What should you do with drunk drivers and pedophiles? Life sentence? Give them no support so that they run a high risk of repeat offense? Or helping them go live normal lives?
Higher sentences for offenders. When a pedophile ends up with a 900$ fine, or 40 hours of community service, you can't expect others to be scared of doing the same thing. I don't know about you, but i don't think it's normal that someone who got caught drinking and driving 9 times is still freely roaming around like any other citizen.
As for the overturning of the CRTC's decision, i wouldn't be too sure about that, this is quebec after all, where most politicians and journalists prefer to keep quiet about the recent events instead of pushing aside their different opinions and fighting for what is right. A lot of people are happy that CHOI will disappear, since it was one of the only radio stations who didn't have an extreme left pro-union speech(hence most bloc people not doing anything). The same goes for the other radio stations, do you think they'll do anything? The CRTC is helping them by removing the only competitor heh...
Think of Canada as another state. Except that while they tax you in Canada, they actually seem to do something with the tax dollars besides 'defence' spending.
Yeah, our tax dollars are used to censor radio stations, "reintegrate" pedophiles and people who drink-and-drive, crappy health care(im speaking for Quebec, i havent looked at the other provinces much but it doesnt seem to be that much of a problem in the other ones), horrible education(i can barely speak english) and funding monopolies.
yeah, good thing i live in the free and democratic country that is Canada.
Here, our government protects us from evil radio stations which spread a different opinion than that of the pro-union left by using our tax money to censor them.
But, you also gain free health care as well and have more public facilitties. Also, you can take pride in the fact that your tax dollars don't go to humiliating and turtuing Iraqi POW's
First off, our health care is decrepit due to the lack of competition and the idiocy of worker unions(in quebec anyways, I haven't looked at the other provinces but it can't be that different). Second of all, about those vague "other services" that people refer to when speaking of our taxes, I'd like someone to point them out to me, cause I haven't seen any improvements compared to the US:
our roads are in a horrible condition, our health care system is ridiculous, our "culture" funding is pretty much just another way for the same people to pump more money from the gov( PKP, Julie snyder and the like).
And no, our tax dollars don't go to humiliating and torturing Iraqi POW's, they go to reward generals like Romeo D'allaire, who let his unit get dismembered by enemy soldiers while he was having tea with the enemy leader (there's a nice ceremony for him each year, cute eh)
Our tax money was also used to merge a bunch of cities _without being asked_ (yay democracy), to contracts given to friends of the party. Oh and also for the Red Cross' lawyers when they gave HIV-positive blood to a bunch of people _when they knew the blood was infected. There's also the CRTC, which is funded by our taxes and is used mostly for censorship against the Party's enemies and to force radios to air 60% of french content even though nobody likes french music.
Then again, it might just be Quebec - I wouldn't know.
they pulled angel, the simpsons are getting horribly boring, they aren't making any new Family Guy...and the semi-decoded porn channels dont seem to be semi-decoded anymore, no wonder
probably since goggle is a real word? you cant expect bra.com to close because of bar.com... then again, if goggle's intent is *only* to advertise random crap at people who cant spell, it's another thing
Global warming? It's -40 outside with the wind factor...i guess that by global those lefty environmentalists mean "anywhere where warmth coincidentally is present"
i'd love to like abiword
no, really, i would!
if only it didnt segfault everytime i try to copy from it, or when it tries to spellcheck french documents etc...don't get me wrong - i do like it, but it just doesn't behave properly here, and i don't really have the time to look into it(the only solutions i found when i got off my arse to search was recompiling it without gnome support, which didn't quite work)
for now i'll just use koffice, who's loading time is decent on this p3 450, and has most of the features i need(when i need bigger stuff i just use OOo)
anyone come across this crash-when-trying-to-cutnpaste-from-abiword problem? (btw this is happening on a debian testing box, but i had the same problem on a gentoo stable...)
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Higher sentences for offenders. When a pedophile ends up with a 900$ fine, or 40 hours of community service, you can't expect others to be scared of doing the same thing. I don't know about you, but i don't think it's normal that someone who got caught drinking and driving 9 times is still freely roaming around like any other citizen.
As for the overturning of the CRTC's decision, i wouldn't be too sure about that, this is quebec after all, where most politicians and journalists prefer to keep quiet about the recent events instead of pushing aside their different opinions and fighting for what is right. A lot of people are happy that CHOI will disappear, since it was one of the only radio stations who didn't have an extreme left pro-union speech(hence most bloc people not doing anything). The same goes for the other radio stations, do you think they'll do anything? The CRTC is helping them by removing the only competitor heh...
Yeah, our tax dollars are used to censor radio stations, "reintegrate" pedophiles and people who drink-and-drive, crappy health care(im speaking for Quebec, i havent looked at the other provinces much but it doesnt seem to be that much of a problem in the other ones), horrible education(i can barely speak english) and funding monopolies.
Here, our government protects us from evil radio stations which spread a different opinion than that of the pro-union left by using our tax money to censor them.
Hi, you must be new around here...
You mean quebec?
Personally, i'd love to see it replaced by a "_ lock", which would change the spacebar space to a _
sorry for replying to my own post but i thought it might be worth mentionning the vile racism against anything american that people seem to have here
First off, our health care is decrepit due to the lack of competition and the idiocy of worker unions(in quebec anyways, I haven't looked at the other provinces but it can't be that different). Second of all, about those vague "other services" that people refer to when speaking of our taxes, I'd like someone to point them out to me, cause I haven't seen any improvements compared to the US:
our roads are in a horrible condition, our health care system is ridiculous, our "culture" funding is pretty much just another way for the same people to pump more money from the gov( PKP, Julie snyder and the like).
And no, our tax dollars don't go to humiliating and torturing Iraqi POW's, they go to reward generals like Romeo D'allaire, who let his unit get dismembered by enemy soldiers while he was having tea with the enemy leader (there's a nice ceremony for him each year, cute eh)
Our tax money was also used to merge a bunch of cities _without being asked_ (yay democracy), to contracts given to friends of the party. Oh and also for the Red Cross' lawyers when they gave HIV-positive blood to a bunch of people _when they knew the blood was infected. There's also the CRTC, which is funded by our taxes and is used mostly for censorship against the Party's enemies and to force radios to air 60% of french content even though nobody likes french music.
Then again, it might just be Quebec - I wouldn't know.
no but their server probably did, it's already down
There isn't anything wrong with electronic devices here, everything is jus!%(*@!((!!@#(#!(@#(NOCARRIER
they pulled angel, the simpsons are getting horribly boring, they aren't making any new Family Guy...and the semi-decoded porn channels dont seem to be semi-decoded anymore, no wonder
so when does skynet go online? before or after microsoft contributes to the republican party?
thank you, i'll be here all night
you forgot "We live in a world where pedophiles roam free(after 2 weeks of community service anyways)" (quebec)
or "We live in a world where you get sued for 5000$ if you kill someone, 750,000$ if you insult him, guess which one idiots pick?" (quebec)
AHHHHHHHHH MY EYES you mean people actually run those?
yeah, another slashdot would be too much for the internet to handle
bruce willis?
ours use it for anti-american propaganda and pedophile sympathy (quebec)
probably since goggle is a real word?
you cant expect bra.com to close because of bar.com...
then again, if goggle's intent is *only* to advertise random crap at people who cant spell, it's another thing
subliminal messages? I have [SMOKE] no id[SMOKE]ea what you're[SMOKE] talking about[SMOKE]
Global warming? It's -40 outside with the wind factor...i guess that by global those lefty environmentalists mean "anywhere where warmth coincidentally is present"
imagine a beowulf cluster of those...
(sorry i just had to)
cool, maybe i can apply for a "on the internet" patent for it
I'm wearing metal braces, you insensitive clod!
i'd love to like abiword no, really, i would! if only it didnt segfault everytime i try to copy from it, or when it tries to spellcheck french documents etc...don't get me wrong - i do like it, but it just doesn't behave properly here, and i don't really have the time to look into it(the only solutions i found when i got off my arse to search was recompiling it without gnome support, which didn't quite work) for now i'll just use koffice, who's loading time is decent on this p3 450, and has most of the features i need(when i need bigger stuff i just use OOo) anyone come across this crash-when-trying-to-cutnpaste-from-abiword problem? (btw this is happening on a debian testing box, but i had the same problem on a gentoo stable...)