Have you seen some of these SUVs? Chevy Suburban might as well be a bus. The "heavy duty" pickups like the Ford F350 and Ram 3500 might as well be tractor-trailer cab units. Some of these pickups have four rear wheels.
There's also visibility issues with the heights of these vehicles if you are behind them. Since you can't see what's going on in front of them you have to leave more space.
When people purchase these they should be treated as trucks as well. Which means: 1. Commercial license plates (here in NY you have the option to not get commercial plates on them) 2. The higher toll on toll roads (heavier vehicles cause more wear and tear) 3. Restricted from parkways, the Brooklyn bridge, the car lanes of the NJ Turnpike, the "no trucks" lanes on regular highways, etc
I'd imagine you'd have a lot fewer people buying giant SUVs... "crossover" models would probably still fit under the 'car' emissions standards so the need would still be filled for people looking to avoid the extra restrictions.
Sounds a lot like the city I grew up in, below the poverty line. Here was my secret to success:
1. Get scholarship to private high school, because otherwise I'd have ended up at "gang ridden public school" (Mom knew how to motivate with fear). 2. Drink tap water. No Brita either, just run the water for 2 minutes at the beginning of the day to get the brown out (and 30 seconds before drinking it the rest of the day). 3. Use public transport. There's a stigma that it's just for poor people, but (1) it's for everyone and (2) even if you don't believe that, YOU'RE POOR 4. Lunch and dinner were anything I could get for under $4. I shared cafeteria fries with an equally poor scholarship winner. 5. Use financial aid to go to a state university in a cheaper part of the state, work part time through school (thanks Dad for those drunken rants about "why the hell haven't you gotten a fucken job!" all freshman year!), and get a useful degree. Almost done paying that off. Only party when there's free beer. 6. Establish life in cheaper area where a modest size house costs $140,000. Live with a roommate in a college-quality apartment and use public transport for years after getting a real job.
Granted none of that was planned but by simply looking around and realizing how easy it is to end up poor and destitute, the right motivation and decisions should just come to you!
I'd agree except Congress forced DC to do the opposite; when they legalized weed they were effectively forbidden to come up with a way to regulate sale. So it's a strange world where you can grow your own weed, possess weed, buy weed, and give weed away, but you cannot sell recreational weed (thereby completely cutting the government taxation out of the loop). It's like if prohibition were repealed but only homebrew was allowed...
Where I am it has been customary to actually give 3 weeks notice. Every time I've left a job I have given that 3 weeks notice, but only because the companies always treated me well.
If they had treated me like crap, I would have been out the moment I heard "you're hired!" from the next place.
Oh absolutely. And I would classify the guy who told me this as a potential problem employee, if you get on his bad side:). The advice, though, is still sound. It also is only a good idea for people who are competent at their job - by doing good work in *some* areas you still have people at the company who will give good references, and by producing work that adds value to the company (even if it's not the work they want you to do) it puts anyone who pulls the "fire" trigger in a difficult position. Being a self-serving sociopath is not only for upper management. If you're miserable, quitting means you've allowed them to beat you or kill your spirit.
Seriously, if they don't boot you the moment you give notice, the two week "lame duck" phase can be the best part of your time working there. Spend a day finishing your leftover projects and writing some halfassed documentation, bullshit by the watercooler 7 hours a day for 8 more, and turn in your work on day 10. The next guy can deal with any do-overs needed.
And if you hate your job due to your immediate boss but don't have another one lined up, never quit! Turn it into a job you like until they fire you. Do the projects you like and completely ignore the ones you don't like. Boss complains about 1 hour lunches? Take a 2 hour lunch instead. If you work for a large enough company there's enough red tape and "protocol" to keep you employed for at least a month while you do whatever the fuck you want. Bonus, if you play by the rules they won't even be able to fire you "with cause".
The man who told me this secret managed to "work" a full extra year while giving 0 fucks at a job he would have hated, had he cared.
That's just Japan though, no one will interfere until someone asks for help. The moment the girl shouts "Chikan!" you bet your ass the entire train car is going to be on that guy, and the police waiting at the next stop.
While true, there's a lot more to a car than a gear shifter.
By that same logic, everyone who bought laptops with windows 8 "still bought it", so why should Microsoft have listened to complaints about the missing start button?
There was some software change, I don't think it had an effect on this issue.
As far as this specific issue, they sent out a notice stating that they are going to issue a "fix" at some point and in the meanwhile, double check that you are in park. I can confirm that this notice went out before the unfortunate incident in question. The only fix I can imagine is a complete replacement, but I don't know how easy that will be - the space it occupies is rather small.
There's also the matter of the one legitimate reason for having such a strange design - in addition to being able to still select 2nd and 1st gear, there is also a "sport" mode (reached by notching it down slightly while in drive) which enable paddle shifters for selecting your specific gear manually. If you royally screw up gear selection (not quite redline but close) it will force you back into full automatic. Not sure how they'll work that into whatever they replace this with...
When I test drove my car (which has this shifter), I complained about it straight away, I find it hard to believe no one voiced concerns. After 2 weeks I got used to it. In bright sun you cannot even see which gear is lit up on the shifter. It is a terrible design but at least there are a few blatant signs that the car is still in gear when you try to stop it: 1 - Attempting to stop the engine while in gear results in a tone sounding, and the engine continues to run. Ideally with push-to-start cars you should be in the habit of looking for the "run" light to disappear when doing this. I believe I can override by pushing it again, but I have never tested this. 2 - The car radio will not turn off upon opening the door when the engine is still running. 3 - If the car is in reverse, the backup camera will be displayed (assuming you have one), another sign that you're not in the right gear.
That said there have been situations where I've gone from reverse to neutral instead of drive because I didn't perform the right ritual to get the damn thing to shift properly. They had a perfectly good design in the Challenger, Chryslers, and the 2011 and earlier Chargers, as well as the police version of the charger (though that's a dash mounted shifter). Why they didn't do the same for Jeeps and the other cars mentioned in this article is a mystery to me...
If Gary Johnson runs under the tagline "Looking for none of the above?" I have a feeling he might even win a few states.
Sadly Jill Stein is only on the ballot in (23?) states. The only 3rd party with a prayer of actually winning is Libertarian. And considering the "electability" chart has both Trump and Hillary polling ridiculously low, there might actually be a prayer here.
Sometimes productivity actually drops once filtering "fun" sites is implemented. Instead of 10 seconds to check facebook and 2 minutes to glance through a few news articles on a computer, it now takes 5 minutes on Facebook and 10 minutes on news sites to do the same thing on a phone.
I've been a sprint customer for around 12 years. After experiencing the worst customer service incident of my life in a Sprint (corporate-owned) store, I had vowed to switch to T-Mobile once my contract was up. Even got a phone for it. Why didn't I switch? On an international vacation shortly after, I learned that Sprint now has a default international plan which provides free unlimited slow (3g) data (called Sprint global roaming). Icing on the cake was a $10/month pro-rated plan for unlimited full speed data, talk and text in Japan.
While I still wish their staff would choke on a bag of dicks and die, I haven't found anything better for arbitrary international usage. T-Mobile is excellent for including Canada (and Mexico?) at no additional charge, but the freedom of never needing to worry about international overage has kept me with Sprint.
All US DHS took from me was fingerprints. The Canadians took a retinal scan. Nothing more intrusive was needed, and my fingerprints were already on file due to work, so one more database makes no difference. For me the only "cost" was the cash and the time spent filling the forms out and interviewing.
While trust in the government isn't all that high, most people trust in the fact that they're too boring for anyone to care about them to misuse the information.
If you're willing to submit your biometrics to both the US and Canadian governments you can get it for $50 for five years. Well worth considering you also get the equivalent of an ez-pass for driving across our northern border.
While I've only saved 5 minutes at my local (and other small) airports, at SJU the time saved was over a half hour!
Culturally homogeneous? Its residents come from three completely different religious backgrounds and many countries - Buddhist (from China and India), Islam (Malaysia and the native population), Christian (British / European). The strict laws against religion bashing are part of why everyone can get along (mainly because everyone who can't get along is in jail).
Singapore comes pretty close to that. Not surprisingly, it is the safest country in the world for the law-abiding. Mandatory, unappealable death penalty for illegal drugs or possession of more than one illegal firearm.
If it's the right lane, slowing down to a little below the speed limit to help a merge is perfectly acceptable. It's stupid to box someone out to the point where they are running out of "runway" to get up to speed and have to stop, regardless of who has the right of way. The people who don't want to deal with entry/exit merges camp out in lane 2, and the leftmost lane is kept wide open for the speed demons and state troopers. It works quite nicely this way. If there's only two lanes the entrance ramps are typically longer anyway.
With a V6 I can get up to highway speeds while using very little entrance ramp, but I recognize that not everyone can.
If there's no room for me to move left and I'm encountering a merge / on ramp, I simply slow down gradually and let the guy entering in. It's safer and less stressful to treat it like a zipper and assume the guy trying to enter will move into the unoccupied space.
That said, I've found that when driving down south this confuses people (the guy entering actually slows down to go behind me!). Must be a regional thing...
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Have you seen some of these SUVs? Chevy Suburban might as well be a bus. The "heavy duty" pickups like the Ford F350 and Ram 3500 might as well be tractor-trailer cab units. Some of these pickups have four rear wheels.
There's also visibility issues with the heights of these vehicles if you are behind them. Since you can't see what's going on in front of them you have to leave more space.
When people purchase these they should be treated as trucks as well. Which means:
1. Commercial license plates (here in NY you have the option to not get commercial plates on them)
2. The higher toll on toll roads (heavier vehicles cause more wear and tear)
3. Restricted from parkways, the Brooklyn bridge, the car lanes of the NJ Turnpike, the "no trucks" lanes on regular highways, etc
I'd imagine you'd have a lot fewer people buying giant SUVs... "crossover" models would probably still fit under the 'car' emissions standards so the need would still be filled for people looking to avoid the extra restrictions.
Sounds a lot like the city I grew up in, below the poverty line. Here was my secret to success:
1. Get scholarship to private high school, because otherwise I'd have ended up at "gang ridden public school" (Mom knew how to motivate with fear).
2. Drink tap water. No Brita either, just run the water for 2 minutes at the beginning of the day to get the brown out (and 30 seconds before drinking it the rest of the day).
3. Use public transport. There's a stigma that it's just for poor people, but (1) it's for everyone and (2) even if you don't believe that, YOU'RE POOR
4. Lunch and dinner were anything I could get for under $4. I shared cafeteria fries with an equally poor scholarship winner.
5. Use financial aid to go to a state university in a cheaper part of the state, work part time through school (thanks Dad for those drunken rants about "why the hell haven't you gotten a fucken job!" all freshman year!), and get a useful degree. Almost done paying that off. Only party when there's free beer.
6. Establish life in cheaper area where a modest size house costs $140,000. Live with a roommate in a college-quality apartment and use public transport for years after getting a real job.
Granted none of that was planned but by simply looking around and realizing how easy it is to end up poor and destitute, the right motivation and decisions should just come to you!
I'd agree except Congress forced DC to do the opposite; when they legalized weed they were effectively forbidden to come up with a way to regulate sale. So it's a strange world where you can grow your own weed, possess weed, buy weed, and give weed away, but you cannot sell recreational weed (thereby completely cutting the government taxation out of the loop). It's like if prohibition were repealed but only homebrew was allowed...
These make a far more effective and targeted theft deterrent than a loud sound which annoys everyone except the thief.
Where I am it has been customary to actually give 3 weeks notice. Every time I've left a job I have given that 3 weeks notice, but only because the companies always treated me well.
If they had treated me like crap, I would have been out the moment I heard "you're hired!" from the next place.
Oh absolutely. And I would classify the guy who told me this as a potential problem employee, if you get on his bad side :). The advice, though, is still sound. It also is only a good idea for people who are competent at their job - by doing good work in *some* areas you still have people at the company who will give good references, and by producing work that adds value to the company (even if it's not the work they want you to do) it puts anyone who pulls the "fire" trigger in a difficult position. Being a self-serving sociopath is not only for upper management. If you're miserable, quitting means you've allowed them to beat you or kill your spirit.
Seriously, if they don't boot you the moment you give notice, the two week "lame duck" phase can be the best part of your time working there. Spend a day finishing your leftover projects and writing some halfassed documentation, bullshit by the watercooler 7 hours a day for 8 more, and turn in your work on day 10. The next guy can deal with any do-overs needed.
And if you hate your job due to your immediate boss but don't have another one lined up, never quit! Turn it into a job you like until they fire you. Do the projects you like and completely ignore the ones you don't like. Boss complains about 1 hour lunches? Take a 2 hour lunch instead. If you work for a large enough company there's enough red tape and "protocol" to keep you employed for at least a month while you do whatever the fuck you want. Bonus, if you play by the rules they won't even be able to fire you "with cause".
The man who told me this secret managed to "work" a full extra year while giving 0 fucks at a job he would have hated, had he cared.
That's just Japan though, no one will interfere until someone asks for help. The moment the girl shouts "Chikan!" you bet your ass the entire train car is going to be on that guy, and the police waiting at the next stop.
While true, there's a lot more to a car than a gear shifter.
By that same logic, everyone who bought laptops with windows 8 "still bought it", so why should Microsoft have listened to complaints about the missing start button?
There was some software change, I don't think it had an effect on this issue.
As far as this specific issue, they sent out a notice stating that they are going to issue a "fix" at some point and in the meanwhile, double check that you are in park. I can confirm that this notice went out before the unfortunate incident in question. The only fix I can imagine is a complete replacement, but I don't know how easy that will be - the space it occupies is rather small.
There's also the matter of the one legitimate reason for having such a strange design - in addition to being able to still select 2nd and 1st gear, there is also a "sport" mode (reached by notching it down slightly while in drive) which enable paddle shifters for selecting your specific gear manually. If you royally screw up gear selection (not quite redline but close) it will force you back into full automatic. Not sure how they'll work that into whatever they replace this with...
When I test drove my car (which has this shifter), I complained about it straight away, I find it hard to believe no one voiced concerns. After 2 weeks I got used to it. In bright sun you cannot even see which gear is lit up on the shifter. It is a terrible design but at least there are a few blatant signs that the car is still in gear when you try to stop it:
1 - Attempting to stop the engine while in gear results in a tone sounding, and the engine continues to run. Ideally with push-to-start cars you should be in the habit of looking for the "run" light to disappear when doing this. I believe I can override by pushing it again, but I have never tested this.
2 - The car radio will not turn off upon opening the door when the engine is still running.
3 - If the car is in reverse, the backup camera will be displayed (assuming you have one), another sign that you're not in the right gear.
That said there have been situations where I've gone from reverse to neutral instead of drive because I didn't perform the right ritual to get the damn thing to shift properly. They had a perfectly good design in the Challenger, Chryslers, and the 2011 and earlier Chargers, as well as the police version of the charger (though that's a dash mounted shifter). Why they didn't do the same for Jeeps and the other cars mentioned in this article is a mystery to me...
Depending on the cost metrics, it may become cheaper to ship to another state (Washington, Oregon, or even the east coast) and send it by train.
Not to take away from that article, but calling 15 years "nearly 20 years" was unnecessarily confusing.
Looking gift chickens in the mouth?
Regardless of whether you feel it's in an insult, dude - free chickens.
If Gary Johnson runs under the tagline "Looking for none of the above?" I have a feeling he might even win a few states.
Sadly Jill Stein is only on the ballot in (23?) states. The only 3rd party with a prayer of actually winning is Libertarian. And considering the "electability" chart has both Trump and Hillary polling ridiculously low, there might actually be a prayer here.
Sometimes productivity actually drops once filtering "fun" sites is implemented. Instead of 10 seconds to check facebook and 2 minutes to glance through a few news articles on a computer, it now takes 5 minutes on Facebook and 10 minutes on news sites to do the same thing on a phone.
I've been a sprint customer for around 12 years. After experiencing the worst customer service incident of my life in a Sprint (corporate-owned) store, I had vowed to switch to T-Mobile once my contract was up. Even got a phone for it. Why didn't I switch? On an international vacation shortly after, I learned that Sprint now has a default international plan which provides free unlimited slow (3g) data (called Sprint global roaming). Icing on the cake was a $10/month pro-rated plan for unlimited full speed data, talk and text in Japan.
While I still wish their staff would choke on a bag of dicks and die, I haven't found anything better for arbitrary international usage. T-Mobile is excellent for including Canada (and Mexico?) at no additional charge, but the freedom of never needing to worry about international overage has kept me with Sprint.
All US DHS took from me was fingerprints. The Canadians took a retinal scan. Nothing more intrusive was needed, and my fingerprints were already on file due to work, so one more database makes no difference. For me the only "cost" was the cash and the time spent filling the forms out and interviewing.
While trust in the government isn't all that high, most people trust in the fact that they're too boring for anyone to care about them to misuse the information.
If you're willing to submit your biometrics to both the US and Canadian governments you can get it for $50 for five years. Well worth considering you also get the equivalent of an ez-pass for driving across our northern border.
While I've only saved 5 minutes at my local (and other small) airports, at SJU the time saved was over a half hour!
It's actually considered the 8th least corrupt country in the world, between Switzerland and Canada. Source.
Culturally homogeneous? Its residents come from three completely different religious backgrounds and many countries - Buddhist (from China and India), Islam (Malaysia and the native population), Christian (British / European). The strict laws against religion bashing are part of why everyone can get along (mainly because everyone who can't get along is in jail).
Singapore comes pretty close to that. Not surprisingly, it is the safest country in the world for the law-abiding. Mandatory, unappealable death penalty for illegal drugs or possession of more than one illegal firearm.
If it's the right lane, slowing down to a little below the speed limit to help a merge is perfectly acceptable. It's stupid to box someone out to the point where they are running out of "runway" to get up to speed and have to stop, regardless of who has the right of way. The people who don't want to deal with entry/exit merges camp out in lane 2, and the leftmost lane is kept wide open for the speed demons and state troopers. It works quite nicely this way. If there's only two lanes the entrance ramps are typically longer anyway.
With a V6 I can get up to highway speeds while using very little entrance ramp, but I recognize that not everyone can.
If there's no room for me to move left and I'm encountering a merge / on ramp, I simply slow down gradually and let the guy entering in. It's safer and less stressful to treat it like a zipper and assume the guy trying to enter will move into the unoccupied space.
That said, I've found that when driving down south this confuses people (the guy entering actually slows down to go behind me!). Must be a regional thing...