I was thinking exactly the same thing. You put your stuff on somebody else's machine, in an environment that is by design exposed to the wild, wild Internet, and better yet the server URIs are advertised to the world because it is your hosts business model to advertise where the documents are (who could use them if they couldn't find them)... If people want to trust others with their important documents in that sort of a model, then it is business Darwinianism if critical documentation are leaked. And another thing, who knows if their personnel look through peoples documents for a laugh or just being nosey. Heck, government employees risk getting fired looking up personal data of prominent people when they run for office. If government employees will do that, why wouldn't people in data centres.
Personally, I don't trust any of my documents to others to take care of. I like my stuff behind firewalls and not sitting directly on the on ramp to the Internet (had to get a car metaphor in somewhere). Mind you, I think this type of model will continue at least for a while if not forever, no matter what happens. People growing up now-a-days don't think as much about what personal information they post on the Internet, why would they care if their personal documents are managed by someone else that they don't know (other than a corporate logo).
I know, but the government of Canada's web site it really hard to use. I don't usually ask for links.... but normally I can't find squat on their web site. I figured the OP would have a direct link there and prevent me from spending an unsuccessful hour looking on.gc.
Big 10-4 on the gc sites. What bugs me is that they spent a ton of our money on it and even the best laid out department sites aren't useful. But maybe the various department mandarins want it that way to create job security. The bureaucrats have a long history of obfuscating anything and everything to make their jobs indispensable. Have to stop now... this could turn into a full fledged mega-rant.
Interesting, is that Canadian legislation? If so, do you have a link to in on any of the '.gc' sites? I would like to be able to link some web pages to it.
I spent the last couple years and a bit in the late 90s constantly travelling, putting on close to 200,000 air miles per year (without air mile bonuses) while implementing enterprise apps on a few continents. I was away at least 75% of the time. Then from 2000 to 2005 I travelled around 25% to 30% of the time, and nearly 100% of the time in 2005 and half of 2006 (home on weekends). Sounds GREAT doesn't it? I now try to travel as little as possible. The last couple of gigs including where I am at now, I made sure that travel is minimal (and will do that from now on). I do still travel, but nothing like before and mostly only for personal reasons. Otherwise I really don't want to do it. My current job tried to get me up for doing some work in the UK (I'm in the Toronto area), but I didn't bite... in fact I spit out the hook:).
I was walking through an airport after a loooong day of travelling a few years ago, and I actually forgot what airport I was in for a minute... they all look the same after a while (the funny thing is that while I do remember the incident where I forgot, I can't remember now where I was when I was forgetting.:-D ). And all the hotel rooms look the same after a while, too. And the restaurant food, etc etc etc. They all blur together. Talking to others who travel or travelled a lot, many say they get the same way. Anyway, after I gave my head a shake and told myself that I was in Seattle, that was when I said "I don't care if I ever travel again for work."
It sounds great, but after a while it is a pain in the ass. Some places you don't get to see much because you're trying to get your work done to get home, others you may be able to enjoy evenings and sometimes stay over a weekend. But now... people ask me where I am going for my vacations. I always tell them I'm staying home. Travelling for work looses its shine very quickly. But because it has a certain allure, it will definitely be one of those experiences you will have to learn from yourself... i.e. this is one time that for sure people won't learn from the experiences of others.:)
Oh man is that funny... wooooo hooooo... oh my God I am dying, my sides are splitting I can't stop laughing.... come on folks mod this guy funny... come on! What? Huh? He's not being sarcastic? That's not satire? Oops, boy am I embarrassed. I would have thought anything so Limbaugh-esqe couldn't possibly be... never mind. Sorry sorry sorry, never mind....
Me, I'm not going to worry. I'll stay on ext3 for a good while yet... if this really is a problem, it is a self correcting one from my stand point. You see, if a large number of people move their data onto ext4 formatted drives and then lose their data because of system crashes that normally would not have caused data loss on ext3... then they will eventually move back to ext3 and ext4 will dry up and blow away (the old computer adage about people not complaining about really bad software is true here too... you won't hear anything about the bad software because people will just stop using it entirely and use something that does work). Or the developers will eat crow and fix the issues with ext4. Or nothing will happen, the sky won't fall, and everyone will love their new ext4. I'm wearing a hard hat while I wait.
It's why I moved back to Canada and decided not to work in the U.S. again, even though I have had a number of calls and offers to come back in the short time I have been away (even in this recession). It leaves me feeling a bit down since I really liked living there in Saint Louis; the first city I have really been home sick over. It drove me crazy that it was such a pain in the ass to get a green card even though I spent all told 7 years there on work visas. I kept my nose clean, at worst I got two parking tickets which I paid, and contributed time and money to a local non profit group that tries to take care of various issues the old blues musicians in town run into (the one's who are poor because of the way they were ripped off on royalties by the same recording companies trying to sue single mothers). Meanwhile I keep hearing how congress wants to grant immunity and green cards to all those who have been living there for more than a couple of years illegally.
Another thing, many Americans don't realize that working on many/most of the various work visas means you have a month to back up and get out of America if your job ends, something that does kind of wear on you after a while... especially in a slowing economy. That is, knowing you might have to not only look for new work if your job ends, but also new work in a different country while still being away (not as easy as if you are there), and finding a new home in a different country and all the moving issues around that. I left the middle of last year from the U.S. (I quit, I didn't get laid off) because of all of those kinds of issues.
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." maybe that is more true than I thought. If I am not poor or longing to be free, if I don't need welfare or government assistance, maybe that's the reason it is so hard to get a green card if you are a computer professional. I should have applied for welfare. Ha! That's it! If I ever do go back to work in the U.S. I'll swim across the border... that way I might have a better chance of getting a green card. When the economy goes south, you want to keep the good minds since they are the ones most likely to help you get it back on the road. The reverse brain drain is a case of the U.S. having its cake and finding out what it's like to want to eat it too.
Hey fan boy... sorry to burst your bubble, but opt out types of transactions especially when they don't let you opt out... e.g. you can't uninstall them. Java and MS.net installed unadvertised software... that is the Mozilla add on. Mozilla allows them to use a feature of Mozilla to prevent people from uninstalling an add on, even if it was not installed with the users knowledge. I know that is a fine point for you to grasp, but Mozilla is complicit in this due to their negligence... negligence since they obviously know this situation exists. And instead of helping users of their product, they blow them off by saying "talk to the people who installed stuff on your machine that was not advertised as part of their update". Something like a cop telling saying to you, "what do you expect me to do, go ask the thief to give back your money." People want Mozilla to modify the add on mechanism to allow any add on to be removed so this situation doesn't happen again. But if you don't think this is an issue, lend me your PC for a few hours, I promise I'll only install useful stuff... I'll even tell you what I'm installing... and I promise I won't install anything else with enough hooks to make it difficult to uninstall, and impossible to uninstall if you are an average user. Give me break.
Sure, use Mozilla Firefox so that you can avoid proprietary browsers that may exploit their users by forcing them to install or use services that we don't want. Or even install plugins and such without telling you! [look of utmost shock and horror] Those horrible proprietary browser makers!! [/look of utmost shock and horror] Imagine... oh those horrible vendors. Just imagine them installing plugins to your browser that could compromise your security... impact your system's performance... possibly open up your personal information to being 'borrowed' etc. etc. etc. And they don't even tell you or give you a way to uninstall them! Sheesh, or just the nerve installing something without telling you... the nerve! That would be like malware! BUT... if you use our super slick browser, Firefox, you can avoid all that. WE won't do that!
Yes folks, use Firefox since we aren't some big proprietary company and we won't do that. We won't install addons or plugins without your knowledge and especially without you being able to uninstall them. We are Mozilla: open source and secure and all for your rights online! But what the heck, we won't stop the big proprietary companies from installing stuff on your machine without you knowing or being able to uninstall it. That just wouldn't be right! It would be like stepping on THEIR rights. And heck, it's only YOUR machine, what the hell do we care?
It's not like we got our market share with your help by advertising ourselves as the browser that is more secure and better able to prevent malware from installing on your system. Next time don't install any Sun Java updates and stop bugging us about your problems... we have better things to do than making it easy to uninstall unwanted addons snuck in with seemingly benign updates... like coming up with cooler Mozilla home pages telling everyone how cool we are.
It was only a matter of time after Mozilla was incorporated that this type of thinking was bound to take root there.
What is worse is that in Canada, many of the descendants of people who arrived here from roughly 75 to 300 years ago (the now politically correct WASPS) seem to think that the government should be the entity to 'keep the culture' when in fact the culture is kept by the people whether they know it or not. So now Canada has a culture of legislated political correctness complete with the mind police and 'hate crimes' breeding smug narrow minded people content that "we are fighting off the evil American empire"... who happen to be our biggest trading partner and without whose business we would be broke and not able to afford to hold the collective nose up at American culture. This kind of system crossed with peanut butter gives you the taste of shit stuck to the roof of you mouth. A good culture is dynamic and stands on its own two feet. Standing it on a bureaucracy is like adding an odd weighted third leg shoved up our collective ass.
Ah well... My brother once told me after I got reamed by a Canadian border guard on returning to my own country ("where are you going?", "what are you going to do?"... like he can deport me if he doesn't like the answer)... they are bureaucrats, you don't want them to think, it is beyond them. They are supposed to follow rules.
After moving back to Ontario after nearly 25 years away I am stunned by the Napoleon complex it has toward the United States. The War of 1812 ended almost 200 years ago, get over it.:/
Then fuck you and the horse you rode in on. I don't need some government functionary telling me what I should and should not be watching. You tell me it is to save Canada's identity. What is the difference between that and the Quebec Language Police (don't laugh, they are real) who will fine and drive a company out of business in Quebec if they have the unbelievable gall to put English or any non-French word over their store front even if their clients are non-french! In a bilingual country! (This is real... if you cater to a German or Italian clientele, you can't put German or Italian... or English even... on your signs or you will receive hefty fines, and repeated 'offenses' can result in the seizure of your store/business... this went to the world court where Quebec lost and this was named a human rights violation which they ignored and continued to do anyway.)How is telling me what I can watch on TV on public airwaves any different than what the Quebec government does with their Language Police. It is after all in the name of preserving their French culture. Even if it is committing human rights violations, telling me or my kids what language I can put on my store, or what language they use in the playground at recess? There is no difference. It is censorship and a power trip by you, the mind police. Fuck off and die.
If I want to watch 6 channels of HBO (not this bullshit 'HBO Canada' that you so graciously grant us) then I should be able to watch it. Instead you ban me from watching HBO in Canada, and bar me from buying satellite TV from an American firm. Dishnetwork is made Illegal in Canada by the CRTC because their Mind Police don't want us poor Canadians to be overly influenced by American TV. Hey Mind Police: blow me. If I want to immerse myself in pure Americana television then piss off and let me. If I want to watch wall to wall BBC then go blow water buffaloes if you don't like it. If Canadian television were worth watching, I would watch it. But stop forcing me to pay for productions of that pathetic fucking Royal Canadian Air Fucking Farse. The worst shit on TV and we have to pay for it on government funded C fucking BC TV.
And this is such a joke anyway when Canadians continually subvert themselves. It is rich when it is the non Christian immigrants to Canada who complain the most when that Jewish Woman judge insisted on removing a Christmas tree from a Toronto court house at Christmas time because it was offensive to non Christians. What the fuck? Thanks God for the non Christian immigrants who had the temerity to tell people how stupid that was. It was their influence that had a lot to do with bringing the tree back in to show that some small part of the country was celebrating a special day (what? you mean Canada was founded by Christians and it is a mostly Christian society, and many people who came here realized that and saw how stupid it was for us to have our way of life and faith stomped on?... well never mind then!). How ridiculous that the Ontario government actually considered allowing Sharia law for Muslims in family courts. Want to keep a Canadian identity? Then straighten out that kind of bullshit thinking first. Never mind keeping the functioning of the courts and their decisions secular, but Sharia... holy fuck!?
Dude, keep the Canadian Roadblock To Communications the hell out of my life. You all ought to be shot and pissed on. The CRTC: a monument to censorship and back room deals to cable companies, big telecoms, and the RIAA. Good riddance to you.
Most of the (US) market never had a choice. Get the hint? This is NOT a free market at work and your arguments make no sense.
People are free to use Linux if they want to. Very few want to. If you think it is MS stopping them you are clueless. People will use whatever is easiest to do what they want to do. Linux is not easy. Don't get your feelings hurt by that. I'm just saying that because MS does something else draconian doesn't mean people will come flocking to Linux. They won't until the balance has tipped that Linux is easier to use than MS. And until all the basic functionality that people want in their system is there AND easy to use they won't change.
I just installed Fedora Core 10 on a spare box with a bc4306 wireless card, and after screwing around for a few hours hooked up an RJ45 to the back because it was just too much a pain in the ass to get wireless to work on it. I would have tried Ubuntu but its support for SATA RAID sucks. I work with Linux and Unix for my job, but don't have to worry about user interface because it is mostly command line there. But at home I want a GUI thank you very much. I also want it to just work. I work on computer systems during the day... when I want to use my machine at night I don't want to 'work' on it. I wish it were the case that this will drive people to Linux but it won't until it just works, including every day things that are done very easily on Windows like setting up SATA RAID and wireless. No blaming vendors or users... it just needs to work. If anything, it will drive people to Apple who in my opinion aren't any better than Microsoft when it comes to 'lock in' and DRM shite. Fist the things in Linux that should be easy and people will use it. Otherwise they won't. No, I don't want to fix it. I don't need to fix it. I am willing to pay for MS Windows if I need something to work. I don't rip CDs or other crap so this won't bother me. I'm just tired of hearing how MS does something else that is bad and of course this will drive people to Linux. No it won't. It will never drive people to Linux until Linux works as easily as Windows does. And don't get in a huff over this, the proof is in the pudding. People ignore programs that are hard to use and use programs that are easy or easier to use. Most of the market uses MS. Get the hint?
I bought a satellite radio when after driving through Washington State and Idaho having only God Squad Radio to listen to, and those stations fading every 50 miles, and 2500 more miles of that to go... I stopped in Salt Lake City and bought Sirius. I have been very happy with it ever since. I go on long trips now and then, and even the shorter trips can span multiple cities crossing countryside. No 3G anywhere out there. Honestly, grow up and check your horizons. So what if you only know the suburbs, others out here actually go outside. 3G is not everywhere. Besides, I and I know others too, like to listen to more than just music. There are good talk radio stations on Sirius too. We aren't relegated to just Jesus Loves You Talk Back and Rush Limbaugh if driving through the right wing farm belt. We can listen to NPR OR Rush OR (choke) CNN if we want. Or comedy, or Stern, or whatever. I like music as much as then next guy, but I like to hear the news and weather too. Go for a road trip and you'll get it... eventually... if the trip is more than just to 711 for Doritos.
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I was thinking exactly the same thing. You put your stuff on somebody else's machine, in an environment that is by design exposed to the wild, wild Internet, and better yet the server URIs are advertised to the world because it is your hosts business model to advertise where the documents are (who could use them if they couldn't find them)... If people want to trust others with their important documents in that sort of a model, then it is business Darwinianism if critical documentation are leaked. And another thing, who knows if their personnel look through peoples documents for a laugh or just being nosey. Heck, government employees risk getting fired looking up personal data of prominent people when they run for office. If government employees will do that, why wouldn't people in data centres.
Personally, I don't trust any of my documents to others to take care of. I like my stuff behind firewalls and not sitting directly on the on ramp to the Internet (had to get a car metaphor in somewhere). Mind you, I think this type of model will continue at least for a while if not forever, no matter what happens. People growing up now-a-days don't think as much about what personal information they post on the Internet, why would they care if their personal documents are managed by someone else that they don't know (other than a corporate logo).
I know, but the government of Canada's web site it really hard to use. I don't usually ask for links.... but normally I can't find squat on their web site. I figured the OP would have a direct link there and prevent me from spending an unsuccessful hour looking on .gc.
Big 10-4 on the gc sites. What bugs me is that they spent a ton of our money on it and even the best laid out department sites aren't useful. But maybe the various department mandarins want it that way to create job security. The bureaucrats have a long history of obfuscating anything and everything to make their jobs indispensable. Have to stop now... this could turn into a full fledged mega-rant.
Thanks BTW.
Interesting, is that Canadian legislation? If so, do you have a link to in on any of the '.gc' sites? I would like to be able to link some web pages to it.
KEI USTR FOIA ACTA... WTF
Only stopped at this article long enough to post this... can't be bothered with indecipherable shite.
I will once you grow up and stop acting like a raving programmed lunatic.
I spent the last couple years and a bit in the late 90s constantly travelling, putting on close to 200,000 air miles per year (without air mile bonuses) while implementing enterprise apps on a few continents. I was away at least 75% of the time. Then from 2000 to 2005 I travelled around 25% to 30% of the time, and nearly 100% of the time in 2005 and half of 2006 (home on weekends). Sounds GREAT doesn't it? I now try to travel as little as possible. The last couple of gigs including where I am at now, I made sure that travel is minimal (and will do that from now on). I do still travel, but nothing like before and mostly only for personal reasons. Otherwise I really don't want to do it. My current job tried to get me up for doing some work in the UK (I'm in the Toronto area), but I didn't bite... in fact I spit out the hook :) .
I was walking through an airport after a loooong day of travelling a few years ago, and I actually forgot what airport I was in for a minute... they all look the same after a while (the funny thing is that while I do remember the incident where I forgot, I can't remember now where I was when I was forgetting. :-D ). And all the hotel rooms look the same after a while, too. And the restaurant food, etc etc etc. They all blur together. Talking to others who travel or travelled a lot, many say they get the same way. Anyway, after I gave my head a shake and told myself that I was in Seattle, that was when I said "I don't care if I ever travel again for work."
It sounds great, but after a while it is a pain in the ass. Some places you don't get to see much because you're trying to get your work done to get home, others you may be able to enjoy evenings and sometimes stay over a weekend. But now... people ask me where I am going for my vacations. I always tell them I'm staying home. Travelling for work looses its shine very quickly. But because it has a certain allure, it will definitely be one of those experiences you will have to learn from yourself... i.e. this is one time that for sure people won't learn from the experiences of others. :)
Oh man is that funny... wooooo hooooo ... oh my God I am dying, my sides are splitting I can't stop laughing.... come on folks mod this guy funny... come on! What? Huh? He's not being sarcastic? That's not satire? Oops, boy am I embarrassed. I would have thought anything so Limbaugh-esqe couldn't possibly be... never mind. Sorry sorry sorry, never mind....
More like Optimal Distribution of Ass to all the bull queers in a...
Me, I'm not going to worry. I'll stay on ext3 for a good while yet... if this really is a problem, it is a self correcting one from my stand point. You see, if a large number of people move their data onto ext4 formatted drives and then lose their data because of system crashes that normally would not have caused data loss on ext3... then they will eventually move back to ext3 and ext4 will dry up and blow away (the old computer adage about people not complaining about really bad software is true here too... you won't hear anything about the bad software because people will just stop using it entirely and use something that does work). Or the developers will eat crow and fix the issues with ext4. Or nothing will happen, the sky won't fall, and everyone will love their new ext4. I'm wearing a hard hat while I wait.
Holy crap... this is like, "Whoooosh!!!" AND "good analogy," at the same time.
McCaffee says it is a dangerous site and Nortonsays it's safe. Go figure.
No no no YOUR comment shows YOUR ignorance.
It's why I moved back to Canada and decided not to work in the U.S. again, even though I have had a number of calls and offers to come back in the short time I have been away (even in this recession). It leaves me feeling a bit down since I really liked living there in Saint Louis; the first city I have really been home sick over. It drove me crazy that it was such a pain in the ass to get a green card even though I spent all told 7 years there on work visas. I kept my nose clean, at worst I got two parking tickets which I paid, and contributed time and money to a local non profit group that tries to take care of various issues the old blues musicians in town run into (the one's who are poor because of the way they were ripped off on royalties by the same recording companies trying to sue single mothers). Meanwhile I keep hearing how congress wants to grant immunity and green cards to all those who have been living there for more than a couple of years illegally.
Another thing, many Americans don't realize that working on many/most of the various work visas means you have a month to back up and get out of America if your job ends, something that does kind of wear on you after a while... especially in a slowing economy. That is, knowing you might have to not only look for new work if your job ends, but also new work in a different country while still being away (not as easy as if you are there), and finding a new home in a different country and all the moving issues around that. I left the middle of last year from the U.S. (I quit, I didn't get laid off) because of all of those kinds of issues.
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." maybe that is more true than I thought. If I am not poor or longing to be free, if I don't need welfare or government assistance, maybe that's the reason it is so hard to get a green card if you are a computer professional. I should have applied for welfare. Ha! That's it! If I ever do go back to work in the U.S. I'll swim across the border... that way I might have a better chance of getting a green card. When the economy goes south, you want to keep the good minds since they are the ones most likely to help you get it back on the road. The reverse brain drain is a case of the U.S. having its cake and finding out what it's like to want to eat it too.
Hey fan boy... sorry to burst your bubble, but opt out types of transactions especially when they don't let you opt out... e.g. you can't uninstall them. Java and MS .net installed unadvertised software... that is the Mozilla add on. Mozilla allows them to use a feature of Mozilla to prevent people from uninstalling an add on, even if it was not installed with the users knowledge. I know that is a fine point for you to grasp, but Mozilla is complicit in this due to their negligence... negligence since they obviously know this situation exists. And instead of helping users of their product, they blow them off by saying "talk to the people who installed stuff on your machine that was not advertised as part of their update". Something like a cop telling saying to you, "what do you expect me to do, go ask the thief to give back your money." People want Mozilla to modify the add on mechanism to allow any add on to be removed so this situation doesn't happen again. But if you don't think this is an issue, lend me your PC for a few hours, I promise I'll only install useful stuff... I'll even tell you what I'm installing... and I promise I won't install anything else with enough hooks to make it difficult to uninstall, and impossible to uninstall if you are an average user. Give me break.
Check this comment from up above.
Sure, use Mozilla Firefox so that you can avoid proprietary browsers that may exploit their users by forcing them to install or use services that we don't want. Or even install plugins and such without telling you! [look of utmost shock and horror] Those horrible proprietary browser makers!! [/look of utmost shock and horror] Imagine... oh those horrible vendors. Just imagine them installing plugins to your browser that could compromise your security... impact your system's performance... possibly open up your personal information to being 'borrowed' etc. etc. etc. And they don't even tell you or give you a way to uninstall them! Sheesh, or just the nerve installing something without telling you... the nerve! That would be like malware! BUT... if you use our super slick browser, Firefox, you can avoid all that. WE won't do that!
Yes folks, use Firefox since we aren't some big proprietary company and we won't do that. We won't install addons or plugins without your knowledge and especially without you being able to uninstall them. We are Mozilla: open source and secure and all for your rights online! But what the heck, we won't stop the big proprietary companies from installing stuff on your machine without you knowing or being able to uninstall it. That just wouldn't be right! It would be like stepping on THEIR rights. And heck, it's only YOUR machine, what the hell do we care?
It's not like we got our market share with your help by advertising ourselves as the browser that is more secure and better able to prevent malware from installing on your system. Next time don't install any Sun Java updates and stop bugging us about your problems... we have better things to do than making it easy to uninstall unwanted addons snuck in with seemingly benign updates... like coming up with cooler Mozilla home pages telling everyone how cool we are.
It was only a matter of time after Mozilla was incorporated that this type of thinking was bound to take root there.
What is worse is that in Canada, many of the descendants of people who arrived here from roughly 75 to 300 years ago (the now politically correct WASPS) seem to think that the government should be the entity to 'keep the culture' when in fact the culture is kept by the people whether they know it or not. So now Canada has a culture of legislated political correctness complete with the mind police and 'hate crimes' breeding smug narrow minded people content that "we are fighting off the evil American empire" ... who happen to be our biggest trading partner and without whose business we would be broke and not able to afford to hold the collective nose up at American culture. This kind of system crossed with peanut butter gives you the taste of shit stuck to the roof of you mouth. A good culture is dynamic and stands on its own two feet. Standing it on a bureaucracy is like adding an odd weighted third leg shoved up our collective ass.
Ah well... My brother once told me after I got reamed by a Canadian border guard on returning to my own country ("where are you going?", "what are you going to do?"... like he can deport me if he doesn't like the answer)... they are bureaucrats, you don't want them to think, it is beyond them. They are supposed to follow rules.
After moving back to Ontario after nearly 25 years away I am stunned by the Napoleon complex it has toward the United States. The War of 1812 ended almost 200 years ago, get over it. :/
Then fuck you and the horse you rode in on. I don't need some government functionary telling me what I should and should not be watching. You tell me it is to save Canada's identity. What is the difference between that and the Quebec Language Police (don't laugh, they are real) who will fine and drive a company out of business in Quebec if they have the unbelievable gall to put English or any non-French word over their store front even if their clients are non-french! In a bilingual country! (This is real... if you cater to a German or Italian clientele, you can't put German or Italian... or English even... on your signs or you will receive hefty fines, and repeated 'offenses' can result in the seizure of your store/business... this went to the world court where Quebec lost and this was named a human rights violation which they ignored and continued to do anyway.)How is telling me what I can watch on TV on public airwaves any different than what the Quebec government does with their Language Police. It is after all in the name of preserving their French culture. Even if it is committing human rights violations, telling me or my kids what language I can put on my store, or what language they use in the playground at recess? There is no difference. It is censorship and a power trip by you, the mind police. Fuck off and die.
If I want to watch 6 channels of HBO (not this bullshit 'HBO Canada' that you so graciously grant us) then I should be able to watch it. Instead you ban me from watching HBO in Canada, and bar me from buying satellite TV from an American firm. Dishnetwork is made Illegal in Canada by the CRTC because their Mind Police don't want us poor Canadians to be overly influenced by American TV. Hey Mind Police: blow me. If I want to immerse myself in pure Americana television then piss off and let me. If I want to watch wall to wall BBC then go blow water buffaloes if you don't like it. If Canadian television were worth watching, I would watch it. But stop forcing me to pay for productions of that pathetic fucking Royal Canadian Air Fucking Farse. The worst shit on TV and we have to pay for it on government funded C fucking BC TV.
And this is such a joke anyway when Canadians continually subvert themselves. It is rich when it is the non Christian immigrants to Canada who complain the most when that Jewish Woman judge insisted on removing a Christmas tree from a Toronto court house at Christmas time because it was offensive to non Christians. What the fuck? Thanks God for the non Christian immigrants who had the temerity to tell people how stupid that was. It was their influence that had a lot to do with bringing the tree back in to show that some small part of the country was celebrating a special day (what? you mean Canada was founded by Christians and it is a mostly Christian society, and many people who came here realized that and saw how stupid it was for us to have our way of life and faith stomped on?... well never mind then!). How ridiculous that the Ontario government actually considered allowing Sharia law for Muslims in family courts. Want to keep a Canadian identity? Then straighten out that kind of bullshit thinking first. Never mind keeping the functioning of the courts and their decisions secular, but Sharia... holy fuck!?
Dude, keep the Canadian Roadblock To Communications the hell out of my life. You all ought to be shot and pissed on. The CRTC: a monument to censorship and back room deals to cable companies, big telecoms, and the RIAA. Good riddance to you.
People are free to use Linux if they want to. Very few want to. If you think it is MS stopping them you are clueless. People will use whatever is easiest to do what they want to do. Linux is not easy. Don't get your feelings hurt by that. I'm just saying that because MS does something else draconian doesn't mean people will come flocking to Linux. They won't until the balance has tipped that Linux is easier to use than MS. And until all the basic functionality that people want in their system is there AND easy to use they won't change.
I just installed Fedora Core 10 on a spare box with a bc4306 wireless card, and after screwing around for a few hours hooked up an RJ45 to the back because it was just too much a pain in the ass to get wireless to work on it. I would have tried Ubuntu but its support for SATA RAID sucks. I work with Linux and Unix for my job, but don't have to worry about user interface because it is mostly command line there. But at home I want a GUI thank you very much. I also want it to just work. I work on computer systems during the day... when I want to use my machine at night I don't want to 'work' on it. I wish it were the case that this will drive people to Linux but it won't until it just works, including every day things that are done very easily on Windows like setting up SATA RAID and wireless. No blaming vendors or users... it just needs to work. If anything, it will drive people to Apple who in my opinion aren't any better than Microsoft when it comes to 'lock in' and DRM shite. Fist the things in Linux that should be easy and people will use it. Otherwise they won't. No, I don't want to fix it. I don't need to fix it. I am willing to pay for MS Windows if I need something to work. I don't rip CDs or other crap so this won't bother me. I'm just tired of hearing how MS does something else that is bad and of course this will drive people to Linux. No it won't. It will never drive people to Linux until Linux works as easily as Windows does. And don't get in a huff over this, the proof is in the pudding. People ignore programs that are hard to use and use programs that are easy or easier to use. Most of the market uses MS. Get the hint?
I bought a satellite radio when after driving through Washington State and Idaho having only God Squad Radio to listen to, and those stations fading every 50 miles, and 2500 more miles of that to go... I stopped in Salt Lake City and bought Sirius. I have been very happy with it ever since. I go on long trips now and then, and even the shorter trips can span multiple cities crossing countryside. No 3G anywhere out there. Honestly, grow up and check your horizons. So what if you only know the suburbs, others out here actually go outside. 3G is not everywhere. Besides, I and I know others too, like to listen to more than just music. There are good talk radio stations on Sirius too. We aren't relegated to just Jesus Loves You Talk Back and Rush Limbaugh if driving through the right wing farm belt. We can listen to NPR OR Rush OR (choke) CNN if we want. Or comedy, or Stern, or whatever. I like music as much as then next guy, but I like to hear the news and weather too. Go for a road trip and you'll get it... eventually... if the trip is more than just to 711 for Doritos.
why is this more offtopic than its parent posts? the 'fisting' comment by that airhead woman was hysterical. an unintended double entendre.