"Towns" in the NWT and Nunavut have no pavement. The roads are gravel and ice, with ice predominating for roughly 10 months of the year. And the roads extend about 1 to 1.5 km total - from one edge of town to the other - and then there are no more roads at all. As for buildings re-radiating heat at night - again these towns are small, the buildings are small, and they never really get all that warm. I doubt Stevenson screens or anything else are picking up much heat off of them.
Sorry for the blatant what-about-ism but China exports far more fentanyl than it imports meth. And fentanyl is killing a hell of a lot more people than meth is. So please arrest all the exporters, too?
Secondly, this isn't about the law in China - as others have pointed out, Canada doesn't currently approve of capital punishment but that is the concensus view and not exhaustive. Its certainly subject to change if the majority of the Canadian population chooses to change it . As opposed to China where the laws change according to the view of a tiny percentage of a percentage of the population (the party leadership) and is dictated to the sheep-ish population
Thirdly - this *is* about how the Chinese media suddenly jumped on a two year old court case, followed by the Chinese judiciary suddenly and without any apparent new evidence (according to the Chinese defence lawyer for the case) exacting a re-trial and a savage new sentence. Note that the Chinese national who was convicted at the same time as the Canadian was given a suspended death sentence. Maybe the Canadian is more guilty than the Chinese national, and maybe death is the proper sentence for his crimes in China. Per point 2, that's not the issue - China's laws are China's laws - what's of concern is how the case has suddenly been amplified in what looks very much like an attempt at political manipulation.
Nothing quite says "you don't really own your device" more than forced advertising. And their answer is pretty weak/non-specific. And I wonder if they advertise/disclose this to potential purchasers.
Nothing? Check out what John Deere is doing with their tractors and combines and then get back to me. And not an ad in sight...
They do no such thing. Lumber companies in Canada (domestic and foreign) buy licences on tree stands on large tracts of government land instead of privately owned land as in America. The average price of those licences is considerably lower than what private land owners in the States will sell for. The Canadian government never went out and expropriated that land from private owners to sell the trees at a lower price, though. They just never sold it to middle-men and the lumber companies benefit by buying at "wholesale" prices. Is that a subsidy?
Baking Soda is a *base*, right? That's why it reacts with vinegar to make school project volcanoes?
Isn't another of our climate change problems the growing acidification of the oceans?
I know 2+2 isn't going to add up to 4 here, and I'm going to be called out for how truly dumb am I am - but what am I missing?
I would hazard to guess that for every small mammal species there was foraging around, there were at least two small dino species foraging around, too. The small dino species died out, with their big cousins, whilst presumably not requiring any more "scarce resources" than the small mammals. No?
Hockey players are damned well forced to use sticks that have only a certain bend radius, and the blade of the stick is limited to certain dimensions. The material the stick is composed of is regulated, too.
Baseball bats can't be corked.
NFL footballs can't be deflated.
Hockey goalie pads can't exceed certain dimensions.
and so on, and so on.
Are you in favour of cork-ed bats, then, too? And, yes, I realize that a small part of the issue with corked bats is safety (some of them broke badly). But in general, its perfectly reasonable to limit the equipment that is used for specific sports. Hockey goalies can't wear pads that exceed certain dimensions, NFL QBs can't deflate footballs, and so on, and so on
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"Towns" in the NWT and Nunavut have no pavement. The roads are gravel and ice, with ice predominating for roughly 10 months of the year. And the roads extend about 1 to 1.5 km total - from one edge of town to the other - and then there are no more roads at all. As for buildings re-radiating heat at night - again these towns are small, the buildings are small, and they never really get all that warm. I doubt Stevenson screens or anything else are picking up much heat off of them.
Came for the Keyser Soze, was NOT disappointed
What the F would Apple know about 'Genuine People Personalities'? They don't even know anybody who knows ....
Sorry for the blatant what-about-ism but China exports far more fentanyl than it imports meth. And fentanyl is killing a hell of a lot more people than meth is. So please arrest all the exporters, too? Secondly, this isn't about the law in China - as others have pointed out, Canada doesn't currently approve of capital punishment but that is the concensus view and not exhaustive. Its certainly subject to change if the majority of the Canadian population chooses to change it . As opposed to China where the laws change according to the view of a tiny percentage of a percentage of the population (the party leadership) and is dictated to the sheep-ish population Thirdly - this *is* about how the Chinese media suddenly jumped on a two year old court case, followed by the Chinese judiciary suddenly and without any apparent new evidence (according to the Chinese defence lawyer for the case) exacting a re-trial and a savage new sentence. Note that the Chinese national who was convicted at the same time as the Canadian was given a suspended death sentence. Maybe the Canadian is more guilty than the Chinese national, and maybe death is the proper sentence for his crimes in China. Per point 2, that's not the issue - China's laws are China's laws - what's of concern is how the case has suddenly been amplified in what looks very much like an attempt at political manipulation.
Being paid to make Left Twix and making Right Twix, instead?
Nothing quite says "you don't really own your device" more than forced advertising. And their answer is pretty weak/non-specific. And I wonder if they advertise/disclose this to potential purchasers.
Nothing? Check out what John Deere is doing with their tractors and combines and then get back to me. And not an ad in sight ...
They do no such thing. Lumber companies in Canada (domestic and foreign) buy licences on tree stands on large tracts of government land instead of privately owned land as in America. The average price of those licences is considerably lower than what private land owners in the States will sell for. The Canadian government never went out and expropriated that land from private owners to sell the trees at a lower price, though. They just never sold it to middle-men and the lumber companies benefit by buying at "wholesale" prices. Is that a subsidy?
I'd guess carpets. Thrown carpets mistaken for flying carpets. With Himalayan brown bears, I mean, djinn on them.
Baking Soda is a *base*, right? That's why it reacts with vinegar to make school project volcanoes? Isn't another of our climate change problems the growing acidification of the oceans? I know 2+2 isn't going to add up to 4 here, and I'm going to be called out for how truly dumb am I am - but what am I missing?
I would hazard to guess that for every small mammal species there was foraging around, there were at least two small dino species foraging around, too. The small dino species died out, with their big cousins, whilst presumably not requiring any more "scarce resources" than the small mammals. No?
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Whatta ya mean evolutionary dead end? As far as I can tell, its still a dominant trait within the species ...
Hockey players are damned well forced to use sticks that have only a certain bend radius, and the blade of the stick is limited to certain dimensions. The material the stick is composed of is regulated, too. Baseball bats can't be corked. NFL footballs can't be deflated. Hockey goalie pads can't exceed certain dimensions. and so on, and so on.
Are you in favour of cork-ed bats, then, too? And, yes, I realize that a small part of the issue with corked bats is safety (some of them broke badly). But in general, its perfectly reasonable to limit the equipment that is used for specific sports. Hockey goalies can't wear pads that exceed certain dimensions, NFL QBs can't deflate footballs, and so on, and so on
Hey! I still "rewind" my DVR ...