AVATAR

My wife and son and I went to see the movie Avatar today. It wasn’t the Imax version. I can only imagine how good that would be to see but the simple 3D version was amazing.

It started out showing and in most cases highlighting the 3D technology but that quickly got lost in and became the status-quo that was the imagery and the story that you are presented with. It was a solid 2.5+ hours long and I hadn’t even noticed the throbbing pain coming from my legs for sitting absolutely on the edge of my seat for so long, until it was over. I was totally immersed in this new world of Pandora that once it was over, I wanted more. I didn’t want it to end. I just can’t say enough about it. How amazing it was.

But having said all that I hope that they don’t destroy it. I would like nothing better than for it to be the only movie. I would like to be able to watch this movie, from the confines of my own home, in 3D and enjoy it just as it is today. I don’t want it to become so lame as to have a number of sequels, or other cheesey spin-offs like Saturday morning cartoons or even syndication of any kind. I hope James Cameron is satisfied that his vision has been made and presented to the world and the world loves it. Now please walk away, its perfect, its done. Take your 3D technology and make something else. Surely there are other stories out there worthy of such a great technology.

If you get a chance to see this movie, don’t hesitate. Buy your tickets and get there early, it will be packed.

Time warp…

This video explains it all.

Ironman 2!

Apple – Movie Trailers – Iron Man 2

OMG!

Cells, ACTA, Internet, ISP’s

It seems like everyday the people of Canada seem to be getting screwed by some company or Government agency in just about all facets of Canadian life and what is to be done about it?
CBC News – British Columbia – Rogers charges for ‘free’ text messages
You’d think that Rogers, being the major cell/internet/cable/etc provider in Canada that their main modus-operendi wouldn’t just be about raping every Canadian customer for every cent that they own for services that are almost negligible in cost to operate. Not only do they charge exorbitant fees for these services but they change their contracts with these paying customers just to charge them even more for them. WTF??!!

Globalive rewrites foreign-ownership rules, opposition warns – The Globe and Mail
CBC News – Technology & Science – Wind to announce cellphone pricing Wednesday
This brings us to some new competition to these behemoths, WIND. I think more competition in this market is long past due but why should it be acceptable for the government to break its own rules on foreign ownership of companies be the only way to get it? I know I for one will switch away from Rogers at the first chance I get to this new company just to get away from Rogers and there is no way in hell I will ever go to Bell and Telus is, in my opinion just a small player in this trio and not worth it to try. I would rather take my chances on something new.

CBC News – Technology & Science – Open-access internet rules take hits
CBC News – Technology & Science – Time running out on internet access appeals
So in the mix of everything with these telecommunications giants raping every Canadian for everything they have, now they are stifling competition in the Internet world by not allowing potential competitors to actually compete with them. HELLO!!! What is the definition of a monopoly? What pisses everyone off about this, is that its the infrastructure that they are holding hostage here. An infrastructure that was built upon the subsidies of the the Canadian people. Its ok for them to use this infrastructure at their will, but not anyone else. Well god-dammit I helped pay for this, and I want to be able to access it through some other vendor than frickin’ Bell!

Charlie Angus: The trouble with the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com
Is it any wonder why such ideas as “Pirates” and “Pirating” exist? Governments and corporations do whatever the hell they want without any thought to the ones to whom it actually matters, the people.

With all of this bullshit going on, one can only hope and wish that there is actually something to one of the ideas spouted by those crazy 2012 worshipers. That society will have a complete and utter breakdown. No currencies, no corporations, no industry…nothing. As bad as that sounds I almost hope that it happens just so the slate could be wiped clean and everything started over with a completely different attitude in place. Where people actually have a choice in things and corporations aren’t there just to rape and pillage but if they are, something could be done about it, ’cause right now we are spiraling to some ultimate end and it appears there is nothing anyone can do about, let alone even recognize that something is wrong.

ACTA

I am astounded that such things are able to even be thought of in this day and age…wow. Sad

Charlie Angus: The trouble with the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement talks | Vancouver, Canada | Straight.com

CRIA – the biggest Pirate of them all?

Wow, I almost couldn’t believe what I just read:

Geist: Record industry faces liability over `infringement’ – thestar.com

The Canadian Recording Industry Association has been willfully pirating music since the 1980’s, and has it all fully documented as to who has been pirated. Since the recording industries have been garnering $20,000 per infringed copyright on the general public, they should also pay that same amount. Since the number of infringed is well over 300,000 they should be on tap for well over $60 billion!

Karma truly is a bitch.

Local Channels

The CRTC has a new website created to obtain from the public, their opinions on how/what to do about this “Fee for carriage” issue. The website is: http://television.askingcanadians.com/ .

I have added my two cents worth on the topic of Affordability of local TV. They are asking for responces to the following two ideas on the subject:

1. Thinking about the importance of local TV to you, how would you react, and why, if you were asked to pay for local TV on top of what you already pay for your cable and satellite services?
2. In your view, what measures, if any, could be taken to support local television?

My comments:

The cost of “basic” cable/satellite service, in my understanding, since the providers have to provide such channels should be there to support the local channels as part of that cost. I don’t know how, nor do I care how such funds are distributed, all I know is if they’re not being distributed, then the providers should be forced to fork over a percentage of the basic fee to support the local channels being provided. I also think that the providers should be “forced” to provide the local channels in all markets. Currently such providers as Shaw, does not, for example provide a local Global affiliate for the Atlantic region. They used to, but when all of this “fee for carriage” started, they dropped it from their lineup. I now do not subscribe to Shaw’s satellite service because of that.
Local TV is important, but I do not think I should have to pay extra for it because I believe I am already paying for it in the “basic” service costs, therefore I shouldn’t have to pay for it again.
In my opinion, the basic cable fees should be regulated, somehow, and the fees paid for this service should be broken down as to how much goes to the provider for their service and how much goes towards a “local channel” programming fund, whereby all local channels derive a percentage.
If I am forced to pay extra for local programming, I will cancel my cable/satellite service outright, and get what TV programming I desire directly from the internet and rely on public radio for “local” information.

Get on there, post your opinion. It could help!