Why bother? Any modern POS can split bills and/or keep track of multiple cheques per table. It's pretty fucking simple: when the waiter comes over as you first sit, down, ask him or her to keep separate bills for everyone. WTF is so hard about this?
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Some people have to work. My 6yo daughter has been video chatting me and calling me on the phone at work since she was 3. We can't all retire on childbirth and she is the youngest of five spanning 19 years age. Many of us can be telepresent most of the time though. The modern age is wonderful. When you're 3 almost nothing will wait until daddy gets home. To her pushing a button to get remote facetime with daddy to negotiate a diplomatic solution to an argument or calling him to bring something home is a normal and expected part of how life works. Daddy is always there, no matter where he is. This is disruptive and transformational. This is a child who is going to come of age not understanding how some people are unavailable sometimes because this is the only world she knows. She is precocious, but this is becoming the norm.
So you're teaching your daughter a complete lack of patience. Brilliant.
The beginning started well enough until the attack/secret mission, then it was all swiss cheese.
Are you kidding? The beginning was remarkably stupid. The crew doesn't want simple alien beings to see the Enterprise, so they hide in the ocean? REALLY?! Since when do starships go in and out of the atmostphere? Why didn't they just stay in high orbit and shuttle down at night, or on a hidden course? It was all downhill from there IMO.
No shit. It's the same as maps: I moved to MA in 1984, and on the map books we got, there was a street listed that didn't exist: it would have gone straight through the middle of someone's house. 20 years later, I went back and picked up a new map. The phantom street is still there. Anyone who followed the map blindly up that person's driveway and crashed into their garage is stupid enough to lose their license forever. Ignoring the obvious signs in favour of a map or GPS instruction is cause for serious alarm.
The Wankel rotary engine also had significantly fewer moving parts than a standard internal combustion engine, but a Mazda RX-7 was just as costly to maintain as any other car. Why? Because, it's not the moving parts in the engine that cause most of the maintenance costs, it's all the rest of them, like suspension, steering, brakes, air compressors, and the like.
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Fetuses aren't babies.
Alberta? Oh that's just Little Texas... :D
Every digital thermostat I've ever used had 0.5 degree increments for Celsius.
I seriously doubt the majority uses theirs to move temperature by 1 degree increments in either scale.
... will be self-heating and will glow in the dark.
Not if TEPCO employees have anything to do with them...
'I live in the suburbs'. = "Oh my god, I'd never allow myself to be seen by the public in something as sensible as a mini-van."
Why bother? Any modern POS can split bills and/or keep track of multiple cheques per table. It's pretty fucking simple: when the waiter comes over as you first sit, down, ask him or her to keep separate bills for everyone. WTF is so hard about this?
Damn, you're good! :D
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Instant! (10 minute transaction times, if you're lucky)
Service charge free! (if you like waiting forever to get your transaction processed)
Price Stable! (what)
300 Mbps isn't dogmeat! You "only" need 20-45 Mbps to stream 4k video.
And there's *so much* 4k video available, :rolleyes:
Imagine if either party actually represented the people they were elected to represent.
Given some of the loud mouth assholes I've seen rallying around the Tea Party, I think their representatives are doing their job.
Open source compilers... that compile themselves.
It's compilers all the way down.
My god, it's even worse: Turtle Logo compilers!
No country has any authority to pass laws about a company which doesn't operate there
Google Paris
8 Rue de Londres
75009 Paris
France
Ah, I see the problem. Google thought they were in England!
Some people have to work. My 6yo daughter has been video chatting me and calling me on the phone at work since she was 3. We can't all retire on childbirth and she is the youngest of five spanning 19 years age. Many of us can be telepresent most of the time though. The modern age is wonderful. When you're 3 almost nothing will wait until daddy gets home. To her pushing a button to get remote facetime with daddy to negotiate a diplomatic solution to an argument or calling him to bring something home is a normal and expected part of how life works. Daddy is always there, no matter where he is. This is disruptive and transformational. This is a child who is going to come of age not understanding how some people are unavailable sometimes because this is the only world she knows. She is precocious, but this is becoming the norm.
So you're teaching your daughter a complete lack of patience. Brilliant.
The beginning started well enough until the attack/secret mission, then it was all swiss cheese.
Are you kidding? The beginning was remarkably stupid. The crew doesn't want simple alien beings to see the Enterprise, so they hide in the ocean? REALLY?! Since when do starships go in and out of the atmostphere? Why didn't they just stay in high orbit and shuttle down at night, or on a hidden course? It was all downhill from there IMO.
That's called Muphry's Law.
Delicacy = something rare and gross for the tourists to eat and make fun of behind their backs.
DVD & foreign market sales, I'd presume.
Looking good, Billy Ray!
No shit. It's the same as maps: I moved to MA in 1984, and on the map books we got, there was a street listed that didn't exist: it would have gone straight through the middle of someone's house. 20 years later, I went back and picked up a new map. The phantom street is still there. Anyone who followed the map blindly up that person's driveway and crashed into their garage is stupid enough to lose their license forever. Ignoring the obvious signs in favour of a map or GPS instruction is cause for serious alarm.
The Wankel rotary engine also had significantly fewer moving parts than a standard internal combustion engine, but a Mazda RX-7 was just as costly to maintain as any other car. Why? Because, it's not the moving parts in the engine that cause most of the maintenance costs, it's all the rest of them, like suspension, steering, brakes, air compressors, and the like.
Two words: apex seals.
I disagree. Taxachusetts needs to drastically cut administrative overhead and slash thousands of public hack jobs.
I'll take "Perennial right wing talking points" for $200, Alex.
What about cake? I heard I got the choice between death and cake!
And the population keeps getting bigger too, never smaller.
Do you carry your passport on a daily basis?
The cost to use the service has increased above inflation, which is why Royal Mail is finally profitable.
Since when are public services supposed to be profitable? They're for universal service.