Category: rantings
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Bell tries screw the consumer 2.0, Netflix points it out–again.
It’s no secret the CRTC has spent most of this year failing at this whole keeping the big 3 ISP’s in Canada at something vaguely resembling in line. They decided nearly two months ago that unlimitted internet didn’t actually exist, and kind of stuck to that until escentially told … Read the rest
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Sexual assault is a crime, unless you’re with the TSA.
That’s the message being broadcast by the Transport Security Administration, at least, in the very latest, erm, episode. A woman at Laguardia Airport had been cleared through the scanners, and was well on her way to catch her flight. She was stopped by a TSA agent, and informed she was … Read the rest
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Hey look, it’s another election! yippy!
I have a thing for politics. Call it a hidden streak of sadism. Whichever. I’ve kept a relatively close eye on it since highschool. which, quite surprisingly, meant I got to play witness to nearly an average of one election every two years since shortly after I got out of … Read the rest
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OC Transpo flips off the community, doesn’t want you to actually find your bus.
Now this is new. Apparently, an Algonquin College student came up with a mobile application, available at whereismybus.ca, that uses GPS data to determine in realtime where your particular bus is. That data was apparently publicly available from OC Transpo. Was, at least, until a few days after the application … Read the rest
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Another news story points out legislating common sense doesn’t work, misses its own point.
In the year since laws were put in place here in Ontario banning texting/doing anything with technology while driving, conditions on the road and driver behaviours haven’t changed a whole lot, if at all. No one who isn’t in government really expected it to, but those laws still exist. An … Read the rest
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Senator Joe Lieberman gets flipped off by the Canadian government. Again.
The US department of homeland security must really think us canucks are some bunch of evil. Every so often, somebody from that wing of the US government will float the several times over debunked myth that the Canada/US border is actually a weak point re: US security–hence why the 9/11 … Read the rest
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Another bright idea out of Quebec. I should stop being surprised.
This one, also not surprising, involves slapping yet one more tax on anything they decide is bad for us. This month’s target of choice, soft drinks. A Quebec coalition wants the federal government to impose a new tax on soft drinks and energy drinks to help pay for the … Read the rest
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A year later, Quebec still hasn’t let go of the olympics.
After the opening festivities of the olympics last year, my take on which can be found in its asociated category, the Quebec language police were up in arms because almost no french was actually used in the event. Neverminding the fact that if it had been, it would have … Read the rest
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In which I get an introduction to ODSP math.
I’ve been on ODSP’s case for, like, ever about not escentially drumming us out of the running financially, for what little my being on them’s managed to accomplish. For those just tuning in, ODSP is the Ontario Disability Support Program, also known as those folks what pay me because no … Read the rest
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The CRTC snaps its fingers, and unlimitted internet no longer exists.
I’m not one for capped internet connections. Never have been. Not even if I’m only checking email. I took full advantage of one ISP on my way out for reasons of capped bandwidth/traffick shaping policies–that they’re still continuing with, last I’d heard. I ripped into another for offering its own … Read the rest