*Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan proposed a bill to cut the military budget by $100 Billion.

Australians: demand to be allowed to refuse to have your personal medical records stored in a state-wide database.

*Car pollution kills more Australians than crashes, new research finds.* Indeed, pollution seems to kill 10 times as many as crashes.

It would be interesting to see a comparison based on the total number of years of life lost to each cause.

I am also curious about similar comparisons for other countries, in particular the US.

Google is considering how to respond to a Canadian bill that would require Google and other platforms to negotiate deals with Canadian publishers for permission to retransmit their articles. One possible approach would be to refuse to carry the articles covered by this law. Google has decided to show Canadians what that would feel like, by making all those articles unavailable to some Canadian users.

I have no opinion on whether this law would do good or harm. If it only restricts giant companies such as Google, I don't see anything outrageous about it.

Ms Scaffidi's comment uses misleading words. The law does not require Google to do anything for the journalists who write news articles Google retransmits. Rather, it requires Google to make a deal with the news publishers that the journalists submit articles to. That may wall entail paying those publishers more money, but how much of that would trickle down to human journalists is a question to be investigated.

If Canada dropped the trickle-down plans and changed this law to directly support individual journalists, not only news businesses, I would support it more.

Please don't refer to these news articles as "content" -- that term disparages all works of writing and art.

A new "luxury" car will come equipped to load various nonfree software cr…apps.

Some of them will distract the driver by showing video. Don't use that while the car is moving!

Since the car has a camera that faces the people in the car, and it is controlled by nonfree software, I expect that sooner or later the car's delivered software will make use of that against those people's interests and will, and they will be unable to stop it.