In Canada we've been starting to get, in the newspapers, dozens of cases where Canadians have been living in the States, legally or illegally, and have been detained by the FBI for six months, been tortured and beaten, without access to a lawyer or being told why they were detained.
In the Toronto Star today there was a large story in the A section about a Canadian citizen living illegally in the States being held for months by the FBI, with out being told why, in solitary confinement 23.5 hours a day, with out being allowed to talk to a lawyer, a doctor, the embassy or any family members. He was beaten by the FBI in questioning sessions. He was mislead in to signing a wavier that rejected help from the Canadian Embassy, being told that they would deport him as soon as he signed it. That was a lie. He was sent to Canada on an airplane in the past few days, with only his prison issue clothes. All of his money and ID was kept by the FBI. He is now broke and has no place to live.
This sounds more like Nazi Germany or Maoist China than the US.
Being on call in the military is just the same as being on call in any other occupation- it is done through shifts and only people on shift are placed on call (with obvious exceptions being New Years 2k and Sept 11).
And there are lots of uses for having certain members on call during certain shifts. For instance, an AEC (Aerospace Controller) who manages a flight will need to be on call when his flight is up for duty. It's that simple. Hardly any one (except the rapid-reaction teams, such as the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) is on call 24-7.
That is a great example of a regular active/reserve military member who would need use of their phone while on call.
And I do not believe that a 'special band' for emergency and esstential government personnel would work. Who is 'esstential'? The Prime Minister? The Minister of National Defence? An Air Force Major? A Member of Parliament who works from the Yukon?
Some one made the remark about posts talking about the vital need for cellphones. Here it is.
Many people in the Armed Forces (active force or reserve) have to carry cell phones or pagers while they are on call. _At no time_ are they allowed to be inaccessible to both their home phone and their pager/cell phone while on call. If jamming becomes legal in Canada and the United States, it must come with a clause that all persons must be informed that their cell phone/pager has been turned off.
In a case like in a theatre, where cell phones and pages have their signals jammed, the theatre should have to give notification that from point A to point B, there are jammers being used.
And yes, places that do use jammers will lose buisiness from people who want to be able to get phone calls (such as some one waiting for a friend in a restaurant, a doctor watching a movie while on call, etc).
You can get it if you've got the marks? Well, yeah, duh. Isn't that how every university is/should be?
I'm a student at the University of Waterloo, and we're not quite a 'state school'. We get funding from our government (which is a province, btw, not a state) and private industry, but all of the students have to pay tuition. Which, if you're a foreign student, costs $24 000 a year, instead of the $5 400 Canadian students pay (our government subsidizes half of the cost of tuition)
You might want to recheck your facts.
And tuition isn't deregulated in Ontario yet.:P Silly.
I don't think that this is so much a matter of Sun wanting to call JavaRanch on this matter, but I think it's more that they have to.
You can't sue one person for trademark infringement (ie, M$) just because you don't like them, but not so much as send a 'cease and desist' to another (JavaRanch) just because you do. If JavaRanch is the biggest non-Sun Java site out there, Sun can't claim ignorance on JavaRanch's trademark infringement.
If Sun is trying to set up a major legal case against some one else (and we know they are) then this could just be a way of fixing a glaring hole in their prosecution.
It's too bad tho that JavaRanch is taking it so hard.
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I used to live in Newfoundland, where the fishing industry is a major source of the economy. Fishing like that is a lifestyle, handed down from generation to generation. You can't just say 'Oh, something happened, there are no fish, go find a real job'. Besides that, the cause here isn't overfishing, it's something else (or there would have been a gradual decrease in the fish stocks, etc.)
In St. John's harbour is something called 'The Bubble'. It's this small area of pitch black murky water, on which seagulls can land, where all of the unfiltered sewage from St. John's is poured into the ocean. If you fall into the harbour around that area, you could easily die from all of the disease that lives in that square metre. But this is something isolated, as opposed to the large patches of black water, which suggests that some one has been continually dumping something very toxic into the ocean at certain points.
Fishermen are generally the most knowledgable about the ocean. If they didn't see the black water coming, then something drastic and serious just happened, and that's a cause for huge concern. When an entire fish stock dissipears all at once, that's a cause for an immediate investigation, and notification of the Dept of Public Health. Something serious is obviously going on down there, that (rightfully) scares the crap out of any one with any knowledge about fishing or marine life.
During Operation Sandstorm in Iraq, CNN was one of the quickest, most reliable sources of intelligence that the American military had. Reporters can go where government employees can't, and generally have sources that the government doesn't. Also, most government intelligence has to go through and review, briefing, debriefing, etc. before it can be used. Seeing it live on CNN is much more efficient, and helps to back up intelligence already going thru the ranks
Web-browsing is an essential part of much government intelligence activity now. Using some random example, if some terrorist group has a website, and they put information about themselves and their activities on that website, then that's a bona fide use for web browsing. Checking news sites in other countries is exteremly usefull as well.
In an emergancy, I would want the government ( I'm Canadian btw) to have priority checking updates on CNN over me checking updates on/.
Reading the article makes it seem more like a 'buyer beware' situation than a court case where the company will actually get money.
Most people don't use their real email address when registering for something, especially not if it's 'free'. So it can be expected that a lot of emails on a list like that will be fake.
OTOH, the 'opt-in' thing could hold up or not in court. If there is a forced opt-in for a registration, some people still register, then wait until the first spam comes and send back a msg saying that they didn't ask for any spam in the first place.
Meh. I can see the company winning maybe legal fees but probably nothing else.
I did read the entire article, and what I chose to comment on what the portion that included remarks from the company.
As you can see, many others have posted remarks on the rest of the article and I felt that it would be more productive to offer an alternative viewpoint.
This is a philosophy that more and more companies should be following: realize that no, not every customer is a thief (or at least make them think that you don't believe that)
You were wondering why abortion would be legal but stem-cell research and emybro cloning wouldn't be?
Here's why
Abortion is the elimination of a human embryo which was accidently created, or was never meant to be created
Embyro and stem cell research requires creating human embryos which will all be elimated, but were explicitly created for this purpose
Big difference here.
Scientists who do stem cell research create fertilized human embyros (at which point some people consider life to have started), wait until they divide a few times, then extract the stem cell, which kill the embryos. No matter what, these embryos will be destroyed.
That is the big difference between abortion and stem cell/embryo research
One thing a lot of/.ers seem to overlook here is the fact that they weren't 'screening embryos for Alzheimer's'. Designing a baby means taking a bunch of fertilized embryos, finding one that suits your wants/needs, and killing the rest. It's the equivalent to getting pregnant just so you can have an abortion.
Some people are saying that hey, if they want to, why not? Hey, lets create a bunch of almost-humans, find the one in 100 that has the red-hair trait and kill the other 99.
I think a lot of people should have a problem with this
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In Canada we've been starting to get, in the newspapers, dozens of cases where Canadians have been living in the States, legally or illegally, and have been detained by the FBI for six months, been tortured and beaten, without access to a lawyer or being told why they were detained.
In the Toronto Star today there was a large story in the A section about a Canadian citizen living illegally in the States being held for months by the FBI, with out being told why, in solitary confinement 23.5 hours a day, with out being allowed to talk to a lawyer, a doctor, the embassy or any family members. He was beaten by the FBI in questioning sessions. He was mislead in to signing a wavier that rejected help from the Canadian Embassy, being told that they would deport him as soon as he signed it. That was a lie. He was sent to Canada on an airplane in the past few days, with only his prison issue clothes. All of his money and ID was kept by the FBI. He is now broke and has no place to live.
This sounds more like Nazi Germany or Maoist China than the US.
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Wow! This story was so informative! It really brings meaning to the phrase News for Nerds!
/. for such a great article!!
I'm ordering my case of Hyperglow Caffeinated Beer right now, as we speak!
I mean, come on, who doesn't want the wonderful effects of delicious, nutritious caffene with the delightful after taste of alcohol?
Thank you
Endorsement money? Gee, thanks!!!
Being on call in the military is just the same as being on call in any other occupation- it is done through shifts and only people on shift are placed on call (with obvious exceptions being New Years 2k and Sept 11).
And there are lots of uses for having certain members on call during certain shifts. For instance, an AEC (Aerospace Controller) who manages a flight will need to be on call when his flight is up for duty. It's that simple. Hardly any one (except the rapid-reaction teams, such as the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) is on call 24-7.
That is a great example of a regular active/reserve military member who would need use of their phone while on call.
And I do not believe that a 'special band' for emergency and esstential government personnel would work. Who is 'esstential'? The Prime Minister? The Minister of National Defence? An Air Force Major? A Member of Parliament who works from the Yukon?
Some one made the remark about posts talking about the vital need for cellphones. Here it is.
Many people in the Armed Forces (active force or reserve) have to carry cell phones or pagers while they are on call. _At no time_ are they allowed to be inaccessible to both their home phone and their pager/cell phone while on call. If jamming becomes legal in Canada and the United States, it must come with a clause that all persons must be informed that their cell phone/pager has been turned off.
In a case like in a theatre, where cell phones and pages have their signals jammed, the theatre should have to give notification that from point A to point B, there are jammers being used.
And yes, places that do use jammers will lose buisiness from people who want to be able to get phone calls (such as some one waiting for a friend in a restaurant, a doctor watching a movie while on call, etc).
Just my 2 cents ^-^
You can get it if you've got the marks? Well, yeah, duh. Isn't that how every university is/should be?
:P
I'm a student at the University of Waterloo, and we're not quite a 'state school'. We get funding from our government (which is a province, btw, not a state) and private industry, but all of the students have to pay tuition. Which, if you're a foreign student, costs $24 000 a year, instead of the $5 400 Canadian students pay (our government subsidizes half of the cost of tuition)
You might want to recheck your facts.
And tuition isn't deregulated in Ontario yet.
Silly.
I don't think that this is so much a matter of Sun wanting to call JavaRanch on this matter, but I think it's more that they have to.
You can't sue one person for trademark infringement (ie, M$) just because you don't like them, but not so much as send a 'cease and desist' to another (JavaRanch) just because you do. If JavaRanch is the biggest non-Sun Java site out there, Sun can't claim ignorance on JavaRanch's trademark infringement.
If Sun is trying to set up a major legal case against some one else (and we know they are) then this could just be a way of fixing a glaring hole in their prosecution.
It's too bad tho that JavaRanch is taking it so hard.
I used to live in Newfoundland, where the fishing industry is a major source of the economy. Fishing like that is a lifestyle, handed down from generation to generation. You can't just say 'Oh, something happened, there are no fish, go find a real job'. Besides that, the cause here isn't overfishing, it's something else (or there would have been a gradual decrease in the fish stocks, etc.)
In St. John's harbour is something called 'The Bubble'. It's this small area of pitch black murky water, on which seagulls can land, where all of the unfiltered sewage from St. John's is poured into the ocean. If you fall into the harbour around that area, you could easily die from all of the disease that lives in that square metre. But this is something isolated, as opposed to the large patches of black water, which suggests that some one has been continually dumping something very toxic into the ocean at certain points.
Fishermen are generally the most knowledgable about the ocean. If they didn't see the black water coming, then something drastic and serious just happened, and that's a cause for huge concern. When an entire fish stock dissipears all at once, that's a cause for an immediate investigation, and notification of the Dept of Public Health. Something serious is obviously going on down there, that (rightfully) scares the crap out of any one with any knowledge about fishing or marine life.
That should have been Operation Desert Storm, _not_ Operation Sandstorm.
Sorry 'bout that
During Operation Sandstorm in Iraq, CNN was one of the quickest, most reliable sources of intelligence that the American military had. Reporters can go where government employees can't, and generally have sources that the government doesn't. Also, most government intelligence has to go through and review, briefing, debriefing, etc. before it can be used. Seeing it live on CNN is much more efficient, and helps to back up intelligence already going thru the ranks
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Web-browsing is an essential part of much government intelligence activity now. Using some random example, if some terrorist group has a website, and they put information about themselves and their activities on that website, then that's a bona fide use for web browsing. Checking news sites in other countries is exteremly usefull as well.
In an emergancy, I would want the government ( I'm Canadian btw) to have priority checking updates on CNN over me checking updates on
Reading the article makes it seem more like a 'buyer beware' situation than a court case where the company will actually get money.
Most people don't use their real email address when registering for something, especially not if it's 'free'. So it can be expected that a lot of emails on a list like that will be fake.
OTOH, the 'opt-in' thing could hold up or not in court. If there is a forced opt-in for a registration, some people still register, then wait until the first spam comes and send back a msg saying that they didn't ask for any spam in the first place.
Meh. I can see the company winning maybe legal fees but probably nothing else.
I did read the entire article, and what I chose to comment on what the portion that included remarks from the company.
/. is all about, right?
As you can see, many others have posted remarks on the rest of the article and I felt that it would be more productive to offer an alternative viewpoint.
That's what
Maybe if you read to the end of the article, and the company's comments at the end of said article, you'd notice that two main points were made.
One was about how companies will get more buisiness by treating their customers more like customers and less like theives.
It's nice to see that some companies are finally admitting that yeah, they do see customers as such but hey, that's not the way to treat your buyers.
This is a philosophy that more and more companies should be following: realize that no, not every customer is a thief (or at least make them think that you don't believe that)
It's nice to see some one with an idea like that
You were wondering why abortion would be legal but stem-cell research and emybro cloning wouldn't be?
Here's why
Abortion is the elimination of a human embryo which was accidently created, or was never meant to be created
Embyro and stem cell research requires creating human embryos which will all be elimated, but were explicitly created for this purpose
Big difference here.
Scientists who do stem cell research create fertilized human embyros (at which point some people consider life to have started), wait until they divide a few times, then extract the stem cell, which kill the embryos. No matter what, these embryos will be destroyed.
That is the big difference between abortion and stem cell/embryo research
One thing a lot of /.ers seem to overlook here is the fact that they weren't 'screening embryos for Alzheimer's'. Designing a baby means taking a bunch of fertilized embryos, finding one that suits your wants/needs, and killing the rest. It's the equivalent to getting pregnant just so you can have an abortion.
Some people are saying that hey, if they want to, why not? Hey, lets create a bunch of almost-humans, find the one in 100 that has the red-hair trait and kill the other 99.
I think a lot of people should have a problem with this