I don't think you're understanding. Yes, China and Russia have nukes. So do India and Pakistan now. So does North Korea. But none of them want their entire country to glow in the dark. So they don't attack us. This has worked pretty well for the last 50 years. Now Bush wants to go and fuck it all up by giving us what looks to everyone else as an edge in the MAD (mutually assured destruction) game.
Yeah, but so does little Bobby in downtown Detroit. If he nukes France (and I hope he does!), is France going to retaliate against Washington D.C.? Or perhaps France should have some sort of missile defense that could knock out a stray shot from a rogue state or individual, yet would utterly fail against a concentrated attack of dozens of such missiles?
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In the grand scheme of things, correct. The world will go on without the two of us.
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You're aware that patents expire, right?
When put beside written history, a few short years aren't that big a deal. The same query goes to people who complain about drug companies.
It's not that global warming doesn't exist, it's that it isn't a big problem, and that it *is* relative.
A letter to the editor in the Globe&Mail today brought up my favourite point - the Vikings were farming Greenland successfully in the Middle Ages. It obviously was a lot warmer then than it is now, and that is well before the industrial revolution.
Nevermind the dinosaurs who roamed Northern Alberta back when the climate was hot and humid.
I fucking hate environmentalists who don't research things in any more depth than is presented in the Greenpeace pamphlets. (Yes, if it gets warmer, diebacks will occur. In a word, deal.)
I looked into this in depth at one time, and since you've so kindly quoted the section of the act, it basically amounted to:
80(1)(a) - You can borrow a CD and make a copy of it for yourself, legally.
80(2)(b) - You cannot make a copy of a CD (your own or borrowed) and give it to a friend.
As I understand it, it would be acceptable for your friend to come over and make his/her own copy using your equipment. Further, using my original qualification, downloading music of any sort over the internet is unprosecutable in Canada. Distributing it (sharing files in Napster) is another matter.
That vicious assault of yours, when you laced into a satiric piece on the IRA *was* quite the classic. When I downvoted it and saw how low the rep was, a more-than-mild feeling of pity arose. I don't think that one is what you refer to, though.
The overwhelming bias on e2 is toward "community" in the form of daylogs, which I despise. I rarely write there now, because any writeup I spend hours researching and writing will quickly be drowned out by the ceaseless writeups added to the latest gossip/sex node.
(Actually, that doesn't bother me any more - I turned off the new writeups nodelet and browse at a much more leisurely pace.)
If they have so many as three seats, I will be severely disappointed. An all-Liberal government for three to four years is the price we must pay to destroy the NDP as Social Credit was destroyed.
Once, the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Siberia, Northern Alberta, Scandihoovia, all were tropical environments. High humidity, high temperature, year-round.
Since that time, the average temperature on the surface of the planet Earth has dropped some 14 degrees Celsius. We must put a stop to this horrifying trend before we all freeze to death! I *IMPLORE* you to leave all of your doors and windows open in the winter while continuing to heat your house to stave off the certainty of a new ice age!
Either our species is going to go extinct soon, or it will go extinct later. Who really gives a damn about how many million years (Written history only extends back some six thousand years, remember) difference there is between those two epochs?
For example, Alzheimers has been linked to television - the rapid cut scenes of television mean that the visual part of our brain has to work overtime to completely regenrate its mental map of the world every few seconds.
not to mention the ex-CEO who claims he is not a monopoly to every newspaper in town and at a congressional hearing. Even
though he controls 90% marketshare and, well, read the tag line: They make 24% profits on sales. Everyone else in free
competitive markets is making 3 to 5% profit on sales.
To left-leaning Canadians, America is the root of all evil. The last federal election campaign proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Many Canadians, myself included, do not approve of all the social programs that we foot the bill for. The typical response is "Well, if you don't like it, leave!" That's not good enough, ye who blather on about multiculturism and tolerance.
Canadians are sent south of the border to get treatment they can't get in Canada because the *nation's* medicare system can't afford the necessary equipment.
Sure, it'll cost you a bit more down there, but you pay around 15% less income tax (don't forget the provincial income taxes), very few sales taxes, fewer hidden taxes (EI/CPP)... All told, I would personally come out ahead in that game.
To say nothing of the differences in quality of care and waiting lists.....
Support the actions of poor losers all that you like. The fact that the riding voted very similarly in the last election means nothing whatsoever to you? (ie, Buchanan/spoiled ballots)
I'd react in the same way no matter who it was that was complaining. The only other thing I have to say on the matter is that maybe your country wouldn't do so badly if they invited foreign observers in to protect against fraud.
The newspaper headlines from several countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia were rather amusing.
Nope. We don't have proportional representation, we have a first past the post representative parliament.
Whoever gets the most votes in a riding gets, in essence, all the votes for the riding. Just like the electorial college, only with 301 ridings rather than fifty. (Assuming that we vote for the party, not for the representative in our riding).
There's a riding in Nova Scotia that the NDP won with under 33% of the vote in '97. In my riding, Stockwell Day won the byelection with about 80%. Both Day and the woman in NS have only the one vote of their riding.
Proportional representation is very bad, though I don't feel like going into detail. There's got to be another post somewhere on this article that does.
Sure thing, AC, though you'll never see the comment.
Conservatives protect rights. Liberals take them away. Free speech, possession of guns, and the right to life of a fetus are all protected by conservatives, and being taken away by liberals.
The previous poster was going on about how the coming selection of two justices to the Supreme Court means that nobody in their right mind should vote for Bush, as justices appointed by him would never uphold our rights. Simply put, he's got it backwards. Political correctness is a liberal concept.
And, for what it's worth, this religious fuckwad is an athiest. I'm not sure quite how that meshes with your world view.
Conservatives protect rights. They'd protect freedom of expression, just as they protect the right to bear arms, and the right of an unborn fetus.
Liberals, on the other hand, with their "censor music, tv, and movies", gun control, and pro-abortion stance... Remember just who is responsible for the DMCA, funding Colombia and sending helecopters for the War on Drugs (Vietnam started over nothing more), and the Communications Decency Act.
The best part about having a conservative government is that the media questions what they do. Clinton/Gore got a free ride on the several billion to Colombia.
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But Brazil and the USA aren't from the same continent. What were you saying?
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Yeah, but so does little Bobby in downtown Detroit. If he nukes France (and I hope he does!), is France going to retaliate against Washington D.C.? Or perhaps France should have some sort of missile defense that could knock out a stray shot from a rogue state or individual, yet would utterly fail against a concentrated attack of dozens of such missiles?
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In the grand scheme of things, correct. The world will go on without the two of us.
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You're aware that patents expire, right? When put beside written history, a few short years aren't that big a deal. The same query goes to people who complain about drug companies.
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It's not that global warming doesn't exist, it's that it isn't a big problem, and that it *is* relative.
A letter to the editor in the Globe&Mail today brought up my favourite point - the Vikings were farming Greenland successfully in the Middle Ages. It obviously was a lot warmer then than it is now, and that is well before the industrial revolution.
Nevermind the dinosaurs who roamed Northern Alberta back when the climate was hot and humid.
I fucking hate environmentalists who don't research things in any more depth than is presented in the Greenpeace pamphlets. (Yes, if it gets warmer, diebacks will occur. In a word, deal.)
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I looked into this in depth at one time, and since you've so kindly quoted the section of the act, it basically amounted to:
80(1)(a) - You can borrow a CD and make a copy of it for yourself, legally.
80(2)(b) - You cannot make a copy of a CD (your own or borrowed) and give it to a friend.
As I understand it, it would be acceptable for your friend to come over and make his/her own copy using your equipment. Further, using my original qualification, downloading music of any sort over the internet is unprosecutable in Canada. Distributing it (sharing files in Napster) is another matter.
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Wind, on a galactic scale, is my loony guess.
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... a CB Radio?
Strange that thousands of accidents weren't blamed on them every year.
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Hey, could somebody let me know what the current url for "Artificial Turd Industries" is?
Every time I go to www.ati.com now, I get some silly high-tech company rather than everyone's favourite fake dog poop vendor.
I, for one, say that this sort of domain name seizure by a large corporation from a small operator *MUST* be stopped.
(Really, though, does anybody know how much ATI the smaller was paid for turning over the domain?)
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That vicious assault of yours, when you laced into a satiric piece on the IRA *was* quite the classic. When I downvoted it and saw how low the rep was, a more-than-mild feeling of pity arose. I don't think that one is what you refer to, though.
The overwhelming bias on e2 is toward "community" in the form of daylogs, which I despise. I rarely write there now, because any writeup I spend hours researching and writing will quickly be drowned out by the ceaseless writeups added to the latest gossip/sex node.
(Actually, that doesn't bother me any more - I turned off the new writeups nodelet and browse at a much more leisurely pace.)
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If they have so many as three seats, I will be severely disappointed. An all-Liberal government for three to four years is the price we must pay to destroy the NDP as Social Credit was destroyed.
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Abstract intellectual concepts such as paying for what you buy?!?!
You! Clueless! If you learned how to manage your finances, it wouldn't be credit card companies that your money goes to.
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Once, the dinosaurs roamed the earth. Siberia, Northern Alberta, Scandihoovia, all were tropical environments. High humidity, high temperature, year-round.
Since that time, the average temperature on the surface of the planet Earth has dropped some 14 degrees Celsius. We must put a stop to this horrifying trend before we all freeze to death! I *IMPLORE* you to leave all of your doors and windows open in the winter while continuing to heat your house to stave off the certainty of a new ice age!
Either our species is going to go extinct soon, or it will go extinct later. Who really gives a damn about how many million years (Written history only extends back some six thousand years, remember) difference there is between those two epochs?
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For example, Alzheimers has been linked to television - the rapid cut scenes of television mean that the visual part of our brain has to work overtime to completely regenrate its mental map of the world every few seconds.
Source?
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You want to know how you really factor prime numbers?
2^4 + 1
And there you have it! Wow!
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He said profit on sales, not net, you nong.
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He phrased it in a manner contrary to what I'm used to hearing, then, though the rest of you seem to follow him just fine...
"Profit on sales" to me means margin, the difference between the cost of goods and the price they were sold at.
Profit on sales does not mean, to me, the net profit of the entire operation.
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Book stores make 40-60% profit on sales.
Grocery stores tend to make 20-30%.
Nice try, though.
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To left-leaning Canadians, America is the root of all evil. The last federal election campaign proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Many Canadians, myself included, do not approve of all the social programs that we foot the bill for. The typical response is "Well, if you don't like it, leave!" That's not good enough, ye who blather on about multiculturism and tolerance.
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Are *you* serious?
Canadians are sent south of the border to get treatment they can't get in Canada because the *nation's* medicare system can't afford the necessary equipment.
Sure, it'll cost you a bit more down there, but you pay around 15% less income tax (don't forget the provincial income taxes), very few sales taxes, fewer hidden taxes (EI/CPP)... All told, I would personally come out ahead in that game.
To say nothing of the differences in quality of care and waiting lists.....
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Well, then fine.
Support the actions of poor losers all that you like. The fact that the riding voted very similarly in the last election means nothing whatsoever to you? (ie, Buchanan/spoiled ballots)
I'd react in the same way no matter who it was that was complaining. The only other thing I have to say on the matter is that maybe your country wouldn't do so badly if they invited foreign observers in to protect against fraud.
The newspaper headlines from several countries in Europe, Africa, and Asia were rather amusing.
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Nice try, but no.
The *final* ballot was printed in the newspaper, and approved by both someone in the Democratic party and someone in the Republican party.
There were no complaints whatsoever before the results were discovered to be so close, including in the several weeks leading up to the election.
Further, the same county had around 10,000 votes for Buchanan last election, and around 20,000 spoiled ballots then, too.
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Nope. We don't have proportional representation, we have a first past the post representative parliament.
Whoever gets the most votes in a riding gets, in essence, all the votes for the riding. Just like the electorial college, only with 301 ridings rather than fifty. (Assuming that we vote for the party, not for the representative in our riding).
There's a riding in Nova Scotia that the NDP won with under 33% of the vote in '97. In my riding, Stockwell Day won the byelection with about 80%. Both Day and the woman in NS have only the one vote of their riding.
Proportional representation is very bad, though I don't feel like going into detail. There's got to be another post somewhere on this article that does.
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Sure thing, AC, though you'll never see the comment.
Conservatives protect rights. Liberals take them away. Free speech, possession of guns, and the right to life of a fetus are all protected by conservatives, and being taken away by liberals.
The previous poster was going on about how the coming selection of two justices to the Supreme Court means that nobody in their right mind should vote for Bush, as justices appointed by him would never uphold our rights. Simply put, he's got it backwards. Political correctness is a liberal concept.
And, for what it's worth, this religious fuckwad is an athiest. I'm not sure quite how that meshes with your world view.
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It's the supreme court, stupid.
Conservatives protect rights. They'd protect freedom of expression, just as they protect the right to bear arms, and the right of an unborn fetus.
Liberals, on the other hand, with their "censor music, tv, and movies", gun control, and pro-abortion stance... Remember just who is responsible for the DMCA, funding Colombia and sending helecopters for the War on Drugs (Vietnam started over nothing more), and the Communications Decency Act.
The best part about having a conservative government is that the media questions what they do. Clinton/Gore got a free ride on the several billion to Colombia.
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