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Did your municipality install red light cameras?

Just finished doing a house search. As far as I could figure out, the ComFree houses were consistently priced below market. Our agent did not take us to visit any of them. In terms of private sales, one person did a private open house. A week later, they listed with an agent, and the agent...

I'm pretty sure that spread betting doesn't work that way. The odds of winning by betting 81-0 against the spread are much higher than what you are calculating.

The first thing I learned attending trade shows was to avoid the girls like the plague. They are there to attract you to the booth, so some other person can talk to you. Much better strategy is to avoid them. If you want to know more, you need to talk to the head guy (which is often obvious.)...

Financial disasters are kind of weird. If the banks collapse tomorrow, who is worse off? The person with nothing, or the person with $1,000,000 in the bank. The person with nothing is probably used to disasters and can whether them well. The person with $1,000,000 in the bank will have...

Many transgender people have messed up chromosomes. If XY = men, and XX=female, then a whole subset of the population exists that are neither male nor female. Similarly, exterior genitalia do not always match what the chromosomes say. Many doctor's have been confused on that point. If you...

Go with "I gave him money so he wouldn't trash my car." This story also explains why there have been so many unusually well dressed panhandlers around lately.

The universities do not permit you to submit the same assignment in two different courses. However, if you really wanted to be an annoy the university, you could do is post your paper on a web-site that you owned, under do not redistribute for turnitin.com license conditions. Then, if you got...

I was wondering if this legal tactic could backfire. If he wasn't drunk, then maybe he did it deliberately. Makes some of the other charges much easier to prove.

Major cinematic achievements should be on the history channel. Skyfall was the best grossing Jame's Bond movie in history. Profit!!!!

Finding mental illness is easy. Solving it ...

The CRA insists that you keep the original receipts because the credit card statement does not break out GST and gas. They are specifically looking for this detailed information. In future, you could look at getting a gas card from the relevant gas companies, and this will list all of the...

The issue with a business is that the payment is a percentage of a fictitious number. When things are going well, it is possible to do quite well. When things go badly, ... even Donald Trump has went bankrupt. It's not hard to extrapolate out from Donald Trump's best year, and conclude he...

Anyone that owns a business, and gets divorced, is screwed. The entire divorce system is based on fixed cash-flows, and business is not. Business cash flows go up and down. Sometimes, simply the distraction of the divorce case results in the business failing. After the business closes, the...

All of the big manufacturers make 4-door cab pickups with 8 foot boxes. It might not be available in the 1/2-ton model in some lines however. Take a look at the 3/4-ton pickups.

Most of the stuff that Jon Stewart commented on was absurd. The fact it was other news stations air absurd material is their problem - not his. Making fun of absurdities is not biased. It is just good comedy. To quote a political comedian: "I keep wanting to retire, but the politician's...

Pizza-Pizza is notorious for making there money off the franchisee via supply agreements. I would avoid any franchisor that requires access to the franchisee's bank account, or can unilaterally charge fees to the franchisee. Every so often, a franchisor goes bankrupt. In that case, as the...

From the description, it sounds like something went wrong with the display panel / computer at first, but the fridge could continue cooling. Now you have a second problem. That makes me think you have two failures, you will have to fix the computer first to find out what the second failure is...

ENFPs are aliens from outer space to an INTJ. Your going to live up to your name ...

He probably built a fairly good structure. The buses will act as forms for the reinforced concrete. Two feet of reinforced concrete under earth will survive a small artillery barrage. The primary danger to the structure is water and earth movement. If he didn't build it too deep, the...