{"id":7860,"date":"2002-11-05T11:47:44","date_gmt":"2002-11-05T11:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=7860"},"modified":"2002-11-05T11:47:44","modified_gmt":"2002-11-05T11:47:44","slug":"those-crazy-canadians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7860","title":{"rendered":"Those Crazy Canadians!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not Canadian, there are many things I&#8217;ve always respected about our neighbor to the north (or, as I like to call them, the 51st state) &#8212; they have a good human rights record, a good attitude about guns (see Michael Moore&#8217;s new film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowlingforcolumbine.com\/\">Bowling for Columbine<\/a>) and they make a mean Cafe au Lait. But some things are not as good up there as down here in the good ol&#8217; US of A, and here&#8217;s one example; the Copyright Board of Canada has proposed a tax on recordable media that would add $0.021 on every megabyte worth of digital media. That means $21 per gigabyte on hard-drive based MP3 players, and for something like the Lyra Jukebox, the tax alone would be $400 or more. Now, sure, that&#8217;s just those Canadian Dollars, not US Greenbacks, but that&#8217;s still alot of scratch to be paying the feds, even if they pay for your healthcare. Read the proposal at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cb-cda.gc.ca\/tariffs\/proposed\/c09032002-b.pdf\">The Copyright Board<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not Canadian, there are many things I&#8217;ve always respected about our neighbor to the north (or, as I like to call them, the 51st state) &#8212; they have a good human rights record, a good attitude about guns (see Michael Moore&#8217;s new film Bowling for Columbine) and they make a mean Cafe au &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=7860\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Those Crazy Canadians!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}