It may be "bourgeois", but it's a good thing. As long as people are aware of how much the gov't is taxing them then we can keep the gov't in check here. This way we don't get the runaway taxes like in Europe...
As long as people are aware of how much the bourgeois are overcharging them then we can keep the bourgeois in check here. This way we don't get runaway bourgeois like in the USA...
1. both smell bad
2. both create health risks for others
3. both involve butts
I was at my sister for a (somewhat) formal supper, and there were other people. After the cheese*, they light up cigarettes, so I start farting, both loudly and smellously, not once, but at least five times within a minute.
Of course, everyone looks at me in horror:
-- You're farting!!!
-- So what? You're smoking!!! You smoke, I fart; that's fair and square...
We have to pay customs (if applicable, and believe you me, Canada Customs will find any reason to claim so), and I have had to pay GST (Goods and Service Tax, also known as HST, or Harmonized Sales Tax in some provinces, our VAT) on top of the customs bill. Or rather, GST on the item, and then GST for the fantastic service provided to me by Canada Customs of requiring me to pay customs.
Wash, rinse, and repeat if the provincial government wants a take as well, in which case you'll be paying PST. The amount of PST does differ between provinces, but this means nothing to you if you live in the province with the highest rate (well, other than getting the hell out, of course).
What are you whining about? This is to pay for your free medical care so you won't lose your house when you need a heart transplant.
IMHO, if they want to continue calling it a sales tax, they should tax the seller and the price listed is the final price to the consumer. This would mean no more silliness about trying to figure out the over-the-top tax rates when one buys goods, no stupid use tax traps, and make interstate commerce a LOT easier (calculating tax often requires knowing the actual municipality based on zip code -- quite a pain the tuckus).
Even though they do that in Europe, you can't do that in an anglo-saxon country, because the bourgeois want to show the people how much tax the big bad government charges you on the stuff they sell you.
As usual, since it's a bourgeois thing, it is silly, because by the same logic, their sticker price should be the wholesale price they paid for the stuff, and they will add the profit at the cash register...
This bunko quasi-political rhetoric is getting tired. While in some cases there is a legal difference between people and corporations, who do you think makes up corporation?!?
People!
People with jobs, families, communities, little league teams, the works.
This business of trying to make out corporations as some kind of faceless inhuman creature is just silly.
Bourgeois nonsense.
Business is what free people do. Business is an act, not something tangible.
Businesses are NOT people anymore than the shopping spree you did last week-end is human.
Corporations are NOT human, so they cannot enjoy any kind of human right whatsoever.
Never underestimate the resolve of big money to keep subverting the legal process (in this case, they were not able to subvert the democratic process) to buttress their short-term interests.
But, come to think of it, let the damn thing pass, individual countries who do not want it can very well refuse to honour and protect software patent law.
There are precedents: even though abortion was illegal in Canada (until the law that forbade abortion was declared unconstitutional), Québec refused not only to uphold that law, but even funded abortions.
So if a particular country wants to have a thriving software industry, it can simply tell patent holders to shove their patents where their constipatedness shines...
The people that want to ban violent video games aren't necessarily the ones that want to keep guns legal. Most of the people that support gun ownership probably also support personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility is a bork3d concept. It's also very primitive and obsolete; it's the perfect excuse for letting the rich blame the poor for their predicament. It's also a great tool to keep the State from meddling with the rich people's business.
Personal responsibility could conceivably be extended to justify murder, with "well, he didn't have a gun and didn't defend himself when I shot him dead, so it's his fault he's dead".
The rich can live cheaper than the poor. Sure, their leather boots cost 10 times as much as the cheap ones with the cardboard soles, but the cheap boots on last a month, while the boots will last a lifetime, and likely be able to be passed down. Furniture and clothing the same way.
Like hell! They are most likely to throw the boots in the trash after 2 months and the furniture every 13 months, just to flash their money.
That's a solution? You're also ignoring one of the fundamental problems of an addiction. When you have an addiction to a mood/mind altering drug/alcohol, you come down from them. Your next fix isn't as good, and you need to take more to hit that high again. You then come down harder. Eventually, this cycle starts causing other problems with things like your health, your ability to decide what's right from wrong (meaning trying to get up to go to work in the morning...
So? It's *** EXACTLY THE SAME THING*** with alcohol, yet alcohol remains legal.
That's the most bizarre twisting of the phrase 'personal responsibility' I have ever heard. Bravo. Most sane people actually use it to mean standing behind your actions, not "you are responsible for everything that happens to you."
Exactly! I'm not talking about the sane people, but about the rich who use it to blame their victims for their predicaments.
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The poor usually are responsible for their predicament. They make bad choices and have no value for those things that will allow them to elevate themselves.
This is typically what separates those of us who are no longer poor from those that still are. We value education, we plan for the future, we try not to blow everything & we try to avoid premature parenthood. We have a sense of consequences in general.
The people that want to ban violent video games aren't necessarily the ones that want to keep guns legal. Most of the people that support gun ownership probably also support personal responsibility.
Personal responsibility is a broken concept. It's also very primitive and obsolete; it's the perfect excuse for letting the rich blame the poor for their predicament. It's also a great tool to keep the State from meddling with the rich people's business.
Personal responsibility could conceivably be extended to justify murder, with "well, he didn't have a gun and didn't defend himself when I shot him dead, so it's his fault he's dead".
We know what's wrong with the lawyer. He has no ethics and thinks there's money to be made.
There is nothing wrong with the lawyer. He's just doing his job, which is getting his client off the hook. Just as well as the prosecutor is doing his job, which is nailing the perp.
I may be wrong, but by posting these links, didn't you just contribute to a circumvention of a copy protection scheme, and therefore broke the DMCA and/or INDUCE acts ?
I'm not trying to be funny or flamebait, I'm just trying to figure out if posting links could get you in trouble.
Dunno about him, but certainly not for me!!! The DMCIA doesn't have any jurisdiction over 95% of the planet population...
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No wonder a big disturbance in the force was felt...
Of course, everyone looks at me in horror:
-- You're farting!!!
-- So what? You're smoking!!! You smoke, I fart; that's fair and square...
* We're french.
As usual, since it's a bourgeois thing, it is silly, because by the same logic, their sticker price should be the wholesale price they paid for the stuff, and they will add the profit at the cash register...
Business is what free people do. Business is an act, not something tangible.
Businesses are NOT people anymore than the shopping spree you did last week-end is human.
Corporations are NOT human, so they cannot enjoy any kind of human right whatsoever.
And many private foundations take care of abandonned and orphaned children.
But, come to think of it, let the damn thing pass, individual countries who do not want it can very well refuse to honour and protect software patent law.
There are precedents: even though abortion was illegal in Canada (until the law that forbade abortion was declared unconstitutional), Québec refused not only to uphold that law, but even funded abortions.
So if a particular country wants to have a thriving software industry, it can simply tell patent holders to shove their patents where their constipatedness shines...
Personal responsibility could conceivably be extended to justify murder, with "well, he didn't have a gun and didn't defend himself when I shot him dead, so it's his fault he's dead".
(Reposted, account being moderated 20% Flamebait, 40% Overrated & 30% Insightful).
(Reposted, account some jerk "moderating" it as troll).
You must be a cheap-labour conservative...
Personal responsibility could conceivably be extended to justify murder, with "well, he didn't have a gun and didn't defend himself when I shot him dead, so it's his fault he's dead".
... " The devil made me do it " ????
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