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A TORONTO BUSINESSSMAN who had been running for Parliament with Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s party made the wrong kind of splash and has been dropped by his party after being caught on video urinating in a coffee mug.
The tinkling tale is that of Jerry Bance, who had been filmed while working as an appliance repairman.
Bance was recorded by the Canadian Broadcast Corp’s hidden cameras in 2012 as he was peeing into a cup and pouring it down the sink while on a service call. The homeowner was in the next room.
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Bance runs an appliance repair company, and the CBC was reporting on home repair companies.
A Conservative party spokesman said today “Mr. Bance is no longer a candidate.” He had been running in a Toronto district in 19 October election.
Bance said in a statement he “deeply regrets” the incident and it doesn’t reflect who he is as person or professional.
Just hours after announcing that Bance was out, the Conservatives said that they had dropped another Toronto parliamentary candidate — Tim Dutaud, who had been seen making prank calls in several videos posted on YouTube, including one where he pretends to have a mental disability.
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@Random_paddy: Equivalent hardware does not mean equivalent performance. There will always be a performance benefit for software designed around a known range of proprietary hardware compared to an Android OS which needs to be able to operate with every sort of ram, processor and core combination under the sun.
So they “do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product”! But they then admit to slowing down apps to increase the life of the product. If that happens to result in their customers being pushed to buy their latest product at their usual vastly inflated price, all the better. They really are such a soulless, money grabbing, tax dodging bunch of creeps. The Apple is rotten to the core.
So are you saying that Apple actually made older phones operate faster with the s/w release? Please explain what they are doing which is the opposite of what they are saying
@David Stapleton: I figured that out when I saw all the global user and tech groups have been requesting this improvement for years, yet it took lawsuits to achieve the offer of one new battery.
@Nick Allen: In the big people’s story above it says €66. Jesus Christ himself even said it was more expensive in the comments. What point are you making in sharing that you’re inquisitive about my “place more expensive” post?
@Lad: A handy thing about Apple devices is their built-in spell checker. Keeps a user from looking too ignorant. Unfortunately it doesn’t help if someone can’t tell the difference between ‘your’ and ‘you’re’ when doing their daily round of trolling …
@Lad: agreed.
If you have a wallet that is too heavy in your pocket. Apple will gladly lighten it and award you with the new iPhone X. You will cordially be invited to join the queue outside for the next iPhone launch at an apple store near you . Launch date next September.
Don’t forget your sleeping bag and and raincoat.
Almost forgot, bring a thick wallet.
Where’s the APPLE CEO in all of this. Burying his head in the sand. Not good news so I take a vacation and someone else can take the flak. Who does the work on replacing battery. If they update to monitor the battery then they control numbers requiring replacement. Why don’t they just replace all batteries
I bought my first iPhone 2 years ago, the 5s and the same thing happened started to go off on its own with 30% charge on it, just shortly after an update, next year the same with the 6 and now I have a 7 and low and behold the same is happening with this after the I updated to the OS install 10, well as if I wasn’t already p!zzed off about the price hike, 32gb minimum memory withdrawn (32gb) on the 8 (it only came out last year ffs, as if that that didn’t tell you enough about their marketing strategy of forcing you to upgrade. What a joke, should have listened to my pal who told me phone technicians have suspected this was going on for some time, never again will I buy an Apple product. Back to Samsung for me. Rotten Apples
Isn’t it fascinating how strongly people feel about technology products, Xbox vs Playstation, PC vs Mac, iPhone vs Android, Spotify vs Apple Music, Samsung vs LG.
It achieves nothing but bolster both companies, yet the fight will continue to go on.
I love my IPhone but even in the new phone , the batteries are so poor. Apple needs to seriously work to improve battery life if it wants to stay ahead.
@IrishLiberal: Everyone wants a new generation of battery technology. They could do a lot more to optimise software performance until that leap happens. Takes a lot of consumer demand to push back and have that available. HTC did this – held out for a few years to sell more phones. Eventually they caught on that people were just not into buying a new one every year or two, that it was a global trend, so HTC released a great upgrade that made the most of the phones we had. Memory and power were optimised so that we didn’t need to change phones. They got it. Now Apple is seeing the light, a bit more slowly. It’s something.
iPhones are definitely a good phone, but……
I’ve always had them, currently have a 6 and considering making the jump to Android, maybe a Sony Xperia ZX1 compact. Just replaced the battery in the 6; you can get it done in any phone repair shop for around €50. That’ll buy me another year at least if I wanted to keep it. The reason I’ll be switching is the eventual battery & charging issues that have happened after a couple of years with this & the last 2 iPhones. Does it happen with Androids? Not as much I’m told, but I don’t know.
@Derek Peyton: That’s my priority too. Not if you shop around for the best battery currently available. mAh (milli-Ampere-hours) is what you need to look for in the phone spec. Go for a replaceable one with mAh over 10,000. Ideally fast-charging too. Maybe buy a spare battery when you buy your phone, so they can’t tell you it’s been discontinued years later. I think we’re all waiting for a leap forward in battery technology TBH. Software only minimises how much power our apps use – the battery life is the current sticking point. It’s like memory – that used to limit our options. Now memory’s cheaper and power is the issue because we all use them more and connect more.
@Derek Peyton: got my first iPhone this year, work phone! Nothing but trouble, turning off, freezing and the charger connection not working and I have to jimmy it a certain way to charge! Plus the fact the phone is just stupid to use. Nothing stands out for me problem wise with the Samsungs and HTC’s Ive had.
And what about those of us who already had to fork out for a replacement battery locally because the iOS11 update completely consumed my battery rendering the phone unusable!? Had no option but to have it replaced locally as Apple were giving me the runaround, apparently waiting for technicians to look at my case. Then the phone battery completely died.
I won’t buy another Apple product now, totally done with them.
I have never updated my IOS version to 11!! Firstly because I didn’t like the new layout and secondly I would wait to see if there are issues with the update!! Glad I didn’t as my iPhone 6s !! Is running with out problems!! While others are complaining their phones have become very slow!! I was surprised to find that people couldn’t roll back to the previous OS!!! I wonder why???
@Julesy: You could update to 11.2 now without any issue, the initial releases had bugs that were worked out. The power management software was introduced a year ago in 10.2.1, so you are most likely currently using it, but you won’t notice anything until your battery starts to naturally degrade.
@Julesy: It’s called backward compatibility. Newer software companies ignore it to push people to upgrade and spend more. If you force upgrades, you can get companies to buy newer faster hardware too. Eventually they have to lease it instead of buying.
@Julesy: don’t do it!!! The iOS11 update totally fried my battery. Hadn’t an issue with it prior to the update. Had to have it replaced as the phone wouldn’t hold charge even when connected to the charger!
It’s never fails to amaze me that android users will actually take time out of their day to comment on articles related to Apple. Bizarre but funny to see them foaming at the mouth.
The same people all tricked by the clever marketing of Samsung , HTC and Huawei etc believing that filler specs on paper equals a great user experience actually call iPhone users sheep haha!! A phone can have the best camera, screen and Memory but it’s always bogged by the utterly atrocious android OS . How people can pay hundreds of euro for phone running a generic OS across brands is beyond me. By at least it’s water proof :)
But giving you a new battery at a discounted price doesn’t fix the slow down software!
It should be , new software released to allow old phones run at normal speed + new discounted battery as an apology
My 5s is only a year old since last august & now keeps shutting down even if the battery is 40% been told its a software issue with apple which is costly to fix.. turned me right off Apple products & now looking to get a good Android that doesn’t cost an arm & a leg…
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