this won't withstand a court challenge, and if it does it will just increase illegal crossings, or lead to people coming here first. that is, this is more likely to decrease migration to the united states than to canada. it may even increase migration to canada...

we're not going to resolve this by changing laws, or signing agreements with the americans, or any kind of legal tactic. this isn't a legal issue, and it doesn't have a legal solution. this is a standard approach by the liberals nowadays, though, this idea that you can fix big, global systemic problems by changing the rules locally, or by creating market incentives or something. it's ultimately designed for the electoral reality in quebec rather than to actually address anything substantive.

we have four serious options here:

1) eliminate the push factors. we can't do that alone, we need the united nations, and we need the united states.
2) address the pull factors. we could alter the rhetoric a little, and if this legislation dos anything it is this, but this is not desirable, in totality. we don't want to be a poor country, and we don't want to be too harsh to legitimate refugees. so, it's a matter of degree, and not really the right answer.
3) ignore the push or pull factors and just build a wall - figuratively if not literally. this would require a major overhaul in the laws, as well as major changes in enforcement. it may be an inevitability, even if it gets gasps and dropped jaws.
4) accept it, and build the infrastructure to accommodate for it.

i'd like to see some combination of all of these things, with the major focus on 1 & 4, accepting we can't do it alone. we could use a little more security at the border - it's wide open. we could be a little more honest in the rhetoric about what the laws here actually are. but, so long as we live with these huge global disparities in wealth, we're going to have to accept that people are going to show up at the door and want to come in - and we should make some attempt to make some room. what we can't keep doing is letting them camp out at olympic stadium, or allowing toronto's shelter capacity to collapse and then shrug it off.

this response is indicative of the government's continuing lack of vision about much of anything.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-defends-changes-to-asylum-laws-that-have-refugee-workers-alarmed-1.4373835

the problem i'm going to run into in building android from scratch is the build environment. i could use the chromebook with an external drive, but it's going to take a long time to do it, and it's not really what the device is for - it's a 1.5 ghz dual core with 4 gb of ram and 16 gb of ssd storage space on hand.

the access point and main pc are both running windows, and both have 4 gb of ram.

the broken laptop will eventually be a better choice, but i'm not planning on loading linux on it. unless maybe i am. i dunno.

the new pc, still unbuilt, is probably the better choice for the task. it's an excuse to set up a linux partition, actually.

but, i don't want to spend the time on this right now. eventually.

so, i'm going to flash it with a custom rom from the chromebook for just right now. i know - it's not what i want to do, but the process to do what i want to do is just too time consuming, for right now, considering that i'm not expecting to actually use the device very often, and the real point of this is just to get the proprietary software off of it so it stops spying on me.

so, i had a think about this.

i don't want to waste time setting up the phone. but, i need to get a clean rom in there. so, let's focus on the shortest path.

if i compile something from source, the issue is going to be with drivers. but, that might not so bad. what i mean is that i might not really want these devices working, anyways. so, maybe the camera won't work; it's just there to spy on me, and just using resources and space. i'm not looking for this swiss army device, but rather more literally just looking for a phone. so, all it has to do is be able to run the voip app over wifi or bluetooth. i can always reflash it later if i have some paradigm shift in function, but i don't expect that to actually happen.

if i can't get this to work quickly, the second best thing would be to install a staunchly minimalist custom rom. i would be opening myself up to being spied on by the third party, so i'd have to be vigilant and adjust to new information as it appears.

i'm never going to trust the market.

but, i'm actually still tired.

i have an appointment at the beginning of may, and i'm going to make another pitch for removing the testicles, as i think this is the root of the problem - whether my body is reacting to the anti-androgens, or i'm overloading my liver with them, i think that the message that i'm getting is that this is unsustainable, that i need to get them out, asap. i think things are stable enough to try and plan around it, even if i do have to go toronto to get it done.

and, why am i so tired all of the time?

fuck.

the best option is to perhaps just put it back on the shelf and not use it at all.

this situation makes no sense to me.

i'm trying to get rid of an image that was installed on the device by a manufacturer i don't trust, and the only solutions that exist are to download software from independent groups that i don't trust.

the whole point is that i want a clean image that has not been altered by third parties, but i have to start by downloading a third party recovery software, and then find the least bad third party mod, made specifically for the device, and most likely by the people i'm trying to avoid. because who else uploads custom mods to the internet?

even if i can deal with the recovery software being third party, and i don't appear to have a choice, you'd think it would be very easy to find a simple vanilla android mod. apparently not.

and, this is crazy, really. i own this device, but i have no control over it.

i guess i'm down to two choices, then - i could see if i can download a pixel or nexus mod and find a way to trick it into working on this device or i could build my own from source. but, can i get open source drivers?

see, this is why it took me years to bother with this - what a useless device.

hrmmn.

except that doesn't exist, which is baffling.

why can't i just go to the android site and download a generic version of the operating system?

i'm sure there's a workaround...

ok, so i can read up on these things, but it doesn't really mean anything to me.

i should start with the stock option and work from there....

ok, so this seems to be a little different than i thought - and you'll excuse my ignorance about this, even if my use of language demonstrates the excuse isn't justified. i should really know far more about these walky-talkies that the kids are using than i actually do.

one way to remove the package would be to root in and take it out, which is the expected way to do it, and would keep the phone's proprietary software, but i intended from the start to wipe it right down. i could start talking about how you don't really know that it's clean until you format it, but that's actually secondary - i don't want the proprietary software, anyways. and, i guess this is where things get conceptually messy for somebody that has literally only held a smartphone in their hands a handful of times.

maybe it was naive, but i actually thought that the thing installed directly, and i'd be able to format and reinstall. so, i was trying to figure out how to find an android install disk on what? sd?

it turns out that it's more like flashing a bios, and that you kind of serial in over usb, like i did with the bus pirate in early 2014. so, you just need the right software and the right rom. easy. in theory.

except for the proprietary bit...

i'm going to spend some time reading up on custom roms just to try and figure out what they are, as maybe i'll find a rom that is perfectly suited. but, i'm an old nerd; i want to build my own device from the bottom up. just give me the boot loader, and let me build the rest myself.

as such, i expect to end up going with stock android and building up what i need from there, which is not going to be much at all. i don't want any passwords or personal data stored on this thing - it's a phone, and i don't expect to use it as much more than one. i just want it to be fast, spartan and safe.

i accidentally left it on overnight. it's charging. so, let's hope i can get the rom flashed by the afternoon.

what?

it was a harrison ford movie.

and, i'm going to call on benjamin netanyahu to resign, for the sake of the planet.

the region is in for a very turbulent four years, if he doesn't.

i don't care much about hockey - i never even learned to skate - but it would be nice to find a way to get the ark back from the philistines, without cheering for toronto or calgary.

so, go jets.

i guess.

can-a-duh! can-a-duh!