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This is one reason why more transparency in government is needed. Vision without Action is a daydream. Action without Vision is a nightmare. I applaude this. By this, we as a population cannot make an informed choice, because for the most part, the real gritty facts are not divulged to us. Unprepared and then posibly not reporting things that were wrong and possibly not corrected. True, not many people take this course of action. I had recently talked to an old friend who did a tour in Afghanistan. I asked him if he had killed anyone. Without hesitation, he said yes. He told me he was a tool of the government and has a clean concious about what he has done. I really did not inquire if the supported the mission, he got out because he wanted to stay home with his wife and two daughters.

That's pretty low. But completely your style.

So the majority does not support the war, but our government does. The government works for us right? This is why we should not have went in the first place. It is not lazyiness, it is a matter of willingness. Government turns the deaf ear. Knowing how beurocratic and innefective the government is for the most part, you almost have to overthrow the government. That takes alot of effort. You could be just as lazy to support the mission without looking into the facts. Just as dengerous. Was there a vote or referendum on it? Or do we have various stupid polls to find out what we support? I thought it was a NATO mission and Canada was left in charge to lead the NATO mission. Since NATO did not support the Iraq invasion (which seems odd), what is different about the mission in Afghanistan and the mission in Iraq? Yes and most people I talk to, think they know why Canada is there. I quickly find out that most of them really do not know what the mission is. Ignorance is bliss. I am sure you are privy to the information that those MPs have sent back?

If you treat your population as a renewable resource, then you stop treating them as people.

Not sure, what was our excuse? It is not relevant. Furthermore. Truman I think weighed the options, along with the advice of this staff and came to the right conclusion.

But not adult enough. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mini...Age_Act_of_1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Mini...Age_Act_of_1984 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_(law)"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_(law) Grey area. Legal to possess a gun, drive a car, get married, even treated as an adult in court, but not allowed to drink. Are states violating this law by lowering the drinking age below 21? Or are the legal drinking ages higher in those states? Looks like if they don't adhear to it, they don't get money to fix the streets. You are right, all these benckmarks should be consistant across the board. Also it looks like a Federal benchmark to me. Also looks like they are breaking Federal Law. Age of consent laws vary as well. Some states have it as low as 13. IN another state, that is statutory rape. Kind of odd to have people this young making those big decisions, but not allowing them to drink. They can have sex, but stay away from the booze! In Canada, the age of consent was lowered to 14 for some time... then raised to 16. Originaly it was at 18. I guess many thought that 14 was pushing it.

Army Guy But you say The majority should decide, but then again we should wait untill the government decides? If the Majority wanted to help out they would? I guess the majority does not support the war. The majority want our troops home. Maybe you can clear this up for me? Not to be a dick but We are all still learning about it. Even you are. You were sent there, but the people who sent you there, many of them have never touched ground in Afghanistan. By your terms they are as clueless as me, because I never went there. It was debated to hell only after the fact that Canada went into Afghanistan. The debate should have happened before the deployment. Debate after the fact won't change the course, because once we are in, we won't go untill the job is done. Not much of a debate when the result is going to be the same.

Army Guy But you say The majority should decide, but then again we should wait untill the government decides? If the Majority wanted to help out they would? I guess the majority does not support the war. The majority want our troops home. Maybe you can clear this up for me? Not to be a dick but We are all still learning about it. Even you are. You were sent there, but the people who sent you there, many of them have never touched ground in Afghanistan. By your terms they are as clueless as me, because I never went there. It was debated to hell only after the fact that Canada went into Afghanistan. The debate should have happened before the deployment. Debate after the fact won't change the course, because once we are in, we won't go untill the job is done. Not much of a debate when the result is going to be the same.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment Not sure if Truman carried on with the Japanese camps, (they should be clasified as concentration camps) but Rosevelt signed the act. I am sure Truman carried on the camps untill the war was over. John L Witt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._DeWitt Quite the parallels between him and the Iranian leader's rhetoric towards Israel.

Yep, Bin Ladens driver should be out soon. His bodyguard was set free because of insuffcient evidence. But there was enough evidence to hold those people indefinately at Gitmo. Guilty till proven innocent. Wow this sounds like the old USSR.

Actually alcohol is relevant. Old enough to fire a gun in battle with the intent to kill, but not old enough to have a beer afterwards to calm the nerves. If you want to treat them like an adult, give them all the rights as adults. If you don't, then you are considering them as minors still. This really should be a black and white issue. But there are many grey areas. Ontario it is legal to drink at 19, eventhough you are considered an adult at 18. Quebec, Manitoba have the drinking age at 18... not sure about the rest of the provinces. You can sign up for the military at 18. I did. Well, I applied, Air Force. My grades were what killed me.

No, it is not the source of all evil, but some of it.

You can keep her, along with Celine Dion. Probably right, I have only met a couple of those Russians who wanted to come over to Canada for a better life. I guess they are not the average Russian. Angus. http://www.slate.com/id/2131182/ How the hell do you think China conrtols it's internet. China blocks many websites outside of China. This is done by simply modifying a DNS table. Not to mention firewalls and proxys to prevent outside getting in and vise versa. DNS propagates worldwide. So it would be easy to modify one, and have it propagate. Sure this is a form of attack. But it also shows how essential DNS is to internet traffic. The TCP/IP protocol was invented and first used by the US military. Chances are they know quite abit on how to exploit it for their purposes. This includes DNS. If you think that another country cannot control the DNS in another country, then you are failing to understand more than me. IT might be really hard, but it can be done. A denial of service attack is meant to take down a DNS server. Screw that server up and you cannot get to for example ... this website. EDIT .. So this disrupts internet traffic, unless you know the IP of where you want to go. Control the DNS means you can direct traffic on the Internet. This is what DNS is in a nutshell. When it comes to internet addresses like .coms and stuff. done edit. I can change your DNS server and have all sorts of things point to somewhere else. Messed with PCs since about 95. 2 years of college Honours diploma in Network Technology 4 years call center experience. 2 years as my current role as Systems Administrator for a grocery warehouse. You are right. I know nothing about how DNS works.

I guess that is because America's waste line is getting to big. They don't make for great porn stars. Actuallty I should have said to your average russian. But I accept your apologies.

I guess you are right. If you go to school, work at teh McDees in the school to get your degree and to make some extra cash on your lunch break. Awesome idea. And you get to look cool in front of all your friends. This is what I understand for trade schools. Which is on the level as a college or university degree/diploma, depending where you are. And I was refering to highschools. I mentioned grade schools, but if they were doing that, then it's pushing the line. Just throwin this out there. Actually, you are right here.

Russian Brides marry you to come over, divorce you so they can stay. I have actually SEEN this happen. Then they go off and work in the adult entertainment industry. To the US Russia is evil... and vice versa... good try though. Not to mention another senator thinks it is a series of tubes.

I don't doubt pollution kills. People with asthma and other resperatory problems are greatly affected by pollution like smog. But again, the smog and pollution could be the catalyst for people with those problems. I used to live in Sudbury ON. INCO and Falconbrige are huge mining conglomerates. One of the largest industrial stacks is located there. This one was built because the smaller ones they have did not dissipate the sulpher dioxide into the air enough. Much vegitation in the area died due to this direct polution. Acid rain was also a direct contributor to the local lakes taking a major hit. It was visibly evident. This larger stack was to throw the sulpher dioxide farther and higher to dissipate it more. But even on those odd days (and I do NOT miss them at all) you can taste the sufler in the air. It itches the back of your throat similar to a cold. It does makes it hard to breath. Most of us stayed indoors on those days. Here is an interesting thing. If you live in Sudbury, you can get something called a Fallout Claim for your car insurance. The sulpher dioxide acid rain will eat the paint off cars slowly. So you can get your car repainted on your insurance due to the amount of sufler in the air. If it does that to hard sealed paint, what can it do to your soft spongey lungs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inco_Superstack It was horrible in the 80s, I was outside more with friends in my youth. During the 90s I was indoors more. But wow, the taste is something you will hate instantly.

Even free press can keep people in the dark. Along with the media, blame those ignorant people who don't bother to look for the truth and take it at face value To a Russian, the US is the evil empire. If you ignore this, then you could be one of the ignorant. The Pentagon also has a group in place to do just the things Russia is using. Russia just does not seem to be shy about how they go about things. The Chinese are very good at the hacking as well it seems. The Pentagon is very aware of the importance of controlling information on the Internet. The one advantage the US has over Russia is that they have more control over DNS. DNS is an essential part of the protocol we all use to comminicate through the Internet. When you can control the Internet, you can control information. Everyone is playing this game.

With the Internet and computer technology there is another aspect of this conflict that has not been mentioned yet. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...813?hub=SciTech Hitler'd Controlling the flow and type of information getting out is anther strategy the military can use to their ends.

American Woman. Large corporations don't go into grade schools/high schools to recruite kids, do they? They go into colleges and universities. It is preying on the children. Taking advantage of the innocence/ignorance in them to join up for the wrong reasons. The US military can recruit from high schools without needing parents permission?? I find this odd.

It is what you are exposed to in the media for the most part. If you don't hear about Darfur or Tibet in the news, does it really stop it from happening? No. For the most part, the US and Canadian media focus on the war on terror. Those things get front page news. Darfur and Tibet get page 5, 6... 10... It is also the countries interest that is showed on the MSM. There is no resources in Tibet or Darfur (as far as I can tell). The only things I see going in in Darfur and Tibet are genocide. MSM gives us that selective aversion. Mass media packaged for the mass audience.

If you had not known or been told they were semi-autistic, would you have known the difference? Could also be they are just shy. But man, we are giving names to almost every type of odd behaviour out there. If you don't fit in A, you belong in another group. B1, or B2, the classifications and types of disorders are growing all the time. Soon we will have a disorder for being normal, because most of the others are screwed up in a way. So it won't be normal, to be normal. You might have a disorder that makes you normaly different from the rest of the pack. And some of the symptoms for most of these behaveral problems are quite vauge and open to interpretation. Not to mention there are all sorts of pills to handle these conditions. Yes some of these are legit,... also there

I'll see if I can dig up some shots fo the Boeing plant that builds the 777. A poster on another forum works at the plant and gave us shots now and then of his workplace. What an incredible place to work at. Big open area in the middle (hanger) and the perimiter is all chock full of offices 4 floors up. He took shots from the ground, and up in the permiter offices. Damn cool stuff.

The assault already began.