Not that I think that the IANA is really broken but this article does nothing to convince me of anything. A bunch of "things aren't broken why fix them" arguments combined with some vaugely offensive, jingoistic, BS that the US is the "only country that believes in free speech". To be honest I think the main reason we haven't seen the US attempting to abuse this is because historically the people in charge simply didn't have any idea what they were doing.
Well I don't know how strong this is but if you look at the mailing address from the Crystal site you'll see that it's:
Providence Towers
5001 Spring Valley Road
Suite 400 East
US
Which while an incomplete address does match the address given on http://vertuDC.com/ which shows Jovan Hutton Pulitzer as Chairman and CEO... and is the same address as given on http://www.jhuttonpulitzer.com/
So at the very least there is some reason to believe they are connected... unless of course one is a fake.
But why is it needed. Put the links on the page. Are these people so feeble at web page design that they can't realize that they don't need to go outside of the browser area to do what they need?
You know.. I'm thinking about how unfair these steretypes are...
As I sit here in my RTFM t-shirt wearing combat pants and boots... Goatee and long hair (the only long haired male in the office, and it's longer than most of the women too). Along with my reputation for keeping the strangest hours and often surly attitude...
No actually they tried to first put it into place around the start of 2000 (not sure but it might have been Feb) However due to complaints they put it off. It was then moved into place much more quitely (and as a lower amount) at the start of 2001.
Did you even read this thread before posting into it? Perhaps you might want to read it again and realize why the US constitution does not apply in Canada.
As a fellow canadian I think you're a little off base here. Sure the goverment has some problems (notable some bizzare customs enforcement, and the above mentioned language laws) but they've at least shown a clue with new media laws. Ie the feds realized they can't and shouldn't try any idiot American style laws to 'control' the web.
You may also remember that we have government officals who encourage citizens to use encryption in e-mail.
Ok I'm with you until this point If it weren't for our ancestors breaking "the law." We'd still be under the rule of Britain.
Oh come on, really. Isn't that a rather silly thing to say:-) Here you Yanks sit... a lone island in the great expanse of the British Empire! Oh no you'd never get any work done, for using all those extra U's in colour and labour. Not to mention strange pronounciations of aluminium. No disrespect for your ancestors who were willing to fight for what they believed but what relavance does that have on this discussion.
matt. A Canadian. I have a Queen, but not so you'd notice.
The site does have some good content but the presentation is terrible. Beyond the flashing consumer alert drawing all the attention. Their 'stars' ratings make no sence. Sites with widely differing prices have the same stars. The overall stars make absolutely no sence. NSI has an overall rating of 3 and so does Melborne IT. But Melborn has 4,5 and 3 individiual ratings where NSI has 1,1 and 3. So not they can't write HTML and they can't do math.
Has anyone had any luck getting DBD::Oracle to make with an 8i Oracle client install? I was looking through the README.clients and very little had much relation to the Oracle8 install or was just plain wrong even for Oracle 7?
Lets note that there is nothing in the article that indicates that this woman is letting her kid watch the show. South park has become one of those things that passes for 'culture' in North America. I mean how many times do you end up working quotes from it into general conversation. So basically the kid doesn't have to have ever watched it to have been 'harmed' by the taunting of other kids.
Of course it's still increadably lame for the Mother to have complained to the CRTC. Kids are kids and they'll tease about anything. We all survived realitivly sane and so did she (posssibly less so). But as the origional poster said at least it didn't end up as a lame law suit.
Oracle's Ellison used to preach the NCA as the death of Microsoft (at least for Windows) In his vision the only program running locally would be netscape with java. Sun's idea was simular but based purely around java.
Basically the whole thing was deisgned to make the OS unimportant on the client. Well Sun still makes the JavaOS machines and Oracle's offspring company NCA is still kicking around but they neither really took off. Strangely enough MS's entry truely fopped.
This all leads me to wondering why Microsoft is trying to push this forward again. What exactly do they think they'll gain?
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Not that I think that the IANA is really broken but this article does nothing to convince me of anything. A bunch of "things aren't broken why fix them" arguments combined with some vaugely offensive, jingoistic, BS that the US is the "only country that believes in free speech". To be honest I think the main reason we haven't seen the US attempting to abuse this is because historically the people in charge simply didn't have any idea what they were doing.
After all it's "not a big truck"
Providence Towers
5001 Spring Valley Road
Suite 400 East
US
Which while an incomplete address does match the address given on http://vertuDC.com/ which shows Jovan Hutton Pulitzer as Chairman and CEO... and is the same address as given on http://www.jhuttonpulitzer.com/
So at the very least there is some reason to believe they are connected... unless of course one is a fake.
But why is it needed. Put the links on the page. Are these people so feeble at web page design that they can't realize that they don't need to go outside of the browser area to do what they need?
As I sit here in my RTFM t-shirt wearing combat pants and boots... Goatee and long hair (the only long haired male in the office, and it's longer than most of the women too). Along with my reputation for keeping the strangest hours and often surly attitude...
Right, maybe it's not unfair at all.
No actually they tried to first put it into place around the start of 2000 (not sure but it might have been Feb) However due to complaints they put it off. It was then moved into place much more quitely (and as a lower amount) at the start of 2001.
Did you even read this thread before posting into it? Perhaps you might want to read it again and realize why the US constitution does not apply in Canada.
You are absolutely right. But do you think you could possibly have been a little more of a jerk in pointing it out?
I've had absolutely no problems... no idea why anyone would register with NSI anymore.
You may also remember that we have government officals who encourage citizens to use encryption in e-mail.
Broken links all around.
I really don't get it. Why send out press releases and letters that 'point' to a site that still under construction???
If it weren't for our ancestors breaking "the law." We'd still be under the rule of Britain.
Oh come on, really. Isn't that a rather silly thing to say :-)
Here you Yanks sit... a lone island in the great expanse of the British Empire! Oh no you'd never get any work done, for using all those extra U's in colour and labour. Not to mention strange pronounciations of aluminium.
No disrespect for your ancestors who were willing to fight for what they believed but what relavance does that have on this discussion.
matt. A Canadian. I have a Queen, but not so you'd notice.
This is part of my point. Why have an overall rating if it doesn't mean anything?
The site does have some good content but the presentation is terrible. Beyond the flashing consumer alert drawing all the attention. Their 'stars' ratings make no sence. Sites with widely differing prices have the same stars. The overall stars make absolutely no sence. NSI has an overall rating of 3 and so does Melborne IT. But Melborn has 4,5 and 3 individiual ratings where NSI has 1,1 and 3. So not they can't write HTML and they can't do math.
Has anyone had any luck getting DBD::Oracle to make with an 8i Oracle client install?
I was looking through the README.clients and very little had much relation to the Oracle8 install or was just plain wrong even for Oracle 7?
Of course it's still increadably lame for the Mother to have complained to the CRTC. Kids are kids and they'll tease about anything. We all survived realitivly sane and so did she (posssibly less so). But as the origional poster said at least it didn't end up as a lame law suit.
his vision the only program running locally would
be netscape with java. Sun's
idea was simular
but based purely around java.
Basically the whole thing was deisgned to
make the OS unimportant on the client.
Well
Sun still makes the JavaOS machines and Oracle's
offspring company NCA is still kicking around
but they neither really took off. Strangely
enough MS's entry truely fopped.
This all leads me to wondering why Microsoft
is trying to push this forward again. What
exactly do they think they'll gain?