As a Canadian, it's easy for me to say "well, our politicians can't be bought that easily because they have to vote along party lines.", but the truth is that Canadian politicians can be bought just as easily as their American counterparts. But it appears now that the current government has finally learned that people want to see some accountability. The PM fired the Defense Minister today for giving an untendered contract for CDN$30K to an ex-girlfriend, and are drafting legislation to provide much more access to who gives the government money and who contracts are awarded to.
You forgot one thing: George Lucas has produced these films *outside* the MPAA structure, so when you buy a ticket the money goes into Lucas' pocket, not the MPAA.
You are forgetting about Cogeco, who I use at home for my cable modem connection (I live in Oakville. Except for a month when their system was messed up and I couldn't get to some sites, I've had a totally reliable service.
They were on the ball for the change from @Home when it collapsed and I've had no problem dealing with their customer service people. I agree that Rogers sucks too as I used to have them for cable TV when I lived in Toronto.
I can think of one other industry that consistently cries poor while revenue constantly increases, *and* works hard to alienate their own customers. Oh yeah, they bought off the U.S. government to not interfere in their operations.
It doesn't matter. The terrorist attacks are being used as a pretext to give law enforcement all sorts of goodies that they weren't able to have before. As if mandatory back-doors into encryption software is going to make a difference. Only stupid people would use software like that.
After reading an article about the Anti-Terrorism bill being rammed through, it makes me glad that I'm a Canadian citizen. If there's one thing Canadian politicians are good at, it's not passing laws that are knee-jerk reactions to recent events. I feel sorry for those American citizens who will have their rights trampled on by overzealous law enforcement agencies determined to abuse their new abilities. The idea that legal citizens of the U.S. can be detained indefinitely under the pretext of being suspected terrorists makes me wonder if America is on it's way to being a police state where those who step out of line will disappear.
I can't believe you would even *think* of telling them that their competitors aren't using the best tools available. If they didn't pick you, anything that happens isn't your fault and you have *no* obligation to tell them what they are getting themselves into.
Now maybe I am totally misinterpreting the GPL, but it's my understanding that when you use GPL'd code and *change* it, that you have to provide those changes to anyone you *asks* for them. I am under the impression that it is not mandatory to distribute source code along with the binary but you have to give your changes to anyone who asks for them.
Um, I was watching the same movie as you and don't remember Q-G-J saying that these little things were the force. What he said was those little critters help you LISTEN to the force and GUIDE you. He did not say they were the Force.
They help the Jedi manipulate the Force, nothing more.
Sheesh, talk about not listening to the whole thing.
I always snicker when I find a program that I can use in Canada that can't be used in the US without violating what I feel is a stupid law that makes crypto a munition in the US.
Of course, I expect the Canadian government to pass some sort of law mimicing our Big Bully Brother to the south of us making it illegal to export strong crypto. But for now, it looks like Canada's got some of the strongest crypto iron available internationally.
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As a Canadian, it's easy for me to say "well, our politicians can't be bought that easily because they have to vote along party lines.", but the truth is that Canadian politicians can be bought just as easily as their American counterparts. But it appears now that the current government has finally learned that people want to see some accountability. The PM fired the Defense Minister today for giving an untendered contract for CDN$30K to an ex-girlfriend, and are drafting legislation to provide much more access to who gives the government money and who contracts are awarded to.
As usual, the /. hordes overreact to what is obviously a humourous piece. Pinochet a benign dicatator? I can't believe anybody here fell for that one.
You forgot one thing: George Lucas has produced these films *outside* the MPAA structure, so when you buy a ticket the money goes into Lucas' pocket, not the MPAA.
You are forgetting about Cogeco, who I use at home for my cable modem connection (I live in Oakville. Except for a month when their system was messed up and I couldn't get to some sites, I've had a totally reliable service.
They were on the ball for the change from @Home when it collapsed and I've had no problem dealing with their customer service people. I agree that Rogers sucks too as I used to have them for cable TV when I lived in Toronto.
I can think of one other industry that consistently cries poor while revenue constantly increases, *and* works hard to alienate their own customers. Oh yeah, they bought off the U.S. government to not interfere in their operations.
It's called Major League Baseball.
It doesn't matter. The terrorist attacks are being used as a pretext to give law enforcement all sorts of goodies that they weren't able to have before. As if mandatory back-doors into encryption software is going to make a difference. Only stupid people would use software like that.
After reading an article about the Anti-Terrorism bill being rammed through, it makes me glad that I'm a Canadian citizen. If there's one thing Canadian politicians are good at, it's not passing laws that are knee-jerk reactions to recent events. I feel sorry for those American citizens who will have their rights trampled on by overzealous law enforcement agencies determined to abuse their new abilities. The idea that legal citizens of the U.S. can be detained indefinitely under the pretext of being suspected terrorists makes me wonder if America is on it's way to being a police state where those who step out of line will disappear.
I can't believe you would even *think* of telling them that their competitors aren't using the best tools available. If they didn't pick you, anything that happens isn't your fault and you have *no* obligation to tell them what they are getting themselves into.
People need to find things out for themselves.
Now maybe I am totally misinterpreting the GPL, but it's my understanding that when you use GPL'd code and *change* it, that you have to provide those changes to anyone you *asks* for them. I am under the impression that it is not mandatory to distribute source code along with the binary but you have to give your changes to anyone who asks for them.
Um, I was watching the same movie as you and don't remember Q-G-J saying that these little things were the force. What he said was those little critters help you LISTEN to the force and GUIDE you. He did not say they were the Force.
They help the Jedi manipulate the Force, nothing more.
Sheesh, talk about not listening to the whole thing.
I can think of at least two reasons why Vader wouldn't recognize C3PO in the other movies
(1) 3PO wasn't even *finished* when he left Tatooine. Give him a cover and how the heck do you expect him to recoginze 3PO?
(2) Vader never actually meets 3PO and R2D2 face-to-face in Episodes 4-6.
I always snicker when I find a program that I can use in Canada that can't be used in the US without violating what I feel is a stupid law that makes crypto a munition in the US.
Of course, I expect the Canadian government to pass some sort of law mimicing our Big Bully Brother to the south of us making it illegal to export strong crypto. But for now, it looks like Canada's got some of the strongest crypto iron available internationally.
The only way to raise money for such a thing is via advertising. Otherwise, it ain't gonna be free for long...