Right, the invasion of Iraq which had no basis in reality to be implemented, and was only done to finish what daddy started and get the oil. Yep, good thing he was able to get support for that one.
The only way they pay that 53% of Federal Tax is if they're honest. The fact that so many companies and, gasp, rich people have been sending their money out of the US to avoid paying said taxes should damn well tell you something. Let's also not forget that they can hire accountants to hide their money and use loopholes to get tax breaks whereas a poor person at best can attempt to work under the table or refuse to pay, and end up in prison as a result in either case. Stop defending the fat cats.
Here's the thing; when you're employed, you pay into that fund. So does your employer. In effect, you're taking out your own money.
Now, if you get the minimum number of hours, you don't get to have the full number of weeks, and how much you get per week is nominally determined by how much you made while you were employed.
In the maritimes, there is very little full time work in comparison to the rest of the country...bigger provinces get higher priority than us. I won't deny there are people that abuse it, but those of us that want to live and work honestly have three choices; accept the fact that we can have decent wage work for part of the year, work minimum wage all year, or get work/move out west.
In the end of all this, EI is money that we put in, employer and employee...what god damn right does the government have to deny us what we put in and had put in on our behalf? Real reason for EI controversy; they want to dip into that fund, or probably already have.
So, why is it so frowned upon to have utter contempt for the animals that commit heinous crimes such as murder?
My sympathy lies with the victims, those that are left behind/still alive and those that have died. I have -no- sympathy for the vast majority of murderers, and the only ones I have any sympathy for are the ones that kill someone because they were brutally tortured by their victim, or if said murderer killed a pedophile.
You accuse people of being sociopaths for approving of the death penalty, and/or corporal punishment, yet it's -you- people that either want these guys to have the chance to commit similar acts in the future, or become drains on the system by giving them life imprisonment.
It's sickening that you would show mercy to someone who deliberately killed someone else for no particular reason, or a reason that's flimsy at best. Let's see if you believe the same thing if someone near and dead to you is taken, tortured, then killed.
In all actuality, the beta vs VHS analogy has already been rendered false. Blue Ray was actually the more expensive, gimmicky format when it won against hd-DVD. Hd-DVD was identical to blue ray, save it had lower storage space (and it's really only now that blue ray's storage capacity is being largely used), but was three times cheaper to own in comparison to blueray at the time.
In the end, the only real reason anything wins over anything else is public perception, and an appropriately aggressive marketing/propaganda campaign that hits on the points that the public believes are important at the time will win it.
Cars don't become more resilient to accidents; they become less. Cars are made cheaply with plastics now that allow the vehicle to be easily crushed...even low speed impacts can render your car a write-off these days. It's supposedly for safety reasons, but I personally would rather have a car that can stand up to impacts rather than have it crush in on me with supposed 'crumple' zones.
Sorry, I know it's a bit off topic but it really bothers me that people buy into the whole 'cars are more resilient these days' bs they're being fed:P
The only problem with digitizing is that eventually current modern formats will be obsalete, and unless they continuously spend millions of dollars to keep updating software and hardware formats, one day that data will be lost. This is a problem nasa and other big organizations have run into; the older formats that have important, relevant data can no longer be read as no-one makes the hardware to run the storage medium or has the necessary software to read the files.
Paper storage is inefficient in a lot of ways, but it's also really the only format that has the potential to last centuries...and it has.
Working at Kearl lake, the largest emission by far is steam....water vapor... and I'm sure there's likely chemicals in that steam, maybe even cfc's...
Hmmmm....
Well, as lasers become more and more practical as weaponry, say goodbye to the age of air superiority. Practical lasers mean point and click anti air weapons, which means ground warfare will be dominant once more.
Doom has been and always will be my favourite fps. To play Doom properly, you needed a combination of brains, reflexes, and skill. I laugh at the modern day gamers that get frustrated with the puzzles in Doom, or get frustrated when they start running low on ammo and health and have already mostly used the tight resources in the level.
I especially love it when they play Nightmare difficulty for the first time, and throw a fit when they can't get very far.
Modern Shooters really do have a lot to learn from the great granddaddy of them all (as in the one that really defined the genre).
To me, equality is treating people how they treat me, regardless of gender or race. Treat me with respect, I treat you with an equal level of respect.
Strike me, and I will strike you back...again, regardless of race or gender.
In the end, the one thing people forget in all the racial and gender bullshit is that we're all human beings. As a race we're immature, having come too far too fast in a relatively short period of time and, in reality, are still more suited to primitive conditions than our modern ones due to leftover instincts (prejudice, greed) that haven't had enough time to evolve out of us.
So as much as I follow my philosophy for equality, and as much as I wish others would as well, we all need to collectively grow up as a race if there is to be any chance of solving these issues.
While I don't agree with your statement, the scenario you outline is possible; that's what is happening more or less with the Canadian construction trades.. big companies claiming there's a shortage of skilled tradesmen when there is no actual shortage...what they ACTH mean is there's a shortage of -slave labour-, and are thus using it to bring in foreign workers.
Same scenario, different application.
Wow. I've had more misunderstandings caused by text-only forms of communication by far than voice-only communications. Main reason being is that people tend to add tones to text depending on their mood, whereas with voice you can't really make that mistake.
Different experiences I guess.
Because the male breast isn't considered sexual like a woman's breast is. That's the long and short of it; if you want that changed, you'll have to change the way most societies think.
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Right, the invasion of Iraq which had no basis in reality to be implemented, and was only done to finish what daddy started and get the oil. Yep, good thing he was able to get support for that one.
Leave Canada out of this! ;)
This one is made of win.
The only way they pay that 53% of Federal Tax is if they're honest. The fact that so many companies and, gasp, rich people have been sending their money out of the US to avoid paying said taxes should damn well tell you something. Let's also not forget that they can hire accountants to hide their money and use loopholes to get tax breaks whereas a poor person at best can attempt to work under the table or refuse to pay, and end up in prison as a result in either case. Stop defending the fat cats.
Here's the thing; when you're employed, you pay into that fund. So does your employer. In effect, you're taking out your own money. Now, if you get the minimum number of hours, you don't get to have the full number of weeks, and how much you get per week is nominally determined by how much you made while you were employed. In the maritimes, there is very little full time work in comparison to the rest of the country...bigger provinces get higher priority than us. I won't deny there are people that abuse it, but those of us that want to live and work honestly have three choices; accept the fact that we can have decent wage work for part of the year, work minimum wage all year, or get work/move out west. In the end of all this, EI is money that we put in, employer and employee...what god damn right does the government have to deny us what we put in and had put in on our behalf? Real reason for EI controversy; they want to dip into that fund, or probably already have.
So, why is it so frowned upon to have utter contempt for the animals that commit heinous crimes such as murder? My sympathy lies with the victims, those that are left behind/still alive and those that have died. I have -no- sympathy for the vast majority of murderers, and the only ones I have any sympathy for are the ones that kill someone because they were brutally tortured by their victim, or if said murderer killed a pedophile. You accuse people of being sociopaths for approving of the death penalty, and/or corporal punishment, yet it's -you- people that either want these guys to have the chance to commit similar acts in the future, or become drains on the system by giving them life imprisonment. It's sickening that you would show mercy to someone who deliberately killed someone else for no particular reason, or a reason that's flimsy at best. Let's see if you believe the same thing if someone near and dead to you is taken, tortured, then killed.
In all actuality, the beta vs VHS analogy has already been rendered false. Blue Ray was actually the more expensive, gimmicky format when it won against hd-DVD. Hd-DVD was identical to blue ray, save it had lower storage space (and it's really only now that blue ray's storage capacity is being largely used), but was three times cheaper to own in comparison to blueray at the time. In the end, the only real reason anything wins over anything else is public perception, and an appropriately aggressive marketing/propaganda campaign that hits on the points that the public believes are important at the time will win it.
Cars don't become more resilient to accidents; they become less. Cars are made cheaply with plastics now that allow the vehicle to be easily crushed...even low speed impacts can render your car a write-off these days. It's supposedly for safety reasons, but I personally would rather have a car that can stand up to impacts rather than have it crush in on me with supposed 'crumple' zones. Sorry, I know it's a bit off topic but it really bothers me that people buy into the whole 'cars are more resilient these days' bs they're being fed :P
Aaand I spelled obsolete wrong lol
The only problem with digitizing is that eventually current modern formats will be obsalete, and unless they continuously spend millions of dollars to keep updating software and hardware formats, one day that data will be lost. This is a problem nasa and other big organizations have run into; the older formats that have important, relevant data can no longer be read as no-one makes the hardware to run the storage medium or has the necessary software to read the files. Paper storage is inefficient in a lot of ways, but it's also really the only format that has the potential to last centuries...and it has.
Working at Kearl lake, the largest emission by far is steam....water vapor... and I'm sure there's likely chemicals in that steam, maybe even cfc's... Hmmmm....
Well, as lasers become more and more practical as weaponry, say goodbye to the age of air superiority. Practical lasers mean point and click anti air weapons, which means ground warfare will be dominant once more.
Doom has been and always will be my favourite fps. To play Doom properly, you needed a combination of brains, reflexes, and skill. I laugh at the modern day gamers that get frustrated with the puzzles in Doom, or get frustrated when they start running low on ammo and health and have already mostly used the tight resources in the level. I especially love it when they play Nightmare difficulty for the first time, and throw a fit when they can't get very far. Modern Shooters really do have a lot to learn from the great granddaddy of them all (as in the one that really defined the genre).
Awesome. If I could mod this up, I would.
To me, equality is treating people how they treat me, regardless of gender or race. Treat me with respect, I treat you with an equal level of respect. Strike me, and I will strike you back...again, regardless of race or gender. In the end, the one thing people forget in all the racial and gender bullshit is that we're all human beings. As a race we're immature, having come too far too fast in a relatively short period of time and, in reality, are still more suited to primitive conditions than our modern ones due to leftover instincts (prejudice, greed) that haven't had enough time to evolve out of us. So as much as I follow my philosophy for equality, and as much as I wish others would as well, we all need to collectively grow up as a race if there is to be any chance of solving these issues.
While I don't agree with your statement, the scenario you outline is possible; that's what is happening more or less with the Canadian construction trades.. big companies claiming there's a shortage of skilled tradesmen when there is no actual shortage...what they ACTH mean is there's a shortage of -slave labour-, and are thus using it to bring in foreign workers. Same scenario, different application.
Wow. I've had more misunderstandings caused by text-only forms of communication by far than voice-only communications. Main reason being is that people tend to add tones to text depending on their mood, whereas with voice you can't really make that mistake. Different experiences I guess.
Because the male breast isn't considered sexual like a woman's breast is. That's the long and short of it; if you want that changed, you'll have to change the way most societies think.