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• Commented on Story about Wal-Mart founder's treatment of his employees
  I live in Quebec, where we have one of the highest minimum wages and one of the toughest labor codes in North America,and we also have Walmart. After a recent holiday in the U.S. we were quite surprised to see...
• Commented on Sex Education for the mentally handicapped
  "trainables" I won't be able to think about training resistance in corporate environments the same way again, lol...
• Commented on HOWTO make an 8-track cassette walkman
  @JTJ608 From an audiophile perspective, 8-track sucked due to a fundamental design flaw: The capstan pinch roller is integrated into the cartridge. This would create a lot of playback speed variance (wow and flutter) and misalignment (creating track crosstalk). The...
• Commented on Autism as an academic advantage
  Speaking for neurodiversity, I make an argument in my thesis for ADHD not as a learning disability, but as an academic advantage. This is about changing perception of how we organize learning (formal education) according to a "deficiency" analysis. For...
• Commented on Richard Dawkins helps fund atheist summer camp
  With regard to religion, science, atheism and the use of the imagination, it is useful to situate various underlying belief systems, and to remind scientists that nobody really has privileged access to knowledge outside our collective human experience. From a...
• Commented on God Hates the World, by Westboro Baptist Church
  With apologies to Ivan Stang..,I love Jesus, but I have serious issues with his fan club. Praze Bob!...
• Commented on Financial shenanigans wiped out all productivity gains from digital technology
  #26 you only got this partly right. Equity = Assets - Liabilities. While you can state this the other way (as you did), you can only get the equity figure by subtracting liabilities from assets. (Equity is also called "net...
• Commented on TV preacher proves that only the Christian god is real
  Loved the closing credits with the 70s style synth and fanfare ("Everything is Terrible!") Actually he is wrong about Buddha and Mohammed, as there is no claim to divinity (e.g. in Islam Mohammed was a prophet). When these pseudo-preachers are...
• Commented on Kodachrome finally taken away
  In the late 70s and early 80s, when I was an assistant to a commercial advertising photographer, the only reversal process that was better than Kodachrome was large format Polaroid 809. But even in the 70s the cost was outrageous...
• Commented on Monty Python's free web video increased DVD sales by 23,000 percent
  Well, that's the sort of blinkered, philistine pig ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage!...
• Commented on Olympics reach a new low: trademarking the Canadian national anthem and threatening lawsuits over competing uses
  I for one applaud the government for banishing the use of the word "winter". Now if they can banish "cold" and "snow" I'd be one happy "8 months of bad ice" camper!...
• Commented on Controlling copies isn't necessarily part of an artist's livelihood, but getting them accurately attributed is
  In response to Danny O'Brien: I think deliberate misattribution is already taken care in other parts of the law. This is like putting my name on someone else's work, which is clearly fraud. I agree that flowing money through to...
• Commented on Controlling copies isn't necessarily part of an artist's livelihood, but getting them accurately attributed is
  Echoing Simon Bradshaw on the discussion of attribution as a moral right, there are in fact other moral rights (that as far as I know, are still inalienable in Canada). These include altering a work in a way that would...
• Commented on Top X: 10 Perfectly Pure Gadgets
  Technology always changes and must improve generally if there is an evolution in the availability of materials and along with energy, how much is consumed. In other words perfection can be obtained as long as there is stability in the...
• Commented on Silly store name
  Reminds me of other meaningless spin, e.g. the weatherman: "Partly cloudy with a chance of showers" or the financial analyst: "the market will recover from these or lower levels"...
• Commented on Las ultimas palabras de la Pequeña Hillary Clinton
  This guy also does a great Amy Winehouse.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaW-uj0Ta14&feature=related...
• Commented on Wikileaks publishes anti-counterfeiting treaty doc that tries to extend US copyright law around the world
  I wonder if the recent push for DMCA style copyright reform in Canada (about to be reintroduced by the Hon. Jim Prentice) is related to this....
• Commented on Get involved in production of community-made SF movie: Artemis Eternal
  They laughed at Truffaut and Godard when they were critics for Les Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s. They laughed at Von Trier and his manifesto for Dogme95. I wish these guys the best of luck as they have realized...
• Commented on Fake sunroof for car
  Oh my God...its A PORTABLE HOLE!!! For those old enough to remember the Looney Tunes short, "The Hole Idea"... Calvin Q. Calculus invents the Portable Hole.... http://toolooney.goldenagecartoons.com/calvincalculusclip.gif...