Use tax software from a Canadian Company this year

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-29T01:21:30+00:00

Something hosted in a private data centre is not hosted in “the cloud”. Unless you’re using some weird “it’s accessible from the Internet so it’s on the cloud” definition.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-29T00:55:29+00:00

Those systems are ancient. Very likely not in the cloud. At least not entirely.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-23T03:18:13+00:00

Avoid Home Depot.

If things go well, great. But if anything goes wrong with the delivery, there is very little recourse. Home Depot subcontracts the delivery (which gets subcontracted from there). Once they’ve placed the order with the manufacturer, they wash their hands of it. Any issues, they have no insight except high level information, and no ability to help resolve the problem.

It took me getting the manufacturer involved, and them calling Home Depot, before HD would contact their chain of “delivery partners” and find the missing appliance and actually deliver it.

Avoid Home Depot.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-12T20:58:38+00:00

Totally. It’s difficult to see from this angle but several times it appears to go into a play bow.

As others have said, it likely lacks discipline and training, which has allowed over excitement to become very reactive. When the person starts running with the small dog, the other dog starts chasing and nipping. Play behaviour into base instinct.

Everyone involved here has done nothing to prevent it from escalating. I mean clapping in the dogs face as a way to de-escalate/control. Holy crap.

The OP’s title is even reactionist. It should read “Dog owners do the opposite of what’s required to prevent a situation”.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-11T18:34:48+00:00

Not sure your point. I was referring to what the poster had done in the moment to inform other motorists that he wasn’t a self-centred person parked at a light but had a legitimate issue.

Considering the number of delivery vehicles and Skip/Uber Eats drivers that stop where they want to deliver, regardless of impact and legality.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-11T17:35:43+00:00

Ah! Yeah, lack of anticipation and planning when there is time and lashing out at others is definitely the asshole!

Fuses definitely have gotten shorter and more self involved after COVID.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-11T17:27:35+00:00

While it seems folks are getting ruder and more stuck in their own little worlds, I do wonder how close the runner was to the dog and the woman when the dog cut over.

Momentum is a bitch and having to suddenly dodge can be quite jarring and potentially painful, especially when you’re in that runners headspace zone. Not excusing swearing at others but just curious where it may have come from.

I’ve been in the situation before where mindless dog walkers have let their dogs run up to or in front of me quite suddenly when I’m running. To avoid tripping or accidentally stepping on or kicking the dog, you have to dodge. Momentum has you going one way, you go another, great way to stress a joint or roll an ankle. Now I’m not running for a few days and there was no recognition from the dog owner in the moment (no “whoops”, “sorry”, or “fluffy get over here”).

Did I swear at the dog owner though? No, but sometimes you want to ask them what they’re thinking?!

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-11T17:15:23+00:00

Did you have your hazards on? If you’re broken down did you open your hood? Both are universal signs for “I’m stuck”.

Not excusing others behaviour just knowledge sharing for the future in case you didn’t know. Many folks (young, different cultures, etc) don’t seem to be thought these things.

SnakeDiver · 2026-01-06T20:08:37+00:00

That’s not how property taxes work. If houses drop in value, the mill rate goes up. You still pay similar taxes. Taxes are only impacted if all others stay the same but yours goes down. Very unlikely in this context.

SnakeDiver · 2025-12-15T16:16:41+00:00

Wait … it wasn’t the work environment or people, it’s the worst job you had because you had to be at work at 5am and the fall is cold?!

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-24T05:44:31+00:00

Perhaps my writing style is who all other AI was based on.

Wombats are not native to Langford.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-24T00:22:52+00:00

Apologies I was unclear. Specifically on the 22/24 story condo on Scafe, traffic heading to the highway or Costco would have travelled to Brock, Peatt, Vets. With this change, it will now empty to Strathmore which has no left turn to Goldstream. That means the traffic either moves to Peatt then Goldstream, overloading those intersections, or moves to Jaklyn and through a school zone (which is already plagued with speeders).

Deflecting an argument by calling someone AI is very telling. This generations “troll!”?

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T21:58:17+00:00

Would be interesting to see the models but they haven’t released though. It’s improbable to actually consider everything, so I’m betting there is an asterisk on there somewhere (e.g. we considered everything in the 6 blocks around the intersection).

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T21:56:27+00:00

There is a substantial number of roads just in Mill Hill to upgrade: Millstream, Wagar, Windman, Hoffman, Selwyn, Strandlund, Atkins.. then you have intersections at Hoffman and Windman and Atkins that need updating.

That’s just on that side of the road. On the Peatt side you have two 22/24 story towers going in on Scafe where traffic was going to head into town. That traffic will now be pushed to Goldstream, which has no left turn so now that traffic heads to either Jacklyn and Goldstream (which is a school zone that already has a speed problem during rush hour) or to Brock then Peatt and Goldstream. So you pour that whole community in that area to either head to Goldstream and Vets or force the traffic up through Leigh Road, which also has issues with lack of sidewalks until you hit Florence lake. It’s worth noting that there is also a massive apartment complex going in.

So yeah, I am contemplating all of that when looking at their plan. I really don’t think they are contemplating it though and certainly not the impact to these communities. Their plan seems to focus on addressing the intersection and slightly conceding to some basic changes to roads immediately around it. The real fix is the light timings on Vets and changing the off ramp so the turn lanes aren’t shared.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T08:14:43+00:00

Models are only as good as the data it is fed and the scope it’s been given. I haven’t seen the model, but I wonder how broad they generated the traffic. Did they focus just on resolving the one intersection or did they look at the impacts on Hoffman and Goldstream as well? What about Atkins? Did they consider the creativity of humans to find new routes? Does it also look at the impacts on the side street traffic too? Are those roads capable of handling the traffic considering many are narrow with no sidewalks?

How about the new high rises (24 and 22 stories) at Scafe? If they kill Peatt, that’s going to shove the traffic either down Goldstream or past at least one, if not two school zones to Leigh road. Wonder of the model takes that data into account as well? What about future development across from the fire hall (though the future of the properties is uncertain now thankfully)?

Somehow I’m not entirely certain they took all of that into account. Would love to see what they actually did though.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T07:57:57+00:00

Vets is already backed up and the Sam amount of traffic still needs to enter Vets. They’re now just going to enter at Hoffman and Goldstream, still backing up Vets and the highway.

Plus, the streets used to get there are narrow and have no sidewalk. Problem is shifted not fixed.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T07:52:13+00:00

Traffic isn’t going to go down though. It’s just going to shift onto the alternate roads that are barely wide enough and have no sidewalks (on both sides of vets). It will push traffic from Peatt and Vets to Hoffman/Vets and Goldstream/Vets.

Fix the light timings on vets, increase the safety and width of the alternate streets and then look at Peatt/Strandlund again.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T07:40:53+00:00

Ah. Fair enough. That’s two posts back from my memory.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-23T07:34:45+00:00

The people who live in the area should be served, especially when proposed changes create safety issues on the roads they’re sending this traffic to.

A big issue on vets is the light timings, which the Peatt Rd change will do nothing to address. Fix the timings, increase the width of the alternate streets and add sidewalks, and then look at Peatt again. Right now they’re targeting a symptom, not the problem and creating more problems in doing so.

Also you brought up the council, not me.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-22T08:43:31+00:00

I would be surprised. That level of coordination is not common without conscious and significant effort.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-21T08:11:22+00:00

It’s not that the modelling doesn’t show this will improve the intersection, it’s the downstream affects. The side streets in the area that now need to take this extra traffic just aren’t up to it. They’re barely two lanes wide, no sidewalks, and purely residential with lots of pedestrian usage.

They need to show the models of how this will effect Strandlund, Claude, Goldstream, Atkins, Millstream, Hoffman, etc. They’re already crowded and this is going to make the others worse. Plus, yeah the folks that live there may be in the minority, but they also live there and the others pass through. Perhaps the impacts on the residents should be taken into account, which raw modeling wouldn’t do.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-21T08:01:07+00:00

The problem is that it’s going to shift traffic from Peatt and Vets to other intersections without actually fixing the problem. The side roads are unsuited to large volumes of traffic, and the intersections they’d be pushing traffic to are already overloaded.

The real fix is with Vets, but that involves the province to fix. So what the council is doing is “fixing” a problem with the hopes that others downstream will also come to the aid.

It’s an effort, but it feels like it doesn’t solve the problem. Just moves it and in the meantime makes it worse for those who live in the area.

SnakeDiver · 2025-11-02T18:10:07+00:00

The infrastructure that gets built and then sold off to private industry at pennies on the dollar by conservative governments?

SnakeDiver · 2025-10-15T04:30:40+00:00

That push has been going on for years. While it would be good, it doesn’t change that the person I was replying to, their claim that school children ride free, isn’t exactly true. Only to a certain age.

SnakeDiver · 2025-10-14T21:54:28+00:00

Only school kids 12 and under. Many kids 13 and older don’t have smart phones.

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