... and people can now walk or drive across that same border with only a "welcome" sign to remind them they've crossed into a different country. How long do we need to wait before the US/Canada border is the same way?
About thirty years ago, I heard stories about the Canada - US border was mined with geophones. They dropped them from planes in Vietnam all along the DMZ. They can tell the difference between a fox or bear or horse or human, and track them.
The prime minister and cabinet are part of the legislature in the UK, and control the majority party.
Which, in theory, should get the PM the Executive branch and the Commons. In theory, there's a senate/House of Lords out there also made up of appointees who're not necessarily beholden to the PM or the party. Canada's senate bills itself as the voice of sober, second thought. In reality it's all moribund.
I suspect it'll hurt their competition even more. With everyone piling on Google, they benefit from the Underdog Effect. Always funny to see that when it happens.
Looking at my ixquick result, I see one sponsored ad at the top and bottom for the same ad.
I'm convinced all these whiners are just peed at the price Google commands, and if G really wanted to shut them up, they could offer them a few thousandths of a cent less for ad prices and they go away gleefully licking their chops.
This is Europe where anything American should be punished just for being American, remember?
Well, that's a pretty recent phenomenon you know? We shouldn't need to remind Europe just how seriously !@#$ed up it's been for quite a few centuries now. I'm real glad they managed to sort out all that crap they had going on, but that the US is recently into it too shouldn't be a surprise, nor unexpected.
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You mean in Canada ministers can do whatever they want without discussion, and their party will just accept that post factum?
Sure, once you invoke the War Measures Act, you can suspend habeas corpus. Until then, no, we have procedures that are expected to be followed, and I don't think cutting the CRTC off at the knees is quite what you want for your regulatory climate.
Re: Anything that reduces Google's ability to vacuum up everything must be bad.
Google directly funds Masnick.
By my count, I'm now forty-five years in as a taxpayer supporting by funding all the wonderful things my governments have been up to. That does not mean I ever intended any of that ever going to you. Correlation is not causation. I imagine Google would appreciate me standing up for them. I don't care what Google thinks.
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Hope this helps with the '4 year secrecy limitation.'
Thanks for clearing that up. So, four years after it goes into effect, we'll be able to find out what and when some Sony lawyer stuffed *something* into the agreement, at the urging of *someone*, & etc.
Makes you wonder if it's such a great deal, why put a gag order on it?
Sorry, I took advantage of the noose you offered me. :-)
How many countries allow their citizens to sue their gov't, and for what do they allow them to sue? That'd be an interesting list. I know the US is a hodgepodge (US states just enjoy not being other US states) but others out there must do it sensibly (I wish).
I imagine Amnesty Intl. could provide that list. Accessing, ... contactus@amnesty.org email in progress ...
unless someone can point me to another country's people who sued first ...
Well, there was that Magna Carta thing, and I think Brutus and his merry band of senatorial assassins may be prior art.
I'm so going to enjoy watching this case. Over a thousand peed off with the blood of the Samurai boiling through their veins.
Also, I didn't know this monstrosity would be secret for another four years after it's in effect. What a con game this is! They've got a secret, invitation only club going on in TPP. Imagine having the inside story on what effects this will have four years ahead of everyone else. Best gov't money can buy!
So basically, your the guy all the trolls can now point to as the free loader who just wants everything to be free and doesn't want to pay for anything.
You say that like it's a bad thing. He's just one data point saying the system can't function correctly due to his/her "reason X." Hollywood can try to paint every freeloader like him/her, but nobody should believe them. It can't work for me for entirely different reasons; perfectly legitimate ones to me. We're both just noise in the overall system. Hollywood will never devise the system that'll get a penny out of either of us. We're not the ones Hollywood should be focusing on. Becoming one of their customers is simply not going to happen, for us.
Building a cage of DRM around your stuff to keep him/her out is not going to work, and it is going to annoy those who do want to try to go with the system. Why anyone would want to annoy their target market just to spite some tiny minority of oddballs, I can't imagine.
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About thirty years ago, I heard stories about the Canada - US border was mined with geophones. They dropped them from planes in Vietnam all along the DMZ. They can tell the difference between a fox or bear or horse or human, and track them.
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Which, in theory, should get the PM the Executive branch and the Commons. In theory, there's a senate/House of Lords out there also made up of appointees who're not necessarily beholden to the PM or the party. Canada's senate bills itself as the voice of sober, second thought. In reality it's all moribund.
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Rights. Ptheh.
I suspect it'll hurt their competition even more. With everyone piling on Google, they benefit from the Underdog Effect. Always funny to see that when it happens.
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I'm convinced all these whiners are just peed at the price Google commands, and if G really wanted to shut them up, they could offer them a few thousandths of a cent less for ad prices and they go away gleefully licking their chops.
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Well, that's a pretty recent phenomenon you know? We shouldn't need to remind Europe just how seriously !@#$ed up it's been for quite a few centuries now. I'm real glad they managed to sort out all that crap they had going on, but that the US is recently into it too shouldn't be a surprise, nor unexpected.
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Care to try again?
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Sure, once you invoke the War Measures Act, you can suspend habeas corpus. Until then, no, we have procedures that are expected to be followed, and I don't think cutting the CRTC off at the knees is quite what you want for your regulatory climate.
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Like when my library's web filter blocked NOAA's website repeatedly? Even while it let through some of the funniest scatological humor from the Onion?
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Re: Anything that reduces Google's ability to vacuum up everything must be bad.
By my count, I'm now forty-five years in as a taxpayer supporting by funding all the wonderful things my governments have been up to. That does not mean I ever intended any of that ever going to you. Correlation is not causation. I imagine Google would appreciate me standing up for them. I don't care what Google thinks.
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I use their competition multiple times daily, and have been for years. How is it you've managed to ignore their existence? Blind, deaf, and stupid?
About what, and why? I'm sticking out my tongue and twiddling my fingers in my ears making faces at you. That's something. Feel better?
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So says ex-CIA guy predicting revolution for stuff like this.
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Thanks for clearing that up. So, four years after it goes into effect, we'll be able to find out what and when some Sony lawyer stuffed *something* into the agreement, at the urging of *someone*, & etc.
Makes you wonder if it's such a great deal, why put a gag order on it?
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How many countries allow their citizens to sue their gov't, and for what do they allow them to sue? That'd be an interesting list. I know the US is a hodgepodge (US states just enjoy not being other US states) but others out there must do it sensibly (I wish).
I imagine Amnesty Intl. could provide that list. Accessing, ... contactus@amnesty.org email in progress ...
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Well, there was that Magna Carta thing, and I think Brutus and his merry band of senatorial assassins may be prior art.
I'm so going to enjoy watching this case. Over a thousand peed off with the blood of the Samurai boiling through their veins.
Also, I didn't know this monstrosity would be secret for another four years after it's in effect. What a con game this is! They've got a secret, invitation only club going on in TPP. Imagine having the inside story on what effects this will have four years ahead of everyone else. Best gov't money can buy!
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You say that like it's a bad thing. He's just one data point saying the system can't function correctly due to his/her "reason X." Hollywood can try to paint every freeloader like him/her, but nobody should believe them. It can't work for me for entirely different reasons; perfectly legitimate ones to me. We're both just noise in the overall system. Hollywood will never devise the system that'll get a penny out of either of us. We're not the ones Hollywood should be focusing on. Becoming one of their customers is simply not going to happen, for us.
Building a cage of DRM around your stuff to keep him/her out is not going to work, and it is going to annoy those who do want to try to go with the system. Why anyone would want to annoy their target market just to spite some tiny minority of oddballs, I can't imagine.
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