I would be more impressed if Discourse worked in my browser without using an extension to inject code changes. It also tries to forbid browsers it doesn't recognize, regardless of their ability to run its code. Plus it doesn't downgrade gracefully—you should be able to view public information in full without Javascript (I don't expect any ability to log in or manipulate content, but reading things should work, and Discourse seems to break scrolling somehow). Not impressed. Granted, I'm not sure what I would choose if I were setting up a Web forum today, since mobile is now such a Big Thing and I don't use it, but Discourse fails at things I consider basic.
Life is always much more difficult outside the box.
(Also, were these eels from New Hampshire? 'Cause it sounds like they were taking "Live free or die" to extremes.)
Seriously, though, shipping live eels in a poorly-secured box really seems like a bad idea, and rather torturous for the eels. To whom were these consigned, and what did they want them for?
What the guns might have been used for prior to the blockade, or when not present at the blockade, is not relevant. You can commit murder just as easily with a hunting rifle as with a handgun. It's just more difficult to carry the rifle concealed.
This is likely to be C&D'd as well if it ever reaches the point where it does anything useful (remember, reddit doesn't need grounds that would hold up in court to send a C&D).
A question that comes to mind: Is there a power plant nearby that's been running at a higher level since the Bitcoin mine settled there? The issue might not be just noise pollution.
Seriously, though, there are options in between keeping copyright as it is and removing it altogether. Shortening the term is one. Mandatory mechanical licensing is another (that is, allowing people to make copies for a fee set by the government or a nonpartisan board without requiring permission from the copyright owner, who does, however, receive the fee—the trick is setting the fee at a level that makes it reasonable for the average person making a single copy, but still high enough to make it unattractive for corporations churning out millions of them). We also need to overhaul how derivative works are handled, and some aspects of trademark law.
One honestly wonders what percentage of voters do, in fact, remember what Bob Rae was like in office. I don't think most people are all that politically aware before somewhere in their mid-teens, which means that probably almost no one born after 1980 remembers politics during the Rae years. The number's just going to drop from here on, so I don't think "Remember Bob Rae!" is going to remain a useful rallying cry for the Conservatives for much longer, if it is even now.
So what? It isn't as though solar is the only clean energy option out there (and the externalities from the production and disposal of solar panels make it not as environmentally friendly as it looks at first glance, although obviously still better than fossil fuels). Wind, hydro, nuclear, and even tidal may be more appropriate for our much larger, much colder, much less dense, more northerly country. We already have a lot of hydro and (in Ontario) a lot of nuclear, and both seem to serve our needs well.
What we really need to do is shift Alberta's economy away from fossil fuels. That would do a lot more good than a Netherlands-sized installation of solar panels.
Pretty much any country can search you at their borders if you're seeking to cross in, yes (there may be some special cases—I'm not sure that an EU citizen crossing from one EU country to another is normally subject to search), but most countries only do that at border checkpoints, or if you're caught crossing illegally. "More than an hour's drive away from the border is still the border" is not the law in most places, as far as I know.
They can do it at the border or within 100 miles of it
Pretty sure that's just a US thing (including declaring that international airports are "borders"). Other countries will have other laws.
Still best to bring a burner instead of your real device if you're passing through international customs, though, even if both countries involved claim to be respectable Western democracies. Just in case.
Small companies vary widely in their morals. The best ones might indeed protect and teach, rather than exploit, a young worker. The worst ones . . . are worse than any large company, and you can't always tell from outside which type you've got. And family companies can be just as bad as any other small company, alas.
Fixed incomes + sudden rise in prices of everything = homelessness (or starvation or freezing to death, take your pick). The senior demographic includes a disproportionate number of the poor as well as the wealthy. As with so many things, this is disgusting but not surprising.
Apparently decades of science-fictional takes have not been able to make people understand why this is a Bad Idea and we shouldn't even be talking about it except to say, "Absolutely not!"
They're widely variable. PyPI gets into about as much trouble as npm, but I haven't heard of a successful attack on CPAN in years (although that may be because no one cares about Perl anymore).
I still will never understand how Canadians can look at privatization down south and be all “I want some of that!”
We don't. Unfortunately, when Canadians go to the polls, the thing a lot of the less thoughtful are thinking is "I want [last administration that didn't magically fix all the problems] out of power. I don't care what their opponents actually intend to do with the province/country as long as they're gone." I have no solution for this.
I usually don't even turn on the TV until the teeny display on the player is showing "MENU". Achieves the same thing without requiring me to get up.