Canada has had laws against hate speech before c-36, this extends those laws to the internet.
Canada does not have a concept of "free speech", the fuck are you talking about. Canada has a concept of freedom of expression, which has certain limits, such as Hate speech.
I'm so sorry you will no longer be able to call for a genocide against a group you hold prejudices against, boo fucking hoo.
In what sense is it good that a company can make profit through a business activity in some country, but instead of paying the tax there, it pays it somewhere else?
Competition in economics is the incentive that has brought the majority of westerners from <$1/day to what we are today - with washing machines, cars, and water toilets no king could previously dream of.
Companies compete for shareholders by satisfying as many customers as possible. If states can compete for the best deal for international business, companies can better serve people, and those states can house centres of international trade.
It’s not just abstract talk, but incentives that drive us to live different everyday lives than people in guild-economy medieval times, or past slave economies, or how people lived in the GDR or other eastern bloc countries.
The corporation that uses the roads and operates under the safety of the police and military of a country should not be paying some other country, it barely has anything to do with, a lower tax due to some accounting shenanigans.
this is a benefit only international corporations get to enjoy, which gives them an unfair advantage in the market.
if your goal is to have a few conglomerates rule the world, then this is a good way to do it. Not sure how that is much different from a powerful "state" though
You're forgetting the alternative where the person ends up getting unemployed instead, in which case the taxpayer pays 100% for those workers’ healthcare, food and housing.
Would that this were the most important thing in the Amazon unionization effort. We would maintain measures like an actual election with secret ballots — instead of card check, where the Teamsters can see if you've signed the card, and pressure you if you haven't.
The Biden administration, I understand, wishes the return of card-check.
Look on the bright side: it used to be a whole lot worse.
I mean on both sides, too. The Pinkerton thugs get all the press, and are rightly condemned, but for coverage of the union men beating their non-union colleagues to death with clubs, blinding a man with thrown stones, I refer you to coverage such as McLure's Magazine article The Right To Work (1903) which gave its name to the type of law: http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/Right%20to%20work....
I like the distinction that it draws at the beginning, too:
"PUBLIC opinion seems to be coming around to the view that the trades' union is here to stay. From many unexpected quarters we hear every now and then a more generous acknowledgment that the organization of labor is not only as inevitable as the combination of capital, but a good thing in itself. At the same time, and from the same fair minds, you hear expressions of passionate indignation at the abuse of power by unions. This means that public opinion is beginning to distinguish between unionism and the sins of unionists, as it is between organized capital and the sins of capitalists."
All we have to contend with today, here, are the vengeful downvotes.
I'm not an expert on US union law, but AFAICS, American workers have a choice between card check, which in principle allows intimidation by unions, and the NLRA process, which has been documented as enabling intimidation by employers. Do you have another proposal?
I relied very heavily on Day One until they dropped most of their local-hosting features. It was painful and I still haven't found any comparable alternative.
Wow, I didn't realize they did that... I've had Day One suggested to me many time and always resisted, I guess I'm glad I did. I don't know what I want as an alternative, though - I guess what would be ideal is something that is Desktop/Mobile, syncs markdown to a shared filesystem like Dropbox, and has lots of optional bells and whistles for cataloguing and organization that I wouldn't mind losing since I'd still have the actual content in markdown.
I tried. There isn’t one. Dyrii was decent. But it was abandoned. There’s Journey (with their cluttered and poor interface) but they’ve not been able to pull themselves out of Google’s sink-hole. Even after you login with Apple Login they ask you to add a Google Drive account to sync data.
So I literally just moved back to pen and paper. Something I had been doing since school (school school). I haven’t missed any journaling app since. But having one would be nice.
Same. I still use the old app on my iPhone. Syncing to Dropbox and iCloud no longer works. I periodically export to pdf as a backup. I have nine years of notes in that pdf.
At some point an iOS update is going fully break the app, but I'm still hanging on.
