Neighborhood that has a dirt road with mailboxes at front of neighborhood.
I have a friend who used to live in a place like that. I never asked him about large package delivery. (His place was about an hour south of RVA.)
What would happen if you replaced your mailbox there with a gigantic mailbox, big enough for most Amazon-size boxes? I wonder if they'd use it.
As for suburbs, ways of life, and such, I live in a puny little town (if you can even call it that, it's not incorporated) in a rural county. AFAIK, all the rural houses in this county get USPS delivery (I've seen the USPS trucks delivering on the windy county roads sometimes). My family comes from rural southern Virginia, so I'm very well aware of the lifestyle there. And they all get USPS delivery to their home too, even in counties where there's 1 stop light. I have no idea what's wrong with NC.
What weird-ass state is this in? I've never heard of the USPS requiring PO boxes for anyone, or not having residential delivery service just about anywhere.
This guy lives somewhere in upstate Alaska I think. Wherever he is, the nearest *Walmart* is 50 miles away, and there's no USPS delivery (which is extremely unusual for USPS). That means there's not going to be any businesses nearby with UPS or FedEx boxes either; that probably means he'd have to drive 8 hours to the nearest city. I can only guess that he's reading Slashdot with a satellite internet connection.
What kind of remote bumblefuck place do you live in where USPS shipping is slow, and there's no delivery? I ship USPS First Class small packages all the time, all around the country (and internationally too), and it almost never takes more than 3 days to get anywhere, and frequently it'll take 2. Even packages to Canada arrive in about a week, a bit longer for Europe.
You must either live in Alaska or some remote part of North Dakota or Montana or someplace like that. That's what you get for living that far out of civilization.
Fact: when you give Amazon a post office box number to ship to, poof; there goes your Prime 2-day shipping. It magically changes to 7 days. I pay GOOD MONEY for Prime
UPS and FedEx cannot ship to PO Boxes; everyone's known this for decades. So you continue to pay Amazon $100/year for faster shipping but shoot yourself in the foot with a PO Box address? No offense, but you don't sound too bright (either that or you must really like the streaming video stuff there).
If you're going to intentionally isolate yourself from civilization by living remotely, it's dumb to whine and complain about not having all the services that everyone living in civilization enjoys. I live in a somewhat rural place (about 1 hour outside a major metro area) and mail service works great here, and I'm sure the rest of the east coast is the same way.
Yep, Arizona has this option too. I guess this is just another one of those things where "the west is the best". AZ and OR aren't all that similar politically (AZ always votes red, OR blue), but I find it very interesting that they both have voting handled so much better than the "liberal" east coast states where people are always whining about voting access and wanting a day off to vote, but apparently these fools can't seem to figure out that mail-in voting would obviate this problem.
I was going to make a comment that you're mistaken about POTS being reliable, but business stuff is entirely different. From what i've read, residential POTS service these days has really gone downhill since so many people (like me) have abandoned it, so you can't really use that as an argument any more. Businesses, however, still rely on some kind of landline service so they get an entirely different quality of service.
then we will know how often voter fraud happens at the polling locations which would indicate whether voter ID is even necessary or not. Meanwhile wholesale voter fraud is a bigger issue.
I think this last part is technically incorrect. "Voter fraud" (as I understand it) is when the voters are cheating (you can call it "stuffing the ballot box"). What you're worried about is "election fraud", which is where the elections themselves are rigged, by the people running the elections. That is indeed the real problem here, as seen by the enormous discrepancies between exit polls and the results of the DNC primary elections.
You do realize that conservatives are opposed to absentee ballots and early voting too? These things are also targeted at the working poor.
They are?
I lived in Arizona for many years, which is a pretty thoroughly "red" state. It's such a red state that you can carry your gun on your hip there out in public all you want, even in Phoenix (except a few places like Mill Avenue in Tempe). You can't even do that in the South.
They had mail-in voting. It was really easy; I was very impressed. You register on the state's DMV website, they send you a ballot at election time, you mail it in for free! Couldn't be any easier than that. I thought it was stupid that they had elections for judges, but otherwise it was a pretty good system.
Then I moved to New Jersey, a fairly "blue" state. No mail-in voting there. And they have blue laws! No buying alcohol on Sunday mornings, no shopping at all on Sundays in Bergen County, and all the "liberals" there love it..
Now I'm in Virginia, which is a somewhat "red" state. No mail-in voting here either unless you have some kind of justification (like military deployment or something like that). At least I can buy alcohol at Walmart, unlike blue-state New Jersey where that's illegal and you have to go to overpriced liquor stores, and there's no silly church-based laws about when I can buy alcohol or shop.
So as far as I can tell, the people opposed to mail-in voting aren't conservatives, they're east coasters of all stripes. As usual, the east coast is backwards. I can't wait to move back west somewhere (but somewhere farther north this time) where people are more intelligent, less socially conservative, and taller (seriously, these east coast people are a bunch of midgets).
It's not like anyone has a right to be surprised if Trump wins with 100% of the electronic vote, since we will of course ignore security until it's too late.
Honestly, this would be the very best outcome of this election, because then it would force a change (and prevent either Trump or Hillary from assuming office, since the results are obviously invalid; I'm not a fan of Obama, but I'd rather have him stick around for a while then let either of those two clowns take his place).
Unfortunately (normally I'd say fortunately but in this case it's unfortunate), I don't think this scenario is even possible, because all the states do their elections differently, with different equipment and rules. I just don't think there's a way for them to pull that off. Not that they'd want to anyway; it'd force a positive change here which isn't really in their interest. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll hack one or more states' machines giving Trump 100% of the vote in those places; maybe that'd be enough to force a change and invalidate the elections for a while.
2) All the directors of the cold calling firm are imprisoned for 3 years and finned $1,000,000 each 3) All the directors of the origitaing company (ie those who instructed the cold calling company) are imprisoned for 5 years and finned $1,000,000 each
This stuff won't work. The beings who are doing all this stuff are humans, not sharks. Humans don't have any fins, so finning them doesn't even make sense. Finning a shark is indeed a horrible and painful way to kill it, but since humans don't have any fins, what you propose is completely nonsensical.
Disemboweling, however, does seem like an appropriate punishment for these people. I also like that one where they tie someone's limbs up to four horses and then make the horses pull them apart.
For some reason I don't understand, over the entirety of North America, females outnumber males in the east, while males outnumber females in the west.
The general theories of this are the industries in those areas: in the west, there's all the tech industry, which is overwhelmingly male-dominated as every Slashdotter knows, and in the east, the major industries are things like finance and fashion (for NYC) and government, which tend to attract a lot more women. Of course, this is all for college-educated professionals, and it also does not explain your assertion about college-age women. However, there, last I read the overall college population was 60% female currently. I have no idea how it varies according to geography though.
I do have to ask why you think women in their 20s and younger would outnumber men on the east coast; is that a personal feeling or is there hard data to back that up? The actual population data shows that men outnumber women up to about 30 years of age, and after that women start outnumbering men, simply because a baby is more likely biologically to be male than female (1.07:1 I think), so for young people, especially under 18, the ratio should be about the same nationwide. It can certainly change in college, but even here, most of the best schools are on the east coast, for all disciplines (including tech degrees, to the chagrin of the states those schools are located in, as they constantly complain about their grads leaving the state when they graduate). Women certainly do outnumber men in college now, but that's probably universal. I really do wish I could make myself 19 years old again and go back to college....
That women become extremely horny and feel their biological clocks ticking starting in their 30s is a well-known phenomenon everywhere. Those that haven't found someone get really desperate.
No, that's not what I'm finding at all really. I know that for a lot of women, yes, that's true, they'll start dating any guy with a pulse after age 35 or so (I have a sister like this, sadly). But I'm looking specifically at well-educated middle-to-upper-middle-class professionals, and I'm just not seeing this: lawyers, doctors, business owners, etc. These women remain picky as hell, so some of them are going the "I'm going to get IVF and be a strong single mom!" route since they can't find a clone of George Clooney, which I guess you could call a form of desperation, but it's not desperation for a man.
Well, it wasn't a fracture because I still have all those teeth, so it was probably additional decay under it.
Regardless, my point wasn't about the safety of amalgam, it's about the durability of resin: I have a mouthful of resin fillings, and most of them are over 10 years old now. No dentist has said anything about them needing replacement, they're all fine. That 5-year lifespan you mention sounds like hogwash to me; it's probably attributable to some dentists who did a poor job installing them. Now of course, they haven't been around long enough to know if they'll last 40 years, but running around saying they'll only last 5 years sounds just as much like fear-mongering as what you deride about dentists who replace amalgam fillings.
But aside from any fears about mercury, one huge, huge advantage to the resin fillings I will point out is appearance. Those amalgam fillings were *fugly*. Now when I open my mouth, it's not immediately obvious that I have any fillings at all. That alone was worth it.
I'm not talking about a decade ago, I'm talking about today. 10 years is a *long* time to make changes in your IT infrastructure. 10 years before 2004 was 1994, when people were still probably using Novell in places, and Windows 95 hadn't come out yet. If businesses can go from DOS/Novell/mainframes/whatever to Win95 and then Win98 and then Win2000 and then WinXP all in the space of 10 years, they can certainly adapt in the 12 years between 2004 and 2016.
According to this Salon article from 2007, only 94% of young Americans could even find America on a map! That means 6% of our young population can't! And 12% can't figure out where Mexico is! That means, if you go to a place where 18-20 year-old people are common, more than 1 in 10 of them don't even know this extremely basic fact of geography regarding our southern neighbor.
Yeah, I guess in those cases, you should just build your corporate HQ to look like an ugly concrete bunker.
For everyone else though (including businesses who want to impress customers), there's great concrete finishes available which look great but cost far far less than, say, marble or granite, while being far more durable.
I used to work at Intel, and they were famously cheap-ass with their buildings too. But even there, they ended up spending a bunch of money on the facade and the entrance lobby in the building that customers normally visited; it was a gigantic difference in appearance between that lobby and all the other ones on campus.
Composite fillings typically have to be replaced in 5-10 years depending on the shape of the filling and which tooth it is in.
That's funny, a previous dentist ended up replacing all my amalgam fillings with composite ones, and now they've been in there for 10-15 years and still look great. It's been a long time so I don't remember exactly what was wrong with the mercury ones, but I seem to remember them having some kind of problem prompting him to replace them. I think one even fell out.
At best, they'll try to keep her quiet and out of the spotlight for the rest of the campaign, until Hillary gets elected, so she doesn't hurt Hillary's chances.
After that, all bets are off. She'll be promoted to some position such as SecState, since at that point, what are people going to do, not vote for Hillary? Too late then. And 4 years later when Hillary's running for re-election (assuming she's still alive and hasn't had a massive stroke), everyone will have forgotten all about this, plus it's generally harder to unseat incumbents anyway.
Well then this is the RNC's own stupid fault for allowing that many candidates, and for using first-past-the-post voting combined with winner-takes-all for the delegate awarding.
WTF are you talking about? Unpainted concrete is indeed one of the ugliest things on earth, but there's all kinds of rather amazing concrete finishes available on the market now. They can make a boring concrete garage floor look like flagstone now. They're even making concrete countertops, some of which look like real stone. Of course, really nice concrete finishes aren't cheap, but if you're building some big-ass expensive commercial building, it's probably worth it.
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Neighborhood that has a dirt road with mailboxes at front of neighborhood.
I have a friend who used to live in a place like that. I never asked him about large package delivery. (His place was about an hour south of RVA.)
What would happen if you replaced your mailbox there with a gigantic mailbox, big enough for most Amazon-size boxes? I wonder if they'd use it.
As for suburbs, ways of life, and such, I live in a puny little town (if you can even call it that, it's not incorporated) in a rural county. AFAIK, all the rural houses in this county get USPS delivery (I've seen the USPS trucks delivering on the windy county roads sometimes). My family comes from rural southern Virginia, so I'm very well aware of the lifestyle there. And they all get USPS delivery to their home too, even in counties where there's 1 stop light. I have no idea what's wrong with NC.
What weird-ass state is this in? I've never heard of the USPS requiring PO boxes for anyone, or not having residential delivery service just about anywhere.
This guy lives somewhere in upstate Alaska I think. Wherever he is, the nearest *Walmart* is 50 miles away, and there's no USPS delivery (which is extremely unusual for USPS). That means there's not going to be any businesses nearby with UPS or FedEx boxes either; that probably means he'd have to drive 8 hours to the nearest city. I can only guess that he's reading Slashdot with a satellite internet connection.
What kind of remote bumblefuck place do you live in where USPS shipping is slow, and there's no delivery? I ship USPS First Class small packages all the time, all around the country (and internationally too), and it almost never takes more than 3 days to get anywhere, and frequently it'll take 2. Even packages to Canada arrive in about a week, a bit longer for Europe.
You must either live in Alaska or some remote part of North Dakota or Montana or someplace like that. That's what you get for living that far out of civilization.
Fact: when you give Amazon a post office box number to ship to, poof; there goes your Prime 2-day shipping. It magically changes to 7 days. I pay GOOD MONEY for Prime
UPS and FedEx cannot ship to PO Boxes; everyone's known this for decades. So you continue to pay Amazon $100/year for faster shipping but shoot yourself in the foot with a PO Box address? No offense, but you don't sound too bright (either that or you must really like the streaming video stuff there).
If you're going to intentionally isolate yourself from civilization by living remotely, it's dumb to whine and complain about not having all the services that everyone living in civilization enjoys. I live in a somewhat rural place (about 1 hour outside a major metro area) and mail service works great here, and I'm sure the rest of the east coast is the same way.
Yep, Arizona has this option too. I guess this is just another one of those things where "the west is the best". AZ and OR aren't all that similar politically (AZ always votes red, OR blue), but I find it very interesting that they both have voting handled so much better than the "liberal" east coast states where people are always whining about voting access and wanting a day off to vote, but apparently these fools can't seem to figure out that mail-in voting would obviate this problem.
Any idea how it's done in California?
And why should they address the problem? Are you going to take your business elsewhere if they don't?
I was going to make a comment that you're mistaken about POTS being reliable, but business stuff is entirely different. From what i've read, residential POTS service these days has really gone downhill since so many people (like me) have abandoned it, so you can't really use that as an argument any more. Businesses, however, still rely on some kind of landline service so they get an entirely different quality of service.
then we will know how often voter fraud happens at the polling locations which would indicate whether voter ID is even necessary or not. Meanwhile wholesale voter fraud is a bigger issue.
I think this last part is technically incorrect. "Voter fraud" (as I understand it) is when the voters are cheating (you can call it "stuffing the ballot box"). What you're worried about is "election fraud", which is where the elections themselves are rigged, by the people running the elections. That is indeed the real problem here, as seen by the enormous discrepancies between exit polls and the results of the DNC primary elections.
You do realize that conservatives are opposed to absentee ballots and early voting too? These things are also targeted at the working poor.
They are?
I lived in Arizona for many years, which is a pretty thoroughly "red" state. It's such a red state that you can carry your gun on your hip there out in public all you want, even in Phoenix (except a few places like Mill Avenue in Tempe). You can't even do that in the South.
They had mail-in voting. It was really easy; I was very impressed. You register on the state's DMV website, they send you a ballot at election time, you mail it in for free! Couldn't be any easier than that. I thought it was stupid that they had elections for judges, but otherwise it was a pretty good system.
Then I moved to New Jersey, a fairly "blue" state. No mail-in voting there. And they have blue laws! No buying alcohol on Sunday mornings, no shopping at all on Sundays in Bergen County, and all the "liberals" there love it..
Now I'm in Virginia, which is a somewhat "red" state. No mail-in voting here either unless you have some kind of justification (like military deployment or something like that). At least I can buy alcohol at Walmart, unlike blue-state New Jersey where that's illegal and you have to go to overpriced liquor stores, and there's no silly church-based laws about when I can buy alcohol or shop.
So as far as I can tell, the people opposed to mail-in voting aren't conservatives, they're east coasters of all stripes. As usual, the east coast is backwards. I can't wait to move back west somewhere (but somewhere farther north this time) where people are more intelligent, less socially conservative, and taller (seriously, these east coast people are a bunch of midgets).
It's not like anyone has a right to be surprised if Trump wins with 100% of the electronic vote, since we will of course ignore security until it's too late.
Honestly, this would be the very best outcome of this election, because then it would force a change (and prevent either Trump or Hillary from assuming office, since the results are obviously invalid; I'm not a fan of Obama, but I'd rather have him stick around for a while then let either of those two clowns take his place).
Unfortunately (normally I'd say fortunately but in this case it's unfortunate), I don't think this scenario is even possible, because all the states do their elections differently, with different equipment and rules. I just don't think there's a way for them to pull that off. Not that they'd want to anyway; it'd force a positive change here which isn't really in their interest. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll hack one or more states' machines giving Trump 100% of the vote in those places; maybe that'd be enough to force a change and invalidate the elections for a while.
Do you also drive a Model T and use an abacus for calculations?
2) All the directors of the cold calling firm are imprisoned for 3 years and finned $1,000,000 each
3) All the directors of the origitaing company (ie those who instructed the cold calling company) are imprisoned for 5 years and finned $1,000,000 each
This stuff won't work. The beings who are doing all this stuff are humans, not sharks. Humans don't have any fins, so finning them doesn't even make sense. Finning a shark is indeed a horrible and painful way to kill it, but since humans don't have any fins, what you propose is completely nonsensical.
Disemboweling, however, does seem like an appropriate punishment for these people. I also like that one where they tie someone's limbs up to four horses and then make the horses pull them apart.
For some reason I don't understand, over the entirety of North America, females outnumber males in the east, while males outnumber females in the west.
The general theories of this are the industries in those areas: in the west, there's all the tech industry, which is overwhelmingly male-dominated as every Slashdotter knows, and in the east, the major industries are things like finance and fashion (for NYC) and government, which tend to attract a lot more women. Of course, this is all for college-educated professionals, and it also does not explain your assertion about college-age women. However, there, last I read the overall college population was 60% female currently. I have no idea how it varies according to geography though.
I do have to ask why you think women in their 20s and younger would outnumber men on the east coast; is that a personal feeling or is there hard data to back that up? The actual population data shows that men outnumber women up to about 30 years of age, and after that women start outnumbering men, simply because a baby is more likely biologically to be male than female (1.07:1 I think), so for young people, especially under 18, the ratio should be about the same nationwide. It can certainly change in college, but even here, most of the best schools are on the east coast, for all disciplines (including tech degrees, to the chagrin of the states those schools are located in, as they constantly complain about their grads leaving the state when they graduate). Women certainly do outnumber men in college now, but that's probably universal. I really do wish I could make myself 19 years old again and go back to college....
That women become extremely horny and feel their biological clocks ticking starting in their 30s is a well-known phenomenon everywhere. Those that haven't found someone get really desperate.
No, that's not what I'm finding at all really. I know that for a lot of women, yes, that's true, they'll start dating any guy with a pulse after age 35 or so (I have a sister like this, sadly). But I'm looking specifically at well-educated middle-to-upper-middle-class professionals, and I'm just not seeing this: lawyers, doctors, business owners, etc. These women remain picky as hell, so some of them are going the "I'm going to get IVF and be a strong single mom!" route since they can't find a clone of George Clooney, which I guess you could call a form of desperation, but it's not desperation for a man.
Well, it wasn't a fracture because I still have all those teeth, so it was probably additional decay under it.
Regardless, my point wasn't about the safety of amalgam, it's about the durability of resin: I have a mouthful of resin fillings, and most of them are over 10 years old now. No dentist has said anything about them needing replacement, they're all fine. That 5-year lifespan you mention sounds like hogwash to me; it's probably attributable to some dentists who did a poor job installing them. Now of course, they haven't been around long enough to know if they'll last 40 years, but running around saying they'll only last 5 years sounds just as much like fear-mongering as what you deride about dentists who replace amalgam fillings.
But aside from any fears about mercury, one huge, huge advantage to the resin fillings I will point out is appearance. Those amalgam fillings were *fugly*. Now when I open my mouth, it's not immediately obvious that I have any fillings at all. That alone was worth it.
I'm not talking about a decade ago, I'm talking about today. 10 years is a *long* time to make changes in your IT infrastructure. 10 years before 2004 was 1994, when people were still probably using Novell in places, and Windows 95 hadn't come out yet. If businesses can go from DOS/Novell/mainframes/whatever to Win95 and then Win98 and then Win2000 and then WinXP all in the space of 10 years, they can certainly adapt in the 12 years between 2004 and 2016.
just like we expect people to have some basic awareness of geography
Since when do we expect that? Plenty of surveys have found that random Americans can't even point out Texas on a map of the US.
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http://www.salon.com/2007/08/3...
According to this Salon article from 2007, only 94% of young Americans could even find America on a map! That means 6% of our young population can't! And 12% can't figure out where Mexico is! That means, if you go to a place where 18-20 year-old people are common, more than 1 in 10 of them don't even know this extremely basic fact of geography regarding our southern neighbor.
Um, I'm pretty sure Microsoft Office is available for MacOSX. You're not being forced to use Windows, at least not in your case.
Yeah, I guess in those cases, you should just build your corporate HQ to look like an ugly concrete bunker.
For everyone else though (including businesses who want to impress customers), there's great concrete finishes available which look great but cost far far less than, say, marble or granite, while being far more durable.
I used to work at Intel, and they were famously cheap-ass with their buildings too. But even there, they ended up spending a bunch of money on the facade and the entrance lobby in the building that customers normally visited; it was a gigantic difference in appearance between that lobby and all the other ones on campus.
Composite fillings typically have to be replaced in 5-10 years depending on the shape of the filling and which tooth it is in.
That's funny, a previous dentist ended up replacing all my amalgam fillings with composite ones, and now they've been in there for 10-15 years and still look great. It's been a long time so I don't remember exactly what was wrong with the mercury ones, but I seem to remember them having some kind of problem prompting him to replace them. I think one even fell out.
Oh BS.
At best, they'll try to keep her quiet and out of the spotlight for the rest of the campaign, until Hillary gets elected, so she doesn't hurt Hillary's chances.
After that, all bets are off. She'll be promoted to some position such as SecState, since at that point, what are people going to do, not vote for Hillary? Too late then. And 4 years later when Hillary's running for re-election (assuming she's still alive and hasn't had a massive stroke), everyone will have forgotten all about this, plus it's generally harder to unseat incumbents anyway.
Of course, Hillary does have something we haven't seen in a Presidential Candidate in over 100 years ... a vagina.
Are you sure about that?
I'm not convinced that she isn't really a lizard person... They probably don't have a gender.
Well then this is the RNC's own stupid fault for allowing that many candidates, and for using first-past-the-post voting combined with winner-takes-all for the delegate awarding.
WTF are you talking about? Unpainted concrete is indeed one of the ugliest things on earth, but there's all kinds of rather amazing concrete finishes available on the market now. They can make a boring concrete garage floor look like flagstone now. They're even making concrete countertops, some of which look like real stone. Of course, really nice concrete finishes aren't cheap, but if you're building some big-ass expensive commercial building, it's probably worth it.
Only fit punishment is expulsion from the party and rehosting the convention.
They need to go much farther than that, they also need to redo the primaries, with all new elections. The previous ones were BS.