I live in a neighborhood with similar issues, and I'll be DAMNED if I will try to understand what is happening from their side. There is NO acceptable reason for trashing a bus shelter or a DLR shelter. There is NO good reason to dump rubbish bins in the street. There is NO acceptable reason for urinating on the stairs to the train platforms.
If you are brought up in a bourgeois anglo-saxon society (such as Britain) where consuming is the only trumpeted virtue, where your parents have been let down by a free-trade economic system that seeks the absolutely cheapest labour abroad no matter what is the social cost at home and can no longer make ends meet, where intellectual prowess is not favourized (reality TV anyone?) and where your future is hopelessly blocked, and you see very well that no matter how much you try, you can never succeed because you were born in the wrong family, you would revolt against society, you would revolt against the very bourgeois who lock you down in a life of mediocre quality, who give you such a low self-esteem of yourself.
Do not forget that this is Britain; there is no "american dream" there, they're the very redcoats the yankees rebelled against 234 years ago.
With the RIAA demanding mandatory filters be installed on **EVERY** computer under the sun, it's no secret that copyright cartels have totally lost it.
Remember the proposal of several years ago to have **EVERY** storage device check, at the harware level, if the bits it was copying were not copyrighted? It's the same kind of brain-dead thought that makes the copyright cartels call Canada a rogue copyright country.
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In any case, the government will not pass that copyright bill. It may present it to the Commons, but the bill will not make it to the upcoming elections.
The current minority government will be toppled within the next few weeks (it may be as early as in two weeks, for the budget), and none of the Tories or the Whigs have enough karma to be able to secure a definite majority. So the next government will likely be a minority government.
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There is an additionnal factor in Canada that is extremely different from the US, and which may very well trigger a massive civil disobedience for an eventual CDMCA: multiculturalism (that is, no "melting pot").
Immigrants are encouraged to retain their culture; there is no definite effort to force immigrants into making them into WASPs. So, ethnic communities are not something marginal (go see the chinatown in Toronto for a good example).
When all those people will be told by the law that they cannot have non region-1 DVD players in order to watch (legally-purchased) movies from their country of origin (China, India, Philippines and even -gasp!- Britain or, heaven forbid, France), they will make sure that in the future, Hymiewood will never again tell them what they can watch at home.
(After extensive discussions of that subject with my lawyer, it boils down that Parliament can never prohibit non region-1 players because watching a foreign movie cannot be by any remote and twisted interpretation of any kind of law whatsoever be construed as being contrary to the public good; so it is quite likely that such a provision will be struck down by courts).
It's just like business ethics...
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It's just like business ethics, really.
Like, here what happenned at the local bagel shop:
-- Pappa, asked the son, what is "business ethics"???
-- Ah, son! you are breaching a very important subject. Business ethics. Hmmm, what is it? Ah! Here's an analogy:
Suppose that a customer leaves the shop, and you notice that he forgot a $20 bill on the counter.
This is where business ethics comes in.
You see, my son, when you notice the $20, you ask yourself: "should I tell my partner?"...
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"Business incorporation introduces the croporate(sp) veil which effectively shields the shareholders from liability for whatever the business does"
why is this a good thing? Because otherwise virtually no one would invest in any business at all, for fear of lawsuits.
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Real world businesses know that they have to keep both customers and suppliers happy, and the best way to do this is still to be ethical where it counts. Yeah, where it counts. At the bottom line.
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maybe a fine to the shareholders.... This would go against the very rock-bottom idea of business. Business incorporation introduces the croporate veil which effectively shields the shareholders from liability for whatever the business does (all it does is limit the shareholder's liability to his stake in the company, and nothing else).
Regardless of atrocities committed (and atrocities are committed by humans, not religions), there certainly seems to be a higher atrocity/individual rate in current Islamic culture than any other current faiths.
The keyword above is "seem".
That's because your media is controlled by another religious group that is the political ennemy of muslims, and thus has all the incentive of portraying muslims as barbarians.
I'd posit that the root cause is not Islam, but rather the fact that most Muslims are poor and backwards. Poor and backwards people do shitty things like this, and they'd be doing the same thing if they'd been reading a Bible instead of the Quran.
Ah, yes, like the hicks in the US, who live outside of big cities and who vote republican...
Could someone please explain to me, why Americans, Canadians, Brits and Australians are so afraid of a national ID card?
...This is done mainly for the voter register, to have an idea who can vote in what district, for the tax man and for the police who likes to have a total control over the citizens.
You identified the problem. We don't like the police to have a total control over us.
The Police Agency if anything like in America are always on the border of huge funds or cutbacks.
Er, no. It is the french Gendarmerie, and they are part of the armed forces.
Yup, in France, the roads are patrolled by soldiers. And no one fucks with them, as well as by being soldiers, they don't fuck with anyone either, quite unlike the pityful police farces too often seen in the US.
French police send SWAT team to kick in Linux's doors. They like what they see, and confiscate it for their own use.
Er, no. Unlike the US, which is a rogue state in respect to property rights, the French police will actually uphold the law and will not seize property from innocent people.
If companies want to store customers credit card numbers and social security numbers for years on their systems, could they at least use common sense?
Common sense is in notorious short supply the further you go up the management chain. Nowadays, companies are run by types with a sheet of paper stamped with the magic letters "MBA", which means that the bearer has been infused with knowledge that is supposed to increase profits.
MBAs are taught first and foremost to ditch "common sense" because their acute knowledge is supposedly vastly "superior" to common knowledge.
The most pernicious effect of an eventual DMCA-like law would be on DVD regioning.
By the terms of the DVD-CCA, properly-licensed DVD players **CANNOT** play DVDs from outside the region they are assigned. Of course, everyone has region-free DVD players, but it is absolutefuckingly sure that such players **WILL** be outlawed, as well as the DECSS software everyone loves and hates.
However, such a law will bit parliament big-time in the arse: Canada is a country of immigrants, much more so than the US, as there is no "Canadian melting pot" as immigrants are encouraged to retain their cultures*. Now, you are going to tell indians that they are not allowed to watch movies from India? Tell the Chinese that they are not allowed to watch movies from China? Tell the French that they are not allowed to watch movies from France? Tell english that they are not allowed to watch British movies? but they should only watch what Hollywood decides they should watch?
Like, yeah, this is going to go right well down with the plebe...
Better yet, in our Constitution is a Charter of Rights which does not gives a shit about commercial interests trampling the individual freedom of, say, watching a movie of one's choice.
* An old ploy to minorize the french by having immigrants consider them like yet another ethnic group (never mind that the french actually founded Canada as we know it almost half a millenium ago -- my ancestors were well established here when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth!).
Let's not forget that this government is on it's last miles; opposition parties have made well known the fact that they are lusting for blood, and will topple the government at the first opportunity.
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Do not forget that this is Britain; there is no "american dream" there, they're the very redcoats the yankees rebelled against 234 years ago.
Va donc chier!!!!
Remember the proposal of several years ago to have **EVERY** storage device check, at the harware level, if the bits it was copying were not copyrighted? It's the same kind of brain-dead thought that makes the copyright cartels call Canada a rogue copyright country.
* * *
In any case, the government will not pass that copyright bill. It may present it to the Commons, but the bill will not make it to the upcoming elections.
The current minority government will be toppled within the next few weeks (it may be as early as in two weeks, for the budget), and none of the Tories or the Whigs have enough karma to be able to secure a definite majority. So the next government will likely be a minority government.
* * *
There is an additionnal factor in Canada that is extremely different from the US, and which may very well trigger a massive civil disobedience for an eventual CDMCA: multiculturalism (that is, no "melting pot").
Immigrants are encouraged to retain their culture; there is no definite effort to force immigrants into making them into WASPs. So, ethnic communities are not something marginal (go see the chinatown in Toronto for a good example).
When all those people will be told by the law that they cannot have non region-1 DVD players in order to watch (legally-purchased) movies from their country of origin (China, India, Philippines and even -gasp!- Britain or, heaven forbid, France), they will make sure that in the future, Hymiewood will never again tell them what they can watch at home.
(After extensive discussions of that subject with my lawyer, it boils down that Parliament can never prohibit non region-1 players because watching a foreign movie cannot be by any remote and twisted interpretation of any kind of law whatsoever be construed as being contrary to the public good; so it is quite likely that such a provision will be struck down by courts).
Like, here what happenned at the local bagel shop:
-- Pappa, asked the son, what is "business ethics"???
-- Ah, son! you are breaching a very important subject. Business ethics. Hmmm, what is it? Ah! Here's an analogy:
Suppose that a customer leaves the shop, and you notice that he forgot a $20 bill on the counter.
This is where business ethics comes in.
You see, my son, when you notice the $20, you ask yourself: " should I tell my partner? "...
why is this a good thing? Because otherwise virtually no one would invest in any business at all, for fear of lawsuits.
** BvZAPPP!!! * Wrong answer ** thanks for playing.
That's because your media is controlled by another religious group that is the political ennemy of muslims, and thus has all the incentive of portraying muslims as barbarians.
Yup, in France, the roads are patrolled by soldiers. And no one fucks with them, as well as by being soldiers, they don't fuck with anyone either, quite unlike the pityful police farces too often seen in the US.
Tous vos bureaux sont nous appartiennent!
S are belogn to us!!!
Better YouTube link: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YD14UGCtRRc
Uh oh... /meesa guess the privacy commissionner will have to find a new job pretty soon...
All your leaks are belong to us!
MBAs are taught first and foremost to ditch "common sense" because their acute knowledge is supposedly vastly "superior" to common knowledge.
By the terms of the DVD-CCA, properly-licensed DVD players **CANNOT** play DVDs from outside the region they are assigned. Of course, everyone has region-free DVD players, but it is absolutefuckingly sure that such players **WILL** be outlawed, as well as the DECSS software everyone loves and hates.
However, such a law will bit parliament big-time in the arse: Canada is a country of immigrants, much more so than the US, as there is no "Canadian melting pot" as immigrants are encouraged to retain their cultures*. Now, you are going to tell indians that they are not allowed to watch movies from India? Tell the Chinese that they are not allowed to watch movies from China? Tell the French that they are not allowed to watch movies from France? Tell english that they are not allowed to watch British movies? but they should only watch what Hollywood decides they should watch?
Like, yeah, this is going to go right well down with the plebe...
Better yet, in our Constitution is a Charter of Rights which does not gives a shit about commercial interests trampling the individual freedom of, say, watching a movie of one's choice.
* An old ploy to minorize the french by having immigrants consider them like yet another ethnic group (never mind that the french actually founded Canada as we know it almost half a millenium ago -- my ancestors were well established here when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth!).
Let's not forget that this government is on it's last miles; opposition parties have made well known the fact that they are lusting for blood, and will topple the government at the first opportunity.