Day 2

Dear Reader

Are there any readers of my blog? I just read an article in an email that said that bloggers have a great influence on society. Yeah right LOL! I can see how they might think that they have an infuence, but is there really anyone who reads blogs and then takes notice of what they say? This article was concerned with the recent hooha about Target offering pot for sale. Apparently a load of bloggers immediately started to criticise Target, without realising that it was of course a book about Maryjo, and not the actual stuff. I did learn that Target is owned by Amazon, which is very interesting, because there is a rumour that Target is trying to buy out the Bay. Now I am not Canadian, I just moved here recently, but I think it would be a great shame if an American company was allowed to buy out a company that is older than the country! The Hudson Bay Company is essentially Canadian, and in my humble opinion I think it should stay Canadian. But I digress, my point is that it isn't Target who are buying out the Bay, but Amazon! Forgive me, but I am against monopolies, there should be someone stopping to look at this and saying, if you are going to buy out another company then at least have the decency to call yourself by the parent name of the company! Not "Target wants to buy the Bay" but "Amazon.com wants to buy the Bay". That way we would know where we stand! Soon the world will be nothing but Walmart, Google, AOL and Amazon owned! All American Companies! Hello? Why are we letting the USA take over like this?

While I am on the subject, let's revisit the email I got a few days ago. In this one, and it is incredible, the US President (Shrubbya) wants to stop stupid people from using the Internet (I guess that counts him out too then eh?). This email stated that the USA (ergo Shrubbya) wants to prohibit people from using the World Wide Web unless they are cognisant (sic) of security issues. In other words, they want to start issuing licenses to people, but only after those people have passed an exam (presumably online) to prove that they know about internet security. They claim it is in the name of anti-terrorism, yeah right, well ok, but how will they police this? Well they will try to tell ISP's that they can only provide service to people with a valid license (I can see the blackmarket gearing up already). This will work fine in the US, but how can they impress this on other countries? Well, simple! They will just cut access to websites in the USA unless a valid certificate stamp is sent to the website in advance (like a cookie). Will the rest of the world care? Probably, for as long as it takes Google, Amazon, eBay etc. to set up mirror sites all around the world. Of course it is a ridiculous idea, but it amazes me that the US Administration even came up with this idea!

There is something else that I will post up here, but I have to go get the details, and it is more of Shrubbya's insanity.

Catch ya later!