I really, really, really doubt the lives of the front line serfs in those big-box stores has turned into a paroxism of joy in the eight years since I left.
Perhaps Apple has started to spiff their boxen, but let's put it this way - THEY HAVE TO.
That would be the alternate case I described, where the person was looking to switch someone from a low-commission item to a higher one, probably on the basis of profitability or sheer ignorance (he probably didn't know what features it had)
Heh, that must be one of those chains that neither has commission sales (e.g. I make x per hour whether I help you or not) or it's one of those "if you so much as TOUCH a customer from my department, I'll beat you to death in the stockroom with a VCR after work" scenarios.
I was only ever allowed to help customers outside my department ONCE, and that was because they spoke French only, and noone in that department spoke French at all.
RE: I'd thank God if we were. I have many times seen with my own eyes salespeople go up to people asking a question about a Mac, tell them incorrect information about its specs, and then steer them towards a PC.
As I said before, the salesguy's gotta make a living. Most people want a PC when they want a computer - why try selling them something else? And as for the people who do, it's like, "show them the walls and walls and walls of PC software, show em the price differential and get them away from the money loser. Only the odd elementary school teacher or art type comes in looking for a Mac, and they typically buy online or from the school in some special purchasing program.
RE: I heard a guy one time tell a lady that the iMac didn't have Ethernet, and would she be interested in a PC that does?(hint: iMacs have always had 100mbit Ethernet)
Most computer salespeople are ex-jocks who wouldn't know a computer from a typewriter. You do get the odd pimply faced geek, but they don't have the social skills to sell, and sell based on some other criteria than profit, and get bounced out of the job REAL quick.
RE: Also, I constantly hear salespeople tell customers that Macs have no software.
Well, notice when you go into a big box store there's maybe ONE Linux title, a small collection of preschool games for Mac, and enough PC software to choke a Mastodon.
You're right, I said I quit recently. Maybe they are spiffing the Cubes right now - and it'd be a damn good thing, cause it's the only time they've ever made it worth anyone's time and trouble to sell a Mac.
Heck, never mind that - what about the Shouldice clinic that Joke Clark went to when he needed minor surgery? That was a private clinic. Hey, what about the Liberals DEMANDING that New Brunswick pay private abortion clinics 100% of all fees requested for abortions? I guess punishing people for two-tier health care applies to Alberta, and even then, only cause they didn't vote Liberal.
As to getting rid of Jean. It won't happen. Hence me moving to the USA
However, the biggest problem with computers is that as "big box" items (or at least, they're conceived as such), customers think that there's hundreds of dollars of profit built into the price and suppliers seem to think that computers are sold based on competitive advantage.
We had a Dell rep come in once who offered us pen-knives and T-shirts and told us how wonderful, reliable, excellent, etc. Dell products are to which we said "sure, but we'd personally go bankrupt recommending them over other boxes that actually have a markup." The guy was stunned.
If your business model is based on volume, (in actual fact, you make more on ringing up that $40 game than you do the box it runs on) don't expect just because the guy who's selling at the store is forced to wear a suit or uniform, that he actually cares about sitting the customer down, getting him or her herbal tea, and chatting ad nauseam about the benefits of L2 cache vs L1 cache or whatever. In fact, the most successful salespeople there are totally ignorant of computers, they just go "want fast? Buy the P4!" - cause the computer is mostly sold on enthusiasm and how much the salesman smiles and nods his head - cause for him, there's a big margin, and the clueless customer doesn't know any better (otherwise he'd be putting his dual Athlon machine together himself) it's supposedly a win-win situation. I couldn't live with myself anymore, so I quit.
Apple should get out of store sales ALTOGETHER and just send salespeople into graphic design stores and elementary schools every now and then, with web presence and demo days.
Heck, there've been studies where people have had their arms clamped to a table, then watched as a kettle was brought to boil... and then water from a COLD kettle was poured over the arm (there was a subtle switch the people couldn't see) - and in fact, they saw blistering and evidence of heat damage from same.
Any simulation that for all intents and purposes is not discernible from reality would be realistic enough to cause the equivalent of a kernel panic in terms of brain function in the event of "you've been chewed up by machine gun bullets, bucko".
As someone who once worked for a hell-hole Canadian version of those big box stores, let me put it to you this way -
As a salesperson, there is ZERO point to selling Macintosh.
I don't know what kind of moron Jobs is where he thinks salespeople have the time and trouble to sit there and demonstrate a product. In order to make anything over $27,000/yr you basically need to run around, ringing up anyone you see carrying a box - you don't get paid a percentage of the sales price, you get paid a small percentage of the "profit". $25 profit on a $2,000 computer is $2.50 in your back pocket, so to make min wage you have to sell two an hour. I only know one person who made a decent living at it, and he basically just went up to people and said "are you buying that" and if they said no, he'd leave and sign up the next guy, leaving customers who WANTED attention to poor stiffs like me who'd yap for an entire hour to some geriatric sod who expects $400 off his machine cause he's a good haggler, not realising that all Macs are basically sold under cost, which means NO commission, no pay, your profitability numbers go down, and you lose your job.
You see more Macs sold when they're being liquidated, cause you're paid a percentage of the selling price, not the profit, and at Christmas, where you pay a "spiff" of $75 to get someone to buy a Mac. But it's damn hard, cause people are like: "But it won't run Windows" and you suddenly realise you could just unload a PC on these people and sell two more in the time it takes to get over the sales resistance on the Mac and actually make a living.
RE: First of all I don't particularly care what you consider and don't consider a language.
Let's look at the original post, shall we? You're losing sight of the original context
"Once upon a time, long, long, ago, I took some French classes in high school. I had to drop them, eventually, to provide more time for silly engineering courses, but now I want to get to back to learning the language a bit. Obviously, the best approach is to move up to Montreal"
Montreal is a mostly English-speaking city, and what French is spoken there is a gutter dialect. Just as how I wouldn't suggest anyone interested in learning English to hang around a bunch of illiterates in a lube shop in Tennessee, or listen to hip-hop lyrics in full-bore Ebonics, I wouldn't recommend anyone with a desire to learn classical French to go learn that "toi" is pronounced "touain".
RE: Second I don't know what axe you're trying to grind but nowhere did I "hold it up and say it's more French than what they speak in France."
You didn't - that evil cow Louise whatsername, the minister of Language Purity, did. She went over to France to protest their lack of Frenchness, which I find rich.
RE: Finally, as I noted before you're debating class & culture and apparently now aesthetics.
Look, if you want to learn French, whatever it is now, go to France. If you want to learn Quebecois joual, go to Quebec. But don't pretend languages are what they aren't, OK? Thanks. Good bye.
RE: As I tried to make clear there's as much variation in French as there is in English. The same as da boyz in da 'hood may use their own talk the fine folks in Gaspasia have Joile (sp?)
There's a point you're making which is a valid one- never try and confuse a given slang or idiomatic accent for a difference in language. The fact that they say "coquerelle" (cock-er-ell) rather than "cafard" (cafa) for cockroach isn't what I'm talking about. Joual is not what I consider French in any sense of the word, and I'm not comparing joual to french, nor the moé/moi (mow-ay/mow-aw: means "me") toé/toi (tow-ay/tow-aw: means "you")discrepancies in pronounciation, especially the grating "ouin" (whine like a baby through your nose) for "oui" (wee, "yes").
However, in English, say "The magazine's you should of throne out" isn't proper English, no matter what the idiom, accent, slang, whatever. It's grammatically incorrect, stylistically horrible, and JUST PLAIN WRONG. And that is my problem with Quebecois French. It's a gutter pidgin of English and 17th century hick backwater French. It is what it is, it should be preserved, it's a language in and of itself, etc etc etc but in no way should you hold it up and say it's more French than what they speak in France.
RE:Canada does have free speech. Just not absolute free speech.
Free speech either is, or isn't. Not "it's free speech until it annoys the government, at which point it is forbidden."
RE: Right to remain silent, reversed burden of proof. What legislation was that?
Bill C-68. I'm not opposed to gun control, but that legislation contains those provisions. First gun owners, who next?
RE: As for guns, they have never been an enshrined right in Canada.
So what?
RE: I will agree with you that Canada is becoming more of an authoritarian state,
That's all I'm trying to say. These Americans don't understand why the kid's being prosecuted, it's like "because there's provisions in their law to do whatever they want." Kiddie porn is legal in BC because some socialist activist judge doesn't have a problem with CDROMS of boys being physically and sexually abused, but a kid can't write a fictional essay without spending time in jail. BB is JC; and they've decided that's thoughtcrime.
RE: but I would point at other things than, "Them thar guvmint agents 're making me tell 'em I 'ave uh gun, Ma!"
I wasn't: I was talking about lack of freedom of speech, and an increasingly violent and powerful head of state.
RE: I'm embarrassed that this is happening is Canada
Why? Canada does not have free speech, it hates nonconformists, and as for bullying and kicking the unpopular, it's part of the political landscape as much as it is the classroom.
Read the newspaper, or watch the National with Peter "I'm in the employ of King Jean" Mansbridge. Gun owners are responsible for crime, not criminals. Westerners are evil, holocaust-denying hicks and racist homophobic rednecks. According to Westerners, it's all the fault of the Quebecois, and the welfare leeches in the Atlantic provinces. The Quebecois think they're being held down by the "g*ddamn*d J*ws in West Montreal", unquote (not my view!), don't forget Parizeau's comments on live TV about "thanks to the J*ws and Ethn*cs for screwing up the referendum on soverignty for the REAL people of Quebec". (I was horrified to hear any of this, and I left Quebec over the last statement, never to return.)
Canada's just signed laws that allow the cops to come into your house without a warrant, strip the drywall off your interior walls, destroy your home, take away your right to remain silent, charge you with a reverse-onus crime (you have to prove your innocence) etc etc etc just because they might have some cause to believe that perhaps you might have access to a firearm.
I never believed the propaganda of that little socialist collective that it was a Disney-esque scene from Bambi where evreryone is loving and friendly and whistles that irritating song on the way to work when I was born and raised there, and I don't believe it now.
Canada's got REAL problems, don't be surprised at the kid going to jail over threatening his school. The Prime Minister can strangle you on live TV and smash your face into the ground, or send SWAT teams in to pepper spray your teenage daughter and club her half to death just because she was peacefully demonstrating against a murdering socialist dictator coming in from Indonesia, and noone says "boo" about it. They can rob you of half your income for "health care" while simultaneously taking all the money out of health care to fund hotels in the P.M.'s riding.
You can mod this one down for all I care, but it's the truth and must be told. Canada is slowly becoming more and more of a police state, and now they want to confiscate all the guns to make that a total reality. Don't protest the symptoms, protest the cause.
use whatever part of the plane is responsible for destroying the luggage, and aim that at oncoming missiles? Much more damaging, without the costly R+D.
Actually, the threat of deploying 5,000 Minnesota-St.Paul's baggage handlers (the ones who think that US mail is made by Spalding) would be enough to make any of these lunatic rogue nations think twice.
It's worked before - Thatcher threatened once to deploy 10,000 medium-range Millwall soccer fans and that stopped a potential armed conflict right there.
In "human development". Certainly not jobs, prosperity, opportunity, jobs or rights.
RE: Time magazine voted Toronto Canada the best place to "Live and raise a family".
On what grounds????
RE: Here, health care is free,
Costs more than half your paycheque
RE: speech is protected,
Only if you produce kiddie porn. Try free speech against having a murderous dictator over for dinner all chummy chummy with the PM, and the pepper spray ("For me dats sumting dat yi hav hon my plate") and batons come out ("You kids har luckey dat dey dint use da baseball bat.")
The U.N., most of whose members are one-world-government advocators from countries that have no running water, have not rated Canada #1 in terms of economy, quality of life, justice, rights, or any other USEFUL metric. It's in "human development." Yay. We're overtaxed, in a crap economy and ruled by a dictator, but we'll hand out welfare to any smuggler or murderer who burns his passport before landing on our shores.
Free speech
The right to own anything (but you can be taxed on it!)
The right to remain silent (Bill C-68)
The right to be considered innocent until proven guilty (again, Bill C-68)
The right to not be subjected to unreasonable search and seizure (again, Bill C-68)
You have a prime minister elected with a "landslide majority" of about 30% of the population, most of them located in a belt around Toronto.
I can't get a simple Crystal Sound card to work properly - Sound Blaster Compatible, but the driver isn't. Frickin notebooks with their frickin top secret chip set crap designs.
But I mean, even if I wanted to get Cubase VST Linux and chain it through a Darla or some other medium to high end soundboard, where's the support in Linux? There's precious little- OSS is almost the ONLY viable solution to most problems...
What I would like to know is how to develop sound card drivers cause trust me, I'd be off and running. I bought the Linux Device Drivers book which was cool, it explains how Linux uses drivers, what I need is a good article on how to make the SOUND CARD part work.
Doesn't matter if it is or if it isn't. It's illegal for a company of ANY nationality to come in and distribute Nazi propaganda.
Corel had to recall all of its CorelDRAW! CDs at one point because there was swastika and Hitler clip art (in the War section) which was against German law.
The "Ooglie" doll is banned from Quebec cause it doesn't speak French.
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I really, really, really doubt the lives of the front line serfs in those big-box stores has turned into a paroxism of joy in the eight years since I left.
Perhaps Apple has started to spiff their boxen, but let's put it this way - THEY HAVE TO.
That would be the alternate case I described, where the person was looking to switch someone from a low-commission item to a higher one, probably on the basis of profitability or sheer ignorance (he probably didn't know what features it had)
Heh, that must be one of those chains that neither has commission sales (e.g. I make x per hour whether I help you or not) or it's one of those "if you so much as TOUCH a customer from my department, I'll beat you to death in the stockroom with a VCR after work" scenarios.
I was only ever allowed to help customers outside my department ONCE, and that was because they spoke French only, and noone in that department spoke French at all.
I meant, "I said recently that I'd quit" not "I said I quit recently" I quit that kind of job in the early 90s.
RE: I'd thank God if we were. I have many times seen with my own eyes salespeople go up to people asking a question about a Mac, tell them incorrect information about its specs, and then steer them towards a PC.
As I said before, the salesguy's gotta make a living. Most people want a PC when they want a computer - why try selling them something else? And as for the people who do, it's like, "show them the walls and walls and walls of PC software, show em the price differential and get them away from the money loser. Only the odd elementary school teacher or art type comes in looking for a Mac, and they typically buy online or from the school in some special purchasing program.
RE: I heard a guy one time tell a lady that the iMac didn't have Ethernet, and would she be interested in a PC that does?(hint: iMacs have always had 100mbit Ethernet)
Most computer salespeople are ex-jocks who wouldn't know a computer from a typewriter. You do get the odd pimply faced geek, but they don't have the social skills to sell, and sell based on some other criteria than profit, and get bounced out of the job REAL quick.
RE: Also, I constantly hear salespeople tell customers that Macs have no software.
Well, notice when you go into a big box store there's maybe ONE Linux title, a small collection of preschool games for Mac, and enough PC software to choke a Mastodon.
You're right, I said I quit recently. Maybe they are spiffing the Cubes right now - and it'd be a damn good thing, cause it's the only time they've ever made it worth anyone's time and trouble to sell a Mac.
Heck, never mind that - what about the Shouldice clinic that Joke Clark went to when he needed minor surgery? That was a private clinic. Hey, what about the Liberals DEMANDING that New Brunswick pay private abortion clinics 100% of all fees requested for abortions? I guess punishing people for two-tier health care applies to Alberta, and even then, only cause they didn't vote Liberal.
As to getting rid of Jean. It won't happen. Hence me moving to the USA
Actually, I wish I could. I've been looking for the study ever since I heard about it.
Sorry for not having something to back it up with.
However, the biggest problem with computers is that as "big box" items (or at least, they're conceived as such), customers think that there's hundreds of dollars of profit built into the price and suppliers seem to think that computers are sold based on competitive advantage.
We had a Dell rep come in once who offered us pen-knives and T-shirts and told us how wonderful, reliable, excellent, etc. Dell products are to which we said "sure, but we'd personally go bankrupt recommending them over other boxes that actually have a markup." The guy was stunned.
If your business model is based on volume, (in actual fact, you make more on ringing up that $40 game than you do the box it runs on) don't expect just because the guy who's selling at the store is forced to wear a suit or uniform, that he actually cares about sitting the customer down, getting him or her herbal tea, and chatting ad nauseam about the benefits of L2 cache vs L1 cache or whatever. In fact, the most successful salespeople there are totally ignorant of computers, they just go "want fast? Buy the P4!" - cause the computer is mostly sold on enthusiasm and how much the salesman smiles and nods his head - cause for him, there's a big margin, and the clueless customer doesn't know any better (otherwise he'd be putting his dual Athlon machine together himself) it's supposedly a win-win situation. I couldn't live with myself anymore, so I quit.
Apple should get out of store sales ALTOGETHER and just send salespeople into graphic design stores and elementary schools every now and then, with web presence and demo days.
Heck, there've been studies where people have had their arms clamped to a table, then watched as a kettle was brought to boil... and then water from a COLD kettle was poured over the arm (there was a subtle switch the people couldn't see) - and in fact, they saw blistering and evidence of heat damage from same.
Any simulation that for all intents and purposes is not discernible from reality would be realistic enough to cause the equivalent of a kernel panic in terms of brain function in the event of "you've been chewed up by machine gun bullets, bucko".
As someone who once worked for a hell-hole Canadian version of those big box stores, let me put it to you this way -
As a salesperson, there is ZERO point to selling Macintosh.
I don't know what kind of moron Jobs is where he thinks salespeople have the time and trouble to sit there and demonstrate a product. In order to make anything over $27,000/yr you basically need to run around, ringing up anyone you see carrying a box - you don't get paid a percentage of the sales price, you get paid a small percentage of the "profit". $25 profit on a $2,000 computer is $2.50 in your back pocket, so to make min wage you have to sell two an hour. I only know one person who made a decent living at it, and he basically just went up to people and said "are you buying that" and if they said no, he'd leave and sign up the next guy, leaving customers who WANTED attention to poor stiffs like me who'd yap for an entire hour to some geriatric sod who expects $400 off his machine cause he's a good haggler, not realising that all Macs are basically sold under cost, which means NO commission, no pay, your profitability numbers go down, and you lose your job.
You see more Macs sold when they're being liquidated, cause you're paid a percentage of the selling price, not the profit, and at Christmas, where you pay a "spiff" of $75 to get someone to buy a Mac. But it's damn hard, cause people are like: "But it won't run Windows" and you suddenly realise you could just unload a PC on these people and sell two more in the time it takes to get over the sales resistance on the Mac and actually make a living.
RE: First of all I don't particularly care what you consider and don't consider a language.
Let's look at the original post, shall we? You're losing sight of the original context
"Once upon a time, long, long, ago, I took some French classes in high school. I had to drop them, eventually, to provide more time for silly engineering courses, but now I want to get to back to learning the language a bit. Obviously, the best approach is to move up to Montreal"
Montreal is a mostly English-speaking city, and what French is spoken there is a gutter dialect. Just as how I wouldn't suggest anyone interested in learning English to hang around a bunch of illiterates in a lube shop in Tennessee, or listen to hip-hop lyrics in full-bore Ebonics, I wouldn't recommend anyone with a desire to learn classical French to go learn that "toi" is pronounced "touain".
RE: Second I don't know what axe you're trying to grind but nowhere did I "hold it up and say it's more French than what they speak in France."
You didn't - that evil cow Louise whatsername, the minister of Language Purity, did. She went over to France to protest their lack of Frenchness, which I find rich.
RE: Finally, as I noted before you're debating class & culture and apparently now aesthetics.
Look, if you want to learn French, whatever it is now, go to France. If you want to learn Quebecois joual, go to Quebec. But don't pretend languages are what they aren't, OK? Thanks. Good bye.
RE: As I tried to make clear there's as much variation in French as there is in English. The same as da boyz in da 'hood may use their own talk the fine folks in Gaspasia have Joile (sp?)
There's a point you're making which is a valid one- never try and confuse a given slang or idiomatic accent for a difference in language. The fact that they say "coquerelle" (cock-er-ell) rather than "cafard" (cafa) for cockroach isn't what I'm talking about. Joual is not what I consider French in any sense of the word, and I'm not comparing joual to french, nor the moé/moi (mow-ay/mow-aw: means "me") toé/toi (tow-ay/tow-aw: means "you")discrepancies in pronounciation, especially the grating "ouin" (whine like a baby through your nose) for "oui" (wee, "yes").
However, in English, say "The magazine's you should of throne out" isn't proper English, no matter what the idiom, accent, slang, whatever. It's grammatically incorrect, stylistically horrible, and JUST PLAIN WRONG. And that is my problem with Quebecois French. It's a gutter pidgin of English and 17th century hick backwater French. It is what it is, it should be preserved, it's a language in and of itself, etc etc etc but in no way should you hold it up and say it's more French than what they speak in France.
RE :Canada does have free speech. Just not absolute free speech.
Free speech either is, or isn't. Not "it's free speech until it annoys the government, at which point it is forbidden."
RE: Right to remain silent, reversed burden of proof. What legislation was that?
Bill C-68. I'm not opposed to gun control, but that legislation contains those provisions. First gun owners, who next?
RE: As for guns, they have never been an enshrined right in Canada.
So what?
RE: I will agree with you that Canada is becoming more of an authoritarian state,
That's all I'm trying to say. These Americans don't understand why the kid's being prosecuted, it's like "because there's provisions in their law to do whatever they want." Kiddie porn is legal in BC because some socialist activist judge doesn't have a problem with CDROMS of boys being physically and sexually abused, but a kid can't write a fictional essay without spending time in jail. BB is JC; and they've decided that's thoughtcrime.
RE: but I would point at other things than, "Them thar guvmint agents 're making me tell 'em I 'ave uh gun, Ma!"
I wasn't: I was talking about lack of freedom of speech, and an increasingly violent and powerful head of state.
RE: I'm embarrassed that this is happening is Canada
Why? Canada does not have free speech, it hates nonconformists, and as for bullying and kicking the unpopular, it's part of the political landscape as much as it is the classroom.
Read the newspaper, or watch the National with Peter "I'm in the employ of King Jean" Mansbridge. Gun owners are responsible for crime, not criminals. Westerners are evil, holocaust-denying hicks and racist homophobic rednecks. According to Westerners, it's all the fault of the Quebecois, and the welfare leeches in the Atlantic provinces. The Quebecois think they're being held down by the "g*ddamn*d J*ws in West Montreal", unquote (not my view!), don't forget Parizeau's comments on live TV about "thanks to the J*ws and Ethn*cs for screwing up the referendum on soverignty for the REAL people of Quebec". (I was horrified to hear any of this, and I left Quebec over the last statement, never to return.)
Canada's just signed laws that allow the cops to come into your house without a warrant, strip the drywall off your interior walls, destroy your home, take away your right to remain silent, charge you with a reverse-onus crime (you have to prove your innocence) etc etc etc just because they might have some cause to believe that perhaps you might have access to a firearm.
I never believed the propaganda of that little socialist collective that it was a Disney-esque scene from Bambi where evreryone is loving and friendly and whistles that irritating song on the way to work when I was born and raised there, and I don't believe it now.
Canada's got REAL problems, don't be surprised at the kid going to jail over threatening his school. The Prime Minister can strangle you on live TV and smash your face into the ground, or send SWAT teams in to pepper spray your teenage daughter and club her half to death just because she was peacefully demonstrating against a murdering socialist dictator coming in from Indonesia, and noone says "boo" about it. They can rob you of half your income for "health care" while simultaneously taking all the money out of health care to fund hotels in the P.M.'s riding. You can mod this one down for all I care, but it's the truth and must be told. Canada is slowly becoming more and more of a police state, and now they want to confiscate all the guns to make that a total reality. Don't protest the symptoms, protest the cause.
use whatever part of the plane is responsible for destroying the luggage, and aim that at oncoming missiles? Much more damaging, without the costly R+D.
Actually, the threat of deploying 5,000 Minnesota-St.Paul's baggage handlers (the ones who think that US mail is made by Spalding) would be enough to make any of these lunatic rogue nations think twice.
It's worked before - Thatcher threatened once to deploy 10,000 medium-range Millwall soccer fans and that stopped a potential armed conflict right there.
Already got Enlightenment http://wwww.enlightenment.org
Sometimes I use it for Windowmaker or Sawfish, depending on my mood and resource needs.
RE: The UN Has voted Canada #1 7 years running.
In "human development". Certainly not jobs, prosperity, opportunity, jobs or rights.
RE: Time magazine voted Toronto Canada the best place to "Live and raise a family".
On what grounds????
RE: Here, health care is free,
Costs more than half your paycheque
RE: speech is protected,
Only if you produce kiddie porn. Try free speech against having a murderous dictator over for dinner all chummy chummy with the PM, and the pepper spray ("For me dats sumting dat yi hav hon my plate") and batons come out ("You kids har luckey dat dey dint use da baseball bat.")
The U.N., most of whose members are one-world-government advocators from countries that have no running water, have not rated Canada #1 in terms of economy, quality of life, justice, rights, or any other USEFUL metric. It's in "human development." Yay. We're overtaxed, in a crap economy and ruled by a dictator, but we'll hand out welfare to any smuggler or murderer who burns his passport before landing on our shores.
Canada does not have the following rights:
Free speech
The right to own anything (but you can be taxed on it!)
The right to remain silent (Bill C-68)
The right to be considered innocent until proven guilty (again, Bill C-68)
The right to not be subjected to unreasonable search and seizure (again, Bill C-68)
You have a prime minister elected with a "landslide majority" of about 30% of the population, most of them located in a belt around Toronto.
RE: 19. We don't marry our kin-folk.
You've obviously never been to rural Nova Scotia. The gene pool is MIGHTY shallow there. It explains why the Atlantic provinces vote for Joe Clark.
Unfortunately.
I can't get a simple Crystal Sound card to work properly - Sound Blaster Compatible, but the driver isn't. Frickin notebooks with their frickin top secret chip set crap designs.
But I mean, even if I wanted to get Cubase VST Linux and chain it through a Darla or some other medium to high end soundboard, where's the support in Linux? There's precious little- OSS is almost the ONLY viable solution to most problems...
What I would like to know is how to develop sound card drivers cause trust me, I'd be off and running. I bought the Linux Device Drivers book which was cool, it explains how Linux uses drivers, what I need is a good article on how to make the SOUND CARD part work.
Doesn't matter if it is or if it isn't. It's illegal for a company of ANY nationality to come in and distribute Nazi propaganda.
Corel had to recall all of its CorelDRAW! CDs at one point because there was swastika and Hitler clip art (in the War section) which was against German law.
The "Ooglie" doll is banned from Quebec cause it doesn't speak French.
America != World
US Bill of Rights != Law in rest of world
Please review Atlas, globe, map, anything. Note that there are other masses of land described on same other than USA.
RE: Or anything at all by Anal Cunt?
That wouldn't happen to have been inspired in any way by that goatse.cx guy, right?