Why does there need to be a single Canada-wide definition? We're not talking about "who gets a government-issued status card" here—people can be unambiguously Indigenous and still not have one of those. We're talking about who can stand up in a public venue and say "I'm Indigenous" without causing a scandal, and who gets to decide that.
nyan
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I think your average First Nation can scrape together enough bureacracy to keep track of a few thousand members. Most of them aren't huge groups.
Ultimately, this is about who gets to police Indigenous identity, and regardless of whether the answer to that is "each tribe can decide its own membership" or "some significant number of Indigenous people have to agree", it's obvious that the correct answer is not "the government established established by European colonists decides" or "the news media decides". The people involved need to argue it out. The opinions of those of us who aren't Indigenous or claiming to be really aren't important.
The oldest of the Pickering CANDUs has been running for fifty years, if I'm not mistaken, albeit with some gaps for refurbishment. If that isn't a safe design, I don't know what is.
In other words, I agree, let's build more of those.
I'm honestly expecting another layer somewhere below this with the nobility having been brainwashed, except that we won't find out about it until near the end of the story. I mean, in addition to halting most interaction with other kingdoms and all advancement, there are entire classes of luxury goods that a mindless drone can't produce. No art, no fashion—and those are things that stereotypical aristocrats care about. Plus, how are you going to produce the next generation of drones? Some of those "nobles" might be okay with watching what amounts to the same porn scene over and over again, but how many infant-nappy-changing commands can your average oligarch tolerate giving?
Maybe I'm just too optimistic.
Federal age of consent was 14 up until a decade or two ago (16 now), so the age of consent in Quebec was ≥ 14 at the time. The article mentions this.
Lock this guy up so that he never comes into contact with another minor, because I doubt he's stopped doing this.
Oh, I very much agree that the judge has a clear conflict of interest here and shouldn't have been the one to hear the case. It's just that I'm also unsurprised that this wasn't caught. Judges have an advantage over engineers in getting away with stuff in that it's very unusual for a judge's mistake in Canada in the present day to cause someone to die.
Keep in mind that nvidia drops proprietary driver support for its older cards from time to time, so your card will eventually be desupported by them. The extent to which this matters for you depends on how long a timespan your "after a few years" represents. If "a few years" is just 2-3 years, you're probably okay, but if it's 8-10 years, your card will be desupported before you're ready to get rid of it.
CUDA is a proprietary nvidia API, so you aren't likely to get it working on an AMD card.
I don't necessarily expect a code of ethics to cover something like this (they do cover direct conflicts of interest—if the judge were related to the landlord, or in business with them, they would be expected to recuse themselves, for instance). This is a situation where the judge may benefit from the precedent but not the legal ruling itself, and that's something that a code of ethics might not catch even if it's being enforced correctly.
In this case, either there is no such article in whatever codes of ethics or conduct this judge is required to follow, or it isn't being enforced, and so might as well not exist.
I wish there was a way to force the legal system to be more careful about this kind of indirect conflict of interest.
Of course, if anyone ever pulls that off, I will expect to see pigs flying past in formation outside my window, 'cause teaching farm animals to hang glide is clearly easier.
I've ended up with windows of zero height in the past, due to some kind of obscure bug involving nvidia and unity games running in windowed mode, so I suspect the WM that comes with my DE has no minimum. It isn't tiling or Wayland-friendly, though, so no good for your use case.
(And add me to the list of people curious about what you intend to use this for.)
The fact that no single individual can control the "scandal" part.