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kenned3 commented on Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability riskybiznews.substack.com... · Posted by u/rinze

tpmx · 2 years ago

Do government agencies generally have that kind of liability in the first place?

kenned3 · 2 years ago

No, normally the government in Canada can be sued for this sort of thing.

not exactly the same thing, but this is a $500,000 class action lawsuit for losing a USB Key containing patient data:

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2012/05/28/durham_region_he...

The expectation is that the government protect your privacy or pay if they fail to do so.. as with any private data.

kenned3 commented on Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability riskybiznews.substack.com... · Posted by u/rinze

kenned3 · 2 years ago

This is so typical of the Canadian government.

The effectivly FORCE you to use this site as they try to cut costs and reduce "call in" support.

Then, they create a ToS which absolves them of all responsibility if they are hacked?

I would be willing to bet that if any Canadian business tried this the government would crack down and state it not permitted.

The government has a tendency of "do as i say not as i do".

Any Canadian can tell you that for the most part government IT is utter garbage.

<cough>arrive-can</cough><cough>Phoenix</cough>

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kenned3 commented on Plutonium: The most dangerous substance known to man? worksinprogress.co/issue/... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer

29athrowaway · 3 years ago

Tritiated water may be more dangerous. Is like water but radioactive.

kenned3 · 3 years ago

This sort of perpetuates the same myth about Plutonium being dangerous covered in the article.

If you have the right plutonium isotope, in the correct shape and compress it just right.. it is a very dangerous metal.

if you have a small piece of it, it is rather harmless given it is an alpha emitter and can be stopped via single sheet of paper.

Tritium falls under the same category.

If you have a nuclear device, and put tritium in it, the tritium participates in the reaction and effectively "boosts" the yield.

If you have some Tritium, it is a weak beta emitter and you will either exhale it out (Tritium gas) or urinate it if it is in liquid form.

Like all radioactive material it does increase your chances of cancer, but you would need a fair amount of it.

Given Tritium is an isotope of Hydrogen, it isn't "like water" it IS water..but radioactive.

water - H2O Heavy water - D2O Super heavy water - T2O

kenned3 commented on Mikhail Gorbachev has died reuters.com/world/mikhail... · Posted by u/homarp

hk__2 · 3 years ago

The author of the joke doesn’t really matter here; the point is that it’s funny, period. I’m not sure how you can see a mockery of any country in a joke that would work with literally any important person in any country.

kenned3 · 3 years ago

Comedy is subjective.

Try telling a sexually charged joke at your place of employment and see what happens.

World leaders freely slandering other countries like this is shameful, and not what you expect from a "world leader".

kenned3 commented on Mikhail Gorbachev has died reuters.com/world/mikhail... · Posted by u/homarp

jjtheblunt · 3 years ago

Aren't their countries still filled with Soviet era (or even more recent?) environmental hazards, like ubiquitous asbestos and who knows what else?

When i took Russian, we watched a Soviet propaganda film : it bragged about asbestos exports as a sign of Soviet strength, and i think the teachers (one native Russian speaker) perhaps showed it to emphasize what a disaster had already been created (this was shortly pre 2000).

kenned3 · 3 years ago

Many countries are still stranded with "cold war" environmental problems.

The US has many "superfunds" dedicated to cleaning up "cold war radioactivity" issues.

A bit more info on the Quebec asbestos issues. Canada didnt stop exporting it until 2012.

" Canada led world production of asbestos before the country’s two largest mines (both in Quebec) halted operations in 2012. The closure marked the suspension of the country’s asbestos production for the first time in 130 years. "

Exporting this wasn't unique to the Soviets.

kenned3 commented on Mikhail Gorbachev has died reuters.com/world/mikhail... · Posted by u/homarp

ipnon · 3 years ago

Let me tell you why I think this is an inappropriate comment: The point of it seems not to be collaboratively extending the line of thought proposed by the original post or the parent comment, but to make the parent commenter feel some kind of personal shame or stupidity. Good commenting is more like a team sport than a martial art.

kenned3 · 3 years ago

So like telling "jokes" at Russia's expense by a man of questionable ethics?

what is the point of his joke, if not to mock another country?

The OP posted a quote, and i posted one too?

kenned3 commented on Mikhail Gorbachev has died reuters.com/world/mikhail... · Posted by u/homarp

coalbin · 3 years ago

I meet your skepticism with a video of him telling the joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQh6q9gNCIQ

kenned3 · 3 years ago

Thanks for a link to a site labeled "free propaganda". It really rang true here, it is propaganda, and it is free?

Do read the comments on youtube.

kenned3 commented on Mikhail Gorbachev has died reuters.com/world/mikhail... · Posted by u/homarp

zmgsabst · 3 years ago

Seems to be working for China, as well.

kenned3 · 3 years ago

I suggest you look at the external debt of China vs other nations, you may be surprised with what you find.