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    Felon from US and entry problems into Canada

    What's this about? Any links?
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    Chrome reports malware on "Shed of Doom" Thread

    Message is "Danger: Malware Ahead! Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on www.gtamotorcycle.com. Content from blogs.riverfronttimes.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware...
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    Explosion rocks Boston Marathon

    You should have a look at the video. The random van shows up to help the wounded. There's nobody obviously carrying an RPG in the van. Firing on someone helping wounded is against the Geneva convention. The random van guy had his freakin' kid in the van, if that tells you anything. and p.s...
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    Tree removal

    home insurance should cover tree removal after a storm.
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    Motogp 2013

    Just watched MotoGP (thanks Jamie!). Random comments: [1] Funny to see umbrella chicks at night. No sun - but I think they made the right call. [2] Notice how the women on the podium were a bit 'heavy', and covered up. Welcome to Qatar. [3] Motogp podium winners are always very small and...
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    Kawi ZX6R Oil Filter screwed way too tight by a dealer

    ok what is that?
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    If the govt. was planning to tap depositors, they would never broadcast it. Even dumb*** Cyprus didn't do that. So you're never going to see that written as a possibility. You don't grab depositors' money because it's too nutty. What happens to Cyprus now - now that they're back in the...
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    Any female riders in the Barrie area?

    ummmmm I think you meant "...females who ride....."
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    ^ Cyprus is going after the depositors, i.e. people like you and me who have bank accounts. The Canadian govt. is talking about bad things happening to people who own bank bonds, i.e. not going after depositors. Both deposits and bonds are 'liabilities' of the bank, (in that the banks owe...
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    In following quote guy says that 'bail-in debt' is grabbing depositor money: "So if the banks take extreme risks with their money and lose, “certain bank liabilities” (i.e. deposits) will rapidly be converted into “regulatory capital” and the banks will be saved." That is NOT what the Canadian...
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    Insane motorcycle riding in Lisbon

    is it just me or is the rider less under control than he should be? seems a little sloppy and wandering around?
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    I sure don't feel sorry the Russian thug money that's got tangled up in this. (And I don't think Russian billionaires made their money by hard work. Poor Russian people have never had good govt.) It's just weird on many counts. The banks fall overthemselves to attract funny money. Then...
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    ahaha "Magic Clerk" from Jay Leno show

    5:02 mins long http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTbfkQox2uk
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    ^ Egon's a tin foil hat guy. No wikipedia entry even.
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    CDIC is a federal govt. agency and with same credit rating as the federal govt. The whole point of CDIC is to guarantee deposits in banks (to limits) so there won't be a run on the banks. The federal govt. has a huge tax base to draw on, or can just print money if it has to make good - so...
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    Coming to a bank near you!

    Well it is weird. If a bank gets in trouble, the shareholders get whacked first, then the bondholders and finally the depositors. The govt. typically guarantees depositors up to some maximum (in Canada it's $100K). Since the Euro crisis there's been lots of cases where the bondholders took...
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    Highside - and then the bike keeps going

    one minute and 2 seconds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNMdv23Z3Vc
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    Investment Help

    ha ha. I had a 'sure thing' on a short which was trading, say $10 at the time. Well, yes it did go to $0.50 - but in the meantime went to $30. I was too scared to short but I would've had my head handed to me.
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    Investment Help

    ^ A lot of people indeed do follow charts but it's a pseudoscience. I doubt you will find it taught in a graduate level finance course and I understand there's maybe one paragraph about it in the CFA course materials. And it says that people like it since it's easy to understand. So I...
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    Investment Help

    oh for sure those seminars are marketing tools for the advisors. If you just want stock trading knowhow first of all save yourself a lot of grief and forget about day trading (not to be confused with high frequency trading). Just can't be done, for many technical reasons. Google day trading...
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