The clause has never been used at the federal level. But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, whose party currently enjoys a sizeable lead in opinion polls, has said he would use the notwithstanding clause to advance his preferred criminal justice policies — to, for example, impose sentencing standards the Supreme Court said violated Canadians’ right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment.

Ah, Conservatives. They never tire of doing the wrong thing in their quest to hurt the right people.

Are there any new cars that don’t phone home?

One of Doug Ford’s first acts as premier of Ontario, just days after taking office in 2018, was cancelling more than 750 renewable energy projects, including a large wind farm that was already partially built.

Fast forward to today, and Ford’s Progressive Conservative government is poised to oversee the biggest expansion of green energy that the province has seen in nearly a decade.

I wonder how much money has been wasted compared to just going letting the original projects go ahead as planned.

And personalized pricing, based on your profile and what they think they can get you to pay.

Trudeau reaffirmed that his government and the Liberal party “are proudly pro-choice, and always will be.”

That’s great, but it’s the Conservatives we’re worried about, and it looks like they’ll be in government soon.

Which camps are you talking about? Is it these?

Maybe they should, and also care about the many people still using these processors that are not very old.

People say that, but there will still be lasting catastrophic effects from this extinction event. We are most of the way through the time Earth can support life, and the impact of the extinction we have caused will last through much of the remaining time.

While bringing the dying planet closer to death.

It keeps promising to, then goes off into more ChatGPT-style rambling. It’s a bad article. This one is more informative:

https://www.oligo.security/blog/0-0-0-0-day-exploiting-localhost-apis-from-the-browser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies

It’s the professional software that keeps people off Linux. Particularly software for art, video and music. Not enough of it has Linux versions or Windows versions that run well enough in Linux. And a lot of people are forced to use Windows for work because that’s their company’s standard and they use all kinds of Windows-specific software.

How can that be? It’s the same machine except you have introduced some overhead.

It wasn’t. It was simply better. That was the trend all the way through to Windows 7, with a few bumps along the way. Then things went downhill.

People engaged in something immoral often use “There’s no law against it” as a defense. If you have to resort to that, it’s time to reconsider what you’re doing.

switch to a whitelist in the future instead of a blacklist

Phrasing?

It probably has the twin benefits of needing a crummy smartphone app (that spies on you) and an internet connection though. Knobs lack these delights.

Some of the replies here are a bit disheartening, reflexively dismissing this list, the need for it, and the validity of the experiences behind it.

Mentioning AI in marketing signals:

• Our management has no vision and chases fads.
• Once this fad passes you’ll be on your own as we move on to the next one.
• We think you are quite dumb and won’t see how vapid our marketing is.
• The product probably requires an internet connection and may not work without one.
• The product probably depends on a cloud service that could be withdrawn at any time.
• The product probably spies on you.
• We cheap out on things that would be better done by people paid to do them.
• We can’t think of anything more specific that distinguishes our product.
• You’re paying for features you don’t want or need.
• You’ll be at the mercy of our software updates, which at some point will stop coming and then who knows if the product will keep working.
• Even before we stop supporting it, the product will only work about half the time.

I think this is why the “my code documents itself” attitude appeals, even though it’s almost never enough. Most developers just can’t write, nor do they want to.

Most of those changes to mice make very little difference to regular users. And the low-priced mice most people use aren’t so different from the old ones. Wireless is a mixed blessing because it comes with having to recharge a battery which is often not replaceable. Polling rate and DPI is only of interest to niche users. Most people probably never tilt the wheel. So for many an old wired mouse will still do fine.

Anyway, Logitech’s “forever mouse”, if it’s really forever, doesn’t really fit with the idea that mouse technology evolves enough that you need to replace the mouse every few years. That said, it’s probably the subscription that’s forever, not the mouse.

In watches, smart watches are new and still developing, and some of them already have “premium” subscription services.

The article says this mouse will be $200 upfront, plus the subscription.

It depends how the votes are distributed geographically. FPTP also means that only the most popular party in each riding gets any representation at all.

They’re not protesting the abuse of prisoners; they’re protesting the prospect of holding soldiers responsible for it.

“Perhaps $1,000, $10,000, $100,000? But in this case, $146,000-plus, and it’s just processed on somebody’s account, where their typical billing was $118 per billing period? I’m just surprised at the lack of oversight.” City still charging NSF fee

Martin submitted a new meter reading to the City of Winnipeg, and is waiting for a new bill, but said the city is still going to charge his mother an NSF fee because she didn’t have enough money in her account for the $146,000 payment to clear.

“The first thing that they said to me was, 'Oh, you’re going to have to pay a 30-some-dollar NSF fee for this bill not going through,” said Martin.

“And I said, ‘In what sort of reasonable world would you have expected that a pre-authorized debit for $146,000 to somebody’s personal account would not go NSF?’”

What an incompetent bunch of petty bureaucrats.

That thumbnail makes his hairstyle look interesting.

“Let me just say one thing first,” Trump began. “So, I had a meeting with them. First, I had a meeting with Congress, Republican Congress. It was like a lovefest. Then, I met with them and the US Senate, which was all Republicans, 49. And it was also a lovefest, but my best meeting of the three (sic) was with the executives. And Biden’s misinformation — people put out a thing: Oh, he went on, he rambled. There was no rambling. This, you could say, this is rambling, but in order to get to the point, you have to, you know, this is a very complex subject, that a lot of people, most people don’t understand. But I just wanted to say, that that was the best meeting. They loved it. They were happy with.”

How can anyone can listen to him and not think, “This is just a torrent of nonsense”?

When Justin Trudeau was elected in 2015, he touted his government’s climate credentials on the world stage. “Canada is back, my friends,” he told delegates at the Paris climate summit. “We’re here to help.” His government rolled out a nationwide carbon tax (or as the then environment minister Catherine McKenna called it, a “price on pollution”).

But in the years since, Canada remains the only G7 nation to emit greenhouse gases far above its 1990 levels – while now also planning to extract and export record volumes of oil.

We’ll fix the contradiction by electing a government that doesn’t even promise to help.

You could see it as bad timing just when they could be cashing in on Intel’s troubles, but it does highlight how AMD is being careful about quality control when Intel wasn’t, so perhaps it will pay off for them overall.

Good for 66% of them. Not a great look for the others.

Yes. Unlike PP and the Conservatives, he actually wants to do things for Canadians.

Ah, I forgot. I guess then we just have to choose fascism.

I’m really hoping she wins so PP doesn’t have a tidal wave of fascism down south to surf on, and at least has to generate his own momentum.

Unfortunately, that’s why we’re looking at Poilievre likely being the next PM.

Jagmeet Singh isn’t Trudeau either, and the NDP actually has policies that would help people. But people still turn to the Conservatives, despite their track record of making things worse and their new affinity for far-right populism.

Starting to think this Trump guy is full of shit.

The phrase “smear campaign” has a connotation that the smears are made up or exaggerated. But this is just a list of plain facts about Poilievre.

Google takeout is there so they are technically compliant with rules that say you must be able to download your personal data, but they make it so inconvenient to use that practically it’s almost impossible to download it. Google photos isn’t a backup service so much as a way for Google to hold your photos hostage until you start paying for higher amounts of storage. And by the time you need that storage, Google takeout download has become impractical.

it’s looking increasingly difficult for the Democrats. Biden’s not impressing people, the business with Israel is putting off some of his supporters, and they’ve left it very late to not have a Plan B. You’d think that any party running an 81-year-old candidate would have a fallback plan ready from the outset, or might anticipate difficulties and run a younger candidate in the first place, but apparently the Democratic Party doesn’t look that far ahead.

He just caught COVID, so he’ll be a bit less dynamic and energetic. Sigh.