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I haven't researched the surveillance cameras in the UK but get the impression they are part of a massive complex. Most are private and estimates range in the millions. The country seems to be evenly split between pro and con with privacy acceptance. There's lots of info on Wikipedia. Not for...

Too many. RIP to all. Condolences to families, coworkers and friends

Years ago I was on a service call at a condo and got talking to the assistant super. He started working at Goodyear in Mimico straight out of high school. Thirty years later he was driving a fork lift. Then they closed the plant and he got a sweetheart severance. He partied that away in a year...

Doing welfare checks?? They don't even deliver packages to people that are home. The person could be dead on the porch and they wouldn't notice.

The condo game has its share of cons. One building I used to service had a PM that forged paperwork to get property improvement loans which he pocketed before he disappeared somewhere overseas. The condo was on the hook until they were able to prove the lender didn't do due diligence on the...

A union is a business and like any other business the first sign of death is to stop growing. What options does union leader have for another career when the financial truth can no longer be denied? How much does a union leader make?

but rock is just like really hard dirt and if I touch it my hands get dirty.

I knew a Dutchman, Harry, who came from the Netherlands just after WWII. When he left, he noted that the canals, bridges and infrastructures looked like ant hills with men working using wheelbarrows and shovels to fix war damage. When he went back for a visit ten years, later work was...

FIFY

A friend pays $600 a month for insurance on his Lincoln. The video told why.

I don't know CP cost stats so I just picked out a number. If the loading and unloading costs represented 90% of the cost, the administration of the costs of travel might exceed any price adjustments. It's the super-size me equivalent. The service cost is the same for medium or large drinks or...

What does it cost to put in the boxes? They seem to come in 16 pack modules with a few modules per station. I can't see the government doing anything for less than $2000 a box, $32,000 per module. Actually, that would be cheap and if the box is on road allowance does the homeowner get any...

When my late brother was a cop he would occasionally call me warning of a blitz. Most of the blitz was for statistics. If seeing a lot of cops around how does it affect crime rates, collisions etc.

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...