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Canadian Public Radio Streaming Ogg Vorbis
d00dman writes "CBC Radio, Canada's major national public broadcaster is now streaming in ogg/vorbis. Recently CBC had switched from realmedia streams to windows media streams for their radio broadcasts. After receiving a plethora of complaints, suggesting ogg/vorbis as an alternative, CBC has begun a test ogg stream of the toronto stations. They boast in their ogg FAQ that they're encoding with oddcast and streaming with icecast."
That a publicly funded organization is actually trying to cut costs. Too bad it doesn't happen more often.
Now, if that makes sense to anyone, could you please explain it to me? I think I've confused myself.
We had a few extra years on that one. America came out of the oven under done.
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On Slashdot you confuse free as in beer with free as in speach? Still, lets look at the freedom as in rights part.
You see the people freely elect a governement that does this, and if they don't like it they are free to elect one that will change it. Strangely enough, in countries with private health care, you don't find many politicians campaigning against it.
In a perfect world, a government wouldn't need to provide these things, people would never be unfortunate or short sigted enough to need them. Hell, in a perfect world you wouldn't need Governments or taxes.
In the real world you have a choice, let everyone decide and some suffer (both those who could have avoided it and those who couldn't).
All societies require a compromise on freedoms. You have to give some stuff up so everyone, including you, can benefit. Which freedom is more important? Your freedom to spend every bit of your money as you wish, or other people's freedom to live their lives free(er) from sickness?
Sure, some people will then be lazy and take advantage, won't get private healthcare they could afford, but surely to anyone with some basic humanity it is better than letting them become sick or die. That's before you even count
If you feel compelled to put self interest first, consider this. It is in everyone's interest to stop the spread of disease, it isn't like a virus cares if you have health insurance, and some will make you sick and kill you anyway. Good free healthcare benfits everyone, even those with private health insurance.
OK so providing less wealthy (for no fault of their own) citizens is a crime? I don't get your logic. I would rather be 'forced' to pay taxes to maintain a balanced society rather than be ripped off by some corporation.
The US gets a lot of guff about Kyoto, but while Canada ratified the treaty two years ago, it hasn't actually put a plan in place to meet any of the targets. No laws to curb emissions on vehicles, no powerplant switches, nada.
Kyoto requires that greenhouse gas levels drop 6% below 1990 levels. In 2001, Canada's greenhouse gas levels were 18.5% above 1990 levels. So you're talking about dropping greenhouse gas emissions by 25% in 8 years (assuming they haven't increased since 2001).
Canada has been fighting to get credits for all of their forests as greenhouse gas sinks. That seems to be their plan on meeting Kyoto. Make everyone else agree they don't have to do anything.
As far as I can tell, Kyoto was a feel good measure.
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.