sunwukong

sunwukong

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Reply to Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mon) to introduce lumber tariff bill in International JoeUser Forums

Well: 1. Canada is the largest consumer of US goods and services, 2. Especially with the huge drop in the US dollar, our wages are pretty close to parity *except* we don't really have any part of the country that's as insane for cost of living as New York or Silicon Valley. 3. It's pretty much accepted that our lumber is as good as it gets. However, perhaps only the last condition (dumping) should force a true free trading nat

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Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mon) to introduce lumber tariff bill in International JoeUser Forums

The temperature on the Canada-US softwood lumber dispute has just been dialed up again by an old adversary of the Canadian lumber industry: Senator Max Baucus (D-Mon) who introduced the original legislation to double the tariffs. Currently, Canadian lumber companies exporting to the US have paid C$3.6 billion of tariffs into an escrow account -- the status of the fund

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Reply to Generosity Index in Politics JoeUser Forums

Reply By: shadesofgreyPosted: Wednesday, November 10, 2004Sunwukong--that's sort of what I was trying to say I realize that -- but I thought it would be worthwhile to make it explicit what the difference would be. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb-Body-Quote-Tab

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Reply to Generosity Index in Politics JoeUser Forums

p.s. Besides journalists who don't have any idea on how to evaluate statistics or even have the energy to look at the validity of their sources, I *hate* cut-and-paste HTML.

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Reply to Generosity Index in Politics JoeUser Forums

Looking at both the raw data ( Link ) and the Technical Notes ( Link ), this has obviously been poorly thought out. 1. rank of AAGI (Average Adjusted Gross Income) is a valid measure = (Adjusted Gross Income) / (# of returns) 2. rank of AICC (A

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Reply to FOG of WAR in GalCiv Journals Stardock Forums

Though it's way too late in the development phase of GalCiv2 I'll throw my 2 cents in ... I think FOW in galaxy sized space games is also a matter of scale. Even at our (human) current level of technology, we basically know where the stars in the galaxy are and, with some effort, we can deduce the presence of gas giants (e.g., due to oribital perturbations). With a great deal more effort we can find smaller planets (e.g., if they transit the l

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Reply to Ashcroft and Don Evans gone in International JoeUser Forums

Bush has appointed White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General ( Link ). Not quite as, ah, colourful as John Ashcroft, but certainly not a policy shift for the administration.

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Reply to So Your 7 Year Old's a Tramp . . . in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

let children be children. Let Innocence Live! I agree -- one of the freakiest things I've ever seen was a "high maintenance" mom coaching her over-made up daughter (probably under 10) about the up-coming trials at some beauty pagent. I've heard hockey coaches use about the same language but with less pressur

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Ashcroft and Don Evans gone in International JoeUser Forums

Like many are speculating, I believe Colin Powell will resign in favour of Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State. And, as everybody is predicting, Rehnquist will resign to start the process of moving in a new bunch of Supremes.

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Reply to Canada-USA issues to watch during this Presidency in International JoeUser Forums

Which still does not answer the reasoning behind stopping any pursuit into the Missile defense system From a Canadian perspective, the cold hearted reasoning is pure risk analysis -- what's the probability of one our cities to be targeted versus the probability of a portable event (e.g., suitcase bomb) being

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Reply to Canada-USA issues to watch during this Presidency in International JoeUser Forums

Think of it this way Missile Defense is just another preventative measure to a nuclear holocaust, I'm very skeptical of the science behind Missile Defense (having struggled with the physics equations for the simple case and the game theory pursuit scenarios) and, as I've said before, the economics of any sin

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Reply to Moral Values: The Shinning City on the Hill! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Reply By: ChemicalkineticsPosted: Saturday, November 06, 2004So you can't respond to my great debate points anymore, huh? What you have said do not make logical sense, go home and think about it. Uh huh -- maybe I would make more "logical sense" if I ignored my family and hung around the keyboard debating yo

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Reply to Canada-USA issues to watch during this Presidency in International JoeUser Forums

Reply By: Mitch21Posted: Saturday, November 06, 2004another issue we should resolve is the majority of our population wanting to take you over. ... your knee and spank us? ... and cover us in chocolate? ... and give us a full body waxing followed by dinner and a movie?

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Reply to Moral Values: The Shinning City on the Hill! in Politics JoeUser Forums

USA has lower tax than more european country and less trade tariffs. Are you just talking about personal marginal rate? Or are you including business taxes? What about other costs of doing business, e.g., employee medical, pension, etc.? In terms of competitiveness, the US isn't even ranked #1 anymore (<a hr

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Reply to Canada-USA issues to watch during this Presidency in International JoeUser Forums

So in response, in order to stay in business, the lumber companies cannot compete with Canada, and seek protect. That is just not right. Even worse, people like my sister-in-law (lives in Indiana) has seen the cost of building her "dream house" shoot through the roof [sorry for the bad pun]. Steak isn't so

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Reply to Moral Values: The Shinning City on the Hill! in Politics JoeUser Forums

"Disappointment." What is the allocation of economic resources premised on? In a nutshell, your circular argument boils down to "expecting better" from America. Why? Seriously, what do you want, expect? Actually I was parodying your statement about a "a shining ci

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Canada-USA issues to watch during this Presidency in International JoeUser Forums

There are a few bright, burning issues of contention that exist between the good neighbours in North America. Hopefully these will get resolved amicably during GW Bush's second term: 1. Lumber tariffs -- though the Canadian stumpage rules do need reform, the tariff regime imposed by the US is way out of line since they can't even prove to their own FT

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Reply to Moral Values: The Shinning City on the Hill! in Politics JoeUser Forums

Why do the elite circles of "world citizens", e.g., U.N. Sec. Kofi, irrationally despise this Country? Speaking as one of the "world citizens" not from the USA, I'd say despite is too strong: disappointment is more accurate. As for irrationality here's a quick list of non-military grievences: - fair or not, the USA is associated with the World Bank and the IMF and their mostly disastrous attempts at reforming other nation's eco

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Reply to What Country are you? - A quizilla Quiz in Misc JoeUser Forums

United States Of America - The most well-renouned country in modern day times. The militaristic superpower, the United States of America are also known as the bossiest nation. Positives: Known Worldwide. A Beacon to Others. Powerful. Fast Food. Negativ

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Reply to What kind of god are you? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Reply #24 By: chiprj - 11/4/2004 9:12:18 PM Avenge away! Right now I'm feeling a little disturbed about being naked with a flaming sword while sitting on a cold stone chair. "Ohhhhh ... I'm an Oscar Meyer Weiner ..."

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