Do you have an electrical outlet on the outside wall of your home? A water faucet? Please let us all know where we can come and charge and wash our EVs at your expense.
When you go into a restroom in a park, do you take a couple of rolls of toilet paper home? It's there for the public, after all.
I don't think the amps change dramatically for the voltage, in fact I think the voltage is to save amps. I'm just guessing, but I bet a 40 amp dryer is so that it can run at 110. Though I don't really know, the dryers e had have been 110 and 20 amp, but really woulda benefitted from double the power (still, gas is king in overall wattage, one of the wins to city living ).
No company would produce a 110V 40A dryer, since no one would buy it. No home is wired for such a beast.
Most electric dryers are limited to 24A or less since appliances typically are limited to 80% what the circuit is rated at.
I don't think there is any such limit, as you state. It is perfectly fine to sell a vacuum cleaner, treadmill, or power drill labeled "15A" that draws 15 amps from the wall.
Another possible reason that this dryer started tripping a 30A breaker is that as it aged, the motor started to draw more power. If it was working with a maximum draw of 28A, but started to draw more juice as the bearings in the drum motor dried out, it could very well start bumping up against 30A. Replacing the breaker that was doing its job with one with a looser tolerance would make it appear that the breaker was "wearing out". Circuit breakers just don't degrade in that way; there's nothing in the circuit inside them except a piece of wire.
According to the summary, the poster's boss agrees that they are understaffed, but here he is asking on/. how to convince the higher-ups of that. There are three possibilities:
1. The OP's boss is not really convinced. If he were, he would be working on convincing upper management himself.
2. The OP's boss is convinced, but is unable to convince his superiors. Whether ineffective or simply being ignored, this is a dangerous place to be: the brass do not view the poster's department as important. Expect sadness when the budget gets tight.
3. The OP's boss is hiding the problem from upper management. Attempting to go above this boss's head by approaching the CEO directly will not be viewed positively. To do so will be career suicide.
Short answer: STFU and do your job as best you can, or leave. You have said your peace to your manager, now it's time to leave it alone until approached by management for your ideas on fixing the problem. Either your manager will take up the cause and make things happen, or your manager will see it as tilting at windmills and drop it too. You do not want to be seen as the office malcontent who is always complaining about why things are not getting done. No good will come of it.
Quitting may be the right answer, but it's always a softer landing to have a new gig lined up before quitting.
It's usually easier to find a new job if you already have one, to boot. In a prospective employer's eyes, "Employed"=="At least a decent worker" and "Unemployed"=="Not able to keep a job". I'm not saying it's fair or accurate, but if you're out of work it's sometimes hard to convince a hiring manager that it was of your own choice.
My grandfather dropped out of high school to work his entire adult life in a phosphorus mine while farming on the side to make ends meet. He never traveled more than 1,000 miles from the place he was born, and died before 60 due to lung disease.
I work in a climate controlled office. My wife and I are taking our kids on vacation next week, we thought it would be fun for them to ride on an airplane for the first time, and Disneyland seemed like a good place.
I feel like a lazy shit whenever I think about how my grandfather (or even my father, who was 6 when they got indoor plumbing in their home in the 1950s) worked to provide for their families.
The fact that your nephews are college graduates with 3 square meals a day counts for something towards "standard of living", I think.
At NO POINT are you to stop trying to keep me alive. AT NO POINT will you stop assisting in my critical life functions if I can not do it on my own. Spare NO EXPENSE to keep me alive not matter what.
To be clear: I would rather suffer and live then cease existence.
That's fine. Make sure your affairs are in order and that your relatives and physicians are aware of your choice. After you've been in uncontrollable pain for months on end as cancer eats your bones from the inside out, and as you scream yourself hoarse for hours on end and are unable to control your bladder or bowels, remember the dignity that you chose.
For those of us who would rather avoid those months and skip to the end where we're all going anyway, why are you so against allowing a different choice?
In that situation, I will spend every waking moment by my wife's side... holding her hand, and praying for her. I will cry myself to sleep every night, and hope that her suffering may be eased. We would probably opt out of all extraordinary means of life support, likely sign a DNR, and go for palliative care even if that means reducing her overall life expectancy.
A kill pact, or doctor assisted suicide denies a person the dignity that their life has immeasurable value... is wrong for us, and I am deffinately one of those who will continue to act, and defend that oppion in court, in the legal system and in the cafeteria.
I made a slight edit to your quote. Why does the idea that other people might choose this option offend you? I have the same puzzlement about why so many people are against the idea of two gay men deciding to be married. I'm not gay and will never want to marry another man, but why should I feel upset or that it somehow harms my marriage?
Not that you're looking for another anonymous person on the Internet to convince you, but it sounds like you fulfilled your wife's wishes and should be commended for it. I hope I go first so that I do not need to experience the loss of my wife. But at the same time, I don't want my wife to have to watch me go first, either. The fact that it was hard for you speaks volumes to your love and concern for her well-being. When she no longer had a chance for further well-being, it was a sacrifice for you to let her go. Take solace in your sacrifice for her, to fulfill her wishes and to improve her quality of life. In my mind forcing a loved one to endure such an existence, against their will, because the living can't bear the thought of losing them is selfishness. I'm sorry for your loss, and encouraged by your strength.
And the nature of appliances being a long-term investment, requires trust that cheap junk retailers like Walmart / Home Depot don't earn.
Sears has earned a reputation for quality that Walmart and Home Depot can't match. When you go into a Sears and buy the cheapest refrigerator they've got, you can be pretty sure it's a decent piece of kit. With Walmart / Home Depot, you might be getting a complete piece of junk that is terribly misdesigned, and will fail shortly outside of the warranty.
A big part of this is Sears' Kenmore brand being inexpensive while top-notch quality. So much so that I'm often able to find GOOD Kenmore appliances cheaper than the no-name worthless junk appliances ("GE" / "Magic Chef" / etc.), that Walmart / Home Depot stock. Whatever Sears' overhead and problems may be, they're still out-competing everyone in household appliances. And the Kenmore (and Craftsman) brand was one of the few big reasons K-Mart bought the company.
Your experience has been different than mine.
Sears had a reputation for quality, and while some people still see them as such, it's long been the case that "Kenmore" is just a private label on a white box made in the Maytag/Whirlpool factory.
Just remember: K-Mart bought them. That's how weak they were after their bankruptcy. They've been betting big and surviving on their long history as America's super retailer but those days have passed, and they haven't kept up.
I used to work for a consumer products company who was all but married to Sears. They were our #1 customer in both volume and revenue. They stuck us with plenty of unpaid bills during their bankruptcy, but we stuck with them because they provided a sales channel that dwarfed our next five customers. Sears got exclusive features and custom products, and when they told us to jump, we only nodded and asked how high. They dictated payment, delivery, and profit margin, and we were grateful to have the business.
Over the past 10 years, each year has been a steady decline. While they are still a large customer, other retailers like Target, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Sam's Club have taken their place in my ex-employer's ledgers. Just last year, we were able to negotiate an increase in our margins; something that would have been impossible 3 years ago. The company still sells plenty through them, but if trends continue they will be a very minor player within 5 years.
Or have malls been giving sweet deals to the big end cap stores? From a DC perspective if you can get servers inside metro Ethernet ranges that opens up a lot of consolidation opportunity to get servers out of closets and other non idea spaces.
The article I read pointed out that many of the "end cap" stores are in 20- or 30-year leases. If the store has closed and you're on the hook for another 15 years, it makes sense to put something there. The same article mentioned that something like 85% of the population lives within 15 miles of at least one Sears store. If that's true, it would be quite and advantage for a distribution network.
You can't pocket a giant metal bomb casing containing 4,255 pounds of C4 explosives, a nuclear core, 37 safety mechanisms, guidance systems, sensors, and whatnot anyway. What happens if somebody does walk past the guards into the nuclear arsenal?
Well, then they've walked into the wrong place. The missiles aren't in the same hole in the ground as the people.
I know you're being funny, but just for the record, these doors are specifically designed to be slow to open. It gives the guys in the control capsule time to polish their sidearms and radio HQ about the invading force about to appear in the doorway.
I hear people say the exact same thing all the time and it scares me that people believe this. Do you really want to live in a society where you can be thrown in jail because someone, that you have limited control over, does something illegal without your knowledge?
Yes, as a CEO you have a responsibility to know what your company is doing, but anyone who has ever worked for a large company knows the CEO has very little visibility into what most of a company's individual parts are doing, other than what his/her direct reports tell them.
Maybe it wasn't the CEO, but at some level someone would have known what's going on. If not someone in a supervisor/management role, then some employee who was allegedly using company property to commit a crime. It wasn't Aaron's, Inc. that spied on people, it was a person who happened to be an employee of the company.
In the settlement agreement, Aaron’s did not admit or deny the allegations.
That's a LONG way from "Aaron's has owned up to the practice" which the summary claims or the "Aaron's admits role in spying on customers" of the headline.
This was a settlement, which meant they chose to pay $X rather than risk $(X+Y) at a trial.
Automated trading is not a natural parts of the market.
What's "natural" about the stock market? It's a system that was designed and built by people.
Are you saying that stop orders have never existed before the boom of HFT? Fifteen years ago with an e-trade account, any Joe Sixpack with dial-up could set up an automated trade by setting high-and low-water marks where shares would be bought and sold automatically. Twenty years ago, it required a call to your broker to punch the right buttons, but automated trades have been around for longer than I have...
Personally, I believe if you're going to buy stock in a company then you should be required to hold said stock for at least 24 hours, if not much longer. the stock market was created to allow people to invest their money in a company, thus allow that company to use that money to grow which should result in a return (or loss). It was not designed for gambling, which is what it has become.
Adding a small ($0.10 or 1%, whichever is greater) per-share "early redemption" fee for any sell or cancel order on a stock held shorter than 24 hours would cut the HFT churn down quite a bit. Like charging $0.005 per e-mail sent to deter spamming, adding even a small cost would hinder a lot of shenanigans, while only inconveniencing normal behavior slightly.
But that's assuming that churn is something that's undesirable. The pros and cons of HFT have been beaten to death in other stories here on/. so let's not drag those up again, but your argument that the market was not designed for gambling doesn't hold true. The stock market is just a vehicle like cash, investors and speculators have always coexisted side-by-side in the market, it's just the relative ease of short-term trading over the past 10 years that's changed.
For color, unless you are printing photographs, I would recommend getting away from Inkjet. Even if you are, you might want to consider avoiding inkjet. Inkjet printers simply fail. They break if you use them too much. They break if you use them too little. They break if you use them just right. And, the ink is some of the most expensive stuff on the planet. Color laser doesn't bleed like inkjets, so you might see a bit more pixalization, but it is way cheaper to use laser, and the printers don't break as easy.
I decided a few years ago that printing photographs is not reason enough to consider an inkjet. Our last two printers have been Canon inkjets with separate ink tanks, and they have printed acceptable quality text for home use with cheap ink. I used to bother with refilling them, until I discovered the dirt-cheap ink available from Amazon. Sometimes the ink is effectively free (or better), as Staples gives a $2/tank credit for recycling empty ink tanks.
To get decent photos, however, requires official inks and good quality photo paper, which makes the per-print price at least or more than a "real" photo print.
Compare the cost of consumables to what Snapfish can do, especially considering the quality. If I can't afford to wait 3-4 days for them to be mailed, I can send a batch of photos to Wal-Mart or Walgreen's, and pick them up in an hour for 15 cents apiece. At prices like those, I am more than willing to let them maintain the printers and buy the paper and ink.
Utah has bi-annual safety inspections for cars newer than 10 years, annually for older vehicles. There has been much talk recently of getting rid of those altogether, as most accidents are not caused by something that these inspections would catch, anyway.
Some counties also require annual emissions certificates.
But every vehicle on the road needs to be registered and taxed every year; seems simple to report the odometer reading at that point.
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If your summary is correct, I hope someone at the school also got a fine for the frivolous call to 911.
Sounds like it wasn't about the theft, it was about being able to charge him with something to show him who's in charge...
Do you have an electrical outlet on the outside wall of your home? A water faucet? Please let us all know where we can come and charge and wash our EVs at your expense.
When you go into a restroom in a park, do you take a couple of rolls of toilet paper home? It's there for the public, after all.
I don't think the amps change dramatically for the voltage, in fact I think the voltage is to save amps. I'm just guessing, but I bet a 40 amp dryer is so that it can run at 110. Though I don't really know, the dryers e had have been 110 and 20 amp, but really woulda benefitted from double the power (still, gas is king in overall wattage, one of the wins to city living ).
No company would produce a 110V 40A dryer, since no one would buy it. No home is wired for such a beast.
Most electric dryers are limited to 24A or less since appliances typically are limited to 80% what the circuit is rated at.
I don't think there is any such limit, as you state. It is perfectly fine to sell a vacuum cleaner, treadmill, or power drill labeled "15A" that draws 15 amps from the wall.
Another possible reason that this dryer started tripping a 30A breaker is that as it aged, the motor started to draw more power. If it was working with a maximum draw of 28A, but started to draw more juice as the bearings in the drum motor dried out, it could very well start bumping up against 30A. Replacing the breaker that was doing its job with one with a looser tolerance would make it appear that the breaker was "wearing out". Circuit breakers just don't degrade in that way; there's nothing in the circuit inside them except a piece of wire.
According to the summary, the poster's boss agrees that they are understaffed, but here he is asking on /. how to convince the higher-ups of that. There are three possibilities:
Short answer: STFU and do your job as best you can, or leave. You have said your peace to your manager, now it's time to leave it alone until approached by management for your ideas on fixing the problem. Either your manager will take up the cause and make things happen, or your manager will see it as tilting at windmills and drop it too. You do not want to be seen as the office malcontent who is always complaining about why things are not getting done. No good will come of it.
Quitting may be the right answer, but it's always a softer landing to have a new gig lined up before quitting.
It's usually easier to find a new job if you already have one, to boot. In a prospective employer's eyes, "Employed"=="At least a decent worker" and "Unemployed"=="Not able to keep a job". I'm not saying it's fair or accurate, but if you're out of work it's sometimes hard to convince a hiring manager that it was of your own choice.
"Spend your money on experiences, not things." A wise man once told me.
My grandfather dropped out of high school to work his entire adult life in a phosphorus mine while farming on the side to make ends meet. He never traveled more than 1,000 miles from the place he was born, and died before 60 due to lung disease.
I work in a climate controlled office. My wife and I are taking our kids on vacation next week, we thought it would be fun for them to ride on an airplane for the first time, and Disneyland seemed like a good place.
I feel like a lazy shit whenever I think about how my grandfather (or even my father, who was 6 when they got indoor plumbing in their home in the 1950s) worked to provide for their families.
The fact that your nephews are college graduates with 3 square meals a day counts for something towards "standard of living", I think.
Amen to this. I'm lucky, I'm only deaf in one ear, so it's more of an annoyance than a real problem for me.
I miss music in stereo.
At NO POINT are you to stop trying to keep me alive. AT NO POINT will you stop assisting in my critical life functions if I can not do it on my own.
Spare NO EXPENSE to keep me alive not matter what.
To be clear: I would rather suffer and live then cease existence.
That's fine. Make sure your affairs are in order and that your relatives and physicians are aware of your choice. After you've been in uncontrollable pain for months on end as cancer eats your bones from the inside out, and as you scream yourself hoarse for hours on end and are unable to control your bladder or bowels, remember the dignity that you chose.
For those of us who would rather avoid those months and skip to the end where we're all going anyway, why are you so against allowing a different choice?
In that situation, I will spend every waking moment by my wife's side... holding her hand, and praying for her. I will cry myself to sleep every night, and hope that her suffering may be eased. We would probably opt out of all extraordinary means of life support, likely sign a DNR, and go for palliative care even if that means reducing her overall life expectancy.
A kill pact, or doctor assisted suicide denies a person the dignity that their life has immeasurable value... is wrong for us, and I am deffinately one of those who will continue to act, and defend that oppion in court, in the legal system and in the cafeteria.
I made a slight edit to your quote. Why does the idea that other people might choose this option offend you?
I have the same puzzlement about why so many people are against the idea of two gay men deciding to be married. I'm not gay and will never want to marry another man, but why should I feel upset or that it somehow harms my marriage?
Apparently your mother never told you that two wrongs don't make a right.
But three lefts do.
Not that you're looking for another anonymous person on the Internet to convince you, but it sounds like you fulfilled your wife's wishes and should be commended for it.
I hope I go first so that I do not need to experience the loss of my wife. But at the same time, I don't want my wife to have to watch me go first, either.
The fact that it was hard for you speaks volumes to your love and concern for her well-being. When she no longer had a chance for further well-being, it was a sacrifice for you to let her go. Take solace in your sacrifice for her, to fulfill her wishes and to improve her quality of life. In my mind forcing a loved one to endure such an existence, against their will, because the living can't bear the thought of losing them is selfishness.
I'm sorry for your loss, and encouraged by your strength.
And the nature of appliances being a long-term investment, requires trust that cheap junk retailers like Walmart / Home Depot don't earn.
Sears has earned a reputation for quality that Walmart and Home Depot can't match. When you go into a Sears and buy the cheapest refrigerator they've got, you can be pretty sure it's a decent piece of kit. With Walmart / Home Depot, you might be getting a complete piece of junk that is terribly misdesigned, and will fail shortly outside of the warranty.
A big part of this is Sears' Kenmore brand being inexpensive while top-notch quality. So much so that I'm often able to find GOOD Kenmore appliances cheaper than the no-name worthless junk appliances ("GE" / "Magic Chef" / etc.), that Walmart / Home Depot stock. Whatever Sears' overhead and problems may be, they're still out-competing everyone in household appliances. And the Kenmore (and Craftsman) brand was one of the few big reasons K-Mart bought the company.
Your experience has been different than mine.
Sears had a reputation for quality, and while some people still see them as such, it's long been the case that "Kenmore" is just a private label on a white box made in the Maytag/Whirlpool factory.
Just remember: K-Mart bought them. That's how weak they were after their bankruptcy. They've been betting big and surviving on their long history as America's super retailer but those days have passed, and they haven't kept up.
I used to work for a consumer products company who was all but married to Sears. They were our #1 customer in both volume and revenue. They stuck us with plenty of unpaid bills during their bankruptcy, but we stuck with them because they provided a sales channel that dwarfed our next five customers. Sears got exclusive features and custom products, and when they told us to jump, we only nodded and asked how high. They dictated payment, delivery, and profit margin, and we were grateful to have the business.
Over the past 10 years, each year has been a steady decline. While they are still a large customer, other retailers like Target, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Sam's Club have taken their place in my ex-employer's ledgers. Just last year, we were able to negotiate an increase in our margins; something that would have been impossible 3 years ago. The company still sells plenty through them, but if trends continue they will be a very minor player within 5 years.
Or have malls been giving sweet deals to the big end cap stores? From a DC perspective if you can get servers inside metro Ethernet ranges that opens up a lot of consolidation opportunity to get servers out of closets and other non idea spaces.
The article I read pointed out that many of the "end cap" stores are in 20- or 30-year leases. If the store has closed and you're on the hook for another 15 years, it makes sense to put something there. The same article mentioned that something like 85% of the population lives within 15 miles of at least one Sears store. If that's true, it would be quite and advantage for a distribution network.
You can't pocket a giant metal bomb casing containing 4,255 pounds of C4 explosives, a nuclear core, 37 safety mechanisms, guidance systems, sensors, and whatnot anyway. What happens if somebody does walk past the guards into the nuclear arsenal?
Well, then they've walked into the wrong place. The missiles aren't in the same hole in the ground as the people.
I know you're being funny, but just for the record, these doors are specifically designed to be slow to open. It gives the guys in the control capsule time to polish their sidearms and radio HQ about the invading force about to appear in the doorway.
I hear people say the exact same thing all the time and it scares me that people believe this. Do you really want to live in a society where you can be thrown in jail because someone, that you have limited control over, does something illegal without your knowledge?
Yes, as a CEO you have a responsibility to know what your company is doing, but anyone who has ever worked for a large company knows the CEO has very little visibility into what most of a company's individual parts are doing, other than what his/her direct reports tell them.
Maybe it wasn't the CEO, but at some level someone would have known what's going on. If not someone in a supervisor/management role, then some employee who was allegedly using company property to commit a crime. It wasn't Aaron's, Inc. that spied on people, it was a person who happened to be an employee of the company.
From TFA:
That's a LONG way from "Aaron's has owned up to the practice" which the summary claims or the "Aaron's admits role in spying on customers" of the headline.
This was a settlement, which meant they chose to pay $X rather than risk $(X+Y) at a trial.
Wasn't the standard line from Apple that they always wanted to give away updates for free, but shucks, Sarbanes-Oxley prevented them from doing so?
I guess Apple finally found an accountant that could make it happen...
And I would have only bothered them for a minute of their time...
Automated trading is not a natural parts of the market.
What's "natural" about the stock market? It's a system that was designed and built by people.
Are you saying that stop orders have never existed before the boom of HFT? Fifteen years ago with an e-trade account, any Joe Sixpack with dial-up could set up an automated trade by setting high-and low-water marks where shares would be bought and sold automatically. Twenty years ago, it required a call to your broker to punch the right buttons, but automated trades have been around for longer than I have...
Personally, I believe if you're going to buy stock in a company then you should be required to hold said stock for at least 24 hours, if not much longer. the stock market was created to allow people to invest their money in a company, thus allow that company to use that money to grow which should result in a return (or loss). It was not designed for gambling, which is what it has become.
Adding a small ($0.10 or 1%, whichever is greater) per-share "early redemption" fee for any sell or cancel order on a stock held shorter than 24 hours would cut the HFT churn down quite a bit. Like charging $0.005 per e-mail sent to deter spamming, adding even a small cost would hinder a lot of shenanigans, while only inconveniencing normal behavior slightly.
But that's assuming that churn is something that's undesirable. The pros and cons of HFT have been beaten to death in other stories here on /. so let's not drag those up again, but your argument that the market was not designed for gambling doesn't hold true. The stock market is just a vehicle like cash, investors and speculators have always coexisted side-by-side in the market, it's just the relative ease of short-term trading over the past 10 years that's changed.
For color, unless you are printing photographs, I would recommend getting away from Inkjet. Even if you are, you might want to consider avoiding inkjet. Inkjet printers simply fail. They break if you use them too much. They break if you use them too little. They break if you use them just right. And, the ink is some of the most expensive stuff on the planet. Color laser doesn't bleed like inkjets, so you might see a bit more pixalization, but it is way cheaper to use laser, and the printers don't break as easy.
I decided a few years ago that printing photographs is not reason enough to consider an inkjet. Our last two printers have been Canon inkjets with separate ink tanks, and they have printed acceptable quality text for home use with cheap ink. I used to bother with refilling them, until I discovered the dirt-cheap ink available from Amazon. Sometimes the ink is effectively free (or better), as Staples gives a $2/tank credit for recycling empty ink tanks.
To get decent photos, however, requires official inks and good quality photo paper, which makes the per-print price at least or more than a "real" photo print.
Compare the cost of consumables to what Snapfish can do, especially considering the quality. If I can't afford to wait 3-4 days for them to be mailed, I can send a batch of photos to Wal-Mart or Walgreen's, and pick them up in an hour for 15 cents apiece. At prices like those, I am more than willing to let them maintain the printers and buy the paper and ink.
Utah has bi-annual safety inspections for cars newer than 10 years, annually for older vehicles. There has been much talk recently of getting rid of those altogether, as most accidents are not caused by something that these inspections would catch, anyway.
Some counties also require annual emissions certificates.
But every vehicle on the road needs to be registered and taxed every year; seems simple to report the odometer reading at that point.