Microsoft - The Pengiun Eats The Butterfly?

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, p. 69

At the time of this writing it is less then 137 days to the demise of Windows XP Pro. Probably one of the best operating systems that Microsoft has ever built, next to DOS of course. The Oracle of Ottawa has been a fervent user of Microsoft operating systems over many years, all the way back to the DOS era. My present box is in perfect running order, but, to upgrade to the same level as Windows XP Pro, the Oracle will have to shell out over $250.00 for Windows 8.1 Pro! Which is pretty stupid, considering that the computer that I am now  using only cost me $149.99 out the door!

Time to move to Linux!

The Oracle of Ottawa has given up a lot of corporate stuff lately. A corporate pay check, corporate fast food, and now the Oracle of Ottawa is going to give up corporate software. Although all the press and MS marketing states that support for Windows XP will end sometime in April of 2014, the Oracle of Ottawa has noticed that for all intents and purposes they have all ready stopped supporting it at the time of this writing, just to aid the big pre-Christmas marketing rush. The Oracle is not amused. And he is simply not going to take it any more.

As far back as 2006 Microsoft was once the third largest corporation on Earth measured by market capitalization. Now fast forward to 2013, and you will discover that Microsoft is now the seventh largest corporation on Earth by market cap. And to add insult to injury, or rather to increase the contrast of the writing on the wall, Apple is number one! Not even the Oracle of Ottawa had the balls to call that minor upset.

The Oracle of Ottawa has had another life altering revelation lately, and that is that an operating system in this day and age is just too important a thing to leave in the hands of corporate whores out in Redmond, Washington. All the stuff that the Oracle owns that has software to operate, and that works really well, sure as hell is not made by Microsoft. It is all Linux and / or embedded Linux. I mean really, if Google is not using Microsoft, why the hell should you Dear Reader?

The Oracle of Ottawa is just fed up with the so called Microsoft experience, the overpriced registered drudgery of it all. It is an industry and an era that has had its time and is now past. A lot like buggy whips. Other concerns have started entering the Oracles mind also, the major one being my security. The next operating system that the Oracle runs will not be the product of an American corporate whore in the employ of the New World Order and the Department of Homeland Security! Yes the Oracle has decided to bring Linux to his Desktop. And one that originates in Europe, not the United States.

The Oracle  of Ottawa has been toying with the idea for a while now. He has done his due diligence and actually researched Linux on You Tube which was powerfully helpful. But what really shifted the Oracle of Ottawa was catching the philosophy of Linus Torvalds in his many talks that just happened to posted on You Tube. The Oracle of Ottawa was simply blown away by the mans candor and left leaning ideology. Bill Gates can't hold a candle to him as a mental force or as a man... The Oracle of Ottawa will be running some flavor of Linux way before April 2014.

The Vampire Of Stats

The norms applying to persons who are players in a game depend upon the rules of the game.
John Rawls, A Theory Of Justice, p. 349

Well Dear Sheeple it has been a hell of a week hasn't it? Your government is your friend. Your government respects your privacy and civil and human rights. The government would never let the corporate over whores use intelligence institutions that you pay for to do their spying would they? So how is all this New World Order compromise stuff working out for ya?

CSEC HQ - The next Canada Portrait Gallery?

The Oracle of Ottawa must be getting it all quiet right as of late. He has noticed several 'bots' that are pumping up his blog stats like somebody actually found writing that they really like. To the Oracle of Ottawa a hit is a hit. But upon trying to find out more about these avid blog readers, the Oracle of Ottawa was quiet surprised that there exists no real plausible explanation anywhere, especially on Google, about the true origins and details of the respective sites actual business models. (i.e. vampirestat, adsensewatchdog, etc..)

You have nothing to worry about! Really!

But the Oracle of Ottawa has applied some logic and the simple process of some elementary critical thinking and has quickly deduced the true purpose and origin of these avid blog bots. You have had it drilled into you Dear Reader that your government is obsessed with terrorism, well the Oracle of Ottawa can assure you that your government is obsessed with something much more dangerous then some rag assed terrorist, they are scarred to death of YOU Dear Reader! Just YOU...

We all now know that all corporations of any size have been totally subverted by the Patriot Act, and in Canada by the various omnibus crime and security bills. All that is happening when these blog bots appear is that you have included a word, phrase or stream of thought that the over whores of the New World Order deem some what dangerous should the general public actually cotton on and start thinking on their own, as you are obviously doing right now. 

But you can relax, all that is happening is that these blog bots (sub contractors of the "Five Eyes"...) have direct access to your blogs word cloud, which the government as of late has decided to feed into Prism and Echelon. It is all just meta data, they don't care about you (yet?), they just want to know if the sheeple as a mass are about to catch on to what is really going on. Of course if you say; " Someone should kill that cocksucker, and you than provide a rather important name, than you are no longer metadata but rather a suspect of interest, that could be subject to extraordinary rendition to be water boarded until an unknown and unspecified date.

So all in just relax, nothing at all to fear. Keep on writing that blog, and stay strong, speak truth to power. The Oracle of Ottawa knows from personal experience that it is quiet nice in Hungary in the fall....

'Harper Government' - All Coming Apart

The economy of a society is in equilibrium if and only if all the persons participating in the economy are in equilibrium. 
Edmund S. Phelps, Political Economy - An Introductory Text, p. 65

It really all started early this morning in Toronto, Ontario. Hundreds of cops in swat and riot gear rose up before sunrise to serve warrants not just on individuals, but rather whole apartment buildings! And the haul was huge! Why, on the vulgar old style media CBC TV evening news it was mentioned that the drug haul alone was worth over three million bucks! And it was mentioned that several fair weather friends of the present mayor of Toronto were also caught up in the drag net.

Canadian Senate - Still with us...

Later the chief of police of the fine city of Toronto would not confirm or deny that a certain video was found on a certain cell phone that has at the time of this writing has a $200,000 bounty on it from a social media website in the USA. But the Oracle of Ottawa could tell that the flat footed chief was all but bursting with gotcha and good. The Oracle of Ottawa will venture a very educated guess that a certain in office mayor is in some very deep shit. And of course the good old CBC had footage of the very shaken and reeling Mayor Ford. The Oracle of Ottawa can not help but think there is in Ottawa one very nervous Finance Minister at the time of this writing.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Europe, Steve Harper, of the 'Harper Government' was getting a very rough ride indeed. The questions of the Senate scandal back home kept coming up like an uncooked burger on a really bad BBQ circuit stop somewhere in Alberta. Even his "good friend" hosts were taking shots at him, no doubt for the photo op and North American exposure it would surely bring. When the doomed man landed in Paris it all seemed to take a very large step.

Arthur Porter IV - Taking a  Canadian summer trip...

Senator Wallin then showed up on the CBC evening news and spilled her guts. She confirmed the Oracle of Ottawa's earlier guess that she is one of the Senators set up by the Prime Ministers Office to create a diversion to help the 'Harper Government' gain critical mass of the public opinion to abolish the Senate of Canada, but alas, it seems that the old hands are very strong, seasoned and wiry street fighters. During Question Period earlier today, you could see that the "Harper Government' is in total diss-array, confusion and panic. The channel knob has completely fallen off of the TV of the Canadian public, and there isn't any conservative smart enough to fix it on his own.     

Then there was that short blip from the CBC social desk, announcing  that Mr. and Mrs. Porter IV have agreed to accept an all expense paid summer vacation in Canada, that could last for many years indeed, pending the outcome of the money laundering and other charges. My goodness when the hole starts to cave in and another bigger shovel just seems to make no difference, you know it all but over.

 
  The NDP is really getting close to another big scandal concerning that nasty NSA program called PRISM that seems to be hooked up to Canada (!) somehow or another. The Defense Minister is standing by his claim that there is no spying on Canadian citizens by Canadians. The Opposition knows there is something wrong here and they are right. It is all quite simple, when the Americans want to wire tap an American citizen they certainly do stick to the letter of the law and do not listen in, in the United States. They simply flip a switch and the call is instantly routed to Canada! Where it is now a foreigner talking on the telephone! When Canada wants to drop in on your calls here in Canada the process works in reverse! No laws are broken and the respective governments are free to run rough shod over your civil rights and liberties. Pretty smooth or what? 

London Nurse Death - Maximum Weirdness

The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul.
Sir Francis Bacon, Essays, XXXIV - Of Riches

Of all the stories that have floored the Oracle of Ottawa in 2012, nothing touches the news of the untimely death of  Jacintha Saldanha, after a rather innocent prank call by two media types of Australian radio. Now the Oracle of Ottawa was not surprised that Kate checked into the Sister Agnes Hospital for morning sickness. Gee, twins, or maybe more.

William and Kate do Canada...

Even the so called prank didn't faze me in the least. What did floor the Oracle of Ottawa was that as a private hospital for essentially high profile clients, that the security was so non-existent! And the lack of this security protocols surely is not the fault of the nursing staff, is it? The Oracle of Ottawa is of the thought that surely in a place like this that all calls would be screened by a professional receptionist staff. Surely they have number ID in the phone system in the U.K., don't they? Or even a simple inquiry of the number of the person calling and a Google check would catch over 85% of such attempts. This is not very hard to prevent is it?

This is all very strange. This is not a failure of staff but rather of management and the security details. And with Kate being the top ten in line to the Throne, you would think that she would get the standard max routine. After a moments pondering it all seems like a management cover-up from where the Oracle of Ottawa is observing.

This incident again reminded the Oracle of Ottawa the difference of legal rights in Canada and the United Kingdom. When the Oracle of Ottawa was fab, he spent a lot of time in the U.K.. And it was a real task to get used to the fact that a police officer can tell you to "move on" in the U.K. and you had better move on. In Canada a cop does not dare tell any citizen to move on. It all has to with "just cause" and the task of having to "show cause". The Oracle of Ottawa was astounded as a young man in the U.K. that people there don't have that right and quiet a few others come to think of it.

When the ordinary person does not have written down constitutional rights, things that often happen in the U.K. take on a sinister tone, due to the fact that individual rights and liberties are not essentially guaranteed. The best advice, or the moral of this story is that it is perhaps much safer to your career and general overall well-being to be a nurse in the NHS, with the union card, and avoid the royals like the plague!  

Of course people in the U.K. take this all in rather a different cautious light...

Bill C-30 - Canadian Tourism Report

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy — everything.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty Four, Part III, Chapter 3

If the Oracle of Ottawa was a high end European Union or British Commonwealth tourist contemplating a trip to Canada in the near future, I would honestly have to advise you to give it a pass. You see, well, how can I explain this? Canada is under social deconstruction at the present time. It has been a slow and gradual process starting in 2006. But the progress was not very quick at that time, due to the Harper Government only holding a minority in the House of Commons. Of course, as you no doubt know, in 2011, they finally achieved through an utter fluke of democracy and the knotty bits of the first past the post electoral system, their long dreamed of stable majority Conservative government.

Welcome to Canada!

The process of social deconstruction has really gathered steam. The long-gun registry and all the files that went with it are history. Many long lived and very socially equitable institutions such as the Canadian Wheat Board have already been dismantled. All of our most cherished social programs are now in the line for future dis-assembly. Old Age Security has been designated as the next big thing to be gone. Along with our treasured one tier, no exceptions, health care system is no doubt next.

But the worst thing so far, and it is really scary, has been the introduction of Bill C-30. This is essentially  a reintroduction of the ancient English Star Chamber. Its main purpose is given as something else, but its real purpose is to crush any and all dissent concerning the wonderful and new improvements of the 'Harper Government'. The main piece that is causing an incredible uproar in Canada is the possibility of warrant less searches by the police at the behest of the 'Harper Government' and / or any of its minions, at any time, for no particular reason. The Oracle of Ottawa has tried to find the exemption for foreign nationals on vacation in Canada in the proposed bill, but as of yet, I have yet to locate the clause that states the exception. It therefore falls upon the Oracle of Ottawa to warn any and all tourists that any and all of your communications could be monitored and offered back to your home government as a favor and / or leverage.Just thought you should keep that in mind.

Once I lived in an equitable, benevolent, Just Society... Now? I have no idea where this is all going to end up....

Please XXX - Don't Write That Blog...

How can despotism abide with honor?
Baron Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws, Book III, Section 8

It is not often that Canada gets like this. There are those handful of occasions in the Oracle of Ottawa's lifetime when you can just feel in Ottawa the whole country writhing in utter rage and agony. Those times when you wonder if the Canada that you have known and loved will even survive. The FLQ Crisis, Meech Lake, and all the Quebec Referendums come vividly to mind. But the days of late with the introduction of Bill C-30, Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act , and the insane pronouncements of the Minister of Public Safety; Vic "The Dic" Toews, this is one of those occasions. Possibly the worst one ever, so far, in our lifetimes.

Vic Toews - Minister of  Panic

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Geez! You know it's bad when even Sun News starts sounding like Liberals!  Brian Lilleys journalistic balls finally drop! I really hate to admit it, but a hell of a good piece. Listen carefully...

Is Vic Toews After The Bloggers?

The progress of humanity is like climbing an endless ladder; it is impossible to climb higher without first taking the lower steps.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume I, p. 295

And the coming darkness continues to descend. The Wellington Street putsch continues anon! The demented outbursts by Vic "The Dick" Toews continue in the House of Commons. The next day he forgets that he said this or that. The Oracle of Ottawa truly believes what the great man says. I am firmly convinced that he hasn't the foggiest idea what he said yesterday.

Star Chamber in session under Henry VII...

Bill C-30, consisting of all 109 pages, is known by its short title Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act. It seems to be pretty draconian in tone and utterly slippery in its wording. Now we all know that there already a ton of provisions in the Criminal Code of Canada to catch the "kiddie diddlers". Why in a really good year in Canada the feds might bust a whole two dozen perverts! Out of a population of 35 million people it appears to be a virtual crime-a-geddon!

Star Chamber at Ordsall Hall

 Funny thing is though, when you read the proposed act, this blogger has yet to find the first reference to child and / or pornography! Very strange that, don't you think? It appears to the Oracle of Ottawa to be a very severe star chamber type of cover-all legislation that has very little do with pornography of any kind. It quickly appears to be a bill to quash any and all dissent of the 'Harper Government'. How soon will it be, do you think, dear reader, before the Mounties are at my door? And why haven't we even heard a peep from Google, Rogers, Shaw, and Bell? Have they already cut their deal? Could this be ordered by our new friends, the Peoples Republic of China? Many questions, pay attention folks....

 See! The Oracle of Ottawa is not the only one who thinks that Vic "The Dick" Toews is crazy!
 

How To Hold A G20 Summit Real Cheap

Every thing, 'tis said, must have a cause; for if anything wanted a cause, it wou'd produce itself; that is, exist before it existed; which is impossible.
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, p. 80

If you live in one of the great cities of one of the G20 nations, you know how much trouble a G20 summit can cause. The blocked traffic, the restricted areas, and last, but hardly least, the inevitable demonstrations. At the end of the summit, you wonder, if it might be better not to be a G20 member nation!

Hold the next G20 here...

These events are always thrown by the government of the hosting nation. In Canada recently this lead to a wack of problems. Well a train wreck in all cold reality. You just can't expect a bunch of social Darwinists to throw a cosmopolitan world class event. Take for example the 2010 G20 Toronto summit. The end cost was over one billion dollars! For one freakin' weekend! The civil liberties of Ontario citizens were suspended for the duration of the summit. There was incredible property damage and many arrests. Practically all the charges were dropped for the evil doers. Funny that...

Who needs this shit?

The fallout is still reverberating. The "Minister" in charge, one Tony "Two Tier" Clement, the minister of Treasury Board, just went nuts with his bag of nickels. It has been, as of today, one hundred and sixteen days that he does not have the balls to stand to his seat in the House of Commons and answer the questions of his seeming irregularities from the very curious opposition. He is all but done. The police investigation continues. It was so nuts and out of control that there are stories of Muskoka town councilors refusing any more Olympic civil structures. Just try to imagine that....

Summit here, Do it till you puke!!

It is all fine and very much fun to bitch. But the trick is come up with a solution. And the Oracle of Ottawa believes he has the solution for all future G20 summits. Hold them at sea! For instance when the summits are in the United States or Great Britain they can be held on an aircraft carrier. For the rest of the hosting countries, it would be much cheaper and more secure for every one involved to simply charter a cruise ship!
All these platforms are big enough for the leaders and a very large press contingent, and with the communication technology of today, filing the latest breaking news is a total doddle! The cost would be in the tens of millions and they could stay at it for weeks! No democratic nation should be burned down for a billion dollar weekend.

Now a 116 days and counting...