Actually...Canada is a democratic facist regime. We choose our dictator for 4 years then re-elect him when he says too. Fortunately...it looks like we will be getting of the current dic...um dictator in about 17 months (and counting). Then we get to choose a new liberal (actually we don't choose...Ontario and Quebec take care of our choices for us).
And for the record, last time I checked Communism was an economic system. I think the political system people are commenting on is called totalitarianism. -----Original Message----- From: S�bastien Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: September 20, 2002 11:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Palladium Except for the fact that NAFTA says that Canada and Mexico must comply with US Copyright Law. And there's nothing communist about Canada, we are more of a semi-socialist country. Jesse Kline a �crit: >We are not in a communist country (ok, it's fairly communist but it could be >worse) which means that we have a free market economy. If AMD will only let you >run MS on all their chips (which I don't think is likely), then buy Intel. The >whole reason that the x86 market has done so well, is because most components >aren't controlled by a single vendor which promotes competition (unlike the >Apple world where you have to buy a genuine Apple with their ROM chip to run >their OS). If MS is successful in controlling the hardware in the x86 world, I >say great! I think the general use of RISC chips is long overdue. The day that I >cannot run Linux on my machine is not the day I switch to MS, it's the day I go >out and buy a PPC board. The other thing is that law that the article was >talking about would be a US law, so here in Canada you should still be able to >play all the MP3s that you want. It will still be a "free" country as long as we >have competition and a choice of operating systems and hardware platforms. > >Jesse > >Quoting Trevor Lauder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>Check out this link, all I can say is if this ever does materialize I am >>going to do everything in my power to protect my rights.... even if it >>means breaking this law. Is this democracy or communism? Last time I >>checked we lived in a free country. >> >>http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=232 >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
