Bryan

That's because the ROI of learning second languages (unless that language is english) is really low. http://freakonomics.com/2014/03/05/is-learning-a-foreign-language-really-worth-it-full-transcript/

We do have separate education systems. With healthcare it's just one, but everything has to be in both languages everywhere. There were attempts over time to try to act as an english province that makes french available, but that was struck down as unconstitutional, and we are required to be equally english and french. It's a mess.

The dual system in Manitoba is a pain as well. My wife went through much the same process as the person Argus describes in the OP. Lots of money spent on having her train her french (during work hours) to get it up to "fully bilingual" status as required for her job, and she literally has never used it once on the job. Nobody that we know even speaks french for her to practice, so now she's lost most of it. That doesn't matter though, because there is nothing in the job that ever requires it, she just has to have the piece of paper in her personnel file.

Lots of investment opportunities in a possible Texit too.

I'm not wrong. A low dollar is better for almost anyone who sells any good, commodity or service to anyone outside of Canada, especially if they sell in US dollars. In nearly all cases, your profit increases automatically. 1) Low oil prices. 2) Liberal federal government. 3) NDP Alberta government. We'd be in far worse shape right now if the dollar was high too.

Aboriginals with an almost identical culture still exist in Northern Russia, so I don't think there is any controversy at all about where our "aboriginal" people came from. That they probably came over in more than one wave makes a lot of sense. That's a lot of people spread over a really big area. So much so that it's hard to square that the ancient tribes in south america got there via migration from the north, unless it happened many times over as much longer time frame. If they are all from asia though, we definitely need a different name for them. It seems almost certain now that they are not originally from here.

If he's not suggesting it, I certainly am. A low Canadian dollar is a very good thing for our economy. It allows us to charge less than our competitors in the US and abroad, yet still actually have more money in our pockets after the exchange. Every drop in CAD is a literal and direct profit increase. A high dollar is a pay cut.

Not much of a basketball fan, so I've never used that service. It does sound like the ideal way for team sports to present their content. Hopefully other will follow suit. How much is it?

UFC Fight Pass has live cards pretty much every day, sometimes several in the same day.

I see what you did there.

Die hards do that, but most people watch whomever is doing well, and that changes a lot. That said there most likely is a market for standalone team streaming services. Those could add up substantially too, to the point that an all-in sports service might still be more cost effective. UFC Fight Pass is a value that I can't see too many other sports being able to match though. For $8 a month, I get 100% of the content from over a dozen MMA promotions from all over the world, plus original programming, plus an on-demand back catalogue of almost every major MMA event that has ever been held. If you only follow one fighter, you can easily navigate to only their fights and never even have to see the rest of the cards. If the NHL's service was even half as good as the UFC's, I'd absolutely add that on. As it is, the NHL is too much money for too many restrictions, and not enough bonus content.

If you want every game from every sport, yes that will certainly add up. Forget interest or money though, who even has time for that?

That's really not the case. There are more written accounts (both secular and religious) of Jesus than there are of most of his contempararies. That he existed is absolutely not in question whatsoever. The discrepancies are only over WHO he was.

There is a serious lack of evidence for the existence of any specific human from that time frame.

And unmarried virgin is one of the accepted definitions of the Hebrew "almah". It's used in that context several times throughout the old testament. The greek word used in the new testament is "parthenos" which very specifically means virgin.

We are almost there too. I subscribe to UFC Fight Pass, and I can watch almost all of their events on it. Even the ones that Fox has paid big money to have blacked out are still available on demand immediately after the card ends. So I just wait a couple of hours before I start to watch, then I get to see the whole thing commercial free.

The VPN geo-hack still works if your VPN is any good. Works for just about any sports event that might have a regional blackout too -- including ones that might be free to air in some places and pay-per-view in others.

1) How about a link? It's a big site. 2) Anything that was bad enough to get you kicked out wouldn't still be there anyway.

The Rebel is far more tolerant of opposing views than most media outlets. You'd have to wade in deliberately acting like a serious jackass to get kicked out.

I'm surprised it's that low. I don't think I know anyone who doesn't have a Netflix subscription.

At least one person is examining the logistics of doing something about that: https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/?fref=nf

Do you honestly believe that no woman is capable of fighting a man?

People will watch what they want to watch when they want to watch it. Content providers are only picking their own pockets when they withhold shows from certain markets.

The geo-blocking doesn't really work if you have a good VPN. There are far more reasons to do so than just American Netflix. The licenses they've got in other countries are quite varied -- pretty much every region has substantial content that the others don't. There are sites that keep a database of what countries a given show is available in with their local Netflix variant. Several new ongoing series are available right away in some countries when they haven't even aired on TV yet in Canada or the US. Even the Canadian version has plenty that the US one does not. I deal with that on a regular basis where stuff I have saved in "my list" from the Canadian site is no longer available to me when I'm using Netflix when visiting the US. Happens a LOT. Then I just switch on my VPN so that Netflix thinks I'm back in Canada, and the shows return to my list.

There is no biblical proscription against sharing of ideas with or without permission. Only in taking physical things (or people) that didn't belong to you. He actually did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou_shalt_not_steal Definitely not -- nothing missing, no theft. Just copyright infringement.