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Nice biased adjectives to describe Apple's competitors. They all do what they were designed to do as well but you're not paying for a logo and a snobbish culture.

Those Chinese slaves will be thrilled.

Cell Phones aren't meant to last for more than a few years. You get a phone at a discounted price by signing a 3-year contract. The phone dies in two years and you need to sign another contract to buy a new phone. A friend of my wife has an iPhone 3GS. The only person I've ever seen with that phone still.

That's why All-Day Day Care ERRRRRRRRR Kindergarten is untouchable.

I'd venture a guess that you also wouldn't oppose a healthy income and/or sales tax hike right?

The cult of the Apple Nerd is something I have always found hilarious. Let's pay up to twice the price for a product that's only marginally better than it's competitor. In the iPad/iPhone's case many Android tablets/smartphones are offer a better product for less. Oh and Apple products are made by slave Chinese labour like all other electronics so saying it's of better quality than its competitors is amusing. I find people that would wait inline for an Apple product that is released every year worthy of my scorn.

Drivers are evil. We should all use the public transit that is inconvenient for a vast majority of people in Ontario.

That's why Alberta has an unemployment of 5% of course. Some jobs maybe seasonal but they more than pay for a normal salary and then people can take different seasonal jobs at slow times of the year. It actually sounds rather appealing.

Is that not the most perfect example of irony?

Ironically the policies of this government will probably force many people to leave Ontario and do just that: Go to work on the oilsands.

So the Agricultural Industry in this province is useless to you. You may think of Horse racing as just a sport but the sport benefits many people in rural Ontario. It's not like rich racehorse owners and track owners pocket the money. They've done a lot of good with the money they get from OLG. But since we're talking about how people contribute to society. How do people that work at kiosks at Service Ontario really contribute to society? How do token collectors at the TTC contribute to society? How do TV shows/Movies that get massively subsidized by the government that few people watch contribute to society? Or how about teenagers and 20 somethings who take out loans to go to university to get an already heavily subsidized degree in any number of liberal arts programs that have next to ziltch applications in getting a job that pays a living wage in today's society. Anyway here's a column from the Star that highlights why what the Liberals are doing is so so wrong. http://www.thestar.com/sports/horseracing/article/1146004--perkins-olg-changes-show-there-s-more-honesty-at-racetracks-than-at-queen-s-park?bn=1

More evidence McDalton doesn't give to flying effs about what's good for Ontario. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1146319--ontarians-oppose-olg-plan-for-more-casinos-poll-finds?bn=1

So that makes it OK

Well today they said they were closing the slots at Windsor, Fort Erie and Sarnia and it was top news on the Toronto talk radio stations and newspapers. Those aren't great racetracks and for the most part the slots do carry the joint. (As opposed to tracks like Flamborough, Woodbine, Georgian, Ottawa and Mohawk) and the negative feedback has to be being felt. The hilarious thing about it is they said they are only making $100 million at the Windsor slots as opposed to $800,000 when times were better. Who closes anything that has a $100 million profit? The blowback from this is going to be strong.

Because we're broke as fuck and have an idiot as a premiere. But at least 4-year-olds can go to school.

Call it want you want but it's a tax. How many people in this province drive? I thought there were going to be no new taxes. So this money is going to infrastructure Mr. McGuinty? http://ogca.ca/pulling-back-on-infrastructure-spending-shortsighted/ Huh? This new reveue from license levies is going into general revenue. Oh and how about this? http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/13/liberals-spinning-the-horse-manure It's a bold face lie. They aren't taking money from all-day kindergarten and putting it into the pocket of racetrack owners. They are sharing slot revenue and that money creates jobs. People are going to be jumping off this Titanic of a Province fast.

Well it's not what it was, but a lot of things aren't what they were. Do you think the province is better served pocketing 100% of that slot money. 100% of the revenue created by horse racing isn't from the slots but it helps. And it's not just Horse Racing, it feeds the Agricultural industry. It's actually the second largest agricultural sector in the province. http://value4money.ca/horse-racing-economics/ I'll concede many unprofitable tracks need to close though. I anticipate the government will have to view this from a track to track analysis of the possible return.

Who's saying Lay off teachers? The deal isn't a subsidy, it's a 10% of the slot revenue at the racetracks making purse money lucrative enough for people to invest in the industry by purchasing racehorses. That goes to paying trainers, their staff, blacksmiths, vets, people who produce feed and bedding, training centre owners etc. You know private sector jobs. A lot of spin-off employment. Now a subsidy is when the government pays to people who produce TV shows/movies no one watches and building windmills that produce very little electricity.

Tens of Thousands of jobs are on the line if they cut off this funding. I understand that this money could go to reducing the debt. But not if you put an entire industry of people out of work! Think of all the people you're putting on EI and who, if can't find suitable replacement employment wont be paying taxes. This issue proves that this government is really out of touch with the realities of the average person living in Ontario. http://www.thestar.com/sports/article/1145009--ontario-horse-racing-industry-calls-province-s-plan-to-end-slots-at-racetracks-program-irresponsible

I smoke cigars, I've never felt addicted to them. I treat them like alcohol. They give you a bit of a buzz. You can't inhale the smoke from them so the only risk of cancer is tumors in the mouth. I understand if you smoke a stogie everyday you can get addicted but that's the case with lots of stuff. The cigars I smoke only appear to be rolled tobacco, there are no filters with toxins.

Do you know what's more annoying than someone smoking near me? Going to a bar with a group of friends then some band starts to set up and you can't talk to your friends in 20+ minute intervals without yelling at the top of your lungs.

Another poll that suggests people don't give a flying F about Robocalls at this point. http://www.newstalk1010.com/News/localnews/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10357992

The US is in a much deeper hole than we ever were and Canada has replaced all the jobs lost during the 2008/9 recession. Not so south of the border. http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1143496--unemployment-rate-dips-in-february-but-job-creation-stalls?bn=1

That's exactly what's happening here. People who hate Harper are thrilled the economy is leveling out a bit.

If you can't smoke inside a house and you can't smoke outside? Where would you be able to smoke? Smelling smoke doesn't mean you're getting second hand smoke. If you're in a crowded public space that's one thing but a park? That's taking the public safety aspect and merging it with just trying to keep smokers out of site. What about a public sidewalk? Or a home owner's private patio that's close to other people's homes?