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I have an Odyssey g9 and it has a 1000R curve - and sits about 3 feet from my face and that feels about right. At a guess - at 800R it is a bit too tight to sit far enough away to have a proper wheel and such in between you and the display.

I sure hope this doesn't happen but if things get bad enough? We could see people do something like burn Air BNB's to the ground. If enough of them go up in smoke, insurance companies will start putting in anti-short term rental conditions in their policies and that will largely be the end of it. Doesn't really take much to not insure a property used for commercial use, with a residential insurance plan.

The end result of that would be making it non-profitable to run an air bnb.

And if you need a lesson: Go look at the brutality that happened between Union Busters, and Unions back in the day that lead to actual labour laws. Those people weren't messing around - they got armed, and they dished out the pain to those they suspected were trying to do the same to the point that it basically brought local economies to a complete halt. The reality is? Properly applied violence tends to get results when nothing else is working.

Like I said: I hope this doesn't happen, but things are getting pretty bad and heading to worse.

Divide, then Conquer. That's the name of the game of the Left right now.

The short is: If you want to push certain agenda's, the first thing you need to do is divide people. The best long term success strategy for this is attacking the education system to cripple critical thinking, and critical analysis. Finally - ensure the mainstream media is entrenched in it's place for official broadcasts and in control of the main message as much as possible: And get people to parrot the message - without consideration.

If the above sounds familiar: It should. USSR did this. China does this. and... Trudeau's Government does this. In many ways, it's in part why I think Trudeau attacks alberta so bloody often. Alberta has high education results - despite being conservative voting. In other words, the narrative of Alberta being some backwards hick place falls apart when people actually examine the evidence. When you look at what the Premier of Alberta is stating: Let adults do whatever they want, but protect kids in their developing years when going through a HUGE WILD WACKY CHANGE we call puberty. Even the thing about sports: Lets figure out how to ensure Woman can be safe when competing, that Men can compete, and those who are Trans can compete - and have this be as fair as possible. But the Media and Trudeau would have you believe it's all 100% anti LGBTQ+.

And I could go on.

So why would you remove things like To Kill a Mocking Bird? Because ultimately understanding that writing requries: 1. Critical thinking, 2. Critical Analysis, and 3. Mastery of language. Those three things are a huge threat to any organization attempting to push their narrative hard and fast.

If this is going to be fixed

Several things need to happen.

1. An alternative learning path. This may seem insane - but, it solves two problems in one go. The first - Those who drop out for WHATEVER REASON are granted a new path to work on in their time to achieve the requisits of a Diploma. Second - It provides a foundation for students to challenge and accel in their studies.

2. Constitutional Reform - Stop the verbatum attack on legal gun ownership which does not solve the problem, neutralize the ability to suppress rights like Freedom of Speech, Right to Protest, Etc. And in so doing stop the government from being able to make arbitrary things illegal, and require them to engage with those upset with the status quo. Seriously: Farmers and Truckers are the lifeblood of our economy - they get food where it is needed, and they grow food (respective of the relevant profession) These are people that DO NOT want to be standing around protesting, they want to be working and making money.

3. Electoral Reform

4. Stop the flood of immigration

5. Build more houses

6. Invest in infrastructure based on population, not on Political interest. It's time we have an investment tool for this country that ignores political interests. I don't know exactly how to make that happen - but it is needed.

7. Clamp down on administrative overhead of post secondary institutions. And if that means we change the rules on non-profits and accreditation to be a university/college so be it.

To Summarize

This problem started decades ago, and we are only now seeing the consequences of actions taken starting in the 1980's (or there about). It is going to take a monumental amount of work to fix the issue and move forward. I hope enough people see this and push back - but it is going to take action at both the Federal, and Provincial levels to force a change. And right now - the federal government is absolutely 100% on board with this kind of BS.

Websites that are funded through ad's are not going to want you using an ad-blocker. And frankly, if you are not a paying customer, but taking up space - the business typically has right to have you removed. In physical stores it's obvious but, the online space is not much different.

What I would love to see is some sort of initiative where users can pay like 10-20$ a month, and say 90% of that divided between the websites they view based on engagement metrics on those websites. You could have some modifiers based on the type of website as well - obviously reading news has limited ways of verifying engagement, but we know that there is a high amount of time used per article. Overall this would result in less trackers being needed, websites could feasibly decouple from the ad-driven model entirely, and that might be the best outcome.

With the proposed model - yes, some companies are still going to hard paywall, some might have limited content available to this model and have a 1-5$ a month subscription on top for premium access, and other companies might stay exactly as they are - say like Wikipedia - but be less strained for donations.

This type of arrangement could feasibly end the need for ad's entirely. Though you could conceivably have an Ad-supported tier as well, whereby if the user is not subscribed to the service they get ads, and if they are they don't.

The real key to making the proposition as mentioned above work, is to require the payout method to be agreed to be a replacement to seeking ad-revenue for it's subscribed members. Overall it's likely (using quick napkin math) that this would provide more revenue per user anyways. It may also devalue web based advertising so hard that it absolutely kills it - and that would mean Content is king. We could end up in a realm where the likes of Youtube don't block content because some advertiser doesn't like certain topics. And as more news is consumed online, it may be able to kill the stranglehold the pharma industry has over the news media industry.

User generated content has a presumption of consent: It is PRESUMED that the user who is uploading the work work likely created it - and it is reasonable to presume those involved in said work gave consent or otherwise the user had rights to use the content in this way. When you DO NOT have rights to the work, that is when DMCA take downs come into play, and other legal actions - and in that case, you can expect financial penalties, account suspensions/bans, and so on.

There are some serious problems in Canadian law. This situation doesn't come even close to one of them.

It's not. The fee was added to encourage people to join in with the Cineclub thing. The back end for seat selection existed before the online reservation fee did as far as I can recall.

1. Why is Justin Trudeau Bad - he will often point out SOMETHING JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS ACTUALLY DONE THAT IS BAD.
2. He actually has talked about how to get more housing being built. He has actually talked about things to cut - and why to cut them (like the Carbon tax that has had pretty much zero benefit, but has inflated the cost of heating, transportation, and food in this countries at a time we have an affordability crisis).
3. Block Chain being out of control of the Government, means the Government can't devalue the currency (As in cause inflation) By printing more of it on a whim. There is some (unfortunate) sense to it. I would prefer a constitutional reform that would tie the Canadian Dollar back to Gold as it would again, prevent willy nilly printing of money which... drives inflation. And that would generally mean less bailouts, and more cautious action taking that needs to focus on prevention of crisis instead of printing your way out of a financial crisis.
4. Slowing down immigration is really important. We are adding more people than jobs being added to the economy, and more people than houses can be built. We also have an issue with Doctors. If a person already owns a house here - whatever. But we need to slow down on immigration.
5. No. But you have to make sure your Outfit provides a sense of you being competent.
6. I don't think he has ever said "fellow poor people" But he has certainly pointed out the policies and situations that have driven more people into poverty.

Instead of Parroting the Media, maybe actually go and listen to his uncut, unclipped answering of the media. Unlike what Trudeau seems to do, Pierre is seemingly actually able to speak a whole sentence without stuttering - almost like he is actually confident in his remark: And that is bloody refreshing.

Oh. PS - I think Pierre has some bad takes, he is a human being after all. But after these years of Trudeau: This country is in Shambles. Car thefts are up, Government Spending is up, Poverty Rates are Climbing. We have had more Scandals in the last 8 years than in the rest of my lifetime - and they all fall on Trudeau's Shoulders.

Love him or Hate him: Pierre is by current appearances more competent of a Leader than Trudeau, and Competent is what this country needs.

Nah, The Stock Market is basically gambling, just - it's result time is measured in days, weeks, months, and years, depending on the investment strategy you are after.

When you get a state where a group of people have a TONNE of money, and want to put it somewhere to avoid it depreciating to inflation, that money gets put into whatever the considered safest bet is. The issue is, when you have only a handful of big safe bets - those end up being the option everyone dives on, leading to overvaluation relative to the actual performance of the company. This is what leads to future price corrections.

Companies doing hedging and so on are just a part of the puzzle.

Of course IBM does - who runs them: Engineers? Or Bean Counters?

I would suggest you actually go read The Wealth of Nations. Fascinating read. Then go take a look at who Adam Smith was, the conditions he lived in, and the world he lived in. Because while a lot of people are TOLD about adam smith, it is frighteningly few who read the works or study the history to which it was written.

We haven't had the Capitalism that he wrote about for the better part of 200 years. What we have is a system that protects ever fewer corporations through protectionist policies that allow for monopolies to be shielded from competition. This is functionally what the extention of Copyright Law has enabled.

Make it make sense. Market Makers are juicing this thing. US stock market is hilarious

I'll try. But... It's complicated, and so this - despite being a wall of text, is going to be a rather over simplifcation.

The first thing to understand: The Stock Market is a form of Gambling. Valuation is based on historic trends, and Speculation of where it will go - the more information you have, the better you can guess - but it is still just a guess because competitors exist, and competitors sometimes purposefully misslead (ex. Sandbagging performance numbers, or releasing only lower tier products with a rebrand of top tier product, and so on).

Right now - Housing is in a bit of a strange state, with housing shortages leading to increased prices might sound like a great thing for real-estate -however, there is a growing call to ban corporate ownership of residential properties, ban short term rental projects, and so on - all of which when actually happens tends to drop real-estate prices (not immediately). The growing discontentment with HOA's also makes these types of organizations less desirable.

Another thing happening in the general wider market - Failing Media companies. People are distrusting the mainstream news more and more. People are fed up with the state of movies coming out of say Disney, or Warner Brothers - to the point a while back now Warner Brothers brought in a new CEO who canned a pile of complete or near complete projects because it was deemed cancelling already finished products would be less harmful and less costly than releasing them in the long run. And that is all BEFORE the writer strike, situation with actors, and so on.

And if that isn't all: Shipping from China to the rest of the world got more expensive - due to conflict in the middle east, and the Houthis firing rockets and such at commercial ships in the area - shipping companies have largely diverted. What this means, is Higher Fuel, and Lower Turn around times on each ships journey.

If you put this all together - what you are going to be looking for as an investor is a company that: 1. Is likely to grow, or be stable. 2. Has a strong stake in it's respective industry relative to it's competitors. 3. Has a Track record for creating profit. 4. Is less volatile in regards to shipping costs etc (as in: produces something companies NEED). And NVIDIA checks every one of these boxes - at least, for now.

TLDR: Shorter version? There is a lot of demand for NVIDIA stock do to it's relative perceived stability, and chance to grow - and NVIDIA isn't splitting it's stock or whatever else in order to sell more stocks at a lower price.

People have been growing up with a government that lies ever more to them. People have grown up with a government that has purposefully done things that end up being harmful, lied about it, and then the truth comes out - only those same people have been austrasized by being labelled conspiracy nuts - and no one stopped to apologize.

And then the entire situation with Covid and the Covid Vaccine, where yes - depending on health conditions, that damn thing had a serious risk to some people's health and we were lied to. Some of the issues are related to accidental poor injection which we have had techniques that would have wasted like a tiny % of vaccine doses but avoid all kinds of complications. Then we had people stuck on ventilators for far too long which leads to long term health complication concerns but we were all being told no it's fine - but then the information comes out.

Flat Earthers, Anti-Vaccers, and so on don't come out of no where - it comes from a place of strong distrust in authorities that are pushing such information. And especially the Trudeau Government over the last decade has smashed trust in the federal government. And some actions taken by provincial governments have strained trust - with very few Politicians Publicly apologizing for missteps taken during the Pandemic.

TL;DR: Our current Federal Government smashed trust with a lot of people, and that is going to bring into question anything and everything they push - no matter how good or bad. And with the Lack of family doctors in many area's, few people have trusted sources of good information to turn to, leading to a rise in Anti-vaccination, and other movements.