Did you see the Liberals decriminalize marijuana even though they had a large majority for most of a 30 year period?
They were moving towards it, until Stephen Harper came in and started talking about mandatory minimum sentencing. Completely the opposite of what would have any effect on "reducing crime".
Where was the conservative government on issues like marijuana decriminalization, abortion rights, the online privacy act? Completely 180 degrees from a party that would protect individual freedoms in Canada.
Yeah, the same conservatives that have started sending war resistors back to the U.S. where they will be persecuted. The same ones who decided they will no longer seek to bring home Canadians who's lives are threatened, or those whom the U.S. government wants to murder.
Don't even try to pretend they aren't the Jr. Republican party.
I don't know why these mini2440 boards aren't more popular with hobbyists.. You can get one with a 7" touch screen for about $150. They're even cheaper on ebay.
There seems to be a very helpful community willing to help, and it seems to be a fantastic product to learn with.
Fine, get an iPhone I don't care. I think the iPhone is garbage. You can stick with your 8-track tapes and rotary dial phones it won't bother me a bit.
All this thing does is look up information on something presented to it. The iPhone can be used to look up the same information, with the only disadvantage being that you have to manually search for it.
Yeah the iPhone recognizes whatever object/person you put in front of it and displays information about it directly on it. I must have missed that one in the app store.
I think you'll find most Canadians know what socialism is, and know that we have less of it now than any time in the past several decades. The very examples you cite require reaching back a decade or more and don't have much to do with contemporary Canada.
I don't know about that. The privatisation of MTS (The Manitoba Telephone System) was a huge deal when our provincial conservative government allowed it, people were furious. The current NDP government got in to power by forecasting doom and gloom about how the conservatives would privatise Manitoba Hydro (the gas and electric "company") as well. Neither one of them wants to do anything with our potential for generating hydroelectric power, but even the suggestion of privatisation gets people upset.
But anyway, I heat my home with natural gas supplied by the government owned distributor, power my devices with power from the government owned electrical utility. Until about 10 years ago I had telephone service from the government telephone company, and bought gas for my car from "Petro Canada", the federal government's own retail gas chain (which they since sold off and privatised). Private hospitals are illegal here, you have to go to the government run free hospital unless you cross the border and have money to burn.
Maybe we're in a grey area somewhere outside of socialism, but most of us see those policies as being socialist, and most of us support them. If you even mention allowing private hospitals here in a public place you're bound to have a mob of people loudly tell you otherwise.
I would blame whoever is doing the switching over there. I'm in Winnipeg and I've never seen the problems you are talking about. I wish they could take the U.S. commercials out of the programs which aren't being done now. I find commercials for personal injury lawyers depressing. And block the news broadcast too while we're out it, that's frightening.
What I'm getting at is, what difference does it make? Why does it frustrate you that you don't see advertising for some other non-local market? Why would you want to see that instead of something a little more relevant to you?
Apparently there is some really fantastic advertising during the superbowl you might miss, but I'd recommend watching those on Youtube the next day if it upsets you.
If watching Tiger pull it off yet again isn't impressive and blood-quickening, I don't know what is.
What difference does it make? I've never met the man, probably never will. He's not saving lives, he's hitting a stupid ball around and getting paid millions of dollars to do it. I find it a bit disgusting that people value these sports celebrities higher than they do people who are out there making a difference in the world.
I don't understand the fascination with watching sports at all. On some occasions I've ejoyed playing some sports, but getting excited by watching grown men chase a puck or kick a ball seems very odd to me.
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They were moving towards it, until Stephen Harper came in and started talking about mandatory minimum sentencing. Completely the opposite of what would have any effect on "reducing crime".
Why don't you move there, and Canada will fill up with compassionate morale people instead of selfish assholes like yourself.
Where was the conservative government on issues like marijuana decriminalization, abortion rights, the online privacy act? Completely 180 degrees from a party that would protect individual freedoms in Canada.
The .gc sites are a mess.. http://www.privacyinfo.ca site is better. The information is actually much easier to find.
Yeah, the same conservatives that have started sending war resistors back to the U.S. where they will be persecuted. The same ones who decided they will no longer seek to bring home Canadians who's lives are threatened, or those whom the U.S. government wants to murder.
Don't even try to pretend they aren't the Jr. Republican party.
I often wondered how long it would take the insanity of US & UK to reach us.
Really? Because I often wonder why it happens every goddamn time we elect the Conservatives, and why nobody remembers this the next time.
personal information can be collected about you only as long as it is:
I don't know why these mini2440 boards aren't more popular with hobbyists.. You can get one with a 7" touch screen for about $150. They're even cheaper on ebay.
There seems to be a very helpful community willing to help, and it seems to be a fantastic product to learn with.
Fine, get an iPhone I don't care. I think the iPhone is garbage. You can stick with your 8-track tapes and rotary dial phones it won't bother me a bit.
Yeah the iPhone recognizes whatever object/person you put in front of it and displays information about it directly on it. I must have missed that one in the app store.
Yeah, because this thing and the iPhone do exactly the same thing right?
Yeah, just like that except you aren't holding a PDA in your hands, it's projecting on to surfaces that you are looking at.
Again, I predict that you didn't watch the video. They built it with "off the shelf" parts for $350.
Did you watch the video? There is definitely something to see here.
I expected to have a foodarackacycle and a rosie robot by now, at least a flying car. But this will do for now.
It took me a minute to figure out what the hell this story had to do with Robert Love.
I don't know about that. The privatisation of MTS (The Manitoba Telephone System) was a huge deal when our provincial conservative government allowed it, people were furious. The current NDP government got in to power by forecasting doom and gloom about how the conservatives would privatise Manitoba Hydro (the gas and electric "company") as well. Neither one of them wants to do anything with our potential for generating hydroelectric power, but even the suggestion of privatisation gets people upset.
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But anyway, I heat my home with natural gas supplied by the government owned distributor, power my devices with power from the government owned electrical utility. Until about 10 years ago I had telephone service from the government telephone company, and bought gas for my car from "Petro Canada", the federal government's own retail gas chain (which they since sold off and privatised). Private hospitals are illegal here, you have to go to the government run free hospital unless you cross the border and have money to burn.
Maybe we're in a grey area somewhere outside of socialism, but most of us see those policies as being socialist, and most of us support them. If you even mention allowing private hospitals here in a public place you're bound to have a mob of people loudly tell you otherwise.
I would blame whoever is doing the switching over there. I'm in Winnipeg and I've never seen the problems you are talking about. I wish they could take the U.S. commercials out of the programs which aren't being done now. I find commercials for personal injury lawyers depressing. And block the news broadcast too while we're out it, that's frightening.
Hey, hey now. It's called "Canada", not "Socialist America".
What I'm getting at is, what difference does it make? Why does it frustrate you that you don't see advertising for some other non-local market? Why would you want to see that instead of something a little more relevant to you?
Apparently there is some really fantastic advertising during the superbowl you might miss, but I'd recommend watching those on Youtube the next day if it upsets you.
What difference does it make? I've never met the man, probably never will. He's not saving lives, he's hitting a stupid ball around and getting paid millions of dollars to do it. I find it a bit disgusting that people value these sports celebrities higher than they do people who are out there making a difference in the world.
How do you even know it's happening?
And people call us socialist. There's no better way to socialize people than through TV.
All is well with my TV in Canada as well.. Hoorah for the commonwealth. :)
I don't understand the fascination with watching sports at all. On some occasions I've ejoyed playing some sports, but getting excited by watching grown men chase a puck or kick a ball seems very odd to me.
Only certain types of men. I'll never understand why anyone would sit and watch a hockey game unless someone forces them to at gunpoint.