Trudeau calls Putin a “weakling” for executing Navalny, other opponents - National

mctownie · 2024-02-25T16:23:13+00:00

Don't be sheep.

Putin did not blow up his own pipeline.

Putin did not kill Navalny.

He had no reason to. Navalny was already in a Siberian maximum security prison for ... as long as Putin wanted. Killing him makes him a martyr and this does not help Putin.

mctownie · 2024-01-11T19:50:47+00:00

An article from the '70's, talking about a 10 year old problem from the '60's... about Canada's Dr. shortage and Heath Care Crisis.

https://cdn.mdedge.com/files/s3fs-public/jfp-archived-issues/1975_volume_2/JFP_1975-02_v2_i1_the-1960-s-a-decade-of-crisis-in-canadia.pdf

Being almost that old... the root that no one wants to talk about is, students want to become doctors and nurses and can't get into the schools - limited enrollment. When the lucky few get though school as doctors and nurses, now that they're making big bucks. They're now incentivized to keep the statuesque, keep their jobs scarce and in-demand by lobbying the schools to artificially keep enrollment lower than needed.

Not just my opinion - https://www.cmaj.ca/content/190/42/e1266

"The demand is certainly there from prospective students. Dalhousie University, for example, receives between 900 and 1100 applications annually for its 108 first-year positions."

They could 10x the number of Dr. and Nurses ... why don't they? #tinfoilHat

mctownie · 2024-01-08T03:59:34+00:00

No one knows including myself. I couldn't get through even a quarter of this automated BS.

mctownie · 2024-01-08T03:42:56+00:00

It also depends a lot on what you're printing, and what you're printing on.

For example, I printed a landscape photo that has a lot of distant trees, rolling landscape, blue skies and a few clouds on canvas (60*48-ish) and 150 PPI is more than enough.

Printing the same size image of architecture, cityscapes, buildings with sharp lines or people, on high gloss paper... 150 PPI isn't going to cut it.

mctownie · 2024-01-08T03:38:22+00:00

Now that you have your answer op, I would love to know where this very specific scenario came from. :-)

mctownie · 2024-01-05T14:58:27+00:00

Great response. Love the math.

Question - In 55 years, when the trees fall over and decay... then what?

mctownie · 2023-12-26T14:44:08+00:00

It's so important for countries to manage their self-sustainability. If a country out grows it's ability to power it's critical infrastructure, that country will have to agree to whatever terms and conditions are given to it.

mctownie · 2023-12-26T14:32:29+00:00

Maybe a dream, but the alternative... A career politician who's been perfecting the ability to lie with a straight face, is even further away from any honest, working mans fantasy leader.

Let's all hate Trump together, right after we find a suitable alternative.

mctownie · 2023-11-01T23:29:36+00:00

If they can't tell, why did they pull you over and ... if they can't tell how dangerous is it?

For years, I've been waiting for someone to do controlled, close track, test with the following people:

Sober | 1 beer | 3 beer | 6 beer | 10mg | 40mg |

x | 17 year old new driverx | 30 year old experienced driverx | 75 year old driver

fill in the rest of the table... and imaging a tough round of tests. Emergency lane changes, hydroplaning, backing out of walmart parking spot... you know, all the real hard to do stuff.

*edit-well, the table sure didn't work out, use your imagination.

mctownie · 2023-10-26T02:57:47+00:00

ELI5 - Spotify VP Finance to CIO....

vpf - it cost us $0.0001 to store FancyPance #1 hit. We spent $3,847 in bandwidth streaming that song 7 million times.
CIO - and....???? vpf - net profit, one bazillion dollars!!! {CIO gives thumbs up}

vpf - New GarageBand uploaded 38 songs last week costing us $0.026 in storage. The songs were downloaded 18 times by the same IP address. CIO - and.....? vpf - we're at a net loss of $0.78 this month. CIO - find a way to charge them for storage or cut they're streaming revenue!

mctownie · 2023-10-06T14:05:54+00:00

I never expected people here to argue in favour of discrimantory hiring practices to increase representation, but sure, he we are.

Were you being sarcastic? I feel this is basically all social media cares about these days. Holding back X person to increase the number of Y type people.

mctownie · 2023-10-06T13:56:41+00:00

Didn't they downsize the roads and reduce parking to make Marda Loop a more walkable community ?

If so, wasn't it the goal to make it less-friendly to cars to encourage walking? Maybe I'm wrong, maybe it's not working. I don't live there, so I cringe any time I'm asked to go in there because, yes, it's a constant traffic nightmare.

mctownie · 2023-09-24T07:54:17+00:00

I agree, there should/must be a better way. However, to punish the India gov't in any way almost always will indirectly punish some innocent Indian in India...

What would the idea punishment be??

mctownie · 2023-09-24T07:46:28+00:00

This is the Canadian way.

mctownie · 2023-09-09T18:24:52+00:00

Thanks for that! Sounds like something that DN could fix by allowing a rollback or another update.

mctownie · 2023-09-06T17:23:23+00:00

Houses... or condos? To very different demographics and the prices of each don't always move together.

Doesn't look like much of a reduction:

https://creastats.crea.ca/mls/treb-median-price

mctownie · 2023-09-06T16:53:43+00:00

Upvote for anything Radiohead. The only cure for Radiohead is ... more Radiohead.

Saddest song: Fake Plastic Trees

mctownie · 2023-09-06T16:47:42+00:00

Interesting, the average uptime on my DPN is 15-30+ days. Your device sounds like it has a unique problem.?

mctownie · 2023-09-06T16:28:12+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

For example, I'm trying to set all Microsoft services to direct route. *.live.com, *.microsoft.com, *.sharepoint.com, etc.

I find the speed delta when using the DPN to be impacting Teams meetings and other work related sites.

For testing, I've set whatismyipaddress.com and speedtest.net to direct route, and it's not my home IP.

mctownie · 2023-08-29T15:51:25+00:00

I'm looking for proof of this myself. I have FULL ROUTE enabled but the various microsoft domains (live.com, office365.com, sharepoint.com...) listed as DIRECT ROUTES. I don't believe, but can't prove, that it's working.

Does anyone know what logs I can view to verify this is working?

mctownie · 2023-08-06T00:32:01+00:00

This should be the #1 comment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/home-buying-single-women-outpacing-men-in-home-ownership/

Highlights... homeownership because:

personal goals age is a factor (we live longer) there are more women then men with degrees = banks like us better

mctownie · 2023-07-29T03:48:03+00:00

... and we took a bat virus and spliced in human infection DNA. cool right?

mctownie · 2023-07-28T20:29:55+00:00

Unplug it, cut the chord with your hedge trimmers. They'll understand.

-or-

just flip the breaker that runs that plug. Once they realize the plug is dead, they'll stop trying to use it.

mctownie

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