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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Obama Meeting Democrats to Plan Health Strategy
Article
With a sense of growing horror, I wonder if I'm reading some science fiction novel about some evil demented alternate universe, or if this really is our news and they really mean it.
Mr. Baucus’s plan would also expand Medicaid, starting in 2014, to cover millions of low-income people, including many childless adults who never qualified before.
You mean you don't know ? If you're poor , they just let you die ?
But Jocelyn A. Guyer, co-executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, expressed concern. “Low-income people without children tend to have extensive health care needs — higher rates of mental illness, physical disability and chronic conditions,” she said.
It's too expensive to treat them ! we should just let them die !
But remarks by the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on the flight to Cincinnati reflected an effort by the White House to play down the importance of a public option to the larger overhaul. Mr. Gibbs said a public option would not affect most Americans — up to 180 million — because they already have insurance through employers.
180/300 is not "most" , its slightly more than half. Are you telling me that a hundred and twenty million people in america have no health insurance ?
“If House leadership presents a final bill that contains a government-run public option, I will oppose it,” Mr. Ross said in a statement issued Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
So this whole "limited life time benifits paid out" and "Type One Uninsurables need not apply" that private insurance companies have should be the way it goes ? If you get truely sick they just punt you to the curb and thats a good thing ?
“I’ve got a question for all those folks who say we’re going to pull the plug on Grandma,”
you offered free health care and I still cant believe they accused you of that.
“What’s your answer? What’s your solution? And you know what? They don’t have one. Their answer is to do nothing.”
Actually , their answer is "we like it the way it is right now where we get to punt people to the curb when we've bled they dry of every penny and make room for the next victem"
I can't believe this is really happening.
But it is.
American Health Care.
Capitalism at it's finest.
With a sense of growing horror, I wonder if I'm reading some science fiction novel about some evil demented alternate universe, or if this really is our news and they really mean it.
Mr. Baucus’s plan would also expand Medicaid, starting in 2014, to cover millions of low-income people, including many childless adults who never qualified before.
You mean you don't know ? If you're poor , they just let you die ?
But Jocelyn A. Guyer, co-executive director of the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University, expressed concern. “Low-income people without children tend to have extensive health care needs — higher rates of mental illness, physical disability and chronic conditions,” she said.
It's too expensive to treat them ! we should just let them die !
But remarks by the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, on the flight to Cincinnati reflected an effort by the White House to play down the importance of a public option to the larger overhaul. Mr. Gibbs said a public option would not affect most Americans — up to 180 million — because they already have insurance through employers.
180/300 is not "most" , its slightly more than half. Are you telling me that a hundred and twenty million people in america have no health insurance ?
“If House leadership presents a final bill that contains a government-run public option, I will oppose it,” Mr. Ross said in a statement issued Tuesday, the Associated Press reported.
So this whole "limited life time benifits paid out" and "Type One Uninsurables need not apply" that private insurance companies have should be the way it goes ? If you get truely sick they just punt you to the curb and thats a good thing ?
“I’ve got a question for all those folks who say we’re going to pull the plug on Grandma,”
you offered free health care and I still cant believe they accused you of that.
“What’s your answer? What’s your solution? And you know what? They don’t have one. Their answer is to do nothing.”
Actually , their answer is "we like it the way it is right now where we get to punt people to the curb when we've bled they dry of every penny and make room for the next victem"
I can't believe this is really happening.
But it is.
American Health Care.
Capitalism at it's finest.
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Butt ban debate reignites
Article
You can’t do it at work. You can’t do it at school. You can’t do it at bars. You can’t do it in your car — at least not in front of the children!
In a few Ontario municipalities, including Arnprior, you can’t even do it on the beach or at the park.
I despise spoon fed pap. This article makes it look like the poor hard put upon smokers are so persecuted.
And the thing I despise the most ? There's no section for reader responses. There's no place to fire back and tell them you disagree with them.
There's no place to tell them about all the times before the smoking ban how people would sit down beside you , in the nonsmoking section , and lite up. And when you ask them to put it out this is the non smoking section , they refuse, And when you ask the staff to enforce the non smoking signs, they just shrug and walk away. Not once, but many many times. Personal experiance.
I really don't want to hear about how enforcing non smoking is bad for business , how most businesses are attempting to attract the business of groups of people , not individuals, and in any group of three or four there's bound to be a smoker , and you don't want them going across the street to some place that allows smoking while you do not.
"It's the way the business works, son. You have to accept it." is probably one of the most irritating phrases anyone has ever said to me by way of explanation as to WHY HE'S RIPPING ME OFF ! (or subjecting me to second hand smoke or unsafe products or other nonsense like that).
It is the business of the government to make rules like the smoking bans, and enforce them on all. Before that ban came into effect , every single place in ottawa , I mean EVERY single place in ottawa , allowed smoking.
Such rampant capitalism at the expense of peoples health cannot be permitted. It is the job of a government to put curbs on that kind of thing.
You can’t do it at work. You can’t do it at school. You can’t do it at bars. You can’t do it in your car — at least not in front of the children!
In a few Ontario municipalities, including Arnprior, you can’t even do it on the beach or at the park.
I despise spoon fed pap. This article makes it look like the poor hard put upon smokers are so persecuted.
And the thing I despise the most ? There's no section for reader responses. There's no place to fire back and tell them you disagree with them.
There's no place to tell them about all the times before the smoking ban how people would sit down beside you , in the nonsmoking section , and lite up. And when you ask them to put it out this is the non smoking section , they refuse, And when you ask the staff to enforce the non smoking signs, they just shrug and walk away. Not once, but many many times. Personal experiance.
I really don't want to hear about how enforcing non smoking is bad for business , how most businesses are attempting to attract the business of groups of people , not individuals, and in any group of three or four there's bound to be a smoker , and you don't want them going across the street to some place that allows smoking while you do not.
"It's the way the business works, son. You have to accept it." is probably one of the most irritating phrases anyone has ever said to me by way of explanation as to WHY HE'S RIPPING ME OFF ! (or subjecting me to second hand smoke or unsafe products or other nonsense like that).
It is the business of the government to make rules like the smoking bans, and enforce them on all. Before that ban came into effect , every single place in ottawa , I mean EVERY single place in ottawa , allowed smoking.
Such rampant capitalism at the expense of peoples health cannot be permitted. It is the job of a government to put curbs on that kind of thing.
Skeptical Shopper: The Pros and Cons of Buying E-Books
Article
When Amazon recently removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customers' devices and digital lockers,...
So you got this computer tablet which can display books. But the books are all in a computer format , and their locked to a fair thee well so you cannot transer it to your computer , and if you leave the device, the Kindle behind because you hate it , you lose everything. At 10$ a pop. you could lose hundreds of dollars for decided to ditch the kindle.
To this we now add that Amazon.com , who owns and makes the Kindle, reserves the right to go into your device , which apparently isn't really yours, and do anything they like. Starting with erasing entire books.
You can bet you "private" collection of books is public knowledge to their sales department.
Plus it's 400$ for a Kindle and only 200 or 300 for a real computer (netbook) that can do that job and much much more.
Plus Amazon dot com is a USA company. If some religious wackos (anti-evolutionary George W Bush comes to mind) gets into power , thats gonna be so tempting to order amazon to erase stuff they don't like. They'd never do it on paper books, thats unenforcable , but electronics, just order some company to run a program they already made ...tempting tempting tempting ....
This is classic Vender Lock. Buy from us and no one else, and we screw you and how. And you gotta pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars to get out (in this case you lose every 10$ book you bought from them) .
People have done wonders with a simple book shelf and real books, hard cover or paper back. This kind of Kindle scam , well, I think we should stick with the real stuff for a while longer.
When Amazon recently removed copies of George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from customers' devices and digital lockers,...
So you got this computer tablet which can display books. But the books are all in a computer format , and their locked to a fair thee well so you cannot transer it to your computer , and if you leave the device, the Kindle behind because you hate it , you lose everything. At 10$ a pop. you could lose hundreds of dollars for decided to ditch the kindle.
To this we now add that Amazon.com , who owns and makes the Kindle, reserves the right to go into your device , which apparently isn't really yours, and do anything they like. Starting with erasing entire books.
You can bet you "private" collection of books is public knowledge to their sales department.
Plus it's 400$ for a Kindle and only 200 or 300 for a real computer (netbook) that can do that job and much much more.
Plus Amazon dot com is a USA company. If some religious wackos (anti-evolutionary George W Bush comes to mind) gets into power , thats gonna be so tempting to order amazon to erase stuff they don't like. They'd never do it on paper books, thats unenforcable , but electronics, just order some company to run a program they already made ...tempting tempting tempting ....
This is classic Vender Lock. Buy from us and no one else, and we screw you and how. And you gotta pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars to get out (in this case you lose every 10$ book you bought from them) .
People have done wonders with a simple book shelf and real books, hard cover or paper back. This kind of Kindle scam , well, I think we should stick with the real stuff for a while longer.
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Liberal election plans full steam ahead despite improving economic figures
article
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff isn't taking his foot off the accelerator towards a federal election, despite more promising economic news Friday.
In fact, Ignatieff seemed even more determined to bring on a federal election this fall.
He said Parliament has become unworkable due to the Conservative government's my-way-or-the-highway approach.
"Finally you think ... take the highway," Ignatieff told reporters in Vancouver.
His comments came on the same day figures were released saying the Canadian economy created more than 27,000 new jobs, which helped boost the Canadian dollar 1.38 cents to 92.02 cents US.
Yep yep yep. More Liberal Libel.
First , blame the conservatives for the economy taking a dump even though the newspapers are full of stories pointing out it was the banks in the USA.
Second, the economy is starting to recover , so you blame the conservatives for ... umm..what is it you're blaming them for ? Not too clear on that point. Something about ignoring your ridiculous claims to let people work only one day in five and unemployment insurance will somehow magically pick up the tab for the rest.
King Iggy wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the behind. There is only one rhyme or reason to his actions. And that is that he wants to be King of Canada at any price. Even if it means trashing the country. As long as he gets to be King, thats ok in his eyes.
Oh yes, and his latest promise about not raising taxes ? Every single politico who made that promise, no matter what party they're with , they've always broken it. The only exception would be some minority government who was toppled real quick and didn't have time to do anything but be a flash in the pan.
Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff isn't taking his foot off the accelerator towards a federal election, despite more promising economic news Friday.
In fact, Ignatieff seemed even more determined to bring on a federal election this fall.
He said Parliament has become unworkable due to the Conservative government's my-way-or-the-highway approach.
"Finally you think ... take the highway," Ignatieff told reporters in Vancouver.
His comments came on the same day figures were released saying the Canadian economy created more than 27,000 new jobs, which helped boost the Canadian dollar 1.38 cents to 92.02 cents US.
Yep yep yep. More Liberal Libel.
First , blame the conservatives for the economy taking a dump even though the newspapers are full of stories pointing out it was the banks in the USA.
Second, the economy is starting to recover , so you blame the conservatives for ... umm..what is it you're blaming them for ? Not too clear on that point. Something about ignoring your ridiculous claims to let people work only one day in five and unemployment insurance will somehow magically pick up the tab for the rest.
King Iggy wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the behind. There is only one rhyme or reason to his actions. And that is that he wants to be King of Canada at any price. Even if it means trashing the country. As long as he gets to be King, thats ok in his eyes.
Oh yes, and his latest promise about not raising taxes ? Every single politico who made that promise, no matter what party they're with , they've always broken it. The only exception would be some minority government who was toppled real quick and didn't have time to do anything but be a flash in the pan.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Taser International challenges Braidwood findings
Article
The manufacturer of Taser stun guns has launched a legal challenge to quash the recent recommendations of the Braidwood Inquiry to restrict police use of the conducted-energy weapons.
The police inquirey decides to restrict use of the Taser. And Taser Corperation is now going to sue them. They're now suing their customers.
This is how business is done in america.
Following the release of Braidwood's first report, the company said the inquiry based its recommendations largely on speculation and that they do not meet the realities of modern day law enforcement.
"realities of modern day law enforcment" ...and what has this got to do with the fact that your weapons are killing people ? Is one of the realities that it's ok to kill one person in a thousand with your product ? Is that a reality ?
Liberal MP Ujal Dosanjh, the party's former public safety critic who has been outspoken on the use of stun guns, said Taser's challenge is a tactic aimed to intimidate.
"I think it's a very flagrant attempt on its part to intimidate the critics of Taser and to discredit the inquiry report of a distinguished jurist," Dosanjh said from B.C.
"They are solely motivated by profit. Public safety can't be their priority," he said, adding the company has a battery of lawyers to "vigorously pursue" any critics.
Don't normally cotton to liberals , but this guy seems to have it right here. You can't sue your customers into buying your product. You cant sue me if I decide I don't want your cell phone. You can't sue me if I decide your car is a piece of junk saftey hazard ! Who the heck started this mess ?
The manufacturer of Taser stun guns has launched a legal challenge to quash the recent recommendations of the Braidwood Inquiry to restrict police use of the conducted-energy weapons.
The police inquirey decides to restrict use of the Taser. And Taser Corperation is now going to sue them. They're now suing their customers.
This is how business is done in america.
Following the release of Braidwood's first report, the company said the inquiry based its recommendations largely on speculation and that they do not meet the realities of modern day law enforcement.
"realities of modern day law enforcment" ...and what has this got to do with the fact that your weapons are killing people ? Is one of the realities that it's ok to kill one person in a thousand with your product ? Is that a reality ?
Liberal MP Ujal Dosanjh, the party's former public safety critic who has been outspoken on the use of stun guns, said Taser's challenge is a tactic aimed to intimidate.
"I think it's a very flagrant attempt on its part to intimidate the critics of Taser and to discredit the inquiry report of a distinguished jurist," Dosanjh said from B.C.
"They are solely motivated by profit. Public safety can't be their priority," he said, adding the company has a battery of lawyers to "vigorously pursue" any critics.
Don't normally cotton to liberals , but this guy seems to have it right here. You can't sue your customers into buying your product. You cant sue me if I decide I don't want your cell phone. You can't sue me if I decide your car is a piece of junk saftey hazard ! Who the heck started this mess ?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Under Pressure on Health Care, White House Fights Back
Article
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday started a new Web site to fight questionable but potentially damaging charges that President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system would inevitably lead to “socialized medicine,” “rationed care” and even forced euthanasia for the elderly.
Only in america could you face the charge of murder (forced euthanasia) because you decided to give some stuff away for free. (Health Care). Really, it's pretty obvious who works for the people and who's just trying to reserve a peice of the pie for themselves.
“I think the combination of spending a trillion dollars that we don’t have and another rushed process really triggered this,” said Matt Kibbe, the president of the conservative group FreedomWorks. “People started paying attention.”
Yeah , well while you're shouting exagerated figures about how much it will cost 20% of the population is noticing they have the big butt kiss for health care.
Stay the course Obama. Congress will hate you but the people will love you.
WASHINGTON — The White House on Monday started a new Web site to fight questionable but potentially damaging charges that President Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health care system would inevitably lead to “socialized medicine,” “rationed care” and even forced euthanasia for the elderly.
Only in america could you face the charge of murder (forced euthanasia) because you decided to give some stuff away for free. (Health Care). Really, it's pretty obvious who works for the people and who's just trying to reserve a peice of the pie for themselves.
“I think the combination of spending a trillion dollars that we don’t have and another rushed process really triggered this,” said Matt Kibbe, the president of the conservative group FreedomWorks. “People started paying attention.”
Yeah , well while you're shouting exagerated figures about how much it will cost 20% of the population is noticing they have the big butt kiss for health care.
Stay the course Obama. Congress will hate you but the people will love you.
Friday, August 07, 2009
An Argument for Gun Control
Was anyone wondering why I think the gun nuts in the states , the ones that protest against any control at all on guns, why I think they're crazy ?
could it be advertisments like this ?
It suggests an age range of 7 - 17
Wasn't there some kind of gun nut down in the states that responsibly taught his eight year old how to use a rifle ? And then the eight year old got made because daddy made him clean his room or do his homework or something so he got his gun and went and killed daddy with it ?
Very responsible. *snicker snicker*
could it be advertisments like this ?
It suggests an age range of 7 - 17
Wasn't there some kind of gun nut down in the states that responsibly taught his eight year old how to use a rifle ? And then the eight year old got made because daddy made him clean his room or do his homework or something so he got his gun and went and killed daddy with it ?
Very responsible. *snicker snicker*
Thursday, August 06, 2009
Microsoft Psychic Scarring
Personal Experiance
So I'm sitting at my Linux computer working on my novel , and my thoughts wander in the direction of me getting a new computer. I've already ordered it and it's due in two weeks, and this all is possible because my wife gave me the money to pay out the year or so left on my old computer (for which she gets the old computer).
And am I gonna work on my novel on the new computer ?
Not a chance. New computer is windows. Windows just bit me and put me into a weeks long nightmare because that stupid windows defender thats supposed to scan for viruses actually let a virus in that trashed everything. And Dell didn't give me a back up disk.
I'm gonna work on the novel on the Linux machine, I"m just gonna move it to my room that's all. I don't trust the Windows machine to be in any way stable anymore. Not after burning my fingers like that. And not after learning the infamous and unsupported windows Defender is actually built right into Vista (my sister has a copy) .
Is it psychic scarring that i suddenly don't trust microsoft with anything important ? Anything I want to keep. Is "once burned twice shy" a form of damage ?
Or is it just good sense ?
So I'm sitting at my Linux computer working on my novel , and my thoughts wander in the direction of me getting a new computer. I've already ordered it and it's due in two weeks, and this all is possible because my wife gave me the money to pay out the year or so left on my old computer (for which she gets the old computer).
And am I gonna work on my novel on the new computer ?
Not a chance. New computer is windows. Windows just bit me and put me into a weeks long nightmare because that stupid windows defender thats supposed to scan for viruses actually let a virus in that trashed everything. And Dell didn't give me a back up disk.
I'm gonna work on the novel on the Linux machine, I"m just gonna move it to my room that's all. I don't trust the Windows machine to be in any way stable anymore. Not after burning my fingers like that. And not after learning the infamous and unsupported windows Defender is actually built right into Vista (my sister has a copy) .
Is it psychic scarring that i suddenly don't trust microsoft with anything important ? Anything I want to keep. Is "once burned twice shy" a form of damage ?
Or is it just good sense ?
Sunday, August 02, 2009
Schreiber loses last-ditch fight against extradition
Article
German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber was being flown to Germany on Sunday evening after losing a last-ditch battle to avoid extradition earlier in the day.
Schreiber's lawyer, Eddie Greenspan, was granted permission for a special weekend court appearance to seek an injunction against the federal government's extradition order. He argued that his client should be allowed to stay in his adopted country — where he has been a citizen since 1982 — until at least Tuesday morning so he can file an appeal challenging Canada's extradition treaty with Germany.
But the lawyer for the government told the Ontario Court of Appeal that this was a frivolous challenge because the treaty was ratified 30 years ago.
And good riddence. It took them ten years to get rid of you ?
In the letter, addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Schreiber said he was concerned the visit was timed in a way to preempt any legal moves on his part duringt the holiday weekend.
You wrote a letter begging the prime minister not to give you the boot after you spent a freaking year slinging mud at him and trying to get him in as much trouble as you possibly could ? Even to the point of telling out right lies ?
You're an idiot.
And you're gone.
Extradition politically motivated: Schreiber
He also alleged in the letter that Germany's centre-left Social Democrats are using his case as an election issue in a bid to defeat their conservative opponents in next month's election
You spent a year slinging mud at the prime minister. No kidding it's politically motivated. You need to be more careful who you sling mud at.
"Now we have the election coming up in Germany in September, and the Social Democrats won three elections with my case in the past," Schreiber told reporters Sunday just before entering the detention centre. "If I would [return] now that would be the greatest thing. They would start another huge circus and huge investigation...
Lets not forget the part where you are GUILTY AS CHARGED OF ALL CRIMES , shall we ? No ones fabricating evidence and you've actually given up making such accusations.
Your a crook . You've beaten the system for ten long years, you have nothing new to say in your defence, and your only real argument is that you didn't mean for your words to be taken as a confession when you were slinging mud at the prime minister and admitting to all those crimes , you just wanted to dirty him up some , not get yourself in hot water.
Good bye.
Oh , and when I say he's slinging mud at the prime minister I mean this is a Liberal Political exercise, this guy is happy to tell any lie and cannot be used as a witness against Mulroony in court (former prime minister) due to all the crimes he's guilty of , but eh is good for manufacturing a nice long make believe scam against the conservatives and our current prime minister. Thus yes, technically he's throwing mud at Mulroony , but really , they're throwing mud at Harper.
German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber was being flown to Germany on Sunday evening after losing a last-ditch battle to avoid extradition earlier in the day.
Schreiber's lawyer, Eddie Greenspan, was granted permission for a special weekend court appearance to seek an injunction against the federal government's extradition order. He argued that his client should be allowed to stay in his adopted country — where he has been a citizen since 1982 — until at least Tuesday morning so he can file an appeal challenging Canada's extradition treaty with Germany.
But the lawyer for the government told the Ontario Court of Appeal that this was a frivolous challenge because the treaty was ratified 30 years ago.
And good riddence. It took them ten years to get rid of you ?
In the letter, addressed to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Schreiber said he was concerned the visit was timed in a way to preempt any legal moves on his part duringt the holiday weekend.
You wrote a letter begging the prime minister not to give you the boot after you spent a freaking year slinging mud at him and trying to get him in as much trouble as you possibly could ? Even to the point of telling out right lies ?
You're an idiot.
And you're gone.
Extradition politically motivated: Schreiber
He also alleged in the letter that Germany's centre-left Social Democrats are using his case as an election issue in a bid to defeat their conservative opponents in next month's election
You spent a year slinging mud at the prime minister. No kidding it's politically motivated. You need to be more careful who you sling mud at.
"Now we have the election coming up in Germany in September, and the Social Democrats won three elections with my case in the past," Schreiber told reporters Sunday just before entering the detention centre. "If I would [return] now that would be the greatest thing. They would start another huge circus and huge investigation...
Lets not forget the part where you are GUILTY AS CHARGED OF ALL CRIMES , shall we ? No ones fabricating evidence and you've actually given up making such accusations.
Your a crook . You've beaten the system for ten long years, you have nothing new to say in your defence, and your only real argument is that you didn't mean for your words to be taken as a confession when you were slinging mud at the prime minister and admitting to all those crimes , you just wanted to dirty him up some , not get yourself in hot water.
Good bye.
Oh , and when I say he's slinging mud at the prime minister I mean this is a Liberal Political exercise, this guy is happy to tell any lie and cannot be used as a witness against Mulroony in court (former prime minister) due to all the crimes he's guilty of , but eh is good for manufacturing a nice long make believe scam against the conservatives and our current prime minister. Thus yes, technically he's throwing mud at Mulroony , but really , they're throwing mud at Harper.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Police stand by officer who arrested U.S. scholar
Article
On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama criticized the Cambridge Police Department's actions after Sgt. James Crowley arrested Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct on July 16.
Police received a call from a neighbor that a man appeared to be breaking into the house. Gates, who returned home from a week in China to discover his front door jammed, entered his house through the back door. Police say Gates became belligerent when they spoke to him.
Some yahoo made a call just as the black scholar was coming home, noticing his own house had been broken into. The cops show up and accuse him of break and enter , he yells at them , no doubt hurling racial epitaths at them for it , and he gets arrested in his own house.
Who made the call ? It was well timed.
The officer is guilty of racism. He's a big strapping guy afraid of a non-athletic scholar ? He's got a gun the guy doesn't ?
And of course he's yelling at the cop , you guys worked hard to build your reputation as racist buggers, now you get to enjoy it ! Thats a given.
He'll get away with it, though. Only in America can the neibours call the cops on you for coming home from vacation. They were probably hoping the cops would shoot him.
((edit))
cop : But I don't see anything wrong with harrassing him. He's a black guy , and all blacks are poor , so this couldn't possibly be his house , he MUST be the intruder !
ha ha ... I hope you get fired for that.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama criticized the Cambridge Police Department's actions after Sgt. James Crowley arrested Harvard University's Henry Louis Gates for disorderly conduct on July 16.
Police received a call from a neighbor that a man appeared to be breaking into the house. Gates, who returned home from a week in China to discover his front door jammed, entered his house through the back door. Police say Gates became belligerent when they spoke to him.
Some yahoo made a call just as the black scholar was coming home, noticing his own house had been broken into. The cops show up and accuse him of break and enter , he yells at them , no doubt hurling racial epitaths at them for it , and he gets arrested in his own house.
Who made the call ? It was well timed.
The officer is guilty of racism. He's a big strapping guy afraid of a non-athletic scholar ? He's got a gun the guy doesn't ?
And of course he's yelling at the cop , you guys worked hard to build your reputation as racist buggers, now you get to enjoy it ! Thats a given.
He'll get away with it, though. Only in America can the neibours call the cops on you for coming home from vacation. They were probably hoping the cops would shoot him.
((edit))
cop : But I don't see anything wrong with harrassing him. He's a black guy , and all blacks are poor , so this couldn't possibly be his house , he MUST be the intruder !
ha ha ... I hope you get fired for that.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Rogers Introduces Canada’s First 3.5G Embedded Netbooks
Article
The HP Mini 110 Series PC is available for $299.99 and exclusively sold at Best Buy and Future Shop stores with a two-year contract. Wireless data plans for the Rogers mobile internet ready netbooks start at $25.00 plus $6.95 system access fee and other fees for 500mb.
Oh my god what a rip ! I bought my netbook on dec 26 for 285$ ,and that was including tax and it was FULL PRICE.
They want 300 smackers AND a two year contract ???
Why don't you just stick a gun to their heads or something and demand they hand the wallet over ?
starting price is 329$ for this machine over at http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/090527xb.html which means you are given a 29$ discount in exchange for signing A FREAKING TWO YEAR CONTRACT !!!!
'nother words, it's straight out highway robbery. They charge you basically full price for the computer and demand a two year contract.
The HP Mini 110 Series PC is available for $299.99 and exclusively sold at Best Buy and Future Shop stores with a two-year contract. Wireless data plans for the Rogers mobile internet ready netbooks start at $25.00 plus $6.95 system access fee and other fees for 500mb.
Oh my god what a rip ! I bought my netbook on dec 26 for 285$ ,and that was including tax and it was FULL PRICE.
They want 300 smackers AND a two year contract ???
Why don't you just stick a gun to their heads or something and demand they hand the wallet over ?
starting price is 329$ for this machine over at http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2009/090527xb.html which means you are given a 29$ discount in exchange for signing A FREAKING TWO YEAR CONTRACT !!!!
'nother words, it's straight out highway robbery. They charge you basically full price for the computer and demand a two year contract.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth
Article
The accuracy of these algorithms is positively disturbing. Using a separate pool of data from the Death Master File, the authors were able to get the first five digits right for seven percent of those with an SSN assigned before 1988; after that, the success rate goes up to a staggering 44 percent. For a smaller state, like Vermont, they could get it right over 90 percent of the time.
Oh thats nice. Wake up one day your bank account is empty your pin number changed and your credit card racked up to max , and you didn't do anything. And the rent is due.
Beauty.
The accuracy of these algorithms is positively disturbing. Using a separate pool of data from the Death Master File, the authors were able to get the first five digits right for seven percent of those with an SSN assigned before 1988; after that, the success rate goes up to a staggering 44 percent. For a smaller state, like Vermont, they could get it right over 90 percent of the time.
Oh thats nice. Wake up one day your bank account is empty your pin number changed and your credit card racked up to max , and you didn't do anything. And the rent is due.
Beauty.
Monday, July 06, 2009
I slept with him honest. Now I want millions.
Barrie woman seeking child support from Keanu Reeves appears in court
Sala alleges she carried on a sexual relationship with Reeves before, during, and after her troubled marriage. She said she believes Reeves may have fathered one or more of her four children, now between the ages of 20 and 25.
Yeah , you see, I humped him like crazy , then I married someone else, then I cheated on that guy and humped him some more , then I got divorced , and humped him a bit more after that ...
But really. I'm an honest person. You should trust me on this.
Court documents show Sala is seeking $3 million per month in spousal support, retroactive to November 2006, as well as $150,000 per month in child support, going back to June 1988, in addition to the DNA test.
And I want 36 million a year every year for the rest of my life. Back dated at least 3 years (that will be a hundred mil up front , thanks )
Wolfson said Sala had yet to provide any evidence to back up her ``totally frivolous" accusations.
Just take my word for it will yah ? Sheesh ! Now wheres the hundred million ?
Sala alleges she carried on a sexual relationship with Reeves before, during, and after her troubled marriage. She said she believes Reeves may have fathered one or more of her four children, now between the ages of 20 and 25.
Yeah , you see, I humped him like crazy , then I married someone else, then I cheated on that guy and humped him some more , then I got divorced , and humped him a bit more after that ...
But really. I'm an honest person. You should trust me on this.
Court documents show Sala is seeking $3 million per month in spousal support, retroactive to November 2006, as well as $150,000 per month in child support, going back to June 1988, in addition to the DNA test.
And I want 36 million a year every year for the rest of my life. Back dated at least 3 years (that will be a hundred mil up front , thanks )
Wolfson said Sala had yet to provide any evidence to back up her ``totally frivolous" accusations.
Just take my word for it will yah ? Sheesh ! Now wheres the hundred million ?
Probation for Manny's killer
Article
On the evidence, Duncan said the defendant wrapped his arms around Castillo's legs while the victim had his upper body over the defendant's back. He was then lifted, mainly, if not completely off the ground. He was propelled backwards, not just upended. He had no control and couldn't resist. He was then "slammed" backward into the ground.
He said he was unaware he had injured Castillo and denied boasting he had "pile-driven him as hard" as he could into the ground, as the referee testified he overheard him say after ejecting him from the game for swearing following the illegal tackle
This is murder.
This kid deserves the mandatory 25 years in jail.
But they're letting him walk away with a pat on the wrist.
And they wont even publish his name. Because they're afraid we might be ticked with him because he's WANTONLY RUNNING AROUND KILLING ANYONE HE LIKES JUST BECAUSE HE CAN'T CONTROL HIS TEMPER !!!
People like this need the death penalty , not to be protected by the Law.
It's as if the courts of the land are saying "Go Ahead. Kill anyone you like. You're under eighteen , we'll make sure you get away with it."
I'm desgusted.
On the evidence, Duncan said the defendant wrapped his arms around Castillo's legs while the victim had his upper body over the defendant's back. He was then lifted, mainly, if not completely off the ground. He was propelled backwards, not just upended. He had no control and couldn't resist. He was then "slammed" backward into the ground.
He said he was unaware he had injured Castillo and denied boasting he had "pile-driven him as hard" as he could into the ground, as the referee testified he overheard him say after ejecting him from the game for swearing following the illegal tackle
This is murder.
This kid deserves the mandatory 25 years in jail.
But they're letting him walk away with a pat on the wrist.
And they wont even publish his name. Because they're afraid we might be ticked with him because he's WANTONLY RUNNING AROUND KILLING ANYONE HE LIKES JUST BECAUSE HE CAN'T CONTROL HIS TEMPER !!!
People like this need the death penalty , not to be protected by the Law.
It's as if the courts of the land are saying "Go Ahead. Kill anyone you like. You're under eighteen , we'll make sure you get away with it."
I'm desgusted.
Bait and Switch
Apparently Bait and Switch is Legal in this country.
What is bait and switch you ask ?
Thats when you advertise one price to get them into the store and then actually sell it at another , much higher price.
Thats when I look at the dell website and see I can get a brand new computer , with monitor and everything , for only 22$ a month. But when I phone them up she goes through all this rigamarole as if she was doing me a big favor , and then tells me it's 37$ / month. Umm...thats quite a jump from the web site price.
Well the website price doesn't include taxes , doesn't include this or that ...
Taxes are 15% in this country , tops. Thats 3$ on a 22$ / month computer. I told her to forget it and I hung up on her.
Thats obviously not the first bait and switch I've ever had pulled on me. I last fell for it when I was mid 20's , a long time ago. The elements are always the same. Pull them in with one low price, pretend to do a lot of work and dickering with someone , the computer, your manager, whatever , and then quote a much higher price, with a pocket full of excuses at the ready why they can't have it at the advertised price. A practiced salesperson has answers for everything you say.
Except for the part where you just hang up on them without even letting them getting started.
My advise is always the same. If there's a long delay , if they have to fight with their computer or talk to their manager or something silly about something their manager was advertising in the first place, brace yourself for bad news. When they come back and the price is double, or triple, don't argue with them. They're the master of arguing , every single sale they make involves running that argument they have you beat ten ways from sunday on it.
Just walk out the door. Or hang up the phone. Or whatever. Get out.
What is bait and switch you ask ?
Thats when you advertise one price to get them into the store and then actually sell it at another , much higher price.
Thats when I look at the dell website and see I can get a brand new computer , with monitor and everything , for only 22$ a month. But when I phone them up she goes through all this rigamarole as if she was doing me a big favor , and then tells me it's 37$ / month. Umm...thats quite a jump from the web site price.
Well the website price doesn't include taxes , doesn't include this or that ...
Taxes are 15% in this country , tops. Thats 3$ on a 22$ / month computer. I told her to forget it and I hung up on her.
Thats obviously not the first bait and switch I've ever had pulled on me. I last fell for it when I was mid 20's , a long time ago. The elements are always the same. Pull them in with one low price, pretend to do a lot of work and dickering with someone , the computer, your manager, whatever , and then quote a much higher price, with a pocket full of excuses at the ready why they can't have it at the advertised price. A practiced salesperson has answers for everything you say.
Except for the part where you just hang up on them without even letting them getting started.
My advise is always the same. If there's a long delay , if they have to fight with their computer or talk to their manager or something silly about something their manager was advertising in the first place, brace yourself for bad news. When they come back and the price is double, or triple, don't argue with them. They're the master of arguing , every single sale they make involves running that argument they have you beat ten ways from sunday on it.
Just walk out the door. Or hang up the phone. Or whatever. Get out.
What is Lousy Customer Service
So what is Lousy Customer Service , exactly.
I find the question interesting , because I work in a call center and talk to the public all day. And the public is very happy to let me know that if I don't give them exactly what they want , I'm providing lousy customer service and they want to speak to my manager and get me fired. (They get to speak to the manager, 9 years later they haven't even slapped me on the wrist yet, let alone fired me...must be doing something right.)
I phone up Bell. I want my internet blocked I never use the dang thing. They tell me to be an adult and just don't push that button. But it's right on the main menu and I frequently hit the wrong command thats not a real solution.
Too bad.
Now I got it coming and going. I'm not getting what I want either, and it's obviously Bell Policy to refuse to block the internet (hint..I demanded her superviser , and their supervisor after that. No can do , the system doesn't support blocking the internet, and when I suggested sabataging the settings for internet the tech told me point blank he wasn't allowed to do that)
First off , Customer Service is seperate from company policy. There's nothing the agent could do in either case if the company forbids it. So the definition "I didn't get what I wanted" doesn't count for much.
So what was the correct approach ?
Standing up to the customer and honestly telling them "We can't do that." wins out over "Don't be a child" or "We're all mature adults here just don't press that button" . Insulting the customer is always an absolute no no.
So is my customer that I stood up to going to stay a customer ? Am I going to stay a Bell Customer ? I'll get slightly more "keepers" because I was up front and honest with them than Bell will with it's habit of insulting the customer. But we'll both lose a lot for not giving them what they want.
But the customer service bell provided really wasn't that bad. She was very subtle and used "We ... " and such.
But their policies suck the big one ! Yech , you're just a sheep to be sheered of every dollar they can to them. I mean I pick up a cell phone to use as a phone, not to be a little "advertising buddy" in my pocket that is constantly looking for ways to empty my pocket. Push the wrong button and we charge you fifty dollars a megabyte isn't something I'm gonna be bragging about to my buddies, it's something I'm gonna be warning them off about.
Post Script :
Since Bell charges 400$ + the remaining price of the phone if you terminate, ie: the full price of the phone +400$ , I often suspect they're doing this kind of thing on purpose, since if you quit they're getting 400$ for doing nothing (assuming they break even on the phone , which I doubt ). So I frequently have this awful feeling it's part of their business model to piss people off with lousy service and make them quit.
I find the question interesting , because I work in a call center and talk to the public all day. And the public is very happy to let me know that if I don't give them exactly what they want , I'm providing lousy customer service and they want to speak to my manager and get me fired. (They get to speak to the manager, 9 years later they haven't even slapped me on the wrist yet, let alone fired me...must be doing something right.)
I phone up Bell. I want my internet blocked I never use the dang thing. They tell me to be an adult and just don't push that button. But it's right on the main menu and I frequently hit the wrong command thats not a real solution.
Too bad.
Now I got it coming and going. I'm not getting what I want either, and it's obviously Bell Policy to refuse to block the internet (hint..I demanded her superviser , and their supervisor after that. No can do , the system doesn't support blocking the internet, and when I suggested sabataging the settings for internet the tech told me point blank he wasn't allowed to do that)
First off , Customer Service is seperate from company policy. There's nothing the agent could do in either case if the company forbids it. So the definition "I didn't get what I wanted" doesn't count for much.
So what was the correct approach ?
Standing up to the customer and honestly telling them "We can't do that." wins out over "Don't be a child" or "We're all mature adults here just don't press that button" . Insulting the customer is always an absolute no no.
So is my customer that I stood up to going to stay a customer ? Am I going to stay a Bell Customer ? I'll get slightly more "keepers" because I was up front and honest with them than Bell will with it's habit of insulting the customer. But we'll both lose a lot for not giving them what they want.
But the customer service bell provided really wasn't that bad. She was very subtle and used "We ... " and such.
But their policies suck the big one ! Yech , you're just a sheep to be sheered of every dollar they can to them. I mean I pick up a cell phone to use as a phone, not to be a little "advertising buddy" in my pocket that is constantly looking for ways to empty my pocket. Push the wrong button and we charge you fifty dollars a megabyte isn't something I'm gonna be bragging about to my buddies, it's something I'm gonna be warning them off about.
Post Script :
Since Bell charges 400$ + the remaining price of the phone if you terminate, ie: the full price of the phone +400$ , I often suspect they're doing this kind of thing on purpose, since if you quit they're getting 400$ for doing nothing (assuming they break even on the phone , which I doubt ). So I frequently have this awful feeling it's part of their business model to piss people off with lousy service and make them quit.
MP admits approving newsletter painting Ignatieff as anti-Ukrainian
Article
The newsletter highlights comments Ignatieff wrote in his 1993 book Blood and Belonging, a meditation on the positive and negative manifestations of nationalism. It quotes Ignatieff as saying Ukrainian independence reminds him of phony Cossacks, whining instruments and nasty anti-Semites.
Ignatieff said at a luncheon at the Canadian Club of Winnipeg Thursday he was writing about stereotypes that existed at the time, and he respects and honours Ukrainian people for their role in building Canada.
Honest ! Just because King Iggy describes the Ukrainian's as Whiny, Phony, and Nasty, that doesn't make him a racist ! You should apologize for even thinking such a thing ! And don't forget to buy a copy of the book he needs the cash now that the liberals arn't getting any cash from elections canada anymore.
Really , anyone who tries to use this against him is a booger head ! Especially that guy in the blue sweater who think's he's Hoover ! Ad hominan attacks are so passe.
The newsletter highlights comments Ignatieff wrote in his 1993 book Blood and Belonging, a meditation on the positive and negative manifestations of nationalism. It quotes Ignatieff as saying Ukrainian independence reminds him of phony Cossacks, whining instruments and nasty anti-Semites.
Ignatieff said at a luncheon at the Canadian Club of Winnipeg Thursday he was writing about stereotypes that existed at the time, and he respects and honours Ukrainian people for their role in building Canada.
Honest ! Just because King Iggy describes the Ukrainian's as Whiny, Phony, and Nasty, that doesn't make him a racist ! You should apologize for even thinking such a thing ! And don't forget to buy a copy of the book he needs the cash now that the liberals arn't getting any cash from elections canada anymore.
Really , anyone who tries to use this against him is a booger head ! Especially that guy in the blue sweater who think's he's Hoover ! Ad hominan attacks are so passe.
Friday, July 03, 2009
Why 2012? Mayan Calander Doomsday Prophecy
Why not 2012 ? It's as good a date as any and this turkey has a book to write and get profits from.
But Realistically , a bunch of goat herders using only their bare eye astronomical observations out performaning a wack of scientists and telescopes and the Hubble Telescope and all of that ?
Another Quack making a buck by starting a panic to cash in on. Igore him.
My belief is that if the world comes to an end , it will most likely be because we pollute the planet to the point of the air not being breathable, but that will take place over a long period of time so there will be no "day" of destruction , just a slow crumbling deterioration.
I don't think some wacko like that North Korean dictator will end the world because even if he is crazy enough to push the button he'll only get one or two cities in the USA and in reply he'll get his tiny little nation carpet bombed with nukes.
But Realistically , a bunch of goat herders using only their bare eye astronomical observations out performaning a wack of scientists and telescopes and the Hubble Telescope and all of that ?
Another Quack making a buck by starting a panic to cash in on. Igore him.
My belief is that if the world comes to an end , it will most likely be because we pollute the planet to the point of the air not being breathable, but that will take place over a long period of time so there will be no "day" of destruction , just a slow crumbling deterioration.
I don't think some wacko like that North Korean dictator will end the world because even if he is crazy enough to push the button he'll only get one or two cities in the USA and in reply he'll get his tiny little nation carpet bombed with nukes.
Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan
Article
My Condolences to Cpl. Martin Dube.
I watched this on TV. The officer doing the talking condemmed the makers of the IED that killed this soldier as cowards.
A curious remark, since we're running around in tanks chasing barely trained conscript troops that usually run at the drop of a hat.
Not that I support them, not at all , I have no wish to become a muslim and they have every wish to either convert everyone in the world to their religion or kill them if they refuse.
But still , it takes a great deal of courage to fight well trained troops in tanks with only a few hand guns and hand made bombs. You're kidding yourself if you think you're facing cowards. You need to wake up and smell the coffee if you're going to beat them. And I really don't feel like getting down on my knees on a rug five times a day so ...
You get the idea.
My Condolences to Cpl. Martin Dube.
I watched this on TV. The officer doing the talking condemmed the makers of the IED that killed this soldier as cowards.
A curious remark, since we're running around in tanks chasing barely trained conscript troops that usually run at the drop of a hat.
Not that I support them, not at all , I have no wish to become a muslim and they have every wish to either convert everyone in the world to their religion or kill them if they refuse.
But still , it takes a great deal of courage to fight well trained troops in tanks with only a few hand guns and hand made bombs. You're kidding yourself if you think you're facing cowards. You need to wake up and smell the coffee if you're going to beat them. And I really don't feel like getting down on my knees on a rug five times a day so ...
You get the idea.
Bubble Cities
I have a great idea for handling pollution.
We all live in bubble cities where the air is filtered and automibiles are forbidden.
think about it. You build just one small one , then another and another. The automobile companies complain because they're losing business (not allowed to run their pollution machines inside the bubble city) but it happens so slowly they have plenty of time to switch over to electric, and the same with any other companies that depend too much on pollution creating industries.
And then you got bubble cities and bubble farms everywhere, and they slowly take over the world, next thing you know the whole world is cleaned up.
You have "divided and conquered", you've chopped the world up into small pieces and then fixed each piece one by one.
And thats just good engineering.
We all live in bubble cities where the air is filtered and automibiles are forbidden.
think about it. You build just one small one , then another and another. The automobile companies complain because they're losing business (not allowed to run their pollution machines inside the bubble city) but it happens so slowly they have plenty of time to switch over to electric, and the same with any other companies that depend too much on pollution creating industries.
And then you got bubble cities and bubble farms everywhere, and they slowly take over the world, next thing you know the whole world is cleaned up.
You have "divided and conquered", you've chopped the world up into small pieces and then fixed each piece one by one.
And thats just good engineering.
Bell gets fresh Virgin blood, takes bite out of youth segment
Article
ell Canada has revealed a new retail strategy targeting the youth market...
The Source (including La Source in Quebec) will exclusively offer Bell and Virgin Mobile wireless products from January 2010, getting rid of ranges from other operators such as Shaw.
Ah the youth market. Yes. Young. Stupid. A few bucks in their pocket. Not aware of the predator that Bell has become that everyone quickly learns to avoid.
I think the usual claim is they want to get these people to sign up and be bell customers for life, but after a single three year contract , lousy service, and being treated as nothing but a source of income with no consideration at all for what I want (Ie: refusing to block certain services and forcing me against my will to buy packages for internet as an example) I"m never going back to them, and neither will anyone else who's been done over by these clowns. They're not really "building" any kind of long term empire at all , they're just managers who are only around for a little while, tricking you into a three year contract that they know you'll never ever renew, but they won't be there when the house of cards falls apart.
And neither will I.
ell Canada has revealed a new retail strategy targeting the youth market...
The Source (including La Source in Quebec) will exclusively offer Bell and Virgin Mobile wireless products from January 2010, getting rid of ranges from other operators such as Shaw.
Ah the youth market. Yes. Young. Stupid. A few bucks in their pocket. Not aware of the predator that Bell has become that everyone quickly learns to avoid.
I think the usual claim is they want to get these people to sign up and be bell customers for life, but after a single three year contract , lousy service, and being treated as nothing but a source of income with no consideration at all for what I want (Ie: refusing to block certain services and forcing me against my will to buy packages for internet as an example) I"m never going back to them, and neither will anyone else who's been done over by these clowns. They're not really "building" any kind of long term empire at all , they're just managers who are only around for a little while, tricking you into a three year contract that they know you'll never ever renew, but they won't be there when the house of cards falls apart.
And neither will I.
Young America : We Kill Off the Oldies so only the Younglings are Left
The Patients Doctors Don’t Know
Eventually, she recovers from the pneumonia and her mind is clearer, so she’s considered ready for discharge — but she is no longer the woman she was before her illness. She’s more frail, and needs help with walking, bathing and daily chores.
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Basic geriatric knowledge is preventive medicine. Nurses, social workers, pharmacists and other health care professionals should have it, too, in order to improve care for older people. But until doctors get this basic training, we can’t even begin to give 80-year-olds the care they need.
Yep. Insurance Coverage is through work. They pay the bills.
And people who don't work , people who retire... are totally out of luck in america. Doctors don't even know how to treat them. It's not required.
Everyone is Young and Healthy in America.
Because they kill off the old folks quick. And the ones that are sick. (Type One Uninsurable)
Eventually, she recovers from the pneumonia and her mind is clearer, so she’s considered ready for discharge — but she is no longer the woman she was before her illness. She’s more frail, and needs help with walking, bathing and daily chores.
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Basic geriatric knowledge is preventive medicine. Nurses, social workers, pharmacists and other health care professionals should have it, too, in order to improve care for older people. But until doctors get this basic training, we can’t even begin to give 80-year-olds the care they need.
Yep. Insurance Coverage is through work. They pay the bills.
And people who don't work , people who retire... are totally out of luck in america. Doctors don't even know how to treat them. It's not required.
Everyone is Young and Healthy in America.
Because they kill off the old folks quick. And the ones that are sick. (Type One Uninsurable)
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Conspiracy Theorists Need New Material
Article = none , personal Experiance
so I was at work , transfering a customer from one department to another , talking to the agent on the other end.
And he blurts out that the world is going to end in 2016.
And that we're all going to move to mars on a couple of space ships. Where we will certainly die.
and the space ships will all recycle the air and the water etc...
I told him the international space station already did that.
But it doesn't have engines !
They're working on it.
We all need to move away from the cities there's going to be a holocaust !
If you're over fourty , and you leave the city , and your free healthcare (canada) you're gonna die before that holocaust gets you. But it works ok in the USA because anyone who needs healthcare has already died anyways from neglect. Or shooting each other.
Pollution will destroy the world.
Just like LA ? Yeah , we're all moving to bubble cities eventually. But they wont' be on the moon like you say , they'll be right here on earth.
I have these great ideas ... no one listens.
Actually , I think everyone has already listenned.
After I got off the phone I had only one thought.
These conspiracy wacko's, they need new material. All the old stuff is coming true.
Except for the end of the world thingy. That still aint happening.
Then I went on to my next customer.
so I was at work , transfering a customer from one department to another , talking to the agent on the other end.
And he blurts out that the world is going to end in 2016.
And that we're all going to move to mars on a couple of space ships. Where we will certainly die.
and the space ships will all recycle the air and the water etc...
I told him the international space station already did that.
But it doesn't have engines !
They're working on it.
We all need to move away from the cities there's going to be a holocaust !
If you're over fourty , and you leave the city , and your free healthcare (canada) you're gonna die before that holocaust gets you. But it works ok in the USA because anyone who needs healthcare has already died anyways from neglect. Or shooting each other.
Pollution will destroy the world.
Just like LA ? Yeah , we're all moving to bubble cities eventually. But they wont' be on the moon like you say , they'll be right here on earth.
I have these great ideas ... no one listens.
Actually , I think everyone has already listenned.
After I got off the phone I had only one thought.
These conspiracy wacko's, they need new material. All the old stuff is coming true.
Except for the end of the world thingy. That still aint happening.
Then I went on to my next customer.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency horribly late
PC beef recalled from stores due to E. coli
Consumers should avoid eating certain President's Choice brand steaks, roasts and ground beef products that are being pulled from store shelves due to possible contamination with E. coli, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
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It affects:
* Fresh beef steaks roasts and ground beef bearing best-before dates between April 29 and June 16, inclusive, sold in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
* Fresh beef knuckle roasts, four to five pounds (about 1.8 to 2.27 kilograms) in size, sold from Apr. 30 to June 10 at Sue's Market at 205 Don Head Village Blvd. in Richmond Hill, Ont.
It's july 1st , Canada Day ! And you're warning us about stuff thats a month to 14 days expired at this time ?
If you're eating expired beef you got problems to begin with.
so whats with this stuff only being tested after it hits the market and has been out a month ? It's a little too late by then you know, we already ate the stuff.
Consumers should avoid eating certain President's Choice brand steaks, roasts and ground beef products that are being pulled from store shelves due to possible contamination with E. coli, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says.
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It affects:
* Fresh beef steaks roasts and ground beef bearing best-before dates between April 29 and June 16, inclusive, sold in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada.
* Fresh beef knuckle roasts, four to five pounds (about 1.8 to 2.27 kilograms) in size, sold from Apr. 30 to June 10 at Sue's Market at 205 Don Head Village Blvd. in Richmond Hill, Ont.
It's july 1st , Canada Day ! And you're warning us about stuff thats a month to 14 days expired at this time ?
If you're eating expired beef you got problems to begin with.
so whats with this stuff only being tested after it hits the market and has been out a month ? It's a little too late by then you know, we already ate the stuff.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Remote TV recording technology gets go-ahead from U.S. court
Article
Cablevision, which has three million subscribers in the New York metro area, has launched targeted, interactive advertising in half a million households and plans to double that number by year's end. TiVo's DVR users already see ads when they pause or fast-forward shows.
Doug and Bob head over to Bob's house for a few beers.
"Just a sec, " say's Bob. "Gotta take a leak, beer's in the fridge"
Doug sits down on the couch , picks up the remote flicks it on.
"And before our feature presentation , we have noticed that you watch a lot of gay porn so we would like to introduce you our latest offering , The All Boys Gay Church Choir Channel ! Featuring ..."
*click*
Bob comes out of the bathroom. "Where's the beer ? "
"Umm...I'm sorry Bob , the wife just called. Some kind of emergancy, I'll catch you later. " leaves in a hurry.
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Targetted ads, hah ! You thought illegal wire taps by the RCMP were bad ? You thought it was already bad with only 22 minutes of show and 38 minutes of commercials ? You aint seen nothing yet !
Let the Mind Control Begin ! This guy dared to click on a computer ad I want his house spammed to death with computer offers we need to convince him to BUY BUY BUY I don't care how over extended his credit card is thats not my problem ....
Cablevision, which has three million subscribers in the New York metro area, has launched targeted, interactive advertising in half a million households and plans to double that number by year's end. TiVo's DVR users already see ads when they pause or fast-forward shows.
Doug and Bob head over to Bob's house for a few beers.
"Just a sec, " say's Bob. "Gotta take a leak, beer's in the fridge"
Doug sits down on the couch , picks up the remote flicks it on.
"And before our feature presentation , we have noticed that you watch a lot of gay porn so we would like to introduce you our latest offering , The All Boys Gay Church Choir Channel ! Featuring ..."
*click*
Bob comes out of the bathroom. "Where's the beer ? "
"Umm...I'm sorry Bob , the wife just called. Some kind of emergancy, I'll catch you later. " leaves in a hurry.
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Targetted ads, hah ! You thought illegal wire taps by the RCMP were bad ? You thought it was already bad with only 22 minutes of show and 38 minutes of commercials ? You aint seen nothing yet !
Let the Mind Control Begin ! This guy dared to click on a computer ad I want his house spammed to death with computer offers we need to convince him to BUY BUY BUY I don't care how over extended his credit card is thats not my problem ....
Monday, June 15, 2009
Dirty In America
article = none , personal experience
I have a friend who married an american girl and moved to the USA , to Texas , actually. Chatted on the phone with him last night and he said some rather interesting things.
He works in the American Education system in a high school down there, and he reports that the american education system is a failure. People don't learn much down there at all. You cannot talk to them about anything "intellectual" like history (he's big on cowboy's and us/ mexican history).
That the americans don't even know much about their own country, let alone any other countries in the world, unless they're currently at war with them and they get mentioned in the papers every day.
He has a boy, and he follows that boy around , "sticks to him like glue" he describes it. But the other parents, mostly mexican (they are on the mexican border) don't watch their children. And every other day you read in the papers about some kid getting run over in his own drive way.
He describes the downtown core of El Paso as dirty , ugly , nothing but strip malls, and those strip malls have nothing but chinese run dollar stores selling stuff that breaks before you even take it out of the store (one presumes there's a few other stores and it's not 100% dollar stores).
They're constantly reading about drug gangs in mexico , which you can walk to in like 5 hours, and the city next to them on the other side of the us / mexico border is literally a war zone that makes iraq look tame.
Apparently , in "the next town over" , they read all the time about people getting kidnapped by mexican criminals and being held for ransom for a few thousand dollars.
His wife is a "rabid republican" which apparently means she hates "socialism" , which tends to mean free health care , free education , etc etc. One has to wonder about her views on santa clause *grins*
I'm gonna see if I can get him to be a "guest poster" and give the american point of view , or maybe the Canadian Lost In America point of view ...
I have a friend who married an american girl and moved to the USA , to Texas , actually. Chatted on the phone with him last night and he said some rather interesting things.
He works in the American Education system in a high school down there, and he reports that the american education system is a failure. People don't learn much down there at all. You cannot talk to them about anything "intellectual" like history (he's big on cowboy's and us/ mexican history).
That the americans don't even know much about their own country, let alone any other countries in the world, unless they're currently at war with them and they get mentioned in the papers every day.
He has a boy, and he follows that boy around , "sticks to him like glue" he describes it. But the other parents, mostly mexican (they are on the mexican border) don't watch their children. And every other day you read in the papers about some kid getting run over in his own drive way.
He describes the downtown core of El Paso as dirty , ugly , nothing but strip malls, and those strip malls have nothing but chinese run dollar stores selling stuff that breaks before you even take it out of the store (one presumes there's a few other stores and it's not 100% dollar stores).
They're constantly reading about drug gangs in mexico , which you can walk to in like 5 hours, and the city next to them on the other side of the us / mexico border is literally a war zone that makes iraq look tame.
Apparently , in "the next town over" , they read all the time about people getting kidnapped by mexican criminals and being held for ransom for a few thousand dollars.
His wife is a "rabid republican" which apparently means she hates "socialism" , which tends to mean free health care , free education , etc etc. One has to wonder about her views on santa clause *grins*
I'm gonna see if I can get him to be a "guest poster" and give the american point of view , or maybe the Canadian Lost In America point of view ...
Court orders $507.5 million damages in Exxon Valdez spill
Article
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to pay $507.5 million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, plus 5.9 percent interest running from the 1996 trial judgment, the opinion said.
1989 ... 20 years ago ....
and the case didn't come to trial until 1996 which is 7 years later.
The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez supertanker in 1989 was the worst in the nation's history, blackening more than 1,200 miles of Alaska's coastline.
The clean-up alone cost around $2.5
and the fine is 20% of what it cost to clean up the mess.
Wow...if I was the guy in charge when this oil spill happened I would ... be retired by now. With a nice fat pension. And reading this in the paper and laughing and laughing and laughing ...
Justice delayed is Justice denied ? Especially 20 years later.
I vote ... no more super tankers in our waters. Not by anyone. You play stunts like this , you pay the penalty. One way or the other. Gonna stick us with the clean up tab ? We don't like that , maybe we shouldn't let you come around here anymore.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Monday ordered Exxon Mobil Corp to pay $507.5 million in punitive damages stemming from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill off Alaska, plus 5.9 percent interest running from the 1996 trial judgment, the opinion said.
1989 ... 20 years ago ....
and the case didn't come to trial until 1996 which is 7 years later.
The oil spill from the Exxon Valdez supertanker in 1989 was the worst in the nation's history, blackening more than 1,200 miles of Alaska's coastline.
The clean-up alone cost around $2.5
and the fine is 20% of what it cost to clean up the mess.
Wow...if I was the guy in charge when this oil spill happened I would ... be retired by now. With a nice fat pension. And reading this in the paper and laughing and laughing and laughing ...
Justice delayed is Justice denied ? Especially 20 years later.
I vote ... no more super tankers in our waters. Not by anyone. You play stunts like this , you pay the penalty. One way or the other. Gonna stick us with the clean up tab ? We don't like that , maybe we shouldn't let you come around here anymore.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
North Korea Gives US The Finger
US calls for jailed journalists to be released in North Korea
The United States government was pursuing "all possible channels" yesterday to secure the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labour camp after they were arrested on the China-North Korea border.
That would mean you're sitting on your behind doing nothing. Since there are NO possible channels for dealing with the good old NK dictatorship. The guy is building nukes and thumbing his nose at you over that , (yes, one guy , Dictator Kim) and you think he's gonna listen to you about some journalists ? He put them there on purpose to deliberately provoke you. Just to show you who rules that little roost.
All possible channels my (ahem) posterior. All you're doing is giving that dictator a good chuckle.
What can we do about this, You ask ? What would I do if I were in a position of authority ?
Not make myself look like an idiot by playing his little head game would be a good beginning. Waiting for just the right moment and lobbing a bomb at his little reactor comes to mind, I'm still convinced that thats exactly the plan and they're just waiting for the right moment myself ...
Ah well. Life goes on with it's sad little plays.
The United States government was pursuing "all possible channels" yesterday to secure the release of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in North Korean labour camp after they were arrested on the China-North Korea border.
That would mean you're sitting on your behind doing nothing. Since there are NO possible channels for dealing with the good old NK dictatorship. The guy is building nukes and thumbing his nose at you over that , (yes, one guy , Dictator Kim) and you think he's gonna listen to you about some journalists ? He put them there on purpose to deliberately provoke you. Just to show you who rules that little roost.
All possible channels my (ahem) posterior. All you're doing is giving that dictator a good chuckle.
What can we do about this, You ask ? What would I do if I were in a position of authority ?
Not make myself look like an idiot by playing his little head game would be a good beginning. Waiting for just the right moment and lobbing a bomb at his little reactor comes to mind, I'm still convinced that thats exactly the plan and they're just waiting for the right moment myself ...
Ah well. Life goes on with it's sad little plays.
ChinaWare : Big Brother Yin is Watching You
China orders PC makers to install blocking software
Computer makers in China have been instructed to pre-install blocking software on every PC hard drive from next month, under a government push to control access to the internet.
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The software, designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system, also collects private user data.
I suppose it was inevitable that China would do something like this. Load up private citizens computers with their pet software and throw them in jail if they refuse. And then watch them. And then throw them in jail anyways for surfing blogs protesting against Tiananmen Square or anything else they don't like.
Lets all go out and buy ourselves a computer so we can get arrested and thrown in jail !
I predict a drop in computer sales in China , myself, but I could be wrong.
Oh , and before anyone else does it , i would like to hereby announce that I am naming a whole new class of malware, called ChinaWare , in honor of this. My definition of ChinaWare is any software that would normally be considered MalWare that a standing government of some kind , like China , has ordered you to install on your computer anyways for both the usual purposes of MalWare (collecting private info) and to further a state sponsored dicatatorship.
Bill Gates loves you , China. Since the ChinaWare only runs on Windows I guess your next move is to order everyone to run windows only ?
((edit : July 6 : It's called the Green Dam Software, and has caused the creation of a "Green Dam Girl" as a backlash to symbolize opposition to it...thus the link to this article when pressing on the green dam girl image on the top right of my site))
Computer makers in China have been instructed to pre-install blocking software on every PC hard drive from next month, under a government push to control access to the internet.
.
.
.
The software, designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system, also collects private user data.
I suppose it was inevitable that China would do something like this. Load up private citizens computers with their pet software and throw them in jail if they refuse. And then watch them. And then throw them in jail anyways for surfing blogs protesting against Tiananmen Square or anything else they don't like.
Lets all go out and buy ourselves a computer so we can get arrested and thrown in jail !
I predict a drop in computer sales in China , myself, but I could be wrong.
Oh , and before anyone else does it , i would like to hereby announce that I am naming a whole new class of malware, called ChinaWare , in honor of this. My definition of ChinaWare is any software that would normally be considered MalWare that a standing government of some kind , like China , has ordered you to install on your computer anyways for both the usual purposes of MalWare (collecting private info) and to further a state sponsored dicatatorship.
Bill Gates loves you , China. Since the ChinaWare only runs on Windows I guess your next move is to order everyone to run windows only ?
((edit : July 6 : It's called the Green Dam Software, and has caused the creation of a "Green Dam Girl" as a backlash to symbolize opposition to it...thus the link to this article when pressing on the green dam girl image on the top right of my site))
Friday, June 05, 2009
Obama gets reality check from complex Mideast
Article
More than anything else, some influential figures said Friday that they could not look past Obama's affirmation of the "unbreakable" bond between the U.S. and Israel, and they took that as a sign that nothing had changed.
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"We have witnessed that despite every nice word he said toward Arabs and Muslims or Islam, he is still committed to the unbreakable bond toward the Zionist entity," Fadlallah said.
((Translation : He wont help us kill all the jews, therefore he's a bad person. ))
Now I really gotta ask.
If I say such nasty things about Islam , I get called a racist pig. A trouble maker,a hate monger , a disseminater of hate literature, and worse.
But some big newspaper like the washington post, selectively quoting the words of a few radical terrorists...thats ok.
So how come they're allowed to break the rules and I can't ?
Oh yes, thank you Fadlallah for educating Obama on the futility of making nice nice with guys like you. Enough of you do it , with enough firmness, and you'll bring a third desert storm down upon yourself.
More than anything else, some influential figures said Friday that they could not look past Obama's affirmation of the "unbreakable" bond between the U.S. and Israel, and they took that as a sign that nothing had changed.
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"We have witnessed that despite every nice word he said toward Arabs and Muslims or Islam, he is still committed to the unbreakable bond toward the Zionist entity," Fadlallah said.
((Translation : He wont help us kill all the jews, therefore he's a bad person. ))
Now I really gotta ask.
If I say such nasty things about Islam , I get called a racist pig. A trouble maker,a hate monger , a disseminater of hate literature, and worse.
But some big newspaper like the washington post, selectively quoting the words of a few radical terrorists...thats ok.
So how come they're allowed to break the rules and I can't ?
Oh yes, thank you Fadlallah for educating Obama on the futility of making nice nice with guys like you. Enough of you do it , with enough firmness, and you'll bring a third desert storm down upon yourself.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Ubuntu 9.04 is OK
Article = none , personal experience
Well.... ubuntu 9.04 does the job. My favorite game City of Hero's more or less runs , though far from perfectly. And World of Warcraft ? Cannot be installed. The patch program dies when you try to update it. so much for that "gold rated" program for running under wine.
Yeah , I gotta connive me a windows xp disk somewhere along the line. I don't know how.
One thing is certain. never buying a computer wihtout an os disk again. Darn that hurts when you do that.
Well.... ubuntu 9.04 does the job. My favorite game City of Hero's more or less runs , though far from perfectly. And World of Warcraft ? Cannot be installed. The patch program dies when you try to update it. so much for that "gold rated" program for running under wine.
Yeah , I gotta connive me a windows xp disk somewhere along the line. I don't know how.
One thing is certain. never buying a computer wihtout an os disk again. Darn that hurts when you do that.
Terror victims to be able to sue in Canadian courts
Article
Victims of terrorism will be able to sue perpetrators in Canadian courts under new federal legislation to be introduced by the Harper government this week.
Yep. A real political "We're doing something about this " answer.
By the way , Canada has like the most microscopic of armed forces in the world ? Somebody sues Iran in a Canadian Court and wins...what can Canada do to enforce the decision ? Not a dang thing.
but we're doing something about terrorism ! Yess sir ree ! We did something !
Well....they've shifted the blame of booting immigrants out who've done anything to support terrorism off of the government shoulders onto the victems shoulders, thats what they've done. Now the victems can keep suing and sueing if yuo made a bomb for some guy in great britian , until you take the hint and leave.
Or turn this country into an assassination play ground and start killing off the victems families when they sue you, one of the two.
But yep ! We did somethign about it , yes in deed !
Victims of terrorism will be able to sue perpetrators in Canadian courts under new federal legislation to be introduced by the Harper government this week.
Yep. A real political "We're doing something about this " answer.
By the way , Canada has like the most microscopic of armed forces in the world ? Somebody sues Iran in a Canadian Court and wins...what can Canada do to enforce the decision ? Not a dang thing.
but we're doing something about terrorism ! Yess sir ree ! We did something !
Well....they've shifted the blame of booting immigrants out who've done anything to support terrorism off of the government shoulders onto the victems shoulders, thats what they've done. Now the victems can keep suing and sueing if yuo made a bomb for some guy in great britian , until you take the hint and leave.
Or turn this country into an assassination play ground and start killing off the victems families when they sue you, one of the two.
But yep ! We did somethign about it , yes in deed !
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Windows "Poochy Poo your system is now Pooched" Defender
Article = none , personal experiance.
Lets be honest here.
When I was in tech support for computers, and some user called me up and told me he/she had a virus, I didn't tell them to get an antivirus program and clean it up. I told them "You're pooched. Reformat. Virus Scanners arn't gonna do anything but take your 60$ and then tell you we did our best ..it didn't work , reformat"
I'm pooched.
I can tell , because the Dell system partitian that has a copy of windows xp on my hard drive ? Just in case ? It's pooched. it won't load. It won't let me reformat windows.
Currently downloading Ubuntu 9.04 , a reasonably friendly version of Linux. I will see if my favorite online game , city of heroes , will run under wine, the windows emulator. (a google search on "wine city of heroes" indicates it has been tested on 23 machines and they all agree it works great)
Well... it could hardly be worse than windows suddenly taking it all away from me. Every thing on the hard drive. Because stupid windows defender decided to open the internet exploder and EXPLODE my system.
Security is Job One indeed.
Can I sue Bill Gates now ?
No ? All software is use at own risk ? I don't feel like risking it anymore ...
Congradultions , you are Foo Barr'ed
You bought into the worlds most virus prone operating system. It took you for every thing it could...
... I think ... are you still feeling stupid ? Would you like to give me some more of your time and effort and money , ohhhh especially money ... so we can "try " to fix it again even though we both know thats not going to happen ... can I take you for just a little more ? a few more dollars ? A few more hours of your time ? How about just fifty cents .. ?
... and now you have to clean up the mess and get your computer back together again. And operational. And Windows is not interesting in helping you with that , they're only interested in SCREWING YOU FOR EVERY PENNY THEY CAN GET AND THEN LEAVING YOUR EMPTY CREDIT CARD ON THE STREET BLOWING IN THE WIND with all the others...
Ok. Lets try ubunto for a while. Dunno how well it will run City of Heroes.. might actually have to give up running that game ... but hey. I aint getting it anyways if I stick with windows now am I ? They took me for quite the ride ..no back up ..how much does a copy of xp cost again ? Oh they don't sell it anymore they want every one on windows vista or windows 7 ....
Ubuntu it is... if nothing else, my 21.99$ a month for online gaming will be saved for a little bit ...
Lets be honest here.
When I was in tech support for computers, and some user called me up and told me he/she had a virus, I didn't tell them to get an antivirus program and clean it up. I told them "You're pooched. Reformat. Virus Scanners arn't gonna do anything but take your 60$ and then tell you we did our best ..it didn't work , reformat"
I'm pooched.
I can tell , because the Dell system partitian that has a copy of windows xp on my hard drive ? Just in case ? It's pooched. it won't load. It won't let me reformat windows.
Currently downloading Ubuntu 9.04 , a reasonably friendly version of Linux. I will see if my favorite online game , city of heroes , will run under wine, the windows emulator. (a google search on "wine city of heroes" indicates it has been tested on 23 machines and they all agree it works great)
Well... it could hardly be worse than windows suddenly taking it all away from me. Every thing on the hard drive. Because stupid windows defender decided to open the internet exploder and EXPLODE my system.
Security is Job One indeed.
Can I sue Bill Gates now ?
No ? All software is use at own risk ? I don't feel like risking it anymore ...
Congradultions , you are Foo Barr'ed
You bought into the worlds most virus prone operating system. It took you for every thing it could...
... I think ... are you still feeling stupid ? Would you like to give me some more of your time and effort and money , ohhhh especially money ... so we can "try " to fix it again even though we both know thats not going to happen ... can I take you for just a little more ? a few more dollars ? A few more hours of your time ? How about just fifty cents .. ?
... and now you have to clean up the mess and get your computer back together again. And operational. And Windows is not interesting in helping you with that , they're only interested in SCREWING YOU FOR EVERY PENNY THEY CAN GET AND THEN LEAVING YOUR EMPTY CREDIT CARD ON THE STREET BLOWING IN THE WIND with all the others...
Ok. Lets try ubunto for a while. Dunno how well it will run City of Heroes.. might actually have to give up running that game ... but hey. I aint getting it anyways if I stick with windows now am I ? They took me for quite the ride ..no back up ..how much does a copy of xp cost again ? Oh they don't sell it anymore they want every one on windows vista or windows 7 ....
Ubuntu it is... if nothing else, my 21.99$ a month for online gaming will be saved for a little bit ...
Windows Non-Defender
Article = none, personal experiance.
I had the most interesting experiance today involving windows defender.
It had automatically set itself to scan for viruses at two in the morning , but of course I don't let my computer run all night, I only run it when I'm there to watch it and make sure it's not doing anything weird (a primary security precaution no one should skip , by the way).
So it started running it's scan. Ok , it's a quick scan , and I am running xp , though I always use Firefox so I doubt it will find anything.
Yep. It found nothing. It even openned up a nice window to tell me it didn't find a thing.
Except that that window was , you guessed it , Internet Explorer , or as we techies and former techies like to call it , Internet Exploder.
Then I got that annoying box "take a tour of Internet Explorer 8" which I always close and it always opens again whenever I open it. But I hadn't asked to open it ? Then it popped up this big full screen ad saying an Online scan (what was something online doing scanning my computer without my permission ? ) had detected several million billion zillion viruses and trojens on my computer and I should really download this file right now this very instant DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED YES !!!! .
I said no.
Started up my online game.
10 minutes into the game , that annoying YOU HAVE TEN ZILLION VIRII ON YOUR COMPUTER DOWNLOAD THIS FILE RIGHT NOW !!!! came up again , and by the way got me killed in the game.
I was pissed.
Tried to update the virus definitions in windows defender. No go. Couldn't upgrade. Check fire wall, yes, windows defender is permitted to contact the internet ?
Went to Internet Exploder , disabled every single add on. Including two of them that mysteriously had no name ... considered the matter solved.
Didn't I read somewhere that after windows defender got tested and showed up to be the worst virus defender in the world microsoft stopped supporting it ? Yeah ... I couldn't find any updates for it because it was a dead scanner, no updates were anywhere to be had for it.
Uninstalled Windows Defender. It wouldn't be loading up that virus flea trap Internet Exploder on me anymore , if nothing else.
ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT EVERY DRIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER HAS ZILLIONS AND ZILLIONS OF VIRII DOWNLOAD OUR SOFTWARE NOW DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED = YESSS !!!!!!
Now I was really pissed.
Tried to find an online scanner. Kept getting redirected to advertising sites. Well , advertising site, the same site over and over , no matter what I searched for. The virus had hijacked firefox on me.
Found AVG , using Opera , not firefox, and certainly not the Internet Exploder.
Downloaded it , installed it , started her scanning.
Still scanning. found 9 viruses and trojens so far. SHeur2.AGJK , FakeAlert.KJ, stuff like that. No I can't look it up ,that just redirects me to the same sales site that is obviously owned by the virus maker and would only make my problems worse.
*sigh* 30 min later. Oh yes, I pay for my online game with my credit card. I've typed it into this comptuer several times. Oh well...
Phone credit card company. Explain to them my computer is infected with a virus I no longer trust my credit card I think the program stole the information and is gonna go on a spending spree. They told me 7 days, new card, new number, it's in the mail.
Scan complete. 16 virus found. Rebooting.... I'll be back.
(edit ...I'm back)
OMG I AM SUCH A TECHIE GEEK !!!
LMFAO (means laughing my fat (ahem) off)
Firefox didn't work. Popped up an error about proxies refusing connection. But Opera did ! I used opera to hunt down a help file to find the proxie settings on Firefox , and fixed them , and now fire fox works !
Ha ha ... the virus don't know what it did , you know.
It thinks it was taking it's petty revenge by sabataging fire fox and preventing me from getting online when I removed it. But really , all it did was TEACH ME TO SABATAGE THE INTERNET EXPLODER and keep that virus claptrap off line permanently !
I'm gonna go sabatage the Exploder right this instant ! That thing is never EVER getting online again. I've been searching for a way to do that for ages. Thank you SHeur2.AGJK , I appreciate that.
Ha ha ... I love it when I get the last word in. ha ha ha.
(Edit ..again)
Since I so kindly openned the internet exploder , to sabatage it's proxy settings, it so kindly PROMPTLY REINFECTED MY COMPUTER AGAIN !!! . But thats ok. This time I sabataged the settings first , and waited a while. And got treated to the site of it openning a blank page automatically about 10 minutes later.
Scanning again. This time it's over. I hope. Since this virus doesn't seem to understand that such a thing as opera exists, I'm editing this post on Opera now. Remind me to pick up another browser, someing free , and highly obsure, not used by very many people, it just saved my behind.
and opera plays youtube.video's real nice too.
Didn't apple try and put out a browser recently "? Yeah ... Safari ..lets try safari. I never hear of it much , so thats gotta be pretty obscure.
(edit ..yet again)
Ugh ! Safari uses the default windows settings for proxies , the very same ones internet exploder uses, the ones I just finished sabataging to a fair thee well. UNINSTALL ! I'll keep looking ...
I had the most interesting experiance today involving windows defender.
It had automatically set itself to scan for viruses at two in the morning , but of course I don't let my computer run all night, I only run it when I'm there to watch it and make sure it's not doing anything weird (a primary security precaution no one should skip , by the way).
So it started running it's scan. Ok , it's a quick scan , and I am running xp , though I always use Firefox so I doubt it will find anything.
Yep. It found nothing. It even openned up a nice window to tell me it didn't find a thing.
Except that that window was , you guessed it , Internet Explorer , or as we techies and former techies like to call it , Internet Exploder.
Then I got that annoying box "take a tour of Internet Explorer 8" which I always close and it always opens again whenever I open it. But I hadn't asked to open it ? Then it popped up this big full screen ad saying an Online scan (what was something online doing scanning my computer without my permission ? ) had detected several million billion zillion viruses and trojens on my computer and I should really download this file right now this very instant DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED YES !!!! .
I said no.
Started up my online game.
10 minutes into the game , that annoying YOU HAVE TEN ZILLION VIRII ON YOUR COMPUTER DOWNLOAD THIS FILE RIGHT NOW !!!! came up again , and by the way got me killed in the game.
I was pissed.
Tried to update the virus definitions in windows defender. No go. Couldn't upgrade. Check fire wall, yes, windows defender is permitted to contact the internet ?
Went to Internet Exploder , disabled every single add on. Including two of them that mysteriously had no name ... considered the matter solved.
Didn't I read somewhere that after windows defender got tested and showed up to be the worst virus defender in the world microsoft stopped supporting it ? Yeah ... I couldn't find any updates for it because it was a dead scanner, no updates were anywhere to be had for it.
Uninstalled Windows Defender. It wouldn't be loading up that virus flea trap Internet Exploder on me anymore , if nothing else.
ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT EVERY DRIVE ON YOUR COMPUTER HAS ZILLIONS AND ZILLIONS OF VIRII DOWNLOAD OUR SOFTWARE NOW DOWNLOAD RECOMMENDED = YESSS !!!!!!
Now I was really pissed.
Tried to find an online scanner. Kept getting redirected to advertising sites. Well , advertising site, the same site over and over , no matter what I searched for. The virus had hijacked firefox on me.
Found AVG , using Opera , not firefox, and certainly not the Internet Exploder.
Downloaded it , installed it , started her scanning.
Still scanning. found 9 viruses and trojens so far. SHeur2.AGJK , FakeAlert.KJ, stuff like that. No I can't look it up ,that just redirects me to the same sales site that is obviously owned by the virus maker and would only make my problems worse.
*sigh* 30 min later. Oh yes, I pay for my online game with my credit card. I've typed it into this comptuer several times. Oh well...
Phone credit card company. Explain to them my computer is infected with a virus I no longer trust my credit card I think the program stole the information and is gonna go on a spending spree. They told me 7 days, new card, new number, it's in the mail.
Scan complete. 16 virus found. Rebooting.... I'll be back.
(edit ...I'm back)
OMG I AM SUCH A TECHIE GEEK !!!
LMFAO (means laughing my fat (ahem) off)
Firefox didn't work. Popped up an error about proxies refusing connection. But Opera did ! I used opera to hunt down a help file to find the proxie settings on Firefox , and fixed them , and now fire fox works !
Ha ha ... the virus don't know what it did , you know.
It thinks it was taking it's petty revenge by sabataging fire fox and preventing me from getting online when I removed it. But really , all it did was TEACH ME TO SABATAGE THE INTERNET EXPLODER and keep that virus claptrap off line permanently !
I'm gonna go sabatage the Exploder right this instant ! That thing is never EVER getting online again. I've been searching for a way to do that for ages. Thank you SHeur2.AGJK , I appreciate that.
Ha ha ... I love it when I get the last word in. ha ha ha.
(Edit ..again)
Since I so kindly openned the internet exploder , to sabatage it's proxy settings, it so kindly PROMPTLY REINFECTED MY COMPUTER AGAIN !!! . But thats ok. This time I sabataged the settings first , and waited a while. And got treated to the site of it openning a blank page automatically about 10 minutes later.
Scanning again. This time it's over. I hope. Since this virus doesn't seem to understand that such a thing as opera exists, I'm editing this post on Opera now. Remind me to pick up another browser, someing free , and highly obsure, not used by very many people, it just saved my behind.
and opera plays youtube.video's real nice too.
Didn't apple try and put out a browser recently "? Yeah ... Safari ..lets try safari. I never hear of it much , so thats gotta be pretty obscure.
(edit ..yet again)
Ugh ! Safari uses the default windows settings for proxies , the very same ones internet exploder uses, the ones I just finished sabataging to a fair thee well. UNINSTALL ! I'll keep looking ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tories ready to 'take on' Liberals over EI reform: PM
Article
Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Wednesday that he would be willing to go to the polls over Liberal calls for changes to the employment insurance system.
Harper made the veiled threat during a heated exchange with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, whose party has spent the past week calling for reforms to the program.
Ignatieff and Liberal MPs are urging the government to lower the minimum threshold to claim EI to 360 hours and make it a national standard.
360 hrs at 8 hrs / day = 45 days
50 weeks a year at 5 days a week = 250 days
You want to move from a 250 day work year to a 45 day work year, for everyone. The whole blinking nation ? Thats like everyone suddenly working only 1 day a week. Who pays for this ? Your next door neibours ? Sorry , they're only working 1 day a week too.
This is simple political tactics. The Liberals force Harper to say no to this , and maybe they win an election. And if they win , guess what ? This is not possible. You still don't get your 1 day work week, it's not in the cards it never was. It's a scam.
This is classic Liberal Tactics. Win the election at any cost. Make any promise, even the most ridiculous ones that anyone who bothers to use grade 3 math can see is impossible to keep , and just screw the public over. They care nothing for the people. It's all tactics and what lies can I tell today ?
The French-language commercials point out Ignatieff speaks French with a Parisian accent, rather than a Quebec accent.
With the constant deluge of Liberal attacks on our Hoover in a Blue Sweater, I suppose attack ads in return were inevitable.
The French one is tactically interesting though. The French Seperatists love the Parisans and treat them like visiting royalty, but does the rest of quebec ? One has to wonder if Harper is making a mistake with them, or did he some how sneak in a survey that indicates parisians are not so popular with Quebecer's and is taking a shot ? It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper suggested Wednesday that he would be willing to go to the polls over Liberal calls for changes to the employment insurance system.
Harper made the veiled threat during a heated exchange with Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, whose party has spent the past week calling for reforms to the program.
Ignatieff and Liberal MPs are urging the government to lower the minimum threshold to claim EI to 360 hours and make it a national standard.
360 hrs at 8 hrs / day = 45 days
50 weeks a year at 5 days a week = 250 days
You want to move from a 250 day work year to a 45 day work year, for everyone. The whole blinking nation ? Thats like everyone suddenly working only 1 day a week. Who pays for this ? Your next door neibours ? Sorry , they're only working 1 day a week too.
This is simple political tactics. The Liberals force Harper to say no to this , and maybe they win an election. And if they win , guess what ? This is not possible. You still don't get your 1 day work week, it's not in the cards it never was. It's a scam.
This is classic Liberal Tactics. Win the election at any cost. Make any promise, even the most ridiculous ones that anyone who bothers to use grade 3 math can see is impossible to keep , and just screw the public over. They care nothing for the people. It's all tactics and what lies can I tell today ?
The French-language commercials point out Ignatieff speaks French with a Parisian accent, rather than a Quebec accent.
With the constant deluge of Liberal attacks on our Hoover in a Blue Sweater, I suppose attack ads in return were inevitable.
The French one is tactically interesting though. The French Seperatists love the Parisans and treat them like visiting royalty, but does the rest of quebec ? One has to wonder if Harper is making a mistake with them, or did he some how sneak in a survey that indicates parisians are not so popular with Quebecer's and is taking a shot ? It will be interesting to see how that plays out.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Pig farmers bracing for pork import restrictions
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Canadian pig farmers are bracing for the economic impact of a Chinese ban on Alberta pork products, which some fear may be only the start of a backlash against their pigs.
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On Sunday, Jurgen Preugschas, the president of the Canadian Pork Council, called the Chinese ban a "knee-jerk" reaction, rather than one based on science.
"Quite often countries have knee-jerk reactions to news out of another country," he told The Canadian Press from his home in Mayerthorpe, Alta., on Sunday.
Yep. Something wrong with those Chinese milk products, CLOSE THE BORDER IMMEDIATELY TO THEM !!! Something wrong with Canadian Pigs...Now Wait A Minute Here ! Lets Not Be Hasty !
It's the self serving dollars first human health later attitude that gets me the most here. This fiasco is suddenly not about pigs catching a disease that can kill people, its suddenly about national pride in our diseased live stock , and how farmers are financially hurt by it all...
Excuse me ,I have to barf now.
And no, I don't want to eat meat from those pigs either. I don't blame the Chinese in the slightest.
Twenty people died from diseased cheese in Canada. Not a single person went to jail for manslaughter. Not a one. You want to know what I think about producers that make diseased products and then whine that they've been caught ?
Shoot the diseased pigs. Put the farmer out of business, he's obviously incompetent. And such incompetence will get people killed, and he'll get away with it.
Canadian pig farmers are bracing for the economic impact of a Chinese ban on Alberta pork products, which some fear may be only the start of a backlash against their pigs.
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On Sunday, Jurgen Preugschas, the president of the Canadian Pork Council, called the Chinese ban a "knee-jerk" reaction, rather than one based on science.
"Quite often countries have knee-jerk reactions to news out of another country," he told The Canadian Press from his home in Mayerthorpe, Alta., on Sunday.
Yep. Something wrong with those Chinese milk products, CLOSE THE BORDER IMMEDIATELY TO THEM !!! Something wrong with Canadian Pigs...Now Wait A Minute Here ! Lets Not Be Hasty !
It's the self serving dollars first human health later attitude that gets me the most here. This fiasco is suddenly not about pigs catching a disease that can kill people, its suddenly about national pride in our diseased live stock , and how farmers are financially hurt by it all...
Excuse me ,I have to barf now.
And no, I don't want to eat meat from those pigs either. I don't blame the Chinese in the slightest.
Twenty people died from diseased cheese in Canada. Not a single person went to jail for manslaughter. Not a one. You want to know what I think about producers that make diseased products and then whine that they've been caught ?
Shoot the diseased pigs. Put the farmer out of business, he's obviously incompetent. And such incompetence will get people killed, and he'll get away with it.
Sunday, May 03, 2009
King Iggy Speaks , CBC Relays the Propaganda
Ignatieff slams Harper for 'failure to unite Canada'
Michael Ignatieff took direct aim at Prime Minister Stephen Harper, attacking his track record on national unity, as he accepted the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, unopposed, at a convention in Vancouver on Saturday.
Did a single reporter from anywhere ask "One party one vote...isn't that how communism works ?" no ... they did not. They cheered him on like he was the second coming.
"For three years you have played province against province, group against group, region against region and individual against individual. When your power was threatened last November, you unleashed a national unity crisis and you saved yourself only by sending Parliament home.
Thus spaketh the Leader of the Party that would like to Tax Alberta Utilities because they have to burn coal to produce electricity and spend the money anyway they like. But did any reporter raise that question ? No.
"I will give this job everything I've got," Ignatieff said. "We meet in Vancouver as a great united party … in the shared belief that our time has come.
"In opposition, we are fighting to protect you, and in government we will lead you back to prosperity," he said.
Protect us ? Like a protection racket ? What did the liberals ever do except try and raise taxes , do the west dirty , and cow tow to the quebecors saying yes your special you're better than the rest of canada you're so very special not like those other rift raft .... Unify Canada indeed !
A video tribute shown before Ignatieff took the stage featured photos of him with President Barack Obama, which elicited thunderous applause.
Did any reporters ask any tough questions ?
Did they bring up any tough issues ?
Did they mention the bail out of big corporations vs the raising of taxes for the little guy is King Iggy's idea of "protecting" the canadian electorate ?
No.
They didn't do anything but relay his propaganda about how great and wonderful he is and every one should elect him and how stupid you are for turning the Liberals into the third place *LOSERS* in the last election. The Quebec only Bloc got more votes than the Liberals did , but you'd swear they were the second coming and they're going to fix all your woes and make it all better and how everyone else is EVIL EVIL EVIL ...
This exercise in Communist propoganda is brought to you by the Canadian Broadcast Corperation , who as is their want , did not bother to sign the article. One can only presume the CBC stands behind this anonymous article since it's on their website , but thats not a certainty.
Like kids driving by ,throwing eggs at someone they hate , and disapearing around the corner , no one knows who it was.
The Iggy Factor
Ignatieff Q&A: 'I'm going to become PM'
"I'm going to become the prime minister of this country, as sure as I'm sitting here, and I'm going to inherit the largest deficit in Canadian history."
It's a recession, and the Americans made the economy go to pot. Yet you're blaming the other guys , quite relentless in it. Pure propaganda.
His support for George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, subsequently recanted, and nuanced writings on the amount of "duress" permissible during prisoner interrogations have generated plenty of criticism from the Liberal left.
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"I could have spent my life in the United States, I didn't. I came back here because this is my home . . .
"I hate, detest and loathe torture, always have, always will. I do not want a world run by the American empire, never have, never wanted it, don't want it now . . .
You lived most of your life out of canada , so you're out of touch.
In true political fashion you change your tune as often as you change your socks. Yes to torture , Yes to Iraq ... oops it's unpopular now , no to torture , no to Iraq !
"That means I'm a medicare Liberal, I'm a Canada Pension Plan Liberal, I'm a Charter of Rights and Freedoms Liberal."
This week. Last week you were a pro-torture Bush lover. Not to say that that is a bad thing.(yeah I'm not too happy about "civilians" who pick up a rifle and start shooting other civilians and claim they want to do this to the whole world) The part where you keep changing your mind is what I object to.
He'll spend the summer rebuilding the party platform and fund-raising infrastructure, and implement the U.S. Democrat strategy of targetting all seats that helped send Barack Obama to the White House.
Yep. Love those americans ! Free Guns for all and to heck with the Health Care ! We're doing this the american way ! Oh , I said I supported the opposite of that ? Thats ok , I change my mind a lot, next week I'll do it again.
On that note, he wants "reasonable [carbon] targets that reconcile environmental objectives with employment objectives."
If that sounds close to Harper's position, it is; the green lobby will demand much more.
And that is a popular position so I'm stealing it from Harper !
This man waffles like a Pancake, you don't know what you're voting for, or what he'll change his mind and do next week. You vote for someone because you know he's gonna do something , you don't vote for people who change their mind as often as they change their socks, 'cause you don't know what you're getting.
It's the Iggy Factor.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Vender Lock Is The Way
New Apple Gizmos Coming to Exclusively to Verizon?
There's a new iPhone coming out (a very popular brand of cell phone), and it's going to be available only to one phone company, not the others.
Why ? Is there any technological reason for this ?
No , there cannot be. The new iPhone was manufactured *SPECIFIC* for the new vender. They could have made anything they wanted. They *CHOSE* to do this as a deliberate marketting stradegy.
Why ?
To make a buck. To do the public , who are their customers, dirty. Why should your favorite phone be available by one company only and not another ? Why is it locked ? So that that company can make a money. And then , you can only buy stuff for your phone from that company as well , you can't buy from anywhere else.
It's like there are ten stores on the street, and when you walk into one , that store locks the doors on all the other stores, and traps you. And then they raise the prices, or you find out their deals are not so hot , and you want out. Only you're trapped, you can't get out.
This is called Vender Lock.
It's a very successful marketing strategy.
But then, so is pointing a gun at your customers head and demanding all his money.
A long time ago , it was decided that letting a man work , and keep most of the product of his labor, only taxing him a little, worked very well. He worked much harder than when you simply took everything he produced no matter how hard, or not hard, he worked. And it was decided to let him take his wares to market and sell them for whatever he could get.
That was capitalism.
What we have today , is not Capitalism.
What we have today is legal theft. They sell you something , and then they say you can only use it in such a fashion , or we'll take it back and not give you your money back. They make these bright shiney gew gaws, and then deliberately bundle them with the most obnoxious items you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole and then demand you buy both or neither. And there's no reason why, except to make a profit.
Now they put up walls every where you go. Now they make movies, but they only run on one kind of player, and different movies run on a different player. Now they make cool new phones, but you can only have them if you go to one particular phone provider and not another.
Now , they lock the doors on the competition , and charge everything they can for the simple stuff , and scads more for anythign hard. And they put a ring in *YOUR* nose , and threaten you with *JAIL* if you try to go somewhere else.
When the merchant starts clubbing his customers and herding them to his shop , and away from the others, it's time to stay away from that merchant.
When they all do it ...when the strategy of being an honest hard working shop smith doesn't work because you've been forced out by the dishonest ones... somethings gotta change.
There's a new iPhone coming out (a very popular brand of cell phone), and it's going to be available only to one phone company, not the others.
Why ? Is there any technological reason for this ?
No , there cannot be. The new iPhone was manufactured *SPECIFIC* for the new vender. They could have made anything they wanted. They *CHOSE* to do this as a deliberate marketting stradegy.
Why ?
To make a buck. To do the public , who are their customers, dirty. Why should your favorite phone be available by one company only and not another ? Why is it locked ? So that that company can make a money. And then , you can only buy stuff for your phone from that company as well , you can't buy from anywhere else.
It's like there are ten stores on the street, and when you walk into one , that store locks the doors on all the other stores, and traps you. And then they raise the prices, or you find out their deals are not so hot , and you want out. Only you're trapped, you can't get out.
This is called Vender Lock.
It's a very successful marketing strategy.
But then, so is pointing a gun at your customers head and demanding all his money.
A long time ago , it was decided that letting a man work , and keep most of the product of his labor, only taxing him a little, worked very well. He worked much harder than when you simply took everything he produced no matter how hard, or not hard, he worked. And it was decided to let him take his wares to market and sell them for whatever he could get.
That was capitalism.
What we have today , is not Capitalism.
What we have today is legal theft. They sell you something , and then they say you can only use it in such a fashion , or we'll take it back and not give you your money back. They make these bright shiney gew gaws, and then deliberately bundle them with the most obnoxious items you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole and then demand you buy both or neither. And there's no reason why, except to make a profit.
Now they put up walls every where you go. Now they make movies, but they only run on one kind of player, and different movies run on a different player. Now they make cool new phones, but you can only have them if you go to one particular phone provider and not another.
Now , they lock the doors on the competition , and charge everything they can for the simple stuff , and scads more for anythign hard. And they put a ring in *YOUR* nose , and threaten you with *JAIL* if you try to go somewhere else.
When the merchant starts clubbing his customers and herding them to his shop , and away from the others, it's time to stay away from that merchant.
When they all do it ...when the strategy of being an honest hard working shop smith doesn't work because you've been forced out by the dishonest ones... somethings gotta change.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Ottawa Citizen Preaches, not Reports , on Khandr
Khadr must come home
It is to Canada's shame that its prime minister will not stand up and make the right decision about Omar Khadr. Instead, it seems, Stephen Harper will have to be forced into it.
Khadr was shot in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15 years old, and has been in custody since, mostly at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. medic, but he has not been convicted.
Who decides what's right ? You ? Who are you ?
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
You are no one it seems. You don't have a name. You're not interested in signing your stories. You just write your one sided drivil about how everything Harper does is Evil and say not thing one about the other side of the issue.
Everyone I talk to about this asks the same question . What was that kid doing in Afghanistan in a Terrorist Training Camp in the first place ? Teaching them canoeing ?
Or on the pro-side you could mention he's a child soldier and it shouldn't be held against him kids make bad decisions etc etc. Bring him home.
But that is not mentioned here, by this nameless writer who one might presume could possibly work for the Ottawa Citizen , though in this day and age of contracting out to India that assumption may be completely unwarranted.
The fact that the Liberals were in power when Khadr was captured and they did nothing about it , doing just as the Conservatives have done , deciding to let him rot, only doing it first, should at least be mentioned. But it is not.
I don't mind people saying Khadr should come home.
I don't mind people saying he should stay there and rot.
I do mind pretend make believe reporters who do not report anymore. They just preach. And since the Ottawa Citizen is a big business, and the Liberals are the pro big business party in this country , and they hate the Conservatives who are currently in power, it's hard not to follow the trail of bread crumbs of this anonymous article to Prince Iggy's Doorstep, as he waits to become King of Canada by getting his big business allies to smear the Conservatives at every step.
And I do mind when an Opinion , not a fact is offered , apparently by a big corporation and not some particular reporter. Does your whole corporation stand by that opinion ? Any Opinion ? Are you picking a side somewhere ? Anywhere ? Isn't that against the rules of journalism ? It was when I was a kid. Apparently it is not now.
When the newspapers stop reporting the news in an unbiased fashion, when they pick a side and become the propaganda mill for that side, what they say is not news anymore.
And so they should not bother calling themselves reporters.
So to you , oh anonymous and secretive author who got handed the job you probably despise of writing a piece you may or may not believe in , I salute you. You have all the moral fiber of a Styrofoam cup, and it is good that you hide your identity from the shame you commit. No one wants their name associated with this kind of nonsense , after all.
Where have all the reporters gone I wonder ?
And when did newspapers become propaganda mills. It was not this way when I was growing up.
It is to Canada's shame that its prime minister will not stand up and make the right decision about Omar Khadr. Instead, it seems, Stephen Harper will have to be forced into it.
Khadr was shot in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15 years old, and has been in custody since, mostly at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. medic, but he has not been convicted.
Who decides what's right ? You ? Who are you ?
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
You are no one it seems. You don't have a name. You're not interested in signing your stories. You just write your one sided drivil about how everything Harper does is Evil and say not thing one about the other side of the issue.
Everyone I talk to about this asks the same question . What was that kid doing in Afghanistan in a Terrorist Training Camp in the first place ? Teaching them canoeing ?
Or on the pro-side you could mention he's a child soldier and it shouldn't be held against him kids make bad decisions etc etc. Bring him home.
But that is not mentioned here, by this nameless writer who one might presume could possibly work for the Ottawa Citizen , though in this day and age of contracting out to India that assumption may be completely unwarranted.
The fact that the Liberals were in power when Khadr was captured and they did nothing about it , doing just as the Conservatives have done , deciding to let him rot, only doing it first, should at least be mentioned. But it is not.
I don't mind people saying Khadr should come home.
I don't mind people saying he should stay there and rot.
I do mind pretend make believe reporters who do not report anymore. They just preach. And since the Ottawa Citizen is a big business, and the Liberals are the pro big business party in this country , and they hate the Conservatives who are currently in power, it's hard not to follow the trail of bread crumbs of this anonymous article to Prince Iggy's Doorstep, as he waits to become King of Canada by getting his big business allies to smear the Conservatives at every step.
And I do mind when an Opinion , not a fact is offered , apparently by a big corporation and not some particular reporter. Does your whole corporation stand by that opinion ? Any Opinion ? Are you picking a side somewhere ? Anywhere ? Isn't that against the rules of journalism ? It was when I was a kid. Apparently it is not now.
When the newspapers stop reporting the news in an unbiased fashion, when they pick a side and become the propaganda mill for that side, what they say is not news anymore.
And so they should not bother calling themselves reporters.
So to you , oh anonymous and secretive author who got handed the job you probably despise of writing a piece you may or may not believe in , I salute you. You have all the moral fiber of a Styrofoam cup, and it is good that you hide your identity from the shame you commit. No one wants their name associated with this kind of nonsense , after all.
Where have all the reporters gone I wonder ?
And when did newspapers become propaganda mills. It was not this way when I was growing up.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Google Does Evil, Gets Away With It
Google Street View vehicles spotted in Ottawa
Several Google Street View vehicles have been spotted cruising the streets of Ottawa. The vehicles are roving through various neighbourhoods in the nation’s capital snapping pictures of streets in order to update the company’s online Google Maps offering.
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A notification, telling Canadians that the Google vehicles would soon be out in Canadian neighbourhoods, was released late last month. It was later revealed that the company had been collecting images for months, and already has a massive database of photographs. Under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Google must notify the Canadian public that they are undertaking the photographic initiative before they begin.
Yeah , we decided to notify you that we were snapping shots of everyone months *AFTER* the fact, basically only because we got caught red handed and had to 'fess up.
Which is a violation of Canadian Law, which we worry about because buying off politicians is expensive, and a violation of our corporate motto of "Do No Evil" , which we do not worry over, because that's just a motto and it cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a profit.
A spokeswoman for the privacy commissioners office said yesterday that Google is well aware of the office’s concerns.
Yep. We made nice nice with them, they're not going to make trouble for us despite our flagrant violation of Canadian Law. We're american , we're allowed to do that.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the commissioners office had not received any complaints about the roving Street View camera-cars
We've been running cars for months and no one noticed ! How could there possibly be any complaints about something we're sneaking in on the sly ? There might be now , but it's too late, the databases are in America and a Canadian court order to erase them means diddly. We won't do it. We ripped you good ! Ha ha ha !
Once the Street View service is officially launched in Canada, the commissioners office would be forced to launch a full investigation into the Street View service should Canadians complain that Google is violating their right to privacy.
*AFTER* it's been up and running a while, and the damage is done, and thieves broke into your house because they noticed weak basement window on Google Maps and so they got to scope the place out without ever actually going there, then you can run and whine and complain to some worthless Canadian Privacy Agency that has no power to do anything except hold your hand and cry with you and when you're tired tell you to go home they can't do nothing about it.
Google's New Motto. "Do No Evil. Unless it hurts profits."
*EDIT* Does't Google own Blogspot ? Hmm..let me just export my blog before it myseriously gets erased ....
Several Google Street View vehicles have been spotted cruising the streets of Ottawa. The vehicles are roving through various neighbourhoods in the nation’s capital snapping pictures of streets in order to update the company’s online Google Maps offering.
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A notification, telling Canadians that the Google vehicles would soon be out in Canadian neighbourhoods, was released late last month. It was later revealed that the company had been collecting images for months, and already has a massive database of photographs. Under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Google must notify the Canadian public that they are undertaking the photographic initiative before they begin.
Yeah , we decided to notify you that we were snapping shots of everyone months *AFTER* the fact, basically only because we got caught red handed and had to 'fess up.
Which is a violation of Canadian Law, which we worry about because buying off politicians is expensive, and a violation of our corporate motto of "Do No Evil" , which we do not worry over, because that's just a motto and it cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a profit.
A spokeswoman for the privacy commissioners office said yesterday that Google is well aware of the office’s concerns.
Yep. We made nice nice with them, they're not going to make trouble for us despite our flagrant violation of Canadian Law. We're american , we're allowed to do that.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the commissioners office had not received any complaints about the roving Street View camera-cars
We've been running cars for months and no one noticed ! How could there possibly be any complaints about something we're sneaking in on the sly ? There might be now , but it's too late, the databases are in America and a Canadian court order to erase them means diddly. We won't do it. We ripped you good ! Ha ha ha !
Once the Street View service is officially launched in Canada, the commissioners office would be forced to launch a full investigation into the Street View service should Canadians complain that Google is violating their right to privacy.
*AFTER* it's been up and running a while, and the damage is done, and thieves broke into your house because they noticed weak basement window on Google Maps and so they got to scope the place out without ever actually going there, then you can run and whine and complain to some worthless Canadian Privacy Agency that has no power to do anything except hold your hand and cry with you and when you're tired tell you to go home they can't do nothing about it.
Google's New Motto. "Do No Evil. Unless it hurts profits."
*EDIT* Does't Google own Blogspot ? Hmm..let me just export my blog before it myseriously gets erased ....
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Please Kick Me , I'm North Korean
North Korea: Sanctions a declaration of war
"The Korean People's Army will consider sanctions to be applied against the DPRK under various names over its satellite launch or any pressure to be put upon it through 'total participation' in the PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative) as a declaration of undisguised confrontation and a declaration of a war against the DPRK," the announcement on state TV said.
"Now that the group officially declared confrontation and war against the DPRK, its revolutionary armed forces will opt for increasing the nation's defense capability including nuclear deterrent in every way, without being bound to the agreement adopted at the six-party talks," it continued, apparently referring to the Security Council.
We're North Koreans.
We have a single factory for building nukes, you know where it is , you keep putting up sattilite photo's of it to warn us you can drop bombs on it at any time, but we're not listening.
We're declaring war on everyone by building nukes.
If you try and interfere with our nuke building , we declare war on you.
Oh yes, and our Beloved Dictator For Life is getting old and will die soon , so he's decided to do as much damage as possible before he checks out.
Please Kick Us.
It will hurt less than what our Beloved Dictator For Life has in mind.
Thank you for your time.
"The Korean People's Army will consider sanctions to be applied against the DPRK under various names over its satellite launch or any pressure to be put upon it through 'total participation' in the PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative) as a declaration of undisguised confrontation and a declaration of a war against the DPRK," the announcement on state TV said.
"Now that the group officially declared confrontation and war against the DPRK, its revolutionary armed forces will opt for increasing the nation's defense capability including nuclear deterrent in every way, without being bound to the agreement adopted at the six-party talks," it continued, apparently referring to the Security Council.
We're North Koreans.
We have a single factory for building nukes, you know where it is , you keep putting up sattilite photo's of it to warn us you can drop bombs on it at any time, but we're not listening.
We're declaring war on everyone by building nukes.
If you try and interfere with our nuke building , we declare war on you.
Oh yes, and our Beloved Dictator For Life is getting old and will die soon , so he's decided to do as much damage as possible before he checks out.
Please Kick Us.
It will hurt less than what our Beloved Dictator For Life has in mind.
Thank you for your time.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Tamil Protest on Parliment Hill
Tamil supporters spend 7th day camped out in Ottawa
Tamil supporters lined Wellington St., just in front of Parliament Hill, for a seventh day Monday.
They are demanding an end to Sri Lankan government attacks against Tamil citizens and the Tamil Tiger rebel group, which has waged a civil war for more than two decades in an effort to secure an independent state.
The protesters say the Sri Lankan government is committing acts of genocide against the population and are demanding the Canadian government take action to end the conflict.
Well that doesn't sound good.
Hmm... says the Tamil Tigers are a terrorist group .... you don't mind if I google them do you ?
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிà®´ீழவிடுதலைப்புலிகள், ISO 15919: tamiḻ iiḻa viá¹utalaip pulikaḷ; commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) is a militant organization based in northern Sri Lanka. Founded in 1976, it has since actively waged a violent secessionist campaign that seeks to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka
Violent ..how violent ?
... and for recruiting child soldiers. The LTTE invented the suicide belt and is widely known for suicide bombing as a tactic. They also pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks.
Ow !!
...killing five Indian para-commandos who were on board by strapping burning tires around their necks ...
Ow !!
As early as the mid-1970s, LTTE rebels were widely known to have trained members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Southern Lebanon,
Ow !!
Thank you , supporters of the Tamil Tigers , for volinteering to identify yourselves as collaborators of a known terrorist group. It is my feverant hope the RCMP will now arrest all of you , fingerprint and photograph you , and deliver you to the proper Sri Lanka authorities for legal disposition under their laws.
As I'm sure you know, associating with terrorists is a violation of your immigration applications and they are therefore easily revoked due to this.
Tamil supporters lined Wellington St., just in front of Parliament Hill, for a seventh day Monday.
They are demanding an end to Sri Lankan government attacks against Tamil citizens and the Tamil Tiger rebel group, which has waged a civil war for more than two decades in an effort to secure an independent state.
The protesters say the Sri Lankan government is committing acts of genocide against the population and are demanding the Canadian government take action to end the conflict.
Well that doesn't sound good.
Hmm... says the Tamil Tigers are a terrorist group .... you don't mind if I google them do you ?
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிà®´ீழவிடுதலைப்புலிகள், ISO 15919: tamiḻ iiḻa viá¹utalaip pulikaḷ; commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) is a militant organization based in northern Sri Lanka. Founded in 1976, it has since actively waged a violent secessionist campaign that seeks to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka
Violent ..how violent ?
... and for recruiting child soldiers. The LTTE invented the suicide belt and is widely known for suicide bombing as a tactic. They also pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks.
Ow !!
...killing five Indian para-commandos who were on board by strapping burning tires around their necks ...
Ow !!
As early as the mid-1970s, LTTE rebels were widely known to have trained members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Southern Lebanon,
Ow !!
Thank you , supporters of the Tamil Tigers , for volinteering to identify yourselves as collaborators of a known terrorist group. It is my feverant hope the RCMP will now arrest all of you , fingerprint and photograph you , and deliver you to the proper Sri Lanka authorities for legal disposition under their laws.
As I'm sure you know, associating with terrorists is a violation of your immigration applications and they are therefore easily revoked due to this.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Homeopathic Sociopaths Win Big in BC
B.C. gives naturopaths right to prescribe drugs
Naturopaths in B.C. will now be able to prescribe drugs to their patients, making them the first alternative health-care providers in the country to do so.
Oh good. The snake oil salesmen have now been given legal recognition , so they can *LEGALLY* tell you to get off those meds that are saving your life and buy their snake oil.
And then when you die, because they're all fraudsters and only a handful of suckers (who are rapidly being killed off by these sociopathic "healers" that care nothing about human life, only them making a buck) think they actually cure anything , they can now sue you for pointing out that they are absolute fraudsters and charletons.
Yep. the government has recognized them. You will now be sued by the Guild of Psychic Homeopathic Seers for daring to accuse them of fraud when they kill off your grandma with their cures after telling her to stop her cancer treatments.
It won't be long.
Latest Mind Control Trick
Atlanta airport grooving to clean music
Hey, isn't that the Peaches and Herb classic "Shake Your Groove Thing"? You haven't heard that in years!
But wait, what are they singing? It sounds like "Shake Your Groove Thing," but the lyrics playing don't match the ones you know.
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The concept of "opening day fresh" refers to keeping the airport as clean as if it were opening day, which means smelling fresh and looking as spotless as possible.
The catchy tunes are a way to subtly remind visitors that it takes a team effort to keep the airport sparkling. "Our New Concessions" reminds travelers about the facility's retail offerings and food service.
Think back. Remember your most favorite song of all time, the one you love the most ?
They're going to hire the original artist who wrote and sang it , and now it's gonna read "BUY MY JUNK ! MY STUFF IS COOL ! GIVE ME YOUR MONEY !" sung by the original artist and re-recorded to be totally respectful of the orginal ... and no way for you to turn it off, because it's an airport ! you don't control the music !
Yech ....where are the ear plugs ?
Hey, isn't that the Peaches and Herb classic "Shake Your Groove Thing"? You haven't heard that in years!
But wait, what are they singing? It sounds like "Shake Your Groove Thing," but the lyrics playing don't match the ones you know.
.
.
.
The concept of "opening day fresh" refers to keeping the airport as clean as if it were opening day, which means smelling fresh and looking as spotless as possible.
The catchy tunes are a way to subtly remind visitors that it takes a team effort to keep the airport sparkling. "Our New Concessions" reminds travelers about the facility's retail offerings and food service.
Think back. Remember your most favorite song of all time, the one you love the most ?
They're going to hire the original artist who wrote and sang it , and now it's gonna read "BUY MY JUNK ! MY STUFF IS COOL ! GIVE ME YOUR MONEY !" sung by the original artist and re-recorded to be totally respectful of the orginal ... and no way for you to turn it off, because it's an airport ! you don't control the music !
Yech ....where are the ear plugs ?
Thursday, April 09, 2009
RCMP shocked 16 people five times or more last year
Article
Despite a dramatic drop in the RCMP's use of stun guns in 2008, the force is still zapping some suspects five times or more with the controversial weapon.
Mounties shocked at least 16 suspects with a Taser five or more times, according to analysis done by CBC/Radio-Canada and The Canadian Press of RCMP reports released through access to information requests. Ten of the cases topped five stuns.
Manual for Tasers says to only stun them twice. Don't actually have one , but it's in the news somewhere.
This is getting to be less and less about how safe a Taser is and more and more about the Cops giving the general public the finger.
"As we saw in the case of Mr. Dziekanski, [being stunned five times] was a major contributing factor potentially to his death," said federal Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland.
Five times ? You stunned that old man five times and there were four of you standing around and you were all bigger than him ?
Holland echoed the concerns of his NDP counterpart, calling such extreme use of stun guns "egregiously wrong."
Translation : It's all perfectly legal. We don't like it , but it's perfectly legal for them to taser you until you die. They don't even get a slap on the wrist for it.
A CBC News investigation recently revealed that the RCMP softened parts of its stun-gun policy by deleting a key sentence ordering officers not to cycle the stun gun repeatedly or for more than 15 to 20 seconds at a time, unless the officer faced special circumstances.
That policy change, made this February, happened despite assurances from RCMP Commissioner William Elliott before a parliamentary committee that the force had adjusted its policy last June to curb multiple use of the stun gun.
KEEP ON ZAPPING ! IT SAVES LIVES ! IGNORE THE PILES OF BODIES EVERYWHERE ! THEY'RE NOT OUR BODIES THEY'RE SOMEONE ELSES BODIES ! (Except for that one cop who got it in the head and has permanent brain damage)
Makes you proud , doesn't it ? To see our thugs with badges in action.
Despite a dramatic drop in the RCMP's use of stun guns in 2008, the force is still zapping some suspects five times or more with the controversial weapon.
Mounties shocked at least 16 suspects with a Taser five or more times, according to analysis done by CBC/Radio-Canada and The Canadian Press of RCMP reports released through access to information requests. Ten of the cases topped five stuns.
Manual for Tasers says to only stun them twice. Don't actually have one , but it's in the news somewhere.
This is getting to be less and less about how safe a Taser is and more and more about the Cops giving the general public the finger.
"As we saw in the case of Mr. Dziekanski, [being stunned five times] was a major contributing factor potentially to his death," said federal Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland.
Five times ? You stunned that old man five times and there were four of you standing around and you were all bigger than him ?
Holland echoed the concerns of his NDP counterpart, calling such extreme use of stun guns "egregiously wrong."
Translation : It's all perfectly legal. We don't like it , but it's perfectly legal for them to taser you until you die. They don't even get a slap on the wrist for it.
A CBC News investigation recently revealed that the RCMP softened parts of its stun-gun policy by deleting a key sentence ordering officers not to cycle the stun gun repeatedly or for more than 15 to 20 seconds at a time, unless the officer faced special circumstances.
That policy change, made this February, happened despite assurances from RCMP Commissioner William Elliott before a parliamentary committee that the force had adjusted its policy last June to curb multiple use of the stun gun.
KEEP ON ZAPPING ! IT SAVES LIVES ! IGNORE THE PILES OF BODIES EVERYWHERE ! THEY'RE NOT OUR BODIES THEY'RE SOMEONE ELSES BODIES ! (Except for that one cop who got it in the head and has permanent brain damage)
Makes you proud , doesn't it ? To see our thugs with badges in action.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Iran's president welcomes 'honest' talks with U.S.
Article
"The Iranian nation welcomes a hand extended to it should it really and truly be based on honesty, justice and respect," Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
When a middle eastern muslim uses the word "Justice", he's not interested in any kind of fair play. He's interested in Islamic Law, which is by the way one of the more unjust systems of law in the world. It promotes conversion by the sword, and virtual enslavement of it's worshippers to the Iman, the preists of that religion, and democracy is strictly forbidden.
His version of respect is "Let us build our nukes so we can destroy Israel and conquer the world, including *YOU*"
In other words, this middle eastern white boy is telling the american black "on your knee's slave ! You loved it in the cotton fields , now we got a new place where you can wear some more chains !"
Yeah. Right.
He's giving Obama a real good education on world affairs , isn't he ?
"The Iranian nation welcomes a hand extended to it should it really and truly be based on honesty, justice and respect," Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state television.
When a middle eastern muslim uses the word "Justice", he's not interested in any kind of fair play. He's interested in Islamic Law, which is by the way one of the more unjust systems of law in the world. It promotes conversion by the sword, and virtual enslavement of it's worshippers to the Iman, the preists of that religion, and democracy is strictly forbidden.
His version of respect is "Let us build our nukes so we can destroy Israel and conquer the world, including *YOU*"
In other words, this middle eastern white boy is telling the american black "on your knee's slave ! You loved it in the cotton fields , now we got a new place where you can wear some more chains !"
Yeah. Right.
He's giving Obama a real good education on world affairs , isn't he ?
Quebec dad sued by daughter after grounding loses his appeal
Article
A Quebec father who was taken to court by his 12-year-old daughter after he grounded her in June 2008 has lost his appeal.
Quebec Superior Court rejected the Gatineau father's appeal of a lower court ruling that said his punishment was too severe for the wrongs he said his daughter committed
Now what the heck is this case doing in a court room in the first place ? It is obvious that the lawyers in Quebec have nothing better to do with their time than manufacture cases like this so as to make work for themselves.
Since you have decided to interfere in the relationship between a father and his 12 year old daughter (for grounding ? he didn't even spank her or anything ?) I think the state should now pick up the tab for raising the child , since it's obvious such petty things as internet access and whether a grounding is just or unjust have suddenly become provincial issues.
If you're going to interfere in the family , if you're going to take it over and run it, then you need to pick up the tab as well. None of this you pay the bills and we tell you what to do business. You want to sit down at the table , you ante up.
A Quebec father who was taken to court by his 12-year-old daughter after he grounded her in June 2008 has lost his appeal.
Quebec Superior Court rejected the Gatineau father's appeal of a lower court ruling that said his punishment was too severe for the wrongs he said his daughter committed
Now what the heck is this case doing in a court room in the first place ? It is obvious that the lawyers in Quebec have nothing better to do with their time than manufacture cases like this so as to make work for themselves.
Since you have decided to interfere in the relationship between a father and his 12 year old daughter (for grounding ? he didn't even spank her or anything ?) I think the state should now pick up the tab for raising the child , since it's obvious such petty things as internet access and whether a grounding is just or unjust have suddenly become provincial issues.
If you're going to interfere in the family , if you're going to take it over and run it, then you need to pick up the tab as well. None of this you pay the bills and we tell you what to do business. You want to sit down at the table , you ante up.
Liberal Crimes
I'm getting sick of those "give big business billions but screw the little guy" liberals. I think I'm going to keep a roll of crimes on them. Gonna keep a link on the side so I can keep updating it and keep it on top.
Ignatieff Denies being Racist July 2009
Current Liberal Leader Ignatieff admits in a book he published in 1993 that he thinks Ukrainian Nationalists are Nasty, Phoney , and Whining. He denies that the remarks are in any way racist.
Ignatieff slams Harper for 'failure to unite Canada' May 2 2009
This from a party that tried to launch a Carbon Tax designed to tax the Alberta utilities for burning coal (taxing a government) and just keep the money and spend it on whatever they like. And they want to recognize Quebec as a Sperate Nation. And they gave the Atlantic provinces "The Atlantic Accord" which basically means if they ever strike it rich (they did , oil) they get to keep their transfer payments as a poor province..forever. They're now running billions in surpluses.
King Iggy , you're running a party that is deliberately splitting Canada apart. And you have the gall to blame the Conservatives for your crimes.
Nothing but Propaganda from this guy.
Federal government to back warranties for GM, Chrysler: ClementApril 7 2009
This one is a crime because they're giving billions to the American auto companies , effectively helping crush any local competition who don't get a time. Thanks for betraying your own country to some forieners, with canadian tax dollars, Ontario Liberal Party. April 7 , 2009
Minimum wage hike at risk, premier suggests mar 28, 2009
Liberal Premier of Ontario decides not to hike the minimum wage as planned. He eventually agreed to raise it eventually (though it hasn't happened yet), but he tried to do the little guy in , while at the same time giving GM billions. Saving it for your buddies so they can kick it back into your coffers, right McGuinty ?
McGuinty won't raise PST
April 8 2009
Was 7% pst at the time. It's 8% now ,and you're the only one who's been premier in the mean time , McGuinty. (McGuinty is the Liberal Premier of Ontario)
Ignatieff Denies being Racist July 2009
Current Liberal Leader Ignatieff admits in a book he published in 1993 that he thinks Ukrainian Nationalists are Nasty, Phoney , and Whining. He denies that the remarks are in any way racist.
Ignatieff slams Harper for 'failure to unite Canada' May 2 2009
This from a party that tried to launch a Carbon Tax designed to tax the Alberta utilities for burning coal (taxing a government) and just keep the money and spend it on whatever they like. And they want to recognize Quebec as a Sperate Nation. And they gave the Atlantic provinces "The Atlantic Accord" which basically means if they ever strike it rich (they did , oil) they get to keep their transfer payments as a poor province..forever. They're now running billions in surpluses.
King Iggy , you're running a party that is deliberately splitting Canada apart. And you have the gall to blame the Conservatives for your crimes.
Nothing but Propaganda from this guy.
Federal government to back warranties for GM, Chrysler: ClementApril 7 2009
This one is a crime because they're giving billions to the American auto companies , effectively helping crush any local competition who don't get a time. Thanks for betraying your own country to some forieners, with canadian tax dollars, Ontario Liberal Party. April 7 , 2009
Minimum wage hike at risk, premier suggests mar 28, 2009
Liberal Premier of Ontario decides not to hike the minimum wage as planned. He eventually agreed to raise it eventually (though it hasn't happened yet), but he tried to do the little guy in , while at the same time giving GM billions. Saving it for your buddies so they can kick it back into your coffers, right McGuinty ?
McGuinty won't raise PST
April 8 2009
Was 7% pst at the time. It's 8% now ,and you're the only one who's been premier in the mean time , McGuinty. (McGuinty is the Liberal Premier of Ontario)
US Trade Tactics
Federal government to back warranties for GM, Chrysler: Clement
So the Candian government gives six billion , in cash , to the big three, and then does this as well. Wow , we really do love our american brethren , don't we ?
And how do the Americans feel about this exactly ?
U.S. slaps 10% tax on Canadian softwood lumber imports
I believe they're going to wipe their dirty feet on us like a used towel and then toss us in the trash , thats what they're going to do to us.
The only question here is how much of that six billion is getting kicked back into liberal coffers to fund the next election. It's the only explanation why the Liberal Party of Ontario would choose to shovel money by the truck load to a foriegn national corperation.
No , helping a foriegn company stomp out the local competition so that they can dominate everything is not "good" for the economy. Far from it. Anyone who tells you that is a dang lair. And guess what ? That is exactly what the liberals are saying , isn't it ?
So the Candian government gives six billion , in cash , to the big three, and then does this as well. Wow , we really do love our american brethren , don't we ?
And how do the Americans feel about this exactly ?
U.S. slaps 10% tax on Canadian softwood lumber imports
I believe they're going to wipe their dirty feet on us like a used towel and then toss us in the trash , thats what they're going to do to us.
The only question here is how much of that six billion is getting kicked back into liberal coffers to fund the next election. It's the only explanation why the Liberal Party of Ontario would choose to shovel money by the truck load to a foriegn national corperation.
No , helping a foriegn company stomp out the local competition so that they can dominate everything is not "good" for the economy. Far from it. Anyone who tells you that is a dang lair. And guess what ? That is exactly what the liberals are saying , isn't it ?
Sunday, April 05, 2009
'Scientism' infects Darwinian debates
Article
Yep. We bull sh*t artists ..we invented the term Creationism to mean that CHRISTIAN religion is dominant , and all other religions ,and science, which makes claims at being no religion at all but all us CHRISTIANS know it's a religion and we justly accuse it of such , ye'r not buying it. so for you ignorant bound for hell servants of the devil infidels , we have denigraded ourselves to producing yet another lie to trick you into the one true religion. We hope you appreciate how we have contaminatet ourselves for your benifit please come over here and volinteer to be our slaves ... I mean I mean ... convert to the one true religion ...
We call it "Scientism"
The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics defines scientism as "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of natural science to be applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities)."
We will start with taking quotes from a religious work that kind of happens to have th word "Science" in the middle of it ... but really ...has nothing at all to do with that institution. Is in fact reviled by that institution.
This is blinkered.
It defaults to atheism. And it assumes incorrectly that what we believe, and the way we live, is always based on provable "facts," which do not include conjecture, speculation or imagination.
EARTH TO DOUGLESS TODD ! EARTH TO DOUGLESS TODD ! COME IN PLEASE ! The notion that some super sentient god didn't create man , that the random forces of physics and chemistry did it ... *IS* Atheism. That our "creator" is random non sentient non aware not particularily intelligent or even difficult to understand forces of physics and science created the whole universe, including us , is in fact ,what science is all about.
Everyone would agree, however, that evolution is also a theory that is incomplete.
Unfortunately , the same *EVERYONE* would agree that THE BIBLE is a pack of lies from beginning to end and every page in between.
If you're going to applies the rules of scientific evidence to this debate, lets start with applying them to their alternative shall we ? Lets apply them to the bible as well... (Council of Bishops agreeing on what they will and will not admit in to their holy book three hundred years later...in a time when humans have a life span of 35 years ...that would be ten life times later of pure heresy and nothing written down ) oops ... the bible doesn't pass muster..toss it in the trash ... lets move on ...
When more evolutionary scientists open up to the insights of philosophers and those from other disciplines, I believe their beloved theory will itself evolve. It will become more complex and more elegant.
Let me rephrase that.
When those evolutionary DUNDERHEADS stop looking at the facts and start going more with their gut feelings, which by the way have a truely horrible record of accuracy but they do make me feel good so I'm happy about that. I feel good about that. Then ... I believe they can give up their persuit of knowledge and can be content with simply ...feeling good. This will be a beautiful thing.
Can you smell the excriment you are dripping all over your website ? no ? I didn't think so. It's because you're a religious fanatic , you have the truth in your hand it was given to you by a bunch of goat herders who lacked the capability to actually read and write, and so they must be the wisest men in the universe and nothing they say could ever be wrong and anyone with a grade two education or better must be lying to you ... and thats *THE TRUTH* as your gut feeling tells you it is.
And thats just good enough. My gut feeling tells me it is so.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Ontario judge orders website to reveal identity data on anonymous posters
Article
"In my view, the defendants are under an obligation to disclose all documents in their power and control," Justice Stanley Kershman said in a ruling delivered Monday to defendants Connie Wilkins-Fournier and Mark Fournier of Kingston, Ont., who run the website Free Dominion.
Kershman also ordered the couple to pay $5,000 in costs to the plaintiff in the case, Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman, described by Kershman as an "anti-hate speech advocate."
So not only are they forced to give up any documents, they're fined five thousand bucks on top of it as well.
Dunno what the issue was about , (www.freedominion.com is a general purpose website I saw by looking it up, some alliance party stuff on it) but it's good to know that if anyone has any records of any kind about you they can be forced to give it up. And then penalized as well.
So ..did you buy anything online recently ? Did you use your credit card for something you'd prefer your wife not to know about ? Are you being sued by anyone for anythign and their lawyer is looking for fodder ? Are you going through a nasty divorce ? did you join a political party and your enemies want to smear your name ? Are you trying to get elected to public office ?
If you said yes to any of these , yer basically toast. Freedom of speech does not apply to the internet. You Shall be Crucified for openning your mouth. Plain and Simple.
Which will have the interesting effect of no one openning their mouths anymore. Did you want to run a survey ? Did you want your employee's *HONEST* opinion , and not some local I love this job pap just before they quit and leave you wondering why, did you want all exit interviews declared null and void with a simple "This job is boring , found another" excuse because they're afraid to say anything ?
This is the world you are building. And it's going to be terribly unpredictable.
"In my view, the defendants are under an obligation to disclose all documents in their power and control," Justice Stanley Kershman said in a ruling delivered Monday to defendants Connie Wilkins-Fournier and Mark Fournier of Kingston, Ont., who run the website Free Dominion.
Kershman also ordered the couple to pay $5,000 in costs to the plaintiff in the case, Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman, described by Kershman as an "anti-hate speech advocate."
So not only are they forced to give up any documents, they're fined five thousand bucks on top of it as well.
Dunno what the issue was about , (www.freedominion.com is a general purpose website I saw by looking it up, some alliance party stuff on it) but it's good to know that if anyone has any records of any kind about you they can be forced to give it up. And then penalized as well.
So ..did you buy anything online recently ? Did you use your credit card for something you'd prefer your wife not to know about ? Are you being sued by anyone for anythign and their lawyer is looking for fodder ? Are you going through a nasty divorce ? did you join a political party and your enemies want to smear your name ? Are you trying to get elected to public office ?
If you said yes to any of these , yer basically toast. Freedom of speech does not apply to the internet. You Shall be Crucified for openning your mouth. Plain and Simple.
Which will have the interesting effect of no one openning their mouths anymore. Did you want to run a survey ? Did you want your employee's *HONEST* opinion , and not some local I love this job pap just before they quit and leave you wondering why, did you want all exit interviews declared null and void with a simple "This job is boring , found another" excuse because they're afraid to say anything ?
This is the world you are building. And it's going to be terribly unpredictable.
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