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By September 17, the Polish military has taken massive losses but it was still fighting. Numerous strongpoints were still holding on, units from the Soviet border were moved west and the Polish government took residence in east near the Romanian border. The Germans were severely bloodied and...

Any "annexation" of Canada that does not include full citizenship to all Canadians, is going to end really badly for everyone involved. Even giving all Canadians full US citizenship right away would be very unlikely to turn it into anything but a quagmire. It's just that treating Canadians as...

In Canada we are really confused by what is going on. There was this big lead up to the tariff war. Trump seemed so set on going that way and everyone was preparing ( I have clients who sell to the US and others who buy and all were scrambling). Then two days later, it is all suspended after...

In Canada, the provincial parties tend to be independent from the national ones. The Federal Conservatives like to portray the Canadian economy as weak so the Liberals look bad. Ford on the other hand is portraying the economy as good because it makes him loot better with Ontario voters. So...

Right now Doug Ford, the right-wing Conservative Premier of Ontario is pretty much the most vocally anti-Trump of the major Canadian politicians. Ontario has an election coming up so Ford (a very savvy politician) is pretty much betting his political future on the fact that this represents the...

As a Canadian, I had no real say in any of this but it appears that America is all set to start a trade war starting tomorrow so the fallout is spreading.

Yes. We are finally getting Clipyy 2.0. :)

Poland's agricultural sector has a huge number of small family farms. These farms are extremely senisitive to price fluctuations and there is great fear that they will go under and be bought by huge food conglomerates. Polish farmers are very politically active and can have great influence in...

My maternal grandfather would have been a few kilometers away when that picture was taken. He was a Holocaust survivor who joined the Red Army to fight the Germans. At the same time, my paternal grandparents were in Kazakhstan after the Soviets forcefully deported then from eastern Poland in...

Most stuff was up and running by Saturday morning though my internet service has been sluggish. My workplace was not affected since we do not use Rogers but many of our clients were. Fortunately the clients who rely on an online presence were with Bell so were not affected. I had to make...

Blah. If you really want to appease the Russians, just give them Alaska, Texas and Florida.

After World War I, right after Poland regained its independence, there was a strong movement to restore a "greater Poland" similar to the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Pilsudski was a believer in this idea. It quickly ran into the problem that the Lithuanian;s and Ukrainians saw that it...

I think we are trying to make the same point. A standard NFT gives its "owner" no rights in the real world. Green's case is special because actual legal rights were assigned to him. The legal foundation of this depends on whether Green was given the full copyright or a limited license. If...

Common law pretty much holds that transfers of property should be final and the new owner should have full rights to do with the property what he/she wants. The legal document that transfers the property could include covenants that govern how the property has to be handled after it is...

"Code is law" goes against fundamental elements of modern western contract law which generally requires specific consent for valid transactions to take place. You would need serious legal changes before courts would accept it as enforceable. Green is giving up very basic legal rights in order...