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Unfortunately it is up to the customs guys what's appropriate.

Canadian Bureaucracy at work.

They seize stuff all the time at customs that isn't illegal.

For instance like:
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_12.30.93/NEWS/n v1230.php

It's funny that you mention this I recently read about a group in Canada know as SOCAN. They charge an annual fee to stores playing music even if the artists the store is playing are not a part of SOCAN. Talk about extortion!

Here's the story.

I have to agree that Rachel Bilson is plenty reason to watch the show, but all of the subplots this year suck and we now basically have a show about kids in High School that almost nobody would want to hang out with, let alone watch them on TV.

I have seen some suggestions on what is wrong and how to fix it. The best one is here, but others, have chimed in with analysis.

Lewis Hine was truly a great American. He used his technical skill and his artistic eye to expose the awful conditions the poor and unknown lived under. Learn a tiny bit more about him at:

http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.07.98/art/hi ne.html

Sorry, Mr. Beckett, but you need a more coherent story.

An alternative weekly sent stories by famous writers (Beckett, Garcia Marquez, Angela Carter) out to 20 literary magazines under different names. 12 were rejected and 8 got no reply. Choice quotes from the rejection letters:

"Not quite, but it's a convincing bit of ventriloquism. I think the Beckett's a bit too loud, especially in the first two pages."

and

"Musical writing; need a more coherent story."

Just curious where you got those numbers from, 42000 homes seemed a little high to me... assuming you meant the windmill on Lakeshore and the one at Pickering NPP I googled the following info:

- The one on Lakeshore produces 0.75MW, enough for 250 homes.

- Pickering produces 1.8MW, enough for 600 homes.

- Ontario's energy peaks at 25 000MW.

Links:
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_06.26.03/city/e nviro.html
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid /12137/story.htm

This is the same police force who investigated the Raging Grannies as a subversive group.

For example in Canada, the province of Ontario thought it would be a BRILLIANT idea to allow the construction of a private highway, rather than funding it with tax money. Lo and behold, the owners of said highway waited a couple of years for city growth to force people to become dependent on the 407 and are now jacking up rates to a level that is many times more expensive than any other toll highway in the world.

So now the Ontario government is trying to force the company to stick to more reasonable (and still quite profitable) rates, but the foreign owners of the highway are using threats of trade barriers to force Canadians to pay more and more and more to drive on their own highway!

It would be insane to give up public control of something so fundamental to modern society as EM bands. Increasingly, they are the "highways" that our society relies on to get things done. You think you hate it now that Microsoft basically dictates what software can and cannot be created, imagine if they literally "0wned" the airwaves.

Privatization is not a panacea, it is good when used in appropriate places, but can be a real drawback when a company can get too much power over the people who rely on its service.

"and is sterile to boot" Urine is sterile as well.

"Generally, urine is sterile," says Joanne Braithwaite, who, up until her recent switch to the role of TB educator, was the Infection Control Liaison at Toronto Public Health.
[snip]
"Once it passes through the urethra, there are all kinds of potential bacteria in the surrounding area that can contaminate it. You can find fecal organisms in urine."
[snip]
Can these viruses exist independently in the urine of an unhealthy person as well? "It's all about dose," says Braithwaithe. "Take HIV. Traces can be found in saliva but not enough to infect. You'd have to drink quarts of urine to get hep A.

To all the sibling posts citing Betamax vs. VHS, it isn't a valid comparision.

It was a complete fumble on the part of Sony; they killed Betamax themselves. They didn't license the technology to other manufacturers so VHS was cheaper and more available (link) and they refused to allow prOn on Betamax (link).

We can put it to a vote but my suspicion is that inferior-technology-prOn beats superior-technology-non-prOn every time.

Further, the whole superior technology thing was kind of a myth anyway (link).

Are you sure you want ads subsidising the publication of scientific research, especially in medicine?

This paper entitled, "Viagra causes withered genitals," is brought to you by the makers of Cialis.

Better yet, there were two separate instances at the University of Toronto where two separate researchers were pressured into suppressing their research when it was unfavorable to one of the university's sponsors. The investigator in one case was Dr. Nancy Olivieri, who faced a possible lawsuit and discipline when she spoke out against Apotex; the other one involved Dr. David Healey, who had a job offer rescinded when he spoke against Prozac.

So what's left? Author-pay, government-pay and donation-based systems all have disadvantages.

Yeah, really comforting when you come from a country who's spy agency declared the Raging Grannies a possible terrorist threat, yet couldn't figgure out that one of 4 air-india flights a month would be the target of a bomb they KNEW terrorists were building.

Didn't it also take an election campaign and a victory by the opposition party to get photo radar repealed?

(Amazingly enough, not only did the opposition party win, it looks like they kept their promise by dumping photo radar immediately after the '95 election. A bit of googling reveals that even the losers of the election confirm it.)

EYE Magazine (Toronto free paper)
By: JOANNE HUFFA
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"Maybe the Internet's the answer," he says. "It's one of the few things that has a bit of the traditional punk to it -- a DIY approach, an accessibility. All those things fit into my idea of what punk's all about."

As for the endless debate about music-sharing sites, Bragg feels trading files is akin to radio and mixed tapes.

"It would be OK if there were lots of little labels trying to make great music," he posits, "but when it's five transnational corporations who can't even deal with Mariah Carey -- Jesus Christ! Never mind the poor artists in Finland. Where are you ever gonna find that Finnish music in your local record store? You ain't. But if you can find someone in Finland to download that music for you, then good luck to you.

"It would be great if I was selling millions of records in Canada and people were swapping my files. You wouldn't hear me complaining about it. There's nothing worse than rich people whinging -- those poor, poor fuckers in Metallica."


rotfl ;-D

Or perhaps, Forbes is more believable to you.

Speaking of which, there are a few snippets of an interview Miyazaki did in Toronto at http://www.eye.net. He was there to introduce the movie, which was kind of neat.