it might if it draws more customers to TekSavvy.

Americans have to understand that Canadians actually more than one or two ISPs to choose from in all major cities. Granted, most lease their infrastructure from the big players (Bell, Videotron, Shaw, Rogers, and I believe Cogeco), but those smaller ISPs still compete for customers.

If TekSavvy turns around and advertises the fact that they are an ISP willing to standup for their customers that would work well in their favour I'd imagine.

Isn't everyone all NoSQL nowadays or has that faded away?

I don't understand why Microsoft wants to make a browser so badly. The consumer world has moved on to Firefox and Chrome and Safari and this is propogating through the enterprise world now.

What is the business case for having your own browser? So that bing can be the default search engine?

> but also because I can get much better sound quality out of headphones for a fraction of the price of comparable speakers.

Doubtful. The distance between your ears and your headphones are far from long enough to experience lower frequencies.

First you point out:

> You may be, you may not be, but you are not in the position to make that determination.

But then you:

> I'm sorry you're too simple minded to understand that some people are not worth letting live, but thats the reality of it.

so what position do you have to make these determinations?

this is a fantastic video that demonstrates how stupid this court case is. when debating music originality with people, I often make them watch that video and this TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There may be only 12 notes on on the western scale, but only certain combinations of those notes actually sound good.

Ok, so how are the costs of producing music recouped?

It's not going to be tours, and merchandise has a very, very small margin.

I completely agree that copyright / IP laws are messed up. But since Napster changed everything, no one has yet been able to find a successful business model to replace what we have. Sure, some bands like Nine Inch Nails dropped their labels like dead weight but they already achieved critical success and had plenty of money to do so.

New artists and small labels that publish them, not so much.

Conservatives are front and centre when it comes to increasing the police state. How is that supporting freedom of speech?

with all the focus on motion sickness, what about depth of field?

If the person who is escaping is Asian, would they be more inclined to ignore white people while trying to get out?

in Canada, lotteries and gambling are typically run by government institutions.

I'm as surprised as you are...

the "science and art" of geopolitics is sufficiently dense to illicit intellectual arousal in nerds.

perhaps you can enlighten us as to why he's wrong, and what the linux kernel has to do to better support desktop environments?

One of the benefits about the teams I work with is just that, we're TEAMS.

So if I'm working on my part of the project, and something breaks from the other teams and the error is non-obvious, a bug report is filed saying not only how the error was generated, but that the error message itself is not clear to me and needs to be fixed.

QA has also been trained just enough to know when an error message doesn't make much.