But you also have a condition of less than 50% of eligible voters voting. So that means half the United States is not even represented in the government. I was using the health care analagy as an example of to much democracy, but if the proper reforms were but into place so that a vote for, say Ralph Nader, wasn't a vote for Bush (hence many not voting at all) then you would have a much more effective democracy.
We are in dire need of a directly elected president and an elected chamber of people with no expectation of being appointed to cabinet.
The concept of a president, IMHO, is not a good one. If you look at most countries, it is a polarizing experience. Proportional representation would be a better solution for Britain, which a large movement in canada hoping for (which is almost a carbon copy of the UK system, with the senate being less uselful than the house of lords).
Does everything need a check? The electorate can do that every 4-5 years, and it was the electorate that elected the party in the first place. Canada's senate is essentially useless, and though the Liberals there have controled parlaiment for most of the past 40 years, there have been periods of other party rule (particularily the 80s, which produced the largest majority in history--to the conservatives) that have created a relativly safe balance. The only danger is the complacency of the electorate.
There are plenty of parliamentary systems that work very smoothly without coalition governments: Canada (which recently obtained its first minority government in 27 years and they have 4 parties that actually get elected, and the Green Party is growing exponentially every election), the UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
The systems are more streamlined in the sense that the party that gets elected will carry through it's agenda and not get stalled/sideswiped by others. In the US, you have 3 things you are electing at the federal level (president, senate, HoR). All it takes is one of them to completely stall legislation, sometimes indefinately. It's one of the reasons the USA is the only industrialized country without universal healthcare; the US was THIS CLOSE to obtaining it in the 70s. The president should be elected by most votes in the country. You have the Senate to and/or the HoR to make sure less polulated regions get heard.
Like many other modern democracies(inlcuding the ones I mentioned), very old policies have just not been brought up to modern snuff. New Zealand has brought in Proportional Representation and there's talk of the same in Canada; Australia has Senate that helps keep majority governments in it's lower house from going too far. I think it's time the same ideas started coming through in the USA. I, however, don't live there. So it's just an outside opinion:-)
Actually, Greenpeace is completely backing this endeavor. The water they're taking was also part of an overall plan to upgrade the drinking water plants, so the water is just being diverted before going into the drinking water. Then the water just returns through where the water has always been going (sewers, water treatment, and then probably the lake).
Well, if you ENJOY doing that, then it's not a waste of time. Some people like going all over and getting the pieces and putting it all together, much like some people with cars. Then again, some people like commuting to work in their car for 2 hours a day, so go figure (with respect to how much people value their time)!
I read on fox news the other day FOX isn't allowed in Canada. Maybe you have nothing called a 'patroit act' but it sure looks like you have your own freedom of speech problems in that case doesn't it?
I don't agree with blocking them, but read up on the reasons why the CRTC did it. They try to keep a balance to keep enough Canadian content on the air.
Also a poll shows 40% of Canadian teenagers hate the United States.
So what? That's an opinion. And when most people say they hate the United States, they're refering to the government, not the people. That percentage swings wildly when different presidents are in power.
Why should we send you jobs? Your country keeps benifiting from being next to one of, if not the strongest nation in the world but this 'friendship' seems to only go one way.
Canadians are responsible for 40% of Florida's tourism industry. Read up on when Jeb Bush recently visited Canada, he was really trying to downplay Canada's refusal to participate in the Iraq war. It was really quite interesting.
I wouldn't give canada anything until they start helping us (or anyone in the world for that matter)
We sent troops to Afghanistan, of which four got killed by an American who only got a slap on the wrist. On 9/11 WE accepted hundreds of planes that could have been filled with terrorists. We didn't even get acknoledged by Bush. We spend a greater percentage of our GDP on foreign aid. We participated in the balkans bombing. Just because we don't use our military in our foreign relations projects, does not mean we do nothing.
The US has been the biggest threat to Canada through most of its history, and we're still around. If the entire USA suddenly dissappeared, Canada would be under little additional threat from anybody. It's like saying new zealand owes it's security to anybody.
As for the failures of socialism, the Canadian federal government is the only G8 nation to post consecutive surpluses for the past decade. We're doing ok, as our life expectancy is 2 years longer and our crime rates are significantly lower. We do some things better than you, and vise-versa.
Yes, but they can hold hundreds of people. Electric engines are far more efficient than internal cumbustion engines as far as energy usage goes, as well.
Yes sorry, I meant NYC, the core of which has very few freeways. The point I was trying to make is that you don't need cars/highways to have vibrant and fun places to live.:)
Just because our total price is lower doesn't mean we have no right to complain. In fact, one might wonder why Europeans tolerate such outrageous taxes on gasoline.
Because they (mostly) get great public transit systems that get them where they want, both locally and continentally. By the time the automobile age came, there was no room for big highways and people weren't going to stand having neighbourhoods demolished. There are some exceptions, such as some German cities that were razed anyways from the war. Lots of people do drive in europe, but nowhere near the levels they do in America, and many of the ancient city streets don't have room for SUVs. So since a much smaller percentage of europeans drive, there is a much smaller percentage that complain about it.
Don't think that it can't be done in North America? Look at New York or Toronto that have a "shortage" of highways.
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All of those folks huddled together in high-rise apartments still need:
-To heat their homes
-To run their refridgerators
-A job to go to (what exactly can we make or do when cheap energy goes away?)
-Food to eat.
But it is more efficient per dwelling to heat their homes. And if you have density, you can have high quality public transit. Try living in europe for a year and you'll realize the time you wasted in the car is time you can never get back. When you sit on a train you can read, sleep, meet a cute girl, whatever. In a car you're taking up much more space, gas, pollution, and time.
Interesting statistic, as I spent some time growing up there. I was always left with the impression that that area had an overall good "grungy" character to it. I would say that downtown Ottawa is one of the best places to live in Canada, it's too bad most of the rest of Ottawa is SOOO boring. And I love big cities, so it's why I chose to live in Toronto, where you don't need to own a car and you can go almost anywhere you'd want to go without one.
And it's a right good thing, considering the, uh, "efficiency" of the Canadian socialist medical system.
And 95% of Canadians would have it no other way. But you want to talk about efficiency? Canada spends 30% less per capita on health care and we still have universal (and high quality, though not as high as at the top of the american food chain). Though you have to do your own REAL homework on this issue and form your own opinions. And question statistics. Canadians have an almost 3 year longer life expectency than americans, but it's not only because of the health care system...it's because a significantly fewer percentage of Canadians smoke.
I think the "Toronto superiority" thing came from the former loudmouth mayor of the city. Most of the people here live their lives the same as anybody else. But there are two very different sides of Toronto. There is Toronto proper itself (a wonderful place to live I might add), and then there are the suburbanites around it that still call themselves Torontonians. I think the fact that these people (the suburbanites) are among the highest income earners in Canada is more to do with the jabs that are made from and to Toronto. The fact that crime is lower per capita in the city itself than the surrounding suburbs (and 9 of the largest 10 other cities in canada) says a lot.
Yes, PAL has a better design in the color handling in the context of analog processing, but also has an eight field color sequence that made editing a pain, and has a 25Hz offset in the math that yields a painfully awkward non-integral relationship in digital processing. The solution in digital is to ignore that, and cheat, so once it's been handled in digital form, it's been altered from the original -- not enough to cause problems, but enough to have lost the purity the Europeans love to crow about.
Earlier in your post you say that NTSC should be praised because it was developed at a time where there were no calculators or computers(which it should), and then chide PAL because of its problems with respect to digital processing. NTSC has similar problems with the purity of the colours, which are not always the origional either. However, most professional/studio level production where quality is important is shot to film and will (sooner rather than later, i hope) go digital anyways.
WRT flicker, most modern PAL sets hack around this by simply refreshing more often(the same frames twice, i guess) the same way modern North American sets have automatic HUE and TINT. I wasn't saying neither protocols don't have modern problems, but going back, IMO, PAL is the nicer of the two.
I, however, don't understand what is wrong with RGB? I was under the understanding that it is the purest video signal there is? Other than syncing what are the issues with it? Is it again with digital where programming is much more difficult wrt pixel manipulation with three bands that are modified independantly? If so, then that is just the nature of A-D conversion and once it's digital you have a clean source to work with.
I wouldn't go so far as to call NTSC "elegent", though it is clever especially with regards to how it implemented colour. PAL is a much cleaner standard, as the europeans (as they often did) took what they saw as flaws in NTSC and implemented things differently. Though PAL has a lower frame rate (25 as apposed to 30), it has a higher resolution and doesn't requier a TINT or HUE control, and the colour is better. When there are problems in the signal, with PAL you will see weaker colour, but with NTSC you can see the wrong colour (ie "green faces"). SECAM (the french standard) is even better because it uses FM modulation for colour, so it eliminates both these problems, though it has its issues (you can't "mix" two SECAM signals together, which makes it a pain for some professionals).
Check out this link to read more on it.
Also this link has some interesting info.
Just to clarify, OpenSSL does not have that great of a security record. In fact a large percentage of the OpenBSD advisories have something to do with it. Theo has been seriously considering forking the project (the OpenBSD team does NOT do OpenSSL).
what do you mean why the hell was I ever modded up? Those with "excellent" karma get a +1 bonus, and I think they may have less restrictions with respect to waiting. I haven't run into the posting time limit in ages.
Yeah, but they're flakey at best. The openbsd ports create.tgz packages when you install them, so you can de-install dependancies if you wish (i think that's what you're asking?). Plus, all of the.tgz files, or ports, are tested by actual openbsd members. If you need dependacies with plain.tgz, you set an environment variable for an ftp server to grab them automagically.
Sure, you can get third party ports to add to your tree, same with.tgz packages, but third parties are out of the control of the project. With respect to that, its the same problem with RPM or ports/.tgz. All three of the BSDs handle different versions of dependancies much more cleanly than rpm. Read up on the differences with netbsd's pkgsrc, or tgz, or the openbsd ports as well as freebsd's.
What would be nice, ideally, is something like RPM
Good god, are you mad? RPM is one of the reasons package management sucks on linux! You don't want to just throw it to the wind! The ports system works in the sense that dependancies are held. Why not write your own script that automatically grabs all the ports you need when upgrading? That still leaves the issue about newer software, how well will it be tested?
None of the stable releases for netbsd has SMP. It's only in -current so far, same as openbsd (well, it's a different -current branch). netbsd 2.0's major update is supposed to be smp.
Almost exactly right. People have been dreaming up reasons for things happening that they can't explain for years. Aliens are melerly the modern werewolves, witches, or gods. Not to say that none of those can or do exsist (and people today still think they all do), because that would be just as ignorant. But coming to conclusions on circumstantial evidence is the mark of a fool.
All of the BSDs were affected. The bug was first found in freebsd about a month ago, then about 2 weeks ago OpenBSD was found to be vulnerable, and now the netbsd guys have found out too. So its the same MTU bug.
This is no surprise, as they all use the same IPv6 stack (KAME).
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But you also have a condition of less than 50% of eligible voters voting. So that means half the United States is not even represented in the government. I was using the health care analagy as an example of to much democracy, but if the proper reforms were but into place so that a vote for, say Ralph Nader, wasn't a vote for Bush (hence many not voting at all) then you would have a much more effective democracy.
The concept of a president, IMHO, is not a good one. If you look at most countries, it is a polarizing experience. Proportional representation would be a better solution for Britain, which a large movement in canada hoping for (which is almost a carbon copy of the UK system, with the senate being less uselful than the house of lords).
Does everything need a check? The electorate can do that every 4-5 years, and it was the electorate that elected the party in the first place. Canada's senate is essentially useless, and though the Liberals there have controled parlaiment for most of the past 40 years, there have been periods of other party rule (particularily the 80s, which produced the largest majority in history--to the conservatives) that have created a relativly safe balance. The only danger is the complacency of the electorate.
The systems are more streamlined in the sense that the party that gets elected will carry through it's agenda and not get stalled/sideswiped by others. In the US, you have 3 things you are electing at the federal level (president, senate, HoR). All it takes is one of them to completely stall legislation, sometimes indefinately. It's one of the reasons the USA is the only industrialized country without universal healthcare; the US was THIS CLOSE to obtaining it in the 70s. The president should be elected by most votes in the country. You have the Senate to and/or the HoR to make sure less polulated regions get heard.
Like many other modern democracies(inlcuding the ones I mentioned), very old policies have just not been brought up to modern snuff. New Zealand has brought in Proportional Representation and there's talk of the same in Canada; Australia has Senate that helps keep majority governments in it's lower house from going too far. I think it's time the same ideas started coming through in the USA. I, however, don't live there. So it's just an outside opinion :-)
Actually, Greenpeace is completely backing this endeavor. The water they're taking was also part of an overall plan to upgrade the drinking water plants, so the water is just being diverted before going into the drinking water. Then the water just returns through where the water has always been going (sewers, water treatment, and then probably the lake).
Well, if you ENJOY doing that, then it's not a waste of time. Some people like going all over and getting the pieces and putting it all together, much like some people with cars. Then again, some people like commuting to work in their car for 2 hours a day, so go figure (with respect to how much people value their time)!
I don't agree with blocking them, but read up on the reasons why the CRTC did it. They try to keep a balance to keep enough Canadian content on the air.
Also a poll shows 40% of Canadian teenagers hate the United States.
So what? That's an opinion. And when most people say they hate the United States, they're refering to the government, not the people. That percentage swings wildly when different presidents are in power.
Why should we send you jobs? Your country keeps benifiting from being next to one of, if not the strongest nation in the world but this 'friendship' seems to only go one way.
Canadians are responsible for 40% of Florida's tourism industry. Read up on when Jeb Bush recently visited Canada, he was really trying to downplay Canada's refusal to participate in the Iraq war. It was really quite interesting.
I wouldn't give canada anything until they start helping us (or anyone in the world for that matter)
We sent troops to Afghanistan, of which four got killed by an American who only got a slap on the wrist. On 9/11 WE accepted hundreds of planes that could have been filled with terrorists. We didn't even get acknoledged by Bush. We spend a greater percentage of our GDP on foreign aid. We participated in the balkans bombing. Just because we don't use our military in our foreign relations projects, does not mean we do nothing.
The US has been the biggest threat to Canada through most of its history, and we're still around. If the entire USA suddenly dissappeared, Canada would be under little additional threat from anybody. It's like saying new zealand owes it's security to anybody. As for the failures of socialism, the Canadian federal government is the only G8 nation to post consecutive surpluses for the past decade. We're doing ok, as our life expectancy is 2 years longer and our crime rates are significantly lower. We do some things better than you, and vise-versa.
Yes, but they can hold hundreds of people. Electric engines are far more efficient than internal cumbustion engines as far as energy usage goes, as well.
Yes sorry, I meant NYC, the core of which has very few freeways. The point I was trying to make is that you don't need cars/highways to have vibrant and fun places to live. :)
Because they (mostly) get great public transit systems that get them where they want, both locally and continentally. By the time the automobile age came, there was no room for big highways and people weren't going to stand having neighbourhoods demolished. There are some exceptions, such as some German cities that were razed anyways from the war. Lots of people do drive in europe, but nowhere near the levels they do in America, and many of the ancient city streets don't have room for SUVs. So since a much smaller percentage of europeans drive, there is a much smaller percentage that complain about it.
Don't think that it can't be done in North America? Look at New York or Toronto that have a "shortage" of highways.
-To heat their homes
-To run their refridgerators
-A job to go to (what exactly can we make or do when cheap energy goes away?)
-Food to eat.
But it is more efficient per dwelling to heat their homes. And if you have density, you can have high quality public transit. Try living in europe for a year and you'll realize the time you wasted in the car is time you can never get back. When you sit on a train you can read, sleep, meet a cute girl, whatever. In a car you're taking up much more space, gas, pollution, and time.
Interesting statistic, as I spent some time growing up there. I was always left with the impression that that area had an overall good "grungy" character to it. I would say that downtown Ottawa is one of the best places to live in Canada, it's too bad most of the rest of Ottawa is SOOO boring. And I love big cities, so it's why I chose to live in Toronto, where you don't need to own a car and you can go almost anywhere you'd want to go without one.
And 95% of Canadians would have it no other way. But you want to talk about efficiency? Canada spends 30% less per capita on health care and we still have universal (and high quality, though not as high as at the top of the american food chain). Though you have to do your own REAL homework on this issue and form your own opinions. And question statistics. Canadians have an almost 3 year longer life expectency than americans, but it's not only because of the health care system...it's because a significantly fewer percentage of Canadians smoke.
I think the "Toronto superiority" thing came from the former loudmouth mayor of the city. Most of the people here live their lives the same as anybody else. But there are two very different sides of Toronto. There is Toronto proper itself (a wonderful place to live I might add), and then there are the suburbanites around it that still call themselves Torontonians. I think the fact that these people (the suburbanites) are among the highest income earners in Canada is more to do with the jabs that are made from and to Toronto. The fact that crime is lower per capita in the city itself than the surrounding suburbs (and 9 of the largest 10 other cities in canada) says a lot.
Earlier in your post you say that NTSC should be praised because it was developed at a time where there were no calculators or computers(which it should), and then chide PAL because of its problems with respect to digital processing. NTSC has similar problems with the purity of the colours, which are not always the origional either. However, most professional/studio level production where quality is important is shot to film and will (sooner rather than later, i hope) go digital anyways.
WRT flicker, most modern PAL sets hack around this by simply refreshing more often(the same frames twice, i guess) the same way modern North American sets have automatic HUE and TINT. I wasn't saying neither protocols don't have modern problems, but going back, IMO, PAL is the nicer of the two.
I, however, don't understand what is wrong with RGB? I was under the understanding that it is the purest video signal there is? Other than syncing what are the issues with it? Is it again with digital where programming is much more difficult wrt pixel manipulation with three bands that are modified independantly? If so, then that is just the nature of A-D conversion and once it's digital you have a clean source to work with.
Yes, that is what I meant by clever :)
Check out this link to read more on it. Also this link has some interesting info.
Just to clarify, OpenSSL does not have that great of a security record. In fact a large percentage of the OpenBSD advisories have something to do with it. Theo has been seriously considering forking the project (the OpenBSD team does NOT do OpenSSL).
what do you mean why the hell was I ever modded up? Those with "excellent" karma get a +1 bonus, and I think they may have less restrictions with respect to waiting. I haven't run into the posting time limit in ages.
Sure, you can get third party ports to add to your tree, same with .tgz packages, but third parties are out of the control of the project. With respect to that, its the same problem with RPM or ports/.tgz. All three of the BSDs handle different versions of dependancies much more cleanly than rpm. Read up on the differences with netbsd's pkgsrc, or tgz, or the openbsd ports as well as freebsd's.
Good god, are you mad? RPM is one of the reasons package management sucks on linux! You don't want to just throw it to the wind! The ports system works in the sense that dependancies are held. Why not write your own script that automatically grabs all the ports you need when upgrading? That still leaves the issue about newer software, how well will it be tested?
None of the stable releases for netbsd has SMP. It's only in -current so far, same as openbsd (well, it's a different -current branch). netbsd 2.0's major update is supposed to be smp.
Almost exactly right. People have been dreaming up reasons for things happening that they can't explain for years. Aliens are melerly the modern werewolves, witches, or gods. Not to say that none of those can or do exsist (and people today still think they all do), because that would be just as ignorant. But coming to conclusions on circumstantial evidence is the mark of a fool.
This is no surprise, as they all use the same IPv6 stack (KAME).