It's exactly as (un)secure as I expected. It's a wireless device made by bike part manufactures... can't expect better, realistically.
Still, I wouldn't recommend someone against buying one because of this. The threat model for cyclists is getting maimed by vehicles or psychopaths laying booby traps out there. Hackers messing with my gear shifting is the least of my worries.
I don't understand. Ending Translink to fund who?
If you're sure it's more than you'd expect, then you have some idea. You can just say how much you expect and then we have a lower bound to verify.
In any case do we even know who commissioned the poll? Might as well have been some institution with discretionary spending. Maybe I missed it in the article but it's not clear that this is government funded research in the first place.
How much money is being currently "wasted" on this? And how much of it is taxpayer funding that could be redirected?
IMHO Canadians are not significantly friendlier than most nationalities. At most they are friendlier than the average big-city dwelling Americans, and that's where the meme came from. Up until a few years ago Canada was a country of small cities, and these comparisons are all inherently flawed given the myriad of factors involved.
There is a LOT of conservatism brewing in Canada, and this hasn't much to do with friendliness. Some of the most astoundingly friendly people I've met were midwesterner Americans... and these same people were very bigoted in some regards. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing.
Of course there's a theme, and big truck jackasses playing heavy metal with "Fuck Trudeau" & MAGA stickers abound. But visit an assembly from any affluent neighbourhood residents association and you will see highly educated and courteous old ladies parrot genocidal talking points.
Both, because what people believe to be true dictates their behavior and policies should account for that.
But in any case, we were not talking about policy. We were talking about "complaining" about policy. What I said is that it is helpful to "complain".
Complaining that it’s not preventing crime isn’t really helpful, since that’s not what it’s supposed to do.
It is helpful, because a large extent of the voter base does think that increasing the police personnel will prevent crime.
I guess my tone was a bit dubious, but I wasn't being sarcastic. Good fucking work, I meant it.
The guy is a piece of shit, smear campaigns against him and Rustad are net positive for humankind.
Now this is a modern web smear campaign, good work BCLibs.
I’m tired of trying to convince drivers.
It looks like to me the goal isn't to convince drivers to behave, but to recreate some momentum ahead of election year. It's already a big win just to increase election turnout among people who are already convinced we need more/better cycling infrastructure and improved road designs. Another big win would be to get those people to show up on council meetings, and just voice their opinion louder. Visibility for local advocates has that organizing power.
Can we not start funding some new trains though?
I hope so! Expanding SkyTrain is always a tough battle but Translink seems up to fight for it, so we need to pressure cities to churn out more investments on these big projects. That's almost certainly going to require extra federal funding so one more reason to show up for the next provincial and federal elections to vote for someone who cares about public transit.
Welp, at least it's a non-profit and the amount of people under care is increasing.
I'd say this kind of thing is in the best 1% of UCP moments, considering everything else. It's a low bar but still.