I don't want a house. I don't give two shits about lawns, want my sidewalk / driveway clear after it snows, my trash picked up, my water heater and central air always functioning, a non-leaking roof, and not have to even think about any of these things. I also want an office I can have my packages shipped to so I don't have to be present to sign or worry about it being stolen. I get all that with renting. I might be able to get that with condos, but annoyingly, affordable ones with those features in my area all seem to be age restricted 55+. The few unrestricted condos get snapped up quickly, and sell for high prices.
I hope you don't mean South Jamaica. My friend who grew up there would joke that the reason there was so much street parking is teams of a dozen guys carrying parked cars down to the chop shop. And a rap lyric that went something like "I come from South Jamaica Queens, where they beat you up and take your jeans. Most these kids put a toaster in your ribs!"
Fun things to think about while waiting for the Q112...
On the other hand, they are (finally) building some tall non-luxury apartments within walking distance of Jamaica LIRR station. *That* is an area that is long overdue for redevelopment. Considering how much LIRR and subway service goes there, Jamaica should be NYC's equivalent of Shinjuku, Tokyo.
You're using it right (colloquially), it just gets the attention of pedants every so often. "There were a couple people on the bus" doesn't mean two making out, it just means it was a small number greater than one (since it is being used as an adjective). "I have a couple bucks on me" does not mean specifically two dollars, etc. In everyday speech it is a synonym of "few".
--Disclaimer: this is how we use it in Northeast US. While other regions might do things differently, ours has more people than theirs and is therefore more correct (tongue in cheek).
Planes can land just fine without power. There's about 5-6 miles of vertical height they can use to glide to safety. If the power loss was due to fuel issues or engine failure, power can be partially restored by deploying the APU (which essentially uses the energy contained in that 5 miles of height they still have) in order to use fancier electronics to help land.
Even the landing gear is designed to lock into place via gravity alone.
That is what my original comment regarding reciprocal agreements was getting at. Some states that don't have tolls (I think Vermont is one) do not enter into those agreements, so residents from those states get essentially free use of pay by plate infrastructure. The rest of us, in theory, will get a bill in the mail. For example the Internets are full of people in NY and other states reporting the outrageous bills for Ontario 407 - they are privatised and the most expensive per mile toll road in North America, so it is always in their financial interest to collect on everyone.
There's a particularly shitty racket regarding this in Puerto Rico. The tags are unique to PR, and the only way to pay tolls on the interstate-grade highways. So, the rental car companies will not only charge a fee on each toll use, but if you use even one toll, they will charge a per-day fee for the transponder (something like $8), even for days you did not use a toll. So if I drive out to the boonies on day 1, and drive back on day 10, I will pay $80 plus ~$5 in fees in addition to the tolls totaling maybe $4.
On the other hand, it's a nice way to bilk tourists while giving locals a massive discount on tolls.
States / provinces have reciprocal agreements. That said, for one or two uses they're usually too lazy to bother sending the bill (it is not a fine, it is the regular toll charge), so it is essentially free for tourists. Drove over some toll bridge that only tolled by plate photo in Quebec, and parked in a park-and-ride in MA that sent a bill by plate, still haven't gotten the bills for either.
Canadian fuel prices are significantly higher than US prices. Thus Canada is the more cost-effective place to deploy them, and testing that they work in other Canadian conditions is more important than the US.
Masspike or any interstate in Upstate NY. Speed limit 65 + standard 9 over, no traffic for hours. Average would come out as 73MPH. Hell I-88 is so dead the cops pull you over for going 1-2 over the speed limit (must be hiding something!) and ignore people flying by at 80MPH.
I agree. There's a problem with that though. If I'm on a trip with an EV then I'm stuck watching the car charge for 20 minutes. Unless the place I stop also has a place to eat, and food I'd actually want to eat, then I'm watching the car and then going further down the road to eat.
Not to mention, very few people want to eat a meal every 2 hours (150 miles / 75 mph).
Watching a sitcom on a streaming service during charging breaks would become a thing (Netflix & Charge?).
A better solution which only works if people could be trusted around high voltages - overhead lines over one roadway lane, and a pantograph to reach it, so you can drive and charge (sortof like trackless trolleys). Just remember to drop the pan before exiting the lane.
Unless you're extremely (un?) lucky there is a gas station between home and the freeway entrance (in one direction or the other). I'm a 2 minute drive from the interstate yet there is a gas station on each side of the road in that distance.
Pretty much what I do, and it bothers me that others can't seem to do the same. And while I didn't seek this "feature" out, my current phone does not have a notification LED, making it even less intrusive.
I think we still have it better for TV, but movies, I recall searching for popular movies that I had been meaning to watch one particularly rainy night in Montreal. I found all of them, started one (I think it was 22 Jump Street I decided on). Halfway through, went to sleep, thinking I'd finish it at home. Not only was that movie not in the US catalog, neither were any of the other movies I had looked for. This was in April I think. Since then I haven't had bad enough weather on a weekend trip to want to stay in, but casual searching has always gotten results.
If I drive 200 miles to Canada I get a Netflix catalog worlds better than at home, particularly movies. It's one of the many reasons that factor into deciding a weekend day trip up there, along with quality cheap hotels, no tolls on the way, and great exchange rate.
In all seriousness, I've visited Singapore several times -- a car would be a complete and total pain. As far as an edge of city park and ride, the "suburbs" are in a different country. Thus the most useful would be ones at the closest MRT lines to Malaysia (where people actually do need cars). To that end the next subway line (Thompson East Coast line - brown line on the map) will be built right to the checkpoint.
The closest thing to suburban-ish areas of Singapore are ones with automated peoplemover-type systems to circulate everyone around large apartment blocks (the grey lines on the MRT map).
The nice thing about long, cold winters - only a few months of mosquitoes, and they rarely venture far from a few known areas before old man winter eradicates them.
Spiders are great, and I try to never bother them. They've done too good a job at keeping my apartment bug free, because they eventually moved on and now I have no spiders.
A few weeks ago, a massive swarm of wasps was trying to breach the south side of my 5 story apartment building. At first I thought it was just a nest on my balcony, but looking down along the side of the building, not a single window wasn't being probed by the fuckers. I am guessing the construction in the formerly open field back there stirred up the mother of all wasp nests. Fortunately, soon the daytime temperature will be lower and I won't be bothered while cleaning the windows.
Florida and the like can keep their warm and bugs.
It's possible to have the positives without the negatives - just ignore all notifications until deciding you care. Smartphones with no notification light make this easy, as does putting it on silent mode. I have had a smartphone since before the iPhone (Windows Mobile 5, the future was here!) and am thoroughly confused by why everyone is constantly staring at them. In a social setting it rarely leaves my pocket or car. And I do social media.
Smartphones are another case of "everything in moderation".
I'd leave the phone in the car at work if I didn't occasionally need to text about lunch.
Exchange (mainly the calendaring) really is Microsoft's killer app. That said, any sufficiently large organization will have both Linux and Windows servers; it's about using the best tool for the job (i.e. the OS best supported by the application/service you intend to put on it). And while standardizing on one OS can be said to save support costs, when you have ~3,000 VMs there is little manpower difference of one large server team versus a Windows team + a Linux team. Similarly, an MSSQL team + a MySQL/MariaDB team.
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I don't want a house. I don't give two shits about lawns, want my sidewalk / driveway clear after it snows, my trash picked up, my water heater and central air always functioning, a non-leaking roof, and not have to even think about any of these things. I also want an office I can have my packages shipped to so I don't have to be present to sign or worry about it being stolen. I get all that with renting. I might be able to get that with condos, but annoyingly, affordable ones with those features in my area all seem to be age restricted 55+. The few unrestricted condos get snapped up quickly, and sell for high prices.
I hope you don't mean South Jamaica. My friend who grew up there would joke that the reason there was so much street parking is teams of a dozen guys carrying parked cars down to the chop shop. And a rap lyric that went something like "I come from South Jamaica Queens, where they beat you up and take your jeans. Most these kids put a toaster in your ribs!"
Fun things to think about while waiting for the Q112...
On the other hand, they are (finally) building some tall non-luxury apartments within walking distance of Jamaica LIRR station. *That* is an area that is long overdue for redevelopment. Considering how much LIRR and subway service goes there, Jamaica should be NYC's equivalent of Shinjuku, Tokyo.
The rent is just too damn high...
You're using it right (colloquially), it just gets the attention of pedants every so often. "There were a couple people on the bus" doesn't mean two making out, it just means it was a small number greater than one (since it is being used as an adjective). "I have a couple bucks on me" does not mean specifically two dollars, etc. In everyday speech it is a synonym of "few".
--Disclaimer: this is how we use it in Northeast US. While other regions might do things differently, ours has more people than theirs and is therefore more correct (tongue in cheek).
Thanks for the correction! Yes I was thinking of the Ram Air Turbine.
Planes can land just fine without power. There's about 5-6 miles of vertical height they can use to glide to safety. If the power loss was due to fuel issues or engine failure, power can be partially restored by deploying the APU (which essentially uses the energy contained in that 5 miles of height they still have) in order to use fancier electronics to help land.
Even the landing gear is designed to lock into place via gravity alone.
That is what my original comment regarding reciprocal agreements was getting at. Some states that don't have tolls (I think Vermont is one) do not enter into those agreements, so residents from those states get essentially free use of pay by plate infrastructure. The rest of us, in theory, will get a bill in the mail. For example the Internets are full of people in NY and other states reporting the outrageous bills for Ontario 407 - they are privatised and the most expensive per mile toll road in North America, so it is always in their financial interest to collect on everyone.
There's a particularly shitty racket regarding this in Puerto Rico. The tags are unique to PR, and the only way to pay tolls on the interstate-grade highways. So, the rental car companies will not only charge a fee on each toll use, but if you use even one toll, they will charge a per-day fee for the transponder (something like $8), even for days you did not use a toll. So if I drive out to the boonies on day 1, and drive back on day 10, I will pay $80 plus ~$5 in fees in addition to the tolls totaling maybe $4.
On the other hand, it's a nice way to bilk tourists while giving locals a massive discount on tolls.
States / provinces have reciprocal agreements. That said, for one or two uses they're usually too lazy to bother sending the bill (it is not a fine, it is the regular toll charge), so it is essentially free for tourists. Drove over some toll bridge that only tolled by plate photo in Quebec, and parked in a park-and-ride in MA that sent a bill by plate, still haven't gotten the bills for either.
Canadian fuel prices are significantly higher than US prices. Thus Canada is the more cost-effective place to deploy them, and testing that they work in other Canadian conditions is more important than the US.
Here's an article with no paywall:
Judge Denies QUT Admin's Racism Appeal
Who can average 75 mph for two hours?
Masspike or any interstate in Upstate NY. Speed limit 65 + standard 9 over, no traffic for hours. Average would come out as 73MPH. Hell I-88 is so dead the cops pull you over for going 1-2 over the speed limit (must be hiding something!) and ignore people flying by at 80MPH.
I agree. There's a problem with that though. If I'm on a trip with an EV then I'm stuck watching the car charge for 20 minutes. Unless the place I stop also has a place to eat, and food I'd actually want to eat, then I'm watching the car and then going further down the road to eat.
Not to mention, very few people want to eat a meal every 2 hours (150 miles / 75 mph).
Watching a sitcom on a streaming service during charging breaks would become a thing (Netflix & Charge?).
A better solution which only works if people could be trusted around high voltages - overhead lines over one roadway lane, and a pantograph to reach it, so you can drive and charge (sortof like trackless trolleys). Just remember to drop the pan before exiting the lane.
Unless you're extremely (un?) lucky there is a gas station between home and the freeway entrance (in one direction or the other). I'm a 2 minute drive from the interstate yet there is a gas station on each side of the road in that distance.
Pretty much what I do, and it bothers me that others can't seem to do the same. And while I didn't seek this "feature" out, my current phone does not have a notification LED, making it even less intrusive.
I think we still have it better for TV, but movies, I recall searching for popular movies that I had been meaning to watch one particularly rainy night in Montreal. I found all of them, started one (I think it was 22 Jump Street I decided on). Halfway through, went to sleep, thinking I'd finish it at home. Not only was that movie not in the US catalog, neither were any of the other movies I had looked for. This was in April I think. Since then I haven't had bad enough weather on a weekend trip to want to stay in, but casual searching has always gotten results.
The Maquis in Voyager weren't exactly paragons of virtue either...
Ah, the HBO GO for GoT approach...
If I drive 200 miles to Canada I get a Netflix catalog worlds better than at home, particularly movies. It's one of the many reasons that factor into deciding a weekend day trip up there, along with quality cheap hotels, no tolls on the way, and great exchange rate.
Your solution is to block out the sun?
Then we will drive in the shade!
In all seriousness, I've visited Singapore several times -- a car would be a complete and total pain. As far as an edge of city park and ride, the "suburbs" are in a different country. Thus the most useful would be ones at the closest MRT lines to Malaysia (where people actually do need cars). To that end the next subway line (Thompson East Coast line - brown line on the map) will be built right to the checkpoint.
The closest thing to suburban-ish areas of Singapore are ones with automated peoplemover-type systems to circulate everyone around large apartment blocks (the grey lines on the MRT map).
Adirondack Park, and Thruway (90) between Albany and Buffalo - total slaughter. Never seems as bad on the Masspike or the thruway (87) down to NYC.
The nice thing about long, cold winters - only a few months of mosquitoes, and they rarely venture far from a few known areas before old man winter eradicates them.
Spiders are great, and I try to never bother them. They've done too good a job at keeping my apartment bug free, because they eventually moved on and now I have no spiders.
A few weeks ago, a massive swarm of wasps was trying to breach the south side of my 5 story apartment building. At first I thought it was just a nest on my balcony, but looking down along the side of the building, not a single window wasn't being probed by the fuckers. I am guessing the construction in the formerly open field back there stirred up the mother of all wasp nests. Fortunately, soon the daytime temperature will be lower and I won't be bothered while cleaning the windows.
Florida and the like can keep their warm and bugs.
It's possible to have the positives without the negatives - just ignore all notifications until deciding you care. Smartphones with no notification light make this easy, as does putting it on silent mode. I have had a smartphone since before the iPhone (Windows Mobile 5, the future was here!) and am thoroughly confused by why everyone is constantly staring at them. In a social setting it rarely leaves my pocket or car. And I do social media.
Smartphones are another case of "everything in moderation".
I'd leave the phone in the car at work if I didn't occasionally need to text about lunch.
I would happily fund a kickstarter to send a planeload of SJWs on a one way trip to Venezuela...
Throw in a camera crew and it could be a reality show actually worth watching!
Exchange (mainly the calendaring) really is Microsoft's killer app. That said, any sufficiently large organization will have both Linux and Windows servers; it's about using the best tool for the job (i.e. the OS best supported by the application/service you intend to put on it). And while standardizing on one OS can be said to save support costs, when you have ~3,000 VMs there is little manpower difference of one large server team versus a Windows team + a Linux team. Similarly, an MSSQL team + a MySQL/MariaDB team.