You are obviously unfamiliar with the American mobile market. Other than T-Mobile, none of the majors offer a discount on monthly service if you bring your own phone. Taking the subsidized handset is the logical choice.
Don't bother with those people. Seriously. Internet Tough Guy Syndrome seriously affects unattached males under 25. Those of us who have spouses, families, homes, and professional licenses are a lot more circumspect, because we have a lot more to lose and vastly fewer alternative options.
No. Americans find the idea of horse meat repulsive, on par with eating cat or dog. Alternatively, if you know a lot of people from the Middle East, their attitude about eating pork is similar (e.g., I've known lots of nominal Muslims who drink alcohol, etc., in the US, but almost none will eat pork).
It's not really sensible, but such cultural oddities rarely are.
Lighter-than-air craft have a major problem known as "wind". That's why they have never caught on. Not to mention changes in buoyancy as the temperature changes, sun exposure changes, etc.
As for cargo ships, the tech will change when fuel becomes more expensive than people. Personnel costs, not the speed of transit, doomed the sailing ship for cargo. You can run an entire modern cargo ship with about 20 people. Can't do that with sails.
If you think the president is the most important person to vote for, PLEASE DON'T VOTE, you don't know how the government works.
While there is merit in this, he's the guy who appoints the Supreme Court. That matters.
I've voted for a lot of people that I disagreed with - hell, I do it at every election, because I live in the South, and every single politician, R or D, is pro-life here because otherwise they won't get elected. I don't have to think they're perfect. They never will be perfect. They just have to be more likely to represent my wishes than their opponent. Sometimes that means I end up voting for someone about whom I have severe misgivings. You think Hillary supporters were thrilled to vote for Obama? I know a few. They couldn't stand the guy, but they knew the alternative was McCain, so they pulled the lever for O. Same game plays out on the R side of the aisle.
I'm happy that you enjoy living in under 1500 sf, but most people like having room. My wife and I live in 1800 sf and while it's nice it's not exactly spacious - we could use a second office and more closet space.
Unrelated geek tip: become a gardener. In addition to the enjoyment of watching things grow, you will learn what a well-maintained property looks like. With a little experience, you can easily tell the difference between a yard that is properly taken care of year in and year out, and one that has been spruced up for quick sale. Tells you a lot about what you can expect from the house.
This is just off the top of my head, but why not use standard labeling tape and put the label either on the back of the wall plate or on the inside of the gang box?
handles that your wife can use without breaking a nail
Also, ones that stick out a bit more prevent her rings from scratching the surface behind the handle. Take a look at the glass doors at your nearest department store - the bars on most commercial doors are very close to the glass and there is a haze a of scratches just behind the common grasp point.
If you want something that varies both temperature and flow, why not just get a standard single-handle faucet? They're nearly universal in US kitchens.
spread it (not sure what is the proper english word for that)
The term is "roll it out", if you're talking about a pie crust. The device used to roll out a crust (traditionally wooden, also available in metal or silicone these days) is called a "rolling pin".
These are also performed via upper rather than lower endoscopy, with the gastroscope passed via the mouth and past the stomach into the small bowel, for the reason that a simple enema has an unacceptably high risk of being expelled before it can take root - these people are suffering from massive diarrhea, after all. That's how the GI docs I know do it. It's a simple procedure whose major risk is the yuck factor.
Do not underestimate the laziness of the average American.
A common and largely incorrect sentiment suggesting you just have never bothered to think it through all the way. The brilliant realization that drove bottled water out of the original, much smaller Evian market (remember all those hipster T-shirts from the 90's that spelled it backward?) and into the world of Dasani (which is merely the filtered water used by your local Coca-Cola bottler) was that water is widely available for free, but cold water that you can carry with you was not. You could, of course, choose to carry your own water bottle, which many people do when going to the gym or other predictable activity, but on a long journey this is not a good solution. You might choose to carry a cooler and fill it with ice and a few bottles of cold water that you would refill at leisure, if traveling by car, but even then that's a lot of work (and if you have to replenish ice, a bag is likely to cost more than several liters of water, especially if you get the cheaper brands). If traveling by air, bottles of chilled water are nearly the only method to achieve this goal (due to the restrictions on liquids). And if you're flying somewhere, why worry about the tiny additional cost of a couple of bottles of water compared to the hundreds of dollars you spent to get there?
The same logic explains why a two liter bottle of soda at room temperature sells for the same price as a chilled half-liter bottle of the same stuff in a gas station. You are mostly paying for portability (i.e., it fits in your car cupholder) and chilling, not the liquid inside. You can get a better deal by buying fountain drinks, but they go flat faster and have a much higher risk of spill than a bottle with a screw-on cap.
New Orleans has long attracted a large schizophrenic population due to its warm climate. Surprisingly, this is more pronounced post-Katrina. I was there a few weeks ago, and it really was remarkable even by been-going-to-NOLA-since-I-was-in-diapers standards.
I saw a guy comment here one time in great regret of something he had done with the best of intentions: edited his VHS tapes of ST:TNG to cut all commercials. Now, of course, the whole series is available in much better quality DVD, and so the only thing that would be on the tape that would actually be worth watching were the commercials.
I don't like cheap beer, myself, but there are at least two good reasons: first, beer is usually the cheapest form of alcohol that is widely available, requiring the least expenditure. Second, beer has a significant safety factor for the inexperienced drinker. It is difficult to drink enough beer to get alcohol poisoning and die. Teenagers, please take note. Until you've been drunk ten or fifteen times - and I do mean drunk, not just tipsy - stick to beer. Tastes vile, but it's safer all around.
And if only we weren't using the oh-so-handy 2.4 GHz band for wireless comms, we could use it to microwave-heat our homes, which is supposedly even better.
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You are obviously unfamiliar with the American mobile market. Other than T-Mobile, none of the majors offer a discount on monthly service if you bring your own phone. Taking the subsidized handset is the logical choice.
We pay a pretty significant early adopter price for infrastructure tech here. We installed magstripe readers everywhere over 20 years ago.
No, it's one crap-ass provider. Modem is a Surfboard 6121.
Downstream? Sure, no problem. Upstream? I get 40 kB/s. Disastrous if anyone tries to include a photo in an email while using my AP.
Don't bother with those people. Seriously. Internet Tough Guy Syndrome seriously affects unattached males under 25. Those of us who have spouses, families, homes, and professional licenses are a lot more circumspect, because we have a lot more to lose and vastly fewer alternative options.
No. Americans find the idea of horse meat repulsive, on par with eating cat or dog. Alternatively, if you know a lot of people from the Middle East, their attitude about eating pork is similar (e.g., I've known lots of nominal Muslims who drink alcohol, etc., in the US, but almost none will eat pork).
It's not really sensible, but such cultural oddities rarely are.
Lighter-than-air craft have a major problem known as "wind". That's why they have never caught on. Not to mention changes in buoyancy as the temperature changes, sun exposure changes, etc.
As for cargo ships, the tech will change when fuel becomes more expensive than people. Personnel costs, not the speed of transit, doomed the sailing ship for cargo. You can run an entire modern cargo ship with about 20 people. Can't do that with sails.
Nah, the SR-71 used to outrun the Earth's rotation. As others noted, recheck your math.
If you think the president is the most important person to vote for, PLEASE DON'T VOTE, you don't know how the government works.
While there is merit in this, he's the guy who appoints the Supreme Court. That matters.
I've voted for a lot of people that I disagreed with - hell, I do it at every election, because I live in the South, and every single politician, R or D, is pro-life here because otherwise they won't get elected. I don't have to think they're perfect. They never will be perfect. They just have to be more likely to represent my wishes than their opponent. Sometimes that means I end up voting for someone about whom I have severe misgivings. You think Hillary supporters were thrilled to vote for Obama? I know a few. They couldn't stand the guy, but they knew the alternative was McCain, so they pulled the lever for O. Same game plays out on the R side of the aisle.
I'm happy that you enjoy living in under 1500 sf, but most people like having room. My wife and I live in 1800 sf and while it's nice it's not exactly spacious - we could use a second office and more closet space.
Unrelated geek tip: become a gardener. In addition to the enjoyment of watching things grow, you will learn what a well-maintained property looks like. With a little experience, you can easily tell the difference between a yard that is properly taken care of year in and year out, and one that has been spruced up for quick sale. Tells you a lot about what you can expect from the house.
If you rotate them 90 degrees, don't they cease to be fire blocks of any sort?
This is just off the top of my head, but why not use standard labeling tape and put the label either on the back of the wall plate or on the inside of the gang box?
handles that your wife can use without breaking a nail
Also, ones that stick out a bit more prevent her rings from scratching the surface behind the handle. Take a look at the glass doors at your nearest department store - the bars on most commercial doors are very close to the glass and there is a haze a of scratches just behind the common grasp point.
Damn, that's brilliant.
If you want something that varies both temperature and flow, why not just get a standard single-handle faucet? They're nearly universal in US kitchens.
spread it (not sure what is the proper english word for that)
The term is "roll it out", if you're talking about a pie crust. The device used to roll out a crust (traditionally wooden, also available in metal or silicone these days) is called a "rolling pin".
These are also performed via upper rather than lower endoscopy, with the gastroscope passed via the mouth and past the stomach into the small bowel, for the reason that a simple enema has an unacceptably high risk of being expelled before it can take root - these people are suffering from massive diarrhea, after all. That's how the GI docs I know do it. It's a simple procedure whose major risk is the yuck factor.
Do not underestimate the laziness of the average American.
A common and largely incorrect sentiment suggesting you just have never bothered to think it through all the way. The brilliant realization that drove bottled water out of the original, much smaller Evian market (remember all those hipster T-shirts from the 90's that spelled it backward?) and into the world of Dasani (which is merely the filtered water used by your local Coca-Cola bottler) was that water is widely available for free, but cold water that you can carry with you was not. You could, of course, choose to carry your own water bottle, which many people do when going to the gym or other predictable activity, but on a long journey this is not a good solution. You might choose to carry a cooler and fill it with ice and a few bottles of cold water that you would refill at leisure, if traveling by car, but even then that's a lot of work (and if you have to replenish ice, a bag is likely to cost more than several liters of water, especially if you get the cheaper brands). If traveling by air, bottles of chilled water are nearly the only method to achieve this goal (due to the restrictions on liquids). And if you're flying somewhere, why worry about the tiny additional cost of a couple of bottles of water compared to the hundreds of dollars you spent to get there?
The same logic explains why a two liter bottle of soda at room temperature sells for the same price as a chilled half-liter bottle of the same stuff in a gas station. You are mostly paying for portability (i.e., it fits in your car cupholder) and chilling, not the liquid inside. You can get a better deal by buying fountain drinks, but they go flat faster and have a much higher risk of spill than a bottle with a screw-on cap.
Ergo, GP post is a good example of an actual troll.
New Orleans has long attracted a large schizophrenic population due to its warm climate. Surprisingly, this is more pronounced post-Katrina. I was there a few weeks ago, and it really was remarkable even by been-going-to-NOLA-since-I-was-in-diapers standards.
I saw a guy comment here one time in great regret of something he had done with the best of intentions: edited his VHS tapes of ST:TNG to cut all commercials. Now, of course, the whole series is available in much better quality DVD, and so the only thing that would be on the tape that would actually be worth watching were the commercials.
I don't like cheap beer, myself, but there are at least two good reasons: first, beer is usually the cheapest form of alcohol that is widely available, requiring the least expenditure. Second, beer has a significant safety factor for the inexperienced drinker. It is difficult to drink enough beer to get alcohol poisoning and die. Teenagers, please take note. Until you've been drunk ten or fifteen times - and I do mean drunk, not just tipsy - stick to beer. Tastes vile, but it's safer all around.
And if only we weren't using the oh-so-handy 2.4 GHz band for wireless comms, we could use it to microwave-heat our homes, which is supposedly even better.
Ok, that's pretty funny.
Like I said, with charm like that, I can't imagine why they're not beating a path to your door.