Same. Therefore I do not cheat. If I notice I have made an error, I will fess up and offer reparations.
Great way to live life and play board games, I try to play/live that way as well. If anything, I try to be honest/agreeable to a fault, allowing missed non-combat moves 99% of the time. I do this to have ‘money in the bank’ so to speak knowing I will eventually screw up and want to withdraw some good-will from the bank of karma!
Jeremy, you just had to ask the right people. Accidents do have a funny way of occurring sometimes……
Quadrocopter Ball Juggling, ETH Zurich
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y&feature=youtu.be
As impressive as that was, the video on this page is more cool!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/22/quadracopter_throws_and_catches/
Does ‘accidently’ forgetting to point out your opponent should have 34 IPC not 33 for one round? He really could build an AC and 2 fighters but with only 33……well he did get that missed 1 IPC the following round…
A victory with any hint of cheating is not worth having for me.
Theresa Spence is a crook from what I see.
Garg, you want to talk about injustices. How about Quebec language police bitching that an italian restaurant favoured Italian over French on the menu! Can’t use the word pasta!
Quebec language cops target ‘pasta’
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2013/02/20/20596011.html
No sooner did I post that link that I came across this related link to Native blockades
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/20/attawapiskat-blockade-smells-of-coercion-judge
British Columbia, when the government asked the public if they would be in favour of phasing out ALL first nations treaties, procedures, and policies provincally. It recieved some 80+ %. Then the government did nothing :S.
Phasing out treaties? Is that like phasing out your mortgage with the bank? One cannot unilaterally decide to break a treaty. If the natives own the land you have to pay to use it. If we signed a treaty 100 years ago and it seems unfair now, tough. The Indians don’t get to retroactively change treaties in their favour.
It is true that the blockades are not lawful and those should be dealt with. This occurs in Ontario too. Google caledonia land dispute. There does need to be some standing up to the bullsit that occurs. I just question the white washing of the residential school system as your first salvo. I say go after corrupt chiefs and change land ownership laws so natives can actually own land on the reserve and develop it.
But the land did belong to the indians and they have a right to some of it. It’s true they’re some abuses that can be constructively dealt with. Forcing all natives off their land so they can work in starbucks is not a solution ie tearing up all the treaties……
It’s also true the further you move west the stronger the indian land claims are. Not too many natives left east of quebec. The natives in southern ontario were long ago supplanted by whites. I do see in BC how strong the native land rights causes are.
Again, those are separate issues from kids being screwed by priests in the residential school system.
You realize that the money spent on Indian affairs over the last 100 years, is roughly equal to our ENTIRE NATIONAL DEBT right?
I don’t believe this, would love to see you cite some facts to support this.
JWW, nothing I have read from you remotely warrants an apology. I do appreciate when people review what they have said but nothing wrong was said so all good brutha.
I’m 15 minutes across the border from Buffalo, while I can’t enter the US I could pick anyone up at the border who is contemplating a route via Buffalo.
Garg, don’t set me up as a straw man. Exactly where did I say I supported giving natives special treatment? I think if you were a native kid and got screwed in a church run boarding school you should get special treatment, not because you are native but because a priest was screwing your bum.
Garg, are you saying going to a local public school is the same as being taken from your family on a reserve and stuck in a boarding school 100s of miles away out of contact from you family for months on end being taught in a foreign language and being beaten for speaking your own language? Public schools out west are way more harsh then I remember then in the east lol?
Trust me, the natives I know who live on the land on reserves around here have zero interest in adapting to a 9-5 job and why should they if they are not collecting a cheque from the government? I do agree there is a culture of dependency and that things must change. I’m just not sure white washing what happened to native kids in the residential school system is the way to change things. Perhaps a change in the property laws so that natives can get mortgages on their land so they can attract investment onto native lands would be a start. Garg, how familiar are you with native land property rights? Thought so…… Women lose their status rights when they marry a non native but men do not. There is much room to improve the toolset natives have so they are not dependent.
Devil’s advocate mode…read this…
http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/government-policy/the-residential-school-system.html
Garg, many might consider it racist to state the natives should just give up their way of life for ours since theirs is so obviously inferior. I think with proper land rights and treaties settled the natives could be very self sufficient.
Everyone knows they are doing it but nobody dares to ask them to stop?
China military unit 'behind prolific hacking
Don’t go after people who kill 1 person because there are mass murderers out there. Maybe we should focus on bigger targets?
On the other hand, maybe we should do what we can. You take the LOC, I’ll go after the Pope, a few others are looking into that genocide thing.
Wow, 2 negative votes for sticking up for kids who were ripped from their families, stuck in boarding schools and often molested and beaten.
Garg, you equate being forced to learn french with being taken from your family and native ways and stuck in a boarding school?
I personally know natives and some live on the reserve. No doubt there is a huge amount of room for improvement, no doubt many take advantage of the system, again, lots of room for improvement. But really, feeling hard done by because you don’t want to hear about what happened to native kids?
Stupid laws like individual natives on the reserve don’t own the land their house is on so they cannot get a mortgage from a bank. The worst part of the Indian question is that most of the band leaders are corrupt and the money does not get to the everyday natives. Rather than going on about how unfair it is that kids who were stolen from their parents and raped get special treatment we should go after the crimes that occur every day NOW and that is the corruption at the band leader level.
Never said it was anybodies fault personally but we don’t get to pick and choose where our individual tax dollars get spent. I don’t like speed limits therefore I protest my taxes get spent on enforcing speed limits! :-D
The UN definition of genocide does not require the plan be to kill everyone but to destroy a culture. That was EXACTLY what the plan was, to destroy the native culture by making a law that ALL native children be raised by the state.
Let’s be clear on this. A law was passed that required you to hand over your children to the state to be educated according to the state wishes not your native ways.
An amendment to the Indian Act in 1920 made attendance at a day, industrial or residential school compulsory for First Nations children and, in some parts of the country, residential schools were the only option. The number of residential schools reached 80 in 1931 but decreased in the years that followed. The last federally-operated residential school was closed in 1996.
That is hardly the same as having to take a 1 hour french class a few times per week for a couple of years.
What would be sweet is if we could have pages dedicated to specific games and perhaps talks of times/dates and who will be playing/sign up sheets etc. I have an old game called civilization (but of course my true love is A and A) and would LOVE to play, it’s best played with 5-6 people. The day of the event is probably too late but if we could have various pages dedicated to each game/version it should allow for people to get a feel for new games and know in advance who else will be playing and when.
If the organisation or system is a system that defends pedophiles then it IS a criminal organization. If I am the division president of a large corporation and I pour poison down the sewers and my boss’s protect me and put me in a new country where I can do the same thing it is right to sue the company for damages and not just me the division president. It is not just one bad division president but my bosses who allow me to continue to break the law. Just because the companies mission statement does not mention they are criminals does not make it impossible for them to be a criminal company or organisation.
Higher ups in the church hierarchy have protected pedophiles, lets see how deep this protection runs. If it can be proven that there is a system in place to protect pedophile priests….then it IS a criminal organization just as surely as the mafia. Shame is not enough punishment for getting caught screwing children.
Well, the only problem with not going after the organisation is that the organisation can shield itself behind fall guys. Imagine going after a mafia group and only being able to jail the person and take the personal possessions but not the holding company that actually controls the wealth.
If it was a lone pedophile who managed to avoid to detection its one thing. If its a system that protects individuals then its the system that must pay or you will have a series of “martyrs” who will take one for the team once every few years. Individual priests have no assets to take to compensate the victims. If the entire system is made to pay then everyone (most everyone) in the system will go out of the way to ensure the system does not get taken down by a few pedophiles. Where is the risk now to the system?
The residential school issue does meet the criteria of genocide. Children were taken from their parents to be raised in a non-native environment, this is a form of genocide. Garg, it goes way way deeper than some kids who got sick at a boarding school who may have died at home. The trauma the survivors have to deal with is a horrible legacy, they were forced to learn a new language and were beaten if they spoke their native tongue or tried to engage in their native rituals and practices.
The destruction of a culture is genocide even if you don’t kill the people.
Garg, I think if you research a few different sources you might come to a different conclusion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system
In 1909, Dr. Peter Bryce, general medical superintendent for the Department of Indian Affairs (DIA), reported to the department that between 1894 and 1908, mortality rates at some residential schools in Western Canada ranged from 30% to 60% over five years (that is, five years after entry, 30% to 60% of students had died, or 6�12% per annum). These statistics did not become public until 1922, when Bryce, who was no longer working for the government, published The Story of a National Crime: Being a Record of the Health Conditions of the Indians of Canada from 1904 to 1921. In particular, he alleged that the high mortality rates could have been avoided if healthy children had not been exposed to children with tuberculosis.[citation needed] At the time, no antibiotic had been identified to treat the disease.
Yeah, natives have some current cultural issues with alcohol and substance abuse issues, perhaps a legacy of being raised by people damaged by the residential school system. The natives in the West have not been beaten down as badly as the ones in the east for the most part.
Now that is a venn diagram I can appreciate! It appears inn my haste my terminology was a bit mixed up.
