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Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by baby »

onli wrote: post #333
superzadeh wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently moved from France to Germany, and the biggest cultural gap so far is that people in here respect traffic lights and using a qwerty keyboard. Otherwise, most people speak English and the lifestyle is similar.

You did not look close enough. French and German culture are very different. How work is done, how meetings are held, being on time, eating, restaurants in general and the food and the drink. Also how friendships work. I'd say french and german culture is one of the most distant in all of (western?) europe. You have more english speakers in Germany, and the lifestyle is similar, but the lifestyle is similar in all of…

For having moved to quite a bunch of places in my life (and also had a german girlfriend), France and Germany have a pretty similar culture. There is a lot of influence between the two countries.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by mikeash »

grownseed wrote: post #422

A few points I think are relevant: - I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet... - as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems - having just aquired my canadian p…

I wouldn't worry about it. Threatening to move to Canada after a political loss is a time-honored American tradition, and not one which produces much in the way of concrete results.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

SixSigma wrote: post #475
mejari wrote: post #472

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>And somewhat ironically, if Hillary had won people would be telling those disenfranchised voters who broke for Trump to listen to the will of the people Hillary wasn't threatening groups of people. Muslims, gays, transgender people, and more are actually in for a worse time in this country. It's not always about just being disgruntled.

Her Saudi backers threaten everyone. Her Soros funded protest machinery put police in hospital. The BLM anarchy, again funded by Soros, killed cops on US soil.

In the 30s it was the "Rothschild conspiracy".

Now it's Soros, Yellen.

Both narratives are barely hidden anti-Semitism.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by devonkim »

nathanvanfleet wrote: post #363
devonkim wrote: post #357

What happened or didn't happen to the people running the site between 2004 and now when GWB was re-elected? You'd think that you should be shoring up the website seeing spikes for a while, and it's been over 10 years since that site crash and populations haven't gotten an order of magnitude higher exactly.

If it happens once every 8 years I can understand that the wouldn't care much. Do you expect them to employ expensive services that would cost them a lot of money to stop that just for one day? It's government, they just live with it.

I've worked in government before and understand bureaucracy but there's a certain level of quality even they have standards for. Most government sites aren't massive volume transactions but primarily static brochure type sites that may need some occasional updates making them suitable for many commercial CMSes that are well known and easy to optimize. Adding caching for documents that are almost never updated and adding a CDN layer for the application are inexpensive compared to writing and even hosting the CMS itself (usually on rather expensive TCO on-premise infrastructure). Furthermore, this kind of upgrade helps fulfill use cases of access and availability to government-provided services that is the spirit of the law in many developed countries, especially as citizens increasingly reach to online services for their interaction with governments.

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Post by r00fus »

privong wrote: post #358
noir_lord wrote: post #350

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You have to wonder how long 'Obamacare' is going to last now with a Republican president, congress and senate...

> You have to wonder how long 'Obamacare' is going to last now with a Republican president, congress and senate... I don't think the Republicans have enough people in the Senate to block filibusters. So I assume the Democrats will use the filibuster to block repeals of the healthcare law.

Why in the world would the GOP ever leave the filibuster in place? Mitch will remove it at the beginning of the 115th Congress.

Boom. Now Obamacare can be repealed with simple majority. I bet you dollars to donuts that insurance prices, however, will not go back down to pre-Obamacare prices. Because profits.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by rattray »

grownseed wrote: post #422

A few points I think are relevant: - I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet... - as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems - having just aquired my canadian p…

Please keep in mind that many people currently living in the US may feel that they are in "very real danger", or may be soon.

We're not taking this lightly. I'm not "disgruntled", I'm concerned that my friends and family may face persecution, disenfranchisement, or even death (eg; nuclear war).

You may think that's unlikely, but please respect that it would be reasonable to estimate a nontrivial risk of catastrophe in the US.

Congratulations on your residence status.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by KirinDave »

farright wrote: post #480
KirinDave wrote: post #292

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I mean, if there was a State in the US where guns were realistically outlawed I'd move there too. Implying that is "white" flight is implying that white people are not major perpetrators of gun violence in America, which simply isn't true. Gun violence in the US is a major problem and our gun ownership and sales policies are at the heart of it. I've considered moving my family away from it long before this horrifying…

See https://www.statista.com/chart/3848/the-us-murder-rate-compa... The murder rate for whites in the US (i.e. the rate at which whites are murdered) is 2.5 per 100,000 much lower than the overall murder rate of 5.2 per 100,000. This is still higher than most of the West, e.g. 70% higher than Canada. But not the "extreme levels" you referred to earlier. And you didn't mention guns before, I'm assuming you don't reall…

I'm not saying from it, although I think that it's not difficult to demonstrate that a disenfranchised group with poor economic prospects tends to self-radicalize.

I don't view a ton of difference between extremist terrorist conscription and, say, gang violence.

I think many of the same triggers are exploited. And you see those same triggers at play in traditionally white "militia" folks as well.

Re: Canada's immigration website crashes on election night

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Post by eloff »

rattray wrote: post #497
grownseed wrote: post #422

A few points I think are relevant: - I find leaving your country only because you didn't vote for the winner is rather cowardly, you can still do something about it, we're not quite talking systemic harassment yet... - as a friend of mine pointed out, Canada is not a consolation prize for disgruntled americans, it's a real country, with its own real people and its own real problems - having just aquired my canadian p…

Please keep in mind that many people currently living in the US may feel that they are in "very real danger", or may be soon. We're not taking this lightly. I'm not "disgruntled", I'm concerned that my friends and family may face persecution, disenfranchisement, or even death (eg; nuclear war). You may think that's unlikely, but please respect that it would be reasonable to estimate a nontrivial risk of catastrophe i…

I think we're safer from nuclear war now, at least in the short-term. Hillary was going to continue the hard-line against Russia. Trump will likely come to a civilized agreement with them that deescalates the situation. There's no secret that he's Putin's favorite candidate (while the rest of Europe is in shock right now.)

More concerning is his policy with regard to Iran, but the current treaty covers our butts in the short term, while giving the Iranians a sure shot at nuclear capability down the road. Once they get nukes, the Saudis will want them too and the world will be a few minutes closer to midnight. It remains to be seen if Trump will make the situation better or worse.

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