MiddleClassCentrist

Or how to load an Open Source text document to XML. Generic concepts of open source public domain that have been patented. Or how about Apple currently fighting Samsung because Samsungs new device's "look and feel" is too close to Apple's. Look and feel is a concept... apparently Samsungs interface is similar warranting legal action.

The complete lack of any utility of a philosphy degree Please reference the paragraph that says there is a teacher shortage Please reference specific boards that can not find enough teachers. My wife is now a supply teacher, in the GTA. Supply opened up. The board received 2000 Applications... 25 supplies were hired. 1.5% success rate... My lucky wife was among them. It's more like a lottery to get a job than anything else. If you don't believe me you can always ask real teachers on facebook. Ontario Teachers Resource Sharing Group Keep in mind, I am speaking about the number of teachers certified and qualified to teach without employment. If you are saying we need to hire more teachers, that's different and noble (if costly)

And if the company wants to keep a monopoly over it's patent?

Of course there are smart people who just decide to go into other areas and can pick up math later, of course. Still, they wasted taxpayer money on education that may be interesting as a hobby but, is not an investment in Ontario. It should be common knowledge by now. This is published by the Ontario College of Teachers: http://professionallyspeaking.oct.ca/march_2011/features/T2T.aspx

Clearly, he participated in Communist practices by accepting city money to defend himself.

But imagine if there were? I'm not against timed life patents in many cases, but permanent patents are just ludicrous. Maybe you can wrap your head around a more recent example. If we had software patents(allowed in recent history) when MS and Apple were originally battling it out, there would only be ONE legal Graphic Operating System (Technically Xerox who created the first graphical OS, then dumbly gave it to Apple for free). This would be the only legally allowable graphical user interface creator for all computing devices. There would be no iPhone, no iPod. No one would be able to compete because they hadn't thought of a graphical user interface first.

I would prefer that the money go to support grassroots media projects. I do believe that CBC has a place. I like how the commentary gives each side a fair response in politics rather than typical left or right wing media. I often wonder why is it that all right wing media has the obvious bully mentality anyways? Is it that bullies are more likely to be right wing and respond well to the behaviour?

You completely misunderstand. Careers and Industries that are in demand should have their education subsidized. Not demand of degrees. General Arts, is not geared to a specific industry and would warrant less subsidy, if any. Quantum Physics is a subset in Sciences and Engineering (for instance). Engineering, Computer Engineering, etc are all higher demand fields and should have the education subsidized to encourage more people into them. We are going to be suffering from an engineer shortage in Ontario, those jobs will ship overseas. Unfortunately, General Arts types don't have the skills to take those jobs. I know I'm utilitarian. Mathematics is a high demand skill, way more so than any history, sociology or philosophy course. It is essential for anyone in Engineering, Computer Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Physicians, Etc. We have a huge amount of teachers who have been undermployed/unemployed for 5 years. We have way too many teachers. If you want to spend more money to give more teachers jobs, then hats off to you.

I'm all for higher education. I just don't think areas that are not in demand should be subsidized. Just as I think that businesses that are large and healthy shouldn't receive any subsidies. Pay $40k of your own money and another $40k of subsidized money to get a degree in philosophy. Become a specialist in "the path from nothing, to nowhere" and gain 0 skills to become a productive member of society... unless you want to try winning the lottery and become a philosophy professor. Work at starbucks for a living, never innovate, never bring new jobs to Ontario. Atrocious investment. When you get into University, all they do is pump up how the area of academic study you've chosen (Regardless of whether it is true, or feasible) can be used and how awesome it is. Taking away the subsidy would cut the bullcrap so students would know that they are making a bad investment from the start. Many people who claim education is not an investment are people trying to rationalize that the value of their degree depreciated to near 0 once received. They bought into what their professors and lecturers who want to keep their jobs were saying, and feel duped but, don't want to admit it. The subsidy based on demand would encourage people to not do stupid things... like drop science and math because they are lazy. That is if they want a more affordable and worthwhile degree. You could be an Engineering student and still take hobby classes like history and art at a non-subsidized rate. The hobby academics still have a place and importance but, there is no shortage of historians, artists and "sports management" graduates. We also have a severe surplus of teacher's in Ontario. Cut the subsidy to that professional program as well.

FALSE. The average person with a degree makes more, thus pays more taxes and attracts higher level jobs to the province. If anything you could say that the educated subsidize those who do not pursue post-secondary education to make up for the crappy life decisions of those who didn't take any post-secondary and went straight to work at Wal-mart for a living. People working at Wal-mart, Futureshop, and Home Depot pay very little in taxes after deductions... and those self-trained handymen doing drywall/home improvements evade taxes by taking cash frequently. That being said, we have too many graduates of "hobby" degrees (History, Social Science, English Literature, Human Kinetics, Art) I believe if we are subsidizing university programs, it should ONLY be for degrees leading to careers in industries that are in demand. The taxpayer shouldn't support garbage like Womyn's Studies (subsidized hate speech against men) and Human Kinetics (Let's give a degree to people for showing up and playing volley ball). Education is an investment, if we are investing in it, we need to be making better investment decisions.

So... she wouldn't have been aware that she was now sitting in Business Class? Holy crap. She's also a dunce.

It was a dumb and arrogant move to even fly on Air Canada. She should have used another one and avoided it entirely. Plenty of other options for her flight. I do believe however, that this is not as big as the media is making it out to be. Conflict of interest, yes. But, this is receiving more attention than the real conflicts of interest like Copyright Protection bill or the G8 funding IMO. Maybe because they are older and this is fresh but, still... It was pretty much all I heard about in the car on the way to work this morning and on the way home last night.

No, you are questioning where I fit in because of your insanely right wing view. I know where I stand. TYVM. http://federal.votecompass.ca/faq/ You show how much of a right wing hack you are. Ignoring the facts. Or FAQ, even. If you have no strong opinion on the questions, you get pulled to the center. If you can't understand how that works, you don't understand the political spectrum. Being neutral to corporations being deregulated/given more power and being neutral to the idea of nationalizing [insert industry] cancel each other out. I think it is more that right-wingers actually find out that they aren't as right wing as they WANT to be hating these tests. They desire to follow the self-fulfilling prophecy. I think I am, there for I must be. They then force the prophecy to be true by ignoring any data that shows to the contrary.

I hope you meant to say retire with a fat gubment pension, smiling to the bank. As conservatives also retire with said fat gubment pension, and slander him all the way to the bank

IMO - The only people that the government should be able to force back to work are public sector workers.

Are you going to then call the "vote compass" biased even though it was created by a panel of political experts of all parties and used actual party opinions? And you could break down your view based on the importance of how parties would answer questions that were more important to you? And see the answers you were being compared to? I did actually take that poll. It put me further right wing than I expect between Liberals and Conservatives. Based on the topics that drove the federal election of course. For fun, I tried to get Conservative. I overshot Conservative with ideological answers. So it was entirely possible to get conservative if you were ideologically conservative... as soon as you compromised (like most rational people do), you get placed left of conservative. Crazy conservative types need black and white. The reality is not black and white. The reality is compromise. You are calling me leftwing in a topic of public education because I backed it. So, anyone who backs public education must be left wing. Including people who are in fact right wing in an overall approach. This is a "complex" idea (not black and white) that ideologues can't understand.

You do understand that you are arguing for permanent monopolies on all new technology, right? And my example was showing just how ludicrous your idea would be. The wheel is considered public domain becuase it has been around for so long. Imagine if it have never become public domain. I could stop producing wheels, as the only legal producer of wheels, and hold the entire world at randsom. There are reasons why exlusivity of patents ends some decades. We'd still be in the dark ages if patents made to be infinite from the start of civilization. Innovation would have grinded to a halt in favour of milking patents. Innovation would stop. You wouldn't be able to make the wheel better without the guys family royalties for inventing the first wheel.

One thing in the polls are showing, Canadians are starting to regret giving Harper a majority with his pro-business, anti-labour and anti-consumer reign.

To right wing nutjobs, like yours, even a moderate right winger is a leftist. I know where I stand politically. Test after test puts me in the centre. Sometimes centre left, sometimes centre right. Keep on chugging the koolaid though!

The problem is that Colleges take anyone and everyone with money and a passing grade... NOT because the average student is illiterate. High school educates students toward 3 levels - University - College - Workplace You can graduate by only completing workplace courses with the goal of working in construction. You only need Grade 12 English(College) and Grade 12 Math (College) at a 50% to go to College for any program. Universites are lowering their standards more and more to get more people in and generate more money as well. So I guess you could say, the free market is the problem. More people demand education and Post-Secondary institutions make a killing providing it. Offer it to anyone with the money to pay, regardless of whether they will succeed. Ontario scores high in for its education system. Though, I do not understand why the liberals gave teachers a 3% raise per year in their last contract when he technically had them by the balls, so to speak (2008 contract negotiation period)

... so, would you extend that to intellectual property. Like patents? Patents should be able to be infinitely renewed to prevent competition? Never to become the public domain. I need to trace my ancestry back and figure out who invented the wheel... I'm going to make a frickin' killing on penalties owed. Suckers, you'll all need hoverbikes now!

This does not justify Harper's actions. Petro Canada was one the dumbest, poorly thought out actions as a whole. Harper was originally elected, saying that he was going to make government more transparent. Now he has made it into an iron shield. Want to know how much the jets will cost? LOL. YA RIGHT! Want to know how much the prisons will cost? NOT GOING TO TELL YA! G8 FUnding? What G8 Funding? Oh yeah, and while we are at it. Let's take a bunch of FAILED Conservative Candidates and give them cushy jobs in the Senate... Then create $130,000/year 26hour work week jobs for the ones we don't have senate positions for.

Well, Bob did come in and completely ignore statistical data in his quest for feeling superior on an internet forum. Blocking him for idiocy and being annoying - Valid. It's not like I gather around the crazed religious guy at the bus terminal shouting about how we will be judged and that masturbation is the cause. I'd walk away, or listen and laugh.

I watched CBC streamed online. I cancelled TV years ago because big telecom is gouging everyone, most people don't understand technology enough to see how bad it realy is. I have to give a months notice so that they can switch an entry in a database (takes milliseconds)? EFF THAT.

I hope Dalton stays at 53 seats.