Today is St. Jean Baptiste Day!
St. Jean Baptiste Day is the national holiday in Quebec. For some people it's a heavy-duty day of deeply-political nationalism. For most people, though, it's a day to
celebrate what a cool and funky place Quebec is and that summer it finally here!
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Voix d'extinction?
The imperiled anglophone community in Quebec. Yeah...that's a good one. The article points out that most people leave the province largely because they're too freaked out to learn how to write French properly.
Happy Saint Jean-Baptiste
"Quelques coins de rue plus au sud, le défilé de nuit aura un petit air scottish. Au coeur du
cortège, le régiment des Black Watch, haut symbole de l'impérialisme britannique, imposera le rythme de la fête grâce
au son de ses cornemuses. Un gros coup, soutiennent les organisateurs. "
Office porn cases raising issues of privacy,
protection
'' 'To me, the biggest issue in the Harvard case is why the technicians were not disciplined for disclosing the content of the computer files,' said Alan Dershowitz, a law professor at Harvard. "
Factoid Paranoia
"However, my worry about the factoid system is about the
"subpeona-bility" of the home database. Would you want a step-by-step
record of where you went and who you saw each day of your life available to
anyone who wants to start a nuisance civil suit against you?" It's really scary how people seem willing to overlook this kind of stuff if the "hack-value" is high enough.
Thanks to Dave for the mention
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