Moreover, I recall from the 1970s concerns that the breadbasket areas of the US were going to be 'exhausted' by the intensive farming (which hasn't happened, but let's go with it)...warming of the climate, shifting optimal growing regions northward in the US will essentially 'open' virgin lands barely farmed for more intensive processes like multiple crops per year. One would suspect that as some particular, marginal soil fades from viability to grow a specific species of coffee, others will be discovered.
I guess you are expecting farmers to move to the virgin lands of Alaska? Because north of the 'breadbasket' areas of the US are the heavily farmed 'breakbasket' areas of Canada.
Just as long? Show me a five day game of baseball that ends in a draw. And if you are going to count "best of X playoff" multiple games as a single game, then cricket has the 5 test series, for 25 days of playing also ending in a draw.
What's so bad about a game ending in a draw? Seems like is an obsession in American sport that a winner be declared. Just look at what they did to hockey.
And you try to convince us that you know what you are talking about? If they weren't idiots, they'd be running a bank, or doing politics; they wouldn't be robbing homes.
But am I the only one kind of creeped out by the idea that something as vague as "bias intimidation" can get you ten years in prison? I mean, what the hell even *is* that?
Shouldn't you at least find out what "bias intimidation" is before you get creeped out by it? I bet you it has a non-vague definition in the laws of wherever the prosecution took place.
Turkey has never been a functional democracy. The military has a major hand in directing government policy and the state employs all kind of repressive measures (including torture) against groups and individuals who do not subscribe to the government-instituted identity created in the 1920s and 30s.
The real question, the one the CBC didn't hammer on, was:
"Then who wrote the bill, Minister? Who put that in there?"
Good point. I hope that the NDP will be raising that question in the House of Commons this week.
On the CBC, I sometimes wonder if they are a little hesitant to go after the Conservatives too much for fear of appearing partisan in the eyes of the government. I can remember the supporters' shouts of "Shut down the CBC!" during the election when CBC reporters asked Harper tough questions. My guess is that the CBC knows it is treading a thin line under the current government.
2012 also saw the last minute coining of the contraction to've, which is unique in that it contracts the verb have in the infinitive rather than the auxiliary have found in perfect tenses (such as I've been to Moose Jaw).
Then there's the still unfinished story of SOPA; at least in some cases, speaking loudly seems to've caused businesses to change their public stances as defenders of the law as proposed; could this be called washing SOPA out with mouth?
After all, the PRC would never invade any of its neighbors. Not Vietnam, not Korea, not India, not Russia, not Tibet. And they certainly wouldn't make constant menacing gestures against ROC-Taiwan or Japan...
Which is why the islamic extremists hated America. *NOT* because of our foreign policy. That was a global excuse of justification to recruit additional members from around the world. No, the true reason they attacked the West is because democracy is the antithesis to their belief. You see, the act of democracy and self determination is an act of hubris. That in of itself is punishable by death according to Al-Qaeda.
That's nonsense. Islamism is a movement against those who commit what they consider to be injustice or unjust rule. Now people can argue all they want about what constitutes injustice and whether there is any justification for the feelings of injustice. But to resort to "They Hate Our Freedom" is missing the point. Islamists are active or have been active against the USA (a non-Muslim democracy), Arab dictatorships (nominally Muslim), the USSR (most certainly not a democracy or Muslim) and even against targets in Muslim democracies, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia.
There is no single reason for the use of violence in these cases, but it does come down to fighting what they consider oppression or occupation, or to fighting for supremacy within their own society.
Not everyone in Syria is Muslim. Not all those who are nominally Muslim actually practice the religion. And some of those who do practice still break the rules (alcohol, etc). Welcome to the real world.
Note: it would be great if you include in your answers some idea about their currency â" if you're in China right now, say, or if you were there more than a year ago.
I can do this.
I was in China more than a year ago, seven years ago to be exact. Their currency was the Chinese Yuan.
On the other hand, Canada hasn't done this. So I'm not sure what your "Western Europe" schtick is about.
Well if you read closely, he said "... this is what every country does that isn't western europe about every 60 years when their economy craters."
Canada's economy hasn't, by most definitions, "cratered", so his point is still valid. Also, he didn't say that Western European countries don't do this, so your France and Germany examples do not show his statement to be false.
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Moreover, I recall from the 1970s concerns that the breadbasket areas of the US were going to be 'exhausted' by the intensive farming (which hasn't happened, but let's go with it)...warming of the climate, shifting optimal growing regions northward in the US will essentially 'open' virgin lands barely farmed for more intensive processes like multiple crops per year. One would suspect that as some particular, marginal soil fades from viability to grow a specific species of coffee, others will be discovered.
I guess you are expecting farmers to move to the virgin lands of Alaska? Because north of the 'breadbasket' areas of the US are the heavily farmed 'breakbasket' areas of Canada.
Sport = Competition = Winner/Loser
In what backwards world do people live in where competition is not to decide winners and losers?
So football, soccer, cricket, etc games that happen to end in a tie are not sport?
Just as long? Show me a five day game of baseball that ends in a draw. And if you are going to count "best of X playoff" multiple games as a single game, then cricket has the 5 test series, for 25 days of playing also ending in a draw.
What's so bad about a game ending in a draw? Seems like is an obsession in American sport that a winner be declared. Just look at what they did to hockey.
What were the results when you multiply by the average percentage of alcohol found in native beers?
And you try to convince us that you know what you are talking about? If they weren't idiots, they'd be running a bank, or doing politics; they wouldn't be robbing homes.
So which bank do you run? Oh, you don't run one?
Idiot.
Well, you'll have to settle for reading it there. Video of them here: Police Provocateurs stopped by union leader at anti-SPP protest.
If you don't believe Canadian police would try to provoke violence then watch this: Quebec police admit they went undercover at Montebello protest.
That's true. And wealth is inexorably moving from the West to the East for a variety of reasons.
But it doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, as China and we believe it to be.
There. Fixed that for'cha. Not to say there isn't aggressive competition from China ...
And I fixed it for you!
But am I the only one kind of creeped out by the idea that something as vague as "bias intimidation" can get you ten years in prison? I mean, what the hell even *is* that?
Shouldn't you at least find out what "bias intimidation" is before you get creeped out by it? I bet you it has a non-vague definition in the laws of wherever the prosecution took place.
Turkey has never been a functional democracy. The military has a major hand in directing government policy and the state employs all kind of repressive measures (including torture) against groups and individuals who do not subscribe to the government-instituted identity created in the 1920s and 30s.
And not just because their name was both an oxymoron, and yet somehow clever?
Seriously, the PCs and the Liberals were harmless, exactly as the Conservatives are not.
The Onion's irreverent piece: Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon.
The real question, the one the CBC didn't hammer on, was:
"Then who wrote the bill, Minister? Who put that in there?"
Good point. I hope that the NDP will be raising that question in the House of Commons this week.
On the CBC, I sometimes wonder if they are a little hesitant to go after the Conservatives too much for fear of appearing partisan in the eyes of the government. I can remember the supporters' shouts of "Shut down the CBC!" during the election when CBC reporters asked Harper tough questions. My guess is that the CBC knows it is treading a thin line under the current government.
That's the CBC headline after interviewing Toews about his own bill: Toews surprised by content of online surveillance.
It's worth listening to the interview that was aired on The House yesterday.
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The median hourly income in 2010 for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers was $55,600 annually, up only 0.4 percent from 2008."
Terrific start to the year with that sentence!
2012 also saw the last minute coining of the contraction to've, which is unique in that it contracts the verb have in the infinitive rather than the auxiliary have found in perfect tenses (such as I've been to Moose Jaw).
Then there's the still unfinished story of SOPA; at least in some cases, speaking loudly seems to've caused businesses to change their public stances as defenders of the law as proposed; could this be called washing SOPA out with mouth?
Why the heck all the Linux Window managers are copying Windows 95-XP with the placement of the window close/minimize/maximize buttons ?
Razor is not a Window manager. The placement of the buttons comes from kwin or OpenBox or whatever wm you chose to use it with.
After all, the PRC would never invade any of its neighbors. Not Vietnam, not Korea, not India, not Russia, not Tibet. And they certainly wouldn't make constant menacing gestures against ROC-Taiwan or Japan...
Not Tibet???
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Which is why the islamic extremists hated America. *NOT* because of our foreign policy. That was a global excuse of justification to recruit additional members from around the world. No, the true reason they attacked the West is because democracy is the antithesis to their belief. You see, the act of democracy and self determination is an act of hubris. That in of itself is punishable by death according to Al-Qaeda.
That's nonsense. Islamism is a movement against those who commit what they consider to be injustice or unjust rule. Now people can argue all they want about what constitutes injustice and whether there is any justification for the feelings of injustice. But to resort to "They Hate Our Freedom" is missing the point. Islamists are active or have been active against the USA (a non-Muslim democracy), Arab dictatorships (nominally Muslim), the USSR (most certainly not a democracy or Muslim) and even against targets in Muslim democracies, such as Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia.
There is no single reason for the use of violence in these cases, but it does come down to fighting what they consider oppression or occupation, or to fighting for supremacy within their own society.
Not everyone in Syria is Muslim. Not all those who are nominally Muslim actually practice the religion. And some of those who do practice still break the rules (alcohol, etc). Welcome to the real world.
Note: it would be great if you include in your answers some idea about their currency â" if you're in China right now, say, or if you were there more than a year ago.
I can do this.
I was in China more than a year ago, seven years ago to be exact. Their currency was the Chinese Yuan.
You're welcome.
Horrible looking, but amazingly not an explosion.
Serious questions here: should we expect a plane like this to explode on impact?
It's not Convergence. It's "Convergence Beta". And I'm not interested in beta software protecting my security.
Wait, you're saying that they use "Beta" to market their product because it sounds cool? Yeah, not interested in that either.
On the other hand, Canada hasn't done this. So I'm not sure what your "Western Europe" schtick is about.
Well if you read closely, he said "... this is what every country does that isn't western europe about every 60 years when their economy craters."
Canada's economy hasn't, by most definitions, "cratered", so his point is still valid. Also, he didn't say that Western European countries don't do this, so your France and Germany examples do not show his statement to be false.