The Liberals are the same guys who have been saying: "We need EI(employment insurance) reform, need it now, now, now!" But were the ones who forced the EI reform through to get the system as it is, but are now unhappy with it. Seriously, this stuff is politics 101 in order to get votes.
Want to change the way things work in Canada? Get them to change how the CRTC operates.
It's called the Police Services Board. They already exist, and they're the public representatives in Canada(depending on the province) overseeing the police, and yes they're members of the public who are not affiliated in anyway with any police service.
Let me say it, if you have an issue with this bill. Stop being lazy, pick up a pen. Use your chicken-scratch ability and write it out. Mail it by hand(it's free) and get away from the damn computer.
MP's the vast majority of them being the 'older' non-techy generation file and forget faxes, and emails because they're useless. Mail on the other hand is a physical item that they can carry into chamber and wave around, or have stacked at their desk. Or "It looks good..." when they're arguing.
That is all...
p.s. Avoid form letters. This has been an update from someone who has written several hundred letters to various MP's across the country.
Actually it's because there was two conservative parties in Canada and the vote was split down the middle. Big shock that the liberals won in nearly every riding where a conservative would normally win due to a vote split. Guess what happened in the last election with Dion?
Due to their left-left pandering, a high majority went far to the NDP. Some went to the Liberals and big shock, they lost in areas except liberal strongholds(Toronto, etc). In Canadian politics, parties rise and fall all the time.
This is all political ammunition for the next election, but the chances of this actually getting anywhere before the parliament goes into recess is pretty slim. See Canada's government shuts down on Friday for the summer. The Liberal party has been repeatedly trying to dig at the minority, and topple the government. More than likely Canada will have a fall election, so any issue that is a traction issue is a good issue. This happened the last time when the Liberals were in power as well.
So what will happen is this: Bill will get stuck, parliament will close. Government will collapse sometime in the fall. Election comes up. This becomes a traction issue along with a pile of others, that amazing 6% of the electorate that hasn't decided who they're voting for is being swayed one way or the other. Back and forth, and we'll find out who is the next PM.
That's the standard interac transfer fee between banks, or machines not owned by that bank which I was talking about. So I'm not getting hosed. It's Canadians as a whole.
So say someone clicks an ad at a reputable site to support them, which is actually malware which does 'software' damage(lost productivity, loss of PC uptime, etc) to a users PC by injecting something. Who becomes responsible? The end user? The content provider? Ad provider? Guy making the malware? Everyone? Last 3 people in the chain?
Answers to this? I realize those of us in the/. crowd are technically inclined, but the average person isn't. I really do start to expect heads to start rolling over this.
So are most Canadians. Big shock on that one, I'm a starving student so this kinda makes you aware of how much this stuff costs especially when you're on a student account.
Believe it or not they just finished paving an entire section of the 401 from London to Windsor in various heavy-weigh sections in concrete. You bet it stands up to it, properly laid concrete lasts forever. There was a section of roadway that I used to drive over as a little kid on my way to London, Ontario. This was down Kings Highway 2(people on the area might know where I'm talking). This section was in front of the old Caramuse Lime Plant(called LeFarge I think now) down to Beachville Lime. It was concrete, 3 lanes, and so on. It was 80-110km/h truck rated, they repaved it about 4 years ago once the county picked it up. But Caramuse paid for the entire thing at the time. I don't remember there ever being issues with it.
Anyway, there are plenty of roads in my area that have shifted away from gravel and gone back to Tar and Gravel. Or what we call split-gravel up here. Works well, lasts for ever. The only downside is, it's a bit slick the first summer or two. And if people don't drive the right speed during the first summer you can get weird road warping. But once that's done you get a road that's nearly as good as asphalt and rated around 80km/h.
Why would you pay $.50 to use this when transactions on credit cards and (some) debit cards are free?
I'd like to know what bank/cards you're using, most of the ones in Canada currently have a $1.50 out of bank charge, on top of a month $1.50 interac charge per use for cross-network fees.
The "transition" is more of a deadline. I've been using atsc for several years. In all probability, Canadian stations are simulcasting atsc right now.
Not really. If you're up near Toronto you'll find more stations, usually US upwards of 40. Further south more inland you get fewer. People in Hamilton can see around 15-20 with a mix of ATSC and non, with a heavy percentage of US. People around London, Ont., will see around 3-4 ATSC(generally US), the rest being Canadian around 5-6 if they're lucky. No one is doing it because the deadline just went up for the 'transition phase' about 3 weeks ago.
This doesn't even touch on the problem with piles of stations, and repeater stations around here now going defunct. CTV, Canwest-Global, CBC, etc., are all dumping stations. Independent stations(A-Channel), and so on are all going under. No one wants to spend money when they don't know if the station will be profitable a year or two from now.
You are correct, I'd also suggest that Iranians look to their neighbors for help for anything of a technical means to give them an edge. It doesn't matter *who* you are, or where you're from. If you ask for help, and someone is willing to give it you, you don't bloody well turn it down.
Low-wave crystal AM receivers work well and can be adapted easily for receiving messages, and making your own low-power AM radio is very easy. I'd also suggest looking up the code methods used by people in East-Germany while they were under STASI watch to see how they got past the government. Not to mention all of the underground cells that were there.
Personally it would have been better if Canada had been in the same step as the US and done the transition at the same time. Nope gotta wait another 2 years or so. By that time she'll probably be living in a city instead of out in the middle of no-where. It's not a bad idea, I thought of it but she decided against it. She's as stubborn as I am.
It's kind of funny you mention that. Oh that high quality is nice, if you don't mind the blocks, and audio dropping out. For all those years of the CRTC worrying about "Canadian Content" and FTA, the Americans solved the problem overnight.
My grandmother who lives in the middle of no-where Ontario, about 20mins from any major city, and 1.5hrs from Detroit/Buffalo/Port Huron lost all of the normal stations she used to get. NBC(Erie), ABC(Somewhere in PA) and CBS somewhere, along with PBS(Erie), and Fox(Toledo), a couple of other PBS stations, and a few others. Now the new stations Fox(Erie-ish), ABC(Detroit), ABC(Another in the Michigan area), and a CBS station somewhere in Michigan. No PBS or NBC stations at all.
Well I suppose that's fine, she's tech-savvy and understand this stuff. It's more of an irritation that what she did get, she no longer does. And what she does get, is in some cases poorer quality. And the first person to say satellite gets a beanbag to the head, for some reason the CRTC has something against US dishes.
Want to guess how much Bell Canada, charges per/min for a long distance phone call, for a city that is 14mins away from me?
A) 0.02-0.05 B) 0.05-0.10 C) 0.10-0.15 D) None of the Above
If you picked D, you are correct! The correct answer is $0.25/minute. That's right, it costs me less money to call my ex-gf in the Philippines than it does to call a relative who lives in the same county.
How come this didn't get sold to North Korea? I can already see the implementations there. Gatherings of one or more persons on a street corner are illegal. Actually maybe this thing needs a !NK and !2people tag.
A levy is still a tax to the person paying at the counter. The only difference is where the money goes, one ends up in the general revenue stream. The other ends up in someones pockets to 'protect' their industry.
Let's disregard the article for one second here. How do you think crime fighting is funded in general?
Lets see, in the US you use Reverse-Onus laws and nail everyone's ass to the floor to prove things under proceeds of crime. If they can't prove it, the money goes right to the police/state/etc. Then everything else comes out of the general revenue stream.
In Canada, it can work on a similar method providing the courts can actually work it out(it's pretty rare due to the charter, and issues with breeches), in which case it's a 33/33/33-ish split between the police/municipal/provincial jurisdictions. In 90% of all cases up here however, everything is funded out of the general revenue stream. It's funny, but when you take someones property under proceeds of crime, it works fairly well. It's actually funny when you have US Prosecutors seizing $80m worth of property in Canada. Tell me that doesn't work well, and fund things down there.
If this doesn't get modded to +5 insightful I'll be highly disappointed in the/. crowd. People to know, and understand the history of how bad legislation is passed.
Your post might be correct if you said that in 1976 through to 1990. Things changed, while there weren't screwups at the top; not as bad as Chrysler(and this is why investment companies suck). People bought GM just fine, the issue became the $4/gal($8/gal Canada) for fuel, and then the massive credit collapse.
Hi Americans, I'm looking at you! Once you guys figure out how not to slow down an entire world economy by having solvency issues maybe we'll get shit back on track. But I expect shit to really hit the fan about December of this year, maybe January when the second round of defaults start. Don't forget those evil Japanese just bailed out Toyota, Honda, Sony and Hitachi because all of their sales have dropped between 40-60% so far. And that isn't even touching on the medium-small guys.
It's funny, my mother is a East-German child. Grew up the first 15yrs of her life there, and happily tells me tales of what life was like. I read the article, and felt my BP shoot up about 40pts sitting here, the thought of Americans and someone saying "Papers"(or fingerprints) is chilling.
I didn't think I'd live to see such a flip either. This type of shit is insane, so who let what bat-shit nuts go wild down in the US anyway? Afraid of government? Hell you're letting it walk all over you.
Oh hey look. Someone else that doesn't understand that when you use "theory" it also applies to "what best fits, in the current context." Which means that, it can be worked, disproven, and doesn't mean that it's "the truth."
I'm still undecided to which is sadder. That people suck at the tit of Global Warming(or whatever pop phrase they're using now), that we know everything. Or that it's turned into a pseudo-religion, into and of itself, where people feel that any dissent means you're on the take. Of course, you're always on the take.
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The Liberals are the same guys who have been saying: "We need EI(employment insurance) reform, need it now, now, now!" But were the ones who forced the EI reform through to get the system as it is, but are now unhappy with it. Seriously, this stuff is politics 101 in order to get votes.
Want to change the way things work in Canada? Get them to change how the CRTC operates.
It's called the Police Services Board. They already exist, and they're the public representatives in Canada(depending on the province) overseeing the police, and yes they're members of the public who are not affiliated in anyway with any police service.
Let me say it, if you have an issue with this bill. Stop being lazy, pick up a pen. Use your chicken-scratch ability and write it out. Mail it by hand(it's free) and get away from the damn computer.
MP's the vast majority of them being the 'older' non-techy generation file and forget faxes, and emails because they're useless. Mail on the other hand is a physical item that they can carry into chamber and wave around, or have stacked at their desk. Or "It looks good..." when they're arguing.
That is all...
p.s. Avoid form letters. This has been an update from someone who has written several hundred letters to various MP's across the country.
Actually it's because there was two conservative parties in Canada and the vote was split down the middle. Big shock that the liberals won in nearly every riding where a conservative would normally win due to a vote split. Guess what happened in the last election with Dion?
Due to their left-left pandering, a high majority went far to the NDP. Some went to the Liberals and big shock, they lost in areas except liberal strongholds(Toronto, etc). In Canadian politics, parties rise and fall all the time.
This is all political ammunition for the next election, but the chances of this actually getting anywhere before the parliament goes into recess is pretty slim. See Canada's government shuts down on Friday for the summer. The Liberal party has been repeatedly trying to dig at the minority, and topple the government. More than likely Canada will have a fall election, so any issue that is a traction issue is a good issue. This happened the last time when the Liberals were in power as well.
So what will happen is this: Bill will get stuck, parliament will close. Government will collapse sometime in the fall. Election comes up. This becomes a traction issue along with a pile of others, that amazing 6% of the electorate that hasn't decided who they're voting for is being swayed one way or the other. Back and forth, and we'll find out who is the next PM.
So on and so forth, welcome to Canadian politics.
That's the standard interac transfer fee between banks, or machines not owned by that bank which I was talking about. So I'm not getting hosed. It's Canadians as a whole.
So say someone clicks an ad at a reputable site to support them, which is actually malware which does 'software' damage(lost productivity, loss of PC uptime, etc) to a users PC by injecting something. Who becomes responsible? The end user? The content provider? Ad provider? Guy making the malware? Everyone? Last 3 people in the chain?
Answers to this? I realize those of us in the /. crowd are technically inclined, but the average person isn't. I really do start to expect heads to start rolling over this.
So are most Canadians. Big shock on that one, I'm a starving student so this kinda makes you aware of how much this stuff costs especially when you're on a student account.
Believe it or not they just finished paving an entire section of the 401 from London to Windsor in various heavy-weigh sections in concrete. You bet it stands up to it, properly laid concrete lasts forever. There was a section of roadway that I used to drive over as a little kid on my way to London, Ontario. This was down Kings Highway 2(people on the area might know where I'm talking). This section was in front of the old Caramuse Lime Plant(called LeFarge I think now) down to Beachville Lime. It was concrete, 3 lanes, and so on. It was 80-110km/h truck rated, they repaved it about 4 years ago once the county picked it up. But Caramuse paid for the entire thing at the time. I don't remember there ever being issues with it.
Anyway, there are plenty of roads in my area that have shifted away from gravel and gone back to Tar and Gravel. Or what we call split-gravel up here. Works well, lasts for ever. The only downside is, it's a bit slick the first summer or two. And if people don't drive the right speed during the first summer you can get weird road warping. But once that's done you get a road that's nearly as good as asphalt and rated around 80km/h.
I'd like to know what bank/cards you're using, most of the ones in Canada currently have a $1.50 out of bank charge, on top of a month $1.50 interac charge per use for cross-network fees.
Not a bad idea she might still have her old Direct-TV dish from when it was 'legal' up here.
Not really. If you're up near Toronto you'll find more stations, usually US upwards of 40. Further south more inland you get fewer. People in Hamilton can see around 15-20 with a mix of ATSC and non, with a heavy percentage of US. People around London, Ont., will see around 3-4 ATSC(generally US), the rest being Canadian around 5-6 if they're lucky. No one is doing it because the deadline just went up for the 'transition phase' about 3 weeks ago.
This doesn't even touch on the problem with piles of stations, and repeater stations around here now going defunct. CTV, Canwest-Global, CBC, etc., are all dumping stations. Independent stations(A-Channel), and so on are all going under. No one wants to spend money when they don't know if the station will be profitable a year or two from now.
You are correct, I'd also suggest that Iranians look to their neighbors for help for anything of a technical means to give them an edge. It doesn't matter *who* you are, or where you're from. If you ask for help, and someone is willing to give it you, you don't bloody well turn it down.
Low-wave crystal AM receivers work well and can be adapted easily for receiving messages, and making your own low-power AM radio is very easy. I'd also suggest looking up the code methods used by people in East-Germany while they were under STASI watch to see how they got past the government. Not to mention all of the underground cells that were there.
Personally it would have been better if Canada had been in the same step as the US and done the transition at the same time. Nope gotta wait another 2 years or so. By that time she'll probably be living in a city instead of out in the middle of no-where. It's not a bad idea, I thought of it but she decided against it. She's as stubborn as I am.
It's kind of funny you mention that. Oh that high quality is nice, if you don't mind the blocks, and audio dropping out. For all those years of the CRTC worrying about "Canadian Content" and FTA, the Americans solved the problem overnight.
My grandmother who lives in the middle of no-where Ontario, about 20mins from any major city, and 1.5hrs from Detroit/Buffalo/Port Huron lost all of the normal stations she used to get. NBC(Erie), ABC(Somewhere in PA) and CBS somewhere, along with PBS(Erie), and Fox(Toledo), a couple of other PBS stations, and a few others. Now the new stations Fox(Erie-ish), ABC(Detroit), ABC(Another in the Michigan area), and a CBS station somewhere in Michigan. No PBS or NBC stations at all.
Well I suppose that's fine, she's tech-savvy and understand this stuff. It's more of an irritation that what she did get, she no longer does. And what she does get, is in some cases poorer quality. And the first person to say satellite gets a beanbag to the head, for some reason the CRTC has something against US dishes.
Want to guess how much Bell Canada, charges per/min for a long distance phone call, for a city that is 14mins away from me?
A) 0.02-0.05
B) 0.05-0.10
C) 0.10-0.15
D) None of the Above
If you picked D, you are correct! The correct answer is $0.25/minute. That's right, it costs me less money to call my ex-gf in the Philippines than it does to call a relative who lives in the same county.
How come this didn't get sold to North Korea? I can already see the implementations there. Gatherings of one or more persons on a street corner are illegal. Actually maybe this thing needs a !NK and !2people tag.
A levy is still a tax to the person paying at the counter. The only difference is where the money goes, one ends up in the general revenue stream. The other ends up in someones pockets to 'protect' their industry.
Gopher is a part of the history.
Usenet is still a part of the culture, the problem is people didn't fall in with the rules.
Lets see, in the US you use Reverse-Onus laws and nail everyone's ass to the floor to prove things under proceeds of crime. If they can't prove it, the money goes right to the police/state/etc. Then everything else comes out of the general revenue stream.
In Canada, it can work on a similar method providing the courts can actually work it out(it's pretty rare due to the charter, and issues with breeches), in which case it's a 33/33/33-ish split between the police/municipal/provincial jurisdictions. In 90% of all cases up here however, everything is funded out of the general revenue stream. It's funny, but when you take someones property under proceeds of crime, it works fairly well. It's actually funny when you have US Prosecutors seizing $80m worth of property in Canada. Tell me that doesn't work well, and fund things down there.
Some days, I wish we had it up here.
If this doesn't get modded to +5 insightful I'll be highly disappointed in the /. crowd. People to know, and understand the history of how bad legislation is passed.
Your post might be correct if you said that in 1976 through to 1990. Things changed, while there weren't screwups at the top; not as bad as Chrysler(and this is why investment companies suck). People bought GM just fine, the issue became the $4/gal($8/gal Canada) for fuel, and then the massive credit collapse.
Hi Americans, I'm looking at you! Once you guys figure out how not to slow down an entire world economy by having solvency issues maybe we'll get shit back on track. But I expect shit to really hit the fan about December of this year, maybe January when the second round of defaults start. Don't forget those evil Japanese just bailed out Toyota, Honda, Sony and Hitachi because all of their sales have dropped between 40-60% so far. And that isn't even touching on the medium-small guys.
A contract is a contract, unless you're blue collar huh?
It's funny, my mother is a East-German child. Grew up the first 15yrs of her life there, and happily tells me tales of what life was like. I read the article, and felt my BP shoot up about 40pts sitting here, the thought of Americans and someone saying "Papers"(or fingerprints) is chilling.
I didn't think I'd live to see such a flip either. This type of shit is insane, so who let what bat-shit nuts go wild down in the US anyway? Afraid of government? Hell you're letting it walk all over you.
Oh hey look. Someone else that doesn't understand that when you use "theory" it also applies to "what best fits, in the current context." Which means that, it can be worked, disproven, and doesn't mean that it's "the truth."
I'm still undecided to which is sadder. That people suck at the tit of Global Warming(or whatever pop phrase they're using now), that we know everything. Or that it's turned into a pseudo-religion, into and of itself, where people feel that any dissent means you're on the take. Of course, you're always on the take.