herbie

I've serviced computers for over 40 years from Commodore Vic20s to 64s, Amigas, Windoze boxes, Macs and Linux server banks. Closed my storefront 8 years ago and still work out of my home. If you ask I question I might be able to help. I won't call you names, I work with so many seniors so I hold it all in dealing with computer stuff. Just don't ask about gaming, I stay away from that. Business & home productivity stuff mainly. Run at home w an iPhone, iPad, older Mac mini, Windows 11 laptop, Win10 Ryzen desktop and a Raspberry Pi to play with and an Ubuntu backup server. Biggest piece of advice I'll give you is buy an external drive and back your shit up at least monthly. Documents, Pictures, Music - the OS can be reinstalled easily. Kinda sick of everyone waiting until their system is completely FUBAR and asking me to fix it by tomorrow. 2nd is don't buy X because it's "cheaper than Y" and the brand name means SFA 3rd the idiot at BestBuy doesn't know shit, he sells vacuums on Monsay, TVs on Weds and computers on Saturday. He's pushing that Antivirus just to make an extra $2 commission. Go ahead and ask, I've been at this game as long as Bill Gates has.

You heard what I offer as a better solution. 1. Decriminalize possession of small amounts in all Canada 2. Allow Doctors to prescribe and monitor alternatives 3. Increase support for mental health services 4. Lock up dealers for a LONG TIME. Forcing people into rehab doesn't work. Shit my kid checked out within 24 hrs several times, he literally dragged his ass out of hospitals bleeding, stroked out, broken bones and gave the usual litany about stoopid doctors, all a plot, etc. etc. because he was Jonesing for a hit. The Band Office runs a few centres here deep in the bush and ppl have still died trying to walk back to town. Some addicts just go into rehab or jail just to get fed and gain strength so they can go right back to it again.

Which does not work! Look at almost 100 years of evidence when forming your opinion. Countries with the death penalty still have the same problem, or you wouldn't read about the executions all the time. States with 3 strikes laws have even more prisoners than we do. Countries like Portugal have actually seen progress.

Quit referring to the protesters as the truckers. Over 90% of truckers are vaxxed. The protesters were condemned by both the Teamsters and Independent Truckers Assn. Who all knew, unlike the morons in the convoy that you can't get into tjhe USA without being vaxxed, so you'd never have the problem getting back into Canada. Who knew no one was being forced to get the vax, that's total shit. Who know that Trudeau doesn't sit there issuing orders, he handed it off to Health Authorities who can only make border policy and Health is a Provincial responsibility, they made the mask mandates. They have a clue how government works, you don't just march off with a fucking Internet petition and demand some authority do what you imbecilically think they can. And I'm not about to constantly pull figures from out of my ass and claim they're "actual facts". The convoy was merely a Northern Trumpist collection of disgusting racists, fascists, sovereign person dotards blowing off steam. People who want to believe the PM is a dictator because they're not capable or unwilling to think for themselves and need someone else to order what they can eat for breakfast or what Church to attend. People who freely made their own choice and want to throw tantrums on the floor because of the consequences. But of course to such children a sore arm for a day is 'severe side effects'.

The 90% are the ones who got vaxxed. The other 10% are morons who think the loudest counts, sort of a squeaky wheel mentality. Fuck you you're a majority, you're a fart in a tornado. So who gives a flying fuck about you quoting the booster shot rates... they're already better protected than you. The reason we don't give a shit about you lot is because there's a possibility we might get Covid and get the sniffles, whereas there's a better possibility you'll fucking die. There's 350-400 truckers in this little town and ONE rig and three pickups dragging the flag in the dirt showed up to protest and got mostly the finger. The other 350 were working to feed their kids.

I didn't quit my fucking job because I'm chickenshit of a needle. And I sure as hell don't blame other people for the choices I made myself. We the 90% don't give a flying fuck about you anymore, other than to abandon support of any elected official that thinks you're worth catering to. Enjoy the consequences of your choice, you made it.

What makes you think you have the slightest right to know? Does GM have to tell you what it charged your neighbour, or what the repair shop charged someone else? And what does your demand have to do with democracy in the least? The name of this website is re:politics. Maybe some of you should learn the meaning of what that is, and at least a minimal knowledge of how it works.

Don't matter. Once a Covidiot always a covidiot. Facts don't matter to adults who still cover their ears and yell nyah nyah I'm not listening....

What? You lost your job cuz you wouldn't get a vax? And it's everyone else's fault your political bullshit is more important to you than feeding your family? Wasn't your own choice was the evil Trudeau goblin.... right.... Didn't think the value of your opinon could sink below zero.

Once again you repeat who to blame rather than offer any solution. In BC overdose deaths were outpacing deaths from Covid, people died because ambulances were tied up with overdoses and the cost of dealing with addiction, associated crime, added emergency care are rising. Try a nice stroll around Hastings and main and avoid the discarded needles and passed out addicts in every other doorway. It's more than obvious that using the LAW hasn't worked, doesn't work and never will work so pointing out the law itself is doubling down on a proven failure. These people need help, not punishment. Another fallacy you pointed to is that a few people still overdose despite clinics and safe sites, therefore it proves failure because it's not 100% effective. The same argument Covidiots use to insist vaccines are useless. Because if you get hit head on by a dump truck, a seatbelt won't help you. That you can keep smoking because some non-smokers still get lung cancer. My kid didn't OD because there were clinics and safe sites, he died because he wouldn't use them. He denied to the very end he had a problem - the stigma of entering one was too much - because the majority of us have shitty judgemental attitudes that contribute to the problem.

Funny how things return to relevance over 40 years later... -dedicated to SCOTUS, and those who feel the old fuddy duddy is a "real" conservative

Well we could fix the whole damn problem by shipping Germany gas from Alberta. Unfortunately have to go right through your backyards. And can't be finished by tomorrow at 6:00 either. All for that?

Letting the brain damaged talk among themselves.

Duh!!! the turbine were repaired HERE, not somewhere else. Quit throwing shit against wall hoping it sticks and use that thing between your ears. The turbines in the dams in BC were made in Russia. Obviously we're not gonna buy more; do you want us to shut down the dams until we get new ones just to spite Russia? WE fix them, WE have the firms that can do it cheaper/better. If someone has a helicopter bought from Russia or a Niva 4x4 and it breaks are we supposed to refuse to fix it?

No matter how high the percentage of stupid people you guess that there are, the actual number is far higher. Politics is the art of fooling most of the people most of the time. -Cornfucius

Well if you even think the Canadian gov't is capable of a conspiracy, I have a short piece of 2x4 you can clear your head with. I'll even do it for you, if you sign a waiver and pay a fee.

You keep repeating your question and ignoring any answer. That's why you're not and never would be a politician. You'd stand there with your arms crossed yelling how it's their problem while Putin fucks Germany in the ass. A politician would hand Germany some Vaseline. That's why JTs the PM and you're not.

Okay, you pointed the blame. So WTF are you gonna do about it? Reminds me of the early days of Covid when the trollers were only interested in who to blame rather than doing anything about it. And again how they ridiculed anyone or any agency that even tried. Almost no one is dying from pure drugs. No one is dying at all in safe sites. SO how does doing SFA gonna stop people dying? That's the problem everyone is trying to address.

You've had a clear and succinct statement straight from the PMs mouth. Yes we want to sanction Russia, but we aren't going to screw our allies. Germany needs the turbines to stockpile gas NOW so they can transition to other energy, which they can't do TOMORROW MORNING. Same answer I giver my Greenie nephew. We can't turn off our furnaces and park our cars tomorrow morning, we need to transition so we don't crash the whole damn country. Are you all so stuck on only black or white you'd fuck over Germany thinking you'd prove something?

Your comment equating safer and easier isn't exactly correct. I use the same reasoning as my Mom did, a 1948 nursing grad about abortion. People have already made that personal decision (abortion/doing drugs), I do not agree with them at all, but acting to make it safe is the only proper thing to do.

No limit to how low a Russian Troll will stoop.

Some of it created by Pharma. Most of it created by mental health problems - some people have addictive personalities, heroin, meth, alcohol. The small step of decriminalizing will remove the stigma and allow them to be treated as is alcoholism. A medical condition. I lost my own son to an overdose late last year. In the last 25 years the only time he was straight was when he was in jail. He was always in jail for stealing shit to buy drugs. For years he could only find work close to the methadon clinic, pretty damn limiting. Couldn't bring him home as there's zero facilities or help up country. Like many intravenous users (and they don't mention this) he stroked out. No one @ social services did their job and gave a shit, someone brought the drugs he OD'd on into the hospital. Could've been your car he stole, your house he broke into, your store he robbed. Wouldn't it have been better if he could've got a prescription, made your burgers or framed your house and paid taxes? I agree with you on many things. Slam the hammer down on the dealers and importers. Far too many are getting too light a sentence for bringing in fentanyl. Give em life w 25 years AFAIC

Yeah that's why our roads don't get plowed when the monthly budget ran out on the 15th... why a 6 pack is $5 more and they only stock the top sellers at the beer store.

Observe. Pot was illegal until a few years ago. Selling it without a license is still illegal. Possessing small amoujnts of other drugs is no longer prosecuted here in BC. if an agency sold them, it would be able to control the price and quality. Overdose deaths would go down. They're close to zero in safe injection sites. Tha law is the law ( oink, oink! ) is no counter argument, it's the problem.

They're not businesses, they're services.