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Periphery posted:It's probably not worth the effort or cost associated with collecting the money or the long term costs of negative societal impacts of dumping a 400k+ cost on someone if they can't easily afford it. A user pays system for emergency services is a loving stupid idea. Actual search and rescue costs nowhere near that much. Here you're not obligated to pay it back when you need to be rescued (it's generally people who get lost skiing/snowboarding) but a very large number of the people who are rescued donate the cost of their rescue to S&R. It's usually in the $5-10k range, and that's usually including the use of a helicopter to try and find and/or extract them. The medical bills afterwards, on the other hand, might come up to that much depending on the injury.
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Anidav posted:I put on my shorts and cowboy hat. hahahahah
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Feb 12, 2016 07:39
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Gorilla Salad posted:Think of a man spinning around holding a bucket on a string. With the bucket being the Earth and the man being the sun. Wait but shouldn't gravity be pulling things towards the sun, doing the opposite of the centrifugal force with the bucket?? I'm not even taking physics but now I need to know how this works
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Feb 20, 2016 21:38
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Birb Katter posted:It is doing that but gravity doesn't have anywhere near as much force so it's not going to have much effect. What's the force that's pulling things out of the solar system then?
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Feb 20, 2016 21:46
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Birb Katter posted:Nothing is pulling them out, earths momentum is pushing it out. Ahhhh cool, thanks!
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Feb 20, 2016 21:56
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Solemn Sloth posted:That's just a product of the earths inertia. Reduce it to Newtonian laws and it becomes simpler. Science is so loving cool.
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Feb 20, 2016 22:37
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Birb Katter posted:That was your take away from this? Me, I'm finding a bucket and a string and going to spin around in circles giggling at how fun spinning buckets are. Also a good plan.
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Feb 20, 2016 22:40
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That's so loving terrible. http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-21/asylum-seekers-leave-nauru-for-life-in-canada/7187416
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Feb 22, 2016 01:34
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I'm the first to admit I speed way too much and occasionally break other road rules to make my life easier but jesus loving christ how are you so loving stupid as to not realize that if you hit someone at a pedestrian crossing that is ALWAYS your fault?? You shouldn't have a drivers license, holy poo poo.
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Feb 22, 2016 23:48
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Laserface posted:
Yeah, you should be careful as a pedestrian because sometimes drivers aren't paying attention, but if they hit you in a crossing, it's still their fault.
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Feb 23, 2016 01:02
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A Saucy Bratwurst posted:If you are driving safely and to the law a d someone walks in front of you cause you banned being able to hear a car cause you are a weenie and it intimidates you, its not your fault. Uh, yeah, it is. I drive a Prius. If I start driving slowly enough, the gas engine cuts out completely and it's silent. And yet I've still never hit anyone with my car, because I'm a responsible person and understand that driving safely enough to NOT HIT loving PEOPLE WITH MY CAR is a major part of being allowed to have a driver's license.
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Feb 23, 2016 02:17
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My husband's family owned a Mitre 10 in small town NSW which he ran for like 10 years and he's like "yeah the poo poo they had to deal with..." He usually paid his female employees more than the men because they'd work twice as hard just to get "thanks sweetheart can you get me one of the men on the floor to help me find a nail?" Also my husband knows literally nothing about hardware despite running the store, and whenever a male customer would be talking to him and a female staff member they'd always ask everything and look exclusively at him and he'd just go "I don't know why you're asking me, I don't know anything about this, but she does!"
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Feb 23, 2016 04:00
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In the Canadian housing bubble thread we're bemoaning the fact that if house prices in Vancouver drop 20-30% that still takes us back to literally last year's prices.
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Feb 23, 2016 23:49
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We have pedestrian crossing lights here, but I've never seen them anywhere else in the province, and the lights don't have a walk symbol or anything for the pedestrians to know it's safe to walk. So they hit the button, and the light flashes to make cars stop, but then the pedestrians don't see anything change in front of them so they wonder if it works and they're allowed to cross, and so they just stand there while the lights flash without crossing and basically it's a great way to lose faith in humanity. The lesson here is to put a walk symbol for the pedestrians too! It's actually a bit baulking, I KNOW how it works and even I feel weird pressing the button and just immediately walking without anything having to change. They're such a good idea though. Makes it sooo much easier to know when there's pedestrians around in places without great vision of the sidewalks, especially at night.
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Feb 25, 2016 02:35
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Birb Katter posted:Pedestrians should all be given rocket propelled grenades. That way they can fight back at cars with the equivalent firepower. Cars will be a lot more polite when it comes to giving way to pedestrians when they can be blown to bits at the drop of a hat. 
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hooman posted:"People are ignoring the problems that I, a white straight male, have!" I think that is in fact what he is arguing, that there are more important things to worry about.
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