As someone from BC, I would like to indicate my displeasure that the film industry here is heavily subsidized. That means that I'm paying, through my taxes, to keep someone employed. And I'm not sure if that's better than paying them welfare, through my taxes.

Where's the upvote button?

The web has been sucking for about 5 years now, IMO. I find many sites are about 75% advertising and 25% content. Then there are the sites that absolutely refuse to let you view content unless you accept their cookies so they can track you. The web used to be great for finding information, now with all the SEO junk running around, trying to find anything is becoming more difficult. I'll often search for an obscure electronics part and get stupid results like the first 10 search results being from basically the same page (which is not related or does not contain the search term of "datasheet" but is instead trying to tell me what chinese sweat shop I can order it from) on a different domain, requiring me to drill down 3 or 4 pages to begin to find relevant results.

If you can, use cyanogenmod on your droid. It has an option - and I'd love to see more granularity on this - to block apps from accessing your contact lists and some other things.

Yarr.... next time I should actually read what I post..

My customer domain is lazy"somethingsomething".... not terribly professional.

my custom domain is lazy.... I don't think that's terribly professional...

I moved my parents to a gmail account just because of this.

That linkedin stuff really burns my bacon. Everytime I log in, they beg me to let them log into my Gmail account so they can find more "connections" for me.

No. Just because someone is in my email address book does NOT mean they are someone I want to connect with on a business level.

Canada Border Services Agency can do the same thing.

I think it's fucking disgusting that this can happen. They don't have to charge you with a crime. They just declare the money as "bad" and make you prove that the money was earned legitimately.

Many provinces also have proceeds of crime legislation. The Government of Ontario has abused their implementation of the law to try to take someone's house (I don't know if they have been successful) after they were convicted of improper storage of a firearm (and I'm not getting into the mess that legislation is. there is no definition of proper storage) because they chose to fight the charge instead of plead guilty like a good little prole.

This just cements my belief that the Canadian criminal system - as imperfect as it is - is better than the American one. Municipalities cannot enact any criminal ordinances and provinces are strictly limited in criminal law. Criminal Law is seen as being Federal Jurisdiction.

That being said, in the US, I would rather see the States in charge of all criminal laws and the municipalities not permitted any criminal law and the federal government severely restricted (or better yet, if they just stuck to their enumerated powers as outlined in the US Constitution).

Time to write a L7 filter then.

The cell network was never designed with the idea that one phone was going to hit an entire metropolitan area's cell towers.

I took the TGV from Brussels to Paris in September. If I could do that in Canada (it'll never happen on the west coast, but I can dream), I'd never fly again.

of the materials they were going to Archive? Perhaps getting a lot of people to dig into their personal libraries might help fill in the gaps.

Remote Terminal over satellite? You probably won't be happy with the lag.