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Mar 08, 2024

Learn this neat trick to enjoy free housing and food for life!

Blood spattered the sidewalk Thursday outside a suburban Ottawa home where police recovered the bodies of a mother, her four young children and a family friend from the aftermath of a vicious and unexplained attack.

Febrio De-Zoysa, a 19-year-old international student faces six charges of first-degree murder in a case described by Ottawa police as possibly the worst mass killing the city has ever seen.

Posted at 08:34 PM in Politics, World War III | | Comments (0)

All they do is lie

Mar 07, 2024

It's amazing how "crime" goes down when the police don't arrest and then the legal system doesn't convict the rampaging thugs. Also, too many victims, understandably, stop reporting their criminal encounters. What's the point when the police doesn't do anything?

Posted at 06:43 PM in Politics, USA | | Comments (0)

Photo + Video

Mar 07, 2024

Nikon had the opportunity to buy a small company called Adobe many years ago. They passed. They could have owned photoshop!

Today, a more aggressive Nikon made the big leap towards video:

RED, the video/cinema camera company started by Oakley founder Jim Jannard, has been fully acquired by Nikon. RED and its 220 employees is now a subsidiary of the Japanese company.

Cool.

The RED acquisition solves that problem initially by putting Nikon in an established low volume, high price market that demands excellence. If you think about it, the RED Raptor and Komodo live at the top of the video world, the Z8 and Z9 live at the top of the stills world.

It will be nice to see the results of Nikon glass on RED sensors.

Posted at 05:38 PM in Economics, Web/Tech | | Comments (0)

An important distinction

Mar 04, 2024

Vox on usury:

The thing that is important to understand is that while one can provide a loan, and one can legitimately receive interest on that loan, the collateral provided as a guarantee against default on it must be real, specific, and, of course, proportional to the value of the combined principle and scheduled interest of the loan.

As he mentioned earlier, student loans are wicked. This is especially galling in the US and Canada. Teenagers who are legally not trusted with a can of beer are too often crushed under a mountain of debt. I remember a literal burger flipper at my university cafeteria who was working many hours to pay off his predatory student loans.

Posted at 07:58 PM in Economics, Life, USA | | Comments (0)

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