J2ME is a pretty feature-limited version of Java. It certainly was never going to be suitable on the mid to high end smartphones. Pretty much every smartphone out there now is perfectly capable of running the full-blown JRE out of the box. In other words, with or without Dalvek, mobile Java editions are a fading proposition.
The power to go to war is a Royal Prerogative. Parliament's role is to pay for it, but Parliament does not declare war. The Queen/Governor General-in-Council decides on policies of war.
As to the GST, it was passed by Parliament, so I don't even know what your point is.
That's a common complain in most Parliamentary democracies, hardly unique to Canada. But if MPs feel they are being constrained and forced into awkward positions by their leadership (and by all accounts this is felt by MPs across party lines), then there is an obvious solution. Do what British MPs have done when they've decided the leader of their party has gone off the rails; threaten a revolt.
I look at the British Parliament and groups like the Tories' 1922 committee, which will happily piss on the leadership whenever it suits them, and I think to myself "You know, you Canadian MPs are gutless cowards." In a Westminster system, Parliament is the ultimate political authority. Tomorrow morning, every MP in the House could stand up and say "We are changing the rules right now, and if you don't like it, we'll vote no confidence and pick a government that will do what we want." It is completely constitutional, and the party leaders would be instantaneously rendered impotent.
But no, instead they allow the party machines to overwhelm them, even though they have the power in their hands to render the party machines impotent as well. MPs have no one to blame but themselves.
Bullshit again. The media reported it, and with often barely contained glee, because there's one universal truth, and that is whatever leanings any particular press organization may have, that they all know that nothing sells like scandal. Adscam got massive amounts of coverage, even on CBC.
Absolutely. The only difference between one language to another would be exactly how you produce an informative fail. In C, as you say, you return some sort of failure code. In a lot of higher level languages you throw an exception. There is nothing in this code that is innovative or spectacular. It's the kind of range check function that programmers have been implementing for decades.
Fore chrissakes, anyone who has been writing any degree of code for more than a few years has implemented a range check function, and whatever the language C, C++, Java, C#, BASIC, 80x86 assembler, they all basically look the same. If this is truly what Oracle's case boils down to, then they literally have nothing, and this comes out looking no different than what SCO's claims against Linux ended up being. It's fucking ludicrous. To claim that somehow a nine line range check function gave Google some vast market edge to my mind breaks credibility. I'm guessing this is pointing pretty heavily towards Oracle being handed their balls on a platter over this.
Oh give me a break. When the Liberals were falling to pieces, they were blaming the media for being right wing.
I can't remember who said it, but the saying "A politician complaining about the press is like a captain complaining about the sea."
The Tories have gotten bad press because they've done bad things. In their incarnation as a minority government, they invented out of thin air the notion of executive privilege, which has never existed in the Canadian constitution. They used prorogation to evade a confidence motion, becoming only the second government in Canadian history to use it to avoid censure by Parliament (the first being good old Sir John A Macdonald who was trying to avoid paying the price for the Pacific Scandal). Now they have a pretty silly crime bill that it looks like at least some provinces are going to refuse to pay for, and have been caught fibbing about F-35 cost estimates. And what, you want the media to ignore that and just say nice things?
And now they're running neck-in-neck with the NDP. The problem in the end isn't the Tories, it's that the bottom fell out of the Liberal party, and someone had to govern in the meantime. Now that it looks like the Bloc is about to be taken off life support and Quebec has decided to re-engage with Federalism, and the majority of center and left-of-center voters have decided to send the last remaining major Western liberal party into the dustbin and gone with a left-of-center party, we ought to see things change.
Yes, Harper's policies, or at least some of them, are pretty fucking stupid. But it's not like the Liberals before the didn't have stupid policies. You go back to Confederation, and it's littered with stupid policies, and some outright abusive ones. Canada has survived far worse governments than Harper's, but because so many people are either just as ideologically handicapped as Tory supporters are, or have so little knowledge of the country's political history, they make Harper into this almost comically Darth Vaderesque figure. It's moronic. He isn't that good and he isn't that bad, and he's now facing a country that's basically throwing the Liberals into a distant third place rump and saying "Those NDP guys look interesting."
And you know what, if the NDP gets in, they'll pass a bunch of stupid policies, and you'll have a bunch of right wing morons of about your equivalent mental capacity comparing Mulcair to Josef Stalin and claiming Canada is going to become a Communist state, blah blah blah,
Don't blame the voting system. Nearly 40% of the population are pathetic useless losers. YOu don't change anything by sitting on your fucking hands at home moaning about the electoral system. If even 5% of those worthless piles of garbage had shown up at the polls, it's likely the outcome would have been another Tory minority, and Harper would likely have been finished.
There's nothing sanctified or noble about not showing up at the polls. It's just sheer idiocy and laziness. I mean, they even do advanced polls so those that can't be there on election day get their votes counted.
1. You imagine that the bulk of your fellow citizens would be the least bit interested in joining your uprising. 2. Even if they did, that new political movements of vast numbers wouldn't already have popped up and forced change. 3. That the stable and relatively well governed country you attempted to foist a new government on would actually be improved.
You know, a quick survey of all the badly governed places in the world tells you that Canada is pretty fucking prosperous, is reasonably well governed, probably as well governed as any place you could find, and just because a government passes a few things you don't like, you think the answer is guns and rebellion?
Nothing is more pathetic than some useless piece of shit sitting in his basement dreaming up armed uprisings that probably less than 1% of the entire fucking nation would think was a good idea, let alone tolerate.
Get a grip, you idiot. Revolutions are bad fucking things. Even the US revolutionaries tried to get the British government to see the light and only declared independence when they felt they had no other option. To imagine that we are anywhere near that point is idiotic.
Don't like Harper. Don't vote for him and convince lots of people not to.
He didn't keep Canada from sinking. Banking governance and policies put in place by previous governments were largely responsible for that. And all that money that Harper found in 2009-2010 was because the Governor General forced him to make a budget that Parliament would support before she would grant him the prorogation that saved his government from being replaced in a vote of no confidence.
Orders in Council can only be made where legislation has given the Government the authority to do so. It cannot concoct new government powers out of thin air.
James Murdoch was most definitely informed of what was happening, and though suddenly he's started suffering selective amnesia, clearly authorized payouts to keep the hacking scandal suppressed. In Britain, as in most civilized places, when confronted with evidence of a crime, you are not allowed to just buy off victims and not pick up the phone and let the authorities know.
Because there's growing concern that the phone hacking was not limited just to that newspaper, and was used by several N.I. operations, including some in the States, which puts Fox right in the headlights.
I imagine his "prison" will be a research facility. He was nabbed before he managed to complete his studies, get a job in the US or some other Western country and never returned.
Here's a tip for all Iranians outside Iran. Don't go back. No matter how much you miss the kin and pine for the fjords, if you can manage it, don't go back.
I think that anyone with a signature like yours probably neither possesses the wits nor the morality to judge what constitutes an appropriate leader from a bad one.
Polls show support for gay marriage around 50%. How does that make Obama unelectable. As much as some political commentators like to believe otherwise, pissing off your opponent's base doesn't mean you lose votes.
If the US government has no such right, perhaps you can explain why Eisenhower somehow somewhere got the authority to enforce Brown v. Board Of Education. In fact, the very fact that Lincoln ordered the US Army to take down the Confederacy tells you just how idiotic what you just wrote is.
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It's so beautiful, it makes me want to cry... We should have it carved in a great stone monolith for all to see.
If only this judge had been around when SCO was trying to claim ownership to the Linux scheduler.
J2ME is a pretty feature-limited version of Java. It certainly was never going to be suitable on the mid to high end smartphones. Pretty much every smartphone out there now is perfectly capable of running the full-blown JRE out of the box. In other words, with or without Dalvek, mobile Java editions are a fading proposition.
The power to go to war is a Royal Prerogative. Parliament's role is to pay for it, but Parliament does not declare war. The Queen/Governor General-in-Council decides on policies of war.
As to the GST, it was passed by Parliament, so I don't even know what your point is.
That's a common complain in most Parliamentary democracies, hardly unique to Canada. But if MPs feel they are being constrained and forced into awkward positions by their leadership (and by all accounts this is felt by MPs across party lines), then there is an obvious solution. Do what British MPs have done when they've decided the leader of their party has gone off the rails; threaten a revolt.
I look at the British Parliament and groups like the Tories' 1922 committee, which will happily piss on the leadership whenever it suits them, and I think to myself "You know, you Canadian MPs are gutless cowards." In a Westminster system, Parliament is the ultimate political authority. Tomorrow morning, every MP in the House could stand up and say "We are changing the rules right now, and if you don't like it, we'll vote no confidence and pick a government that will do what we want." It is completely constitutional, and the party leaders would be instantaneously rendered impotent.
But no, instead they allow the party machines to overwhelm them, even though they have the power in their hands to render the party machines impotent as well. MPs have no one to blame but themselves.
Bullshit again. The media reported it, and with often barely contained glee, because there's one universal truth, and that is whatever leanings any particular press organization may have, that they all know that nothing sells like scandal. Adscam got massive amounts of coverage, even on CBC.
Absolutely. The only difference between one language to another would be exactly how you produce an informative fail. In C, as you say, you return some sort of failure code. In a lot of higher level languages you throw an exception. There is nothing in this code that is innovative or spectacular. It's the kind of range check function that programmers have been implementing for decades.
It's a range check function. They all look largely the same.
Fore chrissakes, anyone who has been writing any degree of code for more than a few years has implemented a range check function, and whatever the language C, C++, Java, C#, BASIC, 80x86 assembler, they all basically look the same. If this is truly what Oracle's case boils down to, then they literally have nothing, and this comes out looking no different than what SCO's claims against Linux ended up being. It's fucking ludicrous. To claim that somehow a nine line range check function gave Google some vast market edge to my mind breaks credibility. I'm guessing this is pointing pretty heavily towards Oracle being handed their balls on a platter over this.
Then vote independent. But not voting, that's worst of all.
Oh give me a break. When the Liberals were falling to pieces, they were blaming the media for being right wing.
I can't remember who said it, but the saying "A politician complaining about the press is like a captain complaining about the sea."
The Tories have gotten bad press because they've done bad things. In their incarnation as a minority government, they invented out of thin air the notion of executive privilege, which has never existed in the Canadian constitution. They used prorogation to evade a confidence motion, becoming only the second government in Canadian history to use it to avoid censure by Parliament (the first being good old Sir John A Macdonald who was trying to avoid paying the price for the Pacific Scandal). Now they have a pretty silly crime bill that it looks like at least some provinces are going to refuse to pay for, and have been caught fibbing about F-35 cost estimates. And what, you want the media to ignore that and just say nice things?
And now they're running neck-in-neck with the NDP. The problem in the end isn't the Tories, it's that the bottom fell out of the Liberal party, and someone had to govern in the meantime. Now that it looks like the Bloc is about to be taken off life support and Quebec has decided to re-engage with Federalism, and the majority of center and left-of-center voters have decided to send the last remaining major Western liberal party into the dustbin and gone with a left-of-center party, we ought to see things change.
Yes, Harper's policies, or at least some of them, are pretty fucking stupid. But it's not like the Liberals before the didn't have stupid policies. You go back to Confederation, and it's littered with stupid policies, and some outright abusive ones. Canada has survived far worse governments than Harper's, but because so many people are either just as ideologically handicapped as Tory supporters are, or have so little knowledge of the country's political history, they make Harper into this almost comically Darth Vaderesque figure. It's moronic. He isn't that good and he isn't that bad, and he's now facing a country that's basically throwing the Liberals into a distant third place rump and saying "Those NDP guys look interesting."
And you know what, if the NDP gets in, they'll pass a bunch of stupid policies, and you'll have a bunch of right wing morons of about your equivalent mental capacity comparing Mulcair to Josef Stalin and claiming Canada is going to become a Communist state, blah blah blah,
Don't blame the voting system. Nearly 40% of the population are pathetic useless losers. YOu don't change anything by sitting on your fucking hands at home moaning about the electoral system. If even 5% of those worthless piles of garbage had shown up at the polls, it's likely the outcome would have been another Tory minority, and Harper would likely have been finished.
There's nothing sanctified or noble about not showing up at the polls. It's just sheer idiocy and laziness. I mean, they even do advanced polls so those that can't be there on election day get their votes counted.
Okay, let's take this a step at a time:
1. You imagine that the bulk of your fellow citizens would be the least bit interested in joining your uprising.
2. Even if they did, that new political movements of vast numbers wouldn't already have popped up and forced change.
3. That the stable and relatively well governed country you attempted to foist a new government on would actually be improved.
You know, a quick survey of all the badly governed places in the world tells you that Canada is pretty fucking prosperous, is reasonably well governed, probably as well governed as any place you could find, and just because a government passes a few things you don't like, you think the answer is guns and rebellion?
Nothing is more pathetic than some useless piece of shit sitting in his basement dreaming up armed uprisings that probably less than 1% of the entire fucking nation would think was a good idea, let alone tolerate.
Get a grip, you idiot. Revolutions are bad fucking things. Even the US revolutionaries tried to get the British government to see the light and only declared independence when they felt they had no other option. To imagine that we are anywhere near that point is idiotic.
Don't like Harper. Don't vote for him and convince lots of people not to.
He didn't keep Canada from sinking. Banking governance and policies put in place by previous governments were largely responsible for that. And all that money that Harper found in 2009-2010 was because the Governor General forced him to make a budget that Parliament would support before she would grant him the prorogation that saved his government from being replaced in a vote of no confidence.
Orders in Council can only be made where legislation has given the Government the authority to do so. It cannot concoct new government powers out of thin air.
James Murdoch was most definitely informed of what was happening, and though suddenly he's started suffering selective amnesia, clearly authorized payouts to keep the hacking scandal suppressed. In Britain, as in most civilized places, when confronted with evidence of a crime, you are not allowed to just buy off victims and not pick up the phone and let the authorities know.
James Murdoch is most certainly not far removed, and I think it's pretty likely he will be charged soon enough.
Because there's growing concern that the phone hacking was not limited just to that newspaper, and was used by several N.I. operations, including some in the States, which puts Fox right in the headlights.
I imagine his "prison" will be a research facility. He was nabbed before he managed to complete his studies, get a job in the US or some other Western country and never returned.
Here's a tip for all Iranians outside Iran. Don't go back. No matter how much you miss the kin and pine for the fjords, if you can manage it, don't go back.
I think that anyone with a signature like yours probably neither possesses the wits nor the morality to judge what constitutes an appropriate leader from a bad one.
Polls show support for gay marriage around 50%. How does that make Obama unelectable. As much as some political commentators like to believe otherwise, pissing off your opponent's base doesn't mean you lose votes.
People are idiots. Even seemingly sober people.
Now why would he want to do something like that, when its much better for his ego to buy into a big vast conspiracy theory.
If the US government has no such right, perhaps you can explain why Eisenhower somehow somewhere got the authority to enforce Brown v. Board Of Education. In fact, the very fact that Lincoln ordered the US Army to take down the Confederacy tells you just how idiotic what you just wrote is.