Actually it was the US government who wrote this legislation and told our government that they will sign it into law or your sleazy country will screw us over on trade worse than they already do.
They are already taking the guns away from legal gun owners in record numbers up here.
Welcome to the police state.
In true Canadian fashon we will whine and bitch for a bit and then grab our ankles.
I'd like to see Canada shut down all oil exports to the US until softwood lumber, beef exports and your unwelcome interference in our political system is fixed to our satisfaction. But of course since politicians work for corporations and not voters it will never happen. IP rights are supposed to compensate the creative people who contribute to society not corporate profiteers like they do now.
Yeah the victims of visual industrialized culture always chime in when ever a new cool medium (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/mcluhan/hotcool.htm) moves in. This is even after all the research showing that cool media are better teachers than hot media. First TV was making all the kids into mindless drones, then video games, now computers. This is just a different sensory balance and a different set of values that springs from that balance. People who gravitate toward the sensory balance of the new media are the non-specialist renaissance types. They are always at odds with the people who are still clinging to the obsolete visual paradigm. As Heinlein said "Specialization is for insects". It's well past time we started acting like integrated human beings again.
uh.. you kill or lock up the sociopaths. It's not even just the sociopaths you have to go after the people who cede authority to these people are just as much an enemy of the survival of our species and need to be treated just as harshly. The problem is that they are in the majority which kind of disproves the myth of a functional democracy. A system where a smart person's vote can be negated by a stupid person is never going to work as long as P.T.Barnum's adage holds true that "There's a sucker born every minute". These people aren't really sociopaths they are just heavily indoctrinated in to visual culture.
Electronic media has a retribalizing effect Marshall McLuhan talked about a lot which gives some hope. After a new media repackages the content of the old media it really picks up steam and the internet has pretty much repackaged the old media. This despite the best efforts of the old media cabals trying to maintain their unnatural "ownership" of the tribe's cultural heritage. They might as well be ordering back the waves but a lot of innocent people will get hurt in the mean time. The fact is that it would be better for humanity to wipe its self out that follow the path that the current powers that be have laid out. I'd rather see humanity destroy its self than end up a bunch of technocratically enforced corporate slaves working for the aggrandizement of an inferior elite of robber barons like the Republicans, Democrats and their corporate masters. We live in a world where shit floats and gold sinks.
Visual design of software and software languages is simply outside the native mode for automated systems. Tactile or kinesthetic would be the correct mode. Audile would be an acceptable compromise. Visual design while pervasive and an industry standard is also fundamentally misguided even though most people are primarily visual. You can see people starting to pick up on this as categorizing content(Visual) is giving way to tagging(Kino). You can see how much more flexible being able to tag photos is than having to slot them into categories like in a directory tree of folders. Categorization leads to duplication and ambiguity.
Artists selling music and performances to consumers is the music industry. The RIAA and the labels are just parasites that have been feeding off the industry. They are non-value added middle men. They are the real thieves. I'm sorry your industry got replaced by a computer but tough..too bad for you. There was a music industry before recorded music.
When we have someone even moving from one team to another we often have their access cut down. The reason we do this is so that we know the team will function without that person. The person is supposed to document, demonstrate and advise. You want information transfer not hands on work. It's much better if you have to talk other people through these processes.
Redundant systems are not efficient? You don't say. Redundant systems are redundantly redundant..That's why they are robust. This message brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
Who cares about the details. All you need to know is that these people are the enemies of a free and open society. We know they are the enemy of your constitutional rights and they lied when they swore to defend them. This will stop when you hang them for treason and not one second before.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. Thomas Jefferson
Staring Jackie Chan as the chinese gold farmer. He could play a character named aekehjrhjr and come on screen every 5 minutes offering to sell WoW gold.
Who would play Leroy Jenkins? Who would play the healer who can't keep the tank up? Who would play the hunter who can't control his friggin' pet and aggros everything?
With the failure rates I've seen on Fujitsu drives over the years I'll be giving this a pass. I wonder how much fun these are going to be to recover.
No Fujitsu, no Maxtor is what I tell people looking for hard drives.
Of course I would never advocate smashing a whole lot of expensive Rogers/Bell equipment..that would be illegal. Instead you should follow the laws made by your corporate masters and again pay more for less. Don't endanger their profits by defacing everything with their logos on it with obscene words. What ever you do don't break their equipment or they'll never make higher and higher profits off your back. Our laws were made for the good of all greedy thieving corporations. Who are we to question them? If these corporations aren't given carte blanche to do what ever they want then they won't be able to create new jobs..you know..in India. Just smile, grab your ankles and pretend you're an American..soon you will be.
You mean lawyers and record execs are all social parasites who contribute nothing and then take the Lion's share..who knew? As long as a high priced lawyer can get you any better an outcome than the highest priced lawyers then they have proven that the legal system is undeniably corrupt and lacks any legitimate authority. As long as we govern ourselves by rule of law and politics then the world will be a horrible place.
All this legal stuff is fine and good but the corporations own the courts. In technology we often overlook the low tech solution. What ever happened to pitchforks and torches for people like this?
It's spreading a bit but the fact is most people do not want to spend their time administering their system. If something really needs to be done they take it to a chain store. Good luck with a linux system. Despite all the "linux is so easy", "linux is a panacea" crap I hear it is far too irritating for the average user. Things aren't always in the same place. Software installs are inconsistent. Instructions usually contain MANY inaccuracies because of distro differences. On Windows I just hit next, next, next, finish and if that doesn't work I go to Bestbuy. Linux has made great strides in usability but strapping a hump on a horse doesn't make it a camel. The first time even a power user in windows tries to use vi they are going to be disgusted with just how clueless the linux community is about usability and basic media science. The first time I have to edit a configuration file or drop to the shell Linux has failed as a relevant operating system. This is not what people want and continually telling them that it is what they want doesn't help. Telling them it's oh so powerful doesn't work if the learning curve is steep and the environment doesn't fit their sensory balance. The only hope Linux has is to completely shelter the user like the MacOS does and plaster over the ugliness underneath. Windows did..eventually.
Read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media the Extensions of Man It went in depth as to the effects on the psyche of this and the processes involved. I particually like the part about computerized custom newspapers with integral comminity involvement. He called RSS feeds in 1968..and was laughed at. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media
Non-Competes are a joke. I'm not a lawyer. I'm a productive member of society but he's my two cents(CAD) I've never seen one ever get to court let alone stand up in court. Then again I'm not in the US. The ability to work for the competition is called an open market for labour. Companies love the open market when it works in their favour but when it means they have to pay fair wages it starts to be talked about like some kind of communism. This problem will simply never be solved without body count. When our corporate overlords are swinging by their necks then we will have justice not one second before.
So exactly how bad will your economy have to tank before you admit the current system is counter productive? It seems like it's going to take eating dog food to convince some of these people that current economic theory is either wrong or a direct attack on humanity. I will try and focus on the topic related aspect of this. I can not compete fairly with Bell Canada because they pay lobbiests to make sure I can't. I've shaken hands with these people, nice suits. They also went through the boom times using MY money. When all these companies are run by the same groups of people, competition is a joke. The only competition is for who is going to steal your money. This "Laissez-faire" economic policy used to be in place in Denmark. Companies of men would go out kill people and sell their family and possessions. The economy depended on these pillars of the community just like it does today. They eventually opted for socialism over a system that does everything it can to take as much away from people as it can..you should too. Yanks always say socialism like it's a bad word we don't see it that way. If you're not going to support the team then you need to be thrown off the team, period. Slandering socialism sounds like a good plan for a greedy government if they can find enough people to believe it and cut each other's throat for money. Never a problem in the US. Subsidizing Bell started out as socialism because we needed to provide infrastructure across huge areas with low population densities. Then it became pork barrel politics. Like any government system socialism has to be kept in check. Now communication is more free market so I do have my choices in highspeed consumer internet but it's all monitored, it's all throttled and it's all run by the same group of people. They are legally obligated to the shareholders to do everything in their power to take more money from me every year. A fixed choice is worse than no choice because then you have to listen to clueless people go on and on about how I have a choice when I don't.
The people doing this don't give a rat's ass what your opinion is. The only way to make them stop is to insist with all force necessary. If you're not willing to get your hands dirty to stand up to this scum then no one HAS to care what you think..so why bother shaking your little fist and writing scathing condemnations?
Cut word lines Cut music lines Smash the control images Smash the control machine.
- William S. Burroughs
Read "Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan. Nothing I can say will come anywhere close to dispelling all the confused notions I'm reading. First of all we are moving away from mechanization and toward automation. There is a huge difference between the two.
Hey if a teacher can't teach you obviously drug the child. If the staff can't maintain discipline you obviously turn the school into a police state. So when children that are OWED an education get a mess of a human being instead of a real teacher it's obvious you need to suspend the students.
Children learn best by example so all they would learn from THAT is to be unhealthy, incapable of hygiene and bad at their jobs. It's the students that got slapped in the face and insulted by having this woman pawned off on them. I'm sure the bleeding hearts will whine that she has emotional problems..well they're her personal problems they have no business in the class room.
When I was clearing mines I got a 10inch teflon coated spike if I was lucky a bayonette if I was less lucky and orders to advance if I was REALLY unlucky. No one ever felt sorry for me or gave me a robot...and a shout out to our new robot overlords.
I've used old CDs and spindles to build an inexpensive array of cohesion based turbines. I've been using it to power my world domination experiments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine
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The US broke NAFTA time and time again whenever it suited them. NAFTA is null and void as far as I'm concerned. So now it's our turn.
Actually it was the US government who wrote this legislation and told our government that they will sign it into law or your sleazy country will screw us over on trade worse than they already do.
They are already taking the guns away from legal gun owners in record numbers up here.
Welcome to the police state.
In true Canadian fashon we will whine and bitch for a bit and then grab our ankles.
I'd like to see Canada shut down all oil exports to the US until softwood lumber, beef exports and your unwelcome interference in our political system is fixed to our satisfaction. But of course since politicians work for corporations and not voters it will never happen.
IP rights are supposed to compensate the creative people who contribute to society not corporate profiteers like they do now.
Yeah the victims of visual industrialized culture always chime in when ever a new cool medium (http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dabrent/mcluhan/hotcool.htm) moves in.
This is even after all the research showing that cool media are better teachers than hot media.
First TV was making all the kids into mindless drones, then video games, now computers.
This is just a different sensory balance and a different set of values that springs from that balance.
People who gravitate toward the sensory balance of the new media are the non-specialist renaissance types. They are always at odds with the people who are still clinging to the obsolete visual paradigm.
As Heinlein said "Specialization is for insects". It's well past time we started acting like integrated human beings again.
uh.. you kill or lock up the sociopaths. It's not even just the sociopaths you have to go after the people who cede authority to these people are just as much an enemy of the survival of our species and need to be treated just as harshly.
The problem is that they are in the majority which kind of disproves the myth of a functional democracy.
A system where a smart person's vote can be negated by a stupid person is never going to work as long as P.T.Barnum's adage holds true that "There's a sucker born every minute".
These people aren't really sociopaths they are just heavily indoctrinated in to visual culture.
Electronic media has a retribalizing effect Marshall McLuhan talked about a lot which gives some hope. After a new media repackages the content of the old media it really picks up steam and the internet has pretty much repackaged the old media. This despite the best efforts of the old media cabals trying to maintain their unnatural "ownership" of the tribe's cultural heritage.
They might as well be ordering back the waves but a lot of innocent people will get hurt in the mean time.
The fact is that it would be better for humanity to wipe its self out that follow the path that the current powers that be have laid out.
I'd rather see humanity destroy its self than end up a bunch of technocratically enforced corporate slaves working for the aggrandizement of an inferior elite of robber barons like the Republicans, Democrats and their corporate masters.
We live in a world where shit floats and gold sinks.
Visual design of software and software languages is simply outside the native mode for automated systems. Tactile or kinesthetic would be the correct mode. Audile would be an acceptable compromise. Visual design while pervasive and an industry standard is also fundamentally misguided even though most people are primarily visual.
You can see people starting to pick up on this as categorizing content(Visual) is giving way to tagging(Kino). You can see how much more flexible being able to tag photos is than having to slot them into categories like in a directory tree of folders. Categorization leads to duplication and ambiguity.
http://cultofjim.com/scripture/understanding_media/#chapter33
Artists selling music and performances to consumers is the music industry. ..too bad for you.
The RIAA and the labels are just parasites that have been feeding off the industry.
They are non-value added middle men.
They are the real thieves.
I'm sorry your industry got replaced by a computer but tough
There was a music industry before recorded music.
When we have someone even moving from one team to another we often have their access cut down. The reason we do this is so that we know the team will function without that person. The person is supposed to document, demonstrate and advise. You want information transfer not hands on work. It's much better if you have to talk other people through these processes.
The very concept that I should have to pay someone to have ownership of the fruits of my own labour is so utterly repugnant it defies words.
Redundant systems are not efficient? You don't say.
Redundant systems are redundantly redundant..That's why they are robust.
This message brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department.
Who cares about the details.
All you need to know is that these people are the enemies of a free and open society.
We know they are the enemy of your constitutional rights and they lied when they swore to defend them.
This will stop when you hang them for treason and not one second before.
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
Staring Jackie Chan as the chinese gold farmer.
He could play a character named aekehjrhjr and come on screen every 5 minutes offering to sell WoW gold.
Who would play Leroy Jenkins?
Who would play the healer who can't keep the tank up?
Who would play the hunter who can't control his friggin' pet and aggros everything?
With the failure rates I've seen on Fujitsu drives over the years I'll be giving this a pass. I wonder how much fun these are going to be to recover. No Fujitsu, no Maxtor is what I tell people looking for hard drives.
Of course I would never advocate smashing a whole lot of expensive Rogers/Bell equipment..that would be illegal.
Instead you should follow the laws made by your corporate masters and again pay more for less. Don't endanger their profits by defacing everything with their logos on it with obscene words. What ever you do don't break their equipment or they'll never make higher and higher profits off your back.
Our laws were made for the good of all greedy thieving corporations. Who are we to question them?
If these corporations aren't given carte blanche to do what ever they want then they won't be able to create new jobs..you know..in India.
Just smile, grab your ankles and pretend you're an American..soon you will be.
You mean lawyers and record execs are all social parasites who contribute nothing and then take the Lion's share..who knew?
As long as a high priced lawyer can get you any better an outcome than the highest priced lawyers then they have proven that the legal system is undeniably corrupt and lacks any legitimate authority.
As long as we govern ourselves by rule of law and politics then the world will be a horrible place.
All this legal stuff is fine and good but the corporations own the courts.
In technology we often overlook the low tech solution.
What ever happened to pitchforks and torches for people like this?
It's spreading a bit but the fact is most people do not want to spend their time administering their system. ..eventually.
If something really needs to be done they take it to a chain store. Good luck with a linux system.
Despite all the "linux is so easy", "linux is a panacea" crap I hear it is far too irritating for the average user. Things aren't always in the same place. Software installs are inconsistent. Instructions usually contain MANY inaccuracies because of distro differences. On Windows I just hit next, next, next, finish and if that doesn't work I go to Bestbuy.
Linux has made great strides in usability but strapping a hump on a horse doesn't make it a camel.
The first time even a power user in windows tries to use vi they are going to be disgusted with just how clueless the linux community is about usability and basic media science.
The first time I have to edit a configuration file or drop to the shell Linux has failed as a relevant operating system. This is not what people want and continually telling them that it is what they want doesn't help. Telling them it's oh so powerful doesn't work if the learning curve is steep and the environment doesn't fit their sensory balance.
The only hope Linux has is to completely shelter the user like the MacOS does and plaster over the ugliness underneath. Windows did
Cum on if you can't trust Micro$oft with your personal data who can you trust.
Read Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media the Extensions of Man
It went in depth as to the effects on the psyche of this and the processes involved.
I particually like the part about computerized custom newspapers with integral comminity involvement.
He called RSS feeds in 1968..and was laughed at.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Media
Non-Competes are a joke.
I'm not a lawyer. I'm a productive member of society but he's my two cents(CAD)
I've never seen one ever get to court let alone stand up in court.
Then again I'm not in the US.
The ability to work for the competition is called an open market for labour.
Companies love the open market when it works in their favour but when it means they have to pay fair wages it starts to be talked about like some kind of communism.
This problem will simply never be solved without body count.
When our corporate overlords are swinging by their necks then we will have justice not one second before.
So exactly how bad will your economy have to tank before you admit the current system is counter productive?
It seems like it's going to take eating dog food to convince some of these people that current economic theory is either wrong or a direct attack on humanity.
I will try and focus on the topic related aspect of this.
I can not compete fairly with Bell Canada because they pay lobbiests to make sure I can't.
I've shaken hands with these people, nice suits.
They also went through the boom times using MY money.
When all these companies are run by the same groups of people, competition is a joke. The only competition is for who is going to steal your money.
This "Laissez-faire" economic policy used to be in place in Denmark. Companies of men would go out kill people and sell their family and possessions. The economy depended on these pillars of the community just like it does today. They eventually opted for socialism over a system that does everything it can to take as much away from people as it can..you should too.
Yanks always say socialism like it's a bad word we don't see it that way.
If you're not going to support the team then you need to be thrown off the team, period.
Slandering socialism sounds like a good plan for a greedy government if they can find enough people to believe it and cut each other's throat for money. Never a problem in the US.
Subsidizing Bell started out as socialism because we needed to provide infrastructure across huge areas with low population densities. Then it became pork barrel politics. Like any government system socialism has to be kept in check. Now communication is more free market so I do have my choices in highspeed consumer internet but it's all monitored, it's all throttled and it's all run by the same group of people. They are legally obligated to the shareholders to do everything in their power to take more money from me every year.
A fixed choice is worse than no choice because then you have to listen to clueless people go on and on about how I have a choice when I don't.
The people doing this don't give a rat's ass what your opinion is.
The only way to make them stop is to insist with all force necessary.
If you're not willing to get your hands dirty to stand up to this scum then no one HAS to care what you think..so why bother shaking your little fist and writing scathing condemnations?
Cut word lines
Cut music lines
Smash the control images
Smash the control machine.
- William S. Burroughs
Read "Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man" by Marshall McLuhan.
Nothing I can say will come anywhere close to dispelling all the confused notions I'm reading.
First of all we are moving away from mechanization and toward automation.
There is a huge difference between the two.
Read the wiki on Marshall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan
Hey if a teacher can't teach you obviously drug the child.
If the staff can't maintain discipline you obviously turn the school into a police state.
So when children that are OWED an education get a mess of a human being instead of a real teacher it's obvious you need to suspend the students.
Children learn best by example so all they would learn from THAT is to be unhealthy, incapable of hygiene and bad at their jobs.
It's the students that got slapped in the face and insulted by having this woman pawned off on them.
I'm sure the bleeding hearts will whine that she has emotional problems..well they're her personal problems they have no business in the class room.
When I was clearing mines I got a 10inch teflon coated spike if I was lucky a bayonette if I was less lucky and orders to advance if I was REALLY unlucky. ..and a shout out to our new robot overlords.
No one ever felt sorry for me or gave me a robot.
I've used old CDs and spindles to build an inexpensive array of cohesion based turbines.
I've been using it to power my world domination experiments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_turbine