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Note: This document is hosted here for archival purposes only. It does not necessarily represent the values of the Iron Warrior or Waterloo Engineering Society in the present day. 1 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ENGINEERING SOCIETY VOLUME 26 ISSUE 13 | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2005 Brick beers Morris dancing in EngSoc Executive reviewed! Galt candidates Page 4 Page 5 Pages 7 & 8 Check us out @ http://iwarrior.uwaterloo.ca/ Bill Gates Entertains, Inspires at UW ...and a fanatical devotion to Bill! Left to right: Greg FitzGerald, Steve Tufts, Andrew Rizkalla, Ben Wahn. Photo by Mark Truchanowicz Namely, an industry that makes software on the desk and it would automatically we know what lines we should cross? For that can fit a variety of hardware, which read the card and upload the information to example, artificial intelligence may be a is mass-produced and sold cheap, which the cell phone. Very cool. Finally, the pres- line that we know exists because the mass is the way that the software industry is entation ended with question-and-answer public has thought of the implications of run today. He also talked about how this session. It seemed like all the questions in this kind of technology through movies, FRANCIS HOPE vision was formed and how the company the question-and-answer session were very books and general discussion. But what 4N ELECTRICAL developed over time. wishy-washy, and some of them seem to about technology that we do not know the Next was an entertaining skit with be sucking up directly to him, such as the full implications of? For example, when s many of you are aware, Bill Gates Bill Gates himself in the movie Napoleon question “what personal characteristics do the printing press was first created, who Acame to Waterloo and had a confer- Dynamite. In it, he teams up with Napoleon you feel lead to your personal success?” at the time knew that it would completely ence on October 13, 2005. I was fortunate to help fix the computer system of the However, there was one question that reform the way of exchanging ideas and enough to be one of the people to get a company that he is working for. You can I thought was very interesting. This was information, which would lead to a large ticket to the event and it turned out to be download the skit at “http://digg.com/ where do you think that we should draw change around the world, similar to the more entertaining than I thought. However, links/Bill_Gates_Napoleon_Dynamite_ a line in technology? Bill responded that way that the Internet has? Might some of if you did not get a chance to see the con- Video_Download”. there are some frontiers that we should the technologies that we create do the same ference in person, you could have had a Afterwards, he showed what everyone be wary of, especially when technology thing, and are we responsible for this? chance to see it projected in DC. came to see: a display of some of the starts to become more intelligent than us Could the creation of a card that holds The conference started out with an cool new technology that Microsoft has (i.e. Artificial Intelligence). I find this all your personal information be hacked, introduction by the President of the been developing. This included the X-Box answer very interesting because it raises leading to people having all their personal University of Waterloo, David Johnson, 360 and some cool new technology that the question as to whether we should be information and their identity stolen? This followed by Bill Gates talking about how showed an amalgamation of image recog- responsible for the technology that we is an interesting question for the future, Microsoft was formed and their vision of nition technology and cell phone technol- create, even if it has unforeseen implica- and we should in some ways be wary of what the software industry should become. ogy. You could put down a business card tions that we do not readily see. How do where we tread. Impact Conference Comes To Toronto ANDREW DILTS preneurship will be coming to Toronto on Also speaking will be Bill Tatham, an entre- sessions and at after-hours social events. IMPACT MEDIA RELATIONS DIRECTOR November 18 and 19. Entirely student run preneur who sold his tech start-up company In addition to high-profile speakers, stu- and organized, the conference brings together Janna Systems for a Canadian record of $1.76 dents will have the opportunity to meet pas- anadian students interested in entrepre- 300 students from coast to coast to meet, billion to rival Siebel Systems in 2000. sionate, ambitious like-minded students from Cneurship will soon have the opportunity learn, network and be exposed to job oppor- Unique to the Impact conference that it across Canada, all interested in the subject of to join their UW predecessors in attending tunities. offers students the opportunity to sit down entrepreneurship. the year’s largest student-run event in entre- The conference’s keynote speaker will be with conference presenters, conversing with preneurship. Harry Rosen, founder and executive chairman them and asking questions in intimate envi- Continued on page 3- see 'Impact'. The annual Impact Conference on entre- of leading menswear chain Harry Rosen, Inc. ronments: during meals, between conference 2 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2005 Rest well, Rosa, and thank you. bigotry, one might think it easy to over- brought to the forefront were summarily look and get on with one's life. Not so. dealt with. You know how sometimes other faculties It is too early to congratulate our- The Newspaper of the University of will pre-judge you just because you're an selves, though. Racism is still rampant, Waterloo Engineering Society engineer? Imagine that, but far worse. in our thoughts if not our laws. This is DAN ARNOTT Imagine it permeating every aspect of often aggravated by religious differ- Editor-in-Chief EDITOR-IN-CHIEF your life. Imagine it restricting the things ences as well, as can easily be seen in Dan Arnott you're able to do, the places you're able the world events which have transpired irst off, as always, a reminder that to go, the things you're able to learn. On since four Septembers ago. Assistant Editor Fthe Iron Warrior needs new blood. If December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was fed And we needn't pat ourselves on the Alicia Liu you're at all interested or the slightest bit up with it. back because we're Canadian, either. curious, come by CPH 1323B or e-mail Taking a city bus home from work, Although we never had any Jim Crow Photo Editor me at [email protected] and she and three other black passengers laws, per se, we still sent thousands Philip Newman we'll talk about what you can do for the IW were instructed to give up their seats to of our citizens of Japanese ancestry to and what the IW can do for you. white passengers. The others complied- internment camps during the Second Layout Editor Rosa did not. She was summarily hauled World War in a display of shamefully [Vacant] ast Monday, October 24th, the world off the bus by the police, fingerprinted, fascist behaviour. Llost one of the few true revolutionaries charged with disorderly conduct, and Even here at Waterloo, we can see Technical Editor it had left. Rosa Parks, a veritable mother jailed. A few days later she was found that racism is still around. Being such [Vacant] of the American civil rights movement, guilty in a trial that lasted 30 minutes, a culturally diverse school should open passed away after a lifetime of work- and fined $14. She decided to appeal her our eyes to the essential humanity of Webmaster ing for the interests of equality and, one conviction. our friends and colleagues of all races, Gabriel Chan December day in 1955, making a state- Rosa once said that the more you but this is sadly not always the case. ment that sounded the death knell for deferred to unfair treatment, the more Meaningless grudges and indoctrinations, Advertising Manager segregation. oppressive it became. Outraged at the sometimes so old that they are utterly [Vacant] Having grown up in the American treatment of Mrs. Parks, who was one baseless, still stalk us and obscure our south in the early 1900s, Parks was no of Montgomery, Alabama's finest citi- vision. But this, of course, is completely Distribution Manager stranger to rampant racism. Half a centu- zens, and inspired by her example, needless and a waste of our energy. [Vacant] ry after the American Civil War and the the African-American community in We are all human here. To use the abolition of slavery, southern Americans Montgomery boycotted the bus system term of the day, we are 'One Waterloo', Offstream Editor-in-Chief had still not adjusted to the fact that for 381 days, beginning three days after but more than that, we are one Canadian David Yip African-Americans were people too. The her arrest. Eventually, the practice of people and one human race. As impor- so-called 'Jim Crow' laws, a set of ridicu- racial segregation on buses was deemed tant as it is to maintain our cultural iden- lous statutes, were intended to enforce unconstitutional, and the court order tities, we must do so without infringing Staff a state of segregation which essential- reached Montgomery in December of on the rights of others. This is absolutely John Olaveson ly prevented African-Americans from 1956.