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Comment Re:Cat and mouse... (Score 1) 437

Try opening a U.S. bank account tied to a U.S. address as somebody who is not a U.S. resident. Good luck.

I'm a canuck citizen, I have bank accounts at: Chase, Wells Fargo and Toronto-Dominion(US). I walked into Wells Fargo in Florida a couple of years back to do some banking for my grandmother the Power of Attorney, I opened an account there in 8 minutes. I own property in Florida, I'm not a US resident, I've never held a green card, I have had a work permit back 15 years ago though.

Comment Re:How about mandatory felony sentences instead? (Score 1) 420

I have a problem with that because by ruining their lives, what we create is a bunch of criminals. That's much worse than a bunch of idiots.

Yeah, I really don't see a problem here. Even up here in "liberal canada" you drive drunk, you get your car towed and impounded, then you can end up anywhere between a steep fine, and a criminal conviction. In fact, the problem was considered so serious at one time that the RIDE program was given a defacto bypass on our new charter of rights and freedoms. Allowing the program to operate as an unlawful search.

While not so much of a problem in most of the country now, there are many areas where it is even 35+ years later after the DUI laws were put in place.

Comment Re: Vandalism unnecessary. (Score 1) 87

Newer fridges are much more energy-efficient and cheaper compared to those old models. If you bought an expensive one marked as reliable instead of the cheapest one out there then it would last more than 5 years. The stuff that wasn't as over engineered from the past hasn't survived so we only see the stuff that was.

Sure, energy efficent is about all the newer models boil down to. As for "reliable" and "expensive" yeah...just keep telling yourself that. It's just like at one point there was one company in north america making all fridges, and dishwashers. There's around 5 now. Said "quality" is "buying brand name."

Comment Re:Vandalism unnecessary. (Score 2) 87

Hell that holds true with fridges among other things. I've got a 1940's style fridge that was my great-grandparents and it's still working. My parents are still using the fridge they got when they were married in 1977. On the other hand the new fridge that I bought 5 years ago has already died, the 3 year old fridge that I bought for my place in florida is already dead. And the same happened to my sister out in western canada, bought a new fridge 3 years ago...already dead. In all those cases, either the compressor died or the coolant leaked out somewhere.

Comment Re:Most places I know start around 8am (Score 1) 161

Back 15-20 years ago it used to be all 9-15:30 in my neck of the woods. Now it's 8-14:30(highschool) and 9-15:30(K-8). Why you ask? Buses. That's the only reason they did it, so they could stagger the bus schedule. Then again the distance that kids get buses are pathetic, it used to be that I walked ~5km in g1-5 to head to school in the 80's. Anything over 1km(0.62mi) now can get a bus. It's similar to snow days, freezing rain, and fog. Merest hint of it, NOPE they either cancel buses or school altogether. And here I remember crawling up a damn hill to go to highschool 20 years ago...after we had 8 hours of freezing rain and the school was open for classes, buses only being called back to take bus students home when fog rolled in, snow? Haha...get to school.

Comment Re:WTF UK? (Score 1) 360

Despite all of the BS that people like to claim that Fox as gospel, they're more authoritative on news then MSNBC. Remember it was last year that the news vs commentary bit came out from Pew research, and showed that nearly 85% of all programing on MSNBC was opinion/commentary, with 15% being factual reporting. Compare that to Fox, it was 55% commentary/opinion and 45% factual reporting.

Comment Re:Welcome to foxdot.com (Score 2) 282

Nah /. is turning into gawker lite. Notice the amount of shit coming in from all the clickbait sites these days? Dice must be suffering as people continue to leave, hell even good articles or articles that normally would have had 1k+ 8mo ago are only pulling 300 posts now.

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