I don't know about Canada, but my GF has relatives that live in the middle of nowhere in Southern Missouri. They used to leave their doors unlocked. They don't do so anymore.
That's between Amazon and Fed Eck, or whoever delivers the damn thing. If they decide the $400 package is too big a target to leave in a yard in a questionable part of town, they can leave it at the Post Oriface, or whatever pickup place they use. If they allow me to make the choice, and I make the wrong one, THEN I can accept responsibility, but until then, it's not my fault.
Exactly that, which nobody else in the thread seems to get. It's trying to solve the same problem as amazon lockers.
Nobody in suburbia is going to buy one of these things.
I thought suburbia was where all of the packages were getting stolen? In the cities most people live in highrises with package delivery rooms, or at least a secured area where the mailboxes are.
??? I live in a single family house in the city. No highrises around, and certainly no "delivery room", and the only "secured area" is under that bush in my yard.
I was watching a nature show the other day, and I had a question. Why aren't multiple mongooses called "mongeese"? For that matter, why isn't more than one moose "meese"?
And a similar question, why is the state next to me pronounced Kansas, while the state to the south is pronounced "Arkansaw"?
That reminds me of the time one of my cow-orkers got caught taking a two-hour lunch at one of the nearby restaurants. How did he get caught? The boss was at the table behind him the whole time!
This is actually the best TV season for me in years. 95% of it is still crap, but the remaining 5% is as much or more than I have time for. The problem is, a lot of that is also on Hulu, and without commercials! Is the remaining stuff worth the $$$ that I'm paying? That seems doubtful, and getting more so with every price rise.
Especially the pharmaceuticals: "May cause dizziness, rash, diarrhea, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, extreme pain, bloody stools, flaccidity, amputation, blindness, suicidal thoughts, insanity, lesions, boils, bubonic plague, anal warts, vomiting up toads and lizards, violent convulsions, death, and likely poltergeist activity.
That's the pharmaceuticals? I thought it was the commercials that had those side-effects!
Heh! I was looking at a Time-Spectrum ad, and they were claiming $29.99 each for TV phone and internet. My bill is twice that, and I don't know anyone with a $90 bill.
Yeah, that's a question. I remember when bitcoin was around the $1000 range, and people were saying it was too high. But if I'd bought then, I'd have 7X that. If 7K is the high, I'd be a nidiot to buy at that price. But if it goes to 15K, I'd be kicking myself for not buying.
1. It is very very liquid. Which outside of accounting means you can buy or sell and convert to cash INSTANTLY!
3. Anybody with a computer and buy or sell without a middle man
Aren't those dependent on the exchanges? IIRC, MtGox quit allowing its victims, er I mean customers, to sell their bitcoins, and they were SOL when it imploded.
Are they abandoning it? I just got a flyer advertising Google Fiber in my mail slot the other day. I would think that means they intend to support what they have for awhile, even if they're not building any new stuff.
Or, like in my wife's case, a CAT scan and a PET scan done pre-surgery were billed at over $30,000 total. But the insurance company got it down to around $8,000 total, of which we had to pay 20%. So without insurance, we might have been borrowing money to pay 3 to 4 times what the insurance company agreed to pay, and somewhat lesser ratios for the costs of surgery, doctor's visits, medicine, specialist pathologist, etc.
Well, when I first learned about porn, pornhub didn't exist, and neither did the internet. I learned about porn magazines from the older brother of a friend. I assume the kids learn about internet pr0n the same way.
The tablet is more portable than a laptop. In some situations, that one advantage trumps all the disadvantages. At home, however, I only use the tablet for games and maybe reading if my Kindle is charging. Everything else, I use the laptop.
At the risk of stating the obvious, a generation or two back the typical lineup on broadcast TV wasn't nearly as conducive to 24x7 consumption by kids.
It seemed to me that there were more good shows when I had 3 channels, than there are now with 3000.
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Certainly they understand cold. The problem is, their "cold" is 65F.
Now I need to get a new face!
Are you saying bitcoin isn't too big to fail?!
I've solved a lot of problems while taking a crap. Hey, company, are you really sure you want to record me?
I give an honest, but incomplete answer. "No, dear. The dress doesn't make you look fat".
The dress is irrelevant there. :)
I don't know about Canada, but my GF has relatives that live in the middle of nowhere in Southern Missouri. They used to leave their doors unlocked. They don't do so anymore.
That's between Amazon and Fed Eck, or whoever delivers the damn thing. If they decide the $400 package is too big a target to leave in a yard in a questionable part of town, they can leave it at the Post Oriface, or whatever pickup place they use. If they allow me to make the choice, and I make the wrong one, THEN I can accept responsibility, but until then, it's not my fault.
Exactly that, which nobody else in the thread seems to get. It's trying to solve the same problem as amazon lockers.
Nobody in suburbia is going to buy one of these things.
I thought suburbia was where all of the packages were getting stolen? In the cities most people live in highrises with package delivery rooms, or at least a secured area where the mailboxes are.
???
I live in a single family house in the city. No highrises around, and certainly no "delivery room", and the only "secured area" is under that bush in my yard.
I was watching a nature show the other day, and I had a question. Why aren't multiple mongooses called "mongeese"? For that matter, why isn't more than one moose "meese"?
And a similar question, why is the state next to me pronounced Kansas, while the state to the south is pronounced "Arkansaw"?
My cheap, low-end TV isn't smart. My Roku has all the smarts I need.
You don't send an extra $100 to your cable provider just because, do you?
Actually, yes, but it's included in the bill. :p
That reminds me of the time one of my cow-orkers got caught taking a two-hour lunch at one of the nearby restaurants. How did he get caught? The boss was at the table behind him the whole time!
This is actually the best TV season for me in years. 95% of it is still crap, but the remaining 5% is as much or more than I have time for. The problem is, a lot of that is also on Hulu, and without commercials! Is the remaining stuff worth the $$$ that I'm paying? That seems doubtful, and getting more so with every price rise.
Especially the pharmaceuticals: "May cause dizziness, rash, diarrhea, difficulty in breathing, loss of consciousness, extreme pain, bloody stools, flaccidity, amputation, blindness, suicidal thoughts, insanity, lesions, boils, bubonic plague, anal warts, vomiting up toads and lizards, violent convulsions, death, and likely poltergeist activity.
That's the pharmaceuticals? I thought it was the commercials that had those side-effects!
Heh! I was looking at a Time-Spectrum ad, and they were claiming $29.99 each for TV phone and internet. My bill is twice that, and I don't know anyone with a $90 bill.
Yeah, that's a question. I remember when bitcoin was around the $1000 range, and people were saying it was too high. But if I'd bought then, I'd have 7X that. If 7K is the high, I'd be a nidiot to buy at that price. But if it goes to 15K, I'd be kicking myself for not buying.
Are you saying the people buying now will get forked?
1. It is very very liquid. Which outside of accounting means you can buy or sell and convert to cash INSTANTLY!
3. Anybody with a computer and buy or sell without a middle man
Aren't those dependent on the exchanges? IIRC, MtGox quit allowing its victims, er I mean customers, to sell their bitcoins, and they were SOL when it imploded.
HODL!
Am I the only one who thinks of the guy on GoT when I see that word?
Are they abandoning it? I just got a flyer advertising Google Fiber in my mail slot the other day. I would think that means they intend to support what they have for awhile, even if they're not building any new stuff.
OTOH, it IS google.
I have stuff on Google Docs, but if they locked it, I have local copies on my desktop, laptop, and thumb drive, not to mention other online places.
Or, like in my wife's case, a CAT scan and a PET scan done pre-surgery were billed at over $30,000 total. But the insurance company got it down to around $8,000 total, of which we had to pay 20%. So without insurance, we might have been borrowing money to pay 3 to 4 times what the insurance company agreed to pay, and somewhat lesser ratios for the costs of surgery, doctor's visits, medicine, specialist pathologist, etc.
Damn! Those medical costs are truly beastly!
Well, when I first learned about porn, pornhub didn't exist, and neither did the internet. I learned about porn magazines from the older brother of a friend. I assume the kids learn about internet pr0n the same way.
The tablet is more portable than a laptop. In some situations, that one advantage trumps all the disadvantages. At home, however, I only use the tablet for games and maybe reading if my Kindle is charging. Everything else, I use the laptop.
No you didn't, you watched tv.
At the risk of stating the obvious, a generation or two back the typical lineup on broadcast TV wasn't nearly as conducive to 24x7 consumption by kids.
It seemed to me that there were more good shows when I had 3 channels, than there are now with 3000.