Simon Says wrote on Mar 2, 2021, 01:42:

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 20:45:
*meh*... I have a small amount of sympathy for people trying to live in Manhattan, San Francisco, or other extreme housing areas. With that in mind, 500k might be a little low and something in the 60-70% range would be fine.

Unless I'm mistaken, we weren't talking about the US, we were talking about Canada. And even in Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal, 500k/year is pure overkill.

And no one needs "extreme housing" as in "way too much space per person". 1 or 2 bathrooms, 1 bedroom per occupant, a dining/kitchen combo, a living room, maybe a spare bedroom as a home office and/or for visitors. Anything more than that is hoarding space better used by other people who really need it.

I'd bet my life there is way more empty shelter space than there are homeless people in Canada. Heck in the US there are more empty HOUSES than there are homeless people, something like almost 10 to 1. This is just pure insanity.

Simon Says wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 19:16:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 17:04:
Bell CEO: "I have no idea how I got broadband internet when no one else in a 20 mile radius has it! What a strange coincidence!"

Clearly it has nothing to do with the housing value in the area... *fake pinkyswear + fingers crossed behind back*

jdreyer wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 17:04:
This is justification for a 90% income tax on any income over $5M USD.

More like 500k.

If you can't live comfortably with 500k/year, more money won't fix it. What you need is therapy.

Orogogus wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 14:56:
His answer seems to be that elites don't generally get special treatment

-- they get the same broadband options available to everyone else. And outside of this case I haven't really heard of any instances where broadband rollouts were made to conform to the residences of telecom executives or politicians.

eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 13:47:

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 13:43:

Cutter wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 13:33:
That's Canada in a nutshell. We still live under a feudal system where the elites get it all and the rest of us get F'd in the A.

And how is that different from the rest of the world?

In the rest of the world everyone gets shit internet and money doesn't solve that, because regulations and bureaucracy.... still stuck on unmetered 12mbit or metered cable.... and the reasons are multitudinous

eRe4s3r wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 13:42:
Legit never even heard of it until now, and after reading the synopsis I think that should have stayed that way

Cutter wrote on Mar 1, 2021, 13:33:
That's Canada in a nutshell. We still live under a feudal system where the elites get it all and the rest of us get F'd in the A.

RedEye9 wrote on Feb 28, 2021, 19:30:
Total program costs for the F-35 to date, $400 Billion.

Teddy wrote on Feb 28, 2021, 14:15:

Mr. Tact wrote on Feb 28, 2021, 10:34:
Question of total ignorance: So, this is a MMORPG without a monthly fee and if I grab it off Steam I'll be good to go?

Correct. It is however a game that has a cash shop and is designed to be very grindy without buying things from it. An example is you have a fairly small inventory but can buy more slots, or buy a pet that acts as a bank or a vendor. Not strictly necessary, but if you get really into playing some of these things make life complicated enough that you almost feel like you need them.

I, myself, bought it years back and never paid an additional cent. I install it now and again and play a bit, try out the new classes that have been released since I played last (they seem to regularly add new classes). That said, I rarely play it for long so the lack of convenience items never really bothers me.

Scottish Martial Arts wrote on Feb 25, 2021, 16:03:
Why would anyone want to watch television or film in an aspect ratio other than what was intended?

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Feb 25, 2021, 15:45:

RedEye9 wrote on Feb 25, 2021, 10:18:
GME continued to soar in overnight trading, currently around $12O.
Man is teh stuck.

Why are these people still buying Gamestop stock!? I can't tolerate social media influence these days. Or people's susceptibility to such influence.

The Flying Penguin wrote on Feb 25, 2021, 15:26:
Yes. And no, you don't un-age traveling inverted. You still experience aging and the progression of time, you're just inverted compared to the rest of the world. As far as we know you can only travel forward (normal time) and backwards at the same pace (it takes an hour of your time to travel backward one hour).

Which is why, like I said before, I don't think Neil can be Kat's son. He would have had to spend 15+ years inverted after he grew up, got his PhD, trained, and had adventures with the an older version of the protagonist.

The Flying Penguin wrote on Feb 25, 2021, 14:40:
Actually, DS9 was filmed in widescreen film, then cropped for 4:3. They restored 20 minutes of it from the masters, for the DS9 documentary "What We Left Behind" in widescreen HD and it's absolutely stunning. I saw it in the theater and purchased the BluRay, but it's free on Youtube right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHixW9PLsAc