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Ford, his full name Douglas Robert Ford Jr. MPP (born November 20, 1964) is a Canadian politician and businessman who has served as the 26th and current premier of Ontario since June 2018 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party since March 2018.

Unfortunately he's seems to be the center of some questionable decisions that favour big corporations as opposed to the people of Ontario.

Some items include:

Trying to change zoning on protected green belt land to allow developers to build single family home subdivisions. The land was purchased by developers in anticipation to the change in zoning.

Releasing a liquor map to help individuals find alcohol, while a liquor stike was happening (somewhat a slap in the face for union workers TBH). This coincided with his push to get liquor into convince stores and corner stores while at the same time breaking a contract that would have expired in two years costing tax payers millions.

Killing a proposed recycling programs that would benefit the people of Ontario by making stores responsible to accept back recyclable materials. This program was ment to shift the cost of recycling from tax payers to corporations and business in a effort to push them to limit the amount of packaging used for products. The program was to function very similar to the Ontario Beer Store that takes back cans and glass bottles. (Unfortunately the future of the beer store recycling program is also up in the air)

Potential covering up of the completion schedule for new transite lines that were scheduled to be completed 2020.

The sudden shutdown of the Ontario Science Center due to a structural report stating a small section of roof might collapse within one of the buildings. The report presented no immediate danger but press conferences and Ford himself called the building a death trap. Many schools roofs in Ontario were built in the same way and are nearing end of life, no action or plan has been put forward.

The Ontario Place being leased and redeveloped into a luxury spa. This also coincided with the Ontario Science Center being moved to Ontario Place. The reasoning for this is that the Ford Government is contractually obligated to build a mega parking garage for the luxury spa. To justify the building of the garage it is to be shared between the new location for the Ontario Science Center and the Spa.

If you were the only person in a vehicle on the roadway stopped by a signaled intersection its probably very inconvenient for you, and you may ask for the signal to be removed as its a barrier.

Now if you add in all the other vehicle traffic that uses that roadway with you, that signal now serves a very specific purpose to make your commute more efficient and safe. Without that signal, that exact same intersection would now be completely gridlocked with probably a few collisions, meaning you would get no where quick.

That same light is also a type of traffic calming as it slows vehicle traffic to make the roadway safer for all road users, this includes pedestrians, cycalists and motorists.

Jokes on you, in most cases I deploy in 2-3 seconds.

And this is exactly why its so important to have protected and raised cycling paths to prevent altercations between the different modes of transportation.

This is also the exact same reason we have pedestrian sidewalks separated from vehicle traffic to prevent altercation such as this, and its why things like bollards, planters, curbs, and trees are so important between roadways and pedestrian zones to minimise stress both ways.

Safer roadways are not where we remove barriers for cars, but put up barriers to make traffic flow more efficiently and effectively.

ie. Barriers are things like signaled intersections, crosswalks, curbs, curb extensions, bollards, painted lanes, raised sidewalks, raised cycling paths, planters.

If you were the only person in a vehicle on the road stopped by a signaled intersection its probably very inconvenient for you, and you may ask for the signal to be removed as its a barrier. But if you add in the other vehicle traffic that uses the road with you, that signal now serves a very specific purpose to make your commute more efficient and safe. Without that signal, that exact same intersection would now be completely gridlocked with probably a few collisions, meaning you would get no where quick.

Very nice! Where I'm at they would not even think about putting walking paths on a bridge for a tram, some odd mentality about it being "unsafe" or something. Meanwhile sidewalks are placed on bridges with highspeed vehicle traveling inches away from people without any buffer zones, and nobody panics.

Could these have been done a lot better with greater design intent? Absolutely! Here are some great examples from a neighbourhood in Vienna.

Safer and more plessent streets (and roads) are about controlling the flow of traffic. Creating barriers is what makes roadways more efficent, its not about removing all barriers.

Could these have been done a lot better with greater design intent? Absolutely! Here are some great examples from a neighbourhood in Vienna.

Safer and more plessent streets (and roads) are about controlling the flow of traffic. Creating barriers is what makes roadways more efficent, its not about removing all barriers.

Look into Rufus, it will help you create a bootable USB with windows 11 and you can use it to do a upgrade or clean install from your windows 10 installation (clean install preferred IMO), it will even help bypass the hardware requirements and you can even remove the email account and use a local account. Make sure to use or write down your windows 10 activation/license for a clean install.

https://rufus.ie/en/

Guide: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-install-windows-11-the-way-you-want-and-bypass-microsofts-restrictions/

That being said you could potentially still run the old wondows OS, but as time goes on new exploits could be found that can compromise the OS. If its behind a firewall such as your router its safer, but there is still the possibility of it being infected way off into the future.

Here is a video of windows XP running on a PC connected directly to the internet with no firewall. Its infected almost instantaneously. (Dont try this at home).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uSVVCmOH5w

Can I get this shipped to my house? Or do I need Amazon Prime?

The one upside to a dedicated streaming box is the guaranteed security updates.

Netflix for example may choose to support the app on your fire stick or nvidia shield for a longer time then on a specific TV.

I do appreciat the fact that sony TVs have native android, the TV menues are also more intuative IMO

Though regardless of the TVs OS, its best to not plug a TV directly into the internet. If you can afford it, get a dedicated android box, fire stick, or any other smart dongle you can afford.

TVs, your kitchen fridge, or even cars now seem to be a privacy nightmare. Updates also dont happen often enough or the manufacture chooses to drop support leaving consumers home networks at risk.

Looked like Toronto to me too. Very similar design to the Gardiner Expressway going through downtown Toronto between the waterfront and CN Tower.