• Archive for February 14th, 2005

    Child Labour Alright in the USA

    by  • 2/14/2005 • angst, work • 0 Comments

    At least it would appear that it’s okay to employ people under the age of 18 in dangerous conditions so long as you donate to a political party that’s in power. I would imagine that WalMart didn’t start employing kids wielding chainsaws only after the election of G. W. Bush, so placing the blame on [...]

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    Job Opportunity Spam?

    by  • 2/14/2005 • work • 1 Comment

    Had a message in my gmail inbox that initially sounded like spam…. We found your resume on the net and were wondering if you were available for an interview to discuss an possible opportunity? Normally I would have deleted it, but at least this one listed a local phone number and a reasonably unique last [...]

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    Copyright in Canada

    by  • 2/14/2005 • geek • 0 Comments

    Thanks to Boing Boing, I was able to view this excellent lecture on Copyright in Canada. There has been some speculation that Canada’s copyright law is out dated and useless, but after watching this, I’ve found just how much of our law has been updated in the past 10 years. Rather than sweeping changes that [...]

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