I think they maxed out their exemptions on this trip.
Judging the appraised value of moon rocks, the customs duty on said articles'd be enough to put the Armstrong family in hock to Uncle Sam for a few generations...
Canada LOVES to tax. "Ho, diss will bee for da content provider dere" says Bent-face Chretien, but he's rubbing his greedy corpselike hands, anticipating yet more tax windfall to spend on singing fountains in rivers, lesbian porn films, dirty joke books about dumb blondes, kickbacks to himself via shady hotel deals, etc.
I'm glad you quoted that - I was the person who posted that story.
Thanks for saving me retyping it.
She later came back and wanted a computer that could withstand being in a smoky environment. I told her that she'd be buying it from some industrial computer supplier and that it'd cost her. A lot.
That has got to be the UGLIEST jewellery on the face of the planet, and I'm also including the insides of the mouths of many rap groups and the atrocious jewellery found in the "islands" in shopping malls; you know, the silver plated "dollah" signs and big ugly dragons?
Heck, even some of the jewellery from the 70s (huge gold-plated chains with anchors, etc) have a certain cachet compared to these.
RE: Sorry, I think you're a little misinformed. The database you're referring to is simply social security current address.
WRONG. That was why the HDRC was given flack about it, and why they promised to scrap it.
RE:Hmmm... Let's see... what pile of bullshit do I flush first?
Ad hominem attacks don't make your points any better.
RE:SOOO many to choose from. No free speech? Last time I checked, anyone was allowed to gather for protest
Hm, unless you're protesting Suharto showing up. Then the PMO sends in riot squads. No punishments for those people anywhere: apparently the PMO can supercede the Charter.
RE: Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of expression
Notwithstanding clause, Supreme Court "adjustments" to laws... Tried posting a sign in English in Quebec lately?
RE: Our debt is probably 1/100th the USA's debt. And this is the 3rd year in a row IIRC. So what the hell are you talking about?
America is predicted to have everything paid off within 20 years. Canada? About 1000.
RE:DMCA? The big oil companies and their lobbying.
What about either is unconstitutional?
RE: The total lack of representation or even thought given to groups of lesser influence or means. uhhuh.
Western Canada wants a word with you about total lack of representation.
RE:Oh, I guess the thing I'm typing this with is a figment of my imagination. How silly of me not to notice that. Gun? All you have to do is register.
Then tomorrow, they confiscate. They've already lied about it and been proven liars.
RE:Reverse-onus prosecution? I think you are a little misinformed my friend.
RE: And increasingly get your rights trampled on and your privacy invaded because the government has some pretty fucked up ideas of freedom.
That's RICH, considering that Canaduh has that big Big Brother database on every Canadian. "We dismantled that!" Yeah sure, this would of course be at the same time they got rid of the GST, right?
RE: Every country has their fuck ups, but I would honestly rather live in a country that's worse off economically because of some bonehead government than in a country whose governments' mission is leaning towards Big Brother under the pretense of security and order.
Canada has no free speech rights, no property rights, your right to self defense is being taken away as we speak, you're all sliding into eternal debt, and you are trying to tell me that America, which has always valued its Constitutional principles, is going to hell in a handbasket? Thanks for playing "let's boost Chretien". Schmuck.
RE: I'm not a 'yay Canada' type person,
Oh no, of course not.
RE: but every single time I hear some stupid Corporate or government move to further encroach on peoples' freedoms, you would not believe how glad I am that I live in Canada.
Where you don't even have the right to own your own computer, let alone a gun to defend yourself against your government?
RE: I'll trade money and economic success for freedom ANY day.
Well, when Canada gets the right to free speech (kiddie porn doesn't count), a decent economy, and respects the right to remain silent, the right to not be subjected to reverse-onus prosecution, etc. let me know, OK? Learn something, THEN post. Leave the Liberal propaganda at home.
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Thanks for the support. I love it when so called "students" waffle on a bunch of gobshite unrelated to the task at hand, just to prove how "clever" they are, not realising that they've just proven that they're functionally illiterate.
RE: Your post really only shows how ignorant you are of economics. The Canadian and US dollars are not equal in value, nor should they be.
No, you're totally right, I'm sorry. Though the Canadian dollar used to be worth more than the American one, Trudeau put that right, along with instituting law-by-judiciary, ensuring that the charter of Rights and Freedoms never mentions the right to own property, etc etc etc. The NEP was a stroke of economic brilliance.
RE: Currencies rise and fall due to international trade and, to some extent, to the monetary policies of the governments involved.
Well, Canada's just went down and stayed down. The word from the government was "well, deyr goan to go hup, da currency halweys go hup haffter hit go down."
RE: However, what really happened was that Canadians, who happen to have a higher rate of savings than Americans, have been investing their money heavily in the US stock markets.
Could it be because American companies make money, whereas Canadian ones are nepotistic puppets of the government, existing only to pay taxes? Just asking.
RE: On the up side, Canadian exports have been looking ever more attractive to US buyers,
Everyone loves a bankruptcy sale.
RE: which has been driving the Canadian economy for the last five or ten years.
It certainly wouldn't be competitiveness, or anything else. Thanks for pointing that out.
RE: If you'd like to continue learning about the real world and how it works, I would suggest any first year macroeconomics course, or even a little common sense.
Or try actually working and getting a job in that commie paradise. No thanks. You've got Ph.D's slinging coffee, whereas in the USA if you have a pulse and a clue, you can make something of yourself.
According to Canadian law the Canadian authorities must prove you AREN'T a refugee, not the other way around. So go up there, burn your passport, and say "I am a refugee."
I'm not an ignorant twit. I for one happen to know unlike most Canadians that you don't have the right to own your own property thanks to that communist son of a bitch Trudeau.
The wild economic forecast is being adjusted as we speak, son. I don't forsee taxes dropping nor the dollar going up in value any time soon.
RE: Freedom of speech is guaranteed so long as it does not infringe upon someone else?s rights. i.e. racism is considered infringement (Canada anyway),
Canada, being the socialist haven that it is, prohibits free speech, as it does the right to self-defence, and the right to own property. If you don't believe it, check the charter. If the government decides tomorrow that modems are a threat to it, it will have them all confiscated without compensation, because you don't actually have the right to own them, anyway. You DO have the right to possess property for a while, and of course you are expected to pay tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax on it, so that a new singing fountain or a hotel can go up in Shawinigan.
Solve "the Quebec Problem"
Build Canada a functioning economy
Reduce Canadian taxation levels
Get Jean Chretien to resign
End the socialist dictatorship system in Canada
Rewrite the Constitution and Bill Of Rights of Canada to allow Canadians to have free speech, defend themselves, and own property (apart from just paying taxes on things they own)
Raise Canadian job opportunities and salaries to US levels
THOSE would be impressive engineering feats. But that would be beyond their ken.
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1) Successfully prosecuting present and former Prime Ministers lining their own pockets with public money.
2) Healthcare.
3) Lowering taxes.
4) Hockey.
They are, however, really good at whining.
I think they maxed out their exemptions on this trip.
Judging the appraised value of moon rocks, the customs duty on said articles'd be enough to put the Armstrong family in hock to Uncle Sam for a few generations...
For the first "It's cause of the H1-B/Immigrant/Foreigner" rant. Amazing how when times get tough, people blame outsiders.
My point is, I think you'll see the jobs and salaries evaporate before the rent goes down. One will always lag behind the other.
Problem is: salaries will evaporate, but I don't think the rent will go down any time soon.
Canada LOVES to tax. "Ho, diss will bee for da content provider dere" says Bent-face Chretien, but he's rubbing his greedy corpselike hands, anticipating yet more tax windfall to spend on singing fountains in rivers, lesbian porn films, dirty joke books about dumb blondes, kickbacks to himself via shady hotel deals, etc.
I'm glad you quoted that - I was the person who posted that story.
Thanks for saving me retyping it.
She later came back and wanted a computer that could withstand being in a smoky environment. I told her that she'd be buying it from some industrial computer supplier and that it'd cost her. A lot.
how long before an action figure of the goatse.cx guy gets produced?
I do NOT want to know what accessories would come with such a figure.
That has got to be the UGLIEST jewellery on the face of the planet, and I'm also including the insides of the mouths of many rap groups and the atrocious jewellery found in the "islands" in shopping malls; you know, the silver plated "dollah" signs and big ugly dragons?
Heck, even some of the jewellery from the 70s (huge gold-plated chains with anchors, etc) have a certain cachet compared to these.
Damn.
Come here and say that, you manky-toothed boiled food eating big-eared chinless inbred bastard.
Careful, all the Chretien apologists will come out of the woodwork and berate you about how good Canada really is.
Canada SUCKS especially for IT which is why 66% of many graduating classes in Computer Science immediately head South.
RE: Sorry, I think you're a little misinformed. The database you're referring to is simply social security current address.
WRONG. That was why the HDRC was given flack about it, and why they promised to scrap it.
RE:Hmmm... Let's see... what pile of bullshit do I flush first?
Ad hominem attacks don't make your points any better.
RE:SOOO many to choose from. No free speech? Last time I checked, anyone was allowed to gather for protest
Hm, unless you're protesting Suharto showing up. Then the PMO sends in riot squads. No punishments for those people anywhere: apparently the PMO can supercede the Charter. RE: Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of expression
Notwithstanding clause, Supreme Court "adjustments" to laws... Tried posting a sign in English in Quebec lately?
RE: Our debt is probably 1/100th the USA's debt. And this is the 3rd year in a row IIRC. So what the hell are you talking about?
America is predicted to have everything paid off within 20 years. Canada? About 1000.
RE:DMCA? The big oil companies and their lobbying.
What about either is unconstitutional?
RE: The total lack of representation or even thought given to groups of lesser influence or means. uhhuh.
Western Canada wants a word with you about total lack of representation.
RE:Oh, I guess the thing I'm typing this with is a figment of my imagination. How silly of me not to notice that. Gun? All you have to do is register.
Then tomorrow, they confiscate. They've already lied about it and been proven liars.
RE:Reverse-onus prosecution? I think you are a little misinformed my friend.
Bill C-68. Try reading it.
RE: And increasingly get your rights trampled on and your privacy invaded because the government has some pretty fucked up ideas of freedom.
That's RICH, considering that Canaduh has that big Big Brother database on every Canadian. "We dismantled that!" Yeah sure, this would of course be at the same time they got rid of the GST, right?
RE: Every country has their fuck ups, but I would honestly rather live in a country that's worse off economically because of some bonehead government than in a country whose governments' mission is leaning towards Big Brother under the pretense of security and order.
Canada has no free speech rights, no property rights, your right to self defense is being taken away as we speak, you're all sliding into eternal debt, and you are trying to tell me that America, which has always valued its Constitutional principles, is going to hell in a handbasket? Thanks for playing "let's boost Chretien". Schmuck.
RE: I'm not a 'yay Canada' type person,
Oh no, of course not.
RE: but every single time I hear some stupid Corporate or government move to further encroach on peoples' freedoms, you would not believe how glad I am that I live in Canada.
Where you don't even have the right to own your own computer, let alone a gun to defend yourself against your government?
RE: I'll trade money and economic success for freedom ANY day.
Well, when Canada gets the right to free speech (kiddie porn doesn't count), a decent economy, and respects the right to remain silent, the right to not be subjected to reverse-onus prosecution, etc. let me know, OK? Learn something, THEN post. Leave the Liberal propaganda at home.
Thanks for the support. I love it when so called "students" waffle on a bunch of gobshite unrelated to the task at hand, just to prove how "clever" they are, not realising that they've just proven that they're functionally illiterate.
RE: Your post really only shows how ignorant you are of economics. The Canadian and US dollars are not equal in value, nor should they be.
No, you're totally right, I'm sorry. Though the Canadian dollar used to be worth more than the American one, Trudeau put that right, along with instituting law-by-judiciary, ensuring that the charter of Rights and Freedoms never mentions the right to own property, etc etc etc. The NEP was a stroke of economic brilliance.
RE: Currencies rise and fall due to international trade and, to some extent, to the monetary policies of the governments involved.
Well, Canada's just went down and stayed down. The word from the government was "well, deyr goan to go hup, da currency halweys go hup haffter hit go down."
RE: However, what really happened was that Canadians, who happen to have a higher rate of savings than Americans, have been investing their money heavily in the US stock markets.
Could it be because American companies make money, whereas Canadian ones are nepotistic puppets of the government, existing only to pay taxes? Just asking.
RE: On the up side, Canadian exports have been looking ever more attractive to US buyers,
Everyone loves a bankruptcy sale.
RE: which has been driving the Canadian economy for the last five or ten years.
It certainly wouldn't be competitiveness, or anything else. Thanks for pointing that out.
RE: If you'd like to continue learning about the real world and how it works, I would suggest any first year macroeconomics course, or even a little common sense.
Or try actually working and getting a job in that commie paradise. No thanks. You've got Ph.D's slinging coffee, whereas in the USA if you have a pulse and a clue, you can make something of yourself.
They've figured out how to turn American money into Canadian money! Just shrink 40%, kill off 40% of its value.
Does it come with a crooked faced puppet screaming on about how it's from the best country on Earth?
British Columbia seems to think that kiddie pr0n should be constitutionally protected.
A thousand mistaken goatse.cx redirects on their heads.
qualifies as a hack - and I'm glad to read that MIT students still believe in social engineering.
According to Canadian law the Canadian authorities must prove you AREN'T a refugee, not the other way around. So go up there, burn your passport, and say "I am a refugee."
Collect lots of cheques.
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I'm not an ignorant twit. I for one happen to know unlike most Canadians that you don't have the right to own your own property thanks to that communist son of a bitch Trudeau.
The wild economic forecast is being adjusted as we speak, son. I don't forsee taxes dropping nor the dollar going up in value any time soon.
What is the difference between a pizza and an Open Source programmer?
The pizza can feed a family of four.
RE: Freedom of speech is guaranteed so long as it does not infringe upon someone else?s rights. i.e. racism is considered infringement (Canada anyway),
Canada, being the socialist haven that it is, prohibits free speech, as it does the right to self-defence, and the right to own property. If you don't believe it, check the charter. If the government decides tomorrow that modems are a threat to it, it will have them all confiscated without compensation, because you don't actually have the right to own them, anyway. You DO have the right to possess property for a while, and of course you are expected to pay tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax tax on it, so that a new singing fountain or a hotel can go up in Shawinigan.
I'd be more impressed if they could:
Solve "the Quebec Problem"
Build Canada a functioning economy
Reduce Canadian taxation levels
Get Jean Chretien to resign
End the socialist dictatorship system in Canada
Rewrite the Constitution and Bill Of Rights of Canada to allow Canadians to have free speech, defend themselves, and own property (apart from just paying taxes on things they own)
Raise Canadian job opportunities and salaries to US levels
THOSE would be impressive engineering feats. But that would be beyond their ken.
There's an open source PERL listing out there that generates the picture of the goatse.cx guy out of Slashdot troll posts.