Why Capitalism is flawed

CBC News: Policy group says oil companies gouging
So the oil companies have been gouging us (err… you, since diesel prices are within the quoted range) with the price of fuel in the past month due to fear of shortages. No more evident than greater than $2/L last week before Rita hit. So what?
It […]

Time to pick your Apple

Macworld UK - Merrill Lynch downgrades Apple
Seems as though the iPod hype is cooling where it counts, toward the stock price. Although the company is still going strong, things are going to slow with both the iPod sales, and with the Mac computer sales. Wall Street is the first to jump, they do […]

MS just rips everyone off

See the Ubuntu - MS Spaces logo likeness.
First they ripped off the author of DOS, then stole Apple’s GUI code (I’ve talked to someone that has seen the duplicate code, they didn’t even bother to take out references to Apple in the comments) Then there was embrace and extend standards, which then broke the […]

Ontario rejects reverse organ donation

On Friday, the Trillium Gift of Life Network decided that Ontarians are “not ready” for opt-out organ donation, instead of opt-in donation as is the current practice.
The reasons for rejecting the practice, that successfully provides organs from the dead to those that would be joining the dead without a new organ in 25 […]

They just keep coming, next is Rita

The highly active storm season is juset getting bigger. Rita spans almost the entire gulf of mexico. Note to self, buy energy stocks.

Appearently, W is facilitating the proper authorities to help those that will be affected by Rita… Why would that be? Because he learned his lesson, or because Rita is tracking […]

jetBlue arrives safely - Live

Unlike the Air France flight 358 that went off the runway at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on, the world watched, as did I moments ago, on live TV the emergency landing of jetBlue flight 292. Enroute from Burbank to NY, a problem with the nose gear was detected shortly after liftoff. The plane […]

Bring back my CBC with Tod Maffin as President

Tod Maffin, of the locked out CBC, of the number 1 Canadian podcast (CBC Unplugged) and /Nerd: CBC Radio Technology Report (no link until the lockout ends), has released his manifesto about his views of the lockout, and more importantly the future of the CBC.
If the CBC management were to implement half of his […]

Canadian iPod Levy Refund

If you bought an iPod between 2003-12-13 and 2004-12-21, you are eligible to get a refund for the illegal levy that you were required to pay on your new iPod. The levy was $15 for iPods up to 10GB, and $25 for larger than 10GB.
Read more about it at Apple.ca, or get the […]

VW TDI over 1000km a tank — no lie

Unlike disappointed hybrid owners that do not get the advertised mileage (Read more about the poor performance of hybrids from Wired News, Edmonds, Heartland Institute, more from Google) of 4.9L/100km city, 4.6L/100km highway (for the Civic Hybrid, source NRC - Office of Energy Efficiency).
The VW Jetta TDI consumption rating by the OEE is 7.3L/100km city, […]

Photoblog Live

I have setup a photoblog at Mark.Pavlidis.org/photoblog, subscribe to the RSS feed. I’m planning on updating it daily with my images from around home to around the world. I shoot just about anything that catches my eye, much to the dismay of my nivesta who has to wait for me to setup […]

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