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Here is list to more detailed story about the same event: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/14/china-knife-attack-school.html . 22 children attacked and no one died. That's the big difference - if this guy had a gun, there would be dozen or more dead kids. So thank you for proving my point.

The CBC did a good documentary describing how Hitler got into power how he manipulated the German population into supporting him. The series is called "Love, Hate and Propaganda":

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/lovehatepropaganda/episode-guide.html

It is available on DVD and as to alternative online sources, I haven't looked.

Hey now, if they only inflicted their crazy on themselves, I would agree with you.

Unfortunately, they also seem to like raping Western female reporters. How many does this make in the past year? I can NAME three, and seem to recall a couple more. From "We want democracy, let's rape journalists!" to "yay, we won, let's rape journalists!", and now to "we don't like the self-imposed perversion of democracy we got, send more journalists for us to rape!"

But of course, they don't limit themselves to just reporters, oh goodness no! With an average of 23 rapes a fucking day (not sure if I meant that as a pun or not), in the middle of a crowded public place, well now - They'd soon run out of female reporters crazy enough to visit their little hellhole.

Rabid dogs don't deserve democracy, they deserve to have someone put them down for the good of us all.

> For my holiday pictures, iCloud is perfectly acceptable.

You are going to be surprised when those holiday pictures stored in the cloud bite you on the ass later.

Awish Aslam, a second-year political science student at the University of Western Ontario, told CBC News she and a friend were trying to attend a Sunday rally with Harper when they were asked to leave by an RCMP officer. ... Aslam said they were led to the lobby where the officer told them they were no longer welcome because they had ties to the Liberal party. Aslam said the only explanation was her Facebook profile photo showing her posing for a picture with Ignatieff at a recent Liberal rally in London.

CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/04/19/bc-diggingbill.html

One family on Vancouver Island got charged $35,000 for archeologists to check for arrowheads. I've heard of archeologists in BC (same firm as the $35k one) who registered a site near where I live onto the archeology registry without the owner's knowledge, because they thought they found arrowheads. Later on, when the local First Nations archeologist looked at them, she said "They're just rocks", and tossed them.

The adage for ranchers when it comes to endangered species used to be (and still may be) "shoot, shovel, and shut up". Same with artifacts in Canada, if you're smart.

The thing with a state sponsored broadcaster is that they can fund programs that otherwise will never air.

We all like to complain about the crap on TV, but guess what? That crap makes money, and TV stations and networks are in it to make money. Anything they can use to sell eyeballs they will do it. If it means doing a Fox News, so be it.

But that neglects the positive aspects of TV - it can be a source of useful information. A lot of state-sponsored media is considered higher quality - BBC, CBC, PBS, NPR because they're not having to chase after advertising dollars. They're not beholden to the advertisers. They want to run some program against corporate interests? They can. (My current favorite is CBC Marketplace which exposes all sorts of scams and mis-dealings companies pull - from the big names everyone shops at to no name Ponzi schemes. No commercial broadcaster would touch that content because some advertiser would get offended and pull their money).

Hell, if you're wondering why channels like History, Discovery, TLC and such have gone away from "educational" or "edutainment" programming to reality style shows - again, it's money. Educational documentaries just don't make money and pull in ad money.

Heck, even Doctor Who might not have lasted as long if it was faced with having to compete with American Idol or Big Brother or other show. A cult following only gets you so far (see Star Trek), and moment it stops bringing in adequate bacon, it'll be axed. (I say adequate, because if some show the network carries brings in a lot more money, stable standbys will be expected to do better).

Or you might be thinking of a recent court or appeals case in Ontario Canada that was discussed on Slashdot

Apparently Telus' deal to buy Mobilicity got blocked by the government yesterday. When Mobilicity won their spectrum block in 2009, it was on the condition that it not be sold to any of the existing wireless providers for at least five years. As you said, the intention was to bring in some competition for the big three. Mobilicity had been warned the sale would be blocked on that reason alone, but they went ahead and got approval from everyone else first (shareholders, regulatory approval, etc.) I guess they were hoping that the government would just rubber-stamp the sale if all other parties had approved it.

I expect Rogers will get the same response.

I'm hoping that the CRTC will keep sticking up for consumers; they seem to be one of the few government agencies which are engaging with the public rather than the incumbent service providers. if Telus were enjoined from acquiring Mobilicity, we should also hope that Rogers is blocked from purchasing the same AWS spectrums (UMTS 1700) from Shaw, which obtained the mobilicity/public/wind spectrum in the same initial auction which formed the upstart companies. this spectrum was provided to Shaw to create competition in western Canada, but its sale to Rogers would work against competition.

Mobilicity (now telus) ...

Telus is intending to buy Mobilicity, and Rogers is attempting to purchase the spectrum [michaelgeist.ca] originally allocated by the CRTC to new entrants to increase market competition.

Apparently Telus' deal to buy Mobilicity got blocked by the government yesterday. When Mobilicity won their spectrum block in 2009, it was on the condition that it not be sold to any of the existing wireless providers for at least five years. As you said, the intention was to bring in some competition for the big three. Mobilicity had been warned the sale would be blocked on that reason alone, but they went ahead and got approval from everyone else first (shareholders, regulatory approval, etc.) I guess they were hoping that the government would just rubber-stamp the sale if all other parties had approved it.

I expect Rogers will get the same response.

This idea is not exactly a new one.

Just recently there was that thing:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/05/02/technology-esea-bitcoin-mining.html

The efficiency is so bad, coupled with expected user backlash, it is a dangerous joke at best.

Remember, in Canada, it is 30$ the MB for roaming fee, 22,000$ for 700MB (revised to 2,200 $ later).

I'm sure the proposal is missing a few items, but in theory, it's a good one.

I don't know that a sales tax would generate enough revenue at palatable rates. The national Canadian sales tax (the GST) seems to generate a bit under $5 billion per percentage point ( http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2009/06/16/f-gst-cut-estimate-deficit.html ) but that does have various exemptions including groceries. While the total of the federal income tax and consumption tax seems to be a bit under $200 billion per year ($153 billion income tax, $43 billion consumption tax for 2009 for example - http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/govt02a-eng.htm ) For 2011 it looks like the federal budget was about $270 billion ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_budget ).

Since basic groceries are currently non-GST taxed in Canada, we could get a bit more than $5 billion per tax percentage point. From ( http://www.theatlanticcities.com/politics/2013/03/america-food-getting-cheaper-unless-youre-poor/4923/ ) we see that Canadians as a whole spend about 10% of their family budget on food at home. Since the $5 billion per percentage point does not include these groceries purchases, it only represents about 90% of purchases. If we taxed that food too, we should generate about $5.6 billion per percentage point. To generate $270 billion we would need to charge a rate of 48.2% on total purchases of about $560 billion.

Is this total purchases number reasonable? Stats Canada says ( http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/famil131a-eng.htm) the average family consumption for 2011 was about $55k for 13.3 million households ( http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312-x/98-312-x2011003_2-eng.cfm ) for $731 billion so this is not an unreasonable number. I'll use the $731 billion as it is probably more accurate than the calculation based on GST collection. So if we have $731 billion in purchases, we will need to collect at a 37% rate to generate $70 billion.

If you make exemptions for "necessities" the rate would need to be higher. How much higher? Well, if we want to exempt the necessities, one way would be to in some way not collect taxes on "basic needs", or give a rebate on the taxes paid for those amounts. We can get a figure for what these "basic needs" might cost ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_Canada#Basic_needs_poverty_measure and http://www.fraserinstitute.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=3443 for 2006 data) . Not taxing these "basic needs" would be "better" than just excepting categories like "food, gas, utilities" in that we would be able to collect taxes on food and gas and utilities beyond the "necessary" level - people buying "rice and beans" end up getting them without being taxed while those buy8ing caviar and foie gras get dinged by the tax-man. Yeah this might be hard to administer, but we are trying for the best possible argument for this type of system.

In 2006 this seemed to be about $16,000 per couple or for the whole population of a bit under 32 million, this would to about $256 billion in exempted purchases. Gosh, that's a big fraction of all purchases! Maybe the average family size is bigger than that? Actually, it seems to be about 2.5 for the whole country, b

They're pushing for the same DNA collection upon arrest in Canada. The police are making the usual vague promises about "violent crimes only" and "destruction if innocent" and sadly none of the journalists have pointed out that such a law will give incentive for the cops to "suspect" and arrest all ethnic minorities as soon as a violent crime is committed. And now I'm afraid they'll say "well USA's doing it so we it must be a Good Thing."

Funny enough the police can collect DNA samples already by obtaining a search warrant, a practice that has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is fair enough, but apparently these thugs, I mean cops, don't like the idea of being overseen by judges.

If you're in Canada, please make some noise about this and point out unwarranted DNA collection is just as bad as embryonic stem cell research because it provides the wrong incentives for arrests.

This photo of Conrad black is a great example of a bad photo better than none. This photo also won an award. http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/media/story/2008/04/20/photojournalists-awards.html

As is common in this matter, you have things badly confused. Israel did nothing to Iran to deserve they way the new Iranian government turned on them. If you think otherwise, please provide a list. One hint to reduce the chances of you going down the wrong path again: the Palestinians are not Iranian, and the Iranians are not Arabs.

As to "untermenschen," that would be the view of post-revolution Iranian government, and many Arabs living in Palestine.

Reading Mein Kampf in Tehran

On Monday, the Iranian Foreign Ministry held an international conference. Nothing unusual in that: Foreign ministries hold conferences, mostly dull ones, all the time. But this one was different. For one, "Review of the Holocaust: Global Vision" dealt with history, not current politics. Instead of the usual suspects — deputy ministers and the like — the invitees seem to have included David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader; Georges Theil, a Frenchman who has called the Holocaust "an enormous lie"; and Fredrick Toeben, a German-born Australian whose specialty is the denial of Nazi gas chambers.

The guest list was selective: No one with any academic eminence, or indeed any scholarly credentials, was invited. One Palestinian scholar, Khaled Mahameed, was asked to come but then barred because he holds an Israeli passport — and also perhaps because he, unlike other guests, believes that the Holocaust really did happen.

In response, Europe, America, and Israel expressed official outrage. The German government, to its credit, organized a counter-conference. ...

Hamas video: Killing Jews is 'worship that draws us close to Allah'
The Jews Were Brought to Palestine for the Great Massacre

As to the rest, you should catch up on some reading and get back to me.

UN agency stops aid imports to Gaza, cites Hamas 'thefts'
Looters strip Gaza greenhouses
Gazans seethe over taxes and blackouts
Sewage flood causes Gaza deaths
Hamas Bulldozes UN-Designated Historical Site to Make Room for Terrorist Training Camp
In Gaza, Hamas rule has not turned out as many expected
Rights watchdog accuses Hamas of torture, abuse of Palestinians
Hamas accused of routine torture of detainees in Gaza Strip
Palestinian Authority: Still Stealing "Hundreds of Millions," Hamas Taking Over
NY Times ignores Gaza's millionaires, hypes poverty, blames Israel (natch)

According to reports in the Arab press, a thriving smuggling economy in Gaza has produced no fewer than 600 millionaires. Hundreds of tunnels to Egypt have become bustling export and import conduits -- with the ruling Hamas elite siphoning off milli

"So go ahead and buy the UK and USA scraps it is cheaper."

Considering we are talking about failed submarines, you may want to Google that a teeny tiny bit. One of Canada's largest ever military spending snafu's was buying several diesel subs from the UK.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2012/03/15/ns-british-mp-questions-sub-deal.html

Considering our recent history I don't find it surprising that Canada decided to design their own. I don't find it at all surprising that it cost 10 times as much either. Consider they are comparing the costs to a country that we actually bought the designs off of, who has designed ships in the past. Canada had Irving design the ship, which I don't think has ANY warship design experience, so yeah some cost overruns are going to take place. In addition Irving is of of the richest family's in Canada, who regularly hide their wealth and avoid taxes by putting all their money in tax haven countries. I sure (insert sarcasm) they didn't ripoff Canadians, and I am sure (insert more sarcasm) that the Conservative Party wasn't aware that would happen. It is also politically motivated decision from the perspective to keep the money/jobs local, even if it cost 10 times as much as it would have been to have some other company (say the Norwegian one) design it. Then again there is also the whole secret nature, and do you want foreign country or company to have your design specs (you are assuming of course that any corporate entity has any loyalty past their NDA)?

Anyway this might also have been complicated by "unrealistic" design specs. If these are the ships I believe them to be, they are the ones to be used in the arctic. So rather than getting nuclear ice breakers like Russia which would make more sense, the Conservatives wanted to go with Warships that were "Hardened" for arctic travel. Which frankly is retarded. So they likely had to take a perfectly good ship design that the Norwegians come up with, then "hardened" the hull so that it was a very ineffective icebreaker, but likely added 200 tonnes to the displacement, making the entire design have to be reworked, as otherwise they might be sailing with those a fore mentioned Spanish submarines at the bottom of the ocean.

Completely fucked.

That's because when Canada does design a ship it costs 100 times that of any other nation.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/05/02/pol-milewski-shipbuilding-design-mystery.html

The design of a ship is costing canada $250 million, when similar vessels designed in Norway were designed for $20 million and built for $80 million

So go ahead and buy the UK and USA scraps it is cheaper.

Maybe not a black & decker, but you'd better be careful about leaving plumber's supplies in your truck.

No, the nuclear regular did the correct thing as AECL was not dealing with the safety issue in a timely manner. AECL could have forewarned of the maintenance shutdown in sufficient time such that other global sources could ramp up to meet demand. Some how the "economist" that thinks they are "prime minister" (perhaps I have that inverted?) also thinks himself an expert in nuclear energy and the risk management thereof! Both the AECL and the government did the wrong thing, period. Keep in mind that this reactor is already long past it's designed lifetime.

Where did the 'economist' come from? (Seriously, your phrase 'Some how the "economist" that thinks they are "prime minister" (perhaps I have that inverted?)' is really confusing, I assume you mean Harper??)

From the article and what I recall from the period. The backup safety features had been part of the original design, and approval, but had unintentionally not been enabled. The CNSC was told about this before the plant was re-licensed in 2006, in November 2007, during a maintenance shutdown, the CNSC said it was a license violation and they had to extend the shutdown and fix it. It was this unplanned extended shutdown that lead to the isotope shortage and the big controversy.

Technically CNSC did exactly what their mandate required when they decided it was a license violation, but at a cost of critical medical isotopes. And after restarting it took less than 3 months to get the backup safety system running. Also note that all the parties backed the restart, so this wasn't some crazy Conservative decision.

The reason the NRU was still running and hadn't been replaced is another unfortunately story. Basically when they designed it they said it would have safety features X, Y, and Z, but when they finished Z ever so slightly didn't quite work. Z wasn't a necessary safety feature, but because they said they would have it, and they didn't, the plant never got approval.

A big one that is missing is AECL, or the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited.

Back in 2011 they sold off most of it to SNC-Lavalin. For 15 Million. They might as well sold it for 1$ dollar.

Hundreds of engineers and nuclear scientists.

Official:
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/media-room/news-release/2011/57/2138
CBC:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/06/29/aecl-sale.html

In case you are wondering who SNC-Lavalin is, Google them and see how many scandals they have been in the last few years, most of them to do with corruption and governments.

Ironically some of the scandals were in India, and guess where we sold most of our Candu reactors over the years.... India!

Anyway this isn't about Lavalin, its about Harper basically dumping our national atomic R&D. Remember Chalk River and the international shortage of radiological isotopes for medical use because it had to shut down? Yeah we kept the liability of that, but are not doing any research or design as to how to replace those 50+ year old facilities.

And on the tinfoil hat side of things: Despite what all the touchy feelies might think, we need atomic energy for our electric grids. Guess what the only replacement is for those things? Solar, wind, puppies, and positive thinking? Nope. Oil and Gas. Funny that. Alberta should like that.

It's not a war on science.

Scientists are more than free to study and research anything. They just might not get the funding taken forcefully taken from everyone's pocket book to fund their research.

And yes, speaking of where data comes from...
What about the mandatory long form census. Do you wonder where that data comes from? From threats and violence against citizens. Threats of fines and jail time if they don't fill in the mandatory long form census.

If that's the case, then science is at war with freedom and I'll take the side of freedom any day of the week.

Considering scientists have become advocates of specific policies and ideologies instead of simply doing research, I'm in favor of defunding them as well.

If all scientists did was provide the data on things like the fishery or global warming, more power to them. The moment they come in support of carbon taxes or any kind of policy, they are not doing science any longer.

Isn't it strange how government scientists almost never push for any policies that might result in less government even when the data supports it.

For example, in healthcare, it has been largely shown that prevention does not reduce healthcare costs. Prevention has lots of benefits, but basically, most healthcare costs are in old age. The longer you live in old age, the greater healthcare costs. As a matter of fact, the prevention probably increases healthcare costs as people live longer in old age.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2008/02/05/unhealthy-study.html

But when was the last time these 'scientists' took on politicians who make claims about using prevention to reduce healthcare costs. From Obama to Dalton McGuinty to Mayor Bloomberg and a million others all trump up the benefits of prevention. Where are these brave scientists and advocates of truth and reason?

Why don't they speak up? Why aren't they researching the total cost of policies?

Scientists being on the government payroll and being involved in politics has ruined any notion of objective science. Sure, science is still valid in depoliticized fields... but in anything where policy is concerned, scientists have not shown themselves to be concerned with science and truth as much as ideology and policy.

Cut their funding I say in any field where policy is concerned.

I just bought one of these a couple of weeks back:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8cdd/

It's surprisingly good quality for $20, too.

I decided to buy it after reading this:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/04/23/mb-smartphones-skimmer-credit-card-winnipeg.html

1. 1. advertise for higher skilled jobs at below local labour rates for a month or two
2. 2. claim an inability to hire in a few months, bring in the temporary foreign workers (TFW)
3. 3. Profit!!

http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/eng/jobs/foreign_workers/higher_skilled/trades/index.shtml

While I think the advice to go into trades is fine (there is likely more demand right now.) what Bloomberg says about no foreign competition is likely b.s. I don't know how long it will take, but there are donut shops and gardening centres here with TFW's. There is no low skill job that is not routinely farmed out already. Trades are not immune either:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/12/07/bc-chinese-miners-new-documents.html

Good point. The experience of the SARS patients during the outbreak 10 years ago is another example. Even trained medical professionals were reacting negatively towards them long past the point they were no longer infectious:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sars/

Just as WhatsApp enabled (free, non-SMS) cross communication between iOS and Android

And by free, you mean "with huge privacy implications", right?

This guy's near daily media appearances has certainly inspired many canadians including myself. I have watched many children sing along with his ISS song (not as good as david bowie, but its the thought that counts) and it really inspires. Hopefully helping lots of kids to think about becoming scientists, researchers and yes astronauts. Space can seem so dull sometimes, he really brings it to life.

I may not care for much patriotically these days, but hes really doing canada a service being so media savvy. I am not sure if american astronauts do so much singing, and perhaps its covered extensively by their local media and I just never hear about it. But he really could be one of a kind.

Before he launched in December, Chris mentioned he was going to do the first album recorded in space, I'm hoping this was just a taste of what's coming.

I have to be honest, I've been watching a LOT of Chris' videos that get posted by the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) (an agency facing budget cuts from the Harper Government(tm)). I don't think I've seen anyone from the ISS do so much media relations in their off time.

I know a few other commanders have done media work - Don Pettit did some as well. With the American Physical Society (any physics major should know them) he did a bunch of videos called "Science off the Sphere" (which I apparently finally got my T-Shirt from that).

Chris is definitely very media friendly and has hosted a LOT Of media events while aboard - he even keeps in touch with Discovery Canada's Daily Planet, the longest running science program around. Honestly, Chris Hadfield is awesome!

Safe journey home - your country eagerly awaits your arrival!

(Alas, Canada's first astronaut was snubbed recently...)

Yeah, it's not like there are many that might prevent people from biking to work, like around here. Hell, sometimes you can barely drive to work, much less bike/walk.

Just wait until they start finding out who's names are on the list and see where it goes. Here in Canada we had the story of a Senator's husband running having accounts in tax havens. http://www.cbc.ca/m/rich/news/canada/story/2013/04/03/merchant-offshore-trust.html

This has been public knowledge since the end of March, yet there has been almost zero coverage of it in the mainstream U.S. media. Here's a bit of info in map form from the CBC on April 3, 2013:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/icij-map/

and an interactive feature, also from the CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/offshore-tax-havens/

This has been public knowledge since the end of March, yet there has been almost zero coverage of it in the mainstream U.S. media. Here's a bit of info in map form from the CBC on April 3, 2013:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/icij-map/

and an interactive feature, also from the CBC:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/offshore-tax-havens/

I totally agree with you, but only in theory.

In practice, I have seen the many terror plots that go to court and get convictions are mostly from disaffected lost youth who trash talk, like you said, but the FBI prods them into a plot that they would not have done if left on their own. See FBI manufacturing terrorism

And this is not unique to the USA either. Up here in Canada, there is a case that looks to me as entrapment. The perpetrators would have never took action on their own, had it not been a government informant been egging them on all the time. See Thoughts on the May 2006 terrorism arests in Canada

People un-used to city traffic probably DO have to concentrate 100% on driving.

However this is not the norm for most people. You can drive down the freeway in light to moderate traffic and not have much of your conscious brain involved at all. You can arrive at your destination and not recall a single thing about the trip.

It's even possible to hit a moose on the highway and drive another 40km without noticing your injuries or the severe damage to the car.

Will officers be able to choose when the video is running?

Yes. Obviously.

How will the video be protected from tampering?

It won't.

How long will it be archived?

Not long enough.

Can it be demanded by courts?

Well sure, but you'll find that every time it does, the video stream is "conveniently" missing or corrupted.

Stop asking questions citizen, you're not supposed to be creative, just shut up and watch the Dumb Bimbos of Retard Valley.

I didn't know Bieber was a medical researcher?

Coincidence?

From the page:
Now the Conservative government has a majority and can reinstate the measures on its own, but the Liberals say they will support the bill. The NDP opposes the bill and is questioning the timing of the government suddenly moving the bill into an emergency-like debate, accusing it of "being asleep since December."

At least there is one major party in Canadian Parliament that's concerned about personal rights and liberties.
Such behaviour should be rewarded.

Personal opinion and disclosure:
I came to Canada since 2000 and tried to be "politically aware" even before I got the citizenship. I never aimed to benefit any single political party but rather aspired to get people to think critically about the parties and candidates, as well as establish dialogs with elected representatives in my riding to try to sway them toward the "personal rights and liberties" side. Unfortunately I have grown so disappointed with both the Liberal and Conservative parties and their candidates (on both the federal and provincial levels) that I now advocate voting for any candidate unaffiliated with those two (independents, NDP, Green, Pirate, hell - even Rhino).

1) They mention "Al Queda in Iran."

So...exactly how powerful is a Wahabbi Sunni sect in an iron-fisted Shiite country? Think they have the bandwidth to help idiots in Canada (not the US) do some questionable damage?

2) Coincidence?

The Black Widows have been very active in Russia, including the evil Beslan incident.

The avenging Black Widows

The Black Widows are what Russian journalists call female Islamist suicide bombers who have participated in more than 30 attacks that have killed about 900 people in Russia since July 2001, when Khava Barayeva and Luisa Magomadova rammed their explosives packed truck into a Russian military headquarters building in the Chechen village of Alkhan Yurt. . . .

. . . the Beslan school massacre, a three-day hostage-taking at a school in North Ossetia in 2004 that left 334 hostages dead, 186 of them children. . .

. . . 19 Black Widows wrapped in black mourning clothes and suicide vests accompanied about 20 Chechen men as they seized more than 900 hostages at Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre. . .

Be careful what you ask for, you might get it.

For example, in the Rehtaeh Parsons case (Canada), Anon basically showed the RCMP (police) as having put little effort into the case, and have proceeded to dig up evidence and essentially revive the case.

As with the link above, major news outlets in Canada have carried this story, and the reputation of anon seems to be improving in regards to revealing similar issues in gov't or law enforcement.

So long as they can tame the "lulz" area of things, an official news site might be a good/popular reference for some things.

That actually depends on the means of generating the power. With some modes of power generation, it is quite easy to adjust production to meet demand. With others, not so much. Nuclear power, for example, is rather difficult to just switch on and off. That's why it is seldom used on its own - it is used to supply the mass volume and other methods are generally used to supply the fluctuations. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2011/01/26/ont-power-giveaway.html for an example pointing to the fact changing production isn't always simple.

They aren't leaches, and they aren't stealing.
Companies are getting lower paid workers and that's hurting us. But calling the people leaches and thief won't get you anywhere.

Agreed, 1000%. The blame is being put on the wrong actor in this situation. The visa worker is being exploited to work for sub-standard wages, under restrictions no citizen would have to accept, to the benefit of the corporations. The visa worker gets a substandard wage, the US candidate gets no job, and the corporation gets discount labor that it has inordinate amounts of control over, due to the nature of the visa.

I don't judge the benefit to the worker by the standards of where the worker comes from, either. I don't care how (not) good the worker in India has it; I want him as equitably employed and treated when in the US as I would be.

Contrast the 'leeches' reaction, to that of the Canadian media, when RBC was found to have been pulling in workers from overseas to replace laid off RBC employees. They, rightly so, had pointed questions for RBC executives, not the replacement workers.

Canada now requires a wiretap warrant to ready stored texts on pohone-company servers, which is harder to get than a regular one. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/27/technology-telus-text-messages-scc-decision.html [www.cbc.ca]

The Ontario appeal court separately ruled that one needs to put a password/passcode on your phone to demonstrate that you have and expect privacy in the data it contains. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/02/21/ottawa-cell-phone-users-beware.html [www.cbc.ca]

Logically, a police force anywhere should need a wiretap warrant to read your (electronic) mail, and you have a duty to password-protect your email (:-)) At the moment this hasn't been tested in court, even in Canada. --dave

Canada now requires a wiretap warrant to ready stored texts on pohone-company servers, which is harder to get than a regular one. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/27/technology-telus-text-messages-scc-decision.html [www.cbc.ca]

The Ontario appeal court separately ruled that one needs to put a password/passcode on your phone to demonstrate that you have and expect privacy in the data it contains. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/02/21/ottawa-cell-phone-users-beware.html [www.cbc.ca]

Logically, a police force anywhere should need a wiretap warrant to read your (electronic) mail, and you have a duty to password-protect your email (:-)) At the moment this hasn't been tested in court, even in Canada. --dave

Canada now requires a wiretap warrant, which is harder to get than a regular one. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/27/technology-telus-text-messages-scc-decision.html

In a separate decision, the Ontario appeal court ruled that one needs to put a password/passcode on your phone to demonstrate that you have and expect privacy in the data it contains. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/02/21/ottawa-cell-phone-users-beware.html

--dave

Canada now requires a wiretap warrant, which is harder to get than a regular one. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/27/technology-telus-text-messages-scc-decision.html

In a separate decision, the Ontario appeal court ruled that one needs to put a password/passcode on your phone to demonstrate that you have and expect privacy in the data it contains. See http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2013/02/21/ottawa-cell-phone-users-beware.html

--dave

For recommending this valuable service. I have completed the interactive component, choosing British Virgin Islands, $10M laundered in via phoney lawsuit with 3% interest over 5 years and payed out as a rigged gambling 'win'. Now all I need to do is sit back and wait for the money!

My only complaint with the component is the loud 'bloink' sound it produces repeatedly brought everyone in the house running to see what was happening and look over my shoulder. Now I must share the money when it arrives. And I fear the IRS might be able to monitor for that sound... there was a helicopter in the area soon after I had placed my order.

the vast majority of calls I receive are clearly fraudulent and coming from another country.

A good number of calls are coming from overseas (India - is there nothing that they won't outsource?), however they often acquire local telephone numbers.

In Canada, it's a huge problem - enough so that CBC Marketplace hired an undercover Indian freelance journalist to get hired by one of these telemarketing firms calling Canada from India. They show up as Canadian calls, but originate overseas.

You'd think they'd be able to go after the redialer or something since I don't think Caller ID goes across the border very well (at least outside of North America). So some company is out there spoofing the number and providing some North American dialout..

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/12/04/homicides-statistics-canada-2011.html

Not really that hard to find, Toronto it isn't the housing projects it's the influx of immigrant gangs. Used to be that other gangs like Hells Angels would actually keep it under control, the unintended consequences of the government cracking down solely on biker gangs is that the immigrant gang problem has exploded. As for violent crime rates? It's coming more to a point of leveling off right now then dropping if you're paying attention to the trending.

Except that you can buy a house worth $400,000 using bitcoins.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/03/alberta-man-accepting-bitcoins-in-exchange-for-home.html?cmp=fbtl

The Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) radio show 'This is That' did a piece a while ago about a group proposing an Innovation Hour as an alternative to Earth Hour... in short, "If it has a switch, click it!" They're asking people of the world to turn everything in their houses and businesses on, or "run it hot," for one hour to celebrate in ingenuity behind innovation.

Here's a link to the 'story': http://www.cbc.ca/thisisthat/news/2012/09/18/innovation-hour-calgarian-asks-canadians-to-run-it-hot-for-an-hour-each-year/

WTF? C-C-C-C-Canada? Where one has to watch what one says lest he be hauled before a Human Rights Tribunal because he has a morality based disagreement on how some people live? Before you know it, Canada will adopt the gold standard, leaded gasoline and big block V8's will make a comeback! Perhaps even the Draft and [G-G-G-GASP] market-based health care...

Kuck Farma