Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Part of Anti-terrorism Act violates charter: judge

Article

Not really interestd in the main point that this artical is braying about , but it doesn mention further down two other points that should be frightening to most canadians.

Preventive arrest allows police to arrest someone they believe might commit a terrorist act.

Letmme get this straight. You can arrest people anywhere , any time, that havn't actually done anything ? ...ummmm.... hello totalitarian state ?

Investigative hearings allow judges to compel people to appear as material witnesses and prosecute them should they refuse.

...ummm yeah ! You can force them to testify and punish them if they do not. What do you mean by TESTIFY ? You mean , of course , to have them tell a particular story YOU made up , so as to throw someone else in the clink for good.

... hello dictatorship ! Goodbye freedoms !

Neither measure has yet been used.

someone will. I guarentee it. Someone always pushes their luck , it's human nature.

The Newsies Speak

I get up and watch CNN every morning with my breakfast.

They're big on counting US casualties and claiming how
awful it is. We lost 80 people this month, gasp ! That's
horrible.

Right.

There are 150 000 american troops in Iraq. 80 a month is a fraction of one percent. Assuming 80 a month for 6 months, the average tour of duty for a soldier , it means your soldier has a %0.32 chance of dying. A third of one percent. This is not combat fatalities. This is traffic accident statistics.

If this is the best the muslim insurgants can inflict upon the US then THEY ARE LOSING ! Big time.

But CNN has a different story to tell. And I do mean story. Thanks to this illustrius bastian of journalistic integredy , it seems to all the west that in fact the americans are losing , not the muslim terrorist.

It is expected that the terrorists will front a propaganda war against us. It is not expected that our own newspapers will help them.

and why are they helping them ? Follow the money , which in this case isnt hard.

Bad news sells papers. Cut a deal with the terrorists , leave our reporters alone and we'll do right by you in the newspaper articles, and volia. American reporters get to wander the war scene almost unharmed (the terrorists are badly organized , there's always a few that don't get the word and kidnap an american anyways) as long as they continue to print anti-american stories, as long as they continue to show muslim mothers crying at what the cruel americans did ... and the guys holding guns to the reporters heads are never shown and the money keeps rolling in.

And a war the US is winning , is portrayed as one that they are losing , and now they some how have to explain WHY they are losing this war to their own people when in fact they are not.

It all sells print.
It's totally dishonest.
Thus speak The Newsies.

Conservatives on Green

The conservative party has a new plan for the biosphere, a Green Plan. Trouble is , it doesn't require anyone to do anything for at least ten years. This after they basically disposed of the Koyoto Accord which requires big business to start doing things ... now, as a matter of fact.

Trouble is , the Conservatives wont be in power in ten years, probably the Liberals will win the next election. and they're guarenteed to trash this plan ... and well...we're not part of Koyoto anymore so we don't have to obey that ....


Cute manouvering. And what do we , the average joe on the ground get out of this ?

Smog. Lots more smog. And no controls to stop it. And the blame shuffled back and forth like a hockey puck on a rink made from polluted water. And no hope in the future of any controls to stop it.

The Plumber Speaks

Hit the doctor today , a GI specialist who calls himself The Plumber.
No operation yet, he'll see me again in december. Lose some weight.

Sheesh .. this just drags on and on....

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Online Gambling

USA just passed a law making it illegal for credit card companies to pay money to online gambling sites.

Online gambling sites are already illegal in the USA , and are mostly found in europe. 50% of their customers, however , are in the usa.

The online gambling sites are terribly terribly upset about this, saying that this is no way to solve the gambling addiction of people, you should regulate the issue. Of course they're currently sitting in europe thumbing their noses at any attempt by the US to regulate them in any way shape or form.

I work in tech support, internet connection for residential customers ( I won't say which company). I get calls all the time about internet gambling. The usual complaint ?

If you disconnect from the gambling server, you forfiet all funds. Odd, the "practice" server that only plays for pretend money almost never disco's. The "live" server that plays for actual US cash ? Disco's about every 30 seconds, and the player loses it all , and complains to us for lousy service. And we have to explain to them point blank that since it's only the live server going down and not the practice, they are being ripped off.

Lets not mince words.
Online gambling is illegal for a reason.
And that reason is because the operators are theives and pirates.
And the reason is because it is just SOOOOO easy to rip people off from the other side of the world and then listen to their local cops say "I'm sorry , but he's not here, he's in some other country ..."

You wanna gamble ? Show up in person at the casino. Those guys mess up , you can take them to court. Some guy on the other side of the world ? He'll just thumb his nose at you and move on to the next sucker.