What the heck is it with this eye-tunes stuff? I recently wanted to view a Quicktime movie on my Windows machine - and had to get the quicktime player on the machine I was using. But Apple.com wouldn't download a copy of the quicktime movie player, unless it could install Itunes as well. No problem - I let it install - but it started doing the same sort of nonsense that REAL always annoyed me with - setting all the default preferences for audio files to quicktime and wanting to make itself the default media player in my machine. Then to top it all off - when I tried to use Itunes - the site tells me that I need a US billing address to download music. Bah - where's my copy of Kazaa ++ lite?
The Great Canadian Delusion: Why the $725 Billion AI Race is Exposing our Polite Myth
1. Introduction: The Crack in the Postcard For decades, the "Canadian Brand" has been our most successful export. It is a carefully curated postcard of stability—a polite myth of a "serious" country where public institutions are trustworthy, and governance is a delicate, virtuous balance. But of late, the postcard has begun to show deep, jagged cracks.There is a growing, uncomfortable gap between Canada’s self-image and its actual economic performance. This is the "Relatable Problem" of the modern era: an obvious decline in productivity and competitiveness that we are asked to treat as "compassion" or "good governance." To understand why the floor feels like it is giving way, we must look past the press releases and into the stark mathematical reality of the global technology race, the exodus of our best companies, and the geography trap that keeps us acting like a submissive resource colony. 2. The 1,000-to-1 Math: Why Our "Nation...
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