I'd rather spend my money on a new AMD system for myself, and lots of Linux books. So I'll wrap up my unwillingness to spend money in a pile of self-righteous condemnation.
Run, sister. Not only do you have a cheap bastard as a fiance, but one who intends on making you feel guilty at the slightest provocation when money gets involved.
And before the response flood comes in, I'll bet dollars to donuts that if diamonds cost pennies per carat, he wouldn't care who gets the money. If that's the problem, buy Canadian diamonds, and shell out the cash.
We've conversed before - good to see you around. Personally, I purchased a 3/4 ct high quality engagement ring, and a diamond studded wedding band (all very high quality diamonds in terms of cut, clarity, color), and love it to this day. I don't know much about apartheid, but she appreciated the gestures, she loves the rings, and quite frankly, I get to live vicariously through her (men don't get to wear diamonds), and I love em.
RE: There's nothing morally reprehensible about the Canadians, last time I checked.
Apart from the fact that the state is crooked, confiscatory and socialist? Hm, well, ask the UN. It has a problem with the Quebecois Nazi language laws, and Canada's treatment of Native peoples. In fact, Mulroney (80s era Prime Minister) had egg on his chin when he lambasted the South Africans for apartheid, and couldn't answer when SA came back with sarcastic comments about conditions in Native reservations.
RE: Given a choice between a H1 worker and a citizen, companies prefer the former - Today's software engineering cycles are very short, lasting only a few months. Given that H1 approval by itself takes months (including paperwork and INS wait time), no logical person will prefer a H1 candidate to a local worker.
I think what you meant to say was Given a choice between a H1 worker and a citizen, companies prefer the latter
It's the GST. Many American merchants are not interested in registering for the GST, paying it, etc. or listening to WHINING when people refuse the shipment because there's all this tax on it.
Guy buys a $100 stereo - it comes in, the Canadian customs grabs it, decide it's worth $200 USD which is $300 CDN - let's see, GST, PST, fees - $340-$360... the guy looks at the final price and says "GAK!" and returns it or refuses the shipment.
RE: What happened to you in Canada that made you so fervently anti-Canadian
I lived there for 26 some-odd years.
RE: You have some deep seated anger issues that you need to work through I think.
Whether I have issues or not has no effect on the validity of what I'm saying, does it?
RE: Canada is a country of 30,000,000 people, and they can all express whatever opinions that they want,
NO THEY CANNOT. You do NOT have free speech.
RE: within bounds of not not promoting hate,
Unless it's against Americans. Ask that poisonous Thodani woman at that Vancouver university.
RE: and that's ay okay. Mary Walsh makes fun of George Bush: So be it-It's a comedy show for crying out loud (oh, goodness, South Park and the Simpsons made fun of Canada...damn those Americans!
George Bush doesn't pay South Park and the Simpsons to do so. Big difference.
RE: I'm _very_ thankful that we don't have the sort of pseudo-free society where every belief is tempered by a raised brow of inappropriateness,
Oh, for God's sake. Notwithstanding the fact that you don't have the right to free speech (or even own property) better not criticise Chretien, or out comes Sgt Pepper with his chemical weaponry.
RE: or even more frighteningly, supposed "patriotism".
This is rich coming from a nation that tattoos its flag just about everywhere, especially when they travel.
RE: No matter how much you are a Bush fan, just wait until election time comes around, and the 9/11 honeymoon is over...
Who says I'm a Bush fan? RE: It wasn't an "Active Al-Queda" cell, but that was the dramatization of the OPP (disputed by the actual intelligence agency of CSIS),
RE: however they actually did not break the law so they weren't arrested (although they were under apparent heavy scrutiny).
No law against being a terrorist in Canada. Especially if you give large sums of money to the PM.
I thought artificial intelligence as it relates to sports is either
1. Grade inflation so that the jocks won't miss the big game for the state championships
OR
2. Jocks buying term papers on the internet or beating up the liberal arts students to get them to do it for them so that they don't get considered unable to play by the NCAA and therefore miss the upcoming national championships.
RE: stop the US media from immediately looking North.
Paperwork used in 9/11 originated from a copy store in Toronto that strangely started to move tons of boxes of material out of their building once the FBI was alerted to this. Onlookers phoned the cops to try and prevent evidence from being removed or destroyed. The RCMP showed up. A week later. An active Al-Qaeda cell in Ontario just got away (they isn't buggin us, eh, nuthin ta get worried aboot). And wasn't there some guy called Ahmed Ressam who financed his bomb-making efforts with Canadian welfare money, which is about as easy to get as HIV in a Thai brothel?
RE: Firstly, maybe the US could stop being a source of explosives, handguns, machine guns, etc,
Explosives are used in demolition and construction. Guns, etc. are used by police forces including yer mounties. I don't see any real use for heroin. Heroin is illegal in Canada and the USA. Why not make an effort to control its importation? Cause your departments are on the take.
RE: The US exports crime
This should be good. Explain yourself.
RE: Yeah, a lot of Canadians have issues with certain traits of certain Americans,
Watch the CBC (yeah, you CAN get it in the States) for a while. Mary Walsh calls George Bush a RETARD at least once a week, with approval from Chretien, all the sudden the donut gobblers are wondering why the US would rather deal with Mexico all the sudden, and freeze Canada out.
That accident could have been avoided. The US military offered Cretch a buncha transmitters that would have identified the soldiers as being friendly ones. EVERY OTHER MILITARY USED THEM. Canada didn't want them cause it would have highlighted their deficiencies in terms of kit.
And you're partially correct about the karma suicide - but my main focus still stands.
America to Canada: "Hey, tighten up your immigration so we don't have to worry about terrorists waltzing across our border with you."
Chretien: "Hi yam nut goan to stan fer dat. We will yav da Made Hin Canaduh law for da Canaduh"
America to Canada: "Hey, by the way, stop being a conduit for heroin and pot via B.C. and tighten up your customs agencies."
Canada Customs: "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
Ass kisser, right. Chretien does his usual milking of anti-American sentiment to rally the troops every time it comes to light he or his cronies have been misappropriating public money.
Canada is run by an anti-American socialist who insults the Bush administration and brushes it off at every opportunity. Canadian culture is that of negative identity with a subtle anti-American xenophobia - so rather than saying "we're X Y Z" they say "at least we're not racist, fat, arrogant, and retarded, like those Americans, EH". What truly matters is, how much money have you got and how many attack planes can you put in the air? Canada's basically a tiny hick nation with a net military arsenal of two bicycles and a dinghy.
True story: the original plan was to have an extended fight between the scimitar waving guy and Indy.
Problem was, they filmed it outside the USA. American + bad water in third world = health problems.
Apparently our Harry was on the set, creased over with an apparently critical impending fit of near-fatal diarrhoea.
So, everyone's like, "OK, ready to shoot the extended very physical scene we rehearsed in LA?" and Harry's got a case of quivering sphincter that's about to hit Defcon III. So he walks up to the stunt monkey and says "look, do me a favour, no matter what happens, just play along." So they yell "Action" and Harrison pulls the gun, fires, the other guy drops, the director yells "CUT!" and Harrison takes off for the john at Mach 4.
Turns out, they loved the ad-lib when they watched the rushes, and chose not to reschedule the scene. Just think, if it wasn't for intestinal parasites and Montezuma's revenge, that scene would never have been.
You know, that thing where we're all exhorted to spend, spend, spend, keep the economy moving... but strangely enough, they keep laying people off, refusing to hire, etc etc etc.
Eventually, people are just going to get sick of spending just to give money to those Enron CEO types who'll just hoard it.
Woe betide the USA when consumers eventually give up trying to spend the economy back into employment.
Well, Canada's prime minister, Jean Chretien, is a dictator. He's chosen by his peers, is accountable to nobody (considering there is no opposition of any worth, he's set for life). No term limits, no checks and balances, Canada's equivalent of Ken Starr ANSWERS to him, etc.
Apart from macing students peacefully protesting, choking a protestor and hurling him into a group of cops ("Hi find yer lack huv fate hin da Libbberal partey disthurbing") and lining his own pockets through a weird deal involving golf courses and people in jail, he hasn't done anything really malign.
If it makes you feel any better, they consider me overqualified in Toronto. Add to that the sarcastic dismissal of me as a "US-jumping traitor" and you have the makings of a pariah.
Well, look. The way I see it is, I don't have that much of a problem with the spoiled folk earning $124,000 in 1999 knowing only HTML and some cribbed JavaScript after a couple of week's "training" and finding it tricky to find work now. I don't like people being out of work or poorer, that sucks, but HTML is NOT that tricky, overall.
However, it's highly ironic that managers wouldn't let geeks work from home even when times were good, overall, but see nothing wrong with shipping work thousands of miles away.
When real, C++/Java/engineering work goes oversees, it's a bad sign.
Yeah, I am still here. Green Card app's delayed - they're really finding reasons to reject considering the economy. Jobs are scarce on the ground. Luckily I have a really good case to be at my job with my experience and skill set.
A hard time finding programming work in Toronto? I understand Canada's economy is supposedly doing better than the States, with hundreds of thousands of new jobs daily.
It'll be interesting to see how the US manages things though - sending all its high paying jobs overseas and then wondering who's going to buy all the $200K houses, $20K cars, taxes, etc.
I left Canada cause the major employers were all gung ho to send all the jobs away. Now it looks like the USA is doing so, too.
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I'd rather spend my money on a new AMD system for myself, and lots of Linux books. So I'll wrap up my unwillingness to spend money in a pile of self-righteous condemnation.
Run, sister. Not only do you have a cheap bastard as a fiance, but one who intends on making you feel guilty at the slightest provocation when money gets involved.
And before the response flood comes in, I'll bet dollars to donuts that if diamonds cost pennies per carat, he wouldn't care who gets the money. If that's the problem, buy Canadian diamonds, and shell out the cash.
We've conversed before - good to see you around. Personally, I purchased a 3/4 ct high quality engagement ring, and a diamond studded wedding band (all very high quality diamonds in terms of cut, clarity, color), and love it to this day. I don't know much about apartheid, but she appreciated the gestures, she loves the rings, and quite frankly, I get to live vicariously through her (men don't get to wear diamonds), and I love em.
RE: There's nothing morally reprehensible about the Canadians, last time I checked.
Apart from the fact that the state is crooked, confiscatory and socialist? Hm, well, ask the UN. It has a problem with the Quebecois Nazi language laws, and Canada's treatment of Native peoples. In fact, Mulroney (80s era Prime Minister) had egg on his chin when he lambasted the South Africans for apartheid, and couldn't answer when SA came back with sarcastic comments about conditions in Native reservations.
Strangely enough, I developed a similar application and ran some Open Source code through it.
The resulting melody was "Please, release me... let me go...."
Duh, it's Ein Berliner.
History, Dude.
I second that. I think "flow" is a very creative idea for a game.
RE: Given a choice between a H1 worker and a citizen, companies prefer the former - Today's software engineering cycles are very short, lasting only a few months. Given that H1 approval by itself takes months (including paperwork and INS wait time), no logical person will prefer a H1 candidate to a local worker.
I think what you meant to say was Given a choice between a H1 worker and a citizen, companies prefer the latter
They're lying to you.
It's the GST. Many American merchants are not interested in registering for the GST, paying it, etc. or listening to WHINING when people refuse the shipment because there's all this tax on it.
Guy buys a $100 stereo - it comes in, the Canadian customs grabs it, decide it's worth $200 USD which is $300 CDN - let's see, GST, PST, fees - $340-$360... the guy looks at the final price and says "GAK!" and returns it or refuses the shipment.
Americans don't want to deal with that garbage.
under Linux?
I tried the whole Linux/Java thing. Couldn't get the Java environment to install for love or money.
RE: What happened to you in Canada that made you so fervently anti-Canadian
I lived there for 26 some-odd years.
RE: You have some deep seated anger issues that you need to work through I think.
Whether I have issues or not has no effect on the validity of what I'm saying, does it?
RE: Canada is a country of 30,000,000 people, and they can all express whatever opinions that they want,
NO THEY CANNOT. You do NOT have free speech.
RE: within bounds of not not promoting hate,
Unless it's against Americans. Ask that poisonous Thodani woman at that Vancouver university.
RE: and that's ay okay. Mary Walsh makes fun of George Bush: So be it-It's a comedy show for crying out loud (oh, goodness, South Park and the Simpsons made fun of Canada...damn those Americans!
George Bush doesn't pay South Park and the Simpsons to do so. Big difference.
RE: I'm _very_ thankful that we don't have the sort of pseudo-free society where every belief is tempered by a raised brow of inappropriateness,
Oh, for God's sake. Notwithstanding the fact that you don't have the right to free speech (or even own property) better not criticise Chretien, or out comes Sgt Pepper with his chemical weaponry.
RE: or even more frighteningly, supposed "patriotism".
This is rich coming from a nation that tattoos its flag just about everywhere, especially when they travel.
RE: No matter how much you are a Bush fan, just wait until election time comes around, and the 9/11 honeymoon is over...
Who says I'm a Bush fan?
RE: It wasn't an "Active Al-Queda" cell, but that was the dramatization of the OPP (disputed by the actual intelligence agency of CSIS),
RE: however they actually did not break the law so they weren't arrested (although they were under apparent heavy scrutiny).
No law against being a terrorist in Canada. Especially if you give large sums of money to the PM.
I thought artificial intelligence as it relates to sports is either
1. Grade inflation so that the jocks won't miss the big game for the state championships
OR
2. Jocks buying term papers on the internet or beating up the liberal arts students to get them to do it for them so that they don't get considered unable to play by the NCAA and therefore miss the upcoming national championships.
RE: stop the US media from immediately looking North.
Paperwork used in 9/11 originated from a copy store in Toronto that strangely started to move tons of boxes of material out of their building once the FBI was alerted to this. Onlookers phoned the cops to try and prevent evidence from being removed or destroyed. The RCMP showed up. A week later. An active Al-Qaeda cell in Ontario just got away (they isn't buggin us, eh, nuthin ta get worried aboot). And wasn't there some guy called Ahmed Ressam who financed his bomb-making efforts with Canadian welfare money, which is about as easy to get as HIV in a Thai brothel?
RE: Firstly, maybe the US could stop being a source of explosives, handguns, machine guns, etc,
Explosives are used in demolition and construction. Guns, etc. are used by police forces including yer mounties. I don't see any real use for heroin. Heroin is illegal in Canada and the USA. Why not make an effort to control its importation? Cause your departments are on the take.
RE: The US exports crime
This should be good. Explain yourself.
RE: Yeah, a lot of Canadians have issues with certain traits of certain Americans,
Watch the CBC (yeah, you CAN get it in the States) for a while. Mary Walsh calls George Bush a RETARD at least once a week, with approval from Chretien, all the sudden the donut gobblers are wondering why the US would rather deal with Mexico all the sudden, and freeze Canada out.
That accident could have been avoided. The US military offered Cretch a buncha transmitters that would have identified the soldiers as being friendly ones. EVERY OTHER MILITARY USED THEM. Canada didn't want them cause it would have highlighted their deficiencies in terms of kit.
And you're partially correct about the karma suicide - but my main focus still stands.
America to Canada: "Hey, tighten up your immigration so we don't have to worry about terrorists waltzing across our border with you."
Chretien: "Hi yam nut goan to stan fer dat. We will yav da Made Hin Canaduh law for da Canaduh"
America to Canada: "Hey, by the way, stop being a conduit for heroin and pot via B.C. and tighten up your customs agencies."
Canada Customs: "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"
Ass kisser, right. Chretien does his usual milking of anti-American sentiment to rally the troops every time it comes to light he or his cronies have been misappropriating public money.
Canada is run by an anti-American socialist who insults the Bush administration and brushes it off at every opportunity. Canadian culture is that of negative identity with a subtle anti-American xenophobia - so rather than saying "we're X Y Z" they say "at least we're not racist, fat, arrogant, and retarded, like those Americans, EH". What truly matters is, how much money have you got and how many attack planes can you put in the air? Canada's basically a tiny hick nation with a net military arsenal of two bicycles and a dinghy.
True story: the original plan was to have an extended fight between the scimitar waving guy and Indy.
Problem was, they filmed it outside the USA. American + bad water in third world = health problems.
Apparently our Harry was on the set, creased over with an apparently critical impending fit of near-fatal diarrhoea.
So, everyone's like, "OK, ready to shoot the extended very physical scene we rehearsed in LA?" and Harry's got a case of quivering sphincter that's about to hit Defcon III. So he walks up to the stunt monkey and says "look, do me a favour, no matter what happens, just play along." So they yell "Action" and Harrison pulls the gun, fires, the other guy drops, the director yells "CUT!" and Harrison takes off for the john at Mach 4.
Turns out, they loved the ad-lib when they watched the rushes, and chose not to reschedule the scene. Just think, if it wasn't for intestinal parasites and Montezuma's revenge, that scene would never have been.
Or soon, the contract will be over.
You know, that thing where we're all exhorted to spend, spend, spend, keep the economy moving... but strangely enough, they keep laying people off, refusing to hire, etc etc etc.
Eventually, people are just going to get sick of spending just to give money to those Enron CEO types who'll just hoard it.
Woe betide the USA when consumers eventually give up trying to spend the economy back into employment.
Well, Canada's prime minister, Jean Chretien, is a dictator. He's chosen by his peers, is accountable to nobody (considering there is no opposition of any worth, he's set for life). No term limits, no checks and balances, Canada's equivalent of Ken Starr ANSWERS to him, etc.
Apart from macing students peacefully protesting, choking a protestor and hurling him into a group of cops ("Hi find yer lack huv fate hin da Libbberal partey disthurbing") and lining his own pockets through a weird deal involving golf courses and people in jail, he hasn't done anything really malign.
It sinks.
Listen to 570KVI - there's a guy running ads for web sites developed under $1000. His team is in Asia, so he can pass on the savings to you!
I'm sure all you out of work HTML coders appreciate this.
If it makes you feel any better, they consider me overqualified in Toronto. Add to that the sarcastic dismissal of me as a "US-jumping traitor" and you have the makings of a pariah.
Well, look. The way I see it is, I don't have that much of a problem with the spoiled folk earning $124,000 in 1999 knowing only HTML and some cribbed JavaScript after a couple of week's "training" and finding it tricky to find work now. I don't like people being out of work or poorer, that sucks, but HTML is NOT that tricky, overall.
However, it's highly ironic that managers wouldn't let geeks work from home even when times were good, overall, but see nothing wrong with shipping work thousands of miles away.
When real, C++/Java/engineering work goes oversees, it's a bad sign.
Yeah, I am still here. Green Card app's delayed - they're really finding reasons to reject considering the economy. Jobs are scarce on the ground. Luckily I have a really good case to be at my job with my experience and skill set.
A hard time finding programming work in Toronto? I understand Canada's economy is supposedly doing better than the States, with hundreds of thousands of new jobs daily.
Get used to it. 1999 is NEVER coming back.
It'll be interesting to see how the US manages things though - sending all its high paying jobs overseas and then wondering who's going to buy all the $200K houses, $20K cars, taxes, etc.
I left Canada cause the major employers were all gung ho to send all the jobs away. Now it looks like the USA is doing so, too.
Don't you mean Hindi? Hindi's the language, Hindu the religion.
According to hardcore Christians, it doesn't matter whether you think you believe in Satan or not, if you don't believe in Jesus by definition you're worshipping a false god, set up by Satan as a snare to the faithful.