| BluesKaj | Howdy | 15:21 |
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| * genii-around sips | 15:32 | |
| BluesKaj | hi genii-around | 15:38 |
| genii-around | hiya BluesKaj | 15:39 |
| * BluesKaj contemplates going for a walk in -12c temps ...not real cold for this area but still have to pull on the longjohns :P | 15:41 | |
| genii-around | I like it when the snow is nice and crunchy at those temps | 15:43 |
| IMOTHEP | bonjour | 15:50 |
| IMOTHEP | sur ce canal vous vous exprimez en français ou en anglais ? sur ce canal vous vous exprimer en français ou en anglais ? //on the channel you speak French or English? | 15:51 |
| BluesKaj | heh, no patience | 16:04 |
| dscassel | It's possible they just read /topic. | 16:05 |
| genii-around | I idly wonder if they went to #ubuntu-qc ;) | 16:09 |
| BluesKaj | nope,not there | 16:12 |
| genii-around | je mal dans francais | 16:20 |
| dscassel | genii-around: I'm sure you know this already, but CRTC is asking for "feedback" on UBB from ISPs again: http://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2011/2011-77.htm | 18:42 |
| genii-around | dscassel: The boss was saying he wanted another emergency meeting, maybe this is whats on our agenda. Though I hadn't heard about it til now | 18:43 |
| genii-around | Thanks for the link | 18:43 |
| dscassel | np | 18:43 |
| dscassel | Good luck. :) | 18:43 |
| johanbr_ | On the UBB question, it amazes me how many media commentators really don't understand the issues | 18:53 |
| johanbr_ | It makes me wonder if they are equally clueless on other things, which I know less about myself | 18:53 |
| dscassel | johanbr_: scary, isn't it? | 18:54 |
| johanbr_ | yep :( | 18:55 |
| BluesKaj | the "capitalist" types who think we're "America jr " here in Canada are agreeing with the pay-for-use approach and let the small ISPs fall by the wayside to Ogilopolies , are the problem ...Kevinb O'leary and Abdrew Coyne are spouting that philosophy all over the CBC | 18:58 |
| BluesKaj | correction : Kevin O'leary and Andrew Coyne | 18:59 |
| johanbr_ | I guess they think a markup of a few thousand percent is fair | 19:03 |
| johanbr_ | my girlfriend gets really annoyed whenever that business show with Kevin O'Leary and Amanda Lang happens to come on... she refers to it as "Beauty and the beast" | 19:07 |
| dscassel | There's some of that sentiment on the local LUG mailing list too, suprisingly. | 19:08 |
| dscassel | I'd have some sympathy for that argument if Bell wasn't so heavily subsidized by the government since its inception. | 19:09 |
| johanbr_ | even if it hadn't been, capitalism doesn't work so well when a few companies have a very long head start and competing with them would require enormous investments | 19:13 |
| johanbr_ | especially with something that's well on its way to becoming an essential service, if it isn't already | 19:13 |
| BluesKaj | johanbr_ , he's a "put on" as we used say , he's just a rich bozo who's there to create controversy to attract those who love to hate | 19:32 |
| johanbr_ | yes, exactly... I hoped the CBC would be above that sort of thing | 19:33 |
| BluesKaj | W don't have the population to run US style ISPs , subsidy is necessary in this country due to our small population. I this was the US I'd still be on dialup. | 19:34 |
| BluesKaj | if this was | 19:35 |
| BluesKaj | I was chatting with musician chat friend in New Mexico . a town of 8000 ppl with no cable tv or even a local ISP dialup service , so he uses satellite internet at 110$ / mos | 19:38 |
| johanbr_ | yikes | 19:40 |
| johanbr_ | but that must be pretty remote - I also have friends in a New Mexico town of about that size, and they have Comcast | 19:41 |
| BluesKaj | johanbr_, well they're probly all on satellite , it's a retirement type town | 19:43 |
| johanbr_ | ahh... | 19:44 |
| hakimsheriff | HI all | 21:10 |
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