1) They've said that date before. They set dates for stuff all the time which are far away. I wouldn't put too much into it.
2) Says the current government which has an election in like a year. There are a lot of elections between now and 2035. All it takes is one, and those new "regulations" are toast.
3) I'd expect that will be only on the sale of "NEW" cars in Canada. However there will be millions of used cars in Canada that will still need to be driven, bought, and sold for decades to come. Should be a nice used car market. No doubt there will be speculators buying up cars as 2035 approaches lol
4) Exemptions upon exemptions, upon exemptions. Expect them. Government? Military? Corporate? Business? Agriculture? Etc...
5) Imports... Currently can import cars 25 years out of date, a nice cheater might be to quietly lower that threshold...

Anyway we'll see, but I expect a lot of the above. Be interesting to look at whichever Nordic country did it not too long ago, might have been Finland or perhaps Norway can't remember (Sweden?), anyway to see how the EV roll out and oil burner ban was done and how it worked(ing) out...

Study involved math.
But can they write a poem?
'Nam's schools focus math.

I kid. No one cares... :)
But I did post as a haiku just for fun :)

Obviously my focus was also not the arts :p

If you live in a city and drive to work, and that is all you do, sure, get a short range EV that is all you need. For many people that is not how they drive. I'm planning an 1800km trip right now. I do it just about every year. Do I even like driving 1800km? Nope I sure don't, but the alternatives are even worse.

If I can only go in 400km spurts due to charging (assuming there is even charging available) that's like 4 or 5 days of driving EACH way (there and back again).

Sure I split that 1800km into 2 days (I have done it in one go before long ago, but I'm done with that), which means 4 days total driving, which means I need to take at least 8-9 days vacation to make it worth my while... With the EV example above, what's that? 20 days or something? lol, sure.

Sure you might rent a car. Have you looked at what that costs lately? 5 days is like 1.5-2k, so you looking at least 2-4k in car rental costs...
Sure you can fly. However with all the flight cancelations I see lately is it something I really want to bet my vacation on if I don't have to? Also once you get there, see rental prices above.
That leaves train, which is like the worst of all worlds, where it takes as long as driving, costs as much as flying, and you still need a car rental when you get there...

So yes, just because 90% of most drivers activity is short commutes doesn't really identify as 90% of the need. I don't drive to work, never have, I walk to work. I do own a car, but that is not what I use it for. So short work commute makes of 0% of my driving experience. Do I also use it for short commutes? Sure, I'll go to the grocery store, softball, etc whatever.

Anyway I'll never buy an EV until the range is at least something more reasonable. I'm sure it'll get there, but I'm not an early adopter on that one.

That said, as mentioned, I've no plans to do that 1800km straight ever again, so at 900km, call it 1000km wiggle room as to where you stop, works out to about 650 miles. Once EV's can consistently hit that mark (and not cost +100K), I'll look into it. Takes about 10h to drive that, and you really don't want to drive more than that anyway realistically.

For fun last year I did it in 3 days each way as opposed to 2 and stayed in a lot of hotels, but it does strain the vacation days (took about 2 weeks that time). Still works out to 5-7h driving time each day which I think is beyond EV's these days.

Pros: Has a range of 1200 miles
                  Can change in less than 10 minutes

Cons: Made of mostly dead babies
                    Converts to 20kt nuke when exposed to air

I assume they depend on an actual investment group to make these kinds of decisions. It isn't like teachers themselves are making these decisions. Still the optics look pretty bad (i.e. stupid teachers). That said they would likely have some board or something have to approve something like this, which also doesn't speak well. They certainly have egg on their faces as this was *international* news, and not something that an Ontario Pension Fund wears well.

As to the vocal crypto boys you find everywhere hyping, that is pretty easily understood. It's called bias. They own the crypto, the more fools (greater fool theory) they can get to join, they more money they can make. It also makes more voices clamoring for more fools, ad nauseam.

Then again this is nothing new, happens with stocks all the time. In the old timey days when folks depending on media for this information, those people giving said advice would have to be honest about their bias (i.e. I own said stock I am promoting, or I don't), or face jail. Now with social media it's more of a free for all. Though I see that some celebrities got in some hot water when promoting Crypto on TV and elsewhere while not disclosing they own it (or in some cases paid with it).

Anyway plenty of people made money in Crypto, but a lot more lost. For those following it from the beginning, it was a fools errand from the start, and knew not to get involved. Everyone wants to get rich quick is the temptation. As the old saying goes, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't.

What's worse at least normal financial fraud (likely because of regulation) they will go though some sophisticated maneuverings to steal your money to the point where it's even hard for a layman to understand what even happened. Crypto seems a lot less finessed in fraud, I guess because they don't have to be.

For some time now (probably due to stock market distrust and low returns), housing has been used in many (if not most) cases as simply financial instruments.

It's a method in which investors leverage debt into a never ending cycle of development (which is unsustainable). Whereby you build a bunch of really expensive housing (borrowing the money to do so), then have it evaluated at X, go the the bank and say I've got X as collateral, loan me Y, use that to build more expensive housing, have it evaluated at Z, go to bank say I've got Z as collateral, loan me... etc... Sure you sell and or rent to make some money on the side, but basically you use the ever crazy increasing housing valuations, to leverage more loans, acquire more debt etc... At some point it may all come crashing down (and already has for those too leveraged with rising costs of debt due to increasing interest rates), but in the meantime living large...

Don't trust propaganda coming out of China? Gasp. What propaganda is coming out of China? Probably most of it to some degree or another.

Not exactly newsworthy.

More concerning is the role in which China plays within the international organization of WHO, and the manipulation of that organizations findings causing real concern over the legitimacy and purpose of said organization.

In recent news you could say the same of Russia leading the UN security council... Lunacy.

True. Immediate emergencies probably not so helpful just given the sheer size and coverage.

However, could have life saving capabilities for say search and rescue applications.

i.e. I see exactly where you are, sending help. Start a fire and try not to freeze to death in the next 14 hours it will take us to get there. Or I see where you are, head to this location and we'll meet you there for pickup.

That said, not sure how this is going to work. Most phones don't actually have real GPS in them, but triangulated GPS based on the known locations of nearest cell tower positions, which isn't going to be so useful. As if 911 asks where you are and the answer is, I don't know, I see trees, isn't going to help much...

Otherwise it's for sat phones. If you already are carrying a sat phone, I'm not sure what you need starlink for.

They didn't care before because it didn't impact anything they care about. If a bunch of stupid people want to throw their money away and get fleeced who are they to stand in the way, not their problem.

The FTX implosion showed two things however:
1) That Crypto and normal markets are *currently* insulated enough that taking down the one won't impact the other.
2) It highlighted this fact, but also showed some limited crossover (where legit normal market business invested heavily into Crypto), and just that glimmer of possibility probably scared the shit out of people...

Crypto is fine so long as it is over there and separate, and that there is a break away point between the anchor and the ship. Because when that anchor drops (and it will), they don't want it to take the ship down with it...

Bill Gates points out obvious problem with obvious reasons why it has never been fixed.

This is not a technical issue, but a political one. Look at Texas, remember the big power outage not that long ago? Ya, a prime example.

Another weirder non-US example, half of Japan runs at 50Hz and the other 60Hz, for some weird historical reason I can't remember.

Ever travel to Europe or elsewhere in the world? Be prepared to have a pocket full of different plugs and converters (if they even work). You know what they should do? They should standardize the plug type and use the same electrical properties. There glad I could fix that problem too. :P

I was thinking this more relates to the recent Adani Group crisis in India:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...

The #2 richest guy in the world just lost half his "value" last week.

At the same time, if someone told me that the 2nd richest man in the world was corrupt, involving the corrupt Indian business community, and the corrupt Indian government, I would be shocked, shocked I tell you! A lot of greased pockets keeping the con going. At the same time not too subtle about it either, something like 3000% increase in the last 3 years or something stupid like that. If you're going to involve a lot of shell companies, maybe do a better job of making realistic fake ones. Also super shocking (shocking!) where all your executives are family members, most of which have seemingly been involved with fraud and sketchy financial dealings (SHOCKING!)... I think the only really shocking think is how did it take so long for this to become known, I mean it is pretty damn obvious. As mentioned a lot of vested interest keeping gravy train rollin'...

I remember a couple years ago the PM up here in Canada got in some hot water because a Quebec company got caught giving bribes in India, to which their explanation was, that is just how you do business in India, if you don't then you don't do business in India. To which I didn't bat an eye as I have zero doubt they are 100% correct. Might be illegal in Canada, but par for course over there.

Anyway I think that is more "bitcoiny" than meta swings. Wasn't all that long ago it lost a bunch of value as well. Oh I agree 100 billion be BS, but speculators be speculatin' I'd guess with an already ridiculously overvalued valuation anyway...

Sure they can. Just because an illusion exists doesn't preclude a physical object. However a good point here is if these observations are visual or instrumental, or both. Instruments can fail, or in the case of computer interpolation (which likely most instruments are these days) be imperfect or incorrect when bouncing off something unexpected. Like one of my favorite jokes about the old stealth bomber having a radar signature of a seagull, to which a comedian pointed out, a seagull travelling at mach 2 however...

Another example (abet nautical) is the "floating ship", whereby a ship will visually appear to be floating above the water. This is real, I've seen it myself, it's very weird to see. However if you're a ship and have radar, that ship does exist on instruments. Does that mean that Aliens are sending weird airborne floating ships, or that Russia has started a new air floating ship gap to which we much immediately address? No. It means there is a weird optical illusion of a real ship...

meh. if it wasn't the expense, "space" would be a very good place for nuclear waste... just sayin'

Also there has been nuclear energy in space for decades, just not specifically for propulsion...

Big deal. Also I doubt this will be the Orion blueprint, I think that was tossed a lot time ago (i.e. explosive propulsion).

Thinking more like nuclear powered ION propulsion for long range probes or something like that.

This is why everyone puts all their money in real estate and one of the main reasons owning a home for living in is broken now because they are basically all just an overused type investment now (never mind the REITs).

People running out of places to put money. Market is rigged. Real estate is saturated. Crypto is even more rigged than the market. All those squirrels looking to put their nuts into gold silver etc... Just keep cash and let the ever increasing inflation eat it?

Anyway rant.

Putting many chips on one chip isn't exactly innovation, it's kinda been going on a long time, just progression.

As someone that had a ABIT BP7 dually rig back in the day and now currently uses a AMD 3600G daily that has like 6 Cores and what used to be a graphic card in it, not super impressed by a Cell/WiFi/Bluetooth. I mean the big reason to do it, at least in computer terms, is to not have to use a traditional bus architecture to talk between things which is slower than onboard chip. Heck, again from PC perspective, WiFi and Bluetooth both used to be cards you plugged in and used another kind of bus, which most now are integrated onboard (if not in chip)...

That said I am not sure how much crosstalk there is between Cell/Wifi/Bluetooth really, but perhaps there is. Could be just another peg in miniaturization and just saving some more real estate, but with +6" phone screens who really cares... Then again maybe the target for this isn't just phones... Hmmm.