Yeah, it's because we use a simple plurality. The Conservatives took a majority government in the last election because the left was split between the Liberal Party and the New Democratic Party. If we had run-off voting we would probably have had an NDP minority government.

It is kind of a mixed blessing because, while run-off voting more accurately represents the wishes of the public, Jack Layton was really the only person holding the NDP together and he ran knowing he had terminal cancer.

"No True Scotsman," etc.

40% of us think the Conservative Party is legitimate. You don't have to like them, but it's a huge mistake to pretend their supporters aren't "Canadian" enough.

As far as I'm concerned, this Googlighting video is absolutely correct. The problem is that it's not just a criticism of Google.

You can't blame a company for changing or discontinuing its products. Companies have to do what will make them money, and the fact that these decisions are applied unilaterally is a basic [dis]advantage of SaaS. Google is really no worse than Microsoft, Salesforce, Intuit, or any other vendor - their product catalogue is just diverse enough for these issues to pop.

There is no jailbait forum. There never was. It's just slander from mincing pedophiles.

"I can't see it, so it must be kiddie porn!"

I guess maybe SA charges $10 to keep people like you out? Thanks, Pedo-AC, for proving once again that the best communities are gated communities.

Well, she's not an Albertan, so she probably can't afford to travel anywhere.

That's what everybody says. How many of them do you think are right?

Seconding this as hard as I possibly can. GWT is honestly one of the nicest GUI libraries I've ever used, without even considering how nice it makes web development. I love GWT and I use it for everything web-related unless a client is really twisting my arm.

Not that it'll produce enough current to be dangerous.

I predict that nobody will ever be able to write a program for any Turing-equivalent machine which predicts, for an arbitrary program and input, if that program will halt.

The protection of real property (the means of production) is indeed a necessary precondition of having a free market economy. I also agree that copyright and patents can be beneficial for encouraging innovation and creativity, with proper limits.

Copyrights, trademarks and patents are the government, telling you (as a firm) what you cannot produce. This is literally the opposite of a free market. Your claim that government-granted monopolies are "necessary" to run a free market economy is objectively wrong, as is your assertion that such things are even *comparable* to the protection of real property ownership.

/. readers support copyright because we are all brainwashed from a young age to believe that copyright and trademarks are natural consequences of a healthy free market economy.

They aren't. They're government-granted monopolies.

You are absolutely and completely right.

Don't know many Canadians, eh?

The CRTC thing isn't about establishing a Canadian "identity," or some nebulously-defined psychological condition, it's about media market protectionism. Period. Without the CRTC there would be no commercial outlet for Canadian content.

Congressmen are indirectly paid through the promise of future, extremely high-paying jobs.

Examples: Dodd, Minnick, Buyer, Siljander, Pomeroy, Watts, Doolittle. Note that, unsurprisingly, some of these people are now felons.

It was about economics. Just like every other war, ever.

Nobody was telling the southern states that they had to get rid of slaves. The closest thing was the federal government prohibiting the spread of slavery into the new territories (cf. Missouri Compromise.) Cotton farmers depended on migration to new land because incompetent cotton farming quickly resulted in soil depletion. In effect, the business practices of slave owners were no longer tenable. The ~30% who owned slaves, being the owners of the means of production, effectively controlled the economy and dominated the politics of the day.

Yes, in a sense you are absolutely correct that the civil war was about states' rights. The problem is that all of those rights essentially boil down to the right to own slaves.

It's like that joke:
In elementary school, you learn that the civil war was about slavery.
In high school, you learn that the civil war was about states' rights.
In college, you learn that the civil war was about slavery.