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Interesting Starbucks Outage Tagged #thefrappening

During my daily news browsing on Twitter I was reading how Starbucks apparently had a system outage where all of its stores were unable to take electronic payments. As a result, for many places if you didn’t have cash to pay for your drinks the company simply gave away drinks for free. That must be

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Financial Management

Cheating Yourself Out of Financial Management Skills

So there was news here today that the local transportation system here called Translink is essentially going to ask the people on how it should raise more money for the system. From what I read, the main options are to either increase taxes to the public in general or a carbon tax to people who

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Just Heard of That Uber

Apparently there is this app called Uber that has been in the US for awhile which allows people to get a car ride from someone. In many ways it’s like a citizen operated taxi service. I was watching the news today on how the company tried to come into Vancouver here but was denied due

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Saving Money On Advertising By Being Extremely Negative

I kind of found this a little odd as lately here there has been a lot of sites and media sources that have been talking about this anonymous tumblr account called ihatevan where someone is essentially criticizing the city of Vancouver and why he thinks it is a bad place to live. You can the

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Seeing People Spend Money Like Water

I saw this interesting video today of a proposed reality show to be shot here that revolved around “Ultra Rich Asian Girls” of Vancouver. I guess you can say it seems to be going in the direction of all of those “Real Housewives of” shows where people get to view the drama revolving around rich

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Business

Starting A Business With Outdated Laws

What an interesting video/situation this was that I saw. Essentially, it appears that there are some people here in Vancouver that are trying to start a restaurant/bar of sort with the difference being that they are trying to cater to the video game audience by allowing people to play video games in there. It appeared

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