$35,000 for being attacked by a police dog, hospitalized and jailed for hours. Nope. I'd ride that to the supreme court. He is lucky he wasn't shot for a 'misread'.
To get a feel for this effect, activate an instant ice pack. Mixing ammonium nitrate with water is an endothermic reaction, instantly making the pack cool down. Being able to reverse a reaction like this simply by applying pressure is fascinating.
My US-born child qualifies for US-Canadian dual citizenship under Citizenship Act Bill C-3. I can see several upsides to having a Canadian passport but what are the potential downsides for a US citizen and resident that does not intend to relocate?
Currently, none as far as the US is concerned[0]. The child is a US citizen and while in or entering/exiting must use their US passport. If they move to Canada (or any where else), they are still required to fulfill US tax obligations.
You'll want to check if Canada has the same tax requirements for citizens living in a foreign country. In Canada, the child would be a citizen of Canada and US consular protections/services are unlikely to be helpful there. Same while in the US, they are only seen as a US citizen and are subject to the US.
However, a bill was introduced: Exclusive Citizenship Act of 2025. You may want to follow it (in-case it actually passes and is not simply grandstanding for maga). It would require US citizens to only hold one citizenship and dual nationals would be forced to renounce any others or automatically lose US citizenship. Which would be challenged up to the Supreme Court as US citizenship is protected in the Constitution and can only be voluntarily renounced. The provision saying it would be lost by missing the one-year deadline to provide a written renunciation of their foreign citizenship to the State Department -- is very likely unconstitutional.
If they’re us-resident there should be no problem, assuming the person travels on the us passport outside of Canada. They’d have to travel with two passports going to Canada, as each country expects to see their passport upon entry. Canada doesn’t tax non residents like the us so there’s no tax changes without moving into Canada, and there’s currently a tax treaty for that.
There was a Windows 2000 bug that would allow the computer to be crashed via a malformed IrDA packet. Of course someone crafted a Palm Pilot app to zonk all the vulnerable PCs in the vicinity. It worked on servers as well. Endless fun for a little while.
Some laptops had them, and came with IR remotes. Some of the marketing was around using those laptops as "media centres", and you could control them from the sofa while it was plugged into a TV.
I connected self powered crank telephones to my home phone wiring for use as intercoms. Crank one and the others ring. Pick up to engage the battery powered talk circuit and you're chatting with Mabel like it's 1915. I did replace the old dry cell batteries with lithium camera cells so I don't need to think about them for a decade.
We have an Ethernet run that's not in use right now. I had a Cisco ATA from earlier experiments so I picked up 2 old phones with proper bell ringers and now the kids can call up from the living room to my office when it's time for dinner, they love it.
The second I heard that engine fire it was 1986 in my brain again. I could smell the fuel and feel the finger damage from repeatedly trying to get the darned thing to start. Followed by damage on the other side of the finger when it actually did. Ouch.
...some mockingly asking whether the firm would've maintained the same tenacity and reimbursed the Intern had he been fined 50,000 RMB at the event instead
It seemed like the future was all cloud but this year's exhibit hall was packed with infrastructure suppliers. Every third booth seemed to feature valves, pumps, massive high density power distribution systems and all the stuff you would need to cram a megawatt of electrical power into the smallest space possible and then extract the heat. Most notable to me is the waterless phase-change heat extraction provided by https://zutacore.com/. Their technology avoids massive water consumption and provides a high temperature heat source that is immediately useful for campus heating or co-generation.
$35,000 for being attacked by a police dog, hospitalized and jailed for hours. Nope. I'd ride that to the supreme court. He is lucky he wasn't shot for a 'misread'.