Perhaps this explains why Facebook is calling people spammers after 200 or 300 emails to friends or a group. Spam is in the eye of the beholder.The traditional media love these silly stories, anything to slam social media. Not much revenue for Facebook considering their burn rate.The judgment was like shooting sitting ducks with no defendant and a Silicon Valley judge. Facebook not in trouble
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Future Shop employees are telling customers that Dell Computers can not longer be ordered through Future Shop. With the bankruptcy filing of Circuit City computer manufacturers and distributors are nervous.
Wow is Dell in trouble? Rumours of bankruptcy surface 2005 to 2007 but I couldn’t anything more recent.
It could be that or they may just have an unannounced break-up, like with your girlfrend or boy friend but over money.
Could be Future Shoo didn’t pay its bills on time. Those are the usual explanations.
Anyone have answers?
Ian Rogers, Topspin GrammyMusicTech
Editor – Topspin is a new product for music and promotion in limited controlled release.
Keynote address of Ian Rogers delivered at Topspin – Grammy MusiTech Summit 08 conference.
“When your costs are low your royalty rate high and your channel direct, the marginal profitability from the artist perspective can be far different than in the old model, to be sure.”
The press release from Women’s Equality PEI heralds the Liberal government’s promise to “set up a committee on gender-based analysis.” We applaud that move by the government.
The rights of women, long in coming, are considered based on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which states at Section 15
15. (1) Every individual is equal before and under the law and has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law without discrimination and, in particular, without discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, sex, age or mental or physical disability. (emphasis added)
It is not enough for the province to provide special status for women as an enumerated group. Woman’s rights flow legally from the Charter and included other enumerated minorities such as persons with disabilities, persons of race, differing ethnic origins, sex, age and religion among others.
Editor – if the public service in Great Britain can remove barriers to employement why not PEI? They apparently believe it’s even cost effective. S. Pate
RADAR People of the Year Awards 2008 – Winners to be announced 1st December.
It is nearly two years since the new duty on the public sector to promote disability equality positively came into force and already the hard work of individuals and organisations in the public sector is making a real difference to the every day lives of disabled people. Continue reading
Remembrance week special
What they died for
Headlines you won’t see in the paper
Currie look-a-like contest
In Flanders Fields
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Gary Presley, author Seven Wheelchairs
Ed: I received several reviews of this new book and a link back to Amazon. Below are several reviews which seem to like the book. From the summary there is much to identify with, although I think the author had a tougher row to hoe than I.
Check it out. I haven’t read it myself. Stephen Pate
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The painful story of what it’s like to become crippled as an adolescent and forever dependent on others.Now in his 60s, Presley got a booster shot of the Salk attenuated polio virus vaccine in 1959 at age 17.
Designed to enhance immunity, the virus instead produced major paralysis, which required the boy’s removal to an iron lung and then to a series of rocking beds and mechanical devices to force air into his lungs.
Over time he gained a little upper-body strength and was able to get around in a wheelchair and breathe on his own – but with respirators handy for when his weakened lungs tired.
Now some 50 years and seven wheelchairs later, Presley recounts his evolution from the deep anger, self-pity, frustration, passivity and hostility of those first decades of bitterness and depression to his emergence as an adult.
Would someone teach Tim Banks how to a) design his site for navigation and b) stop flushing all his posts through RSS again and again.
He must have had a clogged toilet today because there he goes again with 25 old posts RSS’ed all over again. Must be the 3rd or 4th time this year for that stunt. PEI Blogs
He’s such a self-important, pompous person he doesn’t understand RSS etiquette. Reading your stuff once is enough Timmie. Turn off the loud speaker. Get some help. Surely to God someone at your company knows how to do this properly. We are not impressed.
Editor: The following report is an excerpt from the UN submission by the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, September 2008. The full report can be found at Women’s Inequality in Canada
Despite this economic prosperity, spending on equality-enhancing programs since the last reporting period has fallen sharply at both the provincial and federal levels of government. Canadian governments have cut away services that women rely on, introduced punitive and restrictive eligibility rules to control access to benefits, and made women’s lives harsher. The poorest women, who are most likely to be single mothers, Aboriginal, women of colour, women with disabilities, and seniors, are the most harmed. Continue reading
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A judge of the P.E.I. Supreme Court has dismissed a discrimination suit brought against the province’s French School Board and one of its former superintendents by well-known litigant Noel Ayangma.
In a decision handed down earlier this week, Justice Wayne Cheverie ruled that Ayangma had failed to meet the burden of proof in this case and awarded the defendants their court costs on a partial indemnity basis. Continue reading