The $60cdn stuff is so underpowered, it is not worth discussing. It is also subsidized — by the same things EU fines Google for insisting on.
You are demanding, a $60 thing be comparable to a $600 one — dream on.
It wasn't subsidized, was on sale. It's a Moto E and does everything I expect it to do. I don't need an Apple phone or an expensive Android for how little I use a phone. The only thing I'm demanding is the choice for an inexpensive phone, along with some freedom about what I run, something that Apple does not deliver.
The valid measure is competition. Unless Google is caught sabotaging competitors, such as by producing inferior search-results when "Safari" is found in User-Agent, there is nothing for the governments to do.
I'm inclined to agree. I switched to Google way back because it was superiour. But I'm not a phone manufacturer, which is the people that seem to be having problems with Googles behaviour.
Err, Microsoft actually propped up Apple just so they could point to them and claim not to have a desktop monopoly. And it was true, if you didn't want to use Windows, you could pay lots more and use a Mac. Personally, paying 10x ($60cdn vs $600 cdn) as much for an Apple as I paid for my phone is a non-starter.
They also knew there was a lot of property to steal from those horrible free braves. Then there was the labour to steal from those horrible Africans. Then there was theft to be done in that horrible Central America. Now they just live on credit as the idea of paying your way is not compatible with freedom.
Don't forget the deficit. Too lazy to look it up but it seems the USA has some of the higher per capita deficits. Kind of like the people who borrow and borrow to live a higher lifestyle then they can really afford.
Well by spending smart instead of using the military as a pork factory, we spend enough. Could be like Greece, spend lots and have a really shitty military, but since Greece spends something like 4% of GDP, they must have a great military. It is really easy to blow a lot of money on the military and have fuck all to show for it besides a lot of corruption.
People I know in BC who have needed an emergency MRI get it within 24 hours (it is a bit slow on Sunday). There's lots of clinics so you don't have to go to the emergency and when I had to take a friend to emergency a couple of times last year, he'd be in by the time I parked and walked back to the emergency. Did have to wait till morning to get operated on though. Same with my sister who made the mistake of needing bypass surgery on the weekend, took 12 hours before she was in the OR. Where things get slow is if you need a new knee or hip, could be months of waiting. Same if you live in the middle of nowhere, it can be a hassle getting care. BC is big, California is closer then the north.
One thing most Americans don't know about Canada is that the Provinces (and Territories) each handle their own medical system with the feds just saying the minimum so you can't generalize too much.
Yep, the inventors of the Spanish Inquisition were quite moral, along with so many Europeans of the time. Look at Columbus, chopping the arms of the natives who didn't bring him enough gold (had to pay off his backers).
The conquistadors also physically killed a lot of the natives. They had better technology and horses along with a moral framework that allowed them to act like total arseholes.
No they don't, at least the ones that aren't posted instantly. At that most good comments don't get modded up if they're towards the bottom of the page. I've also seen numerous users actually comment that they don't mod AC's up as they seem to believe the moderation system is to reward users rather then promote good comments. I also don't mod a lot of the time due to wanting to have the option to post.
(Can you name a website that has a *better* moderation system?)
Soylentnews.org has extended the moderation system in interesting ways. Mods like disagree and touche that don't affect the score, a spam mod that involves the editors (might not work here as it requires editor review), mod points for every account and the capability to mod and post in the same discussion with limitations. It's based on the old open source slashcode.
In Alberta, there is a huge problem with abandoned oil wells, run by shell companies that go bankrupt when the oil drys up. Coming up are the abandoned bitumen mines that are really ecologically horrible. Down the road from me, there's hundreds of millions being put into a small dam that was built a hundred years back, cheaper to refurbish it then tear it down. Getting away from energy, there are a lot of mines that were abandoned and need to be cleaned up. Some of which left some really toxic shit around. It's the story of capitalism, it's more profitable to abandon things then to clean them up after their useful life.
If they try to monetize it through advertising, then they have to worry about the advertisers being happy with the content. Considering the target audience, the advertisers would probably be drug companies, companies that, for example, want the Doctor to start the insulin course as early as possible instead of when needed as it is more profitable.
From the outside looking in, it was pretty depressing how few votes went for anyone else. There's something really broken when with such shitty candidates, only roughly 1% voted for other.
Isn't that how it is in America, give guns to the people who back this shit, have an old list of a few freedoms that can be taken away for national security or to save a child and those gun toting people back the government making it that much harder to do anything about the new world order. Giving out guns to those who support the jack boots is not the answer.
My ISP, Telus, is very profitable with mostly increasing profits every year. According to https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno... all the Canadian Telecoms are the most profitable in the world at 45.9%. That article is old but ddg returns other results showing their profitability, eg https://ycharts.com/companies/... shows 12.24% quarterly.
Better then getting charged something like 50 cents a MB if you go over, with no warning. I'd rather get cut back to 64 kbs, especially since up till last year, I was stuck with 26.4 kbs on dial up. Now for home internet, I have a rural LTE plan with a 250 GB limit and generally about 12 Mb/s down.
I'm just far enough east of Vancouver that I didn't have any cell and just dial up ($45 a month + $30 for the land line). Telus finally put up a tower and has this rural internet deal. LTE, about 12 Mb/s down (8-25 depending on time of day) and 1-2 Mb/s up (slower the down, better the up) with a 250 GB limit, including payments on the $300 internet hub (it's half that for regular plans), it's close to a $100 a month. Nice after dial-up but if I was a couple of miles closer to town, it would be 300/300 unlimited fibre for the same price (with a 6 month discount). Some of my neighbours had xplornet and hated it, but love the LTE, I never had the option due to a mountain.
No, now a days the end user agreements that you have to agree to say no suing. You have to go through arbitration now. Don't worry, they swear that the arbitrator they hired isn't biased.
Used to be that there'd be a couple of newspapers in town, each proudly wearing its bias and most everyone aware of the bias. This was repeated to a large extend when radio and TV showed up on the scene. Now, they're all owned by the same couple of companies, all pushing mostly the same agenda and just pretending bias.
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The $60cdn stuff is so underpowered, it is not worth discussing. It is also subsidized — by the same things EU fines Google for insisting on.
You are demanding, a $60 thing be comparable to a $600 one — dream on.
It wasn't subsidized, was on sale. It's a Moto E and does everything I expect it to do. I don't need an Apple phone or an expensive Android for how little I use a phone. The only thing I'm demanding is the choice for an inexpensive phone, along with some freedom about what I run, something that Apple does not deliver.
The valid measure is competition. Unless Google is caught sabotaging competitors, such as by producing inferior search-results when "Safari" is found in User-Agent, there is nothing for the governments to do.
I'm inclined to agree. I switched to Google way back because it was superiour. But I'm not a phone manufacturer, which is the people that seem to be having problems with Googles behaviour.
Err, Microsoft actually propped up Apple just so they could point to them and claim not to have a desktop monopoly. And it was true, if you didn't want to use Windows, you could pay lots more and use a Mac.
Personally, paying 10x ($60cdn vs $600 cdn) as much for an Apple as I paid for my phone is a non-starter.
And when the government decides to demand high royalties from the nationalized insurance to make up for the low taxes?
They also knew there was a lot of property to steal from those horrible free braves. Then there was the labour to steal from those horrible Africans. Then there was theft to be done in that horrible Central America.
Now they just live on credit as the idea of paying your way is not compatible with freedom.
Don't forget the deficit. Too lazy to look it up but it seems the USA has some of the higher per capita deficits. Kind of like the people who borrow and borrow to live a higher lifestyle then they can really afford.
Well by spending smart instead of using the military as a pork factory, we spend enough.
Could be like Greece, spend lots and have a really shitty military, but since Greece spends something like 4% of GDP, they must have a great military.
It is really easy to blow a lot of money on the military and have fuck all to show for it besides a lot of corruption.
Actually a bad government can fuck up public healthcare just like they can fuck everything else.
People I know in BC who have needed an emergency MRI get it within 24 hours (it is a bit slow on Sunday). There's lots of clinics so you don't have to go to the emergency and when I had to take a friend to emergency a couple of times last year, he'd be in by the time I parked and walked back to the emergency. Did have to wait till morning to get operated on though.
Same with my sister who made the mistake of needing bypass surgery on the weekend, took 12 hours before she was in the OR.
Where things get slow is if you need a new knee or hip, could be months of waiting.
Same if you live in the middle of nowhere, it can be a hassle getting care. BC is big, California is closer then the north.
One thing most Americans don't know about Canada is that the Provinces (and Territories) each handle their own medical system with the feds just saying the minimum so you can't generalize too much.
And taxes are relatively low and the budget is balanced.
Why waste energy being angry at people that died many centuries ago? Why mourn for people that died many centuries ago?
Can you change the past?
Be nice if people could learn from the past.
Yep, the inventors of the Spanish Inquisition were quite moral, along with so many Europeans of the time. Look at Columbus, chopping the arms of the natives who didn't bring him enough gold (had to pay off his backers).
The conquistadors also physically killed a lot of the natives. They had better technology and horses along with a moral framework that allowed them to act like total arseholes.
They probably used their digits to hold the machetes they hacked with.
No they don't, at least the ones that aren't posted instantly. At that most good comments don't get modded up if they're towards the bottom of the page.
I've also seen numerous users actually comment that they don't mod AC's up as they seem to believe the moderation system is to reward users rather then promote good comments.
I also don't mod a lot of the time due to wanting to have the option to post.
(Can you name a website that has a *better* moderation system?)
Soylentnews.org has extended the moderation system in interesting ways. Mods like disagree and touche that don't affect the score, a spam mod that involves the editors (might not work here as it requires editor review), mod points for every account and the capability to mod and post in the same discussion with limitations.
It's based on the old open source slashcode.
In Alberta, there is a huge problem with abandoned oil wells, run by shell companies that go bankrupt when the oil drys up. Coming up are the abandoned bitumen mines that are really ecologically horrible.
Down the road from me, there's hundreds of millions being put into a small dam that was built a hundred years back, cheaper to refurbish it then tear it down.
Getting away from energy, there are a lot of mines that were abandoned and need to be cleaned up. Some of which left some really toxic shit around.
It's the story of capitalism, it's more profitable to abandon things then to clean them up after their useful life.
If they try to monetize it through advertising, then they have to worry about the advertisers being happy with the content. Considering the target audience, the advertisers would probably be drug companies, companies that, for example, want the Doctor to start the insulin course as early as possible instead of when needed as it is more profitable.
From the outside looking in, it was pretty depressing how few votes went for anyone else. There's something really broken when with such shitty candidates, only roughly 1% voted for other.
But hey, let's give up out guns. That'll help.
Isn't that how it is in America, give guns to the people who back this shit, have an old list of a few freedoms that can be taken away for national security or to save a child and those gun toting people back the government making it that much harder to do anything about the new world order.
Giving out guns to those who support the jack boots is not the answer.
My ISP, Telus, is very profitable with mostly increasing profits every year.
According to https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno... all the Canadian Telecoms are the most profitable in the world at 45.9%. That article is old but ddg returns other results showing their profitability, eg https://ycharts.com/companies/... shows 12.24% quarterly.
Better then getting charged something like 50 cents a MB if you go over, with no warning. I'd rather get cut back to 64 kbs, especially since up till last year, I was stuck with 26.4 kbs on dial up.
Now for home internet, I have a rural LTE plan with a 250 GB limit and generally about 12 Mb/s down.
I'm just far enough east of Vancouver that I didn't have any cell and just dial up ($45 a month + $30 for the land line). Telus finally put up a tower and has this rural internet deal. LTE, about 12 Mb/s down (8-25 depending on time of day) and 1-2 Mb/s up (slower the down, better the up) with a 250 GB limit, including payments on the $300 internet hub (it's half that for regular plans), it's close to a $100 a month. Nice after dial-up but if I was a couple of miles closer to town, it would be 300/300 unlimited fibre for the same price (with a 6 month discount).
Some of my neighbours had xplornet and hated it, but love the LTE, I never had the option due to a mountain.
No, now a days the end user agreements that you have to agree to say no suing. You have to go through arbitration now. Don't worry, they swear that the arbitrator they hired isn't biased.
Used to be that there'd be a couple of newspapers in town, each proudly wearing its bias and most everyone aware of the bias. This was repeated to a large extend when radio and TV showed up on the scene.
Now, they're all owned by the same couple of companies, all pushing mostly the same agenda and just pretending bias.
You have a citation for the fracking not being on public land?