I agree that it must be something else as well. Canada and the US have a population distibution much more comparable than Canada (or the US) and Japan/Korea/Belgium.
The point that I am disputing is that it is the geographic distribution of population that answers for the difference between the US and Japan/Korea/Belgium.
(In no way am I saying Canada is "better")
Eastern Ontario dairy country, Alberta ranchland and all of Saskatchewan you would have to include as large rural areas as well.
Canada is more urban than the US yes but not enough to make up such a difference.
I agree that the geographic distribution is different between Canada and the US. But where it differs it differs in that Canada's is even sparser and widely spread. Canada and the US have a population distibution much more comparable than Canada (or the US) and Japan/Korea/Belgium.
The point that I am disputing is that it is the geographic distribution of population that answers for the difference between the US and Japan/Korea/Belgium. It must be something else as well.
Canada has a population even sparser and further spreadout yet it ranks above the USA and Japan in broadband adoption.
"The International Telecommunication Union
reports that in 2002 the five top nations for broadband network
market penetration were: Korea, Hong Kong, Canada, Taiwan and
Denmark. The ITU ranks the United States eleventh in broadband
penetration. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development reports that in middle 2003 the top market
penetration for member nations occurred in: Korea, Canada,
Iceland, Denmark and Belgium with the United States ranked
tenth."
Um, most people in the world use the word "democracy" to mean "representative democracy"
A republic run by representative democracy is not an oxymoron. (A republic can be democratic or non-democratic).
Democratic* republics: USA, Ireland, France Non-democratic republics: Syria, Belorussia
In turn a democracy can be a republic or not a republic.
(*By "democratic" I mean a representative democratic government - people drop the representative because it is a pain to write it out when every serious non-pedantic person knows what they are talking about already).
WW1: Germany *not* pounded into submission (and punative Versailles treaty then imposed - leaders able to portray earlier German government as traitors)
WW2: Germany pounded into submission (total loss of sovereignty and utter military defeat)
let me plug the novel Diaspora by Greg Egan as an interesting look at what the singularity will mean to the future of humanity - the history of the rest of time reduced to handy pocket novel size
This is *not* Canada's first man in space.
Canada has had men and woman going up since the early 80s - Shuttle, Mir etc. Canada contibutes in a small way to the US programs (and Russia's/ESA) and get the occassional lift.
This is not even this particular guy's first time.
The story is about the next gen Canadarm. (The coolest thing being it has hands at both ends and no fixed connection so it can move along like an inch worm outside the ISS).
Canada was the 3rd nation to have a satellite in orbit after the US and the USSR. (Not to orbit one but to own an orbiting satellite).
If you think Canada can't feel pride from "manly" stuff, look into the history of the Avro Arrow (and then check out how many of those guys went to work on the Apollo program (including some of the guys running the show) when the Arrow was controversially scrapped). People still talk about this endlessly.
Canada doesn't own much of the sky eh? Well a Canadian company just bought the Iridium network for a song...:-P
Anyway, whatever, bla bla bla etc. you get the picture.. or something
the Bill of Rights and the more comprehensive Charter of Rights and Freedoms are parts of the Canadian Constitution of 1982 which replaced British North America Act (BNA)
the Canadian Constitution simply *cannot* be overridden by a simple act of Parliament
check out the "Amending Formula" to the constitution
some changes require consent of Parliament and at least two-thirds of the provincial legislatures representing at least 50 per cent of the population - other changes would require the unanimous consent of Parliament and all 10 provincial legislative assemblies
If you'd followed any Canadian political news of the past 20 years you would have noticed several attempts to amend the Constitution - all of which failed due to the difficulty in getting so many people to agree. If the parliament could change it or revoke it at will these multi-year long struggles would never have occured.
The Constitution cannot be overridden by parliament. It supercedes the laws passed by the parliament and indeed laws that are deemed by the courts to be unconstitutional have been struck down numerous times in the past 20 years.
Canada's parliament no longer enjoys the same omnipotent power that the UK's does. IMO, a good thing.
If you are saying that constitutional law in Canada is based on additional things beyond the single document of the Constitution Act (tradition of English law and the Napoleonic Code etc), well then that's different. You are quite correct. (But this is the case in the USA as well!)
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Western-Canadian(I assume) Guy,
There are 1 million French-speakers in Canada who don't live in Quebec.
Even if Quebec disappeared entirely tomorrow there would *still* be more French-speakers in Canada than any other language except for English.
(Chinese at 3/4 million would still be 3rd). There are whole communities of French-speakers that speak interesting and different forms of French from that of the Quebecois that you are so casually dismissing.
"Real French speakers" do not regard the French spoken in Quebec as a creole. French in Quebec is a full version of the language with many of its own characteristics. You either a) don't know what a "creole" is or b) are making a slur. Language rivalry between Quebecers and French people is similar to the rivalry between American and British English. Noone in either country genuinely thinks the other is speaking a creole. Lame-ass jokes aside.
Holy jumping! Calm down yourself!
The guy never once mentioned the NSDAP, Hitler the war or anything like that!
There *is* a debate in German society about the nation's tendency to follow rules. It's sometimes a running joke. (e.g. all the signs that say " verboten" everywhere - the tendency to "improve" the "wilderness" with well-tended paths, railings, benches, trash containers and whatnot)(and yes I know there are places you can go in Germany that don't have those things). Similar debates take place in Britain (and other countries). People discuss the "nanny state" in the U.K. and the lingering knee-jerk respect for authority and surviving class-based elements in society all the time. The same thing goes on in Germany. You can discuss the background of these tendencies in german society and skip the entire 1933-1945 era altogether. (In fact, on the Internet that's usually the best way to go). It's a multi-faceted complicated society like any other.
And yes there exists completely different cultures in Germany as well - like the kick-ass fans of FC St. Pauli.
The guy didn't seem to be trolling to me. If he was he wouldn't associate the German gov't with the beloved open-source software as he did nor would he make the appeal/explanation at the end that he did.
Anyway, I do think he was being oversimplistic. But your reply was no better.
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the first images and data is being received and processed by human minds
wavefunctions are collapsing across Titan
what if there are sentient beings that exist in uncollapsed clods of eigenstates???
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
I agree that it must be something else as well. Canada and the US have a population distibution much more comparable than Canada (or the US) and Japan/Korea/Belgium.
The point that I am disputing is that it is the geographic distribution of population that answers for the difference between the US and Japan/Korea/Belgium.
(In no way am I saying Canada is "better")
Eastern Ontario dairy country, Alberta ranchland and all of Saskatchewan you would have to include as large rural areas as well.
Canada is more urban than the US yes but not enough to make up such a difference.
I agree that the geographic distribution is different between Canada and the US. But where it differs it differs in that Canada's is even sparser and widely spread. Canada and the US have a population distibution much more comparable than Canada (or the US) and Japan/Korea/Belgium.
The point that I am disputing is that it is the geographic distribution of population that answers for the difference between the US and Japan/Korea/Belgium. It must be something else as well.
(In no way am I saying Canada is "better")
Canada has a population even more spread out and is ahead of the US and Japan in broadband adoption.
Canada has a population even sparser and further spreadout yet it ranks above the USA and Japan in broadband adoption.
"The International Telecommunication Union
reports that in 2002 the five top nations for broadband network
market penetration were: Korea, Hong Kong, Canada, Taiwan and
Denmark. The ITU ranks the United States eleventh in broadband
penetration. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development reports that in middle 2003 the top market
penetration for member nations occurred in: Korea, Canada,
Iceland, Denmark and Belgium with the United States ranked
tenth."
Um, most people in the world use the word "democracy" to mean "representative democracy"
A republic run by representative democracy is not an oxymoron. (A republic can be democratic or non-democratic).
Democratic* republics: USA, Ireland, France
Non-democratic republics: Syria, Belorussia
In turn a democracy can be a republic or not a republic.
(*By "democratic" I mean a representative democratic government - people drop the representative because it is a pain to write it out when every serious non-pedantic person knows what they are talking about already).
WW1: Germany *not* pounded into submission (and punative Versailles treaty then imposed - leaders able to portray earlier German government as traitors)
WW2: Germany pounded into submission (total loss of sovereignty and utter military defeat)
2 very different post-war scenarios
hi, I like Debian too
p.s. apt is really really really good
let me plug the novel Diaspora by Greg Egan as an interesting look at what the singularity will mean to the future of humanity - the history of the rest of time reduced to handy pocket novel size
now you're on the trolley!
dude, you started with the chip...
Don't blame the guy for responding.
Sitting on your asses for 3 years and you "won" the war.
Saving Private Ryan wasn't a documentary guy.
By your definition the US doesn't have a space program because its never done anything 100% on its own.
Also no European countries are space "powers" since they co-operate in the ESA and don't act "on their own".
Dude,
This is *not* Canada's first man in space.
Canada has had men and woman going up since the early 80s - Shuttle, Mir etc. Canada contibutes in a small way to the US programs (and Russia's/ESA) and get the occassional lift.
This is not even this particular guy's first time.
The story is about the next gen Canadarm. (The coolest thing being it has hands at both ends and no fixed connection so it can move along like an inch worm outside the ISS).
Canada was the 3rd nation to have a satellite in orbit after the US and the USSR. (Not to orbit one but to own an orbiting satellite).
If you think Canada can't feel pride from "manly" stuff, look into the history of the Avro Arrow (and then check out how many of those guys went to work on the Apollo program (including some of the guys running the show) when the Arrow was controversially scrapped). People still talk about this endlessly.
Canada doesn't own much of the sky eh? Well a Canadian company just bought the Iridium network for a song...
Anyway, whatever, bla bla bla etc. you get the picture.. or something
Australia will do what the commonwealth does?
wtf?
the Commonwelath doesn't have a foreign policy
it's a talk-shop
nothing more
If you don't know what the Commonwealth really is. And you don't know how Australia decides on foreign policy. Why are you making random guesses?
haha
I'm with you brother
dude,
I bought my lunch at the CN Tower today
it said "WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING" all over the place
the brochures say both
re: Canada
you are quite simply wrong
the Bill of Rights and the more comprehensive Charter of Rights and Freedoms are parts of the Canadian Constitution of 1982 which replaced British North America Act (BNA)
the Canadian Constitution simply *cannot* be overridden by a simple act of Parliament
check out the "Amending Formula" to the constitution
some changes require consent of Parliament and at least two-thirds of the provincial legislatures representing at least 50 per cent of the population - other changes would require the unanimous consent of Parliament and all 10 provincial legislative assemblies
If you'd followed any Canadian political news of the past 20 years you would have noticed several attempts to amend the Constitution - all of which failed due to the difficulty in getting so many people to agree. If the parliament could change it or revoke it at will these multi-year long struggles would never have occured.
The Constitution cannot be overridden by parliament. It supercedes the laws passed by the parliament and indeed laws that are deemed by the courts to be unconstitutional have been struck down numerous times in the past 20 years.
Canada's parliament no longer enjoys the same omnipotent power that the UK's does. IMO, a good thing.
If you are saying that constitutional law in Canada is based on additional things beyond the single document of the Constitution Act (tradition of English law and the Napoleonic Code etc), well then that's different. You are quite correct. (But this is the case in the USA as well!)
Toronto: Glasgow's biggest suburb
signed: a one-time Haligonian
dude, I was in Germany for awhile in the mid-90s and IT'S ALL TRUE
Hasselhoff - they love 'im
Some people joke about it and are embarrassed and try to downplay The Awful Truth!
My gf and her friends would rush home at lunch to watch reruns of Dynasty from the early 80s. Wtf is that?
Also, FC St. Pauli rocks!
Niels Tune-Hansen rules O.K.!
Millerntor roar baby! aw yeah..
um, I have to go now...
Western-Canadian(I assume) Guy,
There are 1 million French-speakers in Canada who don't live in Quebec.
Even if Quebec disappeared entirely tomorrow there would *still* be more French-speakers in Canada than any other language except for English.
(Chinese at 3/4 million would still be 3rd). There are whole communities of French-speakers that speak interesting and different forms of French from that of the Quebecois that you are so casually dismissing.
"Real French speakers" do not regard the French spoken in Quebec as a creole. French in Quebec is a full version of the language with many of its own characteristics. You either a) don't know what a "creole" is or b) are making a slur. Language rivalry between Quebecers and French people is similar to the rivalry between American and British English. Noone in either country genuinely thinks the other is speaking a creole. Lame-ass jokes aside.
Holy jumping! Calm down yourself!
The guy never once mentioned the NSDAP, Hitler the war or anything like that!
There *is* a debate in German society about the nation's tendency to follow rules. It's sometimes a running joke. (e.g. all the signs that say " verboten" everywhere - the tendency to "improve" the "wilderness" with well-tended paths, railings, benches, trash containers and whatnot)(and yes I know there are places you can go in Germany that don't have those things). Similar debates take place in Britain (and other countries). People discuss the "nanny state" in the U.K. and the lingering knee-jerk respect for authority and surviving class-based elements in society all the time. The same thing goes on in Germany. You can discuss the background of these tendencies in german society and skip the entire 1933-1945 era altogether. (In fact, on the Internet that's usually the best way to go). It's a multi-faceted complicated society like any other.
And yes there exists completely different cultures in Germany as well - like the kick-ass fans of FC St. Pauli.
The guy didn't seem to be trolling to me. If he was he wouldn't associate the German gov't with the beloved open-source software as he did nor would he make the appeal/explanation at the end that he did.
Anyway, I do think he was being oversimplistic. But your reply was no better.
(Remember never be the first one to type "Nazi").
;-)
I often wake up in the morning and weep openly...
one of the nicest things in english means poo in german
now now,
"it ain't for geeks until there's an O'Reilly book"
doesn't mean
"if there's an O'Reilly book it is for geeks"
you know the whole Socrates is a man thing
Basic Logic - but I'm sure you knew that already
right on pope baby!