In the case of South Korea, NK doesn't even need chemical weapons. NK has a lot of conventional artillery close to its border with SK, camouflaged and fortified, aimed at Seoul, which is within range. In a few minutes they can destroy Seoul. The US could eventually destroy these installations since NK has little by way of air defense and the US has the firepower, but not before Seoul and its inhabitants are destroyed.

Actually, it turned out that his invocation of war time powers was unnecessary and the illegal behaviour of the convoy could have been dealt with under ordinary law. Deliberately blocking roads and harassing local people is not legal at any time.

Since when would you look for insurance, or any other product, on Facebook? It isn't a search engine. The premise of this case doesn't make sense.

Their engineering is fortunately better than their Latin. "Victus Nox" does not mean "conquer the night". In fact, it doesn't mean anything at all. The only thing that "victus" could be as a verb is the masculine singular nominative of the perfect passive participle, meaning "conquered", but the phrase can't mean "the conquered night" because nox "night" is a feminine noun, so "conquered night" would be "victa nox". Maybe they should have used Klingon, a language their engineers are more likely to get right.

It looks pretty seaworthy, in the sense of hard to sink. It would probably be heard to make headway against a strong current or in high waves, but that isn't a life-and-death problem if he is well provisioned. Does it have sufficient lighting to avoid being run down by large ships?

But in an awfully narrow way since they exclude Macs along with numerous systems prisoners are unlikely to want or be able to obtain or run, such as the CP/M systems, the Altair 8800, the Xerox Star and Alto, the Lisp machines, the various mainframes, minicomputers like the VAX, the Cray systems, etc.

Rights in Canada are broadly similar to those in the United States and Western European democracies, but both the Constitution and case law differ in many details. For example, although Canada protects freedom of expression in ways not unlike the US 1st Amendment, whereas in the US public colleges and universities are considered part of the government for 1st Amendment purposes, the case law in Canada is that they are not. Also relevant is that whereas the US Constitution consists of a single document plus 27 amendments, the Constitution of Canada consists of the Constitution Act of 1982, the Constitution Act of 1867 (also known as the British North America Act), and various other acts. The Charter of Rights, the approximate equivalent of the US Bill of Rights, is part of the Constitution Act of 1982. See The Constitution Acts.

This kind of behavior by Microsoft is hardly news. It is one of many reasons I do almost all of my work on GNU/Linux.

I'm afraid this will be lost on most non-Canadians.

They aren't forced into the position of defending the copyright or relinquishing it. You're thinking of trademarks. Copyrights are different. A copyright holder can ignore one infringer and still enforce the copyright against another.

The only thing they can't share is links to news media. As you say, they are perfectly free to post their own observations on Facebook, Twitter, their own blogs, and so forth. The only thing they can't share on Facebook is links to news articles. They can still present information from them, just without the link. And news articles are generally not the most informative sources. Here in British Columbia the province provides a very informative forest fire map: https://wildfiresituation.nrs.....

The government should repeal C0-18. They created the problem and they can solve it. In any case, the ban on news is not creating much of a problem. Government public service announcements are not commercial news sites and the ban does not apply to them. Furthermore, people can subscribe to email or text message notifications. People can still go to their favourite news sources without any intervention from Meta. They can also go to information sites like the world air quality map (https://waqi.info/#/c/53.979/-122.854/9.2z), on which I can look at the air quality reading from a sensor about 200 meters from my house, or the Brtiish Columbia wildfire map (https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/map). Individuals are still free to post their own observations on Facebook or Twitter or wherever they please.

This is yet another example of why the duration of copyright needs to be cut back. There is no reason for copyrights to last more than 50 years. That gives the creator plenty of time to profit from his or her work, to create related works, and to control derivatives.

What software are they running? Do the banks all use one or a few banking software systems? Do they roll their own from scratch? Or is it something in between, e.g. a database system that each bank configures?