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Comment Re:Cable guy? (Score 2) 126

You have a large company in the cable company causing you to stay home all day (not making money) and all to often causing you to lose multiple days work. If they do show up and you aren't home they still charge you. So you pay for what you don't get. They are comparing that to all the promise to bring electricity to these regions for 50! years and it is still a no show. That is the comparison they are making.

This "Solar punk" is different in that instead of dealing with a major corporation you are dealing with a small one that comes and installs the panels and YOU are generating your own power. Your neighbours see that unlike all the promises made for GENERATIONS your private deal WORKED and show that others can do the same. Little companies working with private individuals are doing what the big companies and governments failed to accomplish.

Comment Re:no international jurisdiction (Score 1) 38

Even Diaper Diddler Donny has stated that he prefers Carney to Poilievre: He likes a pushover when he dictates "deals".

Garbage. He merely learned that his being against Carney and for Poilievre caused Canadians to back Carney and blocked Poilievre from becoming Prime Minister as the more Trumpskyy backed him the more his support fell. The Conservatives were a shoo in until Trumpskyy started backing them when it all fell apart. He is now saying "good" things about Carney hoping that Canadians will stop supporting him and go back to the Conservatives.

Comment Re:Drunks (Score 2) 75

As for "drunk on profit", I have yet to see a self-driving venture make a profit.

The executives take "profits" in the form of high bonuses they vote themselves no matter how badly things go. A failure they walk into another high paying job with bags of cash. A success and they vote themselves lots of share which increase rapidly and again they get bags of cash.

Comment Do a study FIRST. (Score 2) 90

even though regulatorsadmittedin theFederal Registerthat no evidence indicated the truck-mounted beacons would be less safe. Such a study is now underway, but it's unclear how long it will take to draw any conclusions.

The company wants the regulations changed? Fine as soon as THEY provide evidence that the proposed change is NOT less safe. At this point according to the article there has been no study to indicate how safe their proposed changes are compared to existing regulations. So why should the change be made?

Comment Re:Sure, work sucks (Score 1) 187

There are usually two things you can do: Document the hell out of the situation and hope someone will agree with you OR work hard to make the asshole look good hoping he/she will get promoted and a better boss will take over.

Or white mutiny. Do your job and don't do anything extra that makes your boss look good. Let their behaviour ruin them. Been there done that to a drunken boss who got really snarky with me one day for not "doing her job fast enough" when to do so would have stopped all work for the last hours of the day. Took 90 days for her to be fired, as I predicted.

Comment Re:King George the Third... (Score 1) 264

The confederate flag that made the news looked staged. It was carried by a man wearing a balaclava, no one else in the crowd was wearing a mask. .

There was more than one. One of the ones I saw also had a sign indicating he was against "Tranny", I assumed he couldn't spell Tyranny but with all the American fears of trans people that have shown up since then maybe I was wrong.

Comment Re:King George the Third... (Score 4, Interesting) 264

When the majority of the placards carried in a protest in Azerbaijan are in frelling **English** the origin of the "movement" is pretty obvious.

The same for the "Truckers Convoy" in Canada. Way too many Confederate flags. Not to mention one of them in court trying to plead the 5th amendment.

Comment Re:Enforcement? (Score 1) 23

"International Law" now means just about nothing. What's Canada going to do with that lawbreaking? Take it to a US court?.

Canada fought Bush II 's softwood lumber tariffs and won at every step. That didn't get them revoked. A deal was finally made but Trump broke it. The Republicans think they are above any agreements.

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