Ah. So it's not a basic human rights violation to limit the rights of linguistic minorities to conduct business or educate their children in their language of choice?
It's not a basic human rights violation to fine a person for placing an ad in a newspaper referencing -- not even quoting -- Bible verses that condemn homosexuality as amoral?
And don't get me started on the Notwithstanding Clause (i.e. "yeah, this law violates the Charter, but we really, really want to enact it anyway").
I like going to Canada, and there are some things Canada does better than the USA, but some Canadians need to get over themselves. Their self-righteousness stinks every bit as bad as its American counterpart.
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(all population figures from US Census 2000 via Wikipedia)
Maricopa County, AZ (Phoenix) -- 3,072,149 San Diego County, CA -- 2,813,833 Franklin County, OH (Columbus) -- 1,068,978 Hillsborough County, FL (Tampa) -- 998,848 Fairfax County, VA -- 969,749 Salt Lake County, VA -- 898,387 Marion County, IN (Indianapolis) -- 860,454 DuVal County, FL (Jacksonville) -- 778,879 Mecklenburg County, NC (Charlotte) -- 695,454
...all went for Bush. Urban areas are more often Democratic than Republican, sure, but urban Republicans are not as scarce as some blue-state elitists would like to think.
In the US, we have the concept of right-to-work laws, which prohibit employers from requiring that you join a union as a condition of employment.
Some states have these laws, some states don't. Funny, almost all the growth in auto manufacturing stateside in the past 15 years has occurred in the South, where right-to-work laws are most prevalent.
"free from corporate money, sleaziness and lies?" Get over yourself.
More accurate to say they're one of the most popular collective information outlets, and that their sites generally adhere to a left-wing, anti-corporate political slant. Sleaziness is in the eye of the beholder (read the clips attached to this page), and I really don't think you want to be vouching for the truthfulness of everything everyone at IndyMedia posts.
There exist a whole hell of a lot of grassroots "media outlets" that don't take advertising, they just haven't gotten the publicity of IMC. You could start your own in seconds for less than US$10 a month, just pick your favorite webhosting provider and go to work.
Not solely by virtue of being delegates, anyway. The only definitive statement you can make is that these people were selected by (generally) the members of a political party to participate in ITS process for choosing a presidential election nominee, and that can be as private a process as the party wants it to be. The public gets its say in the general election (yes, I know there are exceptions, notably Louisiana and Virginia).
Some of them probably are public officials (it's reasonably likely that if your Senator or Congressman is a Republican, s/he is there; some delegates also may be local office holders), but many others are like this girl, private, politically interested, citizens who do not hold elected office.
The posting of their personal info is an invasion of privacy, but that's not why the DoJ is involved. They're involved because of the threats to the safety of these individuals just a few clicks away on the site in question.
They can and do broadcast to the dense population band within 100 mi (er, 160 km) of the US border. Americans with XM are driving into Canada and getting coverage all the time, and (obviously) grey-market Canadians are finding it worthwhile to subscribe. What they can't do without a Canadian license is place ground-based repeater stations, which makes XM near-useless in major cities' downtown areas but just fine everywhere else. The salesman was feeding the OP a line so he didn't have to explain the real issue (CRTC, CanCon, repeaters).
I highly doubt you can get XM in the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut; the Edmonton area is probably the functional northern border. I'd wonder about Newfoundland and Labrador, just because of how far east (and north) they are, but the rest of the Maritimes ought to be OK.
For the modern left, "tolerance" and "open-mindedness" only apply to ideas they agree with. Everything else is "hate speech" and thus deserving of complete extermination.
As a former ham (still got the license, but haven't done anything with it in years), it's kinda depressing to see that they don't even know what amateur radio is -- which led them to illegally use the 70-cm UHF band, thinking "amateur" meant "do whatever you want".
They needed a frequency in an unlicensed or research/experimental band.
If you're working for an unstable non-IT company, or even a non-IT company that just wants to cut costs, geeks are the first people to go, because we're (a) expensive and (b) easier to blame for bad times than people in the core business (because then people in high places would start sweating).
My dad's company does asbestos removal and reinsulation, and he bid a job some years back on a facility in Virginia owned by some American subsidiary of a German company.
The contract was between two American corporations for work done in America by American citizens. But he had to build in two redundant sets of environmental tests for the exact same contamination, one to adhere to Virginia law and one to adhere to German law.
German laws follow German citizens and corporations whereever they go. American long-arm statutes (most of which deal with bribery of foreign officials) are fairly tame by comparison.
I don't pay a cent to the RIAA when I buy CD-Rs here in Virginia. You'd better find someone else to blame for that bad policy -- America isn't responsible for this one, you guys came up with it on your own.
Besides, people keep telling me that it's wrong to label other nations as evil, but for some reason that doesn't apply when they get to talking about America.
I'm aware of the focus of the article -- hell, I went to Virginia Tech (which turned the project down) and my parents went to ODU (where it wound up).
This was a demonstration project, intended to prove the feasibility of the technology, and not intended to be economically self-sustaining. You don't lay a few hundred miles of track without knowing if the train's gonna work or not. Tech didn't think it would work, but ODU decided they would take the chance in hopes of gaining some prestige for their weak engineering program if it did.
If they can get the damned thing working at ODU, then next up would be Hampton Roads to Richmond to Washington (high-traffic route with a decent chance of being self-sustaining, and easier to obtain right-of-way there than in the rest of the Northeast). If they can't, then ODU has an albatross around its neck and mag-lev returns to the lab for another 5-10 years.
Have you looked at the cost of living in those Northeastern high-density metropolises yet? Or the comparatively high renter-to-owner ratio of residents there, which creates a permanent lower class of renters vs. a permanent property owner upper class (at least among people who don't want to -- or can't -- leave those cities)? There's a reason people keep leaving the Northeast, and it ain't just the weather.
Home ownership drives much of the American economy, and the ease with which one can buy a home in this country is one of the drivers of economic upward mobility and socio-political equality. Trying to herd the entire population into small, transport-efficient pods would do far, far more damage, both economic and political, to this country than even an energy-cost spike.
Energy cost spikes and supply drops can be mitigated, both by development of new, more efficient technology (the car companies aren't working their asses off on hybrids just for kicks) and by the fact that new reserves become economically viable as the price of oil goes up. See Siberia -- there's unbelievable amounts of oil out there, it's just not economically feasible to build the necessary infrastructure to get to it right now. That'll change if the market demands it.
I'm for conservation on a personal scale -- I drive a VW Jetta TDI (averages 44 mpg), I live a mile and a half from my office, and during college I not only rode busses most of the time, I drove them too. But attempts at socio-political manipulation based on gloom-and-doom predictions piss me off.
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First or second season, original timer? No chance.
Third season? Who the hell cares, isn't there a movie homage we can do? (Alt: depends on the whims of a brain-sucking colonel...)
Fourth or fifth season? Maybe, but you're not guaranteed to be the same person on the other end of the wormhole.
If you make $10/hr or less, you're allowed to rip people off at will? I've heard of relative moral codes before, but this takes the cake.
Besides, Bush wants them in, so it cannot be right.
Ah, this must be that sophisticated, nuanced political analysis Europe^H^H^H^H^H^HSlashdot is so known for.
Ah. So it's not a basic human rights violation to limit the rights of linguistic minorities to conduct business or educate their children in their language of choice?
It's not a basic human rights violation to fine a person for placing an ad in a newspaper referencing -- not even quoting -- Bible verses that condemn homosexuality as amoral?
And don't get me started on the Notwithstanding Clause (i.e. "yeah, this law violates the Charter, but we really, really want to enact it anyway").
I like going to Canada, and there are some things Canada does better than the USA, but some Canadians need to get over themselves. Their self-righteousness stinks every bit as bad as its American counterpart.
Maricopa County, AZ (Phoenix) -- 3,072,149
San Diego County, CA -- 2,813,833
Franklin County, OH (Columbus) -- 1,068,978
Hillsborough County, FL (Tampa) -- 998,848
Fairfax County, VA -- 969,749
Salt Lake County, VA -- 898,387
Marion County, IN (Indianapolis) -- 860,454
DuVal County, FL (Jacksonville) -- 778,879
Mecklenburg County, NC (Charlotte) -- 695,454
...unless the employer agrees to implement them.
Right-to-work laws make it illegal for the employer to implement such a condition, no matter what the union wants.
In the US, we have the concept of right-to-work laws, which prohibit employers from requiring that you join a union as a condition of employment.
Some states have these laws, some states don't. Funny, almost all the growth in auto manufacturing stateside in the past 15 years has occurred in the South, where right-to-work laws are most prevalent.
/.ers showing up at her doorstep with hot grits?
Would she be naked? Not likely. Petrified, OH HELL YES.
"free from corporate money, sleaziness and lies?" Get over yourself.
More accurate to say they're one of the most popular collective information outlets, and that their sites generally adhere to a left-wing, anti-corporate political slant. Sleaziness is in the eye of the beholder (read the clips attached to this page), and I really don't think you want to be vouching for the truthfulness of everything everyone at IndyMedia posts.
There exist a whole hell of a lot of grassroots "media outlets" that don't take advertising, they just haven't gotten the publicity of IMC. You could start your own in seconds for less than US$10 a month, just pick your favorite webhosting provider and go to work.
Not solely by virtue of being delegates, anyway. The only definitive statement you can make is that these people were selected by (generally) the members of a political party to participate in ITS process for choosing a presidential election nominee, and that can be as private a process as the party wants it to be. The public gets its say in the general election (yes, I know there are exceptions, notably Louisiana and Virginia).
Some of them probably are public officials (it's reasonably likely that if your Senator or Congressman is a Republican, s/he is there; some delegates also may be local office holders), but many others are like this girl, private, politically interested, citizens who do not hold elected office.
The posting of their personal info is an invasion of privacy, but that's not why the DoJ is involved. They're involved because of the threats to the safety of these individuals just a few clicks away on the site in question.
They can and do broadcast to the dense population band within 100 mi (er, 160 km) of the US border. Americans with XM are driving into Canada and getting coverage all the time, and (obviously) grey-market Canadians are finding it worthwhile to subscribe. What they can't do without a Canadian license is place ground-based repeater stations, which makes XM near-useless in major cities' downtown areas but just fine everywhere else. The salesman was feeding the OP a line so he didn't have to explain the real issue (CRTC, CanCon, repeaters).
I highly doubt you can get XM in the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut; the Edmonton area is probably the functional northern border. I'd wonder about Newfoundland and Labrador, just because of how far east (and north) they are, but the rest of the Maritimes ought to be OK.
September 11th is a Saturday. Less visibility, less economic disruption.
For the modern left, "tolerance" and "open-mindedness" only apply to ideas they agree with. Everything else is "hate speech" and thus deserving of complete extermination.
OMG! Arnold likes open source! He r0x0rz!
But he's a Republican, and they're all tools of Satan!
Can't... reconcile... no...
*head explodes, like South Park juror hearing the Chewbacca defense*
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But I see it's already happened for real.
Thank you, Jack Black. ;-)
... for not paying attention these past few years. Good info.
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As a former ham (still got the license, but haven't done anything with it in years), it's kinda depressing to see that they don't even know what amateur radio is -- which led them to illegally use the 70-cm UHF band, thinking "amateur" meant "do whatever you want".
They needed a frequency in an unlicensed or research/experimental band.
If you're working for an unstable non-IT company, or even a non-IT company that just wants to cut costs, geeks are the first people to go, because we're (a) expensive and (b) easier to blame for bad times than people in the core business (because then people in high places would start sweating).
Been there, doing that. It sucks.
My dad's company does asbestos removal and reinsulation, and he bid a job some years back on a facility in Virginia owned by some American subsidiary of a German company.
The contract was between two American corporations for work done in America by American citizens. But he had to build in two redundant sets of environmental tests for the exact same contamination, one to adhere to Virginia law and one to adhere to German law.
German laws follow German citizens and corporations whereever they go. American long-arm statutes (most of which deal with bribery of foreign officials) are fairly tame by comparison.
I don't pay a cent to the RIAA when I buy CD-Rs here in Virginia. You'd better find someone else to blame for that bad policy -- America isn't responsible for this one, you guys came up with it on your own.
Besides, people keep telling me that it's wrong to label other nations as evil, but for some reason that doesn't apply when they get to talking about America.
Ye know not the power of small-town gossip.
...and sent to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
He got hosed by an unethical competitor, but he can't do crap about that now. Time to brush off the resume.
I'm aware of the focus of the article -- hell, I went to Virginia Tech (which turned the project down) and my parents went to ODU (where it wound up).
This was a demonstration project, intended to prove the feasibility of the technology, and not intended to be economically self-sustaining. You don't lay a few hundred miles of track without knowing if the train's gonna work or not. Tech didn't think it would work, but ODU decided they would take the chance in hopes of gaining some prestige for their weak engineering program if it did.
If they can get the damned thing working at ODU, then next up would be Hampton Roads to Richmond to Washington (high-traffic route with a decent chance of being self-sustaining, and easier to obtain right-of-way there than in the rest of the Northeast). If they can't, then ODU has an albatross around its neck and mag-lev returns to the lab for another 5-10 years.
Have you looked at the cost of living in those Northeastern high-density metropolises yet? Or the comparatively high renter-to-owner ratio of residents there, which creates a permanent lower class of renters vs. a permanent property owner upper class (at least among people who don't want to -- or can't -- leave those cities)? There's a reason people keep leaving the Northeast, and it ain't just the weather.
Home ownership drives much of the American economy, and the ease with which one can buy a home in this country is one of the drivers of economic upward mobility and socio-political equality. Trying to herd the entire population into small, transport-efficient pods would do far, far more damage, both economic and political, to this country than even an energy-cost spike.
Energy cost spikes and supply drops can be mitigated, both by development of new, more efficient technology (the car companies aren't working their asses off on hybrids just for kicks) and by the fact that new reserves become economically viable as the price of oil goes up. See Siberia -- there's unbelievable amounts of oil out there, it's just not economically feasible to build the necessary infrastructure to get to it right now. That'll change if the market demands it.
I'm for conservation on a personal scale -- I drive a VW Jetta TDI (averages 44 mpg), I live a mile and a half from my office, and during college I not only rode busses most of the time, I drove them too. But attempts at socio-political manipulation based on gloom-and-doom predictions piss me off.