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The End of an Era
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"You know, I had to pay an extra 9% taxes...say I made $500 K last year...that's an extra $50 K in taxes...on top of what the company paid!!!"
He's not very good at math, and he's soliciting sympathy from the wrong guy. I get it, the NDP are evil, the Alberta Advantage is no longer, but I'm hard pressed to guess how the Conservatives would have handled it differently. And he's complaining to me, more than a full order of magnitude difference in our incomes, his 50K$ extra taxes, that's my entire years earnings, I get it, it's a lot, but that's a bit like me complaining to the homeless guy under the bridge that I can only afford 2 bottles of Vodka tonight, not 3...
When the days of Anarchy come, we will run them to the ground with hounds...
DERTS
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This from my father. Apparently the U of A is starting a "Diamond Exploration and Research Training School". Clearly I have some pretty mixed feelings about this, I could definitely benefit from a bit more knowledge, but I don't like the idea of informed competition. Still, it proves my suspicions, you don't operate a forestry management program in the desert, or a mountain climbing program in Saskatchewan, the fact they want to train people suggests they know we're close to the source...
Links: U of A, Edmonton Journal
More Pictures of pebbles, quartz, ballas diamonds, etc.
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(*Note: All photos are CC. As always, if I took the picture, feel free to re-purpose it to your own ends. Credit is nice but hardly necessary)
So of course I'm playing with my new digital microscope and you have to bear the burden of my findings. Below, a perfectly shaped minute quartz point. Sure looks like a diamond, but it probably isn't.
That said, if you looked at the previous pebbles I posted, there's a big grey area...lots of things you can say definitely aren't, but there's a few I'm unsure about.
Read more: More Pictures of pebbles, quartz, ballas diamonds, etc.
Augmented Reality
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This on Wired, the augmented reality being worked upon by Magic Leap: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/magic-leap-vr/
The future is an interesting place...
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