Here in Canada, Quebec is famous for refusing to go along with anything that the Federal government or other provincial governments want to do. Unless it somehow results in them getting more money or more rights. Subject of course to them being able to use the funds however they wish.
As opposed to being drained of money and refused rights, wich is what the federal goverment and the other provinces are famous for going along with.
Those inferior second class citizens should really learn their place in life and accept their domination quietly huh?
This is a bit scary for a province that values its independence in culture and language so much to have just one major media owner.
There is one MAJOR media owner,and many smaller ones. In fact, there are 4 french-networks on TV (not counting cable channels and english channels). One is owned by Quebecor, the other is owned by another canadian megacorp, and the remaining 2 are government owned. One federal, the other provincial.
So the quebecor-owned network is kinda like ABC, CBS or NBC (province not big enough to support more than one), the other is like Fox (in fact a lot of its programming is Fox shows), one of the government-owned ones is like PBS, and the other is like a ABC-CBS-NBC mixed with big-budget PBS.
There is diversity, but you are right: media convergence is scary.
Why does Canada have to imitate the U.S. in all things?
Don't vote Liberal or Conservative then. I suggest NPD, or the BLoc Pot, they sure as hell don't follow U.S. dogma.
The problem is people who are concerned with the economy will always imitate the U.S. because since they are Canada's biggest economic partner, doing as they dictate is what's best for buisness. It is not what's best for the country, but when politicians say they want a "strong economy" that's doubletalk for "I want my buisnesses to make more profit". Do some research and don't vote for anyone connected to Power Corp if you don't want to elect someone who'll make sure Canada is the U.S.'s bitch.
On an unrelated note, I find it ironic that the same people who claim that abortion at day 3 is criminal are often pro-death penalty.
Especially since it would have saved everyone a lot of trouble if the person on death row had been aborted to begin with.
I think people who don't want children shouldn't have children. We have enough kids getting starved, abused and neglected as it is.:(
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The official definition is held at (oddly enough), jumptheshark.com:
Q. What is jumping the shark? A. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak . That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill.
Right, its not the peak, its the moment that makes you realised the peak has past.
Jumping the shark is a moment of obvious lameness that makes it painfully clear that the show is getting lamer and lamer.
The aforementioned expression refers to the telltale sign of the demise of Happy Days, our favorite example, when Fonzie actually "jumped the shark."
A "telltale sign of demise" is not a good moment, its a bad moment.
There was another instance too, it was a still picture of homer alone on water sckis wearing the Fonze's leather jacket jumping over a shark at the end of the Simpson's spin-off show (Hi, I'm Troy McLure) I believe.
Dogs own you. They make you walk around when you dont feel like it, and they make you pick up their poop after them.
God damn I'm tired of that stupid Seinfield crap.
Yeah, dog owners pick up their poop, while holding a choke chain around their necks, after having subjected them to cosmetic surgery as babies, after having surgically sterilised them, after having taken them forcibly from their mothers...
I don't like that when I am up against a man, everyone automatically listens to what he says over me [...] it still bugs me that people think like that.
Well, the thing about prejudice is its often learned from experience.
I do not doupt your knowledge or abilities, in fact you're likelly much l33ter than I am (I'm still strugling with recursive algorithms), but here's the thing: I'm much more learned in the computational arts than any of the women I know. I'm average compared to the guys I know though.
Its not that women can't learn "manly" skills, its that they so rarely do that its only natural to assume that women you meet aren't the exception.
Don't question my intelligence, I know what I'm doing.
<sarcasm>Sure you do toots, sure you do</sarcasm>;-)
True story: I know women biker, grew up around bikers, I know some who can handle the biggest hogs like pros...well, I know pros actually : ) I also used to rent motorcycles for driving exams. Took me less than one day to learn a lesson: Women who can handle a 450cc motorbike are the exception. Boy did I have to run onto the course a lot when I rented to women (they'd drop the bike because they couldn't handle it and I had to get it upright before the fuel would leak out of the carburator and slime up the course). Some women managed that bike well, I could usually tell from their body language before even letting them on the track, but most, and I mean most, couldn't. Hell, even had to bring one of them back in my arms, she sprained her ankle falling down (still picked the bike up first though, she wasn't leaking inflammable liquids).
Point of the story: Do you have any idea how many clueless chicks wandered in those computers stores before you strolled in? Imagine those poor clerks having to deal with wave after wave of women asking if that computer came with the internet included...poor SOBs.
Advice: Go to thinkgeek, get yourself a "there's no place like 127.0.0.1" or similar shirt and wear it proudly whenever you shop for gear. It'll get the message across.
I always help -- I guess I "get" the concept that I can lift more than almost any woman -- something about testosterone and being a lumberjack in my youth.
He cuts down trees. He wears high heels, Suspendies, and a braaaa!
He's a lumberjack and he's okay, He sleeps all night and he works all day!
The idea of women being the 'weaker sex' is a product of the 1000+ year old war on pagan goddess worship waged by the Catholic Church.
Well, well, trolling against a religious group I see... I'm not in the habit of defending organised religion, but you're making my bullshit radar go off the chart.
Women in ancient times were revered as sacred vessels of fertility. Constantine, later rulers and the Catholic Popes did their best to destroy the idea of goddess worship and make the women a secondary being, which was a major factor in shaping our society today.
Yeah, next you're gonna claim that women had the right to vote in Athens huh?
First of all, Judaism started a pogrom against godess worship 3 thousand years before that.
Secondly, women have been considered the weaker sex in china and japan for aeons too, where they hadn't even heard of the Catholic church. Women in china and japan were forbidden from learning to write, so they had to make up their own "women's language". Hiragana and Katakana in japan, and I forget the name of the chineese one. What, did the catholic church pray for the heatens to embrace that woman-bellitteling you pretend they invented?
And finally, the reason women are considered the weaker sex is because they are weaker. Is the roman catholic church also responsible for secretly weakening female olympians so that they would systematically achive lower performances than that of the mens? What secret roman catholic magic powers did they use to accomplish that? The gap has been shortening in recent decades thanks to illicit drugs and homone treatments (see the east-germany women's olympic swimming team from 1976 and 1980...scary!), but women still lift less, swim and run slower, etc.
Jeez, using anti-sexism to spread racism...that's something.
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Submitted reviews are also used by software companies to promote their products. Its pretty blatant usually.
an enamored vole following me around?
Enamored vole: The self-propelled snack!
We have an Ethanol plant in our town. It smells awful.
The smell is yeast. Its the same smell you get from beer factories.
Freshman used to think it smelled like baking bread.
Again, yeast.
Here in Canada, Quebec is famous for refusing to go along with anything that the Federal government or other provincial governments want to do. Unless it somehow results in them getting more money or more rights. Subject of course to them being able to use the funds however they wish.
As opposed to being drained of money and refused rights, wich is what the federal goverment and the other provinces are famous for going along with.
Those inferior second class citizens should really learn their place in life and accept their domination quietly huh?
This is a bit scary for a province that values its independence in culture and language so much to have just one major media owner.
There is one MAJOR media owner,and many smaller ones.
In fact, there are 4 french-networks on TV (not counting cable channels and english channels). One is owned by Quebecor, the other is owned by another canadian megacorp, and the remaining 2 are government owned. One federal, the other provincial.
So the quebecor-owned network is kinda like ABC, CBS or NBC (province not big enough to support more than one), the other is like Fox (in fact a lot of its programming is Fox shows), one of the government-owned ones is like PBS, and the other is like a ABC-CBS-NBC mixed with big-budget PBS.
There is diversity, but you are right: media convergence is scary.
Why does Canada have to imitate the U.S. in all things?
Don't vote Liberal or Conservative then. I suggest NPD, or the BLoc Pot, they sure as hell don't follow U.S. dogma.
The problem is people who are concerned with the economy will always imitate the U.S. because since they are Canada's biggest economic partner, doing as they dictate is what's best for buisness.
It is not what's best for the country, but when politicians say they want a "strong economy" that's doubletalk for "I want my buisnesses to make more profit".
Do some research and don't vote for anyone connected to Power Corp if you don't want to elect someone who'll make sure Canada is the U.S.'s bitch.
Most cities are built near water. Where there is water fertile land is usually nearby.
Irrigation is not the biggest reason why cities show up near rivers, commerce is: Rivers move merchandise well.
MOVE TO WHERE THE FOOD IS!"
But the guy at the restaurant said I was't allowed to sleep there anymore! : (
The potato yeilds are just nuts - and we're not even trying hard.
I'll say! If you plant potatos and reap nuts, you must be doing this really half-assed!
I wonder why NASA wasted money on this study in the first place.
Saving money is punished, wasting money is rewarded.
If you don't spend this year's budget, it gets cut next year.
On an unrelated note, I find it ironic that the same people who claim that abortion at day 3 is criminal are often pro-death penalty.
:(
Especially since it would have saved everyone a lot of trouble if the person on death row had been aborted to begin with.
I think people who don't want children shouldn't have children. We have enough kids getting starved, abused and neglected as it is.
The official definition is held at (oddly enough), jumptheshark.com:
Q. What is jumping the shark?
A. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak . That instant that you know from now on...it's all downhill.
Right, its not the peak, its the moment that makes you realised the peak has past.
Jumping the shark is a moment of obvious lameness that makes it painfully clear that the show is getting lamer and lamer.
The aforementioned expression refers to the telltale sign of the demise of Happy Days, our favorite example, when Fonzie actually "jumped the shark."
A "telltale sign of demise" is not a good moment, its a bad moment.
That was a clip show called "Gump Roast" (DABF12 / SI-1312). The still image was from the "We didn't start the fire" satire song.
Right, thanks!
"My cat's breath smells like cat food!"
"Oh boy, sleep! That's where I'm a viking!"
There was another instance too, it was a still picture of homer alone on water sckis wearing the Fonze's leather jacket jumping over a shark at the end of the Simpson's spin-off show (Hi, I'm Troy McLure) I believe.
But on the other hand, there isn't a km square of land that doesn't have ants,
There is a whole continent devoid of ants: the antartic.
There are no ants in artic climates.
and they are the only animal that can resist nuclear and biological weapons.
That's cockroaches.
We use science because we have weak bodies.
I don't know about you, but I am stronger than an ant.
Dogs own you. They make you walk around when you dont feel like it, and they make you pick up their poop after them.
God damn I'm tired of that stupid Seinfield crap.
Yeah, dog owners pick up their poop, while holding a choke chain around their necks, after having subjected them to cosmetic surgery as babies, after having surgically sterilised them, after having taken them forcibly from their mothers...
imagine a beowulf cluster of clones...
I imagine them attacking things...
It's not that there are too many of them, it's just that they aren't as happy as they should be to be gammas.
Well, if President Gamma would drop the war on Soma, they'd all be much happier.
Simpson's, they ought to do a timeless piece. One that mocks politics, elections, science
Can't be done, religion and science are to remain one hundred yards away from each other at all times...
I don't like that when I am up against a man, everyone automatically listens to what he says over me [...] it still bugs me that people think like that.
;-)
Well, the thing about prejudice is its often learned from experience.
I do not doupt your knowledge or abilities, in fact you're likelly much l33ter than I am (I'm still strugling with recursive algorithms), but here's the thing: I'm much more learned in the computational arts than any of the women I know. I'm average compared to the guys I know though.
Its not that women can't learn "manly" skills, its that they so rarely do that its only natural to assume that women you meet aren't the exception.
Don't question my intelligence, I know what I'm doing.
<sarcasm>Sure you do toots, sure you do</sarcasm>
True story:
I know women biker, grew up around bikers, I know some who can handle the biggest hogs like pros...well, I know pros actually : )
I also used to rent motorcycles for driving exams. Took me less than one day to learn a lesson: Women who can handle a 450cc motorbike are the exception. Boy did I have to run onto the course a lot when I rented to women (they'd drop the bike because they couldn't handle it and I had to get it upright before the fuel would leak out of the carburator and slime up the course). Some women managed that bike well, I could usually tell from their body language before even letting them on the track, but most, and I mean most, couldn't. Hell, even had to bring one of them back in my arms, she sprained her ankle falling down (still picked the bike up first though, she wasn't leaking inflammable liquids).
Point of the story:
Do you have any idea how many clueless chicks wandered in those computers stores before you strolled in? Imagine those poor clerks having to deal with wave after wave of women asking if that computer came with the internet included...poor SOBs.
Advice:
Go to thinkgeek, get yourself a "there's no place like 127.0.0.1" or similar shirt and wear it proudly whenever you shop for gear. It'll get the message across.
There's plenty of thing men can do that women do more poorly, and plenty of things that women can do that men do more poorly.
Ladies and gentlemen, the voice of reason.
Thanks.
He cuts down trees. He wears high heels,
Suspendies, and a braaaa!
He's a lumberjack and he's okay,
He sleeps all night and he works all day!
You asked for it
The idea of women being the 'weaker sex' is a product of the 1000+ year old war on pagan goddess worship waged by the Catholic Church.
Well, well, trolling against a religious group I see... I'm not in the habit of defending organised religion, but you're making my bullshit radar go off the chart.
Women in ancient times were revered as sacred vessels of fertility. Constantine, later rulers and the Catholic Popes did their best to destroy the idea of goddess worship and make the women a secondary being, which was a major factor in shaping our society today.
Yeah, next you're gonna claim that women had the right to vote in Athens huh?
First of all, Judaism started a pogrom against godess worship 3 thousand years before that.
Secondly, women have been considered the weaker sex in china and japan for aeons too, where they hadn't even heard of the Catholic church. Women in china and japan were forbidden from learning to write, so they had to make up their own "women's language". Hiragana and Katakana in japan, and I forget the name of the chineese one.
What, did the catholic church pray for the heatens to embrace that woman-bellitteling you pretend they invented?
And finally, the reason women are considered the weaker sex is because they are weaker. Is the roman catholic church also responsible for secretly weakening female olympians so that they would systematically achive lower performances than that of the mens? What secret roman catholic magic powers did they use to accomplish that? The gap has been shortening in recent decades thanks to illicit drugs and homone treatments (see the east-germany women's olympic swimming team from 1976 and 1980...scary!), but women still lift less, swim and run slower, etc.
Jeez, using anti-sexism to spread racism...that's something.
dolphins form very complex societies, and that they even understand and practice self-sacrifice for the benefit of the population.
Hey, as long as they don't take to human sacrifice, I'm fine with 'em...