It's funny how people always seem to forget that we share this continent with Mexico.
A fundamental difference between the two legal systems is that Mexico is a so called "civil law" country while the U.S. is a "common law" country.
Though, I think its just a Canadian phenomenon that the term North American (as in North American security perimeter, for example) usually tends to exclude this other country, having roughly about hree times our own population.
There is a +5 comment above with a link to the actual judgement. It says right in this judgement that it applies to people posting to the internet, because the right to criticize has to be accessible to the people. You can't expect them to only criticize by means which are generally prohibitively expensive.
Plus in my city you're making like $50,000 dollars, and you can still go on strike when we're hosting national events because you think you deserve double pay for anything worked over 8 hours a day. I actually think its not a bad career at all.
Its windows fault itself if it lets you point your pointers to those odd locations. Since the 386 Intel processors have had a feature known as protected mode which has allowed the operating system to assign specific memory regions to each application, and it will generate an exception letting windows know when it happens that another application tries to read or write to this area. The security risk is not inherently with the concept of pointers. It's with the fact that some operating systems don't adequately protect their memory. Pointers are a fundemental aspect of programming, and always have been.
Hotmail certainly does allow Mozilla users. I don't use it either, and don't have a single message in my Inbox, but for the purpose of this post I tried and it allowed me in without any problems whatsoever. Mozilla/20020201.
Maybe because they are really trying to keep people subscribed to their cable television service. Maybe that's where they make their make money? If you drop Rogers cable television and go to a Bell ExpressView Dish, which are getting popular, you're going to have a pretty hard time getting your high speed internet access from Rogers. Therefore, maybe the whole thing is just a big gimmick to keep you subscribed to their traditional service. Likewise, Bell won't sell you ADSL unless you are also a Bell Telephone subscriber.
In our own country, 1 Canadian Dollar will buy you almost as much as 1 American Dollar will in the US. Therefore, you can't just do a simple currency conversion to see how much this is going to cost us on a relative scale compared to everything else we buy. If you want to compare fairly, it would be more like you paying $70 or $75 each month.
Believe it or not, just yesterday when I was explaining to a coworker how I am finding it harder and harder to watch TV thanks to the advertising, I actually used the movie channels on Mexican basic cable as an example of what was tolerable. Don't imply that Mexico has 3 minutes of advertising for 4 minutes of programming, because it doesn't.
On their basic cable package in Morelia, Michoacan they get 6 movie channels, which seem to go for very long stretches between advertising, and at least one of the six will have soft core pornography each night. By contrast, I look at something like CITY-TV here in Ontario, which has advertising every two bloody minutes. The worst is how they interrupt a scene right in the middle and force you to watch a quick 5 second, intense advertisement. By the time you register that your looking at advertising, and in the time it takes to glance away, you've essentially seen the entire ad. It drives me insanely crazy. Enough so, that if I am channel surfing and see something interesting, but then realize its on a certain channel such as CITY-TV, I will simply shut the TV off entirely. The advertising is not worth it.
Back to my original point, TV is no worse in Mexico than it is here in the rest of North America.... Even in Canada, contrary to what another poster said about the CRTC regulating it.
Maybe because many of those who dislike your advertising have outright stopped attending shows at your theatre, hence are not there to complain anymore.
Between the outright obnoxious advertising (I consider advertising obnoxious when I cannot escape it, particularly if I'm sitting in a chair staring at a giant screen with a very loud sound system blasting advertising at me from every which way and direction, and in which case I would look like an idiot if I tried to cover my ears and shut my eyes) and product placement, and just a general feeling of being fucked up the ass by some big American movie conglomerate, suggesting we attend a movie is the absolute last thing I would suggest to my friends.
So I guess I'm complaining with my money, though I realize its not exactly working, considering the millions and millions upon millions of dollars your industry is still pulling in all the time.
Has anyone else clicked through and noticed the advertisement that actually floats across the supposed news article while you're reading it?? I've never actually seen that before, but then again I try to avoid all sites that would tend to do those sorts of things.
I don't buy the whole 'it's against the law' argument.
In a perfect democracy, sure. It's what the people want, and have voted for. In a perfect democracy they probably had a national referendum on the issue.
However, we do not live in a perfect democracy, and therefore I do not give any weight at all to your its against the law argument.
My government, whenever it feels so inclined, can ram any law through the legislature and senate they so desire. For example the recent terrorist legislation. For whatever reasons, the government of Canada just rammed through a drastic new bill, with sweeping new measures and laws. There was no debate whatsoever, the government completey shut that out. This sweeping new bill was passed in no time at all. Without Discussion.
My point is that until laws actually represent the will of the people, using an argument such as "its a against the law, therefore its wrong", is utterly stupid.
Unfortunately people seem overly willing to give up their rights and freedoms right now, however I'm sure if western governments tried to start implanting subcutaneous devices in peoples bodies to track their movements, everyone would wake up and realize whats going on and how ridiculous its getting.
Well I've learnt my lesson about posting too fast. I had it in my mind that the link was the domain name itself. I didn't realize there was an intermediary page on fuckgeneralmotors.com that linked to Ford. If this had anything to do with trademarks in domain names, it would have been GM suing.
If its "only in the programming code", does that mean I could link, say "mcdonalds.com" (if it were suddenly to become available or something) to my own site, if my site does not mention a single word about McDonalds?
I don't mean to sound condecending, but it's really scary to think that there are people out there using Linux for extended periods of time, who don't even know the very basics such as copy and pasting. Maybe there is a problem with documentation afterall. By the way, as an addendum to the others, buttons 1 + 2 simultaneously depressed are your friends as well.
I agree. The goal isn't to dumb down Linux to the Windows level of standards. The goal is to condition those users to appreciate and like Linux the way it is.
A grizzly bear eh? Well I was attacked by a kitty cat when I was toddler, and they apparently think this is why I lost a large portion of the vision in my left eye as well. The doctor seems to think theres a good chance I will see again in my life time, particularly depending on stem cell research and regrowing tissues.
It sort of presents a dilemma when I hear about things like the recent human cloning developments. On one hand I see the moral objections, but on the other my vision is the single largest cause of distress in my life. Anything that can help is good, regardless of any religious objections the bible thumpers may have to stem cell research.
Maybe because the population of California alone is about 3 million more than our entire country has, and thats about 251 million more people who need to be serviced.
Admitedly, I am very impressed with the number of Canadians who seem to be participating in this discussion, though I've been seeing many less-than-comlementary things about our providers, as well. We may be the most or almost the most connected country in the world, but does that really mean anything when we are also so small?
Not to mention everyones websites... (members.home.com/xxx) The prize money for anyone switching before November 30th actually seemed kind of impressive, however...
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Perhaps increase their user base by 10% in those third world countries where their software is probably pirated anyway.
It's funny how people always seem to forget that we share this continent with Mexico.
A fundamental difference between the two legal systems is that Mexico is a so called "civil law" country while the U.S. is a "common law" country.
Though, I think its just a Canadian phenomenon that the term North American (as in North American security perimeter, for example) usually tends to exclude this other country, having roughly about hree times our own population.
There is a +5 comment above with a link to the actual judgement. It says right in this judgement that it applies to people posting to the internet, because the right to criticize has to be accessible to the people. You can't expect them to only criticize by means which are generally prohibitively expensive.
Plus in my city you're making like $50,000 dollars, and you can still go on strike when we're hosting national events because you think you deserve double pay for anything worked over 8 hours a day. I actually think its not a bad career at all.
(I live in London Ont.)
Its windows fault itself if it lets you point your pointers to those odd locations. Since the 386 Intel processors have had a feature known as protected mode which has allowed the operating system to assign specific memory regions to each application, and it will generate an exception letting windows know when it happens that another application tries to read or write to this area. The security risk is not inherently with the concept of pointers. It's with the fact that some operating systems don't adequately protect their memory. Pointers are a fundemental aspect of programming, and always have been.
In the future, why don't you take your rejected stories to the User Created Discussions.
Hotmail certainly does allow Mozilla users. I don't use it either, and don't have a single message in my Inbox, but for the purpose of this post I tried and it allowed me in without any problems whatsoever. Mozilla/20020201.
Maybe because they are really trying to keep people subscribed to their cable television service. Maybe that's where they make their make money? If you drop Rogers cable television and go to a Bell ExpressView Dish, which are getting popular, you're going to have a pretty hard time getting your high speed internet access from Rogers. Therefore, maybe the whole thing is just a big gimmick to keep you subscribed to their traditional service. Likewise, Bell won't sell you ADSL unless you are also a Bell Telephone subscriber.
In our own country, 1 Canadian Dollar will buy you almost as much as 1 American Dollar will in the US. Therefore, you can't just do a simple currency conversion to see how much this is going to cost us on a relative scale compared to everything else we buy. If you want to compare fairly, it would be more like you paying $70 or $75 each month.
Believe it or not, just yesterday when I was explaining to a coworker how I am finding it harder and harder to watch TV thanks to the advertising, I actually used the movie channels on Mexican basic cable as an example of what was tolerable. Don't imply that Mexico has 3 minutes of advertising for 4 minutes of programming, because it doesn't.
On their basic cable package in Morelia, Michoacan they get 6 movie channels, which seem to go for very long stretches between advertising, and at least one of the six will have soft core pornography each night. By contrast, I look at something like CITY-TV here in Ontario, which has advertising every two bloody minutes. The worst is how they interrupt a scene right in the middle and force you to watch a quick 5 second, intense advertisement. By the time you register that your looking at advertising, and in the time it takes to glance away, you've essentially seen the entire ad. It drives me insanely crazy. Enough so, that if I am channel surfing and see something interesting, but then realize its on a certain channel such as CITY-TV, I will simply shut the TV off entirely. The advertising is not worth it.
Back to my original point, TV is no worse in Mexico than it is here in the rest of North America.... Even in Canada, contrary to what another poster said about the CRTC regulating it.
Maybe because many of those who dislike your advertising have outright stopped attending shows at your theatre, hence are not there to complain anymore.
Between the outright obnoxious advertising (I consider advertising obnoxious when I cannot escape it, particularly if I'm sitting in a chair staring at a giant screen with a very loud sound system blasting advertising at me from every which way and direction, and in which case I would look like an idiot if I tried to cover my ears and shut my eyes) and product placement, and just a general feeling of being fucked up the ass by some big American movie conglomerate, suggesting we attend a movie is the absolute last thing I would suggest to my friends.
So I guess I'm complaining with my money, though I realize its not exactly working, considering the millions and millions upon millions of dollars your industry is still pulling in all the time.
Cierra el hocico hablamos inglés aqui.
Has anyone else clicked through and noticed the advertisement that actually floats across the supposed news article while you're reading it?? I've never actually seen that before, but then again I try to avoid all sites that would tend to do those sorts of things.
I can't believe you had the nerve to take a screen shot using Internet Explorer and post it to Slashdot.
I'm sure if you retook it using Mozilla/X11 it would actually be Informative.
I don't know what the hell you guys are talking about, because all I see are question marks. Netscape 4.78/Mandrake 8.1.
I don't buy the whole 'it's against the law' argument.
In a perfect democracy, sure. It's what the people want, and have voted for. In a perfect democracy they probably had a national referendum on the issue.
However, we do not live in a perfect democracy, and therefore I do not give any weight at all to your its against the law argument.
My government, whenever it feels so inclined, can ram any law through the legislature and senate they so desire. For example the recent terrorist legislation. For whatever reasons, the government of Canada just rammed through a drastic new bill, with sweeping new measures and laws. There was no debate whatsoever, the government completey shut that out. This sweeping new bill was passed in no time at all. Without Discussion.
My point is that until laws actually represent the will of the people, using an argument such as "its a against the law, therefore its wrong", is utterly stupid.
Unfortunately people seem overly willing to give up their rights and freedoms right now, however I'm sure if western governments tried to start implanting subcutaneous devices in peoples bodies to track their movements, everyone would wake up and realize whats going on and how ridiculous its getting.
Well I've learnt my lesson about posting too fast. I had it in my mind that the link was the domain name itself. I didn't realize there was an intermediary page on fuckgeneralmotors.com that linked to Ford. If this had anything to do with trademarks in domain names, it would have been GM suing.
If its "only in the programming code", does that mean I could link, say "mcdonalds.com" (if it were suddenly to become available or something) to my own site, if my site does not mention a single word about McDonalds?
I don't mean to sound condecending, but it's really scary to think that there are people out there using Linux for extended periods of time, who don't even know the very basics such as copy and pasting. Maybe there is a problem with documentation afterall. By the way, as an addendum to the others, buttons 1 + 2 simultaneously depressed are your friends as well.
I agree. The goal isn't to dumb down Linux to the Windows level of standards. The goal is to condition those users to appreciate and like Linux the way it is.
A grizzly bear eh? Well I was attacked by a kitty cat when I was toddler, and they apparently think this is why I lost a large portion of the vision in my left eye as well. The doctor seems to think theres a good chance I will see again in my life time, particularly depending on stem cell research and regrowing tissues.
It sort of presents a dilemma when I hear about things like the recent human cloning developments. On one hand I see the moral objections, but on the other my vision is the single largest cause of distress in my life. Anything that can help is good, regardless of any religious objections the bible thumpers may have to stem cell research.
Maybe because the population of California alone is about 3 million more than our entire country has, and thats about 251 million more people who need to be serviced.
Admitedly, I am very impressed with the number of Canadians who seem to be participating in this discussion, though I've been seeing many less-than-comlementary things about our providers, as well. We may be the most or almost the most connected country in the world, but does that really mean anything when we are also so small?
Not to mention everyones websites... (members.home.com/xxx) The prize money for anyone switching before November 30th actually seemed kind of impressive, however...