Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized and before Internet became synonymous with Web Services?

Of course, the truth is, even back then, there were a lot of dark memes on Usenet.

You forgot to follow it up with “copilot: open windows” then.

Doctor Who.

At this point, nobody has them all, but I heard they’re planning to use AI, stills and the audio to regenerate the lost video.

Am I the only person who doesn’t use apps with in-app ads?

That would be yet another illegal order, wouldn’t it?

It doesn’t make good headlines though.

Personally, I don’t care if a site can fingerprint me. As long as they can’t tie that fingerprint to a rich data set.

So I make sure that each domain gets a different fingerprint response. That means that a site can validate that I’m still the same user, but any XSS attempting fingerprint based data exchange just gets garbage.

What I find odd here is that I predicted exactly this problem back when WhatsApp first started using the protocol. I encouraged people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp because WhatsApp moved discovery outside the security model, where it would just require one “mistake” and all that data could be harvested. Plus, of course, once Meta bought them, they had unfettered access to this data.

I take it this wasn’t one of the cancelled trials; I had been fearing it was targeted due to mRNA.

Well obviously UN peacekeepers are the real terrorists here, what with them attempting to promote peace and stability in a region where one gets ahead via uncertainty and theft.

The challenge here is that it takes more than money to solve world hunger.

You also need some way to prevent the greedy from hoarding food and using it as a weapon to subjugate others, keeping them hungry.

As usual, the problem isn’t lack of food or lack of money, it’s greedy people not wanting to share.

In my area, the leaves turned from green to brown two weeks ago and fell off last week — something that normally happens at the end of September/beginning of October.

Temperatures are still in the early Autumn range with no dips below freezing yet this season, although it’s finally starting to get close. In past years, it wasn’t unheard of to have snow for Halloween.

My potentially incorrect hot take on it is that the proposed indigenous land rights are completely compatible with regular home ownership and property rights; where they conflict is more with surveyor’s rights and municipal rights.

Meaning, the property can still be bought and sold, but they’d have more control over zoning and resource extraction/management.

Did you know that on property you own, if someone else has a mineral claim staked, they currently have the right to access the land under your home to extract the minerals?

And did you know that the government, at any level, can decide to re-zone your property out from under you for whatever purpose it deems fit, resulting in a property that couldn’t be sold for current use?

The new land rights would mean that these types of actions could no longer happen unilaterally but would need a review by a panel set up by the local indigenous people before it could go ahead.

Essentially, they get to have some control back about HOW the land is used that they managed for thousands of years — land management rights that they never gave up when settlers claimed the land for themselves and began arbitrarily deciding what could be done with it.

If someone has more details, please correct me where I’m wrong here.

[edit] Looks like in these cases, I’m partly wrong — they also want control over private land sale in the outlined regions. This still needs to be worked out.

It’s also worth pointing out that the Cowichan are claiming these rights to land that is currently privately owned by the Musqueam AND is also their traditional territory. So there’s lots here to still figure out, and it will likely be in the courts for years to come, depressing property values all the while.

Once this precedent is sorted out by the supreme courts, we’re likely going to see similar cases all across Canada.

On the up side, this might be the solution to the housing crisis — but modern property owners may end up losing some of their traditional rights.

You missed Atari and Apple?

Or conversely, everyone pays him. He’s not only royalty, but most oil money has to go through him.

And a lot of that comes from the US, which is why he doesn’t want his cash cow to sour.

Wouldn’t that be an odd turn of events though….

When the Kuwaiti girl talking about Iraqis killing babies turned out to be a US plant during the first Bush reign, that was enough to get me to start asking what the US game plan was, and what the real motivations in the Middle East were. And I was old enough to remember who installed Hussein.

So when Bush II came along, I was expecting the action, just waiting to see what the excuse would be. And the excuse didn’t match the action; there was already a UN delegation that could have helped Iraq clean up the remaining agents with no involvement of US troops.

And of course, there was no reason to attack Iraq because of a Saudi who successfully attacked the US was hiding somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

The Roma are an easy target because traditionally, they haven’t owned land and have been their own political entity, not beholden to any local government.

This makes them difficult to control, which makes them extremely dangerous to property-based politicians.

Think of it— Western government is generally based on the premise that people who live in defined geographic areas select representatives to govern them. And the Roma live wherever they want, with their own language, culture and politics, and can’t be manipulated based on where they live and who controls that land.

I’m sure a lot of people in certain circles didn’t like that gentleman. He tended to report on corruption.

Turkeys.