As a Canadian, there is a small but nonzero chance that I would go to an event in the US, in normal times. These are not normal times, and I will not set foot in the country.

That is the difference between Qatar, Russia, and the US.

I’ve been a developer for 25 years, and I enjoy reading the Dolphin blog. It reminds me that there are people out there who are incredibly dedicated, brilliant, and happy to solve technical problems just for the joy of it.

The length they go to to recreate even hardware bugs fills me with awe.

Even though the blog is filled with highly technical discussion, it is written clearly and excessively. I absolutely recommend it.

It turns out that the Navy is going to donate some of their budget to building massive detention centers.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/military-contract-concentration-camps

I guess one positive thing is that I have never heard of sap delivering anything on time or on budget, so there is probably plenty of time for a decent competitor to grab market share

You might want to look at something like Drupal as an alternative to WordPress. Drupal tends toward a lot more open source for its plugins (which they call modules). As a developer myself, I also find it better engineered than WordPress, although maybe that’s just because I used Drupal more.

My favorite thing about the X-Files was the spin-off called Millennium, whose second season was some of the best TV I have ever watched. It even did crossovers with The X-Files, like “Jose Chung’s Doomsday Defense”, a blistering satire of Scientology.

If we can get rid of the Indian gangs, then we are just left with the Chinese triads and tongs, the Vietnamese gangss, the Sri Lankan gangs, the Russian gangs, the Italian mafia, and let’s not forget the homegrown biker gangs.

It’s also what the US civil war was all about.

In Western quebec, along the Ottawa River, we have a citizens group that is working hard to get the word out about radon testing. Our local government has tested all of the schools, and is putting radon detectors into libraries so people can borrow them and test their houses.

Some municipalities in Quebec are requiring that radon remediation be done on any new house that is built, because it’s significantly cheaper than retrofitting it.

Even so, the retrofitting is only a few thousand dollars, and I believe that the Canadian Cancer society will pay for half of that.

I would be more inclined to believe that Trump has, with the help of Israeli and Russian security services, amassed comprising material on all, or almost all, national-level politicians, judges, and bureaucrats.

As my wife is fond of saying, professional sports has far too much money involved to leave the results up to the athletes.

Not always true, I’m sure, but not always far from the truth.

I think they meant that they used WWII-era bombers, even though the design and tests were done after the war ended.

Was that guy named Emmanuel Macron? He met his wife when he was 15 and she was 39. He was in a class with her daughter.

Soap (although of course some soaps are actually detergents in disguise) can’t necessarily replace shampoo. Soaps can react with hardness in the water and leave the residue on your hair. Detergents like shampoo do not react in that way. On the other hand, replacing your soap with a detergent like shampoo or body wash would be fine.

Quebec already has a pharmacare program. Residents are required to either have a private plan, or participate in the provincial one (between $0 and $766/year, depending upon income). It covers a lot more than diabetes and contraceptive medication, too.

It would be a good idea to spell it correctly, then:

Atheist

I remember upgrading from a Commodore Vic-20, with 3.5 KB of RAM, to a Commodore 64 with 64 KB. I was already in university at the time.

Not to mention that the Germans themselves took a few years out, and then put a lot of the Nazi political machine back in charge.

Does anyone remember when Kurt Waldheim, UN Secretary General for 9 years and President of Austria for 6, turned out to be a former nazi? Whoops ie!

Even if you turn off your phone, there is a lower-level operating system that is still connecting to cell phone towers. You either have to take the battery out, or leave your phone at home.

Try doing a search for “baseband processor”.

Wow, their website is really shitty on a phone, though (not sure about on a desktop). Half of all the pages are taken up with ads. Much too easy to hit one by mistake.