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by WishingWealth
31 May 2010 16:42
Forum: Taxing Situations
Topic: epass Canada
Replies: 17
Views: 2696

Re: epass Canada

Unfortunately it would not show me a continue button.

Will try tomorrow after restarting PC. Or go for a completely new acct.

thanks,

WW
by WishingWealth
31 May 2010 15:29
Forum: Taxing Situations
Topic: epass Canada
Replies: 17
Views: 2696

Re: epass Canada

That f&^%$ing piece of $hit is still out of commission (for me).

Java enabled, Adblock disabled for the CRA web site.
Both FF (latest commercial release) and IE8 don't work.

It worked well for the first year (2006 IIRC) since then, nothing would let me through that POS.

WW
by WishingWealth
31 May 2010 11:12
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: kitchen scales
Replies: 5
Views: 239

Re: kitchen scales

If you really want a good scale with industrial/scientific quality and reliability and are willing to pay $100 plus, I would recommend OHAUS. You can buy them online.
tedster is mostly into flour and sugar. Other whitish powders are not to be found in his cupboard. AFAIK. :wink:

WW
by WishingWealth
30 May 2010 10:27
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: kitchen scales
Replies: 5
Views: 239

Re: kitchen scales

I have a Starfrit which I like*.
One thing you could do is stop by a Canadian Tire or some other store where they have one out of the box to try.
Nowadays, they pretty much all have a tare feature.

The prices go from $15 to way too much.
My advice: Forget about the calories/fat/memory counters thing. Keep it simple.

WW

* With one caveat, the model I have - about 2 years old - does not have grams, only decimals of one kilo. And of course lbs and oz.

Ex 200 g will read 0.200 kg.
I phoned to complain since the box illustrated the grams but all they could say is send it back if not satisfied.
I did not go through the hassle so I live with it.
by WishingWealth
29 May 2010 23:08
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Looking for new desktop computer
Replies: 189
Views: 3251

Re: Looking for new desktop computer

Call me a P/O owner of an HP desktop machine with an NVIDIA card.
Mine is probably 3+ years old so the problem is a very old one as you say.
1 card replaced on warranty (Staples) but the PC was gone for almost a month. OTOH, this gave me a new list of excuses (Staple's) to add to my repertoire, just in case of need.

The PC is playing Mr. Freeze on me every few weeks. Just goes dead and needs main switch action.

I too searched a few times on the web and it's a wonder these shitty NVIDIA guys are still in business.
One thing common to many of those companies is the proliferation of products. This is probably due to the a$$ holes marketing suits demanding a product for every imagined price point.

WW
by WishingWealth
28 May 2010 14:09
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: lost emails
Replies: 30
Views: 674

Re: lost emails

tedster:
voluminous correspondents
Are you telling us you're also into fetishism aka big fat ladies?

WW
by WishingWealth
27 May 2010 13:56
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: advanced registry optimizer??
Replies: 10
Views: 311

Re: advanced registry optimizer??

700 entries to peruse seems to be the standard #. Every time I've run CCleaner I seem to get around that number. :lol: And on a related subject. The PC was running quite slow the day before so I ran procexp.exe which gave the standard screens: Almost impossible to pinpoint the culprit(s). Things seem to have gone back to normal. I believe (but not sure) it was one of the processes within MSE but not MSMPeng this time. Long story short, did anyone find a procexp.exe on steroids? IOW something that you could start and that based on AI or whatever would be able to answer the request: What program is causing me so much grief right now? Watching procexp.exe and seeing 15 svchost.exe or similar lines is not very useful. But I guess it will be for...
by WishingWealth
27 May 2010 13:41
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: Inflation Watch
Replies: 534
Views: 71911

Re: Inflation Watch

And this is what I told the guy with whom I sat at Big City Office. They did NOT reduce the mill rate enough. AFAIC it is a disguised tax grab.

Perhaps that was not clear enough.
tax totals are based on valuations*rate
Also in our case, they have some factors whereby a $180K home that has gone up by 40% will not be charged as much (%wise) as a $350K home that has also increased in value by 40%.
IOW, they are applying some redistributive taxation rules, more or less arbitrarily.
Tough luck I was more or less told, you don't like it, get elected and change it. Not in that tone but the message was loud and clear. We need more money and we decide if Peter or Mary will pay more.

I don't know if I made myself clear.

WW
by WishingWealth
27 May 2010 10:57
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: Inflation Watch
Replies: 534
Views: 71911

Re: Inflation Watch

CW: It is up 16% from last year! I beat you I beat you. Mine was about 17%.* I went to sit down with the guy in charge of the evaluations but I knew it was for nothing, house values have increased a lot and the tax totals are based on valuations*rate of course. But then, rates don't go down, they just pocket the monies, hire a bunch more semi-dead corpses to fill more offices and there we are. As much as we (some of us) like to deride** the Tea Partiers, they sure have a good point. Things (at the municipal level in particular) are way out of hand. Elect the bozo (doesn't matter, they're the same) and all of a sudden, he is afflicted by an acute case of Santa Claus/Robin Hood syndrome. WW (From QC) * related somewhere on another thread. ** ...
by WishingWealth
27 May 2010 10:17
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Furnace Mounted Humidifier Suggestions?
Replies: 16
Views: 435

Re: Furnace Mounted Humidifier Suggestions?

Thanks both, I'll go for the less expensive No Name filters this summer and keep an eye on them. I like to keep the blower going for a few hours a day to even out the T° in the home. If I don't cough my lungs out, I'll stay with them. One of the better articles I found on the subject was: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011800470.html Of interest: ... Based on all of this, the advice seems simple enough: Buy a better filter, look at it monthly and plan to change it every three months, or every season if you have a combination heating and air-conditioning system that runs year-round. However, here's where it gets more complicated. If you do switch to higher-efficiency filters, you really need to follow t...
by WishingWealth
26 May 2010 11:01
Forum: Financial Planning and Building Portfolios
Topic: Are you out of the stock market completly???
Replies: 25
Views: 1572

Re: Are you out of the stock market completly???

kcowan:
This is a parallel to the outcry about developing tar sands.
You will be summoned by the truth police/minister.
These are not tar sands, they are oil sands. I believe the House of Commons in 1984 (may be I'm wrong with the year; just that it fits well) changed the naming.

WW
by WishingWealth
25 May 2010 23:04
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: The Mises Institute
Replies: 10
Views: 1312

Re: The Mises Institute

I'm really surprised you just heard about them.

I spent quite some time there maybe 6-7 years ago but after a few months of reading , I found them too depressing.
OTOH, the amount of historical info on 'money' is astonishing.

WW
by WishingWealth
25 May 2010 17:25
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Recommended Reading (non-financial)
Replies: 461
Views: 28353

Re: Recommended Reading (non-financial)

Walter Mitty* and his intellectual heirs may deserve a separate thread. Just last week @ Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2254214/ First: The Blumenthal Rules Richard Blumenthal, the attorney general of Connecticut, has a problem. He's running for the U.S. Senate, and he's been caught on video implying falsely that he served in Vietnam. He'd like your understanding as he explains that he simply "misspoke" about his service. He'd like you to give him a break. But Blumenthal has never given anyone a break. He has made a career out of holding others to the strictest standards of truth—and mercilessly prosecuting them when they fall short. During Vietnam, Blumenthal went into the Marine Reserves and obtained several deferments to avoid ...
by WishingWealth
24 May 2010 20:20
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Furnace Mounted Humidifier Suggestions?
Replies: 16
Views: 435

Re: Furnace Mounted Humidifier Suggestions?

Somewhat related to 'furnace'.

Does the dust that collects on the filters all come from the return vents?

If yes, can I block some of it by fitting some home made filters aka nylon stockings :lol: under the registers?

I'm using quite a few furnace filters due to the long haired Image and was wondering if the above would help.
(OTOH, I'd rather remove the hair from the filters instead of picking up the hairball mess.)

And lastly, I'm using some rather $$$ 3M filters, is it more to flatter the blonde in WW or are they any better than the El Cheapos.

thanks,

WW
by WishingWealth
24 May 2010 14:56
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Good and/or Underrated Movies and TV shows
Replies: 2489
Views: 97893

Re: Good and/or Underrated Movies and TV shows

RE: Michael and other minorities on Lost . I did not bring it up, someone else did. :wink: Again at Slate: What Happened to All the Women and Minorities on "Lost"? ... Lost didn't always look like this. When it first aired, in 2004—trigger your inner airplane noise, we're going on a flashback—it seemed like one of the more progressive shows on TV. Its core cast was composed of 14 people; only eight were white. It asked us to maintain interest through hours of subtitled Korean dialogue. One of the main characters, Sayid, was an Iraqi soldier. An Iraqi soldier! Eighteen months after we declared war on Iraq! And he was awesome! In the beginning, Lost seemed downright subversive. "Seemed" being, of course, the operative word...
by WishingWealth
24 May 2010 14:36
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Good and/or Underrated Movies and TV shows
Replies: 2489
Views: 97893

Re: Good and/or Underrated Movies and TV shows

Michael Dawson @ Lostpedia . I also found that last episode lacking. Not that I was expecting a lot though. This mumbo jumbo religious thing smelled like a lazy man's hodgepodge. IOW, they came to the end of the season, saw that they'd need another 2 or 5 seasons to unravel all the questions but were told: Nopey, that's it, wrap-it up TONITE! It had become a bit tedious but throughout the 6 seasons I found it catchy enough to follow them. All in all a good show. BTW: I cleaned last night's epidodes for a couple of friends (removed the ads) and they were running at around 20 minutes ads per hour of show. Some of the breaks not even 5 minutes apart. I'm not following any other mainstream series (ABC, NBC, CBS ...) and given how obnoxious and...
by WishingWealth
23 May 2010 11:45
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: The Tea Party
Replies: 190
Views: 9634

Re: The Tea Party

I did not listen to all of the W video but from what I saw/heard it could have been written by the head of any Consumer Protection Agency albeit one that has consumer protections as its true goal.

But then shit aka Countrywide and al hit the fan.

WW
by WishingWealth
22 May 2010 13:31
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: WolframAlpha analysis tool
Replies: 3
Views: 191

Re: WolframAlpha analysis tool

I gave it a try some time ago and liked it.

WW
by WishingWealth
21 May 2010 22:34
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Recommended Reading (non-financial)
Replies: 461
Views: 28353

Re: Recommended Reading (non-financial)

I had never seen this one. (W. Joseph Campbell) Media Myth Alert @ http://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/ From a link in that Slate story: http://www.slate.com/id/2254490/pagenum/2 The Master of Debunk W. Joseph Campbell corrects the record on 10 important misreported stories. Campbell minces other news myths with the same directness. At the risk of patting myself on the back, I'm ultra-qualified to praise his work dismantling the bogus claim that Edward R. Murrow brought Sen. Joseph McCarthy down because I spent a couple of weeks in 2005 debunking the tale. I'm also very pleased to see that for his "crack baby" chapter, Campbell dug up a 1991 Washington City Paper article I edited by Kathy Fackelmann that was among the first pieces...
by WishingWealth
21 May 2010 15:15
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Mostly Music & Funny Videos. Youtube
Replies: 1133
Views: 34573

Re: Mostly Music & Funny Videos. Youtube

Quick, someones shows them how the Tacoma Narrows bridge ended up.

At the BeeB: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/10138398.stm
Wobbly bridge shut in Russia.

WW
by WishingWealth
21 May 2010 11:59
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: The Tea Party
Replies: 190
Views: 9634

Re: The Tea Party

http://i50.tinypic.com/1z5nd68.jpg in the news yet again all over the place. Go figgur. (Pic originally from Getty images) @ The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/garbage-and-gravitas?page=full Warning: Deep deep red propaganda. Garbage and Gravitas St. Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both. Many other people have thought so too. In 1998 readers responding to a Modern Library poll identified Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as the two greatest novels of the twentieth century—surpassing Ulysses, To the Lighthouse and Invisible Man. In 1991 a survey by the Library of Congress and the Book-of-the-Mo...
by WishingWealth
21 May 2010 10:54
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: Are all forecasters useless?
Replies: 7
Views: 668

Re: Are all forecasters useless?

There was a video of Jeff Rubin yesterday and it was almost painful watching the poor man weasel/squirm/talk from three sides of the mouth in regards to his oil @ $200. forecasts or predictions or chicken entrails reading.

WW (No idea if oil will be $50. or $250 in x years.)
by WishingWealth
21 May 2010 00:27
Forum: Financial News, Policy and Economics
Topic: The Tea Party
Replies: 190
Views: 9634

Re: The Tea Party

Perhaps you gentlemen need to revisit your inner Robin Hood. @ Slate: http://www.slate.com/id/2253736 Robin Hood Psychology We may be predisposed to steal from the rich and give to the poor. ... To measure our attitudes toward inequality, researchers conduct "ultimatum games," a form of experimental economics frequently cited by journalists and pop psychologists to debunk the idea that we always act rationally. In an ultimatum game, the first test subject is given money that he must divide between himself and a second subject. The second subject then gets the opportunity to take the deal or to reject it—leaving both subjects with nothing. It turns out that people are inclined to reject the deal when the split is very unequal, even...
by WishingWealth
17 May 2010 21:42
Forum: Community Centre
Topic: Pictures! (please make them a max of 640 pixels wide)
Replies: 366
Views: 11672

Re: Pictures! (please make them a max of 640 pixels wide)

Today's front Bing.com has a nice picture of a "Crazy Drive"

More here:
http://www.bing.com/travel/content/sear ... ORM=RQTRAV

WW
by WishingWealth
17 May 2010 11:11
Forum: Taxing Situations
Topic: Tax preparation software for 2009 [ Quicktax UFile DrTax ]
Replies: 88
Views: 10489

Re: Tax preparation software for 2009 [ Quicktax UFile DrTax

I just received a mail from Ufile aka ImpôtExpert requesting comments.
(Did not reply)

If one has ticked the 'Keep me updated' box or whatever it's called, you should [have] receive[d] an email.

WW