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  1. yes, it sounds lovely, if you are a millionaire/retired. It sounds horrible for the masses, who NEED industry jobs to thrive and survive. North American middle class was the most privileged middle class in the world from 1910s to 1980s. Then manufacturing in north america started declining. Japan had a middle class as privileged as north america till 1990s. Then their manufacturing started declining too. China has the largest middle class in the world today and has created the biggest middle class gain in recorded history in the last 20 years. In the same duration, China has increased its industrial manufacturing by nearly 5 folds. See the link ?? You either get a society that looks pretty & clean like a hollywood utopia outpost, where the top 1% of the world live and is serviced by psuedo-slaves that live far away or on their property for nothing, or you get an industrial eyesore concrete and steel jungle, where the masses thrive. This is the reality of the modern world. You dont get to have both. And lower mainland has made its choice clear- we'd rather be the retirement ground & vacation property of the ultra-rich than serve the common folk. A lot of us are waking up to the environmental hypocrisy spewed by Vancouverites, to keep turning it into an elitist paradise and we are not going to go quietly in the night.
  2. The media has a vested interest against the oil lobby in BC because BC's prime industry is real estate. Real estate developers and home owners are the ones who sit on the city boards, have huge ties to the politics of BC, etc. And its them who are anti industry. Because at the end of the day, they want a BC where the rich hollywood-ers retire, stare out of their beachfront properties and see sail boats & pleasure crafts, not tankers and chimneys. Industrial persuits have a dampening effect on land value, mostly because its considered an eyesore. And this is why BC is anti-industry.
  3. Do you know what a happy medium is ? Why is your argument revolving around answering the strawman of ' ONLY cater to the beautiful' , with the answer being 'evolve past medivalism of exterior beauty' ?!?! If you are a programmer, manager, engineer, doctor, telemarketer - i couldn't care less how you looked. If your job involved meeting clients/customers face to face and influencing their decision, then i most definitely will go with the prettier looking person, once they meet the qualifications- because science is decisive on the impact of beauty on people. Why should we change what we are innately, just to satisfy random ideals, than bend ideals to conform with WHAT REALLY IS, as nature is showing us ?!? Western people and their 'crusader complex' is a sad, sad reality that causes such untold suffering. Accept the things you cannot control and accept the things that are dictated by nature. You will suffer less and spend way less energy trying to create an alternate idea fuelled by nonsensical ideologies in conflict with nature.
  4. Sure. I said the overwhelming majority of pipeline protesting hypocrites are from lower mainland, not that all of them are. More people in BC are pro-pipeline than anti-pipeline. The anti-people are louder and the media here has a vested interest in blocking oil ( economic reasons), so it gets a bigger platform.
  5. slight nitpick here re: Hutton. We have no idea what Hutton wants. What we know, is he is a RFA and based on his last contract, to just qualify him, our offer has to be in the 3.5-4M range, which JB thinks is too much to just qualify Hutton. He may very well want to play for 2M per year ( who knows), but to qualify an RFA, a formula has to be followed based on cap-increase, the % increase he is due and his last contract $$. No one has a choice on what amount to qualify an RFA on, really, when it comes to the minimum number.
  6. The kinder pipeline oil eases the burden on people who spend 10x more on oil and gas to get to work on overcrowded busses and send their children to school while citizens of the most oil-guzzling nation of Canada play 'shivering lillies' on climate change just for moral superiorism and doing nothing whatsoever in their home nation to reduce their status as the biggest gas guzzlers of the planet. Canadians blocking oil on a world stage are the most shameful, pathetic hypocrites.
  7. Tomatoes, tomahtoes. We voted out a person for eroding core tenets of Canadian values while we voted in a guy who is eroding core Canadian values from the other end. Brilliant.
  8. As for what the Dalai Llama said, he is right and he is 100% correct. If I were a full-fledged Buddhist, I too would wish for the next Dalai Llama to be as hot as Charlize Theron. This is a PR position, with his face plastered on countless magazines, newspapers, etc. He's spent countless hours in front of a camera recording interviews and such. Billions watch him. With any face-to-face PR job, the better looking you are, the more likely you are to have a positive disposition of the audience from the start. This is scientifically proven - we as a species value physical beauty. Men and women. There is a reason why the higher up the food chain you go in industries where PR in face to face situation matters ( which includes serving, receptionists, hosts etc), the prettier and better dressed the people get. I admire him for his candor on the topic and any religion/philosophy will massively benefit in PR appeal if their head is good looking + charismatic.
  9. why is it not fair or right ? If something is empirical in nature, that is as neutral and decisive an evidence of it being right and fair as you can get, objectively. Definitely more so than a few ideological stances (since not all people in our species - or religions- believe in your concept of fairness or rightness in this issue) of ONE species out of billions. If our ideas of fairness and right-ness collides with what is present in nature, it is likely that our thinking is flawed, not the dynamics set in nature.
  10. 1. We are learning to be empathetic and nurturing, but as with all learning processes, the pendulum swings first towards overcompensation, due to guilt and 'seen to be rising above' reasons, before finding natural equilibrium. The goal is not to be more empathetic, nurturing, better ad infinium, the goal is to be BALANCED. Nature doesn't do good or bad, nature does harmony and balance. 2. Judging people by their appearances will never, ever fall away as far as attraction goes - its hardwired in us and given the choice, if two girls are pretty identical in intellect, viewpoints and such, overwhelming majority of men will choose the better looking one. Men like physical beauty to such an extent that it has had decisive evolutionary effect on women - women lack body hair (relatively speaking), have softer skin etc. not because of its survival related advantages, but because men have such strong preferrence for it, that it has exerted selective pressure on women's physiological evolution. Women too have exerted massive evolutionary pressure on men in terms of looks preference, though their preferences do not mirror that of men ( ie, women are less likely to care about pretty-in-the-face than men are). You can have merit at workplace, but even in workplace, where looks matter - such as real time customer support jobs, serving & receptionist jobs, etc. you will always see the field skiew towards good looking people. We are what we are and i do not believe in rejection of what we are as an animal species, just for feelings of moral superiorism by a set of morals that are relative and arbitrary, not absolute. There is nothing 'dark age-ish' about being true to our biology as a species.
  11. 1. BC doesn't have citizens, Canada does. BC is just an administrative sub-division of Canada, nothing more. 2. BC residents outside of the lower mainland are overwhelmingly pro-pipeline, so the mooning shrubbery will be facing vancouver, not alberta.
  12. saying you cannot attend if you are a cop or don't support BLM or various other affiliated ideological issues, is intolerance. Same as the right wing nut jobs, just different variety.
  13. left wing ideology is the greatest killer of the last 100 years. let that sink in. Both the right and the left dispose of people in favor of ideology.
  14. This is a whole bunch of nonsense. Innovation leads to monopolies, which leads to breakup of monopolies. Has happened multiple times in the last two centuries FYI. Oil baronies, Coal baronies, etc. As for monopolies not being seen as negative- show me one monopoly that enjoys favorable public opinion or favorable competetive pricing outside of necessities like healthcare and public education. The most hated company in this province is ICBC, a monopoly.
  15. You did not answer my question. Try to answer the question that is asked.
  16. Why are so many here so incompetent in English ? Its the only damn language most of the people here know anyways..... Anyways, learn the difference between the word 'undeserved' and 'deliberate', along with their moral implications.
  17. So you are saying that it is okay to deliberately target civillians, if it means lesser total # of casualties, correct ?
  18. Right. So let the soldiers kill civillians if it saves their own necks in the process, i suppose. There is a word for that: cowardice.
  19. How many times do I have to repeat the simple ethics of ' You cannot DELIBERATELY target civillians as some sort of prima facie justification for saving more 'potential' victims of collateral damage ?? Based on what you are saying, warfare's first line of offense should be then to infiltrate the enemy nation and take the wives & mothers of the soldiers hostage, kill a few thousand of them and pressure the military to stand down, so rest of their moms and wives are spared. Less casualties, right ?
  20. invasion. Will never pick cold-blooded murder of civillians as an option. I didn't ask for what the german casualties were through 5 years of fighting,i asked what was it from the day the allies crossed the Rhine frontier in the west. That is the relevance to hiroshima vs invasion.
  21. Again, obfuscation. How many German civillians were killed during the invasion of Germany ? Same applies here. US wanted to save its own soldiers and nuked Japanese civillians in the process. It was morally wrong and if the situation is reversed in future, the same Yanks would cry bloody murder.
  22. It wasn't in Europe. It wasn't in Africa. You hold a weapon = you are not civillian. Pretty simple. Buildings, railways and infrastructure is fair game. Residential dwellings, schools and hospitals are not. It is not a justification on deliberate killing of civillians, i have already explained this.
  23. I am not apologizing for whether he is a racist or anti-semite ( same thing btw), i am pointing out that saying 'I hate XYZ country' doesn't make one a racist. We are allowed to hate institutions represented by said country without hating them, just like your aversion of the points re: hatred towards Nazi germany but not towards the Germans in US military is proving.
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