Okie dokie there intellectual coward. Read that GAO report yet and get to the part where more muslims have killed more people in the US then white nationalists yet?
It's that approach that leads me to the following points: (1) There are a good deal of hateful people involved in BLM. I haven't looked too much into individuals, but some of them might even be (more than) self-proclaimed leaders. They see it as an opportunity to spread their hateful message, and care little about principles.
If you pay attention to the people, whether on social media or in meat space you'll find out that it's not just the leaders spreading their hateful message. It's people openly supporting that hateful message. In this, it's no different then the KKK. Where you have a group of violent thugs agitating violence against one particular group of people and people gravitating towards it because they believe there's some believed injustice. So with that, you should look up the various facets of the people and see what they're pushing. You've probably heard of the "wewazkangz" meme, if you haven't look it up. You'll quickly find that there's more active black ethnonationalist being violent or supporting violence then there are white ethnonationalist for example.
(2) If you take a look at the actual issues that sparked the BLM movement in the first place, it's about police accountability. And when our police are not free to violate the law and our inalienable rights, that benefits people of every color. It's only because the police treat blacks disproportionately worse that it's framed as a racial issue. It's easier to galvanize anger (and thus change) that way. More black families have been affected, so they will on average be quicker to see the need.
Well that's the interesting thing isn't it? Because BLM was built on a farce, lie, and a pile of bullshit. Remember "hands up don't shoot!" and the associated stuff surrounding that? Yeah, that's the face of it. There are bad police just like there are bad people, but let's also remember that when BLM was screeching "we want police body cams" a couple of years now in the future, they're screeching "we want police body cams removed." Because it's actually showing that "good boy" according to all his neighbors and friends, and family was really a piece of shit that already had 3 counts of robbery, and pulled a gun on a cop. Or tried to drive a cop over and got shot for his trouble.
It's interesting that you specifically mention someone in Toronto. The conception is that the police state in Canada is much less strong. I haven't done a comparison of the relevant statistics, but I'd be willing to bet that deaths, at least, are less there.
Comparatively speaking, in Canada it's natives who are the "blacks of Canada" and have the same socio-economic, family failures, rampant drug culture, and generational crime issues. It is however, much like in the US that if you're white you're more likely going to be shot by a cop then if you're black or native. Even at that, in Canada the justice system systemically goes out of it's way to avoid putting natives in jail. And I wish I was joking, that's enacted under the "gladue report." The justice system in Canada is littered natives who have multiple violent offences and aren't put into jail until they do something that not even the most progressive judge can ignore.
If you think that's bad, try to figure out the Right. Nazis are good decent folks and Russians fund the NRA.
So let's see if this makes sense: Nazi's are good, and russians fund the NRA. But Trump is a nazi, and so are his supporters? His supporters are also russians according to the various flapping heads in the leftist media...
So I guess that means Trump and his supporters are actually the good guys?
Hay, I didn't notice that you worked an accusation of racism into the post title. Well done, exemplary.
There's that usual part where you make no sense...and...
So yeah, I'm still punching Nazis and all that...
Glad you've come out and labeled yourself an authoritarian that believes in political violence in order to further your ends. Not only that, but you become a walking contradiction. The UK is your progressive socio-commie philosophy wrapped up in a happy little blanket, it's everything you want. Protected class, particular groups of people getting special privileges based on race, rampant identity politics, jew hatred, oversight and prosecution of thought crimes by government and police. Why would you want to leave the paradise you've already created?
Now, People in Britain sees the evil that the EU is (yes I'm a part of EU and hate EU government), and they vote to exit... against the Press&media will.... again "let's blame the russians"
What bothers me more, is this isn't even limited to the US, the UK or the EU. Media in Canada, and other english speaking countries have been pulling the same garbage, if there isn't another journolist type group setting up narratives I'll eat my keyboard. It wouldn't surprise me if media all over the place are pulling the same garbage, it's entertaining though when you spot the shills pushing it though. They usually have a lapse in thinking, and post "soviet" instead of "russian" which kinda points out how old the person who wrote the script usually is.
On the other hand it's easy to know what Mashiki is thinking. It's the usual straw man argument, paining the "left" as being paranoid and calling everyone a Russian/Nazi. Ignore the evidence, decry the investigation before it even starts, deflect defect deflect.
When you attack the person, you're proving your intellectual cowardice. There's no strawman on that either, or did you skip the "punch a nazi" "nazi's are everywhere" etc., media hysteria that went on for several months....and has died off. Why don't you prove that the russians are everywhere and lurking under your bed, along with the nazis? The media sure hasn't, investigators haven't. Even this article and twitters "post" haven't shown any actual evidence of this, the only thing they've done is "claim" and you know, claim that accounts made nearly a year after the period in question were also "russian" accounts.
Come on buddy, it's time for the what-about post.
How's your police state in the UK coming along? You guys sure have done a bang-up job on that one.
Actual court cases prove otherwise. Then again, I see you haven't read the gao report yet.
What you're trying to say is, "Once you remove all the right-wing extremists from the study of who killed cops, you will find that no right-wing extremists killed cops. You're really being dishonest.
No. I'm saying that mislabeling for the sake of mislabeling does nobody any good. So why don't you go read up on those cases, and you'll suddenly find out that a good half of them aren't actually "white nationalists." But if you want to really play that game, then we shall take a look at black on white crime, which suddenly becomes "black nationalists killing whites" especially when the reasoning in the person as to why they killed that person was "they were white." You sure you really want to go down that path?
Oh by the way, I'm sure you also believe the story out of Canada where the muslim girl claimed someone "cut her hijab" and were salivating all over it as proof that those "evil right wingers" were out there. I'll also bet you didn't watch the press conference, let me give you a hint. Pay attention to her mothers eyes, always down and left, look, down and left. That's a known sign of remembering a fabrication. Oh, and of course, we can't forget that it didn't actually happen...but it sure didn't stop the left-wing media from really-really-really hoping it did. Then going on and on, about how it really doesn't matter that it didn't happen. Our moral progressive overlords are telling us that we're still bad people because of that fake hate-crime. Or our clusterfuck of a PM from really-really-really being stupid. Just like our Premier in Ontario, Kathlynn Wynne being shown just how progressive and modern Islam is, and how very accommodating of women it is. While she's made to sit in the back of the room, and also not allowed into the mosque proper.
So brave, so progressive. Just remember, menstruating girls go behind the rest of the girls because they're doubly unclean.
And here's the actual report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the above article is based on, in case you'd like to see it:
Uh, you might want to actually read that GAO report. Unlike the paste eaters over at paste magazine, who also missed what it said. When you remove the "anti-government extremists" which aren't actually just right-wing. And in those cases, once you actually read them you find out that the vast majority of them weren't right wing either. Yo find out that the GAO report still has muslims killing more people in the US even if you leave those "anti-government extremists" in there. Let's not forget those lovely black block kids, who are also anti-government but sure not right-wing. Or groups like BAMN, and Antifa which are both communist based...because as we all know, communism and right-wing surely go together.
Though I like those other stories, maybe in your haste to post you missed the words "alleged" and so on. I seem to remember tearing your talking points on several of those stories last time as well, and it was a case where those people who killed cops usually left long-anti white, anti-police screeds as well explicitly stating that they were doing it for some reason. And in all those stories you posted? It's all alleged, some tie-in full of maybes, possibilities, allegedlies.
Bit too late for that isn't it? The question was clear, concise, and there was enough of a voter turnout. This isn't going to be like the referendum in Canada over Quebec national sovereignty, where the question was determined to be misleading, was not clear, and was not concise thus ruled null. If the government goes any other way then what with the public actually voted, then the government violates the social contract. In many cases, the government especially the UK government have already voided it, you can see that where the police are not upholding the law or ignoring crimes because of various reasons. Don't be surprised if you see things deteriorate quickly if they decide to go against the initial vote.
#blacklivesmatter is responsible for a dozen or more police officer deaths. There's also no shortage of key leadership figures who've posted long anti-white screeds or what the progressive left would like to call "hate speech." And there is next to zero outcry over that, or even next to zero outcry in the media over it. The only one that got any real media play was the #blm leader in Toronto because it came very close to actually hitting the level for incitement in Canada.
I'll remind you that if the left want to play by the "hate speech" rules, there will be people who will hold them to those same rules.
Thanks for that, Ivan. Always good to know what Putin's St Petersburg astroturf army is thinking
It's pretty hard to figure out what the left's astroturfing army is thinking these days. Either it's russians everywhere, including under your bed. Or it's nazi's everywhere, including under your bed. I bet psychiatrists are making a mint though.
I wonder if Facebook will be opening an investigation into US environmental groups funneling money into Canadian environmental groups(illegal in Canada - must be declared and the reason why the CRA(aka IRS) is still investigating it) and attempting to influence the Canadian election. Because boy oh boy, was there a whole pile of that along with massive abuses of public consultations where these environmental groups put peoples names on the list who lived in other countries in order to tie up those consultations. Again, that was all coordinated on facebook.
Hint: The copper is the only thing of value to the person doing the "recycling". Fire is the recycling of choice and rapid oxidation of plastic does a great job of doing what a landfill does in seconds instead of years.
That's actually illegal in most places(here in north america), simply because of what you said. You're allowed to heat the plastic to make it easier to remove, but burning it to get the copper? Almost all metal recyclers won't take wire like that for fear it's been stolen, not only can they get their licenses pulled for that, but there's big fines if they're caught.
Because things end up in landfills. Biodegradable doesn't mean in 5 years it will have rotted away. Biodegradable just means that it can be broken down naturally. Typical plastics can only be reduced in size to the point where they enter the food cycle. Bio-degradable plastics just mean they can be broken down by bacteria in certain conditions.
Problem is...with cars? Everything is recycled out of them, I mean everything. Wiring harness, used brake shoes, engine+transaxle, for cars with clutches the entire engine and transaxle/transmission is sold in one piece. Hydraulic clutch plates, bulbs, plastic fasteners, rads, windshields/windows, tires, rims. even the engine oil, transmission fluid, and coolent has value. Every single part can be stripped down to the subframe and either sold at a scrap yard back into circulation, or by specialized companies that will strip it down right to the subframe and sell the parts out as refurbished. Here in North America, when we strip a car down the only thing that *isn't* recycled are vehicles that have mercury based ABS switches(from 2003 and earlier), those have to be sent for reclamation and disposal. The mercury itself is saved, and resold for use in new mercury switches(which are still in use) You can't sell them in most places either for a replacement, but there is a grey market.
Ergo, all charities that last are all about making money with actual charity being just for show to keep the money coming in.
What you have to do is see how the charity operates to know if that's actually the case. There's a Salvation Army thrift store where I live, and I've got a hell of a soft spot for them because my family when I was growing up ate an awful lot of food at their ministry building and they asked for nothing in return. By and far in their case at least here, all of the money they make goes directly back to buying more food to help the poor, training for the poor, basically anything to help people stuck at the lowest rung of poverty or right on the edge of sleeping in the streets get a hand up. There's good charities out there, and really bad ones too.
Rural votes count for less then urban areas. I don't know where you get the idea otherwise, the number of seats in parliament(provincial and federal) are determined on the number of people living in a particular area. More people, more blocks of people in a riding. Once the cap is hit, a new riding is created out of the existing block. That means during such a split, the cities gain *more* votes and more representation in either federal or provincial legislatures, not less. That's why in Ontario, the premier can run simply in Toronto/GTA and hold a simple majority of the provincial parliament.
The Prime Minister normally can be removed by a vote of no confidence at any time. The President is very difficult to remove from office (cf. Trump) and has a lot of power. The main bastion of law and liberty in the US is the Judicial Branch, backed up by the Constitution
Nope. It requires more then a "vote of no confidence at any time" it's easier to turn around and file impeachment against the president of the US then it is to get the entire house caucus to vote no confidence in a government and crash it around it's knees.
The problem with social networks is that they're detracting from human interaction. A few weeks ago I was at a friends house, his 14yr old daughter was on facebook on her phone, talking to her friend...who was in the same room. They weren't talking with anyone else, simply with each other. I'm sure not the first person to see that happen, and I'll bet anyone who has kids of that age or has friends with kids that age have seen it happen. You can also see this with a lot of young adults who have no real understanding or problems dealing face-to-face with people especially in sales related work.
In the 1970's and 80's our parents chased us out of the house and told us to come back before the sun set in many cases. If you had your own phone, or were even allowed to use the phone for that long you were already the "upper crust" of society, us plebs didn't get to use them beyond using them to meet up with everyone else if that. Then again, by the time I graduated high school calculators were still banned from exams and by the time my sister graduated calculators were allowed, by the time our youngest sister graduated they allowed fully graphing calculators which were programmable. Span of 6 years no less.
How long does it take for a Maple to mature enough to produce syrup?
Round 30 years, you can start tapping them around 20-25 years if the tree is in good shape though. People who are in the business have entire cycles of tree harvesting and replanting figured out for 100-150 years in the future in most cases. That's the case with one of syrup farms near me, they've been in the business since the 1870's. Generally when the trees hit 90-100 years old they're not worth much except to the lumber industry, which has a never-ending taste for hardwoods. Usually it's natural parasites, rot, or something else that gets the tree cut down and replaced though. I know of a few trees in this area that are in the 140 year range and are still tapped though. Older the tree though, the less of a chance that it produces anything but substandard sap(cloudy, off taste/colour when rendered down), etc.
The study itself is actually pretty shit and one of the local arborist was talking about it on the radio(think it was on 730am or 920am early this morning), simply called it junk science. Maples are far more hardy species, then what the research paper paints it as. The real problem is the monoculture problem we're facing with many breeds of trees stemming from the "mass seed to tree production" programs from the 1940's through to the 1980's. Where entire tree crops were replaced with the "most hardy" variety available, and whole areas were planted with them. This for example is one of the reasons why the pine beetles in the US west and western Canada have had such a easy time attacking the trees(along with a lack of burn-offs, there's two sure ways to kill the beetles, purge it by fire, or use chemicals). There's also been a maple blight in the NE US and Canada for the last 30 odd years, but it's been kept under very tight control by simply removing trees that show infections then monitoring nearby trees and spraying anti-fungal agents into the ground.
Truthfully, you're more likely to hear an actual arborist screaming about "Japanese Lilacs" then maple trees, or emerald ashworm borerers. The japanese lilacs are highly invasive and will kill younger trees because they grow so quickly, and devastate the lower forest floor.
Do Maples require other pioneer species to create fertile soil for them? Are other trees better for adapting to the more northern areas? Lots of variables involved in eco-systems moving.
All forests require a pioneer species, maples aren't any different. But the range of sugar maples, and maples in general? They're a hardy tree in terms of viable living regions. Maples through? They're kinda like black walnut without the kill-zone, if they get into an area with no competition, plenty of water, and lots of "dead growth" they'll spread like crazy.
Rural ridings are generally less populous then urban ones so so there's already some counterbalance built in.
Yeah? Why don't you go explain that one to a farmer that's paying $11k/mo to keep their cows, chickens or turkeys warm in the lovely -15C weather earlier today, and in 2008 they were paying $1k/mo. But it's the direct policies of the provincial government that got them there. Or maybe you'd like to explain why Prime minister Justin "Not-so-Bright" Trudeau, wanted to tax employee discounts and slap massive taxes on family farms(which incorporated because taxes were already too damn high).
Besides, you apparently don't even know the 3 biggest population centres in Ontario.
Sure do, but apparently you don't live in Ontario. Otherwise you'd know that's how it's referred to politically, because some ridings are so mashed together that they're considered one gigantic block. Like the GTA/Horseshoe.
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Sure, Fashiki. Whatever you say.
Okie dokie there intellectual coward. Read that GAO report yet and get to the part where more muslims have killed more people in the US then white nationalists yet?
It's that approach that leads me to the following points:
(1) There are a good deal of hateful people involved in BLM. I haven't looked too much into individuals, but some of them might even be (more than) self-proclaimed leaders. They see it as an opportunity to spread their hateful message, and care little about principles.
If you pay attention to the people, whether on social media or in meat space you'll find out that it's not just the leaders spreading their hateful message. It's people openly supporting that hateful message. In this, it's no different then the KKK. Where you have a group of violent thugs agitating violence against one particular group of people and people gravitating towards it because they believe there's some believed injustice. So with that, you should look up the various facets of the people and see what they're pushing. You've probably heard of the "wewazkangz" meme, if you haven't look it up. You'll quickly find that there's more active black ethnonationalist being violent or supporting violence then there are white ethnonationalist for example.
(2) If you take a look at the actual issues that sparked the BLM movement in the first place, it's about police accountability. And when our police are not free to violate the law and our inalienable rights, that benefits people of every color. It's only because the police treat blacks disproportionately worse that it's framed as a racial issue. It's easier to galvanize anger (and thus change) that way. More black families have been affected, so they will on average be quicker to see the need.
Well that's the interesting thing isn't it? Because BLM was built on a farce, lie, and a pile of bullshit. Remember "hands up don't shoot!" and the associated stuff surrounding that? Yeah, that's the face of it. There are bad police just like there are bad people, but let's also remember that when BLM was screeching "we want police body cams" a couple of years now in the future, they're screeching "we want police body cams removed." Because it's actually showing that "good boy" according to all his neighbors and friends, and family was really a piece of shit that already had 3 counts of robbery, and pulled a gun on a cop. Or tried to drive a cop over and got shot for his trouble.
It's interesting that you specifically mention someone in Toronto. The conception is that the police state in Canada is much less strong. I haven't done a comparison of the relevant statistics, but I'd be willing to bet that deaths, at least, are less there.
Comparatively speaking, in Canada it's natives who are the "blacks of Canada" and have the same socio-economic, family failures, rampant drug culture, and generational crime issues. It is however, much like in the US that if you're white you're more likely going to be shot by a cop then if you're black or native. Even at that, in Canada the justice system systemically goes out of it's way to avoid putting natives in jail. And I wish I was joking, that's enacted under the "gladue report." The justice system in Canada is littered natives who have multiple violent offences and aren't put into jail until they do something that not even the most progressive judge can ignore.
If you think that's bad, try to figure out the Right. Nazis are good decent folks and Russians fund the NRA.
So let's see if this makes sense: Nazi's are good, and russians fund the NRA. But Trump is a nazi, and so are his supporters? His supporters are also russians according to the various flapping heads in the leftist media...
So I guess that means Trump and his supporters are actually the good guys?
Hay, I didn't notice that you worked an accusation of racism into the post title. Well done, exemplary.
There's that usual part where you make no sense...and...
So yeah, I'm still punching Nazis and all that...
Glad you've come out and labeled yourself an authoritarian that believes in political violence in order to further your ends. Not only that, but you become a walking contradiction. The UK is your progressive socio-commie philosophy wrapped up in a happy little blanket, it's everything you want. Protected class, particular groups of people getting special privileges based on race, rampant identity politics, jew hatred, oversight and prosecution of thought crimes by government and police. Why would you want to leave the paradise you've already created?
Now, People in Britain sees the evil that the EU is (yes I'm a part of EU and hate EU government), and they vote to exit... against the Press&media will.... again "let's blame the russians"
What bothers me more, is this isn't even limited to the US, the UK or the EU. Media in Canada, and other english speaking countries have been pulling the same garbage, if there isn't another journolist type group setting up narratives I'll eat my keyboard. It wouldn't surprise me if media all over the place are pulling the same garbage, it's entertaining though when you spot the shills pushing it though. They usually have a lapse in thinking, and post "soviet" instead of "russian" which kinda points out how old the person who wrote the script usually is.
Forgot to hit "post anonymously" huh?
On the other hand it's easy to know what Mashiki is thinking. It's the usual straw man argument, paining the "left" as being paranoid and calling everyone a Russian/Nazi. Ignore the evidence, decry the investigation before it even starts, deflect defect deflect.
When you attack the person, you're proving your intellectual cowardice. There's no strawman on that either, or did you skip the "punch a nazi" "nazi's are everywhere" etc., media hysteria that went on for several months....and has died off. Why don't you prove that the russians are everywhere and lurking under your bed, along with the nazis? The media sure hasn't, investigators haven't. Even this article and twitters "post" haven't shown any actual evidence of this, the only thing they've done is "claim" and you know, claim that accounts made nearly a year after the period in question were also "russian" accounts.
Come on buddy, it's time for the what-about post.
How's your police state in the UK coming along? You guys sure have done a bang-up job on that one.
You're not disproving anything I've said. Keep diggin' that hole.
You're lying.
Actual court cases prove otherwise. Then again, I see you haven't read the gao report yet.
What you're trying to say is, "Once you remove all the right-wing extremists from the study of who killed cops, you will find that no right-wing extremists killed cops. You're really being dishonest.
No. I'm saying that mislabeling for the sake of mislabeling does nobody any good. So why don't you go read up on those cases, and you'll suddenly find out that a good half of them aren't actually "white nationalists." But if you want to really play that game, then we shall take a look at black on white crime, which suddenly becomes "black nationalists killing whites" especially when the reasoning in the person as to why they killed that person was "they were white." You sure you really want to go down that path?
Would you like to try another strawman?
Oh by the way, I'm sure you also believe the story out of Canada where the muslim girl claimed someone "cut her hijab" and were salivating all over it as proof that those "evil right wingers" were out there. I'll also bet you didn't watch the press conference, let me give you a hint. Pay attention to her mothers eyes, always down and left, look, down and left. That's a known sign of remembering a fabrication. Oh, and of course, we can't forget that it didn't actually happen...but it sure didn't stop the left-wing media from really-really-really hoping it did. Then going on and on, about how it really doesn't matter that it didn't happen. Our moral progressive overlords are telling us that we're still bad people because of that fake hate-crime. Or our clusterfuck of a PM from really-really-really being stupid. Just like our Premier in Ontario, Kathlynn Wynne being shown just how progressive and modern Islam is, and how very accommodating of women it is. While she's made to sit in the back of the room, and also not allowed into the mosque proper.
So brave, so progressive. Just remember, menstruating girls go behind the rest of the girls because they're doubly unclean.
And here's the actual report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the above article is based on, in case you'd like to see it:
Uh, you might want to actually read that GAO report. Unlike the paste eaters over at paste magazine, who also missed what it said. When you remove the "anti-government extremists" which aren't actually just right-wing. And in those cases, once you actually read them you find out that the vast majority of them weren't right wing either. Yo find out that the GAO report still has muslims killing more people in the US even if you leave those "anti-government extremists" in there. Let's not forget those lovely black block kids, who are also anti-government but sure not right-wing. Or groups like BAMN, and Antifa which are both communist based...because as we all know, communism and right-wing surely go together.
Though I like those other stories, maybe in your haste to post you missed the words "alleged" and so on. I seem to remember tearing your talking points on several of those stories last time as well, and it was a case where those people who killed cops usually left long-anti white, anti-police screeds as well explicitly stating that they were doing it for some reason. And in all those stories you posted? It's all alleged, some tie-in full of maybes, possibilities, allegedlies.
Bit too late for that isn't it? The question was clear, concise, and there was enough of a voter turnout. This isn't going to be like the referendum in Canada over Quebec national sovereignty, where the question was determined to be misleading, was not clear, and was not concise thus ruled null. If the government goes any other way then what with the public actually voted, then the government violates the social contract. In many cases, the government especially the UK government have already voided it, you can see that where the police are not upholding the law or ignoring crimes because of various reasons. Don't be surprised if you see things deteriorate quickly if they decide to go against the initial vote.
#blacklivesmatter is responsible for a dozen or more police officer deaths. There's also no shortage of key leadership figures who've posted long anti-white screeds or what the progressive left would like to call "hate speech." And there is next to zero outcry over that, or even next to zero outcry in the media over it. The only one that got any real media play was the #blm leader in Toronto because it came very close to actually hitting the level for incitement in Canada.
I'll remind you that if the left want to play by the "hate speech" rules, there will be people who will hold them to those same rules.
Thanks for that, Ivan. Always good to know what Putin's St Petersburg astroturf army is thinking
It's pretty hard to figure out what the left's astroturfing army is thinking these days. Either it's russians everywhere, including under your bed. Or it's nazi's everywhere, including under your bed. I bet psychiatrists are making a mint though.
I wonder if Facebook will be opening an investigation into US environmental groups funneling money into Canadian environmental groups(illegal in Canada - must be declared and the reason why the CRA(aka IRS) is still investigating it) and attempting to influence the Canadian election. Because boy oh boy, was there a whole pile of that along with massive abuses of public consultations where these environmental groups put peoples names on the list who lived in other countries in order to tie up those consultations. Again, that was all coordinated on facebook.
Hint: The copper is the only thing of value to the person doing the "recycling". Fire is the recycling of choice and rapid oxidation of plastic does a great job of doing what a landfill does in seconds instead of years.
That's actually illegal in most places(here in north america), simply because of what you said. You're allowed to heat the plastic to make it easier to remove, but burning it to get the copper? Almost all metal recyclers won't take wire like that for fear it's been stolen, not only can they get their licenses pulled for that, but there's big fines if they're caught.
Because things end up in landfills. Biodegradable doesn't mean in 5 years it will have rotted away. Biodegradable just means that it can be broken down naturally. Typical plastics can only be reduced in size to the point where they enter the food cycle. Bio-degradable plastics just mean they can be broken down by bacteria in certain conditions.
Problem is...with cars? Everything is recycled out of them, I mean everything. Wiring harness, used brake shoes, engine+transaxle, for cars with clutches the entire engine and transaxle/transmission is sold in one piece. Hydraulic clutch plates, bulbs, plastic fasteners, rads, windshields/windows, tires, rims. even the engine oil, transmission fluid, and coolent has value. Every single part can be stripped down to the subframe and either sold at a scrap yard back into circulation, or by specialized companies that will strip it down right to the subframe and sell the parts out as refurbished. Here in North America, when we strip a car down the only thing that *isn't* recycled are vehicles that have mercury based ABS switches(from 2003 and earlier), those have to be sent for reclamation and disposal. The mercury itself is saved, and resold for use in new mercury switches(which are still in use) You can't sell them in most places either for a replacement, but there is a grey market.
I'll bet your friend is grateful that you're keeping an eye on his 14 year old daughter.
Such is the life of a godfather. But for someone like you who doesn't have much in the way of family, it's pretty easy to see what your problem is.
Ergo, all charities that last are all about making money with actual charity being just for show to keep the money coming in.
What you have to do is see how the charity operates to know if that's actually the case. There's a Salvation Army thrift store where I live, and I've got a hell of a soft spot for them because my family when I was growing up ate an awful lot of food at their ministry building and they asked for nothing in return. By and far in their case at least here, all of the money they make goes directly back to buying more food to help the poor, training for the poor, basically anything to help people stuck at the lowest rung of poverty or right on the edge of sleeping in the streets get a hand up. There's good charities out there, and really bad ones too.
No, It just means the conservative movement has become little more than a scam to separate the weak-minded from their money.
"Democrats are stupid, and easily swayed to vote for us." - Hillary Clinton.
Sorry what were you saying about conservatives and being weak-minded?
Rural votes count for less then urban areas. I don't know where you get the idea otherwise, the number of seats in parliament(provincial and federal) are determined on the number of people living in a particular area. More people, more blocks of people in a riding. Once the cap is hit, a new riding is created out of the existing block. That means during such a split, the cities gain *more* votes and more representation in either federal or provincial legislatures, not less. That's why in Ontario, the premier can run simply in Toronto/GTA and hold a simple majority of the provincial parliament.
The Prime Minister normally can be removed by a vote of no confidence at any time. The President is very difficult to remove from office (cf. Trump) and has a lot of power. The main bastion of law and liberty in the US is the Judicial Branch, backed up by the Constitution
Nope. It requires more then a "vote of no confidence at any time" it's easier to turn around and file impeachment against the president of the US then it is to get the entire house caucus to vote no confidence in a government and crash it around it's knees.
The problem with social networks is that they're detracting from human interaction. A few weeks ago I was at a friends house, his 14yr old daughter was on facebook on her phone, talking to her friend...who was in the same room. They weren't talking with anyone else, simply with each other. I'm sure not the first person to see that happen, and I'll bet anyone who has kids of that age or has friends with kids that age have seen it happen. You can also see this with a lot of young adults who have no real understanding or problems dealing face-to-face with people especially in sales related work.
In the 1970's and 80's our parents chased us out of the house and told us to come back before the sun set in many cases. If you had your own phone, or were even allowed to use the phone for that long you were already the "upper crust" of society, us plebs didn't get to use them beyond using them to meet up with everyone else if that. Then again, by the time I graduated high school calculators were still banned from exams and by the time my sister graduated calculators were allowed, by the time our youngest sister graduated they allowed fully graphing calculators which were programmable. Span of 6 years no less.
How long does it take for a Maple to mature enough to produce syrup?
Round 30 years, you can start tapping them around 20-25 years if the tree is in good shape though. People who are in the business have entire cycles of tree harvesting and replanting figured out for 100-150 years in the future in most cases. That's the case with one of syrup farms near me, they've been in the business since the 1870's. Generally when the trees hit 90-100 years old they're not worth much except to the lumber industry, which has a never-ending taste for hardwoods. Usually it's natural parasites, rot, or something else that gets the tree cut down and replaced though. I know of a few trees in this area that are in the 140 year range and are still tapped though. Older the tree though, the less of a chance that it produces anything but substandard sap(cloudy, off taste/colour when rendered down), etc.
The study itself is actually pretty shit and one of the local arborist was talking about it on the radio(think it was on 730am or 920am early this morning), simply called it junk science. Maples are far more hardy species, then what the research paper paints it as. The real problem is the monoculture problem we're facing with many breeds of trees stemming from the "mass seed to tree production" programs from the 1940's through to the 1980's. Where entire tree crops were replaced with the "most hardy" variety available, and whole areas were planted with them. This for example is one of the reasons why the pine beetles in the US west and western Canada have had such a easy time attacking the trees(along with a lack of burn-offs, there's two sure ways to kill the beetles, purge it by fire, or use chemicals). There's also been a maple blight in the NE US and Canada for the last 30 odd years, but it's been kept under very tight control by simply removing trees that show infections then monitoring nearby trees and spraying anti-fungal agents into the ground.
Truthfully, you're more likely to hear an actual arborist screaming about "Japanese Lilacs" then maple trees, or emerald ashworm borerers. The japanese lilacs are highly invasive and will kill younger trees because they grow so quickly, and devastate the lower forest floor.
Do Maples require other pioneer species to create fertile soil for them? Are other trees better for adapting to the more northern areas? Lots of variables involved in eco-systems moving.
All forests require a pioneer species, maples aren't any different. But the range of sugar maples, and maples in general? They're a hardy tree in terms of viable living regions. Maples through? They're kinda like black walnut without the kill-zone, if they get into an area with no competition, plenty of water, and lots of "dead growth" they'll spread like crazy.
Rural ridings are generally less populous then urban ones so so there's already some counterbalance built in.
Yeah? Why don't you go explain that one to a farmer that's paying $11k/mo to keep their cows, chickens or turkeys warm in the lovely -15C weather earlier today, and in 2008 they were paying $1k/mo. But it's the direct policies of the provincial government that got them there. Or maybe you'd like to explain why Prime minister Justin "Not-so-Bright" Trudeau, wanted to tax employee discounts and slap massive taxes on family farms(which incorporated because taxes were already too damn high).
Besides, you apparently don't even know the 3 biggest population centres in Ontario.
Sure do, but apparently you don't live in Ontario. Otherwise you'd know that's how it's referred to politically, because some ridings are so mashed together that they're considered one gigantic block. Like the GTA/Horseshoe.