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  1. Re:Yeah - like the Republican Party on Why Smart People Defend Bad Ideas · · Score: 1

    Why do people even defend dreck like that? If you can't even put your name to it why bother.

  2. Re:I've seen 3 Harry Potter movies so far on Goblet of Fire Teaser Trailer Released · · Score: 1

    Really when I watch movies from 50 years ago with child actors, I can see a real class to the kids. They were good at acting, and playing their parts. Perhaps the kids just need some lessons on acting? Who can say.

    You are quite right that Jackson did a good job on the LoTR translation, it was well done, missing some but well done. The hatchet job on Prisoner of Azkaban however drove me nuts.

  3. Re:I've seen 3 Harry Potter movies so far on Goblet of Fire Teaser Trailer Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Agreed, this is one of the few series that I've quite enjoyed my younger sister lent me her set to read. By far better then the movies. The movies are well, trash, total complete ... trash compared to the books.

  4. Re:Two sets of laws in Canada. on Canadian ISP to Name Music Swappers · · Score: 1

    Until Liberal apointee judges decide that they'd rather modify the codex of the law then interpret them.

  5. Two sets of laws in Canada. on Canadian ISP to Name Music Swappers · · Score: 1

    Quebec. And everyone else.

    That's it, Quebec gets preferential treatment to ensure that it will remain in confederation, this also applies to corperations who operate within the province. With the on-going corruption scandel hitting the Liberals, this is just the tip of the ice burg.

  6. It might if you breath the dust. on Wordpress Banned by Google for Spamming · · Score: 1

    Asbestos dust may eventually cause mesothelioma. Plenty of people in body shops during the 50's-70's used to bang this stuff around all the time and are still alive without mesothelioma.

    Plenty of people who have played with it *once* and are on their last legs too. Beh...damn crap and more crap. Asbestos is great stuff tho, they are starting to use it again in buildings because it is so good at what it does, just don't be stupid and smash it into dust...and you'll be fine.

    I used to be an apprentice back when we had the transition from asbestos brake pads to semi-metalic, rule was always soak everything in water. Now all we've got to worry about is nano-particles from the semi-metalic pads...and some people are saying that's worse then the asbestos.

    You can't win in any direction.

  7. Re:what if they had managed to attack.... on Militants Planned Attack On Indian Software Firms · · Score: 1

    One deliberately attacks civilians for gain, the other does not.

    They are not remotely similar, however much 'spin' you want to put on them.

  8. Re:Great idea on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1

    Sphere's of computers don't count as globes? If you say so. If you have so many machines with the same data, you can compare it and ensure that it's accurate.

  9. Re:Slackers on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Like I said I can't remember clearly. I was stuck in it however and the thing flipped over at something around 2pm. I don't ever have a problem with being wrong, however paper archives in Canada are horrible.

  10. Re:Duh on Canadian Privacy Law v. E-Mail Harvesting · · Score: 1

    It's difficult to compare a country of 29m to a country 290m isn't it. Since you can take the entire country of Canada and squeeze into California and still be short by a few million.

    High taxes serve no purpose except to coerce a population from investing in itself. If you can't keep your lefty-group think out of a discussion on this however then don't reply to me.

    Unlike most, I have a good idea of what I'm 'complaining' about. I live in Canada, I also know what rampent socialism and power-hungry governments do. You are seeing the same things in states(NY,NJ,CA) where legislators went nuts during the boom with feel-good programs, and are now cranking up the local taxes to cover it. Ah what's a 41% tax increase between friends(the property owner and the local government).

    Fools and the fools who follow higher taxation.

  11. Re:Great idea on France National Library Attacks Google Book Effort · · Score: 1

    In the end it's in France's best effort to preserve their history. If they don't they can be relegated to the trash bin of history along with other cultures. It will fade if people don't have access to it so they can 'learn' about it outside of their borders. France does have some libraries online, but it's nowhere near good enough for all literary works.

    It's great to have things in print, it still fades in time. Digital with a multi-globe redundant system short of the cataclysmic collapse of all mankind won't. As for India and China, eventually we'll see both their collective works included. Not only with their works translated into English but probably with a service to teach people how to read them in the original languages and scripts.

    Actually they'll probably charge for it, capitalism at it's finest. Heh. Or you'll be shown information for a local club that teaches it out of a community center. Several places around me teach Hebrew, Mandrin, and Hindi. All free to anyone who wants to learn.

  12. Re:Duh on Canadian Privacy Law v. E-Mail Harvesting · · Score: -1, Troll

    You have common sense in the USA. In Canada we have common sense as well, our's just costs a lot more. Usually in the form of massive taxation and never getting anything done.

  13. Re:Slackers on California Drivers Can Tank Up WIth Hydrogen · · Score: 1

    Hmm...was it two years? ago up in Toronto...I can never remember the exit, I don't drive up in that area as often as I used to they had a hydrogen tanker that was in a really good crash(atleast what I heard). In this case from what I understand one or more the cylinders ruptured(either cracked or was split open in the crash) and burned the highway.

    The big deal with it all was it showed exactly how weak the highway system was up here. Closed down 4 lanes of the 401 and you've got everyone at rush hour, using 2 lane city streets trying to get back the highway 20 to 40 miles further down the road.

  14. Re:Recovering from glaciation on Humans are Causing Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Bah. It doesn't matter, you can point to realities of things such as this and they'll still say it's bad and the destruction of the world. Interesting thing...look at the graph with the tempature reading to ice ages, and we haven't reached the norm. We are still recovering...even now, and we probably will be for the next 1000 years.

  15. Re:Bring it On on Spyware for Firefox Coming This Year? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If I had mod points, I'd mod that up. Chances are some git on a power-trip will mod it down as flamebait or something similar.

  16. Re:Canadian email, for example... on Canadian Government Weary of Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Don't forget CSIS hmm? Due process doesn't always follow the books in Canada.

  17. Re:Thank Dan Rather, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    It's a full disclosure form used in the military to release all of your records. Usually your records are sealed and unless you sign a 180 they stay that way. Just do a search on a Standard 180.

  18. Re:Thank Dan Rather, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    I won't disagree with you and will agree that yours is valid. It is a political disagreement that's all it is and was.

    Don't take it the wrong way. Some of my friends say I rub the wrong way, others just say I'm too much of a hardass.

  19. Re:Thank Dan Rather, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    You get an A for effort, a C for insults. KOFOR. 7th Gen military family.

  20. Re:Thank Dan Rather, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    Yes.

  21. Re:Thank Dan Rather, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth on Blog reading up 58% in U.S. · · Score: 1

    If and when he ever signs a form 180 he might even get a break from some of the other vets in the military too. Until then, he's a coward, a political opportunist.

    Individuals such as yourself, don't have a clue as to what military tradition is. Or what actually constitutes a medal.

  22. Re:Why can't we all just get along? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I'm pretty cynical too, I have faith that if one neighbor is more powerful then the other...then the weaker will do whatever it can to "take" anything from that more powerful neighbor. Or cause trouble, or a pile of other things.

    Funny how things really haven't changed in how many thousands of years? I have faith in humanity that we might get out of it. I don't have much faith that I'll see it in my life time, and not with organizations like the UN with dictatorships and despots at the helm telling democratic societies it knows best.

  23. Re:Why can't we all just get along? on Interceptor Missile Fails Test Launch · · Score: 1

    Yes.
    Yes.
    Yes.

    It's easy enough to use the greatest seach engine around to get the answers to these simple questions. Unfortunatly, some countries no matter how nice you play and no matter how many paper treaties you sign will still stab you in the back, fund terrorist groups, invade their neighbors and go on wars of conquest in Europe, or Korea, or Africa, etc.

    Funny how people still don't learn history in this day and age.

  24. Re:Firefox & Thunderbird on The Tech Support Generation · · Score: 3, Funny
    Why do you need an app on your computer to tell you the weather? Wouldn't a static text box saying "It's cold!" be sufficient?
    That's pretty much it, ofcourse we only have two seasons up in Canada. Winter and Construction. To see the effects first hand, drive through Toronto. Summer doesn't exist, it's an effect of the paving machines.
  25. Re:Freedom of Speech, Freedom of the Press! on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 1

    A protest gives you the right to peacefully assemble. The WTO protests were not, those who were there did nothing to stop it. Do you you really want to dig into finer legal, moral and ethical points of this? The last protest that I went to that was peaceful was the one in Toronto against the haijab. Funny how right-wingers don't have this problem.

    Just think...even at the RNC convetion they allowed thousands of violent people to protest in the streets. Arrested everyone nearby who was thought to have been a cause, I'm sorry if you were in the wrong place at the wrong time but it does happen.

    I suppose we could always go with the democrats plan of free-speech and peaceful protests. We put people in a cage, surrounded by razorwire, and call it a 'freedom zone'.

    I won't say your reasoning is flawed, on the otherhand you didn't answer anything in a cognative manner. Maybe it's an ethical disconnect.