No, six hours. I had a bike accident with non-life-threatening injuries and had an MRI within an hour of getting through the emergency room line-up. And when I was diagnosed with a UTI I was sent to a specialist who saw me within minutes of getting out of the cab. And a roommate who was diagnosed with lymphoma had a battery of tests including two MRIs within three hours of his diagnosis and surgery the same day. Again, wait times are overstated; again, it's the squeaky wheel who gets the press. Getting the great service available to all Canadians regardless of income is not newsworthy. It's only in the rare occasions that it breaks down that we hear about it.
Only typical fuckhead Americans consider Canadian arrogance typical. If we're arrogant, it's because our system works better than yours. Enjoy what you have. I sure wouldn't.
Wait times are overstated. I have never had to wait more than six hours for an MRI or to see a specialist. Yes, there are people who wait months for life-saving procedures. They are the exception, not the rule. You don't read about the people who receive good care, because that's not news. The squeaky wheel gets the press.
The majority of increaed spending going to the wages of current staff, not to new staff, procedures or equipment. If Canada switches to a public-private system, the cost of health care per capita will increase and services to those who cannot afford private care will drop.
We are at the limit of our efficiency. We cannot make the system more effective or more efficient by any means, nor should be try. The current system works.
Canada's life expectancy is higher than that of the US, even within the same demographics, and we spend about half as much on health care per capita as the US does. It is clear that our health care system is more efficient and more effective.
Canada's lifestyle is indeed different. Personally, I prefer to live free and not be stifled by fascism.
And we're far more free than Americans, by a damn sight.
I've been on Telus DSL since I moved to Vancouver in April. I have had no complaints whatsoever. Two hours total downtime in seven and a half months. It's about half the speed of Shaw Xtreme but also about half the price, and there are no bandwidth restrictions. And they still have a full Usenet feed.
Truth is not an absolute defence against libel or slander in Canada, Britain or Australia. If you tell the truth but have done so maliciously, you can be found liable.
I'm railing against being inconvenienced for a reason that doesn't prevent the problem it's trying to solve. If I just wanted to pirate the game, why would I complain about a copy protection scheme that doesn't protect the copyright? I'd keep my mouth shut and let them continue to use measures that are completely ineffective.
Holy shit. You might well be the biggest idiot on the face of the planet. I didn't think they could come any dumber than Soren Johnson. Looks like I was wrong.
I don't know the guy, don't do business with the guy, and don't have to be nice to the guy. Slashdot isn't the real world. He's a mental midget, and I have my doubts about you for defending him.
Frankly, I do not agree that requiring the CD to be in the drive "does not prevent copyright infringement
Then you're a mental midget, and I can't possibly see how you could oversee a successful project of any size. As such, I will not buy Civ IV. Please let us know what else you're working on in the future so that I can avoid those products as well.
A person would have to be even stupider than you to be completely stymied by the inability to actually use a piece of pirated software. This is 2005. People don't simply give in and buy the retail box when "insert disc into Drive D" appears on screen. They get the crack online. Or they ask the kid next door. Or what-have-you. Thinking otherwise is like thinking that a car thief is going to be baffled by the emergency brake preventing the car from going after he's hotwired it.
Actually, no. That's ascribing too much skill to the average pirate. Your mistaken belief is analogous to a shoplifter being unable to open the wrapper on a stolen candy bar and then paying someone to open the wrapper for him. It just doesn't happen. Ever.
The sole result -- the only result -- of disc-dongle copy protection is to annoy the paying buyer. You sir, are a fool.
Sorry to burst *your* bubble, but you are wrong. 17 U.S.C. 201(a). Copyright protection arises automatically when a work is created.
Your example has nothing to do with copyright; it has to do with proof. You have the advantage of proof of ownership if you register your copyright, but you can prove your ownership in any number of ways, including holding the oldest electronic copy (if you roommate can't show a date-stamp attached to the file that is older than the one on your computer, you've got a solid case) or mailing a copy to yourself in a sealed envelope.
I despise libertarians as much as I despise know-it-alls who actually know nothing and ignorantly accuse others of malfeasance because their actions don't suit some form of misplaced self-righteousness.
I have news for you: no, they weren't. The conceit that you must have to summon in order to make some kind of prediction about the bulk of the thousands and thousands of books I bought and sold -- the sheer gall that you, who are utterly ignorant, know more about what I did for a living than I, who did it for seven years......fuck, man. There are things that are wrong with you that no doctor could cure.
I am not "lucky" to never have been arrested. I have done no wrong. I had no reason to believe that any of those books were stolen. Know why? Because I have myself sold books, when I have needed the money, at 5% of face. Therefore, it happens legally. Therefore, a reasonable man could claim that he didn't know they were stolen, if they were. And they weren't.
Honest businessmen don't buy items at 10% of retail? Are you fucking kidding me? I have to wonder if you have ever bought anything used, sold anything used, or for that matter worked a day in your life. The sheer blinkered stupidity you are exhibiting is what I would expect from some silver-spoon Ivy League asshole who has utterly clueless about ow the real world works and whose parents provided them with every dollar they ever needed. Sometimes 1/20th of face IS fair market value. If I have too much stock of Item X, and you offer to sell me another, I'm going to pay you less than I would if I had no stock. Or I could offer you nothing. If you need the money, would you prefer that I pay you 5% or that I refuse to buy it at all?
You are an idiot. You are worse than an idiot; you are an idiot who doesn't understand that he's an idiot, despite his appropriate nickname.
A woman shows up with a laptop worth 4 times the price (in used condition, never mind new) and that would not raise a red flag or two? You would just merilly accept the goods, pay cash and do not bother getting her personal info? Right. Now pull my other leg.
Yes. That's exactly what happens in the trade of virtually any form of non-durable goods. You sell it to a dealer, who pays you a tiny fraction of its retail value, often as little as 10%. It raises no red flags at all. People need money fast, and sell things to ready buyers for much less than actual value. Happens tens of thousands of times a day every day, without any laws being broken or any stolen moerchandise being exchanged.
I used to buy used books at 5-10% of face value and resell them for as much as ten times what I paid for them. I'd bet that the vast majority of those books were not stolen. It's not my responsibility to`ensure that they aren't even if they were. Joe Student needs fifty bucks to cover the rent and sells me five hundred bucks' worth of paperbacks. No red flags.
This is legitimate business.
Self-rightousness and ignorance never go together well. Learn how the real world works before you go off half-cocked, OK?
Show me compelling evidence for the existence of a 'spirit' and we'll begin to talk about whether I need a spiritual life.
So far, there isn't and I don't. You are implying that one requires sprituality to deal with the world emotionally, which is an utter crock and not worth further consideration or debate.
"Classic atheist arrogance"? I'm not telling you that you don't need spirituality in your life. It's pretty clear that you're the arrogrant one.
Nothing in there about federal election fraud -- there are a couple of compelling cases about gerrymandering, but not election fraud, much less election fraud perpetrated by Elections Canada, much less election fraud perpetrated since Trudeau by Elections Canada, much less fraud perpetrated against Harper and the new Conservatives, which was what the original poster was claiming.
Sorry, man, but that dog don't hunt.
Pointing at a couple of cases of fraud in Quebec and Borden's 1917 redistribution doesn't make your point in the slightest.
Federally, we've never really had a close election. And your assertion that it's happened at least once in Canadian federal history is, as with the previous poster, unsupported, ignorant and dishonest.
Except, of course, that Canada's Chief Electoral Officer was born in Ottawa and lived his entire life in Alberta and Ontario.
The idea that any Canadian federal election, ever, was rigged by Elections Canada is not only completely unsupported, but both ignorant and dishonest.
Every single poll in every single riding was scrutineered by members of multiple parties. It would be impossible for ballot stuffing or deliberate miscounting to occur. You are a dolt.
That's exactly right -- except that it's not taxation and you do have representation, and there was no revolt in American history against levies being set by appointees of an elected government.
I think you've misinterpreted Geist's article. First, the levy is still there on blank CDs. Second, the levy was eliminated a couple of years ago; only now is the levy being refunded. And until there is a specific Copyright Board or judicial ruling on the matter, the status quo is maintained, and it is still legal.
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No, six hours. I had a bike accident with non-life-threatening injuries and had an MRI within an hour of getting through the emergency room line-up. And when I was diagnosed with a UTI I was sent to a specialist who saw me within minutes of getting out of the cab. And a roommate who was diagnosed with lymphoma had a battery of tests including two MRIs within three hours of his diagnosis and surgery the same day. Again, wait times are overstated; again, it's the squeaky wheel who gets the press. Getting the great service available to all Canadians regardless of income is not newsworthy. It's only in the rare occasions that it breaks down that we hear about it.
Only typical fuckhead Americans consider Canadian arrogance typical. If we're arrogant, it's because our system works better than yours. Enjoy what you have. I sure wouldn't.
The truth never sounds stupid. But you sure do.
Wait times are overstated. I have never had to wait more than six hours for an MRI or to see a specialist. Yes, there are people who wait months for life-saving procedures. They are the exception, not the rule. You don't read about the people who receive good care, because that's not news. The squeaky wheel gets the press.
The majority of increaed spending going to the wages of current staff, not to new staff, procedures or equipment. If Canada switches to a public-private system, the cost of health care per capita will increase and services to those who cannot afford private care will drop.
We are at the limit of our efficiency. We cannot make the system more effective or more efficient by any means, nor should be try. The current system works.
Canada's life expectancy is higher than that of the US, even within the same demographics, and we spend about half as much on health care per capita as the US does. It is clear that our health care system is more efficient and more effective.
Canada's lifestyle is indeed different. Personally, I prefer to live free and not be stifled by fascism.
And we're far more free than Americans, by a damn sight.
Notably missing from the list is Vurt, by Jeff Noon. It is perhaps the most sociologically aware of the cyberpunk novels if the 80s and 90s.
Damn that Russ. That rant brings up about half of the results when I Google my name.
But I sure do miss flaming John Holbrook.
I've been on Telus DSL since I moved to Vancouver in April. I have had no complaints whatsoever. Two hours total downtime in seven and a half months. It's about half the speed of Shaw Xtreme but also about half the price, and there are no bandwidth restrictions. And they still have a full Usenet feed.
Shrug. To each their own.
Truth is not an absolute defence against libel or slander in Canada, Britain or Australia. If you tell the truth but have done so maliciously, you can be found liable.
I'm railing against being inconvenienced for a reason that doesn't prevent the problem it's trying to solve. If I just wanted to pirate the game, why would I complain about a copy protection scheme that doesn't protect the copyright? I'd keep my mouth shut and let them continue to use measures that are completely ineffective.
Holy shit. You might well be the biggest idiot on the face of the planet. I didn't think they could come any dumber than Soren Johnson. Looks like I was wrong.
I don't know the guy, don't do business with the guy, and don't have to be nice to the guy. Slashdot isn't the real world. He's a mental midget, and I have my doubts about you for defending him.
Frankly, I do not agree that requiring the CD to be in the drive "does not prevent copyright infringement
Then you're a mental midget, and I can't possibly see how you could oversee a successful project of any size. As such, I will not buy Civ IV. Please let us know what else you're working on in the future so that I can avoid those products as well.
A person would have to be even stupider than you to be completely stymied by the inability to actually use a piece of pirated software. This is 2005. People don't simply give in and buy the retail box when "insert disc into Drive D" appears on screen. They get the crack online. Or they ask the kid next door. Or what-have-you. Thinking otherwise is like thinking that a car thief is going to be baffled by the emergency brake preventing the car from going after he's hotwired it.
Actually, no. That's ascribing too much skill to the average pirate. Your mistaken belief is analogous to a shoplifter being unable to open the wrapper on a stolen candy bar and then paying someone to open the wrapper for him. It just doesn't happen. Ever.
The sole result -- the only result -- of disc-dongle copy protection is to annoy the paying buyer. You sir, are a fool.
Sorry to burst *your* bubble, but you are wrong. 17 U.S.C. 201(a). Copyright protection arises automatically when a work is created.
Your example has nothing to do with copyright; it has to do with proof. You have the advantage of proof of ownership if you register your copyright, but you can prove your ownership in any number of ways, including holding the oldest electronic copy (if you roommate can't show a date-stamp attached to the file that is older than the one on your computer, you've got a solid case) or mailing a copy to yourself in a sealed envelope.
That is, in addition to accusing some random bystanders of being me in disguise.
You are incredibly stupid. Go back and read the post where you were accused of such, when you learn how to read.
Ponder the fact that when everyone calls you a fucktard, you probably are.
I'm ignorant? I have real-world experience. He doesn't. He's full of shit. I'm not.
Fuck off, coward.
I like how he uses a ludicrous strawman example and then (falsely) calls others on arguments he calls strawmen, but aren't.
He's a tool and a troll.
You said "vast volumes", which implies "bulk".
You're a liar, a moron and a troll. Fuck off.
Almost certainly as little as possible, in an enclosed room with very little contact with the real world, if anything at all.
I despise libertarians as much as I despise know-it-alls who actually know nothing and ignorantly accuse others of malfeasance because their actions don't suit some form of misplaced self-righteousness.
...fuck, man. There are things that are wrong with you that no doctor could cure.
I have news for you: no, they weren't. The conceit that you must have to summon in order to make some kind of prediction about the bulk of the thousands and thousands of books I bought and sold -- the sheer gall that you, who are utterly ignorant, know more about what I did for a living than I, who did it for seven years...
I am not "lucky" to never have been arrested. I have done no wrong. I had no reason to believe that any of those books were stolen. Know why? Because I have myself sold books, when I have needed the money, at 5% of face. Therefore, it happens legally. Therefore, a reasonable man could claim that he didn't know they were stolen, if they were. And they weren't.
Honest businessmen don't buy items at 10% of retail? Are you fucking kidding me? I have to wonder if you have ever bought anything used, sold anything used, or for that matter worked a day in your life. The sheer blinkered stupidity you are exhibiting is what I would expect from some silver-spoon Ivy League asshole who has utterly clueless about ow the real world works and whose parents provided them with every dollar they ever needed. Sometimes 1/20th of face IS fair market value. If I have too much stock of Item X, and you offer to sell me another, I'm going to pay you less than I would if I had no stock. Or I could offer you nothing. If you need the money, would you prefer that I pay you 5% or that I refuse to buy it at all?
You are an idiot. You are worse than an idiot; you are an idiot who doesn't understand that he's an idiot, despite his appropriate nickname.
A woman shows up with a laptop worth 4 times the price (in used condition, never mind new) and that would not raise a red flag or two? You would just merilly accept the goods, pay cash and do not bother getting her personal info? Right. Now pull my other leg.
Yes. That's exactly what happens in the trade of virtually any form of non-durable goods. You sell it to a dealer, who pays you a tiny fraction of its retail value, often as little as 10%. It raises no red flags at all. People need money fast, and sell things to ready buyers for much less than actual value. Happens tens of thousands of times a day every day, without any laws being broken or any stolen moerchandise being exchanged.
I used to buy used books at 5-10% of face value and resell them for as much as ten times what I paid for them. I'd bet that the vast majority of those books were not stolen. It's not my responsibility to`ensure that they aren't even if they were. Joe Student needs fifty bucks to cover the rent and sells me five hundred bucks' worth of paperbacks. No red flags.
This is legitimate business.
Self-rightousness and ignorance never go together well. Learn how the real world works before you go off half-cocked, OK?
Show me compelling evidence for the existence of a 'spirit' and we'll begin to talk about whether I need a spiritual life.
So far, there isn't and I don't. You are implying that one requires sprituality to deal with the world emotionally, which is an utter crock and not worth further consideration or debate.
"Classic atheist arrogance"? I'm not telling you that you don't need spirituality in your life. It's pretty clear that you're the arrogrant one.
Gee, could that have come from the Judeo-Christian roots of our society?
The ideal of self-sacrifice for a worthy cause predates the Judeo-Christian tradition. So: no.
Nothing in there about federal election fraud -- there are a couple of compelling cases about gerrymandering, but not election fraud, much less election fraud perpetrated by Elections Canada, much less election fraud perpetrated since Trudeau by Elections Canada, much less fraud perpetrated against Harper and the new Conservatives, which was what the original poster was claiming.
Sorry, man, but that dog don't hunt.
Pointing at a couple of cases of fraud in Quebec and Borden's 1917 redistribution doesn't make your point in the slightest.
Federally, we've never really had a close election. And your assertion that it's happened at least once in Canadian federal history is, as with the previous poster, unsupported, ignorant and dishonest.
Except, of course, that Canada's Chief Electoral Officer was born in Ottawa and lived his entire life in Alberta and Ontario.
The idea that any Canadian federal election, ever, was rigged by Elections Canada is not only completely unsupported, but both ignorant and dishonest.
Every single poll in every single riding was scrutineered by members of multiple parties. It would be impossible for ballot stuffing or deliberate miscounting to occur. You are a dolt.
That's exactly right -- except that it's not taxation and you do have representation, and there was no revolt in American history against levies being set by appointees of an elected government.
Oh. Wait. It's exactly wrong. My bad.
I think you've misinterpreted Geist's article. First, the levy is still there on blank CDs. Second, the levy was eliminated a couple of years ago; only now is the levy being refunded. And until there is a specific Copyright Board or judicial ruling on the matter, the status quo is maintained, and it is still legal.