This whole discussion is making me think, let's just kill those birds and all sit down for some nice Buffalo wings, and blue cheese; or maybe I am just hungry...
My wife worked in one of those industries that are 95% male dominated, on a daily basis she put up with sexism on a daily basis, from co-workers and customers.
She worked in the industry for 15 years till she said enough is enough and switched fields because it was really starting to get to her
I remember watching a show about how the US clamped down on US immigrants from japan during WW2 severely harassing or imprisoning many of them, but they still allowed tourists to come from japan. Many of those tourists were low level spies however here with their cameras to take pictures of American infrastructure in preparation of an Japanese invasion.
The funny part is the story I read about how when shooting was heard outside of the doors, Harper ran away from his security handlers to hide in a closet while many other MPs notably the leaders of the other parties grabbed flag poles to use as spears and positioned themselves on either side of the doors.
Islam is just currently going through the phase of its growth that is very similar to the phase the aggressive growth period Christianity went through during the Dark ages. The big difference is that the weapons are mostly more modern and deadly, though even that is moderated somewhat by the free flow of information. One of the biggest problems is that governments and different agencies are trying to control and distort that information, which pits people against each other, and grants them more power to pursue their own radicalized ideals.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
Stephen Harper fits that bill... as do a number of people in his cabinet.
Stuff like that tends to float to the top.
Given that Harper et. al. have been touted by pundits as the most competent government in the world and Canada the best run country and given that the Canadian economy has been chugging along missing the financial mess most countries in the world got themselves into and given that they are not wasting useless resources on creating bird chopping and bird frying green energy projects that are quite useless my guess is that it is you and not the Harper government that should be considered incompetent.
Given that most of the reasons the that the economy kept chugging around were the results of previous governments. Especially the 'economic Team Canada' efforts of his predecessors to diversify the Canadian economy so that we were less US-centric. The previous governments also tended to focus on creating many strong small to mid-sized business as opposed to focusing on strengthening larger corporations which the cons tend to focus on (I have often found that to be a key difference between Libs and Cons economically). Economically the cons did do a fair job, I just tend to believe that their focus on the few large corporations is the wrong way. The reason Canada did so well was the focus on diversifying our economy, and trying to lift other economies up, we were still largely US and EU centric so we took a hit but we also had many small and mid sized businesses doing business with the Asian countries that weren't so impacted by the US collapse
Canada comes near the top of the list in survey after survey: quality of life, quality of education, low crime, etc.
Most countries, including Obamaville, would love to be in the fiscal and societal state of Canada.
You have exposed a useful truth, though. Even in the best run of societies there are pockets of stupidity and lack of awareness.
Our quality of life is a result on a combination of fiscal responsibility and social programs (health care, etc), our quality of education is mediocre at best, low crime is attributable to a combination of our Canadian personality and conservative crime agenda though having adequate social programs greatly helps this as well. Conservative and Liberal agendas have their benefits and drawbacks which is why it is good to have semi-frequent government turn over these long presiding governments that we have lately are polarizing and are not as good for the country in the long term.
You are a nice little sociopath now aren't you. You would make a great case study on the subject if you'd meet a friend of mine at work I am sure that he would be fascinated by you...
though he may not let you leave.
Google is specifically selling the anxieties of its customers to the highest bidder seems pretty vile to me and they should be called out for it.
I am not surprised at all, it is a 'free' service to the public and nothing is truly free, don't be naive, of course you will be exchanging something for it. If you were paying google directly for your Gmail account, you could call yourself a customer, unless you are you are not their customer, you are merely using a service that they are providing for the purposes of data mining and promoting goodwill towards google.
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This whole discussion is making me think, let's just kill those birds and all sit down for some nice Buffalo wings, and blue cheese; or maybe I am just hungry...
My wife worked in one of those industries that are 95% male dominated, on a daily basis she put up with sexism on a daily basis, from co-workers and customers. She worked in the industry for 15 years till she said enough is enough and switched fields because it was really starting to get to her
oh, yea just like my vacuum says whisper quiet but I swear I think hearing protection would be a good idea for it
I remember watching a show about how the US clamped down on US immigrants from japan during WW2 severely harassing or imprisoning many of them, but they still allowed tourists to come from japan. Many of those tourists were low level spies however here with their cameras to take pictures of American infrastructure in preparation of an Japanese invasion.
Well apple learned from it's mistakes, it had trouble canceling Jobs too...
The funny part is the story I read about how when shooting was heard outside of the doors, Harper ran away from his security handlers to hide in a closet while many other MPs notably the leaders of the other parties grabbed flag poles to use as spears and positioned themselves on either side of the doors.
Islam is just currently going through the phase of its growth that is very similar to the phase the aggressive growth period Christianity went through during the Dark ages. The big difference is that the weapons are mostly more modern and deadly, though even that is moderated somewhat by the free flow of information. One of the biggest problems is that governments and different agencies are trying to control and distort that information, which pits people against each other, and grants them more power to pursue their own radicalized ideals.
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
Stephen Harper fits that bill... as do a number of people in his cabinet.
Stuff like that tends to float to the top.
Given that Harper et. al. have been touted by pundits as the most competent government in the world and Canada the best run country and given that the Canadian economy has been chugging along missing the financial mess most countries in the world got themselves into and given that they are not wasting useless resources on creating bird chopping and bird frying green energy projects that are quite useless my guess is that it is you and not the Harper government that should be considered incompetent.
Given that most of the reasons the that the economy kept chugging around were the results of previous governments. Especially the 'economic Team Canada' efforts of his predecessors to diversify the Canadian economy so that we were less US-centric. The previous governments also tended to focus on creating many strong small to mid-sized business as opposed to focusing on strengthening larger corporations which the cons tend to focus on (I have often found that to be a key difference between Libs and Cons economically). Economically the cons did do a fair job, I just tend to believe that their focus on the few large corporations is the wrong way. The reason Canada did so well was the focus on diversifying our economy, and trying to lift other economies up, we were still largely US and EU centric so we took a hit but we also had many small and mid sized businesses doing business with the Asian countries that weren't so impacted by the US collapse
Canada comes near the top of the list in survey after survey: quality of life, quality of education, low crime, etc.
Most countries, including Obamaville, would love to be in the fiscal and societal state of Canada.
You have exposed a useful truth, though. Even in the best run of societies there are pockets of stupidity and lack of awareness.
Our quality of life is a result on a combination of fiscal responsibility and social programs (health care, etc), our quality of education is mediocre at best, low crime is attributable to a combination of our Canadian personality and conservative crime agenda though having adequate social programs greatly helps this as well. Conservative and Liberal agendas have their benefits and drawbacks which is why it is good to have semi-frequent government turn over these long presiding governments that we have lately are polarizing and are not as good for the country in the long term.
Now I can make this http://youtu.be/ebfLWAB8bY4
You are a nice little sociopath now aren't you. You would make a great case study on the subject if you'd meet a friend of mine at work I am sure that he would be fascinated by you... though he may not let you leave.
Google is specifically selling the anxieties of its customers to the highest bidder seems pretty vile to me and they should be called out for it.
I am not surprised at all, it is a 'free' service to the public and nothing is truly free, don't be naive, of course you will be exchanging something for it. If you were paying google directly for your Gmail account, you could call yourself a customer, unless you are you are not their customer, you are merely using a service that they are providing for the purposes of data mining and promoting goodwill towards google.