Yeah, but that evil man shared secret customer lists AND email addresses!!!1!one!
It's not like he tanked the whole World's economy with junk investments, cost billions in bailout money and caused the unemployment of millions of people or anything...
This is why I'm eagerly awaiting the zombie apocalypse, plus you have the bonus of being able to shoot random people (great stress reliever) and its harder to get infected (as long as you don't rub zombie over an open wound that is).
The day that the "free" society will stop committing crimes is the day that undercover police will not be needed to gather information in criminal organizations.
But... But... I keep hearing that tax-cuts to big corporations which allows them to make more profits were supposed to be good for the people, you know, create jobs and better compensate employees and stuff...
How is this law "thinking of the children" exactly? I've heard of many teachers friending their whole class so that students could post questions and get help on their homework.
IANAL, but my understanding of PIPEDA is that personal information can be gathered without the individual's consent when this information is required for law enforcement. This is NOT the same as you (your company) handing that information over freely, i.e. the RCMP can snoop around and find that information on their own without having to tell the individual that they collected his info. Your company on the other hand, asked for the individual's consent before collecting and part of that consent covers the fact that this information will not be shared.
Honestly, your company should definitively consult a lawyer to clear that up if it hasn't already because if my interpretation is correct, they've opened themselves for quite a liability.
Disclaimer: I'm in Canada and work for a company that has to gather personal info as part of its operations.
That's an open-world game, a very crappy example. I've never finished Morrowind yet I've pumped in about 40-50 hours of dicking around and doing side-quests... that don't mean I want shorter games, especially not for my 60$. Make shorter games and charge 20$? Yeah, that I can handle.
In fact, wasn't there a study a few years ago where they let a bunch of preschoolers pick stocks at random and they ended up doing better than the fund managers?
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic... if not, I'm sorry to burst your bubble but most of the wealth they generate does not end up in the hands of shareholders. Whatever small part does, is taxed to oblivion. Why should individuals pay a ~30-35% tax rate and corporations only 15%? By 2012, Canada will have the lowest corporate tax rate in the G7; that rate could easily be raised a few percentage points with no ill effects on the economy. Plus, the wealth generated could lead to tax breaks on individuals or debt reduction or deficit reduction.
Lol, well it you just copy an existing one or flip flop your position to try and be more popular (ADQ, I'm looking at you) then yeah it's pretty useless.
The big problem, is that if a new party shows up saying that they will do exactly what is needed to make this country better, they will never get elected. Why? Because they would tax the rich and large corporations more, they would gradually cut government jobs by at least 1/3 (while optimizing of course) and eliminate pension plans for new government employees (why should working for the government entitle you to a free retirement? The rest work just as hard, if not harder, and have to finance their own retirement).
There are 2 reasons why people don't go vote:
1- The parties all suck and the voter doesn't feel that one winning over another would make any difference, and;
2- People are too lazy to drive down to the polls and wait in line to vote.
For problem 1, not much we can do except start a new party. For problem 2 however, a system where you can vote online might be able to help. For identification, perhaps combining your SIN number and passport number or last year's taxable income would be sufficient.
Had this guy had 2 brain cells in his head, he wouldn't have done anything except look at job boards... Why don't people just stick to stealing office supplies like in the good old days?
Agreed, I also hate when it's too obvious and detracts from the flow.
The first example that springs to mind was in Transformers (1st one) when the junior analyst chick at the CIA (or NSA or whatever) copies "the unknown encrypted signal" onto a Panasonic SD card... the close up shot of her hand pulling the card out by holding it awkwardly in order not to hide the logo and the 1 second pause so that we can read it, really didn't fit in the flow of the scene.
Another example of blatant product placement is in the TV show Bones when Bones was talking to Booth about how awesome her Prius was...
Because buying a Ferrari for a third of the price but having the rpm, speed, coldness of the A/C, choice of radio stations, number of airbags, torque and bhp limited because of software doesn't feel "right".
Sure you can buy a 187 500$ upgrade that unlocks all of these things or pay 250 000$ at the start and have access to everything from the get go, but it still feels like a shaft. When you're at a red light with the exact same car next to you and the other dude zooms off at 0-60 in 4 secs while you do it in 40 secs, it sucks even if you did get what you paid for.
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Because the glasstron sold sooooo well...
You can also have a beer with your lunch at the office and that's perfectly alright.
Makes you wonder why he went to the big G in the first place, well, besides the dump truck full of money dropped off at his doorstep of course.
Yeah, but that evil man shared secret customer lists AND email addresses!!!1!one!
It's not like he tanked the whole World's economy with junk investments, cost billions in bailout money and caused the unemployment of millions of people or anything...
This is why I'm eagerly awaiting the zombie apocalypse, plus you have the bonus of being able to shoot random people (great stress reliever) and its harder to get infected (as long as you don't rub zombie over an open wound that is).
There's already quite a bit of radiation in space, couldn't that be somehow harvested to provide power?
I dunno, hacking into FIS's network to remotely remove or increase the withdrawal limits and reload the debit cards sounds like a cybercrime to me...
The day that the "free" society will stop committing crimes is the day that undercover police will not be needed to gather information in criminal organizations.
Wasn't talking about anything that fancy, just that if kids had questions when not in class they could ask via FB.
But... But... I keep hearing that tax-cuts to big corporations which allows them to make more profits were supposed to be good for the people, you know, create jobs and better compensate employees and stuff...
How is this law "thinking of the children" exactly? I've heard of many teachers friending their whole class so that students could post questions and get help on their homework.
IANAL, but my understanding of PIPEDA is that personal information can be gathered without the individual's consent when this information is required for law enforcement. This is NOT the same as you (your company) handing that information over freely, i.e. the RCMP can snoop around and find that information on their own without having to tell the individual that they collected his info. Your company on the other hand, asked for the individual's consent before collecting and part of that consent covers the fact that this information will not be shared.
Honestly, your company should definitively consult a lawyer to clear that up if it hasn't already because if my interpretation is correct, they've opened themselves for quite a liability.
Disclaimer: I'm in Canada and work for a company that has to gather personal info as part of its operations.
That's an open-world game, a very crappy example. I've never finished Morrowind yet I've pumped in about 40-50 hours of dicking around and doing side-quests... that don't mean I want shorter games, especially not for my 60$. Make shorter games and charge 20$? Yeah, that I can handle.
In fact, wasn't there a study a few years ago where they let a bunch of preschoolers pick stocks at random and they ended up doing better than the fund managers?
Well, it does have a parachute... sounds just as safe as a jet to me...
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic... if not, I'm sorry to burst your bubble but most of the wealth they generate does not end up in the hands of shareholders. Whatever small part does, is taxed to oblivion. Why should individuals pay a ~30-35% tax rate and corporations only 15%? By 2012, Canada will have the lowest corporate tax rate in the G7; that rate could easily be raised a few percentage points with no ill effects on the economy. Plus, the wealth generated could lead to tax breaks on individuals or debt reduction or deficit reduction.
Lol, well it you just copy an existing one or flip flop your position to try and be more popular (ADQ, I'm looking at you) then yeah it's pretty useless.
The big problem, is that if a new party shows up saying that they will do exactly what is needed to make this country better, they will never get elected. Why? Because they would tax the rich and large corporations more, they would gradually cut government jobs by at least 1/3 (while optimizing of course) and eliminate pension plans for new government employees (why should working for the government entitle you to a free retirement? The rest work just as hard, if not harder, and have to finance their own retirement).
If they have an opinion, yes. With today's busy schedules (work, kids, etc), 30 minutes is a lot of time for some families.
The real problem with elections is voter turnout.
There are 2 reasons why people don't go vote:
1- The parties all suck and the voter doesn't feel that one winning over another would make any difference, and;
2- People are too lazy to drive down to the polls and wait in line to vote.
For problem 1, not much we can do except start a new party. For problem 2 however, a system where you can vote online might be able to help. For identification, perhaps combining your SIN number and passport number or last year's taxable income would be sufficient.
Had this guy had 2 brain cells in his head, he wouldn't have done anything except look at job boards... Why don't people just stick to stealing office supplies like in the good old days?
Ha, I had forgotten about that one. Then of course the entire movie is a commercial for GM, but that's another matter altogether.
Agreed, I also hate when it's too obvious and detracts from the flow.
The first example that springs to mind was in Transformers (1st one) when the junior analyst chick at the CIA (or NSA or whatever) copies "the unknown encrypted signal" onto a Panasonic SD card... the close up shot of her hand pulling the card out by holding it awkwardly in order not to hide the logo and the 1 second pause so that we can read it, really didn't fit in the flow of the scene.
Another example of blatant product placement is in the TV show Bones when Bones was talking to Booth about how awesome her Prius was...
LOL, read the privacy terms, it wasn't accidental.
Because buying a Ferrari for a third of the price but having the rpm, speed, coldness of the A/C, choice of radio stations, number of airbags, torque and bhp limited because of software doesn't feel "right".
Sure you can buy a 187 500$ upgrade that unlocks all of these things or pay 250 000$ at the start and have access to everything from the get go, but it still feels like a shaft. When you're at a red light with the exact same car next to you and the other dude zooms off at 0-60 in 4 secs while you do it in 40 secs, it sucks even if you did get what you paid for.
Much thanks for the added info!