Why not? It's all they are good for. If Canada wasn't directly north of the U.S. it would be a third world country that is in default to the world bank and begging for food.
So you say. Yet it's the only G8 country wich has had no deficit in about a decade...
Contrast this to the "fiscally responsible" "republican" USA...
Actually, having been a deputy returning officer in the last federal elections, I swear that the liberals arranged that the elections could be invalidated simply because they gave election personnel erroneous instructions on how to seal the ballot boxes.
The net result is that if the conservatives would have won, they could have pointed-out that the ballot boxes could very well have been tampered with without any means of ascertaining so.
My (skewed) logic in that: If you're driving faster (within reason), you're moving faster, so you'd be travelling for less time overall. So while you may burn slightly more gas from a higher revving engine, you may save time and theoretically run the engine for shorter periods.
No. Energy expenditure is proportional to the square of the speed, whilst travel time is inversely proportional. So a 2x increase in speed will yield a 50% decrease in time, but with a 4x energy expenditure, thus increasing the energy usage by 2 (4 x 50%).
Tell that to the Sûreté du Québec rookie cop who killed 3 other officers while DUI on his first day on the job, in Trois-Rivières... He's not a cop anymore, and never will be again...
The system only checks your speed to determine distance travelled, not speeding.
That's logical. A guy who drives 1000 km per week has a lot more chances to get involved in a pile-up than that old lady who only drives it 2km to church every week...
Next step is glass that turns transparent to visible light when it's hot, for example, a bathroom window what turns transparent when a hot woman (or a hot man) gets on the other side...
(Opera doesn't like when you 127.0.0.1 a ad website in your/etc/hosts files; it puts the advertisement URL in the address bar after a (very little) while...)
We don't trust the government or corporations becuase they have gone from "protecting our rights" mode to "enslave the entire population" mode. How can we trust them when they're using the technology to enslave people instead of relieving us of work so we have more time to do other things?
This is not the reason. The real reason is the deeply rooted mistrust of the State that is so prevalent in anglo-saxon cultures, stemming back from the 1215 Magna-Carta.
You need to do some googling on the Constitutional "right to travel" - there have been a few documented court cases regarding this, cases that were won by the defendent.
I do not have any driver's licence at all, and never had any (even though I'm well over 40), nor plan to have one.
Despite that, never has my right to travel ever been curtailed anywhere in the world, including the USA where I have been to many places by many means of transportation, including by boat, by foot (I crossed the border on foot a few times - a village near where I live is straddling the border and several houses - including the Opera House - are in both countries), train (steam, diesel, electric & turbine), plane (jet, prop and even an airship), scuba-diving at the bottom of the St-Lawrence River exploring an old shipwreck that straddles the international border and even by a steam-powered automobile (I wasn't driving, of course) at 60 mph when the limit was still 55.
Perhaps you have overlooked the notion that travel is entirely possible without an automobile???
IANAL, but as far as I know, at least in California, the posted speed limit signs are "suggested" speed limits for drivers; meaning it's not a hard legal maximum speed at which you can drive in that area.
Police officers will issue citations to speeders according to their common-sense judgment. An obviously prudent motorist exceeding the limit by 10 klicks will escape scot-free, whilst another will be issued one if he:
In Nation(s) such as the USA where the Citizen has the rights and they are leased to the State by a Constitution, the authorities must have "Probable Cause" to bring a warrant. (Real or imminant danger of an offense) A person cannot be compelled to testify against themselves. In such a State this data is not just a matter of its existence, it is a matter of violation of citizen rights to compel it.
This is an obsolete concept coming from an earlier time when citizens were few, and could not inflict catastrophic damage unto others while doing their normal routine.
There are so many humans nowadays that use potentially lethal machinery (automobiles) that they must be monitored in order to insure the public welfare (which they do already though police forces).
In fact, if it were not the case, the State would have neglected it's very basic duty, namely to insure the common good.
Driving is NOT A RIGHT, but a PRIVILEGE that is granted by the State to those who can demonstrate their ability to safely operate a motor vehicle on public roads.
In addition, driving a motor vehicle on a public road is, by definition, A PUBLIC ACTIVITY that is witnessed by hundreds of eyes. Therefore, one CANNOT HAVE ANY EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WHILE DRIVING A MOTOR CAR ON A PUBLIC ROAD.
Hence, a black box in a car is perfectly acceptable.
And no one bitches about black boxes in aircraft, locomotives, trucks and buses whose drivers have to fill-in log-books. So why should a private motor-car be treated any differently???
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Expect a $100 per year copyright fee for big croporations, and a $1000 fee for the small fry.
(Reposted, account some asshole moderator moderating it as "overrated").
Expect a $100 per year copyright fee for big croporations, and a $1000 fee for the small fry.
Contrast this to the "fiscally responsible" "republican" USA...
The net result is that if the conservatives would have won, they could have pointed-out that the ballot boxes could very well have been tampered with without any means of ascertaining so.
(Reposted, account stupid moderators marking it as "troll" and "overrated")
Blame Canada!!!
One word: FAIR USE
Tell that to the Sûreté du Québec rookie cop who killed 3 other officers while DUI on his first day on the job, in Trois-Rivières... He's not a cop anymore, and never will be again...
There are things governments do better than private companies...
Next step is glass that turns transparent to visible light when it's hot, for example, a bathroom window what turns transparent when a hot woman (or a hot man) gets on the other side...
(Opera doesn't like when you 127.0.0.1 a ad website in your /etc/hosts files; it puts the advertisement URL in the address bar after a (very little) while...)
This is a dupe from 10 days ago.
Doesn't the Windoze EULA already covers this by "prohibiting" the use of Windoze-based machines on life-critical systems???
Despite that, never has my right to travel ever been curtailed anywhere in the world, including the USA where I have been to many places by many means of transportation, including by boat, by foot (I crossed the border on foot a few times - a village near where I live is straddling the border and several houses - including the Opera House - are in both countries), train (steam, diesel, electric & turbine), plane (jet, prop and even an airship), scuba-diving at the bottom of the St-Lawrence River exploring an old shipwreck that straddles the international border and even by a steam-powered automobile (I wasn't driving, of course) at 60 mph when the limit was still 55.
Perhaps you have overlooked the notion that travel is entirely possible without an automobile???
There are so many humans nowadays that use potentially lethal machinery (automobiles) that they must be monitored in order to insure the public welfare (which they do already though police forces).
In fact, if it were not the case, the State would have neglected it's very basic duty, namely to insure the common good.
In addition, driving a motor vehicle on a public road is, by definition, A PUBLIC ACTIVITY that is witnessed by hundreds of eyes. Therefore, one CANNOT HAVE ANY EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY WHILE DRIVING A MOTOR CAR ON A PUBLIC ROAD.
Hence, a black box in a car is perfectly acceptable.
And no one bitches about black boxes in aircraft, locomotives, trucks and buses whose drivers have to fill-in log-books. So why should a private motor-car be treated any differently???