They're really good, but unfortunately they don't travel well. You can get a dozen wonderful avocados in the valleys of California for what you'd pay for a single mediocre one in most of the US.
Not just the captain. I bet the OOD's next posting (and it won't be long!) is as a supply officer somewhere really unpleasant until his/her commitment runs out. FWIW, what are considered the really awful places to get posted in the Navy?
AKA why I have no IoT devices, despite the fact that they'd be very useful. Sell me a device, and charge me separately for the software if you must, but I'm not letting anything on my network that leaks information without my permission.
You might be surprised. Pilots on regional jets are very poorly paid. And flying a regional jet is, let's be honest, a lot more fun than frying potatoes.
I've never heard "satellite signal lost". That would be a surprising one.
That said, I have been in NW Nevada crossing into CA and going over Tioga Pass into Yosemite, where there is no cell service to be had. The GPS kept working, and the directions still did their thing - even though the phone couldn't load the map. The funniest thing was that we were surrounded by all these giant mountains, and it worked - but a few years later, in Asheville, the mountain-stubs around us would kill GPS reception constantly.
I wonder if perhaps the problem is that those of us who grew up with paper maps and navigation use online maps in a different way. I use Google Maps all the time because it's traffic-aware and will reroute me when snarls occur (which has saved many hours), but I almost always look at the route before I set out so that I have some idea of what to expect. I think many of the GPS-only types really don't know how to use a map to navigate, so they're just doing what Ms. Google says, blindly. You have to have some idea of where you're going, though, because GPS sometimes gets very confused about where it is...
In college in the mid 90s, I asked my parents for a CB radio instead of a cell phone. Phones were still expensive and, in remote areas, barely functional. CB's would at least get a trucker to call the highway patrol at the next stop if you got into trouble.
True, but if they hadn't spent a bunch on brick and mortar, it's probable that they would have died even earlier. Businesses founded on anything other than location are always precarious; it's somewhat telling that the longest-running businesses in the world are generally based around hot springs/spas.
They would have had to have avoided making those long-term mall deals. No bricks (low overhead) was a huge advantage for Amazon. But, in 1970, why wouldn't you sign a 40-year lease?
They couldn't have become Amazon, for a wide variety of reasons. Let's say that they had tried. Amazon grew by learning how to do logistics well and applying it to a slowly-growing number of categories. They started with books and music, which are relatively easy (they don't rot, and they basically always work so returns are exceedingly rare). Once they got good at that, they started branching out. Sears, by contrast, would have been expected to offer (almost) their entire catalog online at once. There's no way they could do that, not without cannibalizing their existing business - and it definitely would have done that. I doubt they could have grown the online business quickly enough to outpace the effect.
They also wouldn't enjoy Amazon's lack of sales tax for most buyers (which, let's face it, was a big advantage). They could have pioneered ship-to-store, perhaps, which is still one of their few advantages, but it also points out one of their greatest weaknesses - all those long-term leases on relatively expensive mall property. Amazon's warehouses just have to be near a highway.
So, Fi it is. Not the cheapest up front, but as Switzerland is on the menu, looks like the best choice. Mostly going to be used for nav and streaming music on the road.
I can't get a passport since my birth certificate misspells my name
So... get one under the misspelled version? Or go to court and have your name legally changed? I can't see any situation in which you can't get a passport but can get a driver's license, Social Security card, or any of the other ID-proving documents you need to get a legit job in the US.
Per their Wikipedia pages, a G650 at normal cruise is a tiny fraction slower than a Citation X, and even at long-range cruise is only about 10% slower, but it has over twice the total range of the Citation. Am I missing something here? Seems like the difference is tiny and more than made up for by the massive range increase - not having to stop to refuel helps immensely.
Haven't ordered using the Sears third-party marketplace, though I did recently buy a microwave directly from them because they had a good price and free ship-to-store. Took a week to come in, but the biggest wait in the store was how long it took to serve the customer before me. My actual transaction took about ten minutes from telling them who I was to driving away.
Buy Straight Talk from Walmart. $55, 12 GB of LTE data. When you use it up in one day, buy another (you can still text and call with the card, it just gets 2G data after the 12 GB are used). Rinse and repeat. If $55/day sinks your budget, rent a smaller bus next time.
If you want a local SIM in the US, this is it. Not cheap, but it does cover the entire country. Anyone got any recommendations for something similar in central Europe? Probably going to go with Google Fi just because roaming rates are reasonable, but have a two-week vacation coming up from Germany to Hungary and back...
IIRC you can downgrade the firmware, so long as the device is old enough that it has a firmware from before the rule change. I have tomato running on two RT-AC66U's configured as AP's.
If you're referencing Ford, he used lower hours and higher pay to skim the best workers and keep them. He wasn't afraid to fire people. Effective for one small-ish firm, but doesn't scale all that well (even at the height of the UAW, there were a lot of non-union guys getting pittances in supplier shops). Paying them more and working them less isn't a panacea. If you can reliably get the top 10% most productive workers by doing so, you'll probably come out ahead. If not, well...
Even perfect management doesn't guarantee successful return to complete health. Supportive treatment with vasopressors means keeping the critical organs perfused with enough oxygen delivery to survive. When you have to squeeze every artery tightly with drugs in order to keep the brain, heart, kidneys, etc., perfused, guess what parts of the body run out of blood flow first? The ones with the smallest arteries, farthest from the core - i.e., the extremities. Almost certainly what happened here.
I don't treat sepsis these days, but I did as a resident. Even very aggressive treatment isn't always enough. You do what you can and hope for the best. I watched a perfectly healthy 20-something nurse go from a mild cough to death in three days because the wrong bacterium got hold of him.
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They're really good, but unfortunately they don't travel well. You can get a dozen wonderful avocados in the valleys of California for what you'd pay for a single mediocre one in most of the US.
Not just the captain. I bet the OOD's next posting (and it won't be long!) is as a supply officer somewhere really unpleasant until his/her commitment runs out. FWIW, what are considered the really awful places to get posted in the Navy?
Molds also give us bread and alcoholic beverages. Of course, given what too much of either will do to you, perhaps you have a point.
AKA why I have no IoT devices, despite the fact that they'd be very useful. Sell me a device, and charge me separately for the software if you must, but I'm not letting anything on my network that leaks information without my permission.
They do make sugar-free ones. Perhaps that's his preference.
I like a nice conspiracy theory as much as the next guy, but Hillary! supporters aren't exactly the core of the hard Left.
I mean, if all that isn't enough to get you to convert to Judaism, I don't really know what would do the job.
Ooh, had forgotten that name. Such a great service.
You might be surprised. Pilots on regional jets are very poorly paid. And flying a regional jet is, let's be honest, a lot more fun than frying potatoes.
I've never heard "satellite signal lost". That would be a surprising one.
That said, I have been in NW Nevada crossing into CA and going over Tioga Pass into Yosemite, where there is no cell service to be had. The GPS kept working, and the directions still did their thing - even though the phone couldn't load the map. The funniest thing was that we were surrounded by all these giant mountains, and it worked - but a few years later, in Asheville, the mountain-stubs around us would kill GPS reception constantly.
I wonder if perhaps the problem is that those of us who grew up with paper maps and navigation use online maps in a different way. I use Google Maps all the time because it's traffic-aware and will reroute me when snarls occur (which has saved many hours), but I almost always look at the route before I set out so that I have some idea of what to expect. I think many of the GPS-only types really don't know how to use a map to navigate, so they're just doing what Ms. Google says, blindly. You have to have some idea of where you're going, though, because GPS sometimes gets very confused about where it is...
In college in the mid 90s, I asked my parents for a CB radio instead of a cell phone. Phones were still expensive and, in remote areas, barely functional. CB's would at least get a trucker to call the highway patrol at the next stop if you got into trouble.
True, but if they hadn't spent a bunch on brick and mortar, it's probable that they would have died even earlier. Businesses founded on anything other than location are always precarious; it's somewhat telling that the longest-running businesses in the world are generally based around hot springs/spas.
They would have had to have avoided making those long-term mall deals. No bricks (low overhead) was a huge advantage for Amazon. But, in 1970, why wouldn't you sign a 40-year lease?
They couldn't have become Amazon, for a wide variety of reasons. Let's say that they had tried. Amazon grew by learning how to do logistics well and applying it to a slowly-growing number of categories. They started with books and music, which are relatively easy (they don't rot, and they basically always work so returns are exceedingly rare). Once they got good at that, they started branching out. Sears, by contrast, would have been expected to offer (almost) their entire catalog online at once. There's no way they could do that, not without cannibalizing their existing business - and it definitely would have done that. I doubt they could have grown the online business quickly enough to outpace the effect.
They also wouldn't enjoy Amazon's lack of sales tax for most buyers (which, let's face it, was a big advantage). They could have pioneered ship-to-store, perhaps, which is still one of their few advantages, but it also points out one of their greatest weaknesses - all those long-term leases on relatively expensive mall property. Amazon's warehouses just have to be near a highway.
MoCA can do ~700 Mbps over coax.
So, Fi it is. Not the cheapest up front, but as Switzerland is on the menu, looks like the best choice. Mostly going to be used for nav and streaming music on the road.
I can't get a passport since my birth certificate misspells my name
So... get one under the misspelled version? Or go to court and have your name legally changed? I can't see any situation in which you can't get a passport but can get a driver's license, Social Security card, or any of the other ID-proving documents you need to get a legit job in the US.
Per their Wikipedia pages, a G650 at normal cruise is a tiny fraction slower than a Citation X, and even at long-range cruise is only about 10% slower, but it has over twice the total range of the Citation. Am I missing something here? Seems like the difference is tiny and more than made up for by the massive range increase - not having to stop to refuel helps immensely.
Haven't ordered using the Sears third-party marketplace, though I did recently buy a microwave directly from them because they had a good price and free ship-to-store. Took a week to come in, but the biggest wait in the store was how long it took to serve the customer before me. My actual transaction took about ten minutes from telling them who I was to driving away.
Buy Straight Talk from Walmart. $55, 12 GB of LTE data. When you use it up in one day, buy another (you can still text and call with the card, it just gets 2G data after the 12 GB are used). Rinse and repeat. If $55/day sinks your budget, rent a smaller bus next time.
If you want a local SIM in the US, this is it. Not cheap, but it does cover the entire country. Anyone got any recommendations for something similar in central Europe? Probably going to go with Google Fi just because roaming rates are reasonable, but have a two-week vacation coming up from Germany to Hungary and back...
IIRC you can downgrade the firmware, so long as the device is old enough that it has a firmware from before the rule change. I have tomato running on two RT-AC66U's configured as AP's.
If you're referencing Ford, he used lower hours and higher pay to skim the best workers and keep them. He wasn't afraid to fire people. Effective for one small-ish firm, but doesn't scale all that well (even at the height of the UAW, there were a lot of non-union guys getting pittances in supplier shops). Paying them more and working them less isn't a panacea. If you can reliably get the top 10% most productive workers by doing so, you'll probably come out ahead. If not, well...
Even perfect management doesn't guarantee successful return to complete health. Supportive treatment with vasopressors means keeping the critical organs perfused with enough oxygen delivery to survive. When you have to squeeze every artery tightly with drugs in order to keep the brain, heart, kidneys, etc., perfused, guess what parts of the body run out of blood flow first? The ones with the smallest arteries, farthest from the core - i.e., the extremities. Almost certainly what happened here.
I don't treat sepsis these days, but I did as a resident. Even very aggressive treatment isn't always enough. You do what you can and hope for the best. I watched a perfectly healthy 20-something nurse go from a mild cough to death in three days because the wrong bacterium got hold of him.
Transportation costs would sink this plan.