Had a guy in our unit, low level drug offense. Kept to himself , did everything asked of him, got released.
Was back on our unit 2 weeks later. Asked him what happened.
They had released him with nothing, and his only option on release was a cheque he had, and he had begged for his early release to just be delayed til the monday.
But, they dropped him in the middle of nowhere, on a Friday night, at 7pm, in December, in Canada.
So after freezing for a day, he grabbed a rock, smashed a store window, and sat down and waited for police to arrive.
He came back to jail literally because he was going to freeze to death.
I thought Canada was just a better more polite America.
But apparently our criminal justice systems share the fuckterrible shitness.
They intentionally compressed the video after shooting it so that it would be blurred and look like it wasn't shot on an expensive camera (for the time).
Had a guy in our unit, low level drug offense. Kept to himself , did everything asked of him, got released.
Was back on our unit 2 weeks later. Asked him what happened.
They had released him with nothing, and his only option on release was a cheque he had, and he had begged for his early release to just be delayed til the monday.
But, they dropped him in the middle of nowhere, on a Friday night, at 7pm, in December, in Canada.
So after freezing for a day, he grabbed a rock, smashed a store window, and sat down and waited for police to arrive.
He came back to jail literally because he was going to freeze to death.
I thought Canada was just a better more polite America.
But apparently our criminal justice systems share the fuckterrible shitness.
We definitely have fewer unarmed black men being killed by the police (to take one example pulled right from the headlines), but no, Canada's law enforcement system isn't flawless.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
We definitely have fewer unarmed black men being killed by the police (to take one example pulled right from the headlines), but no, Canada's law enforcement system isn't flawless.
No, instead it is Native Americans, in Saskatchewan at least. Except instead of being shot they are driven to the countryside in the dead of winter and left to freeze to death.
We definitely have fewer unarmed black men being killed by the police (to take one example pulled right from the headlines), but no, Canada's law enforcement system isn't flawless.
No, instead it is Native Americans, in Saskatchewan at least. Except instead of being shot they are driven to the countryside in the dead of winter and left to freeze to death.
Yeah. The Prairies seem to have a particularly bad track record with that sort of thing.
So I just started this week's LWT, but I wanted to comment on something fantastic I noticed during the intro. I normally only pay half attention to it, but I caught that they changed the title for the Statue of Liberty in the intro this week: normally it's Frenchium Garbagum, but they changed it to Greenus Gigantum. It's a really minor thing, but I thought it was a really nice change in light of the attacks in Paris this week.
Edit: And the final panel of the intro, which changes each week, has the French flag with Paris, je t'aime.
I missed the Statue change, but I noticed the final panel change. When the camera swept in, I'm pretty sure they had the French flag up (in light?) on one of the walls as well.
First they came for the Muslims, and we said NOT TODAY, MOTHERFUCKER!
Found the DFS segment interesting. Something I hadn't messed with until recently, got kinda hooked on, then burned out on when I realized what I was actually up against. Had thought about starting a thread on it, but was never sure it was worth it.
I think the recent dust up regarding employees playing on rival sites while possibly* having information of value from their own shone a light into some dark corners of the industry.
I think really they reached too high. It was easy to ignore until they hit the point where both major vendors had ads during every single commercial break of every game, and half the commentary graphics were sponsored by one or the other, etc. I don't think the industry was ready for that level of attention.
But of course it was necessary, because their entire business model seems to depend on bringing in fresh fish every season to feed the sharks. Many players will quit after a year or less after realizing they just can't win (some addicted players will instead just go bankrupt), so you need constant influx to keep the games filled so the guys with the algorithms aren't forced to feed on each other.
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Can't link it easily due to being on my phone, but has John Oliver hired CGP Gray or something? This week's piece seemed to mirror his video pretty closely, until it came to the places where pennies were before your pocket.
Speaking as a Canadian, I've gotta say that getting rid of the penny has been pretty great. Rounding up/down to the nearest nickel works well enough, and it doesn't affect digital transactions.
Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
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Speaking as a Canadian, I've gotta say that getting rid of the penny has been pretty great. Rounding up/down to the nearest nickel works well enough, and it doesn't affect digital transactions.
Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
Just talking with one of my students who's from Korea about this, and I think every country has their own useless coin. Theirs is the 10 won coin, since it takes about 200 won to get something like a Chupa-Chup. They're trying to get rid of it by just not making any more. Keep it slow and steady, Korea!
Here in Thailand, we've got 2 useless coins, the .25 and .5 baht coins. They're both copper coloured, and pretty much the same size. So how much do I have? It's a mystery! :rotate:
Speaking as a Canadian, I've gotta say that getting rid of the penny has been pretty great. Rounding up/down to the nearest nickel works well enough, and it doesn't affect digital transactions.
Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
The USA killed the half penny when it was worth as much as a current USA dime. So yeah, drop nickles while your'e at it.
Speaking as a Canadian, I've gotta say that getting rid of the penny has been pretty great. Rounding up/down to the nearest nickel works well enough, and it doesn't affect digital transactions.
Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
I can't seem to find links to it now, but I remember shortly before we got rid of the Penny in Canada, there were lots of stories of people going out and buying as many pennies as the bank would sell them, melting them down, and then going and making a profit on the metal.
We had that happening with pennies in the US. In a sane world that would've been the sign to just let people do it, but then we went and made it illegal to do so.
We had that happening with pennies in the US. In a sane world that would've been the sign to just let people do it, but then we went and made it illegal to do so.
Because Lincoln.
I'm pretty sure large-scale destruction of legal tender is generally illegal all over. Cuz it fucks with monetary policy?
That's why people waited until the Canadian penny was being removed before doing it, because then it became not legal tender, and thus it became legal to melt it down. (I think?)
We had that happening with pennies in the US. In a sane world that would've been the sign to just let people do it, but then we went and made it illegal to do so.
Because Lincoln.
I'm pretty sure large-scale destruction of legal tender is generally illegal all over. Cuz it fucks with monetary policy?
That's why people waited until the Canadian penny was being removed before doing it, because then it became not legal tender, and thus it became legal to melt it down. (I think?)
Pennies are still legal tender. They just stopped making them and started taking ones that came into banks out of circulation.
Technically it's still illegal to destroy them; I think it's more the government not really giving a shit about enforcing that for pennies anymore.
Speaking as a Canadian, I've gotta say that getting rid of the penny has been pretty great. Rounding up/down to the nearest nickel works well enough, and it doesn't affect digital transactions.
Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
I can't seem to find links to it now, but I remember shortly before we got rid of the Penny in Canada, there were lots of stories of people going out and buying as many pennies as the bank would sell them, melting them down, and then going and making a profit on the metal.
I have never heard of this, and it sounds like made up link bait bull honky.
Speaking as a Canadian, I've gotta say that getting rid of the penny has been pretty great. Rounding up/down to the nearest nickel works well enough, and it doesn't affect digital transactions.
Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
Just talking with one of my students who's from Korea about this, and I think every country has their own useless coin. Theirs is the 10 won coin, since it takes about 200 won to get something like a Chupa-Chup. They're trying to get rid of it by just not making any more. Keep it slow and steady, Korea!
Here in Thailand, we've got 2 useless coins, the .25 and .5 baht coins. They're both copper coloured, and pretty much the same size. So how much do I have? It's a mystery! :rotate:
This is generally true. I mean, generally what happens--at least, I think it's what happens--is that the smallest denominations become totally worthless for a long time before they're removed. Like when Japan stopped issuing sen (1/100 of a yen, which itself is a small denomination) or when we got rid of the fen (1/100 of a NT Dollar, in other words a cent). It seems like inflation is pretty much the only way to get rid of that, though admitted, in Taiwan, where it's hovered around NT$ 30 to a US dollar, there's a pretty good argument for the NT$ 1 I think (so long as we're using American money for comparison anyway).
Alternatively, we just move to electronic payments for virtually everything.
In the last two years, I've completely stopped carrying cash. Everything is paid for on my debit/credit cards, usually using tap-to-pay. Unless I was to go to a roadside fruit and vegetable stand, people in Canada will take Interac payments, and usually credit cards as well. And if I'm ever getting money to or from other people (like, fantasy football dues) I'm using Interac e-mail transfers.
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We had that happening with pennies in the US. In a sane world that would've been the sign to just let people do it, but then we went and made it illegal to do so.
Because Lincoln.
I'm pretty sure large-scale destruction of legal tender is generally illegal all over. Cuz it fucks with monetary policy?
That's why people waited until the Canadian penny was being removed before doing it, because then it became not legal tender, and thus it became legal to melt it down. (I think?)
Pennies are still legal tender. They just stopped making them and started taking ones that came into banks out of circulation.
Technically it's still illegal to destroy them; I think it's more the government not really giving a shit about enforcing that for pennies anymore.
It's really one of those problems that will solve itself given enough time.
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I thought Canada was just a better more polite America.
But apparently our criminal justice systems share the fuckterrible shitness.
They intentionally compressed the video after shooting it so that it would be blurred and look like it wasn't shot on an expensive camera (for the time).
It varies from province to province.
No, instead it is Native Americans, in Saskatchewan at least. Except instead of being shot they are driven to the countryside in the dead of winter and left to freeze to death.
Yeah. The Prairies seem to have a particularly bad track record with that sort of thing.
Edit: And the final panel of the intro, which changes each week, has the French flag with Paris, je t'aime.
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I think the recent dust up regarding employees playing on rival sites while possibly* having information of value from their own shone a light into some dark corners of the industry.
I think really they reached too high. It was easy to ignore until they hit the point where both major vendors had ads during every single commercial break of every game, and half the commentary graphics were sponsored by one or the other, etc. I don't think the industry was ready for that level of attention.
But of course it was necessary, because their entire business model seems to depend on bringing in fresh fish every season to feed the sharks. Many players will quit after a year or less after realizing they just can't win (some addicted players will instead just go bankrupt), so you need constant influx to keep the games filled so the guys with the algorithms aren't forced to feed on each other.
I bet the list of people who don't meet that criteria is a short one. Comprised mostly of Fox News employees.
I would have liked to see that evolve into military grade AI's battling over fantasy football.
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Google news tells me that he and his wife just had a kid, so that makes sense.
Congrats to them,
But gorram.
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Hell at this point I'd be fine with dropping the nickel too. According to Google those also cost more to make than they're worth.
Further Googling indicates that dimes and quarters still cost less to make than their face value.
Just talking with one of my students who's from Korea about this, and I think every country has their own useless coin. Theirs is the 10 won coin, since it takes about 200 won to get something like a Chupa-Chup. They're trying to get rid of it by just not making any more. Keep it slow and steady, Korea!
Here in Thailand, we've got 2 useless coins, the .25 and .5 baht coins. They're both copper coloured, and pretty much the same size. So how much do I have? It's a mystery! :rotate:
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The USA killed the half penny when it was worth as much as a current USA dime. So yeah, drop nickles while your'e at it.
I can't seem to find links to it now, but I remember shortly before we got rid of the Penny in Canada, there were lots of stories of people going out and buying as many pennies as the bank would sell them, melting them down, and then going and making a profit on the metal.
Because Lincoln.
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I'm pretty sure large-scale destruction of legal tender is generally illegal all over. Cuz it fucks with monetary policy?
That's why people waited until the Canadian penny was being removed before doing it, because then it became not legal tender, and thus it became legal to melt it down. (I think?)
Pennies are still legal tender. They just stopped making them and started taking ones that came into banks out of circulation.
Technically it's still illegal to destroy them; I think it's more the government not really giving a shit about enforcing that for pennies anymore.
I have never heard of this, and it sounds like made up link bait bull honky.
This is generally true. I mean, generally what happens--at least, I think it's what happens--is that the smallest denominations become totally worthless for a long time before they're removed. Like when Japan stopped issuing sen (1/100 of a yen, which itself is a small denomination) or when we got rid of the fen (1/100 of a NT Dollar, in other words a cent). It seems like inflation is pretty much the only way to get rid of that, though admitted, in Taiwan, where it's hovered around NT$ 30 to a US dollar, there's a pretty good argument for the NT$ 1 I think (so long as we're using American money for comparison anyway).
Alternatively, we just move to electronic payments for virtually everything.
In the last two years, I've completely stopped carrying cash. Everything is paid for on my debit/credit cards, usually using tap-to-pay. Unless I was to go to a roadside fruit and vegetable stand, people in Canada will take Interac payments, and usually credit cards as well. And if I'm ever getting money to or from other people (like, fantasy football dues) I'm using Interac e-mail transfers.
It's really one of those problems that will solve itself given enough time.