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1500quidporsche posted:I'd love to hear the economic rationale behind them not leaving because the price of oil is half what it was a year ago, but they definitely will if corporate tax is raised 2%. Well, the oil isn't going anywhere.
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slidebite posted:I know Provincial politics do not translate well to Federal, but Harper is probably guzzling gaviscon by the bottle tonight. I'm flying in to Edmonton with a layover in Calgary tonight, I'm looking forward to frowning oldies picking up their children at the airport and whining about them drat orange commies. I'll be visiting Ft. Mac for a week in mid-June and of course I'm expecting a howling, empty ghost-town because the oil majors will up stakes and abandon $1-trillion of infrastructure, investment, and development on account of a little orange paint. Friends of my parents are high-level executives with Shell - come christmas time I'm sure I'll get to hear some top-quality whinging from Alan in between more tales of how he swindled the salesman at the dealership when he bought his wife's new Mercedes (he paid for it in full after "negotiating" for 20 or 30 minutes, in his telling). (AI-relevant sidenote: I really want to autocross that loving car - I can't remember the details but it's red, it's got gobs of power and torqure, and AWD, plus stupid flappy-paddle fake-manual shifters and did I mention it's red?) 8ender posted:Watching from Ontario I have no reaction except *** If that really was a cockroach, it's still not a big concern - they can't establish a breeding population in a cold climate. Evidence: the millions of individual cockroaches, including certainly many, many already-fertilized females, that have entered the province with shipments of food and whatever else from warmer parts of the world, that have all failed to establish a viable population.
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May 6, 2015 18:14
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You guys are acting like those drat pinko commies are about to take over the country. This isn't 1950's America, and you're not Texas no matter how much you want to be.
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May 6, 2015 18:19
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ExecuDork posted:If that really was a cockroach, it's still not a big concern - they can't establish a breeding population in a cold climate. Evidence: the millions of individual cockroaches, including certainly many, many already-fertilized females, that have entered the province with shipments of food and whatever else from warmer parts of the world, that have all failed to establish a viable population. Yeah, to be honest I've been having a lovely week and seeing something like a cockroach just pushed me over the top. Kind of thought it over and realized that it wasn't inside the building and its not really my problem since my condo is clean. Still going to seal up everything just in case though.
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I have a good buddy who's a highly placed HR executive with a large corporation who primarily does business with oil & gas. We were texting back and forth during the election coverage last night, and I asked him what impact this will have on his business. He said "basically nothing". The NDP platform is really moderate and even with their tax increases, AB will still be the cheapest place in Canada to do business. Plus there's this: http://m.edmontonsun.com/2015/05/06/oil-group-says-it-can-work-with-new-alberta-ndp-government
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MustardFacial posted:You guys are acting like those drat pinko commies are about to take over the country. This isn't 1950's America, and you're not Texas no matter how much you want to be. What? Who is talking about that?
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May 6, 2015 18:57
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slidebite posted:What? Who is talking about that? Every oil exec that has to pay marginally more tax.
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May 6, 2015 18:58
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slidebite posted:What? Who is talking about that? Every single one of my relatives over 35 (except my mother and one cousin) and most of the facebook comments I see on the matter. People are literally claiming this is the apocalypse and it's kinda funny- especially when you ask if they've read the NDP's platform. Or any party's.
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May 6, 2015 19:13
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MustardFacial posted:You guys are acting like those drat pinko commies are about to take over the country. This isn't 1950's America, and you're not Texas no matter how much you want to be. Are you talking about the NDP or the cockroaches ? I don't think anyone here is too butthurt over the NDP. I didn't vote for them, but now that they're in I don't mind. When I was a teamster I voted for them all the time. It is fun to watch the people on facebook losing their poo poo though. These loving people work 20 hour shifts in extreme conditions yet can't get over some new guy replacing some other guy in an office.
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May 6, 2015 19:47
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jonathan posted:Are you talking about the NDP or the cockroaches ? NDP, I should really point this post more towards my FB page than here.
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May 6, 2015 19:59
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MustardFacial posted:You guys are acting like those drat pinko commies are about to take over the country. This isn't 1950's America, and you're not Texas no matter how much you want to be. We're more of a North North Dakota if anything. Anyways, was going to wash the car today, but half foot of snow this morning solved this problem for me.
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May 6, 2015 20:07
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Well, the oil isn't going anywhere. They're going to move all the oilfield jobs to mexico, drill horizontally 2000 miles.
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May 6, 2015 20:37
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Powershift posted:They're going to move all the oilfield jobs to mexico, drill horizontally 2000 miles. At least the dead drilling sector will get a big kick out of that.
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May 6, 2015 20:43
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ExecuDork posted:A few years ago The Economist asserted that Canadian voters like to place opposite political parties in provincial and federal offices. Conservative feds, Liberal provinces, and vice-versa. The NDP are more opposite the federal PCs than are the Liberals or the probably-still-too-new-to-count Alberta party. PEI kept their Liberals, Ontario handed a "surprising" victory to the Liberals last year. Harper and the federal PCs seem to be working well at improving the prospects of left-ish provincial parties. I am interested by the Federal NDP riding this wave like they had something even in the slightest to do with the win last night and how they seem to think it's going to reflect to support to the Federal party in the fall. I really, really don't see that happening.
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May 6, 2015 22:02
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The Fed Conservatives have won the past few elections here without even being on the ground. They might actually start having them campaign here instead of Ontario, but there isn't anywhere near the same animosity towards the Federal PCs to cause them to lose the any significant ground here.
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May 6, 2015 22:21
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I replaced a whole bunch of rotten fence that was installed by 2 drunk guys. A quick job turned into 6 hours hammering away rotten wood and straitening somebody else's mistakes. the more i removed, the more crumbled. It started out at 8 fenceboards and a 2x4, and turned into $100 worth of lumber. I ran out of screws just as the  Now i've gotta paint the whole thing. I asked for blue, but all they would sell me is orange, something about a new NDP law. 
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May 8, 2015 01:42
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This is a terrible idea right? http://www.kijiji.ca/v-classic-cars/calgary/pontiac-trans-am/1070264834
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May 8, 2015 02:02
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This is a terrible idea right? Many degrees there of both terrible and awesome idea.
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May 8, 2015 02:14
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This is a terrible idea right? That is a fantastic idea. I think I can dig out my old foreigner tape from my first car for it.
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May 8, 2015 02:18
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Who the hell bothers machining and rebuilding a 305 "yeah, i dumped 2 grand into er, now it's nearly two hunnert horsepower at the crank."
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May 8, 2015 02:20
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It's too bad it's not a 70-1981, and it obviously used to be brown but isn't. If it were a brown 81 (even if it weren't a Turbo) I could start building the car from my tumblr.
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May 8, 2015 02:23
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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=907455089297199 Not sure if this can just be viewed by clicking the url.
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jonathan posted:https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=907455089297199 Is that arabic? are you trying to get CSIS all up in our poo poo? In other news, i helped my mom rent a car. Enterprise dicked us around, upping the price over the quote, and downsizing the vehicle and trying to get a dodge journey for $60 a day as a "deal" because it's regularly $120 because it's an "SUV" Went to avis, the dodge journey is classified as a fullsize car so instead of a chevy cruze from enterprise for $360 for 10 days with unlimited mileage only in western canada and no US allowed, she got a leathered up dodge journey with satellite radio and unlimited mileage in north america for about $290. $29 a day for a fully loaded 7 seat "suv". It's like $1 less a day if you book through costco, so there's that. if you need to rent a car, reserve a fullsize from avis through costco and you might get a dodge journey or charger. Enterprise now considers the jetta "standard" instead of intermediate, and the fusion "fullsize" instead of intermediate.  chopped off all the rot.  Now i'm left with about 20 ~4 foot long reclaimed upcycled gluten free fair trade boards to do something with. i bought a bunch of shelf brackets but that just seems boring. edit: All right, which one of you hasn't made a horrifically bad decision lately? http://details.maauctions.com/AutolistingYEG_Detail.aspx?Link=9/5/2015%5E1B3ES66S85D254889 Powershift fucked around with this message at 07:59 on May 9, 2015 |
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Enterprise is weird about pricing. One week they gave me a fiesta for $8 a day because the rental started on the weekend. Two weeks later they wanted $45 a day for the same car.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:This is a terrible idea right? I'm glad to see I'm not the only one getting the 80's v8 white trash itch
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May 9, 2015 19:06
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All my dealer and gangster friends in Surrey used to rent cars through Avis to conduct their business because Avis would deal in cash back then. They rented cars for "work" in case they got seized. They're all in jail, dead, or pissing into bags now.
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jonathan posted:All my dealer and gangster friends in Surrey used to rent cars through Avis to conduct their business because Avis would deal in cash back then. They rented cars for "work" in case they got seized. And people say it's hard to start a small business in Alberta.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:And people say it's hard to start a small business in Alberta. That was Surrey BC at the height of all that gangland headline poo poo. gently caress that town.
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Any ideas where I can get around 40lbs of lead in calgary? Apparently my kart is super underweight.
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1500quidporsche posted:Any ideas where I can get around 40lbs of lead in calgary? Apparently my kart is super underweight. Use a water tank with a plug, then have it "fall out" mid race.
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Powershift posted:Use a water tank with a plug, then have it "fall out" mid race. I'm two busy bolting two rear wings together to work on that.
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1500quidporsche posted:I'm two busy bolting two rear wings together to work on that. I got it handled. one of those 10 gallon water jugs is 44lbs. just ratched strap it to wherever you need ballast.
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Wheel balancing weights are lead (RoHS ferrous ones are starting to catch on but most of them are still lead). So just about any tire shop would be happy to give you as much as you're willing to carry.
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1500quidporsche posted:Any ideas where I can get around 40lbs of lead in calgary? Apparently my kart is super underweight. Dive shop. I wear 40lbs when I SCUBA dive, they'll sell it to you in 5- or 10-lb ingots.
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Slung Blade posted:I just got elected mayor of my small town. So, update on this bullshit now that it's more or less public knowledge through the RCMP. My first day on the job as mayor, myself and the former board chair waltz into the bank to get the accounts frozen. Former treasurer left our meeting where we elected roles in a huge huff, none of us could figure out why the gently caress they were acting that way, so we figure, eh, may as well take a few precautions before signing authority gets moved over. We see the bank account balances while locking the accounts and they do not jibe with what has been presented at the annual general meeting. Like, at all. We thought we had 60ish thousand in our treasury, in reality it was about 2k. Ex-board member was forging cheques and funneling money out of the town's accounts for six loving years and none of us caught on because "lol, small town folks trust each other". Long story short, we got the RCMP involved, said board member confessed and gave 40k back and promised to get the rest in the next few years, but it was kinda dicey there for a few weeks, we were worried that the hall might have to close for lack of funds to pay for our operating expenses. So that's what I've been dealing with for the last few months. 
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1500quid: if you need assistance melting those ingots into a single unit or something let me know, I should have the facilities to handle that kind of thing.
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Slung Blade posted:So that's what I've been dealing with for the last few months. Wow, that's officially A Mess. It sounds like you've more or less got it under control, but what happens when/if said person can't pay back the remainder? Also speaking of legal problems: The Stupid loving Sun posted:Calgary man booted from Canada's Worst Driver TV show nailed by cops travelling nearly 180 km/h on Stoney Trail 
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MrChips posted:Wow, that's officially A Mess. It sounds like you've more or less got it under control, but what happens when/if said person can't pay back the remainder? Depends on how much is still owed at that point. Civil suit's a possibility if we'd get enough out of it to pay the legal fees. Personally, I don't care anymore. We got the majority back, and it's enough to pay the bills until our next casino fundraiser. I'd be happy to just let it die there and not waste any more of my life fighting for an essentially meaningless 16ish thousand remainder, though there are many in the community who would pursue this to the gates of hell.
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MrChips posted:Wow, that's officially A Mess. It sounds like you've more or less got it under control, but what happens when/if said person can't pay back the remainder? If you went to Precision Alignment at any time ever, chances are this young buck drove your car. Apparently, his parents own the place.
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