Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
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Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
Tech on the Side: Amazon vs Apple
While Apple is a wildly profitable money printing machine that hoards its cash and returns billions to shareholders, Amazon makes no official profit. As Benedict Evans points out, this is…
Autism and the Liberal Party 2014 Election Platform: Nothing on Autism – No Adult Autism Care Centre
The Liberal platform is published and there are no commitments to address autism issues, no mention of autism disorders. In particular there is no mention of any intention to change…
How Many Crude Oil Scientists Will Testify At Congressional Science Committee Hearing on Bakken Crude? Zero
Bakken petroleum: the substance of energy independence. If you think that sounds like the latest branding from the oil industry’s public relations efforts, you might be right. However, it isn’t…
You Know It’s Not Working for Us. It’s Been Over For a Long Time.
Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything, will be out next week. The theme of the book is change or be changed. Klein argues that the only way mankind will…
Do you remember dial up? We do.
Urgent action needed: Big Telecom giants are about to force many of your favourite websites into an Internet slow lane,1 making them buffer sporadically, and return errors. This is the…
Blaise Salmon: Elected CVRD Directors Pawns of Management
Mill Bay’s Blaise Salmon has been monitoring the financial affairs of the CVRD with a special focus on runaway salaries for top management personnel. Guest Post by Blaise Salmon It’s…
On The Training of Marine Mammals (a.k.a. MPs)
As I mentioned in a blog post the other day, I am currently reading Tragedy in the Commons, a book that examines the gross deficits to be found in Canadian…
Oil in Tankers Not Our Responsibility, Says Kinder Morgan, Recalling Exxon Valdez Lessons
This is a guest post by Glen Thompson. It originally appeared on Abbotsford Today the Watershed Sentinel and is republished here with permission. “Once the oil leaves the dock, Kinder…
Your Daily Digital Digest for Monday, September 8, 2014
Your news links for today: The CRTC’s Future of TV Hearing: “There is No Such Thing as Too Much Choice” – Michael Geist Google’s Let’s Talk TV Presentation to the…
wk.com: 2.2 million page views a year! 13 million since 2008!
A friendly inquiry this morning about how many people come to my web site elicited this response: “I don’t know.” So I decided ask the guy who would, from Team…
Israelis, stop swimming in our shit
Palestinians in Gaza are starting to wake up from the shell-shock of Israel’s 51-day Ramadan Massacre, which left over 2,131 Palestinians killed (of which more than 500 were children), over…
Classical music matters even more today
The official launch of the new Classical FM 102.9 radio station in Collingwood this past weekend reminded me of my own past history with classical music, but also why it…
Green Party of Vancouver members affirm candidates for Park Board and School Board
At a special general meeting this morning, Green Party of Vancouver members voted to officially endorse as candidates for Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and Vancouver School Board the…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Bryce Covert writes that U.S. workers are receiving a lower share of economic output than at any point since 1950 – and that…
Daisy, fifty years later
Changed politics forever. Re-elected Johnson. Named my firm about it. Still gives me shivers. Oh, and wrote tomorrow’s column about it!
Adding Bike Lanes Reduces Traffic Delays
Bike lanes are wonderful. We’ve already seen that bike lanes create jobs, save lives, and help local economies. Now from New York City there is a transportation report that says…
140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, September 8, 2014
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, September 8, 2014: Twitter must reveal user info after posted photo leads to charges against wrong man,…