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It was unclear if he had managed to find the device.

According to Wikipedia, 150,000 Active personnel and 1,657,000 in Reserves.

IMHO, it’s just humans being humans. And while someone may excel in one or many areas, they’re often lacking in others. And we see it all out in the open with projects like this!

A few points:

1. LiberuxNexx sounds like a medication’s marketing name.
2. It says “2TB storage” then in the details it’s actually 256GB + microSD support, which IMHO is very different.
3. To me, this just sounds like a new version of the PinePhone Pro or Librem 5. Yes, it’s got newer & better hardware, but there’s no release date or even price.

A message even better when it’s delivered by a Canadian Treasure!

Not really. He hasn’t been acting President for months, so there was no urgency for the court to force it through.

I mean, by my count, <17% of the seats are outside England, so it’s not surprising people just focus on the main parties in England.

And how could this war have been avoided?

The comment I responded to brought up the First Amendment, so I think it’s relevant to correct them.

I’m not defending corporate censorship, I’m just saying it’s not a First Amendment violation.

The First Amendment means the government can’t restrict Free Speech. The Super Bowl is a private event held on private property.

TBH, that sounds even worse, and I am saying this as a fan of big government.

I assumed we were talking about US

Well, the article’s about Greenland, but I guess Ameri-centrism is par for the course.

I’m pretty sure Canada has it’s own systemic problems.

Sure, but I don’t think our donation rules are big systematic problems. Our rules don’t allow donations from foreign sources or companies, and include pretty reasonable limits for individuals (plus 75% of political donations are refunded next tax year). We have definitely had donation scandals, but they’ve almost exclusively been because people are breaking the rules.

A non-serious campaign could use those funds to enrich themselves/others even with approved activities. They could pay for staff, buy signs, etc. and all those people & businesses would make money doing legitimate work for a campaign whose only purpose was to employ those people/businesses.

Depends on which current system you mean. I’m Canadian, and while it’s not perfect, it’s a pretty good system.

The contract was for 100 million

For 15,000 connections. That’s not bad per capita (especially when you consider these are remote places).

Just give out a series of domestic research grants and build it here.

They also do that where appropriate: https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-connects-making-high-speed-internet-accessible-in-every-community

It’s a trade off of costs vs made local. You do have to be careful that a company isn’t just a reseller of foreign technology, or is just set up to absorb government grants.

There may be additional subsidies required to build the satellite network but who fucking cares - it’s an investment.

SpaceX has estimated it’s constellation is costing tens of billions of dollar. That’s from the company that already has the rockets and employs rocket scientists.

That sounds like a system that would be rife for abuse.

As much as I don’t like Musk, Starlink is a good solution to provide internet in remote areas. As long as they followed the terms of the contract, I thought it was a good value for money for the province.

That’s already the law in Canada:

Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions to registered parties, electoral district associations, candidates, leadership contestants and nomination contestants.

Someone has already made an issue (Repo is missing a license) so hopefully that’ll be resolved soon.