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You guys see this shit?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/whistler-lawsuit-1.4167886

Let me repeat, I have nothing against the trades, but I'd like to know if the trades really do carry any real stigmas.
Allix

I'm not a tradesperson, but I thought I'd speak to this from my perspective.

I work in Construction (specifically Quality) Management on large civil projects. In my years working so far, I have learned at least as much from the Foremen, Carpenters and other tradespeople on site than I have from the engineers and managers I work with/for.

Whether it's with office workers or tradespeople, it's always the same - there will be hard workers, lazy asses and dumb jerks who will waste your time. It's up to you to know the difference and act accordingly.

Good luck with your decision making.

Victoria has at least one outdoor piss station (or did a couple years ago)

Sweet baby jesus I hope that's a fake headline on the lower one.

Just saw this on a car forum - goodbye camshafts, hello torque and fuel efficiency. Imagine how much this is going to make them in licensing the patents. :drool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bch5B23_pu0

This is one of those things, that when you consider modern tech it's amazing it hasn't been invented yet. Servos have been around for a long time, and yet cars still use camshafts. Definitely a "duh! why didn't I think of that?" moment.

Very excited to see where they go with it.

Have terribad aim

I loved how buddy popped a headshot from a couple hundred yards off the get-go, and then the next 5 minutes was them wasting ammo at each other, and hitting nothing.

Vstrom is probably the touring bike I would most consider, go 650 or 1000?

Oh jeez, I did not notice this post.

It's actually the SV650. Smaller and lighter than a V-strom, but shittier for touring.

You just build shitty highways, haha

Hah. All my overpasses are A-okay.

Your response is a an excuse. You attack when faced with a mirror.

The Technology is already right now. 10 or so major Heliostat sodium paste solar power plants that are a closed loop system would power the entire planet. 20+ Tera watts.

These systems are 100% clean and not under pressure. combine that with Geo-Thermal Storage of the Sodium paste which can be heated to 1000C with a 98% percent efficiency will run 24/7 even in darkness when put in the right places. Canada has such places for this now.

I would much rather be working to polish the mirrors of such a system than doing harm to our ecosystem.

Cool! I'll have to read into them!

I really don't see what excuses I was making for myself. I don't work in the oil and gas sector.

Excuse…

"if we don't supply then someone else does" attitude.

Not an excuse. I make no apologies for my lifestyle.

Do you hunt and gather your own food, or do you buy it in a store? Is it local? Even if it is local, I bet there were plenty of fossil fuels expended to bring it to your table. Where did your bike come from? Was it made in Asia and shipped to you here? How about the buildings you live in, streets you ride on, etc…

Biking is a great start, but the only thing that will truly help is new technology. (or having a global population a fraction of its current level)