Comment Re:God-damn. (Score 1) 138
But back when I had no money I did volunteer a lot at the local Boys and Girls' Club.
I've walked through some of Saddam's old palaces, and the amount of money he probably wasted on that stuff while the rest of the country rotted is just staggering.
Yeah, but unlike Saddam I'd like to think we're not a bunch of assholes who would put an old video game ahead of the well-being of kids.
you should be measuring it in United States Coolness Units.
I live in Canada, you insensitive clod!
Also, in many cases, the HOA bylaws are not made available to you until closing.
That is bananas. Here in British Columbia you don't have HOAs, but when you buy a condo or townhouse you fall under the condo board's bylaws. It's perfectly reasonable to ask for them during the due diligence process (and in some cases they're publicly online for all to read, e.g. http://www.freesiavancouver.co... ).
You may be asked to cover the cost of photocopying them, but that's it.
Head to my nearest airport and observe what?
Did you RTFA?
Except, it has the potential to be many times faster
"Faster" was important when people couldn't afford to be out of contact with the office for 10 hours.
Technology is rapidly making that notion a thing of the past. If you can sit in comfort in first class on an airliner, and be online like you're in the office then it doesn't really matter if it takes you longer to get there.
3 in the last year or so? that's completely unacceptable.
What are the three Airbus A-320 crashes in the 'last year or so' that you're referencing?
I'm an aviation geek and I know of one, for which the cause has not yet been determined. 18+ months ago one ran off the runway in the Philippines, but that was pilot error.
can't product planes that don't regularly fall out of the sky
"Regularly?"
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Yeah, I understand that. What I don't understand is why the big media conglomerates put such baffling restrictions into their licenses in the first place. Is it to comply with licensing agreements that they made?
Yes.
For example, NBC licenses Saturday Night Live to Global TV Canada for a millions of dollars.
Global TV Canada now has exclusive rights to 'air' SNL in Canada - On TV, on the web and via their app.
As a result, in Canada I can't watch SNL on NBC.com or Hulu or Yahoo because those exclusive rights in Canada to my Canadian eyeballs have been licensed to Global TV.
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