This struck me as well. Flash's video format, .flv was transparent out of the box and we used to do a lot of fun things with video floating over flash things.
When flash met it's untimely death, the advertising creatives that I worked spent 10 years asking for solutions that involved transparent video in html; we had to tell them no.
I hadn't really considered that browser blend modes have turned that party back on.
While I mostly agree with you, my Canadian Mechanical Engineer father will gladly express his concern.
I've never been able to use the phrase "software engineer", despite having 20+ years of software experience because I was raised to believe that Engineers have silver rings, engineering degrees and professional standing.
Agreed - especially when you consider the provincial and federal tax dollars needed to prop up the various privacy commissions and launch an investigation like this one.
Github is also very vulnerable on price if you have the need for a lot of small, private repos. If Amazon charges on storage (like they do with S3) instead of the number of repos, it will make this a compelling alternative for a lot of businesses.
But the only reason that half of the Canadian music we all know and love exists at all is because of the CanCon laws that regulate Canadian radio. FM and AM is forced to play a high percentage of Canadian music.
The other argument here is that 90% of everything (including and perhaps especially American TV) is crap. Because Canada makes less of everything, there is less attractive content than the US. That said, there is also less crap content but no one cares about that stat.
There are some Canadian winners out there if you look for them.