Itâ(TM)s called a Contract of Adhesion. Perfectly normal in the business world, courts accept them as written, but reportedly many apply extra scrutiny and give the benefit of doubt to the consumer.

Ps: Why canâ(TM)t /. properly handle basic default double-quotes typed on an iPad keyboard?

Actually a depressingly large number of construction/carpentry/HVAC people. Theyâ(TM)re always talking about a half inch of slope (in a deck) or somewhat.

In fact, the reason we had to be sure to use âoeCelsiusâ rather than the older âoecentigradeâ is because the civil engineering crowd already used the latter for a unit of slope â" calculated as rise over run times 100, IIRC.

The kids didn't die before -- they just got the flu. I would guess that they hope they won't die this year either.

I understand their point to be that the kids who didn't get the shot (the parents can opt out) turned out to be, in general, no worse off than those who did.

Up until this year, Quebec has offered free flu shots to kids of 6-24 months and everyone over sixty.

But they've decided to cancel them this year for all but "at risk" individuals, not as a cost saving measure, but because they've concluded they don't really work. Or at least haven't for some years now.

http://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad...

Because it is both fairer and bureaucratically cheaper to pay them both and tax it back from the one who is doing well enough to contribute.

If you simply give everyone a basic amount, there is no niggling, maneuvering, or fraud about eligibility for fifty-three different entitlements. And if you (actually) tax everyone based on their real income -- including said basic amount -- then you eliminate much of the niggling, maneuvering and fraud about seventy-one different tax loopholes and exemptions.

It might even wind up being approximately the same result as we have now, just with 80% fewer bureaucrats and 50% less fraud.

We got that Amber Alert in Montreal too, and thatâ(TM)s another 6 hours further by car than Toronto. Admittedly, we only got it on the radio, but thatâ(TM)s because the Quebec emergency system failed totally when tested a couple of weeks ago.

I guess I don't really understand the question. Here we manage our 70/30 mix of Windows/Linux boxes using Group Policy and RSAT for the Windows boxes and Putty for the Linux ones, but since the Group Policy editor and RSAT run from any Windows box, and Putty is, well, really just SSH, then who cares which actual OS one is running to do the administration?

I guess I don't know enough about really big shops. How do big Linux shops go about doing the Linux equivalent of Group Policy anyway?

The reason the per capita (not "capital") number is important is because these immigrants have to be absorbed into society. If Canada accepted as many immigrants as the US in absolute numbers, it couldn't cope with the demands of all of the newcomers all at once.

However, Canada is growing much faster from migration than the US (0.57% vs 0.39%) according to the CIA Factbook https://www.cia.gov/library/pu... .

Well, that's the problem actually. The Third Safe Country agreement between the US was supposed to deal with this problem, but it has a big loophole: it only applies to people arriving at official border crossings.

This is why there is such a hullabaloo about families deliberately stepping just across the border at Roxham Road, in full view of RCMP officers, and yards away from the official crossing at Lacolle. They are instantly arrested, but they then can claim asylum as the Third Safe Country agreement doesn't apply.

Also, it's a bit more than four: it averaged about 55 a day last year, totaling 20,593 just crossing between official border stations. This year, numbers are about the same -- 1970 in March, for example ( https://www.canada.ca/en/immig... ).

Canada has been granting asylum to about 50% of them at the moment.

Well, in "non-heathy" environments, belief in God is reportedly correlated to happiness:

https://www.psychologytoday.co...

Somewhere above someone posted figures showing Canada has double the annual per capita immigration rate than does the US (1% vs 0.5% respectively). However, they misstated the Canadian population as 30 million vs. the actual number of 36.3 million, so the actual immigration rates are closer.

Actually I take that back. It would be more correct to say that no card gets fully inserted in gas pumps in stations near here.