In Canada this is how we remind parliament who's in charge.
FTFY: In Canada this is how we think we remind parliament who's in charge.
In Canada's system of government, and with the laws and rules that govern parliament, when we elect a majority government the Prime Minister is effectively made a limited term oligarch/dictator. Whatever he says goes, no matter what all the people nipping at his heels say or want.. Our MPs (representatives) effectively do not have free choice of how they vote. They have to vote the way the party leaders want them to no matter what (the Prime Minister is the leader of the political party that elects the most parliamentarians to the 'house'). If they don't vote the way the leaders want, the leader kicks them out of caucus and they will not be allowed to represent that party in the next election. If you are an independent you have no real power or effect (or more precisely, less power or effect than a 'back bencher'). Independents are allowed almost no speaking time during question period, and members of parties generally/effectively don't care about what they say or do (because their party leader doesn't care).
Canada's system is more polarized than in America. In America there are a lot of votes that take place where a democrat will vote for a republican bill and a republican will vote for a democrat sponsored bill (although granted the last is not happening as much because of the radicalization of the republican party). In any case Americans shouldn't fret too much. At least the parties there actually work together on bills collaboratively. If that happens in Canada the other parties scream 'COALITION!!!' like it is a bad thing for parties to work together to form a piece of legislation that benefits the country.
This is going to happen less and less as programmers think they don't need to understand databases because they ORM like hibernate. I know of many programmers who don't want to know about sql beyond what they need to make their hibernate mapping work.
Highway 15 goes north from Salt Lake City. It goes up through Idaho, Montana, and into Canada at the Alberta border. There it is pretty much straight on up through Lethbridge (lots of Mormons around there), and with a slight jog west (30 miles if that) then right up into Calgary. Calgary is almost on a straight line north of Salt Lake City and the southern chunk of Idaho.
Despite having 'united' in the name it doesn't mean they were left of centre. From what I've read I think they might have been more plain 'centre' than anything. And they drifted right and formed the social credit. And despite having 'social' in that name, the social credit party was extremely right wing/conservative.
Actually cannabis isn't as benign as people think it is. I used to smoke it a long time ago... and not a weekend warrior either. For more than ten years. I had to stop because it started giving me panic attacks. It wasn't fun or relaxing any more. I have talked to many others with the same experience, so I know it isn't just me. And there is compelling research that teens who smoke dope have a statistically higher incidence of schizophrenia later in life. And yeah regardless of all that, I have thought about the stuff, but from my experience I find dope fogs me up more than opiates. But at least you don't have such a harsh withdrawal if you decide to stop. And from people I have seen stop smoking it, I do believe there are some withdrawal effects. But I might try it as a test, but I'm not sure I want to be high all the time. I think ibuprofen might be easier on the brain for me.
That's why they're researching it. They didn't say it is out for general consumption. I'm just hoping it is better than opiates because the likelihood of a relapse is fairly high, and I would rather not have to go through the whole fogged out get clean cycle again.
Thanks. I understand the muscle tension thing 100%. And the posture. I'll look up serratiopeptidase and the Alexander exercise. I find core strengthening actually helps a lot including a kind of side sit up I do kind of like a side plank but sit upping, if you can follow. I'll do it either across a bench with my feet tucked under a rack at the same level to anchor, or less strenuous on getting sideways on a back extension device like at a gym (not talking inversion table). If those aren't available I'll side plank and dip the hips up and down. And of course back stretches so it doesn't all seize up. Swimming helps a LOT. So does the hot tub after. No joke. Lat pull Downs and light weight hey rep seated rows too. And if it gets too stressed which it does I take it easy and only do core and swimming. Waalking often helps but too can mean lying Downs lot the next day too. But I have to keep at it or I'll lose the ability. And when it goes to shit I use a TENS unit I bought (don't need rx in Canada for one), heat, and 3 ibuprofens. VERY rarely a perc (less than 5 or 10 a year). Pardon the lack of paragraphs... I'm writing this on an android phone while driving a motorcycle in heavy traffic. Ok well maybe only the android part is true... maybe.
People who haven't had this kind of pain usually through no fault of their own don't really understand what severe chronic pain does to a person. Nor do I wish anyone other than a few dictators first hand knowledge.:) Similar to how mental health issues are finally being discussed openly (about time... I had a good buddy degenerate into severe schizophrenia a long time ago and commit suicide) it's time people understood how debilitating chronic pain is and the issues around it. Have to talk about it or no one will know. Most can't imagine more than a stubbed baby toe; which hurts like a son of a bitch : ) . Only works if I'm.honest about it. Good luck (no sarcasm either).
I can't tell you how much I hope they manage to find a non-opiate way to handle chronic pain. I'm not on them any more, but they are a bitch even when they make life bearable. But there is a difference between physical and emotional pain. I know it's a fact that one can lead to the other (I've experienced it) but normally they have different causes/initiators. And if you can nip one in the bud fast enough, it will stop the spill over effect to the other.
I had a really pinched nerve in my back before (L5/S1) caused by a ruptured disk. Really bad... could barely walk, and not more than a few paces without assistance (and sometimes lying down in just the right position was the only way I could be). Incredible pain, permanent nerve damage, partial paralysis of some muscles in the leg (most of which has come back), and incredible pain where even a mostly nonreligious person like myself would sometimes be reduced to praying for it to stop. Lasted about 9 or 10 months till surgery fixed it about 70%. Yay.
I would have loved something like this if it meant I wouldn't have had to deal with opiates like 80mg Oxycontin to make life livable. And most especially so that I wouldn't have had to endure the physical and emotional effects when weening myself off that shit after the surgery took away almost all the pain (my doc was totally surprised when I told him I was off the shit several months after the surgery... without his help). I think getting off opiates messes you up almost as long as the injury. People don't get it: once you've had that harsh shit in your system for more than a few months, and at high doses (2 or 3 80s a day... and no it didn't stop all the pain but managed it), just getting it out of your system is the start. It tickles that part of the brain so long and so hard that you literally have a hole in your psyche that doesn't fill in for months and months and months and.... You know something is missing. And then there is the recovering from the emotional turmoil that the pain caused. Put the two together and it took at least a year or so to find an even keel for me. And I know I can be an irritable and maybe:) and irritating fuck at the best of times... but I was a champion then.
I didn't like being on it because it makes you dull. But unlike what many think, it doesn't totally incapacitate you and you can function. Anyway... I hope like hell they find something to help people with chronic pain that works and is more benign than what is out there now. I don't like having to take acetaminophen or NSAIDs every day. I could probably argue for low dose oxys from my doc, but I don't fucking want those... period. Here's to the folks at McGill!
This applies more to rural Alberta now. Calgary (nicknamed Cowtown with the world's largest rodeo) for example, has a population of 1.1 million people and the first Muslim mayor of a major city in Canada who is of Ismaili descent. This obviously does not reflect the right wing extremely white Alberta of say a few decades ago (yeah I'm white). Alberta was known for having some supremacist (ahem) clans in the past. They might still exist but definitely are quite rarefied now. But granted, Alberta is a traditionally politically right of centre province. I don't think it has ever elected a left of centre government. And for what it's worth, some people there designate the area from Calgary on south as 'Utah North' due to the huge number of Mormons in the area. But in general, definitely a cowboy province. And yes I lived there before for about 5 years (Calgary).
There are more than just Old Order Mennonites or Hutterites. Not all drive a horse and buggy or only work related vehicles. Some actually have cars, go to the malls, and dress just like most other people, etc. But often they are considered 'very religious'. And they are very good business people and as such understand that their riding needs to be represented in government. So not all Mennonites are opposed to political participation.
I am not Mennonite but I had to do work in a predominantly Mennonite town called Winkler in southern Manitoba a long time ago for about six months (population about 10,000). I rented a place there for the duration of the project. Good people, if a little closed until they get to know you. At the time it was (and it very well still might be) a dry town' except for one beer hall with a 'hillbilly' feel where outsiders felt out of place. About 5 km west is a town called Morden which has a population of around 8,000. The funny thing is that it looked to me like Morden had enough bars for 18,000 people. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
The other thing that is kind of funny was the limited family names. Seemed like the list of last names was extremely dominated by around 12 or 14 including names like: Friesen, Thiessen, Kreider, Neufeld, Neudorf, Teichroeb, Enns, Epp, Funk, Hiebert, Hintz, Wall, and few more. In a town of 10,000. And there were a number of favourite first names like Abe. It was funny and sometimes confusing. I think I knew about 3 or 4 Abe Walls, and 2 or 3 Frank Hieberts. It was funny listening to someone getting paged at the facility I was doing work at: "Phone line 6 for Frank Hiebert... the old one, pick up line 6."
While there is wide opposition to the bill in Canada, including every province's privacy commissioner, the federal government's privacy commissioner, and many people across party lines, with a majority in parliament the conservatives will ram this law through faster than Justice Minister Vic Toews (pronounced taze... like tazer) ramming a mistress. They have a track record of cutting off debate they don't like. Meanwhile, the government currently has the ability to get access to this information, as long as they first obtain a warrant from a judge.
This is the government that shut down the federal gun registry and eliminated the long form census based on privacy concerns. The hypocrisy is not surprising considering it is well known the publicly 'devout' Christian justice minister (and unofficial "Minister of Family Values") introducing the bill is divorced as a result of keeping a decades younger mistress with whom he fathered a child and at least one documented case of conflict of interest. Needless to say, the various privacy commissioners and opposition Members of Parliament are not amused at being classified as pedophiles (since they are against the government on this one), and several have stated this: ' "Apparently, if you care about civil liberties in this country you obviously side with child pornographers, murderers," she (Green party Leader Elizabeth May) said.'
So non-Canadians understand, in the Canadian system of government, the leader of a party has final say on who can run for the party in each riding (district in American vernacular). And he/she has the ability to kick elected members out of the party. If you aren't in a party the rules allow you almost no right to speak in the house in order to give your opinion, or ask questions of the government in question period. In other words, you have little ability to represent your riding. You must vote as you are told or be ostracized. And any party member who works with you will face the same penalty. This means that since the conservatives have a majority in the house and the senate, this law will be passed regardless on how Canadians feel about it. Personally I think the Canadian system is flawed and only avoided these kinds of issues by luck in the past. Now that parties are exploiting these democratic inadequacies, the whole thing is going downhill fast.
Justice Minister Vic Toews comes from Mennonite-land Manitoba (he is literally a bible belt politician). And he is a divorced philanderer and has fathered children outside his own marriage.
Say, someone discovers a way to convert scrap metal to gold That person should be allowed to have a patent on it But someone shouldnt be given a patent for facilitating video conferencing by piping images from a camera to the local PC and then over a network to the remote PC
Yes, that is correct. What's the issue? A number of different programmers can come up with as many solutions to your coding example as there are programmers. A patent should not cover every method of catching a mouse. It should only cover a specific method; otherwise nobody would be able to get rich building a better mousetrap (to use the old saw). So if the person wanted to get very specific on how to send your video signal that would be what is needed for a fair patent. And I'm talking down to the code level because that is where the differences are. But that is not needed because copyright already covers that. And besides code is just a form of algorithm which I don't believe is patentable. Process patents are too vague/non-specific to be a fair patent.
Imagine if the criteria for process patents made it into main stream industry: they would prevent a person from building the proverbial better mousetrap: I patent a mechanical technique for capturing and/or killing a mouse when it triggers a sensor which can be mechanical or electronic... now no-one can patent a better one because that is so vague it covers it all. In your example, a programmer might be able to figure out a faster way to send the video by some sort of new compression technology algorithm he or she develops, but wouldn't be able to implement it because the over all process is patented already. I don't believe this was the intent of patents when they were first implemented, nor do I think it is a fair or just way to implement them now.
Maybe this is what has happened since we allowed business school types to somehow convince so many that the process is more important than the work or output. Or maybe it is because we allowed the 'Big Thinkers' into the picture; those that like to spout shit but never do anything, and still feel like they are owed a bundle (you know, like Wall Street bankers, lawyers, patent trolls, most executives, the modern bonus eating CEO...). But that is another story.
The only thing I see on Google as being a draw for me is the satellite view and street view on the maps. Other than that it's a wash. If it's just search results I'm hard pressed to see the difference. Especially lately when you have to filter like a mad man in order to get useful results (NO, I wanted to learn about mountain lions, not horny old women!). And when you filter you always end up eliminating search results that would have been useful to you in the first place. So now we have to rely on Wikipedia. grumble. So anyway, they all pretty much suck. Can't surf the web without them... can't get much that is useful with them any more. But hey, if you want a good deal on boner pills... HAH! don't ask me I don't need 'em!
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FTFY: In Canada this is how we think we remind parliament who's in charge.
In Canada's system of government, and with the laws and rules that govern parliament, when we elect a majority government the Prime Minister is effectively made a limited term oligarch/dictator. Whatever he says goes, no matter what all the people nipping at his heels say or want.. Our MPs (representatives) effectively do not have free choice of how they vote. They have to vote the way the party leaders want them to no matter what (the Prime Minister is the leader of the political party that elects the most parliamentarians to the 'house'). If they don't vote the way the leaders want, the leader kicks them out of caucus and they will not be allowed to represent that party in the next election. If you are an independent you have no real power or effect (or more precisely, less power or effect than a 'back bencher'). Independents are allowed almost no speaking time during question period, and members of parties generally/effectively don't care about what they say or do (because their party leader doesn't care).
Canada's system is more polarized than in America. In America there are a lot of votes that take place where a democrat will vote for a republican bill and a republican will vote for a democrat sponsored bill (although granted the last is not happening as much because of the radicalization of the republican party). In any case Americans shouldn't fret too much. At least the parties there actually work together on bills collaboratively. If that happens in Canada the other parties scream 'COALITION!!!' like it is a bad thing for parties to work together to form a piece of legislation that benefits the country.
This is going to happen less and less as programmers think they don't need to understand databases because they ORM like hibernate. I know of many programmers who don't want to know about sql beyond what they need to make their hibernate mapping work.
Highway 15 goes north from Salt Lake City. It goes up through Idaho, Montana, and into Canada at the Alberta border. There it is pretty much straight on up through Lethbridge (lots of Mormons around there), and with a slight jog west (30 miles if that) then right up into Calgary. Calgary is almost on a straight line north of Salt Lake City and the southern chunk of Idaho.
Despite having 'united' in the name it doesn't mean they were left of centre. From what I've read I think they might have been more plain 'centre' than anything. And they drifted right and formed the social credit. And despite having 'social' in that name, the social credit party was extremely right wing/conservative.
Actually cannabis isn't as benign as people think it is. I used to smoke it a long time ago... and not a weekend warrior either. For more than ten years. I had to stop because it started giving me panic attacks. It wasn't fun or relaxing any more. I have talked to many others with the same experience, so I know it isn't just me. And there is compelling research that teens who smoke dope have a statistically higher incidence of schizophrenia later in life. And yeah regardless of all that, I have thought about the stuff, but from my experience I find dope fogs me up more than opiates. But at least you don't have such a harsh withdrawal if you decide to stop. And from people I have seen stop smoking it, I do believe there are some withdrawal effects. But I might try it as a test, but I'm not sure I want to be high all the time. I think ibuprofen might be easier on the brain for me.
I would have modded this funny.
Had an emergency filling for a fucked up tooth at the dentist that day so I was a miserable prick. Sorry.
That's why they're researching it. They didn't say it is out for general consumption. I'm just hoping it is better than opiates because the likelihood of a relapse is fairly high, and I would rather not have to go through the whole fogged out get clean cycle again.
Can you say 'Laird tunderin jaysus!!!'?
Thanks. I understand the muscle tension thing 100%. And the posture. I'll look up serratiopeptidase and the Alexander exercise. I find core strengthening actually helps a lot including a kind of side sit up I do kind of like a side plank but sit upping, if you can follow. I'll do it either across a bench with my feet tucked under a rack at the same level to anchor, or less strenuous on getting sideways on a back extension device like at a gym (not talking inversion table). If those aren't available I'll side plank and dip the hips up and down. And of course back stretches so it doesn't all seize up. Swimming helps a LOT. So does the hot tub after. No joke. Lat pull Downs and light weight hey rep seated rows too. And if it gets too stressed which it does I take it easy and only do core and swimming. Waalking often helps but too can mean lying Downs lot the next day too. But I have to keep at it or I'll lose the ability. And when it goes to shit I use a TENS unit I bought (don't need rx in Canada for one), heat, and 3 ibuprofens. VERY rarely a perc (less than 5 or 10 a year). Pardon the lack of paragraphs ... I'm writing this on an android phone while driving a motorcycle in heavy traffic. Ok well maybe only the android part is true... maybe.
People who haven't had this kind of pain usually through no fault of their own don't really understand what severe chronic pain does to a person. Nor do I wish anyone other than a few dictators first hand knowledge. :) Similar to how mental health issues are finally being discussed openly (about time... I had a good buddy degenerate into severe schizophrenia a long time ago and commit suicide) it's time people understood how debilitating chronic pain is and the issues around it. Have to talk about it or no one will know. Most can't imagine more than a stubbed baby toe; which hurts like a son of a bitch : ) . Only works if I'm.honest about it. Good luck (no sarcasm either).
If you would have read, like I said it is the party leader who has the final say who is allowed to represent the party in each riding.
I can't tell you how much I hope they manage to find a non-opiate way to handle chronic pain. I'm not on them any more, but they are a bitch even when they make life bearable. But there is a difference between physical and emotional pain. I know it's a fact that one can lead to the other (I've experienced it) but normally they have different causes/initiators. And if you can nip one in the bud fast enough, it will stop the spill over effect to the other.
I had a really pinched nerve in my back before (L5/S1) caused by a ruptured disk. Really bad... could barely walk, and not more than a few paces without assistance (and sometimes lying down in just the right position was the only way I could be). Incredible pain, permanent nerve damage, partial paralysis of some muscles in the leg (most of which has come back), and incredible pain where even a mostly nonreligious person like myself would sometimes be reduced to praying for it to stop. Lasted about 9 or 10 months till surgery fixed it about 70%. Yay.
I would have loved something like this if it meant I wouldn't have had to deal with opiates like 80mg Oxycontin to make life livable. And most especially so that I wouldn't have had to endure the physical and emotional effects when weening myself off that shit after the surgery took away almost all the pain (my doc was totally surprised when I told him I was off the shit several months after the surgery... without his help). I think getting off opiates messes you up almost as long as the injury. People don't get it: once you've had that harsh shit in your system for more than a few months, and at high doses (2 or 3 80s a day... and no it didn't stop all the pain but managed it), just getting it out of your system is the start. It tickles that part of the brain so long and so hard that you literally have a hole in your psyche that doesn't fill in for months and months and months and .... You know something is missing. And then there is the recovering from the emotional turmoil that the pain caused. Put the two together and it took at least a year or so to find an even keel for me. And I know I can be an irritable and maybe :) and irritating fuck at the best of times... but I was a champion then.
I didn't like being on it because it makes you dull. But unlike what many think, it doesn't totally incapacitate you and you can function. Anyway... I hope like hell they find something to help people with chronic pain that works and is more benign than what is out there now. I don't like having to take acetaminophen or NSAIDs every day. I could probably argue for low dose oxys from my doc, but I don't fucking want those... period. Here's to the folks at McGill!
Hooper: You see that (points to heart)? That there. Mary Ellen Moffat. She broke my heart.
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Knew I missed one.
Here And try Googling Vic Toews divorce. It's not fucking hard.
Try reading the link in my comment you fucking retard.
This applies more to rural Alberta now. Calgary (nicknamed Cowtown with the world's largest rodeo) for example, has a population of 1.1 million people and the first Muslim mayor of a major city in Canada who is of Ismaili descent. This obviously does not reflect the right wing extremely white Alberta of say a few decades ago (yeah I'm white). Alberta was known for having some supremacist (ahem) clans in the past. They might still exist but definitely are quite rarefied now. But granted, Alberta is a traditionally politically right of centre province. I don't think it has ever elected a left of centre government. And for what it's worth, some people there designate the area from Calgary on south as 'Utah North' due to the huge number of Mormons in the area. But in general, definitely a cowboy province. And yes I lived there before for about 5 years (Calgary).
There are more than just Old Order Mennonites or Hutterites. Not all drive a horse and buggy or only work related vehicles. Some actually have cars, go to the malls, and dress just like most other people, etc. But often they are considered 'very religious'. And they are very good business people and as such understand that their riding needs to be represented in government. So not all Mennonites are opposed to political participation.
I am not Mennonite but I had to do work in a predominantly Mennonite town called Winkler in southern Manitoba a long time ago for about six months (population about 10,000). I rented a place there for the duration of the project. Good people, if a little closed until they get to know you. At the time it was (and it very well still might be) a dry town' except for one beer hall with a 'hillbilly' feel where outsiders felt out of place. About 5 km west is a town called Morden which has a population of around 8,000. The funny thing is that it looked to me like Morden had enough bars for 18,000 people. Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
The other thing that is kind of funny was the limited family names. Seemed like the list of last names was extremely dominated by around 12 or 14 including names like: Friesen, Thiessen, Kreider, Neufeld, Neudorf, Teichroeb, Enns, Epp, Funk, Hiebert, Hintz, Wall, and few more. In a town of 10,000. And there were a number of favourite first names like Abe. It was funny and sometimes confusing. I think I knew about 3 or 4 Abe Walls, and 2 or 3 Frank Hieberts. It was funny listening to someone getting paged at the facility I was doing work at: "Phone line 6 for Frank Hiebert... the old one, pick up line 6."
While there is wide opposition to the bill in Canada, including every province's privacy commissioner, the federal government's privacy commissioner, and many people across party lines, with a majority in parliament the conservatives will ram this law through faster than Justice Minister Vic Toews (pronounced taze... like tazer) ramming a mistress. They have a track record of cutting off debate they don't like. Meanwhile, the government currently has the ability to get access to this information, as long as they first obtain a warrant from a judge.
This is the government that shut down the federal gun registry and eliminated the long form census based on privacy concerns. The hypocrisy is not surprising considering it is well known the publicly 'devout' Christian justice minister (and unofficial "Minister of Family Values") introducing the bill is divorced as a result of keeping a decades younger mistress with whom he fathered a child and at least one documented case of conflict of interest. Needless to say, the various privacy commissioners and opposition Members of Parliament are not amused at being classified as pedophiles (since they are against the government on this one), and several have stated this: ' "Apparently, if you care about civil liberties in this country you obviously side with child pornographers, murderers," she (Green party Leader Elizabeth May) said.'
So non-Canadians understand, in the Canadian system of government, the leader of a party has final say on who can run for the party in each riding (district in American vernacular). And he/she has the ability to kick elected members out of the party. If you aren't in a party the rules allow you almost no right to speak in the house in order to give your opinion, or ask questions of the government in question period. In other words, you have little ability to represent your riding. You must vote as you are told or be ostracized. And any party member who works with you will face the same penalty. This means that since the conservatives have a majority in the house and the senate, this law will be passed regardless on how Canadians feel about it. Personally I think the Canadian system is flawed and only avoided these kinds of issues by luck in the past. Now that parties are exploiting these democratic inadequacies, the whole thing is going downhill fast.
Justice Minister Vic Toews comes from Mennonite-land Manitoba (he is literally a bible belt politician). And he is a divorced philanderer and has fathered children outside his own marriage.
Yes, that is correct. What's the issue? A number of different programmers can come up with as many solutions to your coding example as there are programmers. A patent should not cover every method of catching a mouse. It should only cover a specific method; otherwise nobody would be able to get rich building a better mousetrap (to use the old saw). So if the person wanted to get very specific on how to send your video signal that would be what is needed for a fair patent. And I'm talking down to the code level because that is where the differences are. But that is not needed because copyright already covers that. And besides code is just a form of algorithm which I don't believe is patentable. Process patents are too vague/non-specific to be a fair patent.
Imagine if the criteria for process patents made it into main stream industry: they would prevent a person from building the proverbial better mousetrap: I patent a mechanical technique for capturing and/or killing a mouse when it triggers a sensor which can be mechanical or electronic... now no-one can patent a better one because that is so vague it covers it all. In your example, a programmer might be able to figure out a faster way to send the video by some sort of new compression technology algorithm he or she develops, but wouldn't be able to implement it because the over all process is patented already. I don't believe this was the intent of patents when they were first implemented, nor do I think it is a fair or just way to implement them now.
Maybe this is what has happened since we allowed business school types to somehow convince so many that the process is more important than the work or output. Or maybe it is because we allowed the 'Big Thinkers' into the picture; those that like to spout shit but never do anything, and still feel like they are owed a bundle (you know, like Wall Street bankers, lawyers, patent trolls, most executives, the modern bonus eating CEO...). But that is another story.
I keep telling you, it's not paranoia if everyone is out to get me!
The only thing I see on Google as being a draw for me is the satellite view and street view on the maps. Other than that it's a wash. If it's just search results I'm hard pressed to see the difference. Especially lately when you have to filter like a mad man in order to get useful results (NO, I wanted to learn about mountain lions, not horny old women!). And when you filter you always end up eliminating search results that would have been useful to you in the first place. So now we have to rely on Wikipedia. grumble. So anyway, they all pretty much suck. Can't surf the web without them... can't get much that is useful with them any more. But hey, if you want a good deal on boner pills... HAH! don't ask me I don't need 'em!