Voodoo

No more than Biden.

It's the same up here...it all depends on whose ox is getting gored, but Trudeau has brought his A game to division.

They needed a study? 

Anyone who has owned a higher end Krautmobile could have answered this for them.

It is surprising how close the lower number manufacturers are.

I am slightly confused though at the 10 year numbers. 

I find it difficult to believe the Tesla at 10 years does not need a battery. That would throw them much closer to the high end of the spectrum IMO.

20 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

 

My job experience? I attended a vocational school and studied printing for 4 years. After graduating I took a year off and worked for a small printer then enrolled in college. I earned a BS degree and while attending school I worked 2 part time jobs to pay for my tuition…..no help from family as my dad passed suddenly at 48 years old when I was 13 and mom didn’t work because I had 5 younger brothers and sisters and moms stayed home in 1969. We lived on welfare food and help from our extended family. Mom had to go to work and learn to drive while we all took on the home things. 
After college I took another job as an assistant pressroom super at a local printer eventually assuming the supers position for 5 years. I left that job to accept a in -plant print manager position for a large manufacturer. I managed 15 employees for 20 years. During this time my brother and sil purchased a 75 employee web printing company. They had perused me for 5 years to come to work as the VP but i got along very well with my brother and I didn’t want to jeopardize our relationship being an employee. As my current job had hit its course and after much prying and my brother wanting his company to be ISO Certified I accepted his offer. 2 years later we, including myself purchased the 5 acre property and 60,000 sq ft facility. I spent 18 years working for my family business and it worked out incredibly well. We sold the business 6 years ago and the real estate 4 years ago. I retired 6 years ago.

Nothing was handed to me asshole.

What’s your story?

You appear to have a classic pull yourself up reality.

My dad worked like a dog through the 70’s and 80’s while mom stayed home to raise 3 kids. All the heartaches of up and down economies. My parents still have a mortgage. Any pension dad should have had evaporated when the company he worked for went bankrupt. I too learned that hard work was where it was at. First job at 13 on local farms, dish washer, maintenance and bar tender at a motel/restaurant 15 miles away.

When dad lost his job as an engineer at the place that also lost his pension money, he was fortunate to have made a good friend who came from Germany. 

This friend came from Germany in the 70’s and started a company manufacturing control systems, much of it in the nuclear industry. Dad’s knowledge of the electric heating industry and engineering for same did well, and his friend branched his business to deliver to the clients dad had in in with. It came about the work load was too much, so the entire electric heating production needed to be outsourced. It was offered to me. My wife and I had just bought our first house but we took the gamble. 
There was a high demand for quality air handlers, many of such went to remote locations. They had to work, well, without maintenance, ultra reliably. That’s our hallmark. Everything was designed and built in house. Most of what we built is still running, reliably, decades later. Quality parts, professional build. Today much of what we did is now low bidder, get past the warranty stuff. Few but the long involved can see the benefit of quality vs price. We’ve got generator testing, load banks at Canada’s major banks, government server locations, that run decades with minimal repairs. The competition made units for half the cost, but would need major refits or replacement at 5 years. It’s a tougher sell in todays throw away society.
We all were working 7 days a week, seemingly for years. It was just me, my wife and my dad. There was no one else to blame, get money from, if things went south.

We did a quote for a 2 MW load bank, TD tower at Younge and Dundas, Toronto.

16 week build time. They fucked the dog until the end of February, the following year.

They kept coming back with revisions, changes, which we did..always telling them it’s 16 weeks after approval. 
They finally came forward with a purchase order. Mid March.

This has gone on 2 years. Yep, we are on it. 4 weeks later the emails start to fly. This unit needs to be lifted to the roof of the TD tower on May 24.  6 weeks after start.

I come back to them, not possible. This thing will eventually be the size of a 10x20 sea can and 10 tons. Needs ESA approval and testing.

They come back to me, it has to lift on that date, whatever you need to make it happen we will be good with. Shutting down Younge and Dundas for a crane lift is costly…like 250k.

I spend a couple days with the production teams and come up with a plan.

We can spend all of our time building the frame, getting the load bank, motors and blowers in place. It can then lift and we finish it on the roof. Be an extra 60k on my end.

They apparently appreciate and approve.

The day comes, it lifts. It’s a Sunday.

Monday comes and I get an email. A list of deficiencies and threats.

Tuesday I slide down to the job site. Downtown Toronto. I can’t even get my truck into the underground parking, let alone the trailer I need for parts and tools….oh, and it’s a union site. Can’t start before 7 and must be gone by 2:30. Thankfully the guys I had doing the work were union. No fault on the union guys in my circle of people, they were excellent. 
 

I bet my house on this job. We got it done, or I’d be living in a van by the river 

Was he vaxxed?

In the proximity of a 5G tower?

Low on testosterone?

1 hour ago, toslow said:

Just said in the news it has nothing to do with trump, you know unless you've been told by a TDS news station

Sure. 

Just a random place to set yourself on fire....as people do...

It's such a frequent occurrence, it was bound to happen....in front of the courthouse that has the Orange devil. 

LMFAO

12 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

FAKE

Quite possible. 

I find it extremely difficult to believe many in the media would not be on this like a pitbull on a poodle.

I'm willing to wait this one out. 

Get it first, but first get it right is a rare bird on FSCE.

Our dope receives the same treatment.

In 8 years, he has destroyed the hopes and dreams of at least one, possibly two generations.

Company I work for tried switching an asphalt plant from diesel fired heat to hydrogen. Heating asphalt takes a massive amount of heat. They went through tens of thousands of gallons of diesel a day

There was a hydrogen filling station 30 miles away, so they bought a trailer to bring it in.

The problem was the heat generated in compressing the hydrogen to a liquid. When it reverts to a gas it demands the heat it lost in the change of state.

When the demand came for the hydrogen, the decanter they had to decompress the hydrogen was quickly overwhelmed, even in the summer heat. They really needed a decanter that could effectively reheat the hydrogen. 

Toyota is not a stupid company. They will figure it out.

Perhaps they use the energy generated by wind and solar to heat the hydrogen, maybe use the already decompressed hydrogen to heat the incoming supply.

A visual representation of this can be seen in the space shuttle boosters on the Columbia.

Anyone who owns an air compressor can see how this happens. If the air gets compressed and used immediately, it’s hot

Use that air tomorrow and it’s cold.

Trust the science!!

Very sad, but its first degree murder, period.

He should spend the rest of his days in jail.

Defamation is easy to avoid.

Don't lie and make shit up.

I live in Ontario and have watched the rental market.

Big landlords have good legal teams. I personally don't care what happens to them, maybe I should.

The bigger issue is what happens to the mom and pop landlords who get a professional tenant.

It is so hard to evict a tenant who doesn't pay rent, sometimes for years, few want to get into the rental game.

I could easily rent out a room or two, even bring in modular housing and all that entails. Cost me hundreds of thousands, but would bring good homes on the market. Without the the ability to collect rent, how would that make sense.

1 hour ago, Mainecat said:

How about today’s millennial family unit? Husband/wife or girlfriend/ boyfriend procreate. They don’t stay together under the same roof or at all. Dad moves out and splits custody of their 2 kids. Now dd needs a 2 bedroom and mom does to.

Ya see why there is not a housing shortage but a family unit problem?

Smartest thing I've seen you say....but there is still a housing shortage.

On 4/13/2024 at 7:22 PM, ViperGTS/Z1 said:

Nice.... couldn't get the front hubs off my car..... admitted defeat and brought to my mechanic after hours of trying....

I own 4 GM's. Front hubs are chronic. 3 of the four all take the same hub. 1500 series AWD vans, same as a 4x4 pickup truck.

I now buy in bulk. The cheapest shit I can find.

Air hammer. One of the best tools I ever bought. Has yet to fail getting a hub out, without heat.

3 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

maybe some of the boomers should sell their second or third homes in New Hampshire? 

 

Boomers are hanging on to large homes, boxing out millennials with growing families. That could hurt Biden in the election.

https://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers-millennials-large-homes-inventory-affordability-election-2024-4

 

damn greedy boomers...

 

We pay tax on mortgage interest , you do not. We can sign a mortgage for no more than really 5 years, and then are subject to the new rate at the time.

We do not pay capital gains on a primary residence. All else is subject.

Our dope, yesterday made the capital gain rates %66.7, after a $250k exemption, in an effort I believe to get people to sell a second home.

My entire net worth is tied up in my primary residence, and an RRSP..what you would call a 401k.

It won't effect me, but it will others. 

When a boomer sells his second home, say a cottage it's usually to pass the money down to his children.

That additional tax will just take money from a gen Z or younger.

Our idiot just doesn't think.

2 minutes ago, ActionfigureJoe said:

Sig P365 axg Legion. Fuck plastic guns. 

Nice little compact gun. Can't conceal carry, so I doubt they are in demand up here.

IWI Jericho .45 acp. Bought a bunch of blammo when it was cheap.

Haven't fired it in a while. As I age I'm sure the .45 may become unwieldly.  She's big and heavy, especially with the flashlight and laser.

Better start working out again.

2 hours ago, Anler said:

Everybody should have a glock

Our government has made the purchase and sale, even privately, of handguns illegal.

No Glocks, unless you already have one...or you care to get one brought in through a reserve and sold by your friendly neighborhood shit rat.

Coined by me, in my snowmobile club we refer to them as Satan's chariot. 

And you thought you were #1 in the election of idiots.

Canada FTW!!

Ontario is balls deep in this fucking mess.

Our "conservative" government watched the green energy fiasco go down under the previous liberal government and railed against it.

They then throw tens of billions into EV's and batteries. Might as well have burned that money and got some heat out of it.

What is in the bloody water at Queens park?

I didn't hear him say anything about Joe, good or bad?

He just called some asshole a cock sucker..

7 hours ago, Steve753 said:

It got me the hell away from the crazy people like you. It was nice going to places where covid wasn't an issue.

It was quite liberating, not having to socially interact with the lesser humanoids. 

It really honed my skills at avoiding people and retail shopping.

As soon as skip the dishes and grocery delivery get to my little berg I will achieve the rank of Covid Jedi Master.

I’d wager no one here can claim to own nothing made in China.

Needed a cheap dirt bike for the nieces and nephews. 
I bought a Drz 400, lowered it, regeared it…still too much bike.
I’d have loved to get a CRF 80, but the TSC Coleman was $800. It’s actually a pretty fun toy.

I was already too deep in the Drz my wife said. Bought new 2020 SM, was just shy of 10k. She is correct.

Bought another Suzuki Eiger 400 full auto for them, in addition to the same in semi auto I already have. That I got for a great deal. Needed a full front end rebuild. Same as my other Eiger. Front wheel bearings are shit. The one I got the bearings went, the previous owner kept riding it so bad the rotors chewed up the callipers.

Might buy a CRF 125, but they are 4K new, and still stupid money used.

I’m seeing the toy market come back to reality, but so far it’s really slow. 
The “need to sell” hasn’t happened yet.

7 minutes ago, The One said:

Wait a minute !! It runs on what ?? 

 

It’s a gas, tears of Chinese children hybrid.

Good idea on the fan. Air cooled gasser in an enclosure, guess that keep the costs down.

Probably cheaper than renting one for a month.

I picked up an old Allis Chalmers I 600 hoe, late 60’s.  Leaks hydraulic fluid like mad, power steering fluid too.
3 grand. Paid for itself long ago.

Just now, The One said:

Wait a minute !! It runs on what ?? 

 

Just now, The One said:

If your public education system is anything like ours, a strong democracy is the last thing it builds.

Socialist indoctrination camps they are.