Canada will be going into elections within the nest 6-9 months.
So it is more than never the time to go after your candidates and grill them on the subject. The more public, the better!
Do not count on the private TV networks to expose this to the public; aim the majority of your efforts towars the government owned (but not controlled) CBC.
No, I'm french. We, the french, had no magna-carta, so we love big government. We trust big government. We don't trust entrepreneurs. And it's big government who gave us the cheapest electric power in the world (which also does not pollute).
And we're happy at paying 50% income tax so we don't have to worry about being screwed by health insurance companies or robbed at gunpoint in the streets.
This is likely to happen (again) in Quebec, where the government has indicated its intent to pass legislation overruling the Supreme Court's decision that it is unconstitutional to prevent a patient from paying a doctor for service, where the patient would otherwise have to wait under the "free" universal healthcare system. The Court, has stayed its decision until the government decides whether to overrule it. (Foreigners, of course, can purchase all the health insurance, or direct medical services, they want, with no waiting, so this may not affect you. Only in Canada, do citizens come second.)
Hey, René, if you don't like it here, you can always move to the US where you'll be able to be as stupid as you want.
Fortunately, here, we have decided to have reason prevail over primitive values that are so popular with your kind of stupid people (that is, those english morons who are too stupid to learn french).
In Québec, we have been so much shafted by "free" entreprise that we have given ourselves a strong State to take care of everyone and make sure that no big guy screws the little guy.
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So, finally, have you finish writing your totally universal Pascal compiler??? Do you still bang your head on the walls when you encounter a big hurdle???
Feh. I've not only lived with them, I ran them too. If the streetcar is part of the traffic problem, that's because the city is too stupid to forbid cars to run on the track.
"Streetcars" are not buses, but rail vehicles. They offer far more capacity than buses, are much more comfortable (they're silent and do not bounce about) and are definitely more popular with people than buses. And they run on electricity so they do not spew forth diesel fumes downtown.
One laptop per child which will help their education. Which will make them smarter and more able to handle life. Which will make them get better jobs and help them to be able to create innovative new stuff. Which will greatly improve their economic situations. Which will mean that their children will always have full stomachs.
Won't work. Most turd-world countries are ruled with an irongrip by a little clique of rich individuals (most african countries debt is roughly equal to their dictator's wealth) who have absolutely no interest whatsoever that the population of "their" countries become educated, lest they have a revolution on their hands.
One of the articles I read said that Negroponte wanted a design that was so distinctive it would be easily recognized and that it would be a stigma to carry one if you weren't a teacher or a student...like "filching a mail truch or taking something from a church."
Many years ago, recognizing that many white collar workers brought lunches from home but would not bear face the stigma of carrying a blue-collar lunchbox, a company introduced an "executive lunchbox", which did not look like the prototypical blue-collar lunchbox. That executive lunchbox was so heavily advertised that everyone knew one when they saw one, thus totally erasing the advantage of having a non-blue-collar lunchbox (because the social stigma was carrying a lunch, and not carrying a lunch-box proper).
Hence the advertising industry term "here goes another executive lunchbox" for a good product that was well marketed but which failed because the social aspect was not properly addressed...
It's a constant cycle though, notice how the economy tanks after the Republicans have been in power for 6-8 years? Our national debt perfectly reflects the money management skills of most americans...
It's a constant cycle though, notice how the economy tanks after the Republicans have been in power for 6-8 years? Our national debt perfectly reflects the money management skills of most americans...
Nice to have a constitution that doesn't matter to the state, isn't it?
So what? Canada has the same thing; the "notwithstanding clause" allows any government to pass a law that would violate the Charter of Rights. This was brought about at the insistence of english provinces who would want to continue to deny french minorities their basic rights.
I'm not a parent. I get flamed and labeled troll when I attempt to offer parental advice, so I won't. Let me just say it is my belief that: parenting is a priviledge and not a right, people should not procreate until they can afford their offspring and the responsibilities procreation requires, and our government enables the idea of single parenthood in far more people than can likely bear the added responsibilities created by not marrying before rearing a child.
It's a good thing you're not a parent, because with such neanderthalian views about parenting, you'd soon be charged with child abuse (fortunately, there are -still- "liberals" left in position of power, such as child welfare enforcement).
P.S. reproduction is not a privilege, but the only attribute and final destiny of everything that is called "life" (which you obviously don't have).
[...] chimpanzees engage in what appears to be a kind of cursing match as a means of venting aggression and avoiding a potentially dangerous physical clash.
Frans de Waal, a professor of primate behavior at Emory University in Atlanta, said that when chimpanzees were angry "they will grunt or spit or make an abrupt, upsweeping gesture that, if a human were to do it, you'd recognize it as aggressive."
Such behaviors are threat gestures, Professor de Waal said, and they are all a good sign.
"A chimpanzee who is really gearing up for a fight doesn't waste time with gestures, but just goes ahead and attacks," he added.
Chimpanzees? How about cats??? Ever noticed how cats will scream loudly at each other, mere inches from each other? And most of the time, they just separate without ever so slightly slashing each other.
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So it is more than never the time to go after your candidates and grill them on the subject. The more public, the better!
Do not count on the private TV networks to expose this to the public; aim the majority of your efforts towars the government owned (but not controlled) CBC.
And we're happy at paying 50% income tax so we don't have to worry about being screwed by health insurance companies or robbed at gunpoint in the streets.
Don't ever forget that the pigs would gladly jail everyone, "for our own good"... So, for them, listening to all conversation is small potatoes.
Don't ever forget that policemen would gladly jail everyone, "for our own good"... So, for them, listening to all conversation is small potatoes.
Fortunately, here, we have decided to have reason prevail over primitive values that are so popular with your kind of stupid people (that is, those english morons who are too stupid to learn french).
In Québec, we have been so much shafted by "free" entreprise that we have given ourselves a strong State to take care of everyone and make sure that no big guy screws the little guy.
* * *
So, finally, have you finish writing your totally universal Pascal compiler??? Do you still bang your head on the walls when you encounter a big hurdle???
They just need to move to Canada, where the Supreme Court decided that file sharing is legal. Voilà! Problem solved!
Feh. I've not only lived with them, I ran them too. If the streetcar is part of the traffic problem, that's because the city is too stupid to forbid cars to run on the track.
"Streetcars" are not buses, but rail vehicles. They offer far more capacity than buses, are much more comfortable (they're silent and do not bounce about) and are definitely more popular with people than buses. And they run on electricity so they do not spew forth diesel fumes downtown.
Wow-wee! We then can make a beowulf cluster with them!!!!
Many years ago, recognizing that many white collar workers brought lunches from home but would not bear face the stigma of carrying a blue-collar lunchbox, a company introduced an "executive lunchbox", which did not look like the prototypical blue-collar lunchbox. That executive lunchbox was so heavily advertised that everyone knew one when they saw one, thus totally erasing the advantage of having a non-blue-collar lunchbox (because the social stigma was carrying a lunch, and not carrying a lunch-box proper).
Hence the advertising industry term "here goes another executive lunchbox" for a good product that was well marketed but which failed because the social aspect was not properly addressed...Now watch Microsoft and the *AA attacking this resolution on the ground that it is "unamerican" and fostering terrorism.
Media don't sell news, they sell eyeballs. When you buy a paper, you're the product and not the client.
It's a good thing you're not a parent, because with such neanderthalian views about parenting, you'd soon be charged with child abuse (fortunately, there are -still- "liberals" left in position of power, such as child welfare enforcement).
P.S. reproduction is not a privilege, but the only attribute and final destiny of everything that is called "life" (which you obviously don't have).Along with Bubba, and his trusty baseball bat.
Let's count the days until Apple gets illegalized...
Let's countdown until the day Apple gets legislated out of existence...