Recent content by nobbie48

I don't know how pawn shops get away with stuff either. A friend had to buy his camera back from a pawn shop.

So how will the municipalities going to milk to process. Development fees?

IIRC the following happened in Saskatchewan. A vintage canoe was stolen and sold to a third party who didn't know he was buying stolen goods. He restored or had the canoe restored and then the legal owner found out. The legal owner got the canoe back but had to pay for betterment. There's...

Dutch Auction. Drop the price weekly, daily, whatever works. You snooze you lose.

Hmmm. Is there any reason, considering how the pre-build contracts get written that the developer can't create a back door scam if the market tanks. 1) The developer gets a 20% deposit 2) If sales tank near completion he drops the price making the bank deny the mortgage on the 80% balance. A...

A developer in Oakville has kicked the market down the stairs by 40% by having a fire sale on unsold units while people that commited pre build are stuck with their original 100% deal. Some inked deals years ago for, say a million dollars, and now that it's time to finalize at higher rates...

Another RIP after too many already this year. Condolences to his family and friends.

It has to be tough being a politician, every day deciding on what special interest group, fad or work-in-progress to squander money on while skimming a bit off the top for themselves. Sensation media (Is there one that isn't?) has a similar problem, finding a subject that has some actual...

Not guilty but still out thousands in lost wages, tow and storage fees

I ran into a guy I knew a guy from a chemical plant in Mississauga and that plant had been giving production worker so much overtime for so long that their T-4s qualified them for McMansions. Then the American owner went full austerity, stopped the overtime and eventually closed the plant. I...

I'm not particularly following the technology but wonder how the cameras would respond to a picture like this.

So what does a thumping hunk of frame or?? do to the underside of the car / battery?

More Walt Disney fantasies. A veterinarian I knew commented that even well established breeds can go back generations to their wolf heritages, react to signals and turn vicious.

As a "What's it worth" reference, The Economist magazine commented that when buying something on spec one should only pay 10% of the value. This applies to things where a value can't be set and includes antiques, memorabilia, unusual machines etc. If you talk to vendors at flea markets you'll...

They also need to act like a party with unified goals. They have a few loose cannons barely being kept in check. The Liberals seem to have the unified goal, lining their own pockets.