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Went to look this morning. $53 for the long and $62 for the regular? Too rich for my blood. I'm not too keen on the guard choices, either. Personally, I prefer the size of the guard on the NUK5. Oh well.. Maybe some day the price and options will come down...

I was there as well; awesome show. I was packing ponchos in my backpack just in case, though. I did, however, wear proper footwear, I couldn't imagine being one of the many people walking around in flip flops in the mud. How close did you get?

Reasons like this are why corporate tax cuts are good. Timmy's is a company that had $2.56 Billion in revenue in 2010. Without low taxes, that revenue (and nearly $650 million in income) would be mainly taxed in the USA. If there is one company like that, I'm sure there are more.

How about the rainbow party. It's Red, Orange, Green and Blue with lots of other colours in between. AFAIK there is no such party, but you could invent it.

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Normally, with a democracy, those whacked out laws don't pass in the parliament, congress or whatever forum they're introduced in. If they do pass, they've also got to get through the senate (otherwise known as the sober second thought). I don't agree with the Senate as it is represented in Canada (unelected appointees), I would sooner see an elected Senate like our neighbours south of the border. With a totalitarian government, if the leader doesn't like something he can make a law against it. At least in a democracy there are checkpoints in place. Those numbers, the amount of people who voted, and who they voted for. I have an interesting argument, Ozzy, and it might provoke some thought from you. 61.4% of Canadian people voted in the past election. That means 38.6% of people didn't vote. In my opinion, if you don't vote, that means you're accepting whoever is elected in the election. So if 39.6% of the people voted conservative, and that is the majority vote of any party (not any wing), than the 38.6% of those who didn't vote also indirectly support them as well. That makes a loose 78.2%. A conservative victory was predicted, though it wasn't known if it would be a majority or a minority. If those people had a fraction of the passion against the conservatives that you have, they would have gotten off the collective asses and voted. I realise it is a weak argument, but it is valid.

No doubt about the quality of green outside of May. It reminds me of some of the new NDP MP's in Quebec. They need some time to develop the party, which will happen with funding and time. I think the more people see what she can do, and how she does it, the more people that will take her/them seriously. Once you get people thinking of them seriously, they're bound to get more serious people running in the ridings.

I didn't intend to infer that you were a liberal. If I came across that way, my apologies; I wouldn't want to be called a Liberal, either. In my observation, there is a BIG difference between the Conservatives and the Progressive Conservatives. Former Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams, former New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord were Progressive Conservatives. I'm a huge fan of both of these politicians. I wouldn't hesitate to vote for either of them in a federal election. The Progressive Conservatives, as their name indicates are just that: progressive. Closer to middle right than they are to right-wing. The Conservatives are the united right. An (unholy?) union of the federal Progressive Conservatives, the Reform and the Canadian Alliance parties. In my humble opinion, the two former have a much higher tendency to be severely right-wing. The union created a toned down version of the Reform party, or a more conservative than progressive Conservative party. (If that makes any sense). If you think Harper is right wing, take a look at the Tea Party in the US. That is about as far-right as you can get. Scary right in my opinion. Vote splitting is a touchy subject. The liberals, NDP, Bloc and Green are all leftist parties. I voted Green. I wouldn't have voted Liberal this time around. Didn't like the leader - didn't like the platform. I wouldn't have voted NDP. As much as I could do the math, I couldn't make Jacks plan make sense in my head. I like Jack, just not what he's saying. If I were a citizen of Quebec, I wouldn't have voted Bloc. I believe their platform is decidedly selfish and borders on Treason. If the Liberals and NDP merged with each other and their platforms were similar some bastardized mix of what they have now, I still wouldn't vote for them. If the Green joined in, I still wouldn't have voted that way. In that case I would likely have voted Conservative. If Elizabeth May ran a united left, and the party embodied her spirit, then I would likely go with that party. Assuming that those who voted Liberal would vote for a merged party, or those that voted NDP might vote for a merged party are flawed. Chances are most would. Some/most might. Some might feel they're too left and vote otherwise. It's not guaranteed. It (the merge) did work for the Conservative, but even that union has it's people that aren't satisfied. I am keeping an open mind for the next four years. Who knows, he might do well.

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Ozzyfan4077; I'll be honest - I don't like the liberals, more specifically, I don't like the liberals as led by Iggy, Steph, Paul or Jean. I may like them with another leader, but right now I simply don't like them. That being said, I don't understand how Newfoundland could elect so many liberals, especially when the rest of the country threw them to the curb. Now, I may not agree with the way someone votes, but I certainly would not call them an idiot or hate them for voting the way they did. I'm actually appreciative of the fact that they did indeed vote. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- The Friends of Voltaire, 1906 I understand, you don't like the conservatives (remember, I don't like the Liberals), but the rest of Canada shouldn't vote otherwise just because Ozzyfan said so. They'd certainly be lemmings for sure, if that were the case. And you're right - there are places in this country that will vote for a certain party every single time. One of the ridings that borders mine will vote Liberal, no matter what. The riding I live in has been Conservative (of some form) for every election since 1921, with the exception of 1997, when it went Liberal. There are ridings and demographics that will vote with certain tendencies (left-wing/right-wing) in almost every election. Some might even suggest that some provinces will vote a certain way (perhaps anything but conservative) because their (justifiably) well-like leader asked them to. Regarding the 'out west' attitude,. It was the same way when my father moved from PEI to Toronto (in 1967. He thought the Leafs were going to win every year. Could he have been any more wrong?). Everybody from down here (regardless of where they were from) were Newfies to some of the 'Upper Canadians". That attitude, though, is not usually held by the employers and supervisors who continuously head hunt for workers out here because the quality and work ethic of the workers is extremely high. drynot; Elizabeth May getting elected is excellent. I'm quite happy with that. They need more people in Parliament with the spirit she has. I've been very Green leaning for the past few years, and her non-partisan style is refreshing for me.

I know. I've been there - I envy your roads and your people. I'm much appreciative of how Danny spoke up for NBers rights when our own Liberal government tried to sell the provincial soul to Quebec (in the form of NB Power). He's a good leader- we all would be lucky to benefit from someone like him. I'm not fully aware of the situation, so I can't say the reason for the claw-back, but I can make an educated guess. Every "have" province pays into a pool, which is returned to the "have not" provinces in the form of transfer payments. It's the federal government's way of equalizing every province so we all have similar social services and such. Newfoundland and Labrador (prior to their newly found prosperity) were very much the recipients of these payments, as were the rest of the Atlantic provinces. Quebec, despite the fact that they have seemingly unlimited resources (their own, and the Labrador ones their raping in the form of Hydroelectric power) seem to reap these benefits more than any other province. Alberta and Ontario are traditionally the 'have' provinces paying into this pool, but I am no expert. I can't find a source for this other than a thing I saw on Facebook. That particular thing originated in the US and someone altered it to seem Canadian. According to Snopes, it's not true. I would rather Parliament take a break than shut the doors completely and go to an election. It certainly cost a hell of a lot less. It is also Constitutional. Yup, it was. I will paraphrase, so it's more clear. I will likely vote Green. If I lived somewhere else where the vote could be close, I would rather thrown a potentially deciding vote towards to conservatives than towards the party that is going to rape me with taxes or the party that nearly ran our country in to the ground in the past. Why do special interest groups always seem to think they deserve government cash all the time? I've had the opportunity to work in sales in the past; I've sold some of these organisations product that they did not need simply because they needed to spend the money from their budget, as if they didn't spend it that year, they wouldn't get it the next year. (This is how most government departments work, and it disgusts me - It's called 'march madness' - I didn't know it happened in NFP special interest groups that receive government money until I witnessed it with my own eyes.) I support tax breaks to 'rich corporations'. I would rather see a job stay in this country because the company can afford to do business here, than for it to leave and go overseas. Tim Hortons even moved their corporate head office back to Canada, based mainly on tax savings. That's over $2.5 billion in revenue, back on our soil. 20% tax on (whatever their profit of $2.5 billion) is better than 0% of nothing, isn't it? I can tell we're not going to agree on politics, but I will leave you with this; I may not agree with you, but I respect your opinion and and I respect your tenacity in fighting for your point of view. In the world of politics, there is no 'wrong' vote, other than perhaps the one not cast. I don't care who you vote for, just vote. Last, but not least; I think the face of Canadian politics would change a lot if we adopted something like the American style where you vote for the leader and your representative. Jack or Liz would look good trying to wrangle the rest of those hoons in parliament. Even better, though, would be proportional representation.

Exactly. I've always said, if you don't go out and vote, don't complain when you don't like what you get.

I get it. You don't like Harper. Half a billion dollars is not what made me decide not to vote Liberal or NDP. I lost faith in the liberal party a long time ago. You can thank uncle Jean for that. I can't stand watching Iggy - he just spews 'elite'. In my observation, he's simply out of touch with reality. I'm not falling for the attack ads either. The fact of the matter is that Iggy was cris-crossing the country trying to build his image when he should have been in parliament. There are some people in this country who for some reason voted him in to office - with him not voting in parliament, he is basically abandoning them - they have no voice. If he can't bother to serve the people of his riding, I can't trust him to serve the people of the country. I like Jack, but I don't like the NDP. Too social for me. If they were balanced, perhaps, but they're not. Businesses and individuals alike would suffocate under the layer of taxes Jack would have to impose on them in order to pay for the promises he's made. I think he'd make a good opposition leader - throw some far left into the far right faces. I like May. I think they are probably one of the most forward-thinking parties out there. I would have liked to hear her in the debate, but unfortunately she was not allowed. I work in an industry that would benefit greatly from a Green government, so I have no fear of job loss. And Harper - He's f'd up, sure. I'm happy to see a government that is actually putting money into our military, rather than clawing it back. Our military was suffering under Liberal rule, and was in shambles. We were sending people in to places on equipment that was unsuitable for the environment. If you read my original message, I said quite the opposite. I'm leaning towards Green. They're not going to win, but they could use the votes. In an ideal world, Canada would be under proportional representation, and they'd have seats. That being said, I see no reason not to vote Conservative in my riding (other than Harper), as my local MP has earned my trust. In the end, you tell me not to believe the attack ad's. Your whole message sounds like one against Harper. You've not shown be any benefits of the others.

You don't need to tell me to vote - I wouldn't miss it for the world. You don't need to tell me how to vote either. I live in a very blue riding; If I didn't I might vote differently. I'm debating between Conservative (as I respect my MP and have no issues with his conduct), and Green, as I have respect for their leader, but know nothing about the local candidate. I won't be voting NDP. I can't understand how they could come close to even fulfilling any of their promises without raising taxes considerably. Liberal is out of the question for me. I thought Canada suffered under the rule of Chretien and I believe Iggy is completely out of touch with Canada. Since we're spreading FUD though, I'll note the fact that Iggy has one of the worst (if not the worst) attendance record in Parliament. As the leader of the opposition, if he can't be interested enough in the government to participate, I can't trust that he'd be interested enough to run the government. I truly believe he wants nothing else than Power. In that respect he's no better than Harper, but at least Harper isn't an elitist. Likewise with the NDP, I can't see how the liberals would run the country without raising taxes. Both the NDP and Liberal parties drove us to this election. Drove us to spend half a billion dollars in money that did not need to be spent. In my observation they've done nothing but take, take, take - never willing to give. That said, I'm leaning closer to Green. If I lived riding with more of a split vote tendency, I would likely vote Conservative. Now, I would definitely vote (Progressive) Conservative if it was run by someone like former NB Premier Lord or Danny Williams.

I don't really want an MBA, though. I like a machine I can throw in the pocket behind my seat when I travel, that I can use and abuse and not feel bad about it. I'd feel some bad about denting the aluminum on that piece of art, but I wouldn't feel bad if I scratched my AAO Netbook or any other variety of $300 class netbooks. Apple does not offer what I want in an ultra portable. They're more focused on style - which is fine for some people. Trust me when I say I understand the differences between a netbook and a MBA, but I honestly don't care. If I were to buy a new ultra portable to meet my needs, I wouldn't be buying the MBA. This machine would be for the basics - Web surfing, remote desktop, email. For these things a 'horrendously crippled' Atom CPU will work just fine for me. If I need more I will use my notebook. There would be no need for me to spend an additional $700 to get a machine with the same sized screen and a smaller (but SSD) HDD. Yes the boost in battery life would be good, but not on my list of needs. I did look at MBP when I was purchasing a laptop. But for what I wanted (15"+ screen), the MBP was entirely out of my price range (Can$2000 vs $600) with mostly comparable specs. Yes, the MacBook Pro has a better service reputation and no doubt Apple will stand behind their product better than HP (my current notebook), but I've had great luck with my machine, in all reality with all of the notebooks I have owned. When I used to sell both Apple and PC's, I used to say my next system would be a Mac. This was back in the PPC days. When they switched to Intel, I didn't really see the advantage over traditional OEMs like HP and IBM. I think (looking at current prices) there is less of an Apple Tax today then in the past, but it's still there. Yes, I've noticed the change in shortcuts, but the transition is relatively simple for me at least.

Ooo.. I see what you did there...

Not ruined, just a learning tool. I've got no other use for the thing, I got it from a coworker for next to nothing. It had XP on it when I got it, so I think OSX is a step up. I've also got Windows 7 and Ubuntu to install if I want another upgrade. Nice. I used to program, but it's been a long time - I never got into programming something like that, though. I own a couple locked-down Macs - an iPod Touch and a 1st Gen AppleTV. I've bought more than my fair share of content on iTunes, but I don't own a Mac. I like to try things before I buy them, so this is my way of doing that. I can't really justify buying something that may or may not meet my needs. The people I know who have a Mac love them - I want to see what the fuss is about without paying the Apple tax (though with the money I've spent on hardware and iTunes, I've probably paid the tax a few times over.....). My recent observations of how Apple operate is reminiscent of all the things that apple was against in their early years. (see 1984 commercial). I get the moral issues. At the same time, they seem to do things right. Closed hardware allows them to control what hardware they support, thus allowing for more stable operation. And their stuff looks nice. IT or web developer? They're the only people I know that would do that. The server 08 to test server-side extension on IIS?

The tools are there now though to make it easy for the masses to try out stuff like Linux though. Most people wouldn't know their way around a terminal or command prompt, so installing has to be intuitive. Ubuntu has helped me out a number of times. I have it installed on an 8gb SD card. It's slow (on an sd card), but its solid and It has the tools I need to if I need sometimes.

So, apparently I don't have enough things to do in my spare time. I decided to take my PC Netbook and install Mac OSX on it. I just got it up and running with Snow Leopard (OSX 10.6.6). It was about a 2 week process in getting it working on my spare time. I tinkered and toiled with a variant a co-worker had - I got it basically working, but wasn't happy with it. Finally on Friday I went and bought the Retail DVD at the local dealer and through various google searches bootloader downloads and multiple re-installs, I now have a mostly functional system. By mostly functional, I mean it boots and doesn't crash. Video works, but not the proper resolution. Audio does not - it did under 10.5.8 though, so I'm sure I can fix that. A hopefully compatible wifi card is literally in the mail. I don't know what I'll do once I get it fully functional. I'm more or less doing this as challenge, just to say I did it. I've must have installed 100 different flavours of Windows, Unix, Linux and BSD over the years just to try them. Does anybody else do this stuff?

Is that kitty as big as it looks? We used to have a cat that would lay on top of the fish tank and dip it's paw in where the filter part is. I wonder if it made the fishies nervous?

I'm feeling the same way about Canada Post today. I ordered something on New Years day from an Amazon partner, it was shipped on the 3rd, and I've still not received it. Likewise, I ordered a book off of Amazon as well, it shipped DHL from the US to Canada, and apparently DHL uses Canada Post for deliveries, yesterday it snowed (12" over 24hrs) so the Post Office decided not to deliver any mail to our boxes. (big mail boxes at the end of the street). My father was a letter carrier for 33 years and I only ever remember him twice not delivering mail because the weather was too bad, and he had to walk his route. Now, they get a little snow, the roads have been plowed, but they won't drive up to a box and put the mail in it because of safety concerns. One time, they came with a parcel, the person saw the dogs in the yard (dog run) so she sat in the car and honked the horn. We didn't hear her, so she left a card on the fence and left. When I found the card the next day on the ground in the driveway, I called the post office to see what was up - I was told that the delivery person (a contractor) was afraid of dogs, so she didn't want to get out of her car. I told them not to use her to deliver parcels to my house anymore, to just leave a notice in my mail box so I could pick it up at the post office. Fedex, on the other hand is awesome. On more than one occasion when I've not been home to accept the parcel, the carrier will actually call me using the number on the parcel (imagine...) and get me to verbally accept the delivery. I live in a rural area, though, so he likely doesn't want to have to attempt a second delivery, but still it always impresses me.

This. Grilled Cheese Sammich. We have a Sesame Street sandwich maker - it presses Elmo and Cookie Monster on to the sandwiches. My son likes Elmo, and I like Cookie Monster. That and some juice and I'm set!

We're supposedly getting 15-30cm (6-12") overnight tonight, it's been snowing pretty hard so I wouldn't doubt it. This will be on top of about roughly a foot that we got since new years. I've got a 6' snowman and a big snow fort in my front yard, and a 4' high snowball in the back yard - that was hard to roll. It took my wife and I to move it towards the end. I'm pretty well equipped for the snow, though. 4x4 truck, snow blower and an ATV with a plough. Even if we get a foot, I'm still going to work.

I'm really surprised that Kitchen Aid doesn't make at least a pink one. They make pink everything else it seems. I'm not sure you'll find one with dark green accents, though. Perhaps a visit to the local hardware store for some spray paint.

I'm not a huge instant coffee fan - not sure why, just don't really like it. Doesn't taste fresh to me. More than likely something to do with the freeze drying process. You're concerned about the chemicals in plastics but not aluminum? They're both linked to different diseases and issues - but then again, it seems everything is linked to a disease these days. Flavoured coffees... If I want Irish cream - which isn't very often - I'll just put some Bailey's in it. Some of it is okay, but for the most part I'd just as soon drink the real deal. As far as cleaning goes, I know you can't take them apart and clean the insides, but the Tassimo comes with a cleaning disc which you run through it's cycles without brewing, and the Keurig you can run it without a cup to clean it out. The Tassimo seems to purge itself of water each cycle, so there is no standing water left in the machine. The Keurig, on the other hand, (I think) keeps the water hot in a reservoir inside as well as the tank on the outside. I've always found that the first cup of coffee at work after the weekend tastes bad. I've taken to running it through 3 or 4 cycles without a k-cup to get fresh water into the machine before I make coffee with it on a Monday.