The IOC and the Olympics has been nothing more than a deeply corrupt, out-of-control marketing engine and ruthless trademark troll for 30 years. I think the Los Angeles games was the turning point.

They took a paint company on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington to court because they had retail stores in Vancouver in 2010. They lost of course, but it was still a monumental hassle.

There's a good writeup of how crazy the mess was from Vancouver 2010 here: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1777/125/

I'm sure a summer olympics is 100 times worse.

He will be charged with everything they can think of. Made up stuff, real stuff from jaywalking to treason.

He will be facing 300 years possible sentence if convicted of even half of it.

He will be facing a 5 years incarceration just waiting for a trial.

They will offer a plea deal: plead to being a bad boy and you can go home tomorrow, wear a radio on your ankle for a year and that's it.

He will do the deal.

The US will get a conviction, which they will trumpet from the rooftops. They will have a precedent that they covet, and anyone running any similar operation will pretty well have to stop it, lest they meet with a much worse fate.

The American's, no doubt, believe they are doing this fella a favour, since their first instinct was to scoop him up into a black helicopter, or even just nuke him remotely while he rides his bike to school.

T. J. Bass
_Half Past Human_ (1971)
_The Godwhale_ (1974)

Unlike anything else I've read. Definitely two, maybe three reads.

I'm not Imelda Marcos, but I think I lost count at 12..

How about snowboard and ski boots?
Ice Skates?
Snowshoes?
Water shoes?

I live where we get weather, so boots means a pair of very warm boots for winter/snow, plus a pair or rubber boots. I happen to own hip-waders too.

Then I have everyday shoes, and an old pair that I wear in the workshop.

Work boots -- with steel toe and all that. Hiking boots since the work boots are a bit too heavy for long walks.

And dress shoes.

At the moment I also happen to have a walking cast, since I broke my foot. But that's not a pair.

I think it would be a good idea to sue Ebay Canada/PayPal Canada in small claims court.

The courts have already decided http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/fct/doc/2007/2007fc930/2007fc930.html that EBay Canada is a distinct legal entity. It would be interesting to have them show up in court to explain themselves. They would likely lose, and would definitely be out of pocket more that $2.5K just to put in an appearance.

Just because their dispute resolution policy says that they "MAY ask for destruction" does not defend them that they have applied this policy reasonably. The seller could reasonably obtain a judgment that the application of that policy was improper, in this instance, and that EBay has to cough up the $2.5K.

duh. I mean 1.2 million m3

One of my possessions is a 2.3 hectare lot with, amongst others, a 53 metre tall tree on it. If I needed it to fit in a conventionally shaped box, that would be 12,200 m3.

But water-cooled reactors leave some 95 percent of the fuel's potential energy untapped.

Light water reactors, sure. But heavy water reactors are a whole different kettle of fish. CANDU can already burn anything from natural uranium through plutonium. Hot stuff you just dilute down.

No need to invent some new crazy reactor, just burn it at Bruce or Pickering.

I collect Cowboy Neal action figures.