Good grief, OverlordQ's post is not a "troll." I wish people would think a little before the get out the mod bat. Just because someone expresses an opinion contrary to your beliefs does not mean they are trolling for anything.
I happened to disagree with him that buying a DVD is better than buying a crappy iTunes video. Unless you get the DVD used and for a very cheap price of course. You then either have to resell it or trash it unless you like having all sorts of old DVDs around that you've already watched. I'll take Netflix over either iTunes or purchasing DVDs any day.
Whomever it was who modded down this as "flamebait", some four days after it was posted, obviously has misused and abused their privilege. This is little more than petty vindictiveness to "get back" at me for chiding them about being a spelling and grammar nazi.
"It amazes me that a couple people corrected this guy on the spelling of "Vonage," yet not one person commented that the correct phrase (you know, the one in the subject line) should read: "You reap what you sow." You sow seeds (and then reap the crop when it's harvest time). You sew clothes."
Because instead of being an orthography or grammar Nazi, since we all know what he meant anyway, I chose to correct only the name of the company he was writing about because that could be confusing.
Maybe WoW needs another way to advance characters other than with gold or items, much like Everquest does. WoW seems completely gear driven. If a casual player could earn points towards new abilities maybe it would give them a leg up on the rich hard-core loot/gold mongers. Just a thought.
Hey I live in the States and i get basically ZERO international content where I live. I have to use Comcast for my cable service and about the only worthy international stuff i get from them is the CFL (thank gawd!) and maybe a hockey game once a week. Forget about news. It's basically all USA all the time here. So you're not alone in your isolation friend.
I was going to moderate another post in this thread, but after reading your post I must object to some of the language you have used to make your point.
"(in which only about 6 people were killed in terrorist attacks)."
ONLY 6 people? Would invoking the War Measures Act have been more acceptable to you if there had been a hundred or a thousand killed by terrorists?
"sent in military troops to occupy Canadian territory"
You make it sound as the Canadian Forces are a foreign entity in their own land.
"the RCMP carried out hundreds of illegal searches and wiretaps."
Technically the searches and wiretaps were NOT illegal, because essentially martial law was in effect.
"allowing U.S. draftees to escape to Canada during the Vietnam war"
They did no such thing as allow them to "escape." They weren't prisoners.
"There was full-on military style domestic counter-insurgency operations being conducted on a huge scale in Canada in most people's lifetime."
It was NOT Iraq. There was no street-to-street fighting, no sieges of holy shrines, no massive numbers of casualties. True there were tanks in the neighbourhoods and soldiers on street corners, but they were relatively few and far between compared to the image your statement invokes (I know because I was there). This was not a massive military presence, and it was limited to Québec. The military was nowhere to be seen in the rest of Canada. You make it sound as if the entire country was "occupied" as you put it. It was not a "huge scale".
"Far crazier stuff has gone down in Canada's recent past!"
The October Crises was 36 years ago. MANY things have changed since then, and much of that change was because of the invocation of that draconian law, which was one of the only counter-insurgency tools available at the time. Smashing a fly with a sledgehammer? Certainly, but it worked. There have been no real terrorist threats since. Thankfully.
You could have simply been informative in your post, but instead you chose to editorialize, while seemingly ignoring the context of the time. This does a disservice to people, who are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves, after studying the links you provided, if the government of the time (not just Pierre Trudeau) acted improperly or excessively. You and I may agree that the War Measures Act was an outdated and overreaching Act, but if we choose to say that there were alternatives to invoking it, it should be our responsibility to show what those alternative were, and that they were would have been effective in ending the crisis of murder, kidnapping and terrorism.
Permanent Residents have a Permanent Resident Card (A.K.A. a Green Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card) which is already encoded with all sorts of information, so they don't need any other I.D.. Not even a passport.
It looks as if you have misinterpreted the OP's post. I do believe he meant to say that visitors to the Vancouver Olympics may be able to purchase phony Washington State licenses in B.C., for the purposes of illegally entering the US.
I think it's more likely that there will be problem with illegals entering Canada from the US than rather than the other way around. Though from what i understand about the new enforcement capabilities of border guards on sides, illegal crossings are far less likely to happen than past years.
Exactly. I probably shouldn't be so cynical but I suspect that most of these fees just go into a general revenue fund, which makes them just another cash-grab by greedy governments. What they should be doing is offering tax rebates for those who can verify that they delivered their e-trash to a sanctioned recycling center.
Tanks in the neighbourhoods of Montréal and soldiers on the streetcorners, along with the arrest of some 497 people (62 were charged, 32 refused bail, 3 were charged with kidnapping and murder, 5 were deported to Cuba), effectively brought an end to the FLQ. There have been no significant terrorist acts since.
"...i am glad to see the nutty left are still well represented on slant.!"
The "nutty left?" You call them that because they have a federally mandated universal health care system? Nevermind that the current minority federal government is Conservative, or that only two of the ten provinces have a socialist government, while four out of ten are Conservative and four are Liberal. I know that for some people anyone left of far right is consider a nutty far-leftist, but really Canada is a moderate country, not a socialist one.
Well, according to the CBC's Greatest Canadian contest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Canadian) Tommy Douglas was the greatest leader ever, not Trudeau, who finished 3rd. That's certainly a result that left me and many others shaking their heads in disbelief. But, I suppose that result is reflection of those who listen to the CBC and participate in their informal polls.
I never said EVERY Canadian figured P.E.T. was the greatest. Many do though.
Yes Canada did invoke the War Measures Act in 1970 to deal with a serious (and murderous) terrorist insurrection. Most Canadians outside of Quebec hardly noticed. It may have been akin to squashing a fly with a sledgehammer but it was nevertheless very effective and, dare I say, supported by the majority of Canadians (even those in Québec) who had little sympathy for what amounted to a relatively small band of self-serving pseudo-intellectual thugs who resorted to kidnapping and murder to try and strong-arm their way into power. The leader who invoked the Act is today seen as one of the greatest leaders the Country has ever known, even by those who still disagree with many of his economic and social policies. He was also the man who was the driving force behind the repatriation of the Constitution and its embedded Bill of Rights.
Slashdot Mirror
Good grief, OverlordQ's post is not a "troll." I wish people would think a little before the get out the mod bat. Just because someone expresses an opinion contrary to your beliefs does not mean they are trolling for anything.
I happened to disagree with him that buying a DVD is better than buying a crappy iTunes video. Unless you get the DVD used and for a very cheap price of course. You then either have to resell it or trash it unless you like having all sorts of old DVDs around that you've already watched. I'll take Netflix over either iTunes or purchasing DVDs any day.
...a whole four months late. That will seem like a hiccup in a year from now.
Whomever it was who modded down this as "flamebait", some four days after it was posted, obviously has misused and abused their privilege. This is little more than petty vindictiveness to "get back" at me for chiding them about being a spelling and grammar nazi.
"In all seriousness, people need to look at the best tool for the job and not be so tied up in brands."
Agreed.
People also need to forget about name-calling people for using brands.
"It amazes me that a couple people corrected this guy on the spelling of "Vonage," yet not one person commented that the correct phrase (you know, the one in the subject line) should read: "You reap what you sow." You sow seeds (and then reap the crop when it's harvest time). You sew clothes."
Because instead of being an orthography or grammar Nazi, since we all know what he meant anyway, I chose to correct only the name of the company he was writing about because that could be confusing.
I think you mean Vonage, not Vontage.
Maybe WoW needs another way to advance characters other than with gold or items, much like Everquest does. WoW seems completely gear driven. If a casual player could earn points towards new abilities maybe it would give them a leg up on the rich hard-core loot/gold mongers. Just a thought.
Hey I live in the States and i get basically ZERO international content where I live. I have to use Comcast for my cable service and about the only worthy international stuff i get from them is the CFL (thank gawd!) and maybe a hockey game once a week. Forget about news. It's basically all USA all the time here. So you're not alone in your isolation friend.
I know basically diddly squat about dish technology, but I do know that as long as I must point my dish to the South I will likely never own one.
I prefer Friggin' in the Riggin' ;-)
I was going to moderate another post in this thread, but after reading your post I must object to some of the language you have used to make your point.
"(in which only about 6 people were killed in terrorist attacks)."
ONLY 6 people? Would invoking the War Measures Act have been more acceptable to you if there had been a hundred or a thousand killed by terrorists?
"sent in military troops to occupy Canadian territory"
You make it sound as the Canadian Forces are a foreign entity in their own land.
"the RCMP carried out hundreds of illegal searches and wiretaps."
Technically the searches and wiretaps were NOT illegal, because essentially martial law was in effect.
"allowing U.S. draftees to escape to Canada during the Vietnam war"
They did no such thing as allow them to "escape." They weren't prisoners.
"There was full-on military style domestic counter-insurgency operations being conducted on a huge scale in Canada in most people's lifetime."
It was NOT Iraq. There was no street-to-street fighting, no sieges of holy shrines, no massive numbers of casualties. True there were tanks in the neighbourhoods and soldiers on street corners, but they were relatively few and far between compared to the image your statement invokes (I know because I was there). This was not a massive military presence, and it was limited to Québec. The military was nowhere to be seen in the rest of Canada. You make it sound as if the entire country was "occupied" as you put it. It was not a "huge scale".
"Far crazier stuff has gone down in Canada's recent past!"
The October Crises was 36 years ago. MANY things have changed since then, and much of that change was because of the invocation of that draconian law, which was one of the only counter-insurgency tools available at the time. Smashing a fly with a sledgehammer? Certainly, but it worked. There have been no real terrorist threats since. Thankfully.
You could have simply been informative in your post, but instead you chose to editorialize, while seemingly ignoring the context of the time. This does a disservice to people, who are perfectly capable of deciding for themselves, after studying the links you provided, if the government of the time (not just Pierre Trudeau) acted improperly or excessively. You and I may agree that the War Measures Act was an outdated and overreaching Act, but if we choose to say that there were alternatives to invoking it, it should be our responsibility to show what those alternative were, and that they were would have been effective in ending the crisis of murder, kidnapping and terrorism.
Permanent Residents have a Permanent Resident Card (A.K.A. a Green Card or Alien Registration Receipt Card) which is already encoded with all sorts of information, so they don't need any other I.D.. Not even a passport.
t ml
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.h
It looks as if you have misinterpreted the OP's post. I do believe he meant to say that visitors to the Vancouver Olympics may be able to purchase phony Washington State licenses in B.C., for the purposes of illegally entering the US.
I think it's more likely that there will be problem with illegals entering Canada from the US than rather than the other way around. Though from what i understand about the new enforcement capabilities of border guards on sides, illegal crossings are far less likely to happen than past years.
I should have included the following link as well:
. php
http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/09/eve/index
...to an Intel Mac near you.
4 797
http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/story.php?ID=1
"Got any sources for that statement? "
Apparently he doesn't.
Wales, for all the good he has done in bringing us Wikipedia, is incredibly naive to put so much trust in people.
"And when a government doesn't need a warrant to tap a phone, then you're well on the road to fascism."
You mean just like in the US?
"So all the people who regularly point out...."
What people. Where.
Exactly. I probably shouldn't be so cynical but I suspect that most of these fees just go into a general revenue fund, which makes them just another cash-grab by greedy governments. What they should be doing is offering tax rebates for those who can verify that they delivered their e-trash to a sanctioned recycling center.
Tanks in the neighbourhoods of Montréal and soldiers on the streetcorners, along with the arrest of some 497 people (62 were charged, 32 refused bail, 3 were charged with kidnapping and murder, 5 were deported to Cuba), effectively brought an end to the FLQ. There have been no significant terrorist acts since.
"...i am glad to see the nutty left are still well represented on slant.!"
The "nutty left?" You call them that because they have a federally mandated universal health care system? Nevermind that the current minority federal government is Conservative, or that only two of the ten provinces have a socialist government, while four out of ten are Conservative and four are Liberal. I know that for some people anyone left of far right is consider a nutty far-leftist, but really Canada is a moderate country, not a socialist one.
Well, according to the CBC's Greatest Canadian contest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Canadian) Tommy Douglas was the greatest leader ever, not Trudeau, who finished 3rd. That's certainly a result that left me and many others shaking their heads in disbelief. But, I suppose that result is reflection of those who listen to the CBC and participate in their informal polls.
I never said EVERY Canadian figured P.E.T. was the greatest. Many do though.
There was also one abstention and several no-shows.
Yes Canada did invoke the War Measures Act in 1970 to deal with a serious (and murderous) terrorist insurrection. Most Canadians outside of Quebec hardly noticed. It may have been akin to squashing a fly with a sledgehammer but it was nevertheless very effective and, dare I say, supported by the majority of Canadians (even those in Québec) who had little sympathy for what amounted to a relatively small band of self-serving pseudo-intellectual thugs who resorted to kidnapping and murder to try and strong-arm their way into power. The leader who invoked the Act is today seen as one of the greatest leaders the Country has ever known, even by those who still disagree with many of his economic and social policies. He was also the man who was the driving force behind the repatriation of the Constitution and its embedded Bill of Rights.