Hubble Starts to Wake Up
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Combination ovens, or combi ovens, are equipped for three different cooking methods: convection, steam and combination.Posted by on under boing boing, legal purpose, tucows, caa, dramatic changes, provi, minter, home tv, negotiators, tag team, leaks, copyright laws, copyright law, screws, treaties, royalty, politicians, parliament, steam, voices |
Leaks have emerged from another secret copyright treaty, this one between the EU and Canada. The EU is really screwing Canada with this one, demanding longer copyright terms, more liability for ISPs (which means that it gets harder and more expensive to host anything from a message board to a video), laws against breaking copyright protection (even for a legal purpose, like getting your own files back), and a royalty on the sale of used copyrighted goods (so you'd have to track down and pay the rightsholder when you resold a painting or other copyrighted work). And all this while Minister Tony Clement has been conducting a consultation with Canadians on what they think Canada's copyright laws should be -- at the same time, Canada's government has been sneakily negotiating two secret copyright treaties that would tie Parliament's hands and throw away Canadians' own Made-in-Canada copyright rules. While the leaked document may only represent the European position, there is little doubt that there will enormous pressure on Canadian negotiators to cave on the IP provision in return for "gains" in other areas. The net result is that when combined with the ACTA requirements, Canadian copyright law reform may cease to become Canadian. Instead, the rules will be dictated by secretive agreements as the U.S. and Europe tag team to pressure Canada into dramatic changes far beyond those even proposed in Bills C-60 or C-61. Beyond ACTA: Proposed EU - Canada Trade Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Leaks Previously:Access Copyright tells Canadian gov't: no home TV recording, no ... American copyright lobby attacks Canadian politicians for ... Canadian Copyright Consultation submission from Tucows and David ... US pressured Canada to join copyright complaint against China ... Copyright crazies gaining steam in Canada - Boing Boing How the Canadian copyright lobby uses fakes, fronts, and circular ... Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded ... Michael Geist's movie: "Why Copyright? Canadian Voices on ......Posted by on under extra copies, steam, wasting your money |
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Posted by on under red dead revolver, rehearsal dinner, lifestyle choices, xbox live, line gaming, aying, tf2, nigger, skin color, fag, gaming experience, amazement, boogie, pc games, two minutes, saturday night, peoe, xbox, steam, shock |
It's Saturday night. My wife and I just get back from a rehearsal dinner for a friend's wedding and I'm still a bit restless. So, having just beaten Red Dead Revolver, I figured I'd give the multiplayer a spin. Now, I'm still fairly new to the XBox and up until this point, my sole online gaming experience is pretty much limited to a few games on Steam and Ultima Online back in the day or meeting up specifically with friends and people I know over Live. I play a hell of a lot of TF2 and, for the most part, people are pretty decent. So imagine my shock and surprise when it takes approximately two minutes before I'm called a "nigger fag" by some squeaky-voiced 13 year old who proceeds to berate my supposed lifestyle choices and imagined skin color. The kid actually started repeated "oogie boogie!" at me. Up until this point, I wasn't using the headphones and this was all coming unsolicited through my television speakers. So of course I reached for my headset and asked what the kid's problem was. And to my amazement, people started defending the kid and repeating his accusations of "nigger fag"dom. So that was infuriating and awful. But when it got downright depressing was when another kid joined who sounded like he was probably black. Once the kid spoke, everyone forgot about me and started spewing the most hateful, awful, racist shit I've ever heard in my entire life. I couldn't believe it. I heard the black kid telling someone what they were saying and the kid's dad hops on and starts playing and, to a degree, trying to verbally fight back against these horrible racist hillbillies. They jump on him even worse. Telling him to go back to Africa, that they should find him and hang him from a tree. Is this what online gaming on an XBox is? Why and how does anyone put up with this? It's enough to make me go back to my PC games and never look back. [link] [247 comments] |
