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I still have a rotary landline (well, VOIP, using a Grandstream ATA).

It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :)

It does to me.

During World War II, the Canadian government raised taxes in a bid to reduce demand and curb inflation (along with wage and price controls, mandatory savings, and other measures).

Inversely, reducing taxes holds the potential to leave money in people's pockets, increase demand, and trigger inflation. Whether it does so will depend on a host of other factors, of course.

Canadian mortgages have separate amortization periods (say 20 or 25 years for example) and interest rate terms (generally 1-5 years, after which the rate has to be renegotiated -- and you have the option of transferring the mortgage to another lender at that time).

You can also let your rate float with the market, which is called a variable rate mortgage.

Let's pilot this project in the Senate...

> A monarchy has the downside that who gets to be the monarch is fundamentally undemocratic.

So I get 1/20 millionth of the decision in which of 3 or 4 members of an exclusive elite get a patronage position, and it's all good?

I'd just as soon eliminate the risk of handing that role to a political climber and leave the position to someone whose power we all clearly understand is only formal.

That being said, I understand and appreciate your arguments around a properly framed constitutional role for a president. If we ever do make the change, I'd like a non-imperial presidency...

Not necessarily. You could choose them by lot and limit their terms.

That would make for a fun night of TV.... Who will be Canada's next monarch? Find out tonight on CBC.

Not having a President is reason #1 to keep a constitutional monarch.

The constitutional monarch is a figurehead without much of a day to day role, but who ensures that the demagogue we elect is not at the pinnacle of the political hierarchy.

That's more important than most people understand. A prime minister is always aware of the limits of the role.

I think so too. IIRC, you'd have to add a new feed for each thread.

Yes, but if you want to read the comments associated with a post, the link takes you right back to the regular reddit site.

On an Android device, Slide allows you to add subreddits without logging in. I follow several subreddits but have no account. I don't see any ads.

Go to the hamburger menu > settings > manage your subreddits.

Another mobile option is i.reddit.com.

Piling on here. My wife had a 2002 Jetta from new until 2019. We replaced both of the front window regulators on multiple occasions. There's nothing like having your window drop into the door when it's -40 C outside.

Sometimes, we'd "luck out" and the window had just slipped out of the holder. Just as often, we needed parts that were available only from Volkswagen.

In general, the car required somewhere between $1000-$2000 worth of maintenance every year. I've owned ten vehicles over the years and none have come close to the VW in terms of total cost of ownership. She replaced it with a new (non-VW) SUV a few years ago and it hasn't needed anything but oil changes yet.

You've ignored the fact that unions are limited to organizing one workplace at a time. Companies routinely close unionized locations.

In a contest over the revenues of the enterprise between those who have only their labor to sell and those who have an excess of capital, I know where I stand. The power disparity favours the rich. It's crazy that I have to say that.

My Zero W hosts a gopher site and an 'unfederated' email service.

I don't know if it's still normal. In the 1970s and 1980s smoking a pack a day was fairly typical. Two packs a day was considered excessive, but most people knew someone who smoked that much.

The $5 figure was from northern British Columbia. Cigarettes were much cheaper in the U.S. at the time (Canadians used to bring back a couple of duty-free cartons on a regular basis) and in Ontario, where the government reduced the taxes to counter smuggling.

Edit: in the link below you can see that over the course of 1990, cigarette prices rose from $35 to $48/carton (so $4.80/pack if you bought them by the carton) in 1990. They were, of course, more expensive if you bought individual packs, or if you lived in the north.

https://otru.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/update_may2002.p...

This kind of calculation is what convinced me to quit smoking before going to university in 1990. Cigarettes were $5 / pack. I smoked a pack a day.

$5 x 365 days x 4 years = $7300.

Given that I was saving up the money beforehand, quitting was the difference between starting school in 1990 or 1991.

I felt like a 'cold turkey' for about three months. But it was so worth it.

From Hitler's writing, it is clear that he despised socialism/communism because socialist ideologues promoted class antagonism and internationalism, both of which undermined the unity of the German people.

Of course, at a practical political level, leftists were also his rivals for the votes of the dissatisfied in inter-war Germany.

On this note, the Royal Bank of Canada used a DOS-like system well into the 2000s. The tellers were amazingly proficient with it, entering data, hitting tab-tab-tab, entering more data, tab-tab-tab, etc.

When they switched to Windows, you could see how much the point-and-click interface slowed them down.

I was just thinking that the site looks about the same as the first time I saw it too. That must have been around 2007.

IIRC, that site once had Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 pages as well.

The use of the word dependencies in this context is perfect.

Untangling the history of technological innovation is an adventure into dependency hell.

You can re-skin both the start button and taskbar with Classic Shell / Open-Shell too. My Windows 10 is skinned to look like the old Windows Embedded theme.

I have a Rockboxed Sansa Clip+. I like that I can set it to turn off automatically, so I can fall asleep listening and not have it play all night. I also like that it will pick up right where I left off the last time. That's nice for podcasts and books. I suppose that might be what you meant by bookmarking.

You can buy a one-foot 3.5 mm extension cord with a right angle plug for a few dollars to avoid repeatedly stressing the jack.

This is the issue that keeps me using Claws Mail. With Claws Mail I can set a consistent, universal font size (meaning that the font in each email body is the same size). With Thunderbird, that seems to be impossible, even with a custom .css file.

With the hotdog stand theme, no less!

The only crack in the spell is the program launcher. Apparently, it's a left-click on the desktop to get a menu, like in the old Stiletto program for WIN31: http://www.technofileonline.com/texts/tec092098.html

Newpipe has been mentioned a lot in this thread.

If you're looking for a Linux / Windows equivalent, try Freetube. To me, they're essentially the same app for different platforms.

>Freezing bank accounts when you have not been convicted of a crime happens all the time and is the way things have to work. >It is the way the banking system already works.

Okay, sure. So your argument boils down to that's the way it is and it's practical.

>There is no "staged media campaign" to smear people, the media was reporting on the fact that having kids in the red zone had become illegal with the emergency orders.

At the point when the reporting on kids began on every network, there were no emergency orders.

>it is not remotely comparable to church, women's centres, or union picnics. If you brought your kids to walk the line with you on a wildcat strike that might be comparable..

Fair. Point taken.

>In my most generous moments I sometimes can forgive the OPS for thinking that this wasn't that big a deal at the start.

I remember the police presence at Oka, Gustafsen Lake, and the WTO in Montreal. It seems like these protesters got a lot more leeway.

> and it works if the power or the internet stop working.

You need to explain that to my hardware store.

I don't generally agree with these protestors, but the government's approach to shutting them down is a major threat to freedom in Canadian society.

Freezing their bank accounts when they have not been proven guilty of any crime is an abuse of power.

Interfering with the social funding drives of a political resistance movement sets a precedent that might affect all political protest in the future.

I don't know what to think of the staged media campaign smearing people for bringing their kids to a protest. Should the state be able prevent you from exposing your kids to your deepest convictions? Maybe they should have smeared my parents for taking me to church, women's centers, and union picnics.

If the police and government had taken the appropriate steps at the outset of this protest (parking tickets, towing vehicles, laying charges for blocking streets), none of this would be even close to necessary now. But as the article points out, that would be very visible, and would require a bit of political courage.

Agreed. Quotation mark functionality in Google seems to be sadly dysfunctional.

I guess I buried the lede. I probably should have just focused on the allintext: operator in my comment. That's the operator that makes a huge difference in my searches and that I wanted to share.

I use duckduckstart.com and I don't recall adding a bang to the search, so it was probably in the startpage.com results when I searched for "Google search operators."