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Credit union we use is having issues, online banking isn't working, debit isn't working either.

Only option is in branch and get cash from a teller, which I am sure will have a line a mile long.

One reason I don't see 100% electronic payments, if society went cashless what happens in this sort of event? Happens a few times a year at least.

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I need 1 day off next month, asked more then a month in advance, and nope can't have it off.

So frustrating.

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Why was such a business unable to back up its data? External hard drives cost next to nothing. Why would such a business not keep paper copies of its invoices?

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Understood .:(

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My first live band

...you shouldn't do that...

:rofl:

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:(

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I agree, it isn't difficult to organise robust systems but I'll add an an example of how such issues arise, and I emphasise the small business nature of the problem.

An aquaintance bought a pub from a brewery. It came with installed computer based pricing, invoicing, linking to the tills etc. Everything was fed from one computer and there was no backup. The owner wasn't that computer literate and I suggested that thought be given to possible failure, but to my knowledge the advice was ignored. Now the system never failed.. but it could have done. I doubt the business would have gone under but the disruption would have resulted in loss of earnings and a business already under pressure might have folded.

I have a maxim that I live by, 'It's never too late until it's too late' and it applies especially to maintaining data security.

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I don't generally ask for time off, and I do things on my scheduled day off, but this specific thing is only on a specific day and needs to be planned in advance.

I've decided though never to pick up an extra shift again for the benefit of the company.

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The latest example of Privatisation fleecing the public purse in return for crap service or bogus training.
Government pulls all Learndirect contracts and funding

Move comes after privatised adult training agency accused of paying owners millions despite ‘catastrophic’ decline in standards
And no doubt all supporters of the people putting the lucrative contracts their way. :(

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In days of old, when knights were bold:

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Well, isn't this the shits! U.S. pharma company raises price of generic diarrhea drug by 400% - National | Globalnews.ca

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Insanity.

Amid rush to densify, house on Vancouver's Cambie Street listed for $11M - British Columbia - CBC News


How dense can a city get without building better road system and transit and other ways to get people around. Vancouver seems to become denser and denser but it's becoming gridlock to get anywhere.

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Eclipse live in Vancouver: Solar eclipse 2017: When, where and how to watch in B.C. this morning - British Columbia - CBC News

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It's a pretty cool video to watch. We are getting apparently 86% blockage of the sun with the peak in about 20 mins.

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Try not to look directly at the screen.

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Didn't Donald Trump look at the eclipse today?

Canada Post or the Provincial Government frustrate me. Unsure which agency/department lost it so can't blame any one entity. Provincial government sent a long boring tedious packet to fill out last month and return to them by mail. Took a couple hours to fill it all out and complete it as it was very detailed questions and not simple yes/no's.

Dropped it off at the post office 3 weeks from the due date. Got a letter today dated on the due date that they never received it, an they are extending the deadline. Called and still haven't received it.

So either Canada Post lost it/delivered it to the wrong PO Box, or the provincial agency lost it, or maybe the person who has been sending the letters out (they sign their name in a way it's not legible and they don't type out their name, they don't want anyone to know who the faceless workers are.) lost it, who knows.

But now we have to fill it out all over again.

Frustrating.

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Well this not good... Oink, don't read .. :(

Rescued piglets served up as sausages to firefighters - BBC News

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Bad taste. :(

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No, apparently they were nice with some mustard on the side :unsure:

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I bet they were delicious - the pictures of those pigs showed that they were well treated farm animals and, it seems, allowed out to pasture. Pastured meat is way nicer than factory farmed meat and more humane for the animals. As the owner says, they aren't pets, they are bred for meat! Most farmers, for 1000s of years, have shown gratitude and their thanks by providing food to people, this is no different!

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I agree- if no one ate meat, no one would breed pigs as they arent that useful aside from being very intelligent likeable critters. I've gotta go... Snoop says it is teatime- Coincidentally I'm actually having sausage butties for my tea :thumbup:

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I was just thinking about this issue the other day when stuck in traffic on Cambie. Always wondered if living on major arterial roads was a good thing. We live off a major arterial road on ground level and I notice we have a lot more dust particles in the place, I imagine some if from the car exhaust driving past 24/7.

Dense development: is building along busy corridors unhealthy? - British Columbia - CBC News

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I got a organic, pasture raised, grass finished (they feed hay 3 months of the year in winter) organic etc beef patty today. It was noticeably better taste wise.

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I was at my brother's and his ex-wife's house for xmas dinner once. Her sister had a farm where they raised chickens among other things and we had one of theirs for dinner.

Apart from it being the only chicken I knew by name it seemed no different to other roast chickens I've had.

Now veg from your own garden, that I can taste the difference. :nod:

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I did a taste test once, not on purpose. Some friends phoned one morning to say they were going to be passing our place later and could they drop in. I invited them for lunch and had to dash out to supermarket to buy meat as we didn't have enough for all of us.

So I brought exactly the same cuts of meat, cooked them all the same and gave everyone a piece of the meat from a local farm and a piece from the supermarket. It was so obvious, both by look and taste, which one was which.

The meat from the farm, which wasn't certified organic but was organic and pastured raised, was wonderful. The supermarket beef was drier and tougher, the supermarket chicken was very dry - even though I marinated everything for the same time. :(

I did read somewhere that meat producers for the supermarkets often inject the meat with fluid to make it look plumper, especially chicken. Then when you cook it, the fluid disappears quickly and the meat dries up quicker. :thumbdown:

Not sure if this is the case, but we all agreed the meat from the farm noticeably tasted different and way better. From then on, all my meat came from farms :thumbsup:

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My old house - I bought for £17,500 in 1984 and sold for £156,000 in 2004.

Resold for £192,500 in 2011.

Zoopla estimates value now at £278,000. :ohmy:

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Surprised the strike has lasted this long.

Pearson ground crew strike continues after union votes 98% against Swissport contract offer - Toronto - CBC News

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My old house I bought for £45,000 in 1992 (including separate garage)
I sold it in 2001 for £97,500 plus £7,000 for separate garage (sold to 3rd party) - total £114,000

According to the estate agent, prices were about to drop and that was top dollar! (Liar)

It sold in 2008 for £215,000
Sold again in 2012 for £219,900
Current value according to Zoopla, £274,000

I miss that house :(

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Wow...you must have been busy. You missed the would you have your old house back thread. :lol:

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Wouldn't it be nice to win the lotto...

She took the lump sum one time payment of 480 million US$ and after taxes will receive approx 336 million US$.

Hospital worker nabs Powerball prize of U.S. $759 million - National | Globalnews.ca

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There once was a Scot named McAmeter
With a tool of prodigious diameter.
It was not the size
That cause such surprise;
'Twas his rhythm -- iambic pentameter.

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Bang, bang, drill, drill, hammer, hammer... Joys of living on first floor with retail/commercial space in the back being constructed, hours of banging, drilling, and hammering.

Shows how poorly sound insulated they build these places.

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Show off. :ohmy: :rofl:

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Jeffrey Archer could write this.

Inspired by Night of the Generals, this could be called Night of the Senators.

Fictional US President is an embarrassment to the nation (it couldn't possibly happen real life) and his party. Senior officials hatch a plot to have him assassinated. No messy elections, no dirty campaigns, no impeachments and subsequent pardons needed.

Much political capital to be made from the assassination of their party leader followed by massive gains in the next election.

:sneaky:

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Could someone explain the logic to me please? Other than keeping his head dry.https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...ECF9Ar9slec0Gw

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More to the point what is he doing wandering around in the flood?

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Evacuating his home, obviously. On the news a woman was interviewed who also had an umbrella and was wading through waist-deep water. She wasn't getting rained on like the reporter was.

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The way he was standing made it look like he was waiting for a bus but there was no bus stop. I'm trying not to laugh but it's just bizarre.

I mean, you're wading around at least waist deep in water, I can't see what real difference holding up an umbrella would make, not to mention you'd likely want your hands free for a variety of reasons.

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Absolutely. I wouldn't be bothering with an umbrella. I'd prefer to use my hands for balance. You never know what your feet might stumble on under the water.