As a Canadian I'm jealous of your booze prices.

It's exactly the same thing. I'd guess that's where the idea came from. Calgary is the local test/evaluation site for Alberta Transportation before they roll it out in more areas.

Ha! only a Canadian company would have Molson on the list.

ugh... I'm surrounded by assholes.

Apollo loved to drink from this thing too - but after about six months mine started to leak like a mofo.

This is the internet.

Agreed. I feel for the guy though - its got to hurt. There's could easily be 2 L of water in the balloons; so it could be 2 kg (4.4 lb) getting thrown at his head.

I'd be curious to know how his probation officer will be tracking whether or not he's accessing the internet.

Any structural steel for anything interesting around here needs (Alberta) to be ordered about a year in advance. Now that's a separate issue from the manufacturing process - but with that kind of lead time you'd think that you could take a little time to produce something more efficient.

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Me too - but now I have about 1100 unread messages in my inbox :s

It's my understanding that the large inhibitor of mining projects is generally upfront capital costs - and I see this being quite a bit more expensive than the competitors'. The cost savings of having three fewer operators per four vehicles is likely going to be insignificant (even where there are labour shortages, as…

This class of truck is for mining - so definitely not allowed on any roads. In fact, delivering trucks this size to the mine site can be a challenge - they often have to be broken up and shipped in several pieces. Here's a photo of a CAT 979 ( another 400 ton truck) for scale. In Alberta, they don't get shipped like…

Agreed. Best idea here. Or Netflix or Apple buys rights to NFL games, NHL games, MLB etc.

Interesting thought - about Apple buying BBM from RIM.

Fair enough - good points.

In summary: a lot mice and keyboards. Zunes. Xboxes. Surface. The sidewinder. Media Centre remotes.

Is this an American thing? I don't hear about Canadian institutions endorsing candidates so much, with the exception of labour unions. For that matter, here in the freezing north, I don't think you'd ever hear a provincial Conservative (or Liberal, or whatever) endorse a federal Conservative candidate. Just doesn't…

small bit of interesting context: http://xkcd.com/1127/

Even worse if you have to clear snow off the road. You'd likely scrape some very expensive markings off the road.