"People will use this to bypass emissions controls" is the excuse that many of the car manufacturers have been giving of why NOT to release this specs. Of course the real reason is to drive more revenue to the dealerships and their own parts suppliers. Having a person inside the repair shop smuggle out documentation (for a fee of course) is probably the best bet for now.
Actually, I found the different color money wasn't that big of a deal. I always looked at the face of bill and the number. Having them different sized was a pain though.
I've heard this argument over and over again. How in the hell does having different colored money make it more difficult to counterfeit? Counterfeiters usually stick with the high denominations and may even specialize on a particular one. If that's the case, color isn't going to matter. Someone that's going to try to make a bunch fake 20s isn't going to care what color they are as long as their fakes are a very close match to the official 20. Whether it be green, red, blue, orange, etc. doesn't matter. It does make it harder for a relatively successful counterfeiter from scaling up the operation (ok, we got the paper & ink right for those 5s we test marketed...let's start working on the 50s).
I'm dead certain that banks will start charging per transaction or charge fees for the cards monthly
They already do that. I get a monthly fee for having a debit card and businesses are charged a fee for every debit or credit transaction and when they deposit a check. Surprisingly, the most costly form of payment for a business to accept from customers is cash. It has to be counted at the end of the day, an armored car company has to be paid for regular pick up/drop off, dishonest clerks can easily steal it, dumb ones can easily give out the wrong amount, etc.
Look closely at a new Swiss note. IT IS BASICALLY counterfeit proof. And the new Euro notes make counterfeiting VERY difficult. But the American notes are much easier to counterfeit.
I don't have any Swiss or Euro money on me at the moment, so why don't you list out the attributes that make them so difficult to counterfeit and what makes the US bills so easy.
Why shouldn't you check twice before handing money over to someone? What's wrong with just looking at the bill? Given the number "I just look at the color and hand it over" responses, I would think that it would be easier to pass off fake bills in that environment. Sure maybe not to people at a bank, but for the ordinary people who are just throwing bills back and forth based on the color, it sure would.
That's just it. They are experienced travelers and are used to doing it. The tourists that you speak of are probably retirees that are out of the country for the first time in their lives. It's not a hard task, just an unfamiliar one.
Coins are different sizes and color because at one point in time they were made entirely of a precious metal. The bigger the coin, the more it was worth depending on the metal. Other than the Susan B's, I don't know of any US coin in circulation that isn't round.
True. But it sure sounds like her way of manipulating him into doing what she wanted (ie the romantic evening). I'm not as concerned as much about boundaries as the stupid mind games.
There's nothing to be done now since you've apparently smoothed the
current incident over. However, if she'd going to play it that way, the
next time she does it, do the following:
Take a day off from work when she's not home
Arrange for a locksmith to come over and change your locks that day.
Box all of her stuff up and have it by the front door.
Wait.
When she gets home, let her in and tell her she's packed up and ready to go.
If she's going to try to use your love and affection for her against you
and not sit down and negotiate like mature adults, she's not worth it.
Once you give in, it will continue to happen and will only get worse. In
the end, you will be miserable and she will end up leaving you some reason
that's bound to be your fault. I've been there and now that it's
over, I wish I would have called her bluff at the beginning. It would have
saved a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. The only alternative is to end
up a spineless man with a domineering wife often parodied in the old WB
cartoons ([voice tone=whiney]"Yes, dear".."of course dear"..."anything you say
dear" [/voice]).
Either way, you win. Either she leaves, you get to do what you want,
and avoid bigger messes later on, or she backs down, learns that you're
not going to put up with that shit and will have to behave like an adult in the future. Loneliness sucks, but it's better than having to deal with that sort of crap day in and day out.
The instability of the aircraft also makes it very nimble, much more so than a stable one that doesn't need fly-by-wire systems. They are designed that way.
But you will lose the business knowledge that's in your employee's heads. Knowing the apps like the back of their hand and how things work/don't work in the organization is pretty valuable to the company too.
My guess is that they decided to outsource all the development to an off-shore company because it looked like it would be cheaper on paper. Only time will tell if that's really the case.
But neither of those businesses, while they were dominant in their industries at one time, ever had the profit margins that MS enjoys. Not to mention, honest-to-God competition that couldn't be denied access to the market via licensing agreements. Imagine if GM had a law passed that outlawed new car dealers to sell anything other than a GM product. Sure, you could still buy something different in Canada, and then go through the hassle of any import taxes, etc., but only die-hard anti-GM people would go through the trouble.
I have one of these phones. They ship with two detachable batteries. I always have one battery in the charger and the phone on someplace else in my apartment. When the battery pack has a low amount of charge while I'm using it, the phone will start beeping and I then find the fully charged battery and swap them out. This can be done with a minor interruption in the phone call. But it doesn't disconnect the person I'm talking to, so as soon as I attach the fresh battery, I can start talking again. I bought it at a Sam's Club store for about $30.
Who's responsible for making sure the equipment is tied down? The shipper or the company where it's shipped from?
I'm guessing that they figured it was big enough to not worry about securing it. I'd like to know what the driver was doing that caused something like this to tip over. Contact the shipping company and let them know the story too.
Most of the shit coming out of Nashville isn't country music. It's the same manufactured crap that's on Top 40 stations except the singers have cowboy hats. Real country music has been relegated to 'alt-country' stations. I think Hank Williams III nailed it with this song:
Well some say I'm not country
and that's just fine with me
Cause I don't wanna be country
with some faggot looking over at me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self destruct
But if you know what Im thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
Well I'm here to put the Dick in Dixie
and the cunt back in country
Cause the kind of country I hear now days
is a bunch of shit to me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self-destruct
But if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
Well they're losing all the outlaws
that had to stand their ground
And they're being replaced by these kids
from a manufactured town
And they don't have no idea
bout sorrow and woe
Cause they're all just too damn busy
kissin' ass on Music Row
Well I'm here to put the Dick in Dixie
and the cunt back in country
Cause the kind of country I hear nowdays
is a bunch of shit to me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self-destruct
But if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
And if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
The big feedlots aren't that big to make the transportation an issue. It's not like they _only_ exist in one area and the grain farmers only exist hundreds of miles away. The grain farmers actually welcome such an operation into an area because it gives them a big local customer instead of having it put on a train to be shipped someplace else. Also the waste products do not have to be shipped as slurry. There are some that spread it out over a hard clay packed area where it dries out and then can be scooped up and used in conventional manure spreaders. There are municipalities that even used to do this.
You are also incorrect about the usage of hay and other roughage in feedlots. Feeding cattle primarily ground corn is very expensive. In addition to that, soybean meal, hay, and silage are fed in some ways to provide filler. Those big concrete silos you see on farms and ranches aren't full of grain. They are usually full of silage or other form of roughage. Mechanized transport and distribution to troughs from such storage facilities have been around for decades. The 6' round or large square hay bales aren't difficult to move around with 30-40 yr old equipment either.
The amount of corn in the diet may affect acidty levels in their stomachs, but I'm guessing the reason E. Coli is becoming more of a problem has more to do with the slaughter houses employing mainly retards and/or illegal aliens.
The problem is an easy one to solve: sell the shit as fertilizer to farmers that grow crops. I have a brother-in-law that has a dairy farm. Anything that he pumps out of the pit under the milk barn or the hog confinement building goes into a 'honey wagon' and gets distributed across his fields. They could even put it in smaller plastic jugs and sell it to urban gardeners.
In some ways, the confinement systems are better for the environment than normal feedlots. I know of one big farm that had a big feedlot that was used for hogs. Unfortunately it was near a river, so when it rained hard, all the crap washed down into the river. If they had been in a confinement building, all of the waste can be handled properly.
all of that money flows out of the local economy into the pockets of rich people living in rich places. Its an epidemic in America. You've obviously never lived in a small community.
Gee, I didn't know Bentonville, Arkansas was such a rich happenin' place. Are people in Beverly Hills ditching their mansions to move to Arkansas? (sounds like a sit-com in reverse).
Seriously, I grew up in a small community and my parents still live in one. Guess what? Other than for convenience items, we always drove at least 40 miles to a much bigger city for the major shopping trips (new clothes for school, monthly grocery shopping, appliances, etc.) because the markup in the local town was absolutely insane! The cost in gas and time was trivial compared to what we would save. When my sister wanted to buy a snowblower she found that the price difference between the local store and the one in city was about $300 for the exact same model, which is pretty bad since the best price was about $400. The local businesses would get proposals for a modest shopping center shot down all the time because they didn't want any in-town competition. No these businesses die because people get tired of paying 100% or worse markup.
That all depends on the state. Most states do not have daily overtime limits, only weekly and have no limit on how little or much a salaried person works. Even if it is illegal in the state, there may be exceptions to the rule depending on the industry. California has similar laws to what you've described, but I believe the agriculture, film, and computer industries, among others, are exempt from them.
They are more like the US, but the people in those countries will still say that their counterparts in the US work too much. My sisters have said that their UK friends get much more vacation time (most common quote: fast food workers even get 4 weeks off). I get only 2.
It depends on how you look at it. The companies assume that since they are going to be flexible when you show up for work, if you have to go home to pick up a sick kid, etc., they will not be as generous with vacation time as they would be if the work place rules were set in stone. They view the little time here and there that you have to do 'family activities' as the same as vacation, but it may or may not be tracked. If they went back to the 'family unfriendly' conditions as before, it may give the employees an excuse to demand more vacation time. Besides, when companies had those policies, most families had one person that would work and the other would stay at home and take care of kids. But that is normally not the case anymore, employers have to give a little to keep married employees with kids, so they expect the employees to give a little when it comes to vacation. Of course, if you are single w/o kids and are at work all the time, this doesn't help at all.
The break stuff varies from state to state. IIRC, in California for hourly employees, you are entitled to a 10 or 15 minute break for every 3.5 hour shift you work. If you do not receive those breaks, the employer has to pay you an hour's wage. Depending on the industry, if you exceed 8 hours of work in a day, the time over that amount is considered overtime. In other states, the daily overtime limit is at 12 hours or it just doesn't exist and they rely on the 40hrs/week standard. Unless there is a state law mandating it for the type of employee that you are, the company is free to set whatever policy that they want. I don't know of any laws concerning a minimum amount of vacation. If such a thing exists, it will be in California.
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"People will use this to bypass emissions controls" is the excuse that many of the car manufacturers have been giving of why NOT to release this specs. Of course the real reason is to drive more revenue to the dealerships and their own parts suppliers. Having a person inside the repair shop smuggle out documentation (for a fee of course) is probably the best bet for now.
Actually, I found the different color money wasn't that big of a deal. I always looked at the face of bill and the number. Having them different sized was a pain though.
I've heard this argument over and over again. How in the hell does having different colored money make it more difficult to counterfeit? Counterfeiters usually stick with the high denominations and may even specialize on a particular one. If that's the case, color isn't going to matter. Someone that's going to try to make a bunch fake 20s isn't going to care what color they are as long as their fakes are a very close match to the official 20. Whether it be green, red, blue, orange, etc. doesn't matter. It does make it harder for a relatively successful counterfeiter from scaling up the operation (ok, we got the paper & ink right for those 5s we test marketed...let's start working on the 50s).
US currency can go through a washing machine and a clothes dryer just fine, so it should be ok after your swim. It's not regular paper. It's cloth.
I'm dead certain that banks will start charging per transaction or charge fees for the cards monthly
They already do that. I get a monthly fee for having a debit card and businesses are charged a fee for every debit or credit transaction and when they deposit a check. Surprisingly, the most costly form of payment for a business to accept from customers is cash. It has to be counted at the end of the day, an armored car company has to be paid for regular pick up/drop off, dishonest clerks can easily steal it, dumb ones can easily give out the wrong amount, etc.
Look closely at a new Swiss note. IT IS BASICALLY counterfeit proof. And the new Euro notes make counterfeiting VERY difficult. But the American notes are much easier to counterfeit.
I don't have any Swiss or Euro money on me at the moment, so why don't you list out the attributes that make them so difficult to counterfeit and what makes the US bills so easy.
Why shouldn't you check twice before handing money over to someone? What's wrong with just looking at the bill? Given the number "I just look at the color and hand it over" responses, I would think that it would be easier to pass off fake bills in that environment. Sure maybe not to people at a bank, but for the ordinary people who are just throwing bills back and forth based on the color, it sure would.
Most europeans and asians that I know that travel
That's just it. They are experienced travelers and are used to doing it. The tourists that you speak of are probably retirees that are out of the country for the first time in their lives. It's not a hard task, just an unfamiliar one.
Coins are different sizes and color because at one point in time they were made entirely of a precious metal. The bigger the coin, the more it was worth depending on the metal. Other than the Susan B's, I don't know of any US coin in circulation that isn't round.
True. But it sure sounds like her way of manipulating him into doing what she wanted (ie the romantic evening). I'm not as concerned as much about boundaries as the stupid mind games.
There's nothing to be done now since you've apparently smoothed the current incident over. However, if she'd going to play it that way, the next time she does it, do the following:
- Take a day off from work when she's not home
- Arrange for a locksmith to come over and change your locks that day.
- Box all of her stuff up and have it by the front door.
- Wait.
- When she gets home, let her in and tell her she's packed up and ready to go.
If she's going to try to use your love and affection for her against you and not sit down and negotiate like mature adults, she's not worth it. Once you give in, it will continue to happen and will only get worse. In the end, you will be miserable and she will end up leaving you some reason that's bound to be your fault. I've been there and now that it's over, I wish I would have called her bluff at the beginning. It would have saved a lot of hurt feelings on both sides. The only alternative is to end up a spineless man with a domineering wife often parodied in the old WB cartoons ([voice tone=whiney]"Yes, dear".."of course dear"..."anything you say dear" [/voice]).Either way, you win. Either she leaves, you get to do what you want, and avoid bigger messes later on, or she backs down, learns that you're not going to put up with that shit and will have to behave like an adult in the future. Loneliness sucks, but it's better than having to deal with that sort of crap day in and day out.
The instability of the aircraft also makes it very nimble, much more so than a stable one that doesn't need fly-by-wire systems. They are designed that way.
But you will lose the business knowledge that's in your employee's heads. Knowing the apps like the back of their hand and how things work/don't work in the organization is pretty valuable to the company too.
My guess is that they decided to outsource all the development to an off-shore company because it looked like it would be cheaper on paper. Only time will tell if that's really the case.
But neither of those businesses, while they were dominant in their industries at one time, ever had the profit margins that MS enjoys. Not to mention, honest-to-God competition that couldn't be denied access to the market via licensing agreements. Imagine if GM had a law passed that outlawed new car dealers to sell anything other than a GM product. Sure, you could still buy something different in Canada, and then go through the hassle of any import taxes, etc., but only die-hard anti-GM people would go through the trouble.
I have one of these phones. They ship with two detachable batteries. I always have one battery in the charger and the phone on someplace else in my apartment. When the battery pack has a low amount of charge while I'm using it, the phone will start beeping and I then find the fully charged battery and swap them out. This can be done with a minor interruption in the phone call. But it doesn't disconnect the person I'm talking to, so as soon as I attach the fresh battery, I can start talking again. I bought it at a Sam's Club store for about $30.
Who's responsible for making sure the equipment is tied down? The shipper or the company where it's shipped from?
I'm guessing that they figured it was big enough to not worry about securing it. I'd like to know what the driver was doing that caused something like this to tip over. Contact the shipping company and let them know the story too.
Most of the shit coming out of Nashville isn't country music. It's the same manufactured crap that's on Top 40 stations except the singers have cowboy hats. Real country music has been relegated to 'alt-country' stations. I think Hank Williams III nailed it with this song:
DICK IN DIXIE
Well some say I'm not country
and that's just fine with me
Cause I don't wanna be country
with some faggot looking over at me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self destruct
But if you know what Im thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
Well I'm here to put the Dick in Dixie
and the cunt back in country
Cause the kind of country I hear now days
is a bunch of shit to me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self-destruct
But if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
Well they're losing all the outlaws
that had to stand their ground
And they're being replaced by these kids
from a manufactured town
And they don't have no idea
bout sorrow and woe
Cause they're all just too damn busy
kissin' ass on Music Row
Well I'm here to put the Dick in Dixie
and the cunt back in country
Cause the kind of country I hear nowdays
is a bunch of shit to me
And they say that I'm ill-mannered
that I'm gonna self-destruct
But if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
And if you know what I'm thinkin'
you'll know that pop country really sucks.
According to this page, Ultrix was a BSD derivative. The versions of Unix that ran on PDP's and Vaxes were probably from AT&T and then later BSD.
The big feedlots aren't that big to make the transportation an issue. It's not like they _only_ exist in one area and the grain farmers only exist hundreds of miles away. The grain farmers actually welcome such an operation into an area because it gives them a big local customer instead of having it put on a train to be shipped someplace else. Also the waste products do not have to be shipped as slurry. There are some that spread it out over a hard clay packed area where it dries out and then can be scooped up and used in conventional manure spreaders. There are municipalities that even used to do this.
You are also incorrect about the usage of hay and other roughage in feedlots. Feeding cattle primarily ground corn is very expensive. In addition to that, soybean meal, hay, and silage are fed in some ways to provide filler. Those big concrete silos you see on farms and ranches aren't full of grain. They are usually full of silage or other form of roughage. Mechanized transport and distribution to troughs from such storage facilities have been around for decades. The 6' round or large square hay bales aren't difficult to move around with 30-40 yr old equipment either.
The amount of corn in the diet may affect acidty levels in their stomachs, but I'm guessing the reason E. Coli is becoming more of a problem has more to do with the slaughter houses employing mainly retards and/or illegal aliens.
The problem is an easy one to solve: sell the shit as fertilizer to farmers that grow crops. I have a brother-in-law that has a dairy farm. Anything that he pumps out of the pit under the milk barn or the hog confinement building goes into a 'honey wagon' and gets distributed across his fields. They could even put it in smaller plastic jugs and sell it to urban gardeners.
In some ways, the confinement systems are better for the environment than normal feedlots. I know of one big farm that had a big feedlot that was used for hogs. Unfortunately it was near a river, so when it rained hard, all the crap washed down into the river. If they had been in a confinement building, all of the waste can be handled properly.
all of that money flows out of the local economy into the pockets of rich people living in rich places. Its an epidemic in America. You've obviously never lived in a small community.
Gee, I didn't know Bentonville, Arkansas was such a rich happenin' place. Are people in Beverly Hills ditching their mansions to move to Arkansas? (sounds like a sit-com in reverse).
Seriously, I grew up in a small community and my parents still live in one. Guess what? Other than for convenience items, we always drove at least 40 miles to a much bigger city for the major shopping trips (new clothes for school, monthly grocery shopping, appliances, etc.) because the markup in the local town was absolutely insane! The cost in gas and time was trivial compared to what we would save. When my sister wanted to buy a snowblower she found that the price difference between the local store and the one in city was about $300 for the exact same model, which is pretty bad since the best price was about $400. The local businesses would get proposals for a modest shopping center shot down all the time because they didn't want any in-town competition. No these businesses die because people get tired of paying 100% or worse markup.
That all depends on the state. Most states do not have daily overtime limits, only weekly and have no limit on how little or much a salaried person works. Even if it is illegal in the state, there may be exceptions to the rule depending on the industry. California has similar laws to what you've described, but I believe the agriculture, film, and computer industries, among others, are exempt from them.
They are more like the US, but the people in those countries will still say that their counterparts in the US work too much. My sisters have said that their UK friends get much more vacation time (most common quote: fast food workers even get 4 weeks off). I get only 2.
It depends on how you look at it. The companies assume that since they are going to be flexible when you show up for work, if you have to go home to pick up a sick kid, etc., they will not be as generous with vacation time as they would be if the work place rules were set in stone. They view the little time here and there that you have to do 'family activities' as the same as vacation, but it may or may not be tracked. If they went back to the 'family unfriendly' conditions as before, it may give the employees an excuse to demand more vacation time. Besides, when companies had those policies, most families had one person that would work and the other would stay at home and take care of kids. But that is normally not the case anymore, employers have to give a little to keep married employees with kids, so they expect the employees to give a little when it comes to vacation. Of course, if you are single w/o kids and are at work all the time, this doesn't help at all.
The break stuff varies from state to state. IIRC, in California for hourly employees, you are entitled to a 10 or 15 minute break for every 3.5 hour shift you work. If you do not receive those breaks, the employer has to pay you an hour's wage. Depending on the industry, if you exceed 8 hours of work in a day, the time over that amount is considered overtime. In other states, the daily overtime limit is at 12 hours or it just doesn't exist and they rely on the 40hrs/week standard. Unless there is a state law mandating it for the type of employee that you are, the company is free to set whatever policy that they want. I don't know of any laws concerning a minimum amount of vacation. If such a thing exists, it will be in California.