The Maquila Solidarity Network, one of the leading sweatshop activist organizations, stopped targeting Nike in 2003 because of their changing business practices. A December 2005 review of the current status of 25 companies' labour practices places them 2nd in terms of their efforts to address labour abuses.
Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect.
Throwing money at causes doesn't make a corporation "good". When their business practices reflect ethical decision-making, then they are "good". Look at some of the companies that are listed in the link:
Lockheed Martin: *kaboom* Great humanitarians there.
Monsanto Fund: "Grow GMOs or wave major grocery chains goodbye." Most abusive multinational food company out there.
Shell Oil: Supported South African Apartheid. See Mother Jones for more information.
I've learned bits and pieces of several languages, and I know French very well.
I think the whole point is that Orkut.com seems to be in English, and considering that.com is supposed to be American, I think that it would makes sense that the common language be English. Right now, I receive dozens of Orkut messages that I just have to delete because they're not in any language I understand; However, likely other non-english speaking patrons of Orkut are probably experiencing the same thing with the English messages. It probably rests with Google to fix Orkut in one of the ways that are mentioned in other parts of this thread. Still, it cannot be denied that English is the language of commerce and, when people in other parts of the world want their children to be successful (whatever that means) they send them to learn English at school.
Are those the number of native speakers? I'm pretty sure that because business the world over is conducted in English, many more people than what is listed actually speak English (albeit as a second language). I think the "universal language" idea springs from the fact that English is used as the language of commerce now, and is an accepted norm in both the business world and much of academia.
Votes are pretty free in the US system when compared with the Westminster-style parliamentary system (Britain, Canada). The US congress is more inclined to vote their lobbies' lines, at least. In the Westminster system, the MPs have little to no power directly and are most often forced to the party line, leaving the lobbyists to concentrate on the PM's cabinet. In this way, very few lobby groups actually get their way in parliament, while many more have the chance to squeak through legislation in congress.
Is that a peer-reviewed journal? What university/college has published it? Why is it that the academic studies cited are completely unrelated to pornography?
There are dozens of problems with that article. For example, it never actually proves that porn is addictive (the article cited is only a "hope" to prove that there is a physical addiction, by an anti-porn organiztion, too).
I certainly wouldn't call the Democrats "left" at all; I think that's the flaw with the study itself.
Compared with scales created by such organizations as politicalcompass.org, the Democrats (let's, for the sake of argument, assume that John Kerry is a pretty leftist Democrat) are all slightly Right Authoritarian. This means that the "centre" the study speaks of is in fact well into the Right Authoritarian category of politicalcompass.org. So then it's not suprising that Fox News sits at the centre of this fabricated spectrum.
Do you have any facts to back this up with? I'd say depictions of violence are far more harmful (if indeed either are harmful) as they tend to encourage violent behaviour, which is far more dangerous than sexual behaviour.
Is it worse for children, who often haven't developed sexually and therefore can't really be "addicted" per se as they don't understand the drives behind the act?
Porn "addiction" (I myself am skeptical about calling it an addiction) is purely psychological, while cigarette addiction is largely chemical. There is a difference.
Not that I'm defending the Fibberals, but the cabinet system allows for some details to be kept in-cabinet (or in-camera if you like), especially expected revenues and things like that. Expenditures and revenues that have already been settled are freely available, but future income and expenditures are not available because the details are often held closely by the cabinet.
That being said, you have to be pretty dumb to work from the incumbent party's public budgetary numbers. The New Democratic Party, for example, did their own research and had a much more reasonable projection than the Libs.
I don't know where you're getting your information from... Last time I checked, "The Queen" didn't write the grammar books... Canadian English differs greatly from British English. For example, many of us use Z's instead of S's in words such as jeopardize. However, Canadian English is very much subject to personal preference, and so it is very difficult to have a definitive "Canadian English" at all, let alone a dictionary of Canadian English
Actually, it was an SCTV skit. And yes, I would imagine that "aboot" comes from the Minnesota area, which is actually geographically close to Kenora, Ontario (right across the Lake of the Woods) and parts of Manitoba.
This film captures the life, passion and quirks of the Klingon Language Institute, an entity structured to support and facilitate the only "Constructed Language" to emerge out of popular culture.
I thought Tolkien Elvish languages (Sindarin and the like) would count as well, considering Tolkien spent a considerable amount of time creating those languages. Although, I suppose, "popular culture" is a rather subjective term.
I would really call into question whether the network belongs to Sharman at all. The software, of course, belongs to them, but their network is P2P and therefore belongs to no one.
If Sharman lays claim to the FastTrack network, wouldn't that leave them open to prosecution? AFAIK the whole reason FastTrack still exist is *because* it doesn't belong to Sharman at all.
I hate to say this, but RTFA. The author says he tried the same configuration on 8 different distros, all with the same problem.
I'm guessing that the Intel on-board sound card he had was either a really new standard or not standard at all. I've actually had a harder time getting sound to work on Win2k with some on-board sound cards than I have with the same cards in Linux.
The author's use of anecdotal evidence and lack of substantial investigation (ie. he only uses one sound card and concludes that Linux doesn't have adequate sound card support) leads me to believe that this article is rather biased and could be considered so-called FUD.
What he should have been referring to is a Liberal, not a liberal. The Liberals are more like classic conservatives now (i.e. they're all about the status quo and the "natural" organic progression of society)
There is a fairly well-established international "yardstick" among political scientists. Although the linear model is far from perfect, it does allow us a common ground to work from. Often the left-right model is replaced with a two-dimensional graph, with economic and social on either axis.
Let's just say that the Liberals, especially Paul Martin, are both economically right, and somewhat socially conservative. Check out Political Compass to see an example of this put into practice.
It wasn't that lazy, useless people were being laid off, it was that those with low seniority were being let go. Also, that's not to say that these jobs weren't needed (special education teachers, for example), it was that the government couldn't afford to keep them. Given the choice between one day of inactivity for all employees and the wide-scale loss of essential services, I think Rae made the best choice. However, I'm no Rae defender. He also promised a lot of stuff he never delivered on. Lots of corporations suddenly showed up on his doorstep with lots of money and he lost track of his senses. Meanwhile, the NDP caucus and general membership was urging him to live up to his promises (hell, NDP MPP Peter Kormos was back-benched because he spoke up against Rae).
As for the 407, well that's an issue of privatization. The 407 is privately owned and is therefore not in the jurisdiction of the government, unless they want to pass laws.
BTW, I think the Ontario Liberals are hilarious. They combine the worst of Harris/Eves PCs and Rae-era NDP policies, heh.
It's too bad that the Ontario Liberals are now thinking of both of those ideas again. Seems like the NDP actually did have their head screwed on straight, it's just that the media hated them.
Rae days happened so all public-sector employees could keep their jobs. Massive layoffs followed the removal of these unpaid days off.
Photo radar makes sense, so long as the threshold is set to like 130-140km/h range. That would make sense, too bad Rae didn't do that (probably a legal thing that was the barrier. ie. it would be saying to motorists that the speed limit is actually 130-140). The best way to implement photo radar would be to have it as a supplement to catch the most grievous violators.
The only reason the Conservatives would be, in any way, left of the Democrats is because of the fact that the Canadian people would rebel if the social programs were completely done away with.
The reality is that the Conservatives are against gay marriage, they love slashing social programs (case in point, the Ontario PCs, many of which have now joined the Federal PCs), and they think Star Wars is a good idea...
Read any current political science study... The Federal Liberals are actually right-of-centre now, especially with Martin at the helm. The only major left-of-centre party left is the NDP. The Liberals ceased to be left-of-centre or even centre after Martin started gouging social programs.
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The Maquila Solidarity Network, one of the leading sweatshop activist organizations, stopped targeting Nike in 2003 because of their changing business practices. A December 2005 review of the current status of 25 companies' labour practices places them 2nd in terms of their efforts to address labour abuses.
Well, considering how many people dropped Hotmail like a bad habit as soon as gmail came out, I think that there's a good change a Google IM program might have the same effect.
Throwing money at causes doesn't make a corporation "good". When their business practices reflect ethical decision-making, then they are "good". Look at some of the companies that are listed in the link:
Lockheed Martin: *kaboom* Great humanitarians there.
Monsanto Fund: "Grow GMOs or wave major grocery chains goodbye." Most abusive multinational food company out there.
Shell Oil: Supported South African Apartheid. See Mother Jones for more information.
I've learned bits and pieces of several languages, and I know French very well.
.com is supposed to be American, I think that it would makes sense that the common language be English. Right now, I receive dozens of Orkut messages that I just have to delete because they're not in any language I understand; However, likely other non-english speaking patrons of Orkut are probably experiencing the same thing with the English messages. It probably rests with Google to fix Orkut in one of the ways that are mentioned in other parts of this thread. Still, it cannot be denied that English is the language of commerce and, when people in other parts of the world want their children to be successful (whatever that means) they send them to learn English at school.
I think the whole point is that Orkut.com seems to be in English, and considering that
Are those the number of native speakers? I'm pretty sure that because business the world over is conducted in English, many more people than what is listed actually speak English (albeit as a second language). I think the "universal language" idea springs from the fact that English is used as the language of commerce now, and is an accepted norm in both the business world and much of academia.
For your Outlook needs, Entourage 2004.
Votes are pretty free in the US system when compared with the Westminster-style parliamentary system (Britain, Canada). The US congress is more inclined to vote their lobbies' lines, at least. In the Westminster system, the MPs have little to no power directly and are most often forced to the party line, leaving the lobbyists to concentrate on the PM's cabinet. In this way, very few lobby groups actually get their way in parliament, while many more have the chance to squeak through legislation in congress.
Is that a peer-reviewed journal? What university/college has published it? Why is it that the academic studies cited are completely unrelated to pornography?
There are dozens of problems with that article. For example, it never actually proves that porn is addictive (the article cited is only a "hope" to prove that there is a physical addiction, by an anti-porn organiztion, too).
I certainly wouldn't call the Democrats "left" at all; I think that's the flaw with the study itself.
Compared with scales created by such organizations as politicalcompass.org, the Democrats (let's, for the sake of argument, assume that John Kerry is a pretty leftist Democrat) are all slightly Right Authoritarian. This means that the "centre" the study speaks of is in fact well into the Right Authoritarian category of politicalcompass.org. So then it's not suprising that Fox News sits at the centre of this fabricated spectrum.
Do you have any facts to back this up with? I'd say depictions of violence are far more harmful (if indeed either are harmful) as they tend to encourage violent behaviour, which is far more dangerous than sexual behaviour.
Is it worse for children, who often haven't developed sexually and therefore can't really be "addicted" per se as they don't understand the drives behind the act?
Porn "addiction" (I myself am skeptical about calling it an addiction) is purely psychological, while cigarette addiction is largely chemical. There is a difference.
Not that I'm defending the Fibberals, but the cabinet system allows for some details to be kept in-cabinet (or in-camera if you like), especially expected revenues and things like that. Expenditures and revenues that have already been settled are freely available, but future income and expenditures are not available because the details are often held closely by the cabinet.
That being said, you have to be pretty dumb to work from the incumbent party's public budgetary numbers. The New Democratic Party, for example, did their own research and had a much more reasonable projection than the Libs.
I don't know where you're getting your information from... Last time I checked, "The Queen" didn't write the grammar books... Canadian English differs greatly from British English. For example, many of us use Z's instead of S's in words such as jeopardize. However, Canadian English is very much subject to personal preference, and so it is very difficult to have a definitive "Canadian English" at all, let alone a dictionary of Canadian English
Actually, it was an SCTV skit. And yes, I would imagine that "aboot" comes from the Minnesota area, which is actually geographically close to Kenora, Ontario (right across the Lake of the Woods) and parts of Manitoba.
The link one of the sibling posts is looking for is this, a response to the hardylaw article.
Only transparency wigs out IE; PNGs are implemented otherwise.
I thought Tolkien Elvish languages (Sindarin and the like) would count as well, considering Tolkien spent a considerable amount of time creating those languages. Although, I suppose, "popular culture" is a rather subjective term.
I would really call into question whether the network belongs to Sharman at all. The software, of course, belongs to them, but their network is P2P and therefore belongs to no one.
If Sharman lays claim to the FastTrack network, wouldn't that leave them open to prosecution? AFAIK the whole reason FastTrack still exist is *because* it doesn't belong to Sharman at all.
I hate to say this, but RTFA. The author says he tried the same configuration on 8 different distros, all with the same problem.
I'm guessing that the Intel on-board sound card he had was either a really new standard or not standard at all. I've actually had a harder time getting sound to work on Win2k with some on-board sound cards than I have with the same cards in Linux.
The author's use of anecdotal evidence and lack of substantial investigation (ie. he only uses one sound card and concludes that Linux doesn't have adequate sound card support) leads me to believe that this article is rather biased and could be considered so-called FUD.
What he should have been referring to is a Liberal, not a liberal. The Liberals are more like classic conservatives now (i.e. they're all about the status quo and the "natural" organic progression of society)
There is a fairly well-established international "yardstick" among political scientists. Although the linear model is far from perfect, it does allow us a common ground to work from. Often the left-right model is replaced with a two-dimensional graph, with economic and social on either axis.
Let's just say that the Liberals, especially Paul Martin, are both economically right, and somewhat socially conservative. Check out Political Compass to see an example of this put into practice.
It wasn't that lazy, useless people were being laid off, it was that those with low seniority were being let go. Also, that's not to say that these jobs weren't needed (special education teachers, for example), it was that the government couldn't afford to keep them. Given the choice between one day of inactivity for all employees and the wide-scale loss of essential services, I think Rae made the best choice. However, I'm no Rae defender. He also promised a lot of stuff he never delivered on. Lots of corporations suddenly showed up on his doorstep with lots of money and he lost track of his senses. Meanwhile, the NDP caucus and general membership was urging him to live up to his promises (hell, NDP MPP Peter Kormos was back-benched because he spoke up against Rae).
As for the 407, well that's an issue of privatization. The 407 is privately owned and is therefore not in the jurisdiction of the government, unless they want to pass laws.
BTW, I think the Ontario Liberals are hilarious. They combine the worst of Harris/Eves PCs and Rae-era NDP policies, heh.
It's too bad that the Ontario Liberals are now thinking of both of those ideas again. Seems like the NDP actually did have their head screwed on straight, it's just that the media hated them.
Rae days happened so all public-sector employees could keep their jobs. Massive layoffs followed the removal of these unpaid days off.
Photo radar makes sense, so long as the threshold is set to like 130-140km/h range. That would make sense, too bad Rae didn't do that (probably a legal thing that was the barrier. ie. it would be saying to motorists that the speed limit is actually 130-140). The best way to implement photo radar would be to have it as a supplement to catch the most grievous violators.
The only reason the Conservatives would be, in any way, left of the Democrats is because of the fact that the Canadian people would rebel if the social programs were completely done away with.
The reality is that the Conservatives are against gay marriage, they love slashing social programs (case in point, the Ontario PCs, many of which have now joined the Federal PCs), and they think Star Wars is a good idea...
Read any current political science study... The Federal Liberals are actually right-of-centre now, especially with Martin at the helm. The only major left-of-centre party left is the NDP. The Liberals ceased to be left-of-centre or even centre after Martin started gouging social programs.
That's not a nice thing to say about Anya...