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Canadian Government to Jam Radio Signals
An anonymous reader submits: "According to this article, the Canadian government has given the military and RCMP permission to jam radio signals during the G8 summit and the Pope's visit. I suppose that the stated reason would be to prevent terrorists from communicating with each other, but I have to wonder whether it's also being done to keep those pesky protesters from effectively organizing at the G8. And if this action manages to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's going to be willing to step up to the plate and take the blame?"
911 calls are free on pay phones
As it turns out, our representatives wisely decided to opt for a capitalist system. The highest bidder (that is, the bidder with the strongest desire to speak), is able to purchase spectrum at a reasonable cost from the American people. Thus, the maximum possible return is achieved for the taxpayers, and the highest bidder has paid a fair price for the scarce resource they need. Capitalism works - period.
Unfortunately, Canadia is not a capitalist society. Canadians favor socialist approaches to health care, government, and (yes) RF spectrum allocation. This means that the rights to an area of spectrum belong to the government, not to the people (as in America). And the Canadian government is now flexing their muscle and exercising their right to take this valuable resource away from its citizens, who wish to communicate amongst themselves. This underscores a crucial point of socialism: its sole purpose is to maintain control over the populace, at any cost. The basic premise of capitalism flies in the face of this sort of manipulation, and that is why America will never become a police state, regardless of what Draconian laws the Bush administration manages to pass.
So, in summary: you get what you elect. If you vote for socialists, don't expect to get fair use out of the natural resources and public goods in your country. The lesson comes at a high cost for many Canadians (witness the breakdown of their health care system), but recognizing the problem is the first step in finding a solution and joining the rest of the Western world in becoming a capitalist country.
Bill
911 calls are free from pay phones. Wait, they're free from American pay phones. Heaven forbid I should tell Canadians how to run a telephone system.
Pay phone calls are not 25 cents, and haven't been for several years. The Verizon pay phones down the street from me are 50 cents. Many pay phones do not even accept loose change, as it's just easier to restrict your customer base to those customers who have credit cards or calling cards.
The "what if someone dies because 911 can't be called from a cell phone" argument sounds suspiciously close to "won't somebody please think of the children!!", which we all know is crap.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
We lived without sanitary water supplies for one hundred years.
We lived without electricity for 100 years.
We lived without roads and cars for 100 years.
We lived without airplanes for 100 years.
And of course, we lived without stupid comments on what we lived without for a long long time.
Infuriate left and right
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
ROFLMAO
What an insecure little dweeb. What's a matter, can't feel good about yourself without steerotyping the Nerds so you have somebody to look down on? You are just like the Klansmen who's inferiorty complex leads them to look for "proof" that they are "superior" to "Niggers" and "Kikes".
Oh those poor little mythical 9 year olds in Indonesia! Reality check. Does the Gap send out slave catchers to kidnap kids for their "sweatshops"? Hell No the Parents try to get them jobs there if they can't get the jobs themselves because the "Sweatshops" often pay higher wages than the local jobs. Try talking to the people you CLAIM you want to help. They bitch because there aren't MORE of the so called "sweatshops". They think we buy too many raw materials instead of allowing them to do the factory work.
Kids NOT working is a vainty for wealthy nations. In the poorer nations the choice for most people is put the kids to work or go short on food. Sending the kids to work is a chance for the family to get ahead. These conditions existed in the West up until about 125 years ago when enough wealth was accumalated to begain considering the idea that kids shouldn't be working. Before then if you were Rural your kids worked on the farm. If you were Urban you kissed ass to try to get your kids a place as an apprentice to a master if you didn't own a shop where you could put them to work.
Of course when your goal is the vain attempt to feel better about your worthless life, to feed your weakened ego by being a "caring activist", tossing a few bricks at a plate glass window achives your goal.
There is only one thing you are doing to help the people in the third world. Your dumbass tatics go a long way towards insuring that your simpleminded politics won't be adopted, robbing them of a chance to get ahead.
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est
ROFLMAO,
I fully expected some simpleminded modarator to mod that post down.
Get it right! That was a pure and simple flame attached to a flamebait post, tho' I shouldn't expect the politically correct crowd to understand a nuance like that. Not something that told the cold hard unvarnished truth about modern liberalism's value system.
Free Speach for all who agree with you, isn't that the essance of political correctness?
Quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit, occidentis telum est