As a general rule, the answer to this is yes. Currently, immigration amounts to about 1% of population - the highest level in the world. A few months back, the government proposed substantial increases in the numbers. It couldn't do that if the people didn't support it.
The biggest complaint is that most immigrants go to the big population centres - mainly Toronto and Vancouver. The other regions of the country want their share, because of the benefits to the economy, and several have started programs to attract more.
The numbers are not comparable - the two countries have different ways of doing the statistics. Basically, the US definition of "now longer looking for work" kicks in a lot sooner than does the Canadian definition.
Please note that these changes are directed at people already in Canada - foreign students, for example. Canada already has the highest levels of immigration in the world from outside the country (at least on a per-capita basis).
Better economy??
The Toronto Stock Exchange index is up 20% so far this year - the Dow Jones is down. The past few years have had similar results - and that is without taking into account the changes in the currencies. The Canadian federal government has posted a surplus each of the past seven years. The US government, uh, has not. Canadian unemployment levels are nearing record low levels....
Not the same kind of analyses at all. Yes, if there are sufficient number of sufficiently stable suitably structured hot vents on Titan, there could be life in Titan. It seems very unlikely, for example, that life could be sustained unless such hot vents remain active over ten of thousand or perhaps millions of years. Possible, but unlikely. There is almost no evidence that such stable vents exist on Titan.
As far as I know, there was never any "analyses" that life could not exist around hot vents on Earth. It was generally unexpected and unpredicted, but I don't think any well-recognized expert absolutely rejected it before the observations.
With a sample size of one, it is impossible to prove anything, of course. However, the analysis I have seen leads towards the conclusion the the Earth's temperature is a "sweet spot" that appears essential for the complexity of life reactions.
A fundamental issue, as I understamd it, is the speed of chemical reactions. Roughly speaking, chemical process speeds are related exponentially to temperature. Generally speaking, the temperatures on Titan are far to low to permit life processes anything like the sort we see on Earth. That isn't a definite "no", but any life forms would have to be radically different from anything on Earth.
It was not the "Canadian Supreme Court" that made this ruling, it was the Supreme Court of British Columbia, according to the link new report.
I know foreign geography is tough for Americans. It does make a difference - I am virtually certain that the injunction would be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada if it was ever taken that far.
Far be it for me to contract such an expert but according to
The CfA Sea Level Homepage, sea level is rising at a rate of about 2mm/year.
It might help your claim if you identify the sources of your "facts."
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Based on the abstract in the ACM portal, this paper does not claim to have invented macros, only to have applied them to complilers, instead of assemblers. And even then, it appears to be reporting experience, not claiming invention - the reference list points to early papers reporting other applications.
I also remember reports of mid-50's languages based almost entirely on macros. Those languages would tend to fall somewhere in the gray zone between assemblers and compilers, though.
So I'm one of these slow guys who hasn't figured out smart keywords. So I go to "help" and "index" and type "smart keywords," just like the software geek says. Guess what? Nothing.
The number of murders in Toronto is almost exactly the same - in a city four times the size.
The number of murders in Austin Texas, the last time I checked, was almost exactly the same - in a city half the size.
Guess which city is toughest on crime, and which least so.
From the Globe and Mail's version:
"The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," Justice von Finckenstein said.
That means that making it easy to copy isn't the same as copying, and is not copyright violation.
No matter how trust-worthy on line voting becomes, it misses a critical feature - secret ballot. If you don't go to a provably secet place to vote, the whole process fails.
How valid is an election if a boss can say "let me watch you vote, or you're fired." Or a spouse can control the votes of anohter? Or votes are (provably) sold to the highest bidder?
All major democracies adopted secret ballots to prevent these problems - I can think of no reason that they are less important now.
It seems to me that a substantial solution to the zombie problem on "home" machines would be for ISPs to limit the number of e-mails a user can send per day (counting all addressed recipients). For upwards of 95% of customers a limit of, say, 25 or 50 would never be noticed unless they were infected. If they were infected, they would almost always be unable to mail, and would quickly address the problem. Customres who hit their limit could easily be identified by the ISP for special help in dealing with their problems. (Even better, provide a "fuzzy" limit, where customers can go over it somewhat, on occasion, but not regularly.)
For people who need more, they would just call the helldesk and get their limit raised - at least up to a certain value, there should be no charge for more (although that would be the ISP's business decision). The limit isn't intended to restrict usage, it is just meant to serve as a simple check that the machines are behaving normally.
It would also make the zombie concept nearly useless - the number of spams an infected machine could send, and the amount of time it would remain infected, would both be so low as to not be worth the effort. This would also stop a lot of other spammers' abuses of ISP accounts.
This can be implemented locally by ISPs without affecting mail protocols, and with almost no impact on their customers or anyone else.
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As a general rule, the answer to this is yes. Currently, immigration amounts to about 1% of population - the highest level in the world. A few months back, the government proposed substantial increases in the numbers. It couldn't do that if the people didn't support it. The biggest complaint is that most immigrants go to the big population centres - mainly Toronto and Vancouver. The other regions of the country want their share, because of the benefits to the economy, and several have started programs to attract more.
The numbers are not comparable - the two countries have different ways of doing the statistics. Basically, the US definition of "now longer looking for work" kicks in a lot sooner than does the Canadian definition.
Please note that these changes are directed at people already in Canada - foreign students, for example. Canada already has the highest levels of immigration in the world from outside the country (at least on a per-capita basis).
Better economy?? The Toronto Stock Exchange index is up 20% so far this year - the Dow Jones is down. The past few years have had similar results - and that is without taking into account the changes in the currencies. The Canadian federal government has posted a surplus each of the past seven years. The US government, uh, has not. Canadian unemployment levels are nearing record low levels....
Because most of it wasn't very good.
Name one.
Not the same kind of analyses at all. Yes, if there are sufficient number of sufficiently stable suitably structured hot vents on Titan, there could be life in Titan. It seems very unlikely, for example, that life could be sustained unless such hot vents remain active over ten of thousand or perhaps millions of years. Possible, but unlikely. There is almost no evidence that such stable vents exist on Titan. As far as I know, there was never any "analyses" that life could not exist around hot vents on Earth. It was generally unexpected and unpredicted, but I don't think any well-recognized expert absolutely rejected it before the observations.
With a sample size of one, it is impossible to prove anything, of course. However, the analysis I have seen leads towards the conclusion the the Earth's temperature is a "sweet spot" that appears essential for the complexity of life reactions.
A fundamental issue, as I understamd it, is the speed of chemical reactions. Roughly speaking, chemical process speeds are related exponentially to temperature. Generally speaking, the temperatures on Titan are far to low to permit life processes anything like the sort we see on Earth. That isn't a definite "no", but any life forms would have to be radically different from anything on Earth.
Have them all log in to the NYT web site, and post from there. No one would believe the login data.
It was not the "Canadian Supreme Court" that made this ruling, it was the Supreme Court of British Columbia, according to the link new report. I know foreign geography is tough for Americans. It does make a difference - I am virtually certain that the injunction would be declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada if it was ever taken that far.
Far be it for me to contract such an expert but according to The CfA Sea Level Homepage, sea level is rising at a rate of about 2mm/year. It might help your claim if you identify the sources of your "facts."
Based on the abstract in the ACM portal, this paper does not claim to have invented macros, only to have applied them to complilers, instead of assemblers. And even then, it appears to be reporting experience, not claiming invention - the reference list points to early papers reporting other applications. I also remember reports of mid-50's languages based almost entirely on macros. Those languages would tend to fall somewhere in the gray zone between assemblers and compilers, though.
Well, if he did, it was long before Unix appeared, and far from Bell Labs. Macros appeared in some of the earliest assemblers.
So I'm one of these slow guys who hasn't figured out smart keywords. So I go to "help" and "index" and type "smart keywords," just like the software geek says. Guess what? Nothing.
The number of murders in Toronto is almost exactly the same - in a city four times the size. The number of murders in Austin Texas, the last time I checked, was almost exactly the same - in a city half the size. Guess which city is toughest on crime, and which least so.
And smog kills hundreds of times more than they do.
OK. You can read. Now strive for comprehension.
Sorry, I don't get it - what is it that I don't understand?
Yup. It is also legal to carry around the tools needed to commit rape. Only raping is illegal.
You really shouldn't swallow your own press releases.
Uh, yeah. We're not American - we think our laws apply to our country.
From the Globe and Mail's version: "The mere fact of placing a copy on a shared directory in a computer where that copy can be accessed via a P2P service does not amount to distribution," Justice von Finckenstein said. That means that making it easy to copy isn't the same as copying, and is not copyright violation.
No matter how trust-worthy on line voting becomes, it misses a critical feature - secret ballot. If you don't go to a provably secet place to vote, the whole process fails. How valid is an election if a boss can say "let me watch you vote, or you're fired." Or a spouse can control the votes of anohter? Or votes are (provably) sold to the highest bidder? All major democracies adopted secret ballots to prevent these problems - I can think of no reason that they are less important now.
It seems to me that a substantial solution to the zombie problem on "home" machines would be for ISPs to limit the number of e-mails a user can send per day (counting all addressed recipients). For upwards of 95% of customers a limit of, say, 25 or 50 would never be noticed unless they were infected. If they were infected, they would almost always be unable to mail, and would quickly address the problem. Customres who hit their limit could easily be identified by the ISP for special help in dealing with their problems. (Even better, provide a "fuzzy" limit, where customers can go over it somewhat, on occasion, but not regularly.) For people who need more, they would just call the helldesk and get their limit raised - at least up to a certain value, there should be no charge for more (although that would be the ISP's business decision). The limit isn't intended to restrict usage, it is just meant to serve as a simple check that the machines are behaving normally. It would also make the zombie concept nearly useless - the number of spams an infected machine could send, and the amount of time it would remain infected, would both be so low as to not be worth the effort. This would also stop a lot of other spammers' abuses of ISP accounts. This can be implemented locally by ISPs without affecting mail protocols, and with almost no impact on their customers or anyone else.