Nice theory, but the establishment I work at already relies on superior product and service to pull in business despite higher than typical prices, our profit margin doesn't have the room you suggest. And based on how we fare when our competition shifts their pricing or we do is little to no room to raise prices without going under. It's just to competitive a field pricing wise, and people care less about quality and service on fast food than most would like to admit.
Besides even at minimum wage a typical delivery driver would be working for a loss without tips, which are typically between 3/2 and 3/4 of their income.
Wear and tear and gas for a car isn't cheap. The first time I worked a delivery driver I made just over 23k($us) while being paid just under minimum wage. This was about 10 years ago.
The sad things is while the costs of living and min wage have gone up quite a bit, tips haven't hardly budged. I used to average $2.50 to $3 and my drivers are averaging $3 to $3.5
That money would have to come from somewhere. If you have three competitors and one pays it's employees more by a the amount they'd otherwise get for tips they would have to raise prices, at which point the customers all go somewhere more affordable putting them out of business cutting those employee's pay to zero.
And no, you can't do it without raising prices unless selling below cost is your idea of how to run a business.
Except if there's no tips there will be no employees in a tipped job unless they're direct pay goes up, meaning higher prices meaning NO customers, meaning no jobs.
It's a chicken egg problem. Also tips do allow you to provide direct feedback on the service provided.
Of course if the cook screws up it's the wait person that takes the hit. NEVER fail to tip appropriately. For delivery drivers you want to tip at least the cost of a gallon of gas (unless they're total jerks).
The bottom line is the only way you are not going to pay the tip is if you're a minority. if the majority stops tipping prices will go so that wages can go up enough to compensate. And even then a regular stiff rapidly finds there level of service dropping through the floor. Do you really want to piss off someone who's alone with your food for a significant amount of time? Yeah if caught doing something bad to a customers food is a good way to get fired or worse(I'd fire any of my employees just for being rude to regular stiff,let alone worse), but in the meantime....
I could go on for quite a bit about this.
A bit aside, but where does this happen. I've almost never been in a movie where kids were more than just a tad distracting at most (oh the occasional baby or toddler having a brief outburst, but the parents always got the child out FAST). Even unsupervised teens and preteens.
I know it happens, it's an all to common complaint. I've just seen it so rarely. Then again windows ME and Vista both worked just fine for me. I think I just have really weird luck.
There where no nuclear weapons involved. That's a misconception caused by persons who do not understand the magnitude of the kinetic energy released by metal containers filled with rocks falling through a gravity well.
Add in the fact most people do not seem to understand that 'mushroom clouds' are a result of the magnitude of energy release and not any inherent nuclear process and you get OMG NUKLAR WEAPONS as a result.
First, Thank You. Second I'm glad to hear you didn't have a tragedy. It's hard, I've spent most of my life, and all of my brothers 35+ years, living in the same house or apartment or at least town as my brother and despite all the stupid sibling fighting and crap early on we were best friends.
We've been sharing this apartment about 18 months and would typically chat and hang out for an hour or so at the end of the night. Now I find it hard to get to sleep.
Treasure what you have while you have it. I hope she didn't suffer anything permanent (except perchance a greater awareness of the preciousness of each moment).
Take care.
My sympathies go out to his family as this hit close to home for me for different reasons. My father also just died (Nov 25th)at 63 in a car accident, my brother also in the same crash. I miss them both pretty badly. Especially my brother as he was my best friend also.
It's something you more get used to than over as the pain becomes a reminder of the love in your heart and the good memories allow you to cope more as time goes on.
My advice is to say the things you'd regret not saying to those you care about NOW, my brother was only 35 and you just don't know when someones number is up. My dad's house and my brother's room in our apartment look like they just stepped out for a couple hours and indeed they had. Don't wait for tomorrow or next week, it might be to late then.
I hope his family can find solace in one another and the knowledge that he left good works that will persist in the memories of so many fans.
No comfort can equal the pain, but I wish them all they can find. And the fewer that truly understand this, the better.
Except that the nuke has not just cut the rock up, it's also changed the velocities of many/most of those pieces.
Also it's not just about how much energy is added to the system, but how. One big hit focusing all that force on one small piece of the crust vs spread out over many places and the atmosphere and ocean with many pieces missing us entirely due the the change in their orbit.
I suspect the OP was referring to the opening dialog of the tv series Castle(starring Nathan Fillion, who played Malcom Reynolds on firefly).
"There are two kinds of people who spend their time thinking about how to kill people. Psychopaths and mystery writers, I'm the kind that pays better."
That may not be an exact quote, but it should be pretty close.
You wouldn't lift the whole mass of a generation ship from Earth, In fact the main mass would likely be a modified asteroid.
You need an asteroid of about the right composition and size/shape. Drill a hole down the center long ways and fill with mostly water and cap the end, then set spinning and focus sunlight on it with big mirrors. After a bit it gets hot and soft as the water inside boils providing the pressure to expand the now soft asteroid.
There is a lot of fine tuning involved, but you wind up with a miles long and wide cylinder that's hollow and spinning(living space and artificial grav), just ad atmosphere and equipment and colonist and propulsion.
Actually that depends on the test. Not all IQ tests map the IQ score to the same percentile.
At one point in my life I took two different tests with two somewhat different scores, the lower score (by 6 points) indicated a 1.1% higher percentile ranking.
Yes, it seems I did miss your point "peers" not "jury". Even the clarification of the seventh amendment doesn't add 'peer' to the concept for US law, some states may or may not (no clue).
Otherwise the concept in the US would seem a cultural phenomenon, not actually supported by the constitution.
Article 3 Section 2 of the united states constitution:
(The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.) (This section in parentheses is modified by the 11th Amendment.)
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
The 11th amendment:
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
---- Unless I misread what you meant I believe we do have such a tradition.
Exactly how I feel about Nvidia, not just poorly working opengl, but complete borked. Of course not all the Nvidia cards I tried about 18 months showed crappy opengl, just the two (out of 4) than I actually managed to get to work at all.
4 cards by three vendors: 1 d.o.a. one would die with obivious graphic corruption with any 3d accell in use at all (or just move the mouse pointer to fast), 1 would crash hard after less than 5 minutes every time. The one that sorta seemed to work had d3d performance worse than an ati card that cost half as much two years prior and opengl was a waste of time on the main monitor and not an option on the second (and early amd dual core could run SOFTWARE opengl that ran circles around it).
Actual use I'd guess, I had McAfee (paid version) installed, but after a couple of weeks of it bogging down a fairly hefty machine (2cores,4gigs,xp-pro) I tried to unistall it, it finally took a boot cd and some research to kill the bloated beast.
It's been almost three years so perhaps they've cleaned up their act since then, but with their malware like uninstall-ability and massive slowdowns (even after tweeking the setting as much as I could) I really wouldn't trust them again.
I've given up on mice, they use to much space and like to arbitrarily pick surfaces not to work on(sometimes the same surface that was the only one they'd work on yesterday), trackballs have none of these problems, so I've been using them for years.
So instead of move mouse, pick and set down to move again, I just move my thumb around.
They do however require a bit of practice to use correctly.
Wasn't subject to opinion, a few years ago some folk decided to study the increase in safety offered by various hands free options for phones and found NONE.
Later research was done to find out why.
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Nice theory, but the establishment I work at already relies on superior product and service to pull in business despite higher than typical prices, our profit margin doesn't have the room you suggest. And based on how we fare when our competition shifts their pricing or we do is little to no room to raise prices without going under. It's just to competitive a field pricing wise, and people care less about quality and service on fast food than most would like to admit.
Besides even at minimum wage a typical delivery driver would be working for a loss without tips, which are typically between 3/2 and 3/4 of their income.
Wear and tear and gas for a car isn't cheap.
The first time I worked a delivery driver I made just over 23k($us) while being paid just under minimum wage. This was about 10 years ago.
The sad things is while the costs of living and min wage have gone up quite a bit, tips haven't hardly budged. I used to average $2.50 to $3 and my drivers are averaging $3 to $3.5
Mycroft
That money would have to come from somewhere. If you have three competitors and one pays it's employees more by a the amount they'd otherwise get for tips they would have to raise prices, at which point the customers all go somewhere more affordable putting them out of business cutting those employee's pay to zero.
And no, you can't do it without raising prices unless selling below cost is your idea of how to run a business.
Mycroft
Except if there's no tips there will be no employees in a tipped job unless they're direct pay goes up, meaning higher prices meaning NO customers, meaning no jobs.
It's a chicken egg problem. Also tips do allow you to provide direct feedback on the service provided.
Of course if the cook screws up it's the wait person that takes the hit.
NEVER fail to tip appropriately. For delivery drivers you want to tip at least the cost of a gallon of gas (unless they're total jerks).
The bottom line is the only way you are not going to pay the tip is if you're a minority. if the majority stops tipping prices will go so that wages can go up enough to compensate. And even then a regular stiff rapidly finds there level of service dropping through the floor. Do you really want to piss off someone who's alone with your food for a significant amount of time? Yeah if caught doing something bad to a customers food is a good way to get fired or worse(I'd fire any of my employees just for being rude to regular stiff,let alone worse), but in the meantime....
I could go on for quite a bit about this.
Mycroft
A bit aside, but where does this happen. I've almost never been in a movie where kids were more than just a tad distracting at most (oh the occasional baby or toddler having a brief outburst, but the parents always got the child out FAST). Even unsupervised teens and preteens.
I know it happens, it's an all to common complaint. I've just seen it so rarely.
Then again windows ME and Vista both worked just fine for me. I think I just have really weird luck.
Mycroft
There where no nuclear weapons involved. That's a misconception caused by persons who do not understand the magnitude of the kinetic energy released by metal containers filled with rocks falling through a gravity well.
Add in the fact most people do not seem to understand that 'mushroom clouds' are a result of the magnitude of energy release and not any inherent nuclear process and you get OMG NUKLAR WEAPONS as a result.
Mycroft
Might I suggest a magnetic rail based system to launch payloads from Luna to Earth. I have reason to believe such a system could be quite effective.
Mycroft
Oddly enough I've found most programs that won't let you cut and paste with the mouse will happily let you do it with the keyboard shortcuts.
Mycroft
First, Thank You. Second I'm glad to hear you didn't have a tragedy. It's hard, I've spent most of my life, and all of my brothers 35+ years, living in the same house or apartment or at least town as my brother and despite all the stupid sibling fighting and crap early on we were best friends.
We've been sharing this apartment about 18 months and would typically chat and hang out for an hour or so at the end of the night. Now I find it hard to get to sleep.
Treasure what you have while you have it.
I hope she didn't suffer anything permanent (except perchance a greater awareness of the preciousness of each moment).
Take care.
Mycroft
My sympathies go out to his family as this hit close to home for me for different reasons.
My father also just died (Nov 25th)at 63 in a car accident, my brother also in the same crash. I miss them both
pretty badly. Especially my brother as he was my best friend also.
It's something you more get used to than over as the pain becomes a reminder of the love in your heart and the good memories allow you to cope more as time goes on.
My advice is to say the things you'd regret not saying to those you care about NOW, my brother was only 35 and you just don't know when someones number is up. My dad's house and my brother's room in our apartment look like they just stepped out for a couple hours and indeed they had. Don't wait for tomorrow or next week, it might be to late then.
I hope his family can find solace in one another and the knowledge that he left good works that will persist in the memories of so many fans.
No comfort can equal the pain, but I wish them all they can find. And the fewer that truly understand this, the better.
Mycroft
Except that the nuke has not just cut the rock up, it's also changed the velocities of many/most of those pieces.
Also it's not just about how much energy is added to the system, but how. One big hit focusing all that force on one small piece of the crust vs spread out over many places and the atmosphere and ocean with many pieces missing us entirely due the the change in their orbit.
Mycroft
Ahhh so it'll be embedded directly in my eyes then, damn.
Mycroft
I suspect the OP was referring to the opening dialog of the tv series Castle(starring Nathan Fillion, who played Malcom Reynolds on firefly).
"There are two kinds of people who spend their time thinking about how to kill people. Psychopaths and mystery writers, I'm the kind that pays better."
That may not be an exact quote, but it should be pretty close.
Mycroft
Uhm, pardon me but that's an OPINION piece (op-ed), not news or scientific research or anything of the kind.
Mycroft
You wouldn't lift the whole mass of a generation ship from Earth, In fact the main mass would likely be a modified asteroid.
You need an asteroid of about the right composition and size/shape.
Drill a hole down the center long ways and fill with mostly water and cap the end, then set spinning and focus sunlight on it with big mirrors. After a bit it gets hot and soft as the water inside boils providing the pressure to expand the now soft asteroid.
There is a lot of fine tuning involved, but you wind up with a miles long and wide cylinder that's hollow and spinning(living space and artificial grav), just ad atmosphere and equipment and colonist and propulsion.
Mycroft
For some reason that first statement just shouted for a googling. First link:
http://www.outsports.com/os/index.php/component/content/article/50-cowgirl-revolution?start=1
partial caption on included photo:
1920s champion Bonnie McCarroll
Apparently Women have been competing in rodeos and such for over a hundred years.
Mycroft
Actually that depends on the test.
Not all IQ tests map the IQ score to the same percentile.
At one point in my life I took two different tests with two somewhat
different scores, the lower score (by 6 points) indicated a 1.1% higher percentile
ranking.
Mycroft
Yes, it seems I did miss your point "peers" not "jury".
Even the clarification of the seventh amendment doesn't add 'peer' to the concept for US law, some states may or may not (no clue).
Otherwise the concept in the US would seem a cultural phenomenon, not actually supported by the constitution.
Mycroft
Article 3 Section 2 of the united states constitution:
(The judicial Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and maritime Jurisdiction; to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State; between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or Subjects.) (This section in parentheses is modified by the 11th Amendment.)
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
The 11th amendment:
The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
----
Unless I misread what you meant I believe we do have such a tradition.
Mycroft
Exactly how I feel about Nvidia, not just poorly working opengl, but complete borked.
Of course not all the Nvidia cards I tried about 18 months showed crappy opengl, just the two (out of 4) than I actually managed to get to work at all.
4 cards by three vendors: 1 d.o.a. one would die with obivious graphic corruption with any 3d accell in use at all (or just move the mouse pointer to fast), 1 would crash hard after less than 5 minutes every time. The one that sorta seemed to work had d3d performance worse than an ati card that cost half as much two years prior and opengl was a waste of time on the main monitor and not an option on the second (and early amd dual core could run SOFTWARE opengl that ran circles around it).
Mycroft
Not entirely certain I understand your question, but perhaps this wikipedia page and some of it's links will help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light
Mycroft
Actual use I'd guess, I had McAfee (paid version) installed, but after a couple of weeks of it bogging down a fairly hefty machine (2cores,4gigs,xp-pro) I tried to unistall it, it finally took a boot cd and some research to kill the bloated beast.
It's been almost three years so perhaps they've cleaned up their act since then, but with their malware like uninstall-ability and massive slowdowns (even after tweeking the setting as much as I could) I really wouldn't trust them again.
Mycroft
I've given up on mice, they use to much space and like to arbitrarily pick surfaces not to work on(sometimes the same surface that was the only one they'd work on yesterday), trackballs have none of these problems, so I've been using them for years.
So instead of move mouse, pick and set down to move again, I just move my thumb around.
They do however require a bit of practice to use correctly.
Mycroft
It's founded, check earlier in this thread for the many links to the studies and research.
Wasn't subject to opinion, a few years ago some folk decided to study the increase in safety offered by various hands free options for phones and found NONE.
Later research was done to find out why.
Mycroft
Sorry for the self reply, but I have run into a couple of his works, the gith races and sladd from AD&D