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At Niagara Falls Appleby's, Ihop, Skylon and many, if not all, legitimate, international businesses charge a 10% "TIF" (Tourist Improvement Fee) on your itemised bill. You CAN ask for it to be removed if you know about it. Otherwise unsuspecting tourist just pay 10% more than locals for everything. The "fee" is NOT a legitimate local or provincial tax it is just a money grab done far more sneakily than Thai dual-pricing.

Anybody watching "Better call Saul"?

So far I don't think it lives up to Breaking Bad.

Seems like an endless pile of loose threads...Mike's story, Kim's story, Chuck and his electric phobia, etc.

I keep waiting for the show to start! Jimmy becomes Saul, teams with Mike, gets down to biz. Maybe we get to see the rise of Los Pollos Hermanos? Get on with it, please.

We got another season or so before that starts I suppose. Has a lot of potential but will need some great scripting to avoid a flop as the concept here isn't nearly as compelling as Breaking Bad's. Maybe they're hoping that a massing of background interest will carry it.

Still, I'm liking what we have, such as it is, look forward to watching the latest episode every week.

I am really enjoying every show to date so far. It is really showing and developing toward what the end product was. We can see how Mike is being pushed to become a hit man, how Jimmy was just a crook with showmanship at heart and how everything is merging slowly into the drug scene. At some point we are going to see everyone break and that is what I am looking forward too...

I'm guessing a tragedy to Kim is going to be the impetus for Jimmy/Saul's change.

Springsteen ws a minor hack - who cares if he won't play in NC!

http://www.ranker.com/list/all-the-richest-musicians-in-the-world/worlds-richest-people-lists

Not bad for a "minor hack"...

$200,000US (roughly $260,000CDN) won't buy you a 30 sq m condo in downtown Toronto. Maybe a studio in Ford Country!!

I'm confused. Don't bar end mirrors protrude more than bar mounted mirrors by their nature?

Rip up, Nafta? Yes, why not? It's lose, lose, lose. As for TPP and TTIP, they're not even in place yet. So, just don't approve them. Surprised you and the other lefties don't get that, as most of the leftwingers on this forum constantly howl about how TPP is an American conspiracy to control Asia. Here's your chance to stop it. Why don't you?

I'm a free trader. I like trade and the benefits it brings. But then I'm a capitalist and I believe in competition. I work for myself and don't rely on government trying to shield me from the big bad world. (which is quite funny you call me a lefty....but anyway).

But you haven't answered my my question. If you rip up these trade deals, then what happens? How does everything become wonderful and magical again?

You tell me.....step by step. Spell out what happens, and how....

Let me try once again. TPP and TTIP are not done deals. Don't do them and the world continues to run pretty much like it is today. Tear up Nafta and maybe food safety and health standards return to the higher state they were before Nafta came along and allowed big agribusiness to shift its farms to Mexico (and totally dismantle Mexican peasant farming, btw, sending the farmers north to the US, leaving villages and small towns decimated). Two things in particular made America prosperous in the past. High wages and cheap land. Nafta and immigration, alongside each other, has successfully driven down wages and driven up land/house prices. Yes, things were better before Nafta. Scrap it. America spent over 200 years without merging its economy directly with mexico and canada. It can do well again without them.

You've got a tonne of trade deals. Not just Nafta. You've got the US-Australia FTA for instance. US Singapore FTA. Ones with South American Countries.

So you rip them all up. Tariff walls go up. Fortress America is back.

Who gets to decide the level of tariff protection? You know tariffs are really just a tax. Which I thought was supposed to be an evil for you fellas.

Tariffs are what made America the greatest nation on earth. Pat Buchanan has already pointed out how the US grew to power under tariffs, while the British declined into irrelevance under Free Trade.

Pedrosa out with hand injury. Rossi at war with Lorenzo? ...........Jorge pole position ,.....Vale 5th.

I'm probably late to this party but I just binge-watched the first 2 series of Peaky Blinders and loved it!!

Didn't know where else to post this...

https://www.facebook.com/lendojehezkiel/videos/10204543656830597/

I already have it via a VPN. Will programs be the same as in the USA?

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As of yesterday Netflix was not allowing access to USA Netflix from Thailand. Thai Netflix is accessible but has fewer offerings

Not true. I am watching US Netflix right now from Thailand.

You do not have to go to the embassy/consulate. You can do it by mail. I did it last september. Check the website for details.

http://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/thailand-thailande/consular_services_consulaires/passport_services_passeport.aspx?lang=eng

FB should be sued under the trade description act in the UK. It is not even social media, as it is more like social garbage. Full of the worlds hates and prejudices. I only have FB to keep contact with my family. Even they do garbage most of the time. A lot of the time I delete the notifications from my email inbox without opening them. The family is still there if I need them.

Marketeers are are gradually using the natural content of SM sites to tap into your thoughts in a covert way to coerce you into buying things online. A very subtle form of financial manipulation is taking place that people are not aware of.

Marketers were on to neuromarketing well before social media became a thing. It is caveat emptor as aways.

Remind me never to lend you my tools.

Remind me not to take you anywhere away from all your precious tools when something needs to be done immediately but the precise tool is unavailable.

Would you answer a Skype call from a complete stranger? Or accept their friend request on Facebook?

No I am the antithesis of oilinki when it comes to talking to strangers - I would not talk to someone waiting for a bus, unless they spoke first. But I do not have a problem with him reaching out that way or any other way, for that matter.

Seriously? You have never hammered in a nail with a screwdriver handle?

Of course not. That's what hammers are for.

Sometimes you just don't have a hammer around... I've used rocks, screwdrivers, shoe heel, vice grips, whatever's lying around when the hammer is not available... they all work fine BTW!!

Anyway you missed the point - we don't know how appropriate tools are outside their initial intent for use until it is tried. Certainly marketers and other individuals view FaceBook, Skype and the rest as appropriate ways to approach strangers

Seriously? You have never hammered in a nail with a screwdriver handle?

For real?

You need it explaining to you how your guests would find it obnoxious when you insist on confiscating their possessions on arrival? Or why being interrupted by a random , pointless phone call from someone who doesn't even speak their language wouldn't exactly someone them feel 'happy and special'?

You're a long way detached from reality.

Maybe you did not understood what I said.

I said: The internet and the social media is pretty damn great possibility to be able to interact with people around the world.

I said: We should not be afraid of communicating with other people, we should embrace it.

I said: It's wonderful to be able to meet and interact with people who don't share our cultural background and thus can teach us something new, which we could never have thought of.

When it comes to the everyday interaction, I'm one of those people who talk to others while waiting for a bus. I'm one of those people who learn a new language to make a girl laugh. I'm one of those people who simply want to learn, what others thing and why they think the way they do.

I want to expand my bubble, far beyond what my cultural background expects. How about you? Do yo really wish to keep within your little bubble, for the whole of your life? Do you really wish that?

Btw. When it comes to the languages, the languages are moderately easy to learn. I'm sure you have already learned several. Anyway the reason for the suggested calls was not just the language, the reason was to get connected with people from different backgrounds.

You've clearly completely misunderstood both Facebook and Skype. They're not things you use to approach strangers - they're ways of keeping in touch with people you already know.

FaceBook and Skype are TOOLS. There is no "correct" way of using them. Creative use of tools by individuals is what we do as humans. It is called progress. Now pass me that claw hammer - I need to open my beer.

This is the 21st Century, correct?

yeah- excuse me while I wipe this biscuit, er, I mean body of christ, off my lips... It IS 2016!!

...since it is not always clear on the website where goods are shipping from I would suggest caution on overseas goods as Lazada may not be as interested in a problem with goods shipped from off-shore.

Au contraire... Lozada makes it VERY clear where the goods are coming from right beside the pricing:

The conservative "fringe" that hates Jews is tiny. Most conservatives respect their faith. After all, the Jewish God is exactly the same as the Christian one and both use The Old Testament.

On the other hand, the far left and not so far left is extremely anti-Semitic. They are a lot more worried about protecting Islam than Jews.

What utter nonsense!

You do understand that the Old Testament is considered by Christians to be a Jewish book, written by Jews under the inspiration of God, to proclaim God's name to all mankind? The New Testament was written entirely by Jews as well. In fact, Christianity is inherently Jewish and was begun by all Jews. It could easily be described as Gentiles -and some Jews - recognizing Jesus as the promised Jewish Messiah of the Old Testament. Jews and Christians don't have all the same beliefs, but both religions are interwoven.

If you are going to bundle Jewish and Christian faith you must also tie Islam into the bundle.

Not true - many examples of effective graphics work done on less than top-of-the-line, calibrated, monitors, TVs, and laptops. How did designers get by from the early days of DTP in the mid 80's until the early 2000s? Were all those designs and layouts compromised by the monitor? Elitist bs.

Back in the mid 80's and onwards most colour printing was done conventionally. Image colours, density etc were tweaked by the repro house or the printers. Those designs etc were not compromised by the monitor because things were fixed after the designer had done his or her job.

Occasionally true for early ('85 and earlier) high-end output but even by '87 imagesetters were the norm and no competent designer was going to relinquish control to the plate burners! What came off the press had better be a clone of the proofs and seps!

Even today high-res monitors are no real improvement for those working in low-res design like screen printing, newspapers or low-end web design which generally require outputs of 100dpi or less.

Personally, I believe, the only print-graphic technicians to benefit from ultra-high quality monitors are those who work in colour-correction and retouching suites in near black-out rooms.

Bernie is a secular-humanist by choice - and a jew by birth. Other than coming out as a full fledged atheist he is way behind the eight ball in terms of conventional electability. Kudos to him and his policy choices over the years and overcoming these obstacles.

Not true - many examples of effective graphics work done on less than top-of-the-line, calibrated, monitors, TVs, and laptops. How did designers get by from the early days of DTP in the mid 80's until the early 2000s? Were all those designs and layouts compromised by the monitor? Elitist bs.