Axed, account being too expensive and detrimental to the newspaper bottom-line. And because also to often the facts stands in the way of the world view of the newspaper right-wing owner.
Now here is the straight dope, right from the "terrorists" mouths, "terrorists" which were members of a "terrorist" organization that was thoroughly infiltrated by the Royal Canadien Maudit Police (subsequent "terrorist" acts were all eventually pinned to RCMP police officers):
The James Cross kidnapping was just a pretext to get the government hyped-up (Cross was released unharmed).
Minister of labour Pierre Laporte was the mob connection to the Québec liberal party; his rising popularity was a direct threat to the freshly-elected and extremely dull and boring Québec prime minister Robert Bourassa (who 4 years later would get the honour of being Québec's most hated politician). But that's not a problem, because Pierre Laporte was to be arrested for racketeering charges.
Conveniently enough, he was kidnapped mere hours before the police was due to arrest him. This was extremely convenient, because it spared the liberal party from being associated with the mob, it got rid of a too popular minister, it gave a jolly good excuse for Trudeau to declare martial law and get rid of his political opponents and lastly, it effortlessly got rid of Pierre Laporte without the embarrassment of a trial.
Little stunts like that worked 40 years ago to keep the federal liberal party elected until we wised-up and stopped voting for the liberals back in 1984. Now Québec is pulling it's own rightful political weight, which is quite close to 50% (one of the two european founding nations) rather than the 10% canada would like it to be.
You just can't rule Canada when you ignore Québec's concerns.
Now crawl back under that bridge, put your federal propaganda in your pipe (or roll it) and smoke it.
At what point in the history of the Quebecois Independence Movement has the Canadian Government resorted to the types of tactics that we've seen China employ in Tibet/Tiananmen Square?
The battle of St-Eustache in 1837, maybe?
Or Hanging Louis Riel in the 1880's?
Shooting the people protesting against the conscription in WW-I?
Ditto for WW-II
Or is it in october 1970, when martial law was declared and the political opponnents of Trudeau were jailed without trial???
Let's not bend too much backwards towards handicapped people. Sure, it sucks to be handicapped. But sometimes, accommodation for the handicapped can suck for non-handicapped. A pet peeve of mine is buses that can carry wheelchairs.
I enjoy a good city bus ride; for me, a good bus ride is when you can watch the scenery outside, and better, have a good view ahead. But lately, too many bus systems have been getting low-floor buses that have room for wheelchairs, and too often, those imply having side-facing seats (I **HATE** those, you can't see outside) and worse, a huge honking eye-level cushion that blocks the view ahead.
After reading the article, I'm impressed by both the ingenuity of the researchers in infiltrating the network, and also by the skills of the malware writers. Engineering a DHT-based network is no trivial matter, and the fact that people out there went through the trouble of creating one implies that the payoff must have been commensurate to the effort involved.
Given how the "legit" private sector treats it's employees like shit (layoffs, outsourcing, PHBs, etc.), it's no surprise that there is no shortage of disgruntled employees who will gladly write malware for a good payoff or simply for revenge.
Think twice (and then three or four times for good measure) the next time someone tells you to vote Democrat in order to protect your rights.
Anybody who votes republican whilst not being a zillionaire is a sucker. Plain and simple. One who has swallowed the total lie that republicans are less tax-happy than the democrats. Democrats tax now, but republicans tax later by inflating deficits and the debt.
Don't believe me? Google for US federal deficit charts...
Heinlein thought about this more than 50 years ago in "Solar Lottery"...
In the story, the President of Earth is elected by a lottery (hence the title). Any citizen has a chance of becoming president.
When a president is elected, he can legally be assassinated by legally-nominated assassins.
The president is protected by telepathic police; in one case, in order to be harder to track, an assassin acts at random by picking pages randomly and/or by shooting dice.
Quebecers are not the only ones who suffer the failures of the federal government. The political and governance structures of this country are collapsing and being dismantled. We call ourselves a "democracy", but that is generous. Separation will not happen tomorrow, nor is separatist sentiment about to go away. In the mean time, it is our duty and our interest to repair and revitalize what democracy we have.
Why should we help fix canada? We've been stuck with it for a quarter millenium, and it's been a quarter millenium of trying to get rid of us, of minorizing us, of making us irrelevant.
You had your chance, and you have been blowing it for a quarter millenium!
After a quarter millenium, it's plainly obvious that the french and the english are too different to be able to exist in the same country. After all, we've been hereditary ennemies for a thousand years!
Why should we help you? You are clearly unable to make a country work by itself. The only reforms that ever came to Canada were done by french politicians! And what we get in return? Neglect! Scorn! Ridicule!
No, we tried, it clearly doesn't work. You're on your own this time. And no, I don't expect the english to manage it, they are just unable to have a country of their own, they absolutely need to meddle with the rest of the world, colonize, rape and pillage other countries to live.
When England lost her empire at the end of World War II, it became totally insolvent and decadent. That pool little island had been stripped long ago of any meaningful natural ressources, the brits had been forced long ago to go overseas to get ressources, hence their big empire.
France, too, had an empire. But it was just a copycat empire. France is a very rich bountyful country. The french empire was just made by a bunch of bourgeois (that is, people who think like anglo-saxons) just to do like the british. The french empire wasn't vital to France like the british empire was to Britain; it was just an afterthought, and a rather cumbersome one in latter years.
Yet when France also lost it's empire, too, it did not become decadent like Britain. No, it blossommed and flourished; it actually experienced three solid decades of economic growth, an unparalleled feat!
Right now, with the US economy rapidly collapsing, anglo-saxon domination will be a thing of the past. The US empire proved to be even more fickle than a soap bubble; it didn't even last for a century.
Meanwhile, France will thrive in Europe, unencumbered with lifeline imperial ties, unencumbered with a bullish, imperialistic reputation.
I couldn't agree less with your assessment. I'm not from B.C. (which has more than its share of prejudice against Quebec).
Could there be a "fair share" of this???
I'm originally from a small English town in Quebec. I was there when Bill 101 was passed.
By no less than my cousin, Camille Laurin...
I was there for the first referendum. Separation would destroy my country (not my nation - I don't want Canada to be a nation), and would not be in the interest of the people of Quebec.
More patronizing from the english who think they are the best. Canada is indeed not a nation, it's a country. But Québec is.
Nonetheless, I support the right - affirmed by the Supreme Court of Canada - to separate. It would be wrong as well as futile to thwart the democratic choice of a clear majority of Quebecers.
Yet, the federal government and plenty of private organizations has been working hard to interfere with the last referendum. What about the airlines giving free tickets from all over Canada to come to Montréal? What about Casper Bloom, and his "committee to save Canada" that rooted-out loopholes in Québec electoral laws and urged people who could not have the legal right to vote in the referendum to come and register to vote in it (so much that the election boss actually obtained a court order to force Bloom to stop his activities)? How about the 300,000 voters in the referendum who do not appear in the health insurance registry (meaning that they are not residents of Québec and thus cannot vote)? How about the liberal party of Québec who has been caught red-handed buying votes for $10???
Despite the bombastic rhetoric of a few Canadians, I'm sure the vast majority outside Quebec would agree with me. But it's pretty clear that people like you (who have here refused to even recognize a distinction between the people of France and the people of Quebec)
There is none. We are both french. Whenever I go to France, I do not see any difference in the people; we have the same mentality, the same language, the same expectations in life; we bitch about the same things, too.
won't listen to what people like me have to say.
What people like you have to say is not relevant. You are not french, and by being english, you are naturally incapable of understanding other cultures. It is a well proven fact that anglo-saxons are totally unwilling to learn about other cultures, and you are no different.
You say that you "used to live in an english town in Québec"; so at some point, you left.
You left by your own volition, no one kicked you out. Perhaps you felt rejected by the french; if so, that's because you obviously did not make any effort to fit-in our society.
There's no use accusing me - because in the end the people of Quebec will have to work out their destiny among themselves.
Yes, and without interference from Canada, thank-you.
But then again, look what the fucktards did to our hydro, so no, they'd probably fuck this up too.
You obviously live in Ontario (where the electric power was privatized during the Nonsense Revolution(TM), and rates tripled since then).
You should move to Québec then where the still-nationalized power is the cheapest in the world, and where the network doesn't crumble (it's the only northeast power grid that didn't go down during the 2003 blackout)...
"I am a senior security xxx in a Fortune 300 company and I am very frustrated at what I see. I see our customers turn a blind eye to blatant security issues, in the name of the application or business requirements. I see our own senior officers reduce the risk ratings of internal findings, and even strong-arm 3rd party auditors/testers to reduce their risk ratings on the threat of losing our business. It's truly sad that the fear of losing our jobs and the necessity of supporting our families comes first before the security of highly confidential information. All so executives can look good and make their bonuses? How should people start blowing the whistle on companies like this?"
Aw comeon, don't tell me you went up the croporate food chain up to where you are without intimately knowing the little gears that made the company go, and knowing where the weak links are, and without being able to figure out which gentle, subtle push on which weak links will be able to bring the whole edifice crashing down without getting the blame?
That post is so full of oxdung, it's hard to figure out from which end to pick it up.
People complain about the coming change in 'net neutrality' without ever considering what it is really doing.
What Net Neutrality is about is about a level playing field.
Tiered pricing is no different than tiered pricing in any other arena. Prime office space on the top floor in downtown San Francisco, California is going to cost you a lot more than the shack behind Pete's Tacos. A Rodeo Drive storefront costs more than your mom's basement.
Bzzzt! Wrong analogy. A top floor office is costlier than the doghouse behind Pete's tacos because the downtown real-estate is more expensive, and there is more need for structural steel and engineering talent to build the top-floor.
The Internet has no such real-estate/engineering discrepancies. On the web, nobody knows you're a dog, and this pisses-off mightily capitalists who have money and think that their money makes them special.
That is how it is. The Internet grew the way it did for a number of reasons, now though, it is just another way of doing business. If you want a better storefront, you pay for it. Does that give an unfair advantage to established businesses? Yes.
It may be "another way of doing business", but actually only in the brick-and-mortar world. The Internet was engineered from the onset as a peer-to-peer network without any server/client distinction for academic needs. Now that it has been taken over by commercial interests, they find out too late that the internet does not inherently support the traditionnal supplier/client hierarchy.
Well, it's too late to turn the clock back now. Connected people now know that they are no different (apart from from pipe size) than big Fortune 50 companies.
You can't put the toothpase back in the tube. Deal with it.
Welcome to the world of capitalism, where nothing is free except you.
Libs vote for candidates who make them feel good. Consrvs vote for candidates who will solve problems we face.
Obviously, conservatives do not consider the gigantic balloning trade deficit and debt problems... (and liberals are hardly to blame for that, since it conservative had unshared power for many years)
You appear to be sarcasm impaired. Never would the british stoop so low as to use french weapons; so their encounter with an exocet is exactly as you say: from the business-end of it. And yes, Mitterand gave the brits the key following nuclear blackmail. We all know that, it's part of History.
Governments don't grant rights, we institute governments to secure our rights. If the Canadian government fails to do so, then the Canadian people should overthrow it.
Rabblish nonsense. Only the rabble of the american revolution would think so.
We don't need that kind of nonsense: we're the redcoats!!!
So said by a starry-eyed british-columbian (you're from there, right?) who has **NO IDEA** of the continuous constitutional encroachment by the federal government, who doesn't have a foreign language, foreign laws, foreign customs shoved down his throat constantly, who doesn't have his economic interests quashed in favour of english canada, and so on, and so on...
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The article has it all wrong. There is nothing personal in the RIAA's action, it's strictly a business decision.
Jogging around the water tanks à la Skylab maybe?
Axed, account being too expensive and detrimental to the newspaper bottom-line. And because also to often the facts stands in the way of the world view of the newspaper right-wing owner.
The above is the official party line.
Now here is the straight dope, right from the "terrorists" mouths, "terrorists" which were members of a "terrorist" organization that was thoroughly infiltrated by the Royal Canadien Maudit Police (subsequent "terrorist" acts were all eventually pinned to RCMP police officers):
The James Cross kidnapping was just a pretext to get the government hyped-up (Cross was released unharmed).
Minister of labour Pierre Laporte was the mob connection to the Québec liberal party; his rising popularity was a direct threat to the freshly-elected and extremely dull and boring Québec prime minister Robert Bourassa (who 4 years later would get the honour of being Québec's most hated politician). But that's not a problem, because Pierre Laporte was to be arrested for racketeering charges.
Conveniently enough, he was kidnapped mere hours before the police was due to arrest him. This was extremely convenient, because it spared the liberal party from being associated with the mob, it got rid of a too popular minister, it gave a jolly good excuse for Trudeau to declare martial law and get rid of his political opponents and lastly, it effortlessly got rid of Pierre Laporte without the embarrassment of a trial.
Little stunts like that worked 40 years ago to keep the federal liberal party elected until we wised-up and stopped voting for the liberals back in 1984. Now Québec is pulling it's own rightful political weight, which is quite close to 50% (one of the two european founding nations) rather than the 10% canada would like it to be.
You just can't rule Canada when you ignore Québec's concerns.
Now crawl back under that bridge, put your federal propaganda in your pipe (or roll it) and smoke it.
Or Hanging Louis Riel in the 1880's?
Shooting the people protesting against the conscription in WW-I?
Ditto for WW-II
Or is it in october 1970, when martial law was declared and the political opponnents of Trudeau were jailed without trial???
I enjoy a good city bus ride; for me, a good bus ride is when you can watch the scenery outside, and better, have a good view ahead. But lately, too many bus systems have been getting low-floor buses that have room for wheelchairs, and too often, those imply having side-facing seats (I **HATE** those, you can't see outside) and worse, a huge honking eye-level cushion that blocks the view ahead.
Don't believe me? Google for US federal deficit charts...
Rats. I'm mixing it with "Double Star"... (Either of which I haven't read for 15 years at least)
In the story, the President of Earth is elected by a lottery (hence the title). Any citizen has a chance of becoming president.
When a president is elected, he can legally be assassinated by legally-nominated assassins.
The president is protected by telepathic police; in one case, in order to be harder to track, an assassin acts at random by picking pages randomly and/or by shooting dice.
You had your chance, and you have been blowing it for a quarter millenium!
After a quarter millenium, it's plainly obvious that the french and the english are too different to be able to exist in the same country. After all, we've been hereditary ennemies for a thousand years!
Why should we help you? You are clearly unable to make a country work by itself. The only reforms that ever came to Canada were done by french politicians! And what we get in return? Neglect! Scorn! Ridicule!
No, we tried, it clearly doesn't work. You're on your own this time. And no, I don't expect the english to manage it, they are just unable to have a country of their own, they absolutely need to meddle with the rest of the world, colonize, rape and pillage other countries to live.
When England lost her empire at the end of World War II, it became totally insolvent and decadent. That pool little island had been stripped long ago of any meaningful natural ressources, the brits had been forced long ago to go overseas to get ressources, hence their big empire.
France, too, had an empire. But it was just a copycat empire. France is a very rich bountyful country. The french empire was just made by a bunch of bourgeois (that is, people who think like anglo-saxons) just to do like the british. The french empire wasn't vital to France like the british empire was to Britain; it was just an afterthought, and a rather cumbersome one in latter years.
Yet when France also lost it's empire, too, it did not become decadent like Britain. No, it blossommed and flourished; it actually experienced three solid decades of economic growth, an unparalleled feat!
Right now, with the US economy rapidly collapsing, anglo-saxon domination will be a thing of the past. The US empire proved to be even more fickle than a soap bubble; it didn't even last for a century.
Meanwhile, France will thrive in Europe, unencumbered with lifeline imperial ties, unencumbered with a bullish, imperialistic reputation.
You say that you "used to live in an english town in Québec"; so at some point, you left.
You left by your own volition, no one kicked you out. Perhaps you felt rejected by the french; if so, that's because you obviously did not make any effort to fit-in our society.
Yes, and without interference from Canada, thank-you.You should move to Québec then where the still-nationalized power is the cheapest in the world, and where the network doesn't crumble (it's the only northeast power grid that didn't go down during the 2003 blackout)...
The Internet has no such real-estate/engineering discrepancies. On the web, nobody knows you're a dog, and this pisses-off mightily capitalists who have money and think that their money makes them special.
It may be "another way of doing business", but actually only in the brick-and-mortar world. The Internet was engineered from the onset as a peer-to-peer network without any server/client distinction for academic needs. Now that it has been taken over by commercial interests, they find out too late that the internet does not inherently support the traditionnal supplier/client hierarchy.Well, it's too late to turn the clock back now. Connected people now know that they are no different (apart from from pipe size) than big Fortune 50 companies.
You can't put the toothpase back in the tube. Deal with it. Welcome to the world of capitalism, where nothing is free except you.
Why should we move when we were there before you limey bastards?
You appear to be sarcasm impaired. Never would the british stoop so low as to use french weapons; so their encounter with an exocet is exactly as you say: from the business-end of it. And yes, Mitterand gave the brits the key following nuclear blackmail. We all know that, it's part of History.
We don't need that kind of nonsense: we're the redcoats!!!
So said by a starry-eyed british-columbian (you're from there, right?) who has **NO IDEA** of the continuous constitutional encroachment by the federal government, who doesn't have a foreign language, foreign laws, foreign customs shoved down his throat constantly, who doesn't have his economic interests quashed in favour of english canada, and so on, and so on...