All the places that single-queue works involve people who are carrying either nothing or a small number of items with them, so that the queue itself doesn't occupy much space. A cart takes up as much space as two people by itself, and (more importantly) with groceries there is a real advantage to unloading everything onto the belt while the person ahead of you is checking out.
As for the racks by the checkout, the other big advantage of individual queues is that they do not get very deep, and so you can occupy a wide but shallow space at the front of the store. A single queue would have to extend back into the store somewhat and would become a barrier to passing from one side of the store to the other.
I know about the advantages of single-queue systems. It's safe to bet that Wal-Mart does, too. And if they're not using it, you'd better believe that there's a good reason why not. They've found that express and self-check lanes work better to split the load.
Although Sam's Club checks every receipt, Wal-Mart in general only asks to see the receipt if you have something that isn't in a bag. Just bypass them, they won't stop you.
Single file is the best way to distribute people. However, if you don't want it to occupy an extraordinary amount of space, then you'll need to use rope barriers or similar to have it twist back and forth on itself. The serpentine array of rope barriers is how it's usually done in the US.
Grocery stores feature full carts that are slow to move from point to point and take up a lot of space, reducing the efficiency of single-queue systems. The flip side is that there are no express lanes in single-queue stores, while they are prominent in multiple-queue systems.
I've always wondered why DSLRs weren't designed to use a sensor cartridge. You buy a body, you buy a sensor, and you can swap out the sensor every few years.
It's quite difficult to sterilize a Wii controller - it takes a lot of time, because you can't use the typical heat methods to do the job. The Kinect system can use existing sterile equipment so that surgeons can manipulate things off the field without having to scrub out and scrub back in.
Does your contract include an SLA that specifies you will receive that bandwidth? Because if it does, and you're not getting it, then you can sue them pretty easily, and you'll win.
The prosecutor and police arrested the driver, threw him in jail for over a day, charged him with two felonies, and forced him to defend himself in court, and they gave up only because a judge threw out the charges, all for something he should never have been arrested for in the first place. How noble.
If the driver has done nothing wrong, why did they pull them over in the first place? Oh, damn, I feel bad because I couldn't find anything to pin on that guy?
Somehow people seem to think that Cops have this mythical "spidey sense" and they can just know what is actually going on and judge the situations accordingly. They don't.
They should quit claiming that their "experience as a law enforcement officer" means anything, then. I've had cops threaten to shoot me for - no kidding - showing up when my wife was stopped for a seatbelt violation. Now, I know that you'll want the details, so I'll pass them along.
My wife and I are both in our 30s. She drives a Chevy Tahoe; I drive a Lexus ES. We live in a suburban area inside the major city. She was stopped at 5 pm on a Saturday a few blocks from the house and realized that she didn't have her insurance card with her. Now, she has insurance, so the ticket will be dismissed immediately when she goes downtown and shows her proof of insurance. She asked if I might bring it by to spare herself a ride down to the courthouse to do so. I pulled up about 20 yards past where she was stopped, exited the car, and turned to face the officers with my hands raised to shoulder height and away from my side. I told them I thought I had something that would be of use to them. They 1) informed me that her violation was in not having the card, 2) told me I was interfering with a police investigation, and 3) ordered me to leave. They then spent 15 minutes after I left telling me that it would be her fault if they shot me to death for showing up.
I can see how someone who shows up, randomly, at a traffic stop, could be perceived as a threat. But if a 35 year old overweight dude wearing shorts and a T-shirt, with his hands up, triggers your threat detectors, you're a fucking moron. If your response to citizens who have the audacity to try to clear something up by calling a family member is to tell them you're going to kill that person, and it will be said citizen's fault, then you're an evil fucking moron.
If I hadn't had to be at work in two hours, I'd have challenged the officious shits.
I would much rather it be her who pulled the trigger. Not the perp.
Ah. Suspect != perpetrator. I know that cops can't be bothered to distinguish the two, but the distinction is real.
Most of your right-wing friends are probably libertarians with a conservative bent, rather than true-blue social conservatives. I'm one of the former, with far more than a passing acquaintance with the latter, and the old joke about every conservative's favorite woman being Laura Norder is surprisingly true among these people. My mother-in-law is generally a delightful woman, but she cannot be sane about animals or criminals. The former can do no wrong - no dog is ever vicious except as a result of abuse, the breeding of animals for profit is evil and should be stopped (except, of course, for the really quality breeders who take superb care of their animals); the latter can do no good - anyone charged with a crime almost certainly did it, because why else would they have been charged?
It does call to mind another old saw - a liberal is someone who's never been mugged, while a conservative is someone who's never been arrested.
1. Please mod this up 2. Can you offer the younger members of the audience any advice about whom to talk to? People who are deep inside a field often have a great deal of knowledge about where to go and what to do, but just finding out who those people are is often a hard task for the young, unconnected person.
The SAT serves primarily to allow universities to compare students from varied high schools, with different academic standards. An elite school will essentially never accept anyone who isn't in honors courses, very rarely accept those without some Advanced Placement (generally applicable as college credit) courses, and will only take students who don't have extracurricular activities if they have near-perfect scores.
What in hell's name were you interning in? $3k plus housing a month, assuming after-tax, is something like $60k a year. That's well north of what I made as a medical resident, and I'm pretty sure you weren't doing nights and weekends.
It's a bit of a quibble, but medicine and law really are some of the most egalitarian professions when it comes to admissions. If you can put up a 42 on the MCAT, or a 175 on the LSAT, you'll get into a top school, period. In law, where you go is very determinative of your future options; in medicine, not so much - the standardized testing of the USMLE means that selection for residency positions (the determinant of your future options) means that med students nationwide can be compared pretty equally across schools.
I suspect, though I don't know, that there is a military policy against allowing homosexuals to serve openly. The thing about military policies is that there's a Commander in Chief who can override any of them by writing an order - this is how the military was racially integrated, for example. The story today is about a federal law, which the President can't write an order to ignore.
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All the places that single-queue works involve people who are carrying either nothing or a small number of items with them, so that the queue itself doesn't occupy much space. A cart takes up as much space as two people by itself, and (more importantly) with groceries there is a real advantage to unloading everything onto the belt while the person ahead of you is checking out.
As for the racks by the checkout, the other big advantage of individual queues is that they do not get very deep, and so you can occupy a wide but shallow space at the front of the store. A single queue would have to extend back into the store somewhat and would become a barrier to passing from one side of the store to the other.
I know about the advantages of single-queue systems. It's safe to bet that Wal-Mart does, too. And if they're not using it, you'd better believe that there's a good reason why not. They've found that express and self-check lanes work better to split the load.
You rapidly run out of real estate doing this.
Although Sam's Club checks every receipt, Wal-Mart in general only asks to see the receipt if you have something that isn't in a bag. Just bypass them, they won't stop you.
Single file is the best way to distribute people. However, if you don't want it to occupy an extraordinary amount of space, then you'll need to use rope barriers or similar to have it twist back and forth on itself. The serpentine array of rope barriers is how it's usually done in the US.
Grocery stores feature full carts that are slow to move from point to point and take up a lot of space, reducing the efficiency of single-queue systems. The flip side is that there are no express lanes in single-queue stores, while they are prominent in multiple-queue systems.
If anybody does buy that thing
The only person who would buy it is the guy in this.For the money, you'd be better off getting four of those Panasonic 152" 4k screens.
for a camera with a limited shelf life
I've always wondered why DSLRs weren't designed to use a sensor cartridge. You buy a body, you buy a sensor, and you can swap out the sensor every few years.
It's quite difficult to sterilize a Wii controller - it takes a lot of time, because you can't use the typical heat methods to do the job. The Kinect system can use existing sterile equipment so that surgeons can manipulate things off the field without having to scrub out and scrub back in.
Does your contract include an SLA that specifies you will receive that bandwidth? Because if it does, and you're not getting it, then you can sue them pretty easily, and you'll win.
Neither of those will actually influence state law. And I do donate to the causes I support.
His suit cannot force criminal prosecution, which is what they deserved.
The prosecutor and police arrested the driver, threw him in jail for over a day, charged him with two felonies, and forced him to defend himself in court, and they gave up only because a judge threw out the charges, all for something he should never have been arrested for in the first place. How noble.
If the driver has done nothing wrong, why did they pull them over in the first place? Oh, damn, I feel bad because I couldn't find anything to pin on that guy?
Somehow people seem to think that Cops have this mythical "spidey sense" and they can just know what is actually going on and judge the situations accordingly. They don't.
They should quit claiming that their "experience as a law enforcement officer" means anything, then. I've had cops threaten to shoot me for - no kidding - showing up when my wife was stopped for a seatbelt violation. Now, I know that you'll want the details, so I'll pass them along.
My wife and I are both in our 30s. She drives a Chevy Tahoe; I drive a Lexus ES. We live in a suburban area inside the major city. She was stopped at 5 pm on a Saturday a few blocks from the house and realized that she didn't have her insurance card with her. Now, she has insurance, so the ticket will be dismissed immediately when she goes downtown and shows her proof of insurance. She asked if I might bring it by to spare herself a ride down to the courthouse to do so. I pulled up about 20 yards past where she was stopped, exited the car, and turned to face the officers with my hands raised to shoulder height and away from my side. I told them I thought I had something that would be of use to them. They 1) informed me that her violation was in not having the card, 2) told me I was interfering with a police investigation, and 3) ordered me to leave. They then spent 15 minutes after I left telling me that it would be her fault if they shot me to death for showing up.
I can see how someone who shows up, randomly, at a traffic stop, could be perceived as a threat. But if a 35 year old overweight dude wearing shorts and a T-shirt, with his hands up, triggers your threat detectors, you're a fucking moron. If your response to citizens who have the audacity to try to clear something up by calling a family member is to tell them you're going to kill that person, and it will be said citizen's fault, then you're an evil fucking moron.
If I hadn't had to be at work in two hours, I'd have challenged the officious shits.
I would much rather it be her who pulled the trigger. Not the perp.
Ah. Suspect != perpetrator. I know that cops can't be bothered to distinguish the two, but the distinction is real.
Most of your right-wing friends are probably libertarians with a conservative bent, rather than true-blue social conservatives. I'm one of the former, with far more than a passing acquaintance with the latter, and the old joke about every conservative's favorite woman being Laura Norder is surprisingly true among these people. My mother-in-law is generally a delightful woman, but she cannot be sane about animals or criminals. The former can do no wrong - no dog is ever vicious except as a result of abuse, the breeding of animals for profit is evil and should be stopped (except, of course, for the really quality breeders who take superb care of their animals); the latter can do no good - anyone charged with a crime almost certainly did it, because why else would they have been charged?
It does call to mind another old saw - a liberal is someone who's never been mugged, while a conservative is someone who's never been arrested.
$3k over a summer, yes, absolutely. But $3k plus housing a month? There sure weren't any deals like that around when I was a chem major 15 years ago.
1. Please mod this up
2. Can you offer the younger members of the audience any advice about whom to talk to? People who are deep inside a field often have a great deal of knowledge about where to go and what to do, but just finding out who those people are is often a hard task for the young, unconnected person.
The SAT serves primarily to allow universities to compare students from varied high schools, with different academic standards. An elite school will essentially never accept anyone who isn't in honors courses, very rarely accept those without some Advanced Placement (generally applicable as college credit) courses, and will only take students who don't have extracurricular activities if they have near-perfect scores.
There are elite subjects, and there are elite schools. Both matter.
What in hell's name were you interning in? $3k plus housing a month, assuming after-tax, is something like $60k a year. That's well north of what I made as a medical resident, and I'm pretty sure you weren't doing nights and weekends.
even made a couple of real good enemies for me in the administration
What in God's name were you doing with some chick that got you in trouble with administration?
It's a bit of a quibble, but medicine and law really are some of the most egalitarian professions when it comes to admissions. If you can put up a 42 on the MCAT, or a 175 on the LSAT, you'll get into a top school, period. In law, where you go is very determinative of your future options; in medicine, not so much - the standardized testing of the USMLE means that selection for residency positions (the determinant of your future options) means that med students nationwide can be compared pretty equally across schools.
The jewelry industry uses registered mail for the same purpose.
I suspect, though I don't know, that there is a military policy against allowing homosexuals to serve openly. The thing about military policies is that there's a Commander in Chief who can override any of them by writing an order - this is how the military was racially integrated, for example. The story today is about a federal law, which the President can't write an order to ignore.
To be fair, I'm not sure there are any truly Burkean conservatives in the US outside of a few New England families.