Yakk

Being younger than 21 or older than 49 'counts against you'. (or counts for you less). If you are 55 years old, who cares if you have a degree in CS... You will keel over in 2 years anyhow. ;-)

If you have a 4 year bachelor's degree, that's the same as a 3 year degree I believe. 3 year or 4 year, they don't care. The next step up is a PhD or 2 bachelor's degrees or a serious trade degree IIRC.

I assume that other locations (remember, this is world-wide) have different types of degrees, hence the 1 and 2 year degrees. The world is a big place.

*nod*. Like I said, I've seen the min score as high as 77, and 67 is as low as I've ever seen it. Looks like it fluxuates some. =)

Being educated and having a job offer in one of the "acceptable" areas (read: where canada doesn't have a surplus. If you have an offer to work on a fishing boat, that won't float), together with not being a total gimp in other ways, will get you through the test.

While Canada puts more of its population through university than the USA does, the majority of Canadians are still not University graduates. Canada likes importing more of them (it makes up for a tendency to say "eh").

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Rangsk

Back to the original topic, I'd just like to point out some of the things the Bush administration has created:

1) The PATRIOT act. Yes, I realize that it was created out of 9/11 panic and that it is set to expire. So, basically, what the Bush administration is telling us is that it's perfectly ok to ignore our rights as long as it's for a limited time. Golly gee, well, in that case, why not start putting [insert group name here] into internment camps, but make the law only 4 years long, that way if they made a mistake they can correct it once the panic goes down. I realize that's an extreme, but I take any violation of my constitutional rights very seriously. The fact that the police can force a library to tell them what books I've taken out without my knowledge is just insane.

2) Holding non-citizens at Guantanimo bay for indefinate periods of time with no proof of wrong-doing, no lawyer, no public knowledge... the list goes on. How can we put up with this? Do humans not have inaliable rights anymore?

3) The war in Iraq was hurried and mis-directed. I'm certaintly not saying that it didn't do good, but I am saying that it shouldn't have happened... yet. I think we have much greater threats to worry about, such as dismantalling terrorist organizations and putting more pressure on countries such as North Korea who we know have nukes that can reach us in the US, and Saudi Arabia, who are well known for funding and harboring terrorists.

4) Scientific research funcing is at an all-time low under the Bush administration. Bush seems to believe that a worker at McDonalds does as much for society as a tenured professor researching for alternative energy methods. Also, he seems to believe that the environment is a plaything that we can do what we want with.

5) Bush is heavliy motivated by corperate concerns over the concerns of citizens. Maybe he forgets who put him into office in the first place. Oh, nevermind, that was the corperations, not the citizens.

The list goes on, but I'm sure it has all been argued before. Anyway, my point is this. Bush did these things in his first 4 years. These 4 years he has had to worry that all his decisions would come up when it came time for re-election. Can you imagine the sorts of things he would do if re-elected, knowing that there would be little reprocussion for his actions from the voters? Personally, I don't want to find out.

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Tophat665

I was listenind to David Brooks and E J Dionne argue on NPR over the how the economy would play in the election this fall. Dionne said it would be the overriding factor (but, then, he's a communist ), but Brooks said it would depend upon events as the election approaches, and "Imagine if the Madrid Bombings had been a week before that election."

Not quite ready for the tinfoil chapeau, so I won't go so far as to suggest that if it didn't happen Bush would have it done (though I do believe he is that morally bankrupt), but I don't need to think that. Al-Qaeda has endorsed Bush. If it looks like Kerry could win, they might make a few campaign stops that would really rock the vote.
(Probly not the right thread, but it's early and I haven't shaved my brain yet.)

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iamtheone

check this out.

Try this very soon, before someone forces Google to fix the site
redirect:

1) Go to www.Google.com

2) Type in weapons of mass destruction (DON'T hit return)

3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, NOT the "Google search"

4) Read the "error message" carefully. The WHOLE page.

Someone at Google has a sense of humor.

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Strange Famous

"re-elected" would imply he wont the first election?

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djtestudo

Well, since he did, it's a correct statement.

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onetime2

Wait a second, I just figured out how to REALLY piss off the Anti Bush people who believe he didn't win the first election. Let's accept their fictitious belief that he didn't win and wasn't really the President for this first term. That way we can elect him in this election and re-elect him in 2008.

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james t kirk

Better than January, Gawd, it's awful from January till April.

djtestudo

Wow...that could be the most brilliant thing I have heard all day

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stevie667

actually, the site was created independantly of google a long time ago, and therefor google has no duristiction other than removing it from their web search, which they just won't.

tecoyah

Of course that is the most brilliant thing you've heard all day.....you hang around republicans.

Just teasing....couldn't resist.

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ganon

I can't wait for President Bush to win another term. No one has done to more for American sovereignty and independence in a long time. Now if we could just get some strict constitutionalists in congress and the judiciary we could fix this country.

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filtherton

Yeah, we'd make the nra join a well regulated militia and give due process to the detainees at guantanamo. RWWAAAAWWWR! STRICT CONSTITUTIONALISM BABY!!!

He's done a lot for our independence if you don't factor in the economy at all. How independent are we if all of our shit is manufactured somewhere else? I also fail to see an increase in american sovereignty. Did we lack sovereignty before bush?

analog

This is my honest opinion, and is in no way meant to troll or flame anyone... but if Bush gets re-elected, I will seriously weep for my country.

Don't attack me. That is all.

Mojo_PeiPei

Don't worry Analog, I'll do enough praising for the both of us.

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qtpye4u84

I love bush I would be happy if he wasent I would be unhappy!!!!!!!!!!!

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JohnnyRoyale

If Bush is re-elected...

President Hillary Clinton, 2008.

God help us all.

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djtestudo

And Walter Mondale will be her VP, and Mike Dukakis will be her campaign stratagist.

Never happen.

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Stompy

If he's re-elected...

Citizen.Rights--;

I'll expect to see more of the government in our personal lives trying to tell us how to live proper and be moral, because they practice what they preach and all...

Let's show planes crashing into the WTC over and over for weeks straight, but complain when a covered nipple is shown on TV, or fine Howard Stern because he said "let me smell your fingers". Is there a single politician who doesn't lie?

The main problem isn't actually the President, it's that people don't care what he does. People are sheep and blindly follow whatever leader is in office and trust what he has to say. For example, the Patriot Act. Ask half the people in this country what it is and I guarantee you they won't know. The ignorance has to stop, otherwise it's no longer a government for the people, by the people.

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Averett

Well, I chose to move to Canada. I've been thinking about this for a few years anyway. I'm American and proud of it as well, but I just do not like the direction that my country is headed. I'd rather live in one that isn't hated by the rest of the world.

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Phaenx

Yes, exactly.

I'll be very happy when Bush wins, and I'm drunkenly dancing naked with Kerry's daughter(s).

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splck

Hmmm, can't move to where I already live so I'd pick Weep for Humanity.
It would be a sad day/four years for the world if he get's elected.

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