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I'll try to keep the patriotism to a minimum. (Besides, patriotism is a characteristic unbecoming of Canadians, anyway. Except when the Americans are around.)
Anyhoo, the current issue of the Canadian TV Guide has a feature on Enterprise, which apparently includes an interview with Herman Zimmerman about the production design done for the series.
I cheer! I rejoice! I might be responsible for bringing some new Enterprise tech details to light!
Now, I don't subscribe to TV Guide, so I say to myself, no worries, I'll run down the local supermarket and pick up a copy. Nothing. Indeed, I checked out half the corner-store type establishments in my town today and didn't turn up a single copy of TVGuide, either the current issue or an older one or anything. Now, up until a year ago I can clearly remember seeing them in supermarkets at the checkouts and such, but now I'm thinking that the Canadian version has now gone subscription-only.
So I'm appealing to my fellow maple-bloods to see if anybody here knows how to get their sticky little hands on this puppy and check her out for new 'n interesting bits. I and everybody else, especially the ones unlucky enough to live in a blasted country where Canadian TV Guide isn't available, would be rather pleased to see it appear online.
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What, we'll get them to drive across the border and find the magazine here then drive home and report it?
We may only have legalized scanners 18 months ago up here (still waiting for the CRTC to give the go-ahead to digital cameras), but I'm pretty sure that enough people up here have one that we should be capable of getting it online ourselves.
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Sadly it is. We've always had really draconian laws about protecting copywrite up here. VCRs took forever to get cleared for public use, and the government surcharge on blank tapes is still so high that I buy all mine when I shop in the US. At least it kept Canadians from buying VCRs until the whole Betamax/VHS thing was cleared up.
Napster was never really able to establish itself up here, either, as all ISPs were forced to block it. Of course, overseas proxy servers were there for those who knew how to use them.
Scanners are a similar story, although for the life of me I have no idea why digital cameras are still being cracked down-on. I mean, you can take a still pic of something and then scan it in and achieve the desired effect. Governments are funny like that...
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Otherwise why, If digital cameras are banned, am I able to walk over to my local Rona hardware store (here in Sherbrooke, Qu�bec), where there is an entire section *filled* with model upon model of digital camera, complete with all the acessories?
Why, If scanners only became legal in the last 18 months, was I able to buy one *3 years* ago at a local computer store (for a good price)? And why would the photocopiers that one can find all over the place be allowed, when scanners are banned?
Why, if Canadian ISP's were supposed to block Napster, was I able to use it frequently from my Vid�otron account? I've never used a proxy in my life.
Quite a lot in your statement simply does not compute.
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I concur. I don't know what T_T is on about, but Napster, Digital Cameras and Scanners are quite abundant and legal on south-western Ontario....
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Tom, are you accidently talking about the parallel universe version of Canada again?
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Apparently Tom was making a poor attempt at fabricating a nation that people in others would poke fun at, until he revealed that such a nation did not exist. I'm not sure why.
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Whatever about Frank's puzzlement, I'm just disgusted that my countrymen failed to pick up on the connection between the cover on the TVGuide in question and the content of this thread.
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Now on to the making of films!
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The_Tom,
The Kids in the Hall, you are not.
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