Actually, it's not a crushing debt load that is hurting them, but loss due to theft and embezzlement.
A few bad business decisions, like going with the N-Gage instead of PC or other platforms, have made them vulnerable to this sort of thing, but the theft is what has caused the cry for help.
I have to agree with this, leave evolution in the science class and put intelligent design back in theology or philosophy where it belongs. It's not a scientific theory, it's a philosophical one.
No I definitely agree, Chretien was definitely a slime ball.
And so far I'm not too impressed with Martin either. A lot of empty promises and other bullshit.
Canada needs a change in government, but the alternatives currently available aren't much better.
While I agree that Martin should be given the benefit of the doubt in this case, I find it awfully hard to believe that as Finance Minister he had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about this scandal. After all, the Finance Minister is one of the top positions in Cabinet and it's hard to believe he wasn't aware of what's going on. That's like saying Rice isn't aware of Bush's economic policies.
As to his methods of gaining power in the Liberal party, I have to agree, he did nothing "slimy" he just recognized the lack of faith in Chretien among his fellow Liberals and Canadians in general.
Umm, perhaps you guys should read more about the Gomery Inquiry before calling this a secret trial and bringing up all this American bashing and Canadian bashing.
The Gomery Inquiry is not a trial. It is an inquiry being done in a very public manner to determine who was involved in this scandal and where the money went.
The publication ban, which I'm not sure I agree with given the unfettered access to all of the previous testimony in the inquiry, was put in place to attempt to ensure that the man gets an impartial jury for his upcoming fraud trial (as has been stated many times on this site).
If a Canadian blogger were breaking a US publication ban, the US gov't would be well within its rights to pursue legal action against that Canadian, why doesn't the same apply when it's an American breaking the law?
Instead of looking at the original post in such a negative way, perhaps you could see the reference to him being self-taught in a positive light.
That a self-taught mathematician discovered something that all the PhD's and the like before him didn't is rather impressive.
Perhaps it's not Slashdot that needs replacing, but the attitudes of some of it's readers.
But that has nothing to do with who is President. Clinton was in power the whole time I was in school and most of my books were priced at $130+, whether they were printed in the States, in Canada or the UK.
I just don't see the party in power having an actual effect on the price of textbooks.
Exactly, textbooks were way too expensive before Bush's presidency and are way too expensive in other countries too. Blaming everything on the current president is incredibly short sighted.
But is it too much to ask that he be consistant in his own stories? Just because it's a movie doesn't mean attention to detail should suffer. In fact given the enormous, dedicated following that the Star Wars films have, and how detail-oriented sci-fi fans can be, one would think Lucas would strive to be as true to his own storyline and not contradict himself.
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Actually, it's not a crushing debt load that is hurting them, but loss due to theft and embezzlement. A few bad business decisions, like going with the N-Gage instead of PC or other platforms, have made them vulnerable to this sort of thing, but the theft is what has caused the cry for help.
I have to agree with this, leave evolution in the science class and put intelligent design back in theology or philosophy where it belongs. It's not a scientific theory, it's a philosophical one.
No I definitely agree, Chretien was definitely a slime ball.
And so far I'm not too impressed with Martin either. A lot of empty promises and other bullshit.
Canada needs a change in government, but the alternatives currently available aren't much better.
While I agree that Martin should be given the benefit of the doubt in this case, I find it awfully hard to believe that as Finance Minister he had absolutely no knowledge whatsoever about this scandal. After all, the Finance Minister is one of the top positions in Cabinet and it's hard to believe he wasn't aware of what's going on. That's like saying Rice isn't aware of Bush's economic policies. As to his methods of gaining power in the Liberal party, I have to agree, he did nothing "slimy" he just recognized the lack of faith in Chretien among his fellow Liberals and Canadians in general.
Umm, perhaps you guys should read more about the Gomery Inquiry before calling this a secret trial and bringing up all this American bashing and Canadian bashing. The Gomery Inquiry is not a trial. It is an inquiry being done in a very public manner to determine who was involved in this scandal and where the money went. The publication ban, which I'm not sure I agree with given the unfettered access to all of the previous testimony in the inquiry, was put in place to attempt to ensure that the man gets an impartial jury for his upcoming fraud trial (as has been stated many times on this site). If a Canadian blogger were breaking a US publication ban, the US gov't would be well within its rights to pursue legal action against that Canadian, why doesn't the same apply when it's an American breaking the law?
Instead of looking at the original post in such a negative way, perhaps you could see the reference to him being self-taught in a positive light. That a self-taught mathematician discovered something that all the PhD's and the like before him didn't is rather impressive. Perhaps it's not Slashdot that needs replacing, but the attitudes of some of it's readers.
But that has nothing to do with who is President. Clinton was in power the whole time I was in school and most of my books were priced at $130+, whether they were printed in the States, in Canada or the UK. I just don't see the party in power having an actual effect on the price of textbooks.
Exactly, textbooks were way too expensive before Bush's presidency and are way too expensive in other countries too. Blaming everything on the current president is incredibly short sighted.
But is it too much to ask that he be consistant in his own stories? Just because it's a movie doesn't mean attention to detail should suffer. In fact given the enormous, dedicated following that the Star Wars films have, and how detail-oriented sci-fi fans can be, one would think Lucas would strive to be as true to his own storyline and not contradict himself.