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Only BC, AB, MB and NS restrict body armour sales. If you live in any other province there is no restriction.

Visitor visas still require the 10 years of work history if you are not from a visa-exempt country (like France).

He had a fake French passport. French citizens (along with many other nationalities) do not need a visa to travel to Canada.

The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research has a report on estimated losses due to tax evasion by country in 2013 (published in 2017).

https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/wp2017-55.pdf

Anyone uninterested in reading the whole report can CTRL+F country names (there is a breakdown in the appendix).

Total sales tax ranges 5-15% across all provinces, it never exceeds 15% (unless you include taxes on specific goods, like alcohol).

In regards to 'wrong or annoying,' was there something I could have done or said better, Dan?

“But the plans were on display…”

“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”

“That’s the display department.”

“With a flashlight.”

“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”

“So had the stairs.”

“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

I wouldn't call sending truckloads of boxes of paperwork during discovery to opposing counsel and linking a 238-page PDF with a good ToC and summary equivalent, but I guess the internet has robbed a lot of people of basic research skills.

I remember it from news reports at the time. I can't find any documentation now, so it easily could have been Petaki. I can't find a transcript or video of Bush's address to the nation on the day of the blackout though.

Refer to the summary of causes on page 17, as seen in the table of contents.

...unlike, say, New York City or Detroit, whose residents found out the hard way that lots of their power comes from Canada.

Interesting that this myth is still alive. It started with Bush falsely claiming the 2003 blackout was Canada's fault before an investigation had even been done. Here is the actual postmortem report.

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/oeprod/DocumentsandM...

I don't mean either, I just mean the methodology isn't great.

It would be a better comparison if both systems were on equal footing. In this demonstration the Xubuntu system has swap enabled and the Lubuntu system doesn't. The load averages should also not be taken into consideration as the Lubuntu system has only been up for ~1 minute and the Xubuntu system has been up for ~20.

It's not your place to tell people what they can and cannot say.

But under your argument don't I have absolute freedom of speech?

It seems like a noble argument until you consider that the speech you'd be protecting is people calling others, often minors, various slurs. If you doubt this play a few matches of COD.

There already is a delay, it's just imperceptible in most cases because it's so short.

Oh neat. Still, even when airtight there is a stable shelf life you need to be mindful of.

Seems like they're preparing for something more realistic like the 2003 blackout and not a zombie apocalypse.

You're probably aware but make sure you're rotating out that gas. It will last longer in an airtight container than one with venting like most cans. Smart move though.

I got the trial. Gave me a 201 area code number. Called it and it waited some seconds after answering, played a DTMF tone and hung up. No, I didn't test it with Duo (lol). Every time this number receives a phone call it increments a login counter on the dashboard.

Remote Assistance (Windows XP - Win10 until anniversary update, renamed Quick Assist in current Win10) in Windows is based on RDP, but a separate feature. Remote Assistance/Quick Assist is a bit spookier than RDP because it allows you to connect to the session of another user. Normally this required user prompting but if you have local admin on the target machine (e.g. IT team) you can make the client auto-answer prompts on Win7(although hackishly).

This article tells you to turn off Remote Desktop entirely which is unnecessary to disable Remote Assistance/Quick Assist.

My grandfather served in WW2, not WW1. In his case, he actually lied about his age to join, and also was made to temporarily change the German surname you might notice in my username. He was enlisted for the duration and stayed on for decades after. Only left when they made him (medical).

I agree with you actually, I've just examined this part of our past myself and come to a different conclusion than you.

Sorry Dan, I shouldn't have responded like that. I do think I was responding to the most plausible interpretation of what he said, but my tone was off.

The comment I responded to describes Canadian history extremely inaccurately ('littlest brother of the commonwealth'), that this is wildly incorrect should be obvious to anyone educated in Canada. I like many others was taught all about Canadian exploits in WW1 and WW2, including their excellence at trench raiding, improvised weapons and feared reputation as 'shock troops.' Could be that's just Ontario (or my school district) but I'm fairly certain it's a well known part of Canadian history (at least for Canadians).

Even the author of the article says we should not pass judgment given the circumstances. Have a good morning.

Even though you disagree with me, and probably my tone, this is a useless and unproductive comment.

That's not what my great-great-grandfathers service record says, or the extremely long list of Canadians killed or injured in WW1.

The German that shot him was probably just messing around, you're right.

They did teach it, they just weren't callous enough to teach the moral judgement you've just made about the conduct of your anscestors while entire nations were trying to kill them.

I think military application of any technology is unsafe, at least for someone.

There are 'humane' electric shock machines available for crabs. They supposedly cause instant painless death. Obviously the size would make it impossible to use the same machine but maybe something similar.

http://www.polar-systems.co.uk/industries-applications/seafo...

Or maybe the guy was an idiot. But possibly entertain the thought that maybe his situation wasn't exactly comparable to your eh?

I have never encountered a business that does not require backups. Not having a DR site as early in the game as they were might be excusable, but even then suggesting they get one is sound advice. It's an additional expense but it has a cheaper implementation cost while your infrastructure is small. Having a good DR plan is a selling point as well, this is the first thing I ask SaaS providers when I am evaluating them.

What is a total failure is not having backups on another provider. Before anyone says it's just a 2-person startup... surely that makes it easier? I can't imagine their DBs are all that big. Even just a three line cronjob and a Backblaze B2 ($0.005/GB) account could have secured their business continuity in the event their DO account didn't come back up.

But also DO Spaces for our object storage with ~500k media and our database backups.

Based on that comment (from @w3nicolas on Twitter) they actually could have used the same script they used for DO Spaces to back up their DBs to S3 (both use the S3 protocol). The 500k image files should be relatively small and cheap to back up too, appears they are just logo thumbnails for the tracked companies (500k image files, copy says they track 450k companies).

If you are building infrastructure and you don't have IT Ops experience consult somebody who does because they will save you from yourself in scenarios like this. If you are a dev you could probably throw a rock and hit 5 friends with enough ops experience to tell you the importance of redundant backups.

I think this comment might read a bit more abrasively than I meant it, but I don't mean to kick the guy after he was down. If you are in a similar boat to RaisUp with your backups go fix it now. If you rely on any one vendor for business continuity that is a problem. This PSA is sponsored by salty sysadmins everywhere.