Some of the supposedly suspicious activities listed in support of the search warrant application include: the student being seen with "unknown laptop computers," which he "says" he was fixing for other students; the student uses multiple names to log on to his computer; and the student uses two different operating systems, including one that is not the "regular B.C. operating system" but instead has "a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on."
- back when I was studying CompSci at UofToronto we had computer labs full of Suns running Solaris, it was all different screen colors and people typed commands as well as clicking on stuff in windowing environments.
What the hell kind of colleges are they running now?
I haven't seen these commercials, is there a single one like this:
--- I am GNU/Linux operating system. First time I publicly announced on September 27, 1983. I was growing for the past 26 years and I am just becoming mature for personal use though I was available for professional use for at least 15 years now.
My design and implementation are open to everyone's eyes and I can be freely modified and distributed by anyone and this will let me to stay around and become more and more capable regardless of what happens to software and hardware corporations, governments, economies, all while closed source proprietary systems will come and go and their support will fade into history.
I will see you around, our paths will cross now and then and I will be happy to be as useful to you as I am to millions of people around the world.
I don't know if there are any common personality traits between these people (who use and who refuse to use Facebook) but I don't use Facebook because I don't want to waste time that I could spend doing something else.
Why should it be illegal to play pyramid schemes? Just because people are stupid enough to fall for them?
- muhahahahahaha! The only real reason why it is illegal for a private person to do so is because the government (and the banks that the government represents) does not wish any competition in this most lucrative area. The most pervasive pyramid scheme? - currency.
Oh, he just cleans the remains of the previous party, this way after a party is over, he can survive on the leftovers from the party and finding them in most unusual places just adds some piquancy to the situation.
You probably didn't pay attention to my previous comment. As I said it would be up to the community to set up bylaws that could for example make it mandatory for any resident of that community to pay user fees that a clearly for the local PD or for firefighters, whatever. This means that the firefighters/PD do not have to check whether you paid your bill, they would have to do their work anyway, but you would be on a hook for the user fees. Of-course as long as you pay them, there will be no collection calls and noone would kick you out of their community.
In fact this is not different from currently existing condominium corporations, where the services required to maintain the building and the property are paid for through maintenance fees and that allows local board of directors to be elected and reelected every couple of years and where yearly financial statements are provided as a legal requirement.
If you do not like a particular condominium, it is possible for you to move. It is also possible to get elected based on financial deficiencies and a promise to maximize efficiencies. It is easier for a local community to deal with its own efficiencies than for a large government to be efficient.
Communities could pull resources together to get larger projects built if people desired so, but it would be totally possible for real bidding to take place unlike what often happens. One example is Howard Moscoe, a Toronto counselor, who would rather have Toronto pay over hundred million dollars more for some streetcars by buying them from a Canadian company rather than allowing proper bidding with other firms like Siemens participating.
It is obviously not business of city of Toronto, Ontario to pay more property taxes to 'save canadian jobs' in city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Also if some communities decide they need school, it would be up to them to pull money together to have the schools built, otherwise private schools would be sufficient. I would not want to live in a community that would have a bylaw that would require me to pay 'user fees' for something I don't actually use or intend to use. I don't believe in public schools, as you rightfully mentioned, they used to provide some service - most people can read, it's true. But what the public schools have shown themselves to be, is not something I believe in from point of view of education anyway.
Another point is cops and prisons. One community might have cops as part of its system. Another may require the participants to train in usage of guns, to own guns and to defend themselves. Of-course this community would have to provide a meaningful justice system based on the citizens' participation and some professional investigation unit. Those, found in violation of bylaws or criminal laws would be moved to prison facilities. This is probably something that a number of communities would outsource and share the cost.
Actually, as someone who specifically works with property taxes, this is false. Laws can vary by individual state, but in almost all areas property taxes are only reevaluated every few years (here it's every 5 years - with the option for the municipality to delay an additional 2 years if they wish, which they often do) during a reassessment. Except for a reassessment a property's tax value can only change if it is sold (which constitutes an assessable transfer of interests).
- this is just a technicality.
In principal it doesn't matter when exactly taxes are reevaluated, I would average the total taxes paid over the total years lived in the house and that would be basically what the government is forcing the 'owner' to make in order to keep the property.
This is obviously not how it is done in most of the rest of the world (India, US, Canada, Netherlands and Australia I think are rather exceptions than the rule).
Property taxes may only be justified in my view if the property is actually really MAKING money, for example rental property or property leased or used for manufacturing. Then this really becomes income tax tied to a property rather than just a tax because some building or land is just sitting there.
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Note that I am always against income taxes also. I explained here how I would handle financial necessities of maintaining infrastructure in a community.
And as said, we provide the police force for the area. We provide the schools. We provide road maintenance. Public libraries. Public mapping services. The local airport. Several local wildlife parks. There is some level of government provided services that the vast majority of us have agreed is in the best interest of the public. The only real alternative is anarchy, which you're not going to get public support for.
- I don't believe that any of these services should be government owned. Such services are only needed in the interests of public willing to invest into any particular property and only if the investors deem these services to be needed and then user fees should be collected for using the services unless the service is somehow mandatory based on a local private bylaw. Such mandatory distinctions would make a perfect case for competition around maintaining different types of property investment. So if someone needs a school, they could move into a community that supports schools as a matter of a private bylaw and the newly entering entity is required to make some sort of an initial payment and then user fees are collected per service.
Property taxes are collected in bulk, this is a huge problem, user fees need to be collected separately for clear stated purpose, this would allow community to demand efficiencies.
How is someone supposed to pay a high property tax (think 5% of the asset value) if they temporarily don't have income? Sell their house?
- really, ask this question in Canada or US. Property taxes there is a form of legal extortion by the local governments. It is impossible to buy a property without having to pay taxes on it every year and practically every year the taxes get reevaluated and they always go up. It is impossible for someone to live in a personal property without actually working and making money somehow to pay for the taxes.
Governments there force people to work always or get off their property, so you don't really own anything there.
Infrastructure if it is indeed necessary, must be paid for by the interested parties, so if some corporations and private individuals are willing to put together bonds that could be sold off and money raised, and if someone trusted these bonds and bought them for long term profit, these money then could be used to build the necessary infrastructure.
This would be the only way to maintain infrastructure at the edge of efficiency, if the actual owners of the infrastructure were also the investors and interested in maintaining it in the long term and making profit off of it.
I am always for user fees and I am always against government sponsored programs, thus I am always against taxes, especially income taxes.
Of-course any other businesses/private individuals who are benefiting from the infrastructure would have to pay user fees per use. This is my main point - I am only willing to pay for something if I am intending to use it.
If this means that in order to have the fire-brigade I have to pay user-fees (subscriptions) then I will. Obviously for such things as fire this could be a bylaw set up by the owners of this particular infrastructure.
This in principal is the best system for myself, this way I would expect actual competition to arise specifically as long as the owners of one particular infrastructure system do not become owners of everything - which is what government is. Government monopoly on all infrastructure and government taxation - this is the main reason I will always be against paying taxes and will make sure to pay as little as possible and will go a long way to do so.
I do not propose anything for the masses, fact is I don't care about masses, only people who can make their own ends meet. Thus I don't much care about general standard of living, whatever that means for you. I only care about the standard of living I set up for myself. I lived in a few places in the world, right now I am somewhere where corporate taxes are low, my income is all corporate through my own firm and I make sure that expenses are high, so that even the taxes that need to be paid are paid on a small amount. I hope I am making myself clear - anywhere in the world there is a way to minimize taxes paid to the government and as individuals it is our own debt to ourselves to make sure that we are self-sustained and are well off, so that we do not even think about relying on any form of government to support us.
Government must be kept starving, this way it will not have ability to create waste.
Saddam was in hands of his enemies, who pretend to be better than him, while humiliating him before killing him (yes, they killed him by setting up this ridiculous farce of a trial). This has nothing to do with a non-existent right not to be humiliated or offended by any general population in different circumstances.
I always wanted to find out something. The kinds of posts like yours right now, are they really out of general misunderstanding of the joke in the GP or is it due to a systematic lack of sense of humor? (I used Canadian version of the word, though the meaning is universal.)
Really, did you not understand the joke in the GP, or did you understand it but believed that the GP was serious? It's not an attack, I just really would like to understand. Thank you.
The thing is, many of these soldiers are no more than 10 y/o when it comes to ability of critical thinking and moral judgment. It's not a surprise, consider how young they are when they are recruited into the army or navy etc.
But it's not only about their physical youth, it is about their mental and psychological youth. They are not even allowed to drink/smoke by most state laws yet and those are exactly the people who are most desirable when it comes to recruiting. They will obey commands, they will not question much, they will get off on highly organized 'sport' that the military became. Killing people is really only an extension of their 'military training' video-game like life - high tech rifles, high tech planes and subs and missiles and bombs and communications and everything, including their food rations and body armor.
The real test of maturity will then come not on the battlefield - this is just another game and your objective is not to die first of-course, it's still a game for adrenaline junkies, but on their attitudes in these situations.
They are 10 year old minds locked in 20 year old bodies and given jobs, that should really be handled by mature people - doling out life/death. They are pushed into combat by gray haired politicians/bankers/owners of countries, who do not wish to sacrifice their lives, they wish to profit from wars and they do profit from wars.
Mature people will fight when push comes to shove, when they have to protect their families/themselves/land. 10 year old soldiers - these are perfect tools in hands of those who want to take over land / lives of others.
where public money is concerned you are probably correct, I don't see at all how you can dictate such rules to pharmaceuticals that use private cash for R&D.
Studies also show that the more a person watches FOX news, the more likely they are to believe incorrect facts.
priceless.
Say, does watching Bill Maher make you likely to believe made up shit too? Reality has no clear bias of any political system.
If anything - reality of biologically living creatures is Darwinistic or Evolutionary. Does this have a political leaning? Absolutely not, I can give examples of reality being 'conservative', 'liberal', 'libertarian', 'fascist', 'socialist', 'communist' etc. And all of those examples would simply be anthropomorphizing something that shouldn't be.
I am sure there will be plenty of replies bashing your post, however I am going to confirm at least some of it:
right now I am in Germany and getting immediate testing and treatment for things, I have to wait for over half a year in Canada, plus some stuff is not even available there, no matter how much you need it.
Here it costs money to people like me of-course, but it's the only one health I have got.
I made an appointment with the doc a week before I flew here. Imagine that exactly at 3PM I was at his door and he personally opened the door at exactly 3PM and saw (myself and family). We spent an hour talking and starting with the tests, when did you have an hour with a doctor one on one in Canada? In surgery maybe.
The one thing I disagree is how to fix the system in US or Canada (I consider both to be broken on different ends, but nevertheless non-working systems). I would use German system as a base, go from there.
Muhahaha, so if they have no funding, how can you argue they have covered all the details? Isn't funding one of the details? Also how can anyone argue they have all details before even putting up a prototype? That's BS.
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Some of the supposedly suspicious activities listed in support of the search warrant application include: the student being seen with "unknown laptop computers," which he "says" he was fixing for other students; the student uses multiple names to log on to his computer; and the student uses two different operating systems, including one that is not the "regular B.C. operating system" but instead has "a black screen with white font which he uses prompt commands on."
- back when I was studying CompSci at UofToronto we had computer labs full of Suns running Solaris, it was all different screen colors and people typed commands as well as clicking on stuff in windowing environments.
What the hell kind of colleges are they running now?
I haven't seen these commercials, is there a single one like this:
---
I am GNU/Linux operating system. First time I publicly announced on September 27, 1983. I was growing for the past 26 years and I am just becoming mature for personal use though I was available for professional use for at least 15 years now.
My design and implementation are open to everyone's eyes and I can be freely modified and distributed by anyone and this will let me to stay around and become more and more capable regardless of what happens to software and hardware corporations, governments, economies, all while closed source proprietary systems will come and go and their support will fade into history.
I will see you around, our paths will cross now and then and I will be happy to be as useful to you as I am to millions of people around the world.
I am GNU/Linux and I will be there for you.
I don't know if there are any common personality traits between these people (who use and who refuse to use Facebook) but I don't use Facebook because I don't want to waste time that I could spend doing something else.
Is this helpful?
Seriously, you are right of-course, today humanity can devise much more effective measures than gassing someone, who might otherwise have a gas-mask on them.
Why should it be illegal to play pyramid schemes? Just because people are stupid enough to fall for them?
- muhahahahahaha! The only real reason why it is illegal for a private person to do so is because the government (and the banks that the government represents) does not wish any competition in this most lucrative area. The most pervasive pyramid scheme? - currency.
Oh, he just cleans the remains of the previous party, this way after a party is over, he can survive on the leftovers from the party and finding them in most unusual places just adds some piquancy to the situation.
You probably didn't pay attention to my previous comment. As I said it would be up to the community to set up bylaws that could for example make it mandatory for any resident of that community to pay user fees that a clearly for the local PD or for firefighters, whatever. This means that the firefighters/PD do not have to check whether you paid your bill, they would have to do their work anyway, but you would be on a hook for the user fees. Of-course as long as you pay them, there will be no collection calls and noone would kick you out of their community.
In fact this is not different from currently existing condominium corporations, where the services required to maintain the building and the property are paid for through maintenance fees and that allows local board of directors to be elected and reelected every couple of years and where yearly financial statements are provided as a legal requirement.
If you do not like a particular condominium, it is possible for you to move. It is also possible to get elected based on financial deficiencies and a promise to maximize efficiencies. It is easier for a local community to deal with its own efficiencies than for a large government to be efficient.
Communities could pull resources together to get larger projects built if people desired so, but it would be totally possible for real bidding to take place unlike what often happens. One example is Howard Moscoe, a Toronto counselor, who would rather have Toronto pay over hundred million dollars more for some streetcars by buying them from a Canadian company rather than allowing proper bidding with other firms like Siemens participating.
It is obviously not business of city of Toronto, Ontario to pay more property taxes to 'save canadian jobs' in city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.
This new story from /. is yet another example of how governments waste money, this time on http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090420/hayes">corporate welfare
Also if some communities decide they need school, it would be up to them to pull money together to have the schools built, otherwise private schools would be sufficient. I would not want to live in a community that would have a bylaw that would require me to pay 'user fees' for something I don't actually use or intend to use. I don't believe in public schools, as you rightfully mentioned, they used to provide some service - most people can read, it's true. But what the public schools have shown themselves to be, is not something I believe in from point of view of education anyway.
Another point is cops and prisons. One community might have cops as part of its system. Another may require the participants to train in usage of guns, to own guns and to defend themselves. Of-course this community would have to provide a meaningful justice system based on the citizens' participation and some professional investigation unit. Those, found in violation of bylaws or criminal laws would be moved to prison facilities. This is probably something that a number of communities would outsource and share the cost.
cheers.
Presently, plug-in vehicles just mean the burning coal or oil elsewhere.
- this is an extremely annoying problem in the US and many other parts of the world, presently, that really should be addressed in a correct way.
Actually, as someone who specifically works with property taxes, this is false. Laws can vary by individual state, but in almost all areas property taxes are only reevaluated every few years (here it's every 5 years - with the option for the municipality to delay an additional 2 years if they wish, which they often do) during a reassessment. Except for a reassessment a property's tax value can only change if it is sold (which constitutes an assessable transfer of interests).
- this is just a technicality.
In principal it doesn't matter when exactly taxes are reevaluated, I would average the total taxes paid over the total years lived in the house and that would be basically what the government is forcing the 'owner' to make in order to keep the property.
This is obviously not how it is done in most of the rest of the world (India, US, Canada, Netherlands and Australia I think are rather exceptions than the rule).
Property taxes may only be justified in my view if the property is actually really MAKING money, for example rental property or property leased or used for manufacturing. Then this really becomes income tax tied to a property rather than just a tax because some building or land is just sitting there.
---
Note that I am always against income taxes also. I explained here how I would handle financial necessities of maintaining infrastructure in a community.
And as said, we provide the police force for the area. We provide the schools. We provide road maintenance. Public libraries. Public mapping services. The local airport. Several local wildlife parks. There is some level of government provided services that the vast majority of us have agreed is in the best interest of the public. The only real alternative is anarchy, which you're not going to get public support for.
- I don't believe that any of these services should be government owned. Such services are only needed in the interests of public willing to invest into any particular property and only if the investors deem these services to be needed and then user fees should be collected for using the services unless the service is somehow mandatory based on a local private bylaw. Such mandatory distinctions would make a perfect case for competition around maintaining different types of property investment. So if someone needs a school, they could move into a community that supports schools as a matter of a private bylaw and the newly entering entity is required to make some sort of an initial payment and then user fees are collected per service.
Property taxes are collected in bulk, this is a huge problem, user fees need to be collected separately for clear stated purpose, this would allow community to demand efficiencies.
How is someone supposed to pay a high property tax (think 5% of the asset value) if they temporarily don't have income? Sell their house?
- really, ask this question in Canada or US. Property taxes there is a form of legal extortion by the local governments. It is impossible to buy a property without having to pay taxes on it every year and practically every year the taxes get reevaluated and they always go up. It is impossible for someone to live in a personal property without actually working and making money somehow to pay for the taxes.
Governments there force people to work always or get off their property, so you don't really own anything there.
Infrastructure if it is indeed necessary, must be paid for by the interested parties, so if some corporations and private individuals are willing to put together bonds that could be sold off and money raised, and if someone trusted these bonds and bought them for long term profit, these money then could be used to build the necessary infrastructure.
This would be the only way to maintain infrastructure at the edge of efficiency, if the actual owners of the infrastructure were also the investors and interested in maintaining it in the long term and making profit off of it.
I am always for user fees and I am always against government sponsored programs, thus I am always against taxes, especially income taxes.
Of-course any other businesses/private individuals who are benefiting from the infrastructure would have to pay user fees per use. This is my main point - I am only willing to pay for something if I am intending to use it.
If this means that in order to have the fire-brigade I have to pay user-fees (subscriptions) then I will. Obviously for such things as fire this could be a bylaw set up by the owners of this particular infrastructure.
This in principal is the best system for myself, this way I would expect actual competition to arise specifically as long as the owners of one particular infrastructure system do not become owners of everything - which is what government is. Government monopoly on all infrastructure and government taxation - this is the main reason I will always be against paying taxes and will make sure to pay as little as possible and will go a long way to do so.
I do not propose anything for the masses, fact is I don't care about masses, only people who can make their own ends meet. Thus I don't much care about general standard of living, whatever that means for you. I only care about the standard of living I set up for myself. I lived in a few places in the world, right now I am somewhere where corporate taxes are low, my income is all corporate through my own firm and I make sure that expenses are high, so that even the taxes that need to be paid are paid on a small amount. I hope I am making myself clear - anywhere in the world there is a way to minimize taxes paid to the government and as individuals it is our own debt to ourselves to make sure that we are self-sustained and are well off, so that we do not even think about relying on any form of government to support us.
Government must be kept starving, this way it will not have ability to create waste.
They estimate that hundreds of Swedish women are dodging the law, resulting in a tax loss of about 40m Swedish kronor (£3.3m) annually.
- same kinds of losses that RIAA and MPAA and some software firms are complaining about when they are talking about potential sales that were lost.
I am always against taxes, these taxes are some of the more ridiculous ones.
You are a troll.
Saddam was in hands of his enemies, who pretend to be better than him, while humiliating him before killing him (yes, they killed him by setting up this ridiculous farce of a trial). This has nothing to do with a non-existent right not to be humiliated or offended by any general population in different circumstances.
Getting a bullet through the head does NOT mean you die
depends on what you shoot - AK47's 7.62x39mm will take your head apart.
I always wanted to find out something. The kinds of posts like yours right now, are they really out of general misunderstanding of the joke in the GP or is it due to a systematic lack of sense of humor? (I used Canadian version of the word, though the meaning is universal.)
Really, did you not understand the joke in the GP, or did you understand it but believed that the GP was serious? It's not an attack, I just really would like to understand. Thank you.
There is over a million people, cowards and bots here, do you really believe that they are a community?
wow, you are such an asshole.
Nail on the head with the '10 year old' stuff.
The thing is, many of these soldiers are no more than 10 y/o when it comes to ability of critical thinking and moral judgment. It's not a surprise, consider how young they are when they are recruited into the army or navy etc.
But it's not only about their physical youth, it is about their mental and psychological youth. They are not even allowed to drink/smoke by most state laws yet and those are exactly the people who are most desirable when it comes to recruiting. They will obey commands, they will not question much, they will get off on highly organized 'sport' that the military became. Killing people is really only an extension of their 'military training' video-game like life - high tech rifles, high tech planes and subs and missiles and bombs and communications and everything, including their food rations and body armor.
The real test of maturity will then come not on the battlefield - this is just another game and your objective is not to die first of-course, it's still a game for adrenaline junkies, but on their attitudes in these situations.
They are 10 year old minds locked in 20 year old bodies and given jobs, that should really be handled by mature people - doling out life/death. They are pushed into combat by gray haired politicians/bankers/owners of countries, who do not wish to sacrifice their lives, they wish to profit from wars and they do profit from wars.
Mature people will fight when push comes to shove, when they have to protect their families/themselves/land. 10 year old soldiers - these are perfect tools in hands of those who want to take over land / lives of others.
where public money is concerned you are probably correct, I don't see at all how you can dictate such rules to pharmaceuticals that use private cash for R&D.
this
After all, reality has a well known liberal bias.
vs this
Studies also show that the more a person watches FOX news, the more likely they are to believe incorrect facts.
priceless.
Say, does watching Bill Maher make you likely to believe made up shit too? Reality has no clear bias of any political system.
If anything - reality of biologically living creatures is Darwinistic or Evolutionary. Does this have a political leaning? Absolutely not, I can give examples of reality being 'conservative', 'liberal', 'libertarian', 'fascist', 'socialist', 'communist' etc. And all of those examples would simply be anthropomorphizing something that shouldn't be.
I am sure there will be plenty of replies bashing your post, however I am going to confirm at least some of it:
right now I am in Germany and getting immediate testing and treatment for things, I have to wait for over half a year in Canada, plus some stuff is not even available there, no matter how much you need it.
Here it costs money to people like me of-course, but it's the only one health I have got.
I made an appointment with the doc a week before I flew here. Imagine that exactly at 3PM I was at his door and he personally opened the door at exactly 3PM and saw (myself and family). We spent an hour talking and starting with the tests, when did you have an hour with a doctor one on one in Canada? In surgery maybe.
The one thing I disagree is how to fix the system in US or Canada (I consider both to be broken on different ends, but nevertheless non-working systems). I would use German system as a base, go from there.
Muhahaha, so if they have no funding, how can you argue they have covered all the details? Isn't funding one of the details? Also how can anyone argue they have all details before even putting up a prototype? That's BS.
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glad I am not Poland.