Monday, August 8, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Monopolistic Tendencies
Hey all my Canadian Internet using friends,
you all signed this petition, right? If not, please do it now.
The corporations that provide us with communications services such as; television delivery, television content creation, telephone, mobile phone, internet, are, in many cases one and the same. Bell, Rogers, Shaw, and Telus all offer these services. Bell and Telus have in the past it is rumored to have been considering a merger. as it stands, you generally have choice of four companies to deal with when it comes to these services.
Now this oligopoly would very much to reach into your pockets and extract more money, and they are killing two birds with one stone. Bird number one: The CRTC recently made a decision that would allow ISPs to implement usage based billing or UBB. This means that depending on you usage, you could be spending upwards of 300 dollars for the same bandwidth you enjoy today. This is a problem if you listen to music online on popular services such as grooveshark and pandora, or if you like to watch kitten videos on youtube, or stream movies on netflix, or if (god forbid) you utilize p2p networks like limewire or bit torrent. Or worse yet, if you rely on the internet for your living, as is the case with many podcasters, software developers, or web-designers, affordable access is required to survive.
Bird number two is just as bad. With this decision, the big four effectively muscle out the competition, your skypes, and netflixes. if you have to pay exorbitant fees to watch a movie on netflix, you wouldn't watch it. Instead you might be more likely to purchase a movie from your friendly PPV provider for a much more reasonable price. Bye-bye netflix it was nice knowing ya. But what you want to talk to a loved one far from home, will you use skype and pay ridiculous overage fees, or will you use the much cheaper long distance phone service, that is provided by the same guys that give you tv?
Further this impacts all the smaller competition that offer better deals on better service. The Big Guys are required to sell other ISPs access to their network at a cheaper rate than consumers get. These smaller ISPs sell their services for less than the majors do, taking potential customers away. But this decision from the CRCT means that these small players have to pay overages too, which mean that they will have to raise their prices, which in turn makes them less attractive to the consumer.
This cannot be allowed to happen, internet access has become, and is becoming with each passing moment more and more important in our daily lives. it will stifle innovation, and Canada will fall behind the rest of the world.
Please make your opinion known. Write to your MPs, call them, visit them in person, or at least sign this petition. Joing 250,000 other Canadians in affecting some change. it's in all of our best interest to stop this.
http://www.openmedia.ca/meter
you all signed this petition, right? If not, please do it now.
The corporations that provide us with communications services such as; television delivery, television content creation, telephone, mobile phone, internet, are, in many cases one and the same. Bell, Rogers, Shaw, and Telus all offer these services. Bell and Telus have in the past it is rumored to have been considering a merger. as it stands, you generally have choice of four companies to deal with when it comes to these services.
Now this oligopoly would very much to reach into your pockets and extract more money, and they are killing two birds with one stone. Bird number one: The CRTC recently made a decision that would allow ISPs to implement usage based billing or UBB. This means that depending on you usage, you could be spending upwards of 300 dollars for the same bandwidth you enjoy today. This is a problem if you listen to music online on popular services such as grooveshark and pandora, or if you like to watch kitten videos on youtube, or stream movies on netflix, or if (god forbid) you utilize p2p networks like limewire or bit torrent. Or worse yet, if you rely on the internet for your living, as is the case with many podcasters, software developers, or web-designers, affordable access is required to survive.
Bird number two is just as bad. With this decision, the big four effectively muscle out the competition, your skypes, and netflixes. if you have to pay exorbitant fees to watch a movie on netflix, you wouldn't watch it. Instead you might be more likely to purchase a movie from your friendly PPV provider for a much more reasonable price. Bye-bye netflix it was nice knowing ya. But what you want to talk to a loved one far from home, will you use skype and pay ridiculous overage fees, or will you use the much cheaper long distance phone service, that is provided by the same guys that give you tv?
Further this impacts all the smaller competition that offer better deals on better service. The Big Guys are required to sell other ISPs access to their network at a cheaper rate than consumers get. These smaller ISPs sell their services for less than the majors do, taking potential customers away. But this decision from the CRCT means that these small players have to pay overages too, which mean that they will have to raise their prices, which in turn makes them less attractive to the consumer.
This cannot be allowed to happen, internet access has become, and is becoming with each passing moment more and more important in our daily lives. it will stifle innovation, and Canada will fall behind the rest of the world.
Please make your opinion known. Write to your MPs, call them, visit them in person, or at least sign this petition. Joing 250,000 other Canadians in affecting some change. it's in all of our best interest to stop this.
http://www.openmedia.ca/meter
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Noah's ark in Kentucky
I was reading today some of the atheist/science blogs that I frequent, and I came across something I found both hilarious and disturbing. From what I can tell, and admittedly I haven't gone out of my way to learn more about, it seems the state of Kentucky is funding, by way of 37 000 000 dollars in tax incentives, a creationist museum featuring a life sized replica of Noah's ark.
First the funny bit:
The ark was supposedly 300 cubits in length ; 50 cubits wide; 30 cubits tall with three levels . This works out in metric to: 135 meters long by 22.5 meters wide by 13.5 meters tall. now if you take the length and multiply it by the width, you get the area of the floor in side, structural integrity aside you get 3037.5 time 3 floors equals 9112.5. Wow huge... but there's the animals, currently over 1.7 million of the worlds species have been cataloged. take away the plants and fish and bugs and so on, and leave just the land vertebrates that's still 31000 species. take those 31000 and multiply those by 2 because the bible says there was two of each animal. so now that's 62000 animals. take those 62000 animals and dive them by the available space an that makes about 7 animals per square meter. not to mention food and water for the animals, bedding, space for the 8 people. Crazy.
next is the angering part:
Why is Kentucky giving 37 million dollars to a creationist theme park? I promise that if I wanted to build an atheism theme park I'd be told where to go, and in a hurry. Where is the separation of church and state in this one? or any where in the states? I guess I don't really get to complain, as i am in Canada, but as a concerned neighbor, I'm just sayin...
C'mon people why can't you see how insane all of this is? I mean seriously, 7 animals per square meter, One and a half per square foot, and that is being generous, omitting all internal structure. I don't get how can anyone remotely believe that this is possible? Not to mention where did all that water come from, and where did it go? and what about the plants, I don't think they like salt water, nor do fresh water fish. I could continue but my head hurts.
wake up people.
Monday, April 12, 2010
Joey the Rat
Well last time I posted about this, back in October I was complaining about Archbishop Silvano Tomasi when he made his ridiculous statement to the UN but it gets much worse. In the subsequent months there have been a lot of reports of clergical pedophilia coming out in the news from all over the world from Ireland to Brazil to Australia back to the United States.
And more and more these indiscretions (to put it mildly) are being linked to the pope. That's right, it seems as though Nazi boy Ratzinger had a role to play in all this. He offered protection, in the way of transfers and canonical laws he created. Now as of a couple of days ago there is a physical paper trail leading directly to the pontiff. Correspondence bearing Benny's signature have surfaced, regarding a long delay in defrocking a known offender. Today the vatican issued an order to bishops, stating that they should turn the transgressors over to authorities where required by law.
Am I missing something here? "where required by law"? how does this work? If your in a country that for some reasons allows kiddie raping, keep on keepin' on. Get 'em while there fresh! Why would you say "where required by law"?
Sounds to me like Joey the Rat is condoning child rape, or maybe at least fondling. I wonder how long it will be before allegations against Ratzinger surface.
Source (newser.com)
And more and more these indiscretions (to put it mildly) are being linked to the pope. That's right, it seems as though Nazi boy Ratzinger had a role to play in all this. He offered protection, in the way of transfers and canonical laws he created. Now as of a couple of days ago there is a physical paper trail leading directly to the pontiff. Correspondence bearing Benny's signature have surfaced, regarding a long delay in defrocking a known offender. Today the vatican issued an order to bishops, stating that they should turn the transgressors over to authorities where required by law.
Am I missing something here? "where required by law"? how does this work? If your in a country that for some reasons allows kiddie raping, keep on keepin' on. Get 'em while there fresh! Why would you say "where required by law"?
Sounds to me like Joey the Rat is condoning child rape, or maybe at least fondling. I wonder how long it will be before allegations against Ratzinger surface.
Source (newser.com)
Friday, April 9, 2010
I WANT TO DIE AND GO TO HEAVEN....
I want to die, and go to heaven and be with god.
That's what I was told by my six year old son yesterday.
Religion is pure poison. If this doesn't prove it i don't know what does. A six year old boy, wanting to die, be cause there's a better place. What the hell? Why does this happen? i think i know, i think it's the same thing that happened to me when i was a kid. It happened in Ontario, when I was in 4th grade, before praying in public schools was dis allowed. I don't recall which group it was, but my class was subjected to this groups idea of "Armageddon". Fire, Storms, general destruction and of course, death.
It's possible that I don't remember clearly, or maybe I'm imagining it but:
Next we were told about hell, fire, brimstone, pain suffering, torture. Awful stuff.
but wait there's more:
"if you're good, and live a good life, according to the bible, you'll go to a wonderful place. Imagine the best place you've ever been, and then imagine that you got to eat your favorite food whenever you want to."
Wow, I was liking where this was going...
"this place that you imagine will be like the worst place in the world compared to Heaven. you will see all your relatives. and all your favorite things will be there, you can do all the fun things you like to do. but best of all you get to meet Jesus, and God. You will never feel pain, or be sad again!"
Holy Crap! i can't wait!
I have to admit I was stoked, and ready to believe
next they handed out bibles, i actually read it frequently when i was young, and i should thank them i suppose because it helped me figure out what was up. all the violence and just general nastiness completely turned me off of it all.
Now except for the hell and junk in t he bible, i don't have too much of a problem with it all. but when 6 year old kids want to die and go to the place that is so much better than here, something's off.
My son, being in a catholic school (much to my shagrin, But that's another story), has been exposed to much of this. And somehow he got the idea got in to his head, probably from the jackass kids he wants to be friends with. they pick on him, demands of his toys as bribes, and maybe roughing him up a bit. Now I'm not blaming the kids for the death wish. i do blame the church for convincing him of these lies.
with out religion, I am certain, that my son would not want to die, and go to heaven. it wouldn't even enter his mind... He's SIX!
Religion is poison.
That's what I was told by my six year old son yesterday.
Religion is pure poison. If this doesn't prove it i don't know what does. A six year old boy, wanting to die, be cause there's a better place. What the hell? Why does this happen? i think i know, i think it's the same thing that happened to me when i was a kid. It happened in Ontario, when I was in 4th grade, before praying in public schools was dis allowed. I don't recall which group it was, but my class was subjected to this groups idea of "Armageddon". Fire, Storms, general destruction and of course, death.
It's possible that I don't remember clearly, or maybe I'm imagining it but:
Next we were told about hell, fire, brimstone, pain suffering, torture. Awful stuff.
but wait there's more:
"if you're good, and live a good life, according to the bible, you'll go to a wonderful place. Imagine the best place you've ever been, and then imagine that you got to eat your favorite food whenever you want to."
Wow, I was liking where this was going...
"this place that you imagine will be like the worst place in the world compared to Heaven. you will see all your relatives. and all your favorite things will be there, you can do all the fun things you like to do. but best of all you get to meet Jesus, and God. You will never feel pain, or be sad again!"
Holy Crap! i can't wait!
I have to admit I was stoked, and ready to believe
next they handed out bibles, i actually read it frequently when i was young, and i should thank them i suppose because it helped me figure out what was up. all the violence and just general nastiness completely turned me off of it all.
Now except for the hell and junk in t he bible, i don't have too much of a problem with it all. but when 6 year old kids want to die and go to the place that is so much better than here, something's off.
My son, being in a catholic school (much to my shagrin, But that's another story), has been exposed to much of this. And somehow he got the idea got in to his head, probably from the jackass kids he wants to be friends with. they pick on him, demands of his toys as bribes, and maybe roughing him up a bit. Now I'm not blaming the kids for the death wish. i do blame the church for convincing him of these lies.
with out religion, I am certain, that my son would not want to die, and go to heaven. it wouldn't even enter his mind... He's SIX!
Religion is poison.
Saturday, October 31, 2009
How Is The Vatican Still In Business?
How is it possible that a corporation, after all that's what the catholic church is, that has paid out billions of dollars to victims of child rape at the hands of trusted clergy, is still in business?
imagine if Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar corporation, was paying off kids and their families for a little ass play, they'd be out of business in a heartbeat. But because the roman catholic church is a representative of god it's OK?
and apparently it's OK, at least to the Vatican, who has relocated hundreds if not thousands of priests because of their penchant for raping kids, only to have them continue molesting and violating innocent children. the consequences for the kids don't match those of the priests. the children have do live the rest of their lives feeling un-warranted shame, some may even become abusive themselves, spreading the joy of catholicism by feeling up other children. Meanwhile the childfucker, if caught, gets to move on to a new community and continue to spread the gospel of child rape.
Then to top it off the bastards have the gaul to say it's not pedophilia? if you stick your cock in a child's ass, IT IS PEDOPHILIA, YOU CHILD MOLESTING MOTHERFUCKERS!
In september, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, read a statement to the UN in regards to this nonsense, i am currently looking for a transcript of this statement, when i find it i will post further on this subject.
imagine if Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar corporation, was paying off kids and their families for a little ass play, they'd be out of business in a heartbeat. But because the roman catholic church is a representative of god it's OK?
and apparently it's OK, at least to the Vatican, who has relocated hundreds if not thousands of priests because of their penchant for raping kids, only to have them continue molesting and violating innocent children. the consequences for the kids don't match those of the priests. the children have do live the rest of their lives feeling un-warranted shame, some may even become abusive themselves, spreading the joy of catholicism by feeling up other children. Meanwhile the childfucker, if caught, gets to move on to a new community and continue to spread the gospel of child rape.
Then to top it off the bastards have the gaul to say it's not pedophilia? if you stick your cock in a child's ass, IT IS PEDOPHILIA, YOU CHILD MOLESTING MOTHERFUCKERS!
In september, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, read a statement to the UN in regards to this nonsense, i am currently looking for a transcript of this statement, when i find it i will post further on this subject.
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