Restraint

CRIA can suck my motherfucking dick.

June 21, 2005 – 3:05 am

Just when you think you’ve begun to make a difference: Bill C-60.

(PDF Link. Be warned, Enemies of Adobe! Also, here’s how to contact your MP.)

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7.94 requests/sec – 101.6 kB/second – 12.8 kB/request

March 18, 2005 – 11:36 am

Your tax dollars at work, ladies and gentlemen!

Here is a complete accounting of all connections on the webserver that hosts strategis.ic.gc.ca, businessgateway.ic.gc.ca, commercecan.ic.gc.ca and other Industry Canada services.

Or perhaps you tire of looking at other people’s URLs (watch for ’secret’ URLs, usernames/passwords passed via POST, and session data — don’t tell the privacy commissioner), and you’d like to view processes and statistics instead? Your government is here to help!

Bonus points: These webservers (and countless others in the Industry Canada IP Space) are infected with a trojan that allows anyone to connect to them and execute arbitrary code. Guess which one it is!

Edit: Looks like they took down the first one. Any bets on how long the others will last?

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COMMUNIST – 0.034% — MARXIST-LENINIST – 0.067% — MARIJUANA – 0.249%

June 29, 2004 – 7:47 am

For those who find such things interesting, here are our current election results:

LIB 135
CON 99
BQ 54
NDP 19
IND 1

…and here is how it would look if we had proportional representation:

LIB 113
CON 91
NDP 47
BQ 39
GREEN 13

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Liberals + NDP = 154 Seats.
Conservatives + Bloc = 154 Seats. (The IND candidate is a CON that was listed as IND due to a party nomination argument. He’ll be welcomed back to the fold.)

Someone’s going to have to suck some conservative dick tonight if he wants to form a government.

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Ryan Malcolm knows what’s up.

April 4, 2004 – 3:13 am

Federal Heritage Minister Helene Scherrer has spoken. Although Justice Konrad von Finckenstein ruled against CRIA, she has decided to take matters into her own hands.

“As minister of Canadian Heritage, I will, as quickly as possible, make changes to our copyright law.”


Canada to Helene Scherrer: Suck My Balls.

The problem with this, of course, is that Canadian copyright law has been going through a slow and thoughtful reformation process. Since the unveiling of A Framework for Copyright Reform in 2001, a lot of progress has been made in updating the laws to reflect the needs and concerns of content producers, and the public domain.

Now, however, it seems that all of this work will be bulldozed by Helene Scherrer, who declared her intentions at the Juno Awards last night. (Public interest and existing law be damned, we’ve got businesses to cater to!)

If this bothers you, please contact the Copyright Policy Branch of the Department of Canadian Heritage at (819) 997-5638. It’s your country too.

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So you will have another ticket, for losing your senses.

May 2, 2003 – 3:48 pm

A brief history of Canada’s marijuana laws is relevant reading, considering the Prime Minister’s recent assurance that pot is soon to be decriminalized, and our friendly neighbour to the south’s not-so-veiled threats.

I firmly believe the Bush administration will bring about the end of American-Canadian trust and goodwill. This is just one action of many.

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