Or we could, you know, recognize that firearms are a significant force multiplier that make pulling off massacres like this far more trivial than they would be without these weapons.
Hardly. You may not of heard of the Bath School disaster but guns don't make it so. Though a lack of guns sure does help, ever notice that every mass shooting in the US has been at locations where they are "gun free" and in turn where the person who wants to commit those crimes has an idea that they'll be able to inflict maximum carnage with minimal risk to themselves. Yep, even Ft. Hood was an effective gun free zone where the shooting took place.
Funny that those so-called low information voters that believe that the US government has become so large an unwieldy, seem to be right. Especially since the government has gotten so large that it actually hinders development, innovation, and job creation. Seems like they're pretty much spot on, with it being wasteful and not doing right by the average american. I'd say since Obama has come to office, he's been worse than that last fellow you low-information voting democrats liked to cry about.
Hopefully companies like eBay and paypal will make paying this tax easy. The average Internet user cannot afford a tax Id for the small stuff sold
Actually makes me wonder about us foreigners who order things online from the US and have it shipped internationally, or order things on things like Steam and so on.
Indeed, and beside which commentary isn't necessarily bad. The BBC offers comments on most stories but is careful to do so in a way that just puts them in context.
Would this be the same BBC that is and has been routinely been caught lying about events in the middle east? I thought so. No they're just as guilty of "inserting opinion as news" and have been for a fewl decades, the quality of the Beeb has degraded hard and fast.
Seriously, have you looked at far left/right/wacky websites lately and seen what kind of drivel is within the law?
You mean like the law turning a blind eye when people actually advocate that stuff until they flee the country? Right, see my post above, oh and that's not the first time either. Don't be so ignorant. Of course you could always go to hmm was it Norway or Denmark? Where a fellow had a Quran thrown at him by muslims, while being insulted and berated by them, so he ripped it. And he was the one charged with the hate crime.
After all most countries in the EU have similar law, Canada has similar laws(still) since the bill to strike down various parts of the hate speech laws are still stuck in the senate. The US is the odd ball out. Remember the next time someone starts screaming that hate speech laws are a good idea, they're not. This is spoken by someone who already lives under them. You have no "freedom of expression," you have limited expression as deemed by the government in a very and exceptionally narrowing scope as deemed by unelected bureaucrats in HRC's(human rights councils) who run tribunals outside the court system.
Obviously method X of easily making object Y by pressing a button is exactly the same as method Z of making object Y which takes skill and expensive machinery, so if method Z is at all possible without a license, then we shouldn't bother trying to license method X at all.
Yes, perfect logic, if you lack any common sense at all.
Well yes, it *is* perfect logic. Please remember that these are the same types of people in bureaucracy who wanted to ban large soda's in NYC, along with salt.
Because it's become clear that the rebels in Syria (as in most of the Arab Spring) are no more trustworthy than the Assad government, and just as willing to engage in atrocities
Considering most of the rebels, including those engaged in the "arab spring" are far worse then those who they are replacing, I'm more likely to believe them to be willing to commit these acts. Well, people are free to believe whatever they want, but considering that the rebel groups have already in the past happily aligned themselves with known terrorist organizations or are simply offshoots of them, it wouldn't surprise me. Anyone who believed that the arab spring was going to make things better was either naive or ignorant of exactly what was going to happen.
BC Employment Standards Law, section 39. "Despite any provision of this Part, an employer must not require or directly or indirectly allow an employee to work excessive hours which are detrimental to the employee's health or safety". This even includes so-called "high technology professionals".
Well here in Ontario, we have a similar section. Back about 5 years ago the Liberals changed the law allowing companies to pay a very small fee and get a waiver so they could work you into the ground. $20 says that there's also a waiver system out there as well, making that section null. I know this "mandatory" bypass of sections of law like this exist in places like NFLD as well.
As long as they guarantee the right within reasonable boundaries, what's the problem with registering...? Unless you believe that your government is already fascist, in which case it's too late to worry about it.
Hello, welcome to Canada. The following line allows the courts and government to strip away any right if they can "demonstrate" why they can should be allowed to do so, so here are a few examples.
1. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.
That there little line has allowed: Warrantless stops(AKA the RIDE program), to allow the searching of cell phones without a password without a warrant--despite the fact that Sec. 8 states no unreasonable search and seizure. Oh and we don't have property rights here.
The guy tendered resignation. The letter he wrote is in that link there. Besides of that EA has been all over the place in terms of performance for awhile. I picked up a few hundred shares at $12 ~6mo ago and sold them at $18.50, which while not a spectacular turn around was decent enough.
Sure, then again you guys in the US do have this real problem with environmentalists and NIMBY's wanting to stop all nuclear power plants too, and really anything. Bah it's a mess no way or the other, I'm sure you'll find this story interesting though, about germany canceling a trio of climate/green energy programs as their budget becomes tighter.
Sorry nope, they didn't when I was down there back in January. Sorry if that reality thing still sucks. Though, I never got into Tampa this time when I was down, had a wheel bearing go in the front of my car when I got down there for my vacation and didn't have much in the way of transportation. Even Wesley Chapel was another 30min from where I was staying, ship to store is nice when you're able to get to the store.
They're also increasing coal consumption because the price for electricity in Germany is becoming so expensive that over a million people can't afford to pay for it anymore. Those green projects are doing a bang up job of driving the electricity costs through the roof.
Well I was down in florida back oh two months ago, and I didn't see them priced under $45/pop. Up here in Canadaland, they're running anywhere between $38-72 a pop just as standard replacements. I don't like CFL's, the odd LED bulb looks okay, but incandescent are still the big winner up here, especially in the winter. Probably shouldn't get started on the brilliance of switching to LED lighting for street lamps either, especially when you have any type of moderate snowfall they start getting covered up. Gets more interesting with street lights and no one can figure out who has the green(love that snow cover).
Thankfully Brian had already contacted his local PD and advised them that this was a distinct possibility so they were prepared for the possibility that it was a hoax when they arrived.
Odd that this has been going on for awhile and to a variety of people like DA's, and members of law enforcement too. And while it hasn't made a blip on/. before this it's suddenly news. Well here's something useful, back last yearish a variety of people called on the DOJ/Obama admin to get their heads out of their ass on this. Apparently though they don't think this is a 'serious enough of a threat.'
Teksavvy seems to be getting worse. I check them every so often, and last time I checked, their AUP now specifically says you can't run servers; I'm pretty sure it didn't used to say that.
No it's always said that. Though they really don't enforce it unless people are being abusive, it's more of a CYA clause. They only offer static IP's for DSL customers, that being the nature and problems with the cable plants used by the majority of companies(rogers/shaw/cogeco). Really though everyone got the shaft from the CRTC on the latest round of TPIA agreements, and tek is moving to a new ATPIA system which will cost more. But you'll get more, which is okay. Though they're still fighting the ruling, so is distrubutel, and electronic box.
Have you ever heard of the land of the midnight sun? The number of daylight hours changes dramatically at high lattitudes, such a system would not be workable.
Really you don't have to go all that far north for it to start screwing with you. Once you start hitting anything above 55N, you're getting into perpetual sunset between 10pm-2am. It really is hell on your system. I was out in Alberta about two years ago, and I had to black out all the windows in my bedroom at my sisters place, I simply couldn't sleep. Birds start singing at about 2:30am, sometimes start at 1:30am, yeah...it messes with you.
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Sure... so where is the country that has the exact same culture, politics, racial issues, etc. to compare to?
Canada, and our gun murder rate has been doing nothing but climbing.
Or we could, you know, recognize that firearms are a significant force multiplier that make pulling off massacres like this far more trivial than they would be without these weapons.
Hardly. You may not of heard of the Bath School disaster but guns don't make it so. Though a lack of guns sure does help, ever notice that every mass shooting in the US has been at locations where they are "gun free" and in turn where the person who wants to commit those crimes has an idea that they'll be able to inflict maximum carnage with minimal risk to themselves. Yep, even Ft. Hood was an effective gun free zone where the shooting took place.
Eternal September started on that which shall not be named, and it's all been downhill since then. I really do blame AOL...
Funny that those so-called low information voters that believe that the US government has become so large an unwieldy, seem to be right. Especially since the government has gotten so large that it actually hinders development, innovation, and job creation. Seems like they're pretty much spot on, with it being wasteful and not doing right by the average american. I'd say since Obama has come to office, he's been worse than that last fellow you low-information voting democrats liked to cry about.
Hopefully companies like eBay and paypal will make paying this tax easy. The average Internet user cannot afford a tax Id for the small stuff sold
Actually makes me wonder about us foreigners who order things online from the US and have it shipped internationally, or order things on things like Steam and so on.
Indeed, and beside which commentary isn't necessarily bad. The BBC offers comments on most stories but is careful to do so in a way that just puts them in context.
Would this be the same BBC that is and has been routinely been caught lying about events in the middle east? I thought so. No they're just as guilty of "inserting opinion as news" and have been for a fewl decades, the quality of the Beeb has degraded hard and fast.
Seriously, have you looked at far left/right/wacky websites lately and seen what kind of drivel is within the law?
You mean like the law turning a blind eye when people actually advocate that stuff until they flee the country? Right, see my post above, oh and that's not the first time either. Don't be so ignorant. Of course you could always go to hmm was it Norway or Denmark? Where a fellow had a Quran thrown at him by muslims, while being insulted and berated by them, so he ripped it. And he was the one charged with the hate crime.
Right, this is the end result of hate speech laws. They become political tools, especially when "offending" a particular group may come into play.
Truth in advertising works huh?
After all most countries in the EU have similar law, Canada has similar laws(still) since the bill to strike down various parts of the hate speech laws are still stuck in the senate. The US is the odd ball out. Remember the next time someone starts screaming that hate speech laws are a good idea, they're not. This is spoken by someone who already lives under them. You have no "freedom of expression," you have limited expression as deemed by the government in a very and exceptionally narrowing scope as deemed by unelected bureaucrats in HRC's(human rights councils) who run tribunals outside the court system.
Obviously method X of easily making object Y by pressing a button is exactly the same as method Z of making object Y which takes skill and expensive machinery, so if method Z is at all possible without a license, then we shouldn't bother trying to license method X at all.
Yes, perfect logic, if you lack any common sense at all.
Well yes, it *is* perfect logic. Please remember that these are the same types of people in bureaucracy who wanted to ban large soda's in NYC, along with salt.
Good link, thanks man.
Because it's become clear that the rebels in Syria (as in most of the Arab Spring) are no more trustworthy than the Assad government, and just as willing to engage in atrocities
Considering most of the rebels, including those engaged in the "arab spring" are far worse then those who they are replacing, I'm more likely to believe them to be willing to commit these acts. Well, people are free to believe whatever they want, but considering that the rebel groups have already in the past happily aligned themselves with known terrorist organizations or are simply offshoots of them, it wouldn't surprise me. Anyone who believed that the arab spring was going to make things better was either naive or ignorant of exactly what was going to happen.
BC Employment Standards Law, section 39. "Despite any provision of this Part, an employer must not require or directly or indirectly allow an employee to work excessive hours which are detrimental to the employee's health or safety". This even includes so-called "high technology professionals".
Well here in Ontario, we have a similar section. Back about 5 years ago the Liberals changed the law allowing companies to pay a very small fee and get a waiver so they could work you into the ground. $20 says that there's also a waiver system out there as well, making that section null. I know this "mandatory" bypass of sections of law like this exist in places like NFLD as well.
Shh. You're going to confuse the anti-frackers with facts and reality, we can't have that.
As long as they guarantee the right within reasonable boundaries, what's the problem with registering...? Unless you believe that your government is already fascist, in which case it's too late to worry about it.
Hello, welcome to Canada. The following line allows the courts and government to strip away any right if they can "demonstrate" why they can should be allowed to do so, so here are a few examples.
That there little line has allowed: Warrantless stops(AKA the RIDE program), to allow the searching of cell phones without a password without a warrant--despite the fact that Sec. 8 states no unreasonable search and seizure. Oh and we don't have property rights here.
I could go on, but there's really no point.
The guy tendered resignation. The letter he wrote is in that link there. Besides of that EA has been all over the place in terms of performance for awhile. I picked up a few hundred shares at $12 ~6mo ago and sold them at $18.50, which while not a spectacular turn around was decent enough.
Sure, then again you guys in the US do have this real problem with environmentalists and NIMBY's wanting to stop all nuclear power plants too, and really anything. Bah it's a mess no way or the other, I'm sure you'll find this story interesting though, about germany canceling a trio of climate/green energy programs as their budget becomes tighter.
Sorry nope, they didn't when I was down there back in January. Sorry if that reality thing still sucks. Though, I never got into Tampa this time when I was down, had a wheel bearing go in the front of my car when I got down there for my vacation and didn't have much in the way of transportation. Even Wesley Chapel was another 30min from where I was staying, ship to store is nice when you're able to get to the store.
They're also increasing coal consumption because the price for electricity in Germany is becoming so expensive that over a million people can't afford to pay for it anymore. Those green projects are doing a bang up job of driving the electricity costs through the roof.
Really? Perhaps you should let the Home Depot and Big Lots know this down in the Wesley Chapel area. Damn for that bit of reality coming at you huh?
You can get normal LED bulbs for $30 or less here
Well I was down in florida back oh two months ago, and I didn't see them priced under $45/pop. Up here in Canadaland, they're running anywhere between $38-72 a pop just as standard replacements. I don't like CFL's, the odd LED bulb looks okay, but incandescent are still the big winner up here, especially in the winter. Probably shouldn't get started on the brilliance of switching to LED lighting for street lamps either, especially when you have any type of moderate snowfall they start getting covered up. Gets more interesting with street lights and no one can figure out who has the green(love that snow cover).
Thankfully Brian had already contacted his local PD and advised them that this was a distinct possibility so they were prepared for the possibility that it was a hoax when they arrived.
Odd that this has been going on for awhile and to a variety of people like DA's, and members of law enforcement too. And while it hasn't made a blip on /. before this it's suddenly news. Well here's something useful, back last yearish a variety of people called on the DOJ/Obama admin to get their heads out of their ass on this. Apparently though they don't think this is a 'serious enough of a threat.'
Teksavvy seems to be getting worse. I check them every so often, and last time I checked, their AUP now specifically says you can't run servers; I'm pretty sure it didn't used to say that.
No it's always said that. Though they really don't enforce it unless people are being abusive, it's more of a CYA clause. They only offer static IP's for DSL customers, that being the nature and problems with the cable plants used by the majority of companies(rogers/shaw/cogeco). Really though everyone got the shaft from the CRTC on the latest round of TPIA agreements, and tek is moving to a new ATPIA system which will cost more. But you'll get more, which is okay. Though they're still fighting the ruling, so is distrubutel, and electronic box.
Have you ever heard of the land of the midnight sun? The number of daylight hours changes dramatically at high lattitudes, such a system would not be workable.
Really you don't have to go all that far north for it to start screwing with you. Once you start hitting anything above 55N, you're getting into perpetual sunset between 10pm-2am. It really is hell on your system. I was out in Alberta about two years ago, and I had to black out all the windows in my bedroom at my sisters place, I simply couldn't sleep. Birds start singing at about 2:30am, sometimes start at 1:30am, yeah...it messes with you.