ronthecivil

Money now! Of course you will, unless you want to "risk" it.....

I mean I was first doing it when I had the small like 15 game ice pack. I got half seasons by going to the ice pack event and picking some half seasons that were available. I did that one year and then next event I picked up full seasons, be it in the very back, and have upgraded since. For a while I had a set of three and then we moved when one guy had a new house and kids lol. When you go pick is based on your priority number, so just go to your event. The higher the priority number, the sooner your event, the more seats there are to pick. So find out your event, and then get close the rail seats in the upper bowl. Voila, glass problem fixed. Or sit near the top of LB if you want. Not sure whey anyone sits there, you pay more for a crappier view. I have sat right at ice level a half dozen times, once while in University because a friend got gifted them, and a few other times where I bought a single (Like when Luongo came back to town for the first time after the retrade, I got the seat behind him). It's neat for a one off, but I wouldn't sit there all season....

Yup so in Canada at least were at inflation = interest rates more or less, so hold our ship steady makes sense. It's no longer a WTF are they doing!!! Now we just need our spendthift political masters to toe the line. I think Joe Q public is at least kinda reigning it in.

Sure later. Just so you know, I get my numbers and costs and such for wind from having worked installing wind turbines and talking to the project managers about whether they wanted more, and they told me how much they expected to break even on it, and say the logistics of putting wind turbines in somewhere ultra windy but the difficulty of connecting it to the grid (take three guesses where lol!). Solar power knowlege comes from talking about solar power with my buddy who is an engineer at a company that installs it, so ya, costs and impacts are based on chatting with my buddy. Nuke knowlege is just from watching Netflix thing about Bill Gates and the funky projects his money is going to. The nuclear thing looks promising is my take away. My take away in general is that nobody wants to build anything. If they do it's going over cost (site C, transmountain pipeline) in units of double digit billions. Unit rates for green energy are even higher. With the increases in demand already baked in, plus the push to electrification of everything, then I am simply saying that costs of electricity are going to rise. I will watch video later but I imagine it's the same conclusion, but I guess I find out later!

Step 1: Go to the seat selection event. Step 2: Pick seats with "full" on the seats. AND... Call rep and tell them you want to go to an event with lots of "full" season tickets available. Then go to the event they send to you and pick them. What I wonder is how to downgrade lol!

Inflation (magic number food is much higher) is down to like 5.2%. Canada bank rate is 4.5%. Bank prime rate (what us plebeians hope to get) 6.7%. So the call to hold makes sense, for now. The US is likely to do a few more hikes. Which will sink the Canadian dollar, making imports force inflation up again. So Canada will have to follow, even if at a limp because we don't want to make everyone with a mortgage (aka most people) to get eradicated. So it's safe to say that maybe over the next year or so we might go up another 0.5% to 1.0%, and kind of stay that way, as inflation gradually goes down. But in Canada, the lower dollar will help fuel inflation, which each point in interest will suck mega bucks out of the system. Much to my surprise, the feds actually said "fiscal prudence" and to keep the left happy "targeted measures" which is actually making me think they are starting to get religion, but we will see.

I got mine in my email today I will check to see what my buddies think. Funny thing is I haven't changed my credit card yet lol!

Best way to defeat all the autorenewal BS that is all the rage is to change your credit card yearly (just say the tap is broken you need a new card) and voila! they come to you when it doesn't process! Do it yearly and be surprised how much it happens!

It's because it's the downside of democracy. Hard decisions are well, hard, at the best of times. Even with the threat of being tossed out of your job it wouldn't be easy (to people that have a conscience at least) to raise taxes on people and you know people howl and scream and it does have often poor economic consequences that are not intended or foreseen that people that call for them. Same thing for spending cuts, or heck, not tossing money at a problem that can be obvious even if the solution isn't. And as noted by Mr. Hippy, the budgeting and administration process is so entrenched and if you so much as cast an eye at it you open the door to be criticized for corruption, mismanagement (ironically unfortunately), and squandering tax payers dollars. The answer to which of course tends to be more rules and admistrators to take away any actual decision making power and grinding the beaurocraccy to a halt. Insert "pricing" for "tax" and "salary" for "spending" and well still the management and it's also kind of true for the private sector. So instead the easy option of spending more than you can take in, kicking the can down the road with bloated staff, is the history that repeats itself over and over again, until, oncce again, people learn the hard way. Because only when people HAVE to does this basic human behavior change.

I am implying they will have significant tax increases as well. If they truely want to help the Bank of Canada with inflation then they will have to have at least a more balanced budget. With all the extra spending, this means tax increases.

If the property tax increases are turning your arrogant worms, wait until you see the federal budget!

Like an official energy transition plan for say anywhere that actually studies the amount of energy and materials needed, and incorporates it into a countries plan, making it clear what needs to actually be built in order to transition to a zero carbon system? I wish! Then we might know how much it will cost. What I predict is that it's not being thought out, and there will be shortages of the new green energy, in the future.

The laws of physics say there is no free energy. And the whole point of my discussion of the whole energy transformation is that it's not completely thought out, and depending on what they do, in particular if history repeats itself and "what" turns out to be "not enough" then the price of all these electric cars, anything made out of the same metal as them, and most certainly electricity, is going to go up significantly. Which is just going to pile onto the whole inflation thing. Watch governments borrow heavily to try to push these green initiatives over the line. You know, like the ironically named inflation reduction act down south?

Well there's 200 million motor vehicles in the USA alone. Plugging more and more of them in will take a lot of power. And while the price of gas is high and taxed even higher, don't expect new electricity that isn't powered by fossil fuels is going to be expensive. One thing I thought of though is to build a lot more waste to energy. Sure, it makes CO2, but so does putting the things your burning into a landfill. The way they do it with some natural gas at very high heat in Denmark makes the emission kind of benign. In fact in Denmark the plants make waste heat that is pumped to the nearby town, so people actually want to live with them for the cheap heating. And this is relatively low cost electricity.

Carbon footprint, I dunno. Not much. But solar plants best spots are also generally very good ones to grow food. And it's like 50 cents a Kwh which is like quadruple the cost. Wind is like 15 to 20 cents. Get Bill Gate nuke plans that burn the old fuel that's only causing damage going.....

Never mind the question of where is all this extra electricity going to come from? Do you think building a bunch of new power stations will be carbon neutral? If it's all hydro, sun, wind etc then for one these all have environmental impacts themselves (flood, farmland, dead birds) and are either very capital intensive (hydro) or have a high cost per kilowatt hour..... What will this do to the price of electricity? How much fossil fuels and what's the impact of building literally millions of batters a year, for like ever?

I think that changes to how the supply chain works are starting to make some differences. There's also been a lot of tech job losses which would reduce demand. The massive budget deficits of like every government on the planet are getting any better though. The amount of debt is still going up. Dead cat bounce. More inflation coming. If it's the 70s again, we got four more years to go....

Sure, and high taxes. And really, I don't care either way, just balance the budget. I don't LIKE getting taxed. And I don't love tons of spending. But I absolutely HATE my taxes going to serve interest payments, especially when I know rates are going to be higher.

I don't think printing money is a good idea period. As mentioned, I don't care if it's low tax, low service system, or a higher tax, more benefits system. Just manage the budget. Now, the US HAS to bailout SVB, but that doesn't help the bank itself, it helps the people that have money stored there. It helps a bunch of small businesses that through no fault of their own wouldn't be able to make payroll. So while it's a bank and the market that caused the problem, you kind of have to do that to help the little guy.

Look at the true value of everything my friend.

It takes strenght if your a right winger to insist that business follow good rules, that banks be well capatilised, and to not repeat the mistakes of the past. It takes strength, if your a left winger, to allow for business to flourish, to not raise taxes when they do well, (instead of letting it compound), because profiteering hurts us all. So we get a mushy middle where everything f**ks up. Kind of like the Canucks. We need firm and smart decisions based on logic, but emotion rules the day.

You do you, I am not an orical of timing (I fail at it) but long term play, get cap space, buy when it's low, and write off the high interest of the loan that made it possible? I dreamed about it last time, this time I am doing it.

Fine and dandy perspective, but it MIGHT happen, but don't COUNT on it happening. And as said, maybe Myers is overpaid, but he's still a right D, a weakness on the team. What do you replace him with. The depth problem will rear it's ugly head.

If you trade Myers, which why does Arizona want to do this in the first place?, just drops us a Right D, no matter what you think of him. OEL needs a few more years to mature in the press box before we buy him out. Were loosing a forward unfortunately. This signing ads long term potential depth. Great. No do more of that.

Managing contracts, cap, and development like this (letting him play tons of minutes and dominate, and then slowly but surely work his way up) is a good way to change my opinion on drafting and development. Right now there's not much on the top shelf for the Canucks pipeline but digging deep and putting in good polish might create some diamonds out of nothing. Heck, even if he turns into a reliable 5/6 that's actually reliable, with some actual skill, with three years of entry level contract, even if it's in a few years, is a win. And if I have to endure three more years of reclamation project of the year for the backend, if I see an improvement on the way getting bigger and stronger working his way up the system, I might even get some hope.