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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:14pm |
 Coolness: 104260 | im going to buy it tomorrow before i got a ticket.
whats the best time to go i hear there are long lines there,are there still long lines? Thanks. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:16pm |
 Coolness: 2750400 | no lines anymore, i got mine like 3 weeks ago and it's amazing... i love how you don't even have to take the card out of your wallet, it's all wireless... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:18pm |
 Coolness: 146125 | Originally Posted By NUCLEAR
no lines anymore, i got mine like 3 weeks ago and it's amazing... i love how you don't even have to take the card out of your wallet, it's all wireless... yes montreal is sooo technologically advanced!!!! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:19pm |
 Coolness: 163425 | Compared to 3rld world countries .... yeah, it is! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:20pm |
 Coolness: 167470 | next year: the STM Opus Retinal Scan |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:21pm |
| Coolness: 163425 | Can we finally haz wireless access, pweaze ? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:22pm |
| Coolness: 146125 | Originally Posted By STRANGEDAHLIA
Compared to 3rld world countries .... yeah, it is! you mean the third world countries that had this technology installed (and working properly) years before montreal did? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:23pm |
| Coolness: 163425 | Originally Posted By BASDINI
you mean the third world countries that had this technology installed (and working properly) years before montreal did? I haven't seen any thirld world countries with metros yet ... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:23pm |
| Coolness: 2750400 | i think sometime in the near future someone will make a program which can reprogram the cards... it will for sure be a membership thing... i mean it does not cost a lot for a device which can read those chips... i even have one... supposely some people have already cracked the codes... maybe they can change them every month... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:28pm |
 Coolness: 151385 | ^^I heard people talking about that a few months before it came out.
Originally Posted By STRANGEDAHLIA
I haven't seen any thirld world countries with metros yet ... hahaha, that was awesome. But it's true that this sort of service has been out in other majors cities YEARS ago. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:53pm |
| Coolness: 146125 | Originally Posted By STRANGEDAHLIA
I haven't seen any thirld world countries with metros yet ... you probably haven't been anywhere then... here some places in the third world that have metro or subways Sao Paolo Rio de Janeiro Porto Alegre Brasilia Buenos Aires Santiago Valparaiso Mexico City Guadalajara Monterrey Caracas moscow beijing shanghai baku cairo tiblisi dehli teheran pyongyang kullalampur Bangkok ankara tashkent |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Kuzutetsu replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 9:56pm |
 Coolness: 133960 | how do u know that basdini? its pretty impressive knowledge! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 10:06pm |
| Coolness: 163425 | Okay, you are right.
Hey, it's 10 am here and I haven't slept for over 36 hours. Gimme a break :) |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 10:23pm |
| Coolness: 151385 | Originally Posted By BASDINI
you probably haven't been anywhere then... Well that's not very fair to say. The common or contemporary idea of a third world country is one that is under-developed. A country that has a subway system can hardly be considered under-developed. Besides, do you really consider countries like China and Russia or Brazil (among others) to be a part of the 3rd World? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» basdini replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 11:09pm |
| Coolness: 146125 | most people don't even really use that term anymore...it's kind of a relic of the cold war (the first world was us, the second world was the communist countries and the third world was everyone else)
most people use developed vs developing which is kinda silly as well because it's relative... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Mon Mar 23, 2009 @ 11:25pm |
| Coolness: 151385 | Exactly. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Tue Mar 24, 2009 @ 12:19am |
| Coolness: 163425 | Well, some countries are neither developping or developped .... no matter how much they'd like to pretend. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Trey replied on Tue Mar 24, 2009 @ 3:18am |
 Coolness: 103690 | BRIC: Brasil, Russia, India, and China should be allowed in the G7.
There's a girl from Saskatoon who cried the first time she was on the metro. She never experience anything like it. And keep your receipt 'cause if you lose your opus card, you can go claim it. I think. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» system_glitch replied on Tue Mar 24, 2009 @ 6:52am |
| Coolness: 163425 | Originally Posted By TREY
BRIC: Brasil, Russia, India, and China should be allowed in the G7. There's a girl from Saskatoon who cried the first time she was on the metro. She never experience anything like it. And keep your receipt 'cause if you lose your opus card, you can go claim it. I think. Didn't they ask to be included a while ago, threatening to start their own little "private club" if they wouldn't be allowed to have seats? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JasonBeastly replied on Tue Mar 24, 2009 @ 1:43pm |
 Coolness: 77635 | Man, am I the only person who has consistent beef with the STM? I get treated like shit all the time, especially when I run into problems.
I've had an OPUS card for a while and I tried to put 6 tickets on it via my debit card at Laurier station a few weeks ago. The transaction went through ok but no receipt printed out, which was rather infuriating because when I tried to pass the turnstile the card didn't work. So I went to the ticket taker and told him there was a problem, and the nature of it, and he called headquarters at Berri UQAM, basically accusing me of lying. I was totally calm and I explained it with only a slight tone of frustration, but you know, the kind where you're telling the guy "wow, look at my bad luck, can you fix it". He still didn't believe me, even when I said that I think the machine just ripped me off for $12. He claimed it was me who fucked up and not the machine, and wouldn't let it go until I paid for a new ticket (no free voucher) and was directed to go to Berri-UQAM and wait in line to get reimbursed. I was on the way to catch a bus to Toronto so this was totally not an option. End of story, I got my money back, but only after a few weeks out of town where I had no means to discuss the problem with the appropriate authorities (read: subway nazis). It seems that somehow the error was registered at my bank and they put the funds back. Just to explain myself, prior to this I've had to deal with the following crap: - racist ticket taker tells my short bearded friend that he can't go on with the transfer he has, in French, and then rages at him for not understanding when I was saying to the guy "hey calme toi, il ne parle pas Français" which led to the guy going on a tirade about Anglophones and how we're all shitheads. I came back with some sort of "TU TE PREND POUR QUI ESTI"... - I get on a bus that's 20 minutes late, realizing I'm going to be on probational status at work because of this, and tell the guy that he's let down a whole bunch of commuters, somewhat angrily yes, but I made my point, paid the ticket, and sat down, and he stalled the bus another 5 minutes sending a security guard to the back to tell me to calm down or he would have me removed from the bus, to which I replied that the only thing I'm pissed off about is that I'm almost a half an hour late for work because they don't keep schedules... I stayed on and nearly got fired. - I ask occasionaly for "six tickets" in French, because it says "tickets" and not "billets" on the French sign stuck to the window, and the guy tells me to repeat myself so that I say "billets" and then tries to take me to school on how I'm what's ruining the French language. I shook my head and pointed wordlessly at the sign, then went in. - Before the OPUS card my weekly pass would be demagnetized by Wednesday, apparently because of my cell phone and my magnetic keycard for work. I would try to pass by the ticket booth by flashing it instead of running it through the machines that couldn't read it anymore, and the guy would tell me, every day, to try and run it through the turnstile again. He called over two cops one time and had them harass me and check if it was a fake, although I had already had this discussion elsewhere. The cops told me that it was my own fault for having a cellphone and keycard so nearby, or for putting it in my wallet - WELL WHERE THE FUCK WAS I SUPPOSED TO PUT IT THEN? Is this supposed to be a world-class subway system? Because it's not. This is why the TTC will always be "The Better Way". We meant better than the ESTI de CUM. |
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