Comment Re:Senior member of Anonymous? (Score 2) 407
You think his UID is old...
Comment Its a good idea, but must replace Income Tax (Score 5, Interesting) 875
The only way to sell it to the masses would be to promote it as the elimination of Income Taxes. Set a date (20 years?) by which point income taxes will be eliminated, and slowly ramp up the Carbon (GHG) tax while reducing income tax over the same period of time.
What? You're opposed to eliminating Income Tax?
Comment Re:STOP THE PRESSES! (Score 1) 155
The majority of Canadians oppose the Conservatives. It is an unfortunate bug in our system of government that the centre-left and left-wing parties that together represents well over 60% of Canadians are in opposition at the moment.
Comment Re:STOP THE PRESSES! (Score 2, Interesting) 155
As a Canadian, I can assure you that he most certainly is the Canadian version of Don Rumsfeld. And the Prime Minister is our very own Dick Cheney. (He's not Bush, he's much smarter than that, which makes him all the more dangerous)
Comment Re:Not possible, at least for now (Score 1) 365
This is the reason I play. I recognize the virtual impossibility of winning the jackpot, but between the time I buy the ticket and the time of the draw (or whenever I get around to checking my numbers) I get significant pleasure (far more than $1 worth) imagining what I would do if I won the jackpot.
However, giving this reason for playing, perhaps the most rational course of action would be to only buy one ticket, and simply never check the numbers...
Comment Re:That's only with stories they want to cover (Score 1) 186
The purpose of your entire post was just to brag about your size, wasn't it
Comment Re:Conservatives doing the right thing? (Score 1) 95
Actually, the Liberals seems to be coming around on tech issues. They just last week released a statement in support of 'net neutrality.
Comment Efficient Government (Score 2, Insightful) 385
Provides a handy counter-example to anyone who wants to point to government as inherently inefficient. Clearly it can be efficient when it wants to be.
Comment Re:The More You Read the Uglier It Gets (Score 4, Funny) 417
New great lie of history: "I'm from (wall street/mortgage broker/bank/investment firm) and I'm here to help."
10 Best IT Products Of 2006 223
digihome writes "CRN.com chooses the ten best new products of 2006, including the best development tools, server, notebook and storage device. Some of the choices may surprise you ... such as their choice for operating system of the year." From the article: "With Windows Vista, Microsoft has refreshed the user desktop experience. While debate rages over whether the five-year wait was worth it, the truth is Vista is pretty much the only game in town. One may question whether Vista should be bestowed with Product of the Year recognition in the operating system category. But the product unquestionably brings new features and capabilities to solution providers that in turn promise new revenue generation dialogues with end users."
Submission + - Microsoft Kill Off Frontpage
GoogTube writes: "Microsoft frontpage have announced what we have all be hoping for, And that is the death of microsoft frontpage.
With personal pages dying out and the average PC user turning to things like blogging it makes sense that Microsoft should ditch thier "web design for average joe" idea and move onto more professional webdesign tools and suites."
After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006. We will continue to serve the diverse needs of our existing FrontPage customers with the introduction of two brand-new application building and Web authoring tools using the latest technologies: Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for the enterprise information workers and Expression Web for the professional Web designer.
With personal pages dying out and the average PC user turning to things like blogging it makes sense that Microsoft should ditch thier "web design for average joe" idea and move onto more professional webdesign tools and suites."
Submission + - Plone Keynote: Moglen on Social Justice and OSS
NewsCloud writes: "What does Firefox have to do with social justice? How will the one laptop per child project discourage genocide? How soon will Microsoft collapse? Watch Eben Moglen's inspiring keynote from the 2006 Plone Conference (Archive.org: mp3 or qt; or YouTube). The video presentation is ordinary, so the mp3 is an equally good format.
"If we know that what we are trying to accomplish is the spread of justice and social equality through the universalization of access to knowledge; If we know that what we are trying to do is build an economy of sharing which will rival the economies of ownership at every point where they directly compete; If we know that we are doing this as an alternative to coercive redistribution, that we have a third way in our hands for dealing with long and deep problems of human injustice; If we are conscious of what we have and know what we are trying to accomplish, when this is the moment for the first time in lifetimes, we can get it done.
