Canadian Netflix is pretty crappy compared to the American version and we don't have much else. It's not like the content companies want to sell their products here, at least in an easy to purchase downloadable format
Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $0.24 per unit for Audio Cassette tape (40min or longer), and $0.29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc
No, they should just have honest advertising. "We promise the fastest all text internet" or "100MBs, as long as it's text" or even "Fastest internet, just don't stream content" and of course they should be clear about this when you sign up instead of making promises that they plan to break.
The problem with government is sometimes the business types get in charge. It's happening in my country, veteran affairs was cut back to close to nothing, no more pensions as they're too expensive. Most all offices closed down because too expensive. Large amount of Afghanistan vets committing suicide, just a cost of business and they should have been tougher. Yet the government has lots of money for PR purposes with record amounts spent on advertising how fiscally responsible they are and what a great job they're doing.
As far as I know MS entered into the original OS/2 agreement with good intentions. It was only when Win 3.x became successful that they decided to break their contract and yes, you can describe it as fraudulently acquired after they decided to put all their efforts into Windows without telling IBM or changing the terms of the contract. We all make typos, why focus on them?
NT started out as a rewrite of OS/2, written by ex-VMS developers, not stolen as MS got ver 3 in the divorce and NT started out as OS/2 NT ver 3. Up until W2K it still had the OS/2 16 bit subsystem and ran OS/2 ver 1.x textmode software fine and you could get a Presentation Manager layer as well to run ver 1.x graphical apps. I also have a Byte magazine article around somewhere about them getting the 32 bit Presentation Manager running under NT so if OS/2 had won the OS war they were ready with their version.
Yea, my first draft mentioned adjusting the dates to where ever the cut off is (it is the new year here in BC) and it is only a mental exercise. Still obviously the older kids in a class have an advantage and I know myself as one of the youngest in my grade I was at a disadvantage, especially at any physical stuff. In the past kids born when food was plentiful also would have had an advantage.
Identical twins, one born at 23:55 Dec 31st and the other born at 00:05 Jan 1st. One is officially a year older and starts school a year ahead of the other one. Do they do the same in school even though genetically identical?
Lots of areas are more limited. I get 28.8. KBs on a dry day with no other choices, can't see any satellites and not even cell service. It's getting pretty horrible just loading a lot of pages, video is out of the question.
(And it's perfectly fine for the NSA to wiretap foreigners, because fuck-em.)
The great thing is it also OK for my country to wiretap foreigners such as Americans (who were nice enough to give lots of help and advice from their intelligence agencies) and now we can trade.
Well the current Canadian government has a real interest in disproving CO2 related climate change as they're planning on a tar sand mono-culture. Yet even with their financing they haven't been able to get any studies denying CO2 related climate change and are left just stifling all the scientists that us tax payers pay for, at least the few that are left.
I'm old enough to remember when Jobs pretty well killed Apple with his ideas that users didn't need colour or expandability and they were going to go 32 bit even if memory is too expensive to make it really work. How much is timing? Jobs didn't do very well with NeXT but did luck out with getting in on the ground floor of the smart phone revolution with a good product.
How long do you think a nuclear winter would last? The estimates I've seen are only a few years and even a few decades isn't very long compared to the 1000+ years for CO2 to get scrubbed from the atmosphere.
Geology disproved the global flood theory a few hundred years ago. Unless you want to argue the trickster set things up to trick us in which case all religions are just tricks as well.
Hardly see made in America stuff any more but the latest example was shopping for a trailer. Totally shit build quality but inexpensive, all prison labour. Talking to the owner, it seems nothing else is available, at least mass produced and all through those types of goods the same thing is happening.
I think all or at least most heavy metals are as bad. Lead being a major one in our countries. What is worrying is the amount of depleted uranium that America has spread around, particularly in the middle east as my understanding is that depleted uranium is as bad as lead for brain development. To answer the AC below, compare Canada and the US, crime has dropped in both nations with the drop in the use of lead even our gun cultures are quite different. One problem we're seeing is high death rates in swans and geese caused by ingesting lead shot.
Pay the non-poor even more for having kids? Even a better idea considering the low birthrates in most developed countries. Unluckily the opposite is happening, my Provinces newest budget (claimed once again balanced) increased spending for the over 65 demographic and once again cut spending for the under 45 demographic. They just don't care about the future, just getting elected and the over 65 demographic wants increased spending on themselves and less taxes and does vote.
Which of course is an incentive to criminalize as many actions as possible, as well as to have a court system that hands out long sentences to anyone that doesn't plea bargain. Doesn't help either that America (along with Nigeria) still has the feudal means of segregation called felonies, which leaves citizens deprived of rights, including opportunities for many jobs and the chance to vote in new laws or better government, for the rest of their life.
Around here the prisoners are put to work doing things like cleaning up garbage for the minimum security people and even the maximum security people do things to maintain the prison, grow food and such. And of course the Chinese prisoners in the same way did some crime and quite likely also have thousands of pages of crimes on the books that are used mostly for undesirables though they do seem to punish the rich more then America.
Well if you're gong to talk about slave labour, then America has to be added to the list. Prison labour is big business now and the main source of made in America products I see for sale. Something like 1% of the adult American population in jail is pretty extreme.
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Canadian Netflix is pretty crappy compared to the American version and we don't have much else. It's not like the content companies want to sell their products here, at least in an easy to purchase downloadable format
No levy on DVD's, only for audio. To quote wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ind...
Canada's current private copying levies are as follows: $0.24 per unit for Audio Cassette tape (40min or longer), and $0.29 per unit for CD-R, CD-RW, CD-R Audio, CD-RW Audio and MiniDisc
Well Comcast should just sell different services. $50 and no netflix or $100 and netflix. Or whatever numbers make sense.
No, they should just have honest advertising. "We promise the fastest all text internet" or "100MBs, as long as it's text" or even "Fastest internet, just don't stream content" and of course they should be clear about this when you sign up instead of making promises that they plan to break.
The problem with government is sometimes the business types get in charge. It's happening in my country, veteran affairs was cut back to close to nothing, no more pensions as they're too expensive. Most all offices closed down because too expensive. Large amount of Afghanistan vets committing suicide, just a cost of business and they should have been tougher. Yet the government has lots of money for PR purposes with record amounts spent on advertising how fiscally responsible they are and what a great job they're doing.
As far as I know MS entered into the original OS/2 agreement with good intentions. It was only when Win 3.x became successful that they decided to break their contract and yes, you can describe it as fraudulently acquired after they decided to put all their efforts into Windows without telling IBM or changing the terms of the contract.
We all make typos, why focus on them?
NT started out as a rewrite of OS/2, written by ex-VMS developers, not stolen as MS got ver 3 in the divorce and NT started out as OS/2 NT ver 3.
Up until W2K it still had the OS/2 16 bit subsystem and ran OS/2 ver 1.x textmode software fine and you could get a Presentation Manager layer as well to run ver 1.x graphical apps. I also have a Byte magazine article around somewhere about them getting the 32 bit Presentation Manager running under NT so if OS/2 had won the OS war they were ready with their version.
Yea, my first draft mentioned adjusting the dates to where ever the cut off is (it is the new year here in BC) and it is only a mental exercise. Still obviously the older kids in a class have an advantage and I know myself as one of the youngest in my grade I was at a disadvantage, especially at any physical stuff.
In the past kids born when food was plentiful also would have had an advantage.
Identical twins, one born at 23:55 Dec 31st and the other born at 00:05 Jan 1st. One is officially a year older and starts school a year ahead of the other one. Do they do the same in school even though genetically identical?
Lots of areas are more limited. I get 28.8. KBs on a dry day with no other choices, can't see any satellites and not even cell service. It's getting pretty horrible just loading a lot of pages, video is out of the question.
(And it's perfectly fine for the NSA to wiretap foreigners, because fuck-em.)
The great thing is it also OK for my country to wiretap foreigners such as Americans (who were nice enough to give lots of help and advice from their intelligence agencies) and now we can trade.
Well the current Canadian government has a real interest in disproving CO2 related climate change as they're planning on a tar sand mono-culture. Yet even with their financing they haven't been able to get any studies denying CO2 related climate change and are left just stifling all the scientists that us tax payers pay for, at least the few that are left.
Actually what did work, at least in Canada, was not totally deregulating. Due to regulations our banks came through pretty well.
I'm old enough to remember when Jobs pretty well killed Apple with his ideas that users didn't need colour or expandability and they were going to go 32 bit even if memory is too expensive to make it really work.
How much is timing? Jobs didn't do very well with NeXT but did luck out with getting in on the ground floor of the smart phone revolution with a good product.
Bailing out the banks was not optional.
There were other options such as nationalizing the banks, breaking them into smaller pieces and reselling them after the crisis calmed down.
How long do you think a nuclear winter would last? The estimates I've seen are only a few years and even a few decades isn't very long compared to the 1000+ years for CO2 to get scrubbed from the atmosphere.
Started about 12,000 years ago with the extinction of most mega-fauna and continues on.
Geology disproved the global flood theory a few hundred years ago. Unless you want to argue the trickster set things up to trick us in which case all religions are just tricks as well.
Hardly see made in America stuff any more but the latest example was shopping for a trailer. Totally shit build quality but inexpensive, all prison labour. Talking to the owner, it seems nothing else is available, at least mass produced and all through those types of goods the same thing is happening.
I think all or at least most heavy metals are as bad. Lead being a major one in our countries.
What is worrying is the amount of depleted uranium that America has spread around, particularly in the middle east as my understanding is that depleted uranium is as bad as lead for brain development.
To answer the AC below, compare Canada and the US, crime has dropped in both nations with the drop in the use of lead even our gun cultures are quite different. One problem we're seeing is high death rates in swans and geese caused by ingesting lead shot.
Pay the non-poor even more for having kids? Even a better idea considering the low birthrates in most developed countries.
Unluckily the opposite is happening, my Provinces newest budget (claimed once again balanced) increased spending for the over 65 demographic and once again cut spending for the under 45 demographic. They just don't care about the future, just getting elected and the over 65 demographic wants increased spending on themselves and less taxes and does vote.
And Alaska (northern USA) and Greenland.
Which of course is an incentive to criminalize as many actions as possible, as well as to have a court system that hands out long sentences to anyone that doesn't plea bargain.
Doesn't help either that America (along with Nigeria) still has the feudal means of segregation called felonies, which leaves citizens deprived of rights, including opportunities for many jobs and the chance to vote in new laws or better government, for the rest of their life.
Around here the prisoners are put to work doing things like cleaning up garbage for the minimum security people and even the maximum security people do things to maintain the prison, grow food and such.
And of course the Chinese prisoners in the same way did some crime and quite likely also have thousands of pages of crimes on the books that are used mostly for undesirables though they do seem to punish the rich more then America.
Well if you're gong to talk about slave labour, then America has to be added to the list. Prison labour is big business now and the main source of made in America products I see for sale. Something like 1% of the adult American population in jail is pretty extreme.