That's nice, that could account for my missing electric bill.
However, my mortgage check was dropped in a secure post office box, prior to arriving at the bank, it should have only been accessible to the post office. The check was never cashed. I put a lock on it nearly a month after someone would have had a chance to cash it, so I think it was just carelessness by the post office.
Fortunately, I pay my mortgage well in advance, so I didn't have any troubles from this, except wondering where the hell my check went, or if it would be cashed much later (say the post office found it in two years, and finished delivery after the lock expired).
So, no, I'm not using it as an excuse for not making a payment and getting extra charges. I'm using it as an excuse to not send anything *really* important via USPS. Twice in 4 years is twice too many.
it is not that it was late, it *never* showed up. Also, my bank has a huge window from "due date" to "late payment date", I pay long before the end of the window. At the time, I tended to have my mortgage paid about a month before being due - which saved my ass there.
My mortgage isn't with my bank I use for checking. Also I prefer to set the amount, because most months I pay extra. Finally, my company pays me monthly, around the time the bank would take it out +/- 2 days. I don't want them taking it out before I have it there (I keep enough of a buffer that wouldn't be a problem, but the month I don't have the buffer, would be the month they try).
My bank is about a mile from my house. I live in a *VERY* safe neighborhood. I've never been mugged, and in this neighborhood, I won't be. I have lost mail to USPS, including a mortgage check, so I have to disagree with you, at least for my situation.
I put my account number on the check. I have reciepts that I've paid. My owed balance is going down. Never has a check been lost in delivery this method.
So, yeah, it helps. There is one less space for error.
The electric bill never showed up at my place - so I don't know why anyone would steal that. The mortgage check went to a post office drop box, in a very safe neighborhood. Prior to arriving at the bank, it should have only ever been accessible to USPS employees.
The problem is (and why I am starting to use epay rather than check+snail mail)... The USPS loses too much stuff
In the four years since I've moved into my current residence, they've lost one mortgage check (eff that, from now on I drop the damn thing off in person), and one electric bill.
That may not seem like a lot, but it is enough for me.
Translation: they aren't losing my service because of competition, rather their own inability to reliably provide their offered service.
They are these magical things, usually stuck to walls. What happens, is you toggle them, and a light some distance away (usually but not always in the same room) turns on/off. Now, imagine if you could control that at some larger distance... say a small mechanical device operating this magical "light switch", which itself is operated by some "wireless" technology. You can now be quite a way from the light you are turning on.
There are also things such as flares, remote detonation and ignition devices, all of which can create light at a significant distance from the person who wishes to create light.
#2) has everything to to do with evolution, and not intelligence - if there is a food source however inefficient, and little competition for it, something will make use of that source. In fact, it can be argued that is the smart option (you have to eat more, but hey, you don't have to fight others for it)
#3) That's only true regarding creatures which don't put a lot of energy into their young, and that tend to have large litters. Panda don't fall into either category. A large number of species don't mate all the time. Humans and rodents are the most obvious exceptions to this.
Food isn't only a source of energy. It's also a source of many other essential components (amino acids the animal cannot naturally make, important trace elements, etc).
It may need a lot of food, for contents other than energy.
I'm... I'm having trouble with where to start here.
(1) Don't call them ursine retards. They are not ursine. Retard. (2) Bamboo is not easy to digest for energy, as compared to a lot of other plants. (3) Many animals need certain environment cues for mating, or they aren't interested. It has to do a lot with their native environment and what situations ensure optimal survival for the offspring and the mother. You might want to study this field called "evolution". It'll help explain this. We basically have trouble figuring out what these cues are. We really can't blame the pandas for that one.
I started reading your post, and halfway through the first line, I expected to read an annoying article on chiropractic care, and subluxations. Obviously, didn't look at the author, just the text.
I was pleasantly surprised when no such garbage came up.
*ahem* Anyway, people do panic a bit much these days. As far as hygiene back then goes - people didn't have a good reason, or their culture, the experiences, needed to provide them with the knowledge that such hygienic behavior is important.
Umm, just because it costs money, and it is made by MS, doesn't make it crapware. Yeah, Visual studios is *huge*, particularly if you install everything. But then, so would be Eclipse if you had to combine a C and Java compiler with it, and all the other tools needed to give it the same features as Visual Studio, as well as a massive amount of documentation. What you don't want those extra tools in VS? Then don't install them, and have a smaller footprint.
Sheesh.
Simply put, it handles auto-complete and code folding better than Eclipse or NetBeans, and it is much easier to configure than Eclipse (much more concise layout, for text coloring, for example).
In terms of speed, all three are pretty slow if you want to compare them to Emacs, VI, etc., but only netbeans has struck me as noticeably faster than the other two, and then only barely.
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That's nice, that could account for my missing electric bill.
However, my mortgage check was dropped in a secure post office box, prior to arriving at the bank, it should have only been accessible to the post office. The check was never cashed. I put a lock on it nearly a month after someone would have had a chance to cash it, so I think it was just carelessness by the post office.
Fortunately, I pay my mortgage well in advance, so I didn't have any troubles from this, except wondering where the hell my check went, or if it would be cashed much later (say the post office found it in two years, and finished delivery after the lock expired).
So, no, I'm not using it as an excuse for not making a payment and getting extra charges. I'm using it as an excuse to not send anything *really* important via USPS. Twice in 4 years is twice too many.
it is not that it was late, it *never* showed up. Also, my bank has a huge window from "due date" to "late payment date", I pay long before the end of the window. At the time, I tended to have my mortgage paid about a month before being due - which saved my ass there.
My mortgage isn't with my bank I use for checking. Also I prefer to set the amount, because most months I pay extra. Finally, my company pays me monthly, around the time the bank would take it out +/- 2 days. I don't want them taking it out before I have it there (I keep enough of a buffer that wouldn't be a problem, but the month I don't have the buffer, would be the month they try).
The American spelling of checques, or however it is spelled in British English.
My bank is about a mile from my house. I live in a *VERY* safe neighborhood. I've never been mugged, and in this neighborhood, I won't be. I have lost mail to USPS, including a mortgage check, so I have to disagree with you, at least for my situation.
I put my account number on the check. I have reciepts that I've paid. My owed balance is going down. Never has a check been lost in delivery this method.
So, yeah, it helps. There is one less space for error.
I always go the cheapest UPS/Fed Ex route with online packages. They always come in a UPS or Fed Ex truck. Not USPS.
I usually get my neighbors letters once a week. Addressed correctly to my neighbors. I tend to just bring them over.
Yes, no response.
The electric bill never showed up at my place - so I don't know why anyone would steal that. The mortgage check went to a post office drop box, in a very safe neighborhood. Prior to arriving at the bank, it should have only ever been accessible to USPS employees.
The problem is (and why I am starting to use epay rather than check+snail mail)... The USPS loses too much stuff
In the four years since I've moved into my current residence, they've lost one mortgage check (eff that, from now on I drop the damn thing off in person), and one electric bill.
That may not seem like a lot, but it is enough for me.
Translation: they aren't losing my service because of competition, rather their own inability to reliably provide their offered service.
Have you ever heard of a "light switch"?
They are these magical things, usually stuck to walls. What happens, is you toggle them, and a light some distance away (usually but not always in the same room) turns on/off. Now, imagine if you could control that at some larger distance... say a small mechanical device operating this magical "light switch", which itself is operated by some "wireless" technology. You can now be quite a way from the light you are turning on.
There are also things such as flares, remote detonation and ignition devices, all of which can create light at a significant distance from the person who wishes to create light.
And then there is the sun, and the moon.
Have you heard of the term "diminishing returns", or "too many cooks in the kitchen"?
At some point, there will just be a bunch of redundant work, and people tripping over each other trying to get things done.
Is it sad, that of the three, the Chinese places scare my health sense the least?
Ad? I see this more as a warning: Don't do lunar tourism early on - the only pizza there will be Dominos...
You've obviously not had their pizza.
Even green, moldy, stale cheese would be more appetizing than the offal they are pushing.
#1) was incorrect on #1.
#2) has everything to to do with evolution, and not intelligence - if there is a food source however inefficient, and little competition for it, something will make use of that source. In fact, it can be argued that is the smart option (you have to eat more, but hey, you don't have to fight others for it)
#3) That's only true regarding creatures which don't put a lot of energy into their young, and that tend to have large litters. Panda don't fall into either category. A large number of species don't mate all the time. Humans and rodents are the most obvious exceptions to this.
Looking it up, I stand corrected. I guess I'm rather outdated on Panda taxonomy.
Food isn't only a source of energy. It's also a source of many other essential components (amino acids the animal cannot naturally make, important trace elements, etc).
It may need a lot of food, for contents other than energy.
I'm... I'm having trouble with where to start here.
(1) Don't call them ursine retards. They are not ursine. Retard.
(2) Bamboo is not easy to digest for energy, as compared to a lot of other plants.
(3) Many animals need certain environment cues for mating, or they aren't interested. It has to do a lot with their native environment and what situations ensure optimal survival for the offspring and the mother. You might want to study this field called "evolution". It'll help explain this. We basically have trouble figuring out what these cues are. We really can't blame the pandas for that one.
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I started reading your post, and halfway through the first line, I expected to read an annoying article on chiropractic care, and subluxations. Obviously, didn't look at the author, just the text.
I was pleasantly surprised when no such garbage came up.
*ahem*
Anyway, people do panic a bit much these days. As far as hygiene back then goes - people didn't have a good reason, or their culture, the experiences, needed to provide them with the knowledge that such hygienic behavior is important.
Actually, that's what I was referring to when one install was ok, and a later install sucked - eclipse with pydev.
I'm not great at remember the members of a given class, and I hate going back and forth.
you can only read back the first 1GB...
Umm, just because it costs money, and it is made by MS, doesn't make it crapware. Yeah, Visual studios is *huge*, particularly if you install everything. But then, so would be Eclipse if you had to combine a C and Java compiler with it, and all the other tools needed to give it the same features as Visual Studio, as well as a massive amount of documentation. What you don't want those extra tools in VS? Then don't install them, and have a smaller footprint.
Sheesh.
Simply put, it handles auto-complete and code folding better than Eclipse or NetBeans, and it is much easier to configure than Eclipse (much more concise layout, for text coloring, for example).
In terms of speed, all three are pretty slow if you want to compare them to Emacs, VI, etc., but only netbeans has struck me as noticeably faster than the other two, and then only barely.