You forgot the interesting bit. That it wasn't just the Hillary campaign, it was also actors and agents within the UK government who also helped out. Actors outside the UK government working as "security and intelligence experts" and that there were numerous big name democrat donors who continued to fund the dossier after the election. And you can't forget that this was the basis of multiple FISA warrants, but let's follow the entire chain. Steele shopped the dossier to several new outlets who published it. This was then used as citeogensis to prove that it was true. The media published the story, so the dossier is fact. This was then shopped to the fisa court as proof that there was something going on.
Supposedly people who are against fisa court abuses would rail against this, but since it's Trump it's apparently okay. It's doubleplusgood comrade.
The short answer: Both Putin and Trump do an absolutely crappy job running their respective countries, so if Putin was telling Trump what to do it would make no difference. Crap in, crap out.
Let's be fully realistic here, if Trump was doing such a 'crappy job' of running the country, his popularity wouldn't be over 50%. Unless of course you're saying that it's all lies, in which case he both controls the media, but doesn't control the media(since 93% of the articles about him are negative). Let's compare Trump to Trudeau, you know the international love child of the media, and world leaders. Trump says if you're illegal or want to enter the country illegally, GTFO. Trudeau opens his mouth and illegals start flooding in to the point where it's broken the entire welfare and social service systems of Quebec and Ontario. Now Trudeau is asking the US to start kicking out people because Canada can't handle the numbers illegally entering. Now let's talk popularity, Trump is nearly universally hated by the media. Trudeau is loved by the media. We're looking at 50% approval for Trump vs 23% and dropping like a rock for Trudeau. Wages in the US are increasing for the first time in over a decade. Wages in Canada are stagnant, while inflation is going through the roof. Let's talk economic policy. Trumps actions are to reduce regulations and taxes, business took off. Trudeau's actions were to push more taxes, then decide he wants to implement a carbon tax on a heavily taxed business and residential sector. To the point where business have stopped expanding and are contracting.
Now you're probably wondering wtf is this Canadian talking about? You probably haven't figured out just how closely both countries are linked, more then any other two country in the world.
Make no mistake. Except for getting caught, Putin was telling Trump what policy he wanted from the US and Trump wanted to give it to him. I assume it has something to do with the blackmail material that Russia has on Trump. It might or might not be a sex tape, but Putin has Trump under his thumb somehow. I think it has to do bribes and international money laundering at a minium. This was going on years before Trump even got into politics.
Really? Have you given this intel to anyone, how about posting your proof? Oh...right...no proof. It's just your feeling that it's true.
So let's see if I've got all this progressive anti-trumper garbage right. Trump is both a genius and idiot, who's bankrupt but rolling in cash. He's both under and not under Putin's thumb. He's blackmailed Putin, and Putin has blackmailed him. Putin both controls him and at the same time, Trump does things that hurt Putin. He's both colluding with Russia, but at the same time acting in a manner that's going to cause WWIII with Russia. He's both a retard and an idiot, but also a Machiavellian super-genius. It's almost like the entire anti-Trump movement is full of the kids on the short bus.
Putin has Trump by his (tiny) balls and you don't care. He's a traitor and you are on his side. What does that make you?
If Trump is a traitor, then Obama was a seditious pile of shit that nearly destroyed the US through unlawful wiretapping and FISA abuses, using EO's as a tool of fiat control, jeopardized multiple long-standing alliances with friendly countries by spying directly on them and wiretapping the leaders of those countries and has probably killed the EU while he was at it. So what does that make me? By the looks of it, smarter then you.
How is Putin going to run the USA? He's having problems running his own country. Then again, I'd be much happier with a further thawed US/Russia relations then Clinton who wanted to attack Russian troops in Syria. You know, for a supposed puppet he seems to be doing a much better job then those globalist democrats and neocons, especially after their epic adventure in destabilizing the middle east.
It seems the objection to the plant was due to pollution concerns, and does not match your characterisation.
Question: Why does a company want to build it's own power plant in the first place? Because electricity prices are too high. That does match my characterization.
also does not match your characterisation (yes, I looked it up).
Note my qualification "properly applied", which also means counter-cyclical measures to tame bubbles. Not that Greenspan was a Keynesian, nor is setting interest rates intended to be the primary tool, but lowering it does tend to create bubbles.
Having problems finding any "properly applied" instances. Japan failure, EU countries failure. US failure. Canada caused a hyperinflation crash.
You must be young because selling a house and moving a family is not trivial. What do you do once you're in SV and somehow something better pops up yet somewhere else?
You pick up and move. Just like so many families did back in the 1950's and 1960's. My grandparents on my fathers side moved from southern ontario, to michigan, to indiana, to california and back again chasing higher paying nursing jobs and higher paying jobs in the trades. They did that for ~15 years or so, they had kids.
Seems like so many people these days are still stuck in the "well the job is always there" mentality.
So why the hell didn't you GTFO yet? You should be very happy in the US with its neo-feudalist/protofascist shit laws, dirt cheap filthy energy, and large community of deplorables (meaning racist/xenophobic/otherwise bigoted hatemongers). They still have stagnant wages like most of the planet, but you might be satisfied to blame that on illegal immigrants there.
Oh boy, I sure do like the progressives. The ones that are so out of touch that they think that anyone who doesn't fall in line should be attacked. So, my dear progressive moron. Please explain why Quebec said "that's it, we're full" on illegals crossing from the US. It broke their bank, and they had to send a bill to the federal government for reimbursement. Why don't you explain, why Ontario is also right at the breaking point, again from all those illegals.
Now why don't you explain why there have been more illegals entering from the US then actual refugees from Syria. When you're done that, you can explain where we're going to get all this money for taking care of them. Then you can explain why Trudeau, after saying "Canada welcomes illegals" is suddenly looking to Trump and asking in very nice and polite words, if they could help Canada deal with the massive influx of illegals crossing into Canada from the US. Oh, and by "help" they mean, please deport them to their country of origin.
It's a real shame that wannabe-American Canadians like you aren't given honorary American citizenship so you can fuck off to your utopia. Maybe the two countries could work out a liberal/deplorable citizen exchange program?
It's a real shame that individuals like yourself who think money grows on trees, and is perfectly okay with people ghettoizing entire areas of a city is great. Hey, you wonder why Toronto and Ottawa have both had a massive jump in gun crime, stabbings, and violent assaults? Please explain why this is happening just "particular" areas. Can you explain with even the barest trickle of illegals being granted temporary residency that in small cities(under 50k) where they may have 2 rapes/year, have seen 40-80 in a year...suddenly, and the people arrested just "happen" to fall into one particular racial and economic demographic.
It's almost like importing/allowing illegals in who have no care for the law, refuse to assimilate, and view women as worthless cause serious stability problems in society. Hey, maybe while you're at it you can go look at the UK which did something similar, and there's over 20 cites now with massive "asian" child rape gangs, and the police and government looked the other way while the rampant abuse was going on. Hey, while you're at it, why don't you go ask the local police boards in Ontario, why they're trying to push the EXACT same policies on police services in Ontario, that created that massive level of abuse in the UK.
Push them into trades, and have them combine it with technology related fields. Higher education fields are saturated with people in Canada, with large amounts of underemployment. Trades are hurting for warm bodies however and will be for decades. Even people with engineering degrees are struggling to find work, take a look at the oil patch for example. Wages have fallen 40% in the last decade, and companies are abusing the TFW program to bring people in from 3rd world countries because no-one wants to get paid $50k/year and live somewhere where it costs $80k to make ends meet.
It also doesn't help that the government over the last 2 years has been pushing anti-merit policies for job hiring, and pushing equity based hiring. That's just going to be a mess in a few years.
i seriously doubt that there is an intention to push out manufacturing jobs, but rather a realisation that they will no longer provide large scale employment.
No, there is a direct intention to push out manufacturing jobs. This is going on for years at this point, hell it was part of the Liberal Party of Ontario's platform in 2008. Read it yourself, it's not hard to find. The Liberal Party raised taxes directly against those industries to push them out, and industry pays a higher rate on electricity then any other sector. This is how bad it was: A company was planning to open a new plant in Sarnia(might have been Windsor). The utility refused to give them a discounted electric rate, the company decided it would be cheaper to build themselves their own private NG electric plant, and pay the environmental fees then to buy directly from the utility. That was until the government stepped in, and that was before the sale of hydro one.
Keyensian economics, properly applied across the business cycle, has been very successful.
If you mean "very successful" as in, creating massive bubbles(like the housing bubble in the US and Europe), then creating the massive housing bubble in Canada. Well I guess so! It's doing a very good job of sowing the seeds of it's own destruction, especially with those massively low interest rates. So now we get to the point in Canada, where housing prices are massively inflated and 55% of mortgage holders would be under water in 60 days with a 0.5% increase in the prime lending rate.
Oh but it gets better. See, in Canada, the government has leveraged housing so heavily in the last 2 years it accounts for nearly 30% of our GDP. When the 2008/09 crash happened, the 15% of our GDP which is primarily oil, was enough to keep us out of recession. On this side however, you're about to see a massive crash in the housing market and huge devaluations in capital holdings.
People actually play overwatch? The community that progressives claim is so toxic, that blizzard is looking over your shoulder and digging through your social media posts so they can ban you.
Your ignorant "analysis" of Gladue reports is enough to mark you as an utter moran. Go hang you racist cunt.
Go tell it to the 3yr old girl who was repeatedly anally raped by her own father, required 24 surgeries and the native offender was given 6mo weekends only, and was released on his own recog before trial. Why don't you go look up the case on Gerald Stanley, who was put on trial for shooting the native. The native who'd had a laundry list of criminal offenses from assault (physical disfigurement of a person w/weapon), multiple instances of robbery(w/weapon) and so on. Oh did I mention he was a great example of gladue? Just like his parents who were involved in the same thing. He got slaps on the wrist until he got shot and killed while trying to rob someone.
So people who were barely making ends meet, on say 2 PT jobs@$13 because FT jobs are so hard to find. And suddenly lose one of those jobs because the employer can no longer afford it is just great. You do realize that you get no EI in cases like that. You entire argument is build on Keynesian economics and artificial cash flow, using government interference to boost wages. The government would have been better off lowering business taxes and getting more people off the blackmarket hiring which is booming here. Hell when big name companies are offering to pay me($37/hr) under the table for work, there's a serious fucking problem with tax rates.
The difference is that when you have a kangaroo court that can fine you into oblivion for making factual statements, and directly quoting someone. You have a serious problem in your apparent democracy. These aren't criminal courts, they're "human rights" courts and it's enough that a person can ruin your life because "they feel offended by what you say." They're also insanely biased, a recent example where a muslim would only rent to muslims was perfectly okay. But a christian only renting to christians wasn't allowed and considered a HRC violation.
Oh and I shouldn't forget, in Canada we have a parallel criminal sentencing system if you're native/indigenous. Read gladue if you want to see that clusterfuck. Despite that it was to be "only minor crimes" there's been plenty of instances where rapists, attempted murder, and so on with the person having a laundry list of crimes was simply given a slap on the wrist.
Vancouver is getting as bad as San Fran is, especially with the homelessness and rampant public drug use. It was bad 10 years ago, it's gone downhill since then. Seriously, I fully get why young Canadians are trying to GTFO from Canada. The taxes are high but you see no return. Whether it's at the city, provincial, or federal level. The government(federal and many provincial governments) would rather throw money at illegals entering the country then help people who desperately need help. A person can be disabled, qualify for disability, and not get anything at all. No financial help, no training, no tax deferments. The number of disabled who now live full-time and dependent on their parents has gone through the roof. Workers Comp(WSIB) in the most populated province in Canada(Ontario) almost never pays out to workers who are injured on the job(94% refusal rate), so good luck if you get a life changing injury. If you need low income housing, in most places the wait is between 4-10 years. Healthcare quality is decreasing in nearly every province. It's becoming a rampant politically correct mess, where people fear speaking out on issues because we have a kangaroo court system that can fine you into oblivion and leave you financially ruined so you can't take it through the normal courts to try and clear it up. The current government is pushing anti-egalitarian laws, best example is their desire to modify the law on sexual assault so exculpatory evidence can't be used.
Energy prices are through the roof, but wages are stagnant. Gasoline, NG, electricity are massively expensive. Housing prices are touching the moon, and wages are stagnant. $500k for a 40 year old house, in areas where the media income is $41k, $1.8m house prices in $70k median income. Provincial governments are doing stupid things like trying to ban NG and oil for heating and forcing people to use electricity only. Again in Canada's most populous province(Ontario), the government had to ban winter disconnection of electricity for fear of people freezing to death. Roughly 1:5 people are 3 months or more behind on their electricity bills.
Many provincial governments(Liberal and NDP) are pushing "service industry" policies for jobs, and trying to push out manufacturing jobs. Ontario again, a great example. The same province, pushed $15/h minimum wage and in the first fiscal quarter after it was implemented the economy lost nearly 50k PT jobs, the high min. wage has basically stalled the economy.
Yep, I full get why they want to GTFO. And I live in Ontario.
https://www.hardocp.com/news/2... read the other links. Nvidia has also apparently blacklisted HardOCP for posting all of this information to the public.
Seriously, every single gamer out there should look hard at what nvidia did, say "fuck you" buy a AMD card on their next upgrade/new rig, send them a picture and tell them that this is the result of the GPP program.
Sorry, but we *don't* have a fully sustainable harvest cycle. We're getting a lot better, but we still need to improve a lot. During parts of the cycle there's a lot of soil erosion. It's still not clear how many times we can run through the cycle on a particular plot of land before wearing it out. And that's when there aren't any problems, like, say, pine beetles moving into a new area. Or droughts combined with fires.
Sorry, but we do. Why don't you go take a trip and find out for yourself. I'll remind you that the problems of "pine beetles" and "droughts and fires" are caused by current policies where they don't allow direct burns, but rush to put out fires. Which furthers the problem of accumulated ground material that's highly flammable. I mean, I've seen areas here in Western Canada where the ground clutter is over 3' deep and there hasn't been any burning done in 80 years.
as far as I can tell, this summary is blaming concrete because the energy source is dirty. What if the energy came solely from turbines, dams, nuclear power, or some other form of clean energy?
Here's the thing. The reason that the "energy source is dirty" is because there's a whole pile of stuff we don't recycle(it's too expensive, or too dangerous, or too hazardous and so on), in turn we use during the making of cement. Tires, some plastics, medical waste, non-recycled automobile fluids, various hazardous compounds from industry just to name a few, it's all used as fuel and scrubbed to reduce emissions when you're baking the lime. The remainder ash(fly ash) is mixed in with the cement in various grades and this improves the quality of the cement itself, the fly ash itself is cheaper then digging raw materials or importing them.
Seriously, we're pretty good at using things in a full cycle these days. If you think that it's cheaper to import metric tonnes of sand/clay/shale halfway across the country after digging it up, then to use an available material you can make during the kiln process? Well you're gonna make some serious money. It's kinda like the people who whine about paper and wood products, but don't realize we have a fully sustainable harvest cycle.
Can't you set up a local account and choose not to log in?
Absolutely. It even offers that option during the initial install, and you can flip to a local account anytime you want. Of course if you use anything that's tied to the email address like onedrive, you won't be able to access it directly.
Look at the GDR, nearly half the population was working for the STASI in some form or another and spying on the rest. In policing, it's the neighborhood busybody you go to when investigating crimes as well.
There's two types of things in industrial control. There's the one you mentioned, but even then you can "soft" block it from the outside requiring access via a private LAN, problem lot of companies don't want to create a side-by-side corp net and IC net, they see it as too expensive. That'll change as soon as some nut figures out that they can cause serious damage to infrastructure or hold company for ransom. The second, is the type that uses PLC's for adjustment and control of plant controls. The latter can absolutely be set into a "read-only" state. Since the PLC can be programmed to deal with absolute issues, and if something falls out of bounds automatically trip the shutdown of the affected control system. Those? They're pretty safe, and they're used all over the place from water treatment plants to natural gas pressure stations.
You just have to hope with 3 things on PLC's. That the person who wrote the ROM didn't leave any backdoors. That the PLC doesn't have any backdoors(I'm looking at you mitsubishi you fucks), that you don't have someone with a fucking grudge and is smart enough that they can pull the ROM module and replace it with one of their in a maintenance state and fuck everyone.
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You forgot the interesting bit. That it wasn't just the Hillary campaign, it was also actors and agents within the UK government who also helped out. Actors outside the UK government working as "security and intelligence experts" and that there were numerous big name democrat donors who continued to fund the dossier after the election. And you can't forget that this was the basis of multiple FISA warrants, but let's follow the entire chain. Steele shopped the dossier to several new outlets who published it. This was then used as citeogensis to prove that it was true. The media published the story, so the dossier is fact. This was then shopped to the fisa court as proof that there was something going on.
Supposedly people who are against fisa court abuses would rail against this, but since it's Trump it's apparently okay. It's doubleplusgood comrade.
The short answer: Both Putin and Trump do an absolutely crappy job running their respective countries, so if Putin was telling Trump what to do it would make no difference. Crap in, crap out.
Let's be fully realistic here, if Trump was doing such a 'crappy job' of running the country, his popularity wouldn't be over 50%. Unless of course you're saying that it's all lies, in which case he both controls the media, but doesn't control the media(since 93% of the articles about him are negative). Let's compare Trump to Trudeau, you know the international love child of the media, and world leaders. Trump says if you're illegal or want to enter the country illegally, GTFO. Trudeau opens his mouth and illegals start flooding in to the point where it's broken the entire welfare and social service systems of Quebec and Ontario. Now Trudeau is asking the US to start kicking out people because Canada can't handle the numbers illegally entering. Now let's talk popularity, Trump is nearly universally hated by the media. Trudeau is loved by the media. We're looking at 50% approval for Trump vs 23% and dropping like a rock for Trudeau. Wages in the US are increasing for the first time in over a decade. Wages in Canada are stagnant, while inflation is going through the roof. Let's talk economic policy. Trumps actions are to reduce regulations and taxes, business took off. Trudeau's actions were to push more taxes, then decide he wants to implement a carbon tax on a heavily taxed business and residential sector. To the point where business have stopped expanding and are contracting.
Now you're probably wondering wtf is this Canadian talking about? You probably haven't figured out just how closely both countries are linked, more then any other two country in the world.
Make no mistake. Except for getting caught, Putin was telling Trump what policy he wanted from the US and Trump wanted to give it to him. I assume it has something to do with the blackmail material that Russia has on Trump. It might or might not be a sex tape, but Putin has Trump under his thumb somehow. I think it has to do bribes and international money laundering at a minium. This was going on years before Trump even got into politics.
Really? Have you given this intel to anyone, how about posting your proof? Oh...right...no proof. It's just your feeling that it's true.
So let's see if I've got all this progressive anti-trumper garbage right. Trump is both a genius and idiot, who's bankrupt but rolling in cash. He's both under and not under Putin's thumb. He's blackmailed Putin, and Putin has blackmailed him. Putin both controls him and at the same time, Trump does things that hurt Putin. He's both colluding with Russia, but at the same time acting in a manner that's going to cause WWIII with Russia. He's both a retard and an idiot, but also a Machiavellian super-genius. It's almost like the entire anti-Trump movement is full of the kids on the short bus.
Putin has Trump by his (tiny) balls and you don't care. He's a traitor and you are on his side. What does that make you?
If Trump is a traitor, then Obama was a seditious pile of shit that nearly destroyed the US through unlawful wiretapping and FISA abuses, using EO's as a tool of fiat control, jeopardized multiple long-standing alliances with friendly countries by spying directly on them and wiretapping the leaders of those countries and has probably killed the EU while he was at it. So what does that make me? By the looks of it, smarter then you.
So you want Putin to run the USA, right?
How is Putin going to run the USA? He's having problems running his own country. Then again, I'd be much happier with a further thawed US/Russia relations then Clinton who wanted to attack Russian troops in Syria. You know, for a supposed puppet he seems to be doing a much better job then those globalist democrats and neocons, especially after their epic adventure in destabilizing the middle east.
It seems the objection to the plant was due to pollution concerns, and does not match your characterisation.
Question: Why does a company want to build it's own power plant in the first place? Because electricity prices are too high. That does match my characterization.
also does not match your characterisation (yes, I looked it up).
Apparently not very well, the Liberals have been in power in Ontario since the early 00's. That's also federal, not provincial. I mean, when the huffington post has an article like that. Or you can take the communist NDP's view on it.
Note my qualification "properly applied", which also means counter-cyclical measures to tame bubbles. Not that Greenspan was a Keynesian, nor is setting interest rates intended to be the primary tool, but lowering it does tend to create bubbles.
Having problems finding any "properly applied" instances. Japan failure, EU countries failure. US failure. Canada caused a hyperinflation crash.
You must be young because selling a house and moving a family is not trivial. What do you do once you're in SV and somehow something better pops up yet somewhere else?
You pick up and move. Just like so many families did back in the 1950's and 1960's. My grandparents on my fathers side moved from southern ontario, to michigan, to indiana, to california and back again chasing higher paying nursing jobs and higher paying jobs in the trades. They did that for ~15 years or so, they had kids.
Seems like so many people these days are still stuck in the "well the job is always there" mentality.
So why the hell didn't you GTFO yet? You should be very happy in the US with its neo-feudalist/protofascist shit laws, dirt cheap filthy energy, and large community of deplorables (meaning racist/xenophobic/otherwise bigoted hatemongers). They still have stagnant wages like most of the planet, but you might be satisfied to blame that on illegal immigrants there.
Oh boy, I sure do like the progressives. The ones that are so out of touch that they think that anyone who doesn't fall in line should be attacked. So, my dear progressive moron. Please explain why Quebec said "that's it, we're full" on illegals crossing from the US. It broke their bank, and they had to send a bill to the federal government for reimbursement. Why don't you explain, why Ontario is also right at the breaking point, again from all those illegals.
Now why don't you explain why there have been more illegals entering from the US then actual refugees from Syria. When you're done that, you can explain where we're going to get all this money for taking care of them. Then you can explain why Trudeau, after saying "Canada welcomes illegals" is suddenly looking to Trump and asking in very nice and polite words, if they could help Canada deal with the massive influx of illegals crossing into Canada from the US. Oh, and by "help" they mean, please deport them to their country of origin.
It's a real shame that wannabe-American Canadians like you aren't given honorary American citizenship so you can fuck off to your utopia. Maybe the two countries could work out a liberal/deplorable citizen exchange program?
It's a real shame that individuals like yourself who think money grows on trees, and is perfectly okay with people ghettoizing entire areas of a city is great. Hey, you wonder why Toronto and Ottawa have both had a massive jump in gun crime, stabbings, and violent assaults? Please explain why this is happening just "particular" areas. Can you explain with even the barest trickle of illegals being granted temporary residency that in small cities(under 50k) where they may have 2 rapes/year, have seen 40-80 in a year...suddenly, and the people arrested just "happen" to fall into one particular racial and economic demographic.
It's almost like importing/allowing illegals in who have no care for the law, refuse to assimilate, and view women as worthless cause serious stability problems in society. Hey, maybe while you're at it you can go look at the UK which did something similar, and there's over 20 cites now with massive "asian" child rape gangs, and the police and government looked the other way while the rampant abuse was going on. Hey, while you're at it, why don't you go ask the local police boards in Ontario, why they're trying to push the EXACT same policies on police services in Ontario, that created that massive level of abuse in the UK.
Push them into trades, and have them combine it with technology related fields. Higher education fields are saturated with people in Canada, with large amounts of underemployment. Trades are hurting for warm bodies however and will be for decades. Even people with engineering degrees are struggling to find work, take a look at the oil patch for example. Wages have fallen 40% in the last decade, and companies are abusing the TFW program to bring people in from 3rd world countries because no-one wants to get paid $50k/year and live somewhere where it costs $80k to make ends meet.
It also doesn't help that the government over the last 2 years has been pushing anti-merit policies for job hiring, and pushing equity based hiring. That's just going to be a mess in a few years.
i seriously doubt that there is an intention to push out manufacturing jobs, but rather a realisation that they will no longer provide large scale employment.
No, there is a direct intention to push out manufacturing jobs. This is going on for years at this point, hell it was part of the Liberal Party of Ontario's platform in 2008. Read it yourself, it's not hard to find. The Liberal Party raised taxes directly against those industries to push them out, and industry pays a higher rate on electricity then any other sector. This is how bad it was: A company was planning to open a new plant in Sarnia(might have been Windsor). The utility refused to give them a discounted electric rate, the company decided it would be cheaper to build themselves their own private NG electric plant, and pay the environmental fees then to buy directly from the utility. That was until the government stepped in, and that was before the sale of hydro one.
Keyensian economics, properly applied across the business cycle, has been very successful.
If you mean "very successful" as in, creating massive bubbles(like the housing bubble in the US and Europe), then creating the massive housing bubble in Canada. Well I guess so! It's doing a very good job of sowing the seeds of it's own destruction, especially with those massively low interest rates. So now we get to the point in Canada, where housing prices are massively inflated and 55% of mortgage holders would be under water in 60 days with a 0.5% increase in the prime lending rate.
Oh but it gets better. See, in Canada, the government has leveraged housing so heavily in the last 2 years it accounts for nearly 30% of our GDP. When the 2008/09 crash happened, the 15% of our GDP which is primarily oil, was enough to keep us out of recession. On this side however, you're about to see a massive crash in the housing market and huge devaluations in capital holdings.
People are already doing that from California. Why do you think that there's a mass exodus.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Now, this isn't a particularly interesting claim, but "Kyle says he saw it" isn't proof of any sort.
Did you read the links? Apparently not. Go and do that now, you'll get there eventually kiddo.
People actually play overwatch? The community that progressives claim is so toxic, that blizzard is looking over your shoulder and digging through your social media posts so they can ban you.
Your ignorant "analysis" of Gladue reports is enough to mark you as an utter moran. Go hang you racist cunt.
Go tell it to the 3yr old girl who was repeatedly anally raped by her own father, required 24 surgeries and the native offender was given 6mo weekends only, and was released on his own recog before trial. Why don't you go look up the case on Gerald Stanley, who was put on trial for shooting the native. The native who'd had a laundry list of criminal offenses from assault (physical disfigurement of a person w/weapon), multiple instances of robbery(w/weapon) and so on. Oh did I mention he was a great example of gladue? Just like his parents who were involved in the same thing. He got slaps on the wrist until he got shot and killed while trying to rob someone.
So people who were barely making ends meet, on say 2 PT jobs@$13 because FT jobs are so hard to find. And suddenly lose one of those jobs because the employer can no longer afford it is just great. You do realize that you get no EI in cases like that. You entire argument is build on Keynesian economics and artificial cash flow, using government interference to boost wages. The government would have been better off lowering business taxes and getting more people off the blackmarket hiring which is booming here. Hell when big name companies are offering to pay me($37/hr) under the table for work, there's a serious fucking problem with tax rates.
The difference is that when you have a kangaroo court that can fine you into oblivion for making factual statements, and directly quoting someone. You have a serious problem in your apparent democracy. These aren't criminal courts, they're "human rights" courts and it's enough that a person can ruin your life because "they feel offended by what you say." They're also insanely biased, a recent example where a muslim would only rent to muslims was perfectly okay. But a christian only renting to christians wasn't allowed and considered a HRC violation.
Oh and I shouldn't forget, in Canada we have a parallel criminal sentencing system if you're native/indigenous. Read gladue if you want to see that clusterfuck. Despite that it was to be "only minor crimes" there's been plenty of instances where rapists, attempted murder, and so on with the person having a laundry list of crimes was simply given a slap on the wrist.
Vancouver is getting as bad as San Fran is, especially with the homelessness and rampant public drug use. It was bad 10 years ago, it's gone downhill since then. Seriously, I fully get why young Canadians are trying to GTFO from Canada. The taxes are high but you see no return. Whether it's at the city, provincial, or federal level. The government(federal and many provincial governments) would rather throw money at illegals entering the country then help people who desperately need help. A person can be disabled, qualify for disability, and not get anything at all. No financial help, no training, no tax deferments. The number of disabled who now live full-time and dependent on their parents has gone through the roof. Workers Comp(WSIB) in the most populated province in Canada(Ontario) almost never pays out to workers who are injured on the job(94% refusal rate), so good luck if you get a life changing injury. If you need low income housing, in most places the wait is between 4-10 years. Healthcare quality is decreasing in nearly every province. It's becoming a rampant politically correct mess, where people fear speaking out on issues because we have a kangaroo court system that can fine you into oblivion and leave you financially ruined so you can't take it through the normal courts to try and clear it up. The current government is pushing anti-egalitarian laws, best example is their desire to modify the law on sexual assault so exculpatory evidence can't be used.
Energy prices are through the roof, but wages are stagnant. Gasoline, NG, electricity are massively expensive. Housing prices are touching the moon, and wages are stagnant. $500k for a 40 year old house, in areas where the media income is $41k, $1.8m house prices in $70k median income. Provincial governments are doing stupid things like trying to ban NG and oil for heating and forcing people to use electricity only. Again in Canada's most populous province(Ontario), the government had to ban winter disconnection of electricity for fear of people freezing to death. Roughly 1:5 people are 3 months or more behind on their electricity bills.
Many provincial governments(Liberal and NDP) are pushing "service industry" policies for jobs, and trying to push out manufacturing jobs. Ontario again, a great example. The same province, pushed $15/h minimum wage and in the first fiscal quarter after it was implemented the economy lost nearly 50k PT jobs, the high min. wage has basically stalled the economy.
Yep, I full get why they want to GTFO. And I live in Ontario.
https://www.hardocp.com/news/2... read the other links. Nvidia has also apparently blacklisted HardOCP for posting all of this information to the public.
Seriously, every single gamer out there should look hard at what nvidia did, say "fuck you" buy a AMD card on their next upgrade/new rig, send them a picture and tell them that this is the result of the GPP program.
Sorry, but we *don't* have a fully sustainable harvest cycle. We're getting a lot better, but we still need to improve a lot. During parts of the cycle there's a lot of soil erosion. It's still not clear how many times we can run through the cycle on a particular plot of land before wearing it out. And that's when there aren't any problems, like, say, pine beetles moving into a new area. Or droughts combined with fires.
Sorry, but we do. Why don't you go take a trip and find out for yourself. I'll remind you that the problems of "pine beetles" and "droughts and fires" are caused by current policies where they don't allow direct burns, but rush to put out fires. Which furthers the problem of accumulated ground material that's highly flammable. I mean, I've seen areas here in Western Canada where the ground clutter is over 3' deep and there hasn't been any burning done in 80 years.
as far as I can tell, this summary is blaming concrete because the energy source is dirty. What if the energy came solely from turbines, dams, nuclear power, or some other form of clean energy?
Here's the thing. The reason that the "energy source is dirty" is because there's a whole pile of stuff we don't recycle(it's too expensive, or too dangerous, or too hazardous and so on), in turn we use during the making of cement. Tires, some plastics, medical waste, non-recycled automobile fluids, various hazardous compounds from industry just to name a few, it's all used as fuel and scrubbed to reduce emissions when you're baking the lime. The remainder ash(fly ash) is mixed in with the cement in various grades and this improves the quality of the cement itself, the fly ash itself is cheaper then digging raw materials or importing them.
Seriously, we're pretty good at using things in a full cycle these days. If you think that it's cheaper to import metric tonnes of sand/clay/shale halfway across the country after digging it up, then to use an available material you can make during the kiln process? Well you're gonna make some serious money. It's kinda like the people who whine about paper and wood products, but don't realize we have a fully sustainable harvest cycle.
No, Obama didn't have an opt-in. The company that was handling it scraped the data of *everyone* and facebook knew it. They even sent someone to help.
Can't you set up a local account and choose not to log in?
Absolutely. It even offers that option during the initial install, and you can flip to a local account anytime you want. Of course if you use anything that's tied to the email address like onedrive, you won't be able to access it directly.
The STASI probably drowned in an excess of information, and thus was probably inefficient as a result. And then the Berlin wall fell,
The STASI files paint a completely different picture on that. Read them yourself.
Look at the GDR, nearly half the population was working for the STASI in some form or another and spying on the rest. In policing, it's the neighborhood busybody you go to when investigating crimes as well.
There's two types of things in industrial control. There's the one you mentioned, but even then you can "soft" block it from the outside requiring access via a private LAN, problem lot of companies don't want to create a side-by-side corp net and IC net, they see it as too expensive. That'll change as soon as some nut figures out that they can cause serious damage to infrastructure or hold company for ransom. The second, is the type that uses PLC's for adjustment and control of plant controls. The latter can absolutely be set into a "read-only" state. Since the PLC can be programmed to deal with absolute issues, and if something falls out of bounds automatically trip the shutdown of the affected control system. Those? They're pretty safe, and they're used all over the place from water treatment plants to natural gas pressure stations.
You just have to hope with 3 things on PLC's. That the person who wrote the ROM didn't leave any backdoors. That the PLC doesn't have any backdoors(I'm looking at you mitsubishi you fucks), that you don't have someone with a fucking grudge and is smart enough that they can pull the ROM module and replace it with one of their in a maintenance state and fuck everyone.