I'm not saying he won't. He might, but it depends on how well it plays to his base when the election rolls around, which isn't going to happen tomorrow.
nyan
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And Perl.
And the answer is: we won't know until and unless he actually tries it. Talk is cheap, especially when it comes from politicians.
I'm currently working four colours simultaneously on my project, and am an expert at getting the loose floss caught, alas. Pulling it taut in a direction away from the area you're working in or wrapping it around something helps somewhat. It's basically a matter of trying (and often failing) to keep the slack out from under the current needle.
Blithely assume that no one else is going to notice the quality of any individual stitch unless it's so woefully bad that the issue is visible at arm's length?
Carefully choose the order in which you do colours to minimize the number of enclosed singletons?
Work with more than one colour and needle at a time, and get loose floss caught in other colours' stitches at the back?
If anyone has any better suggestions, I'm all ears.
Modest profit isn't an issue, but most businesses of more than a certain size accumulate MBAs like some kind of parasitic fungus. They then proceed to wring out as much money as possible in the short term while destroying the business in the long term.
If it's just a local guy making 5% or so a year off his one rental shop, that's no problem.
Plumbing, apparently, is one issue—residential buildings typically need much more of it than office buildings do. Not an insurmountable problem, but costs $$ to overcome.
If he manages to make Quebec realize it can be used against them, we might finally be able to get rid of the damned thing.
(Hey, I can dream, right?)
Usenet started out as a forum-like system, with individual messages grouped into discussion threads (the protocol worked kind of like email, with messages indicating which other message they replied to, so that client software could build a tree for each group). That side of it was eventually killed off by lack of good moderation options or support for embedded media.
All software has bugs in it.
People were using this service to put up money to encourage programmers working on open-source software to fix specific bugs that were especially bothering them. For instance, if text in software X didn't scale properly and that was a problem for you, you could use this service to offer $100 to programmers working on X to fix the text scaling. Once they got it fixed, they collected the money.
The service went bankrupt.
When it went bankrupt, some programmers didn't get their promised payment for bugs they had fixed.
The money didn't get returned to the people who had paid for the bug to be fixed, either.
So now both programmers and users have lost money because of this service, and everyone's ticked off.
Most Usenet discussion groups don't even get spambot posts these days.
The problem is maintaining competition. Another thing those MBAs salivate over is the idea of buying out the competition, and their squeeze-the-company-dry method can give them just enough money for just long enough to buy a competing business to run into the ground when the original one starts to give out. Like I said, parasitic fungus: move to a new host as the old one dies. Keeping them from spreading can only be accomplished by stronger government regulation than many people seem willing to see in place, alas.