Domain Registry of Canada - SCAM Rant · Wednesday April 4, 2007 by colin newell
I look after about one dozen websites for a variety of wonderful clients.
Almost all of them have received paper-mail from the scam artists at the Domain Registry of Canada.
Yes. It is a scam.
“People who prey on the uncertainty of others make me sick. This is the reason direct mail and email marketing efforts are dying in vein. It is because of places like the Domain Registry of Canada scam.”
“The Domain Registry Of Canada scam get their filthy paws on people who register a .CA web domain. The Domain Registry Of Canada scam then sends direct mail pieces warning you that you must “protect your domain” and other jargon that insinuates the Domain Registry Of Canada scam is an official or safe place (it is – but so is every other one). It’s done to lure you and the Domain Registry of Canada site and materials even look like a Government affiliated agency.”
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Other online and paper-mail scams include the likes of the International Internet Directory from Zurich, Switzerland (or some other Central European hell-hole…) including 1000$ invoices for inclusion in this fake directory.
Like telephone solicitation, this is right down there with the bottom feeders. So. Beware the Domain Registry of Canada
Did some more research on the DRC scammers – It seems they have been fined 40,000 dollars for their antics – and with their latest set of antics, it appears they may be in breach of this original court order!
Details here
Hey. Sometimes the good guys do prevail.
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Welcome aboard... papers please! · Wednesday April 4, 2007 by colin newell
Random security checks of B.C. Ferries passengers and vehicles are a possibility as the corporation continues to beef up security measures, says Ferry CEO David Hahn.
Random security checks
On a public highway system?
Performed by staff from the B.C. Ferries, a private partnership?
In the meantime, B.C. Ferries has already embarked on a program of enhancing security at terminals.
“We’ve installed cameras. We’ve put on more locks. We’ve got a stronger and more enforced employee identification program. We’ve got new uniforms for our employees so they stand out. We’re going to do a lot more around general security measures.”
New uniforms huh? My my, I am feeling so much more safe now.
Fact is, I never felt in danger on any B.C. Ferry.
The only fear I have is the headlong rush towards Orwellian attacks on our civil liberties we seem to be making.
Now that is the real terrorism.
I can tell you my response when asked at a B.C. Ferry terminal… to look in the trunk of my car:
“No search warrant? Then up yours!”
Randomly picking out cars for inspection is like buying a lottery ticket once a week hoping the windfall will sustain you throughout your life.
It’s bad enough that I pay for the privilege of actually getting a space on the Ferry to Vancouver (the fee based reservation system) – but to hear that I may be subject to random search:
That is complete and utter bullshit (not to mention a charter rights violation.)
Anyway – for those who love giving up their civil liberties, all I can say is…
Papers please! Papers!
Live on CBC Saskatchewan - talking coffee culture · Monday March 12, 2007 by colin newell
Talking coffee culture with CBC Regina
My momma used to say… “If you want something right, you have to do it yourself.
So I did.
Live. On the radio.
So – that kind of makes up for the Globe & Mail mess below.
Talking coffee culture with CBC Regina
Roll up the rim... to pollute! · Thursday March 8, 2007 by colin newell
An Ottawa inventor has created a “labour-saving device” to help Canadians effortlessly “Roll Up the Rim to Win” at Tim Hortons.
Paul Kind, 62, spent three years developing the Rimroller — a plastic device the size of a bottle opener that cleanly slices open and unrolls a rim in one fluid motion.
“Do you know that Tim Hortons (sells) close to 300 million cups every year?” Mr. Kind said yesterday. “When you think of all the effort expended by these different people rolling up their rim, you realize what a labour-saving device this is.”
Uhm. Hello!?
300 million empty cups that get thrown in the trash… the land-fill… the sidewalk…
The trees!
I have been in Tim’s and I steadfastly refuse this stupid and polluting practice. Hello! Does anyone else get this? The waste? The blight on our landscape?
Mr. Kind said he purchased “hundreds” of Tim Hortons coffees over the last three years to conduct rim-rolling experiments.
“I always asked them for a double cup every time,” he said. “They probably wondered why, but there certainly was a good reason.”
Tim Hortons Coffee is a Bad corporate citizen.
Bad. Bad. Bad.
Enough of this freaking pollution already…
and as you know… Tim Horton’s Coffee sucks.
Supplemental reading — The Story of Stuff
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