Moonlight Graham

I would never say my country acts like saint. We were/are in Libya for bullshit reasons after all. But we are talking about Iraq. I post almost equally in the Canadian fed forum and the US politics forum. I keep both to account. Every time I criticize the US i don't have to put an asterisks beside it saying "Canada did this, did that" blah blah just because a few Americans get their ass chapped. If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen.

agreed maybe so.

Never too much. Ridiculous.

What Canadian role in Iraq? We sent about 4 ships i think to the Gulf, and had some officers on exchange. Yes I am obsessed with the US, and for good reason. If you're a human and live on planet earth you should be paying very close attention to US politics.

Tell me when the brain-dead, ignorant, and apathetic public in the host countries convict these people with crimes, then we might see some justice. Still waiting for Americans to give half a s**t about one of the greatest gov lies ever put over on American public.

My friend took Dark Side of the Moon on vinyl, transferred it to a lossless digital format compatible with itunes, and said he's hearing things he's never heard in the songs before. A high-quality MP3 is about 320 kbps. His digital files of vinyl were 3800 kbps!

I think there's a lot of people who could be millionaire's, but choose solid careers that just don't pay that kind of money, or just don't want to put in the crazy work it would take ie: entrepreneur business. A lot of people are just stupid though, and don't have the natural smarts, skills, or natural talents needed. Now, there are a heck of a lot of other factors that go into being rich or poor though, or being ie: poor vs middle-class.

Agreed.

Also depends your concept of "God". To me, God is some great natural force. I liken it to "mother nature". If nature creates a person who can naturally throw a baseball 100mph, and they love playing it, that could be considered a "calling". To me just about everyone has one or many great passions that drive their whole being and give their life true meaning and goals. Some people have this but are for some reason ie: working at a job they consider boring when they have other passions they just don't take the risk to pursue. But i suppose a "calling" or passion certainly doesn't have to be a paid job. Can be being a parent also. If you listen to Tony Robbins he says that one of the main sources of depression is people not pursuing their passions that give them great inner meaning and satisfaction.

have to agree with you AW. great point.

I wasn't referring to you specifically in my last sentence, you = anyone, not "dre". I did read your post, twice. And yes I agree the system needs reform. And it proves that capitalism needs some regulations (maybe not fed mucking with money/supply & interest rates, this needs reform also), but it needs regs because some people are greedy, immoral a-holes, and those people will do just about anything to increase profit & get ahead. And this forces others in business to do immoral things in order to compete in the game, because if they don't they go belly-up. One of the moral hazards of free-market competition. If there were no regulation of business many of us may still be working for 3 dollars an hour in garbage work conditions, consuming products laced with poisons, much more of the animals in our major lakes dead from pollution, and maybe the ozone would be completely destroyed by now. I blame the 99% just as much as the 1% for putting up with this crap. We've all been fooled.

Ya, there's a few nicey-nice 1%'ers. Big deal. The vast majority use their power to screw over the other 99% of the pop, as well as every developing country on the planet in order to increase their incomes, meanwhile the 99% in US/Canada and the majority of people in most countries have seen little or no growth in income over the past 30 years and vast income inequalities in their countries since Reagan/Thatcher led the era of neoliberalism and free-market globalization into full-swing. Some of these 1%'ers say they want to pay more taxes, yet they also use their power to screw the 99% in the name of profit as much as possible. Two-faced biatches. It's not about criticizing wealth, it's about criticizing the distribution of it. If Canada's GDP increases, why should only 1% of the population (or a small % whatever that exact # is) see income gains? How stupid is that? And how stupid would the other 99% of the population have to be to put up with that? If you defend the 1% and chastise the 99% for wanting a slightly fairer deal, you're either a 1%'er yourself or a goddamn idiot. Sorry.

So Syrian sources talk reveal this plan, and the article is published on a website controlled by the Iranian government? This article has ZERO credibility. New link please. Also, while I imagine the US probably has some kind of military plans for invading Syria (as they do for just about any country), I very much doubt they would get involved in a military mission. What's in it for them? Syria doesn't produce much oil so that's out. The US & NATO doesn't give a rats ass about the Syrians getting slaughtered, at least not enough to risk their own lives and resources to save them...even if a million civilians were slaughtered by the gov. See: Rwanda and Sudan and the DRC area.

True, but as I mentioned this may not mean the end of the "album" as a concept because releasing an album full of songs will still be a good marketing ploy, and allows acts to go out and tour to make money & promote the album and sell more music. Artistically I think digital gives artists lot more freedom to release hwoever many songs they want with few restrictions like the format size and cost to manufacture/store double-albums etc. An artst can release a single, a few songs, a full album, or 40 songs at a time if they want. I'll miss album art/jackets. Reading those with the printed lyrics & pics etc. as you listen is always cool.

That's not a meltdown, give the guy a break. He looked/seemed tired. He took some time t think of his answer and what the question was saying. Then he concluded he needed the question rephrased. What's the problem? That he didn't spit out an answer right away and wasn't amazingly eloquent like he was making a speech or something? He's human, so was Perry. IMO, not not really big deals. I think a candidate's views, judgement, intelligence, and knowledge on issues is far more important than if they hesitate on an answer or forget a talking point.

Inevitable. Hard to buy them now anyways. What this means is will there be a point to release songs as "albums" now, since most acts won't be releasing physical formats? So will that mean acts will release more singles are just a few songs at a time? Probably not in the near future, since releasing an "album" full of songs is a good marketing strategy and lets acts go on tour to promote the album/songs. B.S., they've been predicting that for the last decade and mags have declined in sales but most print media still remain strong. The next media to go digital and fall out of retail physical format are videogames. Seen major decline in PC game sales in stores, and the rise of illegal downloads and services like Steam. Console games are increasingly being downloaded online by Xbox Live/PSN etc., and it will greatly benefit the next generation of consoles to move to digital game downloads for game sales because it will completely destroy the used-game market which steals so much sales/profit from game companies.

Hasn't cost them the massive land loss though.

I usually call it "crusty old man syndrome". I listen to Bill O'Reilly or Lowell Green and it's just "rawr! rawr! rawr!" Isn't this just a code-word for "conservatives"?.

Just want to say that the XL pipeline is one freaking huge pipeline.

Classic polling trick!

Palestinian leadership has made many mistakes over the decades, and everyone knows it. A bunch of infamous "lost opportunities", like the Peel Plan not long before it (though Israel wasn't keen on that one either), that would have left them with much more land than they have now.

Yeah worked out great.

Yeah, 1 hour for 1 minute of fighting is hilarious. But the thing could have gone 25 minutes plus time between rounds. I agree, it would have been better to make it a 2-hour thing with a couple of good fights before that one. On the other hand, it was free (though I don't pay for the regular events anyways).

You need a new vehicle bro! My Dad has a 4WD truck, never seen that kind of pump price.

Why would they change their mind just because it's made of different material? They still can't make change with it to other customers. Why does this even matter?