I was a victim of XCP. Don't expect ME to buy anything else from Sony, ever again. If I did to Sony's computers what Sony did to mine when my daughter innocently installed their damned trojan, I'd be in prison.
Sony doesn't deserve to live. I wish averyone who owned Sony stock would sell it, and I wish people would stop buying Sony products. Sony is evil and doesn't deserve your business.
And yet, Sony will continue to prosper, because not one person in a thousand knows, and of those that know, not one in a thousand cares.
I will therefore restrict myself to declaring that, should this legislation pass, I will not be voting for you in the future. That is an unconditional promise.
No good. You voice is just a single one, it will not influence their decision.
Instead, make a pledge to your MP that you will spend your time, energy and resources to help THEIR OPPONENTS FOR SEVEN GENERATIONS win. Then follow up.
Here are some suggestions, in no particular order:
* Spread the message. Contact people electronically and in person to let them know that C-30, C-11 and their ilk are evil incarnate. Use facts but don't be afraid of hyperbole.
* Get a commitment from the Liberal, NDP, Green and independent candidates in your riding to fight to revoke the parts of these bills you find unacceptable should they get elected, in return to your helping their campaign. Then choose one and HELP THEIR CAMPAIGN.
* Talk to young people, middle- and high-school students in particular are not yet completely brainwashed. Explain to them that they do not want to live under a regimes that wants to make everyone a criminal for the sake of the for-profit jails. Some of them will be old enough to vote in the next election, some in the following ones. Start early. The older generations are most likely a lost cause.
* Use easy-to-understand and hard-to-argue-against examples to frame the argument. E.g.: 1) Want to watch your legally-bought DVD on your iPad or iPhone? Go to jail! 2) What if your Ex's cousin is a dirty cop? They are now legally allowed to stalk you without court oversight! 3) http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120202.gif etc.
* Share every little success that you have with your Conservative MP. Thank them for giving you the motivation to fight the good fight and remind them that you could be using all this energy to help THEM instead, if only they took a firm stand against C-20 and C-11.
So, what would you call people from the Americas? You know, North- and South America?
"North Americans", for people from North America. "Central Americans", for people from Central America (unless included in the term above). "Middle Americans", for people from Mexico and the nations of Central America (and possibly West Indies, Colombia and Venezuela; depending on the definition used). "South Americans", for people from South America. "Anglo Americans", for people from countries in the Americas with significant British cultural or historical links. "Latin Americans", for people from Latin America. "Ibero Americans", for people from the former colonies of Spain and Portugal in the Americas. and so on and so forth...
While the commonly used term for the whole "greater" American continent is "the Americas", There is too little in common between all the people of the region to warrant a specific term just because there's a narrow land-strip connecting the sub-continents.
After all, how often do you hear the term "Afro-Eurasians"?
Yet despite what most citizens of the United States believe they are NOT the only "AMERICANS", as anyone living anywhere in either North, South, or Central AMERICA can lay claim to that title.
Speaking as a Canadian, I don't know of any Canadian (with the possible exception of Harper) that would want to lay claim to that title.
1) Procreation is a natural function of (almost) every organism on this planet. Government, especially an elected one, is an artificial construct.
2) Your vote can potentially affect the whole country. You shagging has significantly less far-reaching consequences.
3) A lot of activities require a license, often accompanied by a mandatory test. Driving, flying, transmitting on certain frequencies, carrying weapons (in many countries), practising law or medicine... The same "slippery slope" arguments may be applied.
I have heard the rattle of a live sax. I have heard a delicate triangle ringing out over a live orchestra. I have heard live trumpet. I've spent quite a bit of time training my ears to hear those sounds.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Different people have different cognitive abilities - this extends to our senses. The average person lacks perfect pitch, cannot tell the difference between SD and HD unless they're side by side, thinks their 128kbps MP3s sound alright, doesn't notice 60Hz jitter on their LCD, and so on.
It's the people on the fringes with superior senses who notice this stuff. But for the rest, this is all outside of their senses, so they're going to rubbish the quality paranoias of so-called audiophiles and videophiles.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, CRT monitors running at a refresh rate of less than 75Hz used to bother the hell out of me while none of my coworkers seemed to mind. Due to that, I was the 1st person in the office to get a fairly decent (in comparison) 15" monitor while everybody else, management included, used cheap 14" ones. I never considered my vision to be "superior" in any sense, it might be just that my brain does not do visual interpolation very well.
The "visual equivalent" to 192kHz sounds would be recording colours outside the human range. Like recording also infra-reds, microwaves, ultraviolets, and X-Rays. Things that can't never been seen, because human lack the corresponding apparatus. The only way to get someting out of this extra data would be to transpose it into the visible domain. Thus use pseudo-colours to display levels of low infrared (heat), etc.
In our hypothetical Wide Spectrum Video craze, consider a fervent group of Spectrophiles who believe these limits aren't generous enough. They propose that video represent not only the visible spectrum, but also infrared and ultraviolet. Continuing the comparison, there's an even more hardcore [and proud of it!] faction that insists this expanded range is yet insufficient, and that video feels so much more natural when it also includes microwaves and some of the X-ray spectrum. To a Golden Eye, they insist, the difference is night and day!
Of course this is ludicrous.
No one can see X-rays (or infrared, or ultraviolet, or microwaves). It doesn't matter how much a person believes he can. Retinas simply don't have the sensory hardware.
Actually, you should institute comprehension tests for legislators first. Every representative that introduces a bill should be grilled mercilessly to determine whether they are intimately familiar with its details and thoroughly understand their implications.
While you're at it, ban riders and get rid of act names.
You're ensuring a process by which one demographic (wealthier, more educated) are given all authority over another (less wealthy, less educated). You are ensuring an aristocracy in which the elite rule the serfs and the serfs have little or no voice.
Solution: the state provides free civics education material or courses to the populace.
It has nothing to to with class warfare and everything to do with the most important requirement for a viable democratic process: informed voters. In other words: if you are to ignorant to understand the potential consequences of a choice that may affect your whole country, you should not be allowed to make that choice.
I agree with you completely; civics test to demonstrate you care enough about the process to learn about the candidates
Fantastic solution - I volunteer to me the grader. I promise to make sure that only those who have answered all the questions "correctly" get to pass and to vote.
Multiple choice, computer-graded, paper trail retained to allow verification by any interested party.
What I'd like to see is some kind of very tough civics test as a requirement for voting.
You raise some good points but the above is not really relevant. One can be uninterested in civics/politics while at the same time holding very valid points about an issue. Case in point, should the 'ruling' of the internet be left to the politicians/lawyers or to engineers who built it. If you exclude the latter because they are not involved 'enough' in politics, you'll break the internet. This applies to almost everything.
The civics test can (should) be apolitical and only test your knowledge of the system, the rules and the process.
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And therein lies the beauty of the system:
You still have your rights.
You just cannot afford to exercise them.
I was a victim of XCP. Don't expect ME to buy anything else from Sony, ever again. If I did to Sony's computers what Sony did to mine when my daughter innocently installed their damned trojan, I'd be in prison.
Sony doesn't deserve to live. I wish averyone who owned Sony stock would sell it, and I wish people would stop buying Sony products. Sony is evil and doesn't deserve your business.
And yet, Sony will continue to prosper, because not one person in a thousand knows, and of those that know, not one in a thousand cares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_of_Daggorath
Buffy as well.
When will they ban hydroxylic acid?
I will therefore restrict myself to declaring that, should this legislation pass, I will not be voting for you in the future. That is an unconditional promise.
No good. You voice is just a single one, it will not influence their decision.
Instead, make a pledge to your MP that you will spend your time, energy and resources to help THEIR OPPONENTS FOR SEVEN GENERATIONS win.
Then follow up.
I go into a little more details here.
What the frig else should I do?
Here are some suggestions, in no particular order:
* Spread the message. Contact people electronically and in person to let them know that C-30, C-11 and their ilk are evil incarnate. Use facts but don't be afraid of hyperbole.
* Get a commitment from the Liberal, NDP, Green and independent candidates in your riding to fight to revoke the parts of these bills you find unacceptable should they get elected, in return to your helping their campaign. Then choose one and HELP THEIR CAMPAIGN.
* Talk to young people, middle- and high-school students in particular are not yet completely brainwashed. Explain to them that they do not want to live under a regimes that wants to make everyone a criminal for the sake of the for-profit jails. Some of them will be old enough to vote in the next election, some in the following ones. Start early. The older generations are most likely a lost cause.
* Use easy-to-understand and hard-to-argue-against examples to frame the argument. E.g.:
1) Want to watch your legally-bought DVD on your iPad or iPhone? Go to jail!
2) What if your Ex's cousin is a dirty cop? They are now legally allowed to stalk you without court oversight!
3) http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120202.gif
etc.
* Share every little success that you have with your Conservative MP. Thank them for giving you the motivation to fight the good fight and remind them that you could be using all this energy to help THEM instead, if only they took a firm stand against C-20 and C-11.
It's WAR. Start treating it like one.
So, what would you call people from the Americas? You know, North- and South America?
"North Americans", for people from North America.
"Central Americans", for people from Central America (unless included in the term above).
"Middle Americans", for people from Mexico and the nations of Central America (and possibly West Indies, Colombia and Venezuela; depending on the definition used).
"South Americans", for people from South America.
"Anglo Americans", for people from countries in the Americas with significant British cultural or historical links.
"Latin Americans", for people from Latin America.
"Ibero Americans", for people from the former colonies of Spain and Portugal in the Americas.
and so on and so forth...
While the commonly used term for the whole "greater" American continent is "the Americas", There is too little in common between all the people of the region to warrant a specific term just because there's a narrow land-strip connecting the sub-continents.
After all, how often do you hear the term "Afro-Eurasians"?
Yet despite what most citizens of the United States believe they are NOT the only "AMERICANS", as anyone living anywhere in either North, South, or Central AMERICA can lay claim to that title.
Speaking as a Canadian, I don't know of any Canadian (with the possible exception of Harper) that would want to lay claim to that title.
Failed on several fronts:
1) Procreation is a natural function of (almost) every organism on this planet.
Government, especially an elected one, is an artificial construct.
2) Your vote can potentially affect the whole country.
You shagging has significantly less far-reaching consequences.
3) A lot of activities require a license, often accompanied by a mandatory test. Driving, flying, transmitting on certain frequencies, carrying weapons (in many countries), practising law or medicine...
The same "slippery slope" arguments may be applied.
Better luck next time.
Weight is still determined by calories in and calories out.
Not true. Weight is determined by the insulin response triggered by an increase in blood sugar.
And all this time I thought that weight was determined mainly by mass and gravitational pull.
Go to party as a floating cock.
You mean like this one?
Lord of Light is the real stuff
You misspelled "Eye of Cat".
Cancer immunotherapy seems to be a popular topic nowadays.
Another company engaged in research in this direction and worth following is Immonovative.
I have heard the rattle of a live sax. I have heard a delicate triangle ringing out over a live orchestra. I have heard live trumpet. I've spent quite a bit of time training my ears to hear those sounds.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Different people have different cognitive abilities - this extends to our senses. The average person lacks perfect pitch, cannot tell the difference between SD and HD unless they're side by side, thinks their 128kbps MP3s sound alright, doesn't notice 60Hz jitter on their LCD, and so on.
It's the people on the fringes with superior senses who notice this stuff. But for the rest, this is all outside of their senses, so they're going to rubbish the quality paranoias of so-called audiophiles and videophiles.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, CRT monitors running at a refresh rate of less than 75Hz used to bother the hell out of me while none of my coworkers seemed to mind. Due to that, I was the 1st person in the office to get a fairly decent (in comparison) 15" monitor while everybody else, management included, used cheap 14" ones.
I never considered my vision to be "superior" in any sense, it might be just that my brain does not do visual interpolation very well.
The "visual equivalent" to 192kHz sounds would be recording colours outside the human range. Like recording also infra-reds, microwaves, ultraviolets, and X-Rays. Things that can't never been seen, because human lack the corresponding apparatus. The only way to get someting out of this extra data would be to transpose it into the visible domain. Thus use pseudo-colours to display levels of low infrared (heat), etc.
Bad analogy.
Quoting from TFA:
In our hypothetical Wide Spectrum Video craze, consider a fervent group of Spectrophiles who believe these limits aren't generous enough. They propose that video represent not only the visible spectrum, but also infrared and ultraviolet. Continuing the comparison, there's an even more hardcore [and proud of it!] faction that insists this expanded range is yet insufficient, and that video feels so much more natural when it also includes microwaves and some of the X-ray spectrum. To a Golden Eye, they insist, the difference is night and day!
Of course this is ludicrous.
No one can see X-rays (or infrared, or ultraviolet, or microwaves). It doesn't matter how much a person believes he can. Retinas simply don't have the sensory hardware.
I beg to differ.
If you're in Canada, Bill C-11 actually criminalizes it.
Actually, you should institute comprehension tests for legislators first.
Every representative that introduces a bill should be grilled mercilessly to determine whether they are intimately familiar with its details and thoroughly understand their implications.
While you're at it, ban riders and get rid of act names.
Canada is a parliamentary democracy, with a democratically elected house of commons and an unelected senate.
It is also a constitutional monarchy.
Just saying.
You're ensuring a process by which one demographic (wealthier, more educated) are given all authority over another (less wealthy, less educated). You are ensuring an aristocracy in which the elite rule the serfs and the serfs have little or no voice.
Solution: the state provides free civics education material or courses to the populace.
It has nothing to to with class warfare and everything to do with the most important requirement for a viable democratic process: informed voters. In other words: if you are to ignorant to understand the potential consequences of a choice that may affect your whole country, you should not be allowed to make that choice.
Here's another interesting opinion piece.
I agree with you completely; civics test to demonstrate you care enough about the process to learn about the candidates
Fantastic solution - I volunteer to me the grader. I promise to make sure that only those who have answered all the questions "correctly" get to pass and to vote.
Multiple choice, computer-graded, paper trail retained to allow verification by any interested party.
What I'd like to see is some kind of very tough civics test as a requirement for voting.
You raise some good points but the above is not really relevant. One can be uninterested in civics/politics while at the same time holding very valid points about an issue. Case in point, should the 'ruling' of the internet be left to the politicians/lawyers or to engineers who built it. If you exclude the latter because they are not involved 'enough' in politics, you'll break the internet. This applies to almost everything.
The civics test can (should) be apolitical and only test your knowledge of the system, the rules and the process.
I want a pony.
doesn't mean it will happen.
You are not the best friend of a dictator (read, a Canadian prime minister in a majority government).