Yes. A few bad apples spoil the bunch.

No port forwarding, which is needed for ensuring your Linux ISO files are getting out there.

They used to be the perfect choice.

I’m all for what you’re suggesting about software, but the training and I.T costs alone make me question the savings.

Information technologists adept at supporting users of Microsoft products are a dime a dozen. Anything outside of that, and you’re paying the big bucks and/or have a much smaller hiring pool.

He’s asking them to propose ways of cutting spending. Spending is different from funding. They can cut operational funding and still get earmarked funding for certain projects that wouldn’t have otherwise got off the ground.

Government loves to make funding announcements that turn out to have ‘small print’.

I specifically remember seeing “Product of India” on jars of their pickles. I guess that’s only the cucumbers themselves?

Your friend is a vampire.

Shasta gold.

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Also, tell my younger self not to buy the lifetime subscription to the local BBS and just pay yearly, because this Internet thing is going to get faster and less buggy.

On that note, as someone from a commonwealth nation, I was deeply appalled during the height of the pandemic when kettles couldn’t be purchased here as they weren’t considered ‘essential items’.

Canadians write cheques. Americans deposit checks.

There was so much fear mongering about that tax.

In my case, it was that our local HVAC shop literally only sold one solution. I couldn’t even talk them into a more powerful A/C despite having both a grow op (at the time) and server farm in the basement.

Our A/C struggles to cool the house on room-temperature days, but that’s beside the point. Heat Pumps will really take off when the small time dealers start stocking them.

I agree with your asessment of the “sarry” vs “sorry” pronunciation.

Also, for the churchgoers, it was jarring to hear “aymen” instead of “ahmen” in an American basilica.

Yes. I have nothing to back it up but a gut feeling, but it strikes me as something heavily influenced by media south of the border would say. You know, someone who operates under the impression Canada has a two-party system following something other than the Westminster Parliamentary system.

Not what I’d expect from The Tyee.

You say that as if it’s a negative.

Isn’t there also a “buy Canadian” movement in Canada?

I can be worried about more than one thing.

…it’s a much easier message for politicians to rationalize.

I get what you said in the unquoted part, but maybe it’s just me. Buy Canadian is less rational than pointing out from whom not to buy, on account of how nationalistic it sounds. At the risk of sounding all slippery-slope about it, I don’t want to go down the road of nationalism.

The article doesn’t mention it, but there’s a “Made in the EU” labeling phenomenon happening that makes me worried about Canadian and Mexican products getting thrown out with the American bathwater here. The point shouldn’t be to fight nationalism with more nationalism. It should be to fight nationalism with good globalism.

Stop putting milk in your dark chocolate, and I’ll start caring.