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CitizenVectron

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  1. Maybe Trump will push for their extradition! Lol. More likely he will try to pardon them.
  2. That's the one thing that Canada really lacks. We do have points on our cards, but the rewards are typically 1/2 or less than comparable American cards. Still 100% worth it, though. I don't bother with the travel ones though, I use for gas points and gift cards. Flights in Canada are 2 or 3x the cost of the US (little competition, and there used to be a government airline that was privatized and since then prices have shot up), so people don't travel as much here, lol.
  3. Looks like the CEB Newsroom is the number one forum here since the reboot. I always knew we were the heart of IGN Bad Cartridge D1P.
  4. Has tap taken off in the US yet? Or is the US still implementing chip-and-pin? Almost all places here have tap now, which lets you use tap your card against the machine and then walk away. Kind of like Apple Pay or whatever, but universal across all banks, credit cards, etc. I think the reason why Canada is at the forefront of this tech is because all of the banks and credit unions set up the interac consortium in the 90s to create a nationwide non-profit system to handle bank transfers, debit cards, etc. And in Canada the vast majority of credit cards are actually through your bank (in cooperation with Visa or M/C, etc) so it transferred over to CCs. Also, do you guys have eTransfers? Here, all of the banks and CUs use interac eTransfer to send funds between banks. Most banks don't charge fees for it (a few charge $1 per transfer). How it works is that you just go into your app and send money to someone's email address with a password. They enter the password and bam, the money is instantly in their bank account, no waiting. It's like the modern version of a cheque. It's become the ubiquitous payment method for paying someone else securely in Canada. The government and banks are really pushing us to be cashless as soon as possible (along with removing the penny. Nickel will be next). As a wedding photographer, it's awesome to just tell people to eTransfer me the money. They can do it right in front of me, and then I wait for it to go through and we're good to go. Basically, because of interac Canada has been able to avoid all the fragmentation that has occurred in the US. There's no point of even using Apple Pay or Paypal or anything else here since you can do all of that stuff instantly between personal bank accounts.
  5. Was it when they detected it was used to buy a box of condoms? "WARNING, UNEXPECTED SEXUAL ACTIVITY DETECTED." lol
  6. "The makeup of our cave has changed. They're taking away our cave culture. It didn't look like this 10 years ago, let me tell you."
  7. I'll be honest, I've never even checked my credit score. The only debt I've ever had is my two car loans (for $20,000 and $30,000) and then my Visa which has always been paid on time with the exception of twice or three times. But I'm also a white Canadian male from the middle-class, so I'm not too worried about it either way. If I need a loan I'll just put on a suit, shave, and walk into a bank.
  8. Trump is outright insulting May and saying one of her critics would make a good PM. This level of intervention is worthy of being asked to leave the country. Canada had a similar situation when de Gaulle came from France and was publicly in favour of Quebec separatism and said "long live a free Quebec," and it caused a diplomatic incident with the Prime Minister having to declare "Canadians don't need to be freed." May should tell Trump to fuck off. Is he meeting the Queen?
  9. On the one hand, I want this technology. On the other, no one makes anything close to top-end Nvidia cards.
  10. Depending on posture and conditions, anywhere from the top of the belt to the bottom of the belt is acceptable, with the correct amount be 1mm from the top of the belt.
  11. The online Star Wars community has notoriously gone after female stars in the new trilogy, going so far as to harass them until they leave social media completely. The title is alluding to this, and that Keri Russel will be the next to be harassed. Obviously this doesn't represent all Star Wars fans...but it's a pretty toxic and anti-woman community compared to many fanbases.
  12. I enjoy Scythe, but I barely get it to the table since my group purchased Gloomhaven. I've only played base Scythe, but I think I still prefer Terra Mystica to it (Scythe is like Terra Mystica-lite, and with combat). Still a great game though. I do have one of the expansions, but haven't played it yet.
  13. All it tells me is that some people have 200k credit limits on their card. If you can afford that much, the government should probably be taking most of your money.
  14. Yeah. TFA was great when it came out because it was well-made and enjoyable, but it hasn't aged well. I think TLJ will age better (except the casino plot) due to the strength of the Luke-Rey-Ben story, and I'm still holding out hope that IX will be a solid ending...but I also know that JJ loves nostalgia and cliche stuff. My biggest hope is in Johnson's new trilogy, which I hope has zero ties to any existing characters. I'd be fine with it involving Jedis and all that, but I want an end to the Rebels vs Empire story. EDIT - I want to be clear that the ST so far is still much, much better than the PT. But it's not new, which is what kind of sucks. Luke is the only one that needed to appear in it, if anyone.
  15. Man I should get back into this. I played for a few weeks when it first launched but haven't come back. Same with PUBG, actually.
  16. I really wish they would have not used any of the OT characters at all for this one except Luke as a ghost (and have the trilogy start with Ben having already killed Luke as his moment of betrayal a few years before). The new trilogy is waaaay too tied to the past to have its own interesting story. I blame JJ.
  17. Yeah now they are quite small, basically a little square. Honestly, I'd rather have twitter posts be larger (like before) and have the occasional monster-size FB post than keep it this way. We have twitter posts all the time, but FB is much more rare.
  18. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-usa-helicopters/mexicos-president-elect-will-cancel-planned-u-s-helicopter-order-idUSKBN1K1332?il=0 Mexico's new president cancelling $1.36 Billion helicopter order from the US.
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