Thanks for sharing. The pictures don't do justice to just how many antiquity sites there are in and around this place. It's truly impressive to behold in person.
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It's funny how the forestry industry gets a bunch of blame for clear cuts and other practices that reduce biodiversity and harm the forest ecosystem, while the government is simultaneously supporting them (by enabling mass scale harm to the province's forests by showing old growth logging and dumping planes full of herbicide on native species too promote less diverse forests) and gets seen as the answer to reeling in the industry's excesses.
There's plenty stuff to criticise her for without having to bring up that completely unfounded sex trafficking story.
How about the fact that she helped popularize and legitimise Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop grift? Or that she gave doctor Phil a head start to his media persona and subsequent popularity? And then did it again with Dr Oz? And what about her help in legitimising Jenny McCarthy's "vaccines cause autism" claims by lending her a global stage and audience for her wackjob pseudoscience? Or the time she legitimised cultist weirdo John of God? Or helped Tom Cruise deflect some serious allegations related to Scientology by allowing him to go bananas on her couch?
Like I said, there's enough stuff she legitimately did to criticise her for without some fake news conspiracy bs.
We got the shareware version of this game preinstalled on our 386 when we got it. Tons of fun that paved the way to the monument of platforming that was Jazz Jackrabbit.
Not a bad deal on this game. It's worth it for the cutscenes alone.
This game came out in 1996, the first Pentium 3 was released in 1999. In fact, the Pentium 2 wasn't even out yet (1997), so at best you could be running this game with an expensive as all heck Pentium 200 but most people weren't running with that kind of hardware when the game came out.
That said, yes, we weren't rich so I was trying to scrape by on my 386SX40 as long as I could :-)
This annoys me too, but I find that lots of shops turn off the headlight's automatic mode when brought in for service. This leaves hapless drivers unaware of the fact that they are driving around with just their DRLs on until they either get a ticket, complain about it to the dealer, or figure it out on their own.
I remember trying to get this to run on my old 386. It ran at slide-show framerates and all I ever saw was the game over screen.
Yeah, that's stretching it a little (probably based off the Cracked article from a while back). Ace of Base was named after Ace of Spades (a song by Motorhead) as a reference/homage, anything beyond that is purely speculation as the band have categorically denied it.
And yes, Ulf was indeed in a band that wrote some pretty heinous stuff but he has both repeatedly apologised for that, made clear he no longer believes in any of this, and made explicitly clear that Ace of Base never shared these ideas.
Sources for those wanting to read up on it: Original article in Vice: https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm35nr/ace-of-bases-secret-nazi-past Speculation laden clickbait Cracked article that spawned a bunch of unfounded and unconfirmed theories about the origins of the band's name, meaning/readings of their lyrics, etc: https://www.cracked.com/blog/how-90s-pop-band-secretly-sold-nazism-to-america Follow-up in Huffington post: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ace-of-base-nazi-past-lyrics_n_3148797 and https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/26/ace-of-bases-ulf-ekberg-addresses-neo-nazi-allegations-_n_3161454.html
Glad to hear they're at least attempting to do something for tenants. It's ridiculous how much this has been abused.
Another one of those famous loopholes landlords like to use in a province that's heavily biased towards renters according to them... It's almost like they don't care and will do anything to screw over their tenants...
Definitely take your time when you plan a trip, we went there for a week and by the end we were literally running from place to place to cram everything we wanted to see in our remaining time. Also, unless you really don't mind the heat, avoid the busiest and hottest months of summer. Spring and early autumn are amazing though.