Indeed. I live in the center of Canada (as measured longitudinally) and we just had the coldest summer on record. To put that in context, meaningful weather records exist for approximately the past 100 years for this area.
I eagerly await the arrival of this long-promised global warming thingie.:)
A tax by any other name is still a tax. It's a favorite tactic of governments to call their taxes by other names in an effort to pull the wool over our eyes. If it's government revenue and you can't opt out of paying it, it's a tax.
EI is a prime example of this. Benefits paid out by the program are much less than 'contributions' received, and the balance is treated as general revenue. EI is not an insurance plan, it's a tax.
It's only through sleights-of-hand such as this (and not paying their portion of the pension contributions mandated by law for government and military employees) that they claim to have balanced the budget. When you make the rules, you can also ignore them when they don't suit you. This is something at which the Canadian government has had lots of practice.
You specifically mention corporate taxes and mining and petro royalties. These are part of the cost of producing the goods we use, so as a consumer you still pay for them, even if it is somewhat indirectly.
Municipal and school taxes are not insignificant and are not opt-in. Either you pay them directly, or they are included in your rent. They vary, but even if you live in the most minimal of dwellings, they are significant.
At their Winnipeg (pop. 650,000) center Convergys Customer Management Group pays $9.15 for customer service agents and $10.00 for tech support agents (starting wages in Canadian dollars). They do customer service for FedEx and Time Warner cable, and tech support for FedEx and Comcast cable.
AT&T WorldNet customer service and tech support was recently moved from Winnipeg to India (possibly Bangalore). This was because WorldNet was no longer willing to pay for such high-cost workers.
Although Convergys has grown significantly in Canada over the past five years, their current expansion focus is in India. Their near-shoring was pretty much an instant success, while their offshoring is taking much more time and effort. Time will tell whether the extra time and effort pay off for them.
The original companies which went on to become General Electric and AT&T were both founded in the 1870's. GE is not, and never was, a division of AT&T. GE was one of the original 12 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average when it was first published on May 26, 1896. Google for details if you're interested.
That's the first sensible post I've seen in this thread.
[rant] Wake up people! Do you really believe the politicians who make our laws actually know the meaning of right and wrong? What sensible man would defer the use of his own common sense and conscience to use the laws they legislate when trying to determine what's right or wrong? Try to keep the big picture in mind; when you lose sight of it and get bogged down in detailed discussions of legal interpretations, you're abdicating your own responsibility and will be taken advantage of because of it. [/rant]
Generally trackers do not "host pirated material", or any content beyond the torrents themselves and related web-based statistics reporting, etc. The content is usually served from elsewhere.
It would be possible to use the same server to host both, but it probably doesn't happen often with "pirated material" because it would draw undue attention to someone who might be engaged in the act of copyright infringement.
[pet peeve] Ships are not raided on the high-seas via sharing of copyrighted material, so why refer to copyright infringement as piracy?
Even if the source code was freely available for public inspection (and somehow deemed to be acceptable), can the public be sure it's the same code that is actually running each and every voting machine during an election?
Ensuring bug- and tamper-free code is just one of the many tasks required to verify the integrity of such a system.
Perhaps it isn't just run-of-the-mill spyware. Did you note this comment from the original author?
"Actually, it was not spyware.
I queried the dhcp server from a unix-alike box and got the same response back from it for the connection's dns domain as I did under windows. The DHCP server was handing it out for sure."
And with respect to the parent post, AdAware is only for Windows.
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First off, we know that NK does NOT have nuclear weapons.
In October 2006 North Korea successfully tested a nuclear weapon. See the following URL for one of thousands of news stories about the blast:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article666501.ece
With slipups of that magnitude, I'd say you're not building much of a foundation for your argument.
Bush probably didn't know, but I'll bet Gore did, being the inventor 'n all...
To remember spelling, he targeted mostly Universities and Aiports.
What's an Aiport?
Indeed. I live in the center of Canada (as measured longitudinally) and we just had the coldest summer on record. To put that in context, meaningful weather records exist for approximately the past 100 years for this area.
:)
I eagerly await the arrival of this long-promised global warming thingie.
"Clearly IBM has a dual Unix strategy for the foreseeable future."
That's simply smart business. It's not intelligent strategy to put all your eggs in one basket.
Is it a cunning one?
A tax by any other name is still a tax. It's a favorite tactic of governments to call their taxes by other names in an effort to pull the wool over our eyes. If it's government revenue and you can't opt out of paying it, it's a tax.
EI is a prime example of this. Benefits paid out by the program are much less than 'contributions' received, and the balance is treated as general revenue. EI is not an insurance plan, it's a tax.
It's only through sleights-of-hand such as this (and not paying their portion of the pension contributions mandated by law for government and military employees) that they claim to have balanced the budget. When you make the rules, you can also ignore them when they don't suit you. This is something at which the Canadian government has had lots of practice.
You specifically mention corporate taxes and mining and petro royalties. These are part of the cost of producing the goods we use, so as a consumer you still pay for them, even if it is somewhat indirectly.
Municipal and school taxes are not insignificant and are not opt-in. Either you pay them directly, or they are included in your rent. They vary, but even if you live in the most minimal of dwellings, they are significant.
What do you call the people who drive trains? :P
At their Winnipeg (pop. 650,000) center Convergys Customer Management Group pays $9.15 for customer service agents and $10.00 for tech support agents (starting wages in Canadian dollars). They do customer service for FedEx and Time Warner cable, and tech support for FedEx and Comcast cable.
AT&T WorldNet customer service and tech support was recently moved from Winnipeg to India (possibly Bangalore). This was because WorldNet was no longer willing to pay for such high-cost workers.
Although Convergys has grown significantly in Canada over the past five years, their current expansion focus is in India. Their near-shoring was pretty much an instant success, while their offshoring is taking much more time and effort. Time will tell whether the extra time and effort pay off for them.
The original companies which went on to become General Electric and AT&T were both founded in the 1870's. GE is not, and never was, a division of AT&T. GE was one of the original 12 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average when it was first published on May 26, 1896. Google for details if you're interested.
That's the first sensible post I've seen in this thread.
:)
[rant] Wake up people! Do you really believe the politicians who make our laws actually know the meaning of right and wrong? What sensible man would defer the use of his own common sense and conscience to use the laws they legislate when trying to determine what's right or wrong? Try to keep the big picture in mind; when you lose sight of it and get bogged down in detailed discussions of legal interpretations, you're abdicating your own responsibility and will be taken advantage of because of it. [/rant]
Phew, I feel better now.
Generally trackers do not "host pirated material", or any content beyond the torrents themselves and related web-based statistics reporting, etc. The content is usually served from elsewhere.
It would be possible to use the same server to host both, but it probably doesn't happen often with "pirated material" because it would draw undue attention to someone who might be engaged in the act of copyright infringement.
[pet peeve]
Ships are not raided on the high-seas via sharing of copyrighted material, so why refer to copyright infringement as piracy?
Headline: BitTorrent Attacks Exxon Valdez! Huge Losses Incurred. Details at 11:00...
[/pet peeve]
Can you copyright a recipe? I don't think so, although I believe that collections of them (cookbooks) can be copyrighted.
Even if the source code was freely available for public inspection (and somehow deemed to be acceptable), can the public be sure it's the same code that is actually running each and every voting machine during an election?
Ensuring bug- and tamper-free code is just one of the many tasks required to verify the integrity of such a system.
Perhaps it isn't just run-of-the-mill spyware. Did you note this comment from the original author?
"Actually, it was not spyware.
I queried the dhcp server from a unix-alike box and got the same response back from it for the connection's dns domain as I did under windows. The DHCP server was handing it out for sure."
And with respect to the parent post, AdAware is only for Windows.
In Canada a company called Nav Canada took over air traffic control from Transport Canada years ago.