Is it that big of a difference? I'm not knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the industry. It has been my experience that Delta is generally nicer - but then again, they're pretty much the only game in town from my home airport, and I've got status, and I fly first class. It's been six years or so since I flew American, and over a decade since I flew United. The American plane certainly looked dingier than what I'm used to on Delta, even up front.
But then you get on KLM, and it's just amazing by comparison to Delta.
Well, you were lucky, but it doesn't surprise me. Texas is pretty lax about "no harm done" offenses like speeding in the boonies, especially if they run your plate and nothing suspicious shows up. I'm pretty sure there is a lot to this story that isn't apparent. E.g.: who speeds a lot when carrying drugs? Possibly planted, of course, but I once got a ticket for 22 over the limit, and the patrolman issuing my ticket didn't even think about looking in my car. Given the area and my age at the time, it would not have been a stretch to investigate me for pot or meth (of which I had none, but there was a bunch of underage booze possession in the trunk).
She was doing 87 mph in a 70 mph zone. That will get your ass hauled to jail in some states, regardless of your license. She also didn't have her passport on her. That part was kinda bullshit, as I expect that Canada will recognize my US driver's license as acceptable ID and at least let me go back to the hotel to get my passport to prove that I'm in the country legally, but I'd expect that the trip would be under police guard.
AIUI, you cannot legally refuse to produce physical objects like keys, but you can legally refuse to give them the contents of your mind - in this case, a password. However, you really should phrase this as "I plead the Fifth" instead of "I don't remember".
If I could use the Swype update where they fixed the annoying problem where swiping "me" resulted in "née" all the fucking time, I'd actually be okay with that. Touch typing with one hand - I never looked at the keyboard except to enter numbers. It went downhill pretty fast after that, though.
Besides, unless you spend a bunch of money, modern keyboards are all crap. The wireless one I'm using on my Mac right now... it looks great, which is its intended purpose (and why the iMac replaced a PC with a Cherry blue keyboard), but I'd never write an essay on this thing.
I don't know exactly how this guy did his math, but while the arterials in Atlanta waver a bit, they tend to stay within the cones depicted - and the side streets are almost always grid-aligned. The freeways, OTOH, don't.
Sounds like something that would be easy for a computer
Not really. The variation in human anatomy from person to person is substantial, even before you account for the changes that are due to prior surgical interventions. Not saying that it's impossible, but self-driving cars are a far simpler problem.
My point is that it doesn't take anything like 60 hours of training to learn how to tie a knot blindfolded. Surgical "robots" (really, they are just manipulator arms, or waldoes) make surgery a lot more expensive, but they really don't offer much. Standard laparoscopy is much faster and just as good for the vast majority of procedures. There are some cases where the extra expense might be justified (prostatectomies come to mind here), but usually? No.
It's all about billing. Example: hysterectomies are a pretty common procedure. Unless you have abnormal anatomy, you can have your uterus removed through your vagina. Zero visible incisions, and it's a quick procedure. But it doesn't pay at all - the surgeon can get more money for doing it laparoscopically and leaving you with scars (and usually taking longer to do it). It also costs the hospital more money in supplies (and they don't get paid extra for that).
Just an FYI, if your wife wants her uterus out (let's face it, if there ever were women here, they're almost all gone), find someone who will do it transvaginally. Easier recovery, no scars.
Very true. As the saying from my salesman father-in-law goes, you can shear a sheep dozens of times, but you can only skin it once. He likes a good deal, but he likes repeat business more.
You'd need something like 30-40 cars to get 600 gallons. I have had one truck with a 25-gallon tank, but most passenger cars are around 15. (Metric users, 1 gallon is just under 4 L.)
That said, yeah, inside job. An hour and a half? Plenty of time to shut it down.
The master on/off switch for my power to my house isn't there to stop a live wire thrown into a bathtub, but if if I had a toaster in the tub, that's the one I'd be using.
Cutting and sewing is the easiest part of being a surgeon. Knowing when and where to cut, what to sew, and what to do when you cut or sew the wrong thing - that's what's hard about it.
I'm an anesthesiologist. i've watched a lot of surgeries, and I could do a few of them - if I had a surgeon on the phone to walk me through them. There's a reason that a general surgery residency is five years long, and it's not because it takes that long to learn how to tie a knot.
Sailing was cheap because people were cheap. Commercial sailing died because fuel cost less than labor. Glass bottles died out because it's cheaper to make new plastic than to wash and transport used glass (and deal with all the breakage). And cloth diapers... let's face it, nobody wants to have to deal with someone else's (literal) shit any more than they absolutely have to, even if they're your own children.
Yeah... has anybody actually produced an email client that was significantly better than Eudora on Windows 3.1? It's email; you need to send information and attach files. Once it does that with a reasonable UI, your job is pretty much complete.
Getting rights to that can be a nightmare. The canonical example I know of is WKRP, which was set at an album rock station. They regularly interspersed bits of real album rock. Unfortunately, they only had limited-time licenses for the use of those songs, so many later releases have had to be redubbed to stay in compliance. Streaming would be right out.
Latin America goes for male voices as well, which leads to the interesting phone tree opening with a female voice greeting you in English, followed by a male voice saying “para Español, marque nueve”.
Yeah, that's how you're supposed to do it. Tip: if the paper towel dispensers don't have motion-sensed dispensing, use the dispensing handle before you wash your hands. Just don't tear it off until they're clean. If your hands are still wet, use that towel to cover the dispensing handle while you get some more. Then throw the final towel away after opening the door with it. If they don't put a trash can by the door, throw it neatly in the corner. They'll figure out soon enough.
Cholera is about contaminated water, not contaminated hands. Sewage treatment is far, far more important than handwashing in terms of public health impact.
Far hotter water, for much longer. I generally rinse things before putting them in the dishwasher unless I'm going to run it right away - just me and the wife here, we eat out a fair bit, so it's not unusual to wash dishes only once a week - but the dishwasher gets rid of all those last little bits of oils and food particles, and it gets the dishes nice and hot (well above the temperature that my water heater produces).
That said, I don't know that I've ever gotten a GI illness from a family member. Always respiratory, and a dishwasher doesn't do crap for those - you have to wipe down the doorknobs and surfaces, and quarantine the sick person.
This is why any place that doesn't put a trash can by the door to the bathroom gets a pile of paper towels on the floor. I don't touch that handle with bare hands.
Neither jam nor honey will spoil if kept pure. Yeah, if you double-dip the knife and get bread crumbs in there, those will go bad, but by themselves? There's so much sugar in there that any bacteria die of dehydration.
You really don't need to refrigerate a lot of things. Mayonnaise (really), mustard, ketchup, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, fish sauce, salsas... most condiments and toppings are perfectly safe if you don't contaminate them with bits of bread, chips, pasta, etc. Refrigeration slows oxidation and so preserves flavor, but as far as food safety is concerned, it's a non-issue. Just remember: unless you have squeeze bottles, serve from the primary container into a small ramekin, and then use that to dress your sandwich.
As mentioned above by others, changing the 2FA text message to read "WARNING: Do not give this code to anyone else. Use it only to log in to your account at uber.com. Scammers will attempt to get you to read it to them. Uber phone representatives will not. Your code is 123456ABC."
But you’ve probably shopped at one of their stores; they own a lot of different marques. Last time I checked, they had integrated their loyalty programs across all their stores, so you can use your phone number registered with King Soopers to shop at Ralphs or Harris Teeter, should you choose. It’s a big company.
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Is it that big of a difference? I'm not knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the industry. It has been my experience that Delta is generally nicer - but then again, they're pretty much the only game in town from my home airport, and I've got status, and I fly first class. It's been six years or so since I flew American, and over a decade since I flew United. The American plane certainly looked dingier than what I'm used to on Delta, even up front.
But then you get on KLM, and it's just amazing by comparison to Delta.
Well, you were lucky, but it doesn't surprise me. Texas is pretty lax about "no harm done" offenses like speeding in the boonies, especially if they run your plate and nothing suspicious shows up. I'm pretty sure there is a lot to this story that isn't apparent. E.g.: who speeds a lot when carrying drugs? Possibly planted, of course, but I once got a ticket for 22 over the limit, and the patrolman issuing my ticket didn't even think about looking in my car. Given the area and my age at the time, it would not have been a stretch to investigate me for pot or meth (of which I had none, but there was a bunch of underage booze possession in the trunk).
She was doing 87 mph in a 70 mph zone. That will get your ass hauled to jail in some states, regardless of your license. She also didn't have her passport on her. That part was kinda bullshit, as I expect that Canada will recognize my US driver's license as acceptable ID and at least let me go back to the hotel to get my passport to prove that I'm in the country legally, but I'd expect that the trip would be under police guard.
AIUI, you cannot legally refuse to produce physical objects like keys, but you can legally refuse to give them the contents of your mind - in this case, a password. However, you really should phrase this as "I plead the Fifth" instead of "I don't remember".
If I could use the Swype update where they fixed the annoying problem where swiping "me" resulted in "née" all the fucking time, I'd actually be okay with that. Touch typing with one hand - I never looked at the keyboard except to enter numbers. It went downhill pretty fast after that, though.
Besides, unless you spend a bunch of money, modern keyboards are all crap. The wireless one I'm using on my Mac right now... it looks great, which is its intended purpose (and why the iMac replaced a PC with a Cherry blue keyboard), but I'd never write an essay on this thing.
I don't know exactly how this guy did his math, but while the arterials in Atlanta waver a bit, they tend to stay within the cones depicted - and the side streets are almost always grid-aligned. The freeways, OTOH, don't.
Somewhat more difficult to do CGI in a live show at a theme park, which is what this is about.
Sounds like something that would be easy for a computer
Not really. The variation in human anatomy from person to person is substantial, even before you account for the changes that are due to prior surgical interventions. Not saying that it's impossible, but self-driving cars are a far simpler problem.
My point is that it doesn't take anything like 60 hours of training to learn how to tie a knot blindfolded. Surgical "robots" (really, they are just manipulator arms, or waldoes) make surgery a lot more expensive, but they really don't offer much. Standard laparoscopy is much faster and just as good for the vast majority of procedures. There are some cases where the extra expense might be justified (prostatectomies come to mind here), but usually? No.
It's all about billing. Example: hysterectomies are a pretty common procedure. Unless you have abnormal anatomy, you can have your uterus removed through your vagina. Zero visible incisions, and it's a quick procedure. But it doesn't pay at all - the surgeon can get more money for doing it laparoscopically and leaving you with scars (and usually taking longer to do it). It also costs the hospital more money in supplies (and they don't get paid extra for that).
Just an FYI, if your wife wants her uterus out (let's face it, if there ever were women here, they're almost all gone), find someone who will do it transvaginally. Easier recovery, no scars.
Very true. As the saying from my salesman father-in-law goes, you can shear a sheep dozens of times, but you can only skin it once. He likes a good deal, but he likes repeat business more.
You'd need something like 30-40 cars to get 600 gallons. I have had one truck with a 25-gallon tank, but most passenger cars are around 15. (Metric users, 1 gallon is just under 4 L.)
That said, yeah, inside job. An hour and a half? Plenty of time to shut it down.
The master on/off switch for my power to my house isn't there to stop a live wire thrown into a bathtub, but if if I had a toaster in the tub, that's the one I'd be using.
Cutting and sewing is the easiest part of being a surgeon. Knowing when and where to cut, what to sew, and what to do when you cut or sew the wrong thing - that's what's hard about it.
I'm an anesthesiologist. i've watched a lot of surgeries, and I could do a few of them - if I had a surgeon on the phone to walk me through them. There's a reason that a general surgery residency is five years long, and it's not because it takes that long to learn how to tie a knot.
Sailing was cheap because people were cheap. Commercial sailing died because fuel cost less than labor. Glass bottles died out because it's cheaper to make new plastic than to wash and transport used glass (and deal with all the breakage). And cloth diapers... let's face it, nobody wants to have to deal with someone else's (literal) shit any more than they absolutely have to, even if they're your own children.
Yeah... has anybody actually produced an email client that was significantly better than Eudora on Windows 3.1? It's email; you need to send information and attach files. Once it does that with a reasonable UI, your job is pretty much complete.
Getting rights to that can be a nightmare. The canonical example I know of is WKRP, which was set at an album rock station. They regularly interspersed bits of real album rock. Unfortunately, they only had limited-time licenses for the use of those songs, so many later releases have had to be redubbed to stay in compliance. Streaming would be right out.
Latin America goes for male voices as well, which leads to the interesting phone tree opening with a female voice greeting you in English, followed by a male voice saying “para Español, marque nueve”.
Hard to do if the door opens inward and they don't have one of the toe handles.
Yeah, that's how you're supposed to do it. Tip: if the paper towel dispensers don't have motion-sensed dispensing, use the dispensing handle before you wash your hands. Just don't tear it off until they're clean. If your hands are still wet, use that towel to cover the dispensing handle while you get some more. Then throw the final towel away after opening the door with it. If they don't put a trash can by the door, throw it neatly in the corner. They'll figure out soon enough.
Cholera is about contaminated water, not contaminated hands. Sewage treatment is far, far more important than handwashing in terms of public health impact.
Far hotter water, for much longer. I generally rinse things before putting them in the dishwasher unless I'm going to run it right away - just me and the wife here, we eat out a fair bit, so it's not unusual to wash dishes only once a week - but the dishwasher gets rid of all those last little bits of oils and food particles, and it gets the dishes nice and hot (well above the temperature that my water heater produces).
That said, I don't know that I've ever gotten a GI illness from a family member. Always respiratory, and a dishwasher doesn't do crap for those - you have to wipe down the doorknobs and surfaces, and quarantine the sick person.
This is why any place that doesn't put a trash can by the door to the bathroom gets a pile of paper towels on the floor. I don't touch that handle with bare hands.
Neither jam nor honey will spoil if kept pure. Yeah, if you double-dip the knife and get bread crumbs in there, those will go bad, but by themselves? There's so much sugar in there that any bacteria die of dehydration.
You really don't need to refrigerate a lot of things. Mayonnaise (really), mustard, ketchup, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce, fish sauce, salsas... most condiments and toppings are perfectly safe if you don't contaminate them with bits of bread, chips, pasta, etc. Refrigeration slows oxidation and so preserves flavor, but as far as food safety is concerned, it's a non-issue. Just remember: unless you have squeeze bottles, serve from the primary container into a small ramekin, and then use that to dress your sandwich.
As mentioned above by others, changing the 2FA text message to read "WARNING: Do not give this code to anyone else. Use it only to log in to your account at uber.com. Scammers will attempt to get you to read it to them. Uber phone representatives will not. Your code is 123456ABC."
But you’ve probably shopped at one of their stores; they own a lot of different marques. Last time I checked, they had integrated their loyalty programs across all their stores, so you can use your phone number registered with King Soopers to shop at Ralphs or Harris Teeter, should you choose. It’s a big company.