Posted by Kazper at 2:17pm Dec 29 '08An important thing to try and remember when trying to learn a foreign language is that colloquil translations are not literal translations, so a word in the foreign language may only have that one meaning you're most familiar with and not the various ones it may translate into in colloquil translations.
Without the intermediate step of literal translations things can get confusing and I think one could really miss how the foreigners think and not learn the language properly. I'd suggest then that colloquil translations should always be preceded by literal translations.
If my senate had the right to reject legislation then it would make sense that its members should be voted in, since they would have the ability to essentially cripple the "HOR". That shouldn't be allowed because the reps. were voted in by the people to represent them and make decisions. This must be the reason why some are seeking reforms to the Canadian senate.
A constitution with some absolute and some almost absolute laws is important because it can provide a limit on the power of the majority/the whole "HOR". Any orders or legislation contrary to absolutes or not having gone through whatever difficult process that's required for almost absolutes will not be carried out or allowed to pass because at least some administrators and Defenders will continue to abide by the law.
I don't know but... perhaps the percentage of absent/no opinion votes would translate to a number of missing reps. ... It does seem to make sense to do it this way, since it's more representative. If we were to look at the entire populace all in a council discussing possible decisions there'd be a percentage of people not discussing. Shouldn't it be the same in the smaller representative council?
Don't let anyone tell you who you are even if they're repeating what you've said because you might have been wrong or slightly wrong or you might not have captured and conveyed some nuances. Don't let anyone, and in this case essentially yourself, hold you down.
An important thing to realize and remember is that a hostile (loud and beligerant and whatnot) one isn't necessarily a manipulator attempting a powerplay. They may just be very ignorant (to you at least). This is important (to me at least) because... one not trying to get power over me... is just more bearable. I guess because they're not such a threat. Manipulators, I cannot tolerate. It is not part of my way to be sickened by such ones... but they most certainly do. To take an axe to their sickening heads is a most great desire.
It seems reasonable that the living wage should be increased if it's no longer really a living wage (I'm thinkin' it has become jus' a survivin' wage) but if raising is done too fast it might just increase inflation. If a little time is allowed for some opportunistic businessess to take advantage of the situation by lowering their prices to attract customers which could have a ripple effect inflation could possibly be stopped and reversed.
Since in math we round up when it's 5 and up it should be the same for percentage of votes.
If a seat is missing the party with the highest 10th of a percent gets the seat or the party with the highest whole percent if two or more have the highest 10th of percent. If the percentage representing absent votes has the highest 10th of a percent or is the highest whole percent if its 10th of a percent is tied with two or more the extra seat goes to it, thus leaving the empty seat.
... Perhaps though the simpler way of just giving the extra seat to the highest whole percent and taking an extra seat from the lowest whole percent should be done...
Perhaps, in my system of government, there wouldn't even be a priminister/president/[whatever] administrative position. At least not just one...
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
Without the intermediate step of literal translations things can get confusing and I think one could really miss how the foreigners think and not learn the language properly. I'd suggest then that colloquil translations should always be preceded by literal translations.
If my senate had the right to reject legislation then it would make sense that its members should be voted in, since they would have the ability to essentially cripple the "HOR". That shouldn't be allowed because the reps. were voted in by the people to represent them and make decisions. This must be the reason why some are seeking reforms to the Canadian senate.
A constitution with some absolute and some almost absolute laws is important because it can provide a limit on the power of the majority/the whole "HOR". Any orders or legislation contrary to absolutes or not having gone through whatever difficult process that's required for almost absolutes will not be carried out or allowed to pass because at least some administrators and Defenders will continue to abide by the law.
I don't know but... perhaps the percentage of absent/no opinion votes would translate to a number of missing reps. ... It does seem to make sense to do it this way, since it's more representative. If we were to look at the entire populace all in a council discussing possible decisions there'd be a percentage of people not discussing. Shouldn't it be the same in the smaller representative council?
Don't let anyone tell you who you are even if they're repeating what you've said because you might have been wrong or slightly wrong or you might not have captured and conveyed some nuances. Don't let anyone, and in this case essentially yourself, hold you down.
An important thing to realize and remember is that a hostile (loud and beligerant and whatnot) one isn't necessarily a manipulator attempting a powerplay. They may just be very ignorant (to you at least). This is important (to me at least) because... one not trying to get power over me... is just more bearable. I guess because they're not such a threat. Manipulators, I cannot tolerate. It is not part of my way to be sickened by such ones... but they most certainly do. To take an axe to their sickening heads is a most great desire.
It seems reasonable that the living wage should be increased if it's no longer really a living wage (I'm thinkin' it has become jus' a survivin' wage) but if raising is done too fast it might just increase inflation. If a little time is allowed for some opportunistic businessess to take advantage of the situation by lowering their prices to attract customers which could have a ripple effect inflation could possibly be stopped and reversed.
Since in math we round up when it's 5 and up it should be the same for percentage of votes.
If a seat is missing the party with the highest 10th of a percent gets the seat or the party with the highest whole percent if two or more have the highest 10th of percent. If the percentage representing absent votes has the highest 10th of a percent or is the highest whole percent if its 10th of a percent is tied with two or more the extra seat goes to it, thus leaving the empty seat.
... Perhaps though the simpler way of just giving the extra seat to the highest whole percent and taking an extra seat from the lowest whole percent should be done...
Perhaps, in my system of government, there wouldn't even be a priminister/president/[whatever] administrative position. At least not just one...
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~