In fact, it has to be in computer science, or you have to demonstrate that you have experience commensurate with a degree in computer science. However, that does not mean that it is difficult to get the visa. The NAFTA visa was deliberately designed to make it easy for Canada and US citizens (in certain occupations) to do cross border job hopping.
My lover used to have to go to religion classes, got a grade for it.
This is only in the Catholic, or separate, school system. In the public school system, there are no religion classes. I'm speaking from personal experience, because I attended Catholic school from grades 1-8 and public after that, and never got religious instruction after grade 8.
The separate/public school dichotomy is a throwback to when Canada was becoming a country, and is a bad thing, in my opinion, but nevertheless, is actually in the constitution.
However, if you don't want your children getting religious education, you can send them to the public school, and they won't.
All of the above is based on my experience growing up in Alberta. Things may be different in other provinces; especially the further east you go, since it was the eastern provinces that influenced this aspect of the Canadian constitution.
Little separation of Church & State with things like religious lessons in schools.
I don't know what Quebec was like as far as schools, but in Alberta, I saw very little religion when I attended the public school. It's not enshrined in Canadian law, but it also isn't emphasized like it is in the US (i.e., schools fighting to put up the 10 commandments, or say the lords prayer before class, etc.). An interesting book on this subject is Lois Sweet, God in the Classroom.
The Provinces are stronger politically then US States and there's a lot more Federal/Provincial jostling.
I don't think this is true; states have significantly more juristiction over many areas compared to the provinces. There is more jostling, but it's mostly the provinces trying to get more power, a la the states in the United States.
Establishing credit across the border can be difficult, sometimes very difficult.
Somewhat true, although it goes both ways, and it's short-term. When I moved to the US, all I could get was a $1000 credit-limit credit card. Three years later, I'm shredding credit card applications every day, and my wife and I have more credit than we can use (not to mention a large mortgage). I think that Canadian creditors are more careful than their US counterparts, partly because the US counterparts have lobbied successfully to make bankruptcy much more difficult, but establishing a good credit record is not too hard, assuming that you have good credit habits.
I agree with the rest of your points. On the other hand, I also like living in Seattle. But then, Seattle is probably as close as a city can get to being Canadian, and still be American.
If you have a bachelors degree in computer science, you are entitled to get a job in Canada on a NAFTA TN visa. Yes, you need a job offer as a systems analyst to get a TN visa, but it's not difficult to do that (I did the reverse job hunting from Canada for jobs in the US and got two offers within a month). Once you have the job offer, you just present your offer letter and your degree at the border and they will issue you a TN visa.
Why is it when someone doesn't like something it is a troll or flamebait?
What makes it flamebait is not the fact that I don't like it, but the fact that it is so far removed from the truth that most reasonable people would disagree with it. I can't think of any reasonable person who can realistically compare communist Cuba with the democratically elected government of Canada.
That aside, rural electrification could have been done by private groups(read not industry) without having been force-fed.
Maybe, maybe not. It's pretty easy to speculate about all kinds of alternate history, but the fact is, that's not what happened. And, I don't think that anybody is suggesting that rural electrification was a failure, even if the government was the instigator.
They are about two hops short of Communist Cuba as far as governmental control of facilities goes
This is flamebait.
I'm just interested in why anyone would want the government to handle those sort of domestic industries.
Maybe for the same reason that governements have handled other kinds of infrastructure projects (interstate highway system, rural electrification project, etc.). Because the government can bring a service somewhere that the market alone wouldn't touch.
Ya well, at least CNN prints actual transcripts of its shows for people just like yourself to challenge. Try finding a transcript of one of Rush's shows sometime.
Wow, my bullshit detector's meter got pegged in the red for a minute. This sounds like one of those "statistics" that Rush likes to parrot.
In reality, the impact of other human activity is about 100 times more significant than the impact of space launches. See, for example, The Space Shuttle's Impact on the Stratosphere, MJ Prather, MM Garcia, AR Douglass, CH Jackman, M.K.W. Ko and N.D. Sze, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 18583-18590, 1990. It only took me 30 googleseconds to find it.
This comment pretty much sums it up. Why should I have to make my career decisions based on my health care needs?
As I said, in Canada, the health care I received was of the same quality as it is here, and I didn't have to shop around for it, I just got it, no muss, no fuss.
Probably easier than overthrowing the US government. Canada doesn't have too many stealth bombers and cruise missiles, and the number of people in their armed forces are much fewer.
The health system is bankrupt You've been listening to the money-backed propaganda of HMOs who have a ton to lose if their way of doing business changes. I've lived in the US for 3 years, and I lived in Canada before that. The quality of my health care has not changed, other than it's a much bigger PAIN IN THE ASS to get the care down here, and I'm paying more out-of-pocket health expenses. And don't get me started on the assholes at my wife's HMO...
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That should be a little green flag. If you are using that account fraudulently, then the most liability PayPal has is $1000. To continue to use the account, you have to provide PayPal more proof that you are legitimate. That is a good thing.
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This is only true if PayPal doesn't have cash reserves to cover their accounts. If every paypal user tried to withdraw all of the money from their Paypal account (i.e., a run on the Paypal "bank"), does PayPal have enough cash to honor this? I don't know for sure, but I think that they do. Do you have evidence that the Paypal joining bonus wasn't covered by a cash reserve?
Paypal differs from banks because banks borrow money from consumers (a savings account is basically a loan to a bank) and lend that money to others. Hence, they don't have the cash reserves to cover all of their accounts. Regulations today (especially after the S&L corruption) make banks a pretty safe bet for consumers, but in the past there were 'runs on the bank', where the enough of the bank's customers demand their money that it exceeded what the bank has on reserve, and would cause the bank to fail.
To my knowledge, Paypal doesn't lend money, so it's not inconceivable that their reserve is 100% of their accounts. I would need to see evidence one way or the other before I started speculating with the "paypal dollar exchange rate".
As for "small-scale evolution" being observed, a better term would be adaptation.
What exactly do you think adaptation is, if it isn't evolution?
Biological evolution, as defined by evolutionary biologists, is simply a change in the allele frequency within a gene pool over multiple generations. How can a species adapt (in the biological sense) without changing their genes?
The rest of your text is just one big unsubstantiated assertion.
...my understanding of creationism and macro-evolution... is still inadequate.
The first thing that you have to learn is that there is no such thing as macro-evolution. There is evolution, period. Macro-evolution and micro-evolution were terms invented by creationists who were finally forced to admit that short-term, small-scale evolution has been observed.
Once they had to admit that, they just changed the terminology, moved the goalposts, and continued the fight.
That's called "moving the goalposts", and is a common tactic of creationists who can't use real science to support their position.
The creationist argument is "well how do you explain X". Scientist goes away for a few years, comes back and says, "this is how I explain X". Creationinst says, "well ok, but then how do you explain Y?"
But if you ask the Biblical creationist to explain "how did Noah fit all those animals on the ark", they accuse you of questioning their religion and refuse to answer.
And yet, people nod and wink at the goofs who believe that the earth was flat ("My wife was in Australia and she wasn't hanging by her toes, therefore, the earth can't be round").
Science is not a popularity contest, so whether the creationists are the majority or not is irrelevant. A sustainable scientific theory is not driven by ideology. If you believe in creation at the expense of evolution, contrary to all the facts supporting evolution, then yes, we should treat you much like the person who believes that the earth is flat, or that the sun goes around the earth. In other words, a crackpot.
Umm, Palm has never sold an SDK. Ever. So, they can't possibly be making tons of money by selling them. My cost of entry to PalmOS development was free, using prc-tools and the freely-downloadable PalmOS SDK.
I'm still using a Palm II, or Personal, or whatever they called it. I think it's still running OS 1. It's Good Enough, so why upgrade?
Nobody develops for PalmOS 1 any more. A lot of developers have stopped supporting PalmOS 2. If you don't need any of the newer applications, then you don't need to upgrade. My applications usually support PalmOS 2 (never PalmOS 1), but are still able to take advantage of features offered in PalmOS 3 or 4.
However, there will come a time soon that it isn't worth the hassle of coding for missing functionality in PalmOS 2 when the vast majority of the target market is PalmOS 3 or higher.
It's called tort reform. In many countries, if you sue somebody and lose, the courts can rule that you must also pay the victor's legal fees. Unicom would never have sued Chip if they thought they would end up paying Chip's legal fees as well as their own, because I doubt that their lawyers ever thought the case was all that strong. In the US, it's not whose case has the strongest merits, it's who has the most money.
The anti-reform people say that the US system is good because it guarantees that the little guy gets his day in court. The problem with that stance is that the little guy can't afford his time in court anyway.
We'd have to dedicate one to the Tivo, in order to be able to watch one show while
recording another, which would be our major use.
No it wouldn't. That's the VCR mentality, because with a VCR, it takes effort to tape a show, so you just punt and arrange your life to watch it live.
With tivo, we never, ever watch live TV. There's always something on the tivo to watch, so there's just no need to go to live TV, except maybe for those people who have a pathalogical need to watch a show as it's being broadcast.
You know that Buffy is syndicated on other networks? I can ask my Tivo to show me ALL the upcoming episodes of Buffy on any network and pick and choose any old episides I want to see.
Hey, you're not my wife posting in disguise, are you? Go to the now playing in my tivo, and it's Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, Angel, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, Angel, Angel, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy...
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In fact, it has to be in computer science, or you have to demonstrate that you have experience commensurate with a degree in computer science. However, that does not mean that it is difficult to get the visa. The NAFTA visa was deliberately designed to make it easy for Canada and US citizens (in certain occupations) to do cross border job hopping.
Just to pick a nit, Bioware is located in Canada because that's where the founders lived. There was no concious decision to move to Canada.
My lover used to have to go to religion classes, got a grade for it.
This is only in the Catholic, or separate, school system. In the public school system, there are no religion classes. I'm speaking from personal experience, because I attended Catholic school from grades 1-8 and public after that, and never got religious instruction after grade 8.
The separate/public school dichotomy is a throwback to when Canada was becoming a country, and is a bad thing, in my opinion, but nevertheless, is actually in the constitution.
However, if you don't want your children getting religious education, you can send them to the public school, and they won't.
All of the above is based on my experience growing up in Alberta. Things may be different in other provinces; especially the further east you go, since it was the eastern provinces that influenced this aspect of the Canadian constitution.
Little separation of Church & State with things like religious lessons in schools.
I don't know what Quebec was like as far as schools, but in Alberta, I saw very little religion when I attended the public school. It's not enshrined in Canadian law, but it also isn't emphasized like it is in the US (i.e., schools fighting to put up the 10 commandments, or say the lords prayer before class, etc.). An interesting book on this subject is Lois Sweet, God in the Classroom.
The Provinces are stronger politically then US States and there's a lot more Federal/Provincial jostling.
I don't think this is true; states have significantly more juristiction over many areas compared to the provinces. There is more jostling, but it's mostly the provinces trying to get more power, a la the states in the United States.
Establishing credit across the border can be difficult, sometimes very difficult.
Somewhat true, although it goes both ways, and it's short-term. When I moved to the US, all I could get was a $1000 credit-limit credit card. Three years later, I'm shredding credit card applications every day, and my wife and I have more credit than we can use (not to mention a large mortgage). I think that Canadian creditors are more careful than their US counterparts, partly because the US counterparts have lobbied successfully to make bankruptcy much more difficult, but establishing a good credit record is not too hard, assuming that you have good credit habits.
I agree with the rest of your points. On the other hand, I also like living in Seattle. But then, Seattle is probably as close as a city can get to being Canadian, and still be American.
If you have a bachelors degree in computer science, you are entitled to get a job in Canada on a NAFTA TN visa. Yes, you need a job offer as a systems analyst to get a TN visa, but it's not difficult to do that (I did the reverse job hunting from Canada for jobs in the US and got two offers within a month). Once you have the job offer, you just present your offer letter and your degree at the border and they will issue you a TN visa.
Why is it when someone doesn't like something it is a troll or flamebait?
What makes it flamebait is not the fact that I don't like it, but the fact that it is so far removed from the truth that most reasonable people would disagree with it. I can't think of any reasonable person who can realistically compare communist Cuba with the democratically elected government of Canada.
That aside, rural electrification could have been done by private groups(read not industry) without having been force-fed.
Maybe, maybe not. It's pretty easy to speculate about all kinds of alternate history, but the fact is, that's not what happened. And, I don't think that anybody is suggesting that rural electrification was a failure, even if the government was the instigator.
They are about two hops short of Communist Cuba as far as governmental control of facilities goes
This is flamebait.
I'm just interested in why anyone would want the government to handle those sort of domestic industries.
Maybe for the same reason that governements have handled other kinds of infrastructure projects (interstate highway system, rural electrification project, etc.). Because the government can bring a service somewhere that the market alone wouldn't touch.
Ya well, at least CNN prints actual transcripts of its shows for people just like yourself to challenge. Try finding a transcript of one of Rush's shows sometime.
Wow, my bullshit detector's meter got pegged in the red for a minute. This sounds like one of those "statistics" that Rush likes to parrot.
In reality, the impact of other human activity is about 100 times more significant than the impact of space launches. See, for example, The Space Shuttle's Impact on the Stratosphere, MJ Prather, MM Garcia, AR Douglass, CH Jackman, M.K.W. Ko and N.D. Sze, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95, 18583-18590, 1990. It only took me 30 googleseconds to find it.
This comment pretty much sums it up. Why should I have to make my career decisions based on my health care needs?
As I said, in Canada, the health care I received was of the same quality as it is here, and I didn't have to shop around for it, I just got it, no muss, no fuss.
Probably easier than overthrowing the US government. Canada doesn't have too many stealth bombers and cruise missiles, and the number of people in their armed forces are much fewer.
Right, like the FCC doesn't enforce restrictions on how the airwaves can be used in the US.
The health system is bankrupt
You've been listening to the money-backed propaganda of HMOs who have a ton to lose if their way of doing business changes. I've lived in the US for 3 years, and I lived in Canada before that. The quality of my health care has not changed, other than it's a much bigger PAIN IN THE ASS to get the care down here, and I'm paying more out-of-pocket health expenses. And don't get me started on the assholes at my wife's HMO...
That should be a little green flag. If you are using that account fraudulently, then the most liability PayPal has is $1000. To continue to use the account, you have to provide PayPal more proof that you are legitimate. That is a good thing.
This is only true if PayPal doesn't have cash reserves to cover their accounts. If every paypal user tried to withdraw all of the money from their Paypal account (i.e., a run on the Paypal "bank"), does PayPal have enough cash to honor this? I don't know for sure, but I think that they do. Do you have evidence that the Paypal joining bonus wasn't covered by a cash reserve?
Paypal differs from banks because banks borrow money from consumers (a savings account is basically a loan to a bank) and lend that money to others. Hence, they don't have the cash reserves to cover all of their accounts. Regulations today (especially after the S&L corruption) make banks a pretty safe bet for consumers, but in the past there were 'runs on the bank', where the enough of the bank's customers demand their money that it exceeded what the bank has on reserve, and would cause the bank to fail.
To my knowledge, Paypal doesn't lend money, so it's not inconceivable that their reserve is 100% of their accounts. I would need to see evidence one way or the other before I started speculating with the "paypal dollar exchange rate".
As for "small-scale evolution" being observed, a better term would be adaptation.
What exactly do you think adaptation is, if it isn't evolution?
Biological evolution, as defined by evolutionary biologists, is simply a change in the allele frequency within a gene pool over multiple generations. How can a species adapt (in the biological sense) without changing their genes?
The rest of your text is just one big unsubstantiated assertion.
...my understanding of creationism and macro-evolution ... is still inadequate.
The first thing that you have to learn is that there is no such thing as macro-evolution. There is evolution, period. Macro-evolution and micro-evolution were terms invented by creationists who were finally forced to admit that short-term, small-scale evolution has been observed.
Once they had to admit that, they just changed the terminology, moved the goalposts, and continued the fight.
Damn, I whish I would be alive to see the last idiotic creationist accept he is wrong.
I think that even God wishes that he would be alive to see the last idiotic creationist accept that he is wrong, but he's probably given up hope.
That's called "moving the goalposts", and is a common tactic of creationists who can't use real science to support their position.
The creationist argument is "well how do you explain X". Scientist goes away for a few years, comes back and says, "this is how I explain X". Creationinst says, "well ok, but then how do you explain Y?"
But if you ask the Biblical creationist to explain "how did Noah fit all those animals on the ark", they accuse you of questioning their religion and refuse to answer.
And yet, people nod and wink at the goofs who believe that the earth was flat ("My wife was in Australia and she wasn't hanging by her toes, therefore, the earth can't be round").
Science is not a popularity contest, so whether the creationists are the majority or not is irrelevant. A sustainable scientific theory is not driven by ideology. If you believe in creation at the expense of evolution, contrary to all the facts supporting evolution, then yes, we should treat you much like the person who believes that the earth is flat, or that the sun goes around the earth. In other words, a crackpot.
Umm, Palm has never sold an SDK. Ever. So, they can't possibly be making tons of money by selling them. My cost of entry to PalmOS development was free, using prc-tools and the freely-downloadable PalmOS SDK.
I'm still using a Palm II, or Personal, or whatever they called it. I think it's still running OS 1. It's Good Enough, so why upgrade?
Nobody develops for PalmOS 1 any more. A lot of developers have stopped supporting PalmOS 2. If you don't need any of the newer applications, then you don't need to upgrade. My applications usually support PalmOS 2 (never PalmOS 1), but are still able to take advantage of features offered in PalmOS 3 or 4.
However, there will come a time soon that it isn't worth the hassle of coding for missing functionality in PalmOS 2 when the vast majority of the target market is PalmOS 3 or higher.
It's called tort reform. In many countries, if you sue somebody and lose, the courts can rule that you must also pay the victor's legal fees. Unicom would never have sued Chip if they thought they would end up paying Chip's legal fees as well as their own, because I doubt that their lawyers ever thought the case was all that strong. In the US, it's not whose case has the strongest merits, it's who has the most money.
The anti-reform people say that the US system is good because it guarantees that the little guy gets his day in court. The problem with that stance is that the little guy can't afford his time in court anyway.
We'd have to dedicate one to the Tivo, in order to be able to watch one show while
recording another, which would be our major use.
No it wouldn't. That's the VCR mentality, because with a VCR, it takes effort to tape a show, so you just punt and arrange your life to watch it live.
With tivo, we never, ever watch live TV. There's always something on the tivo to watch, so there's just no need to go to live TV, except maybe for those people who have a pathalogical need to watch a show as it's being broadcast.
You know that Buffy is syndicated on other networks? I can ask my Tivo to show me ALL the upcoming episodes of Buffy on any network and pick and choose any old episides I want to see.
Hey, you're not my wife posting in disguise, are you? Go to the now playing in my tivo, and it's Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, Angel, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy, Angel, Angel, Buffy, Buffy, Buffy...