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BOOM! Trump Fined $10,000 for violating gag order
herbie replied to Rebound's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
1933 Louisiana Judge Elmo Bigguns rules names and addresses of jurors must be turned over to Al Capone's lawyers. -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
15 years ago there were no BEVs and no charging stations at all. Now many are using the exact same argument (they aren't there R.F> now) with hydrogen. Also worth noting is the related development of ammonia as an easier to transport fuel source. -
When I lost my wife, the dog kept my sanity. Would've sunk into a long dark depression if not for BarK! Bark! Feed me! Take me for a walk. Let's go visit your daughter;s dog. Go for a car ride Let me on the bed, I'll cuddle you. It's time for Hudson & Rex woof woof He's also spent since spring doing bear patrol all along the edges of the property if I step outside in the evening. And no one has to press the doorbell, he's it. Disposer of pepperoni butt ends, sharer of peanuts & popcorn. Strikes fear into the hearts of BabyBel cheeses. If you don't understand the value of pets, you never will. I was always a cat person, this is the first dog that adopted me.
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Had a friend managing a townhouse complex back around 1990. Representatives from a local Band Office demanded to know why he refused to rent to a family even after they'd made him go and get references as required. The reference from a previous landlord stated not to rent to these people under any circumstances, they'd lit a fire on the lino when the gas was cut off, punched holes in the wall and plugged the sinks and toilet with plaster when he served the eviction notice. One Band rep tried the line "you said they needed a reference, you didn't say good or bad one...." Was once a slobby 20 something that rented a place with 3 other guys... had to rent for a while and know the damage raising 12-16 yr olds do. Two units w young families on our street with mountains of empties on the porch and diapers spread all over the neighbourhood by bears, both landlords needed to go to court to get them out. One lived there 4 years and never cut the lawn. I could easily buy the vacant house next door and rent it out but even the seller won't ever do that again. I do have a friend in Prince George who built a unit in her basement, but she'll only do short term AirBNB. No market here for that or a quick flip, so house next door stays vacant.
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BOOM! Trump Fined $10,000 for violating gag order
herbie replied to Rebound's topic in Federal Politics in the United States
Syrprised he hasn't been charged with Jury Tampering yet. -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
DISC channel will have a new show, guys buying $25,000 Dodge Neons and restoring them. Flogging them for $75,000 which will be half the price of new subcompacts by then. FB listings for 2025 F150s for twice the price they were bought for.... -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
Obviously... or there will be a hell of a lot of old vehicles on the road. Already tickes me off at how many pre-DRL vehicles I see on the highways. -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
In 2021, B.C. exported 11.4 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity and imported 7.5 TWh. Site C is not online yet and will produce up to 6.1 TW per year. There's barely any solar & wind here, it hasn't been needed, tidal is being tried with minimal effort and geothermal is laughable here in the most active part of Canada. We saw that research paper, but the 'demand for EV charging' is overly speculative at best. You obviously can;t run only BEVs the huge distances here, so the supposed 'growth' in vehicle use is a wild pessimistic guess. This is not half a billion people in Europe with hundreds of years of rail transit. You gotta realize this 2035 'no ICE' vehicles ban is to make you get an EV or transit to go to work and back, not to go grocery shopping in Fort St John only on the day the supply train gets in or make the residents of Stewart pay to get bread and milk dropped from planes. When most people have PHEVs w 100km battery range, fuel cell vehicles, and they actually improve the mileage of ICE engines the rules will change. Like i said in another thread, ten years later the rating on a Jeep like mine has improved only 0.1L/100km. That's utter bullshit. And the kids here "needs" and F350 4x4 with the biggest honking engine they make. costs more than a house and lives in Mom's basement. Slow learners all of us. -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
It costs to separate the H2 any way you do it. Electricity is one of the cheapest and easiest ways. Same way as rhe fake panic over charging EVs, at night when peak use is down. And behind dams where the water already is. Or with wind that also blows at night,, tidal and geothermal and solar on sunny days. Only a couple years ago green electrical production also was 'too expensive', it sure isn't now. We use what we have, we solve the problems that come up. We don't bow to vested interests to influence what must be done. Just think, a fuel cell that delivers tha power in your car eliminates any range anxiety about going CO2 free, But it then will face the ire of battery companies too. Take the water. Electrolyse the water. release the oxygen into the air. Burn the hydrogen ebacki as water vapor, it rains back down, fills the dam to start it again. Perfect renewable and sustainable cycle. -
Battle over Water Rights
herbie replied to impartialobserver's topic in State Politics in the United States
It's time to take some actual steps to addressing water problems in that area. Even in British Columbia that makes Seattle seem like Sunny City experience water problems the last few summers. The replanting and greenery coverage are a couple ideas people are promoting here where room temperature is considered a hot day and evaporation is the least of our problems. -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
Of course it does, the oil companies OWN natural gas. Just like ethanol ONLY comes from corn.... no human has ever made alcohol from anything else! Where else does hydrogen come from? What's 70% ov the planet made of? -
How Electric Cars Save The Planet
herbie replied to reason10's topic in Health, Science and Technology
I's argue for hydrogen but they've already convinced everyone that the most abundant element in the universe is too expensive to obtain. -
Of course there will be. They'll figure out there's money to be made from oil besides by burning it. ie Plastic. Plastics are made from oil, people also gripe about plastic pollution because it doesn't degrade. So make things that need to last a long long time out of it, and you 'capture' the carbon in the oil instead of burning it. You'll see a hell of an increase in plastic based building materials soon. Just one of the uses for oil where demand will increase.
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It's socialism because I said so. Socialism bad because I said so. The fall of the USSR proves UBI won't work. Some of my money might go to lazy people, they should just die. The feds will run it and the feds are bad because I said so. Whatever the feds study must be bad, cuz I said so. Has anyone got an actual reasoned argument against it?
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Battle over Water Rights
herbie replied to impartialobserver's topic in State Politics in the United States
Far and away the most racist pig on the Board. You must be proud., Spelling's atrocious too. Diesel powered desalinization plants what clever idea... in 1949 maybe. -
Lose the Protestant Work Ethic and think with your wallet. There's always been a handful of people who don't want to work and always will be. Pretending they're a significant portion is just scapegoating and doesn't benefit anyone at all. Every single one of them needs to eat, be housed, clothed, schooled, use medical treatment so whatever they get, they spend. In your business, place of work or for your services. So it comes back. The economy is not how much money you have in your poclket, the economy is how much money is changing hands. So if you want to benefit no one at all, just so some won't benefit.... that's on you.
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For both of you: there were BC Liberals and Conservatives into the 1990s. The Social Credit Party held BC from 1952 until 1991 except for a short NDP govt 1972-5. It was a "Fee Enterprise" party with enough brains to do things modern "Conservatives" would resist and keep the ones the short NDP govt did because they made sense. They staled out, just like their Alberta counterparts. In 1991 the NDP won again and the Liberal Party made significant gains in popularity and sears also at Socred expense. Unfortunately there was a major scandal when their leader dumped his wife for a fellow Liberal MLA which enraged the Puritans on the right. Seizing the opportunity the remaining Liberals, Socreds, Conservatives and the Fart in a Windstorm of BC Reform ousted the leader and took over the BC Liberals as the "Free Enterprise" coalition. They ousted the NDP in 2001. Today there are still remnants of the old Social Credit, including the current leader of the Opposition. They remain intelligent enough not to squander cash cows like ICBC and the Carbon Tax or necessary rules like the Agricultural Land Reserve just to surrender to populism. That's the job of the new Conservative Party. And contrary to the thread's headline, as the NDP has done a decent job so far, and short of a future major scandal, the Cons will split the Opposition and ensure we will win again, a third term for the first time ever.
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Repeat: How does reducing the cost of delivering services increase the debt? Spare us the rightwing buzzwords and cliches and address the question. FFS it seems some of you think a UBI is an extra service, it replaces existing ones. CPP, OAS, EI, welfare, GST rebates, childcare subsidies and the like. You get a monthly payment, it is added to your income and it is clawed back from what income you earn. Income taxes are adjusted so you don't get less than what you formerly did and you don't get more for not working. The feds have one agency instead of a dozen, provinces and cities aren't on the hook for welfare anymore. Poverty is greatly reduced at the same time. Unless you make a lot, your taxes could go down! Use your brains instead instantly responding with knee-jerk reaction , cliches and jargon.
