psvrh

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[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Filesystem snapshots are the best thing since sliced bread.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

The only issue with the podcast is that he cant get rights for the entire song, so it's not quite the same as radio.

It's still as wonderful as the show was in all the other ways.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Metric isn't bad, either.

I admittedly haven't been a big radio listener for almost twenty years, but I saw a huge difference in ~1997 or so, when a lot of Canadian indie started getting airplay. I don't think we'd have Metric without CanCon requirements.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This hasn't been the case since the 1990s or so, when CanCon started to actually get good.

I will agree it sucked through the 70s and 80s, though. There was a looooong incubation period between the time CanCon took effect and the time it bore fruit in, eg, Canadian bands stopped sucking en-masse.

Alan Cross has a good podcast on CanCon and the long tail it required. I don't think modern governments can or will do anything like that again, where the payoff is decades after the costs and implementation.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Wasn't it that V is easier to carve or write than I with the tools at the time?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Anyone have that gif of Rupert Murdoch with a plate of cookies?

Found it...

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The problem with the current program is that we did a "half Portugal" where we stopped with enforcement because it was cheaper, and also didn't put in funding for support and treatment because because they (the goverment) thought is was cheaper.

The problem with this, knowing that our government is cheap. They'll talk about enforcement, but will be super cheap about it. I'd actually be more worried about this endeavour if I thought they were going to fund it adequately.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry, the double-negative threw me for a loop.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Boomers fought in world wars?

In utero, maybe.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Thunderdome except it's billionaires" would solve so many problems.

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 67 points 1 month ago (10 children)

You could start taxing them. Especially the rich ones.

You know that's an option, right?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Oh, if only that were true.

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