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2 minutes ago, Wideleft said:
It all depends on what we consider center now. Conservative governments have moved so far right that I'd consider 2 PM on a clock "center". The 9-12 slice doesn't really exist in practicality.
I don't disagree, but I would be curious on what you would define as centre.
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Also, don't know what Twitter did to lists, but the embedded twitter feed on the site seems to be broken. The list / feed is still live here https://twitter.com/i/lists/90380109?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^embeddedtimeline|twterm^screen-name%2Fslug%3AMorningBigBlue%2Fmorning-big-blue|twcon^s1 🤔
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9 minutes ago, Noeller said:
"uh oh, we have a PR problem...."
Personal experience.....
We have a mini pack and were contacted twice about a month ago to commit to the whole playoffs, which we declined. These were direct from ticket reps.
Have been contacted for our window to move / upgrade seats. This was a form / mass email.
And contacted with instructions for single seats leading up to and when playoff presale was open to season ticket holders. This was a form / mass email.
This was primarily through email mind you. I could see some people having an obscure email address they don't check or going to spam. But I don't think it is realistic to phone thousands and thousands of people in that short a time frame after the Jets qualified for playoffs.
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It is a combination of a lot of factors. It is also NHL / hockey fatigue.
To see a dip in season ticket holders and attendance around the 10 year mark of a new franchise / relocated franchise is pretty typical if you look to some other recent examples (ie. Minnesota). If they hadn't planned for this, then they weren't really doing their homework.
This city is too small to support the Jets, Moose, and Ice. The Ice is leaving. Question remains if this city can really support both the Jets and the Moose.
Up until last year, I was part of a season ticket group where we shared seats. I went to about 18 games a season. Which, to be honest is too much just in terms of time commitment (let alone the $$$). Demand is no longer there and we downgraded to a mini pack. We now go to 11 games, which feels about the right amount. Similar to the number of home games for the Bombers.
When they were selling out, a high percentage of full season tickets were groups of people splitting them.
They seem reluctant to really push the mini packs, and sometimes feels like they are an after thought. They are currently only available for the 300 level. Why not open this up to the 200 / 100 levels? When we had a window to upgrade our seats, there was only options for full and half season tickets. I had to push them to open up the mini packs. Their website is a bit of a mess as well. There are pages where the mini packs aren't even talked about.
Agree this messaging they are using is going to rub people the wrong way. #1 rule of marketing is know your target audience. They seem oblivious to who their target audience is.
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The other thing about bitcoin is it targets to have a new coin "mined" every 10 minutes. This means it adjusts how hard the algorithm is to mine the next coin regularly (every 2 weeks I believe). The more people that mine it, the more difficult it becomes.
This is the difficulty factor over time, which would also be an indication of how many machines are out there trying to mine them.
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2 hours ago, Tracker said:
You are correct in that Einstein saw quantum mechanics as " spooky action at a distance" and tried his best to ignore it. However it has persisted and has been repeatedly proven by such experiments as they have been able to design. Quantum mechanics are used to design all current electronics, so it is tangible and even has theological implications. For example, it is a tenet of quantum mechanics that nothing can exist without being aware of by an conscious being. It also supports the propositions of "The Holographic Universe"- a book that I have treasured for a long time.
Bohr famously said, " If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you are wrong. If you think you do not understand quantum mechanics, you are right".
Einstein was also skeptical that black holes actually existed, even though his math and equations predicted they do.
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2 hours ago, FrostyWinnipeg said:
What’s crazy about the Weber contract is that there’s 3 years left so NASH thought he’d be playing at 40.
This was also one of the contracts that triggered the NHL to put in the 8 year max contract rule, as this was a 14 year contract, front loaded so that he only gets paid $1M a year with a $7.8M cap hit in each of the final 3 years.
The contract was designed to be bought out in those years or traded to a team like Phoenix.
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30 minutes ago, Wideleft said:
I view the "I just don't trust politicians" as a lazy out. People who actually do the work to understand policy and policy makers have no problem determining who they can put their faith in.
Are the people you put your faith in the ones who are always voted in?
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1 hour ago, Wideleft said:
But that would require campaign platforms that look beyond the current election cycle. Unfortunately, 30 - 35% of Canadians just don't buy into that way of thinking. See climate change, homelessness, child care, long term care etc etc.
I'm currently reading "Too Dumb For Democracy" by David Moscrop. He cites neurological (and so far - not sociological or psychological) studies that show the human brain in many cases is still evolving from "survival mode" and into "survival in the future mode". This would certainly help explain why a solid chunk of people (even people who lead relatively comfortable lives) vote against society's best interests because they can't appreciate or embrace long-term thinking.
It's very thought-provoking.
It would also require trust in elected officials that they can competently plan past the election cycle.
I wonder how much of this is people don't buy into it and how much is it with a lack of trust or seeing a lack of vision from elected officials.
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We all know that Milt got his overpayment in the form of a minivan!
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It is a tough pill to swallow and dissapointing when it turns out that people we idolize and look up to aren't the people we hoped them to be.
In any given population of people there is going to be a wide range of people from really horrible to really great (and everything in betwen). Being a hockey player, actor, or any kind of celebrity doesn't automatically make you a great person. It just makes you great at some things that happen to make you famous.
At the end of the day, take care of yourself, be careful of who you idolize and make sure the people you choose to emulate are deserving, and represent the kind of person you want to be.
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27 minutes ago, GCJenks said:
The saddest thing to me is that none of the opposition have an alternate plan that is reasonably palatable. Wab out proclaiming that they should meddle with Hydro or MPI to ensure lower monthly payments is not the right answer either. Hydro is in the mess it is from all the interference by previous NDP governments.
It seems so simple to me, but no political party seems to talk about it (so I must be wrong?). Wouldn't the easiest most efficient way to affect this change be to raise the Provincial Personal Exemption? Allow us to keep more of our own money that we earn, instead of taking it and then trying to find ways to give it back?
I think the government thinks they win more brownie points by someone getting a physical cheque in hand a few times a year vs the smaller tax savings of seeing a few hundred dollars extra on your pay cheque split over 26ish pay periods.
Would certainly seem easier (and cheaper) to administer your way.
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Game against the Moose has now been postponed.
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9 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
To put this into context, Sirius is 8.611 light years from Earth (just over 50 trillion miles away). At 9 miles per second, it will take 5.8 trillion years for that star to reach Earth. Since the Sun will consume Earth in 7.5 billion years, I’d say we have more pressing concerns. But to add more context to 8.6 lights years and distance, the Moon is 239,000 miles from Earth, which equates to 1.3 light seconds.
It actually won't reach the consumed Earth.
QuoteSirius appears bright because of its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to the Solar System. At a distance of 2.64 parsecs (8.6 ly), the Sirius system is one of Earth's nearest neighbours. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it is expected to increase in brightness slightly over the next 60,000 years, reaching a peak magnitude of −1.68. After that time, its distance will begin to increase, and it will become fainter, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's night sky for approximately the next 210,000 years, before Vega, another A-type star and more luminous than Sirius, becomes the brightest star.[26]
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https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/12/heata_offers_free_hot_water/
QuoteHeata has developed a novel way to use the waste heat generated by servers: mounting them on domestic hot water tanks to cut energy bills for homeowners.
The company, whose services now include cloud compute, 3D rendering and ways to help landlords improve the efficiency of their housing stock, has hooked up with cloud provider Civo to offer the compute resources for running some workloads.
Heata started as a project within energy company British Gas to help customers living in fuel poverty, something many can sympathize with at the moment. It has now been spun out with investment from British Gas, Innovate UK, and also Civo, a cloud-native service provider that focuses exclusively on workloads running with Kubernetes.
The initial concept developed by the company involved using heat generated by Bitcoin mining rigs, according to Heata Co-founder and CTO Chris Jordan.
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http://www.pubmanitoba.ca/v1/contact-us/media/pubs/2021-2025-nr/nr-mpi-2023-rates.pdf
MPI to raise rates by an average of 1.54%
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On July 12, 2022, MPI filed a general rate application (GRA) seeking an overall rate decrease of 0.9%. The application was updated on October 12, 2022 and the revised rate sought was 0.05%. In Order 4/23 dated January 11, 2023, the Public Utilities Board varied the application and ordered a rate decrease of 3.8%, effective April 1, 2023.
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The rate decrease is offset by the removal of a 5.0% capital release as applied for by MPI and approved by the Board. This results in an average increase in premiums paid by ratepayers of 1.54%.
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Rates paid by individual ratepayers will vary depending on: driving record of the registered owner; vehicle make, model and year; purpose for which the vehicle is driven; and the territory in which the registered owner resides.
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The Board noted significant increases in operating expenses, driven in large part by staff increases. On a corporate-wide basis, including all lines of MPI’s business, the budgeted staff positions have increased from 1,939 in the pre-Covid budget year 2019/20 to 2348 in the 2023/24 budget. MPI indicated that 34 FTEs will be temporary staff. Salary and benefits costs are 55% of MPI’s total operating costs.
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The Board also noted the increases in MPI’s IT renewal project, titled Project Nova. Project Nova was included in the 2020 GRA with a budget of $106.8 million (costs and contingency included). In 2021, the budget was increased to $128.5 million. In this GRA, the completion timeline was extended from three years to five years and the budget was increased to a range of $257 million to $289.9 million.
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The Board has ordered MPI to provide several reports pertaining to Project Nova to allow it to monitor the project’s expenses.
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42 minutes ago, Bigblue204 said:
This unfortunately was not uncommon back then. Not trying to excuse his actions, but it was half a century ago. Times have changed...hopefully he feels guilty about it...Im not sure what could be done about it now, outside of Tyler taking responsibility and providing some kind of assistance. Unfortunately there are a bunch of artists from that era who have songs that literally talk about "sexy" minors. Even as young as 13.
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19 minutes ago, TrueBlue4ever said:
Open multiple part question for the group:
Jets have 2 more games this month and 15 in January. Given that right now most of their injured players are pegged at “2 weeks +” for return date, should they be contemplating a trade now to get through the rough patch? And since Chicago is all in on a tank job and looking to move one or both of Toews and Kane, would it be worth going after them and what would it cost?
The problem with trading this early is the extra 2 months of salary you need to take on. Especially if you are going to take on big salaries like Toews or Kane (max 50% retention without a 3rd team getting involved).
Don't make rash decisions. The team built a decent buffer to hopefully weather this storm. They will fall in the standings, but as long as you can stay in playoff contention and make the push back up when everyone is back.
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