Why do conbots like free trade and the ability of the most talented to be able to accept the highest paid, most prestigious positions anywhere in the world... except when it's to their political advantage to smear someone for doing exactly that? (Note, I'm not a big fan of Ignatieff, but compared to what we've got, he's several orders of magnitude better.)
For just once I wish these guys could stop slinging mud and do something productive, but this is politics we're talking about.
For just once I wish a conbot would knock it off with the false equivalencies about how murderers and speeders are the same because they both broke a law. (Conbots being the murderers in this analogy, in case you're too intellectually challenged to understand it.)
"A former chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper says last year’s election day robo-calls are of a scale he’s never seen before and warrant a “huge investigation.”
Globe & Mail article about former chief of staff to Harper calling for investigation.
Don't forget, write the Governor General and demand Parliament be dissolved until new election has been held.
If they get the patent they can charge so much for the license that none of the media companies will buy it.
I think the favour they're doing us is thus: making it so onerous to watch TV that people simply turn it off, cancel their cable, and suddenly realize that they don't even miss it.
And now you owe Slashdot double your subscription rate, filthy pirate.
On a more serious note, if someone is already paying for TV, who the fuck thinks they should pay again?
Oh, right, content providers. And, of course, Microsoft (can I say Micro$oft this time, seems appropriate).
I guess I can't complain, being a Linux user with no cable TV (nor any torrents, Hulu, Netflix, etc.) In fact, I can almost chuckle at it and hope it drives more customers away. One can hope...
Contact the Governor General and demand he dissolves Parliament and call new elections.
These Conservatives (party of "Law & Order") have committed several counts of election fraud (In & Out and much more).
Fascinating how they love to claim something along the lines of, "Libruls got a speeding ticket, we committed election fraud, everyone's the same". Like speeders & murderers are somehow equivalent in their law breaking.
Write the Governor General info@gg.ca and demand he dissolve Parliament.
Dunno if he can do it, but it's one of the few non-drastic measures left.
(Fantasizing a bit for next bit here:) Maybe ask a bunch of active service Afghan vets to storm Parliament and arrest Conservatives: a military coup would be preferable to what happened last May 2nd.
Plus the irony of Mr "Support our Troops or you support the Taliban" Harper being arrested for treason by... our troops would be delicious beyond description.
Actually, the military coup, followed by elections within 12 months (should only take 3 months) isn't a bad idea. At least hasty military trials for treason, swiftly followed involuntary Conservative donations to organ transplant programmes would start to right the good ship Canada.
If we can get Liberals and NDP to scream **bloody murder*** together with regular citizens, then it might dawn on those in Ottawa that this will hurt their re-election chances. Just a thought...
Bill C-30 will eventually get passed, some time before the next election.
The clause inside it that allows the ISP "raids" to be performed by anyone designated by the minister is a dead giveaway, in conjunction with the massive election frauds, that it will be used by Conservative hacks to dig dirt on political opponents.
There will be no more free & fair elections for the Conservatives to have to worry about losing. Remember the 2+ years of attack ads against Ignatief? Just wait until they can scour the records of all communications of all their opponents, coupled with planting evidence where none exists and the Cons expect a permanent majority.
Anything less would leave them exposed to prosecution on criminal charges of everything up to treason.
[...] It was the US government's influence which was used to push the Swedish government to step beyond its own laws. And we already know who influences the US government to make them push its influence onto other sovereign nations.
Which, parenthetically, shows why Julian Assange is so unenthusiastic about being extradited back to Sweden.
I never understood this line of reasoning. I mean the UK has shownrepeatedly that it's willing to extradite its own citizens to the US for questionable reasons, why bother going through Sweden?
Not meaning to be a contrarian- but- the ones that crashed the plane instead of letting it be used as a weapon... those were heros.
The vast majority of the victims of 9/11 were innocent victims- not heroes. Why do we call someone a hero for being unfortunate to be killed whilst going innocently about their life. It is a shame. They didn't deserve it. They wern't heroes.
If walking home tonight I get gunned down by a terrorist as I walk along the street- I won't be a hero- I'd be a victim.
While I agree with your post, I don't think the passengers crashed the jet, I think the hijackers simply pressed nose downwards, passengers storming cockpit fall forward, everyone piles up on controls, ensuring no one can pull back on controls to correct the nose-dive; plane crashes.
If the passengers had control of the plane, they wouldn't have crashed it, they'd have tried to land it.
Speculation yes, but likely the only reasonable explanation to a tragic (& terrifying) situation.
tl;dr
The heroes were the passengers that stormed the cockpit.
By "those attack ads" you mean the ones used in Canadian politics since ads were first used?
Liar.
As for pulling records, apparently you have no concept of recent events - vikileaks for instance?
Publicly available court documents are different than, say, your history of surfing for big-strong-daddy-porn.
[...] it seems people are picking a team and demonizing everyone else.
That you be what you con-bots are doing. Remember, a Liberal PM called the inquiry into Liberal Adscam. When's your beloved Dear Leader Harper gonna call an inquiry into his party's election fraud? Waiting... Oh, look, he's blamed a rogue operative just out of college, the Liberals, and now Elections Canada themselves. Pathetic.
Partisan much?
You keep lying if it makes you feel better, but no one but other con-bots believe it anymore. No one.
We just had a major shit-storm in Canada over a government bill (C-30) that would allow the police the right to identifying information without a warrant.
Far worse than that. It allows anyone designated by the minister to this information.
As I posted above, and in light of robo-calls, In & Out scandel, Chuck Cadman bribery offer, etc. ad nauseam, C-30 is to allow Conservative hacks to dig dirt on opposition candidates, to be release during next campaign, ensuring no more free & fair elections and a permanent Conservative majority.
If you thought the attack ads on Ignatief were bad last election (and 2 years preceding it), prepare for it to become permanent.
As an aside, who wants to bet that this is the REAL reason why that spy bill was introduced? Not for the police, but for the music and movie industry?
In light of the robo-call fiasco, among other instances of election fraud committed by Conservatives, and the fact that the "spying bill" allowed for anyone designated by the minister to harvest records from ISPs, I'd be my money on the spying bill being to dig dirt on future opposition candidates to ensure there will never be another free & fair election again.
Imagine a bunch of conbot hacks pulling records on Liberal & NDP candidates and releasing anything remotely unsavoury about them during the next election campaign. Those attack ads worked last time; we ain't seen nothing yet.
Canada has suffered a coup, though so far I'm the only one I'm aware of that phrases it that way.
At one time, a writer in this industry could write a book and receive roughly 6% royalties on sales. The salesperson who sold the product, however, earned (and still does) a commission upwards of 17% on the same product. This sort of pay structure never made sense to me; without the product, there’d be nothing to sell, after all. But this disparity serves to illustrate the thinking that has been entrenched industry-wide for decades—that sales and marketing is more valuable than product.
Emphasis added by yours truly.
I think that one paragraph sums up so many problems with the world today.
Heck even Professor Muller, a noted Co2 Climate Doomsday Rapturist, says that he'll never read another paper from Mann et al. again since they can't do what they did in science, it's not acceptable.
So get your brain out of your politicized hole in the ground and wake up.
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Another shameless plug from a satisfied customer on the other side of the pond.
Wind Mobile has/had a plan that I signed on with: Cdn $40/m for unlimited talk & text North America wide(!), unlimited global SMS, and unlimited internet (with a fair-use policy, which throttles after about 5 GB/m, which is fair), also allows tethering. No contracts, free Android phone (Huawei 8600(?)) on their "WindTab" where they knock off 10% of monthly bill from the retail price after each bill is paid - terminating service requires paying off balance of phone. Also, after 3 months service, they provide the unlock code for free (network unlock).
I can't help but think that your Hutchison provider will eventually stop giving unlimited internet connections: 6 GB per day is extraordinary!
All in all, seems some good providers out there, if one looks hard enough (and is not locked into a multi-year contract with another provider).
I would like to know the same thing. This seems to be systemic. Is there something inherently confusing or flawed in the way Microsoft approaches elapsed-time calculations? Is it due to the internal representation of time that they use, or is there some reason that developers on their platform are doing calculations using date strings, or is it something else?
I wonder if it is related to the fact that MS systems apparently store the system time in local time instead of UTC?
At least, that's my understanding of how they store it, could be wrong.
I don't know anyone that runs that shit, my windows loving and windows certified engineer friends couldn't get off that crap to win 7 fast enough. I have banking clients that standardized on vista long-term as part of their strategic plan, and made the unprecedented step of taking the effort to recertify all the apps for win 7, the vista suckage was so very hard and deep
My then-new PC came with Vista and yes, the suckage was intense. But SP1 fixed all that, made it workable.
I still switched to Linux at that time, haven't gone back. Have played with Win7 in a VirtualBox and it feels just like Vista, maybe SP2.
So what is it that makes 7 superior to Vista? The joke at the time was 7 was just a new service pack on Vista, and that's very likely true considering how long it took for Vista to be prepared for general release.
Actually when I'm topping off my gas tank which is usually 50km away in another city I'm feeling raped as I pay 1.11/l
This story is about a guy facing the death penalty for an exquisitely poetic tweet, and you're complaining about feeling raped because a litre of gasoline costs a bit more than a can of coke.
I think a sense of perspective adjustment is in order.
while if I was to fill up in my city I'd be paying $1.28/l Oh and best part is coming up next month while the city 50km away is gonna still be $1.11 my city will be $.02 more per L as a new tax to support a failing corporation (Translink) comes in.
Yeah Translink sucks, but at least you don't have to offer up your children to the military in (yet) another war for oil in order to save a few cents per litre on fuel.
I am not even sure what the point of your comment was outside of a thinly veiled stab at a political movement that you obviously disagree with.
Quite the contrary. I strongly support the idea of fighting corporatocracy. But if the movement is ever going to achieve anything it's going to have to be much more CONSISTENT and MAINSTREAM.
So, have you shown up to add mainstream credibility?
Consistent means that selected corps like Apple and Democratic politicians don't get free passes.
I kinda despise Apple's attitude, but what phone is not made in China under dubious conditions? I bought a cheap (Android) phone, and plan on not replacing it for as long as possible. Same with my computers, I keep them as long as possible so as to not support the manufacturing conditions and electronic waste that the replacement cycle encourages.
Also, seems to me the Occupy movement has decidedly not taken the side of the Democrats. You sure you're not arguing against strawmen in your head?
Mainstream means that the movement has to be more than just the standard hippie and drum-circle crowd (and no hippies guarding the gates with a "We don't want to let in any poseurs who don't even own a hemp shirt" attitude).
You keep banging that "hemp shirts and drum circle" drum, pardon the pun, but they're free to protest too. And if you won't go out there and be part of the mainstream protesters, you'd serve your supposed allegiance to anti corporate abuse better by just shutting up about the whole thing. Or is it just the "professional protesting hippies in hemp shirts" that should shut up?
Voice recognition isn't really as do-able on the device
I really don't buy this. I had a reasonable voice recognition program on my 66mhz IBM Aptiva running Windows 3.1 (8mb of ram, it was awesome at the time.)
Now you're getting me nostalgic for OS/2 back... hell seems like a century ago.
It required training, but that didn't take more than 20 or 30 minutes, iirc.
The only reason I can see to run voice recognition online instead of off is to avoid the training phase. I'm really surprised that we don't see more offline voice recognition software; even older handsets should be more than capable!
I think you've nailed it: the training phase. 100,000,000 phones * 0.5 hours training = a butt-load of time. Get a new device? Go through training... again.
Another angle is probably the service providers are likely interested in what is being said for data mining purposes. Can't say I blame them really.
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the Liberals are .. well the liberals, but their last leader didn't do them any favours with his here again, back to america tomorrow antics.
Fucking liar. Ignatieff accepted a position at U of Toronto.
Why do conbots like free trade and the ability of the most talented to be able to accept the highest paid, most prestigious positions anywhere in the world... except when it's to their political advantage to smear someone for doing exactly that? (Note, I'm not a big fan of Ignatieff, but compared to what we've got, he's several orders of magnitude better.)
For just once I wish these guys could stop slinging mud and do something productive, but this is politics we're talking about.
For just once I wish a conbot would knock it off with the false equivalencies about how murderers and speeders are the same because they both broke a law. (Conbots being the murderers in this analogy, in case you're too intellectually challenged to understand it.)
Globe & Mail article about former chief of staff to Harper calling for investigation.
Don't forget, write the Governor General and demand Parliament be dissolved until new election has been held.
If they get the patent they can charge so much for the license that none of the media companies will buy it.
I think the favour they're doing us is thus: making it so onerous to watch TV that people simply turn it off, cancel their cable, and suddenly realize that they don't even miss it.
I skipped this article.
And now you owe Slashdot double your subscription rate, filthy pirate.
On a more serious note, if someone is already paying for TV, who the fuck thinks they should pay again?
Oh, right, content providers. And, of course, Microsoft (can I say Micro$oft this time, seems appropriate).
I guess I can't complain, being a Linux user with no cable TV (nor any torrents, Hulu, Netflix, etc.) In fact, I can almost chuckle at it and hope it drives more customers away. One can hope...
Contact the Governor General and demand he dissolves Parliament and call new elections.
These Conservatives (party of "Law & Order") have committed several counts of election fraud (In & Out and much more).
Fascinating how they love to claim something along the lines of, "Libruls got a speeding ticket, we committed election fraud, everyone's the same". Like speeders & murderers are somehow equivalent in their law breaking.
What the frig else should I do?
Write the Governor General info@gg.ca and demand he dissolve Parliament.
Dunno if he can do it, but it's one of the few non-drastic measures left.
(Fantasizing a bit for next bit here:)
Maybe ask a bunch of active service Afghan vets to storm Parliament and arrest Conservatives: a military coup would be preferable to what happened last May 2nd.
Plus the irony of Mr "Support our Troops or you support the Taliban" Harper being arrested for treason by... our troops would be delicious beyond description.
Actually, the military coup, followed by elections within 12 months (should only take 3 months) isn't a bad idea. At least hasty military trials for treason, swiftly followed involuntary Conservative donations to organ transplant programmes would start to right the good ship Canada.
Good gawd, how low we've sunk!
If we can get Liberals and NDP to scream **bloody murder*** together with regular citizens, then it might dawn on those in Ottawa that this will hurt their re-election chances. Just a thought ...
Bill C-30 will eventually get passed, some time before the next election.
The clause inside it that allows the ISP "raids" to be performed by anyone designated by the minister is a dead giveaway, in conjunction with the massive election frauds, that it will be used by Conservative hacks to dig dirt on political opponents.
There will be no more free & fair elections for the Conservatives to have to worry about losing. Remember the 2+ years of attack ads against Ignatief? Just wait until they can scour the records of all communications of all their opponents, coupled with planting evidence where none exists and the Cons expect a permanent majority.
Anything less would leave them exposed to prosecution on criminal charges of everything up to treason.
[...] It was the US government's influence which was used to push the Swedish government to step beyond its own laws. And we already know who influences the US government to make them push its influence onto other sovereign nations.
Which, parenthetically, shows why Julian Assange is so unenthusiastic about being extradited back to Sweden.
I never understood this line of reasoning. I mean the UK has shown repeatedly that it's willing to extradite its own citizens to the US for questionable reasons, why bother going through Sweden?
Not meaning to be a contrarian- but- the ones that crashed the plane instead of letting it be used as a weapon... those were heros.
The vast majority of the victims of 9/11 were innocent victims- not heroes. Why do we call someone a hero for being unfortunate to be killed whilst going innocently about their life. It is a shame. They didn't deserve it. They wern't heroes.
If walking home tonight I get gunned down by a terrorist as I walk along the street- I won't be a hero- I'd be a victim.
While I agree with your post, I don't think the passengers crashed the jet, I think the hijackers simply pressed nose downwards, passengers storming cockpit fall forward, everyone piles up on controls, ensuring no one can pull back on controls to correct the nose-dive; plane crashes.
If the passengers had control of the plane, they wouldn't have crashed it, they'd have tried to land it.
Speculation yes, but likely the only reasonable explanation to a tragic (& terrifying) situation.
tl;dr
The heroes were the passengers that stormed the cockpit.
Cheers
By "those attack ads" you mean the ones used in Canadian politics since ads were first used?
Liar.
As for pulling records, apparently you have no concept of recent events - vikileaks for instance?
Publicly available court documents are different than, say, your history of surfing for big-strong-daddy-porn.
[...] it seems people are picking a team and demonizing everyone else.
That you be what you con-bots are doing. Remember, a Liberal PM called the inquiry into Liberal Adscam. When's your beloved Dear Leader Harper gonna call an inquiry into his party's election fraud? Waiting... Oh, look, he's blamed a rogue operative just out of college, the Liberals, and now Elections Canada themselves. Pathetic.
Partisan much?
You keep lying if it makes you feel better, but no one but other con-bots believe it anymore. No one.
We just had a major shit-storm in Canada over a government bill (C-30) that would allow the police the right to identifying information without a warrant.
Far worse than that. It allows anyone designated by the minister to this information.
As I posted above, and in light of robo-calls, In & Out scandel, Chuck Cadman bribery offer, etc. ad nauseam, C-30 is to allow Conservative hacks to dig dirt on opposition candidates, to be release during next campaign, ensuring no more free & fair elections and a permanent Conservative majority.
If you thought the attack ads on Ignatief were bad last election (and 2 years preceding it), prepare for it to become permanent.
As an aside, who wants to bet that this is the REAL reason why that spy bill was introduced? Not for the police, but for the music and movie industry?
In light of the robo-call fiasco, among other instances of election fraud committed by Conservatives, and the fact that the "spying bill" allowed for anyone designated by the minister to harvest records from ISPs, I'd be my money on the spying bill being to dig dirt on future opposition candidates to ensure there will never be another free & fair election again.
Imagine a bunch of conbot hacks pulling records on Liberal & NDP candidates and releasing anything remotely unsavoury about them during the next election campaign. Those attack ads worked last time; we ain't seen nothing yet.
Canada has suffered a coup, though so far I'm the only one I'm aware of that phrases it that way.
[...] something with a cool new name like "WoPo" with a bunch of exclamation points after it, maybe some asterisks in there too--[...]
Surely a slash and some dots would be helpful?
Carry a live-VD
I've got a live-VD that I'm just itching to share if anyone's interested.
Anyone? Hello? Is this thing on?
Emphasis added by yours truly.
I think that one paragraph sums up so many problems with the world today.
Heck even Professor Muller, a noted Co2 Climate Doomsday Rapturist, says that he'll never read another paper from Mann et al. again since they can't do what they did in science, it's not acceptable.
So get your brain out of your politicized hole in the ground and wake up.
The irony is mind-boggling.
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Another shameless plug from a satisfied customer on the other side of the pond.
Wind Mobile has/had a plan that I signed on with: Cdn $40/m for unlimited talk & text North America wide(!), unlimited global SMS, and unlimited internet (with a fair-use policy, which throttles after about 5 GB/m, which is fair), also allows tethering. No contracts, free Android phone (Huawei 8600(?)) on their "WindTab" where they knock off 10% of monthly bill from the retail price after each bill is paid - terminating service requires paying off balance of phone. Also, after 3 months service, they provide the unlock code for free (network unlock).
I can't help but think that your Hutchison provider will eventually stop giving unlimited internet connections: 6 GB per day is extraordinary!
All in all, seems some good providers out there, if one looks hard enough (and is not locked into a multi-year contract with another provider).
Someone else builds a space station and uses the stolen algorithms to control it? Oh No! IP violations!
Then the RIAA & MPIA bring their full influence to bear on the US Government and next thing we all know, it's WWIII.
Yes, IP violations *are* the worse thing in the whole history of forevar .
At least according to the current way of thinking in some parts...
I would like to know the same thing. This seems to be systemic. Is there something inherently confusing or flawed in the way Microsoft approaches elapsed-time calculations? Is it due to the internal representation of time that they use, or is there some reason that developers on their platform are doing calculations using date strings, or is it something else?
I wonder if it is related to the fact that MS systems apparently store the system time in local time instead of UTC?
At least, that's my understanding of how they store it, could be wrong.
I don't know anyone that runs that shit, my windows loving and windows certified engineer friends couldn't get off that crap to win 7 fast enough. I have banking clients that standardized on vista long-term as part of their strategic plan, and made the unprecedented step of taking the effort to recertify all the apps for win 7, the vista suckage was so very hard and deep
My then-new PC came with Vista and yes, the suckage was intense. But SP1 fixed all that, made it workable.
I still switched to Linux at that time, haven't gone back. Have played with Win7 in a VirtualBox and it feels just like Vista, maybe SP2.
So what is it that makes 7 superior to Vista? The joke at the time was 7 was just a new service pack on Vista, and that's very likely true considering how long it took for Vista to be prepared for general release.
What is the point of this long rambling nonsense exactly?
Apparently some people are proud of their stupidity.
It's becoming an alarming trend: see recent AAAS conference, for example.
Actually when I'm topping off my gas tank which is usually 50km away in another city I'm feeling raped as I pay 1.11/l
This story is about a guy facing the death penalty for an exquisitely poetic tweet, and you're complaining about feeling raped because a litre of gasoline costs a bit more than a can of coke.
I think a sense of perspective adjustment is in order.
while if I was to fill up in my city I'd be paying $1.28/l Oh and best part is coming up next month while the city 50km away is gonna still be $1.11 my city will be $.02 more per L as a new tax to support a failing corporation (Translink) comes in.
Yeah Translink sucks, but at least you don't have to offer up your children to the military in (yet) another war for oil in order to save a few cents per litre on fuel.
How about;
static.ak.fbcdn.net
apis.google.com
platform.twitter.com
and google-analytics.com ?
Use Ghostery add-on (Firefox & Chromium), perhaps with RequestPolicy Firefox add-on.
Unrelated but I can't stand browsing without EasyGestures add-on for Firefox...
I am not even sure what the point of your comment was outside of a thinly veiled stab at a political movement that you obviously disagree with.
Quite the contrary. I strongly support the idea of fighting corporatocracy. But if the movement is ever going to achieve anything it's going to have to be much more CONSISTENT and MAINSTREAM.
So, have you shown up to add mainstream credibility?
Consistent means that selected corps like Apple and Democratic politicians don't get free passes.
I kinda despise Apple's attitude, but what phone is not made in China under dubious conditions? I bought a cheap (Android) phone, and plan on not replacing it for as long as possible. Same with my computers, I keep them as long as possible so as to not support the manufacturing conditions and electronic waste that the replacement cycle encourages.
Also, seems to me the Occupy movement has decidedly not taken the side of the Democrats. You sure you're not arguing against strawmen in your head?
Mainstream means that the movement has to be more than just the standard hippie and drum-circle crowd (and no hippies guarding the gates with a "We don't want to let in any poseurs who don't even own a hemp shirt" attitude).
You keep banging that "hemp shirts and drum circle" drum, pardon the pun, but they're free to protest too. And if you won't go out there and be part of the mainstream protesters, you'd serve your supposed allegiance to anti corporate abuse better by just shutting up about the whole thing. Or is it just the "professional protesting hippies in hemp shirts" that should shut up?
Voice recognition isn't really as do-able on the device
I really don't buy this. I had a reasonable voice recognition program on my 66mhz IBM Aptiva running Windows 3.1 (8mb of ram, it was awesome at the time.)
Now you're getting me nostalgic for OS/2 back... hell seems like a century ago.
It required training, but that didn't take more than 20 or 30 minutes, iirc.
The only reason I can see to run voice recognition online instead of off is to avoid the training phase. I'm really surprised that we don't see more offline voice recognition software; even older handsets should be more than capable!
I think you've nailed it: the training phase. 100,000,000 phones * 0.5 hours training = a butt-load of time. Get a new device? Go through training ... again.
Another angle is probably the service providers are likely interested in what is being said for data mining purposes. Can't say I blame them really.