Once the American Supreme Court is arranged right, extremists and dictators will be Constitutional, probably in the name of national security just like how so many other rights don't matter if there's a national security reason to ignore them.
Meanwhile Trump is pushing a bunch of IP bullshit in NAFTA including forcing Canada to take down sites based on the say so of private companies along with extending copyright. Then there is the patent shit that they're mostly hiding to make sure the drug companies continue to have increasing profits.
I find myself that I'm a lot more productive when well rested and I'm way more error prone when overtired. The few times I've put in 16 hour days, my actual production dropped as I spent the first part of the day fixing the errors I made during the last part of the former day. I did look busy though. Pretty sure that I've seen studies that show productivity dropping after 6-8 hours. It's one of the reasons that the 8 hour day was accepted, way more productive to have three 8 hour shifts then two 12 hour shifts.
Understand that this is an LTE connection, so cell prices apply for overages. I can't find the paper work right now but looking at https://www.telus.com/en/bc/mo... it says a 5 cents per MB overage fee, which works out to $50 per GB and I know my cell provider (Fido) just doubled their overage charges, luckily I don't have a data plan there. And I've seen a few headlines stating that all the big cell providers have upped there overage charges to a hundred per GB (perhaps just in BC). But I haven't tested it. Hmm, it may have been this article that I saw the headline of, https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/0... which states that Rogers, including Fido boosted up their overages to 10 cents a MB, just like Bell and Virgin Mobile. Perhaps Telus hasn't upped theirs yet. Even 5 cents a MB is way too much
Actually they had to introduce a new, or at least hardly known, word when they banned hemp, namely marijuana, as people would never have stood for banning such a useful plant. Fiber was part of it, and with a new machine to automate separating the fiber from the bast, the pulp paper industry was heavily threatened, and led by a newspaper tycoon who could publish lots of fake news about the evil weed (as well as getting his son-in-law in charge of the anti-drug department). It is also quite surprising how much hemp seed oil was being used by various industries at the time. BTW, you can have strains of hemp that also get you high and it used to be more common back in the day, just that recently hemp has been bred for low psychoactive properties to try for legality.
Yes, it's nuts but all the big Canadian cell providers recently jacked up their overage charges. Yea competition. The problem is I just don't have many choices where I am, even the dial up is going (officially gone) away. The only reason I can get a 250GB plan is due to being rural and the ISP not wanting to run fiber out here so they have a rural plan, which may be subsidized.
I'm in Canada, with net neutrality. I pay for 250 GBs a month and how the household uses it is up to us. It's simple and there are other plans as well. We're careful because it is a hundred dollars a GB for overage.
It's still nice if you have a wide screen monitor such as 1680x1050 with a VGA port, to patch the BIOS to output 1680x1050. Posted on an OS/2 system running on an old ATI card (though not as old as the ones you reference) using VESA and patched for 1680x1050.
The problem with VESA on Nvidia cards is the shortage of wide screen support and the difficulty (or impossibly) of patching the BIOS to support wide screen modes, something that is relatively easy with ATI or Intel VESA modes. Other then that, todays CPU's can drive VESA pretty fast.
Canadian prisons are full of mentally ill people too. Single payer health care only goes so far and there is very little money for mental illness. While someone with a broken leg has an obvious problem, someone who was born to an alcoholic mother and has fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) looks healthy and is expected to be as fully functional as everyone else. Then there are all the people that want to torture the mentally ill to teach them a lesson or such, as if that is going to cure them, especially problems like FAS where there is no cure.
Good question. I did see that there was a shortage of beer cans after the tariffs went in. I think there, the aluminium was being shipped across the border so often that the tariffs became way too high. There's been a lot of problems like that, both with aluminium and steel. Steel is interesting as it can cross the border quite a few times which is why Canada is both the biggest exporter and importer of steel with America. There's also the shock value when unexpected tariffs happen, companies and shippers slow down the shipping at first. Eventually prices will increase to reflect the new order but it takes a while.
There is a surplus of soybeans, mostly due to subsidies. It's hard to find numbers but this site, https://farm.ewg.org/progdetai... says $35.6 billion over the last 20 odd years. Seems Brazil also subsidizes their soybeans as well. While small compared to other farmers like dairy, who get 73% of their income from subsidies ($22.2 billion in 2015), it still makes a screwed up market with countries like America needing to dump their produce on other countries, countries that are often more fiscally conservative and don't want to borrow large sums of money to compete in the race to the bottom of who can subsidize more.
Some of those small businesses go out of business not because they can't afford the tariff-ed goods, but because the goods just aren't available. Think of a shortage of aluminum creating a shortage of beer cans with the big breweries locking up the supply. Lots of small breweries go out of business. Tariffs are great for tilting the playing field.
Globalist companies like Apple will do fine just jacking up their prices. I do see lots of small companies having to eat the tariffs though. Then there is the cost for subsidies but I guess borrowing a few trillion is fine.
Canada -- I wouldn't say has ever been a friend, more of an easy going business contact next door.
I guess that is your attitude and why you never bothered to thank us for taking in 6700 Americans into our homes on 9/11. I guess that is why we had the largest trading partnership, but you guys just aren't happy with only $20 Billion surplus on $675 Billion of trade. I guess that is why we have been your ally for longer then anyone else. I guess that is why you have the Jones Act and the 25% tariffs on light trucks. I guess that is why you're pissed that we're your largest importer of steel and are now willing to sacrifice 80 American jobs to take one Canadian job, because we're not importing enough steel. Anyways it is nice to know how Americans consider their oldest friend as being nothing but a business contact and next time your true friends the Saudis blow up some buildings, perhaps we'll just sit back and wait for a business interest in helping.
No, more like what the US did to Canada. Now that your trade surplus has dropped to only $20 billion, you're freaking out with the excuse that you need to dump your highly subsidized milk and put more Canadian farmers out of work. Wahh, wahh, we only have a $20 billion trade surplus with this country, lets throw some tariffs on them, it'll raise the price of a house for the average American by 20 grand, and those lumber barons can buy another yacht.
The worst flaws of the TPP were introduced by America, or rather American corporations, in the form of IP shit. Now that same shit is being put into NAFTA and a bunch of people who hated that IP shit in the TPP now love it in NAFTA.
The conservation is about big companies killing competition, not social media. It just happens that a couple of these large companies are social media companies, at least if you count Google as social media. Now whether Amazon has been preventing competition, I can't say.
I can call a friend an arsehole or cunt and get away with it as my friends know me. If I call a random person a cunt or arsehole, bad things are likely to happen.
A couple of years back, my ISP announced it was dropping dial up due to it being too hard to get equipment. Whether true or not I don't know. I continued using dial up (for free instead of the $45 a month they were charging) for another year until they built a cell tower. This is Canada, where internet is considered a vital service, so they couldn't actually just shut it off. I did route the dial up from my computer to a router and supply WiFi to the house but it was pretty crappy towards the end. Even Slashdot stopped totally loading once they switched to HTTPS.
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Once the American Supreme Court is arranged right, extremists and dictators will be Constitutional, probably in the name of national security just like how so many other rights don't matter if there's a national security reason to ignore them.
Meanwhile Trump is pushing a bunch of IP bullshit in NAFTA including forcing Canada to take down sites based on the say so of private companies along with extending copyright. Then there is the patent shit that they're mostly hiding to make sure the drug companies continue to have increasing profits.
I find myself that I'm a lot more productive when well rested and I'm way more error prone when overtired. The few times I've put in 16 hour days, my actual production dropped as I spent the first part of the day fixing the errors I made during the last part of the former day. I did look busy though.
Pretty sure that I've seen studies that show productivity dropping after 6-8 hours. It's one of the reasons that the 8 hour day was accepted, way more productive to have three 8 hour shifts then two 12 hour shifts.
Understand that this is an LTE connection, so cell prices apply for overages. I can't find the paper work right now but looking at https://www.telus.com/en/bc/mo... it says a 5 cents per MB overage fee, which works out to $50 per GB and I know my cell provider (Fido) just doubled their overage charges, luckily I don't have a data plan there. And I've seen a few headlines stating that all the big cell providers have upped there overage charges to a hundred per GB (perhaps just in BC). But I haven't tested it.
Hmm, it may have been this article that I saw the headline of, https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/0... which states that Rogers, including Fido boosted up their overages to 10 cents a MB, just like Bell and Virgin Mobile. Perhaps Telus hasn't upped theirs yet. Even 5 cents a MB is way too much
Actually they had to introduce a new, or at least hardly known, word when they banned hemp, namely marijuana, as people would never have stood for banning such a useful plant. Fiber was part of it, and with a new machine to automate separating the fiber from the bast, the pulp paper industry was heavily threatened, and led by a newspaper tycoon who could publish lots of fake news about the evil weed (as well as getting his son-in-law in charge of the anti-drug department). It is also quite surprising how much hemp seed oil was being used by various industries at the time.
BTW, you can have strains of hemp that also get you high and it used to be more common back in the day, just that recently hemp has been bred for low psychoactive properties to try for legality.
Yes, it's nuts but all the big Canadian cell providers recently jacked up their overage charges. Yea competition.
The problem is I just don't have many choices where I am, even the dial up is going (officially gone) away.
The only reason I can get a 250GB plan is due to being rural and the ISP not wanting to run fiber out here so they have a rural plan, which may be subsidized.
I'm rural with an LTE connection so there aren't too many choices.
I'm in Canada, with net neutrality. I pay for 250 GBs a month and how the household uses it is up to us. It's simple and there are other plans as well. We're careful because it is a hundred dollars a GB for overage.
It's still nice if you have a wide screen monitor such as 1680x1050 with a VGA port, to patch the BIOS to output 1680x1050.
Posted on an OS/2 system running on an old ATI card (though not as old as the ones you reference) using VESA and patched for 1680x1050.
The problem with VESA on Nvidia cards is the shortage of wide screen support and the difficulty (or impossibly) of patching the BIOS to support wide screen modes, something that is relatively easy with ATI or Intel VESA modes. Other then that, todays CPU's can drive VESA pretty fast.
I'd guess that there is a compiler switch to turn it off.
Wasn't it Gandhi who said something like "I like your Christ but not his followers"
Canadian prisons are full of mentally ill people too. Single payer health care only goes so far and there is very little money for mental illness. While someone with a broken leg has an obvious problem, someone who was born to an alcoholic mother and has fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) looks healthy and is expected to be as fully functional as everyone else.
Then there are all the people that want to torture the mentally ill to teach them a lesson or such, as if that is going to cure them, especially problems like FAS where there is no cure.
Good question. I did see that there was a shortage of beer cans after the tariffs went in. I think there, the aluminium was being shipped across the border so often that the tariffs became way too high. There's been a lot of problems like that, both with aluminium and steel. Steel is interesting as it can cross the border quite a few times which is why Canada is both the biggest exporter and importer of steel with America.
There's also the shock value when unexpected tariffs happen, companies and shippers slow down the shipping at first. Eventually prices will increase to reflect the new order but it takes a while.
There is a surplus of soybeans, mostly due to subsidies. It's hard to find numbers but this site, https://farm.ewg.org/progdetai... says $35.6 billion over the last 20 odd years. Seems Brazil also subsidizes their soybeans as well. While small compared to other farmers like dairy, who get 73% of their income from subsidies ($22.2 billion in 2015), it still makes a screwed up market with countries like America needing to dump their produce on other countries, countries that are often more fiscally conservative and don't want to borrow large sums of money to compete in the race to the bottom of who can subsidize more.
Some of those small businesses go out of business not because they can't afford the tariff-ed goods, but because the goods just aren't available. Think of a shortage of aluminum creating a shortage of beer cans with the big breweries locking up the supply. Lots of small breweries go out of business.
Tariffs are great for tilting the playing field.
Globalist companies like Apple will do fine just jacking up their prices. I do see lots of small companies having to eat the tariffs though.
Then there is the cost for subsidies but I guess borrowing a few trillion is fine.
Canada -- I wouldn't say has ever been a friend, more of an easy going business contact next door.
I guess that is your attitude and why you never bothered to thank us for taking in 6700 Americans into our homes on 9/11. I guess that is why we had the largest trading partnership, but you guys just aren't happy with only $20 Billion surplus on $675 Billion of trade. I guess that is why we have been your ally for longer then anyone else. I guess that is why you have the Jones Act and the 25% tariffs on light trucks. I guess that is why you're pissed that we're your largest importer of steel and are now willing to sacrifice 80 American jobs to take one Canadian job, because we're not importing enough steel.
Anyways it is nice to know how Americans consider their oldest friend as being nothing but a business contact and next time your true friends the Saudis blow up some buildings, perhaps we'll just sit back and wait for a business interest in helping.
No, more like what the US did to Canada. Now that your trade surplus has dropped to only $20 billion, you're freaking out with the excuse that you need to dump your highly subsidized milk and put more Canadian farmers out of work.
Wahh, wahh, we only have a $20 billion trade surplus with this country, lets throw some tariffs on them, it'll raise the price of a house for the average American by 20 grand, and those lumber barons can buy another yacht.
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The worst flaws of the TPP were introduced by America, or rather American corporations, in the form of IP shit. Now that same shit is being put into NAFTA and a bunch of people who hated that IP shit in the TPP now love it in NAFTA.
The conservation is about big companies killing competition, not social media. It just happens that a couple of these large companies are social media companies, at least if you count Google as social media.
Now whether Amazon has been preventing competition, I can't say.
Wasn't that typical of American companies? At least until Germany declared war on the States.
I can call a friend an arsehole or cunt and get away with it as my friends know me. If I call a random person a cunt or arsehole, bad things are likely to happen.
A couple of years back, my ISP announced it was dropping dial up due to it being too hard to get equipment. Whether true or not I don't know.
I continued using dial up (for free instead of the $45 a month they were charging) for another year until they built a cell tower. This is Canada, where internet is considered a vital service, so they couldn't actually just shut it off.
I did route the dial up from my computer to a router and supply WiFi to the house but it was pretty crappy towards the end. Even Slashdot stopped totally loading once they switched to HTTPS.
It's on the coast, probably little snow most years.