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CLAM DOWN posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/crime-rate-increase-statistics-canada-severity-index-police-1.3686871 Calgary has so much crime because we have no police presence. People can rip off stores with impunity because the police will never show up and do anything about it -- I've seen it several times. Shoplifters will just tell the staff to go get hosed and walk out the door, and nothing will ever get done about it.
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CLAM DOWN posted:We should form Cascadia imo Vancouver-Seattle-Portland conglomerated megacities with a high speed rail backbone would be pretty dope in a cyberpunk kinda way. “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” The Butcher fucked around with this message at 21:08 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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infernal machines posted:So... blue then? With "NO SIGNAL" written in one corner. Lol guess that line doesn't really hold up these days. Guess that goes for pretty much all of Neuromancer really.
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MA-Horus posted:If there's one thing an ethnic han can give advice on, it's methods of adequate food production. I dunno, there's something appealing about the Han Dynasty approach. Farming was encouraged by light taxation. That, and mutilating the occasional 1%er and leaving her in the dung heap to augment pig production.
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The Butcher posted:With "NO SIGNAL" written in one corner. William Gibson said quite a few years ago that all of his original cyberpunk novels envisioned a future that was hilariously off the mark and he's actually kinda embarrassed he wrote them.
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Don't worry guys we are investing in bacon http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/maple-leaf-consumer-foods-federal-government-provincial-bacon-1.3684490 quote:If you love bacon, get ready to pig out — the federal and Manitoba governments are investing $500,000 into Maple Leaf Consumer Foods, which will produce eight million additional kilograms of the meat per year at the company's Winnipeg plant.
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EvilJoven posted:William Gibson said quite a few years ago that all of his original cyberpunk novels envisioned a future that was hilariously off the mark and he's actually kinda embarrassed he wrote them. He shouldn't be. We're living in the corporatist cyberpunk dystopia he envisioned, the difference is only a matter of degree.
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DariusLikewise posted:Don't worry guys we are investing in bacon we already knew Winnipeg was investing in bacon 
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EvilJoven posted:William Gibson said quite a few years ago that all of his original cyberpunk novels envisioned a future that was hilariously off the mark and he's actually kinda embarrassed he wrote them. Link
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Helsing posted:What I find remarkable about Canada right now isn't the dysfunction of our various levels of government or the moribund economy, because those conditions are shared by the entire first world. What I find a bit surprising, in spite of myself, is the persistent smug complacency that permeates polite Canadian society. You at least have a sense that Americans or Brits are conscious of the dangerous and unstable time we live in. They might not be reacting in a very inspiring manner but there's a real sense in other countries that something important is at stake. Canada feels like the one country still entirely living in the End of History mindset that most of the rest of the world woke up from eight or nine years ago. Most of Canada's visible problems are regional, and while various parts of the country teeter on financial oblivion there hasn't yet been any impact on Canadian quality of life. The slow retreat of social welfare institutions has been gradual enough that I think most people my age and younger are just used to them. My grade school experience was one where our teachers were constantly rationing supplies -- not that we were deprived in any real way, just that there was a sense that there was less and less materials, craft supply, whatever available each year. As our previous election proved there's no serious political challenge to the establishment across three parties. The consequences of our economic decisions on a consumer and societal level haven't really started to impact people in a serious way unlike other countries. The country is relatively quiet, safe, and unaffected by the violence that's sprung up in different parts of the world. Consumer goods and creature comforts are widely available to most Canadians. Unless you dig in and look at the underlying problems running through Canadian society why would you be anything but complacent?
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DariusLikewise posted:Don't worry guys we are investing in bacon Lovely that Winnipeg gets the support and the Brandon plant for all appearances remains bumped down to being active 4 days per week.
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infernal machines posted:He shouldn't be. We're living in the corporatist cyberpunk dystopia he envisioned, the difference is only a matter of degree. He also coined a lot of the phrases we use, I think. He's super active on Twitter these days. He's not terribly fond of Trump. https://twitter.com/GreatDismal
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Best I can do is the Slashdot discussion linking to what I think is the article but the actual interview and article is from a news site that apparently went under or got bought out? https://slashdot.org/story/07/08/06/1848220/william-gibson-gives-up-on-the-future Edit: found the full article here and guess it isn't the one I was thinking of. http://www.williamgibsonboard.com/topic/4393793104629273 EvilJoven fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Jul 21, 2016 |
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DariusLikewise posted:Don't worry guys we are investing in bacon Literal government pork to a company named Maple Leaf. It could easily be an Onion article.
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EvilJoven posted:Best I can do is the Slashdot discussion linking to what I think is the article but the actual interview and article is from a news site that apparently went under or got bought out? Thanks. I love William Gibson.
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His introduction from the 20th Anniversary Edition is excellent if you haven't read it.
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He's a good writer but I don't get why he would choose his pen name after that terrible movie Hackers wtf
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TheKingofSprings posted:Lovely that Winnipeg gets the support and the Brandon plant for all appearances remains bumped down to being active 4 days per week. Brandon clearly has a labour shortage where as Winnipeg has a new labour base waiting to be exploited.
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Majuju posted:His introduction from the 20th Anniversary Edition is excellent if you haven't read it. I'd never seen that, it's great. He's an excellent writer. I'm glad we could all temporarily pull CanPol together and even get CI out of the CI gimmick for a moment to reminisce on cheesy but poetic sci-fi crap. Gibson posted:It took at least a decade for me to realize that many of my readers, even in 1984, could never have experienced Neuromancer’s opening line as I’d intended them to. I’d actually composed that first image with the black-and-white video-static of my childhood in mind, sodium-silvery and almost painful—a whopping anachronism, right at the very start of my career in the imaginary future.
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So Donald Trump said "I would pull out of NAFTA in a split second". I really, really hope that our government has better contingency plans than the British government did.
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The funny thing is with the way this year has been going by the time America votes in November he may very well actually become President.
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EvilJoven posted:The funny thing is with the way this year has been going by the time America votes in November he may very well actually become President. I warned both you guys and the Americans months ago   I've got a decent rationale that I don't have the time or fucks to type now, but I can sum it up with "the yanks have lost their loving minds".
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Health Services posted:So Donald Trump said "I would pull out of NAFTA in a split second". You realize this isn't a bad thing for us, right?
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Dreylad posted:Most of Canada's visible problems are regional, and while various parts of the country teeter on financial oblivion there hasn't yet been any impact on Canadian quality of life. The slow retreat of social welfare institutions has been gradual enough that I think most people my age and younger are just used to them. My grade school experience was one where our teachers were constantly rationing supplies -- not that we were deprived in any real way, just that there was a sense that there was less and less materials, craft supply, whatever available each year. We're all boiled frogs. With my parents in particular, if they went to sleep 20 years ago and woke up today, they'd be shocked at how much has gone downhill for them. Meanwhile I graduated into the '08 crash and was conditioned to not expect any semblance of a career any time soon. Looking forward to when the Left starts throwing molotovs, though. Everything else is a waste of time. Until then, gently caress You, I'll Get Mine Eventually, Maybe
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Drunk Canuck posted:You realize this isn't a bad thing for us, right? What exactly do you envision happening if the United States pulls out of NAFTA?
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Oh no problem. The plus side is sjws can feel like they've achieved something by cutting Canada off from the scourge of ~globalization~
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the trump tutelage posted:We're all boiled frogs. With my parents in particular, if they went to sleep 20 years ago and woke up today, they'd be shocked at how much has gone downhill for them. Meanwhile, I graduated into the '08 crash and was conditioned not toexpect any semblance of a career any time soon. My parents are the kind who worked 20+ years for the same union and will now say that unions can kiss their asses but at the same time disagree with employers keeping their kids on contract after contract of work. Just last night, my step-mother who believes that a country should be run "the way a single mom runs a household" was bemoaning the amount of homeless and addicted in Oshawa. It's complete cognitive dissonance for Canadian boomers. You can't have people with mental illness and addictions simultaneously taken care of and believe everything the Toronto Sun tells you about how society is going down the tubes because of ~*muh taxes*~
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Fluffy Chainsaw posted:What exactly do you envision happening if the United States pulls out of NAFTA? Large auto companies falling all over themselves to set up factories w/ thousands of high-paying jobs here; canadians learn to live and work together and consume withinin their means in defiance of global capitalist norms; leafs immeidately win the stanley cup
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Drunk Canuck posted:You realize this isn't a bad thing for us, right? If Trump is elected and dissolves NAFTA, there would be huge economic repercussions which the government should prepare for. While I'm not sure what I think of NAFTA overall, if the government doesn't plan out a potential response the consequences could be catastrophic for Canada. What's going to happen to all the cross-border trade? As well, the potential end of NATO is really significant. How is the government going to enforce our interests and sovereignty in the North if America declines to uphold its obligations?
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Health Services posted:If Trump is elected and dissolves NAFTA, there would be huge economic repercussions which the government should prepare for. While I'm not sure what I think of NAFTA overall, if the government doesn't plan out a potential response the consequences could be catastrophic for Canada. What's going to happen to all the cross-border trade? F-35s!
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I imagine that some day Canadians will realize that the POTUS doesn't make or ratify treaties. That day isn't today though.
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ocrumsprug posted:I imagine that some day Canadians will realize that the POTUS doesn't make or ratify treaties. If Trump and the executive arm of the American government decline to uphold treaty obligations and Congress declines to hold the executive to account, what's the difference?
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Lmfao if you believe a word that comes out of his mouth
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THC posted:Lmfao if you believe a word that comes out of his mouth
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THC posted:Lmfao if you believe a word that comes out of his mouth
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THC posted:Lmfao if you believe a word that comes out of his mouth Wait, does that mean he's actually not that bad?
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Ikantski posted:Wait, does that mean he's actually not that bad? It means "who the gently caress knows what he's going to do." At this point he's slightly less predictable than Kim Jong-Un.
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