August1991
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This first link reminds me of Trudeau, Levesque. It is not being bilingual. Watch to the end. ========== With a boss like Trump, imagine doing this. Toward the end, he's more free-wheeling. "Third grade notes... "
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Wikipedia, CBC/Radio-Canada: Honest?
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Health, Science and Technology
Robert Conquest famously said, I paraquote, every bureaucracy will eventually become leftist. -
Wikipedia, CBC/Radio-Canada: Honest?
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Health, Science and Technology
In its time, it was remarkable. But the Adobe model is wrong. Jobs got it right. Sad that Apple no longer posts this. -
Wikipedia, CBC/Radio-Canada: Honest?
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Health, Science and Technology
Years ago, newspapers relied on classified ads. Nowadays, they rely on older people doing crosswords in pen. -
For those curious, google: create chatbot (At present, Microsoft offers free software to do this.) In effect, you can train a LLM on the text you provide. In effect, you can provide your own training data so your chatbot responds based on the texts that you submit. ==== I suspect this chatbot is known as Ptolemy because that is how it named itself - based on the various texts provided.
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To win, Carney (and Trudeau Jnr) played the nationalist card. Trump is playing this card too, surprised? ==== Trudeau Snr played the nationalist card wisely, with care. Mulroney?
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In these 2020s, Ann Coulter and Bill O'Reilly seem to think that America must confront/oppose Russia, China, Putin, Islam. I disagree. ====== I fear that we are closer to the 1910s. As then, we understand everything. Technology will solve our problems. The Titanic will not sink. The war will be short.
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In 1979, it happened. In Iraq and Libya, it also happened. It recently happened in Syria. ==== I am a Canadian. If you Americans tried to change my complicated Protestant/Catholic/French/English/Alberta/Quebec Canadian regime, you would make a mess of it. Please don't.
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Pablo Rodriguez - Not bad guy, Never Quebec PM
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Provincial Politics in Canada
Pablo Rodriguez is a good guy, smart. But he will never be PM of Quebec. The PLQ is clueless. -
Strongly disagree. We Canadians are not in debt. At the federal government level - in money terms, Chretien/Martin/Harper put our federal finances in good shape. (True, Trudeau Jnr spent like a trust kid.) At the provincial government level, even the Quebec govt has a Caisse - like Norway. ===== Borrow? We Canadians add to the wealth of the world.
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Difference: US vs Canada
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Canada / United States Relations
Strongly, very strongly, disagree. === CdnFox, Are you speaking about Americans - or Canadians? 1. We Canadians manage our money/banks far better than Americans. 2. We Canadians are a mix of Scots and Normans. 3. We Canadians get along. -
Difference: US vs Canada
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Canada / United States Relations
I tend to agree. Of course, how to make this possible in the 2020s is not so easy. -
Difference: US vs Canada
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Canada / United States Relations
Disagree. My father was a Newfoundlander, a family of fishermen. -
Cheese: Why no choice? So expensive!
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Canada / United States Relations
I suspect that the BQ (and the PQ) want to expose the corrupt federal system. -
Cheese: Why no choice? So expensive!
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Canada / United States Relations
All federal parties (without exception) voted for this. To my knowledge, no single sitting federal house member, no single federal senator voted against. ====== This is your tell that an institution is corrupt. -
Monetary Policy vs Fiscal Policy: Canada/US History
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Business and Economy
Weird? Taft was a US president - then sat on the federal US Supreme Court. Imagine Macdonald, Trudeau (either) or Charles III on our federal Supreme Court. Even the term itself: "Supreme Court". This is not British. We copied it from the American constitution. ===== Let me return to my OP: -the fundamental difference between Canada and the US is money, our monetary history is amazingly different -
Cheese: Why no choice? So expensive!
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Canada / United States Relations
Herbie, This issue may break federal Canada as we know it: https://nationalpost.com/news/senate-passes-bill-to-protect-supply-management-from-any-future-trade-deals International Trade? Let's see. IMHO, federal institutions are unanimously passing a law to favour one region (while the law hurts all other regions). When Pierre Trudeau managed to pass his 1968 Bilingual Act, it was not unanimous. -
0% Population Growth in the First Quarter?
August1991 replied to cougar's topic in Federal Politics in Canada
Pause? Canada (like Australia) is a country of large spaces - with few people. Compare a new born child in Canada vs an immigrant. -With the newborn, we are facing costs for the next 15 years (at least) before the kid produces anything useful (in a minimum wage job). Heck, we have to teach kids how to tie their shoelaces. -With an immigrant, we receive a ready-formed person - who at least knows how to tie their shoelaces. -
Tesla and Waymo have self-driving cars on the road. These cars rely on AI to decide what to do. If I understand properly, here's the difference: -Tesla has zillions of vehicles on the road (self-driving or otherwise) and collects a huge amount of data from all vehicles to try to train/predict what is best to do. -Waymo has far fewer vehicles on the road but its software engineers/AI focus on what works. if you're curious, here's the link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08228 Or to understand better, you can google: waymo scale laws ========= Education? The two methods intrigue me. Around the world, most countries have about 1 in 6 people educating others. Second question: If we had Artificial Intelligence in 1890, how would it have responded to the dilemma of the Michelson-Morley experiment? Heck, if Artificial Intelligence had existed in 1630, would we have discovered calculus?
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Sarcasm is saying the opposite of what you mean. But if you blink, it becomes irony: An inside joke. ====== I recently watched an interview with Eric Idle. (He's still alive, as well as John Cleese - they both live in California.) Idle hates Trump. Irony.
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SALT: The deciding factor?
August1991 replied to August1991's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Bump. ==== In Canada, we cannot reduce federal taxes = except in Quebec.
