I AM A CHEATER

Well, no, but he can continue to feed paranoia about socialists, separatists, and Dion through massive PR spending until the court of public opinion gets loud enough that the Coalition doesn’t have the support of even its own constituents. More likely, he’s just hoping for another election, as you said.

From the news I’ve seen, my impression that it’s not possible for anyone but the PM to call an emergency session, unfortunately.

To tell you the truth, I’ve been pretty unsure about my own feelings on this. Yes, I want to see Harper fall as soon as possible, and I’ve got no problem with Dion being PM for a while, or with requiring the support of the Bloc. In fact, I think it’s pretty telling that after so much of the “Anything but Conservative” message during the election, the government could actually end up being Everyone but Conservative. I do have some fears that the coalition would be even more unstable than the Conservative minority, and would be wrecked by internal power struggles n’ such. But I guess my hope overall was that the Coalition would take power, or at least get everyone riled up enough that even the Conservatives have a reason to take the idea of electoral reform seriously.

If one buys a legal copy of a CD/DVD or computer software they should have every right to make a backup copy for fair use. One big scratch and the media is rendered useless.

This seems very facist even. Same problem in the US. The big corporate interests (MPAA, RIAA) own most of the politicians so the one who pays the piper names the tune!

And it doesn’t help that most people are apathetic, misinformed, etc.

Secondly, it’s not really a temperament I use, but it’s easy to put in new temperament files, so why not include it? I can easily add in any other temperaments, so I don’t see any reason to restrict it to only the handful of most useful ones.