To get "economic citizenship" in Canada, you still must be a permanent resident in Canada for 4 years before you can actually become a citizen. According to the law you cite, one could not do that and remain a Chinese national.
I don't know what loopholes there may be in the Chinese law, but it not nearly as simple for a Chinese national to 'buy' dual Chinese/Canadian citizenship as you suggest, especially since Canada has radically curtailed its investor visa program in the past few years.
They should use the capitalist approach to the problem. Move the servers offshore, and transfer the ownership of the content to a non-US based corporation, so that the law no longer applies to them.
Here's a better approach...and one that is more likely to actually happen. Anyone who cares to preserve the material will band together to download it all from Youtube, and upload it to TPB. You have 9 days, pirates. Arrrrrr!
IF global warming is anthropogenic then it is a direct function of population size.
No, it's a direct function of the aggregate amount of heat-trapping gasses put into the atmosphere by all of the people on earth. If you could magically lower the rate of population growth to zero or below tomorrow, yet at the same time more and more of the developing world adopts more carbon energy demanding western lifestyles, you still won't have fixed the problem. Conversely, if we could magically make it so that we could have an equivalent lifestyle on a small fraction of the carbon-producing energy we use now, we could still maintain population growth with greatly reduced carbon output.
I'm not arguing in favor of continued population growth, anything but. But population alone is not the driving factor.
My kindergarten year was 1969-1970, and my experience was pretty close to what you describe. I remember the teachers making a big deal of the fact that I could already read in kindergarten, and they didn't start with the Dick and Jane books until 1st grade. While I'm not one to grumpily castigate "kids these days", if they're pushing kids that much harder nowadays, I'm not seeing any particularly positive results from it.
Software which I use that uses QT: 4K Video Downloader, Calibre, Google Earth, KeePass, MuseScore, PokerTH, Stellarium, Virtual Box, QBittorrent (not on list).
Software that uses QT which I don't use but I believe is pretty popular: Adobe Photoshop Album, Doxygen, Guitar Pro, last.fm, Parallels, Spotify, Wireshark. That's not counting games or dev tools.
Considering that I'd be hard-pressed to list that many useful desktop apps in, for instance, Java, I'd say it's a reasonably impressive list.
Interesting exercise in cherry-picking statistics until you actually look at the link.
However, you neglect to mention India with nearly the same population as China, which only has 17% smartphone penetration compared to China's 58%. So in China and India aggregated, "most of the population still doesn't have a smartphone" is true, and considering that Pakistan, Vietnam, and surprisingly even Japan are well below 50%, I see no reason to think Wilson's claim is inaccurate.
If I have to spend all my personal time learning things for the next job then there isn't much point being in technology at all.
Not to mention the fact...how many instances have you ever seen in your IT career where someone was hired on the basis of some technology s/he picked up in their own spare time? I can't say it never happens, but in 20 years in IT I've never seen it happen even once.
Yet the mantra that we all should be spending every last waking non-working hour chasing after every fad-of-the-week language/framework seems to be pervasive around here, even as it flies in the face of economic reality, not to mention basic human nature.
Sadly on the last thread about this there were a bunch of people who were terrified of dangerous perverted transwomen. It is unfortunately impossible to reason with someone whose brain is taken over with fear.
Especially when you consider that the entire "bathroom mandate" makes zero sense even if you are so terrified.
If a transgender man (born female, identifying as male) uses the men's room, that person will invariably use a stall, and therefore no one will know the person is transgendered. For a transgender woman using the ladies' room, where there are only stalls, same thing....no one' s the wiser.
But when you have a law that says people must use the bathroom of their gender at birth, you are now mandating that people who appear male must use the ladies' room, and that a transgender woman can be standing at the next urinal over. Either y'all are totally comfortable with that, or y'all really ain't thought it through too good.
An easy way to do that is creating an expansion slot between the legs, that can house extended batteries, sexual organs or an hotdog cooker for the american versions.
As Sterling Archer could tell you, beware the trauma of waking up to a vagina in the sink.
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Check your math; that doesn't even work in long scale.
To get "economic citizenship" in Canada, you still must be a permanent resident in Canada for 4 years before you can actually become a citizen. According to the law you cite, one could not do that and remain a Chinese national.
I don't know what loopholes there may be in the Chinese law, but it not nearly as simple for a Chinese national to 'buy' dual Chinese/Canadian citizenship as you suggest, especially since Canada has radically curtailed its investor visa program in the past few years.
A 6-digit UID user keeping a 4-digit UID sock puppet account. Now that's some dedicated trolling! lol
Obligatory xkcd
Here's a better approach...and one that is more likely to actually happen. Anyone who cares to preserve the material will band together to download it all from Youtube, and upload it to TPB. You have 9 days, pirates. Arrrrrr!
What are you talking about? Standard (Redbook) CD Audio is not in MP3 format by any stretch of the imagination.
MongoDB attacks are Web Scale.
It's Sunday's Game!
And it's terminal, too.
No, it's a direct function of the aggregate amount of heat-trapping gasses put into the atmosphere by all of the people on earth. If you could magically lower the rate of population growth to zero or below tomorrow, yet at the same time more and more of the developing world adopts more carbon energy demanding western lifestyles, you still won't have fixed the problem. Conversely, if we could magically make it so that we could have an equivalent lifestyle on a small fraction of the carbon-producing energy we use now, we could still maintain population growth with greatly reduced carbon output.
I'm not arguing in favor of continued population growth, anything but. But population alone is not the driving factor.
Choice-supportive bias
My kindergarten year was 1969-1970, and my experience was pretty close to what you describe. I remember the teachers making a big deal of the fact that I could already read in kindergarten, and they didn't start with the Dick and Jane books until 1st grade. While I'm not one to grumpily castigate "kids these days", if they're pushing kids that much harder nowadays, I'm not seeing any particularly positive results from it.
Software which I use that uses QT: 4K Video Downloader, Calibre, Google Earth, KeePass, MuseScore, PokerTH, Stellarium, Virtual Box, QBittorrent (not on list).
Software that uses QT which I don't use but I believe is pretty popular: Adobe Photoshop Album, Doxygen, Guitar Pro, last.fm, Parallels, Spotify, Wireshark. That's not counting games or dev tools.
Considering that I'd be hard-pressed to list that many useful desktop apps in, for instance, Java, I'd say it's a reasonably impressive list.
"Ha ha ha! I am a prankster God. I am killing me!" - Bill Hicks
...the Ask toolbar. Who doesn't love that?
Google 'kodi box'. Amazon has dozens of models for sale.
Actually, the South Park reference that immediately came to my mind was this.
Interesting exercise in cherry-picking statistics until you actually look at the link.
However, you neglect to mention India with nearly the same population as China, which only has 17% smartphone penetration compared to China's 58%. So in China and India aggregated, "most of the population still doesn't have a smartphone" is true, and considering that Pakistan, Vietnam, and surprisingly even Japan are well below 50%, I see no reason to think Wilson's claim is inaccurate.
Not to mention the fact...how many instances have you ever seen in your IT career where someone was hired on the basis of some technology s/he picked up in their own spare time? I can't say it never happens, but in 20 years in IT I've never seen it happen even once.
Yet the mantra that we all should be spending every last waking non-working hour chasing after every fad-of-the-week language/framework seems to be pervasive around here, even as it flies in the face of economic reality, not to mention basic human nature.
Obligatory Cheech and Chong bit
IMHO, it would be way more appropriate to let in the people who answer "yes", but then only show them tranny porn.
Especially when you consider that the entire "bathroom mandate" makes zero sense even if you are so terrified.
If a transgender man (born female, identifying as male) uses the men's room, that person will invariably use a stall, and therefore no one will know the person is transgendered. For a transgender woman using the ladies' room, where there are only stalls, same thing....no one' s the wiser.
But when you have a law that says people must use the bathroom of their gender at birth, you are now mandating that people who appear male must use the ladies' room, and that a transgender woman can be standing at the next urinal over. Either y'all are totally comfortable with that, or y'all really ain't thought it through too good.
I vaguely remember this film, but the creepiest part to me is that it was set in 2017.
As Sterling Archer could tell you, beware the trauma of waking up to a vagina in the sink.
Heh...actually I'm not sure which constitutes worse animal abuse: releasing the eagle in the Chapel, or putting one in same room as Trump.