How about the 8th Amendment? Or am I going overboard with the interpretation of "cruel and unusual punishments"? It seems 10 years for copy infringement and piracy seems to be overboard in my books.
I've also seen murders get less then this, so yes. I think 8th might apply.
Could be more of the 'fake capacitor' problem creeping up again, since manufactures are still looking at the lowest bottom dollar for electronics and they're slapping in the cheapest they can get, it's usually those. Go nuts and google if you want, but it's been an ongoing issue for several years now, with them being filled with anything but electrolyte, but rather fish oil, oil, nothing and so on.
There are a pile of fake CapXon capacitors floating around currently in a pile of high-end electronics.
The cultural revolution set them back ~40-70 years, give or take. That doesn't mean that select individuals or groups of people with or without official backing could do things. To think otherwise is silly.
Rogers throttles aggressively and has caps, I can say this being a rogers customer it stinks, but in many places there is no other game in town. This has also been covered repeatedly on DSLR http://dslreports.com/forum/rogers as well, other things they like to do is throttle encrypted traffic, which is really good if you're actually doing legitimate things.
I'm happy you left out section 2.x, but I'll copy it over for you too.
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.
Section 1 applies generally to incitement against the government; we've had very few cases of this. Today people run with this whenever someone calls them a bad name, it's also been used against people who actively promote excessive hate; that is murder, targeting specific groups of people, ethnic cleansing, etc.
The second point, you can. You simply can not incite hate--this is the main reason people have been deported from Canada, but you're allowed an opinion and your right to express it still exists. Most people seem to believe you can't have any 'negative' opinions at all.
To your third point. He let people refute his argument on TVO earlier this week, and remember it's not his quote but that of Mullah Krekar; who the argument and thesis that the argument is based on as well as ongoing trends.
Really you're missing a few things since the US would block sale of just about every sensitive entity in the US to any other nation to make sure it continues to maintain control of it's satellites which is the main issue here.
Canada's gone through this before with the Avro Arrow anyway, and is learning hard from the past exactly what happens on top of it.
If people want to emigrate so be it, on the other side if you do develop something in your home nation and the government pitches in large sums of money and you want to sell to another nation you should expect that they're going to block you especially if they're going to lose control of a satellite/aircraft/other piece of sensitive technology that's used to watch over their territory.
Who'd really thunk it? Most people who play games, do crosswords, go out to their garage for a few hours and tinker, take up gardening or do other activities surprise are able to relax.
- (Are you sure there's no third company? Like AT&T or Sprint or MCI?) We only have one nation wide backbone carrier in Canada. It's bell, we have semi-regional carriers like Sasktel and such. However Bell owns 95% of the 'last mile' in Canada, it's a complete monopoly.
For people asking about Rogers. Rogers does not deal with DSL service at the last mile. Which is why there is very few providers like 3web.
In many places you can't get satellite at all, you can not get the US version of satellite broadband at all because it's illegal to own, buy or pay for those dishes up here. In other places you can only get one cable provider and in others you can only get one phone provider!
In my area you can get rogers or bell or various resellers. No wireless, no satellite. Sadly the only reason that we even have resellers available is because the government regulated and forced the greedy bastards to open up the networks that were paid for with civic money to begin with.
So while saying vote with your money is good, sometimes it's highly impractical when there is no other choice at all. This is the situation in many places in Canada. Remember that our population is ~30m too, the state of California has more not counting illegals.
Rogers aggressively throttles encrypted packets, and uses deep packet inspection and injection to find out what you're using/doing. It varies from location to location but generally that's the case. Someone in North York might not be having issues, but someone else in London or downtown Toronto will have their download and upload throttled to the point of uselessness.
This also extends to ssh and ftp transfers as well, really if they feel like it they're doing it. And in many cases up here, you're very limited on your choices of isp's.
I would say that this is one of the main issues with the current news publications in any form. It's the celebrity pop-esque running updates that go on for 15 hours in a row with regards to their runny nose. I'm sorry news broadcasters and publications, but there is real news that we as a general population want to see. If they can't provide it we'll goto other mediums and through other people to get it.
Of course as you pointed out as well, there's no shortage of publications and not to mention shows dedicated directly to this either. So why it should be on the news instead of the running celebrity broadcast hour I'm not sure what I'm missing.
I'd lay blame, but I'm not sure where to start. My solution was to stop watching TV and reading the papers a few years ago and let them wither and die on the mess they created on their own.
There's more then just 3web available but considering how small a market canada is period compared to the US, I'm surprised that there's usually 4-5 companies in most large cities at times providing dsl and cable service. DSL is much easier to get because you can get a dry loop for nothing due to deregulation. Bell was the only monopoly for 50+ years.
The only way that will happen in the end is if the CRTC and other providers come to an agreement over the cable lines. Rogers isn't the only provider in Ontario, we have aurora(in crtc pending to be bought by rogers), Cogeco in some areas and such. But generally Rogers has paid the price to upgrade the lines over the last 15 years around here. Out east, and Quebec you have Rogers and other providers, out west you have Shaw and a couple of others.
Our murder rate has been on a steady rise here ever since they started cracking down on gun ownership back about 5 or 6 years ago. You can check statistics Canada( http://www.statcan.ca/ ) if you want. The economy is even getting better in most cases and in most area's, violent crime is up by a lot. So are most other crimes from east to west coast.
Where Elections Canada told the Liberal party that 'sky is the limit' donations for political fund raising is illegal(the cap is 1,100), and not to do it. In political circles this is just as big a hoopla right now. It's pretty cut and dry.
"What a ridiculous statement. Let us consider at length the possibility that your brain is made of turnips. We can't have an open debate if we dismiss this out of hand. Do you think trepanation would be the best route for investigation?"
I believe that would fall under conjecture rather then a debate, since it's your best guess rather then forming the views on a standing issue. Unless you can start with a standing proof, then it remains where it is.
If you live in Canada you can sign up for a program called "Red Dot", postal carriers will no longer put junk mail in your box and you'll be removed from regular or in most cases most junk snail mail.
I'm not sure if there's a US version of this, maybe someone south of the border can post it. You do however have the DNC List which I'd be happy to have.
Until they dropped the heavy guarantor regulation on current passport requirements it actually was quite hard for some people to get a passport up here, the minimum is now to know someone with a passport. The old way of knowing someone for 3 years that wasn't a family member; it had to be a doctor, justice or a member of the community in good standing that would vouch for you(a few others too). The sad thing on that is there's a lot of people without a doctor that they can use, not many people know anyone in the local legal/city/judicial system; and the days of being known by members of the police in passing is pretty much gone. And that really closed the door for some people.
With the change allowing you to use someone who has a passport already up here, it's much easier. You actually wouldn't believe the pain in the ass I had to go through when I used American citizen's for my references. It's allowed no matter what they try and pull, but you gotta jump through some hoops.
You don't have to watch the entire population, when 300,000 informants are on your payroll and you don't know who friend from foe is. The East Germans and Russians did a really good job of keeping track of everyone they wanted to and that was 95% of the population.
Hi! Please dig your head out of your ass and along with it here's a news flash for you. China is running low on: Iron, steel, bulk scrap(various), refined Steel, density composites, base raw materials leading upto. Refined materials. They can't make, mine, or reclaim ANYTHING fast enough. Their raw>use rate is too much, their recycle>reuse rate is too low.
When you dump 'pot metal' as filler into steel you get, shit. Do you even know the subject at hand or are you aimlessly trolling for the sake of trolling.
It's not quite the BMB that worries people. It's that China lacks this thing called 'refined steel' currently, and other highly refined metal products required for nuclear reactors and containment vessels. Currently they're to the point where 'all metal into the pot is good metal'.
Of course they are there because of a demand of a service. So are drug dealers, and crack whores but not everyone goes out for those services either do they. Blizzards solution is pretty simple to put them out of business actually: Repeatable daily quests. The average person can make between Skettis and Ogrilia 70g alone. Toss in the Netherwing Quests, it's over 100g. Barring server errors it's repeatable two to three times a day, counting upto 340g per day.
Go away. You ruin what little closed world experience exists in these games as it is by allowing people to cheat their way up.
While I'm happy you feel the need to roll around in large wads of money, I don't feel the need to become beholden to you when you drive up market costs so much that everyone is forced to buy from you.
I'd have to go hunting for it, there was a post done by blizz awhile ago. Might be on a blue tracker or something, but the GM dept. was saying that ~95% of the spam was done from full paid accounts that trial accounts were not used. In other words, the idiots who are using the power leveling, and the unfortunate ones who've gotten their accounts stolen and/or sold.
Stolen accounts are a easier way to make money for companies, even faster then farming all it takes is a couple of key loggers.
Might be hard for you to get but most of the industry dumped belts during the 'green' times and went back to chains during the late 80's after cars started going *PING* along the highway. There are a few companies that still use them. That however is the cost that the customer pays when you're floating along the road at 60mph and it goes 'PING' and took out the piston, head, valve, etc and then cross-contaminates. And you're out a $3k engine.
Chains fail, rarely. Replacements about half as often as a belt, and even then depending on the wear quality of the chain and gears it may not be replaced for another 10-20k miles(100k mi-130k mi). And even then some of the 'newer' chains do not require replacement until 200-245k mi.
Wankel wants his engine back, and what happens when the 'valved' design that's non-mechanical fails(not piston timed). I hate to say this but anyone who's apprenticed as a mechanic, rebuilt any type of engine or worked on one can tell you that the more computerized crap they stick in cars, the more prone to failure they'll become.
KISS is running out of the automotive industry to ensure that dealerships continue to get their pay.
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How about the 8th Amendment? Or am I going overboard with the interpretation of "cruel and unusual punishments"? It seems 10 years for copy infringement and piracy seems to be overboard in my books.
I've also seen murders get less then this, so yes. I think 8th might apply.
Could be more of the 'fake capacitor' problem creeping up again, since manufactures are still looking at the lowest bottom dollar for electronics and they're slapping in the cheapest they can get, it's usually those. Go nuts and google if you want, but it's been an ongoing issue for several years now, with them being filled with anything but electrolyte, but rather fish oil, oil, nothing and so on.
There are a pile of fake CapXon capacitors floating around currently in a pile of high-end electronics.
The cultural revolution set them back ~40-70 years, give or take. That doesn't mean that select individuals or groups of people with or without official backing could do things. To think otherwise is silly.
Rogers throttles aggressively and has caps, I can say this being a rogers customer it stinks, but in many places there is no other game in town. This has also been covered repeatedly on DSLR http://dslreports.com/forum/rogers as well, other things they like to do is throttle encrypted traffic, which is really good if you're actually doing legitimate things.
I'm happy you left out section 2.x, but I'll copy it over for you too.
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:
a) freedom of conscience and religion;
b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
c) freedom of peaceful assembly; and
d) freedom of association.
Section 1 applies generally to incitement against the government; we've had very few cases of this. Today people run with this whenever someone calls them a bad name, it's also been used against people who actively promote excessive hate; that is murder, targeting specific groups of people, ethnic cleansing, etc.
The second point, you can. You simply can not incite hate--this is the main reason people have been deported from Canada, but you're allowed an opinion and your right to express it still exists. Most people seem to believe you can't have any 'negative' opinions at all.
To your third point. He let people refute his argument on TVO earlier this week, and remember it's not his quote but that of Mullah Krekar; who the argument and thesis that the argument is based on as well as ongoing trends.
Here is the TVO piece: Styen Vs Critics (Requires Flash)
Really you're missing a few things since the US would block sale of just about every sensitive entity in the US to any other nation to make sure it continues to maintain control of it's satellites which is the main issue here.
Canada's gone through this before with the Avro Arrow anyway, and is learning hard from the past exactly what happens on top of it.
If people want to emigrate so be it, on the other side if you do develop something in your home nation and the government pitches in large sums of money and you want to sell to another nation you should expect that they're going to block you especially if they're going to lose control of a satellite/aircraft/other piece of sensitive technology that's used to watch over their territory.
Unpossible!
Who'd really thunk it? Most people who play games, do crosswords, go out to their garage for a
few hours and tinker, take up gardening or do other activities surprise are able to relax.
- (Are you sure there's no third company? Like AT&T or Sprint or MCI?) We only have one nation wide backbone carrier in Canada. It's bell, we have semi-regional carriers like Sasktel and such. However Bell owns 95% of the 'last mile' in Canada, it's a complete monopoly.
For people asking about Rogers. Rogers does not deal with DSL service at the last mile. Which is why there is very few providers like 3web.
In many places you can't get satellite at all, you can not get the US version of satellite broadband at all because it's illegal to own, buy or pay for those dishes up here. In other places you can only get one cable provider and in others you can only get one phone provider!
In my area you can get rogers or bell or various resellers. No wireless, no satellite. Sadly the only reason that we even have resellers available is because the government regulated and forced the greedy bastards to open up the networks that were paid for with civic money to begin with.
So while saying vote with your money is good, sometimes it's highly impractical when there is no other choice at all. This is the situation in many places in Canada. Remember that our population is ~30m too, the state of California has more not counting illegals.
Rogers aggressively throttles encrypted packets, and uses deep packet inspection and injection to find out what you're using/doing. It varies from location to location but generally that's the case. Someone in North York might not be having issues, but someone else in London or downtown Toronto will have their download and upload throttled to the point of uselessness.
This also extends to ssh and ftp transfers as well, really if they feel like it they're doing it. And in many cases up here, you're very limited on your choices of isp's.
I would say that this is one of the main issues with the current news publications in any form. It's the celebrity pop-esque running updates that go on for 15 hours in a row with regards to their runny nose. I'm sorry news broadcasters and publications, but there is real news that we as a general population want to see. If they can't provide it we'll goto other mediums and through other people to get it.
Of course as you pointed out as well, there's no shortage of publications and not to mention shows dedicated directly to this either. So why it should be on the news instead of the running celebrity broadcast hour I'm not sure what I'm missing.
I'd lay blame, but I'm not sure where to start. My solution was to stop watching TV and reading the papers a few years ago and let them wither and die on the mess they created on their own.
http://www.canadianisp.com/ for a larger ISP listing.
There's more then just 3web available but considering how small a market canada is period compared to the US, I'm surprised that there's usually 4-5 companies in most large cities at times providing dsl and cable service. DSL is much easier to get because you can get a dry loop for nothing due to deregulation. Bell was the only monopoly for 50+ years.
The only way that will happen in the end is if the CRTC and other providers come to an agreement over the cable lines. Rogers isn't the only provider in Ontario, we have aurora(in crtc pending to be bought by rogers), Cogeco in some areas and such. But generally Rogers has paid the price to upgrade the lines over the last 15 years around here. Out east, and Quebec you have Rogers and other providers, out west you have Shaw and a couple of others.
Our murder rate has been on a steady rise here ever since they started cracking down on gun ownership back about 5 or 6 years ago. You can check statistics Canada( http://www.statcan.ca/ ) if you want. The economy is even getting better in most cases and in most area's, violent crime is up by a lot. So are most other crimes from east to west coast.
Other points have been covered by other posters.
I direct you to here:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080213.DONATIONS13/TPStory/TPNational/Politics/
Where Elections Canada told the Liberal party that 'sky is the limit' donations for political fund raising is illegal(the cap is 1,100), and not to do it. In political circles this is just as big a hoopla right now. It's pretty cut and dry.
"What a ridiculous statement. Let us consider at length the possibility that your brain is made of turnips. We can't have an open debate if we dismiss this out of hand. Do you think trepanation would be the best route for investigation?"
I believe that would fall under conjecture rather then a debate, since it's your best guess rather then forming the views on a standing issue. Unless you can start with a standing proof, then it remains where it is.
If you live in Canada you can sign up for a program called "Red Dot", postal carriers will no longer put junk mail in your box and you'll be removed from regular or in most cases most junk snail mail.
http://www.reddotcampaign.ca/
I'm not sure if there's a US version of this, maybe someone south of the border can post it. You do however have the DNC List which I'd be happy to have.
Until they dropped the heavy guarantor regulation on current passport requirements it actually was quite hard for some people to get a passport up here, the minimum is now to know someone with a passport. The old way of knowing someone for 3 years that wasn't a family member; it had to be a doctor, justice or a member of the community in good standing that would vouch for you(a few others too). The sad thing on that is there's a lot of people without a doctor that they can use, not many people know anyone in the local legal/city/judicial system; and the days of being known by members of the police in passing is pretty much gone. And that really closed the door for some people.
With the change allowing you to use someone who has a passport already up here, it's much easier. You actually wouldn't believe the pain in the ass I had to go through when I used American citizen's for my references. It's allowed no matter what they try and pull, but you gotta jump through some hoops.
Remember the Stasi(Staatssicherheit).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi
You don't have to watch the entire population, when 300,000 informants are on your payroll and you don't know who friend from foe is. The East Germans and Russians did a really good job of keeping track of everyone they wanted to and that was 95% of the population.
Hi! Please dig your head out of your ass and along with it here's a news flash for you. China is running low on: Iron, steel, bulk scrap(various), refined Steel, density composites, base raw materials leading upto. Refined materials. They can't make, mine, or reclaim ANYTHING fast enough. Their raw>use rate is too much, their recycle>reuse rate is too low.
When you dump 'pot metal' as filler into steel you get, shit. Do you even know the subject at hand or are you aimlessly trolling for the sake of trolling.
It's not quite the BMB that worries people. It's that China lacks this thing called 'refined steel' currently, and other highly refined metal products required for nuclear reactors and containment vessels. Currently they're to the point where 'all metal into the pot is good metal'.
I'm sure you can figure out the rest.
Of course they are there because of a demand of a service. So are drug dealers, and crack whores but not everyone goes out for those services either do they. Blizzards solution is pretty simple to put them out of business actually: Repeatable daily quests. The average person can make between Skettis and Ogrilia 70g alone. Toss in the Netherwing Quests, it's over 100g. Barring server errors it's repeatable two to three times a day, counting upto 340g per day.
Tell me, how is gold in short supply?
Go away. You ruin what little closed world experience exists in these games as it is by allowing people to cheat their way up.
While I'm happy you feel the need to roll around in large wads of money, I don't feel the need to become beholden to you when you drive up market costs so much that everyone is forced to buy from you.
I'd have to go hunting for it, there was a post done by blizz awhile ago. Might be on a blue tracker or something, but the GM dept. was saying that ~95% of the spam was done from full paid accounts that trial accounts were not used. In other words, the idiots who are using the power leveling, and the unfortunate ones who've gotten their accounts stolen and/or sold.
Stolen accounts are a easier way to make money for companies, even faster then farming all it takes is a couple of key loggers.
Might be hard for you to get but most of the industry dumped belts during the 'green' times and went back to chains during the late 80's after cars started going *PING* along the highway. There are a few companies that still use them. That however is the cost that the customer pays when you're floating along the road at 60mph and it goes 'PING' and took out the piston, head, valve, etc and then cross-contaminates. And you're out a $3k engine.
Chains fail, rarely. Replacements about half as often as a belt, and even then depending on the wear quality of the chain and gears it may not be replaced for another 10-20k miles(100k mi-130k mi). And even then some of the 'newer' chains do not require replacement until 200-245k mi.
Wankel wants his engine back, and what happens when the 'valved' design that's non-mechanical fails(not piston timed). I hate to say this but anyone who's apprenticed as a mechanic, rebuilt any type of engine or worked on one can tell you that the more computerized crap they stick in cars, the more prone to failure they'll become.
KISS is running out of the automotive industry to ensure that dealerships continue to get their pay.