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jbeck5 said:
Vehicles is number 2 and computers number 3, yet I can't think of any Canadian owned company that's a major player in the internation automotive industry, or a top tech company.

I actually can't think of a single Canadian car company...yet I can name multiple Swedish car companies for example...or Australian...both smaller countries...
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Canada sacrificed it's car companies to ensure American car companies would build some of their vehicles here. Australia and Sweden aren't next door to the birthplace of the modern automobile so they're not a good comparison to Canada. But Canada does have companies that produce vehicles. They produce buses instead of cars.
 
maclean said:
I don't see any of that stuff, sponsored links either. You should be able to turn it off. Pretty sure uBlock blocks it in my case.

As for your latter question, they have done a lot of work to be careful around things like that. I don't say this to promote AI, but like, you're not the first person that's occurred to, they have put failsafes in place for exactly things like that. Like, five, six years ago that was an issue
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You need to watch CNN more. They have spent a great on time on AI.

In the end, it is code. Simple code. Can be manipulated by clever writers. We as a society, can be easy to manipulate. Frighteningly ignorant of much around us. And so, very susceptible to manipulation.

The AI world is creating a dangerous world. And doing so in all sorts of areas. Not just information/mis-information. But manipulation of reality.

Bruce Willis did a movie some 20 years ago, People sat at home in machines and did not go out. Their near perfect selves in AI generated cyberspace interacted. Physically perfect in all ways. Now the movie had large gaps in logic. Like how did they eat? And work and so on.. But, the message should not be lost.

Once you introduce AI, you introduce a fakeness to society and we are seeing this in ways people have not caught onto yet... and you begin to introduce manipulation and herding. And segregation, xenophobe, etc.

I fear for society's future.

I watch Love B Volleyball.. A new league, 6 teams in the American Heartland.

It is nothing more than a beauty pageant. Clearly, the criteria for making a team is your looks. And the players understand this. All you see is size 2, 4 and 6. Makeup. Jewelry. Manicured nails.. Perfect smiles. Perfect teeth.

What is behind that? AI, Does anyone post a picture that has not been AI enhanced. Or a short video that has not been? Does anyone air a commercial that has not been AI enhanced? Cars driving through mud, yet glistening. Shining.

Once we create this society.. we are finished? think of this league and think of some female who is a fantastic player, but falls short in her looks!

We are slowly but surely heading to the world that Bruce Willis Depicted. Or the world in the movie Elysium (Mat Damon.. watch it, it is great).

Dangerous path, we are heading.
 
milkbag said:
What if I just want a beer
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Sadly, you will discover that I cannot feed you, or imbibe you.

If you come over, be prepared to eat Lentils with rice and pasta and a dab of Peanut butter to get a complete protein. Water to drink. A cold house. Bikes to ride. TV to watch. A garden that needs work.

Today is laundry day, you can help me fold... Ohh shit, I need to empty the dryer and put in the rest of the bedding.

Some 30 plants.. Most have begun their spring bloom... I have successfully planted a clementine seed. a 3" shoot is alive and well. No luck in getting the lemon trees to bear fruit. The avocado trees are sickly looking, not growing and have been a 7 year misadventure.
some 30 tomato shoots. None will truly bear fruit. They are 3rd generation seeds and do not have any hormones added. So they are slowly but surely resorting back to their native self.. We humans are eating chemicals.

If you are willing to hold a ladder, I need to install a new vent cover on the upstairs bathroom exhaust fan.. I am frightened to death of the noise. I think a bird has nested. I hope.. If a damn squirrel, eeekk.. You can help me raccoon proof my back yard...a family has made it home. They destroy everything.

If you are handy, a fence that needs repair.

How are you ta concrete parging? All I get is a mess.

We can walk around the neighborhood and as two middle aged men, we can scare the octogenarians and nonagenarians to death. Man, have the Baby Boomers, all of whom had no problems dropping their under-ware and sleep with anyone or anything that moved, suddenly became paranode/scary cats.

I am positive I can get a few dozen of them to faint from freight by simply looking in their direction for longer than 5 seconds. And it is a blast to walk and watch them take giant loops to go around. One lady and her dog, got off the side walk, walked on the street and back on. When she was parallel to me, I said "good morning". Damn near killed her of a heart attack.

If I ever want to really send them into a frenzy, al I have to do is walk towards them and then put my hand in my pocket... Someday, one or two are going of a heart attack.

I love suburbia..bigots, racists, scary cats, selfish bastards, xenophobes. And that is their good qualities.
 
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Cosmix said:
I remember wearing the same clothes: hand-me-downs.

We did not own a car until the mid-1950s as they were very expensive at the salaries earned then.

I think the mass production of products has reduced the cost and prices. Our market is not large enough to achieve the "mass" required to get the costs down for many products. We also do not have the intellectual property rights for many products that were developed elsewhere.
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Beech said:
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Milkbag..

Others live in fear. I don't.

Anyone who wants to drop in, can do so..

If his intent is ill will, one of two things will happen. Either he or I will pay a real severe price.

I accept the consequences if I am the victim.. Does he?
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Do you own a sword?
 
Masked said:
Canada sacrificed it's car companies to ensure American car companies would build some of their vehicles here. Australia and Sweden aren't next door to the birthplace of the modern automobile so they're not a good comparison to Canada. But Canada does have companies that produce vehicles. They produce buses instead of cars.
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Also Bombardier. Too bad about cars though. Would be cool to have 1 car company.

Even south korea, with a population close enough to us, has started companies in more modern times (Kia and Hyundai...with Hyundai owning Kia)
 
Cosmix said:
There have been various car companies building cars in Canada. Many are subsidiaries of foreign companies.

There was one in New Brunswick once upon a time:

en.wikipedia.org

Bricklin SV-1 - Wikipedia

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My dad tells me all about the bricklin lol was it actually affordable and sold? Never seen one. Sounds like a mythical car lol or a prototype that never made it to market...
 
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bicboi64 said:
Goldendoodle who just turned 11 this week. He still has puppy energy but is super stubborn. He's my everything, but the little potato needs to stop giving me a hard time when I have to wash his paws.

Also needs to stop trying to chase raccoons and opossums because he's losing that fight.
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Our little guy knows the drill, hand over the paws one by one or mama bear is going to $hit.
 
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Masked said:
They had a white one at the Museum of Science and Technology.
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I wonder why it didn't do better....price was equivalent to 35-45k today and came with a V8 and Gullwing doors... Why didn't our parents buy these things up???
 
jbeck5 said:
My dad tells me all about the bricklin lol was it actually affordable and sold? Never seen one. Sounds like a mythical car lol or a prototype that never made it to market...
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I lived in New Brunswick at the time. A few were made and sold.
 
jbeck5 said:
My dad tells me all about the bricklin lol was it actually affordable and sold? Never seen one. Sounds like a mythical car lol or a prototype that never made it to market...
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The article I identified says "Production of the SV-1 ended with just under 3,000 cars built. An estimated 1,700 Bricklins were surviving as of 2012."

I was teaching in Fredericton around that time. Met Premier Dick Hatfield at the Cultural Ball. Never met Bricklin. :)
 
jbeck5 said:
I wonder why it didn't do better....price was equivalent to 35-45k today and came with a V8 and Gullwing doors... Why didn't our parents buy these things up???
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I was only earning $12,000 a year at that time. I drove a 1968 Buick GS400 then.
 
Cosmix said:
I was only earning $12,000 a year at that time. I drove a 1968 Buick GS400 then.
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They ranged from $7,500-9,800 in 1974-76.

If you had average salary, that's like the average salary being $65,000 today, and the bricklin costing 40-45k.

Good luck finding a new V8 sportcars with Gullwing doors for that price today lol
 
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jbeck5 said:
They ranged from $7,500-9,800 in 1974-76.

If you had average salary, that's like the average salary being $65,000 today, and the bricklin costing 40-45k.

Good luck finding a new V8 sportcars with Gullwing doors for that price today lol
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Which was about double, the cost of most new cars then.
New someone that had a TVR with gullwing doors, had fun driving around in that.
 
When I bought my 1968 Buick GS400 in about July 1971, it cost about $1,000. I could have purchased a 1971 Pontiac GTO for about $2,200 back then. The difference was a bit too much for me as my plan was to work for one year and head back to University. I was earning $8,000 per year then.
 
Cosmix said:
When I bought my 1968 Buick GS400 in about July 1971, it cost about $1,000. I could have purchased a 1971 Pontiac GTO for about $2,200 back then. The difference was a bit too much for me as my plan was to work for one year and head back to University. I was earning $8,000 per year then.
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I almost bought a ‘69 Judge convertible back in the day, came so close, but if bought that , would have wanted a winter car, so even more money.
ummed and ahhhed, for a week, then decided to pull the trigger, and it was sold. 😒
 
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Golden_Jet said:
I almost bought a ‘69 Judge convertible back in the day, came so close, but if bought that , would have wanted a winter car, so even more money.
ummed and ahhhed, for a week, then decided to pull the trigger, and it was sold. 😒
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I needed a winter car living in Winnipeg.
 
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If our car factories are at risk of closing, wouldn't it make sense for another company to take them over? Can they repurpose the factories somehow to make different parts for presumably a different car company? Can the government step in and subsidize the creation of a Canadian company that could make use of the factories at risk? Isn't this an opportunity to create a new non-Chinese electric car company to rival Tesla and Polestar? Or is it too risky and can't compete?
 
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Cosmix said:
My 1968 Buick GS 400 looked exactly like this with a black vinyl roof:

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Our first family car was a 1978 Ford Thunderbird

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