US airports are quite heavily subsidized, actually. Canadian airports are run on a cost-recovery basis and as a result, US cities near the Canadian border siphon a significant portion of the Canadian traffic.

Canadians thank you for subsidizing their trips. Have a nice day.

We certainly didn't pay $100. It was more like $50.

The bus is a pretty good deal but I have greater confidence in the safety of the train.

One also has to consider the freedom to do what you want on the train. It's hard to surf the web while driving, unless you can talk someone else into driving.

I was comparing the train to flying - my car was in Saskatchewan at the time. :)

The US northeast is the busiest rail transportation corridor in all of North America. It makes far more sense cost- and speed-wise to take the train between most destinations there.

We recently vacationed in the area (a year ago) and took Amtrak from Washington to Baltimore and back, from Washington to Philadelphia and from Philadelphia to Manhattan. It was reasonably quick, comfortable enough, and super convenient. I can't overstate how much nicer it is to walk on a train instead of having to pass through airport security. (As a nice bonus, flying home from Newark instead of Philadelphia or Washington saved us about $150 each.)

If the defect could have been triggered by excessively infrequent oil changes, then the request is relevant. If it isn't (e.g. it's about your brakes or suspension) then it isn't a relevant request.

And people like this are the reason why people like me - who haven't killed a computer or smartphone or TV yet - don't buy coverage. :)

The people who want to buy extended warranties that cover accidental damage tend to have accidental damage more often than those that don't. We call this moral hazard.

What that means? Being careful with your stuff will pay off disproportionately compared to the cost of this insurance.

Also, given that most residential insurance policies have deductibles of $500 or $1,000, I don't think the loss of a few-hundred-dollar smartphone is exactly a catastrophic loss compared to having someone steal your car or having a kitchen fire.

As long as their jamming signal doesn't leave their building and bleed into other properties, I don't have a problem with it either. The problem is that that is very hard to guarantee.

It's down the list, but it's stuff that has value, so it's not that insane.

On the same continuum would be photographs - photographs can have a great deal of historical value, both to a community and to a family. Having some sort of a plan to ensure that they get passed on to someone who will care about having them and value them is a good thing.

I buy all my stuff on physical CDs and DVDs/Blu-Ray discs and then rip it (in the case of my music) for a few reasons, but this is a big one.

If ever I want to give away the media, I can - whether I'm alive or dead. No confusion, no complication.

Nintendoland is very good. ZombiU is very good. But I agree, more good games are needed.

Unless I've missed something recently, this Wii-lite is only sold in Canada so far. The standard Wii with full online access is sold everywhere else, including in Canada alongside the new Wii Mini.

It's a US site with a ton of foreign users. It's a lot more appropriate to just surrender to this fact. "Almost everyone in the US" is not that hard to type.

The sun's effects might be different in polar directions versus equatorially - it might be interesting to learn. However, only captured objects would orbit the sun in such directions so until we can get into interstellar space quickly, there's likely little benefit in going in such directions.