If I recall correctly, what they stole wasn't even worth that much. Definitely not worth starting a high-speed chase over, and you can't have a chase without a pursuer. If it had been a multiple murderer fleeing the scene, the risk might have been acceptable, but not for this.
I don’t understand how what once was rare in foreign tuition, then was a cash cow, and is now limited (but not eliminated) is now responsible for the total collapse of some schools.
They overextended themselves during the years the money was coming in, most likely, and now can't afford the remaining payments on new buildings or equipment or the current staff salaries or whatever without the extra financial support. (There's also the possibility of outright embezzlement having taken place, as at Laurentian U, which ended up axing a couple of programs.) Wikipedia suggests that Algonquin's been building or renovating a fair amount of stuff on their main campus in Ottawa over the past fifteen years. If they took out loans to finance some of it, it would make sense that they're short on cash now.
Missing from the article: actual amounts of PFAS found in the bands, what percentage of it can be absorbed through skin contact, how that compares to other sources the average person might run into, and how much you have to absorb before biological damage emerges out of the statistical noise. The information may be in the original paper, but I'm disinclined to search for it there. Without those numbers, this is meaningless.
With Charlie Angus leaving, I’m curious if North Eastern Ontario will stay NDP.
It's really, really hard to say. Charlie Angus' riding and the other NDP-held riding up here have been redrawn by the last redistricting. The other current NDP MP in the area, Carol Hughes, is also not running for re-election. Both of them have held their posts for quite a long time, so there may be enough lingering pro-NDP sentiment in the far north to get their successors elected.
Most of the other ridings are currently Liberal-held, with at least one of those incumbents not running for re-election either. I have no idea what direction anything's going to jump in. It may come down to who the candidates are, as much as anything about the parties.
Doesn't fully capture usage of the service (visitors to Canada are not counted, but citizens who are absent from the country more than half the year may be). Are bilingual individuals counted as belonging to both sides, or do they have to add a rider to the census asking us which language we want to support? If someone, for whatever reason, wants to throw their support behind the language they don't speak, are they allowed? If not, why not? And what are you going to give Quebec to keep them from throwing a political hissy-fit over getting short-changed?
Dividing the money in half keeps the lid firmly on all those cans of worms.
I get the impression that you're the kind of person who complains about their tax money going to services they don't use. By that logic, my taxes shouldn't go to funding child care or primary-school education, because I don't, and won't, have any children. Thing is, both of those are general public goods, and I support them even if they don't benefit me personally, because having them makes Canada a better place to be. And yes, French-language public radio is also a public good.
Shouldn’t this be split proportionately between French and English? That seems more equitable to me.
It depends—in proportion to what, exactly? Some things cost the same amount whether you're using them 100% of the time or only 10%. Some costs may be shared between the French and English sides. Others scale with the amount of material being produced. Very few scale with the number of listeners, and French Radio-Canada is broadcast in large areas outside of Quebec. Splitting the money into even halves makes for simpler bookkeeping, and simplifying the bookkeeping saves money.
No. Once you strip away all the rhetoric, the purpose of a locked boot system is control (over who or what can boot the system).
Current secure boot implementations are like a door lock installed by someone else, which you are not allowed to replace and that may or may not allow you to cut your own duplicate keys for it. You have no control whatsoever over who the people who installed the lock may have given keys to, and if it turns out that the lock has a fundamental design flaw that means it can't do its job properly, well, sucks to be you. You can't even guarantee that the lock won't morph into a new shape randomly or under the control of the installer, invalidating your existing keys in the process.
Rooting a device is a tradeoff. An unreliable door lock that you don't entirely control may be better than none, but if you know you're leaving the door unlocked, you also know you need to take other precautions to safeguard what's inside (or simply not leave anything of value there in the first place).
The ideal would be a locked boot system that is installed by the user and is fully under their control, but I have yet to encounter one.
It isn't in their best interests to threaten the loony Christian sects that are one of the right wing's favourite brainwashing tools. Members of those sects rely on authority figures to "interpret" the Bible for them instead of actually paying attention to its content, but if you try to take it away from them, they'll throw a fit like a toddler does when you take away a toy they've been ignoring. Restricting access to the Bible in the present day would make religious brainwashing more difficult and create more people who actually think for themselves, which is anathema to bad governments like Texas'.
That can be weaponized, though. US government publications are public domain. So is the Bible. We'd at least get to watch members of the Texas government tie themselves into knots worthy of a game of Twister as they try to argue that those texts are harmful on a porn site but not anywhere else.
I don’t get why people rush to the next replica platform that will go down the exact same path of overstimulating you / mentally harming you.
I think they get used to the level of stimulation and now feel "wrong" without it. It takes a certain self-awareness to realize that it would be healthier to recalibrate your expectations. (I don't think Pixelfed is a comparatively harmful platform at the moment anyway, although I suppose it could someday become one.)
It's disturbing that I kinda miss the pre-USB days when, if the cable matched the port physically, it also matched the port in terms of capabilities (unless someone was doing something deliberately stupid). At least that meant you knew right away whether you had the right cable or not.
While the quality won't be particularly good, a cheap cassette-to-MP3 converter off Amazon can ensure that the material at least isn't lost forever. Run the tape through 2-3 times to make sure you get at least one decent copy of everything. Once you've got that done, escalate as suggested by solsangraal to get a better transfer.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Opinion polls don't reflect anything but how a non-representative subset of the population who have enough time on their hands to be interested in filling out polls respond to the specific question on the poll, which is often very carefully worded in an attempt to elicit a particular answer.
Blindly loving your country is an immature stance anyway. It implies you're willing to overlook its faults rather than fixing them.
Free clue: Trump doesn't mean 90% of what he says. He's just a real-world troll who enjoys stirring up shit and watching people run around. Despite his bloviations, most of what he claims he would like to do, he ain't gonna be able to, and based on his previous track record he's going to have forgotten half of it in a year's time anyway.
If you genuinely want to live in a country run by someone like that, I suggest you emigrate and stop bothering those of us who actually want to live in this country. Y'know, the one that doesn't have mass shootings so often that they no longer reliably make the national news, among other things.
If I recall correctly, what they stole wasn't even worth that much. Definitely not worth starting a high-speed chase over, and you can't have a chase without a pursuer. If it had been a multiple murderer fleeing the scene, the risk might have been acceptable, but not for this.