Generally speaking, for the terms "Liberal", "Conservative", "Left-wing", and "Right wing" to have consistent meanings, they must mean something different in Canada.
For example: Being racist towards black people may be considered to be "Right wing/Conservative" in the US, because historically, the civil war and slavery predisposed a large portion of the population to believe that black people are inferior for quite some time. On the other hand, in Canada we didn't have all that luggage to turn the racial superiority complex common for the times into a deep-seated racism. As a result, since many canadians haven't even SEEN that many black people in their lives, they have nothing to be racist about.
Another example: The Liberal party of Canada has ruled for the majority of this countrys history. As a result, a large number of the programs they wanted to implement were implemented long ago, such as universal healthcare. Now what's happening is the people who call themselves "Right/Conservative", who model themselves after the americans who take the same monkier(and I'm about to show you why), are advocating sweeping changes to healthcare. This is a major election issue, and the people who are voting for the liberals because they don't want any changes made to the generation-old program are not left/liberal in the actual sense of the words -- they are right/conservative, not wanting to change something that mostly works.
When you hear that canada is more "liberal" than the US, remember that most people don't know what the words even mean, and thus are in no position to be making such claims -- least of all, the far left "conservatives" in this country, who want to change everything they can get their hands on in the name of "right wing conservatism".
I would agree with you, but if this is a moral or ethical stance, how can it be a legtimate one?
Our lives are built upon the suffering of others ---- look around you and ask yourself how many of the things you own were built by virtual slaves, and how much of your lifestyle is built upon corpses. By nearly any ethical or moral standard, our lives are horrible, and we are more than happy to continue on this path because it's not comfortable or convenient to try to give the greatest number the greatest happiness, nor to ensure that your lives aren't funded by murderers.
Thus, if you're going to take a stand, remember that it's simply a hedonistic hatred of being inconvenienced or being made uncomfortable, rather than some enlightened moral or ethical stand.
Makes sense -- sony is useless. I bought one of their network walkmans second hand -- man, what an experience THAT was! It was the only mp3 player I've ever seen that refused to play mp3s -- you HAD to use their shit software to put music on the thing! I gave the thing away and bought myself a 512MB player built in some hole in China -- the company that made it doesn't even have a website.
Think about this. I gave up a sony network walkman for a piece of crap, and I'm happier with the piece of crap. These guys just don't want people buying their products. That's the only explanation!
I have an e-mail message showing EECOL Electric in Canada telling it's employees, "DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INSERT SONY MUSIC CD'S INTO YOUR COMPUTER, EITHER AT HOME OR WORK!" in big red letters, followed by an explanation of the situation.
I'm positive this isn't the only company which has sent out similar notices.
Maybe the kids who go out and kill their classmates are just batshit insane?
Seriously. You can try all day to point out how it should have been perfectly obvious that kids would go out and do this, and it's all just a case of "hindsight is 20/20". Yeah, if you knew your kids were going to be mass murderers, you'd probably keep an eye open to make sure they don't do it on your watch. On the other hand, 99% of people aren't, which makes this a difficult thing to watch for.
Curse those pasty skinned Japanese, with their bangers & mash! This is all because they live in a northern European country built upon a series of smallish islands where it rains a lot!
Right as soon as we find a way to defeat the honourable soccer hooligans whose lineage can be traced back to anicent heroes such as the honourable Scott "Miamoto" McDonald-san, we'll head right over there and beat the living SNOT out of those Japs!
No, Jack is right. It's obviously the Homo Nigger Nips. It all makes sense now! They work in conjunction with Liberal media machine and the Atheist pinko faggots in congress.
What for? It should be obvious to any patriotic citizen: Communism. These Homos want to bring communism to our shores, and making millions marketing a video game is their path to it.
THINK about it! By proving that you can make money off something this filthy, they hope to invoke a sort of nihilism on the subject of economic systems. While people are wondering if capitalism an efficient path to social justice, they sneak in from behind with communism, and next thing you know, the workers own the means of production! The bastards!
FUCK! We invaded Bulgaria again! Listen, we're really sorry. We've been trying not to take over the world, we've been taking night classes at the church, and -- oh man, we're just really sorry. Look -- we'll pay for the damages.
I believe you misunderstand the nature of power. It is impossible to conquer the world in any real or lasting sense of the word, even for the Americans; It is easily possible, however, to subvert the rest of the world to their goals. Experiments in this form of foreign policy took place in the cold war, and mistakes were made -- Osama and Saddam are both results of such mistakes. Now it has been worked out to a more precise science, and for the most part, the world may be scary in places, but it's mostly conducive to the goals of the US government these days.
Most opinions about the nature of Americans were born long before this lawsuit ever started. I won't bother reiterating any of the reasons, but there is a legacy easily spanning half a centry for people who seek to dislike the Americans to draw upon, all without the help of a few more scum suckers.
I'm forced at this point to head off the rhetoric by pointing out that the US has done great things as well, but those aren't what's being discussed.:P
Last time I checked(admittedly, it's been a long time), odd numbered kernels are the kernels where major changes are made. Couldn't it be said that SCO is really asking for future plans on major additions to the kernel in asking for planned additions to 2.7, rather than simply asking for data about a piece of code which does not yet exist?
I could say that Nietzsche believed in the idea of the overman, and the greek gods are over man, therefore belief in the greek gods is supported by Nietzsche. Nothing, however, makes this statement true. Even if he HAD believed in greek gods, however, doesn't mean that it's true. He'd have to present a coherent, logical arguement backed up by empirical facts to make a claim and be taken seriously. Newton, for example, believed strongly in alchemy, and wrote more than a million words on the subject. Modern man understands chemistry and nuclear physics to the point where alchemy can be proven to be wrong.
In this case, you unfortunately seem to miss the nature of this science while trying to create an arguement against it. The reason that dynamics can be used in the case of inert matter is that it is just that -- inert matter. You can reduce inert matter to the forces and counterforces which are situationally as perfect as your instrumentation will allow.
In the case of evolution, you simply cannot reduce the system to such a simple set of dynamics. How do you tell which viral strain will survive the onslaught of drugs and the human immune system? You cannot do this in practice, for the same reason you cannot determine who will become a serial killer in society -- the systems have simply become far too large to model effectively.
In the case of evolutionary systems, it is important to remember that there is no inherent superiority in any given genetic at T0. Unlike energy levels, where you can see that one part of a system has X joules of energy in a certain potential/kinetic configuration, evolutionary traits cannot be effectively reduced to numbers. To do so is like trying to decide a basketball game between two sides of the same team -- there are so many subtle factors, that the decision is goes beyond a simple numerical dynamic of "This virus is superior to this virus by 10%".
A piece of DNA which would be beneficial against all other species in one situation may prove deadly in another situation with the same species. A fish growing lung analogues may survive more effectively near the shore because it can climb onto land and get food there. The same fish far from shore, however, is at a disadvantage beacause it has a large, useless organ increasing it's mass and bulk.
The cowards who think that our entire world must be changed because a couple fanatics did something fanatical, and that Freedom should be outlawed because it interferes with the safety of the populace deserve every bit of malice they get.
I can't get over how beautifully ironic it is that the terrorists won under the mantle of "The terrorists may have already won!".
As they say; you've got your worker bees and you've got your drones. Sure, one doesn't get to sit around hunting poon all day long, but god help all the drones if the honey runs out.
Not only will I not click on ads I see on webpages, I will actively avoid a company so sleazy as to advertise in this fashion.
I block advertising when I can as a service to the companies which are doing the advertising. I also do it because advertising sticks out of a webpage like a cancer, and seeing a webpage the way the designer intended before revenue became an issue is aesthetically pleasing to me.
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Generally speaking, for the terms "Liberal", "Conservative", "Left-wing", and "Right wing" to have consistent meanings, they must mean something different in Canada.
For example: Being racist towards black people may be considered to be "Right wing/Conservative" in the US, because historically, the civil war and slavery predisposed a large portion of the population to believe that black people are inferior for quite some time. On the other hand, in Canada we didn't have all that luggage to turn the racial superiority complex common for the times into a deep-seated racism. As a result, since many canadians haven't even SEEN that many black people in their lives, they have nothing to be racist about.
Another example: The Liberal party of Canada has ruled for the majority of this countrys history. As a result, a large number of the programs they wanted to implement were implemented long ago, such as universal healthcare. Now what's happening is the people who call themselves "Right/Conservative", who model themselves after the americans who take the same monkier(and I'm about to show you why), are advocating sweeping changes to healthcare. This is a major election issue, and the people who are voting for the liberals because they don't want any changes made to the generation-old program are not left/liberal in the actual sense of the words -- they are right/conservative, not wanting to change something that mostly works.
When you hear that canada is more "liberal" than the US, remember that most people don't know what the words even mean, and thus are in no position to be making such claims -- least of all, the far left "conservatives" in this country, who want to change everything they can get their hands on in the name of "right wing conservatism".
I have it on good authority that the majority of canadian schoolchildren can't pick out their state on an unmarked map!
I would agree with you, but if this is a moral or ethical stance, how can it be a legtimate one?
Our lives are built upon the suffering of others ---- look around you and ask yourself how many of the things you own were built by virtual slaves, and how much of your lifestyle is built upon corpses. By nearly any ethical or moral standard, our lives are horrible, and we are more than happy to continue on this path because it's not comfortable or convenient to try to give the greatest number the greatest happiness, nor to ensure that your lives aren't funded by murderers.
Thus, if you're going to take a stand, remember that it's simply a hedonistic hatred of being inconvenienced or being made uncomfortable, rather than some enlightened moral or ethical stand.
Makes sense -- sony is useless. I bought one of their network walkmans second hand -- man, what an experience THAT was! It was the only mp3 player I've ever seen that refused to play mp3s -- you HAD to use their shit software to put music on the thing! I gave the thing away and bought myself a 512MB player built in some hole in China -- the company that made it doesn't even have a website.
Think about this. I gave up a sony network walkman for a piece of crap, and I'm happier with the piece of crap. These guys just don't want people buying their products. That's the only explanation!
Because NOBODY does the Police State like WE do the police state. YEAH!
LEEEEEERRRRROOOY JENKINS!!!
No, that's just a myth perpetuated by the Americans, who are still bitter that they had to pay for all that white paint.
To be fair, adults camping outside of stores to get their console shows who the real idiots are.
They don't even care that they're pitiful slaves to 'The Man'. They want their PS3, damnit!
I have an e-mail message showing EECOL Electric in Canada telling it's employees, "DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES INSERT SONY MUSIC CD'S INTO YOUR COMPUTER, EITHER AT HOME OR WORK!" in big red letters, followed by an explanation of the situation.
I'm positive this isn't the only company which has sent out similar notices.
Hence my use of the modifier 'batshit' to the word 'insane'. :P
We're all a little crazy sometimes, but these guys went out and killed a bunch of their classmates. Now THAT'S crazy.
Yeah yeah, your life is so horrible and nobody loves you.
I don't recall YOU going on a killing rampage.
Shit happens. Normal people don't go on killing rampage when it does.
There's a third option, you know.
Maybe the kids who go out and kill their classmates are just batshit insane?
Seriously. You can try all day to point out how it should have been perfectly obvious that kids would go out and do this, and it's all just a case of "hindsight is 20/20". Yeah, if you knew your kids were going to be mass murderers, you'd probably keep an eye open to make sure they don't do it on your watch. On the other hand, 99% of people aren't, which makes this a difficult thing to watch for.
Curse those pasty skinned Japanese, with their bangers & mash! This is all because they live in a northern European country built upon a series of smallish islands where it rains a lot!
Right as soon as we find a way to defeat the honourable soccer hooligans whose lineage can be traced back to anicent heroes such as the honourable Scott "Miamoto" McDonald-san, we'll head right over there and beat the living SNOT out of those Japs!
No, Jack is right. It's obviously the Homo Nigger Nips. It all makes sense now! They work in conjunction with Liberal media machine and the Atheist pinko faggots in congress.
What for? It should be obvious to any patriotic citizen: Communism. These Homos want to bring communism to our shores, and making millions marketing a video game is their path to it.
THINK about it! By proving that you can make money off something this filthy, they hope to invoke a sort of nihilism on the subject of economic systems. While people are wondering if capitalism an efficient path to social justice, they sneak in from behind with communism, and next thing you know, the workers own the means of production! The bastards!
FUCK! We invaded Bulgaria again! Listen, we're really sorry. We've been trying not to take over the world, we've been taking night classes at the church, and -- oh man, we're just really sorry. Look -- we'll pay for the damages.
I believe you misunderstand the nature of power. It is impossible to conquer the world in any real or lasting sense of the word, even for the Americans; It is easily possible, however, to subvert the rest of the world to their goals. Experiments in this form of foreign policy took place in the cold war, and mistakes were made -- Osama and Saddam are both results of such mistakes. Now it has been worked out to a more precise science, and for the most part, the world may be scary in places, but it's mostly conducive to the goals of the US government these days.
Most opinions about the nature of Americans were born long before this lawsuit ever started. I won't bother reiterating any of the reasons, but there is a legacy easily spanning half a centry for people who seek to dislike the Americans to draw upon, all without the help of a few more scum suckers.
:P
I'm forced at this point to head off the rhetoric by pointing out that the US has done great things as well, but those aren't what's being discussed.
Last time I checked(admittedly, it's been a long time), odd numbered kernels are the kernels where major changes are made. Couldn't it be said that SCO is really asking for future plans on major additions to the kernel in asking for planned additions to 2.7, rather than simply asking for data about a piece of code which does not yet exist?
I could say that Nietzsche believed in the idea of the overman, and the greek gods are over man, therefore belief in the greek gods is supported by Nietzsche. Nothing, however, makes this statement true. Even if he HAD believed in greek gods, however, doesn't mean that it's true. He'd have to present a coherent, logical arguement backed up by empirical facts to make a claim and be taken seriously. Newton, for example, believed strongly in alchemy, and wrote more than a million words on the subject. Modern man understands chemistry and nuclear physics to the point where alchemy can be proven to be wrong.
In this case, you unfortunately seem to miss the nature of this science while trying to create an arguement against it. The reason that dynamics can be used in the case of inert matter is that it is just that -- inert matter. You can reduce inert matter to the forces and counterforces which are situationally as perfect as your instrumentation will allow.
In the case of evolution, you simply cannot reduce the system to such a simple set of dynamics. How do you tell which viral strain will survive the onslaught of drugs and the human immune system? You cannot do this in practice, for the same reason you cannot determine who will become a serial killer in society -- the systems have simply become far too large to model effectively.
In the case of evolutionary systems, it is important to remember that there is no inherent superiority in any given genetic at T0. Unlike energy levels, where you can see that one part of a system has X joules of energy in a certain potential/kinetic configuration, evolutionary traits cannot be effectively reduced to numbers. To do so is like trying to decide a basketball game between two sides of the same team -- there are so many subtle factors, that the decision is goes beyond a simple numerical dynamic of "This virus is superior to this virus by 10%".
A piece of DNA which would be beneficial against all other species in one situation may prove deadly in another situation with the same species. A fish growing lung analogues may survive more effectively near the shore because it can climb onto land and get food there. The same fish far from shore, however, is at a disadvantage beacause it has a large, useless organ increasing it's mass and bulk.
The cowards who think that our entire world must be changed because a couple fanatics did something fanatical, and that Freedom should be outlawed because it interferes with the safety of the populace deserve every bit of malice they get.
I can't get over how beautifully ironic it is that the terrorists won under the mantle of "The terrorists may have already won!".
As they say; you've got your worker bees and you've got your drones. Sure, one doesn't get to sit around hunting poon all day long, but god help all the drones if the honey runs out.
Horses need lovin' too!
Well, he IS stupid enough to think that video games make kids kill. I think we could cook up just about anything and he'd believe it.
Actually, they just painted some test tubes on a few buildings. Marketing folks aren't really that smart.
"Quick! We need to sex up science! It's not INTERESTING like business and marketing!"
Not only will I not click on ads I see on webpages, I will actively avoid a company so sleazy as to advertise in this fashion.
I block advertising when I can as a service to the companies which are doing the advertising. I also do it because advertising sticks out of a webpage like a cancer, and seeing a webpage the way the designer intended before revenue became an issue is aesthetically pleasing to me.