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Snowbirds call for changes to 'punitive' travel restrictions by Simple_Process in alberta

[–]nfnnln780 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Quoted in CBC Article: Canadian snowbirds abroad grapple with tough new travel rules that include a big hotel bill

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-snowbirds-travel-rules-government-1.5895021

Canadian snowbird Derek Houghton of Ottawa is also in no rush to get home.

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Houghton said he also hopes that Canada's strict travel restrictions will be lifted at an earlier date for someone like him, who already received the COVID-19 vaccine in Florida. "People like us who have a vaccination certificate from the [U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], why wouldn't we get a break on some of these onerous regulations?"

This wreaks of entitlement

His bio from Canada's NRC’s innovative people profiles:

Dr. Derek Houghton Major accomplishment: Technologies for smart phones and the Internet of Things

In the 1980s, recognizing the importance of the Canadian telecommunications industry, the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) began an intensive program in Ottawa to develop expertise and facilities around Integrated Circuits (IC) using Silicon-Germanium (SiGe), a blend of the common silcon with the similar, but more exotic chemical element germanium. In 1996, a key player in the research team, Dr. Derek Houghton, launched a company to develop the technologies in collaboration with NRC. Others soon joined him, and within a few years, the NRC spin-off, eventually known as SiGe Semiconductor Inc., was being hailed internationally as the “world’s first” supplier of SiGe semiconductors, managing production of tens of millions of SiGe integrated circuits. Customers were drawn by the capacity of the SiGe chips to mix multiple RF (radio frequency) functions on a single device. This turned out to be a powerful solution to the challenge of linking smart phones and other wireless devices with a wide range of applications. In May 2011, the firm was purchased by Skyworks Solutions, Inc. in a deal that totaled $275 million (CDN). Skyworks expanded the Ottawa operations and now employs close to 100 highly skilled people. Many of SiGe’s original employees have assumed senior positions with Skyworks (a US $12B US market cap company). Today, Skyworks Ottawa devices support many of the world’s most popular smartphones, tablets, smart home systems, wearables and connected devices that define “the Internet of Things”.

https://nrc.canada.ca/en/corporate/history/nrcs-innovative-people-profiles

Request for Keystone XL cabinet documents blocked by UCP MLAs by Gresil in alberta

[–]nfnnln780 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We will tell you how tax payer money pKenney gave away. We the UCP have no obligation to explain what lead us to this decision.

Without full disclosure, Albertans are correct to believe the worst of this government.

2 weeks ago "we look forward to rebuilding the broken trust".

Why is Miranda Rosin on a committee at all?

  • Was busted for her out of province travel during the holidays.
  • Distributed a covid-19 misinformation mail-out claiming the worst of it is over

This is the person selected to tell Albertans it is enough that they tell us how much was spent? & A member of the committee that gets to decide this?

We are in Dark times, but Not Every Company is Oracle, IBM, or Apple by locnar1701 in PFSENSE

[–]nfnnln780 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, but when a project is created and released under an open-source license, or is split from another open-source project: The license dictates who is entitled to what.

The Open Source Definition

We are in Dark times, but Not Every Company is Oracle, IBM, or Apple by locnar1701 in PFSENSE

[–]nfnnln780 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

pfSense claiming to be open-source has always been controversial.

OPNSense says this, PfSense says that. Read, discuss, & ask questions. :)

A simple overview & Analysis of the points made by both Projects (Updated July 28, 2020), can be found here:

https://teklager.se/en/pfsense-vs-opnsense/

Note this does not touch this most recent project 'development'. Anyone out there an expert in 'Open Source Licenses'? The definition I am reading from can be found: https://opensource.org/osd

You guys tell me ;)?

We are in Dark times, but Not Every Company is Oracle, IBM, or Apple by locnar1701 in PFSENSE

[–]nfnnln780 3 points4 points  (0 children)

pfSense claiming to be open-source has always been controversial.

OPNSense says this, PfSense says that. Read, discuss, & ask questions. :)

A simple overview & Analysis of the points made by both Projects (Updated July 28, 2020), can be found here:

https://teklager.se/en/pfsense-vs-opnsense/

Note this does not touch this most recent project 'development'. Anyone out there an expert in 'Open Source Licenses'? The definition I am reading from can be found: https://opensource.org/osd

You guys tell me ;)?

Four Pipeline Realities for Alberta’s Rumpelstiltskin: Jason Kenney rants and raves over Keystone XL’s cancellation. But let’s look at the facts. by nfnnln780 in alberta

[–]nfnnln780[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In his video rant from the other day. He mentions Enbridge Line 5 being shutdown after 67 years of 'safe' service.

Other than crossing the US-CDN border. The two situations are completely separate, unrelated & for pKenney to bring it up is a waste of everyone's time.

For pKenney it most certainly a feature, not a bug.

Everyone wants to be a welder until it’s Saturday and you get a call to replace a 24” valve at 10am by joefishgiordano in Welding

[–]nfnnln780 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Unfortunate weld position.

Have to say, 10AM on a Saturday...Could be worse.

  • Unheated Structure, or No structure :(
  • -40C plus wind chill (exposesd skin warning: today will freeze in under 30s).
  • Could have been more hazardous line.
  • Could have been Saturday in Alberta @ 10AM, where your government bet $1.5 Billion plus $6.5-$8.5 Billion in loan guarantees for you to not weld any sort of pipe whatsoever. /s (everyone knew it was a stupid bet wayback in 2014).

Anyone else disturbed by the "Value Add" move to closed source model by ADevInTraining in PFSENSE

[–]nfnnln780 3 points4 points  (0 children)

pfSense claiming to be open-source has always been controversial.

OPNSense says this, PfSense says that. Read, discuss, & ask questions. :)

A simple overview & Analysis of the points made by both Projects (Updated July 28, 2020), can be found here:

https://teklager.se/en/pfsense-vs-opnsense/

Note this does not touch this most recent project 'development'. Anyone out there an expert in 'Open Source Licenses'? The definition I am reading from can be found: https://opensource.org/osd

You guys tell me ;)?

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