Heat pumps don't work in Canada very well, they have this tendency of freezing. We use at think called a furnace that burns fossil fuels in houses. Usually furnace oil(diesel), natural gas, or propane. Generally, any radiant heat source up here is considered a good radiant heat source. And in some cases people still use wood stoves up here.
Big shock, power is cheap, so cheap...that seeing sub 3c/kwh in the winter is pretty normal unless you live in Quebec. This however will probably change, now that they're pushing the new power meters and forced power rates. Rather then the bulk pricing that most people pay in.
With the amount of suicides in Japan I'd agree. Things are generally pushed over the top in most areas no matter where you are, so saying they should look at the "whys", and finding the root causes would be a better one, the problem is you're looking at a massive social change. One I don't know if Japan itself is willing to culturally accept right now, while part of the youth is defiantly moving in that direction. The current core of Japanese society isn't.
Not when mandatory voting comes into play. You can't have a functioning democracy when everyone is required to vote. The right not to vote is required.
Yes the Green Party crosses national borders(Europe/EU, and North America), one of my friends here in Ontario is a member. I've been in long political discussions with him over the pros and cons of his parties ideals. I belong to the world dominating CPC, so it makes for interesting discussions. But will have to resign in a little while with my new job(can't hold any political affiliation as a public servant).
I'm always happy to see new political parties pop-up, it means people are expressing their democratic rights if they're unhappy with the current electoral system, or the current ways that the government is heading. Nothing better in a democracy in my book, especially with the low voter turnout that Canada has been trending the last few years.
People get the government they vote for, if you don't vote. You can't bitch.
Didn't you get any RNC newsletters in the last decade. People we hate aren't communists anymore, they're terrorists.... And gay.
You must have missed the fail train, as well as picking up common sense at character creation. If you don't understand the finer points of ideology subversion you're not going to get very far in this world.
OMG WE'RE ON FIRE!! I mean summer. When we play Lacrosse. And the second season, where you get frozen balls, and everyone says how nippily it is. That's hockey season.
It's a nation mandate to wear them at the polls, it's how we know if you're actually a citizen.
The interesting thing is that the CPC is further to the left then the original conservatives on social policy, but about the same as on Law and Order. The only difference is, times have changed and politicians are realizing that the laws haven't kept up with technology. Technology is the key, people like their freedom and once it starting being impinged trying to put that genie back in the bottle is much more difficult.
The sad part in this is, and all parities are guilty of it. From CPC, Liberal, NDP, to BQ, Green, CHC, and Pot Party of using some form of "think of the children." The reasoning is simple, uniformed voters(that magic 5-8%) that are undecided, and you need to win the election. Personally, I'd rather have the CPC, rather then a government that is so corrupt that you can walk from Windsor to Montreal on the shit piling up from Ottawa, as they're raking the citizens over the coals and filling their buddies bank accounts.
I really won't touch on NDP, or Liberal ideologies or anything. That could become a 40 page essay without even trying.
I feel bad for you. I've been to 3 in the last two years here in Ontario, they're still a blast. Is it a hassle to haul my PC around? Yep, is it more fun getting out and hanging with a bunch of people who share similar interests and building a network of connections? You bet. Personally I feel most think that this is just for gaming. I've always felt it was a great way to build up my number of connections to groups of people who have similar interests or can help me, or themselves down the road.
In Canada you technically need a Privacy Act Warrant to get personal information like this from private communication channels. This minister is "ok" at the understanding of the privacy bit, but not very good at the "Law" bit. Law in Canada can be very convoluted at times.
Let me enlighten you on the voting process and how it works: 1)Take traction issue one. Apply to minority parliament. Wait for bill to die, or be defeated by opposition. 2) Await for opposition to pull something to cause parliament to collapse. 3) Get general election call.
Start running ads: 4) Take legislation from step 1. 5) Note ads, and apply these to the opposition and how they failed to uphold Canadian values. 6) Note polls, and apply ads as need be to key riding's. Hope it's not another minority win/loss.
7) Success/Fail 8) Repeat at step 1 in 1-2 years if we're back at step 6. 9) Use voter apathy and pissed offness about repeated minority governments and $300m elections
All political parties want power. No party can get power without creating traction, the only way to create traction is by creating issues in many cases. Welcome to Canadian politics. I am Canadian, I do study politics, and yes I've got a pretty good idea of when we're going to have our next election. Either this fall, or this upcoming spring.
It should be noted that the Liberal party isn't any different then the Conservatives on Law and Order. They only differ slightly on social policy. If you think differently you haven't studied either parties platforms(and in the case of the Liberals) how little they've put up.
You mean the same Liberals that successfully swing in any direction to get votes, as long as it gets them votes in order to gain power, then break those same promises, while flipping off the Canadian public with a big old FU?
Yeah. I don't trust the Liberals as far as I can throw them. Especially with good ol' Bob Rae with them now. What a way to screw over Ontario...oh wait that was when he was with the socialist NDP.
The current issues we have with Java and Flash are non-sandboxing, script vulnerabilities, redirect hijacking, etc. So you take the same elements in play that exist within the two most common features of both flash and java which are abused into the dirt, apply them to a new standard and you get?
So we use HTLM5, how do we get around flagrant abuse that we've seen with flash and java? I'm just running with a thought here, not sure what it is quite yet.
What are we replacing it with this week? Silverlight or something else? Maybe realplayer? Hah. This is a semi-legitimate question on my end as I really don't keep up with this.
The IPCC didn't have problems publishing information from non-climatologists, and politicians in their massive reports. Holding these to be factual and accurate. I must be missing something here.
It's funny, but you have to remember something. In Canada, with 33m people, larger than the US but with a population of California publishing the votes can sway elections. Especially in times where you have minority governments, which we've had the last few years. Or keep people away from the polls.
With hate speech, well I'll boil it down like this: You can hate whoever you want. You can hate them in private, you can discuss it however you want, you can even talk about it in public if you want. The second you go from 'hating' to 'implying to commit acts against people' you're crossing lines in the Criminal Code, which S1 of The Charter covers. Now the big problem we have had is that the CHRC(and their provincial affiliates)--Canadian Human Rights Commission, have overstepped their bounds and become the tools of special interest groups who want to push an agenda. We've seen this with Levant, and Mark Steyn. Their duty is to be fair and impartial to a case, this hasn't happened. Many people have also felt that these commissions are operating outside the bounds of the charter by not having to follow the same legal standings as a regular court. In any case, there's a hoopla over it now, it's going into a fairly large inquiry, and since the current government is Conservative there's a fairly good chance something fair will come out of it.
Canada does believe that you have the right to free speech. It just doesn't believe you have the right to publicly start telling people to kill someone, or incite other people to kill people. This is the area where these commissions have started overstepping, and muddling the hell up.
Also depending on the province you want to live in, you get varying states of nannyism. Don't like it however, you can always move.
"Every Canadian has the following fundamental freedoms..." (2)(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication
Unless: (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.
So unless the government can prove that such a system is required, within the bounds of a free and democratic society. It'll never happen. The Charter of rights and freedoms can not be superseded by any other laws in the country. Other countries do not have their constitution as the law of the land. When you don't this type of shit can happen.
Remember all those people calling for mandatory voting laws? This is what you get and why it's a bad idea. Uneducated voters electing stupid people, into stupid positions, who vote on stupid things, which do not fit the voting electorate.
What? This isn't rocket surgery. It's bloody common sense.
This is always the slippery slope. I'm a right-conservative up in Canada, pretty law and orderish type. When you know the lines they're pretty easy to cross, when the lines start getting smudged into gray there's other issues. The biggest problems you face, and those of us law-and-order types know it as well, is the special interests who feel that 'protect the children' is the easy way to enact whatever they feel is correct.
On top of that are the politicians who use that issue in order to make sure they get re-elected. They play on the heartstrings of making sure that their political message is 'think of the children'. Speaking of which I'm surprised we haven't seen: Remove all A-bombs, think of the children Save a whale, think of the children etc. (Anyone using those, I'll personally hunt down and sue into the dirt.:p )
Don't forget controversy sells, and if it bleeds it leads. The more blood, the better the ratings. After all, do you think most people care about Li'Jill's head being on a naked womans body, or a firefighter, police officer, and EMS tech went around to schools teaching kids what their jobs are like? Personally the second one is much better.
Seriously. Not joking here, if you think that this shit won't kill you hard and fast you need a reality check. Get it young, you're probably going to die. Get it when you're older, probably going to live.
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Heat pumps don't work in Canada very well, they have this tendency of freezing. We use at think called a furnace that burns fossil fuels in houses. Usually furnace oil(diesel), natural gas, or propane. Generally, any radiant heat source up here is considered a good radiant heat source. And in some cases people still use wood stoves up here.
Big shock, power is cheap, so cheap...that seeing sub 3c/kwh in the winter is pretty normal unless you live in Quebec. This however will probably change, now that they're pushing the new power meters and forced power rates. Rather then the bulk pricing that most people pay in.
With the amount of suicides in Japan I'd agree. Things are generally pushed over the top in most areas no matter where you are, so saying they should look at the "whys", and finding the root causes would be a better one, the problem is you're looking at a massive social change. One I don't know if Japan itself is willing to culturally accept right now, while part of the youth is defiantly moving in that direction. The current core of Japanese society isn't.
Not when mandatory voting comes into play. You can't have a functioning democracy when everyone is required to vote. The right not to vote is required.
Yes the Green Party crosses national borders(Europe/EU, and North America), one of my friends here in Ontario is a member. I've been in long political discussions with him over the pros and cons of his parties ideals. I belong to the world dominating CPC, so it makes for interesting discussions. But will have to resign in a little while with my new job(can't hold any political affiliation as a public servant).
I'm always happy to see new political parties pop-up, it means people are expressing their democratic rights if they're unhappy with the current electoral system, or the current ways that the government is heading. Nothing better in a democracy in my book, especially with the low voter turnout that Canada has been trending the last few years.
People get the government they vote for, if you don't vote. You can't bitch.
If I was her, I'd cry too.
That's just what I was looking for. You have my eternal thanks.
You must have missed the fail train, as well as picking up common sense at character creation. If you don't understand the finer points of ideology subversion you're not going to get very far in this world.
It's true! Two uniforms to match the seasons.
OMG WE'RE ON FIRE!! I mean summer. When we play Lacrosse. And the second season, where you get frozen balls, and everyone says how nippily it is. That's hockey season.
It's a nation mandate to wear them at the polls, it's how we know if you're actually a citizen.
The interesting thing is that the CPC is further to the left then the original conservatives on social policy, but about the same as on Law and Order. The only difference is, times have changed and politicians are realizing that the laws haven't kept up with technology. Technology is the key, people like their freedom and once it starting being impinged trying to put that genie back in the bottle is much more difficult.
The sad part in this is, and all parities are guilty of it. From CPC, Liberal, NDP, to BQ, Green, CHC, and Pot Party of using some form of "think of the children." The reasoning is simple, uniformed voters(that magic 5-8%) that are undecided, and you need to win the election. Personally, I'd rather have the CPC, rather then a government that is so corrupt that you can walk from Windsor to Montreal on the shit piling up from Ottawa, as they're raking the citizens over the coals and filling their buddies bank accounts.
I really won't touch on NDP, or Liberal ideologies or anything. That could become a 40 page essay without even trying.
I feel bad for you. I've been to 3 in the last two years here in Ontario, they're still a blast. Is it a hassle to haul my PC around? Yep, is it more fun getting out and hanging with a bunch of people who share similar interests and building a network of connections? You bet. Personally I feel most think that this is just for gaming. I've always felt it was a great way to build up my number of connections to groups of people who have similar interests or can help me, or themselves down the road.
In Canada you technically need a Privacy Act Warrant to get personal information like this from private communication channels. This minister is "ok" at the understanding of the privacy bit, but not very good at the "Law" bit. Law in Canada can be very convoluted at times.
Oh look, uniformed voter in the ranks.
Let me enlighten you on the voting process and how it works:
1)Take traction issue one. Apply to minority parliament. Wait for bill to die, or be defeated by opposition.
2) Await for opposition to pull something to cause parliament to collapse.
3) Get general election call.
Start running ads:
4) Take legislation from step 1.
5) Note ads, and apply these to the opposition and how they failed to uphold Canadian values.
6) Note polls, and apply ads as need be to key riding's. Hope it's not another minority win/loss.
7) Success/Fail
8) Repeat at step 1 in 1-2 years if we're back at step 6.
9) Use voter apathy and pissed offness about repeated minority governments and $300m elections
All political parties want power. No party can get power without creating traction, the only way to create traction is by creating issues in many cases. Welcome to Canadian politics. I am Canadian, I do study politics, and yes I've got a pretty good idea of when we're going to have our next election. Either this fall, or this upcoming spring.
It should be noted that the Liberal party isn't any different then the Conservatives on Law and Order. They only differ slightly on social policy. If you think differently you haven't studied either parties platforms(and in the case of the Liberals) how little they've put up.
You mean the same Liberals that successfully swing in any direction to get votes, as long as it gets them votes in order to gain power, then break those same promises, while flipping off the Canadian public with a big old FU?
Yeah. I don't trust the Liberals as far as I can throw them. Especially with good ol' Bob Rae with them now. What a way to screw over Ontario...oh wait that was when he was with the socialist NDP.
The current issues we have with Java and Flash are non-sandboxing, script vulnerabilities, redirect hijacking, etc. So you take the same elements in play that exist within the two most common features of both flash and java which are abused into the dirt, apply them to a new standard and you get?
Fill in the blank.
So we use HTLM5, how do we get around flagrant abuse that we've seen with flash and java? I'm just running with a thought here, not sure what it is quite yet.
What are we replacing it with this week? Silverlight or something else? Maybe realplayer? Hah. This is a semi-legitimate question on my end as I really don't keep up with this.
The IPCC didn't have problems publishing information from non-climatologists, and politicians in their massive reports. Holding these to be factual and accurate. I must be missing something here.
It's funny, but you have to remember something. In Canada, with 33m people, larger than the US but with a population of California publishing the votes can sway elections. Especially in times where you have minority governments, which we've had the last few years. Or keep people away from the polls.
With hate speech, well I'll boil it down like this: You can hate whoever you want. You can hate them in private, you can discuss it however you want, you can even talk about it in public if you want. The second you go from 'hating' to 'implying to commit acts against people' you're crossing lines in the Criminal Code, which S1 of The Charter covers. Now the big problem we have had is that the CHRC(and their provincial affiliates)--Canadian Human Rights Commission, have overstepped their bounds and become the tools of special interest groups who want to push an agenda. We've seen this with Levant, and Mark Steyn. Their duty is to be fair and impartial to a case, this hasn't happened. Many people have also felt that these commissions are operating outside the bounds of the charter by not having to follow the same legal standings as a regular court. In any case, there's a hoopla over it now, it's going into a fairly large inquiry, and since the current government is Conservative there's a fairly good chance something fair will come out of it.
Canada does believe that you have the right to free speech. It just doesn't believe you have the right to publicly start telling people to kill someone, or incite other people to kill people. This is the area where these commissions have started overstepping, and muddling the hell up.
Also depending on the province you want to live in, you get varying states of nannyism. Don't like it however, you can always move.
They do? CNN and ABC better do a story on that pronto.
"Every Canadian has the following fundamental freedoms..."
(2)(b)
freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication
Unless:
(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.
So unless the government can prove that such a system is required, within the bounds of a free and democratic society. It'll never happen. The Charter of rights and freedoms can not be superseded by any other laws in the country. Other countries do not have their constitution as the law of the land. When you don't this type of shit can happen.
Remember all those people calling for mandatory voting laws? This is what you get and why it's a bad idea. Uneducated voters electing stupid people, into stupid positions, who vote on stupid things, which do not fit the voting electorate.
What? This isn't rocket surgery. It's bloody common sense.
This is always the slippery slope. I'm a right-conservative up in Canada, pretty law and orderish type. When you know the lines they're pretty easy to cross, when the lines start getting smudged into gray there's other issues. The biggest problems you face, and those of us law-and-order types know it as well, is the special interests who feel that 'protect the children' is the easy way to enact whatever they feel is correct.
On top of that are the politicians who use that issue in order to make sure they get re-elected. They play on the heartstrings of making sure that their political message is 'think of the children'. Speaking of which I'm surprised we haven't seen: :p )
Remove all A-bombs, think of the children
Save a whale, think of the children
etc. (Anyone using those, I'll personally hunt down and sue into the dirt.
Don't forget controversy sells, and if it bleeds it leads. The more blood, the better the ratings. After all, do you think most people care about Li'Jill's head being on a naked womans body, or a firefighter, police officer, and EMS tech went around to schools teaching kids what their jobs are like? Personally the second one is much better.
RARGHAH!
How dare you forget the scream!
I was aiming for funny after 3hrs of sleep, guess I missed my mark. *bada-bish*
Hey guys...get your ass checked!
Seriously. Not joking here, if you think that this shit won't kill you hard and fast you need a reality check. Get it young, you're probably going to die. Get it when you're older, probably going to live.