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  1. Re:Translation. on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ontario ran out of other peoples' money over 400 billion dollars and nearly 30 years ago.

    What they ran out now of was people willing to vote for the Liberals.

  2. Re:.. and you've spent 20 years learning Windows on With DaaS Windows Coming, Say Goodbye To Your PC As You Know It (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    My Dad too. But he also wants his ink jet printer / scanner to work when he needs it. And his Kobo e-book interface software. Blah.

  3. That's not how Bitcoin mining works.

  4. Re:The U.S. is losing its space dominance on Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? The US went to the moon almost 50 years ago. There's nothing there. NASA cancelled the last planned missions because there was no point. Our democratic system would rather spend money on welfare and war than pointless grandstanding.

    If we were serious about space we'd be building real habitats in geosync, and we'd capture a small near-earth asteroid so we could start learning how to mine and fab new structures in space with materials that didn't have to be launched from Earth. You get a couple hundred people living and working in orbit for a decade, and then you can talk about living on the Moon or Mars.

  5. There have been zero $35K (or $50K Canadian) Model 3's sold in Ontario, because Tesla has produced and sold zero $35K Model 3's, period. They are only producing the higher priced versions.

    Given the limited utility of electric cars in general, and the fact that you pretty much have to have a single family home with driveway in order to have a charging point for one, I definitely think buyers are above average income. Thankfully poor people are helping them out with that $14,000 rebate.

  6. The overreach extends well beyond his phone on Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones (fox13news.com) · · Score: 2

    The guy was pulled over on an extremely minor misdemeanor traffic stop. The cops had no absolutely no reason to even think about searching his car in the first place. The "drug dog " (which are widely known to be used to alert to whatever the handler points to) used as a tool to turn this into a criminal matter in the first place is the overreach here. The phone is a minor side story. Y'all already live in a police state and are arguing over which violation of your freedom is the one sinking the ship. The ship is on the bottom already.

  7. Re:...even for those who don't have them on Canadian Telecoms Make The Most Money on Data Usage In The World: Tefficient (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    Buy a prepaid SIM from Koodo. Set it up on their web site using their self-serve portal. Plug it into any unlocked phone. Tada, you get Telus service for a fraction of the price.

    You're still getting gouged by the oligopoly, but it's a gentler gouging.

  8. Re:...even for those who don't have them on Canadian Telecoms Make The Most Money on Data Usage In The World: Tefficient (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    Oh, I understand I'm still getting screwed. I can't do anything about that, though. I'm just saying you don't have to pay Telus or Bell $100 a month or more for terrible service.

  9. Re:...even for those who don't have them on Canadian Telecoms Make The Most Money on Data Usage In The World: Tefficient (huffingtonpost.ca) · · Score: 1

    You can buy a $100 Android phone off Amazon and use it on a $15-$40/month prepay (depending how much you actually use it as a phone). You don't have to pay the premier robber-baron prices. You will still have to pay extra for data, though.

  10. These immigrants are educated, work hard, and probably won't turn into Democrats.

  11. Re:With morons like Trump "running things" on We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I dunno. Civilizations change, too, over fairly short periods of time. Romans conquered half the known world, once. And 200 years later they were begging for bread while watching lions eat people, happy to let Germans do their fighting for them.

    Our own civilization went into space and built a lot of cool things. But now we read Facebook and sell ads to each other, and protest at the slightest hint that someone might actually build something.

    So there's no guarantee that a civilization that goes into space will continue to expand.

  12. Re:Unicode doesn't belong in a URL... on Scammers Abuse Multilingual Domain Names (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Anyone can get a cert issued to whoever they want as long as they control the domain (web serving, DNS or email).

    Extended validation certs not so much. But I would think a scammer could get an EV cert issued to something that looks convincingly similar, too.

  13. Not much. Your basic exemption is almost $12k. You might owe some CPP.

  14. Re:And this is a "problem" because ... on Most Organizations Are Not Fully Embracing DevOps (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure half the web industry thinks DevOps means they don't need ops at all.

  15. Re:Laptops with 128 GB of RAM... on Laptops With 128GB of RAM Are Here (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I've been doing this for 10 years. It works great. And I have a very functional laptop when I do travel or work in odd locations. Even in airports I can usually find an A/C outlet when I need to work for more than an hour.

  16. The Leaf has sold over 300,000 units since introduction. That makes it the best selling EV of all time. However, it has been dropping and all 3 Tesla models outsell it in recent years, as does the Bolt and the Prius. So you're both right.

  17. No ICE requires any maintenance in the first 3 or 4 years, either, other than oil changes. They also run for 15+ years, usually. Why have you needed 2 different Volts in 6 years?

  18. Re:The world? Huh... on The World Isn't Prepared for Retirement (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, except that all those programs are broke, too. Deutsche Bank estimated that Germans will need to pay 80% income taxes rates (total, not marginal) by 2045 to fund PAYGO at it's current levels. And Germany's in far better shape financially than almost any other country.

    9 million Canadians will retire over the next 15 years. Canada has like 37 million people total. Those retirees will each collect roughly $40k a year on average between CPP, OAS, GIS and medical care for the next 25 years. Add them to existing retirees plus the nearly 4 million people that work for the government, and every private sector worker will have to pay for 1 or more retirees plus a good chunk of a full government worker's salary out of their taxes. Which obviously can't happen.

  19. Re:But why? on Microsoft Acquires GitHub For $7.5B (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    What people at GitHub care about and what the VCs who owned it care about are not necessarily the same things.

  20. Re:She was STOPPED at a red light on Woman Looking At Apple Watch Found Guilty of Distracted Driving (nationalpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If the engine's running, you're in control. Most of our distracted driving charges happen at stop lights. But, if your phone's out, you're almost certainly using it while moving, too.

  21. Re:I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Most of the calls come from Pakistan. All with fake numbers. Telcos seriously need inbound CID filtering.

  22. Re:US capitalism on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You would if providers were required to publish up-front the prices for those services (regardless of means of payment).

  23. Re:Trump's fault obviously on China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Are the Democrats going to promote healthy lifestyle choices? Get rid of the high-carb low-fat diet recommendations that are killing Americans? Break up the medical monopolies and drug cartels to drop the cost of health care by 80% or more?

  24. Re:Go figure on Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Millenial tech workers can get all the jobs they want. Millenial gender studies grads not so much.

  25. Re:They weren't old.. on Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Veterans yes, but mostly Medicare (subsidized health care for old people) and Medicaid (transfers to the states to subsidize health care for poor people).