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You have to listen to this — in it, the Minister lies, dodges, weaves and ducks around plain, simple questions like, “If the guy at my corner shop unlocks my phone, is he breaking the law?” and “If my grandfather breaks the DRM on his jazz CDs to put them on his iPod, does that break the law?” and the biggie, “All the ‘freedoms’ your law guarantees us can be overriden by DRM, right?” (Prentice’s answer to this last one, “The market will take care of it,” is absolutely priceless.)
—Boing Boing‘s Cory Doctorow
“We have a well advanced Internet system in this country. It is not publicly regulated,†he said.
–Jim Prentice on isp throttling
“The issue is declining consumption in the U.S.,” he said, adding that “90 percent” of cars built in Canada are sold in the U.S. Prentice told reporters in Ottawa later that he plans to make sure the company honors its “obligations” to the government of Canada, without elaborating.
–Jim Prentice on GM Closures
Prentice maintains that the bill is a “unique made-in-Canada approach to copyright reform” and said it balances the rights of creators and consumers.
Industry groups have welcomed the proposed legislation.–Jim Prentice’s frequent quote about Bill c-61
So, Jim prentice would have you believe that the Markets will resolve an issue if the problem hurts the actual voters and consumers (ie DRM or ISP throttling) but is more than willing to legislate solutions on behalf of producers and distributors? We know who is buttering his toast each morning, don’t we?
Mr. Angus, won’t you please use Mr. Prentice’s own words against him in the Parliment, why won’t Jim Prentice let the market sort out the copyright debate?
I think that would make a great meme “Why won’t Jim Prentice let the Market solve the Copyright problem”?
“There won’t be a ban,” Coun. Judy Bryant, the planning committee chair, said in response to leaflets urging Tim Hortons customers to fight against “banning drive-throughs in London.”
“It seems misleading to me. There is nothing in the recommendation that would indicate the city is planning on banning drive-throughs.”
But the group representing several fast-food restaurants dismissed that criticism, and attacked members of the committee who walked away from a unexpectedly large crowd of 200 that breached the council chamber’s fire code.
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It makes me wonder if perhaps a total ban on cars might be the goal here “we got by fine on horses and carts, why not go back to that?“
The best Letter on the Matter, almost the best Satire on the debate:
It always seems that whenever something is convenient, someone exploits it and someone wants it gone in the name of health or the environment (or terrorism or to fight pedophiles or the myriad other reasons). The busybody nannies show up along with the “fuck the earth let’s make money” types in tow. I think they all arrive in the same indignant-bus. Each side takes up arms and marks their line in the sand and starts the mantra “The other side hates money/the earth/health” and they go at it. Each side takes no real losses but hope to make gains in the future. When the smoking ban came down I heard gloom and doom from the Bar Owners, but the bars seem to be just as full as they always were. It seems that you don’t need a smoke to have a beer after all. The smokers still smoke and recruit new smokers; so the people who needed to be “saved” are still at risk, but at least non-smokers don’t have to sit in the smoke anymore, right?
(BTW Hippies who smoke, suck.)
The same goes for bans on new Drive-Throughs. The developers will eventually see that they can make more money from renting out huge lots of land as Parking (because the coffee addicts HAVE to get coffee in the AM) and they can snare more people into eating at their place because the customers have to see and smell the stuff when they walk in. It’s a win for the nannies, because they get to say they put a stop to people idling in the drive through, forgetting that the worst of us will leave their car idling in the parking lot anyway.
In the end, both sides get their win and move on to some other cause.
Investigate 911!!! Yah Boo!
Published by NiteMayr on June 19, 2008Investigte 911!!! Yah Boo!, originally uploaded by NiteMayr.
Of all the pointless crap, this is Canada you shower of assholes. No one in Canada needs to investigate anything in New York. Okay? The guys in the USA aren’t going to start doing what you want when you deface buildings in downtown London, Ontario, Canada!
(Yes I know that I’m giving publicity to it, but bear with me)