Doubtful on this one. Keeping the ban in place lets him play up the “belligerent everyman/Captain Canada” image him and his base love so very much. The flip flopping is reserved for shady deals for his developer buddies that he knew were wrong and was just hoping no one would notice.
The state of mobile phone market in Canada is so frustrating. Not only is our market dominated by 3 players who refuse to actually compete with each other, but we miss out on half the cool phones that the rest of the world gets too.
“Capitalism” isn’t some self aware entity that you can blame all evils on. It’s humans all the way down. And it’s not even the cartoon evil type of humans; those are rare. Everyone responsible at each step of the way is terrifyingly ordinary.
There are other services the government provides that cannot (and should not) be operated for profit (ie healthcare).
I already said this.
Parcel delivery is a service that can be run for a profit (by real couriers like UPS, FEDEX, etc, not those bullishit Amazon couriers). There are other services the government provides that cannot (and should not) be operated for profit (ie healthcare). I would much rather my tax dollars go towards that, rather than operating Canada Post at a loss.
Tax revenue is a fixed size pool of money. Canada Post may not need to make a profit, but it does need to break even. There are many other things that money needs to be spent on.
This whole saga is so incredibly frustrating. You have a situation where things have to change. The management is trying to restructure because the money does not exist to maintain the status quo. The Union refuses to budge, and based on this article, their best solution is to legislate away the competition? Even if that were to happen, it’s not Canada Post management that will be making that decision, and it’s effects would not be immediate. Does the union just plan to sit at home forever?
I can understand why this would deter companies from advertising their environmental initiatives, but it kinda sad (though entirely expected) that it turns out they were only doing for the good PR. Guess this means we need to start introducing some environmental legislation with teeth.
VPN becomes VPS and life goes on.
The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.
Many people do this.
Many people are insane.
The loyal cult is the result of Stockholm syndrome.
Because a flat surface is an x-y plane. The ground is a “flat” surface, and so the z dimension is height.
For me, that’s the only way that makes sense. But I program robots for a living, so I’m used to dealing with coordinate systems where the flat reference is the ground. Programmers seem to be using the screen as the flat reference. If I were building a game world, I’d probably use z-up convention.
If you are a founder of a website or software company that is already open to the public: fuck you. We know you are going to be pulling shady shit later to monetize your users.
If you are a founder of a company making a new widget that you just invented, which isn’t for sale yet: you’re cool. Just don’t enshittify the thing later.
Nah. American individuals are fine.
That being said, regardless of what any government bodies decide, I will never be one.
Depends on what the goal ends up being. If they try to create (and actuallyenforce) some regulations around AI, I could see that being an endeavor that would occupy a full time position.
I just want static html webpages back. The sheer volume of scripts that run just to display text these days drives me nuts.
Where’s the Rhinoceros Party when you need them? There’s no chance in hell that riding flips for the Liberals, and likely not for the NDP, but an independent running on a platform of “hear me out, this will be hilarious” just might stand a chance.
It sounds like he’s going to get parachuted into some safe riding. We might not be free of him yet.
The fuck he was. I feel no shame, nor discouragement whatsoever.
All Trump “won” was getting Carney to scrap a policy that wasn’t even in force yet, effectively gaining nothing. And there’s nothing stopping us from just reimplementing the same policy under some other name that Trump’s dumb ass won’t even notice.