"if they tried to charge fat people extra at a buffet people might actually care."
I like this analogy and this new ruling would be like McDonalds lobbying the government to DISALLOW these buffets from allowing people to eat all they want, and force those chinese buffets to sell McDonalds fries for 1$ each to any of the buffet's customers that want second helpings.
Screw all the extra cost... this is as perfect an example of Bell using the government to ensure anti-competition in what was beginning to be an excitingly new competitive field!
Netflix and CTV, CBC, SPACE channel, SHOWCASE, GLOBAL TV and all the channels are now showing their episodes online - bringing pop culture to a wider audience.
Youtube and VideoSharing sites and tons of HowTo Video Websites etc etc.. the world is opening up to new Canadians... problem is, Bell's not getting enough of their dimes...
Internet media is expanding at a tremendous rate and many households are now able to access the television programming and educational videos they previously couldn't afford with traditional cable or satellite providers. Bell is using the CRTC to squash their competition who are giving a better service for less money - planning on stealing those customers from their wholesalers by attracting them with their overpriced bundle deals that come with a "free month of texting".
Why not take away a driver's licence for listening/singing along with the radio, talking with passengers, daydreaming about the pu$$y you'll never get or organizing your thoughts for the meeting you're driving towards.
Why issue driver's licences at all when people like yourself are incapable of talking and driving at the same time.
Because you're too much of a simpleton to handle driving your car and talking at the same time - it stands to reason that everyone else is as stupid and incapable as you.
big difference
That is ridiculous, anyone that CAN'T drive while talking on the phone should turn in their licence or refrain from driving at all.
Comparing drunk driving to driving with a cell phone is even more ridiculous because you can turn off the phone if more attention is needed for the road but you can't turn off being drunk.
If someone cannot pay attention to their driving because they are talking on the phone then they should be charged with careless driving not driving with a cellphone. Simply talking on the phone while driving does not and should not constitute careless driving.
... how come I can fly, heal myself and time travel... and my brother can slice people's skulls open like grapefruits to see how they work?
Phhht scientists... next thing they'll be telling us is that you can't just take an injection and mutate.
I also have a DLINK DIR-655, it has been rebooted three times in the last year.
Once when I upgraded the firmware, once when I moved it, and once when the power went out last month.
If you have to reboot your router every few days you have a bad router or are doing something else very wrong.
Acanac is 18.98/mo if you prepay for a year at a time, and unlimited VOIP can be added for 10.00/mo
they also have UNLIMITED downloads and employ no filtering.
I switched to them after my other independant DSL company started charging for overdownloading and I got a bill for an EXTRA $160 one month for using 160GB more than the allotted 100 GB.
The speeds are as good, or better than the last ISP I had.
Dry loop + 38.00/mo (that's dry loop+ 5MB dsl + Voip) = unlimited calling and unlimited internet and that price can't be beat.
Or maybe it is just analog broadcast that is going away?
Right.
It's the analog broadcast that is going away so it's the Joe's that have analog receivers that need to upgrade. Since you already did, you just need to find a someone that sells both digital receivers and beer - and use your 'gubment credit' for beer instead.
I like to rip 192K mp3s from my favourite online radiostation radio paradise.... I used to rip mp3s all night while I was sleeping and then have 2GB worth of "radio" without the idiot commentators and same song being played 6 times a day. It also turned me on to LOTS of artists that I would have never heard on the radio and in turn buy their CDs.
There are a number of CDs in my collection (kaki king, rodrigo y gabriella, bela fleck, porcupine tree) that I would have never purchased had it not been for radio paradise and their "eclectic intelligent rock" station "giving samples for free".
That's a big part of the RIAA's fear, losing control of what is spoonfed to the masses.
U2 just joined Metallica on the boycott list for me.
Stan re bono: "That's how he's able to do so much, try to help so many people, but still seem like a piece of shit"
I'm not Will Robinson! Can't you fuckers even keep track of users?
Hey wait a minute! My name is Bill Robinson... are you giving my info to someone else? I just may have to come down there and put a foot in someone's ass or a chip in their brain!
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half the people out there are stupider than that!" -George Carlin
it's simple why the North American cell carrier's won't sell the phones people "really want".
If you will pay 50 dollars a month for a few hundred minutes of calling, or they allowed you a 5 dollar "data plan", then you could activate voip on your phone and NO LONGER need the measly minutes they are butt-raping you for. They are out at LEAST $45/month per user.
THAT is why Canadian data plans are 4 dollars/MB etc.
THAT is why it's nearly impossible to get a wifi enabled phone device activated on rogers or bell WITHOUT an expensive data plan.
~~If I as a company build a network, why shouldn't I be able to control traffic on it? Why should I build a network just to allow others who do not have the capital investment to undercut my business? On my network?~~
because if you don't... I will.
No phone company will EVER survive with the motto "you can't call there from here"
Someone does not have to be jewish, black, injun or purple to understand and hate oppression and those that support it.
The SAME right those people utilize to talk their 'crap' (whether it be black power, white power or "kill the white people" by tyrone green and his reggae band) is the right that PAYPAL utilizes to NOT DEAL WITH THEM.
If some skinhead with a swastika on his shirt walks into my shop cussing up "this that or the other", I'm going to send him right out again. I don't care if he's got money falling out of his pockets. It's MY RIGHT as a business person to limit who I want to deal with.
not particularly true.
many people that would be converting are going to want something to read those "microsoft word" or "excell" docs, and if you tell them they can download 'this' (OpenOffice) for FREE or pay several hundred dollars for office, that is NOT a 'hard sell'. MOST of them WOULD HAVE probably went to download/use a bootleg or burned copy of Office anyways.
Many of those people that he's probably helping don't know/care they are using Internet Explorer. They only know to click the "blue e" to surf the internet. Clicking the orange fox (after explaining tabbed browsing and/or how toolbars with popupblockers suck) also isn't going to be a hard sell.
I think that as more computer service people start showing people these FREE alternatives and how much money they are shelling out for something that isn't necessary, many will use the free alternatives. Of course, if he was earning a commission...
You are incorrect as it applies to this topic. Information dooesn't just "float around." EZTree stole that intellectual property, encoded it for transmission to you, and you downloaded it. EZTree certainly committed a crime.
Completely untrue.
1. MOST of the music on E-Tree was from artists that ALLOW fans to record their live music... infact E-tree would be one of the FEW bit-torrent sites that has LEGAL uses for p2p.. (probably a factor in targetting them)
2. The original person that copies/encodes the music (in the few examples where there is copyright infringement) is the one that "stole" the intellectual property (and if that person owns the rights to that property the encoding is not illegal, only allowing it for distributions do THEY break the law).
What E-tree provides is a 'hub' for the music sharing community to share these files (most of which are legal). The "illegal files" are NOT stored IN ANY WAY on e-tree's servers.
Should the owner of the property of a flea-market be charged because one of HIS clients is selling copied cds or movies?
I would have much rather liked seeing E-tree move their trackers OUT of the USA to a country that can "laugh" at the threats of those lawyers, or simply remove the offending files.
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help end the stupid drug war...
they should cross these with a pig, so we can get 18' of pork ribs that self reproduce!
"if they tried to charge fat people extra at a buffet people might actually care." I like this analogy and this new ruling would be like McDonalds lobbying the government to DISALLOW these buffets from allowing people to eat all they want, and force those chinese buffets to sell McDonalds fries for 1$ each to any of the buffet's customers that want second helpings. Screw all the extra cost... this is as perfect an example of Bell using the government to ensure anti-competition in what was beginning to be an excitingly new competitive field! Netflix and CTV, CBC, SPACE channel, SHOWCASE, GLOBAL TV and all the channels are now showing their episodes online - bringing pop culture to a wider audience. Youtube and VideoSharing sites and tons of HowTo Video Websites etc etc.. the world is opening up to new Canadians... problem is, Bell's not getting enough of their dimes... Internet media is expanding at a tremendous rate and many households are now able to access the television programming and educational videos they previously couldn't afford with traditional cable or satellite providers. Bell is using the CRTC to squash their competition who are giving a better service for less money - planning on stealing those customers from their wholesalers by attracting them with their overpriced bundle deals that come with a "free month of texting".
Why stop there?
/singing along with the radio, talking with passengers, daydreaming about the pu$$y you'll never get or organizing your thoughts for the meeting you're driving towards.
Why not take away a driver's licence for listening
Why issue driver's licences at all when people like yourself are incapable of talking and driving at the same time.
Because you're too much of a simpleton to handle driving your car and talking at the same time - it stands to reason that everyone else is as stupid and incapable as you.
big difference
That is ridiculous, anyone that CAN'T drive while talking on the phone should turn in their licence or refrain from driving at all.
Comparing drunk driving to driving with a cell phone is even more ridiculous because you can turn off the phone if more attention is needed for the road but you can't turn off being drunk.
If someone cannot pay attention to their driving because they are talking on the phone then they should be charged with careless driving not driving with a cellphone. Simply talking on the phone while driving does not and should not constitute careless driving.
fckn' fascists
... how come I can fly, heal myself and time travel... and my brother can slice people's skulls open like grapefruits to see how they work? Phhht scientists... next thing they'll be telling us is that you can't just take an injection and mutate.
... lighting another one of his farts.
I hear that pays well
I also have a DLINK DIR-655, it has been rebooted three times in the last year. Once when I upgraded the firmware, once when I moved it, and once when the power went out last month. If you have to reboot your router every few days you have a bad router or are doing something else very wrong.
Betting $1000, 1000 times will cost you 1 million. Paying out 100,001 dollars every 1000 games actually only a shade over 10%.
Acanac is 18.98/mo if you prepay for a year at a time, and unlimited VOIP can be added for 10.00 /mo
they also have UNLIMITED downloads and employ no filtering.
I switched to them after my other independant DSL company started charging for overdownloading and I got a bill for an EXTRA $160 one month for using 160GB more than the allotted 100 GB.
The speeds are as good, or better than the last ISP I had.
Dry loop + 38.00/mo (that's dry loop+ 5MB dsl + Voip) = unlimited calling and unlimited internet and that price can't be beat.
Right.
It's the analog broadcast that is going away so it's the Joe's that have analog receivers that need to upgrade. Since you already did, you just need to find a someone that sells both digital receivers and beer - and use your 'gubment credit' for beer instead.
Good luck.
I like to rip 192K mp3s from my favourite online radiostation radio paradise.... I used to rip mp3s all night while I was sleeping and then have 2GB worth of "radio" without the idiot commentators and same song being played 6 times a day. It also turned me on to LOTS of artists that I would have never heard on the radio and in turn buy their CDs. There are a number of CDs in my collection (kaki king, rodrigo y gabriella, bela fleck, porcupine tree) that I would have never purchased had it not been for radio paradise and their "eclectic intelligent rock" station "giving samples for free". That's a big part of the RIAA's fear, losing control of what is spoonfed to the masses. U2 just joined Metallica on the boycott list for me. Stan re bono: "That's how he's able to do so much, try to help so many people, but still seem like a piece of shit"
I'm not Will Robinson! Can't you fuckers even keep track of users?
Hey wait a minute! My name is Bill Robinson... are you giving my info to someone else? I just may have to come down there and put a foot in someone's ass or a chip in their brain!
---- "Think of how stupid the average person is, then realize that half the people out there are stupider than that!" -George Carlin
it's simple why the North American cell carrier's won't sell the phones people "really want". If you will pay 50 dollars a month for a few hundred minutes of calling, or they allowed you a 5 dollar "data plan", then you could activate voip on your phone and NO LONGER need the measly minutes they are butt-raping you for. They are out at LEAST $45/month per user. THAT is why Canadian data plans are 4 dollars /MB etc.
THAT is why it's nearly impossible to get a wifi enabled phone device activated on rogers or bell WITHOUT an expensive data plan.
~~If I as a company build a network, why shouldn't I be able to control traffic on it? Why should I build a network just to allow others who do not have the capital investment to undercut my business? On my network?~~ because if you don't... I will. No phone company will EVER survive with the motto "you can't call there from here"
Wi-fi VOIP
what a crock.
Someone does not have to be jewish, black, injun or purple to understand and hate oppression and those that support it.
The SAME right those people utilize to talk their 'crap' (whether it be black power, white power or "kill the white people" by tyrone green and his reggae band) is the right that PAYPAL utilizes to NOT DEAL WITH THEM.
If some skinhead with a swastika on his shirt walks into my shop cussing up "this that or the other", I'm going to send him right out again. I don't care if he's got money falling out of his pockets. It's MY RIGHT as a business person to limit who I want to deal with.
not particularly true. many people that would be converting are going to want something to read those "microsoft word" or "excell" docs, and if you tell them they can download 'this' (OpenOffice) for FREE or pay several hundred dollars for office, that is NOT a 'hard sell'. MOST of them WOULD HAVE probably went to download/use a bootleg or burned copy of Office anyways. Many of those people that he's probably helping don't know/care they are using Internet Explorer. They only know to click the "blue e" to surf the internet. Clicking the orange fox (after explaining tabbed browsing and/or how toolbars with popupblockers suck) also isn't going to be a hard sell. I think that as more computer service people start showing people these FREE alternatives and how much money they are shelling out for something that isn't necessary, many will use the free alternatives. Of course, if he was earning a commission...
Completely untrue.
1. MOST of the music on E-Tree was from artists that ALLOW fans to record their live music... infact E-tree would be one of the FEW bit-torrent sites that has LEGAL uses for p2p.. (probably a factor in targetting them)
2. The original person that copies/encodes the music (in the few examples where there is copyright infringement) is the one that "stole" the intellectual property (and if that person owns the rights to that property the encoding is not illegal, only allowing it for distributions do THEY break the law).
What E-tree provides is a 'hub' for the music sharing community to share these files (most of which are legal). The "illegal files" are NOT stored IN ANY WAY on e-tree's servers.
Should the owner of the property of a flea-market be charged because one of HIS clients is selling copied cds or movies?
I would have much rather liked seeing E-tree move their trackers OUT of the USA to a country that can "laugh" at the threats of those lawyers, or simply remove the offending files.
I guess hippies aren't that savvy though eh?