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Quebec was a French colony, they lost a big war, they hate the monarchy and dream of independence from Britain and the English part of Canada.
Quebec was a French colony, they lost a big war, they hate the monarchy and dream of independence from Britain and the English part of Canada.
They try everything so people keep speaking in French. They force kids to go to French schools and reduced the places in English schools. They’ve had teachers and monitors forcing kids to speak in French even during recess. Of course it doesn’t work and kids will speak in whatever language they want, mainly English.
I have a little bit of experience in this. Brazilian living in Quebec. So, my friends almost always spoke in Portuguese with their children, school and TV were in French. After some time, school starts also to teach English and they chose the language of the TV. Now the kids are almost always speaking in English, although the are fluent in Portuguese and, of course, French.
Now, my wife and I hated the TV in French, so we kept it in English. So, my kids had to deal with three languages from the start. They mixed everything up and we screwed up by saying words in all three languages. We speak mainly Portuguese but we would use words that they learned in other languages in those languages instead of in Portuguese. In the end, my kids mix all three languages in a single sentence, which is weird as hell. They’re slowly separating the languages and we too. Now, every sentence we speak is in a single language. Their friends help in a way, because they also speak French in class but English outside (and Quebec’s government hates that).
So, if both of you are Portuguese speakers, I’d only speak Portuguese with them and let the TV and school teach English. They’ll know how to keep things separated.
MSX, some version of MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Windows 3.0, 3.11, Slackware 3.0, Windows 95,98,NT,XP,7, CentOS, and now, MacOS.
At work, Windows XP,7 and 10, and several versions and flavors of RHEL.
Oh god, I was born in 1974 and lived in Brazil until 2007 and I don’t remember all the currencies we had. Soooo many!
You should read about Brazil and our history of hyperinflation. The “old coin” OP is referring was Réis. Then it came the Cruzeiro (comes from cross and a constellation we see in our sky). Then the hyperinflation came and we had too many zeros in our day-to-day currency. So we cut 3 zeros and the currency became Cruzado (crossed). But it didn’t work, so we cut again and it became Cruzeiro Novo and then again Cruzado.
Finally, a team managed to control the inflation by making the economy flow with the dollar. We indexed the prices and salaries to an index called OTN and then BTN and finally this BTN became the Real.
But this GTA already has, no?
Unpopular opinion: I wouldn’t mind some ads in games like GTA, Need for Speed or Watchdogs. You’re driving and there’s a real ad in a billboard or in the radio station you’re listening.
I just received the update and the graphics are much better in the XBox. Everything is much more smooth.
At a Toys R Us, there was a price check scanner that didn’t boot right and the OS was visible. windowsCE.
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It’s not panic. We already have direct connects to AWS and Azure. It’s something we’ve been working on for five years now.
My job estimated our VMware cost will be 10 times more expensive. We’re moving to the cloud as soon as possible.
Black Mirror was good when it was British. The American version is crap.
I can’t say for the US. In Canada I’ve never had to show the card. Just say the number.
Because one must drive the bus.
She’s showing the baby being born. People who say that’s beautiful never actually saw it.
Hey! Friday I went to a place in Montreal that has a working Dr Who table. Montreal Pinball Arcade
It’s actually a store that sells and rents the tables. Some days they open up to everyone, you pay a few bucks for unlimited play.
That feels like the hotel from John Wick series.
For people in Canada, Pix is like Interac with automatic deposit activated.