Charles Anthony

Before this thread snowballs into a scrolling rollercoaster quoting ride, I am stepping in to a point of order: trim and condense your posts, guys! Again, there continues to be a lot of empty whitespace in the quotes throughout this thread. Check out #5 of Using the [ Quote ] Feature: Avoid using more too many quotes!

Breaking up Canada will also affect people outside of Canada -- should non-Canadians dictate provincial separation too? Why should separation be legal? The rest-of-Canadians are not going to go to civil war, so why worry?

Sounds like chaos. It also sounds like the bigger the jurisdiction, the more chaos it will be.

Not everybody shares your fear. Since you live here in the West, you feel compelled to close your eyes to the fact that not everybody shares you martial paranoia. You feel compelled to lump everybody in the "us against them" categories. Try to answer this: In what category do the migrant workers in the Arabian desert fit?

The problem is that the two axes are NOT measuring independent things. I am saying that Left/Right in economics involves authoritarianism. Here is a problem for you: Try to show me how you can move Left/Right on an Economic level while staying the same along the Authoritarian/Libertarian axis.

We should count our blessings. Before you know it, they might transfer the whole ministry to a call center in East Asia!

Of course it is the fault of the two axes. Try to explain how much Stalin proves to be much more concerned about improving the lives of people or society than all of the rest of us. So what? We could have a third axis labelled "Favorite Styles of Music" with Monotonous Atonal on one extreme and Mellifluous Harmonic on the other. We could have a fourth axis with favorite colors too. For the two axes to truly be different dimensions, you have to explain what distinguishes Left Economics from Right Economics while keeping the level of Authoritarianism constant -- which can not be done.

The two are contradictory. This demonstrates that the two axes are false. There should truly be only one axis. In other words, our Economic views are just a subset of our acceptance of Authoritarian standards. Maybe I am turning into a softy! I just repeated the test a second time and got: Economic Left/Right: 9.25 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31 Whereas my first scores were: Economic Left/Right: 7.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.74

What exactly needs to be regulated?

Who is us? Who is them?

So, the CBC should only broadcast what Canadians do NOT want. Is that it? Wait a minute. Canadian content has nothing to do with it. If you wrote a bad script, do you think anybody would buy it? No Canadian banana or coffee farmer can compete with the rest of the world either. Should we legislate support for greenhouses in Canada? It looks good to me. We get cheap programming. On a global sense, you could say it looks gloomy for the Americans: they produce horribly predictable pre-formatted movies. Your wish seems to have been granted: CBC.caGet ready for more and more Band Wars in your area -- with the kids of the station manager winning the fixed results!

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My first thought was the opposite: Aug91 was suggesting that she would be better suited.

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Forgive me, it really seems that those two examples illustrate the difference: tidy quoting and cluttered quoting. I will offer the next best thing: I will contact you through the Personal Messenger.

The number of quotes is not at issue. Rather, the quoting text which is not relevent to your reply is annoying. To illustrate, follow these links: Good quoting Bad quoting

You can have all of the Canadian ownership and content you want -- just buy it. Go put up the money to operate the broadcast yourself. I do not understand why you should have the right to tell people they must buy Canadian entertainment? Try to extrapolate that logic to other things we enjoy, like coffee. If everybody had to consume/sell a minimum quota of Canadian grown coffee, where in the world would we be?? Why should the entertainment industry get special protection? Why SHOULD somebody want a Canadian screenwriter?

The CRTC is even more absurd given that The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council exists and it is non-governmental. What more does the consumer really need?The playlists are the height of hypocrisy. The only "artists" who benefit are the super-Canadian pop stars who have already made it big internationally -- the type of artists who never needed CanCon rules anyway. On the other end of the market, the small-time Canadian artists do not get commercial airplay because they are not safe bets. The internet and college radio becomes their only available media -- two formats that provide more than 30% CanCon by their very nature.

That sounds like a politician's spin. The U.S. consumers could have received more Canadian lumber and maybe at cheaper prices. To support the U.S. lumber firms. Why else?? The U.S. consumers are paying a LOT more for their lumber and it is to the advantage of the U.S. lumber producers to have a restricted market.

This is a forged website.

Good example. That proves my point: you can not create demand.

It is the "DeBeers" name that sticks in your memory. That is the only thing that has changed -- not the demand for diamonds. 1) being a near-monopoly means nothing Furthermore, a near-monopoly can still have its profits cut be a small competitor. DeBeers will always strive for you to select a DeBeers diamond over any other. 2) if "marketing a diamond as something particular in fact boosts their numbers" as you say, why not market pebbles instead?? Why not market pebbles as the symbol of love?? The demand for pebbles will rise. Everybody will want a DeBeers pebble!

Hah WRONG!!! I only need to point out the diamond industry. De Beers started mining in South Africa 100 plus years ago, diamonds as you know are hard and good for cutting, plus they disperse/refract light very well. Anyhoo with the large surplus of diamonds in South Africa there was a need to market them, and some genius at De Beers said why not make diamonds the symbol of love, of course women as they are caught onto this like wild fire and the rest they say is history. This is straight out of a university course to boot.Whoever taught that university course should be given the boot. Take a look at your diamond example and ask yourself: "If demand can be created, diamonds could also be marketed as the symbol of HATE too!" and try that out. How much money do you think DeBeers would spend on that genius advertizing campaign??? But, wait a minute.... diamonds the symbol of love??? THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A SYMBOL OF LOVE!!! DeBeers never created anything new at all. The demand for diamonds has not been changed by DeBeers one bit either. In a modern competitive and open economy, the best you can get with advertizing is product recognition. You want the consumer to pick YOUR product off the shelf and skip your competitor.

This xenophobia is getting tiresome. Agreed too, they make us fill out the damn census they can make us vote, mail out all the election platforms, make a decision based on the platform mail a ballot with the platforms and be done with it. I don't care if I have to wait a month for election results.Nothing can be more absurd that mandatory voting. Mandatory voting would do NOTHING except waste paper, time and money. If you think mandatory voting would make a difference in results, you are completely delusional. Mandatory voting belongs on the same shelf as pre-recorded laugh-tracks for sit-coms or holding up cue-cards telling the in-studio audience to say "Oooohhhh" and "Aaaaahhh" while a television game-show is being filmed. Yes, anything - the Republicans can win or the Democrats can win.But the votes are close.They are closer than close: they are exactly the same. There is no difference between the two parties. Wrong. Canada is actually better because there are differences and thus there is choice. Correct. Can you present one compelling reason why you SHOULD vote? I want a citation or a link. Otherwise, I am calling this racist trolling.

Yes! Where should the goal posts go now?