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I saw that in the news, but I don't get it. What's to prevent people from sending anonymous cards to people just to get them scared and send them to the doctor? For some people it might seem like a joke, for some people it won't be such a funny joke. I don't see this lasting long unless they...

I think this is a major misconception. There's a reason that the phrase "police state" means what it does. The police are not supposed to be the bastions of freedom. In fact, their very role is to curtail freedom. The reason you need police is to make sure that one person's activities don't...

Whether that's a 60kph zone or not doesn't matter. 80kph is pretty much the minimum speed for "flow of traffic" along that stretch. At 60kph you would risk getting rear ended by a dumptruck. Regardless, you're right that we don't have the details. But why not assume that it was just like all...

Then you are probably sane. When fox news starts making sense, get some counselling. If Glenn Beck starts making sense, have yourself committed immediately.

You did. And yet the point didn't seem to have got across, so I thought I'd reiterate it. Sometimes I find that repetition is important. :)

Fair enough. As we're talking about a multi-vehicle crash, the 2/3 number is still relevant. The point is, this isn't an uncommon type of accident - why all the speculation?

If you're doing something that requires a license, for example carrying a gun, fishing, selling hot dogs from a cart, etc., I believe that might not be the case.

I thought it was kind of a dumb video. The guy basically went out of his way to be uncooperative and difficult with a law enforcement officer, when he didn't have to. The cop said it best when he noticed the camera, and said "You're trying to prove a point". His point was that you can be a...

When you start to think that crazy people are making sense, it's time to get worried about your own mental health.

No worries - I saw the original post in the notification email. I didn't take it seriously. Like most of the stuff in this thread! :)

Let's not forget that about 2/3 of motorcycle accidents involve a vehicle turning left in front of a motorcycle. This isn't a new thing or a mystery, and we don't have to be so shocked that it happened. It happens a lot, to conscientious car drivers and conscientious motorcyclists. We all...

I didn't know so many people on GTAM had such violent fantasies.

Theory is nice, but let's not forget the practical. That stretch of road is wide open, probably 3 lanes wide on each side, with a speed limit of 80kph. Anyone who has driven on it knows that 80 is the minimum, not the maximum, and that many people drive around 100kph on that piece of Hwy 7...

Cowboys and Aliens. Waste of time. Very expensive actors, very expensive special effects. If they had bothered to put a few dollars aside to pay someone to write an actual story, they might have had something decent. As it is, they wasted a good premise and a fine cast to make a ridiculous...

Many Conservative candidates in many ridings have been campaigning on social issues for many years. Note I said "has campaigned". And I meant "we" voted for them in the sense that the country did. They got a majority government, after all. They didn't get it from lack of votes.

First, we've elected a majority government led by a Prime Minister who is a fundamentalist Christian, part of a group that believes in a literal interpretation of the bible, and that the end of days is coming. We shouldn't be surprised to see the government cutting science from its budget...

I didn't read the OP's original post. I stopped at "Beware Future Shop". Agreed.

My wife returned a Macbook that she bought at the Apple store. There was nothing wrong with it. She had used it for a week before her company's IT department essentially said they wouldn't be able to support it for her. She bought a windows laptop instead, and figured she'd try to sell the...

The news article I read said that the motorcycle was eastbound on Hwy 7, just east of Hwy 50. The dumptruck was westbound. The dumptruck turned left into a driveway, and the motorcycle hit the left-turning truck. The article didn't say anything about a second motorcycle (although there was...

I'm probably not the first one to tell you - you should probably get a phone in your bedroom. Particularly if you've got kids in the house. Before we get into guns, knives, jiu jitsu training and all the rest, a phone in the bedroom is basic safety equipment for a household.