"We" did nothing of the sort. It was the Harper government, in yet another example of their ineptitude, simply giving in to American demands for political expediency. The lumber industry and the Canadian public were behind the continued fight at the world trade level
The Lumber industry did support the government. As did the provincial governments that were involved. At least with the agreement we have now, the federal government collects the export tariffs and the money stays in Canada (Although I do wonder why B.C. didn't just increase its "low" stumpage fees and keep in money in B.C).
Me too! When they raise the voice mail and caller ID prices (yet again) a year or so ago, I said enough is enough and canceled both. They wanted an extra $2/month out of me for a "service" that cost them nothing extra to provide, they lost $9/month from me instead.
The Liberals have had similar legislation in the works for at least the past 6 years, there's no doubt that a DCMA-style law will eventually pass in parliament, its only a matter of time. As for the rest of your random partisan attacks:
considering the later not only sold out our lumber industry,
The provinces and lumber industry agreed to the deal, they agreed it was a good compromise. (and besides, with the export tax, this means more money going to the governments and therefore less tax that us taxpayers need to pay. As well, there is possibly now less pressure to clear-cut our beautiful forests to satisfy American demand).
send troops to Afghanistan against the people's wishes
The Liberal's sent them there, and the majority of parliament agreed to extend it by 2 years.
seeks to abolish our beloved gun registry
The registry is a waste of money. I've yet to hear of a case where the registry saved a life, yet many cases continue to occur with registered guns despite the registry (Dawson shooting being a high profile example). Let's spend that 2 billion on policing and prevention instead.
and seeks to semi-privatize our beloved public healthcare
Now your just making stuff up. The conservatives have continuously expressed support for healthcare, including the recent wait-time guarantee initiative (although not perfect, its at least a step in the right direction).
but to add insult to injury has so much as stated that they'd even so much as consider repealing the charter of rights
What are you talking about here? They've talked about strengthening it by adding property rights to the charter.
to force through a ban on same-sex marriage
They had an open vote on it, it didn't pass, case closed. (and incidentally, it was supported by a small number of liberals and opposed by some conservatives).
But Harper did single-handedly decide to transform the mission from the typical Canadian role of providing security and reconstruction aid to one of warfighting in the hills.
That's incorrect. Martin's government is the one that decided take on the more difficult mission and move our troops into the dangerous Kandahar region. The only thing Harper guilty of so far is extending the mission by two years. See the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_role_in_the_ invasion_of_Afghanistan
Let me quote from the wikipedia article "In the spring of 2005 it was announced that the Canadian Forces would move back to the volatile Kandahar province as the US forces handed command to the Canadians in the region." and "When the Canadian Forces returned to Kandahar after being deployed to Kabul in 2003, the Taliban began a major offensive and the Canadians were caught in the middle." So moving to Kandahar was the cause of the more "warfighting" role and the decision to go there was taken almost a full year before Harper became PM.
"Scary thing is that Stevie the Cowboy will likely agree to this..."
You had a good post up until this point and then out comes the cheap partisan stuff. The Liberals under Martin were trying just as hard to bring in a DMCA style law.
"DC with pulse with modulation" -- sounds like an alternating current to me. Yes, it's typically a very messed up square wave (due to all kinds of filtering) rather than a sinusoid pure sinusoid, but spectrally, it's just noisy AC.
Technically its an (ugly) AC waveform with a DC offset. The filtering removes most of the AC junk an you're left with just the DC offset.
So, in Canada the [tax] money gets back to the people via the government, and in the US it gets back to the people via Wal-Mart... what's the difference?
We have Wal-Mart up here in Canada, so by your logic, some of the American taxes "gets back" to Canadians too;-)
BS, the only thing lavishly higher is booze and smokes in my experience almost everything else is CHEAPER in Canada and I have travelled all over the US. That goes for food, insurance, housing etc etc.
That was true a few years ago, but with the major devaluation of the American dollar (US$1 went from being worth about C$1.6 to C$1.17) that is simply no longer true. I haven't noticed ANY price drops in Canada as the C$ rose in value, retailers are presumably just pocketing the extra profits. Cross-border shopping is looking very attractive these days for Canadians.
I think you're wrong about the Straight of Georgia, look at any map and you see a U.S.-Canada border marked across the straight. The waters are considered "internal waters", any foreign warships entering those waters without prior consent could be viewed as engaging in an act of war.
The nanoose bay torpedo range you talk of is jointly run by the Canadian armed forces and the US Navy. The area was owned by the BC gov until the Feds expropriated it a few years ago. It has geographical features that make it an ideal range, something our allies lacked. More info: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/na noose.htm
not to mention they did what American should have done years ago legalize pot!!!
Canada? Nope. They were talking about de-criminalizing small possesions (which is different than legalizing: you get a ticket, not a criminal record with possible jail time). Sale, growing, etc, would have still been criminal. However it was all just talk and never came into effect.
Dude, they are both identical. Look at the angle of the shadow and the location of cars. The only differences is the MSN one allows you to zoom in more.
Midi synth works fine with alsa for me. Make sure you (or rosegarden, check the settings) load the soundfonts to the synth, and make sure the "music" volume control is turned up. If you need em, there's some free sound fonts (CT8MGM.SF2, etc) on the SBLive CD that comes with the card .
This seems to be another one of those myth stories that just float around. American forces with superior tech beaten by foreign forces with inferior tech in war game X in location Y.
Here's an article which list all the recent "sinking" of US Nuclear Subs, Carriers and destroyers in recent years by Modern Diesel Subs.
Nuclear sub's are loud ass bitches, sure they have the advantage of being able to stay under water much longer, but the noise they produce allow them to be picked up by passive sonar which is a disadvantage. Diesel subs operating on batteries are scarily quiet and are hard to find using passive sonar.
Like noise output has anything to do with how new US subs detect other subs. There's this fancy thing called "sonar" that's been around for 50+ years now, maybe you've heard of it?
Active sonar (generating a ping sound and waiting for a reflection off of nearby objects) is a good way to let other subs know you're in the area, for that reason passive sonar (just listening for noises around you) is usual prefered when quietly lurking around.
The exception to that rule is for areas declared "Internal Waters" (and that aren't established international shipping lanes). It is potentially an act of war to enter a foreign nation's internal waters with war ships without permission. Apparently there are precendences elsewhere in the world to be able to declare the Northwest Passage internal waters of Canada despite the fact that its more than 24nm wide. The Canadian Navy needs to step up their patrols and defend it though.
Actually, it was 4 subs that were purchased, it was the 4th that broke down on its first trip from England. They also recently upgraded an ice breaker (or maybe it was a frigate, I can't remember) to help defend the northwest passage.
The quarter of the time that it connects interrupt the person on the other end and tell them to move you to their internal do not call list. Also try the CMA do not call list. I did both of those and the daily (I didn't answer most of the time) auto dialler calls I was getting to my cell phone stopped. I haven't had a single one since.
Here are a few more negative stuff (mostly Gnome - If some are wrong, please someone correct me and tell me how to fix it):
- gnome CD player now extracts the audio and plays it back as pcm. A good feature for people with miss-configured systems, but unfortunately there's no option to play it the normal way so we have to endure the constant noise of 24x reading plus the phone jack on the cd drive won't work now.
- Metacity still doesn't have proper mouse-follow-focus support. Clicking on a window raises it which renders mouse-follow-focus useless, imho.
- No apparent way to dissable silly minize/maximize animations.
- The wireless applet appears to have been removed and replace with generic network applet which doesn't show a numeric % signal strength (just a bar graph now). Mind you, its still better than kde's wireless applet.
- Confusing "friendly" menu names (e.g. "Audio Player" instead of "xmms")
Gee, 15 seconds on the website, and I found this page listing all the toll free numbers they have in 64 different countries. Mind you, people oversees can't reach that page.
But cable is not that way legally and can be and is used in a monopolistic manner. If I want a cable modem here there is only no choice but comcast.
But many people do have some choice. ADSL, Cable modem, Dialup, your neighbour's wireless network, no internet at all. The cable company does need to keep the prices reasonable or risk losing your business for internet connectivity.
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The Lumber industry did support the government. As did the provincial governments that were involved. At least with the agreement we have now, the federal government collects the export tariffs and the money stays in Canada (Although I do wonder why B.C. didn't just increase its "low" stumpage fees and keep in money in B.C).
Me too! When they raise the voice mail and caller ID prices (yet again) a year or so ago, I said enough is enough and canceled both. They wanted an extra $2/month out of me for a "service" that cost them nothing extra to provide, they lost $9/month from me instead.
considering the later not only sold out our lumber industry,
The provinces and lumber industry agreed to the deal, they agreed it was a good compromise. (and besides, with the export tax, this means more money going to the governments and therefore less tax that us taxpayers need to pay. As well, there is possibly now less pressure to clear-cut our beautiful forests to satisfy American demand).
send troops to Afghanistan against the people's wishes
The Liberal's sent them there, and the majority of parliament agreed to extend it by 2 years.
seeks to abolish our beloved gun registry
The registry is a waste of money. I've yet to hear of a case where the registry saved a life, yet many cases continue to occur with registered guns despite the registry (Dawson shooting being a high profile example). Let's spend that 2 billion on policing and prevention instead.
and seeks to semi-privatize our beloved public healthcare
Now your just making stuff up. The conservatives have continuously expressed support for healthcare, including the recent wait-time guarantee initiative (although not perfect, its at least a step in the right direction).
but to add insult to injury has so much as stated that they'd even so much as consider repealing the charter of rights
What are you talking about here? They've talked about strengthening it by adding property rights to the charter.
to force through a ban on same-sex marriage
They had an open vote on it, it didn't pass, case closed. (and incidentally, it was supported by a small number of liberals and opposed by some conservatives).
That's incorrect. Martin's government is the one that decided take on the more difficult mission and move our troops into the dangerous Kandahar region. The only thing Harper guilty of so far is extending the mission by two years. See the following article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada's_role_in_the_ invasion_of_Afghanistan
Let me quote from the wikipedia article "In the spring of 2005 it was announced that the Canadian Forces would move back to the volatile Kandahar province as the US forces handed command to the Canadians in the region." and "When the Canadian Forces returned to Kandahar after being deployed to Kabul in 2003, the Taliban began a major offensive and the Canadians were caught in the middle." So moving to Kandahar was the cause of the more "warfighting" role and the decision to go there was taken almost a full year before Harper became PM.
You had a good post up until this point and then out comes the cheap partisan stuff. The Liberals under Martin were trying just as hard to bring in a DMCA style law.
I think the black "contrail" is actually the shadow of the contrail.
Technically its an (ugly) AC waveform with a DC offset. The filtering removes most of the AC junk an you're left with just the DC offset.
We have Wal-Mart up here in Canada, so by your logic, some of the American taxes "gets back" to Canadians too ;-)
That was true a few years ago, but with the major devaluation of the American dollar (US$1 went from being worth about C$1.6 to C$1.17) that is simply no longer true. I haven't noticed ANY price drops in Canada as the C$ rose in value, retailers are presumably just pocketing the extra profits. Cross-border shopping is looking very attractive these days for Canadians.
Actually they don't fully make up for all the costs, as TFA points out they've lost 4 billion dollars so far.
Its up now, here's a direct link: http://www.us.playstation.com/Adaptor/
The nanoose bay torpedo range you talk of is jointly run by the Canadian armed forces and the US Navy. The area was owned by the BC gov until the Feds expropriated it a few years ago. It has geographical features that make it an ideal range, something our allies lacked. More info: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/na noose.htm
Canada? Nope. They were talking about de-criminalizing small possesions (which is different than legalizing: you get a ticket, not a criminal record with possible jail time). Sale, growing, etc, would have still been criminal. However it was all just talk and never came into effect.
Dude, they are both identical. Look at the angle of the shadow and the location of cars. The only differences is the MSN one allows you to zoom in more.
Midi synth works fine with alsa for me. Make sure you (or rosegarden, check the settings) load the soundfonts to the synth, and make sure the "music" volume control is turned up. If you need em, there's some free sound fonts (CT8MGM.SF2, etc) on the SBLive CD that comes with the card .
Here's an article which list all the recent "sinking" of US Nuclear Subs, Carriers and destroyers in recent years by Modern Diesel Subs.
http://www.argee.net/DefenseWatch/Is%20the%20Nucle ar%20Submarine%20Really%20Invincible.htm
Nuclear sub's are loud ass bitches, sure they have the advantage of being able to stay under water much longer, but the noise they produce allow them to be picked up by passive sonar which is a disadvantage. Diesel subs operating on batteries are scarily quiet and are hard to find using passive sonar.
Like noise output has anything to do with how new US subs detect other subs. There's this fancy thing called "sonar" that's been around for 50+ years now, maybe you've heard of it?
Active sonar (generating a ping sound and waiting for a reflection off of nearby objects) is a good way to let other subs know you're in the area, for that reason passive sonar (just listening for noises around you) is usual prefered when quietly lurking around.
Why does winter stop you?? Just dust the snow off the BBQ turn up the heat a little higher.
The exception to that rule is for areas declared "Internal Waters" (and that aren't established international shipping lanes). It is potentially an act of war to enter a foreign nation's internal waters with war ships without permission. Apparently there are precendences elsewhere in the world to be able to declare the Northwest Passage internal waters of Canada despite the fact that its more than 24nm wide. The Canadian Navy needs to step up their patrols and defend it though.
Actually, it was 4 subs that were purchased, it was the 4th that broke down on its first trip from England. They also recently upgraded an ice breaker (or maybe it was a frigate, I can't remember) to help defend the northwest passage.
The quarter of the time that it connects interrupt the person on the other end and tell them to move you to their internal do not call list. Also try the CMA do not call list. I did both of those and the daily (I didn't answer most of the time) auto dialler calls I was getting to my cell phone stopped. I haven't had a single one since.
10 millibits*second? What does this unit represent? The second integral of data rate?
- gnome CD player now extracts the audio and plays it back as pcm. A good feature for people with miss-configured systems, but unfortunately there's no option to play it the normal way so we have to endure the constant noise of 24x reading plus the phone jack on the cd drive won't work now.
- Metacity still doesn't have proper mouse-follow-focus support. Clicking on a window raises it which renders mouse-follow-focus useless, imho.
- No apparent way to dissable silly minize/maximize animations.
- The wireless applet appears to have been removed and replace with generic network applet which doesn't show a numeric % signal strength (just a bar graph now). Mind you, its still better than kde's wireless applet.
- Confusing "friendly" menu names (e.g. "Audio Player" instead of "xmms")
Gee, 15 seconds on the website, and I found this page listing all the toll free numbers they have in 64 different countries. Mind you, people oversees can't reach that page.
But many people do have some choice. ADSL, Cable modem, Dialup, your neighbour's wireless network, no internet at all. The cable company does need to keep the prices reasonable or risk losing your business for internet connectivity.
uh, I agree, that's what I'm saying!! I'm replying to the retard that now got moded to -1 who said they can't.