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By all means, provide your source that supports your ridiculous claims.

If I had made any ridiculous claims, I would be glad to supply sources. But since everything I brought to your attention is in the public record, maybe you should shun those moronic sites you have been reading and try reality for a while.

FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance

Pete Seeger

Woody Guthrie

John Lennon

Even more black people were lynched in the U.S. than previously thought, study finds

The Murder of Emmett Till

There's the short list detailing everything you've worked so hard to ignore. So, how about if you do a little reading and see if you can find out how many people went to jail for those thousands of lynchings history has recorded. And while you're at it, how about if you show me where in the FBI's charter authorizes surveillance on lawful folk singers, non-violent rock stars as well as religious men who preached peaceful assembly to redress what they believed to be illegal grievances.

Ignorance can be unlearned while willful ignorance is an inexcusable state of mind.

"I was thinking mind control, MK-Ultra"

Yes, they (the CIA) did a lot of testing on unsuspecting patients here in Canada who went to see Dr. Ewan Cameron for depression.

LSD and other experimental drugs were used on patients without their knowledge or consent.

There is even a movie about it, called The Sleep Room.

"nothing can ever possibly be too cheap."

I hope you remember that when you are next negotiating your salary with your employer!

Ignoring the obvious logical errors of making ridiculous absolutist statements, gasoline needs to be more expensive to get people to use less of it. Gas right now is "too cheap" for americans, and to a lesser extent, canadians as well. This is why they waste it buying hummers, SUVs and not taking environmental concerns seriously by funding alternative methods of transport.

So it is precisely too cheap to 1) encourage alternative energy sources and 2) prompt people to cut greenhouse gas emissions and save us all from a runaway climate collapse.

For some perspective, gas hit $1.55/L today in british columbia (they are blaming iraq in the media). Using a value of .92 cents per US dollar and this site: http://boating.ncf.ca/convertg... i can see that we currently pay $5.40USD per US gallon.

I don't mind the cost of gas too much, as it makes me consider more how much I use the car instead of alternatives - no matter how distasteful the public bus system is to me personally. We all have to start sucking it up, and increasing gas prices is a great way to do that. Especially, as I have pointed out before, if your carbon tax is revenue neutral like the one in BC. This means that all of that particular tax revenues go right back to the citizens of BC.

More info: http://www.fin.gov.bc.ca/tbs/t...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

We should obviously be taxing the corporations who profit from all this more as well, and using it similarly to fund the above. If we didn't want to go ahead and nationalize oil and gas companies, which would be my preferred course of action.

Companies should not profit on utilities. They should be owned by the people.

You are full of shit Jane, and we both know it.

Troll? Strawman? I don't know. Either way, completely wrong.

IE9 is a completely good browser.

Users said the same thing about IE6, so you're obviously not a web developer.

It's on par with Chrome, but in fact it offers even more features and security than Firefox does currently, like sandboxing. It's also standards compliant and supports HTML5.

  IE9 is nowhere near Chrome or Firefox. You should be modded down for misinformation.

In terms of features, here's a quick comparison.
IE9 vs Firefox 9
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=firefox+9

IE9 vs Chrome 16
http://caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=ie+9&b2=chrome+16

IE9's performance is also way behind - It barely wins on Sunspider and then loses badly on Kraken and V8 being up to 400% slower. Their 64bit build is even worse and the author didn't bother posting the results because they're so bad.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-big-browser-benchmark-chrome-1615-vs-opera-11-vs-ie9-vs-firefox-98-vs-safari-5/17367

There's nothing to hate about IE9.

Sure there are. Besides not being as fast and not supporting standards as well as the others, it also only runs on Windows Vista and Windows 7. You're out of luck if you're running Windows XP, Linux or OS X. IE9 also has a new but buggy rendering engine. Here's one that I ran into a few days ago. http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/support/ie9_issue/index.html. Here's another http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6392826/mobile-table-crashes-ie9. There are more of these types of bugs in IE than all the other browsers combined. I still hate IE.

Nazism was a revolutionary movement that overthrew the Weimar Republic and cleared away the last vestiges of power held by the German aristocracy.

This is a gross oversimplification, to say the least. Nazism as a "populist movement" actually served to remove power from the German people (among other things) and place it into the hands of a select few who were partly comprised of and backed by aristocrats, including the British royalty and our own "aristocrats" on this side of the ocean (wealthy Connecticut and Rhode Islands families, the Rockefellers, etc). Mind you, this involved a transfer of power within the aristocracy but to suggest that Nazism was a grassroots movement that was inherently anti-aristocracy would be to perpetuate the same lie that a lot of German people fell for.

The real goals of Nazism (and WWII) were consolidation of power, population reduction and bringing closer a return to Feudalism:

The Nazi Roots of the House of Windsor

the Bush family & the Nazis

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power

Documents: Bush's Grandfather Directed Bank Tied to Man Who Funded Hitler

how the Bush family wealth is linked to the holocaust

ROCKEFELLER AND MASS MURDER

The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics

Rockefeller Associates

Standard Oil Fuels World War II

Your post is absolutely correct except that the CD Audio Error Correction is not always 'perfect'. On larger errors it will generate interpolated data.

--jeffk++

http://www.ncf.ca/ncf/pda/computer/dos/util/

ll3.exe will do it for you, but since I didn't correctly read the system description, getting onto a floppy might be hard too. if you can do that, well, then ll3 might be a moot point.

This is due to their low Color Rendering Index (CRI). Fluorescent tubes don't have burning things inside of them like incandescents. If you put fluorescent light through a prism you'll usually see giant chunks missing from the spectrum. Incandescents have a smooth gradient, usually heavy in the reds and oranges.

Here's a couple of examples of spectrums of common types of bulbs. Fluorescent tubes typically have big-ass spikes around yellow and green. The way light works, you can only see the colors of things that are within the spectrum of light that's illuminating it. Which explains why your skin looks like crap under fluorescent tubes.

This is why photographers avoid fluorescent light--if you're illuminating a scene with (traditional) fluorescents you are actually losing colors (which makes fixing the pictures later on a lot harder).

The higher the CRI rating of a fluorescent tube, the fuller the spectrum. Design studios illuminated with fluorescents typically use 92+ CRI (where 100 = complete spectrum). These are also popular with people who suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) as well (the broader spectrum better mimics natural sunlight).

If you don't want to be mack'n the malaria-look, get some high CRI tubes. If you don't need screw-in, self-ballasted bulbs, high CRI tubes are fairly cheap. Screw-in types aren't.

Check out the National Capital Freenet.

I have been using their DSL service for 3 months now and am very satisfied.

For $29.95 per month, you get:

• 5 Mb/s down, 800 Kb/s up (max)
• 200GB transfer per month ($3/GB after that)
• Hassle free service with great tech support

Their tech support is provided by extremely competent volunteers. In the very beginning, I feared some hiccups with the service, because I was having a voice phone line installed after I had already activated the DSL service. They made sure everything got sorted out smoothly. I didn't lose a day of connectivity during the switch. My fears were for nothing.

I'm not sure what's going to happen to NCF DSL if Bell manages to get it's way, though...

Would someone please tell me where I can an ISP in Ottawa (Canada's Capital of all places) that doesn't have a downstream cap, or throttling/traffic shaping and has (god formid) decent customer service.

From their blurb, it's 5MB down/800mb up, capped at 200 (yes two hundred) per month.

Back then, the world was indeed different...

Please read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

Written by Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 - June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," he was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history. He was involved in US wars with The Boxer Rebellion (china), Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, Haiti, and world World War I. He also infiltrated and stopped a US grown fascist plot to overthrow the government:

http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/Plot1.html

Not disagreeing with your premise that there was evil in the world, but there was plenty of it in the USA too. The brave people with enough good sense to stand up to it was the redeeming factor of that era, sorely lacking today.

And, it never happened. The promise of excellent technology, never delivered. And (I've posted on this before), the notion of track info associated with CD technology didn't emerge until we, the people, did it ourselves! with CDDB!

Pot. Kettle. Black. --- Refers to the aphorism: "the pot calling the kettle black." Used when indicating that a person is accusing someone else of something the accuser is him- or herself guilty of.

Religion doesn't tell us anything about the way things are...

Not true. Read here or here here.

Sorry, but a rambling and unsubstantiated opinion piece, and a short one at that, hardly qualifies as a call for action.

Commerce in action ensures that bandwidth providers will want to be paid more, and bandwidth consumers will want to pay less.

Will prices go up for popular stuff? Probably, but this is hardly news or even unexpected.

Will ISPs and their upchannel bandwidth suppliers charge more for increased badnwidth consumption? Sure, but this is hardly new or unexpected either.

Really folks, this is old news and has been discussed in a much more sensible fashion elsewhere. If you really care about providing really, really cheap Internet access to all, get busy and revive the old FreeNet movement. Or start throwing money at your elected representatives to influence their votes.

The experiment is more than a little risky - you're not going to accidentally make a bomb, but you're likely to kill yourself and anybody in the room with you from radiation poisoning. The experiment was called tickling the dragon's tail for that reason, and several people died in the process.

Or you could just support your friendly neighbourhood freenet. If it's anything like mine you can give any donation you can afford.

My google-fu revealed these old Canadian reviews.

Last time I looked, which wasn't recently, CSS did not provide all the parameters necessary for page markup. For example, there was no way to change the spacing (leading) before paragraphs or after paragraphs.

The people who designed CSS were not typesetting professionals.

The result is that, if you use CSS, you must also use a proprietary scheme, also, to finish the job. But, implementing a proprietary scheme defeats the intended purpose of CSS.

If CSS were designed well, it would be possible to use the same kind of markup system for both the web and print.

If you haven't taken the challenge yet, it's pretty cool. You can get it here too.

Very interesting - I don't suppose you could summarise how Loebner changed the rules after that?

I imagine Whalen's entry was based on CHAT, which I played with an older version of back in the early nineties when I was a psych undergrad at Carleton and was fortunate to know co-creator Andrew Patrick through the NCF. CHAT was/is a project at the Communications Research Centre of Industry Canada. You could reach it in those days from Hypertelnet (I think I was the first person to escape Maur the dragon alive ;).

Personally I think that natural language systems are a very important research area, both for regular human-machine interaction and AI (in fact, I believe these define a spectrum, but that's a WHOLE 'nuther discussion). Say you do manage to establish a Friendly AI along the lines of Lem's Golem (thanks to other posters for the links). How do you begin to communicate with it if you haven't already put work into natural language comprehension and Turing-like blackbox human seeming expression? It can't be infinitely intelligent, after all, and to start with it'll be more like (some barely imaginable Friendly AI version of) a child. It seems like people assume anything smart enough to be called "AI" will automatically understand how to make itself known to us. I don't see it that way.

Even though contests like the Loebner prize may not lead to "real" AI, they help develop useful adjuncts to it, as well as tools for more immediately useful machine interfaces. People get all amped about speech interfaces and such even for regular old computers; where do you think that work is going to magically spring from? It's a long hard incremental path.

... it is only advertised with such a pretext. The easiest way to prevent more planes from crashing into buildings is to have the State Department stop financing such actions. To quote Richard Sanders (How to Start a War: The American Use of War Pretext Incidents (1848-1989):

"Because public support is so crucial to the process of initiating and waging war, the home population is also subject to deceitful stratagems. Perhaps the most common pretext for war is an apparently unprovoked enemy attack... Every time the US has gone to war, pretext incidents have been used."

>I think you have a problem understanding the words "very little". In programmer terms, very little != nothing. Cool air is a luxury. It is _not_ penicillin or pasteurized milk.

A luxury?

You might want to take a look at the temperature scale here, and notice when heatstroke occurrs. Notice the words life threatening. To live in an area that can have temperatures of over 130 F will ensure your death.

Being cool, for humans, is simply not a luxury, and our ability to ensure that people don't die in their own homes during a heatwave is one effect of Air Conditioning.

>Some places are just too damned cold.

Yes, well, I wouldn't blame that on air conditioning in general any more than I'd blame music being too loud on stereo equipment in general (for example). Someone's misuse of a product doesn't exclude its proper use.

>Have you never heard of nuclear waste

Yes, I have read that the entire amount of nuclear waste generated on the entire earth will fit in a football field or two. Small price to pay when there's so much unused, and completely uninhabited (by anything) space on this planet. Over time, this extremely small problem will be solved with technology too (slow poke reactors are a very good start). Not that it even matters anyways, because, as I've said, the amounts of waste generated are just too small to care about.

>meltdowns

Again, improper use of a technology does not discount its proper use. Nuclear power is 100% safe and effective when used properly. AFAIK, no 1st world country has ever experienced a massive meltdown.

>thermal pollution?

A problem easily solved with proper foresight into the building of the nuclear power plant.

>Ask your neighbor if he would mind if you built a nuclear power plant across the street from him and begin trucking in uranium

I have been near a local power plant (Pickering, Ontario) and experienced none of this heavy uraniam trucking traffic you speak about. It simply doesn't exist.

>Now ask yourself where all these miracle facilities are for a technology that was born in WWII.

Pickering and Bruce Ontario. Pickering is within a stone's throw of Toronto, Canada's largest city (population wise). The only major complaints from those people are that the Pickering plant could use more safety inspections. Neither of these power plants use WWII technology, which is inherently unsafe. Rather they use the much safer, and well tested over time, CANDU technology. A technology, which, again, when used properly is perfectly safe. However, a CANDU reactor can still melt down, but this virtually requires a forceful amount of ignorance. This design, which us Canadians have sold to many other countries is virtually indestructible.

>Anyone that has a problem with transporting nuclear material and storing substances that will not be safe for thousands of years must be a lunatic.

Your smoke detector contains those substances, but I bet you have one. Mercury and lead will last your lifetime, but you don't see people driving around trying to dig those items up, do you? Has there ever, even once been a serious spill of nuclear material related to a nuclear power plant in a first world country that has caused more devastation than the iginition of a gas tanker train?

You seemed to be scared of something you don't fully understand.

> Let those who produce the waste deal with it and a few attitudes may change.

We, in Canada, take our nuclear waste and bury it up north well away from any person, and well away from the natural habitats of most any kind of living life. I doubt snow cares about nuclear radiation, but we ensure even it doesn't experience any by sheilding any and all nuclear raditiation coming from the waste. I'm more than sure we'd be pleased to take your nuclear waste (if we aren't already) at a cost.

And why the animosity to big cities? I assume you must have quite a lot towards big cities since they tend to generate more waste than they can handle.

I say let the people who understand and can take care of the waste handle it, and let them reap the profits of their work.

>Once again, you fail to realize the correlation between power drain and environmental damage.

Once again, you fail to show anything to back up your baseless ideas. If power drain caused environmental damage, the reverse should be true. In that case, why do lightning strikes not cause life to grow?

>Crank your air conditioning down all the way and leave it there for this month. Check your next electric bill.

Hello, McFly? Cost and environmental damage are unrelated. For the cost of a single 10 ct. diamond I can cause more environmental damage than that diamond will ever cause in its entire lifetime!

>Gee, I wonder how all those electrons were magically produced?

How can you sleep at night knowing people have X-Ray producing TVs on!

> The residents of Paducah, Kentucky found this out not long ago when they discovered that radioactive material had been leaching into the ground.

A search on the internet revealed that these deaths were caused by gross mismanagement of waste at these areas. Even so, the amount of people harmed by this is far less than the effects caused by your coal power.

Not to mention that where you're talking about is a nuclear weapons production plant. These are places creating and designing things that are meant to cause harm and nuclear explosions. I wouldn't live near _any_ place that makes weapons, nuclear or not.

Coal power is a factor in well over 6000 death pear year in the United States alone. Nuclear power can't even begin to touch those numbers. The amount of people killed by Chernobyl (15000), arguably the largest nuclear power accident ever, pales in comparison to the amount of lives lost in just one country over the years since that meltdown due to coal and other unclean power.

>Of course, everybody should be on nuclear power, right?

Hell yes. Statistics show, provably, that nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, and most abundant energy we can produce. Solar cells and wind power (the only two [however, still a bit debateable] safer supplies of energy) are simply insufficient to even run enough power to let people cook their food, unless you want to black out entire cities with solar panels, or risk danger by putting wind generators in the paths of walking humans.

>I think you have a problem understanding the words "very little". In programmer terms, very little != nothing. Cool air is a luxury. It is _not_ penicillin or pasteurized milk.

A luxury?

You might want to take a look at the temperature scale here, and notice when heatstroke occurrs. Notice the words life threatening. To live in an area that can have temperatures of over 130 F will ensure your death.

Being cool, for humans, is simply not a luxury, and our ability to ensure that people don't die in their own homes during a heatwave is one effect of Air Conditioning.

>Some places are just too damned cold.

Yes, well, I wouldn't blame that on air conditioning in general any more than I'd blame music being too loud on stereo equipment in general (for example). Someone's misuse of a product doesn't exclude its proper use.

>Have you never heard of nuclear waste

Yes, I have read that the entire amount of nuclear waste generated on the entire earth will fit in a football field or two. Small price to pay when there's so much unused, and completely uninhabited (by anything) space on this planet. Over time, this extremely small problem will be solved with technology too (slow poke reactors are a very good start). Not that it even matters anyways, because, as I've said, the amounts of waste generated are just too small to care about.

>meltdowns

Again, improper use of a technology does not discount its proper use. Nuclear power is 100% safe and effective when used properly. AFAIK, no 1st world country has ever experienced a massive meltdown.

>thermal pollution?

A problem easily solved with proper foresight into the building of the nuclear power plant.

>Ask your neighbor if he would mind if you built a nuclear power plant across the street from him and begin trucking in uranium

I have been near a local power plant (Pickering, Ontario) and experienced none of this heavy uraniam trucking traffic you speak about. It simply doesn't exist.

>Now ask yourself where all these miracle facilities are for a technology that was born in WWII.

Pickering and Bruce Ontario. Pickering is within a stone's throw of Toronto, Canada's largest city (population wise). The only major complaints from those people are that the Pickering plant could use more safety inspections. Neither of these power plants use WWII technology, which is inherently unsafe. Rather they use the much safer, and well tested over time, CANDU technology. A technology, which, again, when used properly is perfectly safe. However, a CANDU reactor can still melt down, but this virtually requires a forceful amount of ignorance. This design, which us Canadians have sold to many other countries is virtually indestructible.

>Anyone that has a problem with transporting nuclear material and storing substances that will not be safe for thousands of years must be a lunatic.

Your smoke detector contains those substances, but I bet you have one. Mercury and lead will last your lifetime, but you don't see people driving around trying to dig those items up, do you? Has there ever, even once been a serious spill of nuclear material related to a nuclear power plant in a first world country that has caused more devastation than the iginition of a gas tanker train?

You seemed to be scared of something you don't fully understand.

> Let those who produce the waste deal with it and a few attitudes may change.

We, in Canada, take our nuclear waste and bury it up north well away from any person, and well away from the natural habitats of most any kind of living life. I doubt snow cares about nuclear radiation, but we ensure even it doesn't experience any by sheilding any and all nuclear raditiation coming from the waste. I'm more than sure we'd be pleased to take your nuclear waste (if we aren't already) at a cost.

And why the animosity to big cities? I assume you must have quite a lot towards big cities since they tend to generate more waste than they can handle.

I say let the people who understand and can take care of the waste handle it, and let them reap the profits of their work.

>Once again, you fail to realize the correlation between power drain and environmental damage.

Once again, you fail to show anything to back up your baseless ideas. If power drain caused environmental damage, the reverse should be true. In that case, why do lightning strikes not cause life to grow?

>Crank your air conditioning down all the way and leave it there for this month. Check your next electric bill.

Hello, McFly? Cost and environmental damage are unrelated. For the cost of a single 10 ct. diamond I can cause more environmental damage than that diamond will ever cause in its entire lifetime!

>Gee, I wonder how all those electrons were magically produced?

How can you sleep at night knowing people have X-Ray producing TVs on!

> The residents of Paducah, Kentucky found this out not long ago when they discovered that radioactive material had been leaching into the ground.

A search on the internet revealed that these deaths were caused by gross mismanagement of waste at these areas. Even so, the amount of people harmed by this is far less than the effects caused by your coal power.

Not to mention that where you're talking about is a nuclear weapons production plant. These are places creating and designing things that are meant to cause harm and nuclear explosions. I wouldn't live near _any_ place that makes weapons, nuclear or not.

Coal power is a factor in well over 6000 death pear year in the United States alone. Nuclear power can't even begin to touch those numbers. The amount of people killed by Chernobyl (15000), arguably the largest nuclear power accident ever, pales in comparison to the amount of lives lost in just one country over the years since that meltdown due to coal and other unclean power.

>Of course, everybody should be on nuclear power, right?

Hell yes. Statistics show, provably, that nuclear power is the cleanest, safest, and most abundant energy we can produce. Solar cells and wind power (the only two [however, still a bit debateable] safer supplies of energy) are simply insufficient to even run enough power to let people cook their food, unless you want to black out entire cities with solar panels, or risk danger by putting wind generators in the paths of walking humans.

You could try here but unfortunately the original article at Buzzflash.com can no longer be found, nor can the two articles in Yahoo and the Guardian. Both, rather conveniently, have expired, but when I found this I can verify that the link to the Guardian worked and it is quite genuine. You can also find it in an archive here.

You won't be hearing much of this on CNN, I can imagine. It's all but disappeared from the internet, and from the public memory...

I may be single, but I go out to parties, bar and movies with friends (lately I go out about 4-5 times per week) and have fun.

When most of your life you knew no single girl or the one that are single are not interrested in you or superficial (must be tall, handsome, wear Tommy Hillfiger), it's no surprise I'm still single at 22.

Dressing well (depending of the occasion dressing well may vary greatly), having a job, a car, travelling, having friends and a social life, being independent, bright and knowing where you want to go doesn't garantee you to have a gf. It's more being at the right time at the right place.

Good luck!
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