Seems every Premier thinks they’re the most besieged and bullied in the country. Accountability isn’t always pretty but it’s fundamental to the democratic process. It comes with the job. I covered 8 NS Premiers. I wouldn’t say any of them loved scrutiny but 5/8 didn’t whine about it!
Early foliage of wild lily of the valley growing around white granite boulders in mixed woods, mostly hardwoods still leafless. Bright sun through the lily foliage makes it a brilliant green
Impatient for spring here in Nova Scotia.
This pic of the woods' early greening is from May 5 last year
All essential sinews of social life, to be sure, sir!
Oh my. The slightly technical meaning of "reasonable" in administrative law really has gotten lost in the reporting.
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I mean, I'm glad they're not spouting "unconstitutional." That's an improvement.
The post office used to usually generate a surplus revenue -- between 1900-1957
The role of mail has indeed changed and even the 1960s /70s expectation of self-sufficiency is probably now unreasonable.
1867-1900, PO ran a deficit, subsidized by general revenue (source: Osborne & Goheen, 1988).
Best wishes!
Wondered how this sort of thing would play out. In the form of miserable, time-wasting inconvenience, it seems
So yeah, it's Autonomy-Fest - partay!
My partner did all things electronic, and I still give myself a pat on the back for solving any gizmo problem in that category.
If there once was a melancholy edge, it's gone. Now, I'm just Woot Woot Woot, Learnin' New Tricks, Learnin' New Tricks!
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It's a smorgasbord of things to worry about. Something for every taste
Do I worry about the slightly obscure stuff? Yes, I do.
Someone has to lie awake fretting over "weakening regulatory oversight" 😉
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The internet has no respect for my "not a dog person" boundaries. Slowly, I am being converted. Not to actual dogs, but to pix and videos of dogs.
As an old guitarist, it is important to not use guilt or shame to get yourself to play guitar. This backfires. You have to enjoy it. Just fuck around on it. Serious practice should happen occasionally but most of the time when you pick up the guitar it should make you happy.
Truly, we are blessed with having the big books of Canadian legal history answers! I have volume one but not the others. Must fix that!
Interesting! Makes me think about the 1860s law reform in Quebec, transforming the mess of two legal cultures' awkward cohabitation (again, my patchy legal history knowledge, this time via Brian Young's work). Part of an international law reform movement?
Dealing with a disaster recovery firm (flooding not IT) recently, I realized that I didn't really know the current conventions about texting and emailing.
I decided that, if legal paper trail was required, then email. But quick scheduling questions, then text.
Fraught etiquette!
Ah that explains the different timeline. Thanks!
✅ I was a somewhat slow adopter of smartphones. But once I got one I realized that they, and not PCs, were now the model for user interfaces. And gaming (still foreign to me) is another influence, I bet.
I'm sure there's a literature somewhere on history of UI change. Call it "From Toys to Tools"?
Also, you as a sys admin, really have a "coalface" angle of view. Admittedly, consumer electronics or maybe the area where the pace question has its biggest social impact.
But behind those consumer gadgets there's a world of production, administration, and sales that has a place-based culture
Well, it's not wholly untravelled ground in technology studies, but the specifics of pace and place haven't been as much studied (in my - at one time expert- knowledge). I wrote about the history of technological change back in the '80s and follow that literature still a bit.
Probably similar in purpose to the relations underpinning those 18th century trading corporations?
Oh interesting. My main exposure to pre-industrial employment relationships was master-servant law in the life of sailors and ship owners in the 18th century. Jerry Bannister's book, Rule of the Admirals. Intended to ensure continuity in fragile (because transoceanic, long term relationships).
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I recently passed through the birthplace of zero on my train trip. It was further refined and disseminated to the west by Muslim scholars. Please shut up.
Nice! I'm gonna check out the Jack Pine Sonnets.
"What the telegraph accomplished in years the telephone has done in months. One year it was a scientific toy, with indefinite possibilities of practical use; the next it was the basis of a system of communication the most rapidly expanding, intricate and convenient that the world has known."
thanks to our incredible, futuristic new technology, we have finally invented a way to turn computer programs into a wear part, ensuring software repairpeople will never run out of work to do again
Well maybe not gnarled like tuckamore. But short. This is the biggest I've seen in the barrens around Halifax.
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