>I can find no reason for the CRTC to limit how much conent we watch because its not from canada. Who gives them the right?
The TV & Radio spectrum is limited, of course. It's even more limited because it must be shared with the US. The FCC determines who gets a slice in the US, the CRTC in Canada.
Pretend you a TV exec wannabe. You approach the CRTC for a slice of that now limited spectrum. Do you:
a) tell them you want it to rebroadcast American channels that 96% of the population already receive
b) broadcast material that is not already being received by Canadians, or;
c) broadcast material that is not already being received by Canadians and is made by them.
C is usually going to be the winner, but many cases of B (such as foreign-showcasing multi-cultural channels) also get their broadcasting license. What doesn't get licensed are TV stations that want to double-up on what is already available.
Can a Canadian open (or buy) a TV station in the US? Nope. The US doesn't allow foreigners to control their broadcast spectrum, why should the Canucks?
Remember -- this doesn't apply to cable. Canada has DOZENS of US cable channels available. The spectrum is public property. Use it wisely.
1. Ratings
In British Columbia, they rate they don't censor. Are you an adult? You can watch any movie or play any game you like. Uncensored.
2. Radio & TV being unAmerican
96% of Canadians have cable TV. Every cable subscriber has all US TV networks, CNN, CNBC, the lot.
Most Canadians can receive US TV and radio over the air anyways.
Why, pray tell, would the CRTC (the Canadian equivilent of the FCC) license Canadian broadcasters who don't show anything from their own country? What a waste of a publicly-owned resource.
TV & Radio must broadcast a huge, colossal, unimaginable amount of Canadian material. How much? 30 per cent. Big flipping deal. I don't know how the US music and tv industries could survive with a mere 70% of the Canadian broadcast spectrum.
As for movies, the person was mistaken. There are no quotas for movies in Canada. We just run them uncensored, regardless of where they are from. (They are, however, rated.)
3. Drugs?
Vancouver has several Amsterdam-style cafes. Come on by.
4. Censoring Porn/Illegialities crossing borders
They do this in the US too. You can create all the porn, cracking info, etc. you like. But if you send it across a border, the Man gets involved.
I'm a free speech absolutist -- if you can think it, you can say it.
However, just because you want to hide behind "free speech", doesn't mean everyone else has to shut up. Their free speech rights permit them to tell everyone -- including advertisers, clients, etc -- what this site has on it and why it should not be patronised.
The US 5th Amendment (or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) doesn't give you a free pass. If you dole it out, you've got to take it too.
The ads have always been in there -- but Apple doesn't get the revenue. The ads are placed by the search engines that make Sherlock plug-ins. In return for granting a short-cut to their data (and skipping past their own banner ads), Apple made space for them to put in a little banner.
Re: How can they add.eu if Europe is not a country?
ICANN doesn't necessarily allocate TLDs only by country. Many territories of countries get one too: step forward Jersey, Guernsey, CoCos Islands, etc.
ICANN, who say they are not in the business of determining what is or is not a country, gets its two-letter TLD names from the INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION 3166 group.
They have agreed that Europe gets its own TLD. ICANN merely has to ratify it. http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/new02 _00.html
I seem to remember a TV movie years ago about a California high school teacher who tried to explain to his students how the Nazis and Hitler Youth were accepted. He created a "pride" organization in the school that became very scary pretty quickly -- all to demonstrate how it happened. The name of the organization -- and the movie -- The Wave.
Actually the Apple Records did sue, although they settled out of court. Apple Computer agreed that they would not make machines that create music. (Third parties are free to do anything they like.) None of the sound effects included with a Mac system has ever been a musical note for this reason, they are always things like "quack", "purr", "beep." The only one that does sound like an instrument is called "sosumi". As for/. and the Apple logo, it is fair-use./. is writing (or allowing) editorial comment and debate about Apple. It is the same as a newspaper using the logo in a story about Apple. If/. were to use the Apple logo in a marketing campaign, Apple would have a case.
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>I can find no reason for the CRTC to limit how much conent we watch because its not from canada. Who gives them the right?
The TV & Radio spectrum is limited, of course. It's even more limited because it must be shared with the US. The FCC determines who gets a slice in the US, the CRTC in Canada.
Pretend you a TV exec wannabe. You approach the CRTC for a slice of that now limited spectrum. Do you:
a) tell them you want it to rebroadcast American channels that 96% of the population already receive
b) broadcast material that is not already being received by Canadians, or;
c) broadcast material that is not already being received by Canadians and is made by them.
C is usually going to be the winner, but many cases of B (such as foreign-showcasing multi-cultural channels) also get their broadcasting license. What doesn't get licensed are TV stations that want to double-up on what is already available.
Can a Canadian open (or buy) a TV station in the US? Nope. The US doesn't allow foreigners to control their broadcast spectrum, why should the Canucks?
Remember -- this doesn't apply to cable. Canada has DOZENS of US cable channels available. The spectrum is public property. Use it wisely.
1. Ratings
In British Columbia, they rate they don't censor. Are you an adult? You can watch any movie or play any game you like. Uncensored.
2. Radio & TV being unAmerican
96% of Canadians have cable TV. Every cable subscriber has all US TV networks, CNN, CNBC, the lot.
Most Canadians can receive US TV and radio over the air anyways.
Why, pray tell, would the CRTC (the Canadian equivilent of the FCC) license Canadian broadcasters who don't show anything from their own country? What a waste of a publicly-owned resource.
TV & Radio must broadcast a huge, colossal, unimaginable amount of Canadian material. How much? 30 per cent. Big flipping deal. I don't know how the US music and tv industries could survive with a mere 70% of the Canadian broadcast spectrum.
As for movies, the person was mistaken. There are no quotas for movies in Canada. We just run them uncensored, regardless of where they are from. (They are, however, rated.)
3. Drugs?
Vancouver has several Amsterdam-style cafes. Come on by.
4. Censoring Porn/Illegialities crossing borders
They do this in the US too. You can create all the porn, cracking info, etc. you like. But if you send it across a border, the Man gets involved.
I'm a free speech absolutist -- if you can think it, you can say it.
However, just because you want to hide behind "free speech", doesn't mean everyone else has to shut up. Their free speech rights permit them to tell everyone -- including advertisers, clients, etc -- what this site has on it and why it should not be patronised.
The US 5th Amendment (or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms) doesn't give you a free pass. If you dole it out, you've got to take it too.
The ads have always been in there -- but Apple doesn't get the revenue.
The ads are placed by the search engines that make Sherlock plug-ins. In return for granting a short-cut to their data (and skipping past their own banner ads), Apple made space for them to put in a little banner.
ICANN doesn't necessarily allocate TLDs only by country. Many territories of countries get one too: step forward Jersey, Guernsey, CoCos Islands, etc.
ICANN, who say they are not in the business of determining what is or is not a country, gets its two-letter TLD names from the INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION 3166 group.
They have agreed that Europe gets its own TLD. ICANN merely has to ratify it. http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/new02 _00.html
Dell is coming out with an Ice-box laptop that you pour ice cubes easily obtainable from your local service station.
At $0, it is cheaper than any college degree you can buy from the classified pages of the National Enquirer. And accepted by just as many people.
Now, they just have to add a keyboard and a tape drive and they would have the Colecovision 2000.
Maybe Bill is just dipping his toe into a future bid for President.
I seem to remember a TV movie years ago about a California high school teacher who tried to explain to his students how the Nazis and Hitler Youth were accepted. He created a "pride" organization in the school that became very scary pretty quickly -- all to demonstrate how it happened. The name of the organization -- and the movie -- The Wave.
Actually the Apple Records did sue, although they settled out of court. Apple Computer agreed that they would not make machines that create music. (Third parties are free to do anything they like.) None of the sound effects included with a Mac system has ever been a musical note for this reason, they are always things like "quack", "purr", "beep." The only one that does sound like an instrument is called "sosumi". As for /. and the Apple logo, it is fair-use. /. is writing (or allowing) editorial comment and debate about Apple. It is the same as a newspaper using the logo in a story about Apple. If /. were to use the Apple logo in a marketing campaign, Apple would have a case.