Why should a doctor not go to see a movie because it might result in 30 seconds of annoyance? They're people, they require entertainment.
Just because they're on call 24 hours a day in order to save lives, does that mean they should sit indoors in an effort not to offend you with their ringing phone?
What some people don't understand is that sometimes people NEED to leave their cellphone on.
For example, my mother, who cares for the handicapped, has her cellphone on WHEREVER she goes. It's programmed so that even if the ringer is turned off, a call identified as being from her work will still ring. This is so that in case of emergency at her work, she will be always available to respond.
This came up a few months ago while she was at the theatre. When one of the residents at the home she works at pitched a fit and seriously injured one of the employees, and she was needed to come in to replace the employee and secure the residence. When she was called, the people in the theatre started giving her a lot of grief, and after a few quick attempts to explain the situation and apologize, she had to leave. She was totally embarassed, and slightly frightened for her safety, but it's a necissary evil.
For those who might ask "What about vibrate mode?", it doesn't work very well well you're female and the phone is in your purse.
Let's not forget about the doctors and nurses and emergency workers when we're about to lay into users of these ringing cell phones.
Heh. Well, I was thinking more along the lines of video game gauss guns.. you know.. massive electric arcs shooting out in all directions.. everything in it's path being instantly immolated.. 150 yard range..
See what an over-active imagination + an unhealthy level of Sci-Fi intake can do to a guy? =P
Does the army currently carry gauss guns? I doubt it.
You're right though, I should have been a little more specific in my wording. They likely are able to obtain such weaponry, but they're not activley using anything like it. If you put a disgruntled lunatic with a gauss gun againt 5 grunts with m16's at close range, I'd put my money on the on the lunatic any day. =P
I'll assume you're talking about the right to bear arms? Well, sure, but not ANY arms.. to the best of my knowledge there's no provisions in the U.S. contitution allowing for the ownership of weapons that are capable of melting tanks. =P
Isn't it, oh, I don't know, kind of illegal to manufacture weapons that far surpass anything the army currently has, or will have in the next 20 years? =P
Let me first say IANALU (I am not a linux user), so excuse my ingorance. I did some digging for the IRCNews article, and this is what I found out.
I was talking to the guys in #bitchx on EFNet, and the BitchX team has determined that the code actually sends the accounts/passwords on the box to a remote user (they do have the IP of the box the info is sent, but they figure it's a hacked system).
The only thing you can really do to protect yourself once infected is change your accounts/passwords.
Only the configuration script is infected.. so don't run it. =P
A clean version of the release can be download from: ftp.cyberpunkz.org/pub/BitchX
I hope this helps!
For those that haven't read through it, there's information included on how to file an objection in page 2 of the document. I wish to stress that the deadline for this is May 8th, 2002.
I highly suggest that all Canadian/.'s do this, as after reading through the proposition, I noticed that this will not only effect writable discs and MP3 players, but also all flash cards and portable memory media. This means you'll be paying levies on flashcards for your digicam, videogame console memory cards, and PDA's, all of which contribute in no way to piracy.
From the document:
Objections must briefly state the reasons therefor, and must in-dicate the name, address, telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address of the objector. The objection must also contain the following declarations:
I intend to participate actively to the process
leading to the certification of the private copying tariff. Consequently, this constitutes my formal objection to the proposed statement filed by CPCC.
I have read the information set out in the Board's notice published in the Canada Gazette on March 9, 2002 with CPCC's proposed statement. I understand the duties that I undertake as an objector and intend to abide by them.
Objections must also state if the objector
intends to participate in the pre-hearing conference to be held on Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:00 a.m., the object of which is set out below.
Where possible, the Board asks that all comments and objections be sent by electronic mail.
CLAUDE MAJEAU
Secretary General
56 Sparks Street, Suite 800
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0C9
(613) 952-8621 (Telephone)
(613) 952-8630 (Facsimile) majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca (Electronic mail)
The real issue lies within the parenting. Most parents today don't have the patients, skills, or will to raise decent children with morals.
I see kids at the grocery stores swearing at their parents without reprive. I see kids on the side of the street throwing rocks at cars without fear. I've had several kids who look to be under the age of twelve come up to me on the street and ask me for a light for their smoke.
Do you know why children do these things? Because they can. With each generation society is growing even more complacient towards their offspring. Parents are, be it due to laziness or lack of rearing skills passed from their own parents, letting their children run wild. Because of this, these kids are growing up thinking they can do whatever they want, to whomever they want, with no real grasp of the consequences. As if it's not bad enough, these kids grow up and pass on the exact same behaviour to their own children.
Until the majority wakes up and understand that THEY are the moral palette from which their children draw, not TV, not movies, not Video Games, things are only going to get worse.
In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a bottle o' bawls. A bottle o' WARM bawls. Without the bottle. OR the bawls! In a filthy, cracked cup. We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper. The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth. But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor. Aye. BECAUSE we were poor.
Granted, it's obvious to you and I what a bandwidth hog is, but what is Rogers definition going to be?
I seriously don't want to be tossed into the same $80/m teir as a guy who's running a 24 hour ftp site becuase Rogers, in all of their wisdom, deems that anything over 15 gigs a month is "heavy".
Also, how exactly will your level of use be determined? Monthly? By past use? There's just too many variables to offer a realistic and fair pricing scheme.. unless they charged for actual bandwidth used per month, which I would find to be fair I guess.
Another question I'd like to ask.. does this "10% of the users use 70% of the bandwidth" seem realistic? I mean, c'mon, how many people do you think REALLY get a cable modem just to surf and read email? Give me a break.
I'm just curious about definitions here. I've never been personally contacted by rogers, but I know I've used anywhere in the range of 5-30 gigs a week without running any kind of server. This is mp3 grabs, online gaming, and surfing high-bandwidth sites (newgrounds, ifilm, etc.).
And what about when my gf hops on Morpheus, grabs a few mp3's, and forgets to close it down? I've come home from work after it's been left on accidently and there's been over 15 gigs in transfers from people leeching off me. Considering that it's difficult to close (clicking the X in the upper right corner simply minimizes it to the system tray, you have to right click on the system tray icon and select "Close" to shut the program down), I'm sure this happens to many people who don't know better as well.
I'm all for charging people who find it necissary to run 24/7 servers on their box, but is the line going to be drawn between that and legit higher bandwidth uses?
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Why should a doctor not go to see a movie because it might result in 30 seconds of annoyance? They're people, they require entertainment.
Just because they're on call 24 hours a day in order to save lives, does that mean they should sit indoors in an effort not to offend you with their ringing phone?
What some people don't understand is that sometimes people NEED to leave their cellphone on. For example, my mother, who cares for the handicapped, has her cellphone on WHEREVER she goes. It's programmed so that even if the ringer is turned off, a call identified as being from her work will still ring. This is so that in case of emergency at her work, she will be always available to respond.
This came up a few months ago while she was at the theatre. When one of the residents at the home she works at pitched a fit and seriously injured one of the employees, and she was needed to come in to replace the employee and secure the residence. When she was called, the people in the theatre started giving her a lot of grief, and after a few quick attempts to explain the situation and apologize, she had to leave. She was totally embarassed, and slightly frightened for her safety, but it's a necissary evil.
For those who might ask "What about vibrate mode?", it doesn't work very well well you're female and the phone is in your purse.
Let's not forget about the doctors and nurses and emergency workers when we're about to lay into users of these ringing cell phones.
Heh. Well, I was thinking more along the lines of video game gauss guns.. you know.. massive electric arcs shooting out in all directions.. everything in it's path being instantly immolated.. 150 yard range..
See what an over-active imagination + an unhealthy level of Sci-Fi intake can do to a guy? =P
Wow. That I didn't know.
/me ph34rs his southern neighbors
So, given the inclination and funds, I could, as an american, obtain things like rocket launchers, and RPGs?
What's the stance in the U.S. on privately owned nuclear ICBM's?
Does the army currently carry gauss guns? I doubt it.
You're right though, I should have been a little more specific in my wording. They likely are able to obtain such weaponry, but they're not activley using anything like it. If you put a disgruntled lunatic with a gauss gun againt 5 grunts with m16's at close range, I'd put my money on the on the lunatic any day. =P
Erhm. So who are we ragging on here, the U.S. or Canada? Your foolish troll jabber needs clarification.
No I don't, actually, since I'm a Canadian.
I'll assume you're talking about the right to bear arms? Well, sure, but not ANY arms.. to the best of my knowledge there's no provisions in the U.S. contitution allowing for the ownership of weapons that are capable of melting tanks. =P
Isn't it, oh, I don't know, kind of illegal to manufacture weapons that far surpass anything the army currently has, or will have in the next 20 years? =P
Let me first say IANALU (I am not a linux user), so excuse my ingorance. I did some digging for the IRCNews article, and this is what I found out. I was talking to the guys in #bitchx on EFNet, and the BitchX team has determined that the code actually sends the accounts/passwords on the box to a remote user (they do have the IP of the box the info is sent, but they figure it's a hacked system). The only thing you can really do to protect yourself once infected is change your accounts/passwords. Only the configuration script is infected.. so don't run it. =P A clean version of the release can be download from: ftp.cyberpunkz.org/pub/BitchX I hope this helps!
For those that haven't read through it, there's information included on how to file an objection in page 2 of the document. I wish to stress that the deadline for this is May 8th, 2002.
/.'s do this, as after reading through the proposition, I noticed that this will not only effect writable discs and MP3 players, but also all flash cards and portable memory media. This means you'll be paying levies on flashcards for your digicam, videogame console memory cards, and PDA's, all of which contribute in no way to piracy.
I highly suggest that all Canadian
From the document:
Objections must briefly state the reasons therefor, and must in-dicate the name, address, telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address of the objector. The objection must also contain the following declarations:
I intend to participate actively to the process leading to the certification of the private copying tariff. Consequently, this constitutes my formal objection to the proposed statement filed by CPCC.
I have read the information set out in the Board's notice published in the Canada Gazette on March 9, 2002 with CPCC's proposed statement. I understand the duties that I undertake as an objector and intend to abide by them.
Objections must also state if the objector intends to participate in the pre-hearing conference to be held on Thursday, May 23, 2002 at 10:00 a.m., the object of which is set out below.
Where possible, the Board asks that all comments and objections be sent by electronic mail.
CLAUDE MAJEAU
Secretary General
56 Sparks Street, Suite 800
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0C9
(613) 952-8621 (Telephone)
(613) 952-8630 (Facsimile)
majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca (Electronic mail)
The real issue lies within the parenting. Most parents today don't have the patients, skills, or will to raise decent children with morals.
I see kids at the grocery stores swearing at their parents without reprive. I see kids on the side of the street throwing rocks at cars without fear. I've had several kids who look to be under the age of twelve come up to me on the street and ask me for a light for their smoke.
Do you know why children do these things? Because they can. With each generation society is growing even more complacient towards their offspring. Parents are, be it due to laziness or lack of rearing skills passed from their own parents, letting their children run wild. Because of this, these kids are growing up thinking they can do whatever they want, to whomever they want, with no real grasp of the consequences. As if it's not bad enough, these kids grow up and pass on the exact same behaviour to their own children.
Until the majority wakes up and understand that THEY are the moral palette from which their children draw, not TV, not movies, not Video Games, things are only going to get worse.
I know I'd pay a little more for components if it meant I could rest assured that my old main board wasn't responsible for polluting the drinking water of third world villages.
Then again, I'd likely be the first one in line bitching about the price hike. My, it's fun being a consumer.
In them days, we'd a' been glad to have the price of a bottle o' bawls.
A bottle o' WARM bawls.
Without the bottle.
OR the bawls!
In a filthy, cracked cup.
We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
Aye. BECAUSE we were poor.
Go for it dude!
But be careful.. if you marry her, she's entitled to half of your mod points! Pre-nup!
Granted, it's obvious to you and I what a bandwidth hog is, but what is Rogers definition going to be?
I seriously don't want to be tossed into the same $80/m teir as a guy who's running a 24 hour ftp site becuase Rogers, in all of their wisdom, deems that anything over 15 gigs a month is "heavy".
Also, how exactly will your level of use be determined? Monthly? By past use? There's just too many variables to offer a realistic and fair pricing scheme.. unless they charged for actual bandwidth used per month, which I would find to be fair I guess.
Another question I'd like to ask.. does this "10% of the users use 70% of the bandwidth" seem realistic? I mean, c'mon, how many people do you think REALLY get a cable modem just to surf and read email? Give me a break.
I'm just curious about definitions here. I've never been personally contacted by rogers, but I know I've used anywhere in the range of 5-30 gigs a week without running any kind of server. This is mp3 grabs, online gaming, and surfing high-bandwidth sites (newgrounds, ifilm, etc.). And what about when my gf hops on Morpheus, grabs a few mp3's, and forgets to close it down? I've come home from work after it's been left on accidently and there's been over 15 gigs in transfers from people leeching off me. Considering that it's difficult to close (clicking the X in the upper right corner simply minimizes it to the system tray, you have to right click on the system tray icon and select "Close" to shut the program down), I'm sure this happens to many people who don't know better as well. I'm all for charging people who find it necissary to run 24/7 servers on their box, but is the line going to be drawn between that and legit higher bandwidth uses?