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Inside: Canada shouldn't retaliate with US tariffs; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 6 - CONCLUSION); and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/
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Yes, attacking the ludicrous IP rules we were goaded into agreeing to is a great approach. Even the threat of it should be enough to get them flapping. Love the idea, also love this line:
"Countries that are organized around resource extraction don't need fancy social safety nets or an educational system capable of producing a high-tech workforce. All you need to extract resources is a hole in the ground surrounded by guns, which explains a lot about shifts to the Canadian political climate since the Mulroney years."
Why do you have call out #Texas, #UAE, #saudiarabia, and #russia like that?
@ludosansfin @sleepy62 You forgot Alberta and Queensland.
@pluralistic @sleepy62 True! Tales of their fuckery haven't seeped into my silo as often as the others' have
@ludosansfin @sleepy62 And Azerbaijan!
So many to keep track of!!!
Are there trading cards of assholes? Pokefuckers, the collectible deck building game?
@sleepy62 @pluralistic Agreed. Retaliating against the whole US so-called "intellectual property" regime would be brilliant, whether in the technology field or in the medical/pharmaceutical field.
Canada needs to become a country of "reverse engineers", and we have plenty of smart people who can do this.
@sleepy62 @pluralistic My (admittedly 2nd hand) sources tell me that the CERB benefits during the pandemic went out so quickly because the federal government's own in-house IT folks "reverse engineered" the EI system.
The EI system is engineered to deny the unemployed their benefits for the most flimsy of reasons. The CERB system logic was designed to grant the pandemic unemployed their benefits.
@leftylabourtech @pluralistic
The problem is I can't think of anyone in Canada's political arena who could champion this and not sound like a idiot. Charlie A could do it but he is (quite understandably) leaving the game.
Our local MP is NDP and a good guy. I will prod them with an email but im not sure the current NDP leadership would get this.
@sleepy62 @pluralistic Let me check about. I know someone who used to be an NDP MP who would get it. They might know someone in caucus who might get it.
@leftylabourtech @sleepy62 @pluralistic Hello, could you recommend something to read on the topic of IP?
@Kulei @sleepy62 @pluralistic This is a very quick (and very hard-assed) article on intellectual property by Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation.
It will give you a critique of the entire concept i.e. that ideas etc. have the same characteristics as physical property.
I'm not quite that hard assed...especially when it comes to things like Indigenous knowledge etc.
@pluralistic one of the best takes I have read on this.