kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 6 days ago

The specific promises are for more prisons, "tougher" sentences, and more incarceration of people not yet found guilty. Perhaps that bit at the end will prove to be more than just pretty words, but this government hasn't earned that much trust so far.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't do it at this time of year.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

You're not really living with as much free software as possible until you've installed all of the 103818 packages in debian.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

For me it was when we all started having regular Satanic death metal sex parties, the left wing was pretty boring before that.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe that path that got wider did so because it gets muddy sometimes and people walk around the mud? That's what often happens around where I live.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Speaking of flashbacks to almost 20 years ago, Paul Krugman used to talk about what he called Flatland and the Zoned Zone. The same forces were at work then, they've just gotten steadily worse and I guess as suburban sprawl took over across the land, almost every place in Canada where it makes any sense to build (and many where it doesn't) got itself to some extent "zoned."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

After the financial crisis circa 2008 there was a high-profile international debate about which approach was best for banking regulation: Detailed legalistic rules that try to cover every possible situation, or rules that set forth simple principles to make clear the spirit of the law with the understanding that they might not cover everything and may even need to be violated in case of emergency. I'm not sure what Mark Carney had to say about it, but I suppose we can guess.

In other contexts it can be an interesting debate but when it comes to C-2 it seems beside the point. Regardless of which approach is preferred that bill in its most problematic parts lays out clear and simple principles which are themselves ill-considered, unconstitutional, and deeply out of step with the values Canadians expect our government to embody and respect..

[–] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

In the early 2000s I actually thought made sense to buy a console, since not many games would run on linux.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 1 week ago

Sure, but don't forget to include the basics such as the root name servers: Verisign(A), USC-ISI, Cogent, U of Maryland, NASA Ames, ISC, Defence Information Systems Agency, US Army Research Lab, Netnod, Verisign(J), RIPE, ICANN, WIDE

[–] kbal@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

continued innovations from major players like Microsoft

MS using its massive reserves of innovation to acquire many of the major game studios.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago

Is there even a single OECD government that's firmly opposed to what Israel is doing, firmly opposed to what Russia is doing, and firmly opposed to fossil fuels? Asking for that doesn't seem like too much.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago

“encouraging” responsiveness to new legal guidance

i.e. they've been forced to stop one of the illegal things they were doing.

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