Separate bike lanes, separate green-time for cyclists at traffic lights, higher frequencey of green-time for cyclists at traffic lights, treating cyclists as a separate but first-class traffic user. These are all ways to alleviate red-light running.
As it is, too often a cyclist is seen as a slow, narrow car in the rules. If you are gracious about it as a cyclist, by not actually occupying the entire lane as the rules suggest you do, you get doored from one side, (nearly) swiped off the road by passing cars on the other, and at traffic lights right-turning cars blindly run into you.
Also note: while a high-speed cyclist can kill or seriously injure a pedestrian in an accident in rare cases, a car going at a typical urban-road speed will kill or seriously injure a cyclist or pedestrian in most cases. I think that, as with guns, the onus is on the person wielding the deadly device to handle it with sufficient care in the circumstances they find themselves in.
You borrow from large institutional investors. These funds just own large amounts of stock in the hopes of achieving a profit through dividends and growth of the company. A trader who wants to short a stock can borrow some of this stock for a fee.
Everybody wins this way. The large institutional collects the borrow-fee, and the trader can profit from a decline because he has borrowed the stock.
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Note that naked short is actually mathematically equivalent to (naked) long only with a minus sign. For example: every publicly traded company is naked short it's own stock from the day it goes public (collecting a huge heap of cash in exchange for selling the stock). Another example: Everybody owning stock (or anything really) is also short cash (unless they borrow money to buy it). So all people long [insert company name here] are short [insert currency here] i.e. they will profit when [currency] drops wrt to [stock]. Those unpatriotic bastards!
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Check out unduchtables (http://www.undutchables.nl/) they have jobs for people like you, and they can probably help you with a lot of the other stuff.
compared to Canada you'll find that housing is quite a bit smaller than you're used to. Especially if you want to live in or near the centre of any larger city. However, I would encourage you to compromise on space when searching for housing, rather than searching a large house in an unfortunate location. The city centres are a so much nicer place to live than the outskirts (in my opinion any way). Finally, cars are very expensive here, and trafic (especially rushhour trafic) is terrible. Being able to use public transport or a bicycle to get to work is a big (BIG!) plus, so try to look out for that when looking for work and a place to live.
As it is, too often a cyclist is seen as a slow, narrow car in the rules. If you are gracious about it as a cyclist, by not actually occupying the entire lane as the rules suggest you do, you get doored from one side, (nearly) swiped off the road by passing cars on the other, and at traffic lights right-turning cars blindly run into you.
Also note: while a high-speed cyclist can kill or seriously injure a pedestrian in an accident in rare cases, a car going at a typical urban-road speed will kill or seriously injure a cyclist or pedestrian in most cases. I think that, as with guns, the onus is on the person wielding the deadly device to handle it with sufficient care in the circumstances they find themselves in.