The charter was written by a bunch of WASPs who had no inkling of what the country would become - i.e. sustained by hard-working immigrants while the existing population became, old, lethargic, unmotivated and allowed its birth rate to fall below 2 children per couple. Oh, and the "Canadian founding fathers" were racists too, living in a time when it was commonplace and acceptable. Today it is not, and if that means some 150 year old laws need amending, so be it.
You seem to be incredibly confused. The Charter was enacted in 1982, not 150 years ago. Not to mention that your slurs against the "existing population" could also be called hate speech.
Just remember that this is the governing party that has allowed an innocent man (Maher Arar) to be renditioned and tortured in Syria via the United States on poor and mistaken evidence that he was a terrorist
No, that happened in 2002, three and a half years before the Conservatives came to power. The party in power back then was the Liberals.
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Kingdoms are monopolies. Do as the king says or else. It used to be the church which ran kingdoms from behind the throne. (Do it or be excommunicated.) Now it is big business. (Do it or we will change the laws to force you to do it.)
If by "Do as the king says or else" you mean "Do as the king says or don't," I agree. Nobody forces you to do business with these corporations or to consume their products.
Because the US clearly has a long record of declaring people who criticize the government 'enemy combatants.'
I'm always amazed how this self-congratulatory patting on the back for coming up with outlandish theories that have no basis in reality gets modded to +5 so frequently.
(There are definitely too much yankee moderators around here; well, you can't win against me, you've go so many moderator points but I have unlimited postings. Reposted account some asshole right-wing yankee moderating this as a troll).
Ah, yes. The words of a genteel, enlightened Canadian.
If this had been a bug in MS, we may might not have heard about it for months or years unless someone on the outside published it.
And you didn't this time, either. This has been around since 2.2. How many years is that?
To "feel immediate antagonism" toward Utah over a few issues that are really quite unrelated to the state is just a narrow-minded, uneducated, knee-jerk reaction.
Microsoft is allowing you to license the patent free of charge but not to sublicense it. The GPL requires that you be allowed to sublicense patents applicable to GPLed software. And that's somehow Microsoft's fault?
The voting process here is one sad joke, anyway.
If you're not on the voter's list, all you have to do to vote is show up at the polls with a piece of ID that shows your address. They don't even ask for proof of citizenship.
The enumeration process (whereby you get on the voter's list) itself is pathetic. I received a voter's card for the provincial election (in early October), but not for the municipal election -- this is in Toronto. One person who did receive a voter's card for the municipal election, though, was my grandfather, who has been dead for over a year and who had been mentally incapacitated for years before. There've also been stories of 13 year old children and even pets being enumerated and receiving voter's cards.
And if you do get a voter's card, you're absolutely golden. They let you in and let you vote without even making you show your ID to prove that you are who you say you are.
What the USA doesn't do very well, in my opinion, is brook difference or dissent -- and to me, a culture that is able to tolerate or embrace those those things is one that meets my idea of a free.
There's no equivalent of Rush Limbaugh or Pat Buchanan in the Netherlands, spewing hate across the airwaves. And if you want to smoke pot or have some kind of unorthodox sex, the state doesn't feel it has any role in policing those areas of private morality.
Hold on a second. First you accuse the USA of being intolerant of dissent, and then you boast about how the Netherlands don't have a Pat Bunchanan or a Rush Limbaugh?..
Are you under the impression that those two represent the American mainstream? In the Netherlands people with their views would certainly be considered "voices of dissent," so why aren't you willing to be tolerant of them?
Or, wait, was it only left wing voices of dissent we should encourage? Gotcha!
Yeah, because the Security Council has nothing better to do than vote on resolutions mandating open source.
And if you insist on one-sided country bashing, at least learn to spell to country's name.
but we all certainly have reason to distrust any OS sponsored by the American government.
And what currently existing OS would that be?
but the folks who gave us Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, the genocide of the First Nation, the CIA-sponsored overthrows of democratically elected governments in various South American states
Yeah, see, here's the thing about democracies. The governments who "gave" you those things are gone, not "still there."
It's amazing how Slashtrolls insist on denying and trivializing the brutality of the Chinese dictatorship by making bizarre analogies to the US. On Slashdot, every enemy of the US is my friend.
I'm in Canada and had Rogers@Home before @Home folded and Rogers took over running its portion of the network.
The speed was never 3 mbps; it was 1.5 at best.
These days, of course, while the advertised speed is still 1.5, I'm lucky to get 800 kbps. Repeated phone calls to Rogers have resulted in absolutely no action, and I'm considering switching to DSL.
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You seem to be incredibly confused. The Charter was enacted in 1982, not 150 years ago. Not to mention that your slurs against the "existing population" could also be called hate speech.
No, that happened in 2002, three and a half years before the Conservatives came to power. The party in power back then was the Liberals.
If by "Do as the king says or else" you mean "Do as the king says or don't," I agree. Nobody forces you to do business with these corporations or to consume their products.
Because the US clearly has a long record of declaring people who criticize the government 'enemy combatants.'
I'm always amazed how this self-congratulatory patting on the back for coming up with outlandish theories that have no basis in reality gets modded to +5 so frequently.
If this had been a bug in MS, we may might not have heard about it for months or years unless someone on the outside published it. And you didn't this time, either. This has been around since 2.2. How many years is that?
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Yes, that must be what Kim Jong Il feels.
I wonder when he'll start feeling that not starving his people is also critical to his nation's development.
Microsoft is allowing you to license the patent free of charge but not to sublicense it. The GPL requires that you be allowed to sublicense patents applicable to GPLed software. And that's somehow Microsoft's fault?
Yeah, OK buddy. Now who's spreading FUD?
Who's this "we" that never had prohibition? Surely not Canada, who most certainly had it, although for a shorter period of time than the US?
So do I: I find out whom they've endorsed and then make sure I vote for the opposing candidate. :)
The voting process here is one sad joke, anyway. If you're not on the voter's list, all you have to do to vote is show up at the polls with a piece of ID that shows your address. They don't even ask for proof of citizenship. The enumeration process (whereby you get on the voter's list) itself is pathetic. I received a voter's card for the provincial election (in early October), but not for the municipal election -- this is in Toronto. One person who did receive a voter's card for the municipal election, though, was my grandfather, who has been dead for over a year and who had been mentally incapacitated for years before. There've also been stories of 13 year old children and even pets being enumerated and receiving voter's cards. And if you do get a voter's card, you're absolutely golden. They let you in and let you vote without even making you show your ID to prove that you are who you say you are.
*Do* they now?! I supposed that's why Buchanan denounced the war in Iraq as the product of a Jewish Conspiracy(tm).
Hold on a second. First you accuse the USA of being intolerant of dissent, and then you boast about how the Netherlands don't have a Pat Bunchanan or a Rush Limbaugh?..
Are you under the impression that those two represent the American mainstream? In the Netherlands people with their views would certainly be considered "voices of dissent," so why aren't you willing to be tolerant of them?
Or, wait, was it only left wing voices of dissent we should encourage? Gotcha!
And once you dismiss the possibility of war, you've already lost the war.
Especially keeping in mind their page says they hope to release 1.0.0 by the end of the year 2000.
Yeah, because the Security Council has nothing better to do than vote on resolutions mandating open source. And if you insist on one-sided country bashing, at least learn to spell to country's name.
Oh, please.
If the US federal government or state government tried to do that, it'd be immediately accused of tolatiarianism, spying, and Big Brother behaviour.
And what currently existing OS would that be?
but the folks who gave us Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, the genocide of the First Nation, the CIA-sponsored overthrows of democratically elected governments in various South American states
Yeah, see, here's the thing about democracies. The governments who "gave" you those things are gone, not "still there."
It's amazing how Slashtrolls insist on denying and trivializing the brutality of the Chinese dictatorship by making bizarre analogies to the US. On Slashdot, every enemy of the US is my friend.
I don't know much about cable modems. I have a Terayon. Is that a DOCSIS or not?
Yeah, that's right. All we have are submarines that keep springing leaks and helicopters that keep crumbling into dust.
The speed was never 3 mbps; it was 1.5 at best.
These days, of course, while the advertised speed is still 1.5, I'm lucky to get 800 kbps. Repeated phone calls to Rogers have resulted in absolutely no action, and I'm considering switching to DSL.
Anyone born on US soil is automatically a US citizen.
Legal aliens (permanent residents) can apply for US citizenship once they have lived in the US for 5 years.
In light of all that, I have no idea what "American as apple pie" you're talking about.
Yes, and the average salary in Canada also happens to be lower by almost the same factor.