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Honda Civic or Hyundai Elantra GT

coolatt — Sat, 18 May 2013 23:58:35 GMT

Help me choose new a car. 2013

Offline sat map for android

Adam West — Sat, 18 May 2013 21:47:29 GMT

What apps can use the satellite maps offline?

Be aware if your riding in Coquitlam this weekend

DaveM — Sat, 18 May 2013 14:53:38 GMT

Doesn't sound good
http://coquitlam.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/View...ontentId=30282

Guantanamo Confidential

tungsten — Sat, 18 May 2013 05:50:35 GMT

YouTube Video
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dirt bike in driveway

driftking99 — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:47:35 GMT

What would you guys say about riding your dirt bike in your own driveway when you live in a complex. even though your driveway is a fair distance from the rest of the houses.

Shit Harper Did.ca

jetta_mike — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:34:50 GMT

actually SHD.ca

watch and this, then comment.

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Car Trailer

BJC — Fri, 17 May 2013 04:26:01 GMT

I am heading down to Oregon in a few weeks to take my car on the track. Does anyone here have a car trailer they would be willing to rent me for the week? Otherwise it is U-haul or convoy with the family SUV.

Thanks Ben

FOUND: bike gloves on Eagle Mountain

Banshee Beast — Thu, 16 May 2013 23:34:49 GMT

If you've lost some gloves on Eagle Mountain today, give me some details and Ill get 'em back to you.

Meet the first American climate refugees

CraigH — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:06:42 GMT

Newtok Alaska, the highest point of their village will be under water by 2017.

"It's happening now... The village is sinking"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...lagers-nervous

(Interesting that the article is on a UK news site, there is almost nothing on the US new sites about Newtok)

Patio

RossputiN — Wed, 15 May 2013 17:44:12 GMT

Looking for reco's on your favorite patio in Vancouver. Going to Whitecaps game this Saturday and want to hit up a patio for dinner/drinks after (weather is supposed to be good). Don't have to be fancy or overly cheap, where would you go?

Windows8

leggatt — Wed, 15 May 2013 04:13:23 GMT

Is anyone using this? I picked up a new laptop a couple weeks ago and am running Windows 8. If you are, I got my start button back and am booting to desktop mode with Pokki.com's start app.

I am actually happy with the OS after installing this and making the machine work more normally.

This is a public service announcement for those floundering with the stupid live tiles.

Some Rules Kids Won't Learn At School

enduramil — Tue, 14 May 2013 04:06:25 GMT

http://urbanlegends.about.com/gi/dyn...eressante.html

Quote:

Some rules kids won't learn in school
Text By Charles J. Sykes

Printed in San Diego Union Tribune
September 19, 1996

Unfortunately, there are some things that children should be learning in
school, but don't. Not all of them have to do with academics. As a modest
back-to-school offering, here are some basic rules that may not have found
their way into the standard curriculum.

Rule No. 1: Life is not fair. Get used to it. The average teen-ager uses the
phrase, "It's not fair" 8.6 times a day. You got it from your parents, who
said it so often you decided they must be the most idealistic generation
ever. When they started hearing it from their own kids, they realized Rule
No. 1.

Rule No. 2: The real world won't care as much about your self-esteem as much
as your school does. It'll expect you to accomplish something before you
feel good about yourself. This may come as a shock. Usually, when inflated
self-esteem meets reality, kids complain it's not fair. (See Rule No. 1)

Rule No. 3: Sorry, you won't make $40,000 a year right out of high school.
And you won't be a vice president or have a car phone either. You may even
have to wear a uniform that doesn't have a Gap label.

Rule No. 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait 'til you get a boss. He
doesn't have tenure, so he tends to be a bit edgier. When you screw up, he's
not going to ask you how you feel about it.

Rule No. 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand-parents
had a different word of burger flipping. They called it opportunity. They
weren't embarrassed making minimum wage either. They would have been
embarrassed to sit around talking about Kurt Cobain all weekend.

Rule No. 6: It's not your parents' fault. If you screw up, you are
responsible. This is the flip side of "It's my life," and "You're not the
boss of me," and other eloquent proclamations of your generation. When you
turn 18, it's on your dime. Don't whine about it, or you'll sound like a
baby boomer.

Rule No. 7: Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are
now. They got that way paying your bills, cleaning up your room and
listening to you tell them how idealistic you are. And by the way, before
you save the rain forest from the blood-sucking parasites of your parents'
generation, try delousing the closet in your bedroom.

Rule No. 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers. Life
hasn't. In some schools, they'll give you as many times as you want to get
the right answer. Failing grades have been abolished and class
valedictorians scrapped, lest anyone's feelings be hurt. Effort is as
important as results. This, of course, bears not the slightest resemblance
to anything in real life. (See Rule No. 1, Rule No. 2 and Rule No. 4)

Rule No. 9: Life is not divided into semesters, and you don't get summers
off. Not even Easter break. They expect you to show up every day. For eight
hours. And you don't get a new life every 10 weeks. It just goes on and on.
While we're at it, very few jobs are interesting in fostering your
self-expression or helping you find yourself. Fewer still lead to
self-realization. (See Rule No. 1 and Rule No. 2.)

Rule No. 10: Television is not real life. Your life is not a sitcom. Your
problems will not all be solved in 30 minutes, minus time for commercials.
In real life, people actually have to leave the coffee shop to go to jobs.
Your friends will not be as perky or pliable as Jennifer Aniston.

Rule No. 11: Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all
could.

Rule No. 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic.
Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his
mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing
yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule No. 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the
impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is
romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature
lately.

Rule No. 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a
bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it
was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now.

You're welcome.

Sierrasil

DaveM — Tue, 14 May 2013 00:55:01 GMT

Anyone taking this?

My knees are old. My right has been through 2 surgeries and the left is just beaten up. For the past couple of years the post ride pain and stiffness has gotten worse to the point where heading up the stairs in the evening was a slow process. I mostly try to ignore it, and ignore how it's going to be in a few more years.

I try not to take take pills for anything. If I have something that's really sore, I'll pop a few ibuprofen but that's about it. I've tried glucosamine before and didn't get any results. I hear Sierrasil ads on the radio every morning so I had a look at the website. Honestly, reading the history of it screamed snake oil to me, but curiosity eventually got the better of me and I gave it a shot.

So it's either the best batch of placebo in the world or there's something in there that actually works. Within 5 days I felt noticeably better, in 7 days my pain was 80% gone and now at 14 days I'm pretty much pain free.

I'm honestly pretty surprised at the results, so I thought I'd share.

Homeopathy - a lesson in human gullibility

Purecanadianhoney — Mon, 13 May 2013 23:44:09 GMT

I share this excellent BBC documentary about Homeopathy for all those people who were hopefully fooled for the last time into buying expensive sugar pills thinking it was actual medicine.

too bad the water didn't 'remember' to tell Homeopathic doctors about integrity. Amazing also how strong the placebo effect is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcBHKMJDHaU

Major Tom heading back to Earth!

PUNKY — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:58:43 GMT

Live!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html