What an astounding amount of hostility and ignorance. It appears that I completely underestimated how attached people are to allowing their cats to roam around killing things. Can't say truthful things about moggies, apparently: must toe the line and naively assume that the little creatures are carrying out a necessary and benevolent role in our ecosystem.
"Despite the difficulties in showing the effect most predators have on their prey, cats are known to have serious impacts on small mammals and birds. Worldwide, cats may have been involved in the extinction of more bird species than any other cause, except habitat destruction."
"Most domesticated cats gobble endless bags of cat chow. But they also like dining outdoors where their meals comprise 70 percent small mammals, 20 percent birds, and 10 percent assorted live bait. "
"Cats cause the deaths of more songbirds than any other animal....an outdoor cat can kill up to 1,000 animal per year."
" The combined total of pets and free-ranging cats in the U.S. is probably more than 100 million."
"...rural free-ranging domestic cats in Wisconsin may be killing between 8 and 217 million birds each year. The most reasonable estimates indicate that 39 million birds are killed in the state each year. Nationwide, rural cats probably kill over a billion small mammals and hundreds of millions of birds each year. Urban and suburban cats add to this toll."
It may be argued that responsible cat owners not only neuter their cats, but also keep them strictly indoors or on a leash.
Pshaw. You're making the naive assumption that to effectively moderate, one must have knowledge of the topic one is moderating. This is quite patently absurd: Slashdot moderators are hand-picked for their immense wealth of ignorance. That way, they can't possibly be biased.
If there's one good thing to come out of this, it would be for every Slashdot reader to learn more about Scientology.
Go read "A Piece of Blue Sky," a well-written expose on the cult. You will be disgusted at the things Scientology has done, and the power that it weilds.
Throwing children into the brig as punishment for weeks at a time, with nothing but water and bread... and rats and bilge-water. Committing local terrorism on home soil to keep critics silent. Allegations of killing ex-Scientologists: people already walking the fine edge of crazy, so they give 'em a short sharp shove off the edge. And on and on.
Yah, well, the problem with having Scientology sue you is that the organization has no scruples at all.
If Google didn't toe Scientology's line, the following would happen:
* pickets outside the founders' homes, claiming that they're pedophiles and hate-mongers.
* their pets would be drowned.
* their family and friends would be harassed.
* their telephone, cableco, banking, and other accounts would be subjected to social engineering attempts to shut 'em down.
* the Google HQ would be picketed.
* the US Government would be petitioned to intervene against Google.
* there would be endless court time, made as expensive as possible by Scientology.
There are all tactics they've used in the past against their "enemies," both in court and outside of court, against critics and ex-Scientologists who start revealing the truth about hte organization.
Scientology is an 800-lb gorilla with bad intentions.
...I'll do all the work that ICANN does. And I promise to be fair and sensible.
Which is, all told, a helluva deal for everyone. I'll be a lot cheaper, and you can be damn sure that even at my worst, I can't be even 1/10th as bad as ICANN.:-)
What planet you living on, sonny? Paper use has never been so high. Paper will be around long after all the erstwhile electronic "substitutes" are gone and forgotten.
Ventura Publisher, according to this history, was released in April, 1986, by a group of Xerox employees who couldn't get that company to get a clue.
Same year as LaTex, and with a GUI to boot.
Still around, still in active development (new release has been mentioned by Corel), and still the best layout application that is available, bar none. Even four or five years after its last release, it still does things that InDesign and Quark don't.
...aren't we boycotting the Hollywood movie industry because jackasses like Valenti are trying to get the government to pass draconian anti-freedom laws?
Fuck sakes, people, only one thing is going to shake up the industry, and that's you having the integrity to stand up for your beliefs and hit 'em where it hurts: their bottom line, by not purchasing their product.
Any passenger on your plane could have a pound of C4 stuffed up his ass, and security would never know it.
There is no airport security. The loopholes are endless. XRaying laptops is just blatantly stupid make-work. The entire frigging performance is insulting: it's a show targeting the gullible, who are supposed to believe that it makes a difference.
What really blows me away is that anyone believes it.
Mann was having trouble in Canada, not exactly a country where cops have a reputation for habitually arrogant behavior.
But then we're not talking professional police officers, are we? We're talking about the sort of people who, finding no better place in life, have chosen to become poorly-paid rent-a-cops. The sort of people who, just by virtue of the fact that they've chosen that job, shouldn't have that job.
These would be the same people who are man-handling the wheelchair-bound, insist on physically checking babies without first washing their hands, and who routinely confiscate nail clippers yet allow Bic pens onboard. Who confiscate nail clippers from the pilots, of all things!
These are people who are so stupid as to put a camera up to their face and press the button, to check whether it'll explode. Too stupid to live, too lucky to die!
Arrogant behaviour from an airport security guard? That's the only behaviour they know.
Finally, you'll note that he did pass through security unmolested: that's how he came to be on a returning flight.
The Copyright Board will pay attention only to email sent to majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca, or postal mail sent to the Secretary General.
The electronic petition is a waste of your time. If you want to stop this proposal before it gets off the ground, you need to ACT FAST (you have one month) and SEND YOUR MESSAGE DIRECTLY.
Please take the time to read the proposal itself. And do hit up The Tech Report, which has provided a nice overview of the situation.
ACT NOW! If you don't participate, you will be screwed.
That would, in fact, be the gist of it. So you must write "marcel" and let him know that removable flash memory is used almost exclusively by digital cameras, and that it's a gross violation of their mandate to be taxing camera users for music.
For land's sake, please respond to the request for comments! Doesn't matter if you're a Canuck or not: while they won't actually use a foreign comment, it will surely make an impression on them.
Comments should be emailed to majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca
Please be polite but strong. Make it clear to them that this levy harms you, and is going to harm artists.
The most important bit of the proposal follows. Note that it doesn't matter that most of these media are used for data archival: everyone still gets punished because someone might copy a Canadian artist.
"3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the levy shall be (a) 60 for each audio cassette of 40 minutes or more in length; (b) 59 for each CD-R, CD-RW or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable compact disc of 100 megabytes or more of storage capacity; (c) $1.23 for each CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc; (d) 0.8 for each megabyte of memory in each removable electronic memory card, each removable flash memory storage medium of any type, or each removable micro-hard drive; (e) $2.27 for each DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable DVD; (f) 2.1 for each megabyte of memory in each non-removable electronic memory card or each non-removable flash memory storage medium of any type incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with internal electronic or flash memory that is intended for use primarily to record and play music; (g) $21 for each gigabyte of memory in each non-removable hard drive incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with an internal hard drive that is intended for use primarily to record and play music. "
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What an astounding amount of hostility and ignorance. It appears that I completely underestimated how attached people are to allowing their cats to roam around killing things. Can't say truthful things about moggies, apparently: must toe the line and naively assume that the little creatures are carrying out a necessary and benevolent role in our ecosystem.
*cough*WinME*cough*
From several web sources:
...an outdoor cat can kill up to 1,000 animal per year."
"Despite the difficulties in showing the effect most predators have on their prey, cats are known to have serious impacts on small mammals and birds. Worldwide, cats may have been involved in the extinction of more bird species than any other cause, except habitat destruction."
"Most domesticated cats gobble endless bags of cat chow. But they also like dining outdoors where their meals comprise 70 percent small mammals, 20 percent birds, and 10 percent assorted live bait. "
"Cats cause the deaths of more songbirds than any other animal.
" The combined total of pets and free-ranging cats in the U.S. is probably more than 100 million."
"...rural free-ranging domestic cats in Wisconsin may be killing between 8 and 217 million birds each year. The most reasonable estimates indicate that 39 million birds are killed in the state each year. Nationwide, rural cats probably kill over a billion small mammals and hundreds of millions of birds each year. Urban and suburban cats add to this toll."
It may be argued that responsible cat owners not only neuter their cats, but also keep them strictly indoors or on a leash.
...hysteria broke out in Europe, based on the belief that the arrival of this comet always heralded castrophe...
Well, if that isn't a case of self-fulfilling prophecy!
Pshaw. You're making the naive assumption that to effectively moderate, one must have knowledge of the topic one is moderating. This is quite patently absurd: Slashdot moderators are hand-picked for their immense wealth of ignorance. That way, they can't possibly be biased.
What the fuck is a "wennie"?!
If there's one good thing to come out of this, it would be for every Slashdot reader to learn more about Scientology.
Go read "A Piece of Blue Sky," a well-written expose on the cult. You will be disgusted at the things Scientology has done, and the power that it weilds.
Throwing children into the brig as punishment for weeks at a time, with nothing but water and bread... and rats and bilge-water. Committing local terrorism on home soil to keep critics silent. Allegations of killing ex-Scientologists: people already walking the fine edge of crazy, so they give 'em a short sharp shove off the edge. And on and on.
Ignorance of Scientology is dangerous.
Yah, well, the problem with having Scientology sue you is that the organization has no scruples at all.
If Google didn't toe Scientology's line, the following would happen:
* pickets outside the founders' homes, claiming that they're pedophiles and hate-mongers.
* their pets would be drowned.
* their family and friends would be harassed.
* their telephone, cableco, banking, and other accounts would be subjected to social engineering attempts to shut 'em down.
* the Google HQ would be picketed.
* the US Government would be petitioned to intervene against Google.
* there would be endless court time, made as expensive as possible by Scientology.
There are all tactics they've used in the past against their "enemies," both in court and outside of court, against critics and ex-Scientologists who start revealing the truth about hte organization.
Scientology is an 800-lb gorilla with bad intentions.
So what you're saying is that the Sun LCD has a lower effective resolution (dot pitch) and higher cost...
Little wonder you're drooling at the Apple display!
Damn, can you imagine what a cow looks like after it's been hit by a meteorite? SPLAT!
I'd probably pay to see that.
Not that I have anything against cows, mind you.
Good for TeX.
You'll note, however, that the parent posting asked about programs that pre-date LaTeX.
...I'll do all the work that ICANN does. And I promise to be fair and sensible.
:-)
Which is, all told, a helluva deal for everyone. I'll be a lot cheaper, and you can be damn sure that even at my worst, I can't be even 1/10th as bad as ICANN.
"Soon to be obsolete print media"?!
What planet you living on, sonny? Paper use has never been so high. Paper will be around long after all the erstwhile electronic "substitutes" are gone and forgotten.
Ventura Publisher, according to this history, was released in April, 1986, by a group of Xerox employees who couldn't get that company to get a clue.
Same year as LaTex, and with a GUI to boot.
Still around, still in active development (new release has been mentioned by Corel), and still the best layout application that is available, bar none. Even four or five years after its last release, it still does things that InDesign and Quark don't.
...aren't we boycotting the Hollywood movie industry because jackasses like Valenti are trying to get the government to pass draconian anti-freedom laws?
Fuck sakes, people, only one thing is going to shake up the industry, and that's you having the integrity to stand up for your beliefs and hit 'em where it hurts: their bottom line, by not purchasing their product.
Which it will, unless you help defeat it. Make sure you send email to majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca registering your protest.
You can read the proposal details here.
Any passenger on your plane could have a pound of C4 stuffed up his ass, and security would never know it.
There is no airport security. The loopholes are endless. XRaying laptops is just blatantly stupid make-work. The entire frigging performance is insulting: it's a show targeting the gullible, who are supposed to believe that it makes a difference.
What really blows me away is that anyone believes it.
Mann was having trouble in Canada, not exactly a country where cops have a reputation for habitually arrogant behavior.
But then we're not talking professional police officers, are we? We're talking about the sort of people who, finding no better place in life, have chosen to become poorly-paid rent-a-cops. The sort of people who, just by virtue of the fact that they've chosen that job, shouldn't have that job.
These would be the same people who are man-handling the wheelchair-bound, insist on physically checking babies without first washing their hands, and who routinely confiscate nail clippers yet allow Bic pens onboard. Who confiscate nail clippers from the pilots, of all things!
These are people who are so stupid as to put a camera up to their face and press the button, to check whether it'll explode. Too stupid to live, too lucky to die!
Arrogant behaviour from an airport security guard? That's the only behaviour they know.
Finally, you'll note that he did pass through security unmolested: that's how he came to be on a returning flight.
THE VIRTUAL PETITION IS USELESS.
The Copyright Board will pay attention only to email sent to majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca, or postal mail sent to the Secretary General.
The electronic petition is a waste of your time. If you want to stop this proposal before it gets off the ground, you need to ACT FAST (you have one month) and SEND YOUR MESSAGE DIRECTLY.
Please take the time to read the proposal itself. And do hit up The Tech Report, which has provided a nice overview of the situation.
ACT NOW! If you don't participate, you will be screwed.
That would, in fact, be the gist of it. So you must write "marcel" and let him know that removable flash memory is used almost exclusively by digital cameras, and that it's a gross violation of their mandate to be taxing camera users for music.
For land's sake, please respond to the request for comments! Doesn't matter if you're a Canuck or not: while they won't actually use a foreign comment, it will surely make an impression on them.
Comments should be emailed to majeau.claude@cb-cda.gc.ca
Please be polite but strong. Make it clear to them that this levy harms you, and is going to harm artists.
The most important bit of the proposal follows. Note that it doesn't matter that most of these media are used for data archival: everyone still gets punished because someone might copy a Canadian artist.
"3. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the levy shall be
(a) 60 for each audio cassette of 40 minutes or more in length;
(b) 59 for each CD-R, CD-RW or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable compact disc of 100 megabytes or more of storage capacity;
(c) $1.23 for each CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio or MiniDisc;
(d) 0.8 for each megabyte of memory in each removable electronic memory card, each removable flash memory storage medium of any type, or each removable micro-hard drive;
(e) $2.27 for each DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM or each unit of any other type of recordable or rewritable DVD;
(f) 2.1 for each megabyte of memory in each non-removable electronic memory card or each non-removable flash memory storage medium of any type incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with internal electronic or flash memory that is intended for use primarily to record and play music;
(g) $21 for each gigabyte of memory in each non-removable hard drive incorporated into each MP3 player or into each similar device with an internal hard drive that is intended for use primarily to record and play music. "
BC had no significant fiscal problem: the last government left a surplus , as shown by the current government's own audit.
We are now in a deficit position.
Er... it isn't PC to bash corporations and the American public, both of which are the basis for all that Moore does.
Bullshit. You'd have a nation full of people who'd vow to exact revenge on the citizens of the US, regardless the cost.
Contigency nuke plans for Canada?!?
:-(
Sheezus, with friends like the USA, who needs enemies?