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CRTC tax could mean $100 million hike in cable tv rates
Here’s your government working for you. The CRTC are a bunch of outdated out of touch f’tards! The CRTC today announced that it will tax cable and satellite companies 1.5% of their gross revenues in the upcoming broadcast year in order to fund its recently created Local Programming Improvement Fund LIPF. The LIPF tax, which [...]
Digital Home – CTV has breached public trust say television distributors
Enough already! I for one am not paying more for TV that already sucks. CTV has breached public trust say television distributors E-mail Friday, 22 May 2009 CTV has breached public trust say television distributorsBell, Cogeco, Eastlink, Rogers and Telus and the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance Inc. CCSA, today filed a complaint with the CRTC [...]
The Black Hole….
Very funny……
Dumb! Blank CD levy rises by almost 40 per cent
This annoys me! The Canadian Government is so out of touch and increasing the levy on CDs makes absolute no sense. Have you seen how much space is allocated in stores like Future Shop and HMV for Music CDs? The space has been relegated to mostly DVDs and the government charges no levy on them [...]
globeandmail.com: Destructive Koobface virus turns up on Facebook
BOSTON — Facebook’s 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed “Koobface” that uses the social network’s messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers. It is the latest attack by hackers increasingly looking to prey on users of social-networking sites. “A few other viruses [...]
The Surface of the Sun is in Santa Barbara
Be sure to check out the HD version…. Fire sucks! Tea / Las Alturas Fire, Santa Barbara California from Patrick Lawler on Vimeo.
Flash 10 Released – Finally, Flash Videos In Firefox Work Again! – ReadWriteWeb
Today Abode announced the availability of Adobe Flash Player 10 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The new plugin offers a number of improvements such as native support for 3D, a new text rendering engine, and integration with Adobe’s Pixel Bender technology. However, we know that many of you aren’t interested in these upgrades, which are [...]
Galapagos on Vimeo
Galapagos on Vimeo (High Def Version) Very cool HD video of Galapagos under water! Galapagos on Vimeo.
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear
Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is Something to Fear. Randall Stross at The New York Times goes to bat for the Google/Yahoo search marketing deal, saying there’s “nothing to fear” from the two companies linking their search products. I believe most of his analysis is wrong, and he also skips the publisher side of the [...]
When did the Death Star Appear in San Francisco!?
Very Cool!