Last mile wires are likely running VDSL, not POTS or ISDN. Phone service runs through a modem which the user plugs into their house wiring to give the illusion of POTS, but outside the house it is just VoIP

It may be a trite saying, but it's as true in education as it is in a gym. If you don't exercise your brain, it's not going to improve.

There's a reason weightlifters don't use a forklift or crane to pick up the barbells and do a dozen reps. The problem is not that the weights are in need of lifting. And that's the same problem with homework. The teacher doesn't need a stack of 5 page reports; what they need is for their students to practice using their brains.

Unfortunately the education system is designed to evaluate output instead of process. It's easier to grade a paper or a test, not evaluate a demonstration of knowledge. It's always been ripe for cheating, but now the cheat tools are everywhere and made legitimate by techbros demanding AI productivity. So either teaching will change, or we'll head straight for idiocracy and nobody will be left with the skills to wonder why it all went to hell.

Packaging is more expensive because it has to make a place for the cable. No cable, cheaper packaging, smaller boxes, less weight. All this adds up.

'That's the thing I'm going to be expert at for the next 30 years,' I can promise you that's not going to be valuable 30 years from now,"

I dunno. I got started programming Acorn Risk Machines and here I am 30 years later making a decent living off of it.

They will still fix this faster than any of the traditional NASA cost-plus contractors. They would take years to fix this. SpaceX will have their next iteration within 6 months.

Either on the front end with your bill or the back end where you pay more for Steam.

or both

You said Quebec could ban Amazon. Quebec can't, and Canada as a whole is unlikely to throw out Amazon because of issues in one province. Heck, they might keep amazon just to twist it to them.

The point is a lot of people have to be against something for it to get banned. TikTok is disposable, it will get replaced with some other app in short order. Amazon is less so.

This is not the same situation. (1) different country and (2) different level of government.

The Supreme Court did not ban it. Congress did. Both Houses, and the president signed it. The Supreme Court upheld it.

Quebec (one province) likely does not have the authority to ban Amazon on their own. They would have to get that from Canadian Parliament, and it too would likely be challenged and go through a similar judicial review. But that has not happened.

They did not interrupt the formation of the union. They just decided that it was better business for them to covert to 3rd party distribution.

Family members are often the first investors in any venture. Trying to use this fact to imply that someone does not deserve their outcome just looks like sour grapes.

There seems to be a lot of hate towards family members helping out. Everyone calls it "privilege" now, like having a family that is willing and able to help is a bad thing.

there are many things Quebec can do, including telling Amazon it's not longer welcome in its providence

I am no lawyer, but I don't think the state actually has the power to do this, unless Amazon is doing something illegal. It is not illegal to convert to 3rd party distribution because that is more favorable to their business.