Really? Chiquita banana tried. Then they said it wasn't true and there was no boycott. That was after the Canadian public turned around and left their produce rotting on store shelves.
Turkey is an Islamic country too. They don't have this problem. The problem isn't Islam. It's the jackasses who use Islam as an excuse.
Uh. You might want to pay a bit more attention to the world, back in 2008, when the Islamist's started rising to power they amended a bunch of stuff restricting free speech, and a bunch of other things. Hey guess what, you remember Egypt? Wanna guess what's happening there, or do I need to spell it out for you as the Islamists are rising to power there. Goodbye freedoms.
You can believe what you want, but the last time I looked. If someone took a glass filled it with piss and dumped a cruifix in it(let's not forget that it's already been an art exhibit too). You'll get some disgusted looks here in the west, and you'll probably get some people protesting you. Now you try that with a Koran, I'll bet you'll get your first death threat inside of 10minutes, and have your first riot inside an hour. And of course, you'll probably need to go into hiding. That's much more serious than say, oh... drawing a cartoon.
Contrary to USA, China controls money creation through the central bank (which is controlled directly by the central party). The state also controls directly all banks that are giving out loans. It also has a lot of USD in reserve. So what liquidity issues are you talking about?
China, unless you haven't been paying attention to the financial markets for the last year or so. China can control all the money creation that they want. That doesn't stop out of control inflation which is happening. It also doesn't stop out of control inflation on core goods, also happening. In turn it doesn't stop food shortages, also happening.
For the liquidity issues, you might have noticed in the last 3 weeks a large number of chinese firms suddenly dumping stocks.
They will create a race-riot, then declare martial law, then dissolve the entire elected parliament
No need to create a race-riot. Already happening, via Muslim religious extremists and the current government is bending over backwards to appease them in order to avoid race riots. In turn, the Buddhists have been doing things like setting themselves on fire to protest the fact that they're being murdered in the streets. If anything, the muslims have been ratcheting it up, and blaming them for just about anything you can think of.
Heck, they've been banning books for awhile to stop from offending the muslims and their sensitivities especially in relation to their religion. Why not ban the internet while they're at it? Well it's not as bad as Burma yet where they're blaming the Buddhists for 'fake mass murders' but it's getting close.
Canada is the place to be IMHO. With the stable economy, the speedy rise of the IT sector and easy Permanent Residence options, it should be your best bet, both in the short and the long run.
Canada is teetering right now, and banks are being warned to prepare for a housing collapse much like what happened in the US. A few other things, housing prices are sliding across the country, generally down 5-30% depending on where you are. Vancouver is down around 15%, Toronto is down around 10% on prices from last year. Houses that are on the market, stay on the market for a long time. I live in the SWON(South-western Ontario), and places here are sticking around for 6-9 months before selling. I'm also seeing a lot of places being repo'd by the banks, and I mean a lot. 8 places in my neighborhood in the last 3 months, and more before that, lot of places going up for sale too, even in the new subdivisions. Some places have crashed like Windsor, which are down 40%. It's starting to look a lot like very late 2005 Florida here, and I was in Florida at the time.
Unemployment is *sticky* at the best depending on where you are. IT can be seriously hit or miss, and you can find good jobs, but some of them require experience way outside of what is required, even by US standards of stupidity.
Permanent Residence? Waiting list from hell. You'll be waiting a long time. And the numbers are being cut back as well.
The original poster asked about other places too? India I can't comment too much about, but China is having some serious liquidity issues right now too, and some serious food shortage issues too. Bad enough that they're opening their food banks to stop shortages.
Only $200/pound? Really? I was looking a few months ago and the price was still up around $800/kilo. If you can get a bead on that price and put it on the market you'd be doing pretty well. The ore value is much more difficult, because it depends on "what" it's coming from, and how much you need to work to get it a non-ore state. Just like you said. It's actually cheaper to get it during mining/refining production than it is to get it from recycling from everything I've learned the last few years. Getting it from recycling is just too bloody expensive, and would probably drive the price up around $2-4k/kilo.
To be honest, Indium isn't considered a rare earth in the metal markets, it's considered a minor metal with low demand(you don't need much of it, and when you do use it a little bit goes a long way), though I am a metal market newbie(only been playing it off and on for the last two years, I make my bread and butter in currencies). It's plentiful, and large amounts of are available in storage and on demand. But really, where there's iron or zinc mining, you can get indium. And two of the worlds largest sources of it are in Canada.
They now charge a 'recycling fee' on new electronic appliances. This goes from a couple of cents for small electronics to a couple of euros for fridges.
Ah that's just great. Of course, I've had old computers refused here in Ontario because they were built by me, instead of nice and you know made by a manufacturer. Until I pointed out that under the OERF that's illegal. Yep, places here were very happy to start collecting that fee.
I've got something already similar in my GMC Terrain, plenty of things are done by touch screen and with nearly 8mo behind the wheel on it. I don't have a problem. In fact, I can do everything right off the steering wheel without anything besides a casual glance at the centre console. If anything, if more of it was done by touch screen I'd be happier, there's enough damn buttons there to make me think I'm getting in a plane and I'm preparing for takeoff, there is information overload with the design. My only real complaint? When the console dies, it takes the entire system with it. Mine died, oh about a 2 months after I had the car. And it spent 15 days in the shop waiting for a replacement to come in.
After a bit of ingenous thinking, I figured out that it might be a good idea to lean on the dealership and have them talk to CAMI in Ingersoll, and get the part directly from there. Because well...GM had this brilliant idea to fuck Canadian owners over and ship all the replacement parts as a priority to US customers, leaving us Canucks high and dry. Which means that I was only left without my car for 19 days instead. On the upside, I did get XM free for two years for that screw up, along with a $400 maintenance voucher.
You need to change the system by voting for any credible third party.
Here, allow me to point out what 3rd parties can get you. In Europe, they've allowed the rise of far-left national socialists who believe that that the second great purge of the 20th century needs to happen. In Greece the collapse of the centreist parties, has allowed this to happen as well. And the same in Italy and a few others.
Well, 3rd parties have their place. But saying voting for a credible 3rd party? The world doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, they're worse than a two party system.
I don't care. I love facebook. It's an awesome idea. It'll survive and thrive
You know, I remember people saying the same thing about myspace, and a bunch of other 'social media' sites. They're doing pretty good too huh? It won't survive that's the thing, myspace changed a lot of stuff too, then it died. The only reason why it's hanging on now, is because corporations are living on the high life for it. When that changes and it becomes useless as an advertising platform, it won't matter. Car companies have already realized this. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Lexus, VW, Volvo, and so on have all already pulled their advertising, it just "doesn't work."
At least in California, there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..
Uh... Why? For the love of all that's... why? In Canada it's a requirement to have ID to vote. And it's to stop flagrant voter fraud that runs amok like you have in the US now. Here's how it works here: At tax time you are given the option to give your personal information to elections canada via your taxes. This information is passed to the provincial branch of elections canada. If you weren't of age at the time, you can be enrolled when the next election comes along(very rare but it happens). When you show up at the polling station, you show government issued ID. Or two current bills(last 30 days), showing that you live in that district. Everyone has ID of some form up here. There are also a few other things you can use. Once that happens, your name is stricken from the voter register and the ballot is used up.
No wonder voting in the US is a mess.
Hey, someone earlier up wanted a source on that 3 million dead? Here, well it's 1.8 million, give or take a bit. Though it might be more, with 24 million more listed as inaccurate, and several million more registered illegally. Including non-americans.
Couldn't really tell you on that one Ant. I've never owned a 2ZS to test against. But I'm guessing you could probably give it a try if you're really bored and have the hardware lying around, considering most yamaha audio processors are considered above average to excellent quality, depending on the card and co-processor setup. It should come out above the 2ZS, especially since you're looking at HDMI.
I use Seagate, but you'll find a lot of people here who swear they're the worst drives on the market.
I can remember when that was true. Back in '99, the shop I used to work for would order drives by the case from Ingram Micro. Still sealed from Seagate with the security seals in place. Every drive we'd put in, would be DOA out of the box. We switched to Maxtor, about a year later it started happening with Maxtor, where about 50% of the drives were DOA. I know makers can have serious batch run issues, but the problem with Seagate was beyond stupid.
It sure was nice when you had the option of more than a couple of manufacturers on the market.
Heck, any videocard that runs over $170(really anything in the previous generation and marked down now that the nvidia 6xx and ati 7xxx series are out) have a HDMI connector on them just for that. The only real complaint most people have about them? The audio can be a real pain in the ass to get working, once it's working not a problem.
Seriously? A good soundcard will last you across multiple generations of hardware. Heck my old Soundblaster Live lasted from 2002 right up until 2011 when the ports on the back finally failed, and I simply gave up on trying to solder in new ones. You know for 8 years for a PCI card that cost me $80, that's a pretty good investment. With the new PCIe jobs? Same deal. Though I have an Asus Xonar DG(picked it up on sale for $29 last year from newegg), I should easily get 5-6 years from it.
I figure sometime next year I may get a new PCIe soundcard to replace this one if I build a new rig. Skimping on a soundcard is silly, especially when you can get them on sale.
Well, let's look at it this way. Let's take metformin and the clinical trials(my sister was in it and is a type 1). And we use that, they used a different inert for that, because well sugar doesn't react well to type 1 diabetics. Now let's just change that, and instead they were sugar pills. And the diabetic took all the pills at once. Unless they brought their sugars back under control, it's very probable to commit suicide by high blood sugar reaction(varying effects including impairment and ketoacidosis to name a few). And in turn, they would have indeed committed suicide by placebo.
but no one wants to copy the israelis where everyone has bomb shelters and it is considered normal.
How soon Americans forget, that in the '60's they were building bomb shelters in their basement because the soviets were planning to park nuclear missiles in Cuba. You can still find houses these days with shelters in them up and down the east coast. Heck, a buddy of mine up here in Canada has a house with a bomb and scramble shelter in it.
But, you seem to forget that depending on where you live in Israel, 1/3 to 1/2 of the country is under attack on a near daily basis from rockets and mortars. Heck in some places like Sderot, all public buildings are fortified including schools because that's their favorite targets. Schools.
Oddly, this is the first time that Canada has a higher median income than the US though. About 44k, even surpassing men. You'd actually be surprised at how well you can live on $30k/year, heck even $25k/year depending. Especially if you don't have anything else tying you down.
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I see no reason to boycott Canadian oil.
Really? Chiquita banana tried. Then they said it wasn't true and there was no boycott. That was after the Canadian public turned around and left their produce rotting on store shelves.
Not sure why that's modded funny. Bachi Boy parties are common in saudi arabia, afghanistan and a variety of other middle eastern countries.
Turkey is an Islamic country too. They don't have this problem. The problem isn't Islam. It's the jackasses who use Islam as an excuse.
Uh. You might want to pay a bit more attention to the world, back in 2008, when the Islamist's started rising to power they amended a bunch of stuff restricting free speech, and a bunch of other things. Hey guess what, you remember Egypt? Wanna guess what's happening there, or do I need to spell it out for you as the Islamists are rising to power there. Goodbye freedoms.
You can believe what you want, but the last time I looked. If someone took a glass filled it with piss and dumped a cruifix in it(let's not forget that it's already been an art exhibit too). You'll get some disgusted looks here in the west, and you'll probably get some people protesting you. Now you try that with a Koran, I'll bet you'll get your first death threat inside of 10minutes, and have your first riot inside an hour. And of course, you'll probably need to go into hiding. That's much more serious than say, oh ... drawing a cartoon.
Contrary to USA, China controls money creation through the central bank (which is controlled directly by the central party). The state also controls directly all banks that are giving out loans. It also has a lot of USD in reserve. So what liquidity issues are you talking about?
China, unless you haven't been paying attention to the financial markets for the last year or so. China can control all the money creation that they want. That doesn't stop out of control inflation which is happening. It also doesn't stop out of control inflation on core goods, also happening. In turn it doesn't stop food shortages, also happening.
For the liquidity issues, you might have noticed in the last 3 weeks a large number of chinese firms suddenly dumping stocks.
They will create a race-riot, then declare martial law, then dissolve the entire elected parliament
No need to create a race-riot. Already happening, via Muslim religious extremists and the current government is bending over backwards to appease them in order to avoid race riots. In turn, the Buddhists have been doing things like setting themselves on fire to protest the fact that they're being murdered in the streets. If anything, the muslims have been ratcheting it up, and blaming them for just about anything you can think of.
Heck, they've been banning books for awhile to stop from offending the muslims and their sensitivities especially in relation to their religion. Why not ban the internet while they're at it? Well it's not as bad as Burma yet where they're blaming the Buddhists for 'fake mass murders' but it's getting close.
Obviously the best solution to be a criminal, is to just be a white collar criminal. It's more profitable than being a pirate or working.
Canada is the place to be IMHO. With the stable economy, the speedy rise of the IT sector and easy Permanent Residence options, it should be your best bet, both in the short and the long run.
Canada is teetering right now, and banks are being warned to prepare for a housing collapse much like what happened in the US. A few other things, housing prices are sliding across the country, generally down 5-30% depending on where you are. Vancouver is down around 15%, Toronto is down around 10% on prices from last year. Houses that are on the market, stay on the market for a long time. I live in the SWON(South-western Ontario), and places here are sticking around for 6-9 months before selling. I'm also seeing a lot of places being repo'd by the banks, and I mean a lot. 8 places in my neighborhood in the last 3 months, and more before that, lot of places going up for sale too, even in the new subdivisions. Some places have crashed like Windsor, which are down 40%. It's starting to look a lot like very late 2005 Florida here, and I was in Florida at the time.
Unemployment is *sticky* at the best depending on where you are. IT can be seriously hit or miss, and you can find good jobs, but some of them require experience way outside of what is required, even by US standards of stupidity.
Permanent Residence? Waiting list from hell. You'll be waiting a long time. And the numbers are being cut back as well.
The original poster asked about other places too? India I can't comment too much about, but China is having some serious liquidity issues right now too, and some serious food shortage issues too. Bad enough that they're opening their food banks to stop shortages.
Yeah but can you make it print backwards in Fortran and Cobol? The punch cards are waiting mister!
Only $200/pound? Really? I was looking a few months ago and the price was still up around $800/kilo. If you can get a bead on that price and put it on the market you'd be doing pretty well. The ore value is much more difficult, because it depends on "what" it's coming from, and how much you need to work to get it a non-ore state. Just like you said. It's actually cheaper to get it during mining/refining production than it is to get it from recycling from everything I've learned the last few years. Getting it from recycling is just too bloody expensive, and would probably drive the price up around $2-4k/kilo.
To be honest, Indium isn't considered a rare earth in the metal markets, it's considered a minor metal with low demand(you don't need much of it, and when you do use it a little bit goes a long way), though I am a metal market newbie(only been playing it off and on for the last two years, I make my bread and butter in currencies). It's plentiful, and large amounts of are available in storage and on demand. But really, where there's iron or zinc mining, you can get indium. And two of the worlds largest sources of it are in Canada.
They now charge a 'recycling fee' on new electronic appliances. This goes from a couple of cents for small electronics to a couple of euros for fridges.
Ah that's just great. Of course, I've had old computers refused here in Ontario because they were built by me, instead of nice and you know made by a manufacturer. Until I pointed out that under the OERF that's illegal. Yep, places here were very happy to start collecting that fee.
I've got something already similar in my GMC Terrain, plenty of things are done by touch screen and with nearly 8mo behind the wheel on it. I don't have a problem. In fact, I can do everything right off the steering wheel without anything besides a casual glance at the centre console. If anything, if more of it was done by touch screen I'd be happier, there's enough damn buttons there to make me think I'm getting in a plane and I'm preparing for takeoff, there is information overload with the design. My only real complaint? When the console dies, it takes the entire system with it. Mine died, oh about a 2 months after I had the car. And it spent 15 days in the shop waiting for a replacement to come in.
After a bit of ingenous thinking, I figured out that it might be a good idea to lean on the dealership and have them talk to CAMI in Ingersoll, and get the part directly from there. Because well...GM had this brilliant idea to fuck Canadian owners over and ship all the replacement parts as a priority to US customers, leaving us Canucks high and dry. Which means that I was only left without my car for 19 days instead. On the upside, I did get XM free for two years for that screw up, along with a $400 maintenance voucher.
You need to change the system by voting for any credible third party.
Here, allow me to point out what 3rd parties can get you. In Europe, they've allowed the rise of far-left national socialists who believe that that the second great purge of the 20th century needs to happen. In Greece the collapse of the centreist parties, has allowed this to happen as well. And the same in Italy and a few others.
Well, 3rd parties have their place. But saying voting for a credible 3rd party? The world doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, they're worse than a two party system.
I don't care. I love facebook. It's an awesome idea. It'll survive and thrive
You know, I remember people saying the same thing about myspace, and a bunch of other 'social media' sites. They're doing pretty good too huh? It won't survive that's the thing, myspace changed a lot of stuff too, then it died. The only reason why it's hanging on now, is because corporations are living on the high life for it. When that changes and it becomes useless as an advertising platform, it won't matter. Car companies have already realized this. GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Lexus, VW, Volvo, and so on have all already pulled their advertising, it just "doesn't work."
He didn't lose your vote when he was running guns to mexico and killing citizens on both sides of the border(F&F), or engaging in crony capitalism?
At least in California, there's no requirement for ID (nor should there be)..
Uh... ... why? In Canada it's a requirement to have ID to vote. And it's to stop flagrant voter fraud that runs amok like you have in the US now. Here's how it works here: At tax time you are given the option to give your personal information to elections canada via your taxes. This information is passed to the provincial branch of elections canada. If you weren't of age at the time, you can be enrolled when the next election comes along(very rare but it happens). When you show up at the polling station, you show government issued ID. Or two current bills(last 30 days), showing that you live in that district. Everyone has ID of some form up here. There are also a few other things you can use. Once that happens, your name is stricken from the voter register and the ballot is used up.
Why? For the love of all that's
No wonder voting in the US is a mess.
Hey, someone earlier up wanted a source on that 3 million dead? Here, well it's 1.8 million, give or take a bit. Though it might be more, with 24 million more listed as inaccurate, and several million more registered illegally. Including non-americans.
Voter ID works. GET IT.
Couldn't really tell you on that one Ant. I've never owned a 2ZS to test against. But I'm guessing you could probably give it a try if you're really bored and have the hardware lying around, considering most yamaha audio processors are considered above average to excellent quality, depending on the card and co-processor setup. It should come out above the 2ZS, especially since you're looking at HDMI.
I use Seagate, but you'll find a lot of people here who swear they're the worst drives on the market.
I can remember when that was true. Back in '99, the shop I used to work for would order drives by the case from Ingram Micro. Still sealed from Seagate with the security seals in place. Every drive we'd put in, would be DOA out of the box. We switched to Maxtor, about a year later it started happening with Maxtor, where about 50% of the drives were DOA. I know makers can have serious batch run issues, but the problem with Seagate was beyond stupid.
It sure was nice when you had the option of more than a couple of manufacturers on the market.
They can't write decent software either.
They can write a driver? I thought all they did was throw some kid fresh out of highschool that passed their pascal test, and said here's some Jolt.
Depends on what they're using for a coprocessor but in most cases they're on, or above quality to most of the Yamaha stuff.
Heck, any videocard that runs over $170(really anything in the previous generation and marked down now that the nvidia 6xx and ati 7xxx series are out) have a HDMI connector on them just for that. The only real complaint most people have about them? The audio can be a real pain in the ass to get working, once it's working not a problem.
Seriously? A good soundcard will last you across multiple generations of hardware. Heck my old Soundblaster Live lasted from 2002 right up until 2011 when the ports on the back finally failed, and I simply gave up on trying to solder in new ones. You know for 8 years for a PCI card that cost me $80, that's a pretty good investment. With the new PCIe jobs? Same deal. Though I have an Asus Xonar DG(picked it up on sale for $29 last year from newegg), I should easily get 5-6 years from it.
I figure sometime next year I may get a new PCIe soundcard to replace this one if I build a new rig. Skimping on a soundcard is silly, especially when you can get them on sale.
Well, let's look at it this way. Let's take metformin and the clinical trials(my sister was in it and is a type 1). And we use that, they used a different inert for that, because well sugar doesn't react well to type 1 diabetics. Now let's just change that, and instead they were sugar pills. And the diabetic took all the pills at once. Unless they brought their sugars back under control, it's very probable to commit suicide by high blood sugar reaction(varying effects including impairment and ketoacidosis to name a few). And in turn, they would have indeed committed suicide by placebo.
That didn't really happen with Vista. Lots of places kept right on selling computers with XP, because customers wanted them.
Yep. Actually it became so bad, that MS forced them to cut off OEM licenses to try getting people onto Vista. That didn't work either.
but no one wants to copy the israelis where everyone has bomb shelters and it is considered normal.
How soon Americans forget, that in the '60's they were building bomb shelters in their basement because the soviets were planning to park nuclear missiles in Cuba. You can still find houses these days with shelters in them up and down the east coast. Heck, a buddy of mine up here in Canada has a house with a bomb and scramble shelter in it.
But, you seem to forget that depending on where you live in Israel, 1/3 to 1/2 of the country is under attack on a near daily basis from rockets and mortars. Heck in some places like Sderot, all public buildings are fortified including schools because that's their favorite targets. Schools.
You might want to you know, go and live outside of a large city sometime in your life. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
Oddly, this is the first time that Canada has a higher median income than the US though. About 44k, even surpassing men. You'd actually be surprised at how well you can live on $30k/year, heck even $25k/year depending. Especially if you don't have anything else tying you down.