In Canada and Australia they have $2 coins too (both countries got rid of bills below $5) - and both have similar tipping culture to the US. Also, there's $2 bills if we're too lazy to come up with a $2 coin (Singapore does this) so at most we'd only be getting one dollar coin in our change, not four. All 3 countries have gotten rid of their 1 cent coin, so your pockets end up carrying less change overall. Singapore took things a bit differently, also axing the nickel and using a 20 cent coin instead of a quarter - thus transactions are rounded to the nearest 10 cents.
The US is not special in this, this is a solved problem.
Canada does ID and interview everyone who comes in, and there are sensors all along the border looking for illegal crossings. A lot of it is to prevent Canadians from smuggling goods home without the proper taxes (the joke is the CBSA is an extension of the Canadian Revenue Agency). As an American entering Canada the most common question you get is "are you going to be meeting any Canadians, and leaving any goods with them?"
Completely agree. He could well have just as many skeletons - but in a world where an 11 year old hot mic conversation gets tons of media airplay, if anyone was aware of anything interesting in Trump emails, we would know it by now, Wikileaks or not. So the most reasonable explanation is that no one has attempted to leak the info, not bias by Wikileaks.
Yup they have a subway style one way turnstile to get to Mexico at San Ysidro / Tijuana. The Mexican gov't has some scary looking guys with assault rifles checking bags, but if you have no bags you can just walk right past without needing to even say hello (or hola). You'll be eating fresh churros before the trolley that took you to the border has even left for it's return trip. With a few hundred Benjamins in your pockets you'll be set for a few months.
That said, you'd better have a strategy for getting out of Mexico asap. The Federales love to find American fugitives and turn them in. IIRC the 'affluenza' teen and his mom were caught down there...
Wikileaks doesn't actually hack, they provide a platform for those who did to get the information out. If someone *had* hacked the Trump servers, tried to get it to Wikileaks, and nothing was coming out, they would have gone to the media and it would be all over the news.
But they haven't, because no one bothered to hack Trump.
You need an American CC? I live close enough to day trip to Montreal and (I didn't realize it at the time) I had gotten Canada's Netflix catalog without even needing to re-log in. I had started watching 22 Jump Street at the hotel, added it to my watch list and when I got home, *poof* it was gone.
Groupon used to do buy one get one free coupons for gift cards. So, by paying $20, I receive $40 I can spend at that retailer. These are limited time offers but the resulting gift cards have no expiration. I have been in possession of up to 10 of these gift cards at any given moment.
I actually could imagine a scenario where someone games such deals and banks a few hundred of these, then sells them for 75% face value. Everyone wins, reseller and second buyer each get a 25% RoI.
made it seem like he was referring to tipping here. Also,
However, when I receive a bill that contains the gratuity added automatically I specifically remove it and tell the manager why I've removed it and that I won't be returning to the restaurant because it's a *scummy thing to do*.
Airline tickets are required to include taxes and fees.Theoretically train and bus tickets too but they usually don't have taxes and fees to begin with. I've been hoping for a similar rule for hotel stays - sometimes staying even 1 county over will yield significant savings over multiple nights, but no one includes them in their search listings.
For my haircut I tip a ridiculously good amount, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200% (still cheaper than a stylist). This has resulted in situations where I walk in and am skipped in front of the line because "I had an appointment" even though I never called:). Since this sort of unspoken benefit is not really possible in any other situation, I stick to 15% otherwise. Hotel maid gets $2/night that they actually had to clean my room. Taxi serviec in my area is shit so they get nothing, but while on vacation I'll round up and add a dollar (significantly more if I was in a hurry and they delivered).
Unfortunately laws allow wait staff to be underpaid significantly due to the US's tipping culture. While I applaud your effort to change it, the immediate effect is that you actually did the scummy thing by stiffing the service staff. Then again, theoretically, if everyone did that, we might have this changed.
Personally I find it stupid that tips are encouraged to be a percentage of the bill. If I go to a discount Vietnamese restaurant or a general chain restaurant, the waitress did the exact same amount of effort, so should receive an identical tip. Yet people yell at me when I overtip at cheap restaurants and (supposedly) undertip at expensive ones.
I never understood that. As a northerner with a similar climate, why do people take vacations in the summer? That's the only time it's bearable to stay home. Save your money and vacation time for a trip to the Carribean (or SoCal/Hawaii for you west coast-ers) in February.
This is the entire problem. Even if the dollar amount is the same (or slightly higher) the end result is a reduction in direct income for the guy doing the work.
Honestly I think tips should either be eliminated from society (full stop) or removed from taxation. The current situation simply rewards the unethical.
Once Uber/Lyft is allowed in my state I'd do it weekends for a few reasons: 1. To spite the shitty, shitty cab companies and 2. Because the heated back seats of my nice car seem wasted otherwise. 3. Extra cash on weekends would be nice, though won't make/break my bank
I don't actually care if I simply break even. Anything to make the taxi cartel quiver in their boots.
This is more an old vs new than rich vs poor. Verizon Fios is my example here. In the "old neighborhood" in NYC I grew up in, they never got Fios. But in the "new" neighborhoods, seems like every house got it. The thing is, this particular old neighborhood was quite wealthy, with mostly row houses anchored by non-section 8 high rises. The demographic was Russian Jews who escaped the Soviet Union, and 2nd generation Carribean island Hispanics who moved up from lesser neighborhoods. Either way the apartments all go for 2k+ now, and the 80 year old row houses easily go for a cool million (even with the restriction that they cannot be knocked down or have their facade significantly altered). Yet no Fios.
Meanwhile, you can get Fios with a $150,000 house (1500 sqft) on a 1 acre lot up here in buttfuck nowhere. But the old neighborhood which includes the governor's mansion does not get Fios.
Ah, the San Bernardino train wreck. Dissapointing that it ended up with barely anything going to those affected; the pipeline rupture was straight up incompetence on so many levels.
Seriously we have someone who placed classified information in a precarious position *and* has gotten people killed, versus someone who speaks every stray thought at the top of his mind and can't keep from running his mouth for more than two seconds.
Is anyone sane voting for either of those clowns? Johnson 2016!! (or hell even Stein, at least she's not evil!).
I thought out of the box it had no xorg.conf, which spawns things with default/auto-detect settings?
I do recall having to reinstall the 3rd party nVidia driver after some update (which resulted in re-writing the xorg.conf) but thought that was just a fail related to me using the nVidia official installer instead of packages... either way I don't think I've needed to actually edit xorg.conf by hand with Mint (another reason I like it).
Perl is easy once you realize that all the different help websites telling you to do completely different things to achieve the same goal, are all correct. I would say it's similar to a spoken language - there's quite a few different ways to convey the same thought. Some of which are completely human readable, like: print "failed\n" unless (function());
That uses two perl-isms to make a more human readable statement. The people coming into Perl from other languages would have you do this, though:
But for a one million line project involving dozens of programmers, it will be a disaster.
I absolutely love Perl, and have to agree with this statement. I use Perl when a bash script would be too awkward, but beyond a few hundred lines, we enter the realm of real programmers with C/C++/Java.
Or mplayer and the recommended codecs... honestly I have more trouble playing media files with my supposedly idiot-proof chromebook than I've ever had in Linux.
I know an artist who watches Netflix while drawing. He lives quite well off of just his art (went to school for business and finance instead of art, thus knew how to monetize his product).
Less intelligent example: I know people who drive while watching movies. And apparently in Japan you can tune TV stations into the nav equipment in your car.
Bottom line: multitasking with video is totally a thing.
Mint Linux I didn't need to fight with to watch a movie on either. I had used Linux as a desktop off and on for quite a few years. Then I had the "opportunity" to reinstall Windows 7 on my desktop, but decided instead to try out Mint. I was skeptical of desktop Linux but decided to give it a 1 hour test. If I could get it to: 1. Play all my video files, as well as Netflix, Youtube, and Amazon Prime and 2. Play all my video games via wine within 1 hour of actual effort on my part (not including waiting for downloads and installs) I would keep Mint instead of reinstalling Windows 7 (which would have required an hour or two worth of driver updating, software installing and such anyway).
And holy shit, it delivered. Better than FedEx, almost as good as Domino's (alas took longer than 30 minutes). I have only needed to use a Windows VM for two things - some stupid car related software, which isn't even available on Mac, and some scanner (as in radio) programming software. For both those cases VirtualBox is sufficient.
Of course not. For some reason there's a Neo-McCarthy era going on right now about Russia. I hope we aren't really buying this crap. Everyone intelligent I've talked to takes these claims as nothing more than fearmongering until some evidence shows up.
This isn't the 1980s any more, and the Russians aren't out to get us, and our ideologies are more similar than they are different. If we'd stop sanctioning them we'd probably get along pretty well at this point...
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In Canada and Australia they have $2 coins too (both countries got rid of bills below $5) - and both have similar tipping culture to the US. Also, there's $2 bills if we're too lazy to come up with a $2 coin (Singapore does this) so at most we'd only be getting one dollar coin in our change, not four. All 3 countries have gotten rid of their 1 cent coin, so your pockets end up carrying less change overall. Singapore took things a bit differently, also axing the nickel and using a 20 cent coin instead of a quarter - thus transactions are rounded to the nearest 10 cents.
The US is not special in this, this is a solved problem.
Canada does ID and interview everyone who comes in, and there are sensors all along the border looking for illegal crossings. A lot of it is to prevent Canadians from smuggling goods home without the proper taxes (the joke is the CBSA is an extension of the Canadian Revenue Agency). As an American entering Canada the most common question you get is "are you going to be meeting any Canadians, and leaving any goods with them?"
Completely agree. He could well have just as many skeletons - but in a world where an 11 year old hot mic conversation gets tons of media airplay, if anyone was aware of anything interesting in Trump emails, we would know it by now, Wikileaks or not. So the most reasonable explanation is that no one has attempted to leak the info, not bias by Wikileaks.
Yup they have a subway style one way turnstile to get to Mexico at San Ysidro / Tijuana. The Mexican gov't has some scary looking guys with assault rifles checking bags, but if you have no bags you can just walk right past without needing to even say hello (or hola). You'll be eating fresh churros before the trolley that took you to the border has even left for it's return trip. With a few hundred Benjamins in your pockets you'll be set for a few months.
That said, you'd better have a strategy for getting out of Mexico asap. The Federales love to find American fugitives and turn them in. IIRC the 'affluenza' teen and his mom were caught down there...
Wikileaks doesn't actually hack, they provide a platform for those who did to get the information out. If someone *had* hacked the Trump servers, tried to get it to Wikileaks, and nothing was coming out, they would have gone to the media and it would be all over the news.
But they haven't, because no one bothered to hack Trump.
You need an American CC? I live close enough to day trip to Montreal and (I didn't realize it at the time) I had gotten Canada's Netflix catalog without even needing to re-log in. I had started watching 22 Jump Street at the hotel, added it to my watch list and when I got home, *poof* it was gone.
Groupon used to do buy one get one free coupons for gift cards. So, by paying $20, I receive $40 I can spend at that retailer. These are limited time offers but the resulting gift cards have no expiration. I have been in possession of up to 10 of these gift cards at any given moment.
I actually could imagine a scenario where someone games such deals and banks a few hundred of these, then sells them for 75% face value. Everyone wins, reseller and second buyer each get a 25% RoI.
Not only that, it was their first job, *before* protecting the president!
The part where he completed the sentence with
than in the US
made it seem like he was referring to tipping here. Also,
However, when I receive a bill that contains the gratuity added automatically I specifically remove it and tell the manager why I've removed it and that I won't be returning to the restaurant because it's a *scummy thing to do*.
Adds to that.
You passive aggressive prick.
Airline tickets are required to include taxes and fees.Theoretically train and bus tickets too but they usually don't have taxes and fees to begin with.
I've been hoping for a similar rule for hotel stays - sometimes staying even 1 county over will yield significant savings over multiple nights, but no one includes them in their search listings.
For my haircut I tip a ridiculously good amount, somewhere in the neighborhood of 200% (still cheaper than a stylist). This has resulted in situations where I walk in and am skipped in front of the line because "I had an appointment" even though I never called :). Since this sort of unspoken benefit is not really possible in any other situation, I stick to 15% otherwise. Hotel maid gets $2/night that they actually had to clean my room. Taxi serviec in my area is shit so they get nothing, but while on vacation I'll round up and add a dollar (significantly more if I was in a hurry and they delivered).
Unfortunately laws allow wait staff to be underpaid significantly due to the US's tipping culture. While I applaud your effort to change it, the immediate effect is that you actually did the scummy thing by stiffing the service staff. Then again, theoretically, if everyone did that, we might have this changed.
Personally I find it stupid that tips are encouraged to be a percentage of the bill. If I go to a discount Vietnamese restaurant or a general chain restaurant, the waitress did the exact same amount of effort, so should receive an identical tip. Yet people yell at me when I overtip at cheap restaurants and (supposedly) undertip at expensive ones.
I never understood that. As a northerner with a similar climate, why do people take vacations in the summer? That's the only time it's bearable to stay home. Save your money and vacation time for a trip to the Carribean (or SoCal/Hawaii for you west coast-ers) in February.
This is the entire problem. Even if the dollar amount is the same (or slightly higher) the end result is a reduction in direct income for the guy doing the work.
Honestly I think tips should either be eliminated from society (full stop) or removed from taxation. The current situation simply rewards the unethical.
Once Uber/Lyft is allowed in my state I'd do it weekends for a few reasons:
1. To spite the shitty, shitty cab companies and
2. Because the heated back seats of my nice car seem wasted otherwise.
3. Extra cash on weekends would be nice, though won't make/break my bank
I don't actually care if I simply break even. Anything to make the taxi cartel quiver in their boots.
This is more an old vs new than rich vs poor. Verizon Fios is my example here. In the "old neighborhood" in NYC I grew up in, they never got Fios. But in the "new" neighborhoods, seems like every house got it. The thing is, this particular old neighborhood was quite wealthy, with mostly row houses anchored by non-section 8 high rises. The demographic was Russian Jews who escaped the Soviet Union, and 2nd generation Carribean island Hispanics who moved up from lesser neighborhoods. Either way the apartments all go for 2k+ now, and the 80 year old row houses easily go for a cool million (even with the restriction that they cannot be knocked down or have their facade significantly altered). Yet no Fios.
Meanwhile, you can get Fios with a $150,000 house (1500 sqft) on a 1 acre lot up here in buttfuck nowhere. But the old neighborhood which includes the governor's mansion does not get Fios.
Ah, the San Bernardino train wreck. Dissapointing that it ended up with barely anything going to those affected; the pipeline rupture was straight up incompetence on so many levels.
Seriously we have someone who placed classified information in a precarious position *and* has gotten people killed, versus someone who speaks every stray thought at the top of his mind and can't keep from running his mouth for more than two seconds.
Is anyone sane voting for either of those clowns? Johnson 2016!! (or hell even Stein, at least she's not evil!).
I thought out of the box it had no xorg.conf, which spawns things with default/auto-detect settings?
I do recall having to reinstall the 3rd party nVidia driver after some update (which resulted in re-writing the xorg.conf) but thought that was just a fail related to me using the nVidia official installer instead of packages... either way I don't think I've needed to actually edit xorg.conf by hand with Mint (another reason I like it).
Perl is easy once you realize that all the different help websites telling you to do completely different things to achieve the same goal, are all correct. I would say it's similar to a spoken language - there's quite a few different ways to convey the same thought. Some of which are completely human readable, like:
print "failed\n" unless (function());
That uses two perl-isms to make a more human readable statement. The people coming into Perl from other languages would have you do this, though:
if (!function()) {
print "failed\n";
}
A lot less readable, but the result is the same.
But for a one million line project involving dozens of programmers, it will be a disaster.
I absolutely love Perl, and have to agree with this statement. I use Perl when a bash script would be too awkward, but beyond a few hundred lines, we enter the realm of real programmers with C/C++/Java.
Or mplayer and the recommended codecs... honestly I have more trouble playing media files with my supposedly idiot-proof chromebook than I've ever had in Linux.
I know an artist who watches Netflix while drawing. He lives quite well off of just his art (went to school for business and finance instead of art, thus knew how to monetize his product).
Less intelligent example: I know people who drive while watching movies. And apparently in Japan you can tune TV stations into the nav equipment in your car.
Bottom line: multitasking with video is totally a thing.
Mint Linux I didn't need to fight with to watch a movie on either. I had used Linux as a desktop off and on for quite a few years. Then I had the "opportunity" to reinstall Windows 7 on my desktop, but decided instead to try out Mint.
I was skeptical of desktop Linux but decided to give it a 1 hour test. If I could get it to:
1. Play all my video files, as well as Netflix, Youtube, and Amazon Prime
and
2. Play all my video games via wine
within 1 hour of actual effort on my part (not including waiting for downloads and installs) I would keep Mint instead of reinstalling Windows 7 (which would have required an hour or two worth of driver updating, software installing and such anyway).
And holy shit, it delivered. Better than FedEx, almost as good as Domino's (alas took longer than 30 minutes). I have only needed to use a Windows VM for two things - some stupid car related software, which isn't even available on Mac, and some scanner (as in radio) programming software. For both those cases VirtualBox is sufficient.
Of course not. For some reason there's a Neo-McCarthy era going on right now about Russia. I hope we aren't really buying this crap. Everyone intelligent I've talked to takes these claims as nothing more than fearmongering until some evidence shows up.
This isn't the 1980s any more, and the Russians aren't out to get us, and our ideologies are more similar than they are different. If we'd stop sanctioning them we'd probably get along pretty well at this point...