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Minimum wage is no protection. Will a higher minimum wage protect you from having to work for 2? Will is protect you from getting fired so your bosses dip shit nephew can get a free ride and steal your job? Will it protect you from racial discrimination? Will it protect you from getting sent...

Work in sales, man. Make your own hours. Your success, your reward. Commission is the truest form of compensation. You want to sit in a fuckin cubicle all day with your thumb up your ass, go for it. In commission based sales (and I don't mean being the dumb fuck at Worst Buy who makes minimum...

Minimum wage is not unlike a union. Not a bad idea in times of duress and in the short term, but over the long term, it can be as much of a pain in the ass as it is a help. Unless you work in an environment where your health is constantly in jeopardy, I think Unions are a bigger pain in the ass...

Worst Buy ftw. Not to be confused with their sister-store the Rip-Off Shop. After all, why pay $5 for a game on steam when you can get it at the Rip-Off Shop for $40? I even have a jingle I wrote for the Rip Off shop years ago. (8) Everybody's goin to the rip off shop The rip off shop The rip...

holy fuck. If ever I thought I had too much time on my hands, I thought wrong.

Oh no, my wireless Dynex keyboard and mouse combo is the cheapest shit ever. Only 3 buttons for less winning!

That's true. Ottawa flooded the market with IT grads in the late 90s because of the big Nortel contracts and this sub contractor JDS Uniphase who were hired to fulfill said contract. The low level employees got $14/hour, which was a small fortune back then, and they thought they had it made...

So have we concluded that 90% of the problem with the server is that VALVE has AIDS? Has anyone tried removing some of the server MODS to see if there is a significant performance difference? This might not be logical, but after a few years in tech support, you learn that it doesn't matter if...

I'll show you the politicians who didn't lie. The dumb fucks who lost the election, that's who. Dalton McGuinty used to be an honest guy. Then he lost a provincial election. Then he learned how to be a crooked piece of dog shit, and he became Premier of Ontario not too long afterwards. It is...

That's a symptom of the "Spend our way out of it" mentality. Well, part of it. Our post-secondary education system is ass-backwards. I know a lot of teachers who can't find work, but if you analyze why that is, they got Uni degrees that would not lead to jobs, so they went to teacher's college...

I don't see how this does any good. Most businesses have a set labour cost / target as percentage of sales / profit. Raising minimum wage won't alter that target, all it will do is mean that less people will have to do more work. This will eliminate jobs, possibly jack up costs and prices, and...

i love how the dick fucking the horse is brown.

Apparently, the protein string they fixed had been in the hands of geneticists for 10 years with no luck. The reason why they DID solve it is apparently, Foldit is now co-op multiplayer, so a bunch of die hards would get together and work together to figure it all out. Personally, of the 8...

Oh yeah, baby. I teach people new to Ottawa the secret of when and where to speed on Baseline to bypass the 417 and downtown to get the east / south end of the city from the west in record time. Cabbies taught me this trick ages ago, and most of the cops do the same thing and are pretty decent...

Oh, it gets uglier. As "Foreigners", the NSA and American entities are "entitled" to spy on everything you do on American servers, including, but not exclusive to, sniffing on your Facebook, Google, Youtube, Amazon, Hotmail, Microsoft, and pretty much any American website you can think of's...

I heard some game called foldit helped solve some protein string issue for geneticists or some shit. I forget the details, but long story short, scientists coughed their protein string problem over to gamers and they solved it in 11 days. I don't take that to the Nth power and say that playing...

*sigh* CS Communities never change.

I noticed when playing today that the server seemed to have "micro spikes" when people would first connect to the server. Nothing so brutal that it would make things unplayable, but still noticeable. I'm not complaining or anything, just trying to share what I've noticed in case it helps...

You gotta love that shameless American self-love.

Canadians are coasting on the laurels of a 20 year old reputation. The people who still truly embody the Canadian persona are Maritimers. Toronto is full of angry people and, as you are learning, people who seem to love their crack head mayor. Ottawa folks are snotty, lots of rural folks are...