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by visiblink 4y ago
I still have a rotary landline (well, VOIP, using a Grandstream ATA). It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :)
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by visiblink 4y ago
It does to me. During World War II, the Canadian government raised taxes in a bid to reduce demand and curb inflation (along with wage and price controls, mandatory savings, and other measures). Inversely, reducing taxes holds the potential
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by visiblink 4y ago
Canadian mortgages have separate amortization periods (say 20 or 25 years for example) and interest rate terms (generally 1-5 years, after which the rate has to be renegotiated -- and you have the option of transferring the mortgage to anot
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by visiblink 4y ago
Let's pilot this project in the Senate...
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by visiblink 4y ago
> A monarchy has the downside that who gets to be the monarch is fundamentally undemocratic. So I get 1/20 millionth of the decision in which of 3 or 4 members of an exclusive elite get a patronage position, and it's all good?
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by visiblink 4y ago
Not necessarily. You could choose them by lot and limit their terms. That would make for a fun night of TV.... Who will be Canada's next monarch? Find out tonight on CBC.
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by visiblink 4y ago
Not having a President is reason #1 to keep a constitutional monarch. The constitutional monarch is a figurehead without much of a day to day role, but who ensures that the demagogue we elect is not at the pinnacle of the political hierarch
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by visiblink 4y ago
I think so too. IIRC, you'd have to add a new feed for each thread.
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by visiblink 4y ago
Yes, but if you want to read the comments associated with a post, the link takes you right back to the regular reddit site.
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by visiblink 4y ago
On an Android device, Slide allows you to add subreddits without logging in. I follow several subreddits but have no account. I don't see any ads. Go to the hamburger menu > settings > manage your subreddits. Another mobile optio
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by visiblink 4y ago
Piling on here. My wife had a 2002 Jetta from new until 2019. We replaced both of the front window regulators on multiple occasions. There's nothing like having your window drop into the door when it's -40 C outside. Sometimes, we
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by visiblink 4y ago
You've ignored the fact that unions are limited to organizing one workplace at a time. Companies routinely close unionized locations. In a contest over the revenues of the enterprise between those who have only their labor to sell and
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by visiblink 4y ago
My Zero W hosts a gopher site and an 'unfederated' email service.
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by visiblink 4y ago
I don't know if it's still normal. In the 1970s and 1980s smoking a pack a day was fairly typical. Two packs a day was considered excessive, but most people knew someone who smoked that much.
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by visiblink 4y ago
The $5 figure was from northern British Columbia. Cigarettes were much cheaper in the U.S. at the time (Canadians used to bring back a couple of duty-free cartons on a regular basis) and in Ontario, where the government reduced the taxes to
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by visiblink 4y ago
This kind of calculation is what convinced me to quit smoking before going to university in 1990. Cigarettes were $5 / pack. I smoked a pack a day. $5 x 365 days x 4 years = $7300. Given that I was saving up the money beforehand, quitt
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by visiblink 4y ago
From Hitler's writing, it is clear that he despised socialism/communism because socialist ideologues promoted class antagonism and internationalism, both of which undermined the unity of the German people. Of course, at a practica
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by visiblink 4y ago
On this note, the Royal Bank of Canada used a DOS-like system well into the 2000s. The tellers were amazingly proficient with it, entering data, hitting tab-tab-tab, entering more data, tab-tab-tab, etc. When they switched to Windows, you c
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by visiblink 4y ago
I was just thinking that the site looks about the same as the first time I saw it too. That must have been around 2007. IIRC, that site once had Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 pages as well.
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by visiblink 4y ago
The use of the word dependencies in this context is perfect. Untangling the history of technological innovation is an adventure into dependency hell.
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by visiblink 4y ago
You can re-skin both the start button and taskbar with Classic Shell / Open-Shell too. My Windows 10 is skinned to look like the old Windows Embedded theme.
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by visiblink 4y ago
I have a Rockboxed Sansa Clip+. I like that I can set it to turn off automatically, so I can fall asleep listening and not have it play all night. I also like that it will pick up right where I left off the last time. That's nice for p
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by visiblink 4y ago
This is the issue that keeps me using Claws Mail. With Claws Mail I can set a consistent, universal font size (meaning that the font in each email body is the same size). With Thunderbird, that seems to be impossible, even with a custom .cs
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by visiblink 5y ago
With the hotdog stand theme, no less! The only crack in the spell is the program launcher. Apparently, it's a left-click on the desktop to get a menu, like in the old Stiletto program for WIN31: http://www.technofileonline.c
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by visiblink 5y ago
Newpipe has been mentioned a lot in this thread. If you're looking for a Linux / Windows equivalent, try Freetube. To me, they're essentially the same app for different platforms.
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by visiblink 5y ago
>Freezing bank accounts when you have not been convicted of a crime happens all the time and is the way things have to work. >It is the way the banking system already works. Okay, sure. So your argument boils down to that's the w
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by visiblink 5y ago
> and it works if the power or the internet stop working. You need to explain that to my hardware store.
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by visiblink 5y ago
I don't generally agree with these protestors, but the government's approach to shutting them down is a major threat to freedom in Canadian society. Freezing their bank accounts when they have not been proven guilty of any crime i
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by visiblink 5y ago
Agreed. Quotation mark functionality in Google seems to be sadly dysfunctional. I guess I buried the lede. I probably should have just focused on the allintext: operator in my comment. That's the operator that makes a huge difference i
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by visiblink 5y ago
I use duckduckstart.com and I don't recall adding a bang to the search, so it was probably in the startpage.com results when I searched for "Google search operators."

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