In an era in which type was set by hand for printing, eliminating the Oxford comma made great sense for printers - they needed fewer commas on hand, and it did save a fair bit of time. In an era in which typesetting is computerized, that no longer applies, and using it is more akin to the British than the American style of punctuation inside/outside quotation marks.
Trainspotting the book was easy. You have all the time in the world to sound things out, search for unfamiliar words, etc. Trainspotting the movie... well, let's just say that I probably didn't understand 2/3 of the dialogue when I watched it the first time. After I read the book, the accent was still tough - but I knew what they were saying (the dialogue is almost verbatim), which made it much easier to start to understand the accent.
No, they have to make reasonable accommodations to their students. Seems a bit of a stretch to say that they have the same obligation to non-students as to students.
I've heard this over and over again - it was even a movie - but where do people work 9-5? 8-5 with a nominal hour for lunch is common for businesses, and 10-6 (no lunch) is common for retail, but I've never worked a job where you were expected to show up at 9.
I haven't been with my shop long enough for them to cover it gratis, but considering that what I paid for the tow was about 1/3 of what I would have paid as Joe Shmoe, I don't care if they made a few nickels on it.
And I really wish that my preferred mechanical and body shops weren't 20 miles apart, but...
And there's a pretty interesting counterexample: Atlanta. Atlanta has - by far - the least bad traffic of any city of its size I've experienced. And the traffic is least bad on the highways with the most lanes. It's usually faster to go through Atlanta than around Atlanta, because the Downtown Connector is six or seven lanes each way, and the Perimeter is three or four.
Yes, induced traffic demand happens. Sort of. Go build a 20-lane freeway around Minot, ND, and see if it attracts traffic. (Probably not.)
As a corollary, if you don't have AAA, your shop probably has arrangements with some local towing companies that will get a much better price than you will. Had to do that once for my wife's car (dead fuel pump while she was at work).
My wife and I are American citizens. Nonetheless, we get a set of basic questions from the immigration officer that are obviously designed to make sure that the person to whom the American passport (or, in this case, visa) was issued is, in fact, the person standing in front of them. I'd be pissed about the wait, but it's an entirely legitimate function. They aren't usually this detailed, but we're American citizens, not foreigners from a country that isn't part of the visa waiver program.
It's usually pretty perfunctory by air - I'm sure they can see we had round-trip tickets, and that I probably wouldn't leave my traveling companion abroad - but we did get a little more than usual when we came back in from Canada by ground. Even then, though, it was: where do you live? Where are you headed today? Where do you work? Bring anything back with you? Then another set of questions for my wife, again designed to establish that she spoke colloquial American English and had a coherent story. He took a glance at the contents of the trunk and waved us on.
Now, when you pull up to these, there are at least four or five cameras in the lane. I'm near-certain that the guy had a Google Street Maps picture of my house pulled up on the monitors in his booth. He was just checking to see that we had stories that made sense.
Like they'll ever give up the huge advantage that iMessage gives them. They've even intentionally crippled their messaging app to drive people onto Apple - you can't send a group text to more than 10 people unless all of them are iMessage users.
Coal workers had "shorter" days, but only because they were not paid for the time spent descending into the mine and walking to the coal face. They were paid only when actually mining. Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier has a lot about this.
When I was nine, my parents gave me a house key. They told me where the spare was hidden, too. Then they told me to take my bicycle to and from school (about 1 mile, 1.6 km). If I woke up late, or it was raining, my mom would put me in the car and drop me off. If it was still raining when school let out, she would pick me up, but otherwise I would just walk home. I'm 42, so very much an 80's kid. We did all kinds of dangerous stuff. The only expectation my parents had was "be home by dinner". And that extended into my teenage years - although my curfews were ridiculously early, I could literally tell them nothing about what I was going to do, and nothing about where I was going to go, and it was cool. It sucked, because there was no flexibility, but at the same time, I could do whatever I wanted. No expectation that there would be parents present. No expectation that we would be available. Come home by X, what you do until then is your business.
Have your stuff delivered to a private mailbox facility (like a UPS Store), or to your place of work, if it's valuable. Every electronic item more complicated than an SD card that I order goes to the office. There's always someone to sign for it, it isn't accessible to thieves, and it's always climate-controlled.
I don't shop at Amazon because it's cheaper - it's usually not much, if any. But it's much less work for me. Get online, check inventory, make sure it's in stock, drive twenty minutes each way, hunt for the item while in the store, wait in checkout line... if I don't need it right now, I can get online, click "place order", and it appears on my doorstep two days later. Huge time-saver for me, as my work is intermittent - I have lots of three-to-five-minute idle periods, which means I can get personal stuff done during the day, instead of wasting that time and having to invest even more after work.
Assuming you know about it. Some do, but it is likely that most sellers do not. And TBH, I couldn't even begin to tell you how to get in touch with the people I've sold used cars to, even if I wanted to. We did cash deals after a couple of phone calls. Yeah, I wrote them a bill of sale, but you know how many James Edwards are out there?
That said, this sort of story is why we kept my wife's 2001 Tahoe instead of selling it.
Or just have an alternate login that you can use, with the real info in an encrypted backup. They're not, in general, going to look very hard.
The border agents ask a bunch of questions, most of which are completely content-irrelevant. Last time I came back into the US from Canada, the guy asked me where I lived and worked. C'mon, dude, I drove past something like ten cameras to get into this booth. If you don't have a Google Street View of my house (and, for that matter, my workplace - AFAICT I am the only person in the world with my full name, and one of two with the same first and last) in front of you on those monitors, then I want a tax refund. But that's not the point: he just wants me to answer questions to prove that I am, in fact, what I claim to be: an American citizen. Demonstrate proficiency with casual American English, have reasonable answers, have a plan that sounds reasonable (e.g., don't say that I plan to drive from the Quebec-NY border to Los Angeles in the next six hours).
Yeah, I don't run any of those. My phone is a critical part of my job. Battery life is #1. I'll do a little music stuff, but the screen stays off unless I need it on.
But how much of the stuff you run on your smartphone is anything that isn't, at root, either a glorified web browser or a basic function (like texting, calling, or camera)? The only piece of software I regularly run on mine that isn't in that category is a calculator app.
Or to represent the interests of the party. They had some pretty rough conventions in 1968 and 1972... superdelegates are part of the response to that.
It's amusing that the structure of the Democratic Party is anti-democratic, but then again, the Republican party isn't terribly republican most of the time.
Flip side: US labor law is really, really terrible. It isn't particularly good for employees, and it's no great help to employers. It's very good at organizing political activism and enriching union bosses. I can see why they might have done this.
They don't just do three rights instead of a left. They organize the route in such a way that the driver makes almost entirely right turns. In the video, the corporate guy mentions that they organize their entire operation so that packages on different sides of the same street will often be delivered by different drivers in different trucks, just so that neither has to make a left.
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In an era in which type was set by hand for printing, eliminating the Oxford comma made great sense for printers - they needed fewer commas on hand, and it did save a fair bit of time. In an era in which typesetting is computerized, that no longer applies, and using it is more akin to the British than the American style of punctuation inside/outside quotation marks.
Amusing way of phrasing yourself, though.
Trainspotting the book was easy. You have all the time in the world to sound things out, search for unfamiliar words, etc. Trainspotting the movie... well, let's just say that I probably didn't understand 2/3 of the dialogue when I watched it the first time. After I read the book, the accent was still tough - but I knew what they were saying (the dialogue is almost verbatim), which made it much easier to start to understand the accent.
No, they have to make reasonable accommodations to their students. Seems a bit of a stretch to say that they have the same obligation to non-students as to students.
Must be nice. I get to work at 0630, but that's an outlier. 0800-1700 is standard for office jobs in my part of the US.
FWIW, air conditioning in hot climates is substantially less energy-intensive than heating in cold ones.
I've heard this over and over again - it was even a movie - but where do people work 9-5? 8-5 with a nominal hour for lunch is common for businesses, and 10-6 (no lunch) is common for retail, but I've never worked a job where you were expected to show up at 9.
Yeah, wipe-and-reinstall (while connected to a guest network) is a necessity with preowned/open box items.
I haven't been with my shop long enough for them to cover it gratis, but considering that what I paid for the tow was about 1/3 of what I would have paid as Joe Shmoe, I don't care if they made a few nickels on it.
And I really wish that my preferred mechanical and body shops weren't 20 miles apart, but...
And there's a pretty interesting counterexample: Atlanta. Atlanta has - by far - the least bad traffic of any city of its size I've experienced. And the traffic is least bad on the highways with the most lanes. It's usually faster to go through Atlanta than around Atlanta, because the Downtown Connector is six or seven lanes each way, and the Perimeter is three or four.
Yes, induced traffic demand happens. Sort of. Go build a 20-lane freeway around Minot, ND, and see if it attracts traffic. (Probably not.)
As a corollary, if you don't have AAA, your shop probably has arrangements with some local towing companies that will get a much better price than you will. Had to do that once for my wife's car (dead fuel pump while she was at work).
My wife and I are American citizens. Nonetheless, we get a set of basic questions from the immigration officer that are obviously designed to make sure that the person to whom the American passport (or, in this case, visa) was issued is, in fact, the person standing in front of them. I'd be pissed about the wait, but it's an entirely legitimate function. They aren't usually this detailed, but we're American citizens, not foreigners from a country that isn't part of the visa waiver program.
It's usually pretty perfunctory by air - I'm sure they can see we had round-trip tickets, and that I probably wouldn't leave my traveling companion abroad - but we did get a little more than usual when we came back in from Canada by ground. Even then, though, it was: where do you live? Where are you headed today? Where do you work? Bring anything back with you? Then another set of questions for my wife, again designed to establish that she spoke colloquial American English and had a coherent story. He took a glance at the contents of the trunk and waved us on.
Now, when you pull up to these, there are at least four or five cameras in the lane. I'm near-certain that the guy had a Google Street Maps picture of my house pulled up on the monitors in his booth. He was just checking to see that we had stories that made sense.
It's a neat idea, but what happens in the winter? Seems like a good idea for the tropics, but otherwise not terribly useful.
Like they'll ever give up the huge advantage that iMessage gives them. They've even intentionally crippled their messaging app to drive people onto Apple - you can't send a group text to more than 10 people unless all of them are iMessage users.
Coal workers had "shorter" days, but only because they were not paid for the time spent descending into the mine and walking to the coal face. They were paid only when actually mining. Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier has a lot about this.
If you trash it, that's destruction of evidence.
When I was nine, my parents gave me a house key. They told me where the spare was hidden, too. Then they told me to take my bicycle to and from school (about 1 mile, 1.6 km). If I woke up late, or it was raining, my mom would put me in the car and drop me off. If it was still raining when school let out, she would pick me up, but otherwise I would just walk home. I'm 42, so very much an 80's kid. We did all kinds of dangerous stuff. The only expectation my parents had was "be home by dinner". And that extended into my teenage years - although my curfews were ridiculously early, I could literally tell them nothing about what I was going to do, and nothing about where I was going to go, and it was cool. It sucked, because there was no flexibility, but at the same time, I could do whatever I wanted. No expectation that there would be parents present. No expectation that we would be available. Come home by X, what you do until then is your business.
Have your stuff delivered to a private mailbox facility (like a UPS Store), or to your place of work, if it's valuable. Every electronic item more complicated than an SD card that I order goes to the office. There's always someone to sign for it, it isn't accessible to thieves, and it's always climate-controlled.
I don't shop at Amazon because it's cheaper - it's usually not much, if any. But it's much less work for me. Get online, check inventory, make sure it's in stock, drive twenty minutes each way, hunt for the item while in the store, wait in checkout line... if I don't need it right now, I can get online, click "place order", and it appears on my doorstep two days later. Huge time-saver for me, as my work is intermittent - I have lots of three-to-five-minute idle periods, which means I can get personal stuff done during the day, instead of wasting that time and having to invest even more after work.
Assuming you know about it. Some do, but it is likely that most sellers do not. And TBH, I couldn't even begin to tell you how to get in touch with the people I've sold used cars to, even if I wanted to. We did cash deals after a couple of phone calls. Yeah, I wrote them a bill of sale, but you know how many James Edwards are out there?
That said, this sort of story is why we kept my wife's 2001 Tahoe instead of selling it.
Or just have an alternate login that you can use, with the real info in an encrypted backup. They're not, in general, going to look very hard.
The border agents ask a bunch of questions, most of which are completely content-irrelevant. Last time I came back into the US from Canada, the guy asked me where I lived and worked. C'mon, dude, I drove past something like ten cameras to get into this booth. If you don't have a Google Street View of my house (and, for that matter, my workplace - AFAICT I am the only person in the world with my full name, and one of two with the same first and last) in front of you on those monitors, then I want a tax refund. But that's not the point: he just wants me to answer questions to prove that I am, in fact, what I claim to be: an American citizen. Demonstrate proficiency with casual American English, have reasonable answers, have a plan that sounds reasonable (e.g., don't say that I plan to drive from the Quebec-NY border to Los Angeles in the next six hours).
Yeah, I don't run any of those. My phone is a critical part of my job. Battery life is #1. I'll do a little music stuff, but the screen stays off unless I need it on.
But how much of the stuff you run on your smartphone is anything that isn't, at root, either a glorified web browser or a basic function (like texting, calling, or camera)? The only piece of software I regularly run on mine that isn't in that category is a calculator app.
Or to represent the interests of the party. They had some pretty rough conventions in 1968 and 1972... superdelegates are part of the response to that.
It's amusing that the structure of the Democratic Party is anti-democratic, but then again, the Republican party isn't terribly republican most of the time.
Flip side: US labor law is really, really terrible. It isn't particularly good for employees, and it's no great help to employers. It's very good at organizing political activism and enriching union bosses. I can see why they might have done this.
They don't just do three rights instead of a left. They organize the route in such a way that the driver makes almost entirely right turns. In the video, the corporate guy mentions that they organize their entire operation so that packages on different sides of the same street will often be delivered by different drivers in different trucks, just so that neither has to make a left.