken over by corrupt authoritarian arseholes. My point is that to say "Federal Republic" means shit all besides not having a monarchy and being made up of smaller units
Federal Republic, like the USSR? Canada, a country made from a Confederation of Provinces with a first past the post Parliamentary system and a weaker Federal government then the USA.
Generally the corporations lobby, often with hard cash, for these laws that they've written. Simple free market economics. It's expensive getting elected, corporation finds it cheaper to pay off politician to pass their laws then to compete in other ways. As long as it costs large amounts of money to get elected, corporations will take advantage. At least in a free market, you are free to pay to get your own legislator and your own laws along with a propaganda machine to convince enough other people to vote for your interests.
Words change their meaning over time. The meaning of democracy has expanded into people voting, usually for representatives but possibly for electors and such and even referendums. Whether some things take a super-majority to pass doesn't take away that the people voted, even if it is indirectly voting for their local government who then votes to amend the Constitution. Limiting who can vote doesn't mean it is not a democracy either, very few democracies allow 16 yr olds to vote. It is true that your framers set things up so a minority of people can tyrannize the majority (50.1% of voters in the least populous States vote in State governments who want to amend the Constitution taking away the rights of people in the most populous States where 99% voted for State governments against the amendment, or worse if the vote was split in the small States between more parties) but it's still a form of democracy.
You're leaving out a few steps. The invention of the steam engine (along with the new capitalist mindset that controlled the government and allowed the closing of the commons putting a lot of farmers on the street) created 70 years of chronic underemployment, where if you were lucky, you could be a servant or similar and totally at the mercy of your boss. This was limited to a large degree by the expansion into the new world through both voluntary and forced immigration and homesteading and such in the new world. The invention of electricity through to the invention of electronics corresponded with a massive reduction in the labour force. The captains of industry suddenly agreed to the child labour laws and society stepped in with schools and the youngest spent ten years (now closer to 20) getting educated instead of being in the workforce. Then to avoid social unrest (and due to many studies that showed people were most productive when putting in shorter days/weeks) the workweek was reduced and reduced again. Retirement also became a thing, along with more support for the disabled. There were also 2 large wars that brought high employment basically breaking and fixing windows. Once those wars were over, some countries such as the USA benefited due to still having infrastructure and had lots of well paying work. Other countries still haven't recovered. I'm sure there's more I'm missing and sometimes (often?) automation has raised the wealth of most leading to more jobs, though lately we seem to be going away from that. The last 30 odd years seem to have been stories about good jobs ending, to be replaced by crappier paying jobs, usually in the service industry.
So do you agree that Congress will not pass any laws that limit speech and all such laws should be thrown out? Or do you believe that all the limitations that the Supreme Court has ruled as Constitutional are OK? How about the 2nd? The people shall have the right to bear arms. Or perhaps you agree that there are all kinds of people that shouldn't have that right. The idea that any Americans follow their Bill of Rights is laughable as they all seem to agree with certain exceptions and none ever talk about amending to clarify, instead just appointing heavily biased judges to rule the way whichever side wants the Constitution to read.
I'm a Canadian and agree with the AC. See lots of hate speech, even the KKK having cross burnings on occasion and no one gets prosecuted or even seriously threatened with prosecution. We also don't usually throw people in jail for speech like our American neighbours who have so many workarounds for that pesky "Congress will make no laws" thing that politicians routinely seriously want to execute foreign journalists and if an American threatens national security through speech, they can be executed. Seems in America the Constitution only means what the Supreme Court says it means rather then the very clear words it is written in.
The KKK had a cross burning not far from here some years ago. They did have to do it in a vacant lot rather then in front of a houseful of black people, but no-one threatened them or tried to prosecute them. I live in the bible belt and there is tons of hate speech uttered by the good Christians, none of which is prosecuted. There has also been a flurry of flyers full of hate being distributed, stuck on telephone poles etc since Trump was elected. Pisses a lot of people off but the police simply say that it is legal and nothing will be done. Where this meme of Canada having such extreme hate speech laws comes from, I don't know, but it seems to be more of the political bullshit that if you repeat a lie often enough, it'll make it true. Shame that it seems to work for so many.
Yes, its a real problem. Even with a competent government, the next election is likely to bring in an incompetent government that implements self-regulation by industry. Seen it here where the railroads were allowed to self-regulate and pretty quick you have a train with only one engineer who doesn't correctly set the handbrakes and a town burns down, or a railroad that ignores a flood and runs a train over a weak and collapsing bridge. Then you have the dam down the road, built by private industry a century ago and they didn't bother sinking the west side down to bedrock. 100's of millions of dollars to fix. So we're left with governments that have a habit of incompetency or industries that are motivated to cut corners and push for incompetent government so they can be more profitable, usually by cutting corners and socializing the costs. Then there is the plain old corruption, whether in government, industry or suppliers. Taking the various failure modes, it seems smarter to stick with stuff that under the worst scenarios can't produce too much damage.
I'd like to see a citation for the death rates. A citation that includes the uranium minors who died of cancer (uranium mining was quite unsafe back in the 50's, mostly out of ignorance), along with the Navajo who died of cancer when retaining ponds let lose. The citations I've seen don't even seem to admit that there were construction accidents during the construction of all the reactors in the world while counting the construction accidents involved with wind and solar. Perhaps there honestly was never a construction accident while building reactors, which would be pretty amazing. Wind and solar, if good practices such as safety harnesses and ropes, are followed, should be as safe or safer then building a large reactor. Hydro as well as long as the locations are well thought out, much like nuclear. All four need to be built correctly and safely yet corners get cut, damns fail and eventually a nuclear plant will fail worse then the ones being discussed.
No, the Constitution just says that the States will appoint the electors. Doesn't say how they'll be appointed. Does (I believe, I'm not an American) say that they can't be office holders, with the implication that they won't be politicians. This was at a time when there were no parties and according to the Federalist papers, the idea was to elect someone qualified in a time when campaigning in all the States wasn't practical.
Lots of elements/compounds become pollutants when there is an excess. A good example is phosphorous, an element essential for life, one of the main ingredients in fertilizer (it's the second number), which causes havoc in ecosystems when there is too much. As for Canada becoming a grain basket, so far the warming is ruining the grain farms due to lack of water. Glaciers are shrinking fast (something that's easy to measure), lack of snowfall to soak the fields, etc. And further north there is a distinct lack of soil and growing season. The climate doesn't do anything to the sunrise/sunset times. There's a reason that the Boreal forests consist of tiny trees, and its not the temperature. Here in BC, the government has decided to flood the best northern farmland in the mistaken belief that we can make a fortune selling natural gas to the Chinese despite the competition from the USA, Australia (both way ahead on plant existence and already shipping) and Russia (close enough to pipe it instead of shipping by ship). I don't know much about Siberia but understand it has similar shortages of actual soil and similar issues with growing seasons being limited by sunlight.
Wait.. I thought Canada couldn't have copyright infringment because you guys have a piracy tax on all the media. If that's not paying for a license for everything, where is the money going?
We only have the copying (it covers legal time shifting as well as copyright infringement) levy on cassette tapes and blank CDROMs. After the courts ruled that the levy made it legal to copy music for personal use, the copyright cartel lost interest in adding the levy to DVDs etc.
Actually we got blackmailed by the citizens of the USA. "If you want access to our market, you thieving arseholes, who are worse then all 3rd world countries, you better pass these laws" Americans are obviously in favour of those draconian copyright laws. Now we're likely to get hauled into court and forced to pay, sometimes as much as 3 times the cost of a DVD but usually only the cost of a DVD. Then we get the American companies threatening to haul us into court if we don't pay. As most of us are exposed to American propaganda (even our DVD's threaten us with the FBI), some think paying up front is better then a trip to court.
All that was decided was that States can't leave unilaterally. A Constitutional amendment would allow a State to secede. Maybe not likely, but possible.
Around here (Vancouver, BC) there's a place that's always advertising their diamonds. Latest is "Artisan Diamonds", with the impression that they're worth more then natural diamonds. Perhaps hand assembled? As usual, marketing trumps everything else.
Can you give any examples, over lets say the last 150 years, where scientific consensus turned into laughing stock? Sure at the beginning of the scientific era, lots of theories turned into laughing stock. Geologists started out believing in the flood, but quickly the evidence showed it to be worth laughing at. It took a while for chemistry to explain fire and some of the first ideas were totally wrong. Newtons laws were found to be approximations that are still used (Voyageur II went to Neptune using Newtonian physics). The Ether is often laughed at here, but in reality it made sense as light had been shown to have the properties of a wave and waves need a substance to propagate. As soon as instruments became sensitive enough to attempt to measure it, well science moved on, without laughter. Some things were met with laughter. The idea of quantum mechanics. The guy who postulated the neutrino, needed to make an equation balance. The theory that the Universe had a beginning. Continental drift was one that I remember a teacher laughing at when I was in school. Some things were laughed at due to who came up with the theory, such as the idea that the Sun was mostly hydrogen. As if a woman could figure that out, it must have been wrong as obviously the ratio of elements should be the same throughout the Universe. Interestingly, the scientist who laughed the loudest went on to "discover" that the Sun is mostly hydrogen (using a different method) and initially got credit for it. Sure there have been individuals that were worth laughing at. Lord Kelvin saying that heavier then air flight is impossible, when all he had to do was look outside and observe a bird, comes to mind.
No Socialism means the people control the business, sometimes through government, sometimes through co-ops, worker owned businesses, credit unions and similar. Sometimes the government does a good job such as in Scandinavia, though too often it turns corrupt, as seen in most 3rd world authoritarian regimes, sometimes government is thrown out, such as Spain in the civil war (until the Stalinists showed up) and northern Italy. Actually currently in Spain, http://archive.is/SvI7U Most Americans forget, or rather never knew, that the first Libertarians were Socialist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Think for yourself instead of the propaganda that has been fed to you by the main stream media, who are all owned by the likes of AT&T and your government, who is also owned by the likes of AT&T.
That's misleading as while the total number of jobs has gone up, the population has increased even faster. Before the industrial revolution, employment was at close to 100% of the population between the ages of about 5 and death. They may have been small farmers who also spun wool for little money but their lifestyle gave them food and a home. There were points such as at the beginning of the industrial revolution in the days of the Luddites where it took 70 years (3 generations) for the jobs to increase to close to full employment. This was helped by having the New World to ship the unemployed, where they could self employ homesteading etc. Now we have whole classes of the population that aren't even expected to be employed and aren't counted as unemployed. Students are an increasing demographic who are unemployed or only employed part time. As the amount of education that students are expected to have, the longer they stay as students. Retired people are another demographic that didn't really exist in the past. You worked until you couldn't, and then died. The handicapped, disabled is another demographic that has expanded. Lots of people living on disability checks of some type. Those are just some of the groups that aren't even counted as unemployed and the percent of the total population employed has generally dropped with a few upticks.
What the fuck are you talking about? There's lots of ads targeting men, from Grecian formula through various razors, aftershaves and deodorants, not too mention clothing such as underwear. These ads are shown on the white male channels as well or does Fox only advertise to minorities and women?
The dam is being built for one reason, to sell expensive natural gas to the Chinese and Indonesians, who can buy it much cheaper from Russia, Australia and the USA, all who have actual production already happening. It is also flooding out some very good farmland that is finally getting productive due to the changing climate. The BC government has also been balancing their budget by forcing the crown owned power company to give billions of dollars to the government and soon the government will give it away as it is so far in debt due to amongst other things, being forced to build a huge dam with no funding. That'll be the end of cheap electricity around here. We have lots of natural gas infrastructure currently and the idea that our expensive gas is going to compete with others cheap gas is just stupid. Solar thermal isn't the best idea in Canada. Though BC is ideal for regular solar and wind as we've already got an abundance of hydro power to take up the slack when cloudy or calm. The biggest killers of birds are cats or/and buildings. Blame Exxon for financing the anti-nuke crowds. Without them we'd quite possibly have new better tech for fission power. There are quite a few promising ideas for safe nukes but it is getting too late to perfect them and build them. The old tech is pretty shitty as it is both too expensive and not the safest. Expensive shit that no-one will insure makes it very hard to finance. Haven't heard about the tidal power protests but it sounds stupid.
How do you know? He has a habit of not paying people, which leads to bankruptcy and not being able to pay for necessities including medical care. As a small business, I hate it when I do work for someone and they don't pay, especially when it's often the most wealthy that don't pay. He also has a history of working with various criminal organizations, including mafia types and before this election, his good friends, the Clintons. As a non-American, I can't understand voting for either lizard
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I've camped out in the interior at 30 below and on the wet coast, which is more like Scotland, at a couple of degrees above freezing and camping out in wet is worse. Tents have a habit of leaking, clothes don't dry out or you have to sleep in them all night to dry them out and even that heavy sleeping bag doesn't keep you warm when damp. Much rather camp out below freezing.
'Tis funny, but reading the comments, it seems no-one understands why the Electoral Collage came into existence, at least according to the Federalist Papers. In summary, to have wise non-politicians, non-bureaucrats (and non-partisan, as there were no parties at the time) to pick the chief executive of the country in a time when communication between the States was slower. A chief executive who was never supposed to have the powers that the post now holds. The Senate was the body that was supposed to take care of evening out the rights of the individual States including preventing the urban people from running slipshod over the rural people or the opposite.
No, the USSR was a federated republic consisting of, IIRC, 15 republics. While it's true that they had socialist in their name, they also had soviet (democratic) in their name and a constitution (that they didn't actually follow).
Generally most forms of socialism are heavy on democracy, sadly they usually get taken over by corrupt authoritarian arseholes.
My point is that to say "Federal Republic" means shit all besides not having a monarchy and being made up of smaller units
Federal Republic, like the USSR? Canada, a country made from a Confederation of Provinces with a first past the post Parliamentary system and a weaker Federal government then the USA.
Generally the corporations lobby, often with hard cash, for these laws that they've written. Simple free market economics. It's expensive getting elected, corporation finds it cheaper to pay off politician to pass their laws then to compete in other ways. As long as it costs large amounts of money to get elected, corporations will take advantage.
At least in a free market, you are free to pay to get your own legislator and your own laws along with a propaganda machine to convince enough other people to vote for your interests.
Words change their meaning over time. The meaning of democracy has expanded into people voting, usually for representatives but possibly for electors and such and even referendums. Whether some things take a super-majority to pass doesn't take away that the people voted, even if it is indirectly voting for their local government who then votes to amend the Constitution. Limiting who can vote doesn't mean it is not a democracy either, very few democracies allow 16 yr olds to vote.
It is true that your framers set things up so a minority of people can tyrannize the majority (50.1% of voters in the least populous States vote in State governments who want to amend the Constitution taking away the rights of people in the most populous States where 99% voted for State governments against the amendment, or worse if the vote was split in the small States between more parties) but it's still a form of democracy.
You're leaving out a few steps.
The invention of the steam engine (along with the new capitalist mindset that controlled the government and allowed the closing of the commons putting a lot of farmers on the street) created 70 years of chronic underemployment, where if you were lucky, you could be a servant or similar and totally at the mercy of your boss. This was limited to a large degree by the expansion into the new world through both voluntary and forced immigration and homesteading and such in the new world.
The invention of electricity through to the invention of electronics corresponded with a massive reduction in the labour force. The captains of industry suddenly agreed to the child labour laws and society stepped in with schools and the youngest spent ten years (now closer to 20) getting educated instead of being in the workforce. Then to avoid social unrest (and due to many studies that showed people were most productive when putting in shorter days/weeks) the workweek was reduced and reduced again. Retirement also became a thing, along with more support for the disabled.
There were also 2 large wars that brought high employment basically breaking and fixing windows. Once those wars were over, some countries such as the USA benefited due to still having infrastructure and had lots of well paying work. Other countries still haven't recovered.
I'm sure there's more I'm missing and sometimes (often?) automation has raised the wealth of most leading to more jobs, though lately we seem to be going away from that. The last 30 odd years seem to have been stories about good jobs ending, to be replaced by crappier paying jobs, usually in the service industry.
So do you agree that Congress will not pass any laws that limit speech and all such laws should be thrown out? Or do you believe that all the limitations that the Supreme Court has ruled as Constitutional are OK?
How about the 2nd? The people shall have the right to bear arms. Or perhaps you agree that there are all kinds of people that shouldn't have that right.
The idea that any Americans follow their Bill of Rights is laughable as they all seem to agree with certain exceptions and none ever talk about amending to clarify, instead just appointing heavily biased judges to rule the way whichever side wants the Constitution to read.
I'm a Canadian and agree with the AC. See lots of hate speech, even the KKK having cross burnings on occasion and no one gets prosecuted or even seriously threatened with prosecution.
We also don't usually throw people in jail for speech like our American neighbours who have so many workarounds for that pesky "Congress will make no laws" thing that politicians routinely seriously want to execute foreign journalists and if an American threatens national security through speech, they can be executed. Seems in America the Constitution only means what the Supreme Court says it means rather then the very clear words it is written in.
The KKK had a cross burning not far from here some years ago. They did have to do it in a vacant lot rather then in front of a houseful of black people, but no-one threatened them or tried to prosecute them.
I live in the bible belt and there is tons of hate speech uttered by the good Christians, none of which is prosecuted.
There has also been a flurry of flyers full of hate being distributed, stuck on telephone poles etc since Trump was elected. Pisses a lot of people off but the police simply say that it is legal and nothing will be done.
Where this meme of Canada having such extreme hate speech laws comes from, I don't know, but it seems to be more of the political bullshit that if you repeat a lie often enough, it'll make it true. Shame that it seems to work for so many.
Yes, its a real problem. Even with a competent government, the next election is likely to bring in an incompetent government that implements self-regulation by industry. Seen it here where the railroads were allowed to self-regulate and pretty quick you have a train with only one engineer who doesn't correctly set the handbrakes and a town burns down, or a railroad that ignores a flood and runs a train over a weak and collapsing bridge.
Then you have the dam down the road, built by private industry a century ago and they didn't bother sinking the west side down to bedrock. 100's of millions of dollars to fix.
So we're left with governments that have a habit of incompetency or industries that are motivated to cut corners and push for incompetent government so they can be more profitable, usually by cutting corners and socializing the costs. Then there is the plain old corruption, whether in government, industry or suppliers.
Taking the various failure modes, it seems smarter to stick with stuff that under the worst scenarios can't produce too much damage.
I'd like to see a citation for the death rates. A citation that includes the uranium minors who died of cancer (uranium mining was quite unsafe back in the 50's, mostly out of ignorance), along with the Navajo who died of cancer when retaining ponds let lose. The citations I've seen don't even seem to admit that there were construction accidents during the construction of all the reactors in the world while counting the construction accidents involved with wind and solar. Perhaps there honestly was never a construction accident while building reactors, which would be pretty amazing.
Wind and solar, if good practices such as safety harnesses and ropes, are followed, should be as safe or safer then building a large reactor. Hydro as well as long as the locations are well thought out, much like nuclear. All four need to be built correctly and safely yet corners get cut, damns fail and eventually a nuclear plant will fail worse then the ones being discussed.
No, the Constitution just says that the States will appoint the electors. Doesn't say how they'll be appointed. Does (I believe, I'm not an American) say that they can't be office holders, with the implication that they won't be politicians.
This was at a time when there were no parties and according to the Federalist papers, the idea was to elect someone qualified in a time when campaigning in all the States wasn't practical.
Lots of elements/compounds become pollutants when there is an excess. A good example is phosphorous, an element essential for life, one of the main ingredients in fertilizer (it's the second number), which causes havoc in ecosystems when there is too much.
As for Canada becoming a grain basket, so far the warming is ruining the grain farms due to lack of water. Glaciers are shrinking fast (something that's easy to measure), lack of snowfall to soak the fields, etc. And further north there is a distinct lack of soil and growing season. The climate doesn't do anything to the sunrise/sunset times. There's a reason that the Boreal forests consist of tiny trees, and its not the temperature.
Here in BC, the government has decided to flood the best northern farmland in the mistaken belief that we can make a fortune selling natural gas to the Chinese despite the competition from the USA, Australia (both way ahead on plant existence and already shipping) and Russia (close enough to pipe it instead of shipping by ship).
I don't know much about Siberia but understand it has similar shortages of actual soil and similar issues with growing seasons being limited by sunlight.
Wait.. I thought Canada couldn't have copyright infringment because you guys have a piracy tax on all the media. If that's not paying for a license for everything, where is the money going?
We only have the copying (it covers legal time shifting as well as copyright infringement) levy on cassette tapes and blank CDROMs. After the courts ruled that the levy made it legal to copy music for personal use, the copyright cartel lost interest in adding the levy to DVDs etc.
Actually we got blackmailed by the citizens of the USA. "If you want access to our market, you thieving arseholes, who are worse then all 3rd world countries, you better pass these laws" Americans are obviously in favour of those draconian copyright laws.
Now we're likely to get hauled into court and forced to pay, sometimes as much as 3 times the cost of a DVD but usually only the cost of a DVD. Then we get the American companies threatening to haul us into court if we don't pay. As most of us are exposed to American propaganda (even our DVD's threaten us with the FBI), some think paying up front is better then a trip to court.
All that was decided was that States can't leave unilaterally. A Constitutional amendment would allow a State to secede. Maybe not likely, but possible.
The fact that I couldn't even remember their name shows how much attention I pay their obnoxious ads.
Around here (Vancouver, BC) there's a place that's always advertising their diamonds. Latest is "Artisan Diamonds", with the impression that they're worth more then natural diamonds. Perhaps hand assembled?
As usual, marketing trumps everything else.
Can you give any examples, over lets say the last 150 years, where scientific consensus turned into laughing stock?
Sure at the beginning of the scientific era, lots of theories turned into laughing stock. Geologists started out believing in the flood, but quickly the evidence showed it to be worth laughing at. It took a while for chemistry to explain fire and some of the first ideas were totally wrong. Newtons laws were found to be approximations that are still used (Voyageur II went to Neptune using Newtonian physics). The Ether is often laughed at here, but in reality it made sense as light had been shown to have the properties of a wave and waves need a substance to propagate. As soon as instruments became sensitive enough to attempt to measure it, well science moved on, without laughter.
Some things were met with laughter. The idea of quantum mechanics. The guy who postulated the neutrino, needed to make an equation balance. The theory that the Universe had a beginning. Continental drift was one that I remember a teacher laughing at when I was in school.
Some things were laughed at due to who came up with the theory, such as the idea that the Sun was mostly hydrogen. As if a woman could figure that out, it must have been wrong as obviously the ratio of elements should be the same throughout the Universe. Interestingly, the scientist who laughed the loudest went on to "discover" that the Sun is mostly hydrogen (using a different method) and initially got credit for it.
Sure there have been individuals that were worth laughing at. Lord Kelvin saying that heavier then air flight is impossible, when all he had to do was look outside and observe a bird, comes to mind.
No Socialism means the people control the business, sometimes through government, sometimes through co-ops, worker owned businesses, credit unions and similar. Sometimes the government does a good job such as in Scandinavia, though too often it turns corrupt, as seen in most 3rd world authoritarian regimes, sometimes government is thrown out, such as Spain in the civil war (until the Stalinists showed up) and northern Italy. Actually currently in Spain, http://archive.is/SvI7U
Most Americans forget, or rather never knew, that the first Libertarians were Socialist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Think for yourself instead of the propaganda that has been fed to you by the main stream media, who are all owned by the likes of AT&T and your government, who is also owned by the likes of AT&T.
That's misleading as while the total number of jobs has gone up, the population has increased even faster.
Before the industrial revolution, employment was at close to 100% of the population between the ages of about 5 and death. They may have been small farmers who also spun wool for little money but their lifestyle gave them food and a home.
There were points such as at the beginning of the industrial revolution in the days of the Luddites where it took 70 years (3 generations) for the jobs to increase to close to full employment. This was helped by having the New World to ship the unemployed, where they could self employ homesteading etc.
Now we have whole classes of the population that aren't even expected to be employed and aren't counted as unemployed. Students are an increasing demographic who are unemployed or only employed part time. As the amount of education that students are expected to have, the longer they stay as students.
Retired people are another demographic that didn't really exist in the past. You worked until you couldn't, and then died.
The handicapped, disabled is another demographic that has expanded. Lots of people living on disability checks of some type.
Those are just some of the groups that aren't even counted as unemployed and the percent of the total population employed has generally dropped with a few upticks.
What the fuck are you talking about? There's lots of ads targeting men, from Grecian formula through various razors, aftershaves and deodorants, not too mention clothing such as underwear. These ads are shown on the white male channels as well or does Fox only advertise to minorities and women?
The dam is being built for one reason, to sell expensive natural gas to the Chinese and Indonesians, who can buy it much cheaper from Russia, Australia and the USA, all who have actual production already happening. It is also flooding out some very good farmland that is finally getting productive due to the changing climate.
The BC government has also been balancing their budget by forcing the crown owned power company to give billions of dollars to the government and soon the government will give it away as it is so far in debt due to amongst other things, being forced to build a huge dam with no funding. That'll be the end of cheap electricity around here.
We have lots of natural gas infrastructure currently and the idea that our expensive gas is going to compete with others cheap gas is just stupid.
Solar thermal isn't the best idea in Canada. Though BC is ideal for regular solar and wind as we've already got an abundance of hydro power to take up the slack when cloudy or calm.
The biggest killers of birds are cats or/and buildings.
Blame Exxon for financing the anti-nuke crowds. Without them we'd quite possibly have new better tech for fission power. There are quite a few promising ideas for safe nukes but it is getting too late to perfect them and build them. The old tech is pretty shitty as it is both too expensive and not the safest. Expensive shit that no-one will insure makes it very hard to finance.
Haven't heard about the tidal power protests but it sounds stupid.
How do you know? He has a habit of not paying people, which leads to bankruptcy and not being able to pay for necessities including medical care. As a small business, I hate it when I do work for someone and they don't pay, especially when it's often the most wealthy that don't pay.
He also has a history of working with various criminal organizations, including mafia types and before this election, his good friends, the Clintons.
As a non-American, I can't understand voting for either lizard