Now that's just crazy enough to work.. Checked the prices of a few of the popular providers and it's just too expensive, like $13/month. I'll keep a lookout for deals as I remember podcasts and YouTubers pitching some of them in the past. Now that I think about it, I could probably use my work computer for free. We use a VPN that can connect to Alberta or BC. Might just give that a go next time !
Don't go for the monthly subscriptions. Monthly subscriptions are often much more expensive. The yearly ones are expensive too but you get a much better bang-for-your bang per month. My VPN provider used to charge me 15 euros a month. Yikes! Then I discovered that I could pay $60 up front and have access to their VPN for 2 years straight. 2 years! That's significantly cheaper than what I was paying monthly. Bare in mind that sites like Netflix do actively try to mitigate VPN use, so research whether it will work for your specific purposes, or at least buy a VPN that has a money-back guarantee if you cancel it within 30 days. Many offer that. Imo, your work VPN might actually work better than a commercial one. You share an IP address with other users (that's what a VPN is, after all) so VPN usage is much easier to detect. With a work VPN, which isn't meant to be used for this sort of thing, systems are much less likely to detect bad activity. I'm assuming your work VPN connects you to your corporate network though.
Yeah, this is my only real concern. I look at memes while at work and look at news sites and stuff, even do some online shopping, and no one seems to care. But if I start using it regularly outside of business hours, I wonder if that might catch the attention of someone. I did see that if you make a full payment for two years that it's much cheaper per month, but yeah, that raises another concern. What if after month two or three, it gets blocked and no longer works. Sigh.
I did Networks for two years in FE college, and I can tell you that it's possible. It depends on whether they have any kind of monitoring system, which they are likely to do, and what kind of activity it will flag as suspicious. It's also possible that they log some information about your activities, so yeah, be careful. I'd check if your work VPN policy forbids personal use. If it doesn't, I'd consider if it's really worth the risk of anything bad happening. The best thing you can do is good research around your specific purpose. You might find that the risk of your VPN getting blocked is low for your particular purpose.
If it's anything like the US, they peg your location to the billing address on your subscription. Hockey might be different, but the NFL with their $20 zillion broadcasting contracts have that shit wired tight. They're like Mossad with regional rights.
Today I learned that Icelandic geography vis-a-vis rivers is fluid (pardon the pun), in the sense that rivers in Iceland don't always stay in the same place, so my plan for a chapter within a story set in 1,000 AD Iceland will have to be redrawn, or else I run the risk of Icelandic geography nerds (like me) pointing the finger and going "HA-ha!", like Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons. Heigh-ho. Time to hit ye ole drawing board ... *grabs his quill and parchment, and dives back into the research phase*
Today I learned that verbs which indicate a modality (such as those listed under “use” in the table below) are called modal verbs.
Should I ever employ "can" to request permission, at least dozen past English teachers would rise from their graves to say, "I don't know. Are you able to borrow my notes?"
I picked that bone with more than a few teachers. "May" implies permission and "can" implies potential ability, cool, but what if your permission is a prerequisite to my potential ability? Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Regarding burgers and fast food that was talked about on the previous page, I will repeat what my former boss told me: "They aren't good for your body, but they are good for the mind and spirit."
I take objection to the two definitions under "should / ought to". They're both advisory. Necessity would be "must", not "should" - "All tourists must follow the guide's instruction when in North Korea".
A Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese is an example of poor writing IMO. A double quarter pounder makes it a half-pounder, no? And "with Cheese" are just filler words. Filler words, geddit?
Negative. A half-pounder would be an 8oz patty, which profiles very differently from two 4oz patties in the burger world. Meat cuts are highly specific. Tongue in cheek implied for the McDonalds world. I could crash the server with examples of how this plays out in the steakhouse world. Suffice to say, optimization is crazy important.
I read somewhere that McDs tried to introduce a 1/3 pounder but it failed because a lot of their customers thought 1/3 was less than 1/4... 'cos like 3s less than 4 innit' ETA not McD but A&W whoever they are https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
A&W are these fine people. All hail them. And yes, I remember reading about the kerfuffle between the 1/3 pounder and the 1/4 pounder. Actually, once I started reading about naval artillery in ye olde-time (they're not that old, so nyah ) in the days of sail, the word "pounder" took on a whole new meaning. Imagine a 32-pounder burger ...
Unrelated, but there's a whole thing in the food world where we always over things in odd number pieces. Doesn't matter what it is. Offer three for the menu item instead of two. Or five instead of three. One, because the typical human can't divide an odd number. And two, because you "can't" split an odd numbered appetizer between an even numbered group of humans, which leads them to ordering two apps to share instead of one. One of the first things I do when I have to re-enginner a menu is to convert all even numbered portions into odds. It works.
Subway could sell it, call it the long nine (british 32 pound cannon were called the long nine because they were nine feet long) other common pounder cannon were 4, 6, 12, 18 and 24. a swivel gun was nominally a 1 pounder but was usually loaded with case shot like a giant shotgun
They're around here. They are the one burger joint where you can get sauteed onions (instead of raw) on your burger. At least you could that last time I was there - a couple of years ago.
A&W is probably the best overall fast food place in Canada (I hear the quality drops off a cliff in the States). They have a fantastic Beyond Burger for the vegetarian freaks like me, and they have great options for sides, like sweet potato fries. And that root beer, mmm mmm lemme tell ya.
A lot of people in my family like Harvey's, too, but I never get over there because it's a bit of a drive for me
