- Take a 4 way intersection
- Draw a shape in the middle of it
- Remove all signs and signals
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- Roundabout
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The government is almost entirely in control of education and pay for doctors. Canada ranks 75 in the world in doctors per capita in-between Qatar and Colombia. The United States ranks 40 and is probably the most capitalistic country in the world.
US law allows companies to enforce essentially any terms of service or end user licence agreement they want when selling products or services and rewriting laws to add an exception for video games is never going to happen.
Stop Killing Games believe existing EU laws don't allow this and are alleging some TOS and EULA of game companies are in violation. They want the EU parliament to review that and hopefully clarify the laws to ensure game companies aren't "depriving citizens of property".
From the petition:
We wish to invoke Article 17 §1 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [EUR-Lex - 12012P/TXT - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)] – “No one may be deprived of his or her possessions, except in the public interest and in the cases and under the conditions provided for by law, subject to fair compensation being paid in good time for their loss.” – This practice deprives European citizens of their property by making it so that they lose access to their product an indeterminate/arbitrary amount of time after the point of sale. We wish to see this remedied, at the core of this Initiative.
The hope is that companies won't make two versions of their games. One that complies with EU law and one that doesn't. No idea where that comes from. GDPR is EU law and many companies created two versions of their service to avoid needing to follow it for everyone. Some companies, including game studios, even dropped their EU customers entirely instead of complying.
It's also become YouTuber drama bait at this point and is an easy way smaller channels can get extra views.
It's unfortunate because it seems like a self-made problem. There's report after report of how there aren't enough residency positions for new doctors. It seems like Canada wants doctors, they just don't want to train them.
Wow. Lots to unpack there. Skipping over the part where you believe the government shouldn't need to honour the contracts they've signed with First Nations if they don't feel like it, unchecked resource extraction is also terrible.
The island nation of Nauru discovered huge deposits of phosphate under their land. The government began large scale mining operations in the 80s which saw the country sky rocket to highest GDP per capita in the entire world. The mining industry brought in huge sums of money for the country and it's people. Mining became the biggest industry in the entire nation, with most people leaving their old job and getting a new high paying one in the ever expanding mining industry. An economic phenomena known as "Dutch Disease". If that name doesn't sound like a good thing, it's because it's not.
The market price of phosphate eventually dropped. The mining industry faced massive downturn and layoffs. The country had tore up their farmlands to build mines and farmers had left agriculture to become miners. They were importing most of their food with the money they made in mining. Money they no longer had. They also had a large tourism industry that no longer exists because they no longer have a single beach. All of them were turned into mining operations. Today the country struggles with poverty and is unable to rebuild any of the industries that mining killed. Their main source of income today is holding prisoners from Australia.
And now it's YouTuber drama.
Or are people just venting because the initiative is struggling to succeed
It's this one. He lives rent free in people's minds because he made a video 9 months ago that has 1 million views where he says he doesn't support it because it would cause undue burden on developers. Focusing on YouTuber drama is really taking away from the message of consumer rights.
Ah 2024, great year!
Why have lot company when few company do trick?
The headline is misleading because the Ottawa Citizen is owned by conservative fanboys, PostMedia. Carney promised a balanced budget but his budget guy said that's not going to happen since making good on his campaign promises is more costly than initially expected and balancing would require a budget cut. They're not doing that. That's just taken out of context for the headline.
But in an interview, Giroux said that the promise of a cap on the public service will not be enough to mitigate Carney’s additional spending. He said he expects higher deficits, and as a result, higher debt servicing charges over the next few years.
Emphasis mine.
“To balance or to pay for these types of additional spending there would need to be severe cuts to the public service, significant cuts,” Giroux said.
There would need to be cuts to balance the budget. That's why they're not going to balance the budget.
This is a fetish thing isn't it?
Wes Anderson vibes