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Comment Re:Bell v. Canada (Score 1) 39

Canada.

The CRTC has been slapping bell into the dirt for a while as it stands. The federal government has in turned threatened to rip their mandate away and create a new federal agency if they didn't smarten the hell up. There is also a huge problem where bell was caught influencing news broadcasts to be favorable to them as they own CTV. Bell has tried a bunch of shit over the last couple of years, and people, government, and even bureaucracy has had enough. Give it a few more years and I see Bell, Rogers, and so on being broken up due to monopoly positions in the market place.

Comment Yeah good luck with that... (Score 5, Insightful) 587

Seems like the vocal minority is finally running up against people who've had enough...they're using their own tactics against them, and whining when people beat them at their own game. Oh and it wasn't liberals(tip it was mainly liberals that started the campaign) it was that lovely 'social justice warrior' crowd, that loves to call anyone who disagrees with them 'bigots, misogynists, racists, etc, etc, etc.'

Comment Re:It is Bullshit, IMO (Score 2, Interesting) 91

Except 'online gaming' is far from useless. I use it(along with regular gaming) as part of my pain management under the recommendation of my neurologist and pain specialist. It helps reduce the amount of addicting narcotics I need to take, which in my book is a good thing. The reality is, some people can have a problem with anything. I rank 'internet addiction' far below actual social/societal problems in terms of things that should be looked at. You know, like poverty, substance abuse, general run of the mill abuse, malnutrition, etc., this entire thing comes off as the 'new boogeyman' that someone thought would be great to rally around so government busybodies look like they're doing something.

Comment Re:c'mon (Score 1) 306

Oh noes. They got money from the Koches and Donors trust! How dare they, after all it's not like George Soros hasn't dumped massive amounts of money into think tanks and all the rest. For someone who claims to 'know all this' you're pretty ignorant of what the other side does, that is exactly the same.

Okay, and her getting her play there is a problem why? Oh, I see it doesn't fit your ideological agenda which means that it's bad, in turn if it doesn't fit that means they're not your particular brand of xyz person. How very polarizing of you.

Can you show actual proof that gamergate has misogynist histories? $20 says that you'll drop the same articles where the authors, belonging to said organizations have come out saying that they knew it wasn't, but did it because it 'sold the story better.' You know, like the CBC and then there's other organizations that said the same thing. Then again, if you consider today's version of feminism to be egalitarian where many of the most vocal voices call for gendercide and whine about first world problems, you're a perfect fit for it.

Comment Re:c'mon (Score 1) 306

How can you spot the person drinking the koolaid? They jump right into the "far-right think tank" conspiracy theory, then start making up the bullshit along the way.

Here's a useful tip, AEI employs people from the full political spectrum. CHS is also a democrat and classical liberal, sadly the fact that she came out in support of gamergate meant that her notability article on wikipedia then became a battleground for radical feminists, and people who have an axe to grind. Said people with an axe to grind also happen to be of the "social justice warrior" variety, who love to make mountains out of molehills while crying about how hurt their feelings are on first world problems. But woe to them if you actually drop a issue on actual women's rights on them, since the first thing they do is flee and scatter. So yes, you're exaggerating, perhaps ignorant to go along with it.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 1) 292

Good luck finding a high school that hasn't gutted their entire shop program these days. As for onboard diagnostics? Some places will let you borrow a scantool for 24hrs, one of the old small auto suppliers where I used to live did that. I know in the US there are some suppliers that will do it for you.

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 2) 292

Back in 1994 my parents had a pontiac transport, the thing had been in and out of the dealer(warranty) for repairs(warm stall, cold stall, running stall, on and on). I finally had enough and asked him if I could take it to work(I was apprenticing at a local shop). It took me 10 minutes to figure out what the problem was, do the test, and tell him to take it back to the dealership. The problem? The TPS(throttle position sensor) wasn't working properly giving out of band voltage causing fuel to be cut. 10 minutes, the car had probably spent 2 weeks over a period of 5 months with them looking at it.

I've run across that several times over the years, with my old saturn under used warranty from a GM shop as well. Finding a good dealer with a competent shop is just as difficult. I've run across the same problems with friends from other companies, sometimes it seems that especially under warranty a garage will have the vehicle back in over and over again just to bill under warranty.

Comment Re:Which is it? Very different cases. (Score 2) 143

Oh, and if you want some more pictures feel free to let me know. I've got a dozen or so more. I'm not being snide or anything, but the way things are here in Canada with resource extraction are fundamentally different compared to many other countries, because we *are* a resource extraction country and know the benefits of restoring the environment when we're done stripping out whatever we need to.

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