return whatever they didn't like or didn't fit rather than make the appropriate decisions before the purchase
Yeah, that can be a problem, but there are times it's entirely appropriate. My wife buys most of her work clothing from a retailer that doesn't have a store less than six hours away, because they sell the lines she likes (and that she knows fit well). Trying it on at the store isn't an option. She returns probably half of what she orders, usually the day after it arrives. Maybe they shouldn't want her as a customer, but based on how they treat her, I'd say they're pretty damned enthusiastic about her business.
I read the WSJ article in the print edition this morning (work gets it delivered), and the first guy mentioned had bought a bunch of phone cases for his kids in a variety of colors, with the stated intention of letting them choose what they wanted and then returning the rest unopened. That apparently triggered the warning that he would not be able to do that again. This is a reporter who was able to find some edge cases where the algorithm was wrong in a way that would be transparent to a human (bought three days ago, has receipt, items unopened and can be sold as new) and publicized them. Or -- a guy lied to the reporter about what he actually did. Both are plausible.
Having sex in a glass-walled phone booth might appeal to some extreme exhibitionists, but the police will take a dim view of that. And you can already sleep in airports.
Maybe in Washington it isn't, but it sure is in New York. Ontario and NY both divert a substantial amount of the Niagara River at night to fill pools from which they draw hydro water during the day. It's a substantial difference in flow.
It's not like the average sedan damages the roads by driving on them. You could make a pretty solid argument that personal vehicles should be charged a flat fee for road access, because the maintenance needed per lane-mile is almost completely independent of how many cars drive on the road.
Really? I don't think I've ever driven a car that got 25 mpg in city driving. In practice, mine have ranged from 12-20 mpg in town, and 22-30 on the road. Current car is about 20 mpg in town, 25-30 on the road depending on how fast I drive.
This helps produce more well-rounded students who have a breadth of knowledge rather than a rather narrow specialized field.
That's certainly the concept, but AIUI European universities don't do anything like this, and their graduates don't seem to have a worse general fund of knowledge than equally-educated Americans. I sure as hell didn't get all that much out of my "distributional" requirements. The really interesting stuff that was outside my major didn't count toward them - I think I was one class away from a minor in classics when I graduated.
I want these in airports. Especially in the lounges. Back when they had pay phones, they were at least in a bank against one wall, and you could sit somewhere else to avoid the noise. Now, you just have people yakking everywhere. The rise of texting has helped a little, but it's still pretty awful.
I agree that this is overall a dumb idea, but it's not because it's too challenging to work across two days. Night shift everywhere does this. Hospitals, power plants, police, airlines... lots of stuff keeps running all night.
An apt comparison might be to the sharecroppers of the South just before and after WW2, when mechanization became cheaper than their labor. It left a lot of people useless.
Jokes aside, this is really how it works in practice.
I just switched from Android on a Nexus 6P to iOS on an X, for business interoperability (you can't send a message to more than 10 people if they're not all iMessage users, and 28/30 in my group were, so guess who was the last to hear any news?). Pros: great battery life, works as a device to send and receive messages and phone calls, has WiFi Calling and iMessage (so I can still get calls/texts when in the bowels of the Faraday-cage hospital I work in). Cons: notifications are not as slick as Android, I miss the fingerprint scanner on the back, and Bluetooth sucks. On Android Bluetooth, you can rename devices (handy when your workplace buys the same Bluetooth speakers for every room), and you can specify which of the available services you want to connect to (e.g., my car has built-in Bluetooth for calls, but not audio, so I added a Bluetooth receiver to the aux port; unfortunately, almost all small Bluetooth receivers want to be your hands-free calling as well. On Android, I just told it not to connect the phone services to the audio receiver; on iOS, I have to select the preferred Bluetooth device after connecting to both.). Also, you can't rename your personal hotspot/WiFi tethering on iOS without renaming the phone.
Oh, and as bad as Swype on Android has gotten in the last few iterations, it's still an order of magnitude better than any similar keyboard for iOS. Punctuation, capitalization, and editing were far superior to what you get with SwiftKey or GBoard.
Can't I? I've posted from iPads and Macs, never seem to have this problem. Maybe it's something that I changed early on, but I don't remember doing it on either platform. I don't use Safari, though.
You could just read my second sentence, you know. Cluster 1 will always need some insulin, but can cut their needs substantially. Cluster 2 might not, if they can get their insulin demand below the level that their pancreas can supply. And that's primarily determined by diet.
Not a diabetologist, but I am an MD practicing in an environment where probably half the inpatients are frankly diabetic. So, while this isn't truly expert opinion, I'm not exactly a babe in the woods.
Curiously enough, all forms of diabetes are amenable to at least partial treatment with one simple mechanism: stop eating sugar and and easily-digested starches. Some will require supplemental insulin, of course, but that small step will work wonders even for them.
You do you, man, but the cordless phone would probably benefit from an upgrade. I've got five handsets linked to a single base station, and the base station has Bluetooth for two different phones. So you can leave your phone charging in the kitchen near the base, and yet you can make or answer calls on landline or either of the cellulars from any handset. I think it can do landline and one cell at the same time, but not absolutely sure.
If you have elderly parents or grandparents who are worried about keeping the phone charged but really shouldn't be wandering around without a communications device right at hand (in case they fall), it's a great solution: the cell stays charged near the base, and the cordless handsets with weeklong battery life can stay clipped to their hips as they walk around the house. Also, regardless of age, don't get up on a ladder without either a spotter or a phone on you. It's remarkably easy to break an ankle or femur even if you're young.
What did you expect? Just declare the income (it's probably long-term cap gains anyway), pay your taxes, and move on. Don't mess with the IRS; government moves pretty slowly on most things, but it's going to get paid right now.
They burn out rather than in, AIUI, but yes. However, I’ve had an OLED screen for almost two and a half years, and frankly it’s not been a big deal for me. Never noticed it.
The mother-Rand-God sentence is to three entities, and it’s better with the comma. If Ayn Rand is actually your mother, dedicate your book to “to Ayn Rand, my mother, and to God”. Which, if you insist upon such a shorthand way of thanking people, is probably about as clear as you’ll get. However, since you’re publishing a book and they’ll let you have a whole page for your dedication, just put every individual on a separate line.
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return whatever they didn't like or didn't fit rather than make the appropriate decisions before the purchase
Yeah, that can be a problem, but there are times it's entirely appropriate. My wife buys most of her work clothing from a retailer that doesn't have a store less than six hours away, because they sell the lines she likes (and that she knows fit well). Trying it on at the store isn't an option. She returns probably half of what she orders, usually the day after it arrives. Maybe they shouldn't want her as a customer, but based on how they treat her, I'd say they're pretty damned enthusiastic about her business.
I read the WSJ article in the print edition this morning (work gets it delivered), and the first guy mentioned had bought a bunch of phone cases for his kids in a variety of colors, with the stated intention of letting them choose what they wanted and then returning the rest unopened. That apparently triggered the warning that he would not be able to do that again. This is a reporter who was able to find some edge cases where the algorithm was wrong in a way that would be transparent to a human (bought three days ago, has receipt, items unopened and can be sold as new) and publicized them. Or -- a guy lied to the reporter about what he actually did. Both are plausible.
It’s for India. Lots of slums with no real streets, let alone street names and numbers.
Having sex in a glass-walled phone booth might appeal to some extreme exhibitionists, but the police will take a dim view of that. And you can already sleep in airports.
Yeah. Pretty much. When I can buy, tag, and maintain an electric car for $200 a month, let me know.
Maybe in Washington it isn't, but it sure is in New York. Ontario and NY both divert a substantial amount of the Niagara River at night to fill pools from which they draw hydro water during the day. It's a substantial difference in flow.
It's not like the average sedan damages the roads by driving on them. You could make a pretty solid argument that personal vehicles should be charged a flat fee for road access, because the maintenance needed per lane-mile is almost completely independent of how many cars drive on the road.
Really? I don't think I've ever driven a car that got 25 mpg in city driving. In practice, mine have ranged from 12-20 mpg in town, and 22-30 on the road. Current car is about 20 mpg in town, 25-30 on the road depending on how fast I drive.
This helps produce more well-rounded students who have a breadth of knowledge rather than a rather narrow specialized field.
That's certainly the concept, but AIUI European universities don't do anything like this, and their graduates don't seem to have a worse general fund of knowledge than equally-educated Americans. I sure as hell didn't get all that much out of my "distributional" requirements. The really interesting stuff that was outside my major didn't count toward them - I think I was one class away from a minor in classics when I graduated.
I want these in airports. Especially in the lounges. Back when they had pay phones, they were at least in a bank against one wall, and you could sit somewhere else to avoid the noise. Now, you just have people yakking everywhere. The rise of texting has helped a little, but it's still pretty awful.
I agree that this is overall a dumb idea, but it's not because it's too challenging to work across two days. Night shift everywhere does this. Hospitals, power plants, police, airlines... lots of stuff keeps running all night.
An apt comparison might be to the sharecroppers of the South just before and after WW2, when mechanization became cheaper than their labor. It left a lot of people useless.
Jokes aside, this is really how it works in practice.
I just switched from Android on a Nexus 6P to iOS on an X, for business interoperability (you can't send a message to more than 10 people if they're not all iMessage users, and 28/30 in my group were, so guess who was the last to hear any news?). Pros: great battery life, works as a device to send and receive messages and phone calls, has WiFi Calling and iMessage (so I can still get calls/texts when in the bowels of the Faraday-cage hospital I work in). Cons: notifications are not as slick as Android, I miss the fingerprint scanner on the back, and Bluetooth sucks. On Android Bluetooth, you can rename devices (handy when your workplace buys the same Bluetooth speakers for every room), and you can specify which of the available services you want to connect to (e.g., my car has built-in Bluetooth for calls, but not audio, so I added a Bluetooth receiver to the aux port; unfortunately, almost all small Bluetooth receivers want to be your hands-free calling as well. On Android, I just told it not to connect the phone services to the audio receiver; on iOS, I have to select the preferred Bluetooth device after connecting to both.). Also, you can't rename your personal hotspot/WiFi tethering on iOS without renaming the phone.
Oh, and as bad as Swype on Android has gotten in the last few iterations, it's still an order of magnitude better than any similar keyboard for iOS. Punctuation, capitalization, and editing were far superior to what you get with SwiftKey or GBoard.
Can't I? I've posted from iPads and Macs, never seem to have this problem. Maybe it's something that I changed early on, but I don't remember doing it on either platform. I don't use Safari, though.
Posted from an iMac running High Sierra.
You won't hear any argument from me on that, except that I would say that exercise is only a small part of weight control.
Try the second sentence. It's not that much farther along in the comment.
You could just read my second sentence, you know. Cluster 1 will always need some insulin, but can cut their needs substantially. Cluster 2 might not, if they can get their insulin demand below the level that their pancreas can supply. And that's primarily determined by diet.
Those would be the ones that would require supplemental insulin regardless. Doesn't mean you shouldn't cut way back on the carbs.
Not a diabetologist, but I am an MD practicing in an environment where probably half the inpatients are frankly diabetic. So, while this isn't truly expert opinion, I'm not exactly a babe in the woods.
Curiously enough, all forms of diabetes are amenable to at least partial treatment with one simple mechanism: stop eating sugar and and easily-digested starches. Some will require supplemental insulin, of course, but that small step will work wonders even for them.
You do you, man, but the cordless phone would probably benefit from an upgrade. I've got five handsets linked to a single base station, and the base station has Bluetooth for two different phones. So you can leave your phone charging in the kitchen near the base, and yet you can make or answer calls on landline or either of the cellulars from any handset. I think it can do landline and one cell at the same time, but not absolutely sure.
If you have elderly parents or grandparents who are worried about keeping the phone charged but really shouldn't be wandering around without a communications device right at hand (in case they fall), it's a great solution: the cell stays charged near the base, and the cordless handsets with weeklong battery life can stay clipped to their hips as they walk around the house. Also, regardless of age, don't get up on a ladder without either a spotter or a phone on you. It's remarkably easy to break an ankle or femur even if you're young.
What did you expect? Just declare the income (it's probably long-term cap gains anyway), pay your taxes, and move on. Don't mess with the IRS; government moves pretty slowly on most things, but it's going to get paid right now.
They burn out rather than in, AIUI, but yes. However, I’ve had an OLED screen for almost two and a half years, and frankly it’s not been a big deal for me. Never noticed it.
My kid stopped using social media when she got a car
I thought the current meme was that teenagers no longer care about cars, or even driver’s licenses? Interesting to see a counterpoint.
The mother-Rand-God sentence is to three entities, and it’s better with the comma. If Ayn Rand is actually your mother, dedicate your book to “to Ayn Rand, my mother, and to God”. Which, if you insist upon such a shorthand way of thanking people, is probably about as clear as you’ll get. However, since you’re publishing a book and they’ll let you have a whole page for your dedication, just put every individual on a separate line.