I used to spend my summers on the CFB with the air cadets. Where I had other cadets mock and insult me for being English.
Beats the shit for being beaten because you're the lone french on the block because you grow-up in the english ghetto of Montréal...
Where the "biligual" flight sections were French only [which was ok because I do speak enough French] and you'd be lucky if an official [e.g. officer or instructor] spoke English at all. Yes, I've spent time in Quebec.
That's nothing like the superior officer courses given at Kingston in english only (because Chretien closed St-Jean for insure that Québec shall not have any military academy). If you don't "speak white" in the armed forces, you'll be sweeping the mess hall all your life when not used as cannon fodder.
Only a moron believes in a superior culture in a country like Canada. We're a mixed bag of cultures.
Like hell we are. The english in their little corner baking their little soup in their splendid isolation, and the french looking elsewhere in the world to find what Canada cannot give it. Why do you think we want our sovereignty? Because Canada doesn't deliver.
What? You think McDonalds is French?
McDonald's is far from being superior!!!
How about that MTV [which is adored in France btw]?
Actually, no. I post this through the smoke-signal-to-http gateway in Métabetchouan. It's very cheap, only three wampum belts per megapuff.
A moron thinks their way of life is superior while indulging themselves in the product of many different cultures.
How can you KNOW you're superior if you haven't see the other cultures to compare you against?
I don't dislike the French. I dislike the vocal Quebecois who are trying to ruin Canada because they can't play nice.
Well, duh? if one doesn't play nice with you, you should love them nevertheless?
Helloooo????
Canada doesn't deliver, period. We don't have half as good a life as elsewhere in Canada. If Canada is so good, why the fuck do we consistently have more unemployment in Québec than in Ontario, no matter if we have a pederalist or sovereignist government in place???
They amount to no more than a bunch of squabling idiots who have nothing productive to do with their lives so they harass and fight with others.
History has taught us that the english will not give anything unless you put a knife to their throats.
In the 1960's we had to start bombing mailboxes and federal buildings so our 200-year old concerns had to be considered. Until then, the english didn't do anything ecxept fatten themselves on our backs.
I lived in Downtown Ottawa for more than a year. But thank-god I'm back in Montréal. Even with the Internet, Babylon-on-the-Rideau is awfully boring. And you, have you ever crossed the river into Québec for 5 minutes?
I speak French [not fluently but enough to get by]. I took it in school as an immersion student. I lost interest when I realized that it's not worth it [comp.sci doesn't require it].
Well, if you decided to be stupid, it's your right, but you have to accept the consequences (see below).
And besides that, Canada is bilingual not French. Why should French only speaking citizens get jobs with the government when they can get out a couple English words while the Anglophones have to speak French fluently to pass as "bilingual".
You fucking shithead! Canadian bilingualism is only here to insure that the english don't have to learn french!!!
But again, the english are too fucking damn stupid to learn french. But we, the french, have superior intellectual abilities, because we do learn english!!!
Why should I as an anglophone business owner have to display French signs on my business in Quebec? What if I don't speak a word of French at all?
Because we don't want the immigrants to get the idea that they can think that they could be able to live in Québec without knowing french. And if you don't speak a word of french at all, what the fuck are you doing in Québec anyways, you numbskull???
***That's*** why the English are pissed off. Not because the government is bilingual but that the government FAVOURS the french over the english.
They favour the french because we are superior, that's all. When you hire a french guy, you know he speaks english AND french. It makes the company smarter, too.
But you decided to be stupid. So it's no wonder you can't get a decent job with your limited intellectual skills.
I'm a Canadian (Quebecois actually) and plan on moving to France in a couple of months. So long, square heads! No government subsidies will keep me here!
C'est quoi ta plogue Manuel? Moi aussi ch'técoeuré de c't'hostie de place de cul...
You fucking goddammed bloke. Despite living in the second largest french city in the world, I still have to speak a foreign language to work, just because you stupid dumb fucks are too fucking stupid to learn another language.
Businesses do not give a flying fuck about political freedom. Au contraire, if the absence of political freedom can be extended to prohibit criticism of businesses, business will love censorship even more.
On the one hand, as a liberty-loving American, I'm wary of a place where speaking your mind can get you thrown in jail. On the other hand, singapore has one of the lowest crime rates in the world,
What was that old chesnut again, you know, the one about "those who are willing to give a little liberty for security deserve neither"???
and somehow manages to keep a lot of different ethnicities (Chinese, Malay, Indian, many more) together mostly peacefully--in the most densely populated country on the planet, no less.
With an iron fist.
Canada and the USA too somehow manage to keep a lot of different ethnicies peacefully, but without an iron fist.
Oh the Slashdotters will just love the restricted press and restricted freedom angle of this but, a little education may help you understand that this is not all bad.
Orientals pretty much to be a bunch of terminal fuckheads when it comes to human rights.
The history of Asia is nothing but a bunch of tycoons taking over and running the majority of the people into slavery, all the while bickering amongst themselves. Without the Englightenment that touched Europe in the 18th century, there is absolutely no tradition of human rights, and everybody are considered peons that can be ordered to do anything at all.
Worse, the general philosophy of "destiny" is totally geared in having the masses accept their plight without any hope of improvement, so the peons passively accept being run-around.
Singapore is no different, despite it's apparent wealth and liberalism (only economic).
Until orientals learn that respect does not automatically come with authority but has to be earned, I'm afraid that they will continue to live under awfully abjectionable conditions.
I have lived along with orientals who immigrated in $NORTH_AMERICA, and most often than not I have been flamed for expressing my thought about the political process and many economic endeavours.
So it is illegal for Christians to flame Muslims and it is illegal for Muslims to flame Christian or Jews.
It is pretty much to do anything at all in Singapore.
The law requires that everyone "just get along" or STFU! This twat posted flames and the law nabbed him.
A bad law being applied does not make any more right.
Call it oppression if you like but, you must acknowledge the fact that it makes for a more peaceful society.
Until everything breaks loose once the peons have had it.
Why do you think Mao Tse-Tung was able to totally run over China (except Formosa - yes, this is a flame; Taïwan belongs to China, period; you don't split a nation into many countries)? The peons have had it at being screwed by the bourgeois and the various warlords. The devastation and suffering brought about by the communists in China could have been averted by a gradual transition to democracy, but the powers that were fought that tooth and nail.
Just like the monarchy, they are slowly fading into irrelevence.
Civilization changes when technology changes, and when the information exchange is freer than it ever was, anything that hobbles the exchange of information will simply be bypassed into oblivion.
The other problem is that you'll still have to periodically close out the browser to free all the memory that's in use, meaning that you have to reload all those pages that you have open in various tabs. Forgive me for comparing Firefox to Windows, but I have to effectively "reboot" Firefox from time to time in order to get all that memory back.
It's not only that. Firefox will periodically freeze in it's tracks for about 1 minute; CPU usage climbs to 70-80% while it's doing god knows what.
If you believe, morally, that it's Ok to copy music in Canada, that's a matter of opinion. If it's Ok legally then that's just the way it is.
One person buys a CD and makes copies for all of his friends, who then make copies for all of their friends, and so on and so on. That type of system would definitely make me seriously consider a career change if I were a musician. It doesn't seem fair but oh well.
Er, no. I CANNOT make a copy for a friend. That's illegal. But I can lend him a disk and he makes a copy of it, that's perfectly ok.
Walk into a library and at any time, you'll see several people ripping CDs into their laptop computers.
Wow, no matter what the topic it's still sad when people can't adequately express themselves and have to resort to personal attack. Quite redneck actually.
When responding, I extend the courtesy of lowering myself to the level of the respondee.
Making a copy of your friends CD for yourself is NOT covered under fair use.
It is perfectly legal in Canada.
It's perfectly moral and ethical, because WE PAY A TAX ON BLANK MEDIA specifically for this purpose.
That is, in effect, stealing.
No, it is copyright infringement.
To set you straight again: "Fair use" was designed to allow a person to buy a CD, make a copy for the car cd player, and maybe rip it for their MP3 player.
We're not talking about "fair use", but outright copying the whole kit and kaboodle, which is, shall I say it again, PERFECTLY LEGAL IN CANADA.
In all those cases, the property remains in the hands and for the use of, the person that paid for the original which all used to be legal. Note the "used to be". Then along comes the DMCA and it's now illegal to circumvent copy protection whether it's for your personal use or not.
Er, the DMCA does not apply outside of the USA, which is 95% of the world.
Since probably all music CDs made in the last few years have some type of copy protection, ripping it is illegal, plain and simple.
In the US. I am not in the US.
I never said that I sided with the **IA or EU or any other agency, company, organization, etc... Which leads me to further believe that you didn't read what I wrote or can't comprehend it.
You wrote it from a yankeeish perspective, which does not apply to 95% of the planet.
I rip and copy and rip again just like everyone else. What I find most interesting is how some people believe that downloading or copying music or movies or whatever is not wrong or illegal.
HELLOOO? Have you thought that perhaps, elsewhere in the world (read: a 5 hour drive from New-York City) it IS LEGAL???
Of course there's the moral and legal opinions regarding this subject. Because people believe that they've been sandbagged into paying too much for music just to line the pockets of music industry executives, those people believe that it's somehow their right to do whatever they want with copyrighted works. Not so.
Damn right. Even better, the arrogance of the music industry in VANDALIZING our computers and demanding that the whole universe submit to their whims (hard disks that check if the data is copyrithted) have determined that they have to be put to death.
I'm not saying stop copying music. I'm not saying the music industry are within their rights. I just would like a little honesty out of people when it comes to breaking the law.
Oh, I must be very, very, very honest, because I DON'T BREAK THE LAW!!!!
Just because Sony didn't fess up to doing something evil doesn't mean that you have to lower your standards and rationalize theft.
I don't have to rationalize it, because it is legal.
What I rationalize, is the need to exterminate the music industry for it's unfettered arrogance.
Like me, I freely admit that I'm a thief on occasion. Just be truthful about it and don't whine and try to justify breaking the law because you feel like you got ripped off.
I am not breaking any law.
For example, you kinda pissed me off because you don't seem to think your arguments through and resort to verbal attacks of a personal nature when I made no offense toward you whatsoever.
What pisses me off is those yankees who act like asshat
Technically, and I'm assuming you're referring to the Sony root kit, they didn't technically "Break" or "Cripple" anything. I hate the idea of some company installing something without my expressed permission on my equipment. But using the terms Break and Cripple are not accurate here.
I'm NOT specifically referring to the SONY rootkit, but to OTHER software SONY disks STEALTHILY installs on computers.
"Break" and "cripple" are the VERY TERMS that describe what the stealthily installed-software does. I spent 3 hours last week-end fixing a friend's computer who had the misfortune of having played a SONY CD which installed a DLL that, whenever the system read the raw music data from a CD, scrambled the said data, thus preventing the LEGITIMATE listening and COPYING (here, it is PERFECTLY LEGAL to copy music, and SONY has not been granted the privilege of making and enforcing IT'S OWN laws).
I am happy to announce that after removing the nefarious DLL, I was able to RIP the "protected" CD and make a copy for myself.
Perfectly legally, following the laws that OUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED parliament enacted, and thus BREAKING THE UNDEMOCRATIC, UNELECTED FASCIST LAW that SONY tried to shove down our throats.
There are elections coming in a few weeks, and I will make sure I won't vote for SONY by mistake.
You call "reasonable" (sic) levying a special tax on blank media, "just in case" the media is used to "pirate" music?
There are only 2 absolute truths in the world: Death and Taxes. I'm a smoker and nearly half the retail cost of cigarettes is derived from taxes. Besides, media is so cheap, what's the difference?
The difference is that the GOVERNMENT is FORCING US to PAY a TAX which ONLY BENEFITS the record industry, whenever we use the media for copying music or data (even data I generate).
The flip side is that WE ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE COPIES OF MUSIC (what is unjustly called "piracy" in the United Croporations of Amerika)
You call "reasonable" blackmailing people who MIGHT have shared music into paying multi-thousand dollars "settlements" without any proof of wrongdoing?
Wow, wrong again. They got the logs from the ISP, they got the search warrants for the contents of the PC, they got admissions from the perpetrators. Case closed.
You're a fucking hardass, aren't you? You're a goddammed media sockpuppet, aren't you? You must be a dubya-voting southern baptist asshole who drinks alcohol in a locked room to display such blatant cluelessness.
In all those cases, there have been no DUE PROCESS, but only blackmailing ("pay us now, or if we go to court, we'll bankrupt you with the procedural and defence lawyer fees!!!")
The absence of due process means that the case WILL NOT BE reviewed with the impartiality of a public tribunal, but rather by a kangaroo court that is owned and operated by the music industry.
You call "reasonable" treating your customers like criminals?
If they break the law, Yes, that's reasonable. If you download music or movies and have never purchased the original retail version. You are stealing. Just because "everyone does it" doesn't mean it's Ok. Um, I may or may not have done this myself.
Okay, you stupid numbskull yankee, put this in your sorry little excuse for a brain:
USA LAW DOES NOT EXTENDS BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE USA!
IN SOME COUNTRIES (LIKE CANADA, NORTH OF THE BORDER), IT IS PERFECTLY ****LEGAL**** TO COPY CDS, DOWNLOAD MUSIC AND SHARE IT ON A P2P NETWORK.
I honestly firmly don't care about music, songs, movies and enterntainment in general. But I do care about things like biological/technical/scientific advances. But for those advances I am against patents, not copyrights. In fact I am pro-copyrights because they let me control how my work is distributed. So for me what music industry is doing sounds reasonable.
Reasonable? Did I read properly? Reasonable? Reasonable?
You call "reasonable" breaking customer's computers by stealthily installing crippling software?
You call "reasonable" (sic) levying a special tax on blank media, "just in case" the media is used to "pirate" music?
You call "reasonable" blackmailing people who MIGHT have shared music into paying multi-thousand dollars "settlements" without any proof of wrongdoing?
You call "reasonable" (I'm not making this up!) trying to force all society to use specially-designed hard-disks that will check whether the data they are writing is copyrighted?
You call "reasonable" treating your customers like criminals?
You call all the abovementionned **ARROGANCE** "reasonable"?
The arrogance of that mostly irrelevent "industry" is incredible!
They think they can force everybody to use technology that will only benefit them (remember the hard-drives that were supposed to check if the data they copy is copyrighted?).
This arrogance only warrants one thing: that "industry" shall be pirated to the croporate death penalty. The slow one: diminishing into irrelevence and oblivion through gradually diminishing sales.
I speak from experience. Cops will try anything to get you in the wrong. Like when I was hassled for taking pictures of old busses; I was standing on the sidewalk and while hassling me, they tried to get me to step on the adjacent private property so they could charge me for tresspassing.
Now, keep in mind, this is coming from a registered N.Y. State Conservative Party member, who listens to Rush Limbaugh every day, and voted for W. TWICE.
The amount of Individual Freedoms this law steals from people is abhorrent. It offends every Freedom loving, Patriotic bone in my body.
This is strange. I suppose that a twice dubya-voting NY conservative rush-limaugh listener would lose no opportunity to trumpet that the DMCA was passed by a cigar-sucking democrat...
Sometimes the police deliberately push the envelope on what they consider to be bad laws in order to provoke reconsideration of the law.
This is utter bullshit. First of all, cops are too stupid to think about doing such a thing, and cops like their power too much to willingly risk losing it.
Wouldn't it be technically possible to detect such a device being attached, and subsequently 'loading' the proper firmware ? The device says it's okay, but a while later (perhaps as soon as the device is detached) the naughty firmware is loaded back ?
From what I understand, verification is done with a clip that clips onto the processor. Recalling a similar process I've seen some 25 years ago, what it does is reset the processor, then toggles a special interrupt line (special in that it is dedicaced to that purpose only) and execute some code that's on the diagnostic box. The diagnostic box also checks that the processor effectively loads the data from the diagnostic box.
The only way this could be fucked with is by tampering with the processor box itself.
If it's not technically possible to detect such a device - I take it the machines need to be opened up, at least. Wouldn't it be possible for whoever opens it up to give off an RF signal to tell the machine to load a different firmware ?
It could be possible, yes, but the attendant circuitry would be bound to be eventually discovered.
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Helloooo????
Canada doesn't deliver, period. We don't have half as good a life as elsewhere in Canada. If Canada is so good, why the fuck do we consistently have more unemployment in Québec than in Ontario, no matter if we have a pederalist or sovereignist government in place???
History has taught us that the english will not give anything unless you put a knife to their throats.In the 1960's we had to start bombing mailboxes and federal buildings so our 200-year old concerns had to be considered. Until then, the english didn't do anything ecxept fatten themselves on our backs.
I lived in Downtown Ottawa for more than a year. But thank-god I'm back in Montréal. Even with the Internet, Babylon-on-the-Rideau is awfully boring. And you, have you ever crossed the river into Québec for 5 minutes?
It's very easy to sell more than nothing. You only need to sell it once!!!
But again, the english are too fucking damn stupid to learn french. But we, the french, have superior intellectual abilities, because we do learn english!!!
Because we don't want the immigrants to get the idea that they can think that they could be able to live in Québec without knowing french. And if you don't speak a word of french at all, what the fuck are you doing in Québec anyways, you numbskull??? They favour the french because we are superior, that's all. When you hire a french guy, you know he speaks english AND french. It makes the company smarter, too.But you decided to be stupid. So it's no wonder you can't get a decent job with your limited intellectual skills.
You fucking goddammed bloke. Despite living in the second largest french city in the world, I still have to speak a foreign language to work, just because you stupid dumb fucks are too fucking stupid to learn another language.
Canada and the USA too somehow manage to keep a lot of different ethnicies peacefully, but without an iron fist.
The history of Asia is nothing but a bunch of tycoons taking over and running the majority of the people into slavery, all the while bickering amongst themselves. Without the Englightenment that touched Europe in the 18th century, there is absolutely no tradition of human rights, and everybody are considered peons that can be ordered to do anything at all.
Worse, the general philosophy of "destiny" is totally geared in having the masses accept their plight without any hope of improvement, so the peons passively accept being run-around.
Singapore is no different, despite it's apparent wealth and liberalism (only economic).
Until orientals learn that respect does not automatically come with authority but has to be earned, I'm afraid that they will continue to live under awfully abjectionable conditions.
I have lived along with orientals who immigrated in $NORTH_AMERICA, and most often than not I have been flamed for expressing my thought about the political process and many economic endeavours.
It is pretty much to do anything at all in Singapore. A bad law being applied does not make any more right. Until everything breaks loose once the peons have had it.Why do you think Mao Tse-Tung was able to totally run over China (except Formosa - yes, this is a flame; Taïwan belongs to China, period; you don't split a nation into many countries)? The peons have had it at being screwed by the bourgeois and the various warlords. The devastation and suffering brought about by the communists in China could have been averted by a gradual transition to democracy, but the powers that were fought that tooth and nail.
It it's pee, let it be. If it's brown, flush it down...
He was minister 40 years ago. He could very well be a member of the Hells'eimers now...
Got none of those, but I suspect the "Web Developper" could be the culprit...
Civilization changes when technology changes, and when the information exchange is freer than it ever was, anything that hobbles the exchange of information will simply be bypassed into oblivion.
Walk into a library and at any time, you'll see several people ripping CDs into their laptop computers.
When responding, I extend the courtesy of lowering myself to the level of the respondee.
It is perfectly legal in Canada.
It's perfectly moral and ethical, because WE PAY A TAX ON BLANK MEDIA specifically for this purpose.
No, it is copyright infringement.
We're not talking about "fair use", but outright copying the whole kit and kaboodle, which is, shall I say it again, PERFECTLY LEGAL IN CANADA.
Er, the DMCA does not apply outside of the USA, which is 95% of the world.
In the US. I am not in the US.
You wrote it from a yankeeish perspective, which does not apply to 95% of the planet.
HELLOOO? Have you thought that perhaps, elsewhere in the world (read: a 5 hour drive from New-York City) it IS LEGAL???
Damn right. Even better, the arrogance of the music industry in VANDALIZING our computers and demanding that the whole universe submit to their whims (hard disks that check if the data is copyrithted) have determined that they have to be put to death.
Oh, I must be very, very, very honest, because I DON'T BREAK THE LAW!!!!
I don't have to rationalize it, because it is legal.
What I rationalize, is the need to exterminate the music industry for it's unfettered arrogance.
I am not breaking any law.
What pisses me off is those yankees who act like asshat
I'm NOT specifically referring to the SONY rootkit, but to OTHER software SONY disks STEALTHILY installs on computers.
"Break" and "cripple" are the VERY TERMS that describe what the stealthily installed-software does. I spent 3 hours last week-end fixing a friend's computer who had the misfortune of having played a SONY CD which installed a DLL that, whenever the system read the raw music data from a CD, scrambled the said data, thus preventing the LEGITIMATE listening and COPYING (here, it is PERFECTLY LEGAL to copy music, and SONY has not been granted the privilege of making and enforcing IT'S OWN laws).
I am happy to announce that after removing the nefarious DLL, I was able to RIP the "protected" CD and make a copy for myself.
Perfectly legally, following the laws that OUR DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED parliament enacted, and thus BREAKING THE UNDEMOCRATIC, UNELECTED FASCIST LAW that SONY tried to shove down our throats.
There are elections coming in a few weeks, and I will make sure I won't vote for SONY by mistake.
The difference is that the GOVERNMENT is FORCING US to PAY a TAX which ONLY BENEFITS the record industry, whenever we use the media for copying music or data (even data I generate).
The flip side is that WE ARE ALLOWED TO MAKE COPIES OF MUSIC (what is unjustly called "piracy" in the United Croporations of Amerika)
You're a fucking hardass, aren't you? You're a goddammed media sockpuppet, aren't you? You must be a dubya-voting southern baptist asshole who drinks alcohol in a locked room to display such blatant cluelessness.
In all those cases, there have been no DUE PROCESS, but only blackmailing ("pay us now, or if we go to court, we'll bankrupt you with the procedural and defence lawyer fees!!!")
The absence of due process means that the case WILL NOT BE reviewed with the impartiality of a public tribunal, but rather by a kangaroo court that is owned and operated by the music industry.
Okay, you stupid numbskull yankee, put this in your sorry little excuse for a brain:
USA LAW DOES NOT EXTENDS BEYOND THE BORDERS OF THE USA!
IN SOME COUNTRIES (LIKE CANADA, NORTH OF THE BORDER), IT IS PERFECTLY ****LEGAL**** TO COPY CDS, DOWNLOAD MUSIC AND SHARE IT ON A P2P NETWORK.
You call "reasonable" breaking customer's computers by stealthily installing crippling software?
You call "reasonable" (sic) levying a special tax on blank media, "just in case" the media is used to "pirate" music?
You call "reasonable" blackmailing people who MIGHT have shared music into paying multi-thousand dollars "settlements" without any proof of wrongdoing?
You call "reasonable" (I'm not making this up!) trying to force all society to use specially-designed hard-disks that will check whether the data they are writing is copyrighted?
You call "reasonable" treating your customers like criminals?
You call all the abovementionned **ARROGANCE** "reasonable"?
I'd hate to see what you call "unreasonable"...
They think they can force everybody to use technology that will only benefit them (remember the hard-drives that were supposed to check if the data they copy is copyrighted?).
This arrogance only warrants one thing: that "industry" shall be pirated to the croporate death penalty. The slow one: diminishing into irrelevence and oblivion through gradually diminishing sales.
I speak from experience. Cops will try anything to get you in the wrong. Like when I was hassled for taking pictures of old busses; I was standing on the sidewalk and while hassling me, they tried to get me to step on the adjacent private property so they could charge me for tresspassing.
The only way this could be fucked with is by tampering with the processor box itself.
It could be possible, yes, but the attendant circuitry would be bound to be eventually discovered.