VancouverMan

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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Section 1 and Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantee that it's useless in practice. This was confirmed by how the Charter did nothing to stop the abuses that Canadians endured from 2020 through 2022.
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
"Freedom of speech" can't coexist with "illegal speech". The moment that something is deemed "illegal" to express, there inherently is no more free expression present.
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Those distinctions have absolutely no basis in reality. Censorship is merely the act of limiting access to information. It doesn't matter who is doing this. Yes, governments often do it, but so can private entities. An individual can e
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I think putting Firefox's share of the market at 5% is being quite generous. All of the metrics I've seen lately for a variety of web sites indicate that Firefox has less than 3% of the overall market. The mobile situation is part
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
We're discussing Chrome here, not Google's search offerings. Aside from Google-produced products like Android and ChromeOS, I can't remember ever using a computer or device where Chrome was installed by default. Even for the
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Promoting Chrome may have gotten more people to install it and give it a try, but it didn't force those people to continue using Chrome. It didn't force them to keep using Chrome for years and years, in many cases. Most people, in
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I don't think that Shakespeare's works have been popular (in the sense of many people wanting to voluntarily consume them) for many generations. Yes, most people even today are familiar with those works to some extent, but that&#x
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
While some customers will end up paying a lot for more RAM, I have to wonder if Apple really has a good idea about how many potential sales they're losing at the same time, too. They've lost several Mac purchases I would have othe
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I wouldn't say that statement is wrong, at least for Canada. MPs, MPPs, MLAs, etc., that belong to a party typically don't deviate from the party line, even if it means going against their own constituents' wishes and interes
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
What's particularly annoying about a situation like that is that the homeowner often has a lot more incentive to do a good job than a so-called "trained and licensed" professional does. A moderately competent and motivated ho
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Problems like the need for health insurance, and the high cost of health care in general, have only arisen in the first place because unnecessary government-imposed regulation and government-imposed overhead have wiped out nearly all real c
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
That recent Wasaga Beach controversy didn't come as a surprise to me, since what was described there corresponded well enough with what I've heard from a number of other people in various places in Ontario, BC, and even other regi
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
A lot of formerly-enjoyable leisure activities outside the home have become a lot loss fun over the last few decades, too. I know a lot of people in the US, and especially Canada, who've stopped going to restaurants for example. They n
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
It's a similar situation in Canada, but with the added problem of horribly flawed immigration policies that have flooded the country with a huge number of foreigners each year. While this has been going on for decades now, it has reall
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
It's odd to blame capitalism for these sorts of problems. Real estate, property development, and property renting/leasing are typically some of the least-capitalist and least-free-market sectors around. They all tend to involve ex
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Government-imposed regulations are primarily put in place to artificially grant government actors influence and control (mainly the ability to forcefully extract and misappropriate real wealth created by the private sector) that they wouldn
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> Capitalism is amazing except for where market failures occur, which is many cases. The industries that suck the most also have the most market failures: healthcare, housing, and education Those sectors you listed are actually among the
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> I do not understand why people who live in SF have to effectively gaslight themselves into believing that the breakdown of certain basic tenants of society is part of the culture of their city. That phenomenon isn't isolated to Sa
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> where real people hang out and have real conversations I don't consider the discussions there to be "real" in any meaningful way, thanks to the extensive moderation. From what I've seen, there typically ends up bein
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
It probably should be that simple. Unfortunately, Canada is a surprisingly broken place in many ways. We have to remember that policing in Canada is heavily unionized, on top of being taxpayer-funded. That means quality of service is just n
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
The situation that you just described would be a pleasant improvement for many of the private sector sole proprietors and small business owners that I know. Her situation sounds actually far more stable and easier than theirs in a variety o
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
When even a very small number of downvotes here can result in a comment's text being coloured in a way that makes it harder to read, or even nearly impossible to read in extreme cases, I think it's reasonable to equate downvoting
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Have you talked to your neighbors and offered to cover the cost of replacing their roofs, so they no longer need to use those tarps that are causing you problems? It shouldn't be that much of a financial burden on you if it'd only
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> It’s either the caramel coloring or the water… Or the lack of competition. There could be a lot of other factors involved. Governments and unions can add a tremendous amount of artificial cost/overhead to goods and services, too.
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> I think high immigration is something most folks in Canada see as good ... That's what many Canadians will express in public, just to keep their lives easier by avoiding false accusations of "racism"/"bigotry&q
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> It's an essential service that the free market has largely stopped providing ... I think you're misinterpreting the situation. What we're actually seeing in this industry (and most others) is that the various levels of g
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
In my experience in Canada, there's usually more to those situations. Customers can certainly get frustrated or upset, but time and time again I've seen that happening because the front-line staff either directly or indirectly pro
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
After the XUL removal debacle a number of years ago, I can't trust Firefox to offer a suitably flexible and capable extension system over the long run. While some people will claim that those changes were necessary, the impact was stil
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Target's approach was quite similar to what Walmart did in 1994, when Walmart entered the Canadian market. Walmart took over around a hundred or so of the long-established Woolco stores, and converted them to Walmart stores. The Woolco
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I don't think that the Conservative Party will fix this problem. Much like the Liberal Party, the Conservatives are very pro-immigration. A Conservative government might impose a slight reduction in the rate, to create the appearance o

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