To be fair, hitting 1M miles is usually enough to automatically put you in the highest catgeory of elite status - for life. Not a bad thing for whatever your taxes would be on $20k.
Not to mention that they offer the PreCheck lines to people who aren't enrolled in PreCheck... and who consequently have no fucking idea how to go back to early-90s security standards. I waited in line for five minutes last week while a guy kept failing the metal detector... because when they asked him if he had any metal in his body, he forgot about his hip replacement. Would have been faster to go through the regular line.
Often encounter this as a native of the South. You just need to provide a bit more space. Assume that there will be rural folk who are not accustomed to dealing with high traffic volumes who will expect a larger clear space before they will move over.
May not apply in Atlanta, where the default reaction to anything less than crippling traffic is generally to accelerate until the problem is behind you. I've driven all over the US, and Atlanta seems to have the highest average speeds of any city its size (as long as you stay off the Perimeter, which is frequently a parking lot on the north side of town).
Ship to Mombasa and hit the road from there. It's only two lanes, but it is in good condition (at least in Kenya). Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala. I imagine the problems come at the borders. Useful tip I learned from an adventure forum: find out who the local distributors for Coca-Cola are and ask them. Stuff is available almost everywhere on the planet.
Compared to a good paper map, it's really bad at showing you the lay of the land - but it beats the heck out of having to buy paper maps everywhere you go, and is a lot easier than taking directions from most people (who suck at directions). All you have to ask is whether Google Maps correctly identifies where there house is.
The MUTCD isn't perfect, but it changes slowly and almost always in a fashion that makes previous generations of signals safe. But there is no conflict between what I said and what you said, otherwise. A red flashing arrow says you must stop, and may proceed only when safe to do so. It doesn't tell you when it is safe to do so. If there is a train approaching, it clearly isn't safe to do so. Perhaps I should have specified that, but I thought it implicit.
There's very little confusing road signage in the US; if you know it in one place, you know it everywhere. Want confusing? Try Montreal. (To answer your question, a blinking red arrow, as with any blinking red light, indicates that you should come to a complete stop before proceeding, but it doesn't give you any information about what controls the traffic you're about to enter, so make sure it's clear first.)
Yeah, we've basically hit the point where computers are good enough to do everything the average person wants them to do. The only people who want high-powered stuff are gamers and number-crunchers. I put 32 GB of RAM in my wife's iMac, but only because I didn't want to take the damned thing apart to put in an SSD, which is what it really needs. My iMac has the SSD+HDD combo (forget what they call it, but it works like a charm). Is it as perfectly customized as the PC I had before it? Hell no. But it surfs just fine, plays all the games I want to play OK, and looks a hell of a lot better than the PC it replaced.
The Sprint logo is designed to resemble one of their most famous ads from when they were a long-distance company: this. It's the bouncing pin. And yes, you really could hear that level of detail. We have gained a lot in flexibility, but quality has gone to hell. 1990s long-distance circuits sounded like you were in the same room. 2010s local calls sound like you're at the bottom of the ocean.
Desktops still have resolution to improve on (I'm on a 27" Retina iMac, it's great), but laptops? I threw an SSD in mine, vintage 2009, and it's fine. Laptops passed the "good enough" point a while back.
A far more sensible reform is to eliminate taxation of public corporations and tax capital gains like ordinary income. Let the really rich pay taxes just like a successful doctor, lawyer, or small business owner does.
Yeah, well, this is a pretty good scan of Van Gogh's Irises. What it doesn't show you is that the paint is heavily textured - it's up to 5 mm thick or so. I thought I knew the painting pretty well until I saw it up close. Completely different in person than on computer or in art book. If you're ever in LA, the Getty is well worth the visit.
No, it's not stolen, and no, it's not someone refusing to pay their "fair share".
It's taking advantage of the law as written, and there is absolutely no written system out there that can always beat people who are trying to game the rules. Take interest deductions - the one with the fewest limitations is the home mortgage interest deduction. Let's say you have a property worth $400k, and you and your spouse earn $200k/year in total. Let's assume you've been quite productive and have managed to pay the principal down to $200k, but the two of you have $100k in student loans. Student loan interest is almost certainly not deductible for you (ends at $160k AGI for couples), but home mortgage is. So if you were to refinance your loans at today's low, low rates, cashing out your equity to pay off the student loans, you would get a new $300k loan - but all the interest is now deductible. You very well might save some money on the interest rate, as well. College students: unless things have changed in the last ten years, if all your student loans are from one bank, you must use that bank for any student loan consolidation, but if you have federally-guaranteed loans from two banks, your choices are wide open - be sure to get at least one semester's loans from a different bank to keep your options open.
There is the small problem that there are only four widely-spoken languages in the Americas, that quite a lot of people will have to travel a long, long way to encounter more than two of them on a regular basis, and that one of them is so isolated from the European source that even native speakers will have difficulty making themselves clearly understood on more than a trivial level by speakers of only the European variety (Canadian French). Whereas Europeans can travel a relatively short distance and find themselves in a place where an entirely different language is in general use. Languages aren't all that hard, but skills that cannot be practiced without a lot of expensive travel are unlikely to be very robust.
That's not exactly the best design. There are a lot of ways around the problem - you put them in nurses' stations where the likelihood of someone observing an intruder is very high, you put cameras on the area, you limit accounts from being able to dispense meds when outside their proper work area, you put them on a separate network. I'm an anesthesiologist. If I need to get into a drug dispensing machine I need to get into it right the hell now, but my login only works in the operating rooms and the obstetric suite. It's a bit silly (if I wanted to divert drugs, I could do so easily, as I go through enough that taking 10% of the total would be more than enough to supply anything less than a hardcore habit), but it does exist.
I'm not saying this isn't a problem, but until we have perfect computer security, you're going to have to have the other methods as well. Even very good security doesn't save you much (if any) money.
That's fourteen clicks, equivalent to 617 (Boston) or 716 (Buffalo), with the additional caveat that it was just for DC itself. And the codes were assigned by expected phone line density - that's why the next ones after NYC/LA/Chicago aren't necessarily the most populous cities of the time, but the ones with the most commercial activity and expected growth. 214 is Dallas, 412 is Pittsburgh, and 313 is Detroit. All seven clicks.
The only way a conviction can occur of someone who is actually innocent is via lack of evidence, or fabrication of evidence
No, it can quite easily happen from simple bad luck. Most people aren't entirely unique in their appearance. If you took a picture of me when I was a teenager and compared it to a picture of my father at the same age, you wouldn't be able to tell which of us you were looking at unless you knew us both really well. I've been asked plenty of times over the years "were you at XYZ the other day?", when I wasn't, so there are clearly people around who resemble me enough for people who know me reasonably well to think it's me they saw. So if you match a description made by someone who doesn't know you well, and you don't have an alibi, and when they search your house you've lost one of your red socks... it's not that surprising, considering that we still allow eyewitness testimony.
But what's the alternative? There are bad people out there who need to be in jail, so eliminating the justice system is not the right path. Carjackers, first-degree murderers, stranger rapists, armed robbers: all people who should be taken out of society. Preferably permanently. I'm all for safeguarding the rights of innocents (and it's quite simple, really: "I do not consent to any search, and I would like a lawyer right now"), but the fact that a substantial minority of cops are jerks doesn't mean that they aren't doing a very important job.
You're not going to convince the haters. My wife is the target market for Kindle. She reads at least a book a week. Usually more. These days, she usually does it on the iPad app, because that's a much more pleasant experience when you're inside - but we both have our Kindles for beach reading. And I've spent ridiculous sums of money on airfare, hotels, etc. What's a one-time charge of $50 to be able to have books downloadable anywhere with 3G service?
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To be fair, hitting 1M miles is usually enough to automatically put you in the highest catgeory of elite status - for life. Not a bad thing for whatever your taxes would be on $20k.
Majority by area, maybe, not population. We have Uber, and I live in a rather low-rent metro area of about 300k.
FWIW, my wife gets in the PreCheck line whenever she flies with me, even though she's not certified.
Not to mention that they offer the PreCheck lines to people who aren't enrolled in PreCheck... and who consequently have no fucking idea how to go back to early-90s security standards. I waited in line for five minutes last week while a guy kept failing the metal detector... because when they asked him if he had any metal in his body, he forgot about his hip replacement. Would have been faster to go through the regular line.
Often encounter this as a native of the South. You just need to provide a bit more space. Assume that there will be rural folk who are not accustomed to dealing with high traffic volumes who will expect a larger clear space before they will move over.
May not apply in Atlanta, where the default reaction to anything less than crippling traffic is generally to accelerate until the problem is behind you. I've driven all over the US, and Atlanta seems to have the highest average speeds of any city its size (as long as you stay off the Perimeter, which is frequently a parking lot on the north side of town).
Just read up on this guy.
Ship to Mombasa and hit the road from there. It's only two lanes, but it is in good condition (at least in Kenya). Mombasa-Nairobi-Kampala. I imagine the problems come at the borders. Useful tip I learned from an adventure forum: find out who the local distributors for Coca-Cola are and ask them. Stuff is available almost everywhere on the planet.
Compared to a good paper map, it's really bad at showing you the lay of the land - but it beats the heck out of having to buy paper maps everywhere you go, and is a lot easier than taking directions from most people (who suck at directions). All you have to ask is whether Google Maps correctly identifies where there house is.
The MUTCD isn't perfect, but it changes slowly and almost always in a fashion that makes previous generations of signals safe. But there is no conflict between what I said and what you said, otherwise. A red flashing arrow says you must stop, and may proceed only when safe to do so. It doesn't tell you when it is safe to do so. If there is a train approaching, it clearly isn't safe to do so. Perhaps I should have specified that, but I thought it implicit.
There's very little confusing road signage in the US; if you know it in one place, you know it everywhere. Want confusing? Try Montreal. (To answer your question, a blinking red arrow, as with any blinking red light, indicates that you should come to a complete stop before proceeding, but it doesn't give you any information about what controls the traffic you're about to enter, so make sure it's clear first.)
As the old saying goes, friends help you move, but real friends help you move bodies.
Yeah, we've basically hit the point where computers are good enough to do everything the average person wants them to do. The only people who want high-powered stuff are gamers and number-crunchers. I put 32 GB of RAM in my wife's iMac, but only because I didn't want to take the damned thing apart to put in an SSD, which is what it really needs. My iMac has the SSD+HDD combo (forget what they call it, but it works like a charm). Is it as perfectly customized as the PC I had before it? Hell no. But it surfs just fine, plays all the games I want to play OK, and looks a hell of a lot better than the PC it replaced.
The Sprint logo is designed to resemble one of their most famous ads from when they were a long-distance company: this. It's the bouncing pin. And yes, you really could hear that level of detail. We have gained a lot in flexibility, but quality has gone to hell. 1990s long-distance circuits sounded like you were in the same room. 2010s local calls sound like you're at the bottom of the ocean.
Desktops still have resolution to improve on (I'm on a 27" Retina iMac, it's great), but laptops? I threw an SSD in mine, vintage 2009, and it's fine. Laptops passed the "good enough" point a while back.
A far more sensible reform is to eliminate taxation of public corporations and tax capital gains like ordinary income. Let the really rich pay taxes just like a successful doctor, lawyer, or small business owner does.
Yeah, well, this is a pretty good scan of Van Gogh's Irises. What it doesn't show you is that the paint is heavily textured - it's up to 5 mm thick or so. I thought I knew the painting pretty well until I saw it up close. Completely different in person than on computer or in art book. If you're ever in LA, the Getty is well worth the visit.
Solution is here.
No, it's not stolen, and no, it's not someone refusing to pay their "fair share".
It's taking advantage of the law as written, and there is absolutely no written system out there that can always beat people who are trying to game the rules. Take interest deductions - the one with the fewest limitations is the home mortgage interest deduction. Let's say you have a property worth $400k, and you and your spouse earn $200k/year in total. Let's assume you've been quite productive and have managed to pay the principal down to $200k, but the two of you have $100k in student loans. Student loan interest is almost certainly not deductible for you (ends at $160k AGI for couples), but home mortgage is. So if you were to refinance your loans at today's low, low rates, cashing out your equity to pay off the student loans, you would get a new $300k loan - but all the interest is now deductible. You very well might save some money on the interest rate, as well. College students: unless things have changed in the last ten years, if all your student loans are from one bank, you must use that bank for any student loan consolidation, but if you have federally-guaranteed loans from two banks, your choices are wide open - be sure to get at least one semester's loans from a different bank to keep your options open.
There is the small problem that there are only four widely-spoken languages in the Americas, that quite a lot of people will have to travel a long, long way to encounter more than two of them on a regular basis, and that one of them is so isolated from the European source that even native speakers will have difficulty making themselves clearly understood on more than a trivial level by speakers of only the European variety (Canadian French). Whereas Europeans can travel a relatively short distance and find themselves in a place where an entirely different language is in general use. Languages aren't all that hard, but skills that cannot be practiced without a lot of expensive travel are unlikely to be very robust.
That's not exactly the best design. There are a lot of ways around the problem - you put them in nurses' stations where the likelihood of someone observing an intruder is very high, you put cameras on the area, you limit accounts from being able to dispense meds when outside their proper work area, you put them on a separate network. I'm an anesthesiologist. If I need to get into a drug dispensing machine I need to get into it right the hell now, but my login only works in the operating rooms and the obstetric suite. It's a bit silly (if I wanted to divert drugs, I could do so easily, as I go through enough that taking 10% of the total would be more than enough to supply anything less than a hardcore habit), but it does exist.
I'm not saying this isn't a problem, but until we have perfect computer security, you're going to have to have the other methods as well. Even very good security doesn't save you much (if any) money.
That's fourteen clicks, equivalent to 617 (Boston) or 716 (Buffalo), with the additional caveat that it was just for DC itself. And the codes were assigned by expected phone line density - that's why the next ones after NYC/LA/Chicago aren't necessarily the most populous cities of the time, but the ones with the most commercial activity and expected growth. 214 is Dallas, 412 is Pittsburgh, and 313 is Detroit. All seven clicks.
The only way a conviction can occur of someone who is actually innocent is via lack of evidence, or fabrication of evidence
No, it can quite easily happen from simple bad luck. Most people aren't entirely unique in their appearance. If you took a picture of me when I was a teenager and compared it to a picture of my father at the same age, you wouldn't be able to tell which of us you were looking at unless you knew us both really well. I've been asked plenty of times over the years "were you at XYZ the other day?", when I wasn't, so there are clearly people around who resemble me enough for people who know me reasonably well to think it's me they saw. So if you match a description made by someone who doesn't know you well, and you don't have an alibi, and when they search your house you've lost one of your red socks... it's not that surprising, considering that we still allow eyewitness testimony.
But what's the alternative? There are bad people out there who need to be in jail, so eliminating the justice system is not the right path. Carjackers, first-degree murderers, stranger rapists, armed robbers: all people who should be taken out of society. Preferably permanently. I'm all for safeguarding the rights of innocents (and it's quite simple, really: "I do not consent to any search, and I would like a lawyer right now"), but the fact that a substantial minority of cops are jerks doesn't mean that they aren't doing a very important job.
You're not going to convince the haters. My wife is the target market for Kindle. She reads at least a book a week. Usually more. These days, she usually does it on the iPad app, because that's a much more pleasant experience when you're inside - but we both have our Kindles for beach reading. And I've spent ridiculous sums of money on airfare, hotels, etc. What's a one-time charge of $50 to be able to have books downloadable anywhere with 3G service?
You buy the ones with a cellular data modem built in and download them directly from Amazon's built-in store.
So, your plan to rescue Detroit is just to raise the rent?