No it's because those coal plants have contractual obligations that they have to sell power even it's at a loss and unused. Need an example? Look at Canada which *has* to sell power to the US even if there is no demand, and when there is no demand Canada *has* to sell it's power at a loss. Around 0.05kWh, sometimes more. That means they're paying to have that generation done.
Fuel isn't really 'rare' is it. On top of that, reprocessing increases the life of existing sources and reduces waste. For someone who was preaching the benefits of recycling I'd figure you'd have understood that.
Yeah it's not really my problem that you're using 70 year old reactor designs, and have an anti-nuclear agenda that was pushed for decades through the 1970's, and other countries are far ahead of you. The reason it costs more in the US is directly because of that.
You are wrong. Win7 x64 didn't have this bug. There was people running Skyrim mods on Win7 just because of that.
No, I'm actually not. Because directx9 is the same build on Win7x32 and Win7x64. You're likely thinking ram, not vram. This was the function fixed. This bug existed in every version of windows right up until it was fixed and still exists in Vista x32/64, Win7 x32/64, Win8.0 x32/64 patched Win8.1 x32/64 last rollup in Nov2017, Win10 x32/64 prior to build 16232.
Win10 is actually far more compatible then 7/8/vista for those really old titles. Games like Fallout/Fallout 2, Baldurs Gate, older Mechwarrior/Tie fighter/Xwing vs Tie titles and so on are nothing but an epic crashfest on anything older then Win10. Here's a really good example of something from the old indie scene, where games were made with livemaker. It will absolutely not work under Win7, Win8. It was made for XP, and it directly looks for hardware audio sources from back in those days. Win10 on the other hand, properly emulates hardware sources across the software layer. Get a chance, run win10 on another machine and see what happens.
I've got an idea for what you're talking about now, those really old ones that are in a 16bit environment require full emulation, that's difficult to do. Dosbox does an excellent job in most cases covering that, but even then emulation is emulation. And well, I've dealt with more then enough cases of that. Where older windows programs won't work on newer versions and that's the only solution.
Wait, nevermind, it's 15%. Still surprisingly low.
Nvidia's done a really good job on marketing over the last decade, but the latest round of anti-consumer BS has soured the enthusiast market hard. You can see how hard by looking at the response to anything nvidia is doing over on/r/pcmasterrace
Really? Cause at nearly 350 titles and having steam for 13+ years(which means since the start), there is only one game that didn't work in my case and that was because GFWL(Games for Windows Live) wasn't patched out. A GFWL crack was the only way around that problem.
Windows XP, Vista Win7, Win8 all also have a hard VRAM cap. You're limited to a usable memory space of 4012MB, that was a bug. It was only fixed for Win10. On top of that XP is limited to a 32bit environment while everyone has moved to x64. Most companies stopped providing any driver support for XP ~5-6 years ago.
So really you've got 3 options: Upgrade windows. Go 'nix. Stop buying nvidia cards, and buy AMD and push developers to use mantle.
Valve does not not give a damn about its users, never has
Guess that's why all the progressive gaming journos went batshit insane in the last week because steam has taken the approach of full market capitalism to their store front. As for the rest of your rant, it appears you live in a country without adequate consumer protections. Maybe get your laws up to date?
Eh? In the UK, which is further north than the most populated part of Canada, feed in tariffs age essentially history for domestic installations (and for commercial one across a swathe of renewables), yet it still sells.
Except it's not right? Because the FIT programs are determined by the IESO, which is basically policy mandated by the government. And unlike the UK, the winters regularly hit -30C in the most populated part of Canada.
Sadly, you are not very attached to facts as you claimed that the Liberal Party was anti business despite me posting the policy (regional, but a copypasta of the national one).
Sounds like you have bigger problems, much like you had old people freezing to death because of high electricity prices(just like the government had to ban winter disconnection here in Ontario). But it's wind and solar that have driven the cost through the roof. In Canada(Ontario) our 'old' nuclear power plant is guaranteed at $0.05/kWh, and $0.08/kWh during the last 5 years prior to refurbishment and also includes insurance, reprocessing of fuel, and waste storage. That's more then hydroelectric $0.02/kWh, more then coal $0.03/kWh, but less then natural gas $0.0650/Mwh. And far less then wind $0.30-0.55/kWh and far less then solar at $0.20-1.20kWh.
In reality, there are areas not suitable for cultivation that work for PV. For example, the USA could use New Mexico to generate power, and Canada could trade bacon and maple syrup for ut comparative advantage, etc.
So, New Mexico is going to make power when there's no sunlight out and the peak demand on the east coast is ~2.5-4hrs beforehand? Or are we going to blow millions on gigantic battery banks for that. And where will we put these? And don't forget the loss across the lines, especially with the distance even with HVDC.
What are those actual costs? In my country (Not USA) it's a 5 year payback time.
Sure is. Ask people in Illinois and Georgia how that's working out, it was a big enough issue that people in surrounding states tried not to cause that problem by limiting the government intervention via FIT and requiring a larger upfront cost.
What are those costs exactly? Solar panels are solid state, the maintenance is almost zero.
You mean besides that you have one of two designs: Panels stuck in a static line, and those that track. The first are nearly no maintenance except that they require frequent cleaning, especially in the countryside. The second requires maintenance for all those moving parts, inspections for wiring, and so on.
Except they're not getting free power are they. This is the same argument used by people that think that when they live in a country with mandated healthcare, it's free all the way down. Doesn't actually work like that. But let's consider your example, and you can go look up the trade websites on your own time. And look at the number of farmers who did this with say cattle, and are now having to put more feed out because the panels reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the ground. In turn reducing the amount of available pasture land.
Why would anyone invest in nuclear? Even if it lives up to all the hype, it's still not as good as renewables + battery.
No it's better. You seem to be living in an alternate reality where nobody reprocesses nuclear fuel, and long-life radioactives into fuel rods or pellets. That's your countries problem, not a problem of S.Korea or Canada, or China or even India. How do you get to cheaper when wind and solar require FIT payments to be 0.30-1.20kWh to be competitive and a nuclear power plant can pump out power for 20 years before refueling, and it cost 0.05kWh? Right....the only thing cheaper then nuclear is hydro-electric and coal.
I'm pro business. For businesses that pay their way. Solar is starting to do that and it's starting to take off for that very reason.
Except it's not. Solar to be competitive in most of North America requires massive FIT(feed-in-tariff) programs that pay above market rate to even cover the 30yr in cost. This is what Ontario did. It's what Illinois did. It's why businesses fled from both places to Michigan where they wouldn't get hammered with higher electricity prices. People in various states are just starting to get the taste of creeping electricity prices from FIT.
The people preaching that slapping giant solar panels on good farmland are just idiots. Because when the bottom falls out of FIT programs and the company that leased the land from the people who own it, are stuck with thousands of panels that they still have liability for. Then are left with the cost of the equipment lease in many cases, are still required to carry-over the contract for and in many cases also are required to pay the cost of grid connection. But that land which had been making them $20k/year before with various crops, is now costing them $20k/year or more in equipment maintenance.
Take your pick. It's not hard to do, you could be importing pulp from Russia. Or you could be doing sustainable forestry like Canada but you're not. You make large tracts of new growth forest environmentally protected then, environmentalists start whining when companies go to harvest it. Of course they want all those waste products back, existing policies are counter productive to a variety of other methods.
Not quite true. Steel is cheaply recyclable and easy to sort. Aluminum is very easy to sort, and has the most profitability. Plastic on the other hand? Plastic it's cheaper to make more then recycle it. Most plastic in Canada is mixed with car tires at cement factories to make clink. Same in the US, especially since you guys like cement highways far more then we do up here.
Paper? Forget it. Should be burned or dumped into pits for methane gas retrieval, and used for power. Cheaper and more environmentally friendly to plant more trees. Then breaking it down, de-inking, re-bleaching, and reprocessing it.
Electronics? That's a hard one, especially with all the lead. Switching to tin didn't do us any favors in that one either. Simply more e-waste as electronics fail at a higher rate.
As if that lying sack of shit is actually going to do anything that doesn't directly benefit him.
Seems to me, that if you and the parent poster really gave two fucks instead of Trump bashing. You'd be petitioning for waste to energy facilities. After all, Trump *reduced* regulations and adjusted the environmental regulations on things like that, so go on. It doesn't benefit him, but he's already created the environment to make it happen.
Oh what? You don't want to do it. Gee it's almost like you're the same delusional idiots that believed recycling wasn't really shipping waste to another country or to a landfill in the first place.
Recycling in Germany isn't very different then recycling in Canada. We have electronics waste funds and all the other stuff, but you can easily find with a bit of digging the number of companies in Germany shipping e-waste right to China, Vietnam, and other poor 3rd world countries for disposal. You're laboring under the delusion that there's some difference, there isn't. It was simply fools told by idiots that it was a good idea, leading idiots and fools to make everyone feel good, and people ahead of the curve to ship the waste and "make it someone else's problem." American recycling is just out in the open, other countries are simply putting a shiny bit of polish on all that garbage.
Its the same environmentalists that screech for recycling, that protest waste-to-energy plants, or waste separation facilities being built at all. Or environmental groups tying up the building of them for literal decades in court, or environmental regulations. In turn, those companies "deal" with the waste by sending it to 3rd party companies aka put on a ship and sent to the asshole of nowhere. This isn't any different then them telling you windmills and solar panels are REALLY GOOD for the environment, until you do the research yourself and find that the materials going into making it do far more damage to the environment then say, building a nuclear power plant.
if we want to evict a tenant for non-payment we must give them a 30 notice before applying to the tenancy/landlord tribunal (cases not to be solved in a real court) which in practice take anywhere from a minimum of 2 months to evict to a maximum (at my properties at least) 8 months
In Ontario you cannot sue anyone for less then 5k, so collection is a non-issue, that is, you WILL NEVER COLLECT
I feel for you on that one. Was listening to a guy at my insurers office a few weeks back talk about the same problem. In his case, the tenants trashed the house(condemned) and stole or destroyed everything they could(wiring, pipes, drywall, structural supports, everything), after they were given notice, and it went to the tribunal, and they lied about sending payment, and back to the tribunal 4 times(this makes 4.7 years with no rental income), and he was at the point of getting the bailiff to come for eviction finally approval and they'd already done that. The problem in his case is that the house was valued at $112k by MPAC(2002), the damage to the house exceeded the current value of the house(est. $290k). Insurance will cover up to the MPAC valuation+30% so that leave him with what? A gigantic fuck you, and now he has two choices. Blow $50k and have an engineer come in and maybe repair it? Or simply petition the city to have it torn down. He still of course has liability if someone gets hurt because the building is condemned too.
You can at least file for $10k in small claims now, but if the property is trashed your'e still fucked.
Do you know what hurts poor people and economies even more than a carbon tax? A sales tax. If Washington used the carbon tax to offset and eliminate the sales tax, it would be a net win all around. Will they do it? Probably not. But it's a nice thought.
Will never happen. Just like it didn't happen in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, or Quebec. It's taxes on taxes on taxes. Which is why the Liberal Party and NDP are getting slaughtered up here in Canada. The Liberal Party of Ontario no longer exists as an official party after last night. The Liberal Party in Quebec is looking at the same option. The NDP coalition in BC is likely going to collapse since people are now chomping to push to recall members of the MLA and demand new elections. The NDP in Alberta are polling so badly that they will likely be relegated to 2 or less seats in their MLA.
To put this in perspective, what happened in Ontario was the equivalent of the state of California flipping to Republican with a super majority, having 60% of the electorate showing up and pulling +40% of the vote. And it's lining up for the same in nearly every electoral race in Canada, including the federal election next year.
As someone else mentioned, that "best economy" was fully driven by real estate prices. 20-25% no less. This is followed up by "construction" aka new houses/apt buildings/condos and so on at 9%. So call it 32% give or take a few points being driven by two sectors. But why don't you tell people how gas at $1.58/L($6/gal). Usful tip, those rebates didn't help at all. They also didn't help the people in Alberta, and those people are chomping at the bit to remove the NDP from power so hard that it looks like the NDP won't exist as a party. Just like the Liberals no longer exist as a party in Ontario.
Sure is. Just like the one here in Ontario, and the one in California. It hurts everyone, and causes the most harm to the poorest people. It also helps kill economies. Ontario wasn't doing shit hot before the carbon tax(0.3% gdp/quarter) with? The 2018 numbers show that if it's not flat 0.0 gdp, it'll be negative and lining up for at least a technical recession.
No Gates did not show his papers. He refused, that's why he got arrested. Read the arresting log, go on. DO IT.
Regardless of Trayvon Martin's past history, he was being stalked by an armed man. An armed man with a recent history of armed domestic abuse.
And Martin went all the way back home, called his GF. Then went looking for the guy. - That's court testimony. He went looking for a fight, and Zimmerman had facial and body injuries consistent with self-defense, and being jumped. That's again the court testimony.
You're not disproving any point on Ferguson, or the fact that the guy was shot for a far different reason.
The only thing Obama did was lie. Especially since whites are more likely to be shot by police then blacks. That this isn't an overzealous issue, as we're seeing by all that bodycam footage these days. That when they started demanding bodycams, and the police said SURE WE'LL DO THAT! And now these black protest groups are screeching that they no longer want the cams. You're a damned racist by your own words, that's spewing the same shit that you're accusing others of. And you don't like it.
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No it's because those coal plants have contractual obligations that they have to sell power even it's at a loss and unused. Need an example? Look at Canada which *has* to sell power to the US even if there is no demand, and when there is no demand Canada *has* to sell it's power at a loss. Around 0.05kWh, sometimes more. That means they're paying to have that generation done.
Fuel isn't really 'rare' is it. On top of that, reprocessing increases the life of existing sources and reduces waste. For someone who was preaching the benefits of recycling I'd figure you'd have understood that.
Yeah it's not really my problem that you're using 70 year old reactor designs, and have an anti-nuclear agenda that was pushed for decades through the 1970's, and other countries are far ahead of you. The reason it costs more in the US is directly because of that.
You are wrong. Win7 x64 didn't have this bug. There was people running Skyrim mods on Win7 just because of that.
No, I'm actually not. Because directx9 is the same build on Win7x32 and Win7x64. You're likely thinking ram, not vram. This was the function fixed. This bug existed in every version of windows right up until it was fixed and still exists in Vista x32/64, Win7 x32/64, Win8.0 x32/64 patched Win8.1 x32/64 last rollup in Nov2017, Win10 x32/64 prior to build 16232.
Win10 is actually far more compatible then 7/8/vista for those really old titles. Games like Fallout/Fallout 2, Baldurs Gate, older Mechwarrior/Tie fighter/Xwing vs Tie titles and so on are nothing but an epic crashfest on anything older then Win10. Here's a really good example of something from the old indie scene, where games were made with livemaker. It will absolutely not work under Win7, Win8. It was made for XP, and it directly looks for hardware audio sources from back in those days. Win10 on the other hand, properly emulates hardware sources across the software layer. Get a chance, run win10 on another machine and see what happens.
I've got an idea for what you're talking about now, those really old ones that are in a 16bit environment require full emulation, that's difficult to do. Dosbox does an excellent job in most cases covering that, but even then emulation is emulation. And well, I've dealt with more then enough cases of that. Where older windows programs won't work on newer versions and that's the only solution.
Wait, nevermind, it's 15%. Still surprisingly low.
Nvidia's done a really good job on marketing over the last decade, but the latest round of anti-consumer BS has soured the enthusiast market hard. You can see how hard by looking at the response to anything nvidia is doing over on /r/pcmasterrace
Really? Cause at nearly 350 titles and having steam for 13+ years(which means since the start), there is only one game that didn't work in my case and that was because GFWL(Games for Windows Live) wasn't patched out. A GFWL crack was the only way around that problem.
Windows XP, Vista Win7, Win8 all also have a hard VRAM cap. You're limited to a usable memory space of 4012MB, that was a bug. It was only fixed for Win10. On top of that XP is limited to a 32bit environment while everyone has moved to x64. Most companies stopped providing any driver support for XP ~5-6 years ago.
So really you've got 3 options: Upgrade windows. Go 'nix. Stop buying nvidia cards, and buy AMD and push developers to use mantle.
Valve does not not give a damn about its users, never has
Guess that's why all the progressive gaming journos went batshit insane in the last week because steam has taken the approach of full market capitalism to their store front. As for the rest of your rant, it appears you live in a country without adequate consumer protections. Maybe get your laws up to date?
Eh? In the UK, which is further north than the most populated part of Canada, feed in tariffs age essentially history for domestic installations (and for commercial one across a swathe of renewables), yet it still sells.
Except it's not right? Because the FIT programs are determined by the IESO, which is basically policy mandated by the government. And unlike the UK, the winters regularly hit -30C in the most populated part of Canada.
Sadly, you are not very attached to facts as you claimed that the Liberal Party was anti business despite me posting the policy (regional, but a copypasta of the national one).
Except when it's not, and there's plenty of articles proving otherwise. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll figure out the anti-business policies of the ontario liberals, when you get to the part about pushing a service economy. Just wait until you get to the federal liberal plan!
Sounds like you have bigger problems, much like you had old people freezing to death because of high electricity prices(just like the government had to ban winter disconnection here in Ontario). But it's wind and solar that have driven the cost through the roof. In Canada(Ontario) our 'old' nuclear power plant is guaranteed at $0.05/kWh, and $0.08/kWh during the last 5 years prior to refurbishment and also includes insurance, reprocessing of fuel, and waste storage. That's more then hydroelectric $0.02/kWh, more then coal $0.03/kWh, but less then natural gas $0.0650/Mwh. And far less then wind $0.30-0.55/kWh and far less then solar at $0.20-1.20kWh.
In reality, there are areas not suitable for cultivation that work for PV. For example, the USA could use New Mexico to generate power, and Canada could trade bacon and maple syrup for ut comparative advantage, etc.
So, New Mexico is going to make power when there's no sunlight out and the peak demand on the east coast is ~2.5-4hrs beforehand? Or are we going to blow millions on gigantic battery banks for that. And where will we put these? And don't forget the loss across the lines, especially with the distance even with HVDC.
What are those actual costs? In my country (Not USA) it's a 5 year payback time.
Sure is. Ask people in Illinois and Georgia how that's working out, it was a big enough issue that people in surrounding states tried not to cause that problem by limiting the government intervention via FIT and requiring a larger upfront cost.
What are those costs exactly? Solar panels are solid state, the maintenance is almost zero.
You mean besides that you have one of two designs: Panels stuck in a static line, and those that track. The first are nearly no maintenance except that they require frequent cleaning, especially in the countryside. The second requires maintenance for all those moving parts, inspections for wiring, and so on.
Except they're not getting free power are they. This is the same argument used by people that think that when they live in a country with mandated healthcare, it's free all the way down. Doesn't actually work like that. But let's consider your example, and you can go look up the trade websites on your own time. And look at the number of farmers who did this with say cattle, and are now having to put more feed out because the panels reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the ground. In turn reducing the amount of available pasture land.
Why would anyone invest in nuclear? Even if it lives up to all the hype, it's still not as good as renewables + battery.
No it's better. You seem to be living in an alternate reality where nobody reprocesses nuclear fuel, and long-life radioactives into fuel rods or pellets. That's your countries problem, not a problem of S.Korea or Canada, or China or even India. How do you get to cheaper when wind and solar require FIT payments to be 0.30-1.20kWh to be competitive and a nuclear power plant can pump out power for 20 years before refueling, and it cost 0.05kWh? Right....the only thing cheaper then nuclear is hydro-electric and coal.
I'm pro business. For businesses that pay their way. Solar is starting to do that and it's starting to take off for that very reason.
Except it's not. Solar to be competitive in most of North America requires massive FIT(feed-in-tariff) programs that pay above market rate to even cover the 30yr in cost. This is what Ontario did. It's what Illinois did. It's why businesses fled from both places to Michigan where they wouldn't get hammered with higher electricity prices. People in various states are just starting to get the taste of creeping electricity prices from FIT.
The people preaching that slapping giant solar panels on good farmland are just idiots. Because when the bottom falls out of FIT programs and the company that leased the land from the people who own it, are stuck with thousands of panels that they still have liability for. Then are left with the cost of the equipment lease in many cases, are still required to carry-over the contract for and in many cases also are required to pay the cost of grid connection. But that land which had been making them $20k/year before with various crops, is now costing them $20k/year or more in equipment maintenance.
Take your pick. It's not hard to do, you could be importing pulp from Russia. Or you could be doing sustainable forestry like Canada but you're not. You make large tracts of new growth forest environmentally protected then, environmentalists start whining when companies go to harvest it. Of course they want all those waste products back, existing policies are counter productive to a variety of other methods.
Not quite true. Steel is cheaply recyclable and easy to sort. Aluminum is very easy to sort, and has the most profitability. Plastic on the other hand? Plastic it's cheaper to make more then recycle it. Most plastic in Canada is mixed with car tires at cement factories to make clink. Same in the US, especially since you guys like cement highways far more then we do up here.
Paper? Forget it. Should be burned or dumped into pits for methane gas retrieval, and used for power. Cheaper and more environmentally friendly to plant more trees. Then breaking it down, de-inking, re-bleaching, and reprocessing it.
Electronics? That's a hard one, especially with all the lead. Switching to tin didn't do us any favors in that one either. Simply more e-waste as electronics fail at a higher rate.
As if that lying sack of shit is actually going to do anything that doesn't directly benefit him.
Seems to me, that if you and the parent poster really gave two fucks instead of Trump bashing. You'd be petitioning for waste to energy facilities. After all, Trump *reduced* regulations and adjusted the environmental regulations on things like that, so go on. It doesn't benefit him, but he's already created the environment to make it happen.
Oh what? You don't want to do it. Gee it's almost like you're the same delusional idiots that believed recycling wasn't really shipping waste to another country or to a landfill in the first place.
Recycling in Germany isn't very different then recycling in Canada. We have electronics waste funds and all the other stuff, but you can easily find with a bit of digging the number of companies in Germany shipping e-waste right to China, Vietnam, and other poor 3rd world countries for disposal. You're laboring under the delusion that there's some difference, there isn't. It was simply fools told by idiots that it was a good idea, leading idiots and fools to make everyone feel good, and people ahead of the curve to ship the waste and "make it someone else's problem." American recycling is just out in the open, other countries are simply putting a shiny bit of polish on all that garbage.
Its the same environmentalists that screech for recycling, that protest waste-to-energy plants, or waste separation facilities being built at all. Or environmental groups tying up the building of them for literal decades in court, or environmental regulations. In turn, those companies "deal" with the waste by sending it to 3rd party companies aka put on a ship and sent to the asshole of nowhere. This isn't any different then them telling you windmills and solar panels are REALLY GOOD for the environment, until you do the research yourself and find that the materials going into making it do far more damage to the environment then say, building a nuclear power plant.
if we want to evict a tenant for non-payment we must give them a 30 notice before applying to the tenancy/landlord tribunal (cases not to be solved in a real court) which in practice take anywhere from a minimum of 2 months to evict to a maximum (at my properties at least) 8 months
In Ontario you cannot sue anyone for less then 5k, so collection is a non-issue, that is, you WILL NEVER COLLECT
I feel for you on that one. Was listening to a guy at my insurers office a few weeks back talk about the same problem. In his case, the tenants trashed the house(condemned) and stole or destroyed everything they could(wiring, pipes, drywall, structural supports, everything), after they were given notice, and it went to the tribunal, and they lied about sending payment, and back to the tribunal 4 times(this makes 4.7 years with no rental income), and he was at the point of getting the bailiff to come for eviction finally approval and they'd already done that. The problem in his case is that the house was valued at $112k by MPAC(2002), the damage to the house exceeded the current value of the house(est. $290k). Insurance will cover up to the MPAC valuation+30% so that leave him with what? A gigantic fuck you, and now he has two choices. Blow $50k and have an engineer come in and maybe repair it? Or simply petition the city to have it torn down. He still of course has liability if someone gets hurt because the building is condemned too.
You can at least file for $10k in small claims now, but if the property is trashed your'e still fucked.
Do you know what hurts poor people and economies even more than a carbon tax? A sales tax. If Washington used the carbon tax to offset and eliminate the sales tax, it would be a net win all around. Will they do it? Probably not. But it's a nice thought.
Will never happen. Just like it didn't happen in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, or Quebec. It's taxes on taxes on taxes. Which is why the Liberal Party and NDP are getting slaughtered up here in Canada. The Liberal Party of Ontario no longer exists as an official party after last night. The Liberal Party in Quebec is looking at the same option. The NDP coalition in BC is likely going to collapse since people are now chomping to push to recall members of the MLA and demand new elections. The NDP in Alberta are polling so badly that they will likely be relegated to 2 or less seats in their MLA.
To put this in perspective, what happened in Ontario was the equivalent of the state of California flipping to Republican with a super majority, having 60% of the electorate showing up and pulling +40% of the vote. And it's lining up for the same in nearly every electoral race in Canada, including the federal election next year.
As someone else mentioned, that "best economy" was fully driven by real estate prices. 20-25% no less. This is followed up by "construction" aka new houses/apt buildings/condos and so on at 9%. So call it 32% give or take a few points being driven by two sectors. But why don't you tell people how gas at $1.58/L($6/gal). Usful tip, those rebates didn't help at all. They also didn't help the people in Alberta, and those people are chomping at the bit to remove the NDP from power so hard that it looks like the NDP won't exist as a party. Just like the Liberals no longer exist as a party in Ontario.
Sure is. Just like the one here in Ontario, and the one in California. It hurts everyone, and causes the most harm to the poorest people. It also helps kill economies. Ontario wasn't doing shit hot before the carbon tax(0.3% gdp/quarter) with? The 2018 numbers show that if it's not flat 0.0 gdp, it'll be negative and lining up for at least a technical recession.
No Gates did not show his papers. He refused, that's why he got arrested. Read the arresting log, go on. DO IT.
Regardless of Trayvon Martin's past history, he was being stalked by an armed man. An armed man with a recent history of armed domestic abuse.
And Martin went all the way back home, called his GF. Then went looking for the guy. - That's court testimony. He went looking for a fight, and Zimmerman had facial and body injuries consistent with self-defense, and being jumped. That's again the court testimony.
You're not disproving any point on Ferguson, or the fact that the guy was shot for a far different reason.
The only thing Obama did was lie. Especially since whites are more likely to be shot by police then blacks. That this isn't an overzealous issue, as we're seeing by all that bodycam footage these days. That when they started demanding bodycams, and the police said SURE WE'LL DO THAT! And now these black protest groups are screeching that they no longer want the cams. You're a damned racist by your own words, that's spewing the same shit that you're accusing others of. And you don't like it.