OT: OT: Leafs Forum OT Thread

[Leafs at Knight]

You should be able to toggle it on/off just by clicking the button (at least I can in Chrome).

Ouff not a fan. Gotta toggle it on/off every time I switch to a different tab. Also it adds a pure white bar when the name is of the person you quote, and you can't see who it is. I'll just patiently wait until they add more themes here, or someone makes a specific chrome extension for this site.

 

[ErnieLeafs]

Takes a little getting used to, but it's about damn time HF got out of the 90's with their format. Where's the downvote button? How do you have a "like" feature without the opposite.

Work out the kinks, FCS.

 

[Daisy Jane]

Takes a little getting used to, but it's about damn time HF got out of the 90's with their format. Where's the downvote button? How do you have a "like" feature without the opposite.

Work out the kinks, FCS.

now now, nothing is wrong with the 90s lol.

 

[JadedLeaf]

Awwwwwh yeaaaaaah Designated Survivor is back!

 

[LeafsNation75]

After October 11th I can finally upgrade from the iPhone 6s to the iPhone 8 since my contract with Bell will be 100% finished and it means not paying that extra fee to upgrade early. So now I just have to wait a little longer until I finally go to the Apple Store.

 

[ErnieLeafs]

Apple....

 

[Leaf Rocket]

my favourite thing is that bert's started thread makes me laugh lmfao

 

[LeafsNation75]

Awwwwwh yeaaaaaah Designated Survivor is back!

In the season 1 finale the location where Wells ends up killing Lozano was located just past the medical building where my doctor works at on Leslie Street in North York. What's funny is that now those homes were all torn down because they were scheduled to be, so I guess that made it easier to film there.

 

[Randy Randerson]

This whole "University vs. Going into the Trades" debate is missing a few important real world factors. "University" shouldn't be lumped into one homogeneous path, having a teaching degree where there's already a gross oversupply of teachers shouldn't be considered the same thing as having an IT security degree where there's a huge deficit of supply for the available positions - how much you'll expect to make is usually a product of how much excess demand there is for that profession versus the available supply. Supply is (in my opinion) affected by how difficult the path is to get qualified, and usually how well it fits peoples pre-conceived notions of what they want to do when they grow up (see: oversupply of Teachers and Fire fighters)

That's something the Harper government got right the the Trudeau government is botching - subsidy for post-secondary programs was driven by the deficit of supply of labour in each field, choose a field that the market needs and get subsidies, much better idea than "do whatever you feel like while going into a lot of debt and if your family is below a certain earning level then we'll pay for it, which still probably leaves you waiting for a long time after graduation without gainful employment because you wanted to be a Teacher like 20% of the graduates in your class despite there already being more qualified teachers than jobs for them"

Also with trades, the salaries being discussed haven't taken cash side-jobs into consideration. I know a bunch of tradespeople, I haven't met one that doesn't do a significant amount of work on the side where the earnings go unreported.

 

[The List Of Jericho]

Currently in Teacher's College, as a male, hope it helps afterwards seeing there is a shortage of them. Drinking it in....

 

[JadedLeaf]

In the season 1 finale the location where Wells ends up killing Lozano was located just past the medical building where my doctor works at on Leslie Street in North York. What's funny is that now those homes were all torn down because they were scheduled to be, so I guess that made it easier to film there.

With the show dealing with U.S politics and washington, I actually forgot that it was filmed in T.O. Do you know if it was filmed there entirely or just parts of it?

 

[LeafsNation75]

With the show dealing with U.S politics and washington, I actually forgot that it was filmed in T.O. Do you know if it was filmed there entirely or just parts of it?

It's filmed in Toronto and other areas of the GTA.

 

[klamla]

i think the trades are criminally misrepresented and portrayed as lower class or "worse" than other alternatives

kids are funnelled into thinking university is the only, or 'right' path, which is detrimental not only by limiting the interest in the trades, which are fundamentally important, but also by diluting the "university" route

there has to be some serious PR/marketing done to re-brand trade industries

the worlds gone bananas and nobody is able to fix it...
if only there were more people in trades ...

 

[inthe6ix]

Not loving this new board format - anyone know if there's a way to change a skin or something in the profile settings to get the original HFB look back?

 

[Anthrax442]

In the season 1 finale the location where Wells ends up killing Lozano was located just past the medical building where my doctor works at on Leslie Street in North York. What's funny is that now those homes were all torn down because they were scheduled to be, so I guess that made it easier to film there.

Yes, I know exactly where they are, I was going to Ikea right when the episode came out and I pointed them out to my wife.

 

[klamla]

used to work right by there, thats the ikea where this little guy was found monkeyin around

 

[Rogie]

Okay, the sportsbook thingy looks like fun. Just made my first bet - Jays to win for 100 bucks at 2 to 1.

Don't know much about baseball, or rather, I don't really follow it, but, just looking at the pitching match-up and it looks like the Jays have at least a chance and 2 to 1 - what the heck.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

I mainly use HF on my phone.

After a few days using the new layout, I've decided that I hate the new mobile version. There's just too much going on and it isn't very ergonomical.

 

[Quarter]

Okay, the sportsbook thingy looks like fun. Just made my first bet - Jays to win for 100 bucks at 2 to 1.

Don't know much about baseball, or rather, I don't really follow it, but, just looking at the pitching match-up and it looks like the Jays have at least a chance and 2 to 1 - what the heck.

Next time, maybe.

 

[Kiwi]

This whole "University vs. Going into the Trades" debate is missing a few important real world factors. "University" shouldn't be lumped into one homogeneous path, having a teaching degree where there's already a gross oversupply of teachers shouldn't be considered the same thing as having an IT security degree where there's a huge deficit of supply for the available positions - how much you'll expect to make is usually a product of how much excess demand there is for that profession versus the available supply. Supply is (in my opinion) affected by how difficult the path is to get qualified, and usually how well it fits peoples pre-conceived notions of what they want to do when they grow up (see: oversupply of Teachers and Fire fighters)

That's something the Harper government got right the the Trudeau government is botching - subsidy for post-secondary programs was driven by the deficit of supply of labour in each field, choose a field that the market needs and get subsidies, much better idea than "do whatever you feel like while going into a lot of debt and if your family is below a certain earning level then we'll pay for it, which still probably leaves you waiting for a long time after graduation without gainful employment because you wanted to be a Teacher like 20% of the graduates in your class despite there already being more qualified teachers than jobs for them"

Also with trades, the salaries being discussed haven't taken cash side-jobs into consideration. I know a bunch of tradespeople, I haven't met one that doesn't do a significant amount of work on the side where the earnings go unreported.

Why are you comfortable with the government getting involved and picking "winners and losers" in the first place?

There terrible at it, waste money and pick things that will best suit them and their re-election chances with little thought about the possible consequences "down the road"

The less "involvement" the better imo

 

[Nithoniniel]

Participated in my first fantasy draft tonight. I had no idea what was going on. I understand now why they suggest doing a mock draft first.

 

[Randy Randerson]

Why are you comfortable with the government getting involved and picking "winners and losers" in the first place?

There terrible at it, waste money and pick things that will best suit them and their re-election chances with little thought about the possible consequences "down the road"

The less "involvement" the better imo

Government is going to subsidize education and provide accessible financing for education in Canada, there's no point in trying to remove that because it won't happen. The ranking of our education system against the world will point to that it's been done pretty well here

I would prefer that people be nudged towards fields of education where there's lots of jobs available by way of subsidy rather than a complete misalignment of supply and demand, which is a real and very measurable thing here

I didn't say anything about winners and losers, those are your words, I don't even know what you're referencing there

 

[Kiwi]

Government is going to subsidize education and provide accessible financing for education in Canada, there's no point in trying to remove that because it won't happen. The ranking of our education system against the world will point to that it's been done pretty well here

I would prefer that people be nudged towards fields of education where there's lots of jobs available by way of subsidy rather than a complete misalignment of supply and demand, which is a real and very measurable thing here

I didn't say anything about winners and losers, those are your words, I don't even know what you're referencing there

Build the schools, give every child fair and equal access to a good quality of education

After that I'm not keen on nudging of any kind no matter who's doing it

 

[thewave]

Catalan referendums. EU backed brand of democracy on full display. Police brutality in progress, enjoy the views of a future socialist Utopia.

If this stuff doesn't steer you to the conservative side, I am just lost for words.


#IAMCANADIAN and I play RW

 

[thewave]

Build the schools, give every child fair and equal access to a good quality of education

After that I'm not keen on nudging of any kind no matter who's doing it

Schools should be private. There is absolutely no need for public funding of schools in a properly functioning republic or democracy. Why should I send my kids to a school that teaches things I disagree with or pay for it. The same could be said about a great many public institutions, which should be shut down.

Look at energy prices, we now allow monopolies in electricity delivery. Ontario has so much energy and some of the highest costs. Clean coal is perfectly acceptable, China is building new plants all the time (not even the clean ones). Perhaps the one thing that should be run and provided for by the state, Energy derived from public rivers etc.

Governments don't know how to spend or make money. They know how to borrow money and tax you. They know how to line the pockets of their special interest friends and create inefficient over regulated, crony capitalist beaurocracy.

Capilltalism is the system that works, the system we have now is not what once was, we need to go back to our roots and reevaluate. Unfortunately the people want a nanny state in this and many countries. Sad, but they will get it and eventually the 21st century Stalins start popping up. Look at Spain, look at the Catalonia.