Trains just don't make sense for hauling people. Cheaper to fly and takes way less time
It really depends on your priorities.
My wife and I took the train from LA to San Francisco (the Coastal Starlight) a few years ago. We didn't have to take our shoes off before boarding, didn't go through metal detectors, and didn't have stand in long security lines while TSA agents screamed at us to make sure everything was put on the conveyor belt for X-raying.. One of the workers at the ticket window saw us with our luggage and loaded it on an electric cart, then told us to hop on and she'd take us to the boarding area.
While the rest of our family were crammed into two cars with all of their luggage, screaming up the I-5 (freeway), we were sitting in recliner seats with as much legroom as you could use, getting up to get snacks and stretch our legs, reading, and going to the observation car to hear a talk about the area we were traveling through by a forest ranger.
We also happened to be traveling on the Fourth of July, and hit Silicon Valley right at 9:00PM. The lights were off in the observation car and we got to watch dozens of fireworks shows happening all around us.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat, if I needed to go to North again.
Starting today, they should put a sign above their smartphones that says "Due to pending legislation outlawing strong encryption in New York State, these phones will not be for sale in this state after [insert possible date]. If you would like comment on this law, please contact New York Assemblyman Matthew Titone at [phone number]."
After his phone melts down he may reconsider the public's will to just accept whatever ill-conceived legislation he happens to cough up on his desk after lunch.
Why round at all? Just make dimes the smallest unit of currency and get rid of the quarter. Now post prices with only one decimal place and you're done.
I had friends that did it during the 1980 spike, when it hit around (IIRC) $30/oz. to the tune of about $30,000.
I don't know if they sold out while it was falling, or if they rode it all the way down. I'm sure they had to liquidate at some point, as that was pretty much their life savings at that point.
I don't "like" it, but I'm not bothered by it. I practically never receive them as change in a store because no one really seems to use them, but we get them in the bank sometimes if we specifically request them (Gifts for kids)
But I've never had any trouble telling a tarnished dollar from a quarter.
All this rounding stuff we see people from other countries talking about just seems silly. The dollar is only worth about 1/10th of what it was about half a century ago.
No, get rid of the penny and the nickel, and the quarter has to either become a 20 or thirty cent piece or go away altogether, which would be OK.
Then post prices with only one decimal place instead of two. Boom, no need for the rounding nonsense that every other country puts up with when they eliminate their useless coins.
The US dollar is only worth about one tenth of what it was fifty or so years ago, so we might as well just adapt the currency increments to match.
I think I'd be OK with rendering almost everything else in coins, except, probably, the $100 bill. As the single most widely used piece of currency in the world, it could hang around a little longer.
There are one dollar coins in circulation, but no one seems to use them. Cashiers usually raise their eyebrows when I drop one or two on the counter to pay
The mint has been asking congress, since the '80's I think, for permission to stop printing paper dollars. The mint has to print them unless congress passes a law to end it.
We had the Sacagawea dollar, which is currently only made in proof sets, I think. Currently, IIRC, they mint presidents' faces on the front and the statue of liberty on the obverse of the dollar coin. Everything since the (terrible, because it was so easy to mistake for a quarter) SBA dollar has been a sort of brass-like alloy.
My wife and I like to get bunches of them and put them in small cloth bags for our younger nieces and nephews. So it feels like they're getting a little bag of gold coins.
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This is the first step toward creating quantum shampoo, so you can wash the entanglements out of your quantum threads.
Didn't you ever see "Reefer Madness" (1936)?
This started way before Nixon. Nixon just started the escalation of the "War on Drugs".
And "jazz musicians"? By this time, Rock and Roll was the big concern. Jazz was something your parents (and Nixon) listened to, along with Perry Como.
A double cylinder deadbolt.
We used to have one on our front door, because all you had to do was break a small pane of glass and you could reach inside and unlock the door.
When we had the door replaced with something not quite so vulnerable, we werre also told that doubles are now banned by the city.
They could set their Irish to eleven, except their dial stops at ten.
Really? In 36 years as a developer I have worked with exactly one female developer, and never had a female manager.
I maintain some code written by a female (it's brilliant), but I never met her. She was long gone by the time I got here.
I think they mean they hope that Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Philosophy and Economics are the next ones to be sexually harassed.
Those must be the names of some women the submitter doesn't like.
For bonus points:
When were these things done?
Where were they done?
Why? How?
Are you looking for DIY instructions?
One person is brain dead. Maybe one of the other patients actually ate it.
*breathe in*
*breathe out*
So, what are you wearing? Is it tight?
*breathe in*
*breathe out*
Yes, but your boss is going to be clad in black, and an overbearing ass who also likes to make "heavy breather" phone calls.
Trains just don't make sense for hauling people. Cheaper to fly and takes way less time
It really depends on your priorities.
My wife and I took the train from LA to San Francisco (the Coastal Starlight) a few years ago. We didn't have to take our shoes off before boarding, didn't go through metal detectors, and didn't have stand in long security lines while TSA agents screamed at us to make sure everything was put on the conveyor belt for X-raying.. One of the workers at the ticket window saw us with our luggage and loaded it on an electric cart, then told us to hop on and she'd take us to the boarding area.
While the rest of our family were crammed into two cars with all of their luggage, screaming up the I-5 (freeway), we were sitting in recliner seats with as much legroom as you could use, getting up to get snacks and stretch our legs, reading, and going to the observation car to hear a talk about the area we were traveling through by a forest ranger.
We also happened to be traveling on the Fourth of July, and hit Silicon Valley right at 9:00PM. The lights were off in the observation car and we got to watch dozens of fireworks shows happening all around us.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat, if I needed to go to North again.
Vendors should act preemptively.
Starting today, they should put a sign above their smartphones that says "Due to pending legislation outlawing strong encryption in New York State, these phones will not be for sale in this state after [insert possible date]. If you would like comment on this law, please contact New York Assemblyman Matthew Titone at [phone number]."
After his phone melts down he may reconsider the public's will to just accept whatever ill-conceived legislation he happens to cough up on his desk after lunch.
They shouldn't wait. They should do it right now. I can just see an open letter from Apple to the Assemblyman:
Dear Mr. Titone,
We have identified your iTunes account, titone@ny.gov, and all iPhones associated with it. We have forced the encryption on your phones to "off".
Enjoy your new security "feature".
Love,
The Apple Security Team
Obviously, the solution is to ban communication.
Report to the Bastille, citizen.
When I've seen mention of $2 coins here, I keep remembering how much stores hated them when they got reintroduced a few decades ago.
I hadn't thought about the vending machine angle, which does sound pretty useful. Although two $1 coins wouldn't be that much less convenient to use.
Well, you could always use a $5 bill if you want to gaze at Lincoln's image adoringly for a while.
Why round at all? Just make dimes the smallest unit of currency and get rid of the quarter. Now post prices with only one decimal place and you're done.
I had friends that did it during the 1980 spike, when it hit around (IIRC) $30/oz. to the tune of about $30,000.
I don't know if they sold out while it was falling, or if they rode it all the way down. I'm sure they had to liquidate at some point, as that was pretty much their life savings at that point.
I don't "like" it, but I'm not bothered by it. I practically never receive them as change in a store because no one really seems to use them, but we get them in the bank sometimes if we specifically request them (Gifts for kids)
But I've never had any trouble telling a tarnished dollar from a quarter.
Just post prices to one decimal point.
All this rounding stuff we see people from other countries talking about just seems silly. The dollar is only worth about 1/10th of what it was about half a century ago.
No, get rid of the penny and the nickel, and the quarter has to either become a 20 or thirty cent piece or go away altogether, which would be OK.
Then post prices with only one decimal place instead of two. Boom, no need for the rounding nonsense that every other country puts up with when they eliminate their useless coins.
The US dollar is only worth about one tenth of what it was fifty or so years ago, so we might as well just adapt the currency increments to match.
I think I'd be OK with rendering almost everything else in coins, except, probably, the $100 bill. As the single most widely used piece of currency in the world, it could hang around a little longer.
There are one dollar coins in circulation, but no one seems to use them. Cashiers usually raise their eyebrows when I drop one or two on the counter to pay
The mint has been asking congress, since the '80's I think, for permission to stop printing paper dollars. The mint has to print them unless congress passes a law to end it.
We had the Sacagawea dollar, which is currently only made in proof sets, I think. Currently, IIRC, they mint presidents' faces on the front and the statue of liberty on the obverse of the dollar coin. Everything since the (terrible, because it was so easy to mistake for a quarter) SBA dollar has been a sort of brass-like alloy.
My wife and I like to get bunches of them and put them in small cloth bags for our younger nieces and nephews. So it feels like they're getting a little bag of gold coins.
Now you've done it!
Monaco is starting a nuclear program of it's own.
No ever respects the poo.