Unutterably Silly What time is it where you live?

[RWood]

Our home phone is on the US do-not-call list. Like Canada, political parties are allowed to call. Since Virginia was a "swing state", both sides were very aggressive in their calling this year. In the US t-marketers are not allowed to call cell numbers so I have been safe there. Political parties are also not allowed to call.

Unlike most of the world, in the US you pay for all of the time you use a cell phone. If you place the call or receive the call, it still counts toward you total minutes for the month.

[zelda_pinwheel]

*sigh* i am on the "list orange"* which is the "don't call me to try to sell me stuff" list but it doesn't seem very effective. i think maybe all the people who already had my number from before, have kept it. i mostly get calls trying to sell me one of two things : a remodeled kitchen (hello, renter, not paying to remodel the kitchen, even if i had the money, which i don't) or double glass windows (see above). i keep telling them to take me off their list, and they always say "of course, so sorry" and then a month later they call me back.

luckily the political parties don't make telephone calls (yet ?), that would REALLY drive me crazy. i also hate the people who actually come to your door to try to sell you things or ask for donations. i don't even know how they get in the building. leave me alone !!

wood, i can't believe you have to pay the cell-phone bill even if someone else calls you !! that's outrageous ! isn't there a law against charging twice for the same service ? if that were the case here i wouldn't have a cell phone at all. but then cell phone calls are very expensive here ; i rarely use mine but i have it for my clients (they don't seem to mind). but then, i'm at my desk at home most of the time anyway, and i have free voip telephone service from my isp (including international, but not including french cell phones).

*liste rouge is unlisted number.

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

*sigh* i am on the "list orange"

Politicians here (and probably anyone who can pay) team up with the phone company and send broadcast phone messages to all phone numbers with a certain prefix. i.e. number 555-1234, all the 555 prefixes would get a message sent directly to their voice mail. "Did you remember to vote today, do you know the policies of so-and-so politician, blah blah blah..."

This is an annoyance, because I am also unlisted. I phoned and complained to no avail.

They know you live in their riding because you have a certain prefix on your phone number. This has changed recently though, because our numbers are going to be portable. If you move, you get to keep the same number as long as you stay in the same area code, even if you change your phone company.

[Wetdogeared]

Good morning.

It's 5:30 AM (GMT-8) PST (Pacific Standard Time)
...10:00 AM (GMT-3.5) NT (Newfoundland & Labrador Time)

We span 4 and a half time zones in Canada.

[zelda_pinwheel]

i hope you're visiting the east coast right now...

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i hope you're visiting the east coast right now...

No, but I am looking for a live feed of the traffic cam in St. John,s NL. I see it at 4:30 AM every morning and it makes me chuckle.

[zelda_pinwheel]

the only thing i want to see at 4:30 every morning is the back of my eyelids. i don't think anything could make me chuckle that early. my chuckle muscle is still asleep for hours.

[Wetdogeared]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

the only thing i want to see at 4:30 every morning is the back of my eyelids. i don't think anything could make me chuckle that early. my chuckle muscle is still asleep for hours.

This is a semi-live (one hour stop and go action) of traffic in St. John's. They don't know what a traffic jam is. It would be nice though if it only took 10 minutes to get to work.

Note: Just use back arrow to exit out of window, do not select 'close window' or you may end your session.

http://www.stjohns.ca/access/trafficcams/LastHour.jsp

Sometimes they show it live on TV and there are no cars at all.

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

This is a semi-live (one hour stop and go action) of traffic in St. John's. They don't know what a traffic jam is. It would be nice though if it only took 10 minutes to get to work.

http://www.stjohns.ca/access/trafficcams/LastHour.jsp

Yeah, I could live with 10 minutes to work. Instead as now when I have an hour and a half if I go by public transport and an hour to an hour and a half if I drive, depending on how many morons decided to drive at the same time that I do

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

wood, i can't believe you have to pay the cell-phone bill even if someone else calls you !! that's outrageous ! isn't there a law against charging twice for the same service ? if that were the case here i wouldn't have a cell phone at all. but then cell phone calls are very expensive here ; i rarely use mine but i have it for my clients (they don't seem to mind). but then, i'm at my desk at home most of the time anyway, and i have free voip telephone service from my isp (including international, but not including french cell phones).

Welcome to America. That's why we're so rich, we pay through the nose for everything..... (Next GC post at noon CST - GMT -6, I beleive. Or is it +6? 3 and 1/2 hours, anyway.)

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

Welcome to America. That's why we're so rich, we pay through the nose for everything..... (Next GC post at noon CST - GMT -6, I beleive. Or is it +6? 3 and 1/2 hours, anyway.)

Ehhh, ever been too Sweden? The only place in the world where we are taxed multiple times for everything we buy And one of the highest income tax in the world on top of that. Not to mention that we have among the highest prices on daily goods in all of the European Commonwealth, and ridicilous sales-tax on said goods

But hey, we have (almost) free health-care... The health-care systems sucks, but we hardly pay anything for it, oh wait, I do pay for it, through my income tax.

*sigh* Anyone who can recommend a decent place to emigrate too?

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by Slite

Ehhh, ever been too Sweden? The only place in the world where we are taxed multiple times for everything we buy And one of the highest income tax in the world on top of that. Not to mention that we have among the highest prices on daily goods in all of the European Commonwealth, and ridicilous sales-tax on said goods

But hey, we have (almost) free health-care... The health-care systems sucks, but we hardly pay anything for it, oh wait, I do pay for it, through my income tax.

*sigh* Anyone who can recommend a decent place to emigrate too?

If you find it, let me know....

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward

If you find it, let me know....

Will do!

[Wetdogeared]

This is what it looks like in Vancouver, right now!

http://www1.vancouver.com/images/full.jpg

[Slite]

Originally Posted by Wetdogeared

This is what it looks like in Vancouver, right now!

http://www1.vancouver.com/images/full.jpg

Looks very pretty, but then, most cities looks nice during the night with the lights on and such

This is what parts of Stockholm is looking like right now. At 3.45PM CET it's already dark

http://www.webbkameror.se/webbkamero...riks_640_2.php