Don't be ashamed of Canadians for this. Less than 24% of eligible Canadians actually voted for Harper's party. Blame the messed-up first-through-the-post system that allows 24% of the vote to equal a Majority, and blame the whole Confidence Vote bullshit for scaring MPs into voting for the party line lest they have to dissolve Parliament...again.
Same sex-marriage is not a human right. It's also not the preview of the federal government. It's a provincial decision. In Canada, the provinces have in general more control over what's said and done than the feds.
Then why is it that it was the Supreme Court that ruled on it, and why is it that Harper put it to a vote (which he lost) in the federal Parliament in 2007?
Still doesn't quite math out right. Harper still only got 39% of the vote, so the question remains the same---who's "WE"?!? Most people who bothered to vote voted AGAINST Harper, and he STILL got an absolute majority. Try to convince more people to vote under THOSE circumstances.
"40% of the vote" actually makes them look pretty popular. The fact is that only 24% of eligible voters voted for them, yet now they have an absolute majority.
Even better idea! Let's have camera's hooked up to the web places over the ballot boxes, with the counted results updated and displayed in real time, so we can see who voted for whom!
That's beyond incredible. I've been a poll clerk twice (once provincial (Ontario), once federal), and I don't remember having more than half a dozen people in line at our busiest either time.
Every ball that has been observef to have been dropped has been observed to fall. That's not relative, and claiming otherwise doesn't even achieve the status of splitting hairs.
Not the most widely used software maybe, but SBCL is taking its time porting to ARM, Clozure CL doesn't have a port I'm aware of, nor does CLISP. The only Common Lisp implemantation I know of that works on ARM is ECL.
I wasn't saying that citizens of the USA should be called "United Statesians" (although, neither am I the first to use the phrase). I was responding to the comment
We're Americans. You're not. Period. Mexicans come from Mexico. Canadians from Canada. Cubans from Cuba. Words bloody mean something.
As if things were ever so black & white. Millions of Latin Americans will continue to refer to themselves as "Americans" (or "americanos", to split hairs), no matter how settled atriusofbricia thinks the issue is.
Latin Americans have been calling themselves Americans longer than United Statesians have been calling themselves Americans, so that "Period" isn't quite a full stop. Having said that, I assume the poster isn't Canadian, because I have yet to meet a Canadian who doesn't feel insulted when they're called American---including the one roommate I had who was born in Masachusettes and held dual citizenship.
Wow, you really have no clue just what resources are put into earthquake preparation in this country(*), do you? And you really think the seventh worst earthquake in recorded history is somehow comparable to Katrina, eh?
The building codes are the strictest in the world, schools and businesses have multiple earthquake drills a year, there are educational earthquake and tsunami centers all over, they have the military do training drills...well, I don't know exactly how often, but I see it a LOT. The coasts are barricaded with concrete tetrapods to take the kick out of oncoming tsunamis, and they seem to keep adding tetrapods on top of the old ones. They have air raid sirens at the ready, and they drill them fairly regularly (again, I don't know the frequency in hard numbers, but it's frequent). A week before the earthquake, my son came home from kindergarten telling me how hikinamis are much worse than tsunamis---they teach all this shit to the kindergarten kids to keep them prepared. And so on and on and on.
Would you kindly inform us in concrete terms what the Japanese should have done that they didn't to prepare for the seventh worst earthquake in recorded history?
(*) By "this country" I mean Japan.
"Last time"?!?!? Man, wouldn't it be nice if there really were 88 years between earthquakes here!
Although your point stands---mayor Ishihara's basically told the police in Tokyo to watch out for marauding foreigners in Tokyo in the event of an earthquake.
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Don't be ashamed of Canadians for this. Less than 24% of eligible Canadians actually voted for Harper's party. Blame the messed-up first-through-the-post system that allows 24% of the vote to equal a Majority, and blame the whole Confidence Vote bullshit for scaring MPs into voting for the party line lest they have to dissolve Parliament...again.
Same sex-marriage is not a human right. It's also not the preview of the federal government. It's a provincial decision. In Canada, the provinces have in general more control over what's said and done than the feds.
Then why is it that it was the Supreme Court that ruled on it, and why is it that Harper put it to a vote (which he lost) in the federal Parliament in 2007?
Um...it says "like the Tea Party".
If I drank $10 worth of alcohol...I probably wouldn't remember having done it.
Still doesn't quite math out right. Harper still only got 39% of the vote, so the question remains the same---who's "WE"?!? Most people who bothered to vote voted AGAINST Harper, and he STILL got an absolute majority. Try to convince more people to vote under THOSE circumstances.
The last election cost $288.2million. That's about $8 per Canadian.
Who's "we"?!? Only 24% of eligible voters voted for his party!
"40% of the vote" actually makes them look pretty popular. The fact is that only 24% of eligible voters voted for them, yet now they have an absolute majority.
Even better idea! Let's have camera's hooked up to the web places over the ballot boxes, with the counted results updated and displayed in real time, so we can see who voted for whom!
That's beyond incredible. I've been a poll clerk twice (once provincial (Ontario), once federal), and I don't remember having more than half a dozen people in line at our busiest either time.
"Billions of people"? Good Gawd, has Apple gotten THAT big now?!?
Every ball that has been observef to have been dropped has been observed to fall. That's not relative, and claiming otherwise doesn't even achieve the status of splitting hairs.
The CentOS people themselves have stated that it won't affect them at all.
Not the most widely used software maybe, but SBCL is taking its time porting to ARM, Clozure CL doesn't have a port I'm aware of, nor does CLISP. The only Common Lisp implemantation I know of that works on ARM is ECL.
We're Americans. You're not. Period. Mexicans come from Mexico. Canadians from Canada. Cubans from Cuba. Words bloody mean something.
As if things were ever so black & white. Millions of Latin Americans will continue to refer to themselves as "Americans" (or "americanos", to split hairs), no matter how settled atriusofbricia thinks the issue is.
Right, learning how to be normal is one of the most important things our schools are there for.
Latin Americans have been calling themselves Americans longer than United Statesians have been calling themselves Americans, so that "Period" isn't quite a full stop.
Having said that, I assume the poster isn't Canadian, because I have yet to meet a Canadian who doesn't feel insulted when they're called American---including the one roommate I had who was born in Masachusettes and held dual citizenship.
Yes, why don't Americans realize that those of us in the rest of the world have one homogeneous worldview?
No true Scots---err---American would hate on Reagan!
Wow, you really have no clue just what resources are put into earthquake preparation in this country(*), do you? And you really think the seventh worst earthquake in recorded history is somehow comparable to Katrina, eh?
The building codes are the strictest in the world, schools and businesses have multiple earthquake drills a year, there are educational earthquake and tsunami centers all over, they have the military do training drills...well, I don't know exactly how often, but I see it a LOT. The coasts are barricaded with concrete tetrapods to take the kick out of oncoming tsunamis, and they seem to keep adding tetrapods on top of the old ones. They have air raid sirens at the ready, and they drill them fairly regularly (again, I don't know the frequency in hard numbers, but it's frequent). A week before the earthquake, my son came home from kindergarten telling me how hikinamis are much worse than tsunamis---they teach all this shit to the kindergarten kids to keep them prepared. And so on and on and on.
Would you kindly inform us in concrete terms what the Japanese should have done that they didn't to prepare for the seventh worst earthquake in recorded history?
(*) By "this country" I mean Japan.
What's the danger of solar or wind power?
(Not claiming there isn't any. If there's a danger I'd like to be aware of it)
Yeah, I noticed that. Sorry! The death toll is into three digits now, though, and still rising.
It's amazing how they can get Unicode to work on the Japanese Slashdot, yet they don't bother to translate "Anonymous Coward".
"Last time"?!?!? Man, wouldn't it be nice if there really were 88 years between earthquakes here!
Although your point stands---mayor Ishihara's basically told the police in Tokyo to watch out for marauding foreigners in Tokyo in the event of an earthquake.
I was doing exactly this. The phone system was down almost immediately, but there wasn't a hiccup with the internet connection.