effyoo
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^^ I see this guys point.
My first thought was that it is a reaction to the recent bombings in London and the IRA's not wanting to get lumped in with the 'terrorists'.
What's that saying? 'Your enemy's enemy is your ally'? Maybe the whole London thing will make the Northern Ireland thing moot.
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haha, I just got on with an australian company, i think i might be in the same boat. They took me to a pub for my interview.
I ain't scrurred though, i can hang.
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Originally posted by fatalist@Jul 27 2005, 10:22 PM
i haven't charged my cell phone in days, and you know what? i really don't care!
word. i went for almost a month without charging my phone and it was the jump.
*there was a 30 minute fireworks display down on the beach today. it was dope.
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stop being a pussy and kill those things before they get you in your sleep?
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A 3 million dollar bust? that ain't shit.
The province boasts 15,000 to 25,000 marijuana grow operations employing (at six persons per grow) between 90,000 and 150,000 people. The agency estimated the annual wholesale value of the pot crop at $4 billion. At $2,000 per pound, that is about two million pounds of BC bud each year, much of it headed south. The agency estimated that as much as 95% of the crop is exported to the ravenous US market."I'm not aware of anywhere in North America where a single [illegal] industry would be this important," Jim Brander, a professor of business economics at the University of BC, told the Vancouver Sun after studying the report.
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How important is marijuana to the British Columbia economy? Counting only the people directly involved in grow operations (at six per grow) and taking the low end of the estimate, the marijuana sector's 100,000 workers make up 5% of the provincial workforce and number more than are employed in the province's massive logging, mining, and oil and gas industries (55,000 combined), the information and culture industries (99,000), provincial and local government (99,000), and business managers and administrators (79,000). Only the manufacturing sector, with 205,000 workers, is unarguably larger than the marijuana sector; the other two largest sectors -- construction and transportation -- both employ fewer than the high end figure from official BC employment statistics, cited by the OCA
Marijuana is also one of the province's leading exports, perhaps the largest in dollar terms if the OCA export figures are accurate. The top legal exports are wood ($3.2 billion US) and oil and gas ($1.5 billion US). According to the OCA, marijuana exports accounted for as much as $3.8 billion US.
And that is good for Canada. "Ideally, what any country wants to do is produce for export to other countries," said Lindsay Meredith, an economist at Simon Fraser University. "It creates a trade surplus and makes the currency stronger," he told the Vancouver Sun.
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you have to thoroughly (de)bone your fish before you attempt to eat it.
or vice versa. you know the deal.
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the fuck? all i got was a goddamn t shirt from sookmoney.
its all good though. i'm almost more asian than she is.
i really need to eat more rice.
yes. shrimp crackers are good. i remember the first time i ate them.
i was in kindergarten and michael m. brought them for lunch and he gave me a few and i told him that they tasted like shit.
now i go to chinatown to look for weird shit to eat. never, and i repeat, NEVER get winter melon juice though. so fucking sick.
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fuck, i'm happy if the pencil i use has an eraser or isn't so old that the eraser is so hard that it just leaves a pink/grey smudge.
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niggaz, this shit is neato: click.
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me and an ex would watch porn all the time, we rented that Sex Commandos once, but I can't remember the line either.
The funniest one we ever got was called Tit In A Wringer. It was about one of those old washing machines with the hand crank thing to wring out the clothes. Anyway, Every scene ended up with some big titted bitch with her tit all up in the wringer. Greatest porn ever.
oh shit, found it!
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yeah, go to san jose. get all hot then get back in your car and drive to sf and cool out ...
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For real though, cricket seems like a good game. As far as I can gather the pitcher is trying to knock down the sticks behind the batter. I just have no idea how the scoring works, and why the games go for 3 days. Better than baseball, no matter how you look at it.
A story: I met two random girls at this pub a few weeks ago who were from Africa. One was from South Africa and one was from Zimbabwe. We were on the train to their spot when the subject of cricket came up.
The girl from Zimbabwe started going on about how all the black players were ruining Zimbabwe cricket because they wanted a sort of equal representation on the team and how she was against it.
The train got quiet with a quickness. I have absolutely no idea what she was talking about...
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Happy birthday! I actually remembered too, I bought you some tickets to the power exchange. hah!
Oh yeah, Shumai psychically told me to tell you happy birthday since she likes me better:
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congrats!
eat: fried rice w/ carrots, garlic, onions, ground beef, oyster sauce.
wear: underwear.
fruit: bosc pear and blueberries.
i am going to make a baguette right away.
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imagine if that was acid or something, THAT would make a newsworty story...
really though, what was he supposed to do? beat the shit out of the guy? it would have been funny if he did, but he really had no options. it was like he was scolding a little kid.
If tommo punched him he would be sued for millions, and not saying anything would make him look like a bigger pussy than he already is. by dealing with it the way he did, he ruined the little bit of comedy the guy was going for. well handled, i say.
fuuuuck all this bullshit coverage these celebrities are getting though. i've had the tv on all day, and they've showed this little clip at least 5 times. twice in the past hour. i could care less about this little sham marriage tom cruise is trying to pull off or about some asshole that is trying to live out his fantasy of squirting all over his face.
it was funny though.
*edit. not even a couple minutes after i hit reply, they showed the clip again. for the 3rd time on the newscast as they were going to commercial... man oh man.
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win 2000pro.
oh, does anyone have a working serial fo xp?
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yo, i'm getting a 206 memory failed message when i start up my computer. i'll go to the settings screen and save whatever the hell gets changed, then it starts up fine. what the hell is wrong? google is no help.
oh, and what about a rapidblaster removal tool? panda, avg, and norton say i don't have a virus, but hijackthis said i have the rapidblaster virus. i tried some rapidblaster removal tool, and that said that everything was fine too. now i just have some weird programs that change my registry upon startup. i know something is wrong....
and this asshole upstairs must weigh 400lbs. heavy walkers drive me nuts. shut the fuck up asshole!
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"Roots" By Alex Haley needs to be acknowledged. Always will make me know that things can get a lot worse. First read it when I was 12.
Curently reading: "Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky.
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id, car key,
bus tickets,
bank card,
$15,
receipt from the atm,
blockbuster card (do they work in other cities?),
random phone number on a scrap of paper,
health card for some place i don't live anymore,
david spade
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i need recommendations for sf, ca.
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i commented before i saw the show and i have to agree that the show is shit.
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We were talking about this show in school. Gordon Ramsay is a former professional football (soccer) star who after retiring turned to cooking and became a Michelin starred chef. Apparently he's brilliant but a complete fucking dick. And I guess he's not the worst of the chefs that are out there.
A professional kitchen is one of the last workplaces where shit like this is accepted. When people reach the level of these chefs the pressure they're under to maintain their level of perfection is rediculous and people will put up with shit like this to work with someone who is at the top of the game.
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I come from Alberta. Oil lands and oil sands have been the subject of discussion for as long as i can remember.
There is a reserve less than 20 minutes drive from where i grew up where there happened to be a huge deposit of oil.
So the agreement that the reserve signed with the oil company is that every kid that grows up on the reserve gets a lump sum of $100 000 when they turn 18 with ongoing payments for life. plus they get the free college and no sales tax bonus too.
is this fair over a hundred years after the fact? contracts are contracts, right? i can get with that. but how are you going to just be like, "Yo, my ancestors, who I may or may not have any connection to, are making a claim to this land!" and try to take over things?