I'll say it again: Canada wants Canadian content "promoted" (whatever that means). They are not directly asking for foreign content (i.e. American content) to be blocked. But this won't work if Canadians refuse to select Canadian content.

The whole licensing argument is a red herring. The only thing licenses can block is foreign content coming _into_ Canada.

You have identified _exactly_ the process by which the Internet operates. Pig ignorant fools who have no point to make resort to mouth-foaming rants.

Do you really think that state regulations would block Mexicans from viewing Mexican content while in Mexico? Or Canadian regs block Canadians from viewing Canadian content in Canada? At any rate, regulations and licenses are responsibilities of individual states, not Netflix. Netflix is more than happy to distribute anything they legally can.

It wasn't 7 years to find the right spot. It was 7 years to realize Texas isn't as accommodating as he hoped, and he can buy off a broke state cheaper than a rich state. Of course, finding enough people to move to the Texan Everglades was easy compared to finding enough who will live in the bayous to run his steel penis rocket facilities.

Complete bullshit. Even for fullscreen video, the website doesn't need to know my screen size. It should tell the browser "here are the resolutions I can offer you" and the browser picks one of those. All the website needs to know is if I prefer 1080p or 4K. And I might pick 1080p even if my screen is 4K because, say, the hotel wifi is slow.

Complete bullshit. None of these things break if I don't tell you my OS. I've got extensions in this browser that can fake my agent string and nothing breaks. Fonts? Are you kidding me? Be more specific, what exactly do you mean by that?

And there's no reason it needs to. What legit use case requires a website to know whether my GPU is an NVidia, AMD, Intel or whatever chip? A shitload of the capabilities are only needed for 3D scenes (like max texture size), which is 0.1% of the websites I visit - they can ask and I can whitelist just them. Why does it need my refresh rate?

Again: All of these things have a legit use case, sure. Often exactly one. That is rarely if ever used. There's absolutely no reason that EVERY WEBSITE can query information that only one website in a thousand actually needs.

You don't tell the baker, florist and car dealer your shoe size just because the shoe shop needs it to serve you, right?

Because I want to be irrelevant to the fucking ad industry. I don't want them to track me, profile me and try every trick in the book to manipulate me into buying shit I don't need.

Sure, the same way that putting a finger into another man's ass has a legit use case (prostate examination) - but that doesn't mean I want every man to do that to me all the time.

The point is that tech companies are exploiting the legit use cases by abusing them when you're not in that use case. Basically, they think they can finger up your ass whenever they want, because once a few years ago you consented to a doctor to give you an exam and maybe you will do that again in the future.

I don't mind it being capable of. I mind it doing all kinds of shit without telling me and without giving me a choice. For example, I absolutely do not want websites to access my microphone. Or even know that I have one. For the once-a-year case where I might actually use that, I can enable it.

The problem is the same problem that the cybersecurity field has been fighting for 40 years: Permit All being the default.

That's not how the Internet works. Netflix doesn't "broadcast" anything. Users pull it, if they so desire. As long as Canadian content exists on Netflix, it's up to Canadians to search and request it.

What do they want? If the requisite amount of Canadian content isn't downloaded, do they want some sort of popup demanding that each user needs to pull down a couple of CBC programs before they can go back to the Real Housewives franchise?

So, it bypasses things like firewalls, auditing programs, and normal kernel resource management. How the hell does it do tha...

OK. I got it.

... the Terror and the Erebus? Crews lost due to mismanagement rather than hostile actions.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

It doesn't NEED to know any of these things. My browser knows the window (not screen) size and if your CSS is well-formed, it'll manage or maybe your page looks shit if you build it shit. It needs to know my OS only if I want a download link, not on every page I ever visit. It doesn't need graphics capabilities unless it wants to bypass the browser rendering engine, in which case it should ask for permission or fuck off.

The thing is that we give up too easily and the major browser manufacturers (one of which is an ad company themselves) are complicit.

I want "fuck the ad industry" mode, where the browser generates random but plausible values for every non-essential information a website requests. Different ones every 5 minutes.

"government money grab."

Please rewind back to the part where we have a $2T budget deficit that will absolutely implode the economy and kill millions by the interruption of all goods and services as the dollar becomes with $0. There are many money grabs needed. The more the merrier. Just do it where people can afford it.

I would have figured this would have happened a long time ago, shocked it took until now to have a machine beat a human at running bipedal.

We aren't even the fastest bipedal animal.

I would not go *that* far. Sure an artist can flop out of the industry, and new artists have to come from *somewhere*, but the music industry has more and more successfully "manufactured" the performers rather than "discovered" them.

Also, lots of working it from other angles, the music is a relatively small part of the picture for the biggest musicians. Other media or just a celebrity for the sake of celebrity type things. Co-hosting some reality show that has nothing to do with music, for example.

He's not done much in the field in over a decade now, and even then arguably it was mostly riding on the remembered success from the 90s.

... find a rhyme for "booty". Job done.