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Risky Bisquick: Jan 18, 2008; PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.; Buglord

going from prerevenue to revenue neutral has got to be a great feeling for those first round financiers.

# ? Oct 19, 2016 20:49

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tagesschau: Sep 1, 2006; D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
THE SPEECH SUPPRESSOR

Remember: it's "antisemitic" to protest genocide as long as the targets are brown.

code:

echo "/usr/local/bin/post-tweet.pl --username hootsuite \ 
--text 'We are totally a serious company that has a reason for existing and not just a way to profit from irrational exuberance.'" | at noon tomorrow

# ? Oct 19, 2016 21:29

cowofwar: Jul 30, 2002; by Athanatos

tagesschau posted:

code:

echo "/usr/local/bin/post-tweet.pl --username hootsuite \ 
--text 'We are totally a serious company that has a reason for existing and not just a way to profit from irrational exuberance.'" | at noon tomorrow

# ? Oct 19, 2016 21:30

I would blow Dane Cook: Dec 26, 2008

tagesschau posted:

code:

echo "/usr/local/bin/post-tweet.pl --username hootsuite \ 
--text 'We are totally a serious company that has a reason for existing and not just a way to profit from irrational exuberance.'" | at noon tomorrow

I'll give you a billion dollars* for it.

*Canadian

# ? Oct 19, 2016 21:46

Rime: Nov 2, 2011; by Games Forum

Many years ago someone posted in here that Hootsuite was a CRON job valued at $800m.

This is still the case.

# ? Oct 19, 2016 22:10

blah_blah: Apr 15, 2006

Risky Bisquick posted:

RIM: 2-5b worth in patents

Hootsuite: a computerized web scraping method used to aggregate online platforms that may include social media. ~~9 [NINE] total patents~~ nevermind, they have none lol

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-...&FIELD2=&d=PTXT

The flipside is RIM's market cap is just under 4B so I guess that tells you what the market values their core business at.

# ? Oct 19, 2016 22:21

tagesschau: Sep 1, 2006; D&D: HASBARA SQUAD
THE SPEECH SUPPRESSOR

Remember: it's "antisemitic" to protest genocide as long as the targets are brown.

Rime posted:

Many years ago someone posted in here that Hootsuite was a CRON job valued at $800m.

This is still the case.

more or less :thejoke:

# ? Oct 19, 2016 22:45

namaste friends: Sep 18, 2004; by Smythe

quote:

The Canada Revenue Agency’s crackdown on tax fraud in the overheated real estate markets of Ontario and British Columbia is bearing fruit, with auditors recovering $240-million in unpaid taxes and $12.5-million in additional penalties over the past 18 months, new figures show.

The money is being recovered as auditors focus on several issues identified in a series of stories in The Globe and Mail, including property flipping, efforts to hide capital gains and avoid paying sales taxes, and false ownership statements.

Still, the new figures show the CRA has a lot of catching up to do in British Columbia, where the federal agency doubled its auditing effort last year in response to widespread concerns over fraud and rising real estate prices.

The numbers show the CRA audited nearly six times as many files and recovered seven times more money in Ontario than in British Columbia between April, 2015, and September, 2016. By contrast, Ontario’s population is only three times higher than British Columbia’s.

The CRA added it was in the midst of a special review of 500 large real estate transactions in B.C. that is designed to “uncover any tax issues that may not have already been identified.”

“We are making a clear effort in British Columbia and our goal is to recover as much money [as in Ontario], if not more,” Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier said in an interview.

The CRA’s auditing efforts follow growing concerns over an affordability crisis in Vancouver and Toronto. The Globe has reported on a number of cases in which foreign-born owners declared low incomes despite moving millions of dollars through relatives into Canada, and revealed concerns that poor reporting by real estate agents has made the industry vulnerable to money laundering.

As part of its work in the real estate market, the CRA has started to publish new data on its website to show how many files it has opened and how much money it has recovered.

Over the past 18 months, the CRA looked into 13,403 files in Ontario (mostly in the Greater Toronto Area), recovering $210-million. During the same period, the CRA audited 2,366 files in B.C., for a total recovery of $30-million.

When the CRA determines that a taxpayer knowingly made a false statement on a return, it can impose a penalty that is equal to 50 per cent of the additional tax that is payable. In both Ontario and B.C., the CRA applied $12.5-million in penalties in 663 cases over the 18-month period, for an average of $18,850 per case.

In the biggest case, the federal tax-collection agency imposed a penalty of $2.5-million against a single taxpayer, meaning the individual had hidden nearly $5-million in payable taxes on his or her return.

As they look into real estate deals, CRA auditors are focusing their efforts on the following five issues:

The “source of funds” to buy or maintain and renovate a property, to see whether the owner is involved in tax evasion or illegal activities, or helping to shield the identity of a wealthy buyer;
“Property flipping” by real estate agents, renovators and speculators, to ensure that profits from real estate deals are properly reported to the CRA;
“Unreported GST/HST” on the sale of new or substantially renovated properties, in cases where houses are not used as a primary place of residence;
“Unreported capital gains” on secondary residences or houses sold by non-residents in Canada;
“Unreported worldwide income” by residents of Canada who have to report their worldwide income to the CRA.
“What is important for us is to recover the money that is owed and reinvest it in our communities. We are trying to protect all Canadians and ensure that middle-class Canadians can have access to home ownership,” Ms. Lebouthillier said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cra-recovers-240-million-in-real-estate-tax-fraud-probe-but-lags-in-bc/article32447204/

gently caress the cra for doing nothing until Kathy Tomlinson (who quit the loving CBC after blowing the whistle on Amanda Lang and they refused to do anything about it. Amanda Lang's conflict interest in loving an RBC VP) and Ian young started writing about this.

This entire housing market debacle of the last 15 years is a loving tragedy about government that does loving nothing unless spurred by public outrage.

gently caress professional party hacks like bunnyofdoom

# ? Oct 19, 2016 23:36

cowofwar: Jul 30, 2002; by Athanatos

So do the CRA auditors just read facebook and news sites to figure out who/when to audit? Like they aren't actively monitoring for new evasion schemes unless someone writes an article about it and makes enough people angry?

# ? Oct 19, 2016 23:51

Risky Bisquick: Jan 18, 2008; PLEASE LET ME WRITE YOUR VICTIM IMPACT STATEMENT SO I CAN FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE CALAMITY THAT IS OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM.; Buglord

namaste faggots posted:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/cra-recovers-240-million-in-real-estate-tax-fraud-probe-but-lags-in-bc/article32447204/

gently caress the cra for doing nothing until Kathy Tomlinson (who quit the loving CBC after blowing the whistle on Amanda Lang and they refused to do anything about it. Amanda Lang's conflict interest in loving an RBC VP) and Ian young started writing about this.

This entire housing market debacle of the last 15 years is a loving tragedy about government that does loving nothing unless spurred by public outrage.

gently caress professional party hacks like bunnyofdoom

Even if the cra uncovers things they will simply forgive the people and ask for the money. There is no consequence of white collar crime. They didn't even charge kpmg was it for facilitating tax evasion.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 03:02

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

RBC posted:

it's because rezoning industrial areas in metropolitan centres is against every official plan

much like strip clubs, once industrial land is rezoned it disappears forever, never to be seen again. city centres have shortages of industrial zoned land for this reason.

so they are trying to justify why they are going against official planning policies

You hit the nail right on the head here. There's a reason why the preservation of industrial lands, and the restriction of non-industrial uses in these areas, is really popular in present-day industrial land use planning practice these days. Turns out industrial land use is essential to the web of land uses that permits a city to actually function #wow #whoa

Lexicon posted:

It's almost as if zoning is largely a bullshit concept

Sure, keep the chemical plants and such geographically separate, but otherwise who gives an actual gently caress

It's the best tool urban planners have for guiding and regulating land use in any particular jurisdiction. Have any alternatives? Houston doesn't count.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:16

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

What's a good introduction to modern zoning theory?

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:19

ephori: Sep 1, 2006; Dinosaur Gum

~~SimCity~~ Cities: Skylines

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:26

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Subjunctive posted:

What's a good introduction to modern zoning theory?

I've got a lot of recommendations, BUT my absolute favorite book on zoning theory is A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Liveable Cities from Don Elliott. It's a fairly riveting read that explains everything about zoning - how it's evolved over the past 90+ years (looking at other variants, such as form-based code / performance zoning / planned unit developments / etc), the current problems endemic to the primary form of zoning we see in most cities (best described as "hybrid-Eucliean"), and how communities go about addressing these issues (the ten principles). It has a permanent place on my shelf.

edit:

ephori posted:

~~SimCity~~ Cities: Skylines

l o l

Hubbert fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Oct 20, 2016

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:27

toe knee hand: Jun 20, 2012; HANSEN ON A BREAKAWAY

HONEY BADGER DON'T SCORE

Hubbert posted:

You hit the nail right on the head here. There's a reason why the preservation of industrial lands, and the restriction of non-industrial uses in these areas, is really popular in present-day industrial land use planning practice these days. Turns out industrial land use is essential to the web of land uses that permits a city to actually function #wow #whoa

It's the best tool urban planners have for guiding and regulating land use in any particular jurisdiction. Have any alternatives? Houston doesn't count.

Houston does count. Houston counts as the horror story, the example of why zoning actually does help because holy poo poo look at Houston.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:30

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

toe knee hand posted:

Houston does count. Houston counts as the horror story, the example of why zoning actually does help because holy poo poo look at Houston.

Agreed. There's a link hiding in my post ... and the first paragraph under Section II: Land Use Controls in Houston from the previously linked article reveals my point:

quote:

Although scholars reference Houston to criticize zoning and advance calls for deregulation, these arguments appear misguided. Houston is not a free market model for land use control. In fact, government regulations pervade land use decisions in numerous contexts, and recent ordinances indicate a trend toward greater regulation. Rather than represent an alternative to zoning, Houston's system of land use management appears to resemble zoning more closely than deregulation.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:37

Rime: Nov 2, 2011; by Games Forum

I wish I was rich, solely so that I could try to open a lumber mill / refinery / tire factory on the False Creek Flats and watch the city collectively poo poo itself, finally putting to bed the myth that those lands are being held in zoning limbo as anything other than a lovely land speculation scheme. :allears:

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:39

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

Rime posted:

I wish I was rich, solely so that I could try to open a lumber mill / refinery / tire factory on the False Creek Flats and watch the city collectively poo poo itself, finally putting to bed the myth that those lands are being held in zoning limbo as anything other than a lovely land speculation scheme.

Next thing you'll do is run freight trains down a freight right of way.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:52

The Butcher: Apr 20, 2005; Well, at least we tried.; Nap Ghost

Hubbert posted:

I've got a lot of recommendations, BUT my absolute favorite book on zoning theory is A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Liveable Cities from Don Elliott. It's a fairly riveting read that explains everything about zoning - how it's evolved over the past 90+ years (looking at other variants, such as form-based code / performance zoning / planned unit developments / etc), the current problems endemic to the primary form of zoning we see in most cities (best described as "hybrid-Eucliean"), and how communities go about addressing these issues (the ten principles). It has a permanent place on my shelf.

That sounds pretty loving boring so I'm going to have to award the point to the video game recommendation here.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:53

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

CI's on probation, we've got a week to talk about urban planning.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 04:55

Hubbert: Mar 25, 2007; At a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Baronjutter posted:

CI's on probation, we've got a week to talk about urban planning.

Now you know why I'm here. :ssh:

The Butcher posted:

That sounds pretty loving boring so I'm going to have to award the point to the video game recommendation here.

To quote the book's first two paragraphs ...

Hubbert fucked around with this message at 05:24 on Oct 20, 2016

# ? Oct 20, 2016 05:00

Femtosecond: Aug 2, 2003

Zoning Chat: A guy made a cool 3D map of Vancouver zones http://maps.nicholsonroad.com/zones/

# ? Oct 20, 2016 05:29

The Butcher: Apr 20, 2005; Well, at least we tried.; Nap Ghost

Femtosecond posted:

Zoning Chat: A guy made a cool 3D map of Vancouver zones http://maps.nicholsonroad.com/zones/

Man I wonder why rental vacancies are so tight...

Imagine this copy pasted over 80% of the city. Grey being SFH.

Again video games are the solution here. I've done it in sim city many times. When your city starts getting tight you just bulldoze most of the low density parts and replace them with medium and high.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 05:42

Spazzle: Jul 5, 2003

Hubbert posted:

Agreed. There's a link hiding in my post ... and the first paragraph under Section II: Land Use Controls in Houston from the previously linked article reveals my point:

Don't places like Houston have things like street width and parking minimums in place of strict zoning? The problem isn't necessarily that you can build anything anywhere, but rather that you have to make giant parking lots next to everything.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 06:14

Baronjutter: Dec 31, 2007; "Tiny Trains"

The Butcher posted:

Man I wonder why rental vacancies are so tight...

Imagine this copy pasted over 80% of the city. Grey being SFH.

Again video games are the solution here. I've done it in sim city many times. When your city starts getting tight you just bulldoze most of the low density parts and replace them with medium and high.

Increasing density in single family areas?! All density must be placed in certain politically allowable areas that become so expensive to develop only huge towers make economic sense, while low density areas can be preserved in amber forever.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 06:16

the talent deficit: Dec 20, 2003; self-deprecation is a very british trait, and problems can arise when the british attempt to do so with a foreign culture

Femtosecond posted:

It looks like the City of Vancouver is interested in going ahead with rezoning part of the Mount Pleasant Industrial Area into allowing much higher density commercial with special density bonuses for "digital" use. Coincidentally this includes the parcel of land that Westbank CEO Ian Gillespie and Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes bought in 2015.

Leveraging Hootsuite hype and dangling the possibility of politically attractive green tech jobs into getting his land upzoned before Hootsuite fizzles seems like a pretty decent backup plan for Mr Holmes.

hootsuite already operate out of that site. what are they proposing to change? allowing taller buildings on the site?

# ? Oct 20, 2016 08:40

RealityWarCriminal: Aug 10, 2016

Femtosecond posted:

Zoning Chat: A guy made a cool 3D map of Vancouver zones http://maps.nicholsonroad.com/zones/

Jesus Christ. I never realized how undense Knight St and Boundary are. Even the Canada Line isn't that dense.

Would love to see a map like this for Metro Vancouver.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 10:05

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

the talent deficit posted:

hootsuite already operate out of that site. what are they proposing to change? allowing taller buildings on the site?

Need to be ready for their explosive growth.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 12:51

Guigui: Jan 19, 2010; Winner of January '10 Lux Aeterna "Best 2010 Poster" Award

Guest2553 posted:

They what? One of his crew what??

Sorry, that will teach me not to phone post on a Blackberry. The SA forums are glacier slow on this Q10. Not sure why 15+ year old forum software causes this machine to move to a crawl, but there you go.

At any rate, it was one of those huge buildings I St. Jamestown. Needless to say, one of the fireman was yelling expletetives, and when we peeked around the corner to have a look I seemed that they were standing a little too close to the mass of flaming feces when it dislodged and fell on him. Good thing he was wearing a helmet I gues

It wasn't the first time either - another time an old lady was strolling near the side entrance when she got soaked by a fecal waterfall. Some balconies would be covered in pidgeon poop, and eventually the health inspectors would force management to clean it up, so they would just hose it all down, and let it trickle 8 balconies down until I hit the bottom. We quickly learned that growing any sort of potted plant on our balcony was a big no-no unless we wanted to eat 'organic fertilizer' with our peppers.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 14:16

Rime: Nov 2, 2011; by Games Forum

Guigui posted:

unless we wanted to eat 'organic fertilizer' with our peppers.

Guano is one of the most effective natural fertilizers, so your peppers would have been hella absurd? Is this one of those white people things about avoiding the gross reality of food production?

# ? Oct 20, 2016 14:41

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

Ideally it wouldn't be spread all over the leaves, though.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 15:26

peter banana: Sep 2, 2008; Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

The concept of "the cottage" just came up at work and I implied that maybe, just maybe no one needs to buy a cottage because it's unnecessarily expensive, of minimal benefit, that's what resorts and rentals are for and it's weird and pathetic to spend all of your holidays and weekends in the same podunk town on the same podunk lake. My coworker (who often talks about how much she dislike her kids, apropos of nothing, but in fairness that's all of my coworkers) said that I would have to tell that to "her son's vanity," as he "often ask when they are getting their cottage." And therefore she is seriously considering buying one "as an investment."

Her son is 11.

This country is so hosed.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 15:34

Femtosecond: Aug 2, 2003

the talent deficit posted:

hootsuite already operate out of that site. what are they proposing to change? allowing taller buildings on the site?

Hah you know what I'm actually not totally sure what the major benefit of the rezoning would be. I assumed it would be a very obvious and simple increase in Floor Space Ratio to 5.0, which it would be if this site were I1 (currently FSR 3), but it's M1, which already is at FSR 5.0. Looking at the M1 zoning (PDF) it looks like there could be some restrictions on how much of the industrial space could be used for Office use, so the big benefit could be that one goes from FSR 1.0 for office to FSR 3.0 for "digital" office use. This would make the property much more flexible and attractive.

Here's the PDF of the City proposal again http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/mount-pleasant-industrial-area-oct-2016-open-house-information-displays.pdf

# ? Oct 20, 2016 15:54

Guigui: Jan 19, 2010; Winner of January '10 Lux Aeterna "Best 2010 Poster" Award

Rime posted:

Guano is one of the most effective natural fertilizers, so your peppers would have been hella absurd? Is this one of those white people things about avoiding the gross reality of food production?

Unfortunately I don't know the anser to that. I am not aware of other cultural practices that would resemble the equivalent of taking a dump in a watering can, mixing it up, and the applying it to a ready-to-eat product, but food-safety wise it is a big no-no.

I should clarify that this was when our peppers were fully grown. It's a little unpalpable to pick them after they jsut got covered in animal feces and sand.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 16:04

peter banana: Sep 2, 2008; Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

Guigui posted:

Unfortunately I don't know the anser to that. I am not aware of other cultural practices that would resemble the equivalent of taking a dump in a watering can, mixing it up, and the applying it to a ready-to-eat product, but food-safety wise it is a big no-no.

I should clarify that this was when our peppers were fully grown. It's a little unpalpable to pick them after they jsut got covered in animal feces and sand.

did you not have access to running water at that time? To wash off the fertilizer?

# ? Oct 20, 2016 16:09

ocrumsprug: Sep 23, 2010; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Update on the ongoing saga of a bunch of my partners co-workers, trying to cash in on the Site C dam construction. There was a bit of a buying frenzy up in the north when BC Hydro announced the project, because land speculation is always a guaranteed thing when you are talking about here.

BC Hydro made another announcement today.

quote:

The massive $8.3-billion dam project remains controversial, with at least one court challenge by First Nations underway, but crews continue working away from a home base overlooking the Peace River that is really more of a small town.

�The facilities are amazing,� said Ron Casavant, a heavy-equipment operator from Tumbler Ridge on a break between shifts.

Workers have lived in a temporary camp since the start of construction last year, but now they�re gradually moving into the dedicated camp, known as the Two Rivers Lodge, which was built by a consortium led by Calgary-based Atco Structures and Logistics.

The town itself won't even see the benefits of the construction because they just built a town with all the entertainment needs for the entire construction crew at the site itself. :laffo:

# ? Oct 20, 2016 17:24

Subjunctive: Sep 12, 2006; ✨sparkle and shine✨

Hubbert posted:

I've got a lot of recommendations, BUT my absolute favorite book on zoning theory is A Better Way to Zone: Ten Principles to Create More Liveable Cities from Don Elliott. It's a fairly riveting read that explains everything about zoning - how it's evolved over the past 90+ years (looking at other variants, such as form-based code / performance zoning / planned unit developments / etc), the current problems endemic to the primary form of zoning we see in most cities (best described as "hybrid-Eucliean"), and how communities go about addressing these issues (the ten principles). It has a permanent place on my shelf.

Thanks!

# ? Oct 20, 2016 17:32

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

ocrumsprug posted:

Update on the ongoing saga of a bunch of my partners co-workers, trying to cash in on the Site C dam construction. There was a bit of a buying frenzy up in the north when BC Hydro announced the project, because land speculation is always a guaranteed thing when you are talking about here.

BC Hydro made another announcement today.

The town itself won't even see the benefits of the construction because they just built a town with all the entertainment needs for the entire construction crew at the site itself.

Guys will still go into town for loving and fighting, so there will still be some benefit. Mostly to for police revenues and liquor stores.

# ? Oct 20, 2016 17:41

Lexicon: Jul 29, 2003; I had a beer with Stephen Harper once and now I like him.

this thread's gonna love this one: http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/n...on-tells-ottawa

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ocrumsprug: Sep 23, 2010; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Lexicon posted:

this thread's gonna love this one: http://www.financialpost.com/m/wp/n...on-tells-ottawa

Who are they trying to fool with that 1200 person HQ claim?

# ? Oct 20, 2016 20:55

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