By the way this is real:
If Nero won the Olympics why can’t Trump win the Nobels?
Frankly, I have way more often ended up scratching my head for some cryptic piece of syntax than the opposite. Sure I could sit down and spend the rest of my life learning each language designer’s favourite syntax optimisations, but I kinda don’t want to. I’m a human, not a parser.
And frankly, a good IDE editor should be able to fold/unfold verbose syntax. Better for it then to be there and folded, than for it to not be there and for someone to have to work backwards the intendrd meaning of every single line of code.
I don’t understand why verbose is bad. Verbose is maintainable.
Good luck hosting the world cup.
I’m coming from a PIGS-crisis perspective, having immigrated from a PIGS country to Canada during the euro debt crisis. The euro is too unwieldy and it’s monetary policy has basically been mostly what suits the Northern European banks plus northern populism against lazy southerners to keep transfers low. In a way, the eurozone is one giant version of Italy.
I personally don’t see any advantage for Canada to let go it’s monetary sovereignty. We are at our core a resource and trading nation, and having control of our own levers is best.
I am absolutely for tighter integration with the EU, as I don’t see any reason Canada shouldn’t enjoy the things we take for granted as Europeans. Potentially in the Icelandic or Norwegian model (ultimately in the Canadian model of course), but just like as Canadians we don’t need to be anyone’s 51st state, we also don’t need to be anyone’s 28th member state.
Ps. I’m confusing "we"s above, just the pitfalls of being a dual EU-Canadian citizen.
Since the adoption of the Euro, the EU rules require new entrants to eventually adopt it. Exceptions like for the UK and Sweden were made at the time of the negotiations before the adoption of those rules. If Canada were to join now, we would have to adopt the euro.
You are wrong that it never mattered. It failed in some cases but in others it didn’t. And it is always something that activists could embarrass governments with. In some countries, it is even something that can be used to force a government to do stuff. It is a political space and we’ll miss it when it’s gone.
Now somebody needs to kidnap Jude Law and keep him in a basement until after the white smoke.
Arguing for the appropriation of billionaires’ assets is not violence.
He’s been prime minister for like 10 years, like 3 elections. People in democracies get tired of leaders after a while.
Thoughts and prayers to all those affected by this tragedy.
If there was a credible alternative to the left of the socdems and you were arguing for supporting it, your post would be an argument and probably a valid one. In the absence of one, your post is a wish, a prayer, a hope. So quit sniping at the left that exists and build the alternative.
Make billionaires millionnaires again. And that’s a compromise.
American standards of freedom of speech are not universal.
But what if you are the richest man in the world and you only did a roman salute to send your heart out.
Enjoy your quagmire.