My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.
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I'm not sure why this is news or why this is a cause for worry. There are 750 detachments, over 20000 officers across a country the size of Canada. Its a small number of weapons, especially considering the vast majority are handguns. It's going to happen. The way this alarmist article is talking, it sounded like hundreds or thousands of weapons are missing and continue to go missing on a weekly or monthly basis. Instead, the majority were reported in 2016 which could be due to a reporting anomaly. (ie missed from previous reports)
Finally, there are over 20 millions guns in Canada and guns are only involved in a small percentage of violent crimes here. Vast majority are sharp objects and the fastest growing is flammable liquid attacks.
Energy conservation has been part of that messaging. Running appliances and low peak times etc. All of that is out the window for AI.
Energy conservation is the dumbest thing we have ever talked about. For prosperity and well being, electricity should be cheap and plentiful. It's pollution and greenhouse gases that need to be curtailed. Another mixed up policy mess of messaging, and it is being unravelled by AI.
Clean electricity should be so cheap that every other option isnt feasible. Instead, it's talk conservation, reducing wealth and quality of life.
Duolingo is a game for points and badges. it's not actually useful for learning anything.
It's true:
3.0 - aka the Windows Protection Fault release 3.1/3.11/WFWG, now with far fewer WPFs 95 - I lost nearly a year of life waiting for it to reboot, again. 98! Second Edition TBF ME - Lets remove stuff and cause cause problems XP - SP2 - I can login before my PC is taken over by RPC calls from the Internet! Vista - UAC up the Longhorn ass 7 - took long enough 8 - 1.5 half complet OSes 10 - erased 1 OS, completed the other 11 - I am still waiting for file Explorer to open. Where is fileman.exe? It's so laggy, why does the context menu draw out one row at a time.
Microsoft could also be terrified of how shitty Windows 11 is. I have to think back to Millennium Edition to compare to something this disastrous, but Satya doesn't care about Windows, Surface, or XBox. Microsoft's future is M365, Azure, and D365. Big fat high margin Enterprise Agreements since everyone is locked into their proprietary shitty office formats. And they get enterprise problems with audit, identify, access control like few other businesses.
What I don't know understand is why companies refuse to sell off businesses that they know will die off from their neglect. A shame, except for Windows.
All people hear is that the carbon tax is about making it too expensive to go on vacation and to visit their family. As soon as you mention cruise ships and flights, total shut down, all other words past that point, they hear nothing.
Meanwhile, our leaders fly private jets to international events to discuss greenhouse gas emissions to announce that meat is bad, eat bugs, then fly around to their personal Hawaiian compound (Zuckerberg), commute daily across multiple states to their life saving job (Starbucks). And this is after years of why we need to cut back energy use and wash laundry at 2am to save the grid (or planet, or whatever), but now for AI we need hundreds of nuclear power plants so the same people can throw these voters out of work so that the companies can squeeze out a few more points of profit margin to trigger big bonus payouts for their brilliant leadership.
Of course people are voting for the opposite, which is the picture being painted by PP. And it is working. So forget about cruise ships, cars, economy air travel. Unless we actually deal with the extreme hypocrisy, we all all sunk.
The CBC is a sad catastrophe. The world and financial model in media is completely different but their mandate hasn't changed. It's not 2005 anymore. Harper did nothing to help, and Trudeau has been a complete failure here. Further, the Liberal policies on the media failed and in hindsight, we can see accelerated the collapse. Now half the country thinks it's all Trudeau funded propaganda and they have a point, since his policies actually pay to keep the remnants of the old world mainstream press in business. In practice this is enriching shareholders in Postmedia as the last drops of value are extracted from its miserable corpse, and providing funds to Bell who repurposes the money as they desperately try to recover from 2 decades of mismanagement.
I can only imagine what PP will do since we live in a world where policies and platforms are a sure fire way to lose an election, but not in my wildest fantasies do I foresee a reimagining of our public broadcaster by his government. What could possibly remain by 2030? To me, it's a lost cause so I'll focus my time and effort elsewhere.
The Food Banks are out out of touch too. They sent out a mass mailer asking for money, explaining the hard times of high food prices and use olive oil as an example. Would people rather starve than lower themselves to vegetable oil these days?
Canada is a dream country for grifters. Just look at Kevin O'Leary, these international students eating for free, and Marc Miller.
We buy in metric and measure in imperial. 1 kg of flour please, then I go home and measure it in cups and tablespoons.
For cooking, etc we should have names for 5, 10, and 25 ML, 125mL etc. Worst thing they did was try to say is that 250mL is a cup, when it is actually a great way to screw up a recipe. Fortunately Alexa does my conversions for me while my hands are wet or occupied.
But either way, I still need to know Imperial so that I can talk to Americans. Some folks seem to think being clueless about metric is some badge of honour.
Powering off a pile of switches is turning it off. Powering off a sentient being is killing it. Not to mention a million other issues it raises.
Awesome! Send them to Canada, we can build data centres and sell the cloud services back to Americans powered by the electricity that we expect to be tarriffed, and cooled by the water we won't sell.