Why Brin is full of it, and reverse panopticon is a fantasy.
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From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:52:35 -0400
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Subject: [IP] OT: Canada: Sweeping new surveillance bill
At 8:46 PM +0200 9/21/05, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Why Brin is full of it, and reverse panopticon is a fantasy.
Obviously Brin is full of it -- from my own personal experience, even, :-)
-- but one should remember that law, much less legislation, is always a
lagging indicator.
Physics causes finance,
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2004/11/06/no_canada?mode=PF
The Boston Globe
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING
No, Canada!
You don't want to go there
By Alex Beam, Globe Staff | November 6, 2004
You have probably heard the idle chatter: ''I'm thinking
Fair enough. Canada is a role model for the US, as is the US for
the world: nobody is wanted unless they are willing to pay for the
mistakes and messes the locals have made, or best, work for
starvation wages, usually off the books, long the prime source of
penal-grade labor in the Echelon
At 11:42 AM -0800 11/6/04, John Young wrote:
capitalist
There you go, speaking marxist again...
;-)
Cheers,
RAH
Capitalism is totalitarian for economics...
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On Jan 11, 2004, at 8:24 AM, Adam wrote:
I know this story is quite a bit old, but I really have to wonder how
legal this levy is.
http://www.cb-cda.gc.ca/news/c20032004nr-e.html
The Board also sets for the first time a levy on non-removable memory
permanently embedded in digital audio recorders
Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would something like this go over in the US? I wonder ...
We allow congress to tell us that we can't have VCRs that don't
respect Macrovision. I'm sure the sheeple would have no problem
paying reparations for imaginary theft of imaginary property.
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Riad Wahby
, December 08, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: Marijuana once again legal in Ontario, Canada
An unforeseen consequence of government incompetence.
http://ontario.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=25324
TORONTO - Ontario Consumers for Safe Access to Recreational Cannabis is
happy to
inform consumers
Access Regulations, wide-open marijuana
legalization is back in Ontario!
The police will likely still have their 'business as usual' public relations
line, but since Health Canada has defied the order of the Ontario Court of
Appeal by not allowing a grower to supply multiple patients, as ordered
