The NYC private schools aren't that expensive, though. Many are subsidized by the Catholic church and offer scholarships. The best motivation I got to study hard was when my mom warned me "We have no money. If you don't get a scholarship into a private school, you're going to have to go to {local public school} where the crack dealers recruit from". Studied my ass off and got 2 out of 3 scholarships. Our three person household lived in NYC on 15k/yr in the late 90's, failure was literally not an option.
NYC absolutely has an income tax. To partially avoid the whole "people will leave the city!" adjacent Yonkers also has a city income tax.
That said, Nassau and the non-Yonkers parts of Westchester county are great for commuters. In addition to avoiding the city tax, the same unlimited Metrocard that works for the subways also works out there, so bus-commuter rail-subway trips are significantly cheaper than they would be anywhere else outside the city.
The charging for bags thing used to bother me until I realized what it actually was - a tax on the poor enacted by liberals. To me, a nickel a bag is as meaningless as the nickel deposit for bottles and cans - I make an effort to bring them back but no big deal if I can't. To someone who has to go without bread every week they need to buy a new pack of lightbulbs or whathaveyou, that nickel does have meaning. Those reusable cloth bags also have to be washed in order to keep bacteria and mold out of them (think of the stuff on the bottom of milk and other dairy containers, or the juices that leak out of meat packaging, or fruit/veggie bits that fall off). To me who has a washing machine in the other room, that's not a big deal. The person who has to lug their laundry out to a laundromat and pay every time, is not going to waste space in the machine on them. This makes the less fortunate less healthy. But the important thing is less plastic in landfills! Screw the poor!
The first time I used a grocery store in Ontario, it was nearly deserted. After checkout, the cashier and I both stared at my pile of groceries. I then realized I was expected to bag them myself. From that point on, when I find myself in Ontario I will only shop where there is a self checkout. Whoever is scanning the items is in the best position to bag them, cashiers who don't bag are completely unnecessary. Anything they would do, the one person watching 4 self checkouts can do just as well. Whatever union won that concession, won the battle but lost the war.
No one kicking your seat back, no one reclining into your lap, no leg cramps, no potential blood clots from long term sitting. Assuming whatever protective harness they put you in isn't all that uncomfortable, I'd be willing to give it a try.
We have a union, did nothing for our bedbug infested government building: Bedbugs Surprise New York state workers. As far as I know the bugs are still there (no fumigation notices went out).
With Trek there typically isn't continuous focus on any romantic relationships; they would either involve a recurring guest, or the characters would be separated frequently enough by circumstance to allow other stories to be told. Hoping this one keeps that trend.
The only scenario I hate and will avoid is ones where you buy the groceries from the cashier and have to bag them yourself. With a self checkout you take it out of your cart/basket, scan, and put in the bag in one fluid motion. With a "full service" checkout you only need to put the goods on the conveyor. However, in places where cashiers do not bag, you have the worst of both worlds: you both have to take things out of your cart, and then pick them up a second time to put them in bags. The cashier actually gets in the way of the process.
Depending on the groceries (and exchange rate) it might be cheaper to buy them in Canada. I live close enough to drive there for a day trip, and will take a quick walk through the aisles to see if there's anything cheaper before headed back home. The grocery shopping is not the intention of the trip, but with IGA next to the hotel, it's not out of the way...
66 million is a lot higher than I would have expected, ~20%. It seems like they might be double counting, though - i.e I went to Canada, and Asia. Since all of their sub totals add up to less than the 66 million (I am guessing the missing numbers are for Oceana), and I can't possibly be the only person to visit two regions, I can only conclude they mean 66 million trips out of the country rather than 66 million distinct Americans.
And given how everyone who believes this election conspiracy is also calling Trump a buffoon,
Mass-deception conspiracy is hard, and the cracks around the edges usually become evident before long (without the use of tinfoil).
Do people seriously think he has the competence and discipline to pull something on this scale off without solid evidence having come out by now? If he were truly aware of election meddling he'd have tweeted "grabbed Hill by the pussay, thx Vlad!" on Nov 9th. He cannot keep his mouth shut. And if he is not aware of election meddling, then this circus is pointless and the most substantial outcome will be nameless bureaucrats getting token jail sentences.
I guess my one overseas international trip a year is going to require me to return via Toronto or Montreal... West coast-ers can use Vancouver. Even though it's just a chromebook I use the flying time to organize all the pictures I took while on vacation. Not cool TSA, not cool...
Entering a country outside your home country they are free to do whatever they want with you, regardless of your employee agreement. However, when returning home, if they ask for such things you might actually be able to refuse.
Really though the best solution is some form of remote desktop (or Vmware VDI, or Citrix, or whathaveyou) and make whatever you bring overseas is nothing more than a thin client like a chromebook.
Yes, I agree that inevitably it is the problem. Moses' (and other Urban Planners of the time) big mistake w/high rises was ironically too much faith in humanity - that given a nice place to live, they'd keep it that way. Unfortunately, it only takes ~20% of the residents to (sometimes literally) piss all over it and a nice new building becomes a shithole. My current apartment building is in a right-leaning town. Over half the residents are foreign college students on student visas, or professionals on H1B visas. Every year a new batch comes not knowing any better, and smoke in the stairwells, spit everywhere, and leave cigarette butts in the atrium. Fortunately the rent laws are landlord-biased here and the worst of them are typically evicted in short order. The ones who survive past October make great neighbors!
The projects typically have laws keeping landlords from kicking out the bad apples, and it only takes a few to spoil the barrel. And then people wonder why 1 acre plots in HOA managed suburbs are more popular than high density urban housing...
While horrible for property values (the Rockaways have just barely begun to recover in the past 10 years), the Moses relocation at least got poor people residences in areas they'd never in several generations be able to afford. Those "historic" brownstones they were living in before were poorly maintained and decrepit. I liked my 1920s era apartment downtown in my old neighborhood but if someone told me they'd be knocking it down and moving me to a high rise with an ocean view, I'd grab a sledge hammer and knock the f-ker down myself.
Sure. That said, it would be nice if it wasn't impossible for Long Islanders to reach the mainland without passing through New York City. Thanks to the lack of some sort of mid-Manhattan expressway, Long Islanders either have to deviate through the Bronx or Staten Island (still NYC, but also with some nice hefty tolls!) or experience the "joy" of crossing Manhattan. You know, being harassed by squeegee men, dodging random pedestrians,/bike idiots/food carts, pot holes you can fill with actual pots, etc. Burying the thing underground would have been untenable due to all the subway lines.
Hyperbole much? He was a mixed bag. A lot of his ideas did damage. Some were pretty good. Worst damage was designing the Verrazano Narrows bridge with no possibility for so much as a bike/pedestrian path, let alone public transit. The parkways though are actually pretty good. Everyone says the reason he built them with low bridges and tighter curves just to make them useless for buses is trying to push an agenda - they were much cheaper to build, designed to be unfriendly to trucks and high speeds, but limited access enough to cruise. The goal was for something to be comfortable to drive at a reasonable speed without stress. Of course, nowadays everyone goes 70 on them anyway, but that's the fault of speed limits being unreasonably low on interstates. You get used to 55=70 on an interstate, so on a parkway when 55=55 people start flying off the roads into ravines, T-boning tractors at farm crossings and getting deer as hood ornaments.
Why even stick with Samsung? LG's flagship phone (G6) is far better. Durable, has headphone jack and SD card, and wireless charging (which I didn't really see the convenience to until I got it - saves wear on USB port). Unfortunately it's the first one to not have removable battery, but I'd been carrying one of those USB recharger things around anyway, better than a spare battery since the same unit can recharge whatever USB device dies first. Not worried about battery death since my Samsung Galaxy S3 battery outlasted both that phone, its warranty replacements and the refurbished S4 they eventually sent me. I'm banking that battery tech has improved since then.
That said, if your S5 does everything you need, no reason to upgrade. I only did because the S4 had a hardware (or firmware) bug that resulted in arbitrary text messages being delivered to me hours (or sometimes days) after they were sent. After looking online I realized this was a known problem with S4s.
+1000 on kill voicemail. Our group unofficially does not answer voicemail - it started with just me, and soon spread to everyone - our voicemail lights are always on, and after 30 messages queue up the system sends emails nagging us about it. Every month or so we delete them all and have a day or two where we're not sure if our phones are working (since that is normally the only time the VM light is off). Some are so put off by the change that they leave one in the box to keep it lit.
If it's important, send an email. If it's super important, create a ticket - it gets all the right visibility and spams management when it's ignored. If it's a dodgy request they don't want a record of (i.e. help I fucked this up, divine miracle required), send a skype message (still logged but buries the needle in a bigger haystack).
A high level manager here would put a plant in her cube doorway with a no sign on it to mean no interruptions. After a few weeks I noticed the plant was gone, and when I asked about it she said "it did a terrible job, it's been fired".
Not sure if it's still this way but IIRC in the US, the person downloading / receiving the copyrighted file/stream is not committing an illegal act, only the person providing it. That said, I believe this changes if money is exchanged (e.g. buying a bootleg DVD) so the Kodi subscription fee might come into play.
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The NYC private schools aren't that expensive, though. Many are subsidized by the Catholic church and offer scholarships. The best motivation I got to study hard was when my mom warned me "We have no money. If you don't get a scholarship into a private school, you're going to have to go to {local public school} where the crack dealers recruit from". Studied my ass off and got 2 out of 3 scholarships. Our three person household lived in NYC on 15k/yr in the late 90's, failure was literally not an option.
NYC absolutely has an income tax. To partially avoid the whole "people will leave the city!" adjacent Yonkers also has a city income tax.
That said, Nassau and the non-Yonkers parts of Westchester county are great for commuters. In addition to avoiding the city tax, the same unlimited Metrocard that works for the subways also works out there, so bus-commuter rail-subway trips are significantly cheaper than they would be anywhere else outside the city.
The charging for bags thing used to bother me until I realized what it actually was - a tax on the poor enacted by liberals. To me, a nickel a bag is as meaningless as the nickel deposit for bottles and cans - I make an effort to bring them back but no big deal if I can't. To someone who has to go without bread every week they need to buy a new pack of lightbulbs or whathaveyou, that nickel does have meaning. Those reusable cloth bags also have to be washed in order to keep bacteria and mold out of them (think of the stuff on the bottom of milk and other dairy containers, or the juices that leak out of meat packaging, or fruit/veggie bits that fall off). To me who has a washing machine in the other room, that's not a big deal. The person who has to lug their laundry out to a laundromat and pay every time, is not going to waste space in the machine on them. This makes the less fortunate less healthy. But the important thing is less plastic in landfills! Screw the poor!
The first time I used a grocery store in Ontario, it was nearly deserted. After checkout, the cashier and I both stared at my pile of groceries. I then realized I was expected to bag them myself. From that point on, when I find myself in Ontario I will only shop where there is a self checkout. Whoever is scanning the items is in the best position to bag them, cashiers who don't bag are completely unnecessary. Anything they would do, the one person watching 4 self checkouts can do just as well. Whatever union won that concession, won the battle but lost the war.
There are several countries with no minimum wage, hellholes like Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland.
No one kicking your seat back, no one reclining into your lap, no leg cramps, no potential blood clots from long term sitting. Assuming whatever protective harness they put you in isn't all that uncomfortable, I'd be willing to give it a try.
We have a union, did nothing for our bedbug infested government building: Bedbugs Surprise New York state workers. As far as I know the bugs are still there (no fumigation notices went out).
With Trek there typically isn't continuous focus on any romantic relationships; they would either involve a recurring guest, or the characters would be separated frequently enough by circumstance to allow other stories to be told. Hoping this one keeps that trend.
The only scenario I hate and will avoid is ones where you buy the groceries from the cashier and have to bag them yourself. With a self checkout you take it out of your cart/basket, scan, and put in the bag in one fluid motion. With a "full service" checkout you only need to put the goods on the conveyor. However, in places where cashiers do not bag, you have the worst of both worlds: you both have to take things out of your cart, and then pick them up a second time to put them in bags. The cashier actually gets in the way of the process.
Depending on the groceries (and exchange rate) it might be cheaper to buy them in Canada. I live close enough to drive there for a day trip, and will take a quick walk through the aisles to see if there's anything cheaper before headed back home. The grocery shopping is not the intention of the trip, but with IGA next to the hotel, it's not out of the way...
66 million is a lot higher than I would have expected, ~20%. It seems like they might be double counting, though - i.e I went to Canada, and Asia. Since all of their sub totals add up to less than the 66 million (I am guessing the missing numbers are for Oceana), and I can't possibly be the only person to visit two regions, I can only conclude they mean 66 million trips out of the country rather than 66 million distinct Americans.
And given how everyone who believes this election conspiracy is also calling Trump a buffoon,
Mass-deception conspiracy is hard, and the cracks around the edges usually become evident before long (without the use of tinfoil).
Do people seriously think he has the competence and discipline to pull something on this scale off without solid evidence having come out by now? If he were truly aware of election meddling he'd have tweeted "grabbed Hill by the pussay, thx Vlad!" on Nov 9th. He cannot keep his mouth shut. And if he is not aware of election meddling, then this circus is pointless and the most substantial outcome will be nameless bureaucrats getting token jail sentences.
I guess my one overseas international trip a year is going to require me to return via Toronto or Montreal... West coast-ers can use Vancouver. Even though it's just a chromebook I use the flying time to organize all the pictures I took while on vacation. Not cool TSA, not cool...
The government already knows how much everyone makes and whether they are female. They should get it from the IRS and mine it themselves.
Thankfully pidgin has disappeared into irrelevance with the rise of cell phone messaging; they still store their passwords in plain text.
Entering a country outside your home country they are free to do whatever they want with you, regardless of your employee agreement. However, when returning home, if they ask for such things you might actually be able to refuse.
Really though the best solution is some form of remote desktop (or Vmware VDI, or Citrix, or whathaveyou) and make whatever you bring overseas is nothing more than a thin client like a chromebook.
Yes, I agree that inevitably it is the problem. Moses' (and other Urban Planners of the time) big mistake w/high rises was ironically too much faith in humanity - that given a nice place to live, they'd keep it that way. Unfortunately, it only takes ~20% of the residents to (sometimes literally) piss all over it and a nice new building becomes a shithole. My current apartment building is in a right-leaning town. Over half the residents are foreign college students on student visas, or professionals on H1B visas. Every year a new batch comes not knowing any better, and smoke in the stairwells, spit everywhere, and leave cigarette butts in the atrium. Fortunately the rent laws are landlord-biased here and the worst of them are typically evicted in short order. The ones who survive past October make great neighbors!
The projects typically have laws keeping landlords from kicking out the bad apples, and it only takes a few to spoil the barrel. And then people wonder why 1 acre plots in HOA managed suburbs are more popular than high density urban housing...
While horrible for property values (the Rockaways have just barely begun to recover in the past 10 years), the Moses relocation at least got poor people residences in areas they'd never in several generations be able to afford. Those "historic" brownstones they were living in before were poorly maintained and decrepit. I liked my 1920s era apartment downtown in my old neighborhood but if someone told me they'd be knocking it down and moving me to a high rise with an ocean view, I'd grab a sledge hammer and knock the f-ker down myself.
Sure. That said, it would be nice if it wasn't impossible for Long Islanders to reach the mainland without passing through New York City. Thanks to the lack of some sort of mid-Manhattan expressway, Long Islanders either have to deviate through the Bronx or Staten Island (still NYC, but also with some nice hefty tolls!) or experience the "joy" of crossing Manhattan. You know, being harassed by squeegee men, dodging random pedestrians,/bike idiots/food carts, pot holes you can fill with actual pots, etc. Burying the thing underground would have been untenable due to all the subway lines.
Nothing Robert Moses thought of was a good idea.
Hyperbole much? He was a mixed bag. A lot of his ideas did damage. Some were pretty good. Worst damage was designing the Verrazano Narrows bridge with no possibility for so much as a bike/pedestrian path, let alone public transit. The parkways though are actually pretty good. Everyone says the reason he built them with low bridges and tighter curves just to make them useless for buses is trying to push an agenda - they were much cheaper to build, designed to be unfriendly to trucks and high speeds, but limited access enough to cruise. The goal was for something to be comfortable to drive at a reasonable speed without stress. Of course, nowadays everyone goes 70 on them anyway, but that's the fault of speed limits being unreasonably low on interstates. You get used to 55=70 on an interstate, so on a parkway when 55=55 people start flying off the roads into ravines, T-boning tractors at farm crossings and getting deer as hood ornaments.
Why even stick with Samsung? LG's flagship phone (G6) is far better. Durable, has headphone jack and SD card, and wireless charging (which I didn't really see the convenience to until I got it - saves wear on USB port). Unfortunately it's the first one to not have removable battery, but I'd been carrying one of those USB recharger things around anyway, better than a spare battery since the same unit can recharge whatever USB device dies first. Not worried about battery death since my Samsung Galaxy S3 battery outlasted both that phone, its warranty replacements and the refurbished S4 they eventually sent me. I'm banking that battery tech has improved since then.
That said, if your S5 does everything you need, no reason to upgrade. I only did because the S4 had a hardware (or firmware) bug that resulted in arbitrary text messages being delivered to me hours (or sometimes days) after they were sent. After looking online I realized this was a known problem with S4s.
+1000 on kill voicemail. Our group unofficially does not answer voicemail - it started with just me, and soon spread to everyone - our voicemail lights are always on, and after 30 messages queue up the system sends emails nagging us about it. Every month or so we delete them all and have a day or two where we're not sure if our phones are working (since that is normally the only time the VM light is off). Some are so put off by the change that they leave one in the box to keep it lit.
If it's important, send an email. If it's super important, create a ticket - it gets all the right visibility and spams management when it's ignored. If it's a dodgy request they don't want a record of (i.e. help I fucked this up, divine miracle required), send a skype message (still logged but buries the needle in a bigger haystack).
A high level manager here would put a plant in her cube doorway with a no sign on it to mean no interruptions. After a few weeks I noticed the plant was gone, and when I asked about it she said "it did a terrible job, it's been fired".
Not sure if it's still this way but IIRC in the US, the person downloading / receiving the copyrighted file/stream is not committing an illegal act, only the person providing it. That said, I believe this changes if money is exchanged (e.g. buying a bootleg DVD) so the Kodi subscription fee might come into play.
In Japan the threat is so great that people regularly confess to crimes they didn't commit.