MoveOn: Save the Internet for the users!

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:50 pm

prettysenshi2k6 wrote:
legostargalactica wrote:this is just another motivation for me to move to canada, or in this case just .ca
Every time something goes wrong in this country, the first thing people say is "Oh, that's it! I'm moving to Canada!"

Just something I noticed....

>_>
<_<

[/me packs up her stuff and joins Dawg, Pimpette and Tynan in Canada]

don't forget keff and grace and phil and all those other peoples!

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:43 pm

You know, is Canada REALLY that good? It's got to be cold 'n stuff.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:46 pm

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:54 pm

Linkara wrote:You know, is Canada REALLY that good? It's got to be cold 'n stuff.

i grew up in iowa, i can deal with cold.

Ahaugen · Post by **Ahaugen** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:57 pm

but did you have biting wind in iowa ... the type that continues for weeks on end and flips fully loaded semi's off the the road?

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:00 pm

No, I live in Minnesota - the coldest place on earth. Someday I'll live in Hawaii, the most extreme weather... but usually warm. ^_^

Kilre · Post by **Kilre** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:05 pm

ahaugen wrote:but did you have biting wind in iowa ... the type that continues for weeks on end and flips fully loaded semi's off the the road?

That's awesome! Sounds like a hurricane from down here! Mind, we usually get moving trailer parks and the like...

Canada sounds better and better!

Col · Post by **Col** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:30 am

I've seen a car's hood get blown off on the highway. Luckily, I wasn't behind it.

Guildmaster Van · Post by **Guildmaster Van** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:47 am

Linkara wrote:No, I live in Minnesota - the coldest place on earth. Someday I'll live in Hawaii, the most extreme weather... but usually warm. ^_^

Where I was living it hit -51 celcius last year.
Coldest my ass.
It also piqued 40 celcius one summer, too.

Normally each year it hits 35 and -40; that's 75 degrees celcius difference. Now that's extreme.

Black Sparrow · Post by **Black Sparrow** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:36 am

Linkara wrote:No, I live in Minnesota - the coldest place on earth. Someday I'll live in Hawaii, the most extreme weather... but usually warm. ^_^

Another Minnesotan, eh? That's cool. You should join the rest of us at the next "Frozen North" get-together in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota is the US' Canada. We even have the accents.

Gengar003 · Post by **Gengar003** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:51 pm

Kris X wrote:Um, since when does America own the Internet?

*Sigh*

Since until recently, all the root nameservers that made it possible to actually surf the 'net were located exculsively in the U.S. and run by U.S. companies. There's a movement somewhere to move the servers out of the U.S. and give control of them to the U.N.

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:25 pm

Black Sparrow wrote:
Linkara wrote:No, I live in Minnesota - the coldest place on earth. Someday I'll live in Hawaii, the most extreme weather... but usually warm. ^_^
Another Minnesotan, eh? That's cool. You should join the rest of us at the next "Frozen North" get-together in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota is the US' Canada. We even have the accents.

Oh, yah der. Yah, mebbe it's a good idea der to get together with others for a get-together for a change. It's different, ya know?

Hmmm... it's harder to write in Minnesotan than it is to speak it...

Czar · Post by **Czar** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:31 pm

Isn't everything harder to write than to say?

Minnesota? Hmmm... Har ni utvandrarblod i venerna, tro?

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:39 pm

Joel Fagin wrote:The best solution would be to have the government take over the infrastructure of the internet and let the tax dollars pay for it.

That, to me, sounds like a very bad idea. Because wouldn't that give the FCC controle over what goes across those govenment cables?

And I am not too terrible afraid of this bill. Stuff like this has been proposed before but it never seems to go anywere.

(What was the last proposed bill that had us all in a panic? Was it the FCC controling calble thing? I can't even remember anymore.)

Linkara · Post by **Linkara** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:40 pm

Czar wrote:Isn't everything harder to write than to say?

Minnesota? Hmmm... Har ni utvandrarblod i venerna, tro?

I'm sure that's asking if I speak Norweigan or the languages of the various other Scandinavian country, but sadly I don't know for sure. ^^;; As such, I can only answer that while some of my family is of Norweigan descent, my language skills are limited to English and a little Latin. ^^;;

Shishio · Post by **Shishio** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:43 pm

Linkara wrote:You know, is Canada REALLY that good? It's got to be cold 'n stuff.

Most places in Canada are pretty cold in the autumn and winter, but some places are pretty good, weather wise. Such as southern Ontario.

Of course, it also depends on your definition of cold. A lot of people where I live are stupid pussies complain that 0 degrees is "SO COLD".

Anyway, boo to this internet-destroying bill.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:36 pm

It's never *that* bad around here. It was actually a fairly mild winter this year in the Fake London... Although I have some friends who came to UWO from just a couple of hours south, and they complained incessantly about the weather. OMG snow in April?!

Oh, and to be on-topic, I'm not particularly worried about that. Massive protests would likely end it.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:01 am

goodness, I really doubt they do much of anything in terms of regulating the internet. They could make us pay for routing, or something. *sniff sniff* mandating enterprises... is this socialism I smell?

Mon Ami · Post by **Mon Ami** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:46 pm

Just figure with all that stuff about global warming Canada will be the perfect tempature in about...oooooh 10 years?

Robbie · Post by **Robbie** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:57 pm

If you don't like how cold America is, just move to Florida. That's not part of America, right?

*Goes to public school*

Anyway, thanks for scaring me. I was afraid I'd get a good night's sleep tonight.