I live in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood and I'm an Acanac subscriber. They're only $18.95/mo for the first year, although they are a DSL backend and will suffer from the same problems that this article lists.
I have never been disappointed, and yes, they offer unlimited bandwidth on all accounts. I've been a subscriber for two years now and hope to be for many more.
You'd think that, but when going to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Eyesore here in Montreal a few weeks ago they actually had metal detectors and confiscated all cellphones on the way in! My girlfriend's phone doesn't even have a camera and they took it away, but they took a look at the iPhone and said "Oh... an iPod, no worries." Then we had got a patdown, including the naughty bits. It was like going through airport security. Later on, these same thugs were wandering around during the movie wearing night vision goggles and whispering into their headsets and standing in front of the screen, further ruining the film.
I can put up with this kind of crap when I board an airline. I am *not* going to put up with it on date night and nobody else should either.
Incidentally, they've actually created a pretty good argument for downloading movies.
That's what I've been arguing for for years now. I live in Canada, and our voter turnout rate is steadily declining. Some have proposed mandatory voting, and I support making voting mandatory with the ability reject the ballot once in the voting booth. I propose modifying the ballot to look like this:
( ) Do not know ( ) Candidate A ( ) Candidate B ( ) Candidate C ( ) Candidate D ( ) None of the above
That way, a protest ballot would be still counted separately from a ballot of ignorance.
Again with the co-op smear. The way a housing co-op works is high income residents pay much higher rent so that low income residents don't have to pay as much. That way, it doesn't have to be subsidized by government at all. Either you don't understand how a housing co-op works or don't care. This smear was discredited more than a decade ago. When raised now it just illustrates the ignorance of the person who is repeating it.
Bollocks. He lived in a mixed income co-operative housing unit that uses the higher rent charged to high-income earners to subsidize the costs of the lower-income units. It was not government subsidized housing. In fact, the housing unit would have failed financially if there were no higher income earners living there. You clearly have no understanding of how mixed incoming cooperative housing actually works, or you're just trying to toss an already much-discredited 15 year old smear with no basis in reality.
I'm impressed and excited. My cellular phone provider, Fido/Rogers, is terrible for their 4-1-1 service. It's expensive and it was only recently that they started sending a text message with information about the destination requested. My mother has a Blackberry through Bell, and they actually block Google Maps without even having a competing service available!
With google, it's free, the response system is interactive (it doesn't charge me for a miss, and it presents more than just one option), and it has the potential ability to email my cellular phone a map of the location using google maps- I hope, eventually, anyway.
The only downside is that I live in Montreal, Canada, where the service is not currently available. I hold hope, though, because when I told it "Montreal" it came back quickly with a pre-recorded voice that said "Montreal, Quebec" showing that the city is indeed in their database. It wouldn't be hard to expand the service to Canada as the city search feature is already available here via the www. Also, since the US and Canadian phone systems are integrated to the same toll structure, Canadians can already dial Goog-411.
Google operates in a global marketplace and has offices globally. When it comes to internet based businesses, addresses of headquarters are merely a courtesy for finding out where the CEO spends the majority of his day.... and even that is unreliable.
Google do themselves and their stakeholders no favours by artifically limiting their market to the geographic borders of the country in which their headquarters are coincidentally found.
We often see the inverse. For example, secure direct debit consumer payment has reached almost 100% penetration in the Canadian marketplace, and did so several years before the US reached its present (and laughable) level of electronic transaction processing.
Other examples of areas where Canada has set the lead ahead of the US technologically: -microwave communications in the 1950s -high speed internet... now... everywhere... affordably. -GSM cellular network penetration
We've been able to do things like this because per capita, Canadians have similar levels of personal wealth as Americans, yet we're a smaller market by a factor of ten. If anything, Google would have been better off seeing if a product would test well here because the rollout would actually be less expensive and faster.
I live in Montreal. Montreal's metropolitan area has a population of 3.6 million people. This is equivalent in market to Los Angeles and Chicago, your second and third largest cities. Montreal is entirely neglected by this program. Additionally, Toronto's metro area has a population of over 5 million, second in size on this continent only to New York City. Again, Toronto is entirely neglected by this program. I understand Google Labs technologies such as street view and traffic require the participation of local governments, but a program like this one is driven entirely by market... and not only are there Canadian Google users, but lots of them, too.
Google could be making real money in Canada, and yet they choose not to. Why is the Canadian market ignored yet again? Google has access to prime revenue streams: we can be paid in currency that Google already does business in, our cities are already well integrated into the Google Maps grid, and Canadian business can and does take advantage of Google's paid placement programs.
While Canada itself is a significantly smaller overall market than the United States itself, I don't understand why the international border comes into play at all. After all, our urbanized centres easily compare the market sizes of the American cities that Google is focussing efforts on... and isn't that what counts when it comes down to it?
Google, please include Canadian cities in your future service rollouts. Our advertising dollar is every bit as useful to you as an American one.
All fine and dandy until they decide to mix a chemical irritant in with the water. I was hit with water cannons laced with an irritant at a protest march in Ottawa, Canada on November 17th, 2001. It had no immediate effect on protesters other than to make them wet and miserable, but as the day went on, people started to blister and burn underneath their soaked clothing. Where I blistered, I lost patches of hair on my arms and thighs. My skin was discoloured for days as if I had been sunburnt.
It had no dispersive effect whatsoever. It served no purpose other than to physically punish protesters in a fashion that would not be tolerated against actual convicted criminals.
If for one moment you think that the government has your best interests in mind, or that they are developing this sort of technology for the protection of the officers using it, then ask yourself why time-delay weapons designed to cause physical injury like this exist and are deployed for use against domestic citizenry.
One of my posted videos, "Cheap Beer in Montréal" was removed based on a Viacom complaint yesterday. The problem with the situation is that I shot the video myself and the only people in it are my friends. There is no Viacom content in it whatsoever. In effect, they have stifled my right to have others access material which holds my own copyright.
What method did Viacom use to specify which videos violate their copyright? Is there no penalty for false accusation? Is it possible that Viacom targetted videos that are not their own in order to harass and intimidate YouTube? Is it possible that they did this in order to overwhelm he copyright complaints department of YouTube?
I don't think you understand proportional representation. PR has nothing to do with equalizing demographic segments; rather, proportional representation ensures that within a certain state, if 40% of people vote for one party, 40% of the members from that party will be elected... it means that gerrymandering within a first past the post electoral system would effectively be over.
I think you should read up a little bit more. This is a good primer:
Of course, with only two political parties and a political system that forces voters to register as members of either, it is less effective. How to fix that? Bring back civics classes and engage the public. How to do that in the US? Don't ask me. I think you guys are fscked.
The United States and Canada are the last democratic countries in the world that don't use some derivative of proportional representation, and Canada is moving towards it... which means it'll just be America left.
Actually, no, the NDP did not want a Christmas election. They trying to reach a compromise and have it for the end of January, so there's no need to ruin the holidays.
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Cite this. Then we'll publicize the hell out of it.
Yes.
I live in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve neighbourhood and I'm an Acanac subscriber. They're only $18.95/mo for the first year, although they are a DSL backend and will suffer from the same problems that this article lists.
I have never been disappointed, and yes, they offer unlimited bandwidth on all accounts. I've been a subscriber for two years now and hope to be for many more.
There's a potential Donkey Kong kill screen coming up, if anyone is interested.
Nobody in Canada drinks a Molson, eh. In Canada, you ask for a Canadian. Molson's for the export market. Sorta like Foster's in Australia.
You'd think that, but when going to see Nick and Norah's Infinite Eyesore here in Montreal a few weeks ago they actually had metal detectors and confiscated all cellphones on the way in! My girlfriend's phone doesn't even have a camera and they took it away, but they took a look at the iPhone and said "Oh... an iPod, no worries." Then we had got a patdown, including the naughty bits. It was like going through airport security. Later on, these same thugs were wandering around during the movie wearing night vision goggles and whispering into their headsets and standing in front of the screen, further ruining the film.
I can put up with this kind of crap when I board an airline. I am *not* going to put up with it on date night and nobody else should either.
Incidentally, they've actually created a pretty good argument for downloading movies.
Is this with HSBC in Canada? I've been looking for a new bank...
That's what I've been arguing for for years now. I live in Canada, and our voter turnout rate is steadily declining. Some have proposed mandatory voting, and I support making voting mandatory with the ability reject the ballot once in the voting booth. I propose modifying the ballot to look like this:
( ) Do not know
( ) Candidate A
( ) Candidate B
( ) Candidate C
( ) Candidate D
( ) None of the above
That way, a protest ballot would be still counted separately from a ballot of ignorance.
Again with the co-op smear. The way a housing co-op works is high income residents pay much higher rent so that low income residents don't have to pay as much. That way, it doesn't have to be subsidized by government at all. Either you don't understand how a housing co-op works or don't care. This smear was discredited more than a decade ago. When raised now it just illustrates the ignorance of the person who is repeating it.
No, it isn't, and even if it was, that's not justification.
Bollocks. He lived in a mixed income co-operative housing unit that uses the higher rent charged to high-income earners to subsidize the costs of the lower-income units. It was not government subsidized housing. In fact, the housing unit would have failed financially if there were no higher income earners living there. You clearly have no understanding of how mixed incoming cooperative housing actually works, or you're just trying to toss an already much-discredited 15 year old smear with no basis in reality.
I'm impressed and excited. My cellular phone provider, Fido/Rogers, is terrible for their 4-1-1 service. It's expensive and it was only recently that they started sending a text message with information about the destination requested. My mother has a Blackberry through Bell, and they actually block Google Maps without even having a competing service available!
With google, it's free, the response system is interactive (it doesn't charge me for a miss, and it presents more than just one option), and it has the potential ability to email my cellular phone a map of the location using google maps- I hope, eventually, anyway.
The only downside is that I live in Montreal, Canada, where the service is not currently available. I hold hope, though, because when I told it "Montreal" it came back quickly with a pre-recorded voice that said "Montreal, Quebec" showing that the city is indeed in their database. It wouldn't be hard to expand the service to Canada as the city search feature is already available here via the www. Also, since the US and Canadian phone systems are integrated to the same toll structure, Canadians can already dial Goog-411.
Google operates in a global marketplace and has offices globally. When it comes to internet based businesses, addresses of headquarters are merely a courtesy for finding out where the CEO spends the majority of his day.... and even that is unreliable.
Google do themselves and their stakeholders no favours by artifically limiting their market to the geographic borders of the country in which their headquarters are coincidentally found.
We often see the inverse. For example, secure direct debit consumer payment has reached almost 100% penetration in the Canadian marketplace, and did so several years before the US reached its present (and laughable) level of electronic transaction processing.
Other examples of areas where Canada has set the lead ahead of the US technologically:
-microwave communications in the 1950s
-high speed internet... now... everywhere... affordably.
-GSM cellular network penetration
We've been able to do things like this because per capita, Canadians have similar levels of personal wealth as Americans, yet we're a smaller market by a factor of ten. If anything, Google would have been better off seeing if a product would test well here because the rollout would actually be less expensive and faster.
I live in Montreal. Montreal's metropolitan area has a population of 3.6 million people. This is equivalent in market to Los Angeles and Chicago, your second and third largest cities. Montreal is entirely neglected by this program. Additionally, Toronto's metro area has a population of over 5 million, second in size on this continent only to New York City. Again, Toronto is entirely neglected by this program. I understand Google Labs technologies such as street view and traffic require the participation of local governments, but a program like this one is driven entirely by market... and not only are there Canadian Google users, but lots of them, too.
Google could be making real money in Canada, and yet they choose not to. Why is the Canadian market ignored yet again? Google has access to prime revenue streams: we can be paid in currency that Google already does business in, our cities are already well integrated into the Google Maps grid, and Canadian business can and does take advantage of Google's paid placement programs.
While Canada itself is a significantly smaller overall market than the United States itself, I don't understand why the international border comes into play at all. After all, our urbanized centres easily compare the market sizes of the American cities that Google is focussing efforts on... and isn't that what counts when it comes down to it?
Google, please include Canadian cities in your future service rollouts. Our advertising dollar is every bit as useful to you as an American one.
All fine and dandy until they decide to mix a chemical irritant in with the water. I was hit with water cannons laced with an irritant at a protest march in Ottawa, Canada on November 17th, 2001. It had no immediate effect on protesters other than to make them wet and miserable, but as the day went on, people started to blister and burn underneath their soaked clothing. Where I blistered, I lost patches of hair on my arms and thighs. My skin was discoloured for days as if I had been sunburnt.
It had no dispersive effect whatsoever. It served no purpose other than to physically punish protesters in a fashion that would not be tolerated against actual convicted criminals.
If for one moment you think that the government has your best interests in mind, or that they are developing this sort of technology for the protection of the officers using it, then ask yourself why time-delay weapons designed to cause physical injury like this exist and are deployed for use against domestic citizenry.
I wouldn't believe if I hadn't been a part of it.
I take it you've never been to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library?
One of my posted videos, "Cheap Beer in Montréal" was removed based on a Viacom complaint yesterday. The problem with the situation is that I shot the video myself and the only people in it are my friends. There is no Viacom content in it whatsoever. In effect, they have stifled my right to have others access material which holds my own copyright.
What method did Viacom use to specify which videos violate their copyright? Is there no penalty for false accusation? Is it possible that Viacom targetted videos that are not their own in order to harass and intimidate YouTube? Is it possible that they did this in order to overwhelm he copyright complaints department of YouTube?
Oh my God! My boss died at the office Friday morning while I was away- the medics were calling it a heart attack, but it was blipverts!
Somebody call Edison Carter.
And get that little twerp Bryce in here. I want a word with him.
Okay. So did Coca Cola and Kleenex change the world?
Uh... yes. Absolutely.
Radios have speakers in them. Speakers have magnets, therefore, radios have magnets in them.
I don't think you understand proportional representation. PR has nothing to do with equalizing demographic segments; rather, proportional representation ensures that within a certain state, if 40% of people vote for one party, 40% of the members from that party will be elected... it means that gerrymandering within a first past the post electoral system would effectively be over.
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I think you should read up a little bit more. This is a good primer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_represe
Of course, with only two political parties and a political system that forces voters to register as members of either, it is less effective. How to fix that? Bring back civics classes and engage the public. How to do that in the US? Don't ask me. I think you guys are fscked.
Mixed Member Proportional Representation.
The United States and Canada are the last democratic countries in the world that don't use some derivative of proportional representation, and Canada is moving towards it... which means it'll just be America left.
Actually, no, the NDP did not want a Christmas election. They trying to reach a compromise and have it for the end of January, so there's no need to ruin the holidays.
....unless using it in a satirical enterprise.
Ta-Da!