Are you running commands, with root on stuff you don't know where it comes from ?

If you absolutely have to go run the query in the folder into which someone has upload/file creation, then at least use ./* if the tool doesn't support --.

This is not an issue if you work recursively on the directory holding whatever they want, which should cover most of the situations. A bad admin can run queries that are as dangerous or worst pretty fast!

Always be cautious when running someone else shell script, that's even more dangerous..

When you signup for your car insurance, and when you renew (at least in Canada), you are asked to provide the highest number of miles you might drive in the year. Should that mileage exceed your declaration by a large value upon a reclamation, you might run in some trouble.

That`s quite an interesting read :) He still should have limited his scope though, and I don`t think we will see production road cars using nitromethane to that extent for sale anytime soon.

I remember hitting the rear window defrost and have the hatch open on a less than 5 years old car.. And yes that was reproductible (and fixable..) but still showed a very bad design.

That`s a rocket engine not a combustion engine.. still he should have used most 4 wheeled combustion engine vehicules rather than a simple `combustion engine` shortcut while referring to those.

This was a `no subvention` development on the south shore of the St-Lawrence river near Quebec city. In this case, the total permits costs had to cover the full extent of the development costs of the land. Typically, they would absorb the costs on your property taxes over the years, thus showing a much smaller amount.

Well, large high class development often have higher costs for those parameters. You have much less houses per linear foot of frontage, increasing the cost of bringing water, taking sewer out, and building roads. That area was rocky and had a lot of slope, thus it was easy to understand that the development costs were high, and the city can't be building this without making it back.

The promoter who was selling the plots was also the only one allowed to build in the area; or rather, he would not sell a plot of land if you weren't signing for the house at the same time.

I built my house in a regular development zone, still 6000 square meters of land, and the total permit cost was around 200$ CAD at that time (tree clearing, house, underground electricity, drinking water, sewage and pool permits)

Actual specification for that area was, in 2008, 8000 to 9000 square meters per plot; 95$ per square meter of lot size plus 150$ per square meter of habitation for the construction permit. Other requirements were two stories, full masonry, hidden garage entrance and no roof slopes at less than 12-12.

Needless to say we went somewhere else.. having had that kind of money I really would have liked to build at that place though.

There are some places in Canada were the permits cost are huge.. Think about a construction permit fee based on the lot size (multiple $$$ per square feet) where the minimum lot size is required to be at least something close to an hectare...

They are just looking for some funding...

Pretty much every time I start pedaling at a red light that just turned green, I am the first one on the other side of the intersection (up to 6 ways) out of me and the 2 cars next to me. Exceptions are pretty much limited to places where the road is damaged and doesn't allow for fast acceleration or larger intersections ( with middle splits ). So, when you are stopping you can validate that anyone coming toward you will indeed stop. Only once you have asserted the situation you should go.

If you aren't stopping at a stop, you are simply lazy or in a hurry and don't mind not respecting the law. Telling yourself and others that it's safer for you that way doesn't make it legit.

If the laws are different where you live, then feel free to act different. I am both a driver and a cyclist, and I hate both cyclist which do anything they want on either stops or red lights, and drivers which don't follow the laws or respect cyclist.

Do the exit poll take into account the large amount of pre-election voting, which can be cast remotely, or a few weeks before the elections themselves, or are there no such thing in the US ? The last election here reported close to 50% of the voters had voted early.. I wonder how that would affect the exit poll results.

They are allowed to start counting the votes before the voting ends ??? We only spawn 5.5 time zones but that`s still not allowed and well enforced.

Perhaps you don't like plinking, but that doesn't mean everyone should not. I've been shooting with air guns since I was very young, and I know that I've shot over 20 K pellets over the time. I've often upgraded my airgun to the newer model, or with better features. Last year, I wanted to get myself a nice PCP. I then went to a weekend of training for the firearms profession. I had to apply for a possession and acquisition permit, wait a while, had administrative issues, but then at some point I finally received it. Then I started the work to try and get the PCP. Suffice to say that I had to contact multiple company, make tons of calls to the governement, had to arrange for modifications so that it would be legal to own here, and finally I learned that I woudl also, after all this, have to send the gun back to the governement for analysis, and that beside the more than 2K$ it would cost it would take a few more months again before I'd receive it.

So I started wondering how much more noise (DBs) and money would it cost to shoot a 22LR using a load equivalent in power to the gun I was acquiring. I did the calculations, and I would have to shoot 42 000 rounds through the .22LR I was looking at before it would have cost me the same amount as shooting 42 000 rounds through the PCP for which I would be pumping all the shots.. (not including any maintenance, which would also be higher on the pcp case). Any less and the 22 was costing less, so that's the choice I made at that point. Went to the dealer, purchased it, and I'm done!

This all come down to new regulations being applied on simple gear making it way out of price for a lot of people. Spending countless hours trying to acquire it is also a waste of time I'd have liked to spend shooting or doing something else I like rather than battling through legislation. The good thing is that the company I had contacted for the importation had other requests for the same gun and they finally invested themself to make it legal to import here.

It's still a large problem. If those company get what they want, the gun price goes from 150-250$ to 2K overnight, since you can't buy anymore of those guns priced 150$ and with the laws in place they control the market (patents on the process and use of the electronic locks...). Companies are looking to maximise their profit, thus will do everything to get the same kind of laws everywhere.

With the price of that single pistol ($1800 USD), I can get myself an assortment of rifles and shotguns and a lot of ammunitions, with both clip locks and trigger locks and also a very nice, large and solid chest to store them all, and pay to have it installed securely too.

If there had been no talk of banning regulars guns, I'd have a hard time understanding the hate, but then it's not the case...