You can still vote - just come back to Canada and re-register. You have not lost your right to vote, unlike convicts in the US.
And even the 5-year rule has exceptions, depending on, for example, your employer.
Then again, if you've been gone for more than 5 years, it's probable that you're now considered a resident of the other country anyway for such things as taxes.
Well, it certainly is a distraction - but at the same point, to the extent that it makes the government more aware that, unlike the US, Canadians don't get their information from Fox News*, the better. And the better on other fronts as well, since people are now becoming more aware of just how invasive facebook, google, etc are.
* That Fox News could successfully argue that they could intentionally broadcast false news stories because of the First Amendment just goes to show that the US Constitution is still flawed. Citizens United is only the latest example of the stupidity of absolutes.
That won't happen, because of the Canadian Constitution guarantees of freedom of expression and freedom of association, and because, unlike the US, the Canadian courts have a tendency to thumb their noses at bad laws, such as minimum sentencing requirements, that violate the Constitution.
Wacko judgements like Citizens United would never happen.
It'll never happen. The gov't got a good slap in the face on this one. Even the current house investigation into who posted the Vikileaks30 account is coming under fire as an example of what the government would do. They can't win on this, and they know it.
This story isn't going away - it was on the national news again tonight... Vic Toews is now the laughingstock of the country. He's admitted he didn't even know what was in the bill he sponsored.
A competent community manager would delete the post and start with some gentle corrective action - maybe a polite note asking you to cut it out.
That assumes that people are so stupid as to use an email address and password controlled by someone else. One day, that "community manager" leaves for a competitor, and the next thing you know, your account is posting all sorts of nonsense - and others accounts are posting lies about you - all through some Chinese proxy.
Or you leave to work for a competitor - but they continue to post stuff under your account about how crappy you think your new employer is.
It's not like there's a law requiring them to tell the truth - Fox News won in court based on that same argument - that the 1st Amendment of the Constitution allows them to deliberately lie.
On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television management and lawyers to air what she knew and documented to be false information. The ruling basically declares it is technically not against any law, rule, or regulation to deliberately lie or distort the news on a television broadcast.
The same would apply to a Facebook account that your employer set up for you to use - they would argue (1) it's their account - they set it up, not you, and (2) posts are "broadcasts", and (3) you agreed to the arrangement, and (4) that if you disagreed, there was nothing to prevent you from changing the email address of the account and then changing the password.
And the fourth post will be from management as to their regret in your choice to "seek opportunities elsewhere".
Not if you control the account, it won't be. Or are you that silly as to not change the password and email infomation? Would you really be so stupid as to give your former boss or co-worker the tools to impersonate you on-line?
Any business stupid enough to implement this deserves to go the way of the dodo.
So Joe and Jane Public will have to begin doing what the crooks are already doing - encrypting their stuff. Which threatens Google's "everything should be a web app" and "store your documents, etc. on our servers" and Facebooks "stay in touch with everyone and we can keep in touch with everything you do and who you do it with and sell it to advertisers".
I don't know so much about Canada, but her in America we still have a trump card for our citizens that says you need a warrant to searching most any-fucking-thing.
... even if it means your "lack of faith" in those particular "social networks."
After all, why can't all us "infidels" and "philistines" demand equal respect for our beliefs? Just because ours are based on the real world (and provable) doesn't mean that they are less deserving of respect than other people's fantasies.
Or join- and to make it interesting, make the first one a suggestion about how the company really needs a better sexual harrassment policy.
And make your second post about how you wonder how the company makes a profit when certain managers are taking 4-hour lunches.
And make your third post... IF they let the experiment go that far... about the obvious drug problems.
and there's just something weird about shoving the web browser into the stack as a middle-man for no reason
Oh, there's a reason, all right - the same one as offering Android for free - anything that will tie people into Google's ecosphere more close.y. That's a pretty good reason to break standard.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish... where have I heard that before?
Fail - it's actually 845 bytes.
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If you actually look at the code, just the javascript is 733 bytes after taking out all whitespece, etc, not 140. And this doesn't count the html that embeds it - an additional 112 bytes, for a total of 845 bytes.
Canonical gave up on it several years ago - and that was well before Android got as complicated as it is today.
Now, while saying "Canonical gave up on it" doesn't mean much - they have a history of giving up on stuff after making big announcements - the two are simply not compatible. When you talk about "userspace tools", that's a whole different kettle of fish.
Here's the question - is there money in fixing the problem? Not really. Now, is there money in servicing the existing problem? You betcha! - so don't expect it to be fixed.
No, it can't. The version of linux that android runs on is a non-compatible fork - ask Linus. He figures that eventually the two will merge, but I have my doubts. It's in Google's best interest to preserve the fork going forward.
That's the problem with a fork - sometimes, even when you have the full source, it's so different that it's simply not worth the effort to merge back.
It works fine in Vista - no crashing whatsoever (which kind of surprised me). I'll try your setting windows version to NT 3.5 some day and see what happens.
So now it's no longer "Install WINE, then you can run both Linux and Windows apps.", but "go an hunt down $RANDOM_PATCH and hope it works and that it doesn't have a trojan/malware/spyware/whatever that will run under WINE and start spamming people"...
That is not what people want. Any hope of Linux as a consumer OS is finished because everyone spent too much time messing around with inconsequential things like eye candy, and didn't bother with the stuff that *could* have made it competitive. The "year of the linux desktop" could have been, should have been, but no.... instead of everyone working together to solve the problems, it was "my distro has this eye candy and yours doesn't so mine's better!" "fork you!" "fork you too!" - and now we're all forked. Put a fork in it, it's done.
The GPL is partially to blame - no distro can get enough revenue to pay for the programmers necessary to make it happen, and if they did, they wouldn't be able to make their investment back, because every other distro would just take the code. In other words, there are inhibitors to evolution and growth past a certain point under the GPL, because programmers have to eat too. Not everyone is comfortable being a bum like RMS.
Have you even tried it? It's what I'm using right now - no missing window decorations, no weird default window behaviour, and if you want to install applets, go and look for them - I pointed one location. I'm not a maid - it's not up to me to do all your work for you:-)
After all, I'm not the one making a defective UI, just trying to show you that you can in fact revert to the previous gnome behavior with just a few clicks. You also have other options - Mint, Cinnamon, downgrading, "rolling your own", switching to LXDE, etc.
Try again - Simcity2000 (Win9x) works fine under vista in 1920x1200, but crashes under WINE whenever you try to save anything - which is more than a "small bug."
Oh, you won't get any argument from me on that account. The basics - a task switcher, a way to list and launch programs, a file viewer, and a way to add programs to a quick-launch list, were all there back in DOSSHELL. You could even have dual-monitor goodness if you had both a vga and a hercules card.
The funny part is that even back then you could useunreal mode to address up to 4 gigabytes of ram from DOS.
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And even the 5-year rule has exceptions, depending on, for example, your employer.
Then again, if you've been gone for more than 5 years, it's probable that you're now considered a resident of the other country anyway for such things as taxes.
Well, it certainly is a distraction - but at the same point, to the extent that it makes the government more aware that, unlike the US, Canadians don't get their information from Fox News*, the better. And the better on other fronts as well, since people are now becoming more aware of just how invasive facebook, google, etc are.
* That Fox News could successfully argue that they could intentionally broadcast false news stories because of the First Amendment just goes to show that the US Constitution is still flawed. Citizens United is only the latest example of the stupidity of absolutes.
Wacko judgements like Citizens United would never happen.
This story isn't going away - it was on the national news again tonight ... Vic Toews is now the laughingstock of the country. He's admitted he didn't even know what was in the bill he sponsored.
That assumes that people are so stupid as to use an email address and password controlled by someone else. One day, that "community manager" leaves for a competitor, and the next thing you know, your account is posting all sorts of nonsense - and others accounts are posting lies about you - all through some Chinese proxy.
Or you leave to work for a competitor - but they continue to post stuff under your account about how crappy you think your new employer is.
It's not like there's a law requiring them to tell the truth - Fox News won in court based on that same argument - that the 1st Amendment of the Constitution allows them to deliberately lie.
The same would apply to a Facebook account that your employer set up for you to use - they would argue (1) it's their account - they set it up, not you, and (2) posts are "broadcasts", and (3) you agreed to the arrangement, and (4) that if you disagreed, there was nothing to prevent you from changing the email address of the account and then changing the password.
Not if you control the account, it won't be. Or are you that silly as to not change the password and email infomation? Would you really be so stupid as to give your former boss or co-worker the tools to impersonate you on-line?
Any business stupid enough to implement this deserves to go the way of the dodo.
So Joe and Jane Public will have to begin doing what the crooks are already doing - encrypting their stuff. Which threatens Google's "everything should be a web app" and "store your documents, etc. on our servers" and Facebooks "stay in touch with everyone and we can keep in touch with everything you do and who you do it with and sell it to advertisers".
Not true. Not even remotely true.
The Fine Article is about Canada, where it's unconstitutional to prevent people convicted of a crime from voting.
In fact, only two adult Canadian citizens are not eligible to vote - the Chief Electoral Officer, and the Deputy Chief Electoral Officer.
Why any company would trust sensitive internal information to Google is beyond me.
After all, why can't all us "infidels" and "philistines" demand equal respect for our beliefs? Just because ours are based on the real world (and provable) doesn't mean that they are less deserving of respect than other people's fantasies.
Or join- and to make it interesting, make the first one a suggestion about how the company really needs a better sexual harrassment policy.
And make your second post about how you wonder how the company makes a profit when certain managers are taking 4-hour lunches.
And make your third post ... IF they let the experiment go that far ... about the obvious drug problems.
Oh, there's a reason, all right - the same one as offering Android for free - anything that will tie people into Google's ecosphere more close.y. That's a pretty good reason to break standard.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish ... where have I heard that before?
If you actually look at the code, just the javascript is 733 bytes after taking out all whitespece, etc, not 140. And this doesn't count the html that embeds it - an additional 112 bytes, for a total of 845 bytes.
Now, while saying "Canonical gave up on it" doesn't mean much - they have a history of giving up on stuff after making big announcements - the two are simply not compatible. When you talk about "userspace tools", that's a whole different kettle of fish.
But feel free to go ahead :-)
Really? So the NHL finally banned fighting?
Not a problem if people used their head and compiled statically.
Here's the question - is there money in fixing the problem? Not really. Now, is there money in servicing the existing problem? You betcha! - so don't expect it to be fixed.
Kepp on - your argument makes zero sense.
Android is Linux the same way that OSX is FreeBSD. Even Linus treats it as an incompatible fork.
That's the problem with a fork - sometimes, even when you have the full source, it's so different that it's simply not worth the effort to merge back.
It works fine in Vista - no crashing whatsoever (which kind of surprised me). I'll try your setting windows version to NT 3.5 some day and see what happens.
That is not what people want. Any hope of Linux as a consumer OS is finished because everyone spent too much time messing around with inconsequential things like eye candy, and didn't bother with the stuff that *could* have made it competitive. The "year of the linux desktop" could have been, should have been, but no .... instead of everyone working together to solve the problems, it was "my distro has this eye candy and yours doesn't so mine's better!" "fork you!" "fork you too!" - and now we're all forked. Put a fork in it, it's done.
The GPL is partially to blame - no distro can get enough revenue to pay for the programmers necessary to make it happen, and if they did, they wouldn't be able to make their investment back, because every other distro would just take the code. In other words, there are inhibitors to evolution and growth past a certain point under the GPL, because programmers have to eat too. Not everyone is comfortable being a bum like RMS.
After all, I'm not the one making a defective UI, just trying to show you that you can in fact revert to the previous gnome behavior with just a few clicks. You also have other options - Mint, Cinnamon, downgrading, "rolling your own", switching to LXDE, etc.
Try again - Simcity2000 (Win9x) works fine under vista in 1920x1200, but crashes under WINE whenever you try to save anything - which is more than a "small bug."
The funny part is that even back then you could useunreal mode to address up to 4 gigabytes of ram from DOS.