So to clarify you’re only trying to attach something to the outside of the meter? Because from the post it comes off as you wanting to change out part of the casing for something custom. Either way, I think this project is not worth the trouble unless you get permission from the owners of the meter, this is not the sort of waters we want to test.
I’m being helpful to OP. When he disassembles and adds or replaces parts to the meter the company will inevitably find out, they will schedule repairs to the meter (even if it isn’t really “broken”), and OP will face consequences for messing with their property.
Fuck corporate, sure, but I don’t think OP is going to get much value out of this.
Right *WINK WINK
We’re definitely modifying our meters for good reasons within the confines of the law *WINK WINK
And the Contractor and Owners of the Meter definitely considers this action to be reasonable *WINK WINK
Electricity and Gas Inspection Act R.S.C., 1985, c. E-4
Offences and Punishment
Marginal note: Falsification and meter frauds
30 Every person who
(a) except as authorized by or under this Act, makes, causes or procures to be made, or assists in making any certificate required under this Act or purporting to be a certificate so required or any stamp, seal, label, tag or mark prescribed for the purposes of this Act or purporting to be a stamp, seal, label, tag or mark so prescribed,
(b) knowingly sells, utters or disposes of, lets, uses, lends or exposes for sale any meter with any stamp, seal, label, tag or mark thereon made or obtained by means of the commission of an offence under paragraph (a) or section 32 or made or affixed by way of the use of anything so obtained,
(c) in relation to the administration of this Act, knowingly
(i) makes any false representation,
(ii) makes or causes to be made any false entry in any register or record,
(iii) makes or causes to be made any false document or makes any alteration, false in a material respect, to the form of a copy of any document, or
(iv) produces or tenders any document containing false information,
(d) for a fraudulent purpose,
(i) repairs or alters, or causes to be repaired or altered, or tampers with or does any other act in relation to a meter, or any wires or pipes leading to a meter, so as to cause the meter to register with an error, or
(ii) replaces any meter with a meter calculated to mislead, or
(e) with intent to defraud, obtains, consumes, uses, supplies or sells electricity or gas in relation to which any meter
(i) registers with an error caused by an offence under paragraph (d), or
(ii) in the case of commission therewith of an offence under subparagraph (d)(ii), is calculated to mislead,
is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
1980-81-82-83, c. 87, s. 30
Hope you get the scans you need, and that it’s worth 5 years for whatever you’re trying to do.
I used to use a lot of Autodesk software as a hobby by abusing their student versions but they’ve really tightened their belt on those lately. I always thought if I turned a dollar on one of those old projects I’d absolutely want to give Autodesk their fair share but if they’re going to be greedy then fuck em.
You would be the 487,962nd person to think that. Yolo, you’re so Skibidi, you’re so Fanum tax.
So basically, it’s a meme originating from Star Trek wherein a species communicates exclusively through idioms and descriptions of events, making it impossible to translate without an understanding of their overall culture and history. Shaka When the Walls Fell probably means failure, it can be translated as “wow” in best case or “this is devastating” in the worst case.
If my Ink Tank Printer suddenly posted SHAKA WHEN THE WALLS FELL then I would be taking a few steps back and grabbing some towels.
Oh wow only three generations and it now overlaps slightly less than the vast majority of people, sounds like an outlier.
It doesn’t really “slip pretty quickly”, it slips over the course of many generations. The average is close enough that extreme cases can be sorted into outliers. My definition still very clearly describes people growing up in different historical eras the same as the other does, it simply takes away the self-identification privileges that these other commenters prefer.
Come up with an argument and maybe I’ll bother writing a response.
I’m saying it goes in sequence, that it can’t go from Gen X > Gen Z without a Millennial intermediary. Therefor I am in fact the one saying there is no skipping.
I think you’ve replied to the wrong person. I’m the one saying that you cannot skip.
I can’t believe you’re this confident about something so basic and somehow you’re wrong
The problem is there are people in the comments who seem to think they’re Gen Alpha, Millennial, or Gen Z without realizing they skipped generations in their calculation.
I think those definitions pretty well support my argument, honestly.
While the generations align less and less over time in my definition, it on average stays very accurate since most human life cycles align pretty closely, especially considering female fertility usually starts at puberty (but is very rarely utilized in developed nations before 18) and declines between ages 30 and 50. I still think it’s a really weak definition if you give out arbitrary date ranges which inevitably leads to random smaller generational definitions and too many varying opinions on what generation starts or ends where.
Nobody is becoming a grandparent at 30 unless they had kids at an age that depicts failure of a society, for example age 15 and their kids had kids at 15, which is very very far from average or even a sizeable demographic unless you’re a family of 16th century nobles.
If only that organization had a citation method at the bottom of every page where anybody with half a brain could find actual sources.
I think it was a banger insult, just enough not to seem unreasonable. If I wanted to alienate the opposition then discussion would very quickly become meaningless, like your comment for example: completely devoid of any relevant context, only an attack on my person.
I tell you what, I didn’t exactly stick to age appropriate television from a young age. I could be an outlier, I guess.
I don’t give a fuck what the gas company thinks, but the laws are very clear about this. Why would I be happy watching one of our own commit self harm? Also, they still haven’t clarified that, so it’s easy to conclude he meant something completely different than what YOU are assuming.