I got a new computer ! A Dell Dimension 1100 !
Unpacked it and set it up.
Hmmm... 90 trial copy of McAffee , well , I get a free virus scanner from my provider, I'll just uninstall it.
Can't uninstall it, the virus scanner is running. How do I turn off the virus scanner ? Doesn't say.
How do I turn off this dang spam killer ? Doesn't say.
Got to mcaffee website.... look up uninstall, get directed to an FAQ (frequently asked question) list to the catagory install/uninstall. Which , after a link or two, is magically transformed into install / reinstall, the uninstal part seems to have comlpetely vanished.
Apparently uninstalling the software and using someone elses isn't a possibility in their perfect little world.
I eventually ran msconfig and took the checkmark off any program in the mcaffery folder. Still got the spam filter...I'm working on that. I think that spam killer is in a different directory.
Oh ..it came with a free copy of word perfect ! Start it up ... welcome to your free 90 day trial copy of world perfect ... shut it down. (You have to pay after the 90 days , the main reason I wanna ditch macafee in favor of the free anti virus that comes with my provider)
And of course don't forget your free trial copy of aol have your credit card ready !
*sigh* Why is my brand new computer doing nothing but trying to sell me tons of junk ? If the whole world wasn't going xp I wouldn't have bothered.
Friday, March 24, 2006
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Microsoft launches Web search engine
Article
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- In its latest bid to catch up with rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. is launching a revamped Internet search engine it says will help computer users find information faster, view it more easily and organize it better.
I predict that the Microsoft Search Engine will be the Bane of most techies existance. Why ?
Windows Updates have a habit of causing products that compete with anything Microsoft is doing to stop working. In effect locking you into a microsoft only world.
I bought a compiler once from microsoft. I thought it was a "Java" compiler which would make programs that run on Internet Explorer or Netscape , the competiter of Internet Explorer. Wrong. It only worte stuff for the internet explorer. Hundred and fifty bucks wasted.
This pattern repeats itself in many many of Bill Gates endeavours. I recall reading of a mapping site he made that showed his cheif competiters building (apple) to be empty.
A micrsoft web search engine will find microsoft products very easily , and likely will not find competing producs at all , at all , at all... making it little better than those search toolbars that every anti-virus program in the world marks as a "parasite".
SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- In its latest bid to catch up with rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. is launching a revamped Internet search engine it says will help computer users find information faster, view it more easily and organize it better.
I predict that the Microsoft Search Engine will be the Bane of most techies existance. Why ?
Windows Updates have a habit of causing products that compete with anything Microsoft is doing to stop working. In effect locking you into a microsoft only world.
I bought a compiler once from microsoft. I thought it was a "Java" compiler which would make programs that run on Internet Explorer or Netscape , the competiter of Internet Explorer. Wrong. It only worte stuff for the internet explorer. Hundred and fifty bucks wasted.
This pattern repeats itself in many many of Bill Gates endeavours. I recall reading of a mapping site he made that showed his cheif competiters building (apple) to be empty.
A micrsoft web search engine will find microsoft products very easily , and likely will not find competing producs at all , at all , at all... making it little better than those search toolbars that every anti-virus program in the world marks as a "parasite".
Friday, March 17, 2006
Canada wins another round in softwood battle with U.S.
Article
Canada has won another free trade ruling in the softwood lumber dispute with the United States, the federal government says.
* INDEPTH: Softwood Lumber
Canada's battle with the United States over softwood lumber tariffs has been raging since 2002.
The NAFTA decision found that Canadian softwood exports are not subsidized, the government said. That means the U.S. never had the right to impose the $5.2 billion in duties it has collected on Canadian lumber imports,
So what else is new ? The USA has basically run itself out of trees, Canada has many because it's land mass is far larger than the usa and the population is far smaller. And tree's , if left alone , are happy to grow themselves without any help from anyone , an obvious truth to anyone who care's to look.
"This is the second NAFTA panel comprised of a majority of Americans to have unanimously ruled that there is no merit to the U.S. allegations, first regarding injury, and now regarding subsidy."
A unanimous decision ? Thats nice, but so was the last one and it did nothing.
The U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports was not happy with the ruling.
"The NAFTA panel decision issued today is gravely flawed, and signifies a potential end to an important antidote in the U.S. lumber industry's efforts to counter the poison that is Canadian lumber industry practices,"
Gravely flawed , antidote, poison ... yah yah , sore losers. Except you didn't lose. We went through this last time , you bribed a few senators and the USA told canada to go climb a tree, they're ignoring this decision by a trade body they set up in the first place.
And around we go on this merry go around again .
Canada has won another free trade ruling in the softwood lumber dispute with the United States, the federal government says.
* INDEPTH: Softwood Lumber
Canada's battle with the United States over softwood lumber tariffs has been raging since 2002.
The NAFTA decision found that Canadian softwood exports are not subsidized, the government said. That means the U.S. never had the right to impose the $5.2 billion in duties it has collected on Canadian lumber imports,
So what else is new ? The USA has basically run itself out of trees, Canada has many because it's land mass is far larger than the usa and the population is far smaller. And tree's , if left alone , are happy to grow themselves without any help from anyone , an obvious truth to anyone who care's to look.
"This is the second NAFTA panel comprised of a majority of Americans to have unanimously ruled that there is no merit to the U.S. allegations, first regarding injury, and now regarding subsidy."
A unanimous decision ? Thats nice, but so was the last one and it did nothing.
The U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports was not happy with the ruling.
"The NAFTA panel decision issued today is gravely flawed, and signifies a potential end to an important antidote in the U.S. lumber industry's efforts to counter the poison that is Canadian lumber industry practices,"
Gravely flawed , antidote, poison ... yah yah , sore losers. Except you didn't lose. We went through this last time , you bribed a few senators and the USA told canada to go climb a tree, they're ignoring this decision by a trade body they set up in the first place.
And around we go on this merry go around again .
Sunday, March 12, 2006
When has Canada been attacked? I must have missed that.
Ottawa Boy: Relatives of dead soldier question Canada's role in Afghanistan
Anonymous said...
"We should stop it and let those terrorists keep attacking us..."
When has Canada been attacked? I must have missed that.
Face it, that boy died for Uncle Sam, not Bucky Beaver. And now that the PM of Canada is an official Bush fartcatcher, expect alot more Canadians to die for Uncle Sam. We'll probably be heading off to the utterly useless quagmire of Iraq any day now.
Dear , sweet , brave , Anonymous
We are not attacked because we sit beside the US , and the US would counter attack them.
(edit : If you're one of those people that believe that we would not be attacked if the US were not there...then you live in some kind of fantasy world that I don't even want to deal with ...seek psychological counciling immeidately. 30 million people scattered thinly through the third largest nation in the world with vast wealth in oil and minerals under our feet ? They'll be lining up for miles to arrage a "regime change" !)
At which point , there are a lot of people that would say that we don't need a military of any kind , Daddy Warbucks (also known as Uncle Sam) will take care of us.
Well...we'll forget the part where you're pissing on uncle sam on one hand and on the other happy to suggest a stradegy whereby he continues to protect us... (presumably he doesn't mind being pissed on by ignorant idiots like you while he's doing all the dying) and move along to the part where we discuss "Adulthood" , a concept that I'm sure is far beyond your feeble comprehension.
Adult hood is where you do not whine and beg someone else to do your work for you , you do it yourself. If you are the junior partner in some relationship , you do not slack off and do nothing, you pull what weight you can.
Canada , it is true , is the junior partner in north american defence. So we are , according to you , obligated to do absolutely nothing and let the americans die for us. Or , according to me , pull what weight we can so we at least get a say at the table when important issues come up. There's no way we can single handedly win the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, but that doesn't mean we should do nothing. We should do what we can. Even if it's only 5% of what the americans can do , we owe them that 5%.
Iraq and Afghanistan are Just Wars. War's where the first words out of the mouths of the rich and the religous over there are "we don't need no stinking democracy , we like our dictatorship's just the way they are." Wars where the common person like me and you are lined up against the wall and shot because they didn't have enough money to bribe the cops this week to leave them alone.
When has canada been attacked ?
whenever someone decides they're going to kill off our much maligned , not so shiny knight in some what dented armor and thus remove our protection from every tom dick and harry who thinks they might want a little extra land , we are being attacked.
Give the knight his due , and don't shout too loud about all the dents and scuffs in his armor, he's doing his job , we should do ours.
Just an opinion, just an opinion.
Anonymous said...
"We should stop it and let those terrorists keep attacking us..."
When has Canada been attacked? I must have missed that.
Face it, that boy died for Uncle Sam, not Bucky Beaver. And now that the PM of Canada is an official Bush fartcatcher, expect alot more Canadians to die for Uncle Sam. We'll probably be heading off to the utterly useless quagmire of Iraq any day now.
Dear , sweet , brave , Anonymous
We are not attacked because we sit beside the US , and the US would counter attack them.
(edit : If you're one of those people that believe that we would not be attacked if the US were not there...then you live in some kind of fantasy world that I don't even want to deal with ...seek psychological counciling immeidately. 30 million people scattered thinly through the third largest nation in the world with vast wealth in oil and minerals under our feet ? They'll be lining up for miles to arrage a "regime change" !)
At which point , there are a lot of people that would say that we don't need a military of any kind , Daddy Warbucks (also known as Uncle Sam) will take care of us.
Well...we'll forget the part where you're pissing on uncle sam on one hand and on the other happy to suggest a stradegy whereby he continues to protect us... (presumably he doesn't mind being pissed on by ignorant idiots like you while he's doing all the dying) and move along to the part where we discuss "Adulthood" , a concept that I'm sure is far beyond your feeble comprehension.
Adult hood is where you do not whine and beg someone else to do your work for you , you do it yourself. If you are the junior partner in some relationship , you do not slack off and do nothing, you pull what weight you can.
Canada , it is true , is the junior partner in north american defence. So we are , according to you , obligated to do absolutely nothing and let the americans die for us. Or , according to me , pull what weight we can so we at least get a say at the table when important issues come up. There's no way we can single handedly win the war in Afghanistan or Iraq, but that doesn't mean we should do nothing. We should do what we can. Even if it's only 5% of what the americans can do , we owe them that 5%.
Iraq and Afghanistan are Just Wars. War's where the first words out of the mouths of the rich and the religous over there are "we don't need no stinking democracy , we like our dictatorship's just the way they are." Wars where the common person like me and you are lined up against the wall and shot because they didn't have enough money to bribe the cops this week to leave them alone.
When has canada been attacked ?
whenever someone decides they're going to kill off our much maligned , not so shiny knight in some what dented armor and thus remove our protection from every tom dick and harry who thinks they might want a little extra land , we are being attacked.
Give the knight his due , and don't shout too loud about all the dents and scuffs in his armor, he's doing his job , we should do ours.
Just an opinion, just an opinion.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Ottawa police break up major identity theft ring
Article
Police say online employment ads were used to lure victims to send resumes. When they applied, they received a letter promising a high-paying position from one of four companies – Logistic Telecom, Microtel, Idcor or Pastel Media.
The letter requested candidates to send a $20 administration fee and fill out an application form.
The form asked for personal information such as a social insurance number, a driver's licence number, full name, and address. That information was then used to apply for credit cards. About $500,000 was racked up for such items as high-end electronics.
Oh oh. The 20$ is a good clue not to fill out the applciation. But the rest of it ? My employer asks for that , it's a legitimate request for doing taxes. How the heck would you know it was bogus if they didn't get greedy over the 20$ ?
I think online job applications are about to die. An employer HAS to have that information to remit money to the tax man. And that means a smart scammer has an open door to plunder the unemployed for such things.
The scam was discovered when a man from Ottawa complained to Canada Post that he was no longer receiving his mail. Officials found his mail had been transferred, but he had never requested the switch.
Canada Post then contacted Ottawa police, who discovered other people had also had their mail redirected to a post office box without their knowledge.
Police tracked down the rerouted mail to the home in Orléans where they arrested two individuals.
Yeah , once you reroute the mail thats pretty much all she wrote. All notices now go to the scammers instead of you.
So much for sending out resume's by email.
Police say online employment ads were used to lure victims to send resumes. When they applied, they received a letter promising a high-paying position from one of four companies – Logistic Telecom, Microtel, Idcor or Pastel Media.
The letter requested candidates to send a $20 administration fee and fill out an application form.
The form asked for personal information such as a social insurance number, a driver's licence number, full name, and address. That information was then used to apply for credit cards. About $500,000 was racked up for such items as high-end electronics.
Oh oh. The 20$ is a good clue not to fill out the applciation. But the rest of it ? My employer asks for that , it's a legitimate request for doing taxes. How the heck would you know it was bogus if they didn't get greedy over the 20$ ?
I think online job applications are about to die. An employer HAS to have that information to remit money to the tax man. And that means a smart scammer has an open door to plunder the unemployed for such things.
The scam was discovered when a man from Ottawa complained to Canada Post that he was no longer receiving his mail. Officials found his mail had been transferred, but he had never requested the switch.
Canada Post then contacted Ottawa police, who discovered other people had also had their mail redirected to a post office box without their knowledge.
Police tracked down the rerouted mail to the home in Orléans where they arrested two individuals.
Yeah , once you reroute the mail thats pretty much all she wrote. All notices now go to the scammers instead of you.
So much for sending out resume's by email.
Slain parole officer faced unnecessary danger: probe
Article
Louise Pargeter, 34, was visiting Eli Ulayuk in October 2004 when he hit her several times with a hammer, then strangled her to death, marking the first time a Canadian parole officer was killed on the job.
..
Ulayuk pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month. A judge sentenced him to life in prison, recommending no parole for at least 25 years
In 1988, Ulayuk killed a 23-year-old woman by stabbing and then strangling her.
"There's no absolute guarantee, no predicting criminal behaviour in a lot of cases, " Campbell said.
No predicting criminal behavour ?
the guy murdered a woman in an exceptionally violent and brutal mannor, and you sent an unarmed FEMALE parole officer to his home, ALONE , to meet with him ?
I would arrest you for manslaughter , personally. Criminal neglegence causing the death of your own employee.
"But we're doing everything we can to reduce the risks to not only our officers, but the communities at large."
Judging by this incident, "everything you can" is "diddly squat" ...
Louise Pargeter, 34, was visiting Eli Ulayuk in October 2004 when he hit her several times with a hammer, then strangled her to death, marking the first time a Canadian parole officer was killed on the job.
..
Ulayuk pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last month. A judge sentenced him to life in prison, recommending no parole for at least 25 years
In 1988, Ulayuk killed a 23-year-old woman by stabbing and then strangling her.
"There's no absolute guarantee, no predicting criminal behaviour in a lot of cases, " Campbell said.
No predicting criminal behavour ?
the guy murdered a woman in an exceptionally violent and brutal mannor, and you sent an unarmed FEMALE parole officer to his home, ALONE , to meet with him ?
I would arrest you for manslaughter , personally. Criminal neglegence causing the death of your own employee.
"But we're doing everything we can to reduce the risks to not only our officers, but the communities at large."
Judging by this incident, "everything you can" is "diddly squat" ...
Relatives of dead soldier question Canada's role in Afghanistan
Article
Relatives of dead soldier question Canada's role in Afghanistan
Last Updated Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:17:21 EST
CBC News
The mother and aunt of a Newfoundland soldier who was killed in Afghanistan are calling on the federal government to reconsider Canada's role there.
Cpl. Jamie Murphy died in a suicide bomb attack near Kabul in January 2004. Two years later, Murphy's mother says his death still haunts her.
Cpl. Jamie Murphy
"I think about Jamie every second of every day," said Alice Murphy, who lives in Conception Harbour, N.L.
She said memories of her son's death are revived whenever she hears of new casualties.
Oh please ! PLEASE ! Don't let my son die ! People die in war ! We should stop it and let those terrorists keep attacking us , keep killing people and sending off suicide bombs... I don't want my son to die ! I don't care about anyone else !
Yeah. Right.
Need a better excuse than "he might get hurt" not to send people to war. Especially war against some arabs that have decided we should all stop breathing and they should take over the world and convert it all to their religion.
And then they can get back to the infighting of which particular version of that religion was right ? You don't agree with me , better start killing you .... and so the fighting continues anyways.
Relatives of dead soldier question Canada's role in Afghanistan
Last Updated Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:17:21 EST
CBC News
The mother and aunt of a Newfoundland soldier who was killed in Afghanistan are calling on the federal government to reconsider Canada's role there.
Cpl. Jamie Murphy died in a suicide bomb attack near Kabul in January 2004. Two years later, Murphy's mother says his death still haunts her.
Cpl. Jamie Murphy
"I think about Jamie every second of every day," said Alice Murphy, who lives in Conception Harbour, N.L.
She said memories of her son's death are revived whenever she hears of new casualties.
Oh please ! PLEASE ! Don't let my son die ! People die in war ! We should stop it and let those terrorists keep attacking us , keep killing people and sending off suicide bombs... I don't want my son to die ! I don't care about anyone else !
Yeah. Right.
Need a better excuse than "he might get hurt" not to send people to war. Especially war against some arabs that have decided we should all stop breathing and they should take over the world and convert it all to their religion.
And then they can get back to the infighting of which particular version of that religion was right ? You don't agree with me , better start killing you .... and so the fighting continues anyways.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Woman loses frozen embryo battle
Article
LONDON, England -- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a British woman has no right to use frozen embryos to have a baby without the consent of the man who provided the sperm
This is an example of the Law tripping over itself in it's rush to protect everyone.
Why ?
Because the eggs are already fertalized, by her former husband (they're split up now). So if they get used to impregnate her , guess what ? They're his kids and he's responsible for them. Financially too ! Alimony time !
Of course you can't hit him with that without proper warning , so you have to have his permission to use those eggs. He's incurring a big financial burden if he agrees.
Of course he's not going to agree because he split up with her.
And of course, you can't cut a deal such that "you can use them so long as I don't have to pay" because now you're permitting him to black mail her. And thats not fair to her , or to the state that's going to wind up paying for it all when she winds up on welfare because she has no husband.
So instead of this now infertile woman who cleverly put away some eggs for a rainy day having kids, now she gets nothing.
Yeah. The law is protecting her real good. Aha.
LONDON, England -- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a British woman has no right to use frozen embryos to have a baby without the consent of the man who provided the sperm
This is an example of the Law tripping over itself in it's rush to protect everyone.
Why ?
Because the eggs are already fertalized, by her former husband (they're split up now). So if they get used to impregnate her , guess what ? They're his kids and he's responsible for them. Financially too ! Alimony time !
Of course you can't hit him with that without proper warning , so you have to have his permission to use those eggs. He's incurring a big financial burden if he agrees.
Of course he's not going to agree because he split up with her.
And of course, you can't cut a deal such that "you can use them so long as I don't have to pay" because now you're permitting him to black mail her. And thats not fair to her , or to the state that's going to wind up paying for it all when she winds up on welfare because she has no husband.
So instead of this now infertile woman who cleverly put away some eggs for a rainy day having kids, now she gets nothing.
Yeah. The law is protecting her real good. Aha.
Vonage Canada wants CRTC to investigate Shaw Cable's 'VoIP tax'
Article
Vonage, which offers voice-over-Internet protocol services that depend on lines provided mainly by phone and cable companies like Shaw, said Tuesday that Shaw shouldn't be charging an extra fee to customers for high-priority Internet service.
"Shaw's VoIP tax is an unfair attempt to drive up the price of competing
VoIP services to protect its own high-priced service,
What is VoIP ?
Voice over IP , or a phone that runs through the internet , not through the phone lines. Very cheap , much cheaper than a regular phone through the phone lines.
The issue here is that Shaw Cable provides an internet connection. AND it provides it's own VoIP service on that internet connection. But you can use a competiter. If you pay Shaw it's "tax". A tax for it doing nothing but what you're already paying for anyways (an internet connection).
Is this fair ? No.
Is it inevitable ? Yes. Shaw , and any IP provider , dictates the terms of service , decides what you can and cannot use their network for. So yeah , they can block out VoIP from a competiter if they want.
Which sucks. And the Law on this should be changed ( up here in canada at least). Because now you're talking "bundling", the practice of selling the customer not just one service but a bunch of them , and denying the customer the ability to shop around , thus allowing you to charge anything you like for certain extra's , like an internet phone (VoIP).
It's also a moot point ?
Why ?
Cell phones are dirt cheap.
Ha ha ! Let them fight over the table scraps. Real users don't use regular phones or VoIP ! Ha ha !
Vonage, which offers voice-over-Internet protocol services that depend on lines provided mainly by phone and cable companies like Shaw, said Tuesday that Shaw shouldn't be charging an extra fee to customers for high-priority Internet service.
"Shaw's VoIP tax is an unfair attempt to drive up the price of competing
VoIP services to protect its own high-priced service,
What is VoIP ?
Voice over IP , or a phone that runs through the internet , not through the phone lines. Very cheap , much cheaper than a regular phone through the phone lines.
The issue here is that Shaw Cable provides an internet connection. AND it provides it's own VoIP service on that internet connection. But you can use a competiter. If you pay Shaw it's "tax". A tax for it doing nothing but what you're already paying for anyways (an internet connection).
Is this fair ? No.
Is it inevitable ? Yes. Shaw , and any IP provider , dictates the terms of service , decides what you can and cannot use their network for. So yeah , they can block out VoIP from a competiter if they want.
Which sucks. And the Law on this should be changed ( up here in canada at least). Because now you're talking "bundling", the practice of selling the customer not just one service but a bunch of them , and denying the customer the ability to shop around , thus allowing you to charge anything you like for certain extra's , like an internet phone (VoIP).
It's also a moot point ?
Why ?
Cell phones are dirt cheap.
Ha ha ! Let them fight over the table scraps. Real users don't use regular phones or VoIP ! Ha ha !
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Iran native charged with attempted murder at UNC
Article
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (AP) -- A recent University of North Carolina graduate was charged with nine counts of attempted murder Saturday, a day after authorities say he drove through a popular campus gathering spot in an attempt to avenge Muslim deaths.
Derek Poarch, chief of the university police department, confirmed Saturday that Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old Iran native, told investigators he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world." Poarch would not provide any other details on the motive.
No one was seriously hurt in the incident just before noon Friday at The Pit, a sunken, brick-paved area surrounded by two libraries, a dining hall and the student union near the center of campus.
Ok. I'm ticked off at you for killing muslims. I volinteer to go out and kill some stupid americans.
But I'm stupid, and lazy, and even driving a jeep through a heavily crowded area I couldn't hit anyone if my life depended on it. So I got a kill count of ZERO.
Taheri-azar, who called police to surrender and then awaited officers on a street two miles from campus, is cooperating with investigators
Then I just decide to give it up as a bad job, call the cops and surrender.
Todays special word is "incompetance" , a word many muslims are deeply familiar with , it seems. In a country where it is dirt easy to get a gun, you decide to try a jeep instead. And then you surrender. After killing no one.
I try to be afraid of the muslim terrorist, I really do , but this ... is just plain silly.
CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina (AP) -- A recent University of North Carolina graduate was charged with nine counts of attempted murder Saturday, a day after authorities say he drove through a popular campus gathering spot in an attempt to avenge Muslim deaths.
Derek Poarch, chief of the university police department, confirmed Saturday that Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old Iran native, told investigators he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world." Poarch would not provide any other details on the motive.
No one was seriously hurt in the incident just before noon Friday at The Pit, a sunken, brick-paved area surrounded by two libraries, a dining hall and the student union near the center of campus.
Ok. I'm ticked off at you for killing muslims. I volinteer to go out and kill some stupid americans.
But I'm stupid, and lazy, and even driving a jeep through a heavily crowded area I couldn't hit anyone if my life depended on it. So I got a kill count of ZERO.
Taheri-azar, who called police to surrender and then awaited officers on a street two miles from campus, is cooperating with investigators
Then I just decide to give it up as a bad job, call the cops and surrender.
Todays special word is "incompetance" , a word many muslims are deeply familiar with , it seems. In a country where it is dirt easy to get a gun, you decide to try a jeep instead. And then you surrender. After killing no one.
I try to be afraid of the muslim terrorist, I really do , but this ... is just plain silly.
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Blog comments net Kingston woman an eviction notice
Article
A landlord is threatening to evict a Kingston woman from her apartment for criticizing him on her blog, raising questions about how libel laws apply to the internet.
Hmmm..... guess I better not put down my landlord either in this blog. I already knew not to put down my work... thats why I don't use my real name here ...
Two weeks ago, Sarah Dawe received a notice from Homestead Land Holdings Ltd., the company that owns the apartment building, accusing her of libel and asking her to vacate the building because of her online comments.
A landlord is threatening to evict a Kingston woman from her apartment for criticizing him on her blog, raising questions about how libel laws apply to the internet.
Hmmm..... guess I better not put down my landlord either in this blog. I already knew not to put down my work... thats why I don't use my real name here ...
Two weeks ago, Sarah Dawe received a notice from Homestead Land Holdings Ltd., the company that owns the apartment building, accusing her of libel and asking her to vacate the building because of her online comments.
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Mohammed cartoons inflame U.S. campus
Article
Now whats the problem here ? Just because some guy actually showed a cartoon of the prophet of their religion they're freaking out. Calling it indecent etc.
Thats not fair. They should put up with our morality. I mean it's not like we showed him naked or anything.
I mean they can draw cartoons of Jesus Christ can't they ? As long as they're tasteful. As long as we don't think it's indecent. As long as he's not , say ... surrounded by jews jumping up and down shouting "kill him ! kill him ! " (which actually ahppened, by the way) , that would be anti-sematic and we'd have to do something about that ....
Ok....
Maybe it is fair. We all have our sensibilities when it comes to religious topics , and maybe we all need to cut each other some slack on the matter. We all have our sore points that shouldn't be pushed, and we should respect that.
Just an opinion , just an opinion.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Alberta's 'Third Way' could mean health-care showdown with Ottawa
Article
Alberta has outlined its 10-point plan to reshape medicare and in the process has unleashed what could become a major challenge to the Canada Health Act.
Who cares ?
Why ? Because in all of ontario there are only allowed 250 new doctors per year.
Out of thousands and thousands of applicants. (edit: one presumes there is a similar limit in Alberta , though I don't know what the limit is)
Doctors already have the ability to opt out of the public system completely in Alberta, but the government says that isn't happening, so it wants to introduce a hybrid system allowing physicians to offer private delivery of health care, if they submit a business plan and can prove that the public system won't be harmed.
Notice how the option of allowing more than 250 doc's a year to be trained never seems to come up ? Is never mentioned ?
They want to draw on an already limited pool of doctors when they can easily double or triple the size of that pool with no loss in quality. Do you know how many thousands and thousands of people would love to become doctors ? And skimming the top 1000 instead of the top 250 is just a drop in the bucket in that number.
But this never comes up for some reason.
Who the heck is making money off of this , I wonder ?
Alberta has outlined its 10-point plan to reshape medicare and in the process has unleashed what could become a major challenge to the Canada Health Act.
Who cares ?
Why ? Because in all of ontario there are only allowed 250 new doctors per year.
Out of thousands and thousands of applicants. (edit: one presumes there is a similar limit in Alberta , though I don't know what the limit is)
Doctors already have the ability to opt out of the public system completely in Alberta, but the government says that isn't happening, so it wants to introduce a hybrid system allowing physicians to offer private delivery of health care, if they submit a business plan and can prove that the public system won't be harmed.
Notice how the option of allowing more than 250 doc's a year to be trained never seems to come up ? Is never mentioned ?
They want to draw on an already limited pool of doctors when they can easily double or triple the size of that pool with no loss in quality. Do you know how many thousands and thousands of people would love to become doctors ? And skimming the top 1000 instead of the top 250 is just a drop in the bucket in that number.
But this never comes up for some reason.
Who the heck is making money off of this , I wonder ?
Ontario could claw back child-care benefit
Article
Some of Ontario's poorest families might never see the monthly child-care allowance proposed by the federal government.
The provincial government is expected to deduct the annual $1,200 child-care benefit for every child under age six directly from social assistance or disability support cheques.
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The $100 monthly allowance is intended to replace the current national child-care funding deal with provinces, but Wilkey and other advocates for low-income families worry the province will claw back the benefits.
The Ontario government already deducts the National Child Benefit Supplement from social assistance and disability cheques, despite a campaign promise to stop the clawback.
The truth is ....
The provincial government wants the money , and has no intention of giving it to the private citizens.
If the federal government doesn't give it to the provincial government , but instead opts to give it directly to the people , the provincial government will "claw back" the money and take it anyways... thus insuring the people get nothing.
The current premier of ontario is Dalton McGuinty. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
His web site is : http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/english/
His email address is Dalton.McGuinty@premier.gov.on.ca.
He is a provincial class RAT , obviously.
Some of Ontario's poorest families might never see the monthly child-care allowance proposed by the federal government.
The provincial government is expected to deduct the annual $1,200 child-care benefit for every child under age six directly from social assistance or disability support cheques.
.
.
.
The $100 monthly allowance is intended to replace the current national child-care funding deal with provinces, but Wilkey and other advocates for low-income families worry the province will claw back the benefits.
The Ontario government already deducts the National Child Benefit Supplement from social assistance and disability cheques, despite a campaign promise to stop the clawback.
The truth is ....
The provincial government wants the money , and has no intention of giving it to the private citizens.
If the federal government doesn't give it to the provincial government , but instead opts to give it directly to the people , the provincial government will "claw back" the money and take it anyways... thus insuring the people get nothing.
The current premier of ontario is Dalton McGuinty. He is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.
His web site is : http://www.premier.gov.on.ca/english/
His email address is Dalton.McGuinty@premier.gov.on.ca.
He is a provincial class RAT , obviously.
Change of Email
My friend a techy has his email server running , and my old email (whatshisname@rogers.com) got toasted by rogers.
On his server it's Ottawaboy@skokos.com , and that gets redirected to whatever my current email is, so if my ISP toasts it again I won't lose any email.
Sorry for the bother...
On his server it's Ottawaboy@skokos.com , and that gets redirected to whatever my current email is, so if my ISP toasts it again I won't lose any email.
Sorry for the bother...
America Online vows to institute fee-based service despite protests
Article
Political group MoveOn.org Civic Action, the AFL-CIO labour union and other organizations have criticized the service, which will charge senders a fee to route their messages directly to AOL users' mailboxes without first passing through AOL junk mail filters.
Lemme get this straight.
You'r going to let spammers pay you to bypass your spam filters and dump their garbage into MY mailbox (assuming I actually had an aol account, which I don't)
AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., contends the system will help it reduce spam because only legitimate senders of mass e-mail are likely to pony up the fee - ranging from 1/4 cent to one cent per message. But critics say the system will end up blocking many e-mails from groups that can't afford the fee.
But no one is saying "But I set the spam filter not to receive this junk and it's recieving it anyways !" etc etc etc ... in other words, the heck with you you weak powerless user we do as we please and if you don't like it go elsewhere.
I already did.
Political group MoveOn.org Civic Action, the AFL-CIO labour union and other organizations have criticized the service, which will charge senders a fee to route their messages directly to AOL users' mailboxes without first passing through AOL junk mail filters.
Lemme get this straight.
You'r going to let spammers pay you to bypass your spam filters and dump their garbage into MY mailbox (assuming I actually had an aol account, which I don't)
AOL, a unit of Time Warner Inc., contends the system will help it reduce spam because only legitimate senders of mass e-mail are likely to pony up the fee - ranging from 1/4 cent to one cent per message. But critics say the system will end up blocking many e-mails from groups that can't afford the fee.
But no one is saying "But I set the spam filter not to receive this junk and it's recieving it anyways !" etc etc etc ... in other words, the heck with you you weak powerless user we do as we please and if you don't like it go elsewhere.
I already did.
Wednesday, February 22, 2006
Feb 2 - 16 Hospital Visit
Jan 31
Havn't been eating for a few days, weak, but I had a doctors appointment with my doctor for today , so rather than go and spend 6+ hrs in emergancy to find out it's nothing I waited for the appointment and , feeling like crap , went to the doctor.
After a full out examination lasting a total of 30 seconds he proclaimed "We're going to admit you." And sent me down to emergancy. Well... not quite that fast. There was a perc bag hanging on my belly , slowly draining puss from an old abcess they'd put in long ago. The hose stuck in my belly had , after 8 or so months worked it's way to the surface and was now sticking out. He removed it and you know, I never realized how sharp the end of that hose was ? They really cut it so it was nice and pointy , probably so it could go in easy in the first place. No wonder I had so much trouble bending over every day ! I was stabbing myself with every movement !
Anyways , it was out, and I was off to emergancy to get admitted.
Not quite.
He admitted me for shortness of breath , thinking it was the pulmonary embolism I had before. Wanted a cat scan for it. Some doctor in emergancy noticed I was on Coumadin , to prevent a reoccurence, did an INR test and some other blood test to detect blood clotting and came to the conclusion that I couldn't possibly have an embolism. (To his credit he was right, My doctor was actually using that as an excuse to bypass the long line ups) . He would have written me a perscription , but since I was admitted by my doctor , my doctor had to write it.
they gave me a note to tell my doctor to write such and such a perscription, patted me on the head , and sent me home WITHOUT DOING A DAMB THING for me !
Next day phone my doctor. Oh , can't write a perscription without examining me. Earliest appointment was the day after.
Day after... (feb 2) go to him, and get the bums rush right back to emergancy. This time he took more time with me , kicked over a few tin cans or whatever it is they do when they go talk with other doctors, and this time around I got admitted. Oh , and the perscription ? My doctor tossed the note out , stating it wouldn't help me a bit.
Still...three days and no treatment ! sheesh !
Turns out my Crohns Disease had caused a blockage in my intestines somewhere , food wasn't moving , and of course I was slowly starving to death despite the fact that my belly was so full I couldn't put more food into it.
For a while they thought they might have to operate, but the matter eventually cleared up on it's own. Two weeks of hospital time felt like I was in jail though. You can only lie in bed staring at the ceiling for so long. Of course there was relief from the bordom. Like the time I snuck down to the cafeteria to eat a hamberger or two after they said I was allowed to eat again.
Spent two days throwing up after that. They were pissed, since they were about to release me and suddenly I was up chucking this black gunk from the bottom of my suddenly empty belly every two hours. And I was none too quiet about it either, you could hear me across half the floor when I got going.
They finally stuck a tube down my nose and into my belly and attached it to a vacuum pump , and I stopped ralphing up the gunk after that , ,though the container filled up pretty quick with black gunk. That was pretty desgusting. Anyone would throw up with that stuff in their belly. Of course, I probably should mention that when they stuck the tube in me ? It also was gross going down. They're not actually cutting anything , so it's not "pain" that you feel. But you're body definately doesn't like it, and I more or less freaked out going "ahhhh ahhhh ahhh !" waving my hands around and everything when they did it. 24hrs later I barely noticed the tube was there.
but that was nothing next to the unusual torture they call a "cathader" (sp?). What is a cathader you might ask ? (and I did ask , to the male nurse I had that day).
blah blah lots of medical terms blah blah measure out put of your bladder blah blah ... tube of some kind..blah blah...
Hmmm... tube , bladder. Now how would you get a tube into my bladder without a major operation ?
I looked at the male nurse. "You're going to stick a tube up my dick ?"
Yup. Thats what he was talking about.
A GUY STUCK A TUBE UP MY DICK !!!!
This was just about the ultimate indignity. Hurt like hell too.
The ultimate indignity came the next day when the cathader stopped working and I suddenly had this urge to go for a piss. Well, I got a tube up my dick , right ? I don't actually have to get up , I can just cut loose and it will go into the bag , right ?
Suddenly there was a fountain between my legs, and I quickly stopped that and called for the (male ) nurse. "Youre cathader is broken. " I informed him angrilly. Angrilly, because they hadn't put it in because something was broken, they'd put it in so they could '" more accurately measure" my output.
When it came it out it was quick , but painful. I only screamed once.
Lemme see. By my count , Guys have stuck hoses up my rear, up my dick , and up my nose in this past year. I'm just not a virgin anywhere anymore.
Havn't been eating for a few days, weak, but I had a doctors appointment with my doctor for today , so rather than go and spend 6+ hrs in emergancy to find out it's nothing I waited for the appointment and , feeling like crap , went to the doctor.
After a full out examination lasting a total of 30 seconds he proclaimed "We're going to admit you." And sent me down to emergancy. Well... not quite that fast. There was a perc bag hanging on my belly , slowly draining puss from an old abcess they'd put in long ago. The hose stuck in my belly had , after 8 or so months worked it's way to the surface and was now sticking out. He removed it and you know, I never realized how sharp the end of that hose was ? They really cut it so it was nice and pointy , probably so it could go in easy in the first place. No wonder I had so much trouble bending over every day ! I was stabbing myself with every movement !
Anyways , it was out, and I was off to emergancy to get admitted.
Not quite.
He admitted me for shortness of breath , thinking it was the pulmonary embolism I had before. Wanted a cat scan for it. Some doctor in emergancy noticed I was on Coumadin , to prevent a reoccurence, did an INR test and some other blood test to detect blood clotting and came to the conclusion that I couldn't possibly have an embolism. (To his credit he was right, My doctor was actually using that as an excuse to bypass the long line ups) . He would have written me a perscription , but since I was admitted by my doctor , my doctor had to write it.
they gave me a note to tell my doctor to write such and such a perscription, patted me on the head , and sent me home WITHOUT DOING A DAMB THING for me !
Next day phone my doctor. Oh , can't write a perscription without examining me. Earliest appointment was the day after.
Day after... (feb 2) go to him, and get the bums rush right back to emergancy. This time he took more time with me , kicked over a few tin cans or whatever it is they do when they go talk with other doctors, and this time around I got admitted. Oh , and the perscription ? My doctor tossed the note out , stating it wouldn't help me a bit.
Still...three days and no treatment ! sheesh !
Turns out my Crohns Disease had caused a blockage in my intestines somewhere , food wasn't moving , and of course I was slowly starving to death despite the fact that my belly was so full I couldn't put more food into it.
For a while they thought they might have to operate, but the matter eventually cleared up on it's own. Two weeks of hospital time felt like I was in jail though. You can only lie in bed staring at the ceiling for so long. Of course there was relief from the bordom. Like the time I snuck down to the cafeteria to eat a hamberger or two after they said I was allowed to eat again.
Spent two days throwing up after that. They were pissed, since they were about to release me and suddenly I was up chucking this black gunk from the bottom of my suddenly empty belly every two hours. And I was none too quiet about it either, you could hear me across half the floor when I got going.
They finally stuck a tube down my nose and into my belly and attached it to a vacuum pump , and I stopped ralphing up the gunk after that , ,though the container filled up pretty quick with black gunk. That was pretty desgusting. Anyone would throw up with that stuff in their belly. Of course, I probably should mention that when they stuck the tube in me ? It also was gross going down. They're not actually cutting anything , so it's not "pain" that you feel. But you're body definately doesn't like it, and I more or less freaked out going "ahhhh ahhhh ahhh !" waving my hands around and everything when they did it. 24hrs later I barely noticed the tube was there.
but that was nothing next to the unusual torture they call a "cathader" (sp?). What is a cathader you might ask ? (and I did ask , to the male nurse I had that day).
blah blah lots of medical terms blah blah measure out put of your bladder blah blah ... tube of some kind..blah blah...
Hmmm... tube , bladder. Now how would you get a tube into my bladder without a major operation ?
I looked at the male nurse. "You're going to stick a tube up my dick ?"
Yup. Thats what he was talking about.
A GUY STUCK A TUBE UP MY DICK !!!!
This was just about the ultimate indignity. Hurt like hell too.
The ultimate indignity came the next day when the cathader stopped working and I suddenly had this urge to go for a piss. Well, I got a tube up my dick , right ? I don't actually have to get up , I can just cut loose and it will go into the bag , right ?
Suddenly there was a fountain between my legs, and I quickly stopped that and called for the (male ) nurse. "Youre cathader is broken. " I informed him angrilly. Angrilly, because they hadn't put it in because something was broken, they'd put it in so they could '" more accurately measure" my output.
When it came it out it was quick , but painful. I only screamed once.
Lemme see. By my count , Guys have stuck hoses up my rear, up my dick , and up my nose in this past year. I'm just not a virgin anywhere anymore.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Update your Account information For your Bank
This one got past the spam filters and wound up in my inbox. It had all the pretty pictures of the bank of america , some guy typing on a lap top, the whole nine yards.
Security Update Notification
Because of unusual number of invalid login attempts on you account, we had to believe that, their might be some security problem on you account.
We'll start by mentioning that I don't have an account with the bank of america, just to get things rolling.
So we have decided to put an extra verification process to ensure your identity and your account security.
Please click on continue to the verification process and ensure your account security. It is all about your security.
Thank you.
Continue To Online Banking
When you pass your mouse over the link , a nice tool tip pops up saying "www.bankofamerica.com".
When you tearapart the html and examine where that link really goes .. it's not heading for that. It's going to www.lucrablog.com/... some big long thing
lucra = money , by the way , so it's probably some paid log site. Heck, why don't I just pull that up ?
Bummer. It's all in french. But it's definately NOT bank of america and I suppose that is enough.
This is a con job. Not just spam, but out right criminal activity of the sort known as Phishing. You can bet anyone answering this message is going to find their bank accounts cleaned out and their credit cards maxed out the next day.
Well...I needed something to blog about today anyways.
My advice to all who receive such emails and you think it might be valid (ie: you might actually have an account at the place specified) is simply to phone them. don't mess around with online forms. Phone them.
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WHOIS information for lucrablog.net:
[whois.namesecure.com]
Registrant:
AGATE Ben
Nouveau Net Inc.
187, Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Montréal, Québec H2X3X5
CA
(hmmm... that doesn't look like an american address...)
Security Update Notification
Because of unusual number of invalid login attempts on you account, we had to believe that, their might be some security problem on you account.
We'll start by mentioning that I don't have an account with the bank of america, just to get things rolling.
So we have decided to put an extra verification process to ensure your identity and your account security.
Please click on continue to the verification process and ensure your account security. It is all about your security.
Thank you.
Continue To Online Banking
When you pass your mouse over the link , a nice tool tip pops up saying "www.bankofamerica.com".
When you tearapart the html and examine where that link really goes .. it's not heading for that. It's going to www.lucrablog.com/... some big long thing
lucra = money , by the way , so it's probably some paid log site. Heck, why don't I just pull that up ?
Bummer. It's all in french. But it's definately NOT bank of america and I suppose that is enough.
This is a con job. Not just spam, but out right criminal activity of the sort known as Phishing. You can bet anyone answering this message is going to find their bank accounts cleaned out and their credit cards maxed out the next day.
Well...I needed something to blog about today anyways.
My advice to all who receive such emails and you think it might be valid (ie: you might actually have an account at the place specified) is simply to phone them. don't mess around with online forms. Phone them.
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WHOIS information for lucrablog.net:
[whois.namesecure.com]
Registrant:
AGATE Ben
Nouveau Net Inc.
187, Sainte-Catherine Ouest
Montréal, Québec H2X3X5
CA
(hmmm... that doesn't look like an american address...)
Monday, January 23, 2006
Sadness Is
Sadness is when you finally realize it's not going to work out between you and your wife.
Sadness is when you sit down with your wife to have an honest talk with her about problems, and thats what starts the fighting. Now I know I am alone, If you can't talk with your wife bout things, you can't really talk to anyone , can you.
Sadness is watching her go off to work , and start packing a few minutes after she's gone.
Sadness is her phoning you from work , you knowing it's the last phone call you will take from her , and its going to be an angry hateful spiteful one. You dare not let her know you're leaving because she'll rush home from work and make what is already a trial a nightmare.
Sadness is knowing it's time to just walk away, and not say anything.
Sadness is when you sit down with your wife to have an honest talk with her about problems, and thats what starts the fighting. Now I know I am alone, If you can't talk with your wife bout things, you can't really talk to anyone , can you.
Sadness is watching her go off to work , and start packing a few minutes after she's gone.
Sadness is her phoning you from work , you knowing it's the last phone call you will take from her , and its going to be an angry hateful spiteful one. You dare not let her know you're leaving because she'll rush home from work and make what is already a trial a nightmare.
Sadness is knowing it's time to just walk away, and not say anything.
Monday, January 16, 2006
French Waste Time Hounding Converts
Officials Concerned About Muslim Converts
Ok then. How many converts we got ?
Pawlak is one of about 50,000 French, and tens of thousands of others across Europe and North America, who have converted to the Muslim faith. Like most converts, he is a mainstream Muslim
Ok then. How many of these freshly minted muslims are doing dastardly deeds ?
At least three Muslim converts in France have been convicted in recent years on terror-related charges, the most recent Lionel Dumont, given a 30-year prison term last month. He was co-leader of a gang of violent hoodlums in the northern city of Roubaix that provided Ahmed Ressam, the so-called millennium bomber, with his start in terrorism. Dumont later fought for the Muslim cause in Bosnia
Ok. 3 / 50 000 ...
hmmmm.... 0.006% of all french muslim converts become terrorists within a few years of converting ...
Duhh ! Ok ... I can see why we should be panicking ! Oh yeah ! Definately something I'm gonna lose sleep over !
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