The plan overall isn't but he/his case is. It's like someone who buys an unlimited ride transit pass for $30, but the total cost of their trips during the validity period would have been $25 without the pass. For that one customer, the transit authority collected $5 more than if the unlimited pass weren't offered.
It's not easy money though. Considering there's only one machine of each type, you could spend more than a few minutes waiting. It's pretty easy to reach the threshold where it literally is not worth your time to deal with them.
Plus I used to have to take the bus to the grocery store that accepted the bottles, meaning it *cost* money to get them recycled that way. The bodega on the corner had all I needed to buy but they damn sure weren't giving away nickels...
The US already dropped that for meat at the behest of Canadian farmers, they felt demand in the US for their products was suffering due to the label. Ironic, because I would intentionally seek out Canadian beef, and I can't have been the only one. Now no one will be able to tell the difference.
Wow, I was thinking "it can't be that bad" since I was in San Diego last year and never took a cab, but then I realized I used the complimentary hotel shuttle. Meaning tourists are largely immune, it only hurts the locals, great government you got there!
Several states in the US have it, but the deposit is now laughably low (5 or 10 cents). It is only worth my time to chase the nickels now that I live within walking distance of a grocery store.
If the deposit were more sensible like a quarter, you'd get a heck of a lot more people returning their beer, water, soda and energy drink containers (unfortunately other beverages escape the requirement, like Snapple and Gatorade).
Australia, Japan, and Singapore have very successful gun control programs... because they are islands, an have a more centralized government with broader powers. In the case of Japan and Singapore, these same differences keep illegal drugs out with much greater effectiveness.
The US shares a land border with Mexico. Considering that illegal drugs make it up here with great ease, I don't see how we would be any better at keeping guns out.
That reminds me of how I switched to Mint (KDE Edition) on a whim... I needed to reinstall Windows 7 but gave Linux one chance: I would install Mint and if I could get all my Windows games working in Wine in 1 day, I would stick with Mint... excluding waiting for downloads, in 2 hours I had my Blizzard games and League of Legends running flawlessly (thanks Play on Linux!).
Disclaimer: I have a lot of Linux experience which may have helped speed this along, but I don't remember doing anything more than following the Ubuntu instructions for getting them to work.
That's funny... the job I had with a lot of business travel was salaried, so all I got was reimbursed expenses. That said my current job has no travel, so if I'm on a plane it is because I am on vacation, and if there is work I can do while on that flight, it means vacation time I do not have to spend.
The idiot chemist who compounded fucking antifreeze into his drug should have gone to prison for manslaughter
I am guessing he got lost in the problem: we have a solid drug that we would like to dissolve into a liquid. He found a liquid it would dissolve in. Once he realized what his solution had done he committed suicide. Unlike the rest of the company which denied culpability.
Looks like only the ones that have functionality to integrate with cell phone apps:
2013-2015 MY Dodge Viper specialty vehicles 2013-2015 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups 2013-2015 Ram 3500, 4500, 5500 Chassis Cabs 2014-2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Cherokee SUVs 2014-2015 Dodge Durango SUVs 2015 MY Chrysler 200, Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger sedans 2015 Dodge Challenger sports coupes
I have a uconnect as well but it is not internet enabled (predates the years here)... now I'm glad I cheaped out and bought used, heh... anyway it's simple enough to update the firmware on these things, IIRC it's just copy some files from their website onto a usb and "boot" the uconnect off it.
Agreed. However the fact remains it is an HR gatekeeper which prunes down the candidate pool considerably. The guy who knows his shit *and* has a cert will get raises and promotions quite handily in such an environment, whereas the guys who simply know their shit will never have made it past the gate.
The irony of this is the "stop-go-stop" is what you're supposed to do on a right on red (stop at the crosswalk, check for pedestrians, pull up so you can check for cars, then go). People who ignore the crosswalk risk hitting a theoretical pedestrian or cyclist, yet by virtue of only stopping once (or worse, treating it like a yield instead of stop and proceed), they are less likely to get rear ended.
Plowing is as simple as putting a plow on the front of a train that was already going to make its run. Also trains generally can still run at their normal speed in a normal amount of snow, versus road vehicles. As for switches, the important ones get set on fire (the article also talks about electric heating elements on other switches). The problem of freezing switches was solved economically in the 19th century.
The comfort is a big one. One of the final things that got me off the bus and into a car was the lack of functional A/C in the summer (and sometimes the drivers would actively choose not to turn it on, or an elderly passenger would ask it be turned off). When the A/C is off, the windows barely open and it's 100 degrees inside the bus while 90 outside (and a 7.5 minute walk in that heat to even get to the bus), it stopped mattering that a car would only save me 15 minutes a day.
Buses suck. Trains usually don't have those comfort issues since passengers are separated from the drivers, so whether to use the A/C is determined by policy and not the informal driver/passenger agreement that I often found myself on the wrong side of...
That works out. If they can't be bothered to arrange their thoughts into an email, I won't be bothered with decoding their disorganized verbal ramblings from a message.
If they want something from me, they will put it in the format I prefer. Similarly, there are people who prefer voicemail or forms over emails, and I will happily oblige by making my request in whatever format they prefer.
Use TouchDown to connect to corporate exchange. It makes a nice little "zone" the corporate server can erase if they so choose, and your personal stuff is invisible to it. Also the PIN requirements will only apply to the things within the app itself, not your entire phone. Pretty handy!
Me too. Work Phone: the red light lets me know the line is working. One day they reset my voicemail and the red light was off, and something felt wrong all day. Fortunately someone left a new voicemail towards the end the day and the reassuring glow that my phone works was back.
Android phone: the little icon of a cassette tape might be burned in to the top left of the screen for all I know; it has been lit for over a year.
I'm guessing it's regional. In northeast cities a night out will typically start with craft beers like Sam Adams, Harpoon or Saranac and end with "the cheap stuff" to keep the party going (source: uhh... extensive self-funded research in various cities and towns in New York and New England).
If an unexpected injury occurs before the event, the horse is pulled from the race. Hell if the horse simply isn't up for it, they can be "scratched at the gate". In some cases the bettors actually benefit from this - If you had the scratched horse in a pick 3, it counts as if the horse won.
Depends on the neighborhood... before I moved to an apartment building I had a roommate who lost his key. For months (eventually we gave up searching and got a replacement), we just didn't bother to lock the door unless we were both home.
We would also regularly leave the back door unlocked.
The cat escaped by opening the front door, and the actual door was wide open for hours that day.
As has been said, the windows are a far more vulnerable target. If they decided to enter your home they are going to. Hell the first day my forgetful roommate got back without his key he simply opened the window on the porch and climbed in!
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The plan overall isn't but he/his case is. It's like someone who buys an unlimited ride transit pass for $30, but the total cost of their trips during the validity period would have been $25 without the pass. For that one customer, the transit authority collected $5 more than if the unlimited pass weren't offered.
It's not easy money though. Considering there's only one machine of each type, you could spend more than a few minutes waiting. It's pretty easy to reach the threshold where it literally is not worth your time to deal with them.
Plus I used to have to take the bus to the grocery store that accepted the bottles, meaning it *cost* money to get them recycled that way. The bodega on the corner had all I needed to buy but they damn sure weren't giving away nickels...
The US already dropped that for meat at the behest of Canadian farmers, they felt demand in the US for their products was suffering due to the label. Ironic, because I would intentionally seek out Canadian beef, and I can't have been the only one. Now no one will be able to tell the difference.
Wow, I was thinking "it can't be that bad" since I was in San Diego last year and never took a cab, but then I realized I used the complimentary hotel shuttle. Meaning tourists are largely immune, it only hurts the locals, great government you got there!
Social Justice Warriors - there's apparently a lot of history re-writing going on in some articles.
I can't point you to any of them because technical (and historical > 500 years ago) articles are pretty much all I read on WP...
Several states in the US have it, but the deposit is now laughably low (5 or 10 cents). It is only worth my time to chase the nickels now that I live within walking distance of a grocery store.
If the deposit were more sensible like a quarter, you'd get a heck of a lot more people returning their beer, water, soda and energy drink containers (unfortunately other beverages escape the requirement, like Snapple and Gatorade).
There's even a website that will do it for you!
Australia, Japan, and Singapore have very successful gun control programs... because they are islands, an have a more centralized government with broader powers. In the case of Japan and Singapore, these same differences keep illegal drugs out with much greater effectiveness.
The US shares a land border with Mexico. Considering that illegal drugs make it up here with great ease, I don't see how we would be any better at keeping guns out.
That reminds me of how I switched to Mint (KDE Edition) on a whim... I needed to reinstall Windows 7 but gave Linux one chance: I would install Mint and if I could get all my Windows games working in Wine in 1 day, I would stick with Mint... excluding waiting for downloads, in 2 hours I had my Blizzard games and League of Legends running flawlessly (thanks Play on Linux!).
Disclaimer: I have a lot of Linux experience which may have helped speed this along, but I don't remember doing anything more than following the Ubuntu instructions for getting them to work.
That's funny... the job I had with a lot of business travel was salaried, so all I got was reimbursed expenses.
That said my current job has no travel, so if I'm on a plane it is because I am on vacation, and if there is work I can do while on that flight, it means vacation time I do not have to spend.
If you bill or are paid hourly that flight of otherwise dead time could earn you 9 hours of pay...
The idiot chemist who compounded fucking antifreeze into his drug should have gone to prison for manslaughter
I am guessing he got lost in the problem: we have a solid drug that we would like to dissolve into a liquid. He found a liquid it would dissolve in. Once he realized what his solution had done he committed suicide. Unlike the rest of the company which denied culpability.
Looks like only the ones that have functionality to integrate with cell phone apps:
2013-2015 MY Dodge Viper specialty vehicles
2013-2015 Ram 1500, 2500 and 3500 pickups
2013-2015 Ram 3500, 4500, 5500 Chassis Cabs
2014-2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Cherokee SUVs
2014-2015 Dodge Durango SUVs
2015 MY Chrysler 200, Chrysler 300 and Dodge Charger sedans
2015 Dodge Challenger sports coupes
I have a uconnect as well but it is not internet enabled (predates the years here)... now I'm glad I cheaped out and bought used, heh... anyway it's simple enough to update the firmware on these things, IIRC it's just copy some files from their website onto a usb and "boot" the uconnect off it.
Agreed. However the fact remains it is an HR gatekeeper which prunes down the candidate pool considerably. The guy who knows his shit *and* has a cert will get raises and promotions quite handily in such an environment, whereas the guys who simply know their shit will never have made it past the gate.
The irony of this is the "stop-go-stop" is what you're supposed to do on a right on red (stop at the crosswalk, check for pedestrians, pull up so you can check for cars, then go). People who ignore the crosswalk risk hitting a theoretical pedestrian or cyclist, yet by virtue of only stopping once (or worse, treating it like a yield instead of stop and proceed), they are less likely to get rear ended.
Plowing is as simple as putting a plow on the front of a train that was already going to make its run. Also trains generally can still run at their normal speed in a normal amount of snow, versus road vehicles. As for switches, the important ones get set on fire (the article also talks about electric heating elements on other switches). The problem of freezing switches was solved economically in the 19th century.
The comfort is a big one. One of the final things that got me off the bus and into a car was the lack of functional A/C in the summer (and sometimes the drivers would actively choose not to turn it on, or an elderly passenger would ask it be turned off). When the A/C is off, the windows barely open and it's 100 degrees inside the bus while 90 outside (and a 7.5 minute walk in that heat to even get to the bus), it stopped mattering that a car would only save me 15 minutes a day.
Buses suck. Trains usually don't have those comfort issues since passengers are separated from the drivers, so whether to use the A/C is determined by policy and not the informal driver/passenger agreement that I often found myself on the wrong side of...
Bus lanes are cheaper than tracks, but you lose a regular lane to the bus lane.
Tracks are cheaper than a dedicated new road for buses (factor in maintenance, plowing, etc).
The US had semi-witty "Fosters: Australian for Beer" commercials in the late 90s. I'm pretty sure that's... it.
That works out. If they can't be bothered to arrange their thoughts into an email, I won't be bothered with decoding their disorganized verbal ramblings from a message.
If they want something from me, they will put it in the format I prefer. Similarly, there are people who prefer voicemail or forms over emails, and I will happily oblige by making my request in whatever format they prefer.
Use TouchDown to connect to corporate exchange. It makes a nice little "zone" the corporate server can erase if they so choose, and your personal stuff is invisible to it. Also the PIN requirements will only apply to the things within the app itself, not your entire phone. Pretty handy!
Me too. Work Phone: the red light lets me know the line is working. One day they reset my voicemail and the red light was off, and something felt wrong all day. Fortunately someone left a new voicemail towards the end the day and the reassuring glow that my phone works was back.
Android phone: the little icon of a cassette tape might be burned in to the top left of the screen for all I know; it has been lit for over a year.
I'm guessing it's regional. In northeast cities a night out will typically start with craft beers like Sam Adams, Harpoon or Saranac and end with "the cheap stuff" to keep the party going (source: uhh... extensive self-funded research in various cities and towns in New York and New England).
If an unexpected injury occurs before the event, the horse is pulled from the race. Hell if the horse simply isn't up for it, they can be "scratched at the gate". In some cases the bettors actually benefit from this - If you had the scratched horse in a pick 3, it counts as if the horse won.
Depends on the neighborhood... before I moved to an apartment building I had a roommate who lost his key. For months (eventually we gave up searching and got a replacement), we just didn't bother to lock the door unless we were both home.
We would also regularly leave the back door unlocked.
The cat escaped by opening the front door, and the actual door was wide open for hours that day.
As has been said, the windows are a far more vulnerable target. If they decided to enter your home they are going to. Hell the first day my forgetful roommate got back without his key he simply opened the window on the porch and climbed in!