Pierre the Great
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Flying cars will solve this problem.
Imagine the logistical headache those would create. They would need some kind of air traffic control radar system. The idea sounds great but its logistically impossible if it were feasible on a massive scale.
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I don't even have a drivers license, so for me it doesn't matter much how much gas costs. There are times when it would have been handy to have a car, or at least access to one (like 18 months ago when I moved and bought a lot of new furniture at IKEA, which is located at the outskirts of town, and I can't really transport a bed or a couch on my bicycle from there to where I live anyway), but I get by better than OK without one. I get some much needed exercise, I don't pollute the environment as much and riding a bicycle is a lot cheaper than driving a car. Also, public transportation can get me almost everywhere in the town where I live. And Västerås is well-known for having a good system of bicycles-and-pedestrians-only roads. I ride my bike even in the winter. And if I would like to go to Stockholm, it takes less than an hour on the train, the price is reasonable and I don't have to worry about parking and toll fees and traffic jams and such.
That's what's lacking in most North American cities which drives me up a wall. Its a crime that there will never be a skytrain route to UBC or West Vancouver or North Van. Instead of building his highway to the glory of himself Campbell should of built a high speed rail link to Whistler (or just a train would be fine doesn't have to be high speed although that would be the best) and if he hadn't sold off BC Rail... He could of made it a passenger route w/BC Rail.
Its a crime that a high speed rail link hasn't been developed between Seattle and Portland. Vancouverites don't go to Calgary they go to places like Bellingham, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco. Only thing stopping a high speed rail link is the little town of White Rock apparently. Going by train to Seattle is nearly impossible. Most of the time they'll take you by bus to Seattle and then you'll get on the train.
While European cities like London are clogged with traffic, I have and always will consider Europe and Japan far more advanced society in transportation then North America. You want to know where my 'I long for Europe started?' When the Chunnel opened, I was exposed to the idea of getting around the European country side by high speed rail link. As a person who has never been on a train in their life, high speed passenger trains to me signify higher development of society.
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Why must our roads suck so bad in Québec? Why cant we have nice roads like in Ontario?
BC Roads are dangerously goofy outside the major roads.
The highway to Tofino becomes a cart path in some places.
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moving to Chicago permanently in a month. I'm selling my car since I'm downtown. Even gas prices aside, I am so happy to be done with driving.
Sounds excellent!
Yes last time I was in Vancouver gas was 1.35 now in some places its 1.45 (its really 1.43 but I'm adding the carbon tax coming in at the end of the month).
So its 5.50 a gallon.
I'm ecstatic not to be driving anymore once I go back to school in Vancouver this year. I'll just buy a bike to get around when I want to stay in the west end/kits area. Bus anywhere else.
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Seriously. I don't have sympathy for complainers. Freaking deal, elect people who are going to raise gas taxes and rebuild our entire society, until that happens get f-ing used to this. We made this mess, we've got to deal with it.
I'm tired of complainers. These are the same people (in my area) that vote for right wing idiots, vote no on metro expansion because black people will then move out to the white areas and steal my tv, same people who refuse to take the bus (no white people take the bus around here, they stopped en mass after Rosa Parks got on). Same people that prefer development of sprawl over smart planning.
Anyhow its silly. Gas is only 1.00 litre here and its the end of the world.
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Why the hell is Game 2 three days after Game 1? Do basketball players really need that much rest? Thats really stupid.
It's confirmed, Basketball is for pussies.
Build up to over hype a boring professional sport.
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Yeah the air raids went off 3x's today.
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Oops! lol
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Yes. I've been home for 3 weeks this is Tornado siren number 8.
Scariest, creepiest noise imaginable. Nothing good or positive can come from that sound. It only means one thing and it scares the living crap out of you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uX4xq0uLq4
Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma are the big places. Lesser extent Indiana.
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No probs.
I want to be back in BC, I hate the air raid sirens.
Tornadoes
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To say congrats. Since we don't have the Congrats thread anymore.
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Dang since when did Jets pass me in posts? lol Oh well. I don't care.
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Well technically it says this is a CBC issue, as Harper being the 'boss' of CBC. He could theoretically 'stop' this from happened.
But hey the sun rises tomorrow this isn't the end of the world.
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I wrote a letter to Bernie Sanders today socialist Senator from Vermont. Basically wondered how he keeps going on working strong for things like social justice, etc during a time in our country where we (democratic socialists) have been vilified and hated for years in this country. How can he keep going in a country so full of hate against us.
It'd be cool if he replied. I'll write the same letter to other world party leaders although I don't know who. I bet a UK Labour back bencher would reply.
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Absolute madness laddie.
haha yeah how I am I going to cope? I'm evening moving student unions reps from CFS to an anti-CFS group.
I still don't understand the split, yeah you don't like the NDP party, that's nice, but wait, you really think the Liberals or lol the Tories are going to listen to students? In a province where we have a Liberal Party government who are just hell bent on destroying students every year you go to the Liberals???
So they've killed the student movement. lovely.Plus the newspaper is filled with neo-liberals who I despise (not if they're conservatives, but if they say they're liberals or ndp people).
UBC is on the wrong end of town lol. If there ever was a city so easily defined by class divisions.
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So you vote the way you feel your riding represents?
hmm
If I did that for here I'd be voting right wing extremists the rest of my life. People who want to take down the liberty statue on the capitol and put a giant cross signifying this a Christian country where the rule of God is the constitution. So I can't really do that.
I'm going from one of the poorer ridings in Canada to the richest. South Nanaimo to Vancouver Quadra. lol
South Nanaimo famous for its activism through the years, to now the richest postal code in Canada.
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I'm forced to take French if I ever want a job in Canada.
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LOL...yup.
Gotta say that the apathetic citizens are just as much to blame.
People just let the politicians get away with too much crap. They don't get involved...hell, they don't even get educated (ie. I vote Liberal because my mommy did).
Apathy is worse amongst Canadian young people more so then US young kids. 18-35.
Which is why my generation is the anti-hope generation. This isn't the 60s where everyone had this idealism. Nope, now its future is bleak.
The future is scary. I have no idea where this is going.
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Actually one guy isn't dead, yet.
Still alive and kicking at 94, I say run for Labour Leadership when Brown gets creamed. lol
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Congrats to the Red Wings on a well-deserved stanley cup. :bow:
congrats to lidstrom for being the 1st euro captain to win the. now the american and euros are equal!!
Kudoz to the Pens and to Michel( not mike) Therrien. May he now get the respect he deserves.
Now we have to wait a long 4 months before the next puck drop.
Well there's interesting things going on before that to keep me busy. I don't want hockey season around just yet.
euro, tour, olympics, ubc, ubc, ubc. lol
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Try double that, the Finals had it's best ratings in years this season.
Thats not the point though, one sports figure shouldn't be bashing another sport. It was a dick move.
Where have you been? Sports figures have been bashing each other since the beginning of sport. Usually the weaker sports get knocked on which are the usual figure skating isn't a sport, race car drivers aren't athletes, that new cage fighting isn't a sport, baseball players are lazy. lol
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Thank God that stupid stereotype is dead.
Are people up in arms over this?
"I don't think anyone really watches hockey anymore."
Sadly, he's right. Bettman killed hockey. This game is probably getting watched by 3-4 million people in the US.
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What a stupid comment that was on his part.
Blah @ another Detoilet cup
Its the Red Wings. Evil Empire of Hockey if you were born in the Midwest.
I saw that by the way on Yahoo News as a cover story. Never clicked on it, what did Tiger say?
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yawn. I'm so happy I could pinch myself with joy.
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Yes, but it's just not possible. Think about it, it would be treated as a plane. Imagine if 100 million people were flying around with a plane in the United States right now. Air Traffic Control would collapse. Realistically a flying car would in order to work only be able to go 2 feet off the ground and follow a highway on the ground of some kind which then would defeat the purpose of flying cars if you didn't want roads. Then how would we be able build our communities? In the sky? It just doesn't make any sense for practical purposes.
Still what would fuel these vehicles? Unless you go the fantasy route, the only fuel I could think of in the future that might work, (that is if we ever are able to do this, so far we have not been) is non radio active nuclear fusion. The problem is that not every chemist (I think its wishful thinking) believes that someday we'll find a non-radio active nuclear fuel and to harness Nuclear fusion would be like harnessing the sun's energy.