That's the stupidest argument I've ever heard. Just because someone is naked doesn't make it porn. If that were true, breatfeeding in public would be considered porn.
What idiot would steal a transponder? They have no value, they don't cost anything to get, they can be used to identify the car they are in if stolen and they can be invalidated remotely. There's absolutely no point in stealing one..
As a Canadian, I can't believe the methods of jury selection in the US is actually legal. Such as the prosecution and defense get to question potential jurors and know all about them? This just means they try and stack the jury with whatever demographics help get them off. At least in Canada it is way more random and fair.
EXACTLY. An average jury has an education level of about grade 11. While this is fine to judge a lot of petty crimes, when you get into expert witnesses on a murder trial, or anything highly technical its just going to go right over their heads.
Years ago I worked for a Canadian satellite company that was being sued by the US company that bought the satellite. The satellite was damaged in orbit and although still functional beyond the requirements, they tried to sue for the full value of the satellite. The US company fought to have the trial by jury in the US, why? Because they knew the jury would not understand the science and would just rule in favour of the US company against a foreign one regardless of the facts.
But why are the constituents anti-science? They could have been properly educated, but weren't. Whose fault is that?
Their crackpot religion. I'm not kidding. It's had to take science seriously when your pastor/priest/witch-doctor says its all a bunch of left wing lies.
So if they were perfect, then why did they succumb to temptation? And why is nudity frowned on by the church when in fact thats how God wanted us (since Adam and Eve didn't wear clothes until they sinned)
Also, you do know that most religions just say the story of Adam and Eve is just that - a story.
Canadians "buy" their health care through higher taxes
For the same level of health care, the cost is much lower in Canada compared to the US. This has been shown to be true many times.
longer waits for life saving procedures and lower standards of care
Complete nonsense. My father needed a pacemaker immediately and got a brand new one, top of the line within about 12 hours of being admitted. In the US this would have cost about $40k, something hew would never have been able to afford. My child was born 10 weeks premature. He had amazing care for 6 weeks he was hospitalized, with a full team of doctors, nurses and various healthcare workers. He will continue to receive checkups until he is around 3. This type of service in the US has cost people hundreds of thousands of dollars, for me all I had to pay was parking. In both cases, we received the best health care available and without wait. The statement you made is a myth thrown about in the US as a fear tactic.
Also for lower standard of care, the vast majority of Americans receive much lower standard of care than we get in Canada, for the simple reason that they cannot afford the best care that is available - the insurance companies will not cover it. Having it available and affording it are two completely different things. I know this as I make medical devices and I know a number of top surgeons. They all say the same thing - yes the US has the best equipment/care in the world, but only the upper elite (say 5% of the population) ever gets to use it when needed. The rest of the population gets the basic stuff which is on average worse than what we get in Canada.
If you doubt this, ask yourself why wealthier Canadians come to the United States for heart surgeries, cancer treatments and other major surgeries when they could, at least in theory, receive the same care for "free" in Canada?
Several reasons. When my son was born premature, there was little room in the hospitals for the level of care he needed. One of the options was being flown to the US for treatment. This would have been covered by our healthcare, except we would be responsible for our own cost of living expenses. (turns out we did not have to do that). Another reason is that some people want specific doctors based on reputation. And if that doctor resides in the US, then they can go pay for it if they want. But in no case is it ever because they would die in Canada waiting in line. That is just sheer nonsense.
This idea is not new and is actually a very good idea.
The concept is that during the day, industry makes huge instantaneous demands off the power grid. This puts a large strain on the grid to prevent brownouts. If there were enough electric cars plugged into the grid during the day, the batteries would be able to absorb some of the spike loads, making the grid much more stable. On the spike load went away (starting a large industrial motor needs a lot more energy than maintaining it), the grid would then replace what it took from the cars.
The electricity grid is actually paying you to use your capacity while your car sits idle. With en enough cars the impact on any one car is negligible.
No, comparing the total number of rockets a nation has launched to the number of failures is an overly simplistic way of looking at things
Sure, because percentages are misleading especially with low numbers of launches. the Biggets Delta has a success percentage of 100% because thye only launched the one time. So you also have to compare experience (the Proton has over 300 launches, far more than anyone else), launch capacity (Proton is the highest) and cost per Kg to launch (Proton is around a third the cost of other countries offerings). Any way you cut it Russia has a better system.
When you're talking about reliability, you want to look at the current state of the art, not some older system which is no longer used
Completely untrue. When evaluating systems NASA has a gauge called Technology Readiness Level (TRL). The only way to score high on this is to have a substantial portion of the design already proven. Tried and true wins out over new technology any day. Do you know what processor is used on the shuttle arms? Its an Intel 80186. Why? Because it works.
The Russians have as many problems with the heavy lift as the Americans do.
The Russians have over 300 sussessful launches of their heavy lift rovet the Proton. The US heavy lift capable rockets (Delta, Atlas) are all in the single digit launches and still don't have the capacity of the Proton.
Not sure why the Canadians should be seen as better than the Japanese at robotics.
I'm talking space robotics. All of the robotics on the ISS and shuttle are Canadian designed and built. Even the Japanese robot was actually a Canadian robot.
That might be your lawyer's job, but my lawyer's job is to get me off at all costs.
No, that is exactly my point - the lawyer is not supposed to get someone off at all costs. It's this attitude that results in paid witnesses lying on the bench, ridiculous arguments that just confuse juries, illegal destruction of evidence, an just all around perjury. It's there actions that have resulted in the justice system going to complete shit.
Justice *should* be the search for the truth, and protection of rights, nothing more.
thank you for your enlightening and comprehensive rebuttal. If writers had half of the prose writing ability as you seem to have we would all be in rapture before we could finish reading.
Depends on the evidence. If you find semen on a dead woman, or skin cells under her fingernails and DNA match it, then its pretty convincing that the accused just didn't walk by her at some point at McDonalds. But yes, you have to combine the DNA match with other evidence to realistically conclude guilt.
I'm not blaming the military for anything - every enemy the US has now was created by stupid government decisions, and primarily Republican ones. But I will say the military is vastly over funded and should be cut back dramatically. If the governemnt stopped creating enemies then they wouldn't need the military to defend against them.
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And don't forget to take the tinfoil off your head when you go into public
That's the stupidest argument I've ever heard. Just because someone is naked doesn't make it porn. If that were true, breatfeeding in public would be considered porn.
What idiot would steal a transponder? They have no value, they don't cost anything to get, they can be used to identify the car they are in if stolen and they can be invalidated remotely. There's absolutely no point in stealing one..
As a Canadian, I can't believe the methods of jury selection in the US is actually legal. Such as the prosecution and defense get to question potential jurors and know all about them? This just means they try and stack the jury with whatever demographics help get them off. At least in Canada it is way more random and fair.
EXACTLY. An average jury has an education level of about grade 11. While this is fine to judge a lot of petty crimes, when you get into expert witnesses on a murder trial, or anything highly technical its just going to go right over their heads.
Years ago I worked for a Canadian satellite company that was being sued by the US company that bought the satellite. The satellite was damaged in orbit and although still functional beyond the requirements, they tried to sue for the full value of the satellite. The US company fought to have the trial by jury in the US, why? Because they knew the jury would not understand the science and would just rule in favour of the US company against a foreign one regardless of the facts.
Or just look at the debates here on /. about the GPL.
That's because the GPL is just pure socialist evil. If you want a free copyright use BSD.
But why are the constituents anti-science? They could have been properly educated, but weren't. Whose fault is that?
Their crackpot religion. I'm not kidding. It's had to take science seriously when your pastor/priest/witch-doctor says its all a bunch of left wing lies.
You mean the comedian who smoked himself to death at 32?
So if they were perfect, then why did they succumb to temptation? And why is nudity frowned on by the church when in fact thats how God wanted us (since Adam and Eve didn't wear clothes until they sinned)
Also, you do know that most religions just say the story of Adam and Eve is just that - a story.
Canadians "buy" their health care through higher taxes
For the same level of health care, the cost is much lower in Canada compared to the US. This has been shown to be true many times.
longer waits for life saving procedures and lower standards of care
Complete nonsense. My father needed a pacemaker immediately and got a brand new one, top of the line within about 12 hours of being admitted. In the US this would have cost about $40k, something hew would never have been able to afford. My child was born 10 weeks premature. He had amazing care for 6 weeks he was hospitalized, with a full team of doctors, nurses and various healthcare workers. He will continue to receive checkups until he is around 3. This type of service in the US has cost people hundreds of thousands of dollars, for me all I had to pay was parking. In both cases, we received the best health care available and without wait. The statement you made is a myth thrown about in the US as a fear tactic.
Also for lower standard of care, the vast majority of Americans receive much lower standard of care than we get in Canada, for the simple reason that they cannot afford the best care that is available - the insurance companies will not cover it. Having it available and affording it are two completely different things. I know this as I make medical devices and I know a number of top surgeons. They all say the same thing - yes the US has the best equipment/care in the world, but only the upper elite (say 5% of the population) ever gets to use it when needed. The rest of the population gets the basic stuff which is on average worse than what we get in Canada.
If you doubt this, ask yourself why wealthier Canadians come to the United States for heart surgeries, cancer treatments and other major surgeries when they could, at least in theory, receive the same care for "free" in Canada?
Several reasons. When my son was born premature, there was little room in the hospitals for the level of care he needed. One of the options was being flown to the US for treatment. This would have been covered by our healthcare, except we would be responsible for our own cost of living expenses. (turns out we did not have to do that). Another reason is that some people want specific doctors based on reputation. And if that doctor resides in the US, then they can go pay for it if they want. But in no case is it ever because they would die in Canada waiting in line. That is just sheer nonsense.
it takes a definitive viewpoint that all men are flawed and the ONLY redemption is by faith.
So God created everyone flawed and then punishes us for being flawed?
Also, since the bible (all holy books) were written by man and not God, would that not mean the bible is also flawed?
Neither science nor religion are evil. The only evil are people, and they try and justify their evil actions with science or religion.
And you think the US doesn't have socialist programs? It couldn't function without them.
How does one "have it" without "buying" it?
Be a Canadian.
I said. Your car gets charged from the power supply, and you get paid when they have to pull some of the reserve. Its pretty clear its a win win.
This idea is not new and is actually a very good idea.
The concept is that during the day, industry makes huge instantaneous demands off the power grid. This puts a large strain on the grid to prevent brownouts. If there were enough electric cars plugged into the grid during the day, the batteries would be able to absorb some of the spike loads, making the grid much more stable. On the spike load went away (starting a large industrial motor needs a lot more energy than maintaining it), the grid would then replace what it took from the cars.
The electricity grid is actually paying you to use your capacity while your car sits idle. With en enough cars the impact on any one car is negligible.
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Your statements are incorrect and are based on false assumptions of DNA matching.
No, comparing the total number of rockets a nation has launched to the number of failures is an overly simplistic way of looking at things
Sure, because percentages are misleading especially with low numbers of launches. the Biggets Delta has a success percentage of 100% because thye only launched the one time. So you also have to compare experience (the Proton has over 300 launches, far more than anyone else), launch capacity (Proton is the highest) and cost per Kg to launch (Proton is around a third the cost of other countries offerings). Any way you cut it Russia has a better system.
When you're talking about reliability, you want to look at the current state of the art, not some older system which is no longer used
Completely untrue. When evaluating systems NASA has a gauge called Technology Readiness Level (TRL). The only way to score high on this is to have a substantial portion of the design already proven. Tried and true wins out over new technology any day. Do you know what processor is used on the shuttle arms? Its an Intel 80186. Why? Because it works.
The Russians have as many problems with the heavy lift as the Americans do.
The Russians have over 300 sussessful launches of their heavy lift rovet the Proton. The US heavy lift capable rockets (Delta, Atlas) are all in the single digit launches and still don't have the capacity of the Proton.
Not sure why the Canadians should be seen as better than the Japanese at robotics.
I'm talking space robotics. All of the robotics on the ISS and shuttle are Canadian designed and built. Even the Japanese robot was actually a Canadian robot.
That might be your lawyer's job, but my lawyer's job is to get me off at all costs.
No, that is exactly my point - the lawyer is not supposed to get someone off at all costs. It's this attitude that results in paid witnesses lying on the bench, ridiculous arguments that just confuse juries, illegal destruction of evidence, an just all around perjury. It's there actions that have resulted in the justice system going to complete shit.
Justice *should* be the search for the truth, and protection of rights, nothing more.
thank you for your enlightening and comprehensive rebuttal. If writers had half of the prose writing ability as you seem to have we would all be in rapture before we could finish reading.
Depends on the evidence. If you find semen on a dead woman, or skin cells under her fingernails and DNA match it, then its pretty convincing that the accused just didn't walk by her at some point at McDonalds. But yes, you have to combine the DNA match with other evidence to realistically conclude guilt.
Polygraphs can be tricked, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with DNA evidence unless it was contaminated.
I'm not blaming the military for anything - every enemy the US has now was created by stupid government decisions, and primarily Republican ones. But I will say the military is vastly over funded and should be cut back dramatically. If the governemnt stopped creating enemies then they wouldn't need the military to defend against them.