I know a park ranger who lives up in the Nunavut. The price of goods can skyrocket when the ice highway melts every year. Milk can go up $15/l in a day. Because of the very shallow water around Iqaluit, the ice highway in the winter is really the only option to bring in certain items.
They wouldn't even let me smile on my last costo card... but I'm hoping that has more to do with the 'I hate my life and I'm going to take it out on everyone' employee that took it than being a company policy.
What I don't like is places that have a very small whitelist of allowed Ids. I went to a hockey game and the lady wouldn't except my NEXUS (pre-approved travel into Canada and the United States) or my Canadian Government issued boat license as a second piece of id. My bank card was good enough though.
I guess it is people like me that caused this problem as when I was underage I just made up a set of ID from Atlantic Canada. I still have no idea what a real Nova Scotia Drivers License looks like but the one I made up and laminated looks pretty official. Plus I had an equally believable and made up matching Birth Certificate, and Health card. It worked great until I made too many of them, and a dozen of us 'Newfies' would show up at the bar together.
No, the scary part was I truly believe that he thought the cable was better. It didn't seem like the guy was trying to screw me, but more so that he was so brainwashed himself that he believed I needed the high end cable.
I do feel somewhat bad for the salespeople that have to ask about warranty on ever item. I just recently got a PS3 at EB and the girl had to ask me for every item if I wanted the warranty. After I declined it on the console and the first remote control I said I don't want a warranty on anything, but she said it was store policy that she had to ask for every item and she would get in trouble if she didn't ask, so she had to ask on three more controllers, and a remote control.
I remember when I was in residence. The best prank was to schedule really odd print jobs in the middle of the night. Extra funny when it was on people that had no clue how to check if another half dozen messages were going to come out all night
Almost as good as changing their hosts file so hotmail, the school website, and all major news sites went to porn sites. Although I do feel bad in hindsight for that girl that got labeled as a lesbian because of that.
Very true, I remember when I bought my TV the sales guy was adamant that I needed to buy a $90 high end HDMI cable. I ended up buying a 'cheap' $20 one and in his words he was "disgusted that someone would spend so much money on a TV and then ruin the quality by cheapen out on the cable". The scary thing was he seemed to believe it. I have since bought even less expansive HDMI cables for two other devices and there is no noticeable differences.
I just read in my local newspaper that the fall in prices has caused massive problems for the municipal recycling system. A larger proportion will end in the landfill now because of this.
The problem is the scrap dealers are crooked as hell. I remember a few years ago the Province newspaper sent an undercover reporter to see what the scrap dealers would except. They even took a grave marker if I remember correctly.
Theft is out of control though. And the the cost of the damage caused is often far more than what the martial is worth. Someone stole an illuminated sign of a business near my parents house for the aluminum. Its like the thieves that will break a car window to steal change.
I was at a movie a few years ago and some Muppet was trying to take pictures with a flash. I guess they didn't understand why I didn't work and just kept trying. Eventually people in the theater started yelling at them and they stopped.
The thing that gets me is you can find a 20" 1920x1200 lcd screen for $199 now, but a cheap HDTV 42" TV is still $800. I know 42" is much bigger than 20", but the resolution is less, so why is it so much more expensive.
Although prices have fallen sharply since I bought my 1080p TV last year, which was less than the 1080i tv of the same size I got the year before that.
I'm trying this on a HP with a 1920x1200 screen. Maybe they 1080p+ screens haven't made it to the cheap notebook market yet, but I've had this one for over a year
Sounds like me and my mobile phone. I'm always in fake calls to prevent people from talking to me. Very useful in avoiding ex-girlfriends, friends of friends and coworkers.
$3600 is only 18 good nights out at the bar, so its relatively cheap in comparison. Plus if you found someone you end up falling in love with then thats priceless.
oh and did I mention that we keep crazy people off the street by giving them money (and possibly preventing them from harming others)....
Bullshit, Canada has thousands of crazy homeless people on its streets. Toronto alone has 5,052 (3,649 in shelters) homeless. The rest of Canada has started just giving free bus tickets out to British Columbia. I live in downtown Victoria where the homeless population is growing by 400 people a year. That in a city with a population of 80k and only 141 shelter beds. Do to the lack of shelters the homeless here just won a supreme court decision that now allows them set up camp in any city owned property. There are now homeless campsites up in three of the city parks including one in one the cities biggest tourist attractions and one across the street from an elementary school. If they are crazy or just high on drugs I cannot say, but most of them are not stable, and some are just scary.
My experience from flying in private aircraft (both prop and VLJ) is that rarely do you get service above 6000' AGL. You get blips to about 10000' AGL so a text message can come in or out, but a phone call is pretty much out of the question.
It looks semi-legit. While it's a discussion site on the Olympics, it appears that he intentionally intercepted the domain by registering a bunch of <city><year> combos that happen to match Olympic years. Coincidence? I think not
Great idea, I just picked up Baghdad2018. I'm going to be rich when hell freezes over and they get the Winter Olympics.
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I know a park ranger who lives up in the Nunavut. The price of goods can skyrocket when the ice highway melts every year. Milk can go up $15/l in a day. Because of the very shallow water around Iqaluit, the ice highway in the winter is really the only option to bring in certain items.
Myth No. 1 really hurts to read. I'm not sure there is a single instance there where the units of power and energy are used correctly.
Even "overnight for 16 hours" sounds unlikely. Don't most office workers work eight hours plus an hour of lunch? That would leave 15 hours right?
"100 percent utilization" is also mixing numeric and words. Wouldn't "100%" or "one-hundred percent" be better?
They wouldn't even let me smile on my last costo card ... but I'm hoping that has more to do with the 'I hate my life and I'm going to take it out on everyone' employee that took it than being a company policy.
What I don't like is places that have a very small whitelist of allowed Ids. I went to a hockey game and the lady wouldn't except my NEXUS (pre-approved travel into Canada and the United States) or my Canadian Government issued boat license as a second piece of id. My bank card was good enough though.
I guess it is people like me that caused this problem as when I was underage I just made up a set of ID from Atlantic Canada. I still have no idea what a real Nova Scotia Drivers License looks like but the one I made up and laminated looks pretty official. Plus I had an equally believable and made up matching Birth Certificate, and Health card. It worked great until I made too many of them, and a dozen of us 'Newfies' would show up at the bar together.
I had a friend who use to have a shaved head and a beard. Now with hair and no beard, you wouldn't believe he was the same person.
No, the scary part was I truly believe that he thought the cable was better. It didn't seem like the guy was trying to screw me, but more so that he was so brainwashed himself that he believed I needed the high end cable.
I do feel somewhat bad for the salespeople that have to ask about warranty on ever item. I just recently got a PS3 at EB and the girl had to ask me for every item if I wanted the warranty. After I declined it on the console and the first remote control I said I don't want a warranty on anything, but she said it was store policy that she had to ask for every item and she would get in trouble if she didn't ask, so she had to ask on three more controllers, and a remote control.
I remember when I was in residence. The best prank was to schedule really odd print jobs in the middle of the night. Extra funny when it was on people that had no clue how to check if another half dozen messages were going to come out all night
Almost as good as changing their hosts file so hotmail, the school website, and all major news sites went to porn sites. Although I do feel bad in hindsight for that girl that got labeled as a lesbian because of that.
Very true, I remember when I bought my TV the sales guy was adamant that I needed to buy a $90 high end HDMI cable. I ended up buying a 'cheap' $20 one and in his words he was "disgusted that someone would spend so much money on a TV and then ruin the quality by cheapen out on the cable". The scary thing was he seemed to believe it. I have since bought even less expansive HDMI cables for two other devices and there is no noticeable differences.
I just read in my local newspaper that the fall in prices has caused massive problems for the municipal recycling system. A larger proportion will end in the landfill now because of this.
The problem is the scrap dealers are crooked as hell. I remember a few years ago the Province newspaper sent an undercover reporter to see what the scrap dealers would except. They even took a grave marker if I remember correctly.
Theft is out of control though. And the the cost of the damage caused is often far more than what the martial is worth. Someone stole an illuminated sign of a business near my parents house for the aluminum. Its like the thieves that will break a car window to steal change.
Forget "walking robot", "Robot for lighting cigarettes" is where American science is falling behind
I'm still waiting for the "Home F*cking is Killing Prostitution" Bailout.
"a payphone in Ottawa" could also be a staff member to a number of foreign embassies in Ottawa
I was at a movie a few years ago and some Muppet was trying to take pictures with a flash. I guess they didn't understand why I didn't work and just kept trying. Eventually people in the theater started yelling at them and they stopped.
The quote was actually about pop music.
"Do people listen to pop music because they are unhappy, or are they unhappy because they listen to pop music"
The thing that gets me is you can find a 20" 1920x1200 lcd screen for $199 now, but a cheap HDTV 42" TV is still $800. I know 42" is much bigger than 20", but the resolution is less, so why is it so much more expensive.
Although prices have fallen sharply since I bought my 1080p TV last year, which was less than the 1080i tv of the same size I got the year before that.
I'm trying this on a HP with a 1920x1200 screen. Maybe they 1080p+ screens haven't made it to the cheap notebook market yet, but I've had this one for over a year
Sounds like me and my mobile phone. I'm always in fake calls to prevent people from talking to me. Very useful in avoiding ex-girlfriends, friends of friends and coworkers.
Hacking for Dummies, Spam Kings: The Real Story behind the High-Rolling Hucksters Pushing Porn, Pills, and %*@)# Enlargements and No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing should educate them and prepare them for their release.
$3600 is only 18 good nights out at the bar, so its relatively cheap in comparison. Plus if you found someone you end up falling in love with then thats priceless.
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Bullshit, Canada has thousands of crazy homeless people on its streets. Toronto alone has 5,052 (3,649 in shelters) homeless. The rest of Canada has started just giving free bus tickets out to British Columbia. I live in downtown Victoria where the homeless population is growing by 400 people a year. That in a city with a population of 80k and only 141 shelter beds. Do to the lack of shelters the homeless here just won a supreme court decision that now allows them set up camp in any city owned property. There are now homeless campsites up in three of the city parks including one in one the cities biggest tourist attractions and one across the street from an elementary school. If they are crazy or just high on drugs I cannot say, but most of them are not stable, and some are just scary.
My experience from flying in private aircraft (both prop and VLJ) is that rarely do you get service above 6000' AGL. You get blips to about 10000' AGL so a text message can come in or out, but a phone call is pretty much out of the question.
My Favorite was the broken glass sound, which occurred, I believe, when you had bad ram.
It looks semi-legit. While it's a discussion site on the Olympics, it appears that he intentionally intercepted the domain by registering a bunch of <city><year> combos that happen to match Olympic years. Coincidence? I think not
Great idea, I just picked up Baghdad2018. I'm going to be rich when hell freezes over and they get the Winter Olympics.