In Canada we had something called the "Environmental Round Table". It was established with the sole purpose of providing spin free information to parliamentarians (Congressmen for you Yanks). Our Conservative Government (Canadian Republicans) defunded it and stated publicly, and with no apparent shame, that the reason it was defunded was because it kept producing information that disagreed with Government policy.

Don't like the facts? Fire the people who reporting them, that will make those annoying facts go away.

They also implemented a communication protocol so that all interviews with Canadian Scientists have to be approved by the prime ministers office. This is most often used to control climate change information.

They are the worst ideological blinders on, information controlling government ever and yet they rant about "Law and Order" and so all the old people vote for them.

A number of years ago a study was published that indicated that when the government was not seen to be legitimate by some large section of the population, crime of all kinds go up. So for example, when a Democrat is in the white house crime in red states goes up, and vice versus.

I strongly suspect that this is just another example of that, and not something specific to socialism.

Have you ever tried anywhere else? You might be surprised to learn that the USA is not the only democracy on earth, and also not the one with the most liberty.

While this may not be *technically* a scam, any business model based on tricking customers is pathetic and the work of a sociopath. So ya fuck them and yank there license.

And in case you didn't RTFA or RTFS the terms of use say you can't harvest whois for mass marketing purposes. Clearly this is what they are doing so again, fuck them and yank their license.

Its a giant pain in the ass when a client calls and gets mad at me because their website and email is down only to find out that they received one of these letters and accidentally transferred their domain.

"Businesses" like this are a menace and should be shut down.

I think the phrase you are looking for is "Harm Reduction"

What a minute. I thought the USA was all about land of the free and personal liberty and free speech etc. Are you saying that anyone found on public property after dark who can't prove a permanent address would be FORCED to spend the night in a former prison? If you instead wanted to stay true to your founding principals, why not just invest in more public restrooms. Then who cares if someone is sleeping under a tree. They won't stink and your doorways won't smell of urine.

Sooo you might want to rethink the whole privatize everything including prisons plan.

Yes sometimes automated systems fail. So I wrote an automated audit system that sends up alerts in case the automated systems fails. But then I worried about what would happen if both my automated system and my auditor failed, so I wrote a system to monitor the auditor. But I was in a nasty situation once on an ocean fish boat where three systems failed or had issues at the same time and it was really bad. So I think I will write an auditor to audit my auditor monitor.

Remembering passwords is a bad idea. Use a vault.

The end result is a sort of arms race in American car design. Everyone has a a personal incentive to drive something heavier for their own safety, but everyone would be safer if, collectively, we didn't do that.

Which is yet another example of how badly your culture is broken.

On a related note...The US government asked the Canadian Government to tell Canadian banks to turn over all banking information about a list of names they provided. They said it was to catch tax cheats. The Canadian Government said "Sure as long as you do the same for us". The reply was that the US has a law against that so would not comply.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

So I am curious about what would happen in if the shoe was on the other foot. I am fairly confident that "American Exceptionalism" (aka double standard / hypocrisy) would kick in and the US would rant about the sovereignty of their jurisdiction

USA = Hubris.

I think you only have half the story there. I think the full story would be that developed nations should embrace a carbon tax as a way of subsidizing renewables and account for the true cost of carbon based fuels, whereas the 3rd world should develop enough so that they can create the conditions to eventually do the same. This was called converge and contract. I think it is still the working plan.

The supposed crisis that your talking about have lots of causes. Aging populations, and unrealistic expectations.

And also lots of well funded propaganda by for profit private health care providers. They try to fan flames of discontent to produce a ground swell of support against public health care. They should pack up their suitcases and go back to America.

Ditto to what he said but from here in Canada.

RSS is so much bigger then one stupid feed aggregator. To strat with there has to be dozens and dozens of aggregators. Secondly I am a huge user of RSS and I have never used a feed aggregator. Almost every website I make pulls in some content via RSS and/or makes its content available via RSS. My podcatcher uses RSS and I subscribe to feeds manually that I know already know about. I reject with prejudice the very idea that one aggregator going away would have any impact at all on RSS usage.