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We got here on this subject a lot quicker than I expected honestly.
Not sure this makes things better or not, but I think more accurately it’s a question of whether games are considered a service or a good. The games industry wants to treat game software with online connection components as a service, while in some respects presenting it as a good at the point-of-sale.
I think it’s a valid argument to make, that rhetorically Carney is progressive but his government’s legislative actions are more conservative like Harper or Chrétien. But Poilievre is not like either of those two I compared Carney to.
If I were to name one concrete difference between how the two would govern that is based on public actions/statements and not speculation, Carney is keeping the Toronto-Quebec High Speed Rail project going through its design until its groundbreaking, where Poilievre would have cancelled it with no legitimate alternative.
Buddy buddiness with Trump and MAGA The only reason why Pierre Poilievre’s is doing his pretend to stick up for Canada act is because they failed to keep the momentum they had through the winter before the election.
He would have cheered on the whole ICE thing (securing borders blah blah blah), actively antagonized anti-Trump protest, and shown support or played PR for everything we think abhorrent that the Trump administration has done over the last 18 months. And if you allow me to speculate for a minute, PP could have paved the way for ICE’s involvement or joint operations with certain police departments in Canada.
In a fantasy version of America in my head, the lower trial judges would put President Trump to trial over this and numerous, numerous other corrupt acts, and make their rulings un-appealable to the full Supreme Court because many of the Supreme Court judges are directly implicated by the same investigations into Trump.
I gotta say law professors have better be putting together a book on this because this administration’s representative attorneys are giving out the most hare-brained excuses to justify Trump’s narcissism, con-artistry and lawbreaking and pettiness.
What Democrats could do is fundraise to change an ICE detention facility into a Trump Hotel, a high security jail to put Trump while we have the probable cause of some conviction, deny him bail like he has countless immigrants and have him investigated and tried for his crimes. As a luxury we can serve sparkling Dilley concentration camp water too.
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is also not a car.
My personal take:
More pay for personnel, better barracks conditions, upgrades to the decades old hardware? Great. Future opportunities for civilian logistical training that would help in the event of a war-like situation or disaster? Great.
Billions on shiny new toys be it the F35 or the Gripen? That’s where I think there are way more cost effective ways to wage a war that would be asymmetrical, should one of the major powers (China, Russia or the US) try to engage in one with us. Some are necessary but the whole plan can’t be rested on ribbon cutting for novelties at the expense of the basics.
Do we have the capability to convert our factories, refineries and shipyards to produce drones, autonomous vehicles, mines and short range missiles? Can we learn the lessons from Ukrainian commanders that clearly the current US top brass don’t care to listen to? Can we build railway infrastructure that would be useful to mobilize tens of thousands of troops, so that one chokepoint bridge destroyed won’t sever our national logistical network?
Focusing more on that will free up more room on the other end to make our lives better. The US Israel Iran war shows that spending endless coffers of money on the MIC doesn’t guarantee victory.
Good questions. At a minimum any VPN marketing in MN would need to tiptoe around claims that you can watch region locked content as if you were there.
Personally, I think VPNs that don’t receive or keep customers’ info and logs could have a credible argument that they don’t know whether their customers use it for prediction markets or not.
Here is the relevant text of the signed bill SF4760, make your judgement as you will:
81.23 Subd. 2. Prediction markets; hosting prohibited. A person is guilty of a felony if the 81.24 person, for consideration and as part of a business
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82.14 (5) provides supportive services to a prediction market or consumer knowing that the 82.15 services will be used to identify a consumer’s location, transfer money, or make or process 82.16 payments for the purpose of allowing consumers to make wagers or to settle wagers made 82.17 by consumers in violation of this section.
The offramp is to put your own party on trial for how heinous you have let it become.
He should really be collecting more than $120M in royalties from Republicans using his trademark likeness in naming the Affordable Care Act.
At that time it was still kind of a research project than a “it’s going to take over everything” hype and FUD machine.
His opinions on AI today seem more enthusiastic than I would be, but well clear of the delusional level of AI-boosters.
A better idea would be to exile Ted Cruz and anyone that worked under him (including Chip Roy).
He must have had one too many and thought he’s on the defendant’s side of this case. Yeah, then it’s a layup.
SpiderKash and Kegseth, partners in boozing.
Clearly if the Trump administration wants to do war crimes they do it without announcement, like the water infrastructure in Sirik.
So this Trump military plan announcement is yet another “in 2 weeks” type of thing.