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Comment Re:What is the point? (Score 1) 465

In Canada, federally, third party advertising on political issues during elections is allowed, but regulated with reporting requirements and spending limits.

Also corporate and union donations to political parties are banned and individual donation are limited to about $1,200 dollars per year.

Like the US we have constitutionally protected freedom of expression, but there is also section one which says, "The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."

So freedom of expression can be limited in the name of democracy.

Comment Re:Get rid of income Tax (Score 2) 423

"If you take productive money and piss it away on boondoggle projects instead of useful purposes then it's a complete loss for the economy."

What about the most massive boondoggle project in history: World War II?

Massive increase in government spending, massing increase in government debt and massive increase in taxes all to build highly specialized equipment, ship it over seas and where it gets blown up.

The result: decades of economic growth and prosperity ending only with the rise of neo-Liberalism.

Comment Re:hrm (Score 1) 730

She has the power to resolve conflicts between the executive and the legislative branches of government, usually replacing the executive with someone that the legislature can support or by forcing an election. Recent experience has shown that is something that could be useful in the United States

Comment Definitions (Score 1) 182

Sounds like they are arbitrarily defining computing as a simulation of the universe, therefore the actual universe cannot compute. I think this unnecessarily limiting people's imagination.

Besides, from the inside of a simulation its all real to you.

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