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Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist is reporting that Canadian cultural groups including ACTRA and SOCAN have called on Canada's telecom regulator to implement a massive new Internet regulation framework. This includes a new three-percent tax on ISPs to pay for new media creation, Canadian content requirements for commercial websites, and licensing requirements for new media broadcasters, including for user-generated content."
Uh, c'mon... Who here has ever really paid for porn?
According to this site. They are apparently some sort of order founded around the worship of dolphins.
Or, possibly they are just a bunch of special interest groups similar to the RIAA in the US.
I'm trending to the Sancta Orca theory myself.
Currently they are in a state of cannibalism. Moose vs. man, man vs. wolf, wolf vs. baby strollers. Their leadership has abdicated to Keanu Reeves, having mistaken the recent remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as a documentary. The moose (meeses?) have taken advantage of this power vacuum and having no natural predators outside of orcas, are wrecking havoc and destruction through out the great land of Quebec.
Their leadership has abdicated to Keanu Reeves, having mistaken the recent remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as a documentary..
Woah....
man, i wish i had the power to just cancel work if i thought i was going to get fired.
We, your friendly neighbors to the West (Alaska) will very happily lend (very favorable terms, 50 year lease for 1 US dollar) our famous Governor. She knows how to deal with Meese.
Really, she's not doing much at the moment.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
As a true Canadian, you would have known to say:
;P
"As a canuck, let me say these hosers need to Piss off eh!"
Just doing my part to help spread stereotypes.
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
As a Canadian, allow me to say these people need to fuck the hell off.
Babelfish doesn't have an option to translate to American from Canadian. Does it mean the same thing here?
It's analogous to the wailing the RIAA and MPAA put up in the US, aside from that it doesn't get as much traction up here.
More ice, eh?
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
I, for one, welcome my Canadian Cultural Overlords!
EH?
Lemme fix that for you:
Woah, dude....
Lemme fix that for you:
Woah, dude....
Woah, eh?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Well there's your problem. You're trying to promote yourself. You need to become recluses, only playing shows every so often so that very few people can figure out that you guys actually suck (or even who you are).
Then, become friends with a series of emo, or even better, kids that call themselves "scene". Ask them if they have heard of your band (without making note of the fact that it's your band). Inevitably, they will not have heard of it. You will then be the coolest person among this crowd for knowing a band that no one has heard of. From there, make a CD of your shitty music, and give it to them.
At this point, you sell your CD. Never perform a show again, but always make dates around town to perform, and then bail (if you like the club owners, tell them you're not going to show up in advance, and just put a poster on the door). You'll sell at least 1000 CD's before your manufactured unknown band fad bubble pops. Then, your band "breaks up", you form a new band with mostly the same members, and you do it again.
I've never had the patience to deal with emo kids but if you do this could end up making you millions.
Canadian Groups Call For Massive Net Regulation
. . . and, from the posts from the Canadian folks here:
Canadians, on the other hand, call for massive re-regulation, of Canadian Groups.
Re-regulation, with extreme prejudice.
Michael Moore argued that Canadians are more armed to the teeth than US Americans, but are not nearly as trigger happy.
I now think that the Canadians have been wisely conserving their ammunition, for times of ideas like Internet Cultural taxes.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Either that or we change the debate process to involve weapons and the thunderdome. 4 go in 1 comes out!
Oops, how did this get here?
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Looks like two branches of the R.I.A.EH to me.
I, for one, welcome our new moosen overlords.
Couldn't be much worse than this Harper guy...
-Billco, Fnarg.com
The Canadian part was 'Please.'
Mind the frickin' laser...
I hope you have deep pockets, 'cause <blink>you just won five thousand internets</blink>
-Billco, Fnarg.com
Why not? They already tax our blank CD/DVD media. I've probably burned 5 or 6 audio cd's in the last 5 years, but I pay tax to starving artists every time I buy one regardless of what I put on it. They could tax water while they are at it. We all obviously sing in the shower, and some Canadian artist should be compensated for that.
I, for one, welcome our new moosen overlords.
Just stay klear of der mouds. Møøse bites kan be pretty nasti...
...si hoc legere nimium eruditionis habes...