The majority doesn't care about minority rights? No kidding.
Minority rights? Minorities (AKA: Only the french) have the right to make me learn their language in school? Or tell me what kind of sign I can put outside my business? Well why should it be done for the French, and not all minorities? I have a friend who moved here from Isreal, maybe we should be teaching his language as well. It seems that learning English is quite difficult for him.
In the past, we took native children from their homes and put them in reform school where they were punished for speaking their own language. That is a violation of rights. The current discussion doesn't have anything to do with minority rights, and everything to do with the tyranny of the minority.
Really? A lot of people don't realize that The Corporation was a Canadian documentary. I think most of that is a consequence of the WTO which we are a part of as well.
The SCC ruled that, but they were basing their decision on the laws of the time (ie fair use and other relevant sections of the Copyright Act).
It's already illegal to use P2P to download music. Unless you can rig your P2P client to do 0 upstream traffic and still actually be able to download something then you are distributing copyrighted material. The limitation section of the fair use clause specifically lists
distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade
communicating to the public by telecommunication
Both of those apply to P2P. Why would the recording industry sue individuals for downloading when they should be suing them for uploading? I think they've just created a big fat straw man so they can say the laws are ineffective and push for big time reform.
Most of it is. Except Quebec. There is only one official language there: French. They can pull these shenanigans because they did not sign our constitution.
I am tired of all those English speakers who seem to think it is such a terrible burden to learn another language.
It is. I live in Winnipeg, which is supposed to be the largest French speaking population outside of Quebec. I have never met anybody who spoke only French and no English in my life. My wife is French, but she doesn't use it other than talking to her family, and they speak English just fine. Why should I bother with another language which I'll rarely ever be able to use, and have no desire to learn? I'd much rather learn ruby or python thank you very much.
No, its not. And I work for the feds in Winnipeg. Most of the people I work with are unilingual.
I stand corrected. In that case, I don't see a problem with Quebec demanding that civil service applicants speak French any more than it is for us to demand they speak English here.
but you really can't once you stop paying taxes to Ottawa
Once they stop paying taxes to Ottawa, then maybe Alberta will be off the hook for the $16.7 billion (about $2,178 per person) they pay those traitorous jackasses every year.
Move to Quebec and try to set up a business with an English sign.
You can put the sign up, but it can't be as big or bigger than the French sign as I understand it. I've never been there, and don't plan to so I couldn't say for sure.
The lack of hardware graphics acceleration and DX is a serious show-stopper.
It depends what you are doing with it. WTF would I care about graphics acceleration in the data center? Or POS? Or anywhere except maybe some lab workstations with graphics heavy apps.
I read this the other day on Kerneltrap (with their new look - love it or hate it) which seems to say that paravirtualization support has been added to KVM. They have several very impressive benchmarks which include native (but not VMWare).
I have no problem raising a stink about this myself, but I do not expect my father to be passionate about these things, and I don't expect him to suffer through them, or go without some service because of them. I don't even expect him to understand why it's a problem in the first place. He doesn't really care (I can tell by the blank stare on his face when I rant about them). He has IE available to him when he needs it, and I'll do the yelling and screaming for him.
Have you ever tried contacting these management types? You'll find that all you get is a condescending form letter about them being unable to support anything but IE, and how Firefox doesn't matter. If that.
if I want IE7 or anything else to do with Windows, I use VMware on my Linux box
That's fine for you, but my dad was very frustrated with Ubuntu when I installed it on his PC because I was sick of having to go and de-spyware his computer every couple of weeks. Somehow he had a problem operating the useragent switcher extension for Firefox, and in the case of his online banking the useragent switcher didn't work. So now he has an IE icon on his Edgy desktop, and he can do his banking at home. Firefox gets used for everything else. I would never suggest to him that we should put VMWare on his computer and boot up windows every time he wants to pay a bill.
Being able to run IE under Linux means that Microsoft has lost at least one user that I know of. I would guess many many more.
Sure, almost everyone buys/rents a movie or two every year.
What population are we talking about here? The vast majority of the world's population doesn't have the luxury of indoor plumbing let alone television.
If there were really more visitors from other countries dont you think it would be a waste advertising american products and services.
The question wasn't if the largest segment of slashdot visitors are in the U.S. They might very well be. But if you look at 'U.S.' -vs- 'other than U.S.', the others will outnumber the U.S.
To say that most visitors are in the U.S. would be false. Most visitors are in countries other than the U.S.
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Let me put it this way: Out of all the languages in the world to learn, why would I choose French? Who would I talk to?
Here and many, many other places.
Minority rights? Minorities (AKA: Only the french) have the right to make me learn their language in school? Or tell me what kind of sign I can put outside my business? Well why should it be done for the French, and not all minorities? I have a friend who moved here from Isreal, maybe we should be teaching his language as well. It seems that learning English is quite difficult for him.
In the past, we took native children from their homes and put them in reform school where they were punished for speaking their own language. That is a violation of rights. The current discussion doesn't have anything to do with minority rights, and everything to do with the tyranny of the minority.
Really? A lot of people don't realize that The Corporation was a Canadian documentary. I think most of that is a consequence of the WTO which we are a part of as well.
Name me a place outside of Quebec that gives a shit though. PLEASE.
It must not be, because they aren't even asking for it on the job postings that I see.
It's already illegal to use P2P to download music. Unless you can rig your P2P client to do 0 upstream traffic and still actually be able to download something then you are distributing copyrighted material. The limitation section of the fair use clause specifically lists
- distributing, whether or not for the purpose of trade
- communicating to the public by telecommunication
Both of those apply to P2P. Why would the recording industry sue individuals for downloading when they should be suing them for uploading? I think they've just created a big fat straw man so they can say the laws are ineffective and push for big time reform.Oh come on. Now you're just being silly.
Most of it is. Except Quebec. There is only one official language there: French. They can pull these shenanigans because they did not sign our constitution.
It is. I live in Winnipeg, which is supposed to be the largest French speaking population outside of Quebec. I have never met anybody who spoke only French and no English in my life. My wife is French, but she doesn't use it other than talking to her family, and they speak English just fine. Why should I bother with another language which I'll rarely ever be able to use, and have no desire to learn? I'd much rather learn ruby or python thank you very much.
I stand corrected. In that case, I don't see a problem with Quebec demanding that civil service applicants speak French any more than it is for us to demand they speak English here.
Once they stop paying taxes to Ottawa, then maybe Alberta will be off the hook for the $16.7 billion (about $2,178 per person) they pay those traitorous jackasses every year.
Isn't that true in all of Canada? It is here in Manitoba.
You can put the sign up, but it can't be as big or bigger than the French sign as I understand it. I've never been there, and don't plan to so I couldn't say for sure.
Because we're stupid. We have forgotten that the party that we just elected brought us Brian Mulroney, and free trade (without binding arbitration).
"The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!"
Because there's a great conspiracy afoot up here.
It depends what you are doing with it. WTF would I care about graphics acceleration in the data center? Or POS? Or anywhere except maybe some lab workstations with graphics heavy apps.
I read this the other day on Kerneltrap (with their new look - love it or hate it) which seems to say that paravirtualization support has been added to KVM. They have several very impressive benchmarks which include native (but not VMWare).
I didn't say that I didn't try, because I did. And for all I know they do support Firefox now, I haven't checked. At the time they did not.
There was another case where the Canadian government issued a census that was mandatory for all citizens to complete. It could be filled out online, but only with Internet Explorer. So a whole bunch of us harassed them through various channels. They quickly added support for Firefox.
I have no problem raising a stink about this myself, but I do not expect my father to be passionate about these things, and I don't expect him to suffer through them, or go without some service because of them. I don't even expect him to understand why it's a problem in the first place. He doesn't really care (I can tell by the blank stare on his face when I rant about them). He has IE available to him when he needs it, and I'll do the yelling and screaming for him.
Have you ever tried contacting these management types? You'll find that all you get is a condescending form letter about them being unable to support anything but IE, and how Firefox doesn't matter. If that.
That's fine for you, but my dad was very frustrated with Ubuntu when I installed it on his PC because I was sick of having to go and de-spyware his computer every couple of weeks. Somehow he had a problem operating the useragent switcher extension for Firefox, and in the case of his online banking the useragent switcher didn't work. So now he has an IE icon on his Edgy desktop, and he can do his banking at home. Firefox gets used for everything else. I would never suggest to him that we should put VMWare on his computer and boot up windows every time he wants to pay a bill.
Being able to run IE under Linux means that Microsoft has lost at least one user that I know of. I would guess many many more.
K5 called, they need you back.
What population are we talking about here? The vast majority of the world's population doesn't have the luxury of indoor plumbing let alone television.
To say that most visitors are in the U.S. would be false. Most visitors are in countries other than the U.S.
Please see: Plurality for more details.