They do in my town. We have an LCBO outlet in a local corner store. They also sell pizza, rent movies, and have quite a few groceries. So you can get beer, pizza, a movie, and the stuff to put in a sandwich.
So she doesn't actually have to pay the money? When I worked in fast food, if our till was short by $1 or more, we had to pay the difference or have it take out of our paycheque.
Most of the time we would count our own register but at closing time, the manager would do it. Considering some of the managers who would count the money were mathematically challenged, I found that two or three recounts were usually a good idea.
If you were given a $50 or $100 bill, you had to get a manager to approve it (we stopped taking $100 bills after $10 and $20 counterfit bills were circulating). If you were given a $200 bill, I believe you were allowed to punch the customer in the head. If you accepted the $200 bill, I believe the manager was allowed to punch you in the head and then take it out of your paycheque.
Heh. Temporary. Yeah, that's it. Just cause your constitution says temporary doesn't mean Disney can't make temporary mean "really friggin long, so friggin long that only an entity that can live hundreds of years can take advantage of it"
Looking at the netfile website most of the software available is free for those with a modest or low income. If you have more than a modest income, don't be complaining about a $30 piece of software. Paper filing and, as you said, telephone filing are free.
Then, TurboTax haggled me to use Intuit's electronic filing service, against for a premium cost
Your government doesn't have a free e-filing service? Every tax program in Canada will generate a.tax file which you can then upload to the government's site. The file is just a comma seperated file so any spreadsheet program should be able to read it. Something like 70% of the people in my area e-filed rather than mailing last year. I didn't realize the US was so far behind that you need a specialized service to do this.
There is an anti-cheat program out there for counterstrike that detects when a person's aim is too good. I believe it checks the amount of time you spend with your gun aimed at other players vs time spent aimed away from players. If your aim is too good, it warns you and everyone else in the game.
The problem is that some players who don't use aimbots are good enough that it sets off the alarm for really good players. How do you tell the difference between those who are cheating and those who are just that good?
In spectator mode, a lot of cheaters are pretty easy to catch, but who wants to spend their time spectating when they could be playing?
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Because it's a fucking idea. If I came up with the idea of selling beer with cereal and no one had done that, should I be able to patent the idea of selling beer with cereal?
Could these same people be employed to build stuff that doesn't blow other shit up? Why not build launching systems that will send people and equipment to space? They're not much different from missiles. Does the US really need to be able to kill everyone on the planet 100x over rather than 50x over?
Not to be nitpicky, but a lot of people in Ontario and Quebec do not have access to any DSL. There are still quite a few exchanges which haven't been upgraded. I'm about 700 metres (by road) from my local Bell building but there's no DSL here yet nor do I expect it anytime soon. Thankfully we do have Rogers Hi-spee...err half-speed cable (1.5/192, formerly 3/384)
One question: Isn't Canada also one country that charges a tax on CD-Rs allegedly to pay back record companies for MP3 trading? Which leads to independent artists are being taxed for doing their own records instead of playing the record contract game.
In theory, even independent artists should get some money from the CPCC (the organization which collects and distributes the levy). More info on exactly how this is distributed can be found at cpcc.ca
Last I checked, they have yet to give one cent to the writers, performers, or publishers.
There is one other bad thing about rebates from a consumer's point of view: you pay sales tax on the non-discounted price of the item.
No kidding. Let's say an item is $200 but it's $100 after rebate. Wow, what a great deal! Until you add in the tax at least. PST (provincial sales tax) is 8% and GST (goods and services tax) is 7%. $200 * 1.15 = $230. Wait 6-8 weeks and that drops to $130. So that $100 after rebate item is $130. Joy.
Pretty much. I do remember some people complaining that the phone lines were jammed on the last day you could vote so a lot of people probably didn't get through. Municipal governments really aren't all that powerful. There are a few cities but any city under about 50000 doesn't really have a whole lot to do.
Wait a minute, what kind of screwed up radio stations are you listening to that don't play songs all the way through without interruption? Do they stop for a commercial in the middle or something? Where I live, the worst stations do to a song is censor out the "bad words". Some stations don't even do that.
I guess you'll be happy to know that they're raising the levy from 21 cents/CDR to 59 cents/CDR. At the current rate, $10.50 of that $16 is the levy. At the new rate, $29.50 of that $16 will be the levy. Hmmm, I think the price might go up when the levy goes up.
Silly americans. What kind of a madman decided that a ballot punching machine was needed along with such weird ballots?
The federal ballot in Canada is very simple. Each name (along with party affiliation) is listed on their own line. Next to the name is a sizeable circle. To vote for that person, you mark an X in the circle with a pencil. Ballots are counted by hand. Hanging chads do not exist. Recounts are simple.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I do have the right to copy the CD when I have it out. I can also tape music off a radio or borrow a friend's CD and copy it. Legally. This is all covered under the Canadian Copyright Act, Section 8. It's also the reason CDRs cost 2-3x what they should.
Many libraries have music and video collections that you can borrow. In fact, if I borrow a CD from a library, copy it for my personal use, and return the CD, I have not broken the law (in this country). Too bad there's a levy on the CDR that I'd copy it to.
Probably why my cable ISP blocks out the ports network shares use. Security through user stupidity, complaining, and ultimately blocking ports. I want to print annoying messages on my neighbour's printers.
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You're perfectly willing to pay for it, you just don't want to pay them as much as they're asking for it
Or you can't legally pay for it because of your country's content laws forbid Canadians from buying the service.
They do in my town. We have an LCBO outlet in a local corner store. They also sell pizza, rent movies, and have quite a few groceries. So you can get beer, pizza, a movie, and the stuff to put in a sandwich.
So she doesn't actually have to pay the money? When I worked in fast food, if our till was short by $1 or more, we had to pay the difference or have it take out of our paycheque.
Most of the time we would count our own register but at closing time, the manager would do it. Considering some of the managers who would count the money were mathematically challenged, I found that two or three recounts were usually a good idea.
If you were given a $50 or $100 bill, you had to get a manager to approve it (we stopped taking $100 bills after $10 and $20 counterfit bills were circulating). If you were given a $200 bill, I believe you were allowed to punch the customer in the head. If you accepted the $200 bill, I believe the manager was allowed to punch you in the head and then take it out of your paycheque.
Heh. Temporary. Yeah, that's it. Just cause your constitution says temporary doesn't mean Disney can't make temporary mean "really friggin long, so friggin long that only an entity that can live hundreds of years can take advantage of it"
Looking at the netfile website most of the software available is free for those with a modest or low income. If you have more than a modest income, don't be complaining about a $30 piece of software. Paper filing and, as you said, telephone filing are free.
Then, TurboTax haggled me to use Intuit's electronic filing service, against for a premium cost
.tax file which you can then upload to the government's site. The file is just a comma seperated file so any spreadsheet program should be able to read it. Something like 70% of the people in my area e-filed rather than mailing last year. I didn't realize the US was so far behind that you need a specialized service to do this.
Your government doesn't have a free e-filing service? Every tax program in Canada will generate a
There is an anti-cheat program out there for counterstrike that detects when a person's aim is too good. I believe it checks the amount of time you spend with your gun aimed at other players vs time spent aimed away from players. If your aim is too good, it warns you and everyone else in the game.
The problem is that some players who don't use aimbots are good enough that it sets off the alarm for really good players. How do you tell the difference between those who are cheating and those who are just that good?
In spectator mode, a lot of cheaters are pretty easy to catch, but who wants to spend their time spectating when they could be playing?
An X or checkmark would also be acceptable.
Because it's a fucking idea. If I came up with the idea of selling beer with cereal and no one had done that, should I be able to patent the idea of selling beer with cereal?
Could these same people be employed to build stuff that doesn't blow other shit up? Why not build launching systems that will send people and equipment to space? They're not much different from missiles. Does the US really need to be able to kill everyone on the planet 100x over rather than 50x over?
Not to be nitpicky, but a lot of people in Ontario and Quebec do not have access to any DSL. There are still quite a few exchanges which haven't been upgraded. I'm about 700 metres (by road) from my local Bell building but there's no DSL here yet nor do I expect it anytime soon. Thankfully we do have Rogers Hi-spee...err half-speed cable (1.5/192, formerly 3/384)
One question: Isn't Canada also one country that charges a tax on CD-Rs allegedly to pay back record companies for MP3 trading? Which leads to independent artists are being taxed for doing their own records instead of playing the record contract game.
In theory, even independent artists should get some money from the CPCC (the organization which collects and distributes the levy). More info on exactly how this is distributed can be found at cpcc.ca
Last I checked, they have yet to give one cent to the writers, performers, or publishers.
There is one other bad thing about rebates from a consumer's point of view: you pay sales tax on the non-discounted price of the item.
No kidding. Let's say an item is $200 but it's $100 after rebate. Wow, what a great deal! Until you add in the tax at least. PST (provincial sales tax) is 8% and GST (goods and services tax) is 7%. $200 * 1.15 = $230. Wait 6-8 weeks and that drops to $130. So that $100 after rebate item is $130. Joy.
Pretty much. I do remember some people complaining that the phone lines were jammed on the last day you could vote so a lot of people probably didn't get through. Municipal governments really aren't all that powerful. There are a few cities but any city under about 50000 doesn't really have a whole lot to do.
Not in Michigan, but the last municipal election in Ontario was done by phone.
Wait a minute, what kind of screwed up radio stations are you listening to that don't play songs all the way through without interruption? Do they stop for a commercial in the middle or something? Where I live, the worst stations do to a song is censor out the "bad words". Some stations don't even do that.
I guess you'll be happy to know that they're raising the levy from 21 cents/CDR to 59 cents/CDR. At the current rate, $10.50 of that $16 is the levy. At the new rate, $29.50 of that $16 will be the levy. Hmmm, I think the price might go up when the levy goes up.
Silly americans. What kind of a madman decided that a ballot punching machine was needed along with such weird ballots?
The federal ballot in Canada is very simple. Each name (along with party affiliation) is listed on their own line. Next to the name is a sizeable circle. To vote for that person, you mark an X in the circle with a pencil. Ballots are counted by hand. Hanging chads do not exist. Recounts are simple.
Of course even when the pedistrian has the right of way, he still ends up dead wrong.
You'll pry my hunk of copper wire with a connector on either end out of my cold dead hands.
Maybe I wasn't clear. I do have the right to copy the CD when I have it out. I can also tape music off a radio or borrow a friend's CD and copy it. Legally. This is all covered under the Canadian Copyright Act, Section 8. It's also the reason CDRs cost 2-3x what they should.
Many libraries have music and video collections that you can borrow. In fact, if I borrow a CD from a library, copy it for my personal use, and return the CD, I have not broken the law (in this country). Too bad there's a levy on the CDR that I'd copy it to.
I've seen that show, I think it's called Andromeda.
Probably why my cable ISP blocks out the ports network shares use. Security through user stupidity, complaining, and ultimately blocking ports. I want to print annoying messages on my neighbour's printers.
Yeah, it sucks that the place that it's legal, at least 6-8 months of the year it's way too cold to go shirtless.