Nothing has changed since Payday 2 then? The game where the devs said at launch they’d never have microtransactions in their game and even mocked players for suggesting they would do such a thing, only for them to add some of the most aggressive microtransactions typically only found in phone games that lead to a huge backlash with fans posting things like “the real heist is the devs stealing money from their fans”?
They routinely held an end of year meeting at the start of December that was a bit of a Christmas party. The meeting was always a show of appreciation that ended with the boss handing out bonus pay.
One year the boss finished thanking us for contributing to the busiest and most profitable year in company history. He then announced that all that big profit would be used to open up a new location! And for that reason nobody would be getting Christmas bonuses because the new location was really expensive. The next year he sold to a corporation who immediately fired most of the senior staff due to their high salaries, myself included.
I’ve heard romance scams are on the rise again due to the prevalence of online dating. If the hot girl you matched with starts asking you for money, or nudes (for extortion), or your mother’s maiden name (for identity theft), she might not be the person you expect!
It’s to prevent fraud by taking out a huge policy and then killing yourself. However, as others have said, it’s limited to 2 years. You can still take out a huge policy and kill yourself, but you have to pay into it for 2 years first.
Bill S-275 seeks to amend the Bank of Canada Act and address what the bill calls “the impression among some Canadians that there is a democratic deficit in monetary policy management.”
When money should be printed should absolutely not be a democratic decision. It absolutely should be the decision of highly educated professional and impartial economists. Otherwise you get “vote for me and I’ll lower interest rates!” Which is what Zimbabwe did right before hyperinflation created the need to print 1 billion dollar notes.
Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh separatist activist (or a terrorist) who was shot dead in Vancouver.
Sikhs are a minority religion in India, less than 2% of the population. By contrast, 80% of India are Hindu. Most Sikhs are in Punjab, India. Outside of Punjab, Canada has the most Sikhs. Hindu nationalists have controlled the government of India for some time and never played well with others. Sikhs have been wanting to separate from the rest of India and form a country called Khalistan because of it.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was a crackdown on Sikh separatism and the Prime Minister of India ordered the raid of a sacred Sikh temple that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. A pair of the Prime Minister’s Sikh bodyguards then assassinated him in retaliation. This sparked a religious war that saw the deaths of thousands. Hindus would raid the homes of known Sikhs, drag them out into the streets, and beat them to death.
Being a Sikh separatist in India is deadly, but Sikhs in Canada feel safe enough to voice their opinion. Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a Canadian Sikh who was very vocal in his opinion and rallied other Canadian Sikhs behind him. India’s current government is Hindu nationalist and wants Canada to put these Sikhs in their place. They claim they are a terrorist group that Canada is harboring. Canada has always refused stating that there is no evidence of Sikh terrorism. However, the deadliest plane bombing before 9/11 was carried out by Sikh terrorists in Canada.
The India government claims Hardeep Singh Nijjar was a terrorist leader who got what was coming to him. The Canadian government claims the Indian government carried out a political assassination on Canadian soil.
It’s like asking if investments are good or bad. Depends on a lot of factors. Affirmative Action is meant to be an investment in an underperforming, underdeveloped, section of the population.
Education Is directly correlated with long term income. The more educated a population is, the more money they make, the more taxes they pay. In most countries, free education pays for itself as the educated citizens earn so much more than uneducated citizens that their increased taxes easily pays for the cost.
I think everyone can agree with the above but the questionable part is: What does being Black have to do with it? There are a lot of Americans who are born into poor and uneducated families. Why can’t Affirmative Action apply to anyone who meets that description regardless of skin colour? I think the general argument here is that Black Americans faced historical oppression and there needs to be some kind of amends for that. Which brings up another contentious question: When does it end?