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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/v5/content/features/ROB/dollar/

Who gave these fucktards mod points? Not only is the parent modded "informative", so was this post, which I quote: "If I got hit with a metorite, I'd have a headache too"

Methinks some SCO stockholders somehow got mod points.

WOW! I found pictures of the people who modded this!!! And here's another of today's mods!

Oops, I think I know this mod (they call her a "bus down")

-mcgrew

PS- ok, I was right the first time... it is SCO stockholders!

I think most shipping companies will think politically stable Canada a preferable route to Panama.

Sounds similar to the experimental (human) treatment being practiced in China. There's been a lot of skepticism about why/how such a thing could work, but according to a lot of people who've gone through the treatment it does restore some amount of functionality

This article from the Globe and Mail provides some more interesting insight into why they are doing this.

However it raises more questions. Like if younger people are buying more old Pink Floyd albums (errr... CDs), why is HMV charging $10 dollars more than newer CDs? After 30 years on the market you would think that 'Dark Side of the Moon' or the 'Led Zepplin' CDs had made their money and maybe could be reduced to the price of say, a CD produced in 2007?

And for those who don't know, HMV is the Canadian equivalent of, for example, the chain of Virgin record stores. In fact, HMV recently took over the Virgin location on the corner of Burrard and Robson in downtown Vancouver.

A similar article in the Globe and Mail points out that the 18-24 year olds aren't listening to the latest pop chart toppers but are instead "tuning in to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin - the music of their parents' generation", which is the reason for the back-catalogue price drops.

In any case the article seems a bit more unbiased than the CBC/CRIA fud.

It will come from the people to manage.

What do you mean that Canada is always copying from the US? What about "un gars, une fille", exported around the world? http://www.mcc.gouv.qc.ca/publications/culture_que bec_eng.pdf

Or about Just for Laughs Gags, also exported around the world? http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/summary_0199-47978 72_ITM

There are many more I could list if I wasn't too lazy to check for references on the web. "Le temps d'une paix", "Les filles de Caleb", etc...

Oh... You are talking about ENGLISH Canadian productions. You seams to put all Canadians on the same boat. To be fair, English Canada does produces "Little Mosque on the prairie", also original and IIRC, exported.

Granted, for some reason, it is very hard to convince English Canadians to watch Canadian made shows and even more, Canadian movies. However, in French Canada, in most recent years localy produced movies beat the American movies at the box office, like "Bon cop, bad cop" and "Nitro":

http://lcn.canoe.com/lcn/artsetspectacles/cinema/a rchives/2006/09/20060925-195421.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070716.wxnitro16/BNStory/Entertainment

Please, when it comes to Canadian culture, be specific about which language you are talking about. Slashdot is read internationally and we should not generalize about Canadian cultures when there are three main ones (English, French and Aboriginal).

The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is looking to shakedown hairdressers who play music in their salons, according to the Globe & Mail.

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) says more than 40% of bootlegged films in the US are secretly taped in New York cinemas.

Canadian theatres were the source for nearly 50 per cent of illegal camcords across the globe

Example of Canada commodifying airwaves:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070525.wrspectrum25/BNStory/Technology/Ontario/
"As Ottawa prepares to auction off more wireless spectrum next year"

My point was about how people (esp. governments and industry) in general think of the electo-magnetic spectrum. Just about anything can be given a legal status, commodified and sold these days. The RIAA doesn't have a commodity on this notion (or the CRIA for that matter).

America is the only country other than Nigeria to execute minors.

Not true. Saudi Arabia also does that.

Also if you're a felon you cannot vote ever again.

Not true at all. It varies by state.

The IPPA would insert a new prohibition: actions that were "intended to consist of" distribution.

(from http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9719339-7.html)

In other news, the Attorney General announced that "suspicion of resisting arrest" will be added to America's criminal law under the Interstate Commerce clause of the Constitution.

"We feel," he said, "that police should have the power to act to detain an individual based on their well-founded suspicions that the individual might resist the lawful actions of police in detaining them."

When asked about the use of the Interstate Commerce clause, he replied, "Obviously, if an individual is going to resist arrest they may do so by crossing state lines. The Constitution is very clear on this. In fact, the President has the power acting in his capacity as Commander in Chief to use the National Guard to detain such individuals. Furthermore, anyone who attempts to avoid arrest on suspicion is obviously guilty of resisting arrest, so we don't feel that it will be necessary, or indeed possible, for this to be tested in the courts. And if anyone attempts to do so, we will simply change the charges against them to something else, like filling out a form."

Incidentally, I mentioned those articles -- here's my collection. Let's get them out there to help build our industry.

They range in subject matters that assist me, with the majority being security related.

http://www.nbc4.com/money/11588165/detail.html
http://www.nbc4.com/money/11588165/detail.html
http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71032-0.html
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pag ename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Artic le&cid=1135552209280&call_pageid=971358637177
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20050704.gtkirwanjul4/BNStory/specialScienceandHe alth/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/display/?id=176198
http://www.livescience.com/scienceoffiction/060619 _hyperactive_bob.html
http://www.labour.gov.on.ca/english/es/factsheets/ fs_faq.html
http://www.e.govt.nz/policy/open-source/open-sourc e-legal
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/securi ty/privacy/story/0,10801,108101,00.html
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?com mand=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&article Id=9004274&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat
http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=f6f 548f7-9dfd-49f4-9ff8-8ae8f4a2e2fd
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr 2006/tc20060417_996365.htm?campaign_id=bier_tca
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_37 /b4000401.htm?chan=tc&campaign_id=bier_tcst0
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1 781895,00.html
http://panko.cba.hawaii.edu/ssr/Mypapers/whatknow. htm

The man you're referrign to, Prof. Lebrescu, died protecting his students. He didn't stand in front of the door so they could sit around and be safe. He blockaded the door with his body so they could all escape through a second exit.

Globe and Mail article

How could we be so careless.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070507.wspycoins0507/BNStory/National/home/

Here's the one they actually link to on their front page, and the one they will most likely print.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070508.wpreviews0508/BNStory/Entertainment/home

Same story, minus the input from Geist or anything that even remotely questions the veracity of Warner's claims.

What did you expect? If you follow the money, the Globe has more in common with the american media conglomerates than the interests of Canadian citizens. I'm afraid Canadian citizens are pretty much on their own when it comes to fighting "lawbook terrorism" like we're seeing here. The sad fact of the manner is that our media won't tell the whole truth because its not in their own self interest. Heavily paid lobbyists will con, bribe, or outright lie to our politicians until they try to pass the kind of legislation Warners and the MPAA watches. With our own media utterly failing to inform us, most Canadian citizens will be subject to new laws that are not in their own best interest before they hear a word about it.

Thankyou, american megacorps and media conglomerates, for destroying journalistic integrity around the world and undermining democracy everywhere.

... On theglobeandmail.com below:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070508.WBmingram20070508112009/WBStory/WBmingra m

The Globe And Mail is one of Canada's largest daily newspapers and has some amount of influence. Also, Mathew Ingram is somewhat influential in the "blogisphere" up north. I think he's hit the nail on the head. Too bad the studios won't be paying attention.

If you think every fistfight is voluntary: on CBC radio a couple of weeks ago, they had an example (from Tanzania I believe) where a guy had gotten beat up while defending his elderly neighbour's house from burglars, and contracted HIV in the process.

Sorry, I was wrong: it was the Globe and Mail, not CBC radio; and it was South Africa, not Tanzania: Excerpt One: 'My body just went cold'.

Stephanie Nolen kicks ass.

That site has pictures of a lot of Canadian coins I've never seen before.

But since your comment appears to just be meant to direct people to an image of this particular coin, I would have said, instead:

"A picture of the quarter in question can be found in TFA."

I didn't actually *READ* TFA... But I at least clicked through.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/docume nt/v5/content/subscribe?user_URL=http://www.theglo beandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FRTGAM.20070110.w spycoin0110%2FBNStory%2FNational%2Fhome&ord=109400 50&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=true Didn't we know this back in January?

They forgot BC libel law
http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=arti cle&articleid=371&rssid=4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_libel

Which Wayne Crookes uses to harass the whole Internet to get at his political critics
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.2 0070420.BCWIKIPEDIAS20/TPStory/?query=wayne+crooke s

Details
http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Talk:Wayne_Crookes
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_Cr ookes&oldid=85159885
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wayne_Cr ookes&oldid=99714811

Similar cases of dissidents "outed" by pressure from outside the US
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cyberdissident
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/technology/19yah oo.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17180

The feds have set the same deadline for the whole country. Damn conservatives!

better the enemy you know, than the unknown that will rise to take his place.

Still afraid of the dark, are we? Tacitus derided this attitude 1900 years ago. Your imagination should lead you to do things, not cower in fear.

Do you think they could have picked a creepier picture of him? I mean, most people have to work hard to look like this.

The fellow you're thinking of is John Lockwood of San Antonio, Texas. See http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070219.wnethunt0219/BNStory/Technology/home.

As for what the rest of the world does, who the hell cares?

We care because a lot of people here are saying "This couldn't possible work! I can imagine it will lead to all kinds of bad effects like this..." and they then go on to describe something that is known to not happen in the rest of the world where first-to-file has been the norm for decades.

These people remind me of nothing so much as a Renaissance mystic's response to Galileo's observation of the Jovian moons. He said that because there were seven seas on the Earth and seven openings in the human skull, there must be only seven planets in the heavens, so Galileo must be wrong. It "just made sense" to him that extra planets were impossible.

Empirical evidence is always the final arbiter of reality, and should be the final arbiter of policy, and the people here who are basing their beliefs about the consequences of first-to-file on the contents of their imaginations need to start looking beyond the end of their own cerebral cortex.

Just look at how attention to foreign implementations has been fucking up our copyright laws.

Actually, speaking in my capacity as a foreigner, what is happening is quite the opposite. The US is continually trying to bully us into adopting your crazy copyright system.

Empirical fact. It's not just for scientists any more.

.... In the following locations:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070418.wblackberry18/BNStory/Business/home
http://www.wnbc.com/news/12339359/detail.html

But I can verify that their network is up (sort of) and Engaget.com confirms this:

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/blackberry-o utage-update-its-kinda-up-253214.php

So YMMV.

Thanks, I've already added a couple of those sites to my bookmarks, too bad they don't have RSS feeds. Ill look at some of the rest of them in a bit.

As for me, being Canadian, (but living in Europe) and using a lot of politics with my teaching (English teacher), I try and keep a diversified list. I'll try and list them more by theme than amount visited.

Canadian:
The CBC - Dissapointing RSS feed, they don't have too much/day, but it's always good to see what they have to say on Canadian politcs.
The Globe and Mail - The best site for at least a bit thoughtful Canadian news.
The CTV - OK, pulp, but once in awhile it's interesting to see what pulp has to say about things.
TSN - Sports, got to keep up with hockey and curling, none better.
Macleans - The Canadian equivalent of Time, some of their stuff is really great.

International:
The BBC - Probably the best English language news in the world, enough said.
The Guardian - Better analysis than the BBC, but not the sheer volume.
Al Jazeera - More balanced than what you'd think, at least the English version ... well, except for the editorial cartoons.
NY Times - Amazingly crummy RSS feed, seeing as it's one of the biggest newspapers in the US (but probably still better than the CBC).
Deutche Welle - Not the best site, either, but as I'm living in Germany ...

For actually thinking:
The Christian Science Monitor - I'm not religious, and except for a few things (see their "about us"), neither are they. What they are is the most balanced news in the US I've ever seen. They are thoughtful, honest and as far as I can see don't pander to any particular point of view.
Sign and Sight - This is only if you want to spend some time actually reading, as it's not meant for the masses. It takes articles by thinking people from across Europe and translates them into English.

Others: The Register - Tech news with a British sense of humour, and people think they are biased because of it.
Neil Gaiman's Blog - Not as interesting as it used to be, but I've learnt a lot about the book/publishing world through his blog.

Yes, I'm an information hound, and I like to see as many points of view as possible. I've tried fox news a couple of times, but most of the topics I'm interested in they've just taken things off the wire, so nothing new. What I also do is search google news when I find an article I want to get more points of view on. I don't use the service itself, but they are great for finding out who is saying what about a particular topic - you might even find a new angle that hadn't been said 100 times before.

The corn based ethanol craze is founded in subsidies, not practicality.

Yep. I sometimes work with folks from a sustainability think-tank in Winnipeg, and the Globe and Mail (a newspaper somewhere in Canada) just ran an op-ed piece by its president, pointing out that (among other problems) the US government spends $500 in corn-based ethanol subsidies to reduce CO2 emissions by 1 metric tonne, while on the Chicago Climate Exchange (US-based, obviously, and market-driven, which I thought the Bushies liked?) that $500 would buy more than 30 metric tonnes of carbon offsets.

Just doesn't seem like a good deal. Must be that new math again...

the Conservatives in Canada don't bring up "terrorism & child pornography" nearly as often as the US Republicans. ... [Harper] isn't as radical, or can't afford to be.

Could this lawsuit be nothing more than Larry being Larry?

There's an interesting quote from The Globe And Mail article on this:

"This isn't really about protecting intellectual property," said Forrester Research analyst Ray Wang. "This is all about the art of war."

...About this video (and ones like it) are in an article in yesterday's Globe and Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070321.gtpoltube0320/BNStory/Technology/

Three key points from the article:

        * How will Web content outside the control of campaigns affect voters?
        * How should campaigns react to anonymous but highly viewed attacks?
        * When is Web content, no matter how provocative, newsworthy?

Also worth noting. Apple has decided NOT to sue the creator as it would be unlikely that they'd win:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070322.w19840322/BNStory/Technology/

Apple not suing somebody? I'll believe it when I see it.

...About this video (and ones like it) are in an article in yesterday's Globe and Mail:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070321.gtpoltube0320/BNStory/Technology/

Three key points from the article:

        * How will Web content outside the control of campaigns affect voters?
        * How should campaigns react to anonymous but highly viewed attacks?
        * When is Web content, no matter how provocative, newsworthy?

Also worth noting. Apple has decided NOT to sue the creator as it would be unlikely that they'd win:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070322.w19840322/BNStory/Technology/

Apple not suing somebody? I'll believe it when I see it.

Oops, forgot the URLy:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070307.wtaxes0307/BNStory/Technology/home

Adeptus

(4) Nothing in subsection (1) or (2) prevents
(b) the use of a trade-mark by an owner or licensee of the trade-mark if an owner or licensee of the trade-mark used it before March 2, 2007 and the use subsequent to that date is in association with
(i) the same wares or services as those for which the trade-mark was used before that date,
(ii) the wares or services in respect of which it is registered under the Trade-marks Act, or
(iii) any other wares or services of the same general class as that for which it is registered or was, before that date, used;

No, they're the same case. The original article:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070213.w2belggoogle0213/BNStory/Business/home

This article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/business/14googl e.html?_r=2&ref=business&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Notice they both talk about Google News and a group of French newspapers.

The Globe and Mail fell for this too, back on the 7th as Pirates of the Canadians

In fact, the majority of the actual copies are inside jobs, taken from "screeners" sent to reviewers and from copies made by distributors and projectionists. It's amazingly hard for a Montreal cop to catch a "camcorder" who isn't actually in the theater (;-))

Many are copied from copies destined for Quebec, as they include both the english- and french-language versions, and can be identified by watermarks as being destined for or actually sent to, for example, Cineplex Entertainment. Which may explain why Fox was threatening that particular distributor...

--dave

In Europe 70% of the population use mobiles, 63% in Canada and in the US 55%.

Where did you get those numbers? Canada is far behind the USA in cell phone use. The main reason? There are only 3 cell phone companies in Canada, and very little competition. As a result, Canadians pay more for mobile use than in most other western countries. Not surprisingly, many Canadians refuse to pay ridiculous fees, and just say no.

But this is a formula.

But Yes, you are right; I saw this in the newspaper on Tuesday (here's a link).

I guess the poster put it off until today.

This can only be a bad propaganda attempt at best. Bugging a coin is only useful to track *the coin.* And if ANYONE was gonna bug Canadian coins, it would be the U.S., the undisputed kings of paranoia. :) Recognize that TPTB are probably off the scale in coke-induced paranoia just because they can be.

Plus, here's the follow-up story:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070110.wspycoin0110/BNStory/National/home

Keep moving. Nothing to see here....

But a U.S. agency that investigated the complaint found no evidence of any secret transmitters, or of any other tampering.

It's not clear why this information failed to find its way into the released U.S. Defence Security Service report.

It isn't true. The whole story is that some american's saw Canadian coins (which, by the way, frequently get special editions with various different things on them from the ribbons for cancer research to moose). They saw the coins looked different, so immediately assumed someone was spying on them in some kind of high tech way. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070110.wspycoin0110/BNStory/National/home

This makes even the most extreme tinfoil hat crowd from Slashdot look rather conservative. I can't believe even one person thought this let alone having the US gov't tax money spent trying to investigate this. Every Canadian knows it's the beaver's that are bugged, little bastards, I see them looking at me.

At least this Globe and Mail report thinks so:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM .20070110.wspycoin0110/BNStory/National/home

166.220 Unlawful use of weapon. (1) A person commits the crime of unlawful use of a weapon if the person:
(b) Intentionally discharges a firearm, blowgun, bow and arrow, crossbow or explosive device within the city limits of any city or within residential areas within urban growth boundaries at or in the direction of any person, building, structure or vehicle within the range of the weapon without having legal authority for such discharge.

if US citizens are involved, then they are liable, perhaps, but the russian entity is not.

--It would certainly go a distance in explaining the actions of some of the supposedly fundamentalist Islamic terrorists in the prelude to the grand 9-11 performance acting in ways most un-Islamic. (Booze and Cocaine and Women [gnn.tv] won't win the devout many points with Allah.) So what's the story here? Were they fundamentalist terrorists, or were they dupe mercenaries who didn't know what they were signing up for, and who were allowed to bring off their clutzy plan while the US secret services conveniently looked the other way [tvnewslies.org], while the secret/shadow government [washingtonpost.com] provided access to the remote controlled [911review.com] jets actually capable of performing the precision flying which badly-trained mercenary goof-balls could not have been asked to manage, and while the Israeli-owned security companies [whatreallyhappened.com] which held contracts at each of the airports involved during 9-11, gave them fast-lane service at the boarding check points?

There is a great antidote to some of that confusion: Debunking 9/11 Myths

Dudes with bombs and box-cutters working independently is still the false reality which needs to be understood here. The myth of terrorists is the preferred tool for building the fascist state. Luckily, this is increasingly well understood. It's the 'How' which seems to be causing some hiccups.

Here are some victories the good guys won against terrorism around the world in the last couple of weeks (this list doesn't include terrorist attacks):

11 suspected Islamic radicals arrested in Spanish African enclave
Spain arrests Chechen rebel suspect wanted in Russia
Turkey Arrests Suspected Regional Al Qaeda Leader
Turkey arrests 10 with suspected links to al-Qaeda
Pakistan arrests 47 suspected Taliban
13 foreign nationals arrested in S. Afghanistan
Police Claim Arresting Taliban Commander in Ghazni
Pakistanis Arrest 90 Afghans at Border
Saudi detains 139 suspected militants
Security forces scrambled to disrupt Asian summit terror plots
Court freezes Islamic group's bank account
Top aide of Qaeda chief in Iraq killed
Morocco jails 14 Islamists
Eight French Islamists Returned To France
4 Dutch Muslims Convicted of Terror Plan
and another trial: Denmark: Muslim terror trial begins
Terrorist plot targeting Illinois mall foiled
Man accused in Taliban arrest ordered held without bail
And reaching back just a little further just to inc

Lest you say that the Register is not a trusty new source, Canada's leading paper, The Globe and Mail ran a 2/3 page story on this today in the Business section.

I question Forrester's reliability, on the other hand. But the press does love a controversy.

Canadian Suicide Car Bombers??

This Canadian suicide bomber killed fellow Canadians in Afghanistan. These Canadian Al Qaeda supporters, who had world-wide connections, were preparing to start attacking various targets in Canada, and were trying to obtain enough explosives for a large truck bomb. Al Qaeda has warned Canada that it is subject to attack (due at least in part to the fact that Canadians as a whole don't follow extreme Islam). If Britain can have suicide bombers attack inside the country, I doubt that there is any reason Canada couldn't. A suicide bicycle bomber killed four Candian soldiers in September, and a suicide car bomber killed two Canadian soldiers last week. Canadians are already being killed by suicide terrorists, at least one of which was Canadian, and there are more like minded people already operating in Canada, partially due to extremists exploiting holes in Canada's immigration policy. Hopefully, when the Canadian security services break up terror cells in the future, they won't just deport them, but will send them to prison. Canada is a great nation facing some difficult choices and tasks.

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