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We used to do that to place free calls on pay phones. I don't recall it being a particularly fast way of dialing, though it was great if you wanted to keep your dimes for hockey ca…

I still have a rotary landline (well, VOIP, using a Grandstream ATA). It is fun! But I hate people with a lot of 8's, 9's, and 0's in their numbers. They take forever to dial :)

It does to me. During World War II, the Canadian government raised taxes in a bid to reduce demand and curb inflation (along with wage and price controls, mandatory savings, and ot…

Canadian mortgages have separate amortization periods (say 20 or 25 years for example) and interest rate terms (generally 1-5 years, after which the rate has to be renegotiated -- …

Let's pilot this project in the Senate...

> A monarchy has the downside that who gets to be the monarch is fundamentally undemocratic. So I get 1/20 millionth of the decision in which of 3 or 4 members of an exclusive elit…

Not necessarily. You could choose them by lot and limit their terms. That would make for a fun night of TV.... Who will be Canada's next monarch? Find out tonight on CBC.

Not having a President is reason #1 to keep a constitutional monarch. The constitutional monarch is a figurehead without much of a day to day role, but who ensures that the demagog…

I think so too. IIRC, you'd have to add a new feed for each thread.

Yes, but if you want to read the comments associated with a post, the link takes you right back to the regular reddit site.

On an Android device, Slide allows you to add subreddits without logging in. I follow several subreddits but have no account. I don't see any ads. Go to the hamburger menu > settin…

Piling on here. My wife had a 2002 Jetta from new until 2019. We replaced both of the front window regulators on multiple occasions. There's nothing like having your window drop in…

You've ignored the fact that unions are limited to organizing one workplace at a time. Companies routinely close unionized locations. In a contest over the revenues of the enterpri…

My Zero W hosts a gopher site and an 'unfederated' email service.

I don't know if it's still normal. In the 1970s and 1980s smoking a pack a day was fairly typical. Two packs a day was considered excessive, but most people knew someone who smoked…

The $5 figure was from northern British Columbia. Cigarettes were much cheaper in the U.S. at the time (Canadians used to bring back a couple of duty-free cartons on a regular basi…

This kind of calculation is what convinced me to quit smoking before going to university in 1990. Cigarettes were $5 / pack. I smoked a pack a day. $5 x 365 days x 4 years = $7300.…

From Hitler's writing, it is clear that he despised socialism/communism because socialist ideologues promoted class antagonism and internationalism, both of which undermined the un…

On this note, the Royal Bank of Canada used a DOS-like system well into the 2000s. The tellers were amazingly proficient with it, entering data, hitting tab-tab-tab, entering more …

I was just thinking that the site looks about the same as the first time I saw it too. That must have been around 2007. IIRC, that site once had Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 pages as…

The use of the word dependencies in this context is perfect. Untangling the history of technological innovation is an adventure into dependency hell.