I have a similar situation. I have an old TV, the DVD has composite out. I got this thing called a modulator (I can't help think of Marvin the Martian when I say that word). I have composite go in, coax out and macrovision is dealt with at the same time.
The Statute of Westminster, 1931 UK, changed the relationship between the Dominions and the United Kingdom. The Empire ceased to exist and was replaced with the much more "democratic" sounding Commonwealth.
Canada dropped "Dominion of" from its name in 1947 (I think) Canada had a hard time giving up the term Dominion, though it really had ceased to be one for 16 years.
The Queen remains to this day our head of State, but her duties are carried out by the Governor-General (much like an Irish or French President).
Canada became truly independent in 1982 with the passing of the Canada Act, 1982 UK, in which the preamble states (I paraphrase) that no law passed by the Parliament of the UK is binding on Canada.
So, verbosely, I have stated that there is no Empire, though the Queen is still the head of State and I assume that the pattern is the same in Australia as it was in Canada, though I would hope that Australia didn't take its time as Canada did.
Well, the original poster asked for an example of evil, not an unbiased example of evil. My politics lie not as left of centre of that poster, but left enough to be a little more sympathetic to the plight of the squatters than the corporation. The post is from the Ontario Common Front, which is affiliated with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty. They are not neutral, and have no pretensions of being neutral. For more information, google (I guess it's a verb now.) for 'Pope Squat'. It's an interesting read.
It is pretty disturbing that people will choose to live in an uninhabitable part of one of the wealthiest cities in North America.
I can't even imagine circumstances being so severe that choosing to live in a tent city makes any sense, but it could happen to anyone [see the Report on Business Magazine of the Globe & Mail's report on five Nortel 'refugees'].
As far as the no notice goes, these communities are pretty transient. What are the chances of any current residents actually remembering that notice.
Regardless, the property belongs to Home Depot and indeed they can do what they wish with it (laws, regulations and bylaws notwithstanding).
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From a maining list I am on....
On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, Home Depot Canada sent a small army of private security guards backed by a small army of Toronto police to forcibly evict about 125 people from a homeless encampment on their unused property in downtown Toronto, Canada. Home Depot needs to be held in account for its actions. Due to the urgency and seriousness of this matter, please respond immediately to our international call for solidarity and action against Home Depot.
--
While the property is theirs, and really they can do what they wish to it. Using security guards and cops to toss homeless people off your unused property with no notice, with winter coming is somewhat evil. This is all the more evil as there is a housing crisis in Toronto, and winter is coming.
If I had my mod points, I would probably mod this as a troll.
In response to the grandparent post:
DVD's have a built-in way to enforce trade restrictions: region encoding. Of course, film distributors will claim it's about release dates or other such crap; but in reality, region encoding was always intended as an anti-free trade measure.
The distributors want to extract as much money as they can from each market: while they can easily get $18 for a DVD in the US, that would be way too high in China.
I find it amazing that people don't see the hypocrisy of the positions of the corporations. By people, I assume the general population. Most slashdotters seem to see through the bullshit. I don't understand what it is okay for corporations to exploit lower costs (in most cases standards) of living to produce products for more wealthy consumers in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia, but will do all that they can to stop those wealthy consumers from purchasing items from the same developing countries.
Normally, I am a commie pinko bitch, but this time, the I feel the free market would level the playing field. I would love to see corporations undercut by cheaper products (ie products less focussed on branding) from other countries the way they undercut the cost of labour with cheap labour from other parts of the world.
I also believe part of the reason that people arent springing the extra bucks on high speed access is the economy.
I realise I don't live in the US, and I work for the federal government, but the economy isn't rough for everyone so my perspective may be different than most readers. It's just bad for high tech now. Government (at least here was in bad shape) from 1992-98. Your second point is probably more dead-on. Many people are happy what you can do with dial-up and have never bothered even considering ADSL or cable, so have never investigated it.
It's sad and ironic that the Government of Canada took in refugees (aka Draft Dodgers) fleeing an unjust war in Vietnam, but took no action against Canadian corporations making millions selling arms to the US armed forces.
IANAL - My employers insist I write this. They are lawyers
Your jurisdiction may vary
Under our Criminal Code in Part IX Offences Against the Rights of Property, (shiver, property should have no rights) subheading offences like theft, this little paragraph turns up.
Unauthorized use of computer
342.1 (1) Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right,
(a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service,
(b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system,
(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system, or
(d) uses, possesses, traffics in or permits another person to have access to a computer password that would enable a person to commit an offence under paragraph (a), (b) or (c)
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Under our laws, Nokia is technically right that wardriving, warwalking is a crime, but chalking.....no. This would be no greater crime than chalking any other sign.
I would hope that any university would have the sense to have linux iso archives, and maybe mirrors of commonly downloaded GPL/Free/Shareware. It would make the downloading so much faster for "legitimate" purposes. I'm sure you could jam a lot of software into a couple of 36GB SCSI drives..even better if different faculties managed different sites on campus. I know that when I was a student at Carleton U, you could download internet software on campus...mind you this was 1995/1996 when netscape would fit on a couple of floppies. (zipped and cut)....I will have to see if the college I'm attending now has local software....http://www,algonquincollege.com....
Given the choice with the buffoon we have in Canada (Gene Cretin) and the neanderthal the Americans have (Bush the Dumber), by comparison, it certainly does make Mr Blair seem eloquent.
I work in a law office. I need to track the whereabouts, and add/delete appointments of up to ten people at once, and Outlook is the tool that is used here. I can't think of anything better, I'm just a geeky admin assistant though. Also, they are addicted to their palms & blackberries (or is it blackberrys as blackberry is a TM), any solution would need PDA support but evolution has that.
to be able to turn your desktop off and still keep your mail and webserver running...to have remote access to your files, to see how long it takes for your ISP to notice you are running a server and send you letters that you ignore
I thought it was Reagan who had the "War on Drugs"TM Didn't Nancy Reagan go on TV often with her "Just Say No!" mantra? At least that's what I remeber from watching TV from New York. ABC, CBS & NBC had the best cartoons, CBC just had educational stuff.
I just wonder if CD sales are also down because people^H^H^H^H^H^H consumers are getting music delivered to them in other ways than file sharing or purchase. On my ExpressVu satellite receiver, I get 30 audio channels and I do listen sometimes to the 80s, folk, jazz and classical channels, and I'm sure the record companies are not licencing the broadcast of the music for free.
I do this is mostly because radio sucks, but it is annoying to go to a record store, indy or chain, and just not be inspired to make even one purchase.
Other than via satellite receivers, there must be other ways that people are listening to music that are not traditional. Internet radio, digital radio etc....
I could note that CDs were not invented until 1983, though I am sure most people didn't even see one until 1987/1988. So, I'm sure you couldn't get a CD for any money back then.
I do assume you are referring to CDs today to LPs 37 years ago. You must realise that everything does not correspond exactly to inflation. Compare the cost of a colour television in 1967 (if they existed then) and today. I'm sure a contemporary TV would cost much much less. A more telling stat would be to chart the average profit per unit for the past 40 years or so.
My friend wanted to know if I could install Office as the Office CD was lost. (Ever heard that one?). I had to politly refuse, as that would be wrong.
Refusing to install 'warez' on a computer is a great way to install OSS on people's machines. It's something I've done with computers I have repaired. My roommate's PC has all free(, but not necessarily OSS) software on it and she seems to be having no difficulty with it. Now, after she gets used to using this open source stuff on her PC, her second attempt to use Linux might not be so difficult.
Not that this might happen now, but imagine how you would feel in the near future if you help a friend out by installing a copy of his/her "lost" copy of Office and got a knock at the door from representatives of a CASST/BSA type organisaton a few days/weeks later?
Slashdot Mirror
Or have bandwidth limits on your boradband account.
Huh? Ottawa has recently registered ottawa.ca in addition to Ottawa.on.ca. Ottawa.com is owned by Canwest, a TV and newspaper conglomerate.
It cost me $40.00 CDN at Future Shop.
Hmm, I'll trade you three of your Nigerian Petroleum Bonuses for four of my South Afrikan Trust Bonuses.
The Statute of Westminster, 1931 UK, changed the relationship between the Dominions and the United Kingdom. The Empire ceased to exist and was replaced with the much more "democratic" sounding Commonwealth.
Canada dropped "Dominion of" from its name in 1947 (I think) Canada had a hard time giving up the term Dominion, though it really had ceased to be one for 16 years.
The Queen remains to this day our head of State, but her duties are carried out by the Governor-General (much like an Irish or French President).
Canada became truly independent in 1982 with the passing of the Canada Act, 1982 UK, in which the preamble states (I paraphrase) that no law passed by the Parliament of the UK is binding on Canada.
So, verbosely, I have stated that there is no Empire, though the Queen is still the head of State and I assume that the pattern is the same in Australia as it was in Canada, though I would hope that Australia didn't take its time as Canada did.
It is pretty disturbing that people will choose to live in an uninhabitable part of one of the wealthiest cities in North America.
I can't even imagine circumstances being so severe that choosing to live in a tent city makes any sense, but it could happen to anyone [see the Report on Business Magazine of the Globe & Mail's report on five Nortel 'refugees'].
As far as the no notice goes, these communities are pretty transient. What are the chances of any current residents actually remembering that notice.
Regardless, the property belongs to Home Depot and indeed they can do what they wish with it (laws, regulations and bylaws notwithstanding).
--- From a maining list I am on.... On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, Home Depot Canada sent a small army of private security guards backed by a small army of Toronto police to forcibly evict about 125 people from a homeless encampment on their unused property in downtown Toronto, Canada. Home Depot needs to be held in account for its actions. Due to the urgency and seriousness of this matter, please respond immediately to our international call for solidarity and action against Home Depot. -- While the property is theirs, and really they can do what they wish to it. Using security guards and cops to toss homeless people off your unused property with no notice, with winter coming is somewhat evil. This is all the more evil as there is a housing crisis in Toronto, and winter is coming.
If I had my mod points, I would probably mod this as a troll.
In response to the grandparent post:
DVD's have a built-in way to enforce trade restrictions: region encoding. Of course, film distributors will claim it's about release dates or other such crap; but in reality, region encoding was always intended as an anti-free trade measure.
The distributors want to extract as much money as they can from each market: while they can easily get $18 for a DVD in the US, that would be way too high in China.
I find it amazing that people don't see the hypocrisy of the positions of the corporations. By people, I assume the general population. Most slashdotters seem to see through the bullshit. I don't understand what it is okay for corporations to exploit lower costs (in most cases standards) of living to produce products for more wealthy consumers in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia, but will do all that they can to stop those wealthy consumers from purchasing items from the same developing countries.Normally, I am a commie pinko bitch, but this time, the I feel the free market would level the playing field. I would love to see corporations undercut by cheaper products (ie products less focussed on branding) from other countries the way they undercut the cost of labour with cheap labour from other parts of the world.
It happens to the best of us. I'm glad you have a sense of humour.
I couldn't resist this one. You misspelled English. English, as a noun, verb, adjective or adverb always has an upper case e.
I realise I don't live in the US, and I work for the federal government, but the economy isn't rough for everyone so my perspective may be different than most readers. It's just bad for high tech now. Government (at least here was in bad shape) from 1992-98. Your second point is probably more dead-on. Many people are happy what you can do with dial-up and have never bothered even considering ADSL or cable, so have never investigated it.
It's sad and ironic that the Government of Canada took in refugees (aka Draft Dodgers) fleeing an unjust war in Vietnam, but took no action against Canadian corporations making millions selling arms to the US armed forces.
Your jurisdiction may vary
Under our Criminal Code in Part IX Offences Against the Rights of Property, (shiver, property should have no rights) subheading offences like theft, this little paragraph turns up.
Unauthorized use of computer
342.1 (1) Every one who, fraudulently and without colour of right,
(a) obtains, directly or indirectly, any computer service,
(b) by means of an electro-magnetic, acoustic, mechanical or other device, intercepts or causes to be intercepted, directly or indirectly, any function of a computer system,
(c) uses or causes to be used, directly or indirectly, a computer system with intent to commit an offence under paragraph (a) or (b) or an offence under section 430 in relation to data or a computer system, or
(d) uses, possesses, traffics in or permits another person to have access to a computer password that would enable a person to commit an offence under paragraph (a), (b) or (c)
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
Under our laws, Nokia is technically right that wardriving, warwalking is a crime, but chalking.....no. This would be no greater crime than chalking any other sign.
oh it's too bad my moderation points ran out yesterday....I would have loved to mod this post up.
I would hope that any university would have the sense to have linux iso archives, and maybe mirrors of commonly downloaded GPL/Free/Shareware. It would make the downloading so much faster for "legitimate" purposes. I'm sure you could jam a lot of software into a couple of 36GB SCSI drives..even better if different faculties managed different sites on campus. I know that when I was a student at Carleton U, you could download internet software on campus...mind you this was 1995/1996 when netscape would fit on a couple of floppies. (zipped and cut)....I will have to see if the college I'm attending now has local software....http://www,algonquincollege.com....
Given the choice with the buffoon we have in Canada (Gene Cretin) and the neanderthal the Americans have (Bush the Dumber), by comparison, it certainly does make Mr Blair seem eloquent.
I work in a law office. I need to track the whereabouts, and add/delete appointments of up to ten people at once, and Outlook is the tool that is used here. I can't think of anything better, I'm just a geeky admin assistant though. Also, they are addicted to their palms & blackberries (or is it blackberrys as blackberry is a TM), any solution would need PDA support but evolution has that.
or Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa...
to be able to turn your desktop off and still keep your mail and webserver running...to have remote access to your files, to see how long it takes for your ISP to notice you are running a server and send you letters that you ignore
I thought it was Reagan who had the "War on Drugs"TM Didn't Nancy Reagan go on TV often with her "Just Say No!" mantra? At least that's what I remeber from watching TV from New York. ABC, CBS & NBC had the best cartoons, CBC just had educational stuff.
I just wonder if CD sales are also down because people^H^H^H^H^H^H consumers are getting music delivered to them in other ways than file sharing or purchase. On my ExpressVu satellite receiver, I get 30 audio channels and I do listen sometimes to the 80s, folk, jazz and classical channels, and I'm sure the record companies are not licencing the broadcast of the music for free.
I do this is mostly because radio sucks, but it is annoying to go to a record store, indy or chain, and just not be inspired to make even one purchase.
Other than via satellite receivers, there must be other ways that people are listening to music that are not traditional. Internet radio, digital radio etc....
I could note that CDs were not invented until 1983, though I am sure most people didn't even see one until 1987/1988. So, I'm sure you couldn't get a CD for any money back then.
I do assume you are referring to CDs today to LPs 37 years ago. You must realise that everything does not correspond exactly to inflation. Compare the cost of a colour television in 1967 (if they existed then) and today. I'm sure a contemporary TV would cost much much less. A more telling stat would be to chart the average profit per unit for the past 40 years or so.
I wonder if the RIAA could just subvert their firewall by signing up for service on their ISP.
Just a thought...
j
It was him.
My friend wanted to know if I could install Office as the Office CD was lost. (Ever heard that one?). I had to politly refuse, as that would be wrong.
Refusing to install 'warez' on a computer is a great way to install OSS on people's machines. It's something I've done with computers I have repaired. My roommate's PC has all free(, but not necessarily OSS) software on it and she seems to be having no difficulty with it. Now, after she gets used to using this open source stuff on her PC, her second attempt to use Linux might not be so difficult.
Not that this might happen now, but imagine how you would feel in the near future if you help a friend out by installing a copy of his/her "lost" copy of Office and got a knock at the door from representatives of a CASST/BSA type organisaton a few days/weeks later?