Where do you get your info? It seems consistently wrong to one degree or another and very slanted such as blaming environmentalists for the dairy farmers lobbying.
Reality. "Nicoll says" this is incorrect, Nicoll is a city-idiot. I'm not faulting her for being an idiot, she just is. I do commend her for actually fixing a 4 year old problem however, because you can bet your ass people were still being fined or threatened by bylaw officers after it came off the NWA in 2014. The CBC like normal didn't even do the basic diligence of digging for the facts. It doesn't make the milk taste slightly sour. And even if it did, you wouldn't notice it because in Canada we use centralized depots for milk processing. Providing that the farmer doesn't start the process themselves, in which case they pick it up with a split tanker.
Now to the rest, cows are more likely to empty all of their stomachs if they eat milkweed. This can actually cause serious problems because, if you don't know cows eat in phases, throwing up and rechewing the plant material before it's passed along to another stomach for digestion. This actually increases the toxicity in each phase. On top of that, since their normal digestion is thrown out of wack, it can cause a variety of other issues including twisting and tearing of the stomach.
There's your basic lesson on "cow stuff." Next time if I'm feeling ambitious I'll explain why it was put on the list itself.
Actually, in Ontario it was entirely the factory farms that lobbied for it
Actually in Ontario, it was started by a bunch of city idiots in Toronto, because some kid decided to eat a bunch of the leaves and nearly died. Said kid, was the kid of a big donor the Liberal party of Ontario and the factory farms were all over it once the initial idea hit the OL pre-comittee to update the noxious weed act. Give you bonus points if you can figure out the child-rearing method that said ultra rich parents believed in. Double points if you can find their last name.
and the environmentalists who got milkweed removed from the list.
And it was the environmentalists who didn't. Rather it was the University of Guelph's Agricultural Research Farm. NIMBY's and their aligned environmentalist organizations directly opposed it. That would be like saying the several of the environmentalist groups who were protesting line 9, didn't have people try to damage pumping stations to "show how bad it could be."
That means you're even more inaccurate than usual
Boy it's like you don't even live here and have no idea what you're talking about.
though confusing Canada and California is pretty bad on its own.
And it takes a very special kind of stupid to fail to see repeatedly bad policies and laws, repeatedly put into action, over and over and over and over again. And by the exact same people who are politically aligned to boot. It's like you don't even know how much of a incestuous political camp existed between the democrat government of CA and Liberal Party in Ontario over the last 25 years.
I have my own little group of trolls who love to lie about anything I write.
Pretty sure it's just one person, and since their writing style is so similar across their trolling to multiple people. It's likely someone who's either very lonely, or has a mental illness.
Last I heard, any wall built by the French was an abject failure.
Funny, because the one near Calais did it's job just fine. Or didn't you hear about all the illegal immigrants that made camps there, then would flood onto the roads to try and sneak onto the trucks. It was only going on for 3+ years.
The issue here is Trump does not have an electoral mandate for a wall paid for by the USA. He was quite clear that Mexico was going to pay for it.
At this point with over 30 years of bullshit going all the way back to when the Democrats made the deal with Reagan saying if you give us amnesty, we'll fund the wall. I don't think most people really give a fuck at this point. Illegal immigration counts in the top 3 spots with independents and republicans.
Let's look at Texas (where I live), where the "bogey," does exist:
Yeah, except if you read the article that's the opposite of what it said. ~72% of Texans have serious problems with the current state of illegal's entering the country. On top of that the Pew poll has several methodological errors with it, those should be easy for you to see if you look at the raw data.
I remember hearing an interview with a Trump voter in Alaska.
He was all fired up by Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, yet immigrants had absolutely zero impact on his life., he had never even seen an immigrant.
It's not about immigration: it's all about irrational xenophobia. The don't like either the color of their skin, the fact that they might want to eat different foods, or some other lifestyle difference.
Are you really that naive? That's like saying, the reason that the governments and populations of Ontario and Quebec are so monumentally pissed off over immigration is because of all the brown people. Instead of them being forced to pay for all those illegals who have entered the country from the US, because ~25 years of NOT deporting illegals has caused significant economic and social impacts.
Yo, captain retard. Guess what? A border wall isn't going to have any impact on that immigrant labor either. But it sure will put a dent on illegal immigrant labor. If you don't think so, why not take a trip to Southern Ontario, or Southern BC during harvest season where "immigrant labor" makes up around 70-80% of the people doing the work.
Spot on. Ontario did the same thing under the previous government and declared it a "noxious weed" in ~2002 or so and monarch numbers plummeted. This is and absolute man-made problem caused by removing a key plant, and in many cases like here in Ontario it was environmentalists and NIMBY's that pushed for it to be labeled as such. The factory farms then got on board because it then allowed them to use more aggressive herbicides to kill it back, especially where it liked to grow with soybeans. Further, the provincial government then pushed local(city/county) to pass bylaws with heavy financial penalties. Around here it was a fine of $500/plant, smoking in a non-smoking building is $2000 to put in perspective.
Things would be better if we had 5 or 6. Then none could have a majority whereby they could force their agenda through without at least working with other groups.
You've got what? 50 different parties in the US these days. The biggest problem is that all your small parties are in general gigantic fuckups. Here in Canada, we have say 4 main parties. Just take a look at the absolute state when a single party has had power for the last 3.3 years. Sure are plenty of PT jobs, massive losses in FT jobs. 60% of mortgage holders are 2mo away from defaulting, and 40% of mortgage holders are in automatic defaults if the prime interest rate goes up by 0.25%. Oh and while we're at that, only 188k jobs were created last year but the government wants to hold immigration levels at 300k-500k people/year. Not counting the illegals from the US, that decades of governments have either refused to enforce immigration law, or were complicity acting in a manner to obstruct it.
Or you know, don't hold the running of the government hostage for a hair brained scheme that literally won't do anything positive for the country.
You should tell Israel, Hungary, Austria, and Greece how well those things don't work for their countries. Oh France too.
Ask for that money to fix actual existing failing infrastructure.
You should be asking states why they're not dealing with those problems. They ARE state problems after all.
I heard Flint still doesn't have access to clean water locally.
Funny story about that, why not go look it up. I'll wait for you to read up about how the city decided to fuck things around, and why there's multiple corruption trials going on.
The way i remember it, the shutdowns were all done in the name of austerity. Couldn't afford mental health and an easy thing to cut out of the budget.
Nope. All started under the statements of patient rights, constitutional and so forth challenges and all the rest. It's probably one of the biggest abuses of the mentally ill. There is some validity about MH facilities being centers for abuse, especially up here in Canada where various provinces operated legal forced sterilization programs. Read the linked information, then go read about what actually happened, these same recommendations in Canada were used in the US including in precedent setting cases. Until '69 or so, the number of facilities to care for people were increasing. By '79 they were shuttering them because of these recommendations and court cases.
Walter Williston was asked by the Ministry of Health to undertake a review of the care provided to people with a developmental disability, and prepared a report entitled "Present Arrangements for the Care and Supervision of Mentally Retarded People in Ontario, A Report for the Minister of Health".
Williston reported that the Ontario Hospital School system (i.e. the Ontario-operated institutions for people with a developmental disability):
was isolated from mainstream health, education, social and family services, and
could not adequately establish and administer services that responded to community needs.
He recommended that:
institutions be phased out, and
residential supports be provided in the community and integrated with educational, recreational and commercial facilities.
The report advocated the newly emerging concept of normalization in which people with a developmental disability would have a better life if they were given opportunities to enhance their growth and development, and were enabled to develop relationships with other community members.
1972
Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, who wrote "The Principle of Normalization in Human Services" (1972), introduced the concept of normalization (i.e. providing ongoing opportunities for growth and development in order to enable an increasingly positive perception of people with a developmental disability) to North America.
Wolfensberger believed that in order for people with a developmental disability to be seen more positively by society, we needed to make sure they had the same kinds of opportunities as other people.
He recommended that people with a developmental disability should:
live in environments typical of the general population
have opportunities for growth and development
be included in ordinary activities with the general population, and
develop relationships with others in their communities.
Wolfensberger suggested that these strategies would enable people with a developmental disability to improve their valued roles within society, and help to improve overall societal attitudes about individuals with disabilities.
1973
The Honourable Robert Welch, the Provincial Secretary for Social Development, published "Community Living for the Mentally Retarded in Ontario: A New Policy Focus".
The report set a new policy focus for the delivery of services based on the concept of community living.
The Welch report made four recommendations to increase community-based supports:
Guardianship and protective services should be developed in the community.
Residential care resources should be reallocated from institutions to the community.
Policies should be developed to in
Unluckily it seems society has chosen to treat mental illness as criminal.
That's because there's no other option. Back in the 60's through 80's, you had all of the progressive shrinks pushing to shut down mental hospitals. This was followed by numerous lawsuits which were won, claiming that MH facilities were simply centers for abuse, in turn must be shut down. Here in Canada, that meant tens-of-thousands dumped right onto the streets, in Ontario it was around 7k people simply dumped out the front door and that's that. The US? Similar case, because they were mandated to close and either had no family, or family that refused to care. With an absolute lack of any form of halfway house, or form of regimen being given.
So now we have police and EMS as the frontline responders to mental health problems. Which starts to carousel of detain person threatening harm on self/public. Hold in hospital under observation with police guard. First court date - with judge temporarily remanding to small psych facility. Person enters under court order. One of two things happen: They walk out the front door, or go on medications. After 2 weeks, they're then released, by week 3 we're back to the start where the police are involved.
Even the phone company has a duty to act when it is informed of harassment and the person being harassed gets a restraining order. Just bring a carrier doesn't mean you can ignore such use of your network no matter what.
A phone company won't disconnect the harasser, in many cases they won't block the person from contacting you either. But they may for a small fee(bell canada used to be $1.50/mo) record call attempts from the number and automatically forward them to the police force/service of your choice, in turn this would be a breach of a restraining/no-contact order, and allow further actions to be taken including arresting the person. In today's world, I can get a new phone number every 30 seconds from the variety of "free voip" services that exist all over the world and be absolutely untraceable if I use a VPN service that doesn't keep logs.
Out of curiosity, what country are you referring to where paper's don't publish photos on classified ads? 'Cause in the 80's and 90's and even 00's before they died out, newspapers here in North America did publish photo's, they couldn't be vulgar or cross into obscene. And you absolutely paid out heavily in extra fees. And for around ~15 years or so, during the boom of ez-cheap printing, there were even magazines specially dedicated to it.
My grandparents had a 2 story house with a ton of bedrooms (I forget how many, I was pretty young when we moved out west from them). And they were working class. They had an Atari 2600 around launch. Adjusted for inflation, at $700 bucks.
And I'll bet that this was after years of saving, and getting lucky during the hyperinflation hit of the 1970's and 80's, where the valuation of properties went through the roof along with wages. Meaning that the house they originally bought for $7k, was suddenly worth $50k. You're also forgetting that the Atari 2600 was "new technology" the entire underlying idea of it was new, new fabbing, new chip designs, everything. And that the reason you can get those new technological wonders cheaper today then yesterday after inflation is because they exploded onto the market and everyone wanted one, which drove down the existing costs. Example: An electric car today can easily set you back $80k A gas car in 1913 would cost you $850 - or $21k today. Get a top-of-the-line Studebaker or Cadillac that cost $2k-4k(about the same price for a house at the time), and it works out to being damn close to the same about $80k.
Please, please start thinking these things through. Guys like you, who've drunk the kool-aid, need to come to your senses and see how you're being taken advantage of and run into the ground for nothing in return.
Yeah and your reasoning of "more socialism" to fix it, sure will. Why don't you go look to those of us up here in Canada who've already experienced the dream that you're pushing. Wait until you get to the 60% of people with mortgages today are 0.5% of an interest rate hike of defaulting. The only reality here is that you've grown up in a period that has had almost stagflation levels for decades, the vast majority of/. those of us in our 40's to 60's have not, though some of us remember the hyperinflation and stagflation of the 70's and 80's. Or the industry crashes in the 90's, or real estate crashes in the late 80's.
Nobody but people who spent 7 years in english lit., and has a degree in it uses the words in those forms. That's how it's been in the automotive industry for 40 years and it's spilled into the mainstream, welcome to how languages change. You find depreciated used in both forms for an object that is declining invalue having been sold, and existing stock that exists and will not sell in every trade magazine, automotive book, and in the general lexicon of buyers and sellers in everything from coins to houses and empty plots of land.
Give you a bet. In 100 years, their, there, and they're will be archaic uses.
GM's decline came when they started making crappy, low gas mileage cars and ignored the Japanese's well built, high mileage cars. Toyota, Nissan and even Hyundai produce decent cars with lots of automation.
That was ~40 years ago, and even then in the 1980's post-gigantic fuckup with the cheaper JP imports they were massive. Stupidly massive on a scale that would surprise you, they were heavily diversified in everything from raw material extraction to refining. And the 'emerging markets' of IBM-compatible components and held companies like EDS and GM-DIESEL(now known as Electromotive), if you're unfamiliar with GM-Diesel they held around 70% of the train engine market, and emergency generator market in the 1990's. Ask yourself why GM which was turning over money hand-over-fist started selling off highly profitable segments of their company, give you a hint it was the "new breed" of CEO's that chased profit even at the cost of long-term profitability.
They'd rather chase short term profits and let the Government bail them out every 10 years because they know we need their factories in case we need to ramp up for war.
You get a zero for effort. In-house financing is what did GM in, and Ford, and Chrysler, and Toyota and Nissan and and and. Going back 10 years, every automaker took government bailouts. Every single one. And every automaker that had in-house financing had mass-defaults on purchased vehicles because those debts were worth nothing, the vehicles were depreciated, and nobody would buy a 3 year old car with 70k miles on it for 80% of the original market price. The bailout in the 1980's was a different beast, you should read up on it.
And tech didn't free us from drudgery because we didn't let it. Instead of cutting our work weeks we used the improvements in productivity to lay people off, reducing the demand for labor and then using the reduction in demand to cut wages (yes folks, supply and demand work both ways). Based on productivity gains (real ones, e.g. manufacturing and farm outputs, measured productivity is kind of iffy because it includes the largely make-work service sector economy) we should be working 20-30 hours a week tops but we're pushing over 50. Stupid motherf*ing puritanicals...
Nope. Know what happened? These automakers back in the early 00's started offshoring everything as hard and fast as they could, at a rate unprecedented since the medium-heavy industry collapse of the early 1990's. They saw "emerging markets" as the new hot shit, moved entire factories to south america, china, then started selling off in-company fabbing and manufacturing to the same. They believed that the "middle class" that would buy a new car every 7 years, would keep doing so once they lost their job(s).
Didn't happen, so they doubled down in those emerging markets. Well look at the state of Venezuela, where they seized all the auto plants and fabbing. Or to China, where the parts suppliers were making parts. China is an interesting one, because a lot of those first-tier suppliers, which those auto companies HAD to buy into to work there, were buying raw materials on over-extended credit. Yeah you don't hear many stories leaking out of China about xyz parts plant that put materials/plants/die's and so on up as collateral and 4 banks and the government come to collect. But sometimes you hear about arrests and executives getting executed.
The board has responsibilities to the shareholders. And in this case it looks like the board(worst case with the blessing of the CEO and CFO) lied to the shareholders to keep their stock price up and hopefully 'outride' a shortfall by ramping up GPU production. Instead they've got a shortage of both GPU's(due to fabbing problems), and a shortage of boards. So now they can't fulfill existing orders from retailers. Their idea to fix the problem was to drive the price up to try and offset the crash in the mining market, didn't work.
NVIDIA was crystal clear that they knew it was temporary and had measures in place to ensure a continuity of sales and not oversupply the channel. Except they didn't.
Exactly this. It's not hard to find the news articles on exchange sites, or hell even forex oriented news sites with nvidia pumping that they had 'contingency' plans if the market fell out, and all that. Now they have assloads of cards that are already depreciated and are getting worse, and they haven't managed to catch up to the latest tick-tock cycle leading to their fabbing being way-way-way behind along with a manufacturing shortage of available PCB space. Their solution to self-created card shortages? Raise prices.
My money goes on a conspiracy theorist who believes the old far right favourite about everyone else being a far left / Jewish conspiracy.
Then why are there so many people on the far left promoting the same conspiracy theory? I mean you've got a political party in the UK that has a massive antisemitism scandal still going on, and you have far-left democrats promoting the same thing. And there are far-left liberals, NDP, and Green party members promoting the same thing in Canada. And I haven't even started on the variety of leftwing politics in Sweden and Norway right now, which are echos of the same thing.
Politicians, the "mainstream media", basically anyone who isn't with them.
What's the trust of media these days? 10%? 15%? Pretty low from the 60-70% trust just 30 years ago, maybe the reason people distrust the media is because they're all repeating the same garbage and all using the same sources. In turn, some people in order to make sense of it invent their own theories. This is of course minus of some of the more egregious cases of reporters carrying agendas for particular left-wing groups, parties, and so on.
Yes. How dare people want their own sovereignty, and a government to listen to it's people. Instead of a gigantic bureaucracy that churns away, invents rules, and demands people follow them. Especially when all of the existing political parties in power all fall into the same scope of actions and desires. And when things start going against them, the first response is "nazis" because hearing the same bullshit going back to the 1960's really makes them look like they're insane, and not you.
Knowing nothing would be making the assumption with no evidence that it started in 2002. Evidence on the other hand with leaked documents however show that it started in 2010, and Obama agreed to it and approved it. Ah yes...the wonders of knowing nothing, you sure did a bang up job on that one.
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Where do you get your info? It seems consistently wrong to one degree or another and very slanted such as blaming environmentalists for the dairy farmers lobbying.
Reality. "Nicoll says" this is incorrect, Nicoll is a city-idiot. I'm not faulting her for being an idiot, she just is. I do commend her for actually fixing a 4 year old problem however, because you can bet your ass people were still being fined or threatened by bylaw officers after it came off the NWA in 2014. The CBC like normal didn't even do the basic diligence of digging for the facts. It doesn't make the milk taste slightly sour. And even if it did, you wouldn't notice it because in Canada we use centralized depots for milk processing. Providing that the farmer doesn't start the process themselves, in which case they pick it up with a split tanker.
Now to the rest, cows are more likely to empty all of their stomachs if they eat milkweed. This can actually cause serious problems because, if you don't know cows eat in phases, throwing up and rechewing the plant material before it's passed along to another stomach for digestion. This actually increases the toxicity in each phase. On top of that, since their normal digestion is thrown out of wack, it can cause a variety of other issues including twisting and tearing of the stomach.
There's your basic lesson on "cow stuff." Next time if I'm feeling ambitious I'll explain why it was put on the list itself.
Actually, in Ontario it was entirely the factory farms that lobbied for it
Actually in Ontario, it was started by a bunch of city idiots in Toronto, because some kid decided to eat a bunch of the leaves and nearly died. Said kid, was the kid of a big donor the Liberal party of Ontario and the factory farms were all over it once the initial idea hit the OL pre-comittee to update the noxious weed act. Give you bonus points if you can figure out the child-rearing method that said ultra rich parents believed in. Double points if you can find their last name.
and the environmentalists who got milkweed removed from the list.
And it was the environmentalists who didn't. Rather it was the University of Guelph's Agricultural Research Farm. NIMBY's and their aligned environmentalist organizations directly opposed it. That would be like saying the several of the environmentalist groups who were protesting line 9, didn't have people try to damage pumping stations to "show how bad it could be."
That means you're even more inaccurate than usual
Boy it's like you don't even live here and have no idea what you're talking about.
though confusing Canada and California is pretty bad on its own.
And it takes a very special kind of stupid to fail to see repeatedly bad policies and laws, repeatedly put into action, over and over and over and over again. And by the exact same people who are politically aligned to boot. It's like you don't even know how much of a incestuous political camp existed between the democrat government of CA and Liberal Party in Ontario over the last 25 years.
I have my own little group of trolls who love to lie about anything I write.
Pretty sure it's just one person, and since their writing style is so similar across their trolling to multiple people. It's likely someone who's either very lonely, or has a mental illness.
Last I heard, any wall built by the French was an abject failure.
Funny, because the one near Calais did it's job just fine. Or didn't you hear about all the illegal immigrants that made camps there, then would flood onto the roads to try and sneak onto the trucks. It was only going on for 3+ years.
The issue here is Trump does not have an electoral mandate for a wall paid for by the USA. He was quite clear that Mexico was going to pay for it.
At this point with over 30 years of bullshit going all the way back to when the Democrats made the deal with Reagan saying if you give us amnesty, we'll fund the wall. I don't think most people really give a fuck at this point. Illegal immigration counts in the top 3 spots with independents and republicans.
Let's look at Texas (where I live), where the "bogey," does exist:
Yeah, except if you read the article that's the opposite of what it said. ~72% of Texans have serious problems with the current state of illegal's entering the country. On top of that the Pew poll has several methodological errors with it, those should be easy for you to see if you look at the raw data.
I remember hearing an interview with a Trump voter in Alaska.
He was all fired up by Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, yet immigrants had absolutely zero impact on his life., he had never even seen an immigrant.
It's not about immigration: it's all about irrational xenophobia. The don't like either the color of their skin, the fact that they might want to eat different foods, or some other lifestyle difference.
Are you really that naive? That's like saying, the reason that the governments and populations of Ontario and Quebec are so monumentally pissed off over immigration is because of all the brown people. Instead of them being forced to pay for all those illegals who have entered the country from the US, because ~25 years of NOT deporting illegals has caused significant economic and social impacts.
Yo, captain retard. Guess what? A border wall isn't going to have any impact on that immigrant labor either. But it sure will put a dent on illegal immigrant labor. If you don't think so, why not take a trip to Southern Ontario, or Southern BC during harvest season where "immigrant labor" makes up around 70-80% of the people doing the work.
Yeah don't see a point with TV's, but I can really see it being the hot-shit thing with laptops and fast.
Spot on. Ontario did the same thing under the previous government and declared it a "noxious weed" in ~2002 or so and monarch numbers plummeted. This is and absolute man-made problem caused by removing a key plant, and in many cases like here in Ontario it was environmentalists and NIMBY's that pushed for it to be labeled as such. The factory farms then got on board because it then allowed them to use more aggressive herbicides to kill it back, especially where it liked to grow with soybeans. Further, the provincial government then pushed local(city/county) to pass bylaws with heavy financial penalties. Around here it was a fine of $500/plant, smoking in a non-smoking building is $2000 to put in perspective.
Things would be better if we had 5 or 6. Then none could have a majority whereby they could force their agenda through without at least working with other groups.
You've got what? 50 different parties in the US these days. The biggest problem is that all your small parties are in general gigantic fuckups. Here in Canada, we have say 4 main parties. Just take a look at the absolute state when a single party has had power for the last 3.3 years. Sure are plenty of PT jobs, massive losses in FT jobs. 60% of mortgage holders are 2mo away from defaulting, and 40% of mortgage holders are in automatic defaults if the prime interest rate goes up by 0.25%. Oh and while we're at that, only 188k jobs were created last year but the government wants to hold immigration levels at 300k-500k people/year. Not counting the illegals from the US, that decades of governments have either refused to enforce immigration law, or were complicity acting in a manner to obstruct it.
Or you know, don't hold the running of the government hostage for a hair brained scheme that literally won't do anything positive for the country.
You should tell Israel, Hungary, Austria, and Greece how well those things don't work for their countries. Oh France too.
Ask for that money to fix actual existing failing infrastructure.
You should be asking states why they're not dealing with those problems. They ARE state problems after all.
I heard Flint still doesn't have access to clean water locally.
Funny story about that, why not go look it up. I'll wait for you to read up about how the city decided to fuck things around, and why there's multiple corruption trials going on.
The way i remember it, the shutdowns were all done in the name of austerity. Couldn't afford mental health and an easy thing to cut out of the budget.
Nope. All started under the statements of patient rights, constitutional and so forth challenges and all the rest. It's probably one of the biggest abuses of the mentally ill. There is some validity about MH facilities being centers for abuse, especially up here in Canada where various provinces operated legal forced sterilization programs. Read the linked information, then go read about what actually happened, these same recommendations in Canada were used in the US including in precedent setting cases. Until '69 or so, the number of facilities to care for people were increasing. By '79 they were shuttering them because of these recommendations and court cases.
To quote:
1971
Walter Williston was asked by the Ministry of Health to undertake a review of the care provided to people with a developmental disability, and prepared a report entitled "Present Arrangements for the Care and Supervision of Mentally Retarded People in Ontario, A Report for the Minister of Health".
Williston reported that the Ontario Hospital School system (i.e. the Ontario-operated institutions for people with a developmental disability):
was isolated from mainstream health, education, social and family services, and
could not adequately establish and administer services that responded to community needs.
He recommended that:
institutions be phased out, and
residential supports be provided in the community and integrated with educational, recreational and commercial facilities.
The report advocated the newly emerging concept of normalization in which people with a developmental disability would have a better life if they were given opportunities to enhance their growth and development, and were enabled to develop relationships with other community members.
1972
Dr. Wolf Wolfensberger, who wrote "The Principle of Normalization in Human Services" (1972), introduced the concept of normalization (i.e. providing ongoing opportunities for growth and development in order to enable an increasingly positive perception of people with a developmental disability) to North America.
Wolfensberger believed that in order for people with a developmental disability to be seen more positively by society, we needed to make sure they had the same kinds of opportunities as other people.
He recommended that people with a developmental disability should:
live in environments typical of the general population
have opportunities for growth and development
be included in ordinary activities with the general population, and
develop relationships with others in their communities.
Wolfensberger suggested that these strategies would enable people with a developmental disability to improve their valued roles within society, and help to improve overall societal attitudes about individuals with disabilities.
1973
The Honourable Robert Welch, the Provincial Secretary for Social Development, published "Community Living for the Mentally Retarded in Ontario: A New Policy Focus".
The report set a new policy focus for the delivery of services based on the concept of community living.
The Welch report made four recommendations to increase community-based supports:
Guardianship and protective services should be developed in the community.
Residential care resources should be reallocated from institutions to the community.
Policies should be developed to in
Unluckily it seems society has chosen to treat mental illness as criminal.
That's because there's no other option. Back in the 60's through 80's, you had all of the progressive shrinks pushing to shut down mental hospitals. This was followed by numerous lawsuits which were won, claiming that MH facilities were simply centers for abuse, in turn must be shut down. Here in Canada, that meant tens-of-thousands dumped right onto the streets, in Ontario it was around 7k people simply dumped out the front door and that's that. The US? Similar case, because they were mandated to close and either had no family, or family that refused to care. With an absolute lack of any form of halfway house, or form of regimen being given.
So now we have police and EMS as the frontline responders to mental health problems. Which starts to carousel of detain person threatening harm on self/public. Hold in hospital under observation with police guard. First court date - with judge temporarily remanding to small psych facility. Person enters under court order. One of two things happen: They walk out the front door, or go on medications. After 2 weeks, they're then released, by week 3 we're back to the start where the police are involved.
Even the phone company has a duty to act when it is informed of harassment and the person being harassed gets a restraining order. Just bring a carrier doesn't mean you can ignore such use of your network no matter what.
A phone company won't disconnect the harasser, in many cases they won't block the person from contacting you either. But they may for a small fee(bell canada used to be $1.50/mo) record call attempts from the number and automatically forward them to the police force/service of your choice, in turn this would be a breach of a restraining/no-contact order, and allow further actions to be taken including arresting the person. In today's world, I can get a new phone number every 30 seconds from the variety of "free voip" services that exist all over the world and be absolutely untraceable if I use a VPN service that doesn't keep logs.
Out of curiosity, what country are you referring to where paper's don't publish photos on classified ads? 'Cause in the 80's and 90's and even 00's before they died out, newspapers here in North America did publish photo's, they couldn't be vulgar or cross into obscene. And you absolutely paid out heavily in extra fees. And for around ~15 years or so, during the boom of ez-cheap printing, there were even magazines specially dedicated to it.
If you want that answer, look at the retail B&M market. That's where the businesses that died nobody even heard about happened.
My grandparents had a 2 story house with a ton of bedrooms (I forget how many, I was pretty young when we moved out west from them). And they were working class. They had an Atari 2600 around launch. Adjusted for inflation, at $700 bucks.
And I'll bet that this was after years of saving, and getting lucky during the hyperinflation hit of the 1970's and 80's, where the valuation of properties went through the roof along with wages. Meaning that the house they originally bought for $7k, was suddenly worth $50k. You're also forgetting that the Atari 2600 was "new technology" the entire underlying idea of it was new, new fabbing, new chip designs, everything. And that the reason you can get those new technological wonders cheaper today then yesterday after inflation is because they exploded onto the market and everyone wanted one, which drove down the existing costs. Example: An electric car today can easily set you back $80k A gas car in 1913 would cost you $850 - or $21k today. Get a top-of-the-line Studebaker or Cadillac that cost $2k-4k(about the same price for a house at the time), and it works out to being damn close to the same about $80k.
Please, please start thinking these things through. Guys like you, who've drunk the kool-aid, need to come to your senses and see how you're being taken advantage of and run into the ground for nothing in return.
Yeah and your reasoning of "more socialism" to fix it, sure will. Why don't you go look to those of us up here in Canada who've already experienced the dream that you're pushing. Wait until you get to the 60% of people with mortgages today are 0.5% of an interest rate hike of defaulting. The only reality here is that you've grown up in a period that has had almost stagflation levels for decades, the vast majority of /. those of us in our 40's to 60's have not, though some of us remember the hyperinflation and stagflation of the 70's and 80's. Or the industry crashes in the 90's, or real estate crashes in the late 80's.
Nobody but people who spent 7 years in english lit., and has a degree in it uses the words in those forms. That's how it's been in the automotive industry for 40 years and it's spilled into the mainstream, welcome to how languages change. You find depreciated used in both forms for an object that is declining invalue having been sold, and existing stock that exists and will not sell in every trade magazine, automotive book, and in the general lexicon of buyers and sellers in everything from coins to houses and empty plots of land.
Give you a bet. In 100 years, their, there, and they're will be archaic uses.
GM's decline came when they started making crappy, low gas mileage cars and ignored the Japanese's well built, high mileage cars. Toyota, Nissan and even Hyundai produce decent cars with lots of automation.
That was ~40 years ago, and even then in the 1980's post-gigantic fuckup with the cheaper JP imports they were massive. Stupidly massive on a scale that would surprise you, they were heavily diversified in everything from raw material extraction to refining. And the 'emerging markets' of IBM-compatible components and held companies like EDS and GM-DIESEL(now known as Electromotive), if you're unfamiliar with GM-Diesel they held around 70% of the train engine market, and emergency generator market in the 1990's. Ask yourself why GM which was turning over money hand-over-fist started selling off highly profitable segments of their company, give you a hint it was the "new breed" of CEO's that chased profit even at the cost of long-term profitability.
They'd rather chase short term profits and let the Government bail them out every 10 years because they know we need their factories in case we need to ramp up for war.
You get a zero for effort. In-house financing is what did GM in, and Ford, and Chrysler, and Toyota and Nissan and and and. Going back 10 years, every automaker took government bailouts. Every single one. And every automaker that had in-house financing had mass-defaults on purchased vehicles because those debts were worth nothing, the vehicles were depreciated, and nobody would buy a 3 year old car with 70k miles on it for 80% of the original market price. The bailout in the 1980's was a different beast, you should read up on it.
And tech didn't free us from drudgery because we didn't let it. Instead of cutting our work weeks we used the improvements in productivity to lay people off, reducing the demand for labor and then using the reduction in demand to cut wages (yes folks, supply and demand work both ways). Based on productivity gains (real ones, e.g. manufacturing and farm outputs, measured productivity is kind of iffy because it includes the largely make-work service sector economy) we should be working 20-30 hours a week tops but we're pushing over 50. Stupid motherf*ing puritanicals...
Nope. Know what happened? These automakers back in the early 00's started offshoring everything as hard and fast as they could, at a rate unprecedented since the medium-heavy industry collapse of the early 1990's. They saw "emerging markets" as the new hot shit, moved entire factories to south america, china, then started selling off in-company fabbing and manufacturing to the same. They believed that the "middle class" that would buy a new car every 7 years, would keep doing so once they lost their job(s).
Didn't happen, so they doubled down in those emerging markets. Well look at the state of Venezuela, where they seized all the auto plants and fabbing. Or to China, where the parts suppliers were making parts. China is an interesting one, because a lot of those first-tier suppliers, which those auto companies HAD to buy into to work there, were buying raw materials on over-extended credit. Yeah you don't hear many stories leaking out of China about xyz parts plant that put materials/plants/die's and so on up as collateral and 4 banks and the government come to collect. But sometimes you hear about arrests and executives getting executed.
The board has responsibilities to the shareholders. And in this case it looks like the board(worst case with the blessing of the CEO and CFO) lied to the shareholders to keep their stock price up and hopefully 'outride' a shortfall by ramping up GPU production. Instead they've got a shortage of both GPU's(due to fabbing problems), and a shortage of boards. So now they can't fulfill existing orders from retailers. Their idea to fix the problem was to drive the price up to try and offset the crash in the mining market, didn't work.
NVIDIA was crystal clear that they knew it was temporary and had measures in place to ensure a continuity of sales and not oversupply the channel.
Except they didn't.
Exactly this. It's not hard to find the news articles on exchange sites, or hell even forex oriented news sites with nvidia pumping that they had 'contingency' plans if the market fell out, and all that. Now they have assloads of cards that are already depreciated and are getting worse, and they haven't managed to catch up to the latest tick-tock cycle leading to their fabbing being way-way-way behind along with a manufacturing shortage of available PCB space. Their solution to self-created card shortages? Raise prices.
Good times to be AMD I guess.
My money goes on a conspiracy theorist who believes the old far right favourite about everyone else being a far left / Jewish conspiracy.
Then why are there so many people on the far left promoting the same conspiracy theory? I mean you've got a political party in the UK that has a massive antisemitism scandal still going on, and you have far-left democrats promoting the same thing. And there are far-left liberals, NDP, and Green party members promoting the same thing in Canada. And I haven't even started on the variety of leftwing politics in Sweden and Norway right now, which are echos of the same thing.
Politicians, the "mainstream media", basically anyone who isn't with them.
What's the trust of media these days? 10%? 15%? Pretty low from the 60-70% trust just 30 years ago, maybe the reason people distrust the media is because they're all repeating the same garbage and all using the same sources. In turn, some people in order to make sense of it invent their own theories. This is of course minus of some of the more egregious cases of reporters carrying agendas for particular left-wing groups, parties, and so on.
Yes. How dare people want their own sovereignty, and a government to listen to it's people. Instead of a gigantic bureaucracy that churns away, invents rules, and demands people follow them. Especially when all of the existing political parties in power all fall into the same scope of actions and desires. And when things start going against them, the first response is "nazis" because hearing the same bullshit going back to the 1960's really makes them look like they're insane, and not you.
Team Obama? I think you mean the CIA.
No it was Team Obama.
It is like you know nothing Mashiki.
Knowing nothing would be making the assumption with no evidence that it started in 2002. Evidence on the other hand with leaked documents however show that it started in 2010, and Obama agreed to it and approved it. Ah yes...the wonders of knowing nothing, you sure did a bang up job on that one.
Come on buddy, you can do better than a complete non-sequitur into an Obama attack.
Facts are an attack on Obama? But hey, what's that? Oh it was the media playing that exact angle as to the reason Obama did it.