Do a chargeback. Credit card companies are the 800 pound gorilla in the room in this arena, and they have enormous power to make vendors comply with their wishes.
Keeping cash on hand is never a bad idea. I never let the cash stash go below $2000. It's well-secured, of course, but it's a nice buffer against shitty weather.
I'm an Android user, I just turn off Location Services when I don't need them. I mean, simple cell triangulation gets you to within about 100 m or so, so what's the point in worrying? If you want to be paranoid, be paranoid. Get an offline GPS, assuming you need one, and don't carry a cell phone. Or turn it off.
This has been in the cards ever since the hardcore Left took over the core of the Democratic Party. The ouster of Brendan Eich should have caused a great deal more pause than it did. You cannot simultaneously complain about McCarthyism and hound people out of their jobs for their privately-expressed political opinions without consequences. And the consequences are clear: if you tell approximately half of Americans that they are not merely wrong, but evilly so, and in serious jeopardy of losing their livelihood for agreeing with something in 2008 that even the victorious Democratic candidate for President nominally opposed, then you really have shot your wad against the people that you really should be trying to convince.
Message: disagree with the party line for even a short time, even if your stance matches the nominal stance of the party's Presidential nominee at that time, and you're just a tick off Hitler. Well, shit, if you tell people that, don't be surprised when the response is a resounding FUCK YOU.
A few of the more insightful lefties have penned pieces much like this: if you don't want Donald Trump throwing landmines, then don't call Mitt Romney a KKK'er. Call him a bad choice, a misguided choice, a guy who just doesn't know how to make this country the best it can be. Tear him down over and over again on policy, on opinions, on his potential impact on the Supreme Court. But don't say the guy is a racist bigot who wants to reinstate slavery, because once you do that to the biggest milquetoast around, it ceases to have any effect. Lots of people like him, and guess what? Once you've condemned them all as the scum of the earth for having the audacity to disagree with you, with the most generic Eisenhower-era liberal persona that I've seen since GHWB in a Republican candidate, they have lost any reason to try to seek compromise, because you have rejected it in toto.
Obama was a savvy enough politician to skirt his "bitter clingers" remarks; he didn't need those voters to win. Hillary needed some of them. Cf. the Tom Hanks "Black Jeopardy" skit.
Hope you'll be happy when they shut the whole thing down. You may pay a lot of taxes; I don't know. But taxes alone don't cover the cost of the public transit.
Or just use alcohol-based hand cleaner. Fanatically. It's even less work than washing, and there's no worry about whether they'll have paper towels vs those horrible hand-dryers that force you to touch the door handle on the way out.
Yeah, I just spent a week in New York. I saw people trying to hail taxis left and right. I never waited more than ten minutes for an Uber, and usually less than five. I got picked up. They still had their arms out.
And how big do you really think the neo-Nazis are? Sure, yeah, everyone here has heard of/pol, but in general? Generously, we're talking about maybe 100k American voters. In a country of over 300 million, that's nothing.
Yeah, I'm sure the neo-Nazi's are happy that Trump won, but mostly because they're glad that Clinton lost. Too many people on the left think that Hillary! was the equivalent of, say, Mitt Romney: a dedicated, qualified politician that both sides could get behind even if they disagreed with the exact policies. Whereas the right thinks she's more like Newt Gingrich: a dedicated, qualified politician that the other side would like to burn at the stake.
There is a pretty good solution, if your car still has an aux input: buy a separate Bluetooth receiver with 3.5 mm output. Pair your phone to the car, then pair your other (audio) devices to the separate receiver. Put car audio in aux mode.
My car came with Bluetooth for calls only, not audio, and I have it set up so that my phone pairs to the car for calls, and the separate receiver for audio. Works beautifully.
There are some cheap ones like the Blackberry Music Gateway, but the maximum output is pretty weak. On the recommendation of someone else who was in my situation, I got a Himbox HB01, which came with a lighter->dual USB adapter for power. If you're in an older car, it can even do the hands-free thing for your phone, but that would have visible cables (the microphone is in the Bluetooth receiver). I set my phone to connect to the built-in for calls (so numbers show up on the display, and the microphone is hidden) and only use the Himbox for audio.
It was only $30, and it works really well for this situation. Like I said, if you have a power outlet in the console, and an aux jack in the console, all it costs you is a bit of space at the bottom. I don't ever listen to the radio except for the occasional bit of news, so it's quite seamless for the vast majority of my usage. I don't need the phone mounted because my car's built-in GPS is Good Enough even with somewhat outdated maps - the areas that aren't on the maps are places that were developed recently, so audio from Google Maps is enough (the roads in newer developments are spaced out more, so there's less chance of missing a turn).
Incidentally, assuming you're in the UK, this appears to be an updated version. £21.99, only £2 more than the older version.
Oh, I just use Bluetooth from phone to a Bluetooth receiver hooked to the aux input, entirely within the console. My car has Bluetooth phone but not audio, so this was the easiest way to do it: use the car system for phone, independent receiver for audio.
Reverse osmosis is perfectly acceptable price-wise for human-use water. It doesn't scale well to agricultural use, but then again we do have southern Texas and Florida as year-round growing regions.
No. Not even close. After WW1 at the earliest. As I've read of someone who grew up in the early 1900s, "I never thought I would be so rich as to own a car, nor so poor as to be unable to afford servants." Or, by comparison, take the novelist Nevil Shute (born 1899): when he was a child, his father was the head of the Irish postal service. A senior civil servant of the sort who might earn around $175k today. They had a full-time gardener, housekeeper, and cook.
Why can't we just have a line-in input on a 3.5 mm jack as part of every damned car audio system? (Spare me the iPhone jokes.) My car has one that's in the center console along with a lighter plug, so I can actually power my Bluetooth audio receiver and connect it to the aux input. It's great. But when I rent a car, they all seem to have dropped the aux input. Bluetooth is good, but it's not that good yet.
Swype (and related) is a great concept but really has a couple of problems: one, it's really bad about ignoring words that are in the default dictionary in favor of what you type all the time (several versions were absolutely fixated on choosing "nee" instead of "me", even though I write the latter several times a day and the former maybe once a year); and two, the huge number of English words that are formed by top-row letters need some better mechanism to distinguish them: put, out, our, it, pot, pie, poi, purr... and that's just right to left. Then you have to and top, going left to right.
Some people don't have to worry about this. Everyone knows someone who eats lots of pizza, drinks full-sugar sodas, and is rail-thin. This is for those of us who lack such metabolisms.
I know exactly how much exercise is required to allow me to eat anything I want and stay at an appropriate weight: high school football. About 14 hours a week of running around with pads, helmet, etc., plus four hours a week of weights. I don't have an extra 18 hours a week as an adult.
For comparison: last year I drove, in eight days, from my hometown to several destinations in Canada, back into the US, and then home again. Total about 3400 miles/5400 km. As a rough estimate, this is the distance between New York and London, or slightly less than the distance from London to Kandahar. I never crossed the Mississippi. Driving it is a lot of fun, but it's still a long slog.
It's not necessarily a mistake on the part of the state: it's Supreme Court jurisprudence. Reynolds v. Sims is the controlling law here. Yes, the SC ruled that an arrangement exactly parallel to what the Constitution decrees for states is unconstitutional when applied at a sub-state level. There's a reason that the Warren Court is known for... "creative" decisions.
Fine, but put it on an individual level. I pay the same taxes to the Feds that I'd pay if I didn't live in flyover country. Want to grant one federal vote per dollar of federal income and payroll tax paid? I'm entirely on board with that.
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Do a chargeback. Credit card companies are the 800 pound gorilla in the room in this arena, and they have enormous power to make vendors comply with their wishes.
Keeping cash on hand is never a bad idea. I never let the cash stash go below $2000. It's well-secured, of course, but it's a nice buffer against shitty weather.
I'm an Android user, I just turn off Location Services when I don't need them. I mean, simple cell triangulation gets you to within about 100 m or so, so what's the point in worrying? If you want to be paranoid, be paranoid. Get an offline GPS, assuming you need one, and don't carry a cell phone. Or turn it off.
This has been in the cards ever since the hardcore Left took over the core of the Democratic Party. The ouster of Brendan Eich should have caused a great deal more pause than it did. You cannot simultaneously complain about McCarthyism and hound people out of their jobs for their privately-expressed political opinions without consequences. And the consequences are clear: if you tell approximately half of Americans that they are not merely wrong, but evilly so, and in serious jeopardy of losing their livelihood for agreeing with something in 2008 that even the victorious Democratic candidate for President nominally opposed, then you really have shot your wad against the people that you really should be trying to convince.
Message: disagree with the party line for even a short time, even if your stance matches the nominal stance of the party's Presidential nominee at that time, and you're just a tick off Hitler. Well, shit, if you tell people that, don't be surprised when the response is a resounding FUCK YOU.
A few of the more insightful lefties have penned pieces much like this: if you don't want Donald Trump throwing landmines, then don't call Mitt Romney a KKK'er. Call him a bad choice, a misguided choice, a guy who just doesn't know how to make this country the best it can be. Tear him down over and over again on policy, on opinions, on his potential impact on the Supreme Court. But don't say the guy is a racist bigot who wants to reinstate slavery, because once you do that to the biggest milquetoast around, it ceases to have any effect. Lots of people like him, and guess what? Once you've condemned them all as the scum of the earth for having the audacity to disagree with you, with the most generic Eisenhower-era liberal persona that I've seen since GHWB in a Republican candidate, they have lost any reason to try to seek compromise, because you have rejected it in toto.
Obama was a savvy enough politician to skirt his "bitter clingers" remarks; he didn't need those voters to win. Hillary needed some of them. Cf. the Tom Hanks "Black Jeopardy" skit.
That's why they make it with moisturizer. Messy, but better than a cold.
Hope you'll be happy when they shut the whole thing down. You may pay a lot of taxes; I don't know. But taxes alone don't cover the cost of the public transit.
Or just use alcohol-based hand cleaner. Fanatically. It's even less work than washing, and there's no worry about whether they'll have paper towels vs those horrible hand-dryers that force you to touch the door handle on the way out.
Yeah, I just spent a week in New York. I saw people trying to hail taxis left and right. I never waited more than ten minutes for an Uber, and usually less than five. I got picked up. They still had their arms out.
And how big do you really think the neo-Nazis are? Sure, yeah, everyone here has heard of /pol, but in general? Generously, we're talking about maybe 100k American voters. In a country of over 300 million, that's nothing.
Yeah, I'm sure the neo-Nazi's are happy that Trump won, but mostly because they're glad that Clinton lost. Too many people on the left think that Hillary! was the equivalent of, say, Mitt Romney: a dedicated, qualified politician that both sides could get behind even if they disagreed with the exact policies. Whereas the right thinks she's more like Newt Gingrich: a dedicated, qualified politician that the other side would like to burn at the stake.
There is a pretty good solution, if your car still has an aux input: buy a separate Bluetooth receiver with 3.5 mm output. Pair your phone to the car, then pair your other (audio) devices to the separate receiver. Put car audio in aux mode.
My car came with Bluetooth for calls only, not audio, and I have it set up so that my phone pairs to the car for calls, and the separate receiver for audio. Works beautifully.
There are some cheap ones like the Blackberry Music Gateway, but the maximum output is pretty weak. On the recommendation of someone else who was in my situation, I got a Himbox HB01, which came with a lighter->dual USB adapter for power. If you're in an older car, it can even do the hands-free thing for your phone, but that would have visible cables (the microphone is in the Bluetooth receiver). I set my phone to connect to the built-in for calls (so numbers show up on the display, and the microphone is hidden) and only use the Himbox for audio.
It was only $30, and it works really well for this situation. Like I said, if you have a power outlet in the console, and an aux jack in the console, all it costs you is a bit of space at the bottom. I don't ever listen to the radio except for the occasional bit of news, so it's quite seamless for the vast majority of my usage. I don't need the phone mounted because my car's built-in GPS is Good Enough even with somewhat outdated maps - the areas that aren't on the maps are places that were developed recently, so audio from Google Maps is enough (the roads in newer developments are spaced out more, so there's less chance of missing a turn).
Incidentally, assuming you're in the UK, this appears to be an updated version. £21.99, only £2 more than the older version.
Oh, I just use Bluetooth from phone to a Bluetooth receiver hooked to the aux input, entirely within the console. My car has Bluetooth phone but not audio, so this was the easiest way to do it: use the car system for phone, independent receiver for audio.
Reverse osmosis is perfectly acceptable price-wise for human-use water. It doesn't scale well to agricultural use, but then again we do have southern Texas and Florida as year-round growing regions.
No. Not even close. After WW1 at the earliest. As I've read of someone who grew up in the early 1900s, "I never thought I would be so rich as to own a car, nor so poor as to be unable to afford servants." Or, by comparison, take the novelist Nevil Shute (born 1899): when he was a child, his father was the head of the Irish postal service. A senior civil servant of the sort who might earn around $175k today. They had a full-time gardener, housekeeper, and cook.
You can put the jack in the center console. Then it won't get tangled with anything.
Mine is a 2009 Lexus with a tape player, a CD changer, and an aux port. Interface- wise, it's more promiscuous than David Bowie.
My Bluetooth receiver kicks ass. Most don't.
Why can't we just have a line-in input on a 3.5 mm jack as part of every damned car audio system? (Spare me the iPhone jokes.) My car has one that's in the center console along with a lighter plug, so I can actually power my Bluetooth audio receiver and connect it to the aux input. It's great. But when I rent a car, they all seem to have dropped the aux input. Bluetooth is good, but it's not that good yet.
The Beltway only passes through DC on a tiny section at the Potomac crossing.
Swype (and related) is a great concept but really has a couple of problems: one, it's really bad about ignoring words that are in the default dictionary in favor of what you type all the time (several versions were absolutely fixated on choosing "nee" instead of "me", even though I write the latter several times a day and the former maybe once a year); and two, the huge number of English words that are formed by top-row letters need some better mechanism to distinguish them: put, out, our, it, pot, pie, poi, purr... and that's just right to left. Then you have to and top, going left to right.
Some people don't have to worry about this. Everyone knows someone who eats lots of pizza, drinks full-sugar sodas, and is rail-thin. This is for those of us who lack such metabolisms.
I know exactly how much exercise is required to allow me to eat anything I want and stay at an appropriate weight: high school football. About 14 hours a week of running around with pads, helmet, etc., plus four hours a week of weights. I don't have an extra 18 hours a week as an adult.
For comparison: last year I drove, in eight days, from my hometown to several destinations in Canada, back into the US, and then home again. Total about 3400 miles/5400 km. As a rough estimate, this is the distance between New York and London, or slightly less than the distance from London to Kandahar. I never crossed the Mississippi. Driving it is a lot of fun, but it's still a long slog.
It's not necessarily a mistake on the part of the state: it's Supreme Court jurisprudence. Reynolds v. Sims is the controlling law here. Yes, the SC ruled that an arrangement exactly parallel to what the Constitution decrees for states is unconstitutional when applied at a sub-state level. There's a reason that the Warren Court is known for... "creative" decisions.
Fine, but put it on an individual level. I pay the same taxes to the Feds that I'd pay if I didn't live in flyover country. Want to grant one federal vote per dollar of federal income and payroll tax paid? I'm entirely on board with that.
The UAE isn't Saudi Arabia.