Allow me to say you can find all your MP's here. Once you find your MP for your district please jot down the physical address. Then write a snail mail letter telling them your opinion and drop it in the mail box.
In Canada, you don't need postage to write your members of government. Ever. Write them. Tell them your opinion. Be proactive, it's your write as a voting member. Do it, or you'll never forgive yourself. And by the time you've read what I've written. You could have already had a letter done.
I couldn't agree more, which is why I only read books that have no page numbers or chapter breaks.
What you're missing is the interactive/non-interactive elements of something. A book is semi-interactive. You need to do something to get further a head, a movie is not. You're on a ride, it's taking you from point A to B. Distractions disrupt that process(external stimuli). Once that happens, and you realize it your brain becomes locked on them and will draw you out of that enjoyment you would have had.
I know where the GP is coming from, I'm similar. I'll still goto movies, I see them. But I don't get the same enjoyment I did 10 years ago. It's the same reason I don't use florescent lighting, it flickers and draws me out of the environment I'm trying to set myself into when I'm studying/reading/relaxing or whatever else. That minute flicker of the bulbs drives me nuts, and once you see it you'll always see it.
Apparently you've never been to Israel. See terrorists there use things like children, women, packing explosives anywhere they can. She raised enough suspicious flags. She put up enough red flags for me(crossing point, markings, place of origin/destination, items on her person(maps)) to say that there's something highly suspicious of her. If there are enough red flags at a bordercheck where terrorists try to cross, good luck.
Well going from Israel to Iran wearing the Star of David would mean you'd be picked up by Iran, arrested, then more then likely taken to a small cell where they would "ask"(I mean torture) you until they got what they wanted and you were quickly executed.
Numbskull, the US guards are there to protect the US from you, not the other way around. See your second paragraph.
Hey idiot. A criminal offence = felony in the US. A bilateral request for a stop at the border is generally meant to foster relations and 'get things going smoothly'. Because in most cases if someone from Canada causes shit in the US and tries to run back, we ship their ass back across and let you deal with them.
My best friend's dad is a cop, he has pulled his gun once in his career (he's retiring in the next few years). And it was on a dog. He says other people on the force are similar.
I work with cops all the time in Ontario. Depending on how long they've been on the force should give you a good indicator on how often they've pulled their gun. The guys who are close to retirement will have maybe 10 times in their careers. Younger cops will do so more, a lot of the older cops as well aren't CFL's(and proud of it) either. They've moved up the ranks, becoming staff sgt's or inspectors.
My ex's father was a CFL. At the end of his career of 45 years he pulled his gun out 25 times give or take. I know cops in Toronto that have been on the job 2 years and have pulled their guns nearly 80 times already. That's a lot of report writing.
*CFL's for those that don't know are Constables For Life. The prestigious club for cops who refuse to move up the ranks because they prefer to work with the community doing the hard work that makes everything go forward.
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I have actually. I realized one thing about IPCC reports. They're political not scientific, see here's the problem with groups like the IPCC. They're supposed to put on a diplomatic face on the science, presenting unbiased information to the public and government. In this case they're not even doing that, rather they've taken the road that: It's done, settled, and if you don't believe what we're telling you; You're the idiot.
Remember when a government body that's supposed to exist for the open discussion of information rejects opposing theories you should be questioning that body. Even when that opposing theory(s) have valid peer reviewed research.
Cell phones and cars aren't going away anytime soon. Instead of punishing the citizens for doing something police are trained to do, train the citizens too. There is no reason that drivers ed. classes shouldn't discuss this and deal with it.
I know where you're going with this but the reality is, people won't want to drop the $9k for that driver training and that's how much it costs. People think it's cheap to train cops or something in Ontario it's $150k/per officer. On top of that, you tell me how many citizens are going to turn around and take 2 weeks for 4-5hrs a day(at the minimum) to learn how to do it? That's the average here in Ontario right now.
Now I'm sure if you can get something passed by government giving certification it might get somewhere. If you don't like the double standard here let me give you a few ideas. Hire more cops, stop pushing police to have a 7min response time(RRR). Those are the easy two. But it won't happen, until then suck it up and live with it. Next, help the police solve your own damn problems and stop being so apathetic.
Now, because there's no easy way to get information when you're going to a call. You're going to use a MDT, that's life. No one wants to be tied to dispatch because they're also overworked and buried in paper work. They won't hire more people for dispatch, they won't hire more people for ISF or ISS. Yet people complain when you dump the workload on the cop and they're doing the job of 4 people in their car(aka the fuckin' office). Hey on top of all this let me tell you about the paperwork that goes along with this stuff. The average occurrence has between 2-7hrs of paperwork to deal with now, why do you think these terminals are becoming so common? Because half of their time is spent writing reports.
You're joking right? The average cop these days in Toronto pulls their gun 10-80times a month. Don't be naive to think that police officers in Toronto or anywhere don't. Crime may have gone down up here, but those who commit violent crimes and their reactions have gone up.
Also I'd add to the teenagers that there are a lot of American natives that came up to caledonia with guns... lots of them. And made the situation worse than it would have been.
Oh? What are you talking about? The courts said that there were no guns. None at all, absolutely none. Yep, honest to goodness truth./sarc. See here's the problem, the courts in Canada have this real soft spot for natives, even if you bring forward 25 witnesses in good character saying that they 'have guns', 'heard shooting', and sometimes even produce the guns you'll get nowhere.
Carrying a handgun is a different story, you've got to be employed as part of a security agency and all that other type of stuff. And usually you have to be on duty, and/or travelling "in service" to that job or something like that. Most of the time the company itself has to be the one that controls the fire arms.
Check your FAC/FAS licenses they're bad but not as bad as most people think. I'd rather have much more freedom, but that's just me.
The only real threat at the CAN/US boarder is people bringing handguns into Canada (where they are illegal) and selling them to Toronto street gangs.
Hand guns aren't illegal in Canada. I have my restricted FAS and own a handgun. It just means that there are more hoops for me to jump through to own it up here. I goto the local range about 40mins from my hometown to go shooting. Toronto is a half liberal pissing hole that things that handguns are the doom and gloom of everyone. It was to the point where the Toronto Police Service was going to march on City Hall because of the gun ban until the mayor and city council saw common sense. Where do the police go for firearms practice in the city when they want to ban their indoor range?
You know what the big problem is? Is that 5 years ago there was half the problem with travelling into the US as there is now. I really don't want to go. I live within 1.5hr give or take a few of 4 major border checkpoints. Why do I want to put myself through that hassle, when I can travel to other countries in the world that have easier travel and access. Well if you want to erect the fortress and piss off your northern neighbour, that's a good way of doing it.
It's funny however, the biggest problem that Canada deals with from Americans is teenagers. Little bastards who come over here to drink, cause havoc, smash shit up, or cause criminal offences then run back across the border. Goto any border city and they'll tell you what kind of pissing match it is to even try to get US border guards to stop them.
Level on meeting stones was stupid. Nothing like going to run a newbie through a lower level dungeon for some leveling gear, only to get there when you're 70 or 80 and get a "you can't use that stone, only for levels 40-50".
Lack of daze from 1-5 just makes sense, you're trying to stroke that skinner box.
People like their privacy, even their illusion of privacy even when they turn around and give whatever privacy they have away willingly. It's human nature. That google tracks results to give better results in turn? I couldn't care, some people will and do. See the first sentence, it's half fallacy, half reality.
Well actually yes. I seem to remember a few years ago(7-8 something like that) about a story here on/. none the less where someone was ripping off code and sticking it in their own programs with programmers arguments and everything. Would it be so blatant? Yes, are humans stupid? Yes. Would you do it if you never thought you would be caught? Probably.
Never attribute malice, for simple human stupidity.
"Think of the children," is the bastion of hope of the left FYI. When you can't get where you're going, use kids, tug emotions. You should be paying attention to media campaigns of the last 25 years, if you haven't then you'd know. Everyone uses it now however but welcome to Shrillville.
Was that before or after the editorial attacked people who questioned the methodology by calling them "fringe-denialists." Seriously is that supposed to be an editorial in a respectable journal? What the in bloody hell is that? About the time I hit that, I cancelled my subscription and I've been getting Nature delivered to me for around 15 years. Since I got my first job, figured out I was a geek. And enjoyed geeky stuff.
If you can't question objectively in an editorial your bias is showing.
How about this? After 9/11 when they decided feeding the lunatic fringe was a good idea, advertisers who had more then 2 braincells saw it was a sinking boat and bailed faster then the titanic striking an iceberg. Eventually they came back once the lunatic fringe went away and some sense of normality came back, this allowed them to begin working towards a way to make the site profitable. Ala a gigantic pay system within a pay system. For many people they realized what was happening said: "Fuck you!" and bailed as fast as they could.
Eventually people stumbled back/in/over and they began to recover some more readership but since the haydays when they were popular their site still sucks. And it will never be the same. I too remember reading Salon back in the late 90's when it was actually good, and not part of the lunatic fringe.
They killed themselves, then decided to grab a giant oaken stake and drive it through their heart. Luckily for them, they missed their heart, put it through a lung and it's healed up since then. Now they're a half corpse hoping that by splashing around in the big kids pond again, that they'll get more readership. Let me say: Fuck and them. In that order.
Sets from other sources were included too. Including Yamal, if you haven't been paying attention to the flaming fire trees of Russia then you need to be paying attention to fudging of data to push an agenda and why peer reviewed data has been pulled all over the place recently.
If you have to ask, you don't understand. Cap and trade hurts poor nations the most as they're required to put money into programs that will cause undue hardships on the poorest of the poor. There's a reason why hyper economies like India and China are rather pissy over the entire thing. It's not just limited to economic growth, it limits population growth, and growth of farmable areas to sustain populations.
So lets take a look further at the push of eco-green tech pushed by people into area's like Africa. Just go a head and research that a bit, you'll find that it's not as a pretty picture as they make it out to be. Rather it keeps dirt farmers, as dirt farmers. It pushes farming production backwards, and causes primary and secondary strife. It all reeks of the old "positive population checks" of Malthus. I'll take the reasoning of Borlaug instead; "you can't create a peaceful world on empty stomachs."
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Allow me to say you can find all your MP's here. Once you find your MP for your district please jot down the physical address. Then write a snail mail letter telling them your opinion and drop it in the mail box.
In Canada, you don't need postage to write your members of government. Ever. Write them. Tell them your opinion. Be proactive, it's your write as a voting member. Do it, or you'll never forgive yourself. And by the time you've read what I've written. You could have already had a letter done.
Really? I though that the point of any political group was to produce and distribute propaganda.
That's government. Policy groups like the IPCC put the face on.
I couldn't agree more, which is why I only read books that have no page numbers or chapter breaks.
What you're missing is the interactive/non-interactive elements of something. A book is semi-interactive. You need to do something to get further a head, a movie is not. You're on a ride, it's taking you from point A to B. Distractions disrupt that process(external stimuli). Once that happens, and you realize it your brain becomes locked on them and will draw you out of that enjoyment you would have had.
I know where the GP is coming from, I'm similar. I'll still goto movies, I see them. But I don't get the same enjoyment I did 10 years ago. It's the same reason I don't use florescent lighting, it flickers and draws me out of the environment I'm trying to set myself into when I'm studying/reading/relaxing or whatever else. That minute flicker of the bulbs drives me nuts, and once you see it you'll always see it.
Apparently you've never been to Israel. See terrorists there use things like children, women, packing explosives anywhere they can. She raised enough suspicious flags. She put up enough red flags for me(crossing point, markings, place of origin/destination, items on her person(maps)) to say that there's something highly suspicious of her. If there are enough red flags at a bordercheck where terrorists try to cross, good luck.
Well going from Israel to Iran wearing the Star of David would mean you'd be picked up by Iran, arrested, then more then likely taken to a small cell where they would "ask"(I mean torture) you until they got what they wanted and you were quickly executed.
Co2 is a +15k year lagging indicator. Read the science yourself, because the IPCC is politics. Pure politics.
Numbskull, the US guards are there to protect the US from you, not the other way around. See your second paragraph.
Hey idiot. A criminal offence = felony in the US. A bilateral request for a stop at the border is generally meant to foster relations and 'get things going smoothly'. Because in most cases if someone from Canada causes shit in the US and tries to run back, we ship their ass back across and let you deal with them.
Figure it out yet?
My best friend's dad is a cop, he has pulled his gun once in his career (he's retiring in the next few years). And it was on a dog. He says other people on the force are similar.
I work with cops all the time in Ontario. Depending on how long they've been on the force should give you a good indicator on how often they've pulled their gun. The guys who are close to retirement will have maybe 10 times in their careers. Younger cops will do so more, a lot of the older cops as well aren't CFL's(and proud of it) either. They've moved up the ranks, becoming staff sgt's or inspectors.
My ex's father was a CFL. At the end of his career of 45 years he pulled his gun out 25 times give or take. I know cops in Toronto that have been on the job 2 years and have pulled their guns nearly 80 times already. That's a lot of report writing.
*CFL's for those that don't know are Constables For Life. The prestigious club for cops who refuse to move up the ranks because they prefer to work with the community doing the hard work that makes everything go forward.
I have actually. I realized one thing about IPCC reports. They're political not scientific, see here's the problem with groups like the IPCC. They're supposed to put on a diplomatic face on the science, presenting unbiased information to the public and government. In this case they're not even doing that, rather they've taken the road that: It's done, settled, and if you don't believe what we're telling you; You're the idiot.
Remember when a government body that's supposed to exist for the open discussion of information rejects opposing theories you should be questioning that body. Even when that opposing theory(s) have valid peer reviewed research.
Cell phones and cars aren't going away anytime soon. Instead of punishing the citizens for doing something police are trained to do, train the citizens too. There is no reason that drivers ed. classes shouldn't discuss this and deal with it.
I know where you're going with this but the reality is, people won't want to drop the $9k for that driver training and that's how much it costs. People think it's cheap to train cops or something in Ontario it's $150k/per officer. On top of that, you tell me how many citizens are going to turn around and take 2 weeks for 4-5hrs a day(at the minimum) to learn how to do it? That's the average here in Ontario right now.
Now I'm sure if you can get something passed by government giving certification it might get somewhere. If you don't like the double standard here let me give you a few ideas. Hire more cops, stop pushing police to have a 7min response time(RRR). Those are the easy two. But it won't happen, until then suck it up and live with it. Next, help the police solve your own damn problems and stop being so apathetic.
Now, because there's no easy way to get information when you're going to a call. You're going to use a MDT, that's life. No one wants to be tied to dispatch because they're also overworked and buried in paper work. They won't hire more people for dispatch, they won't hire more people for ISF or ISS. Yet people complain when you dump the workload on the cop and they're doing the job of 4 people in their car(aka the fuckin' office). Hey on top of all this let me tell you about the paperwork that goes along with this stuff. The average occurrence has between 2-7hrs of paperwork to deal with now, why do you think these terminals are becoming so common? Because half of their time is spent writing reports.
You're joking right? The average cop these days in Toronto pulls their gun 10-80times a month. Don't be naive to think that police officers in Toronto or anywhere don't. Crime may have gone down up here, but those who commit violent crimes and their reactions have gone up.
Also I'd add to the teenagers that there are a lot of American natives that came up to caledonia with guns... lots of them. And made the situation worse than it would have been.
Oh? What are you talking about? The courts said that there were no guns. None at all, absolutely none. Yep, honest to goodness truth. /sarc. See here's the problem, the courts in Canada have this real soft spot for natives, even if you bring forward 25 witnesses in good character saying that they 'have guns', 'heard shooting', and sometimes even produce the guns you'll get nowhere.
That isn't a gun problem, that's a court problem.
Carrying a handgun is a different story, you've got to be employed as part of a security agency and all that other type of stuff. And usually you have to be on duty, and/or travelling "in service" to that job or something like that. Most of the time the company itself has to be the one that controls the fire arms.
Check your FAC/FAS licenses they're bad but not as bad as most people think. I'd rather have much more freedom, but that's just me.
The only real threat at the CAN/US boarder is people bringing handguns into Canada (where they are illegal) and selling them to Toronto street gangs.
Hand guns aren't illegal in Canada. I have my restricted FAS and own a handgun. It just means that there are more hoops for me to jump through to own it up here. I goto the local range about 40mins from my hometown to go shooting. Toronto is a half liberal pissing hole that things that handguns are the doom and gloom of everyone. It was to the point where the Toronto Police Service was going to march on City Hall because of the gun ban until the mayor and city council saw common sense. Where do the police go for firearms practice in the city when they want to ban their indoor range?
You know what the big problem is? Is that 5 years ago there was half the problem with travelling into the US as there is now. I really don't want to go. I live within 1.5hr give or take a few of 4 major border checkpoints. Why do I want to put myself through that hassle, when I can travel to other countries in the world that have easier travel and access. Well if you want to erect the fortress and piss off your northern neighbour, that's a good way of doing it.
It's funny however, the biggest problem that Canada deals with from Americans is teenagers. Little bastards who come over here to drink, cause havoc, smash shit up, or cause criminal offences then run back across the border. Goto any border city and they'll tell you what kind of pissing match it is to even try to get US border guards to stop them.
Level on meeting stones was stupid. Nothing like going to run a newbie through a lower level dungeon for some leveling gear, only to get there when you're 70 or 80 and get a "you can't use that stone, only for levels 40-50".
Lack of daze from 1-5 just makes sense, you're trying to stroke that skinner box.
People like their privacy, even their illusion of privacy even when they turn around and give whatever privacy they have away willingly. It's human nature. That google tracks results to give better results in turn? I couldn't care, some people will and do. See the first sentence, it's half fallacy, half reality.
Well actually yes. I seem to remember a few years ago(7-8 something like that) about a story here on /. none the less where someone was ripping off code and sticking it in their own programs with programmers arguments and everything. Would it be so blatant? Yes, are humans stupid? Yes. Would you do it if you never thought you would be caught? Probably.
Never attribute malice, for simple human stupidity.
"Think of the children," is the bastion of hope of the left FYI. When you can't get where you're going, use kids, tug emotions. You should be paying attention to media campaigns of the last 25 years, if you haven't then you'd know. Everyone uses it now however but welcome to Shrillville.
Was that before or after the editorial attacked people who questioned the methodology by calling them "fringe-denialists." Seriously is that supposed to be an editorial in a respectable journal? What the in bloody hell is that? About the time I hit that, I cancelled my subscription and I've been getting Nature delivered to me for around 15 years. Since I got my first job, figured out I was a geek. And enjoyed geeky stuff.
If you can't question objectively in an editorial your bias is showing.
Well you could help by running a TOR node. I do, do you?
How about this? After 9/11 when they decided feeding the lunatic fringe was a good idea, advertisers who had more then 2 braincells saw it was a sinking boat and bailed faster then the titanic striking an iceberg. Eventually they came back once the lunatic fringe went away and some sense of normality came back, this allowed them to begin working towards a way to make the site profitable. Ala a gigantic pay system within a pay system. For many people they realized what was happening said: "Fuck you!" and bailed as fast as they could.
Eventually people stumbled back/in/over and they began to recover some more readership but since the haydays when they were popular their site still sucks. And it will never be the same. I too remember reading Salon back in the late 90's when it was actually good, and not part of the lunatic fringe.
They killed themselves, then decided to grab a giant oaken stake and drive it through their heart. Luckily for them, they missed their heart, put it through a lung and it's healed up since then. Now they're a half corpse hoping that by splashing around in the big kids pond again, that they'll get more readership. Let me say: Fuck and them. In that order.
Sets from other sources were included too. Including Yamal, if you haven't been paying attention to the flaming fire trees of Russia then you need to be paying attention to fudging of data to push an agenda and why peer reviewed data has been pulled all over the place recently.
If you have to ask, you don't understand. Cap and trade hurts poor nations the most as they're required to put money into programs that will cause undue hardships on the poorest of the poor. There's a reason why hyper economies like India and China are rather pissy over the entire thing. It's not just limited to economic growth, it limits population growth, and growth of farmable areas to sustain populations.
So lets take a look further at the push of eco-green tech pushed by people into area's like Africa. Just go a head and research that a bit, you'll find that it's not as a pretty picture as they make it out to be. Rather it keeps dirt farmers, as dirt farmers. It pushes farming production backwards, and causes primary and secondary strife. It all reeks of the old "positive population checks" of Malthus. I'll take the reasoning of Borlaug instead; "you can't create a peaceful world on empty stomachs."
Everyone knows that Toronto thinks they're the center of the universe.
Zing!