This box is great for running XBMC http://dx.com/p/android-4-0-google-tv-player-w-wi-fi-1gb-ram-4gb-rom-black-164039 Here's a great firmware for it: http://www.j1nx.nl/downloads/?category=6

The missing link: Google Voice for Calgary only in Canada

Or even more strange, make it available to only one small region of another country.

I got my Google voice account by using a VPN and VOIP to U.S. servers. Its pretty well useless without integration with my home phone or my android phone though. Asterisk and MightyText give me basically the same features I'm missing out on.

They give you the ability to get your data out, that's what makes them not evil AFAIC. Example:
Google Buzz, The Social Network No One Cared About, Is Finally Going Offline

Not too many people cared to use it, and in October 2011 Google announced that itâ(TM)d eventually discontinue the service. Finally and at long last, Googleâ(TM)s determined that the time has arrived. Doors are closing on Buzz forever, and youâ(TM)ll receive a backup data file of all your posts saved to your Google Drive on or after July 17, 2013. Any active Buzz users out there better take note â" your service is only guaranteed through July 17. For everyone else, you can go about continuing to live your lives.

18 months is fair notice, if it's something you care about you've got time to figure a solution.

Once? They've been removing useful features for a long time. You can't turn on focus-follows-mouse anymore without a google search to guide you through it. Expandable folders (tree view) in Nautilus is the latest victim. It's bizarre and frustrating.

???? You can also get one from Adafruit. Seeedstudio used to have the first (non-OTG) version that I bought, but I guess they dont make the new one.

IOIO-OTG. It costs more than a Raspberry Pi though.

I disagree. There are many things about Gnome 3 that I prefer over Gnome 2. With multiple displays, you can switch workspaces on just one of the displays. (ctrl-alt-up / ctrl-alt-down) It is a good productivity enhancement. My only real gripe with Gnome 3 is the hotspot corner, or rather the refusal to make it configurable. I do not want it. The only time I trigger it is by accident, usually when I'm trying to click "Activities", and then my click ends up closing the thing that I intended to open. I hope a swarm of very nasty mosquitos visits the fellow who came up with that, and an even larger swarm goes after the people who think configuration options are bad or that "features" should be forced on users for their own good.

I highly doubt the Reformacons are behind this in any official capacity. What could it possibly achieve through a DDoS? They extended the deadline several times to allow the ballots to be cast for each of the 4 rounds of voting. No real harm done other than causing a conflict with Hockey Night in Canada in the 4th round of voting.

If the real issue is that Brian Topp supporters are more likely to be hockey fans than Thomas Mulcair supporters, then lets get to the meat and potatoes of it.

The coward speaketh...

The "billions" was in fact:
"In the end the Commission concluded that $2 million was awarded in contracts without a proper bidding process, $250,000 was added to one contract price for no additional work, and $1.5 million was awarded for work that was never done, of which $1 million had to be repaid. The total cost of the Commission was $14 million." -- (wikipedia cut/paste)

Much less than the money that disappeared over the G20 by the Harperites which was never investigated. Also much less money was misappropriated than the cost of the commission that investigated it.

The gun registry cost nothing at all in the end. It would have been profitable had the Harperites not slashed the registration fee to $0. I still pay $30/yr to register my dog by the way. It costs nothing to register a gun.

Stephen Harper was the one who wanted the banks deregulated while the US was building their bubble. It was a Liberal government that said no, and the resulting loan/mortgage collapse did not happen here. Our banks are the envy of the world because Conservatives were not in power.

Thanks for playing though.

Same party was in contempt of parliament. Same party was guilty of shutting down parliament to avoid an inquiry to torture allegations. Same party plead guilty to election fraud in their in-and-out scheme. There's lots of lone operatives in this party it seems.