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'expose and dismantle global criminal networks, which depend on secrecy and discretion in order to function.'

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1227431--hsbc-laundered-billions-of-dollars-for-mexican-drug-cartels-senate-investigation-finds

http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/21434-dea-laundered-money-for-colombian-narco.html

At 300 Billion in annual illegal narcotics business? You can bet the real profiters own banks. And won't be targeted by Google's little step into untrustworthyness.

I'm on the conservative/libertarian side of things most (but not all) days,

Full disclosure: I'm the same way, but on the other side of the spectrum. So right off the top, you're my kind of conservative: not rigid & ideological: that is a bad thing to have coming from either side.

We've had issues with robocalls and funding irregularities in Canada, but not, as far as I am aware, any significant credible allegations of ballot or vote fraud.

That used to be the case, but it gives me no joy to show that you're probably wrong on this one:

allegations that at least 2,700 voters made applications for late registration to vote in Eglinton—Lawrence and that many failed to provide addresses or gave false or non-residential addresses, all of which failed to meet Election Canada rules.

And, in Scarborough:

Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Lederer declared Conservative MP Ted Opitz's narrow defeat over Liberal Wrzesnewskykj "null and void" under the Canada Elections Act, on the basis of a number of voting irregularities.

The Canadian system is far from perfect, though I'm inclined to think, like the banking system up here, it's somewhat superior to the current US system.

Again I agree with you, but fear that the current regime is intent on changing the status quo. My pet theory is that the Bill C-30 ("Internet Spying Act") is not to "Protect children on the Internet" but to allow Pierre Poutine to scour the telecom records of opposition candidates. Otherwise it makes no sense to allow anyone chosen by the minister to have these powers instead of just police.

And the old election fraud techniques by the CPC are being exposed, need something new. Besides, Mssr Poutine isn't above *planting* some "evidence", IMHO. And if nasty, false allegations are flung at opposition hopefuls, it would take years to clear the record. Like the "Robocall" election fraud: think that will be prosecuted before the next election is held? I personally highly doubt it.

Meh, turned into a long rant, sorry...

You don't actually understand how credit cards work. Every time you buy something from a store with a credit card, the credit card company gets something like $1 + 3% of what you purchased. That's right, if the store is making a 10% profit on your purchase, almost a third of it goes to VISA or Mastercard. Before 2008, the credit card companies were looking for debt slaves. They loved the people who carried near the maximum balances and made near the minimum payment. However, after the economy tanked they were reminded of how risky that is. Apparently, post 2008 they started seeking out the no-balance people who buy lots of stuff and pay it off every month. They were the new targeted group. I'm not sure if the credit card companies are still actively targeting the no balance people but they are very lucrative for the credit card companies.

Now if you credit card company decides to force you to pay a fee to carry your card, cancel it. They'll eventually learn not to do that. You have to remember corporations are like evil little children. If you don't rap their knuckles every time they get into mischief they'll rob you blind while mocking you for it. See the shackle shoes, for example. It's amazing that a company could reasonably despise it's customer that much.

Well, there's this:
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6456/125/

But did you also know that the Conservative Party of Canada lobbied the US government to bump up Canada's position on that list?

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1048993--leaks-show-u-s-swayed-canada-on-copyright-bill

The cables, from the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, even have a policy director for then industry minister Tony Clement suggesting it might help U.S. demands for a tough copyright law if Canada were placed among the worst offenders on an international piracy watch list. Days later, the U.S. placed Canada alongside China and Russia on the list.

Facts are fun!

You might want to go look at my response to Karl Cocknozzle's (his name, not a derogatory nickname I've given him) sibling post. You know, the one where I wrote: "Denying bail and detaining him for 11 months while his trial was pending - I believe that's unreasonable. Pressing charges after the full investigation suggested he was mostly a harmless crackpot? Probably unreasonable, but apparently the prosecution felt they had a stronger case than they did."

A new criminal trial should start, one targeted at the officers in question, they who purposefully abused the trust placed in them in order to pursue personal agendas that had nothing to do with law and justice.

"The officers in question"? Really? So a couple random cops who were sent out to arrest him are the ones who masterminded and directed the entire politically motivated persecution you're alleging happened? If there was political motivation friend, his target should be much higher than "officers Smith and Jones, who arrested me." If it was politically motivated, you're looking at city, provincial, and perhaps even national elected officials. Not a couple patrol cops who got sent out to arrest him.

How did the police officers "abuse the trust placed in them?" What "personal agenda" did they pursue? They arrested a man they had cause to believe was planning to build and use bombs during the G-20 summit. A man who went out of his way - by his own admission - to behave suspiciously in an experiment to "test security." A man who was TRYING to bring security scrutiny down on his activities. And then when they focused on him, he thought he could just go "HA HA! Just kidding guys! I'm really harmless," and they'd smile and say "Oh okay then, have a nice day, eh?"

The civil suit he has stated his intention to file will no doubt examine his treatment by the police, and whether the 11 months in jail warrant some compensation by the state. But there is no requirement that you be "guilty beyond the shadow of a doubt" before the police arrest you. All they need is probable cause, and, again, he went out of his way to give them that.

I encourage you to read that Toronto Star article I just linked. It details his attempts to get the police to take notice of him - and they did. It also, interestingly, it closes like this:

He understands if people think he got what he deserved; that if you poke the bear, the bear might poke back. But he wishes the public, in general, made more of a fuss when their liberties are restricted, even in extreme circumstances like the G20.

“I’m not trying to dress myself up as some kind of civil rights superhero. . . . But I’d like to see this as something that feeds into some kind of future dialogue about the way things are going.”

It seems to me that it is not only Saverin who is not mindful of and not caring about the health of the nation and the people around him. Judging from the articles linked below, it seems that the entire of Facebook is not healthy:

Facebook's reputation in the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the April 2012 competition to be voted the worst company in the United States .

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Fac

G8/G20 Summit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_G-20_Toronto_summit

McLean's article: http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/06/27/torontos-g20-summit-a-failure-all-around/

The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/27/g20-rioters-toronto-protests (Note that the video attached to this article is now unavailable because the Guardian "no longer has rights to it". Isn't that another lame example of DRM?). Note the law concerning coming within 5m of the fence mentioned at the bottom of the article never existed, and was a fabrication of the Toronto Police Dept.

Police assaulting a reporter: http://www.thestar.com/news/torontog20summit/article/902236--toronto-journalist-witnessed-police-brutality-at-toronto-g20

Parliamentary Committee Slams Police Brutality during the Summit: http://drdawgsblawg.ca/2011/03/parliamentary-committee-slams-g20-police-brutality.shtml

Amnesty International: http://rabble.ca/news/2010/06/amnesty-international-wants-g8-g20-security-reviewed

Videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxuYOoNk7U
  Notice that most of the people are really there to watch the spectacle and take pictures on their cellphones. Only a handful stand up at the police line and passively protest. The police presence here (almost 1Bn spent on security for this event - although a lot of that was misappropriated pork-barreling by politicians as well) is a bit overboard.

Police as Agents Provocateur: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbLU9tdDwxo

Just some quick grabs from the Interwebs.

I do believe in a decade or so we'll be able to look up the word "Retarded" in the dictionary and see "Harper" listed as one of the synonyms.

This isn't the first time he and his government have done such a thing - last year it was the new crime bill, which awards more jail time for pot growers/dealers (a harmless drug, at that) than to a paedophile or rapist. Seriously:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1126546--harsher-sentences-for-pot-growers-than-for-pedophiles-caught-pm-s-eye-documents

Oh... and despite tossing out more and longer prison sentences, he's also shutting down prisons. Logic is not one of his strong points.

Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the April 2012 competition to be voted the worst company in the United States .

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook photo and a generic description offered to police by the victim's boyfriend."

Defending herself required a "... court appearance and several thousand dollars in legal bills."


Open source will prevail. E

There's growing evidence that Canada's Conservatives learned how to do this kind of fraud south of the border - e.g. a growing tangled web of links between them and US firms used by the republicans... http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1140344--conservative-mps-used-top-republican-firm-during-may-election

The financial system in the U.S. is corrupt, in my opinion. There are many arrangements that help those in control steal from the average person.

Sooner or later, people will realize that Facebook promotes fake relationships. Unfortunately, that realization will apparently come after investors have lost billions in Facebook's IPO.

Facebook's reputation with the mainstream media is rapidly getting worse. Facebook is getting a bad reputation partly because of articles in the mainstream media like these:

Worst company: Facebook was a semi-finalist in the competition to be voted the worst company in the United States.

Facebook follows its business rules? Not always. The April 7, 2012 Wall Street Journal story, Selling You on Facebook, says:

"Facebook requires apps [mobile phone software applications] to ask permission before accessing a user's personal details. However, a user's friends aren't notified if information about them is used by a friend's app. An examination of the apps' activities also suggests that Facebook occasionally isn't enforcing its own rules on data privacy."

There's more like that in the article.

Facebook tracks every web page you visit that has a Facebook button (using Javascript). For example, if you visit the Oregonian Newspaper web site, Facebook tracks every story you visit, even if you don't click on the "Like" button. There are ways to prevent that (using Firefox with the NoScript add-on), but most people don't know about them.

Companies pay people to click on Facebook "Like" buttons. The number of Facebook "Likes" doesn't give any indication of popularity.

On December 9, 2011 it was necessary to click on a Facebook "Like" button to be allowed to see Fry's Electronics ads.

Do 86,688 people (on April 9, 2012) really like Firestone Complete Auto Care, or did the company offer something to be "liked"?

A few problems with Facebook: Richard Stallman wrote a short list of things wrong with Facebook.

How much information does Facebook keep? Read the December 13, 2011 article, Twenty Something Asks Facebook For His File And Gets It - All 1,200 Pages.

What do people in other countries think? The May 14, 2010 article, Facebook is not your friend gives one idea.

The June 15, 2011 article, The End of Facebook, and the June 14, 2011 article, Is this the beginning of the end for Facebook? give others.

Most people don't understand the problems that may occur. For example, consider the March 28, 2012 article, Teacher's aide says 'no access' to her Facebook; now legal battle with school.

This April 4, 2012 article would be funny if it weren't so sad: Woman arrested for assault based on Facebook photo. Quotes:

"Aston ... was charged ... based solely on a Facebook

This system is supposed to handle micropayments. Yeah, the penny costs 1.6 cents to produce. But, because it's metal, it can easily survive being used in 10,000 transactions. This is equivalant to a surcharge of 0.016% per transaction. In the case of nickels/dimes/quarters and $1 and $2 coins, the overhead ratio becomes even more microscopic. Compare this with what credit card companies charge. From http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2009/04/16/f-cardfees.html

> Merchants pay two to four per cent of the sale price in various
> transaction fees whenever they accept a credit card for payment.

> âoePlayers you wouldnâ(TM)t have thought of beforeâ are looking for
> ways to get into the market of secure transactions, she said.

The article in the summary ( http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1159513--royal-canadian-mint-to-create-digital-currency ) says...
> âoeYouâ(TM)re seeing competitors that have been in the space in a while
> and new competitors looking at the payments market as an opportunity.â

Being a middleman is very profitable. It would be even more profitable if every minor transaction was charged.

Oh Canada, they' re not that different http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1136659--kitchener-dad-arrested-at-school-after-daughter-draws-picture-of-gun

You are also exposed to infrasound from car traffic, household appliances, and your own beating heart. As for the intensity of the sound, there are already regulations for how close wind turbines can be placed to residences to control for this.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/738734--wind-gets-clean-bill-of-health

Online voting can and will become the norm in the future. Like anything else we do in our lives, implementation is key and the only thing between success and failure. Perhaps the good professor should look at this: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/provincialelection/article/1059558--internet-voting-in-advance-polls-a-great-success-in-markham-report-finds

And that also means that The Harper Government would also be out.

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1048993--leaks-show-u-s-swayed-canada-on-copyright-bill?bn=1

A U.S. Embassy cable written in April 2009 describes a meeting between
Zoe Addington, director of policy for then industry minister Clement, and U.S. officials.

In contrast to the messages from other Canadian officials, she said that
if Canada is elevated to the Special 301 Priority Watch List (PWL), it would not hamper
and might even help the (government of Canada's) ability to enact copyright legislation,

the cable says.

Days later, Canada was elevated on the piracy watch list.

NOTE: entire post shamelessly stolen from guidryp

And when it does happen, the government is completely powerless to investigate or prosecute it.

oh wait..

Your link is corrupt. Here is a corrected link for the 45,000kg fermentation tank.

Oh come on. In Canada we can move a series of 45,000kg fermentation tank(120,000kg on a weekend from the ports in Hamilton to their new home in Toronto. And that's moving them down some of the busiest roadways in Canada(remember ~60% of the population of Canada lives between Windsor and Montreal). I'd say that it was more of an issue with poor timing of the installation than anything.

Not the first time unfortunately

Well, but that guy is a lot more suspicious. Sure all the chemicals he had may have just been for the purpose of model rocketry. And, he may have just been photographing the defenses for the summit as a hobby. And he may have posted comments about how to climb over the fences, and even pictures of tools that could be used to do so efficiently simply to point out how they should be more secure. And he may have been asking people to post pictures of the badge that could be used to get inside the security perimeter out of curiosity. For future reference, combining pictures of police with comments about how they are bacon, pictures documenting the security of a major international trade summit, advice on tools that can be used to bypass the defenses, and pictures of things that can be used to make bombs in the same photo album is probably not the best strategy to stay below the radar. It is a lot different than making a single joke on twitter.

https://twitter.com/#!/torontogoat
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toronto_goat/

We need to be asking the right questions here:

He made the tweet on Jan 21, and he was picked up three days later. That is an incredibly fast turnaround for law enforcement, even for the US or Canada.

We're talking about suspicion that there's about to be an attack, particularly one involving the T-word, frankly 3 days is a little slow (but who knows when the trade show was).

They were throwing the T-word around like it was a known fact, all while terrorizing his wife and co-workers.

Not the first time unfortunately

So, let's ask some useful questions.

1. How long have the authorities been monitoring this man?
2. WHY have they been monitoring him?
3. WHY did they go after his co-workers?

The answers are bound to be exceptionally interesting and frightening.

1. He's Arab and presumably Muslim, he and a ton of people like him have probably been monitored to some degree for a while.
2. see 1), particularly if he's part of a mosque you probably don't have to follow that many links to find someone with terrorist ties (you can do the same thing with Christian Churches involving pedophiles and pro-life extremists).
3) Some analyst saw the message, assumed he was a terrorist, saw a couple other things that while innocent, still fit the bill, then freaked out. Once it became clear that he was completely innocent they had to drop charges, but they'd already investigated him and they knew if he ever DID get involved with terrorism in the future, they'd risk having huge egg on the faces, thus they're leaving the marker on his record as a CYA (Cover Your Ass).

At least this group is smart enough to not claim that they reached space.

Of course not, but the Toronto Star certainly has trouble understanding the difference between "very high" and "space". Two front-page news stories on this in one day - a bit silly all things considered.

I'm curious at your use of the word "force" - as far as I was aware Canada was not forcing India (etc) to buy asbestos; rather, they want it and we will supply it, despite the fact that it's virtually banned here at home (and in most developed nations). It's like an ardent non-smoker selling cigarettes: not technically illegal, but awfully hypocritical.

I don't have any links at hand, but I am fairly certain that we took someone (a country) to court for resisting the deal on the same grounds that make using asbestos here illegal, and won because trade agreement provisions trump domestic law. I didn do a quick google and failed to find evidence to support "forced" maybe my recollection is in error, maybe it isn't the deal with India.
Regardless, we shouldn't be selling it at all.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1102952--last-stand-for-asbestos
Chrysotile asbestos is listed under Canada’s Hazardous Substances Act but, according to our government, is not hazardous for people overseas. Around the world, Canada’s conduct was bitterly condemned as a despicable double standard.

http://www.themarknews.com/articles/7555-no-environmental-review-for-asbestos-in-india-trade-deal
Canada exported $40.3 million worth of asbestos-related products to India in 2010, according to Industry Canada, and the World Health Organization says asbestos causes an estimated 8,000 deaths each year in India

A wealth of links here: http://www.canadianasbestosexports.ca/canadian-coverage
End the Export of Canadian Cancer!

and wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos_and_the_law

"Today's youth"? Really? You telling us that yesterday's youth was any better?

Yeah. At least the Hitler Youth had ideals, and the Musical Youth had music. These days it's too much about Air Jordans.

You can even have another Toronto paper if you like.

The upper management doesn't need skills, since they know how to get people with skills, that is why they spend their time with golf and relaxation... at that level, that is how work is done (slowly with relationships and quickly with manipulation).

If this is your view of upper management, you're braindead.

(BTW, I'm not the GP. Anyways:)

Although not every job is the same, and there may be variations in what different jobs entail, the few books on management (that is executive level management) that I have read describe "management" as being largely a sales role. So yes, this often involves business lunches, golf games with business partners, and cocktails.

I ducked nothing - the fact is you have not presented a single fact in all your posts while I have presented many facts and pieces of data. When you start backing up your wild claims with some actual facts then maybe you can try to make demands, but hand waving doesn't get you there.

Frankly, I find that argument more apt to you than me. You've presented exactly one fact in this argument to support your conclusion that the conservatives are better at curbing emissions than the Liberals. And that alleged fact is that emissions were lower in Canada in 2009 than in 1998. You have not cited where your number comes from and I have explained the facts that would lead us to expect emissions to fall in 2009. You also haven't been willing or able to explain what you think the Conservatives actually did to decrease emissions by 25% in 1 year.

The reason is that they didn't do anything. The two largest contributors to greenhouse gases in Canada are oil production, transportation, and electricity generation in that order. Both oil production and electricity fell during the recession because demand fell significantly. These are facts. It is a fact, that GDP didn't grow in 2009, it shrank by more than 3%. It is a fact that during a recessionary year, our emissions were still 17% over Kyoto targets.

Even the Conservative Government credits the reductions in 2008 to slower economic growth and less coal-fired power. Power generation is a provincial matter, not a federal one.

Now if we look at the actual reasons why GHG emissions increased between 1990 and 2009, 54% comes from fossil fuel industries, and 45% from transportation. Which means the single largest contributor to the failure to meet Kyoto targets? Alberta. The booming oil industries in Alberta are responsible for almost half of the increase in GHGs.

Frankly, I find your hostile and abusive behavior to be the real polarizing problem here. I have been more than fair, I attribute blame to both the Liberals and the Conservatives, yet you can't seem to accept that. I made one comment about the Prime Minister, at the outset, I have not invented any conspiracies. Unless you somehow think recessions are conspiracies. I have repeatedly shown that the facts don't mean what you think they mean and you have repeatedly ignored everything I have written, to criticize me for not agreeing with you.

Considering you can't even recognize that context is vitally important when discussing trends and the fact that you think the largest recession in decades isn't important to the numbers under discussion, leads me to believe that you are clueless partisan with no interest in actual discussion. I'm done here.

Usually when people (or corporations) rant against "slavery", they are ranting against "white slavery" or prostitution. Like the article says; "... intervention and rescue of people being held, forced to work or provide sex against their will...". Of course these same people are in denial of the fact that many people deliberately get into "sexual slavery" (i.e. prostitution) because the money is good. Of course, there will be people coercing their employees, just like in the industrial sector.

Too bad all (or at least most) of the talk about "slavery" is only about prostitution. Too bad, because a lot of large corporations like the Fox television network use Chinese prison slaves to make novelty products for distribution in the United States (like Homer Simpson slippers).

Not to mention that industrial slavery is rampant in North America. It's a crime that nobody in the Conservative movement wants to talk about.

Additional References:
The Virgin Trade
AND
Youtube

Usually when people (or corporations) rant against "slavery", they are ranting against "white slavery" or prostitution. Like the article says; "... intervention and rescue of people being held, forced to work or provide sex against their will...". Of course these same people are in denial of the fact that many people deliberately get into "sexual slavery" (i.e. prostitution) because the money is good. Of course, there will be people coercing their employees, just like in the industrial sector.

Too bad all (or at least most) of the talk about "slavery" is only about prostitution. Too bad, because a lot of large corporations like the Fox television network use Chinese prison slaves to make novelty products for distribution in the United States (like Homer Simpson slippers).

Not to mention that industrial slavery is rampant in North America. It's a crime that nobody in the Conservative movement wants to talk about.

Additional References:
The Virgin Trade
AND
Youtube

Misogynist - a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women.

Casual sexism is misogyny

Hags, dogs, whores, bitches. It's amazing how much hate you can pack into a few syllables. How do you spot a woman-hater? By the way they talk about women, treat women, react to women, represent women. Bitching about women, slagging off women â" even the language used to describe such slander comes from misogyny. The ubiquitous verbal violence supports physical violence and nobody, male or female, minds. If I were called a Paki in the street, I would have some hope of it being taken seriously. If I were called a slag â" as I was last summer by a man on a bicycle, in Stepney â" nobody would consider it report-worthy.

When a workplace misogynist comes calling

Beauty and misogyny: harmful cultural practices in the West pp 115ff, dealing with the workplace.

Misogeny isn't just about the greek root word, and not all misogynists are looking to beat the pulp out of women.

What was missing from the summary is that the serious incident that set this event off was a parent who was hit in the head and ended up with a concussion. Apparently instead of dealing with the one student, they chose to ban balls outright.

There is a good deal of emphasis on the news that the ban is temporary, but that just seems silly to me - if you admit you are going to allow balls again, then why ban them at all?

Another interesting thing that happened in response was a student protest (We Want Our Balls Back). Picture school aged children (grade school, not high school) protesting. You'll see in the article one student exclaimed "“You can take our balls, but you can’t take our freedom!”

It is also somewhat interesting to note that one of the local newscaster's children went to the school and thought it was ridiculous. His comment was (on the subject of a post above) "I've been hurt more by a pencil."

So, it should be clarified in defence of Canadians, that we think it is rather crazy too.

With enough devices on the market, altogether with advances in Ad-hoc networks, this may be possible (I think there are still tweaks to the routing protocols, which I think are pure madness).

I posted something about this just this morning, linking to an older article I wrote. In a nutshell, between advances in wireless networking protocols and approaches, improvements in mesh networking and new developments in end-to-end voice and data encryption, we can reasonably begin thinking about creating telco-less networks.

However, I see two main groups against such thing:

1. The carriers, that may lose a big chunk of customers that don't mind no having complete availability.

2. But most importantly, the government, which, besides of opposing to this, may also be worried about not being able to track users so easily and tap on conversations, as they do now.

So more than "technically", I think is politically unfeasible.

I reposted the article because of the SOPA fiasco currently playing itself out in the US Congress. Network ownership (or, more precisely, the affiliation between network owners and so-called content owners) is one of the main obstacles to the continued development of the Internet as we know it. The only way around the draconian content restrictions being proposed by media and tech companies is to operate a network that doesn't rely on their good graces.

I don't have any illusions whatsoever that a Jobs-inspired Apple network would have been a Free Information playground. Quite the contrary. It would most likely have resembled a digital Disneyland, with cutesy characters allowing you to do anything you like, as long as it's what they intended you to do in the first place.

Nonetheless, the idea of a Network Of Devices is sound. I just wish someone with both the necessary resources and a sane understanding of freedom were in a position to begin creating it. Unfortunately, I'm not sure such a creature exists....

Then steer them towards jobs in high finance and save them a life of grief

You're not from Greece, right?

It's not the people in high finance that are going to get the hardest shafting in Greece, I assure you.

Take portfolio managers for example. What other job can you lose boat loads of money, not hit your target and STILL take home a bonus?
That would NEVER happen in any field of computing.

"Four top executives of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board pocketed nearly $7 million in bonuses this year despite losing $24 billion of taxpayers' money in bad investments, according to the board's annual report released yesterday."
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/642330

http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/1070868--centenarian-marathoner-singh-sets-world-record-by-completing-toronto-event?bn=1

For a person getting purposefully run over by a New York City police vehicle, I guess the pain is just as bad as getting stabbed by somebody in Darfur. Too bad there isn't that much difference between the violence of police officers in OTHER countries versus the violence of police officers in our own countries. And we all know who those police officers are protecting; it isn't the weakest and most vulnerable in society that the police protect.

Reference:
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1069659--police-move-in-on-occupy-protesters-in-new-york-denver?bn=1

The guy was an excellent product designer...

Steve Jobs didn't design anything... He got OTHER people to design things for him, and then he solicited other people's opinions to decide whether the designs were good are not.

Steve Jobs didn't create anything. What he was good at was manipulating people. When Steve Jobs worked at Atari at some low level menial job, he got his friend Steve Wozniak to redesign the circuit boards to make them more efficient (with the promise that he would give his friend half the money), but instead of giving him half of the 5000 dollars to Wozniak, he lied to his friend and gave him 300 dollars plus some change. Anyone who knows about Steve Jobs knows that this is just a prelude and example into the rest of his life and on how he treated his business partners and investors, employees, and even his customers (remember when he said "fuck them" when he refused to honour customer service and warranty agreements). He wouldn't even give child support to his own daughter when he was a multi-millionare. Steve Jobs was an evil person. I find it amazing that people get up set when somebody who has morals and intelligence (like Richard Stallman) get upset when they point out that the emperor has no clothes.

Ref: http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1065515--steve-jobs-from-college-dropout-to-cult-hero
(et at...)

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1048993--leaks-show-u-s-swayed-canada-on-copyright-bill?bn=1

A U.S. Embassy cable written in April 2009 describes a meeting between
Zoe Addington, director of policy for then industry minister Clement,
and U.S. officials.

“In contrast to the messages from other Canadian officials, she said
that if Canada is elevated to the Special 301 Priority Watch List
(PWL), it would not hamper — and might even help — the (government of
Canada's) ability to enact copyright legislation,” the cable says.

Days later, Canada was elevated on the piracy watch list.

This would have happened whether a "Conservative, right-wing" government was in or the Liberals. To understand, you need to read a 2008 story from the same watchdog, Michael Geist (to whom all Canada should be deeply indebted for tracking these issues for years):

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/443867

The key phrase in the story is "Canadian officials arrived ready to talk about a series of economic concerns but were quickly rebuffed by their U.S. counterparts, who indicated that progress on other issues would depend upon action on the copyright file."

Americans are sometimes surprised to learn (Condi Rice was one, which was disappointing from a foreign-affairs scholar) that Canada is the US' largest trading partner, more bilateral trade than with your #2 (China) and your #4 (UK) combined, nearly as much as China+Japan (#3). So imagine how large a trading partner the US is for Canada - 80% of the total, last time I checked, that is, 4X as much trade as with all other partners combined.

When the US really wants to lean on Canada at trade discussions, their only difficulty is choosing which levers to pull: making trouble over standard inspections of meat and grains? Lumber? Re-investigating whether Canada subsidizes iron ore, holding up imports while doing so?

So you can find some profoundly anti-Canadian stances being taken by Canadian trade officials - until you see the larger picture and find they were arranging to charge all Canadians an extra $100/year for media content ($3 billion from 30 million people) to smooth the path for $6B in exports - of the $76B total, they only have to pick less than 10% to threaten.

This is the same Maxime Bernier who left his then-girlfriend (a , among others) secret documents.. He was forced to resign

Looks like the blog is down.

Anyways, Michael Geist's column is here:
http://www.thestar.com/article/1032104--geist-court-grapples-with-legalities-of-anonymous-online-postings

Is it worth trying to fix a system that isn't broken?"

If it means less transparency for the system, then I say yes, lets fix the system. Because more transparency generally means that corporations make less money, and the less money corporations make the less well off society is in general.

Google and Sony are already part of the patent pool at the Open Invention Network - the patent pool set up to defend linux. So are other heavyweights such as IBM and HP.

Adding Motorola's patents, many of which are specific to mobile, will protect the core of Android. This is Apple's worst nightmare, since it means that now the shoe is on the other foot - the Android makers have at least as much, if not more, ammo in any patent war, and Android, already with 48% market share, is going to have what amounts to a name-brand reference implementer.

The other Android manufacturers will ultimately see this as Google saying "We're in this for the long haul, and we'll spend whatever it takes to defend Android, and coincidentally, you."

Bonus question: Since Moto will continue to operate as a separate business, will Google buy RIM at some point? After all, the company has a product with some desirable features, and a boatload of patents in wireless and security. Imagine a world where all Android devices can offer optional Blackberry-style message security. Now imagine all Apple and WP7 phones NOT having it. How many people would pay a premium (offering better margins to both the manufacturers and the telcos) for the superior Android product? They have enough cash on hand to do both deals, even if they offer a 50% premium for RIM.

WRT antitrust concerns, GOOG could argue that just as MMI will be run independently, they will do the same for RIMM. Also, that they continue to offer the Android system to everyone, including any newcomer, so it will continue to increase, not decrease, competition in the smartphone, tablet, and small-form-factor laptop spaces.

The problem is the airport got shutdown. It shouldn't have to be shutdown if things were done properly: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199---israelification-high-security-little-bother

At the check-in desk, your luggage is scanned immediately in a purpose-built area. Sela plays devil's advocate - what if you have escaped the attention of the first four layers of security, and now try to pass a bag with a bomb in it?

"I once put this question to Jacques Duchesneau (the former head of the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority): say there is a bag with play-doh in it and two pens stuck in the play-doh. That is 'Bombs 101' to a screener. I asked Ducheneau, 'What would you do?' And he said, 'Evacuate the terminal.' And I said, 'Oh. My. God.'

A screener at Ben-Gurion has a pair of better options.

First, the screening area is surrounded by contoured, blast-proof glass that can contain the detonation of up to 100 kilos of plastic explosive. Only the few dozen people within the screening area need be removed, and only to a point a few metres away.

Second, all the screening areas contain 'bomb boxes'. If a screener spots a suspect bag, he/she is trained to pick it up and place it in the box, which is blast proof. A bomb squad arrives shortly and wheels the box away for further investigation.

"This is a very small simple example of how we can simply stop a problem that would cripple one of your airports," Sela said.

Note date on article: 2009-12-30

What a crock of shit.

You use the same type of arguments as the apologists for the Conservative (and vocal Harper supporter) mayor Rob Ford of Toronto has. Examples:

In between Dundas and Queen along Spadina is the hub of stupidity and home to no shortage of delusional left wing out patients. This was almost certainly 100% made up. I don't think its a coincidence that the claim is being made in the same region as Kensington Market and the home base of the cyclist union.

and

...always looking at what others are doing instead of minding their own business. Gesture away, relieve your stress and be you!!

and

I personally feel it was an irresponsible piece of journalism.

and

Mr. Mayor, please ignore it, don't give the Toronto Star what they want

etc...

References:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1030838--rob-ford-alleged-rude-gesture-a-misunderstanding?bn=1
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=211125698938840&id=142577519126992

Are you claiming that, unlike Stephen Harper, Hitler was NOT in favour of:
- putting people in jail, and creating huge mega-prisons
- forced labour penal chain gangs
- dramatically increased mega-legislation of "law and order" type suppression
- courting big businesses and the Conservative elite
- accepting money from rich people, and undermining unions (Hitler actually killed off the "socialists" in his "National Socialist" party, after he was finished using them)
- in favour of censorship
- in favour of ubiquitous and warrant-less government surveillance.
- against homosexuality
- against marijuana users (Hitler was big time against drug users; read Ceremonial Chemistry by Dr. Thomas Szasz some time)
- Hitler never used extremist us-vs-them propaganda
etc, etc and so on.

Are you claiming that history is a "crock of shit"?

We here in the United States will try to teach you how to give the Fraternity the finger. For now... until we've marshaled the strength to put a stake through its dogmatic heart.

You mean like the Conservative mayor of Toronto (and a very vocal Harper supporter).

Really, so you haven't investigated how other countries deal with airport security? Israeli airports provide real security without all this nonsense of fondling little kids and grandmothers.

If we pulled our heads out of our collective asses and looked around we may find that other nations have already solved problems we are currently facing. But I guess that's asking too much of my country.

Isn't that the same airline that broke Dave Carrol's $3500 (Canadian, supposedly) Taylor guitar, and subsequently lost his luggage?

One assumes they need some good press too....

Canada's just jealous because their persistent stupidity at the UN finally turned other countries against them last year.

Nope
Not one single injury
EVER