hey man, here's an excellent one for you: Bruce Sterling on the thirteen causes behind the California power crisis. All about how it's the result of treating energy networks like information networks.
Correct me if I am wrong - but werent Californians enjoying fine, reliable, reasonably-priced utilities before they deregulated?
Couldnt one argue that a utility should be held in the public domain? In times like these where prices are high the Utility companies take it up the duff - when wholesale prices are low they make out like bandits... its balanced. When the public owns the utility this is acceptable, knowing that the good comes w/ the bad and 'vica-versa'. But when the companies are owned by profit-hungry MultiNational cartels, they MUST have a profit, every quarter - and each quarter must be more profitable than the last... it is a little silly to assume they will act in the best interest of Californians... so, why again did you decide to sell off your once reliable, affordable public utility?
Remember, these guys are in France, so not subject to the DMCA
Dosnt the Byrne(sp?) Convention assure that Copyright & Patents from member countries must support the Copyright & Patents of other countries - would this be a 'copyright' law? Could the Byrne convention force the planet under US Corporate Rule? (just as it has Americans).
Please, write your representatives, but for God sakes dont call yourself a fucking "CONSUMER" when you write your members. Calling yourself a consumer only reenforces the image that every person's sole purpose for existance is to function some way economically. Conceiding that you are a 'CONSUMER' is fucking absurd.
Try calling yourself a 'citizen' or 'person' or 'individual' or 'constituent' or anything else.
While your writing these notes; why not add that you feel the USA should remove itself from the WIPO and WTO also.
The Wave was the result of an experiment in Personality Cult worship in PaloAlto Cali. in the 60's. It is VERY funny that the monkeys who are developing this 'squeel' system have never heard about it.
The book based on this event was required reading in my HighSchool - very interesting read.
Maybe the people devloping the "W.A.V.E." program should read a book... it is uncanny that this experiment (in 60's California) detailed in this book is exactly what this "W.A.V.E." program will lead too - that the book actually warned against this.
If you're worried about your pocketbook, however, ideologies can be dangerous
Spoken like a true coward. Read this: You are nothing without conviction.
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superior software because of hate for the company that produced it is rather silly
I dont think that/. readers have any problem with Microsoft as a company its really a problem with their monoploistic abuse of power to drive others out of markets and purposely exclude other platforms in order to protect its Windows Monopoly on the desktop. If MS started producing open source versions of its software for Linux I think youd find/. readers would have much less of a problem w/ them... but trying to F*** other OSs is a little 'dirty'... why offer any support to that effort by deploying MS technologies?
This will be the four years
that 'break the camels back'. The Ultraconservative, Pro-Business,
Anti-Citizen policies of the Republican government will be the force that
finally destroys the present power structure in the US of America. Violence
in the streets, Massive Marches and Huge Rallies will force the following to
occur (by the grace of $YOUR_DIETY)
The WTO, WIPO, FTAA and
its proponents are abandoned after masses of people converge on all their
meetings to stop their collusive $whoring$.
The Electoral College is
abandoned, Public Funding for all elections at all levels in enacted, the
National Debate Commission is returned to a Pro-Democratic Agency &
Read-My-Sig.
Campaign Contributions by For-Profit entities is made
illegal.
Legislation is introduced that makes Corporate Officers
personally responsible for the actions of their underlings/the actions of
the corporation they 'rule' with regards to environmental, labour and civil
law.
The UN is used to entrench world-wide standards for Labour, The
Environment, Civil Rights and Social Responsibility*
Santa Clara
County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company - the 1886 landmark case
giving business rights as persons is overturned. This returns Sanity to a
world where corporate entities are once again responsible to the citizens of
their respective operating locations.
International Law creates
Anti-Trust Laws that make todays laws look like a Corporate
Nirvana.
International Law is written that makes all elected Officials
Responsible to uphold the new "International Declaration of Human, Civic and
Environmental Rights". Any entity or individual who attempts to subvert
these rights (similar to those in the US Constitution or Canadian Charter)
are charged criminally and removed from office.
America's absurd Military
spending is seen as it truely is: An armed offensive force, defending no
person, fueld by profitteering defence contractors, used as an Imperialistic
tool of Corporate America. 95% of its budget are diverted to other
projects.
All laws that relate to Legislated morals are struck down, the
separation of church and state is renewed. (*Abortion becomes a fundamental
right, Drug Prohibition Ends (with it the 'War on Drugs'), Prostitution is
Legalized, Gay Rights are forever protected, absurd Public Clothing Laws
are abolished, etc etc etc).
Bush will resign under threat of
Revolution.
Now, I invite you all to please 'Jump in with
your own predictions'
as it looks like SuSE's weird licencing is temporary.
The duration is irrelevant - the point is the GPL is supposed to prevent alternate licenses/releases of software ((GPL software can only be GPLed) there are linking methods that can 'sortof' alter this..). If SuSE can arbitrarily set a 20 day limit - whats stopping them from making it 20 years? Good Will? Nice Feelings? Promises? Horse crap - they may (if the assertion that this is GPL violation is correct) NOT release software like this... I will wait until i hear from SuSE and get some details before I form an opinion about whether or not they have violated the GPL... again we need more real detail.
something, don't use it! You don't like the license of the Czech localisation? DON'T USE IT. Sure, if StarOffice was GPLd they probably wouldn't be able to do this
The point is simply that if major work is done to StarOffice under the GPL what happens if the 'alternate' license is used to usurp the intentions of those developers? There GPLed code somehow gets worked up into the StarOfficeLicenseBySun? and those who would use it to release NON GPL software.
Any opportunity for this to happen means that StarOffice is not a viable project worth the support of Free Software advocates (myself included) - it is simply not an option... (like KDE was for a time).
Thats why this is uncomfortable - GPLed code prevents itself from being tied up into proprietary products - when this appears to not be the case, this is where problems arise - like the issue people are having with this 'announcement' from SuSE.
It would be nice if Slashdot could trouble themselves with a Goddamned Phone Call to SuSE to try and give them an opportunity to explain themselves - Id bet they would LOVE the opportunity to speak for themselves. Instead of all of us guessing about the intention/details of this 'announcement'.
Yes - it was rampant evil communism that caused the Nuclear Accident at Chernobyl. Im not a nuclear bigot like some Tree Huggers* ((I have a hard time believing it is a worse prospect than slowly polluting everything w/ coal) But ultimately population control and moderation is the only solution)...
Your statement that "Communism" caused the accident is pure dung. Save your McArthy-isms for a US only crowd - not everyone spent the last 100 years in a incubator of fear, bullshit and propaganda regarding socialism. Take for example: The Rest Of The Planet.
*I am VERY Liberal - with the usual Tree Hugging predispositions.
It seems to me that the actions of the RIAA/MPAA perfectly define collusive behaviour. What is important to note is that this behaviour is tanamount to A Monoploy (oligopoly). Why havnt Anti-Trust laws in 95% of the worlds economies kicked in? Wouldnt the ability to fix prices, exclude competitors to enter the market, refusal to adopt efficient technology without being crushed by more nimble competitors, hassle a completely different industry (eletronics giants like RCA, JVC, Matsushita, Toshiba etc) to produce 'compliant' devices... etc etc etc. With the push to 'Global Economy' the world needs new very very very strong law that protects the environment, civil rights, gaurantees to competition etc etc etc - where is the international commission to analyze these things?!?!?!?
You are right, of course. But I shouldn't have to know every damn thing that's going on. It is the government's role to protect the constituents. It's really the only role of the government. The government should be protecting my freedom, and they're not
Very good point - but think about this: The/. community is going to be hyper aware of the computer industry, and the media industry (how they relate to computers) what other groups of very highly technical people, are screaming out on forums like/. about the injustice occuring in their field?????
What really worries me is if the US Government is giving the computer technology world such a fucking-beat-down what other crazy legislation is going on in a totally unrelated sphere of knowledge? I trust my Government (Canadian) to have experts in all fields to analyze the impact of Government actions - where are these public interest arms of Government? Have they all been destroyed in order to spend more time writing WIPO and WTO and FTAA etc etc Treaties so Trans-Nationals can screw us over? Where is the 'World Civil Protection Act' or 'World Human Rights Equalization Treaty' or the like which are meant to benefit people? Why does it seem like all our governments are busy working on harmonizing trade law and none give a damn about anything else? They are not even pretending to give a damn...
People like ewhac have been busy spreading their communist manifestos for years And RedNeck'ed twits like Ergo2000 have been busy shitting McArthy inspired Communist Paranoia for just a little longer...
"They can't comprehend the idea that society might agree that to encourage innovation and creation certain checks and balances would be put in place to ensure that the system doesn't collapse (By collapse I'm not meaning that we move to a utopian free world where the likes of ewhac are busy creating their sphere movie screensavers, but rather one where people don't create life saving drugs, they don't write music, and they don't write software. They're too busy tending the fields and other such manual processes because that's all that the likes of ewhac can understand
And this screed is about the worst pile of fucking horse shit Ive ever read on/. - do you have a point in there somewhere jackass or are you too fucking blind to realize you havnt got a leg to stand on? Outside of the fact that selfish, myopic twits like yourselves cant let go of their own best interests for a second to consider the possiblity that not everyone is as selfish and greedy as you are... relax asshole - their are no commies commin' to a take your guns.
The "matter duplicator" IS on the way! Have a look here or take the time to do a search on google.
The idea of a 'duplicator' will be here very soon - it may not be able to create objects from 'thin air' but we will be able to create things from very small particles (elements) and 'print' things.
The idea is then: Who 'owns' the designs to everyday objects you see around you? Will we be able to 'print' ourselves computer mice? what about CD Jewel cases? The technology exists (or will very shortly) to do this. What will we do when the ability to create simple electronics arrives (like cassette decks, portable phones, etc)?
The idea that this is the 'information economy' drives home just how aware the capatalists are of their bleak future - what are we going to do to prevent them from controlling that technology..?
Nice Contradition:
If ("If you're a professional journalist, your job is to find out what's happening, and document it. Journalists shouldn't create the news, they should just illuminate it. == true) then {
If a journalist sees an advocate acting rudely, disrupting a press conference, that can reach around and bite the advocate's cause: "some unruly demonstrators interrupted the press conference for a couple moments before security ushered them out with a twist of their arms." != true}
If the former were true the latter would obviously not be. The better argument is that All Journalists are advocates - that they must act with conscience and present their opinions openly.. we are all products of our opinions: dont kid yourself about the 'objectivity' of the press, it dosnt exist...
And the old-line companies like Intel and AMD, which are currently fighting over which is the superior obsolete semiconductor company, well, those outfits go out of business
Bzzzt Wrong.
Intel or AMD BUYS our friendly RollTronics and maintain their positions in the new era --or-- they get involved enough in the technology and prove that it, in fact, does not work (in order to protect their $XXX Trillion dollar fab investments)
The internet needs to be seperated from the American government. Every country in the world should be able to 'share' the ability to add TLDs. Every country (I mean all countries - not just the ones the American Government likes) should be given the right to add as many TLD as they like... the present system is ridiculous what the hell does the US Dept. of Commerce have to do with the Internet..
For those Americans who will remind me that the 'Internet' used to be a DARPA project (etc etc): Whats your point? Times change. Only hubris and selfishness would keep you from putting yourselves on equal footing as the rest of the planet...
Ive just got off the phone with the 1800 Canada Post service line in Toronto. I spoke with a 'customer service rep'. I posed this question:
"If sent a package (shoe box, brick or treebranch.) with a "Postage Gauranteed" or "no Stamp required" type envelope or postcard, what happens to the package?"
Her response "The package technically has 'insufficient postage' in this case. The package will goto an "Undeliverable Mail Center" where an authorized Agent of the Post Office will open the package in order to determine a Return Address. When none is found the package is then 'offered' to the addressee (our markatroid victims) - they can REFUSE to accept this package. If they do this: they are not responsible for the shipping. The package will return to our 'Undeliverable Mail Center" where it will remain for 6 months. If the package contents are of any value they are donated to charity; else they are destroyed."
Basically, if you send a package attached to one of these reply cards/envelops and the markatroids refuse (which they will once they are burned once or twice (as there is never any reason to send a package as a response to one of their mindless pitches)) Canada Post ends up 'holding the bag' for the cost of our efforts.
I realized afterwards that the above scenario may be dependant on the person sending a package through the system: What happens with an envelope full of sand? Something that would exceed the 'letter mail' weight limit and arrive 'postage due' (and mandatory payment by the markatroid scum). And unfortunately the same thing occurs. Basically each envelope/card has a unique ID which references a contract with some Markatroid BizCo. They agree to pay 0.47 (cost of a stamp) for each letter sent. Nothing more - and only letters can be sent. Anything else ends up at these UMCs.
Now, the kicker: I proposed to him "What would happen if people did this anyway. And Canada Post ended up receiving thousands of these packages that they were forced to transport the mail and incure the cost'. Could Canadian 'Postal Law' be used to force them to use the system above with MANY MANY MANY packages - this would make Canada Post want to change their system with regards to JunkMail Postage Paid letters (maybe raise prices causing junkmail of this type to decrease). This tact may be a successfull way to protest - and force Canada Post to change their JunkMailing policies...
So I phoned Legal Aid Ontario, who refered me to a University of Windsor Legal Clinic - the person I spoke with their told me that they were unaware of the relevant law (and could not technically give me any advice on the phone). It may be a Federal Law issue... she suggested I phone a Civil Liberties Professor she knew who may 'get a kick out of the idea' (i understood this to mean he was probably sympathetic to the idea). So - I will email him. My question will be in this vein: What is Canada Post obligated to do with the packages I put in the Post Office Box? Would they have to send them to these Authorized UMCs? Could they simply turn and pitch all these items at the nearest garbage pail - OR - would that violate some kind of law?
Ill add our email messages to the bottom of this post when they arrive.
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you.
Yes - I invite it. ;)
hey man, here's an excellent one for you: Bruce Sterling on the thirteen causes behind the California power crisis. All about how it's the result of treating energy networks like information networks.
Correct me if I am wrong - but werent Californians enjoying fine, reliable, reasonably-priced utilities before they deregulated?
Couldnt one argue that a utility should be held in the public domain? In times like these where prices are high the Utility companies take it up the duff - when wholesale prices are low they make out like bandits... its balanced. When the public owns the utility this is acceptable, knowing that the good comes w/ the bad and 'vica-versa'. But when the companies are owned by profit-hungry MultiNational cartels, they MUST have a profit, every quarter - and each quarter must be more profitable than the last... it is a little silly to assume they will act in the best interest of Californians... so, why again did you decide to sell off your once reliable, affordable public utility?
Ah - I thought that it would be that UNION of all member countries copyright laws were to be followed. Thanks.
Not to mention what that horrible AI will do to our prescious bodily fluids.
Remember, these guys are in France, so not subject to the DMCA
Dosnt the Byrne(sp?) Convention assure that Copyright & Patents from member countries must support the Copyright & Patents of other countries - would this be a 'copyright' law? Could the Byrne convention force the planet under US Corporate Rule? (just as it has Americans).
Please, write your representatives, but for God sakes dont call yourself a fucking "CONSUMER" when you write your members. Calling yourself a consumer only reenforces the image that every person's sole purpose for existance is to function some way economically. Conceiding that you are a 'CONSUMER' is fucking absurd.
Try calling yourself a 'citizen' or 'person' or 'individual' or 'constituent' or anything else.
While your writing these notes; why not add that you feel the USA should remove itself from the WIPO and WTO also.
Q: Whats the worst thing about eating a bald pussy?
A: Putting the diaper back on.
The age of consent in Canada is 14.
The Wave was the result of an experiment in Personality Cult worship in PaloAlto Cali. in the 60's. It is VERY funny that the monkeys who are developing this 'squeel' system have never heard about it.
The book based on this event was required reading in my HighSchool - very interesting read.
Maybe the people devloping the "W.A.V.E." program should read a book... it is uncanny that this experiment (in 60's California) detailed in this book is exactly what this "W.A.V.E." program will lead too - that the book actually warned against this.
This is very weird.
If you're worried about your pocketbook, however, ideologies can be dangerous
Spoken like a true coward. Read this: You are nothing without conviction.
superior software because of hate for the company that produced it is rather silly
/. readers have any problem with Microsoft as a company its really a problem with their monoploistic abuse of power to drive others out of markets and purposely exclude other platforms in order to protect its Windows Monopoly on the desktop. If MS started producing open source versions of its software for Linux I think youd find /. readers would have much less of a problem w/ them... but trying to F*** other OSs is a little 'dirty'... why offer any support to that effort by deploying MS technologies?
I dont think that
This will be the four years that 'break the camels back'. The Ultraconservative, Pro-Business, Anti-Citizen policies of the Republican government will be the force that finally destroys the present power structure in the US of America. Violence in the streets, Massive Marches and Huge Rallies will force the following to occur (by the grace of $YOUR_DIETY)
Now, I invite you all to please 'Jump in with your own predictions'
which goes into greater depth than most people have ever seen of the kernel source itself
I think I know what you were trying to say (maybe) - but Timothy, do you ever think to proof posts you read?
as it looks like SuSE's weird licencing is temporary.
The duration is irrelevant - the point is the GPL is supposed to prevent alternate licenses/releases of software ((GPL software can only be GPLed) there are linking methods that can 'sortof' alter this..). If SuSE can arbitrarily set a 20 day limit - whats stopping them from making it 20 years? Good Will? Nice Feelings? Promises? Horse crap - they may (if the assertion that this is GPL violation is correct) NOT release software like this... I will wait until i hear from SuSE and get some details before I form an opinion about whether or not they have violated the GPL... again we need more real detail.
something, don't use it! You don't like the license of the Czech localisation? DON'T USE IT. Sure, if StarOffice was GPLd they probably wouldn't be able to do this
The point is simply that if major work is done to StarOffice under the GPL what happens if the 'alternate' license is used to usurp the intentions of those developers? There GPLed code somehow gets worked up into the StarOfficeLicenseBySun? and those who would use it to release NON GPL software.
Any opportunity for this to happen means that StarOffice is not a viable project worth the support of Free Software advocates (myself included) - it is simply not an option... (like KDE was for a time).
Thats why this is uncomfortable - GPLed code prevents itself from being tied up into proprietary products - when this appears to not be the case, this is where problems arise - like the issue people are having with this 'announcement' from SuSE.
It would be nice if Slashdot could trouble themselves with a Goddamned Phone Call to SuSE to try and give them an opportunity to explain themselves - Id bet they would LOVE the opportunity to speak for themselves. Instead of all of us guessing about the intention/details of this 'announcement'.
show you the drawbacks of communism
Yes - it was rampant evil communism that caused the Nuclear Accident at Chernobyl. Im not a nuclear bigot like some Tree Huggers* ((I have a hard time believing it is a worse prospect than slowly polluting everything w/ coal) But ultimately population control and moderation is the only solution)...
Your statement that "Communism" caused the accident is pure dung. Save your McArthy-isms for a US only crowd - not everyone spent the last 100 years in a incubator of fear, bullshit and propaganda regarding socialism. Take for example: The Rest Of The Planet.
*I am VERY Liberal - with the usual Tree Hugging predispositions.
It seems to me that the actions of the RIAA/MPAA perfectly define collusive behaviour. What is important to note is that this behaviour is tanamount to A Monoploy (oligopoly). Why havnt Anti-Trust laws in 95% of the worlds economies kicked in? Wouldnt the ability to fix prices, exclude competitors to enter the market, refusal to adopt efficient technology without being crushed by more nimble competitors, hassle a completely different industry (eletronics giants like RCA, JVC, Matsushita, Toshiba etc) to produce 'compliant' devices... etc etc etc. With the push to 'Global Economy' the world needs new very very very strong law that protects the environment, civil rights, gaurantees to competition etc etc etc - where is the international commission to analyze these things?!?!?!?
You are right, of course. But I shouldn't have to know every damn thing that's going on. It is the government's role to protect the constituents. It's really the only role of the government. The government should be protecting my freedom, and they're not
/. community is going to be hyper aware of the computer industry, and the media industry (how they relate to computers) what other groups of very highly technical people, are screaming out on forums like /. about the injustice occuring in their field?????
Very good point - but think about this: The
What really worries me is if the US Government is giving the computer technology world such a fucking-beat-down what other crazy legislation is going on in a totally unrelated sphere of knowledge? I trust my Government (Canadian) to have experts in all fields to analyze the impact of Government actions - where are these public interest arms of Government? Have they all been destroyed in order to spend more time writing WIPO and WTO and FTAA etc etc Treaties so Trans-Nationals can screw us over? Where is the 'World Civil Protection Act' or 'World Human Rights Equalization Treaty' or the like which are meant to benefit people? Why does it seem like all our governments are busy working on harmonizing trade law and none give a damn about anything else? They are not even pretending to give a damn...
People like ewhac have been busy spreading their communist manifestos for years
/. - do you have a point in there somewhere jackass or are you too fucking blind to realize you havnt got a leg to stand on? Outside of the fact that selfish, myopic twits like yourselves cant let go of their own best interests for a second to consider the possiblity that not everyone is as selfish and greedy as you are... relax asshole - their are no commies commin' to a take your guns.
And RedNeck'ed twits like Ergo2000 have been busy shitting McArthy inspired Communist Paranoia for just a little longer...
"They can't comprehend the idea that society might agree that to encourage innovation and creation certain checks and balances would be put in place to ensure that the system doesn't collapse (By collapse I'm not meaning that we move to a utopian free world where the likes of ewhac are busy creating their sphere movie screensavers, but rather one where people don't create life saving drugs, they don't write music, and they don't write software. They're too busy tending the fields and other such manual processes because that's all that the likes of ewhac can understand
And this screed is about the worst pile of fucking horse shit Ive ever read on
The "matter duplicator" IS on the way! Have a look here or take the time to do a search on google.
..?
The idea of a 'duplicator' will be here very soon - it may not be able to create objects from 'thin air' but we will be able to create things from very small particles (elements) and 'print' things.
The idea is then: Who 'owns' the designs to everyday objects you see around you? Will we be able to 'print' ourselves computer mice? what about CD Jewel cases? The technology exists (or will very shortly) to do this. What will we do when the ability to create simple electronics arrives (like cassette decks, portable phones, etc)?
The idea that this is the 'information economy' drives home just how aware the capatalists are of their bleak future - what are we going to do to prevent them from controlling that technology
Nice Contradition:
If
("If you're a professional journalist, your job is to find out what's happening, and document it. Journalists shouldn't create the news, they should just illuminate it. == true)
then
{ If a journalist sees an advocate acting rudely, disrupting a press conference, that can reach around and bite the advocate's cause: "some unruly demonstrators interrupted the press conference for a couple moments before security ushered them out with a twist of their arms." != true}
If the former were true the latter would obviously not be. The better argument is that All Journalists are advocates - that they must act with conscience and present their opinions openly.. we are all products of our opinions: dont kid yourself about the 'objectivity' of the press, it dosnt exist...
And the old-line companies like Intel and AMD, which are currently fighting over which is the superior obsolete semiconductor company, well, those outfits go out of business
Bzzzt Wrong.
Intel or AMD BUYS our friendly RollTronics and maintain their positions in the new era --or-- they get involved enough in the technology and prove that it, in fact, does not work (in order to protect their $XXX Trillion dollar fab investments)
The internet needs to be seperated from the American government. Every country in the world should be able to 'share' the ability to add TLDs. Every country (I mean all countries - not just the ones the American Government likes) should be given the right to add as many TLD as they like... the present system is ridiculous what the hell does the US Dept. of Commerce have to do with the Internet..
For those Americans who will remind me that the 'Internet' used to be a DARPA project (etc etc): Whats your point? Times change. Only hubris and selfishness would keep you from putting yourselves on equal footing as the rest of the planet...
Ive just got off the phone with the 1800 Canada Post service line in Toronto. I spoke with a 'customer service rep'.
I posed this question:
"If sent a package (shoe box, brick or treebranch.) with a "Postage Gauranteed" or "no Stamp required" type envelope or postcard, what happens to the package?"
Her response "The package technically has 'insufficient postage' in this case. The package will goto an "Undeliverable Mail Center" where an authorized Agent of the Post Office will open the package in order to determine a Return Address. When none is found the package is then 'offered' to the addressee (our markatroid victims) - they can REFUSE to accept this package. If they do this: they are not responsible for the shipping. The package will return to our 'Undeliverable Mail Center" where it will remain for 6 months. If the package contents are of any value they are donated to charity; else they are destroyed."
Basically, if you send a package attached to one of these reply cards/envelops and the markatroids refuse (which they will once they are burned once or twice (as there is never any reason to send a package as a response to one of their mindless pitches)) Canada Post ends up 'holding the bag' for the cost of our efforts.
I realized afterwards that the above scenario may be dependant on the person sending a package through the system: What happens with an envelope full of sand? Something that would exceed the 'letter mail' weight limit and arrive 'postage due' (and mandatory payment by the markatroid scum). And unfortunately the same thing occurs. Basically each envelope/card has a unique ID which references a contract with some Markatroid BizCo. They agree to pay 0.47 (cost of a stamp) for each letter sent. Nothing more - and only letters can be sent. Anything else ends up at these UMCs.
Now, the kicker: I proposed to him "What would happen if people did this anyway. And Canada Post ended up receiving thousands of these packages that they were forced to transport the mail and incure the cost'. Could Canadian 'Postal Law' be used to force them to use the system above with MANY MANY MANY packages - this would make Canada Post want to change their system with regards to JunkMail Postage Paid letters (maybe raise prices causing junkmail of this type to decrease). This tact may be a successfull way to protest - and force Canada Post to change their JunkMailing policies...
So I phoned Legal Aid Ontario, who refered me to a University of Windsor Legal Clinic - the person I spoke with their told me that they were unaware of the relevant law (and could not technically give me any advice on the phone). It may be a Federal Law issue... she suggested I phone a Civil Liberties Professor she knew who may 'get a kick out of the idea' (i understood this to mean he was probably sympathetic to the idea). So - I will email him. My question will be in this vein: What is Canada Post obligated to do with the packages I put in the Post Office Box? Would they have to send them to these Authorized UMCs? Could they simply turn and pitch all these items at the nearest garbage pail - OR - would that violate some kind of law?
Ill add our email messages to the bottom of this post when they arrive.