Often Canada's democracy works in theory and not in practice... except for the fact the government is elected.
The party whips in parliament (and provincial parliaments and legislatures) are way too strong. If a member of a political party doesn't vote the way the leaders of that party (federal or provincial) want, the party leader will almost always kick the member out of the party and they have to sit as an independent. So if your party wins the election and you are an elected representative, the prime minister (federal party leader of the party in power) or premier (provincial) will always tell you how to vote on every legislative vote, and you vote that way or you are marginalized as an independent (since you are now kicked out of the party). Independents by rule get virtually no chance to speak or express their views in the house, and independent candidates, even if formerly elected as part of a party, are rarely if ever elected as they won't have the ear of a party leader. So basically, they are lame duck after this happens. (BTW, the prime minister or premier of a province acts similarly to the majority leader of the house or senate, except they also get to form a government and lead the cabinet.) What ends up happening then when a party wins a majority (> 50%) of the seats, and which happens quite often, is that whatever laws the prime minister wants for the country, or a premier wants for their province, is passed. i.e. as long as they are in power, the prime minister or premiers have a virtual dictatorship. They can do what they want this side of causing an uprising. Prime Minster Mulroney in the 80's came pretty close to that when he passed the NAFTA legislation. Elections don't have to be called for 5 years btw.
The end result of this is that your locally elected representative never really represents you to parliament. They never fight for what is best for the constituents. They all kowtow to the leader (prime minister or premier). So in essence they represent parliament to their constituents; the exact opposite of what a good democracy will have. It sucks and needs to be fixed, but people who are vying to be prime minister will talk about change, but when they get a taste of power, they eat their words and nothing changes.
Sometimes, like right now, a minority government is elected. This means that sometimes the party forming the government will have to work with other parties. But if the minority is just shy of a majority, they can do pretty much what they want since they can slant the legislation in a way that matches what at least one of the other 3 parties elected would like and it will pass (they put enough sugar on it to get one of the others to help). Often the ruling party will throw another really stupid wrench we have up here into the mix to help them do this: The non-confidence vote. They can make any vote a 'non-confidence vote' (a budget vote is always a non-confidence vote for some stupid reason). If a vote on a bill is declared by the prime minister to be a non-confidence vote, and the government loses the vote, parliament is dissolved by the Governor General and a new election called. Since all parties vote in monolithic blocks according to how their leader wants each member of their party to vote (remember, members will be kicked out of their party if they don't), the party(s) that sinks the government is easy to identify. As people get sick of too many elections, the party that had formed the government can point at them as the culprits and get a boost at the polls from people pissed off at those who forced 'yet another election' too soon (elections aren't forced to happen on fixed dates). So this is a way to try to force other parties to pass legislation even if you have a minority. And another instance of legislators not representing their electorate. By and large, a minority government in Canada is as close as we get to a democracy, but it is to quote a phrase I heard somewhere, like putting lipstick on a pig.
Like getting better wireless support, better raid support. It should support motherboard raid setup without requiring people to jump through hoops and farting around with dmraid. There are probably a number of other issues that are far more important to work on than porting to and supporting another architecture.
I took a look at some of your postings. You seem to like to mostly slam other people's posts. Backs up my claim of 'troll'. You must be a very angry person inside. I hope you feel better soon.
Yes, for sure Rogers, I remember that for sure... but also for other cable companies across the country. I was in Winnipeg when that happened and they did the same thing there. Bad enough the CRTC gave them local monopolies, and now a strangle hold on cell phones, but for them to try to pull that... 'nough said.
A thousand years? Was it after Rome fell? Zero is a number, too. Did it happen this morning?
I'm not a grammar nazi by habit, but "a number of" is a useless expression.
Nice troll. Who cares how long... the fact that it happened is what is germane to this conversation, not when. Take a course in critical thinking before speaking.
PHB: Do we have Eunuchs here?.. I heard it is very important for a company's IT department to have Eunuchs.
Dilbert: I think you mean Unix. Yes we have a lot of Unix machines here.
PHB: Oh... [pauses and thinks]... If the company nurse comes by, tell her I said, "never mind."
A number of years ago in Canada, the cable companies started 'giving away' literally everyone in the country a month of viewing on any new speciality channel that came up. Then when the month was over they would start charging you for it. You had to 'opt out' at the end of the month if you didn't want it. So, you would get the trial without asking and then they would start charging you without asking. There was a HUGE outcry and the government quickly stepped in and put a stop to it, making the 'opt out or be charged' practice illegal... at least for cable companies.
One day (sone of a lawyer) Michael Eisner is driving down the road in Florida and spots a daycare centre with a picture of Mickey Mouse on the wall. The same day a hoard of slavering corporate scumbag Disney lawyers go after the daycare for trademark infringement.
The Walt Disney Company forced three daycare centers (Very Important Babies Daycare, Good Godmother Daycare and Temple Messianique) in Hallandale, Florida, to remove five-foot-high murals of Disney cartoon figures from their walls under the threat of legal action.
The blockquoted text was copied from the linked web page... it's down the list if you want to check it... the page has all sorts of other interesting Disney trivia too. Wikipedia used to have references to this under the criticism section of the Disney article but for some reason it isn't there any more. However it is still in the answers.com article on Disney in the criticism section. Go figure.
The link quoted above is one of many if you search for it... and though it is in the 'conspiracies' section of the web site, it is something that really did happen. Besides the about.com article, I personally remember seeing this on the news the week it happened in the late eighties/early nineties; it was a national story. I remember well because I was pretty outraged at the time, and still don't have much liking for Disney or their products any more.
Anyway the bottom line is yes, the police could force the Mongols to take the patches off. I think it is a good tactic. They should use it on the other biker 'organizations' too. They're all a bunch of scum bags... though not quite as bad as corporate lawyers.
I think you are right. However if not, the first thought that came to mind was that it is kind of sad the tube has begun to rule so much that people aren't dreaming in the colours of the real world. No, that's not the name of a T.V. show.:-p I think they need redo the study with a better method.
I can picture a malfunction and it blowing the tits right off someone. The ultimate horror story. Now that I think about it, I hope they get the bugs worked out before they build one for prostate cancer.
IMO, computer basics have no place in a programming course. If your students don't know the fundamentals of operating a computer, they shouldn't be trying to program one.
Depends... computer basics in a programming course could be how a computer works, not how to work it. Understanding what a computer is doing in terms understanding the concepts of memory being allocated, how persistence is taking place, networking, etc. is very important for a programmer to know. The programmers who don't understand memory allocation in a computer are the same ones that tell me that Java never has memory leaks because it has a garbage collector.
But in terms of high school students, that would be an overwhelming way to start. Can't argue with starting with the fundamentals like BASIC... or even pseudocode.
Sorry dude... either you are a really good troll, or you should get your head out of your ass. You have never, ever worked on an enterprise system, either coding it or implementing one. This is very obvious from your comments. I was going try to write something to clue you in, but it isn't worth the effort. When you actually work on an enterprise system supporting thousands of users and millions of customers, then you'll understand. Until then, go on believing enterprise applications are a bunch of forms.
First you get on their case because you say they breed a culture of fear, then they laugh at something, now you want them to be fearful. Make up your mind.
More like all the companies in California will collude (whether actively or not) so that none of them will pay O/T. That is, there won't be competition in that regard. It takes that aspect off the table. i.e. it will be pointless to quit to find another employer who does pay overtime as none actually will.
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Often Canada's democracy works in theory and not in practice... except for the fact the government is elected.
The party whips in parliament (and provincial parliaments and legislatures) are way too strong. If a member of a political party doesn't vote the way the leaders of that party (federal or provincial) want, the party leader will almost always kick the member out of the party and they have to sit as an independent. So if your party wins the election and you are an elected representative, the prime minister (federal party leader of the party in power) or premier (provincial) will always tell you how to vote on every legislative vote, and you vote that way or you are marginalized as an independent (since you are now kicked out of the party). Independents by rule get virtually no chance to speak or express their views in the house, and independent candidates, even if formerly elected as part of a party, are rarely if ever elected as they won't have the ear of a party leader. So basically, they are lame duck after this happens. (BTW, the prime minister or premier of a province acts similarly to the majority leader of the house or senate, except they also get to form a government and lead the cabinet.) What ends up happening then when a party wins a majority (> 50%) of the seats, and which happens quite often, is that whatever laws the prime minister wants for the country, or a premier wants for their province, is passed. i.e. as long as they are in power, the prime minister or premiers have a virtual dictatorship. They can do what they want this side of causing an uprising. Prime Minster Mulroney in the 80's came pretty close to that when he passed the NAFTA legislation. Elections don't have to be called for 5 years btw.
The end result of this is that your locally elected representative never really represents you to parliament. They never fight for what is best for the constituents. They all kowtow to the leader (prime minister or premier). So in essence they represent parliament to their constituents; the exact opposite of what a good democracy will have. It sucks and needs to be fixed, but people who are vying to be prime minister will talk about change, but when they get a taste of power, they eat their words and nothing changes.
Sometimes, like right now, a minority government is elected. This means that sometimes the party forming the government will have to work with other parties. But if the minority is just shy of a majority, they can do pretty much what they want since they can slant the legislation in a way that matches what at least one of the other 3 parties elected would like and it will pass (they put enough sugar on it to get one of the others to help). Often the ruling party will throw another really stupid wrench we have up here into the mix to help them do this: The non-confidence vote. They can make any vote a 'non-confidence vote' (a budget vote is always a non-confidence vote for some stupid reason). If a vote on a bill is declared by the prime minister to be a non-confidence vote, and the government loses the vote, parliament is dissolved by the Governor General and a new election called. Since all parties vote in monolithic blocks according to how their leader wants each member of their party to vote (remember, members will be kicked out of their party if they don't), the party(s) that sinks the government is easy to identify. As people get sick of too many elections, the party that had formed the government can point at them as the culprits and get a boost at the polls from people pissed off at those who forced 'yet another election' too soon (elections aren't forced to happen on fixed dates). So this is a way to try to force other parties to pass legislation even if you have a minority. And another instance of legislators not representing their electorate. By and large, a minority government in Canada is as close as we get to a democracy, but it is to quote a phrase I heard somewhere, like putting lipstick on a pig.
Canadians by and large
up to you if you want to spend 100 bucks that you don't have to. if you are giving away money for no reason, send some my way.
Like getting better wireless support, better raid support. It should support motherboard raid setup without requiring people to jump through hoops and farting around with dmraid. There are probably a number of other issues that are far more important to work on than porting to and supporting another architecture.
I took a look at some of your postings. You seem to like to mostly slam other people's posts. Backs up my claim of 'troll'. You must be a very angry person inside. I hope you feel better soon.
Yes, for sure Rogers, I remember that for sure... but also for other cable companies across the country. I was in Winnipeg when that happened and they did the same thing there. Bad enough the CRTC gave them local monopolies, and now a strangle hold on cell phones, but for them to try to pull that... 'nough said.
Nice troll. Who cares how long... the fact that it happened is what is germane to this conversation, not when. Take a course in critical thinking before speaking.
PHB: Do we have Eunuchs here?.. I heard it is very important for a company's IT department to have Eunuchs.
Dilbert: I think you mean Unix. Yes we have a lot of Unix machines here.
PHB: Oh... [pauses and thinks]... If the company nurse comes by, tell her I said, "never mind."
A number of years ago in Canada, the cable companies started 'giving away' literally everyone in the country a month of viewing on any new speciality channel that came up. Then when the month was over they would start charging you for it. You had to 'opt out' at the end of the month if you didn't want it. So, you would get the trial without asking and then they would start charging you without asking. There was a HUGE outcry and the government quickly stepped in and put a stop to it, making the 'opt out or be charged' practice illegal... at least for cable companies.
Personally, I think Oral Arguments to be too disgusting for the Supreme Court. Look how far they have sunk.
No. It is where Santa Bot started.
Did your wife beat you up last night?
And some need to pay the rent and put food on the table... money is good for that.
One day (sone of a lawyer) Michael Eisner is driving down the road in Florida and spots a daycare centre with a picture of Mickey Mouse on the wall. The same day a hoard of slavering corporate scumbag Disney lawyers go after the daycare for trademark infringement.
The blockquoted text was copied from the linked web page... it's down the list if you want to check it... the page has all sorts of other interesting Disney trivia too. Wikipedia used to have references to this under the criticism section of the Disney article but for some reason it isn't there any more. However it is still in the answers.com article on Disney in the criticism section. Go figure.
The link quoted above is one of many if you search for it... and though it is in the 'conspiracies' section of the web site, it is something that really did happen. Besides the about.com article, I personally remember seeing this on the news the week it happened in the late eighties/early nineties; it was a national story. I remember well because I was pretty outraged at the time, and still don't have much liking for Disney or their products any more.
Anyway the bottom line is yes, the police could force the Mongols to take the patches off. I think it is a good tactic. They should use it on the other biker 'organizations' too. They're all a bunch of scum bags... though not quite as bad as corporate lawyers.
I think you are right. However if not, the first thought that came to mind was that it is kind of sad the tube has begun to rule so much that people aren't dreaming in the colours of the real world. No, that's not the name of a T.V. show. :-p I think they need redo the study with a better method.
nuh uhhhh.... Katz wins... Munroe's were stupid.
I can picture a malfunction and it blowing the tits right off someone. The ultimate horror story. Now that I think about it, I hope they get the bugs worked out before they build one for prostate cancer.
It is 0 sense.
Depends... computer basics in a programming course could be how a computer works, not how to work it. Understanding what a computer is doing in terms understanding the concepts of memory being allocated, how persistence is taking place, networking, etc. is very important for a programmer to know. The programmers who don't understand memory allocation in a computer are the same ones that tell me that Java never has memory leaks because it has a garbage collector.
But in terms of high school students, that would be an overwhelming way to start. Can't argue with starting with the fundamentals like BASIC... or even pseudocode.
110 Teach Basic 120 End
Or Opera use will go way up.
Sorry dude... either you are a really good troll, or you should get your head out of your ass. You have never, ever worked on an enterprise system, either coding it or implementing one. This is very obvious from your comments. I was going try to write something to clue you in, but it isn't worth the effort. When you actually work on an enterprise system supporting thousands of users and millions of customers, then you'll understand. Until then, go on believing enterprise applications are a bunch of forms.
First you get on their case because you say they breed a culture of fear, then they laugh at something, now you want them to be fearful. Make up your mind.
Sure! It worked pretty good in the mortgage industry didn't it? ummm.... wait a minute... never mind.
More like all the companies in California will collude (whether actively or not) so that none of them will pay O/T. That is, there won't be competition in that regard. It takes that aspect off the table. i.e. it will be pointless to quit to find another employer who does pay overtime as none actually will.
Nice troll. I used the "Internet" before it was commercialized when working in Chemical Process Research and Development.