Re: Vietnam Re-visited - The bitches still be crazy...
True, same thing then as now. War is not about winning. War is about profit and political manipulation. Haliburton is just a reasonably successful oil industry supply company without Iraq and Afghanistan. By providing $500 a gallon gas and $75 a plate franks and beans meals to the troops they are a money making machine.
I'm not certain that Wikileaks methods could be any different from what they currently do. What is needed is a charismatic person to represent them. A person that can create an aura of trust to act as the PR head the organization. Walter Cronkite comes to mind. Walter Cronkite made a commentary in 1968 that Vietnam was probably unwinnable and announced the count of American dead in Vietnam at the end of every broadcast as an act of dissent that is regarded as helping end the war sooner and saved thousands on both sides. Assange is no Cronkite. Wikileaks needs to have a front man/woman that can not be easily attacked and vilified by partisan media and self serving government representatives. Any suggestions?
Agreed. Also, travel is essential to trade. Without travel many business arrangements would not be created and the economy would suffer and with it,tax revenues.
I read the article and looked up AFP. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French news agency. I thought only Americans did this kind of ill thought out corporate legal blustering.
That's also true. I was implying the personal attributes rich and smart have to be in equal proportion assuming that the poorer you are, the less guarded you need to be. Ah, the vague nature of software engineering specs! This shows the need for comments in even the simplest code section.
I would also like to add that Roger Davidson is obviously smart, I should have used 'sophisticated'.
You mentioned the Ontario water. Perhaps Nicolson thinks CraigsList is depleting his "precious bodily fluids". I can imagine the conversion between him and PM Harper like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
This is the standard career bull of the disingenuous and ineffectual politico. No one can criticize them without being rebuked as a pedophile sympathizer and nothing really happens except tax dollars are spent, time is wasted, and real (but controversial) issues are ignored all while appearing to act in the interest of the taxpayer. It's the politician's perfect way of faking activity and getting funding and more staff (bigger staff numbers and budget of your department make you more important in Ottawa).
Dr. Danah Boyd's article is, in my opinion, correct in that censoring CL will result in placing power into the hands of the pimps and exploiters by removing easy and safer communications between sex trade workers and clients. Above ground, public advertising also, obviously, allows the police to monitor and track activities.
Prostitution in Canada is legal. There is even a tax code category for it (escorts 812990, http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/slprtnr/rprtng/ndstry/ntrtnmnt-eng.html). Everything surrounding it is illegal including "communication for the purpose of" although ads for escorts and massage parlors appear in most major papers and phone directories.
Justice Minister Nicholson will argue he is only wanting to stop underage and human trafficking activities that use CL. Well, the latest human sex trafficking busts in Vancouver seemed to have been done using CL to track the suspects (http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/GB/20101013/CP02/310139707/-1/SAG0806/police-say-bc-man-used -sex-slaves-in-brothels-he-advertised-on&template=cpArt).
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is simply trying to make the Harper government appear to be acting in best interests while doing nothing (or worse than nothing) at all.
My neighbor runs a pest control company and told me that practically every hotel in North America has bedbugs. Most hotels regularly spray and eliminate the pests, but hotel guests continuously bring them back in.
I'm guessing the complaining hotels are the ones that do not spend much on exterminators.
Wait, you are using the site of David Duke, a hate crime site of the ex-head of the KKK! You had better not be saying it's the Jews or we'll find you and I swear to god... you will be audited.
The object to RDMS exchange is not an "invention". I looked at this and other software patents at the linked page. I have, over the years, created and used most of what is listed. These are basic concepts in programming, not unique inventions. This has got to stop.
We had a user manual for a general ledger reporting application that went out with every instance of "count" and "accounting" missing the "O". I would have preferred a mildly amusing homonym like this instead.
The same geniuses also put together an advertising capaign for a civil engineering product who's copy read: "Laying pipe can be an expensive proposition..." combined with a picture of a huge pipe being lifted to a 45 degree angle. I never did figure out if it was intentional.
I liked Water World. Look, you can't expect unlimited access to 'Avatar' for 8 bucks a month. If they have quality content then it might be appealing.
Do they have good 'B' pictures (or pictures styled as such). I looked up a few personal favorites on the Canadian site to see:
Any Tarantino movies? Only 'Reservoir Dogs'
'Big Night' Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, and Ian Holm? NO
'Dog Soldiers'? NO
'Congo'? NO
'200 Cigarettes'? NO
Fellini Pictures? Only 81/2 and La Strada
Akira Kurosawa? Seven films, not bad, but hardly a comprehensive collection.
'THX1138'? NO
Carpenter's 'Dark Star'? NO
'Little Miss Sunshine'? NO
A good point. Shaw is the same with a cap of 60GB download limit on the standard plan and 100GB on the 'Xtreme'. So, the true ability to download from Netflix is quite limited. An example mentioned was 2.9 gigabytes of data for a 108-minute film. So a potential limit is about 20 feature length films a month with a practical limit being much less if any other internet activity is wanted without extra charges or potential suspension of the account by the ISP. I watch a movie nearly every day so Netflix falls a little short as a sole content provider. There is also the question of download speeds. Although Canada pioneered long distance mass communications our telecom infrastructure has fallen short of many other countries and I'm unsure of the quality of service Netflix can provide. Lately my service is so choppy that it's often taken 2 minutes for GMail to load.
Actually, it may not have been a Pentium but an 80486 with a math co-processor. I recall that I was using an IBM AT clone at the time and the 486 was a screaming speed monster in comparison. Now my cell phone is faster.
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Re: Re: Just Proves you can't buy smarts
I would also like to add that Roger Davidson is obviously smart, I should have used 'sophisticated'.
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Just Proves you can't buy smarts
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It's Just Cheap Posturing
This is the standard career bull of the disingenuous and ineffectual politico. No one can criticize them without being rebuked as a pedophile sympathizer and nothing really happens except tax dollars are spent, time is wasted, and real (but controversial) issues are ignored all while appearing to act in the interest of the taxpayer. It's the politician's perfect way of faking activity and getting funding and more staff (bigger staff numbers and budget of your department make you more important in Ottawa).
Dr. Danah Boyd's article is, in my opinion, correct in that censoring CL will result in placing power into the hands of the pimps and exploiters by removing easy and safer communications between sex trade workers and clients. Above ground, public advertising also, obviously, allows the police to monitor and track activities.
Prostitution in Canada is legal. There is even a tax code category for it (escorts 812990, http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/slprtnr/rprtng/ndstry/ntrtnmnt-eng.html). Everything surrounding it is illegal including "communication for the purpose of" although ads for escorts and massage parlors appear in most major papers and phone directories.
Justice Minister Nicholson will argue he is only wanting to stop underage and human trafficking activities that use CL. Well, the latest human sex trafficking busts in Vancouver seemed to have been done using CL to track the suspects (http://www.stalbertgazette.com/article/GB/20101013/CP02/310139707/-1/SAG0806/police-say-bc-man-used -sex-slaves-in-brothels-he-advertised-on&template=cpArt).
It's not all bad in Canada. A detective in BC made a statement supporting CL: http://www.bclocalnews.com/news/106898638.html
and BC Solicitor General Mike de Jong seems to be negotiating with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster in making it easier to track criminals using CL: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/capitaldiary/archive/2010/10/14/b-c-discusses-human -trafficking-with-craigslist-ceo.aspx and Buckmaster is obviously interested in cooperation: http://www.vancouversun.com/pdf/1148216.pdf
Justice Minister Rob Nicholson is simply trying to make the Harper government appear to be acting in best interests while doing nothing (or worse than nothing) at all.
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Bedbugs are Here
I'm guessing the complaining hotels are the ones that do not spend much on exterminators.
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Not so Bad
The same geniuses also put together an advertising capaign for a civil engineering product who's copy read: "Laying pipe can be an expensive proposition..." combined with a picture of a huge pipe being lifted to a 45 degree angle. I never did figure out if it was intentional.
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Re: Netflix Content
Do they have good 'B' pictures (or pictures styled as such). I looked up a few personal favorites on the Canadian site to see:
Any Tarantino movies? Only 'Reservoir Dogs'
'Big Night' Tony Shaloub, Stanley Tucci, and Ian Holm? NO
'Dog Soldiers'? NO
'Congo'? NO
'200 Cigarettes'? NO
Fellini Pictures? Only 81/2 and La Strada
Akira Kurosawa? Seven films, not bad, but hardly a comprehensive collection.
'THX1138'? NO
Carpenter's 'Dark Star'? NO
'Little Miss Sunshine'? NO
I have to agree with you Joe, kinda lame.
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