My impression has become that Americans are much more fond of paying with credit cards than we are in Europe since noone I know thinks it's unusual to have 100-200 euros in your wallet.
I'm curious where you are from in this Europe.
I live in The Netherlands and travel extensively, especially at home everything but the ice cream is paid with a debit card (PIN).
Even in places like the USofA you can find ATM's everywhere and carrying a lot of cash is not needed.
A small difference is maybe that having a Dutch banking card I pay nothing for withdrawals.
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Aqui en Mexico, todos los trabajadores tenemos acceso a servicios de salud publica.
Indeed.
When I was working in Mexico the company had a contract with a private clinic.
We found their advise suspicious (there is no Malaria or Dengue fever in Tabasco) and following the suggestion of our maid we went to the public clinic in our town and received the (more appropriate) inoculations free of cost!
Oh the UK customs!
No one will beat their hunger for power and thus stupidity:)
Several times a month we have a company flight from the Continent to one of the smaller UK airports where we change craft and exit the country again.
This process requires a bus to take our boys from one part of the airport to another and every time we enter the area of the departing plane the bus driver has to step outside and spread to be frisked.
So far I have heard no reports of them ever checking anyone or anything already in the bus...
$40 still seems pretty pricey for a light bulb, even one that promises to save $23 a year in energy costs
You must be an accountant living on the outdated system of monthly and quarterly figures.
To have an amortisation within 2 years and outright profit for 17 years afterwards sounds like a pretty damn good investment.
Lets correct that stament:
There's no quick money to be made in basic research.
That's where the government can step in by making it interresting through wise taxation.
Hehe, I regularly work at remote locations where fresh papers are unknown, TV reception is difficult and internet impossibly expensive (Satellite).
We often find old papers in drawers, left by a previous occupancy and in case of the British Murdoch 'papers' they remain readable because their stories have little to no semblance with News.
Have you ever had to look at your dash to change the air conditioner or flip radio stations? God forbid if you drove into a new area and needed to scan for a new station.
The Oil companies in the US should not be compared to boyscouts but cowboys.
Please note I did not write US oil companies...
30 - 40 years ago the US oilfield gave the world it's How-To, since some 15 years it's the other way around.
But it must be said that when safety is critical the simplest system is still superior, when the 10 pound sledge hammer doesn't cut it you get a 15 pound hammer.
The ultimate safety is dealt with along lines like you propose, big valves that are self contained with autonomous power like spring loaded or Nitrogen charged.
But you don't ever want to get in a position where this ultimate protection is needed because the recovery is often extremely expensive.
And these days it is indeed, with some Unix exceptions, the rule that anything electronic is running on Microsoft products with all the associated problems.
Luckily there are still a few Old Hands out there that recognise a catastrophe in the making and are able to stop it but they are a dying breed...
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it has done this, once again, by using Apple's USB vendor ID
Rather funny to see this article right after "Identity Theft Is Usually an Unsophisticated Crime".
Whether it is a crime, I'm not so sure.
After all Apple is just about inviting this type of solution.
My impression has become that Americans are much more fond of paying with credit cards than we are in Europe since noone I know thinks it's unusual to have 100-200 euros in your wallet.
I'm curious where you are from in this Europe.
I live in The Netherlands and travel extensively, especially at home everything but the ice cream is paid with a debit card (PIN).
Even in places like the USofA you can find ATM's everywhere and carrying a lot of cash is not needed.
A small difference is maybe that having a Dutch banking card I pay nothing for withdrawals.
Pfff...
It's usually a matter of just cleaning the rollers with a degreaser, they need to be very dry for the static attraction to work.
Hmm, my GF never mentioned knowing you...
Command line!, it looks like you revel in illegal activities...
-- Aqui en Mexico, todos los trabajadores tenemos acceso a servicios de salud publica.
Indeed.
When I was working in Mexico the company had a contract with a private clinic.
We found their advise suspicious (there is no Malaria or Dengue fever in Tabasco) and following the suggestion of our maid we went to the public clinic in our town and received the (more appropriate) inoculations free of cost!
Oh the UK customs! :)
No one will beat their hunger for power and thus stupidity
Several times a month we have a company flight from the Continent to one of the smaller UK airports where we change craft and exit the country again.
This process requires a bus to take our boys from one part of the airport to another and every time we enter the area of the departing plane the bus driver has to step outside and spread to be frisked.
So far I have heard no reports of them ever checking anyone or anything already in the bus...
$40 still seems pretty pricey for a light bulb, even one that promises to save $23 a year in energy costs
You must be an accountant living on the outdated system of monthly and quarterly figures.
To have an amortisation within 2 years and outright profit for 17 years afterwards sounds like a pretty damn good investment.
There's no money to be made in basic research
Lets correct that stament:
There's no quick money to be made in basic research.
That's where the government can step in by making it interresting through wise taxation.
You don't need a big disaster (ultimate) to cause injury or loss, far from it!
At this point, I'm inclined to think that if the press isn't going to do their jobs right, they shouldn't be given any special privileges.
Please reconsider your definition of press.
That alone might help fix your predicament.
if your business revolves around stories
Hehe, I regularly work at remote locations where fresh papers are unknown, TV reception is difficult and internet impossibly expensive (Satellite).
We often find old papers in drawers, left by a previous occupancy and in case of the British Murdoch 'papers' they remain readable because their stories have little to no semblance with News.
Have you ever had to look at your dash to change the air conditioner or flip radio stations? God forbid if you drove into a new area and needed to scan for a new station.
I have questions about the bold bits...
Thank you for your kind words, but I failed!
No,
2. You look hot.
Your first paragraph nails the legal aspects behind Guantanamo Bay pretty well.
That's the whole harvest mankind has collected since before history began and there's little hope a new harvest will happen any time soon.
Yeah I guess we need to inspect the mantle piece of the US ambassador of the day...
I assume you mean the British tourists that in Amsterdam are the main consumers of weed?
You have quite a fantasy to claim a second US embassy in this small country ;)
(The other one is in the city of The Hague)
When process control in heavy industry is going down very dangerous things can and will and did happen.
Every oil company has already had it's share and yet they (management, not operators) often continue to act like total noobs.
Because the cheaper solution gets you promoted and the clean up is for the next guy.
The management of oil companies comes out of the ranks and doesn't understand electronics one bit.
So the moment a Microsoft salesperson comes by with a nice powerpoint simulation of how you can cut down on the workforce they are bought.
Until the cleaner puts his USB drive in one of the many networked computers and the resulting virus outbreak causes total loss of control.
A scenario that is counteracted with colourful laminated signs warning against the use of unauthorised USB drives.
Strange enough it keeps repeating itself.
Please note I did not write US oil companies...
30 - 40 years ago the US oilfield gave the world it's How-To, since some 15 years it's the other way around.
But it must be said that when safety is critical the simplest system is still superior, when the 10 pound sledge hammer doesn't cut it you get a 15 pound hammer.
But you don't ever want to get in a position where this ultimate protection is needed because the recovery is often extremely expensive.
And these days it is indeed, with some Unix exceptions, the rule that anything electronic is running on Microsoft products with all the associated problems.
Luckily there are still a few Old Hands out there that recognise a catastrophe in the making and are able to stop it but they are a dying breed...