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Quote from: oscar on Today at 04:27:04 AM^ Yukon and NWT max out at 90km/h, and Nunavut's roads (the few it has are all locally-maintained, except in territorial parks) even less. AFAIK (haven't been there lately), in Newfoundland the speed limits tend to be 10km/h lower than for comparable highways in Quebec.None of the territories have freeways, and 90 matches the maximum MTQ will post on anything that isn't an autoroute or QC 175 between Québec and Saguenay. And Nunavut doesn't have long-distance rural mileage.
Quote from: J N Winkler on Today at 01:31:04 PMIf I had my druthers, merchants would not be allowed to sell anything with a deferred-redemption component unless the full value of said component were kept available to the customer without expiration. This would mean:
* Store gift cards and gift certificates would never expire.
* Stored-value debit cards would never expire. (I believe federal regulations already require this.)
* Loyalty points would remain permanently available to the customer until used up.
* At any point, the customer could demand the full face value in cash.
If this forced supermarket chains to phase out loyalty programs, I would not shed a tear.
Quote from: LilianaUwU on Today at 08:55:58 AMIf we're gonna go for an uncontroversial name, might as well go for a fictional character.The Avatar Kyoshi Memorial Skyway? Although I like the design of Kyoshi Bridge in Republic City better than the cable-stayed mania the US is currently under.
Quote from: epzik8 on Today at 07:46:31 AMQuote from: wanderer2575 on Today at 04:28:55 AMHalf guide sign, half assembly in Grayling MI. What the... ??
Supplemental signage, I would have to guess.
Quote from: Plutonic Panda on Today at 10:06:04 AMIn a more literal sense the same argument often seems to be made for expanding I-15 from Barstow to Primm. Why should California pay for upgrading a highway that gets people out of the state to spend money. Well, my opinion is because they have an obligation to upgrade the road to keep traffic moving at acceptable levels and keep people on its roads as safe as possible whether they're residents or not.
Quote from: wanderer2575 on Today at 04:11:58 AMQuote from: vdeane on April 27, 2024, 05:14:03 PMA couple money-related ones. One is the short expiration cycle for rewards points at Price Chopper/Market32/Market Bistro. The checkouts only give the option to use them when you have more than 500. You can use them before, but have to specifically request it, so I usually wait until then unless I see that some are expiring. Well, I somehow missed the thing on my receipts mentioning points expiring (either it's gotten less obvious or I got so used to hitting 500 before this happens that I've stopped checking as vigorously as I should) until I finished checking out today, and now I have a few points expiring by the end of the month with no way to use them in time.
More irritating to me are store gift cards, i.e. actual cash, that expire (how the fudge does cash expire?) or deduct a monthly "maintenance fee" after some number of months after purchase, like they have to take my card balance out for a walk or something.