citation please. There are many countries which banned handguns and yet hand guns are used by criminals. Citation: Canada. Criminals don't care about the law because in most cases the law does nothing to prevent crime. It just tries to punish those that commit it. If they are even caught. If ever you have to deal with a criminal event you will understand how much protection criminals have since they don't care. In the end the most likely outcome is that they will walk free.

They already have. It's called "The not withstanding clause" which basically says that you have no rights. It's already in place. Restricting English in Quebec is one example of it being used under the pretext that French will be lost. Imagine one of the most used languages in the world pretending that they are a minority when they in turn try to eliminate the native American languages.

It's amazing how some define culture. They are completely clueless to the concept. The premier of Quebec even said that "it was sad that Louisiana lost it's culture". People create culture and not the politicians. Not the corporations.

What? Seriously? This is one uneducated statement. Most Excel spreadsheets can be imported in other apps. The ones that can't due to macros are are so elaborate that they are full of errors. It's happened so many times, even in one page sheets, where there are errors in the calculations due to keypunch entry.

Spreadsheets have their place but to say that a generic one can't meet Home/Small Office needs is just plain misinformed and spreading FUD. Spreadsheets are also a poor substitute for a double entry accounting system anyway. There a great substitution to adding machines or calculators.

P.S. I've had Gnumeric and LibreOffice repair a damaged sheet that Excel couldn't open.

That can define everything and everyone. Even work and pain. So everyone is addicted. So addiction is normal and doesn't need treatment.

Your beliefs about what is and isn't addiction don't matter. Just because you think people can be addicted doesn't make it so.

According to you I'm addicted because I'm alive because I don't live for misery and my only cure is death. Every positive aspect of our lives brings us pleasure in some form or another.

and none prescription drugs were/are illegal for a very long time and yet only the ignorant thought it solved the problem. The fact is, and was, that access to alcohol and cigarettes laws were put in place to pretend we actually cared. It's been illegal for about 2 generations, or more, you would think that it wouldn't be an issue today. How are you going to stop a motivated child? So far I see a lot of talk but no proposed solution. Not even a solution that would even resemble a half reasonable attempt. Not even a lame solution.

The only proposals on the table are slogans. Think of the children. Make the Internet safe. Make America great again. Shit, we can't even stop grandparent scams that go through traceable financial institutions.

I don't need to enforce my values onto anybody. If you think it makes sense to buy everything every 3 years that's your choice. I avoid proprietary solutions and choose options that give me control. I avoid companies that don't support their products.

No. I'm not. If it's not worth the effort to support it's not worth the effort to protect. Why should society offer protection to something that the developers think is obsolete? If it's not worth fixing 7 year old software it's not worth protecting.

Forget about properly disposing equipment. How about unsupported software is no longer protected by copyright and becomes public domain. Unsupported hardware loses all patents. The purpose of copyright and patents is to enrich society and compensate the inventor not to preserve the revenue stream of the holder.

That they haven't take every single penny out of your savings.

That's one way to see it. The other is that, while everything changed things stayed the same.

It's amazing how much energy is spent finding differences. In 20 to 30 years the current 20 somethings will be the older generation telling the next they have it easy while the next will be complaining how difficult it is.

I was under the impression that as the percentage of educated people increased in a population, the ignorance would diminish and we would stop repeating the mistakes of the past. Unfortunately I was misled. Now I sound like my father who always told me you can't change people and my kids believe they can change society.

Everything changed yet things stayed the same.

If it's not recyclable then the waste can be dumped onto the property of the manufacturer/importer of that type of plastic. The manufacturer/importer must use/recycle/dispose of the product in an environmentally safe manner.

It's easy to create waste. If there is no cost to the disposal then there is no incentive to change. Why bother with making something recyclable when you don't suffer the consequences of your actions.

What training? Using a word processor or a spreadsheet is as different between MS version updates as it it between vendors. The reality is most office workers know the basics and never use the advanced features that may be different. People just keep spewing this drivel.

Then you have MS pushing their junkware and breaking workflows like the HP driver update or one drive. Microsoft zealots can't even admit the problems and just invent excuses. Printing was solved on every other platform 20 years ago when using standards. On Windows it's still an issue today needing drivers to connect to proprietary solutions.

can save your family thousands a year. It applies to everything. Most people barely use their high speed Internet. A family of 5 will barely saturate their upload speed, so routing the streaming services through one home will not generally affect the services.

In reality most would rather pay for separate accounts than bother with the family interaction and/or the time to learn a bit about a subject. It interferes with their time on social media.

You didn't read the article just the click bait headline. The fees apply to visitors not residents. This is basically have other pay but not me, then come the complaints when they don't come.

I would say that the suburbs should charge the cities for the traffic that just passes through.

I don't pay anyone but my ISP for my internet. I use OSS and have over 35TB of storage available using equipment and drives that others discarded. It's available from anywhere that has an Internet connection. Granted you need a a bit of knowledge to set it up.