slashdot2008

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   by slashdot2008 5y ago

   not all housing everywhere has gone up, just the desirable housing in desirable locations where people have excess income to spend on housing. Housing can gobble up as much of percentage of your incomine as you let it, and when incomes are
2. 32.▲
   by slashdot2008 5y ago

   >The State Department alleged some of the transmissions harmed national security, which Honeywell acknowledges with the caveat that the technology involved “is commercially available throughout the world. No detailed manufacturing or eng
3. 33.▲
   by slashdot2008 5y ago

   the automation world uses lots of electrical schematics for all of the sensor and actuator wiring in control panels and out in the field. this looks like a decent tool for CAD of electrical schematics. everyone seems to either use eplan or
4. 34.▲
   by slashdot2008 6y ago

   I understand there are 100 million members of the CCP. if society as a whole is quietly unhappy with the result of actions by their government I think they would have the influence to change the course. Maybe some are loud and disappeared b
5. 35.▲
   by slashdot2008 6y ago

   Here in Canada is I found out I was losing sales because people were upset with the way Canada was treating the first nations people here it would certainly be an eye opener and probably would make me want my government to stop doing what i
6. 36.▲
   by slashdot2008 6y ago

   Thanks for bringing this to my attention >A major turning point in Nazi policy toward Jews was the coordinated attacks by the Sturmabteilung (or SA, the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party) against Jews and Jewish institutions a
7. 37.▲
   by slashdot2008 6y ago

   absolutely there is a resistance to conscription in Canada, but was there a resistance to going to war or did everyone sign up due to duty and social pressure to "do the right thing"?
8. 38.▲
   by slashdot2008 6y ago

   Thanks for the insightful reply. The pandemic has highlighted the fragility of global supply chains and the downside of being dependent on others for critical goods. They are cheap when they are plentiful but they become unobtainable when t
9. 39.▲
   by slashdot2008 6y ago

   I'm in the market for new flat screen TV. Hopefully I can find one made in South Korea or even Japen, and will pay a premium for it. A pitiful sacrifice to make from someone who can easily afford it.
10. 40.▲
    by slashdot2008 6y ago

    I think of my grandfathers, one who was in world war 1 and 2, and the other in world war 2, and their whole generation marching off to war to put their lives on the line to stand up for what is right, and I can't imagine anybody I know
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    by slashdot2008 6y ago

    How can anyone doing business with China look the other way on Xinjiang simply by saying "our factory isn't there". Every one of us buying goods made in China is enabling their behaviour by showing that we would rather make m
12. 42.▲
    by slashdot2008 6y ago

    X to the e Like the Xzibit song "X to the Z", which might have been good branding as it comes with a theme song
13. 43.▲
    by slashdot2008 6y ago

    answering my own question: the 100 largest companies in canada [0], banking, insurance, oil and gas, and the telecommunications provider oligopoly fill out the top 13 and then we get the odd retail, railroad, auto parts, mining player in th
14. 44.▲
    by slashdot2008 6y ago

    As an electrical engineer in the vancouver area this article rung true to me. It is too bad Canada's hi tech industry died with nortel, RIM, corel. Bombardier's aerospace division is the latest casualty. I didn't realize the