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Meat Recital posted:Ted Cruz is Canadian. Make it happen Cons. I still love that word filter.
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Apparently that earlier post about how Environment Canada's budget is still decreasing has been updated to say that it isn't true after all:quote:Update - 14 July 2015: An indirect communication to me from the Trudeau government indicated surprise that Environment Canada’s budget was decreasing and suggested that my “Planned Spending” numbers – obtained from EC’s Report on Plans and Priorities 2016-2017 (see here) – are wrong. Further investigation reveals that EC’s budget is not declining as their published numbers had me believe. So it appears that the problem is that Environment Canada didn't have their new budget ready in time for the general report, and after revisions it seems their budget will be holding steady for this year at least.
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alright everyone ive been applying for jobs on vancouver island my wife already has a job offer what do i need to know about victoria area
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that you can gently caress off we don't want any more alberta trash
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Do it ironically posted:alright everyone ive been applying for jobs on vancouver island my wife already has a job offer what do i need to know about victoria area Good luck finding a place to live. The thread's quiet right now, but enough people are around if you wanna ask questions there. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2374844
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Do it ironically posted:alright everyone ive been applying for jobs on vancouver island my wife already has a job offer what do i need to know about victoria area
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Do it ironically posted:alright everyone ive been applying for jobs on vancouver island my wife already has a job offer what do i need to know about victoria area Do you like concerts and good music? Then you better enjoy $70 ferry rides as well because you're in Jon and Roy town now.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jenny-kwan-conscientious-objectors-rodney-watson-1.3682691quote:B.C. MP Jenny Kwan calls on Liberals to end Operational Bulletin 202 Holy gently caress if there ever was a stratum of idiot morons we don't need in this loving country it's the loving cowards who can't even summon the testicals to fulfill their glorious duty. Good job Jenny Kwan! You do good work!!!
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tetsul posted:Do you like concerts and good music? Then you better enjoy $70 ferry rides as well because you're in Jon and Roy town now. Sometimes BA Johnston plays Logans. That's always fun.
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Do it ironically posted:alright everyone ive been applying for jobs on vancouver island my wife already has a job offer what do i need to know about victoria area I lived in Vic for 6 years. It's a boring as poo poo city filled with the newly wed and nearly dead. Infrastructure, both transit and roads, suck rear end. Get ready to enjoy going to Vancouver on a regular basis because that's how bad Vic is. It's a gorgeous and fun place to visit, and be a tourist in, and arguably a student, but that's it.
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Do it ironically posted:alright everyone ive been applying for jobs on vancouver island my wife already has a job offer what do i need to know about victoria area move to langford, you'll fit right in
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namaste faggots posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/jenny-kwan-conscientious-objectors-rodney-watson-1.3682691 Hmm, the difference in policy between Vietnam and now couldn't have anything to do with the difference between a conscripted army and a fully volunteer army. I'm sure it's just that we've become big meanies. If you sign up for military service of your own free will, you don't get to pick which wars you fight. Why in gently caress's name did you sign up for the military if you weren't willing to follow orders and go to war when you're told?
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PT6A posted:Hmm, the difference in policy between Vietnam and now couldn't have anything to do with the difference between a conscripted army and a fully volunteer army. I'm sure it's just that we've become big meanies. I believe most Iraq War conscientious objectors are veterans who deployed once, saw what horrible things were being done in Iraq in America's name, and refused to deploy a second time. Kind of like if a member of the CF's Airborne Regiment refused to go on another deployment after Somalia. vyelkin fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Jul 17, 2016 |
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the talent deficit posted:move to langford, you'll fit right in I'd move to Sooke. Then I would either become the lovable eccentric or the prime suspect in disappearing UVic co-eds, my file photo taken with a beard made of bees.
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Joining the military and complaining about being sent to war is like being a fire fighter and complaining about having to go into burning buildings. We all know it sucks, but it's literally what you signed up for. Also, as an aside, reinstate the draft so the west can get over this fetish for foreign adventures.
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Don't reinstate the draft, but tie service to full rights or something. It worked fine in Starship Troopers!
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PK loving SUBBAN posted:Joining the military and complaining about being sent to war is like being a fire fighter and complaining about having to go into burning buildings. But I want to shoot guns and fly planes for four years at no risk or cost to me! What the gently caress did these soldiers think they were signing up for when they enlisted?
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Jul 17, 2016 14:22
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Pixelante posted:Sometimes BA Johnston plays Logans. That's always fun. the man is a national treasure
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Jul 17, 2016 15:46
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PT6A posted:But I want to shoot guns and fly planes for four years at no risk or cost to me! One weekend a month, two weeks a year in exchange for a college education. Not for the US to embark on a war of aggression.
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vyelkin posted:I believe most Iraq War conscientious objectors are veterans who deployed once, saw what horrible things were being done in Iraq in America's name, and refused to deploy a second time. Except cf airborne members enjoyed it so much they kept signing up Sympathy for tactical jarheads lol. gently caress em
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Meat Recital posted:One weekend a month, two weeks a year in exchange for a college education. Not for the US to embark on a war of aggression. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS3kiRYcDAo
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These guys are doing it all wrong anyway. You gotta claim PTSD. Tell your chaplain you have nightmares and can't keep your trigger finger still anymore
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Meat Recital posted:One weekend a month, two weeks a year in exchange for a college education. Not for the US to embark on a war of aggression. Yeah some people deployed to Iraq were people who joined the National Guard before 9/11 even happened. You can say "hey, they signed up, they knew there was the possibility this would happen" but a) that requires a lot of knowledge of future events from people who were often signing up as teenagers because it was the only way they could afford college thanks to the abysmal state of poverty/social mobility/tuition in the United States; b) ignores the fact that joining the reserves in peacetime shouldn't necessarily be treated as irrevocable consent for your country to invade another country on false pretenses; and c) National Guard recruiting material at the time emphasized the Guard's domestic responsibilities, like disaster relief, rather than the potential to be deployed overseas, and I would hazard a guess that a lot of people joining the Guard were not necessarily even aware they could be deployed overseas, since after all that's what the regular army is for and that's not what they joined. I have sympathy for conscientious objectors who are veterans who didn't want to deploy again out of moral considerations, or for National Guard members who didn't want to deploy in the first place. I have less sympathy for people who signed up after 9/11 or after March 2003 only to find that killing Arabs wasn't as much fun as they thought it would be.
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I would pay to be the guy writing these tickets.quote:Queen’s Park will not stand in the way of the city of Toronto making it illegal to text while walking.
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Jul 17, 2016 17:40
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Ikantski posted:I would pay to be the guy writing these tickets. He's gonna get called so many things, you'll learn a whole new set of pejorative words.
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Jul 17, 2016 17:46
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Ikantski posted:I would pay to be the guy writing these tickets. I feel like a ticket for texting while walking would be very easy to challenge in court.
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Jul 17, 2016 17:51
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I still think that texting while crossing the street is a bad idea but if this actually extends to simply texting while walking then holy poo poo that's retarded. This certainly can't be the case, that's just too absurd.
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Jul 17, 2016 21:02
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Is it??
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Every news story reports it as being a ban on texting while crossing the street. The specific wording that was proposed was prohibiting the use of wireless devices on "“any traveled portion of a roadway.” I assume that excludes sidewalks but maybe one of your urban policy wonks has a more nuanced understanding of what constitutes a roadway. It seems like a pretty typical example of a certain kind of busy-body who views politics as an opportunity to intervene in and regulate the minutia of other people's everyday lives. These kinds of people thrive in municipal government and are a slightly more evolved version of that annoying neighbor or condo board member that many of us have encountered.
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Jul 17, 2016 21:36
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Le story https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/07/15/province-says-toronto-can-ban-texting-while-walking.html
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Helsing posted:Every news story reports it as being a ban on texting while crossing the street. The specific wording that was proposed was prohibiting the use of wireless devices on "“any traveled portion of a roadway.” I assume that excludes sidewalks but maybe one of your urban policy wonks has a more nuanced understanding of what constitutes a roadway. According to Ontario law (the Highway Traffic Act) a roadway is "the part of the highway that is improved, designed or ordinarily used for vehicular traffic, but does not include the shoulder, and, where a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term “roadway” refers to any one roadway separately and not to all of the roadways collectively", while a highway "includes a common and public highway, street, avenue, parkway, driveway, square, place, bridge, viaduct or trestle, any part of which is intended for or used by the general public for the passage of vehicles and includes the area between the lateral property lines thereof". I don't know if Toronto has its own definition but it seems to me that the legal definition of roadway does not include sidewalks because "highway" and therefore "roadway" refers specifically to vehicle thoroughfares.
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Helsing posted:
See also: Health and Safety. OTOH it's fun to watch these types melt down when you explain that while their latest hobby horse is a possibility, its probability of occurring is once between now and the heat death of the universe.
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Ikantski posted:Le story https://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2016/07/15/province-says-toronto-can-ban-texting-while-walking.html I like how the article clearly says that less than a fifth of pedestrian injuries/fatalities involved the pedestrian being distracted and there are no estimates as to how many of those incidents involved a cellphone, let alone the very specific case of someone looking down to text while crossing the street. What a waste of time and effort.
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eXXon posted:I like how the article clearly says that less than a fifth of pedestrian injuries/fatalities involved the pedestrian being distracted and there are no estimates as to how many of those incidents involved a cellphone, let alone the very specific case of someone looking down to text while crossing the street. "Stop the War on the Car!"
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I want pedestrians to flee my jacked up f150 like it's the running of the bulls as I drive to revenue Canada to open my ei claim
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Scaramouche posted:Bah gawd, that's Rob Anders's music! I grew up his riding. It was a rough childhood.
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I hate slow walkers and people texting while walking usually walk slower, therefore I am ok with this.
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vyelkin posted:Yeah some people deployed to Iraq were people who joined the National Guard before 9/11 even happened. You can say "hey, they signed up, they knew there was the possibility this would happen" but a) that requires a lot of knowledge of future events from people who were often signing up as teenagers because it was the only way they could afford college thanks to the abysmal state of poverty/social mobility/tuition in the United States; b) ignores the fact that joining the reserves in peacetime shouldn't necessarily be treated as irrevocable consent for your country to invade another country on false pretenses; and c) National Guard recruiting material at the time emphasized the Guard's domestic responsibilities, like disaster relief, rather than the potential to be deployed overseas, and I would hazard a guess that a lot of people joining the Guard were not necessarily even aware they could be deployed overseas, since after all that's what the regular army is for and that's not what they joined. Not knowing you could be deployed is effectively signing up a contract without reading it.
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Hey guys I signed up for some poo poo and now I don't wanna do this poo poo anymore so can y'all give me citizenship and not deport me? thx
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Well, I doubt most people knew they'd be deployed for something as counterproductive and idiotic as the second gulf war.
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