Capitalism in a nutshell

They don’t stop shit from happening

yes and no… Will a camera physically prevent someone from breaking into your house? no. However, having a camera conspicuously installed does act as a deterrent.

One very useful function that doorbell cameras have specifically, is that I can talk to the person at the door remotely. I’ve had a couple occasions where I was unable to get to the door at the moment a delivery person showed up, so I was able to use that feature to tell them to leave the package and I’d be out momentarily to get it.

It’s also useful to get a notification when my kids get home from school and I’m in the office.

That being said, you are correct in that people should not be buying these cloud-only devices, especially when there are plenty of self-hosted options that have become quite affordable lately.

and the one that keeps getting slept on for some reason, watch breakpoints - stop when foo is changed. Great for figuring out what is screwing with your data when foo mysteriously changes

Bad analogy.

This would be more like the property management having a record of what apartments are rented, and having a second list of who is renting apartments (but not which one), and the landlord wanting to know who is renting apartment 420 so they can draw up eviction papers.

Intuit (and any other company allowed to offer NETFILE services) is required to offer a free tax filing option for individuals. The problem is they’re allowed to upsell as much as they want, so you have to be careful that they’ll absolutely try to sell you some service that you don’t need (i.e. audit insurance on a basic T-4 only filing).

For the most part, I have not had a problem using the free service, though you do need to know how to fill out any forms that aren’t part of their default wizard.

That being said, if your tax filing is 100% just confirming information the government already knows, then that should just be done for you. I would expect to get correspondence via MyCRA/lettermail (ideally both) that lists what forms from whom were submitted, their final calculations and a notice that it would be finalized on April 30th unless a supplementary return is filed (i.e. un-filed income, deductions etc).

Like, some of it is just silly; to claim disability on a dependent, I have to submit a form that the government sent me, which was submitted by the doctor who provided the diagnosis - to the government. It’s not even that department A isn’t talking to department B; it’s a form submitted to CRA!

I recently bought a monitor from Canada Computers, it was a brand-new box with the manufacturer’s seal intact. The attendant still opened the box and we both inspected the monitor, then he re-closed it using their own tamper-evident tape.

Best Buy will do this as well but in my experience they will only do so with items being sold as “open box”.

Unless you’re using an instant-courier type service (i.e. uber/doordash), goods are usually delivered as part of a regular route by the delivery driver. Your USB pen is only one of hundreds of packages being delivered by that driver, and that driver will be following a fairly consistent route each day. I’d say it’s about as efficient as taking public transit to the store

More taxes, and use that money to create a publicly-owned competitor. If the private sector wants to compete, they’ll either have to be better or cheaper than the public option, or both.

Also, re-nationalize the infrastructure. In Canada, taxpayers paid for hydro and telecom construction, then all of that infra was included in the privatization of those sectors. Bell has been profiting for decades by charging people to use the copper that was installed on the public dime.

From someone who does this for a living… vary your names and addresses. Less chance of collisions if your suite teardown fails to clean up properly. Depending on your needs, having a hard-coded unique name/address per test can be fine, or if you’re using Python, there’s a library called Faker that will generate ISO-valid test data. It’s also a bit easier to see where a teardown failed if maybe an exception got swallowed.

He can retire on a full federal pension, the only way it would get higher would have been if his party won last night. He has not, and will not, need to acquaint himself with the real world.

I don’t know if it’s as likely as the G&M says, 338Canada is still giving him a 93% chance of winning his seat https://338canada.com/35020e.htm - It’s come down some, but I doubt there’s going to be some sort of red wave there to oust him

Cannabis also causes impairment and, coincidentally, munchies. That being said, all of the potheads I have known absolutely do not drive after partaking, though I cannot say the same about friends who have drank more than legal limits…

If that’s the only option and the local provider is the same final price as Amazon, that still would mean more money stays in Canada and less goes to bozo. Not perfect, but better.