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tvordljApparently there is a legal principle in Canada that a sentence annot be unduly long or harsh. This means that a man recently convicted of knowingly passing on HIV to his sexual partners and charged and conviced of 15 counts of aggravated assault only gets 18 years in prison instead of 15 consecutive sentences totalling 49 years. Oh i don't know. Shagging 15 women knowing you had HIV (and making at current count, 5 of them HIV positive as a result), sounds pretty harsh itself. He's give at least 5 people what is very likely a death sentence. Aggravated assault? I call it attempted murder.
Now, these scattered bombs on the road in Afghanistan (and elsewhere i suppose) are being called "Iimprovised explosive devices". How come we just can't call it what it is these days without glossing it over?
Half of the provinces in Canada have sorted out a bank holiday in February to break up the long stretch between Christmas and Easter. Nova Scotia's premier says we don't need another day off but as more and more provinces take it up, i guess we'll jump on the band wagon eventually. Thing is, now that we have Sunday shopping, i don't suppose an extra day off will be given across the board. Retail workers will still have to work so it's only banks, offices, government workers, schools that will have it off. There are very few holidays in the year that are applied to all these days. Really, there are none because there are still people that have to work days like Christmas day (shift workers, emergency personnel, gas stations, drug stores).
I had some trouble with the computer yesterday where anything i played in either dvd drive wouldn't give me sound. I could play audio files ok but the sound from the dvds wasn't coming out the speakers. I checked all the settings, both hardware and in Windows Media player which the computer was using. I later on installed PowerDVD which is what i was always used to using and lo and behold, SOUND! I wonder if it's a codec issue. I must look up and see where the microsoft update for that is because i'm pretty sure i had to do that before. Stupid microsoft.
I've pretty much got everything reinstalled and set up but i'm sure i'll come across things i missed as i need them. Time to start typing up the travelogue. Today I will be doing laundry and doing that as well.
Now, these scattered bombs on the road in Afghanistan (and elsewhere i suppose) are being called "Iimprovised explosive devices". How come we just can't call it what it is these days without glossing it over?
Half of the provinces in Canada have sorted out a bank holiday in February to break up the long stretch between Christmas and Easter. Nova Scotia's premier says we don't need another day off but as more and more provinces take it up, i guess we'll jump on the band wagon eventually. Thing is, now that we have Sunday shopping, i don't suppose an extra day off will be given across the board. Retail workers will still have to work so it's only banks, offices, government workers, schools that will have it off. There are very few holidays in the year that are applied to all these days. Really, there are none because there are still people that have to work days like Christmas day (shift workers, emergency personnel, gas stations, drug stores).
I had some trouble with the computer yesterday where anything i played in either dvd drive wouldn't give me sound. I could play audio files ok but the sound from the dvds wasn't coming out the speakers. I checked all the settings, both hardware and in Windows Media player which the computer was using. I later on installed PowerDVD which is what i was always used to using and lo and behold, SOUND! I wonder if it's a codec issue. I must look up and see where the microsoft update for that is because i'm pretty sure i had to do that before. Stupid microsoft.
I've pretty much got everything reinstalled and set up but i'm sure i'll come across things i missed as i need them. Time to start typing up the travelogue. Today I will be doing laundry and doing that as well.
