Name one case (in copyright matters) where it was "extortion".
Just one... where the person facing fines wasn't committing copyright infringement in the first place.
The vast majority of store losses, known as shrinkage, is by employees.
So (again), though fucking shit. They should not bothering their customers about that, because it's not their customers' problem.
If they can't make sure their cashiers do a proper job, they have no goddammed business hassling their customers with checking their stuff at the exit.
Each time a fucking store insists I leave my bag at the counter, I make a big loud fuss about it: "The majority of theft is from employees, and if you don't trust me with my bag in their store, why should I trust you with my bag?".
Why should software patents affect open-source? Hundreds of people all over the place work on open-source, and generally, no one in particular actually FINANCIALLY BENEFITS from writing and maintaining OSS.
So, if some croporation decides to sue for patent infringement the makers of a particular piece of OSS, who do they sue? Every single developper? How are they going to round them all up and corral them into a courtroom? How are they gonna prove the actual degree of involvement of each and everyone of them?
Or are they going to sue the end-users? How could they ferret-out all the end-users of a particular piece of software?
If the going gets though, the ongoing OSS efforts will simply go underground with a vengeance, as they won't have any scruples in blatantly siphonning-off actual patents. And with easy encription and free-net to distribute information, any effort to counter OSS is doomed to failure. And any "examples" brought out by courts at the request of croporations will simply strengthen the resolve to break the vicious IP cartels. Once the idea that IP is theft enters the public's mind, no amount of repression will be able to curtail the demise of IP "industries".
Nevertheless, if the objective was to secure the bridge they were blocking, the Army should have given 24 to 48 hours for the non-combattants to clear the area, and then engage the enemy with force. They didn't because they couldn't. Bunch of wimps.
It wasn't the first time the indians blocked the Mercier Bridge. They did it in the late 1950's to protest the building of the St-Lawrence Seaway. The army was called-in.
No one remembers it because the suburbs served by the bridge were totally insignificant at the time and thus, there was no public outcry.
The stupid thing is Ottawa Public Servants. I have been to other cities in Canada and not seen the apathy and laziness (and stupidity) as there is in Ottawa.
You obviously haven't seen the Montréal City civil servants...
I find most political activism emerges from political scandal. Most often are the scandals are completely blown out of proportion which is constructed by the media. Look at the "Sponsorship
Scandal" is the bigger scandal not in the amount of money spent investigating this matter and the fact that people who lied, manipulated and stole money not going to prison?
The sponsorship "scandal" is mere window-dressing to divert the attention from the REAL scandal: the UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE SURPLUS SCANDAL, where 45 billion (yes, $45e9 - enough to buy 15 space shuttles and a Hubble) dollars were stolen by Paul Martin from the canadian workers to pay for the tax reduction of the rich.
It's because we Canadians waffle so much (we don't want missle defense! but we still want a business realtionship with the US)
That's a bunch of crap, and I won't waffle on that observation. You are propagating an unwarranted stereotype of your own country.
Perhaps in your tiny-brained west, where only 5% of the population account for less than.05% of the collective canadian brain power, but definitely not in enlightened eastern Canada.
Perhaps it's that the newspapers and the CBC seems to generally ignore, obfuscate and smooth over any internal political controversies.
This is what happens when government funds media.
Totally false. The CBC ***LOVES*** to embarrass governments. And since they don't have their balls held tight by advertisers, they don't shy from embarrassing big private companies either, or covering the disgusting jewish behaviour in the Middle-East (a no-no in USA for the jewish-owned media).
The Liberals can only be trusted so long as they're afraid of the next election. When they win next time, and they will, they're going to do a lot more of this stuff.
They won't. Without Québec, no one is able to hold power for long. And the liberals are totally burned in Québec (especially when they use turncoats like Lapierre), and the conservatives stand no chance at all, because the values of that bunch of fucking loonies are totally at odd with the French values of Québec (and the urban values of Ontario - don't forget that most of Ontario's population lives around Moronto), and we got our lesson with Mulroney.
Even if this ever made it to parliament, it definitely would never pass. Something as controversial as this would be suicide for a minority government, and we've already seen that Martin is being extra-careful.
Yeah, right. The buget clearly shows that Martin really licks Harper's (cheap-labour conservatives) ass real clean. But in fact, Martin itself is nothing but a cheap-labour conservative in liberal clothes.
what public pressure about American missle defence ? there was significant private pressure from the Quebec government, but nothing from the CITIZENS of Canada...
You're obviously a western-canada redneck, that is, a very small percentage (5%) of the population (in term of intelligence, it's more like.05% if the total I.Q.) of Canada and thus not representative at all of the population in general.
Western-Canada rednecks are well known for primitive stupid viewpoints that are directly aligned to those displayed in Texas and other stupid-belt US States, and so therefore can be entirely dismissed as irrelevant entertainment.
In other words, western-canadian rednecks' sole purpose in life is to make more enlightened eastern canadians laugh at how stupid people can be.
Of course there was the War Measures act that Trudeau threw up during the FLQ crisis but the Charter of Rights and Freedoms put that to bed.
Actually, no. The War Measures Act was passed during World-War One, and was revoked around 1986 by Brian Mulroney. And if the Charter invalidated the War Measures Act, the latter could be conveniently amended with an invocation of the Nothwitstanding Clause (a law can override the Charter for 5 years - it was put there at the request of English Canada which does not want to provide any services to french people and is currently used, for example, to ALLOW public funding of religious schools (in violation of the Charter) in Québec).
This is but a police wet-dream whish-list. The police always want the largest surveillance powers over civilians, because deep down in their little narrow twisted bird-brains, they do not trust civilians. They do not trust what they don't understand, and they don't understand much.
Their entire training revolves on ferretting out crime suspects and they are naturally suspicious of everyone who has not been anointed into policeness (which is plain silly, given the number of cops who perform crimes).
Yes, we should be vigilant, because the cops are inherently untrustworthy (why should we trust them if they don't trust us?), and make sure our member of parliament are fully aware that our legal tradition ALSO does not gives blind trust to the police, and that the Internet shall be treated NO DIFFERENTLY from the rest of society.
It is nevertheless the case. Aluminium industries, for instance, do not patent their processes, and keep them as trade secret, because once patented, the processes are totally public and open to everyone to see, and nothing prevents anyone else from using the process for their own purpose. The only thing they can't do is resell it.
If this directive is passed, European software researchers like my firm are basically put out of business. We cannot recover or protect our past investment, and our clients will not risk working with technology from small firms with no patent protection.
Yes you can. You can very well infringe on others' patents as long as you do not resell the infringing software to others.
I believe it matters if the entry revealed any company data or if it was done via the company network. If neither of these two terms are satisified, there is NO good reason to terminate the employee!
Bzzzt! No good! Can't you see? This is the "new", "improved" "reality" where croporations make the rules at their whim and fancy.
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If they can't make sure their cashiers do a proper job, they have no goddammed business hassling their customers with checking their stuff at the exit.
Each time a fucking store insists I leave my bag at the counter, I make a big loud fuss about it: "The majority of theft is from employees, and if you don't trust me with my bag in their store, why should I trust you with my bag?".
So, if some croporation decides to sue for patent infringement the makers of a particular piece of OSS, who do they sue? Every single developper? How are they going to round them all up and corral them into a courtroom? How are they gonna prove the actual degree of involvement of each and everyone of them?
Or are they going to sue the end-users? How could they ferret-out all the end-users of a particular piece of software?
If the going gets though, the ongoing OSS efforts will simply go underground with a vengeance, as they won't have any scruples in blatantly siphonning-off actual patents. And with easy encription and free-net to distribute information, any effort to counter OSS is doomed to failure. And any "examples" brought out by courts at the request of croporations will simply strengthen the resolve to break the vicious IP cartels. Once the idea that IP is theft enters the public's mind, no amount of repression will be able to curtail the demise of IP "industries".
Because some newspapers mentionned it during the 1990 blockade... :)
No one remembers it because the suburbs served by the bridge were totally insignificant at the time and thus, there was no public outcry.
Expect more minority governments in the future.
Western-Canada rednecks are well known for primitive stupid viewpoints that are directly aligned to those displayed in Texas and other stupid-belt US States, and so therefore can be entirely dismissed as irrelevant entertainment.
In other words, western-canadian rednecks' sole purpose in life is to make more enlightened eastern canadians laugh at how stupid people can be.
Their entire training revolves on ferretting out crime suspects and they are naturally suspicious of everyone who has not been anointed into policeness (which is plain silly, given the number of cops who perform crimes).
Yes, we should be vigilant, because the cops are inherently untrustworthy (why should we trust them if they don't trust us?), and make sure our member of parliament are fully aware that our legal tradition ALSO does not gives blind trust to the police, and that the Internet shall be treated NO DIFFERENTLY from the rest of society.
It is nevertheless the case. Aluminium industries, for instance, do not patent their processes, and keep them as trade secret, because once patented, the processes are totally public and open to everyone to see, and nothing prevents anyone else from using the process for their own purpose. The only thing they can't do is resell it.
Hmmmm. How about making a Linux distro that gives out a PBX/bastion host/firewall???
Wireless Internet access has been available on VIA Rail in Canada since the end of 2003.
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