tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186657282012-05-29T21:22:46.130-07:00The Galloping BeaverA tail dragging romp through the swamps of the worldDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.comBlogger6796125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-70600299149691146452012-05-29T10:17:00.000-07:002012-05-29T10:17:24.889-07:00State security . . .
VICKIE'S TRYING TO BUILD ONE OF THESE. Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network: The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and informants. But Big Vickie loves us, so it'll all work out, right?
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-72837870205899561002012-05-28T12:19:00.000-07:002012-05-28T12:34:44.587-07:00It slices and dices . . .
SLAP CHOP THIS AIN'T. It's a piece of malware called "Flame". And what a piece it is: compared to Stuxnet, the malware that gutted the digital controllers for Iranian uranium centrifuges, a smallest-you-can-make-it 500Kb, Flame is Godzilla-size, a whopping 20Mb. According to the article in WIRED, "Meet ‘Flame’, The Massive Spy Malware Infiltrating Iranian Computers", Flame is like a Cuisinart, Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-39787781108250660812012-05-28T11:30:00.000-07:002012-05-28T11:30:47.696-07:00#ggiYep.
Doug Finnson, the union's chief negotiator, says it's only because
the government said it would act that CP management isn't at the table.
"Collective bargaining in this country is under attack, certainly," he said.
"As long as the government intervenes in collective bargaining, and
in my opinion, unfairly favours the employer, the employers are going to
simply line up, every one of Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-64322129871510392012-05-28T09:56:00.001-07:002012-05-28T09:56:54.353-07:00The Lord helps those . . .
WHO HELP THEMSELVES. At least, that's what The Lizard Farmer believes. What a great reason to get a Barrett .50 BMG and a nice variable scope, though for less than 3-400 meters, a nice 7mm magnum or a .25-06 varminter BAR might be quite useful, really flat trajectories, or maybe a ValMet semi-auto AK47 in .308 NATO or an AR-10.
If, as and when the drones start flying over Canadian cities, Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-51299163611841443342012-05-27T13:17:00.000-07:002012-05-27T13:17:01.982-07:00A dry warning . . .
THE ARAL SEA: trashed by the Soviets in the 1960s, it has yet to recover, if that is even possible with global warming. Now, Canada is environmentally threatened by right-wing extremists, with psychopathic greed as their motivation, who are more dangerous, because they have more money than the Soviets did. io9 has a nice article by Lauren Davis, "Abandoned Ships Stranded in the Desert", with Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-25846710853473624392012-05-26T21:54:00.002-07:002012-05-26T23:13:42.346-07:00Dear Leo Bureau-Blouin,You are speaking about compromise. Stop. Compromise is losing. Why? At a basic logical level, if you hold that you do not want a tuition rise, and the government does, any position that results in increased tuition means that you lose and the government wins.
On a moral level, your adversary has deployed anti-human legislation and extreme police violence to have its way in the face of student Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-37001021832694745452012-05-26T11:51:00.004-07:002012-05-26T11:51:34.971-07:0025th Anniversary . . .
HARD TIMES IN THE LAND OF PLENTY. (C) 1987 to 2012 — that's twenty-five years of hard times, folks, and Omar's message is even more relevant as time passes. Omar's the king of Strat blues-twang, great chops.
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-16428034408114383662012-05-26T09:42:00.000-07:002012-05-26T12:04:32.679-07:00Inmates for Stevie's prisons . . .
YOU DON'T WANT to be old and poor and alone, but thanks to the 1%, that's the fate for a lot of North Americans, if the fascists have their way. Our Head Fascist, Stevie, intends to build prisons for lots of new inmates. Well, when life hands you a lemon, the creative make lemonaid.
Thus this report from Keith Veronese at io9: "If you are elderly and poor, prison is better than a retirementEdstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-36083510092829062492012-05-25T06:07:00.001-07:002012-05-25T06:07:47.764-07:00A shattered polity . . .
THE CHRONICLE HERALD has fine editorial cartoonists, Michael de Adder, and Bruce MacKinnon. Check out the gallery, some great stuff!
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-30873558453851262182012-05-24T20:18:00.000-07:002012-05-24T20:18:25.852-07:00Modern times . . .XKCD.
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-70713857152469146912012-05-23T22:41:00.002-07:002012-05-23T22:42:48.413-07:00About Bill C-38So what do you call a government that actively seeks to allow the security forces of a foreign power to operate with impunity within the country it governs?
I'm too tired tonight to say something really insightful about this latest round of Harperian Vichique. Come to think of it, I'm not actually sure there's much more to say at this point.
Yeah, that sums it up.
#ggi
Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-49605644561917274192012-05-21T18:05:00.000-07:002012-05-21T18:05:52.614-07:00Son-O-God's perspective . . .
SON-O-GOD. A National Lampoon creation from the early-mid 70's. Oh, how I love the web, haven't seen this since it was printed. The drawing chops are astounding. Go. Visit.
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-46225579966595869502012-05-21T10:46:00.000-07:002012-05-21T10:46:09.056-07:00Social perspectives . . .
WHAT DO DEBUTANTE BALLS, the Japanese tea ceremony, Ponzi schemes and doubting clergy all have in common? According to NEW STATESMAN, Daniel Dennett's article "The social cell", they are results of interaction that mimics the behavior of biological cells.
Cells may be the simplest life forms on the planet - even the simplest possible life forms - but their inner workings, at the molecular Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-10022797366654370622012-05-20T19:34:00.000-07:002012-05-20T19:44:21.527-07:00Resistance
Not sure Evan gets it.
Same war, different front. Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-85330408746006519492012-05-20T08:48:00.000-07:002012-05-20T08:51:47.366-07:00Historical problem . . .
MALARIA IN CANADA used to be a problem. Malaria? Ottawa? Go figure. Paul McManus has a site, Mysteries of Canada, check it out.Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-47944094976877788912012-05-19T17:52:00.000-07:002012-05-19T17:52:08.937-07:00Environmental concerns . . .
Silent, but deadly . . . it's tough to be a back-bencher.
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-25678483713802412232012-05-19T17:16:00.001-07:002012-05-19T18:36:39.974-07:00The end of trustA comment I heard the other day nailed it. The speaker lamented that, "all anyone needs to do is demonstrate that they're not out to screw you. We live in a culture where we all fear being screwed by the other guy."
It's been a number of years since I met an employer I trusted, and I am sure many of you might agree.
A generation of Quebec youth, the future of the province, have no more reason Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-21035493314440941092012-05-19T15:36:00.000-07:002012-05-19T15:36:35.748-07:00Evasion under pressure . . .Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-84268908758798707742012-05-19T13:12:00.000-07:002012-05-19T13:12:39.899-07:00A monumental idea . . .Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-10639279332892462192012-05-18T10:52:00.002-07:002012-05-18T10:52:58.749-07:00Safety glasses are good . . .
TORONTO LIFE reports a Stevie nude. Really. To see it in all its splendor, click on the link. Have bag close at hand. You have been told.
Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-75273140345638849972012-05-18T10:34:00.003-07:002012-05-18T10:34:46.368-07:00Boom!CBC.
Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 federal election win last year in
Etobicoke Centre has been declared null and void in a challenge by
former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj.
Opitz won the May 2011 election by 26 votes, but Wrzesnewskyj challenged the results over voting irregularities.
Justice Thomas Lederer's decision, if appealed, would be immediately heard by the Supreme Court of Borishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-31562707085420458052012-05-18T10:17:00.001-07:002012-05-18T10:44:12.489-07:00Eidolon rebellion? No glory here.There's an interesting discussion taking place here , which harebell takes to task over the apparent support of violence and intimidation by some groups of the protesting students.
But as many people have demonstrated in the recent and distant past,
sinking to the methods of those who will oppress you doesn’t work.
Ghandi, the US Civil Rights movement etc are fine examples of how an
ethicalBorishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-25628448507539815862012-05-18T09:36:00.000-07:002012-05-18T09:36:35.894-07:00A positive step . . .
ACCORDING TO GLENN GREENWALD, at SALON, in an article, "Federal court enjoins NDAA", Judge Katherine Forrest struck a blow for American civil rights. This is a strong first step to fight the legal weasels that brought us Gitmo.
Judge Katherine Forrest
A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one Edstockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03295069754219954783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-56317585013131578762012-05-17T06:28:00.000-07:002012-05-17T06:28:38.262-07:00They really didn't mean it
Peter MacKay presents his latest bit of bungling.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay's recent written response to questions
tabled in Parliament reveal that 2006 federal Conservative promises for 5
Wing Goose Bay are no longer part of the military’s plans.
Prior to the election that brought the Tories to power, Prime
Minister Stephen Harper promised to station a new, 650-member rapid
reactionDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03203592149876300192noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18665728.post-24511614593601669122012-05-16T22:56:00.001-07:002012-05-17T09:19:55.052-07:00China and Harper, updated with Godfather?Nice one, Harper.
The opposition is demanding to know what steps have been taken to
address security concerns over foreign companies operating in Canada's
telecommunications industry, in the wake of a CBC News report about a
Chinese firm's contracts in Canada.
On the surface it is rather hilarious to see this government get its trousers yanked down on the topic of foreign espionage.
DeeperBorishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com3