Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Vender Lock Is The Way

New Apple Gizmos Coming to Exclusively to Verizon?

There's a new iPhone coming out (a very popular brand of cell phone), and it's going to be available only to one phone company, not the others.

Why ? Is there any technological reason for this ?
No , there cannot be. The new iPhone was manufactured *SPECIFIC* for the new vender. They could have made anything they wanted. They *CHOSE* to do this as a deliberate marketting stradegy.

Why ?

To make a buck. To do the public , who are their customers, dirty. Why should your favorite phone be available by one company only and not another ? Why is it locked ? So that that company can make a money. And then , you can only buy stuff for your phone from that company as well , you can't buy from anywhere else.

It's like there are ten stores on the street, and when you walk into one , that store locks the doors on all the other stores, and traps you. And then they raise the prices, or you find out their deals are not so hot , and you want out. Only you're trapped, you can't get out.

This is called Vender Lock.
It's a very successful marketing strategy.

But then, so is pointing a gun at your customers head and demanding all his money.

A long time ago , it was decided that letting a man work , and keep most of the product of his labor, only taxing him a little, worked very well. He worked much harder than when you simply took everything he produced no matter how hard, or not hard, he worked. And it was decided to let him take his wares to market and sell them for whatever he could get.

That was capitalism.

What we have today , is not Capitalism.

What we have today is legal theft. They sell you something , and then they say you can only use it in such a fashion , or we'll take it back and not give you your money back. They make these bright shiney gew gaws, and then deliberately bundle them with the most obnoxious items you wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole and then demand you buy both or neither. And there's no reason why, except to make a profit.

Now they put up walls every where you go. Now they make movies, but they only run on one kind of player, and different movies run on a different player. Now they make cool new phones, but you can only have them if you go to one particular phone provider and not another.

Now , they lock the doors on the competition , and charge everything they can for the simple stuff , and scads more for anythign hard. And they put a ring in *YOUR* nose , and threaten you with *JAIL* if you try to go somewhere else.

When the merchant starts clubbing his customers and herding them to his shop , and away from the others, it's time to stay away from that merchant.

When they all do it ...when the strategy of being an honest hard working shop smith doesn't work because you've been forced out by the dishonest ones... somethings gotta change.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Ottawa Citizen Preaches, not Reports , on Khandr

Khadr must come home


It is to Canada's shame that its prime minister will not stand up and make the right decision about Omar Khadr. Instead, it seems, Stephen Harper will have to be forced into it.

Khadr was shot in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2002, when he was 15 years old, and has been in custody since, mostly at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a U.S. medic, but he has not been convicted.



Who decides what's right ? You ? Who are you ?

© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen

You are no one it seems. You don't have a name. You're not interested in signing your stories. You just write your one sided drivil about how everything Harper does is Evil and say not thing one about the other side of the issue.

Everyone I talk to about this asks the same question . What was that kid doing in Afghanistan in a Terrorist Training Camp in the first place ? Teaching them canoeing ?

Or on the pro-side you could mention he's a child soldier and it shouldn't be held against him kids make bad decisions etc etc. Bring him home.

But that is not mentioned here, by this nameless writer who one might presume could possibly work for the Ottawa Citizen , though in this day and age of contracting out to India that assumption may be completely unwarranted.

The fact that the Liberals were in power when Khadr was captured and they did nothing about it , doing just as the Conservatives have done , deciding to let him rot, only doing it first, should at least be mentioned. But it is not.

I don't mind people saying Khadr should come home.
I don't mind people saying he should stay there and rot.

I do mind pretend make believe reporters who do not report anymore. They just preach. And since the Ottawa Citizen is a big business, and the Liberals are the pro big business party in this country , and they hate the Conservatives who are currently in power, it's hard not to follow the trail of bread crumbs of this anonymous article to Prince Iggy's Doorstep, as he waits to become King of Canada by getting his big business allies to smear the Conservatives at every step.

And I do mind when an Opinion , not a fact is offered , apparently by a big corporation and not some particular reporter. Does your whole corporation stand by that opinion ? Any Opinion ? Are you picking a side somewhere ? Anywhere ? Isn't that against the rules of journalism ? It was when I was a kid. Apparently it is not now.

When the newspapers stop reporting the news in an unbiased fashion, when they pick a side and become the propaganda mill for that side, what they say is not news anymore.

And so they should not bother calling themselves reporters.

So to you , oh anonymous and secretive author who got handed the job you probably despise of writing a piece you may or may not believe in , I salute you. You have all the moral fiber of a Styrofoam cup, and it is good that you hide your identity from the shame you commit. No one wants their name associated with this kind of nonsense , after all.


Where have all the reporters gone I wonder ?
And when did newspapers become propaganda mills. It was not this way when I was growing up.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Google Does Evil, Gets Away With It

Google Street View vehicles spotted in Ottawa


Several Google Street View vehicles have been spotted cruising the streets of Ottawa. The vehicles are roving through various neighbourhoods in the nation’s capital snapping pictures of streets in order to update the company’s online Google Maps offering.
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A notification, telling Canadians that the Google vehicles would soon be out in Canadian neighbourhoods, was released late last month. It was later revealed that the company had been collecting images for months, and already has a massive database of photographs. Under the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) Google must notify the Canadian public that they are undertaking the photographic initiative before they begin.


Yeah , we decided to notify you that we were snapping shots of everyone months *AFTER* the fact, basically only because we got caught red handed and had to 'fess up.

Which is a violation of Canadian Law, which we worry about because buying off politicians is expensive, and a violation of our corporate motto of "Do No Evil" , which we do not worry over, because that's just a motto and it cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a profit.


A spokeswoman for the privacy commissioners office said yesterday that Google is well aware of the office’s concerns.


Yep. We made nice nice with them, they're not going to make trouble for us despite our flagrant violation of Canadian Law. We're american , we're allowed to do that.


As of Tuesday afternoon, the commissioners office had not received any complaints about the roving Street View camera-cars


We've been running cars for months and no one noticed ! How could there possibly be any complaints about something we're sneaking in on the sly ? There might be now , but it's too late, the databases are in America and a Canadian court order to erase them means diddly. We won't do it. We ripped you good ! Ha ha ha !


Once the Street View service is officially launched in Canada, the commissioners office would be forced to launch a full investigation into the Street View service should Canadians complain that Google is violating their right to privacy.


*AFTER* it's been up and running a while, and the damage is done, and thieves broke into your house because they noticed weak basement window on Google Maps and so they got to scope the place out without ever actually going there, then you can run and whine and complain to some worthless Canadian Privacy Agency that has no power to do anything except hold your hand and cry with you and when you're tired tell you to go home they can't do nothing about it.

Google's New Motto. "Do No Evil. Unless it hurts profits."

*EDIT* Does't Google own Blogspot ? Hmm..let me just export my blog before it myseriously gets erased ....

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Please Kick Me , I'm North Korean

North Korea: Sanctions a declaration of war


"The Korean People's Army will consider sanctions to be applied against the DPRK under various names over its satellite launch or any pressure to be put upon it through 'total participation' in the PSI (Proliferation Security Initiative) as a declaration of undisguised confrontation and a declaration of a war against the DPRK," the announcement on state TV said.

"Now that the group officially declared confrontation and war against the DPRK, its revolutionary armed forces will opt for increasing the nation's defense capability including nuclear deterrent in every way, without being bound to the agreement adopted at the six-party talks," it continued, apparently referring to the Security Council.


We're North Koreans.

We have a single factory for building nukes, you know where it is , you keep putting up sattilite photo's of it to warn us you can drop bombs on it at any time, but we're not listening.

We're declaring war on everyone by building nukes.

If you try and interfere with our nuke building , we declare war on you.

Oh yes, and our Beloved Dictator For Life is getting old and will die soon , so he's decided to do as much damage as possible before he checks out.

Please Kick Us.

It will hurt less than what our Beloved Dictator For Life has in mind.

Thank you for your time.

Monday, April 13, 2009

Tamil Protest on Parliment Hill

Tamil supporters spend 7th day camped out in Ottawa


Tamil supporters lined Wellington St., just in front of Parliament Hill, for a seventh day Monday.

They are demanding an end to Sri Lankan government attacks against Tamil citizens and the Tamil Tiger rebel group, which has waged a civil war for more than two decades in an effort to secure an independent state.

The protesters say the Sri Lankan government is committing acts of genocide against the population and are demanding the Canadian government take action to end the conflict.


Well that doesn't sound good.

Hmm... says the Tamil Tigers are a terrorist group .... you don't mind if I google them do you ?

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam


The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil: தமிழீழவிடுதலைப்புலிகள், ISO 15919: tamiḻ iiḻa viṭutalaip pulikaḷ; commonly known as the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers) is a militant organization based in northern Sri Lanka. Founded in 1976, it has since actively waged a violent secessionist campaign that seeks to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka


Violent ..how violent ?


... and for recruiting child soldiers. The LTTE invented the suicide belt and is widely known for suicide bombing as a tactic. They also pioneered the use of women in suicide attacks.


Ow !!


...killing five Indian para-commandos who were on board by strapping burning tires around their necks ...


Ow !!


As early as the mid-1970s, LTTE rebels were widely known to have trained members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Southern Lebanon,


Ow !!


Thank you , supporters of the Tamil Tigers , for volinteering to identify yourselves as collaborators of a known terrorist group. It is my feverant hope the RCMP will now arrest all of you , fingerprint and photograph you , and deliver you to the proper Sri Lanka authorities for legal disposition under their laws.

As I'm sure you know, associating with terrorists is a violation of your immigration applications and they are therefore easily revoked due to this.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Homeopathic Sociopaths Win Big in BC


B.C. gives naturopaths right to prescribe drugs



Naturopaths in B.C. will now be able to prescribe drugs to their patients, making them the first alternative health-care providers in the country to do so.

Oh good. The snake oil salesmen have now been given legal recognition , so they can *LEGALLY* tell you to get off those meds that are saving your life and buy their snake oil.

And then when you die, because they're all fraudsters and only a handful of suckers (who are rapidly being killed off by these sociopathic "healers" that care nothing about human life, only them making a buck) think they actually cure anything , they can now sue you for pointing out that they are absolute fraudsters and charletons.

Yep. the government has recognized them. You will now be sued by the Guild of Psychic Homeopathic Seers for daring to accuse them of fraud when they kill off your grandma with their cures after telling her to stop her cancer treatments.

It won't be long.

Latest Mind Control Trick

Atlanta airport grooving to clean music


Hey, isn't that the Peaches and Herb classic "Shake Your Groove Thing"? You haven't heard that in years!

But wait, what are they singing? It sounds like "Shake Your Groove Thing," but the lyrics playing don't match the ones you know.
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The concept of "opening day fresh" refers to keeping the airport as clean as if it were opening day, which means smelling fresh and looking as spotless as possible.

The catchy tunes are a way to subtly remind visitors that it takes a team effort to keep the airport sparkling. "Our New Concessions" reminds travelers about the facility's retail offerings and food service.


Think back. Remember your most favorite song of all time, the one you love the most ?

They're going to hire the original artist who wrote and sang it , and now it's gonna read "BUY MY JUNK ! MY STUFF IS COOL ! GIVE ME YOUR MONEY !" sung by the original artist and re-recorded to be totally respectful of the orginal ... and no way for you to turn it off, because it's an airport ! you don't control the music !

Yech ....where are the ear plugs ?

Thursday, April 09, 2009

RCMP shocked 16 people five times or more last year

Article


Despite a dramatic drop in the RCMP's use of stun guns in 2008, the force is still zapping some suspects five times or more with the controversial weapon.

Mounties shocked at least 16 suspects with a Taser five or more times, according to analysis done by CBC/Radio-Canada and The Canadian Press of RCMP reports released through access to information requests. Ten of the cases topped five stuns.


Manual for Tasers says to only stun them twice. Don't actually have one , but it's in the news somewhere.

This is getting to be less and less about how safe a Taser is and more and more about the Cops giving the general public the finger.


"As we saw in the case of Mr. Dziekanski, [being stunned five times] was a major contributing factor potentially to his death," said federal Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland.


Five times ? You stunned that old man five times and there were four of you standing around and you were all bigger than him ?


Holland echoed the concerns of his NDP counterpart, calling such extreme use of stun guns "egregiously wrong."


Translation : It's all perfectly legal. We don't like it , but it's perfectly legal for them to taser you until you die. They don't even get a slap on the wrist for it.


A CBC News investigation recently revealed that the RCMP softened parts of its stun-gun policy by deleting a key sentence ordering officers not to cycle the stun gun repeatedly or for more than 15 to 20 seconds at a time, unless the officer faced special circumstances.

That policy change, made this February, happened despite assurances from RCMP Commissioner William Elliott before a parliamentary committee that the force had adjusted its policy last June to curb multiple use of the stun gun.


KEEP ON ZAPPING ! IT SAVES LIVES ! IGNORE THE PILES OF BODIES EVERYWHERE ! THEY'RE NOT OUR BODIES THEY'RE SOMEONE ELSES BODIES ! (Except for that one cop who got it in the head and has permanent brain damage)

Makes you proud , doesn't it ? To see our thugs with badges in action.

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Iran's president welcomes 'honest' talks with U.S.

Article


"The Iranian nation welcomes a hand extended to it should it really and truly be based on honesty, justice and respect," Ahmadinejad said in a speech broadcast live on state television.


When a middle eastern muslim uses the word "Justice", he's not interested in any kind of fair play. He's interested in Islamic Law, which is by the way one of the more unjust systems of law in the world. It promotes conversion by the sword, and virtual enslavement of it's worshippers to the Iman, the preists of that religion, and democracy is strictly forbidden.

His version of respect is "Let us build our nukes so we can destroy Israel and conquer the world, including *YOU*"

In other words, this middle eastern white boy is telling the american black "on your knee's slave ! You loved it in the cotton fields , now we got a new place where you can wear some more chains !"

Yeah. Right.

He's giving Obama a real good education on world affairs , isn't he ?

Quebec dad sued by daughter after grounding loses his appeal

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A Quebec father who was taken to court by his 12-year-old daughter after he grounded her in June 2008 has lost his appeal.

Quebec Superior Court rejected the Gatineau father's appeal of a lower court ruling that said his punishment was too severe for the wrongs he said his daughter committed


Now what the heck is this case doing in a court room in the first place ? It is obvious that the lawyers in Quebec have nothing better to do with their time than manufacture cases like this so as to make work for themselves.

Since you have decided to interfere in the relationship between a father and his 12 year old daughter (for grounding ? he didn't even spank her or anything ?) I think the state should now pick up the tab for raising the child , since it's obvious such petty things as internet access and whether a grounding is just or unjust have suddenly become provincial issues.

If you're going to interfere in the family , if you're going to take it over and run it, then you need to pick up the tab as well. None of this you pay the bills and we tell you what to do business. You want to sit down at the table , you ante up.

Liberal Crimes

I'm getting sick of those "give big business billions but screw the little guy" liberals. I think I'm going to keep a roll of crimes on them. Gonna keep a link on the side so I can keep updating it and keep it on top.



Ignatieff Denies being Racist
July 2009

Current Liberal Leader Ignatieff admits in a book he published in 1993 that he thinks Ukrainian Nationalists are Nasty, Phoney , and Whining. He denies that the remarks are in any way racist.


Ignatieff slams Harper for 'failure to unite Canada'
May 2 2009
This from a party that tried to launch a Carbon Tax designed to tax the Alberta utilities for burning coal (taxing a government) and just keep the money and spend it on whatever they like. And they want to recognize Quebec as a Sperate Nation. And they gave the Atlantic provinces "The Atlantic Accord" which basically means if they ever strike it rich (they did , oil) they get to keep their transfer payments as a poor province..forever. They're now running billions in surpluses.
King Iggy , you're running a party that is deliberately splitting Canada apart. And you have the gall to blame the Conservatives for your crimes.
Nothing but Propaganda from this guy.

Federal government to back warranties for GM, Chrysler: ClementApril 7 2009
This one is a crime because they're giving billions to the American auto companies , effectively helping crush any local competition who don't get a time. Thanks for betraying your own country to some forieners, with canadian tax dollars, Ontario Liberal Party. April 7 , 2009

Minimum wage hike at risk, premier suggests mar 28, 2009
Liberal Premier of Ontario decides not to hike the minimum wage as planned. He eventually agreed to raise it eventually (though it hasn't happened yet), but he tried to do the little guy in , while at the same time giving GM billions. Saving it for your buddies so they can kick it back into your coffers, right McGuinty ?


McGuinty won't raise PST
April 8 2009
Was 7% pst at the time. It's 8% now ,and you're the only one who's been premier in the mean time , McGuinty. (McGuinty is the Liberal Premier of Ontario)

US Trade Tactics

Federal government to back warranties for GM, Chrysler: Clement

So the Candian government gives six billion , in cash , to the big three, and then does this as well. Wow , we really do love our american brethren , don't we ?

And how do the Americans feel about this exactly ?

U.S. slaps 10% tax on Canadian softwood lumber imports

I believe they're going to wipe their dirty feet on us like a used towel and then toss us in the trash , thats what they're going to do to us.

The only question here is how much of that six billion is getting kicked back into liberal coffers to fund the next election. It's the only explanation why the Liberal Party of Ontario would choose to shovel money by the truck load to a foriegn national corperation.

No , helping a foriegn company stomp out the local competition so that they can dominate everything is not "good" for the economy. Far from it. Anyone who tells you that is a dang lair. And guess what ? That is exactly what the liberals are saying , isn't it ?

Sunday, April 05, 2009

'Scientism' infects Darwinian debates


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Yep. We bull sh*t artists ..we invented the term Creationism to mean that CHRISTIAN religion is dominant , and all other religions ,and science, which makes claims at being no religion at all but all us CHRISTIANS know it's a religion and we justly accuse it of such , ye'r not buying it. so for you ignorant bound for hell servants of the devil infidels , we have denigraded ourselves to producing yet another lie to trick you into the one true religion. We hope you appreciate how we have contaminatet ourselves for your benifit please come over here and volinteer to be our slaves ... I mean I mean ... convert to the one true religion ...

We call it "Scientism"


The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics defines scientism as "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of natural science to be applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities)."


We will start with taking quotes from a religious work that kind of happens to have th word "Science" in the middle of it ... but really ...has nothing at all to do with that institution. Is in fact reviled by that institution.


This is blinkered.

It defaults to atheism. And it assumes incorrectly that what we believe, and the way we live, is always based on provable "facts," which do not include conjecture, speculation or imagination.



EARTH TO DOUGLESS TODD ! EARTH TO DOUGLESS TODD ! COME IN PLEASE ! The notion that some super sentient god didn't create man , that the random forces of physics and chemistry did it ... *IS* Atheism. That our "creator" is random non sentient non aware not particularily intelligent or even difficult to understand forces of physics and science created the whole universe, including us , is in fact ,what science is all about.


Everyone would agree, however, that evolution is also a theory that is incomplete.


Unfortunately , the same *EVERYONE* would agree that THE BIBLE is a pack of lies from beginning to end and every page in between.

If you're going to applies the rules of scientific evidence to this debate, lets start with applying them to their alternative shall we ? Lets apply them to the bible as well... (Council of Bishops agreeing on what they will and will not admit in to their holy book three hundred years later...in a time when humans have a life span of 35 years ...that would be ten life times later of pure heresy and nothing written down ) oops ... the bible doesn't pass muster..toss it in the trash ... lets move on ...


When more evolutionary scientists open up to the insights of philosophers and those from other disciplines, I believe their beloved theory will itself evolve. It will become more complex and more elegant.


Let me rephrase that.

When those evolutionary DUNDERHEADS stop looking at the facts and start going more with their gut feelings, which by the way have a truely horrible record of accuracy but they do make me feel good so I'm happy about that. I feel good about that. Then ... I believe they can give up their persuit of knowledge and can be content with simply ...feeling good. This will be a beautiful thing.

Can you smell the excriment you are dripping all over your website ? no ? I didn't think so. It's because you're a religious fanatic , you have the truth in your hand it was given to you by a bunch of goat herders who lacked the capability to actually read and write, and so they must be the wisest men in the universe and nothing they say could ever be wrong and anyone with a grade two education or better must be lying to you ... and thats *THE TRUTH* as your gut feeling tells you it is.

And thats just good enough. My gut feeling tells me it is so.