We have a caretaker, but he doesn't answer the door for deliveries.
Genuinely curious; why not? If he's there, why wouldn't he accept deliveries? Even my suburban rental complex accepted deliveries at the rental/maintenance office. The delivery guys (UPS, Fedex, Postal Service, etc) would put a sticker on the main door to your complex and drop it at the office.
Yes, that sounds similar to Fresh Direct. The problem with Fresh Direct is that all of the convenient hours fill up very quickly, so I wasn't sure how Amazon was going to pull off "same day" delivery... that's why I mentioned the doorman, which would allow delivery even if you weren't home.
I'd not feel confident that someone picking out produce, or seafood or meat would pick out the best looking selections, but instead would be looking more to rotate stock so that oldest is going out.
That was the main point of my post, actually. I was skeptical, but the produce that showed up was actually pretty nice - usually nicer than what I could scrounge up at our local grocery store... though there were nearby "gourmet" markets with better produce at higher prices.
As for doormen... I can't imagine how a building with hundreds of apartments could run without a small army of staff, including someone manning the entrance. The building that I lived in while I was in NYC had a higher population than my home town! The cost to staff the entrance is miniscule when divided by a couple of hundred apartments...
A doorman (or some kind of director) is almost a necessity in a building with 400 apartments. They choreograph an amazing dance of deliveries, people moving, traffic, security, etc. The cost of the doormen is insignificant when divided by so many apartments. We have huge buildings with no doormen, and these are called public housing projects:)
I haven't been in NYC for a few years, but when I lived there the prices were similar to Food Emporium, and they would frequently issue coupons for like $25 off of a $100 order. Regarding the doormen, I meant delivery while you weren't at home... those evening time slots fill up fast!
Actually we were living in subsidized hospital housing while my wife did her training, and we used Fresh Direct for the price and quality. There were no shortage of "organic" and gourmet overpriced groceries where the other half shopped. But thanks for revealing your biases so transparently... makes it easier to filter what you have to say.
We used "Fresh Direct" when we lived in NYC and we were usually happier with the produce than if we got it at the grimy Food Emporium. It was quite popular, so I don't think it would take long for people to get used to grocery delivery. The one hang-up: in NYC there are doormen. I'm not sure how you get groceries without a doorman unless they just leave it on your front stoop!
Why shouldn't Linux desktop users have a solution to allow them to subscribe to watch movies without resorting to piracy.
Who cares? A news server costs only a little more than Netflix, has no DRM, and has better and more recent selection (not to mention a sane way to browse!). If they don't want to market to you, why go out of your way to throw money at them?
Anyone who is frustrated that they can't watch for-pay TV streaming is probably not doing a lot of hacking apart DRM algorithms. If it was a free encrypted stream they'd be all over it, just for the challenge.
My mom's real estate office still runs it. I was helping her restart Apache and I was floored she logged me in and it said SCO. Rooting around (pun intended), it seemed pretty primitive - it wasn't even set up to recycle the log files, and they were HUGE.
Why would the US government have anything to do with it. They already limit your liability to $50, the rest falling on the credit card companies and merchants. If fraud were such a big, expensive problem, then they would have fixed it. Or not - I could care less, since it is their problem.
Anyway, chips, magnetic strips, what is the difference when ordering stuff via internet?
What the hell are you talking about? Protein? All of 0.3% you mean? Before lecturing me about checking MY facts, you might want to at least read the Wikipedia page on honey and corn syrups. Honey is almost entirely sugar, and the largest single component is fructose at about 38%. Regular corn syrup is almost identical with around 42% fructose, and HFCS-55 is 55% fructose. The rest of honey is mostly glucose at about 31% - again, almost identical to regular corn syrup, though glucose can vary quite a bit. HFCS-55 is around 42% glucose. Honey also contains small amounts of other sugars like maltose and sucrose, but sucrose almost immediately converts to fructose and glucose in your body - it is table sugar. Maltose almost immediately converts to glucose - maltose is often used in high concentrations to make hard candies.
Planes cost a lot to lift in the air and get on the ground and there's no easy answer to both of those so the cost per trip is going to be high no matter what is spent in infrastructure.
And yet the cost of a flight vs an Amtrak ticket is very competitive. The only reason intercity trains ever make sense is because you don't have the security hassles, or in the rare event that one needs to travel from a downtown to a downtown. If this thing attracts the TSA, it is all over.
It's beginning to look like you don't have to consider very many years for even 1968 Japanese rail to be a better idea than planes between LA and SF, but that's where it gets political and Boeing even had the clout to get some spies to work for it at taxpayers expense against Airbus.
Is LA to SF really such a big route? SF is not a very big city. LA is colossal, but do enough people really hop between them? They seem like totally different worlds to me.
It is not really all that similar at all. The Northeast Corridor is full of people from one end to the other - almost a constant Metropolis - and the people are largely familiar with public transit. The Northeast Corridor was completely privately funded until Amtrak took over all passenger rail in the 70s. The region grew up around rail - my suburb is even centered around a train station, but the nearest highway is about 10 minutes away, and it doesn't even go toward the city center.
Still, I have a chuckle whenever I read one of these funny food health websites railing about how unhealthy corn syrup is, recommending that you substitute the nearly-chemically-identical honey. But, you know, it has micro-nutrients... LOL.
It's easy for them to be financially sustainable because they were built with public money.
Those airports have no problem generating enough cash to finance their construction, operations, maintenance and improvements. I seriously doubt that a train line built between the two cities could even cover operations - much less construction, maintenance, or improvements.
They aren't profitable.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I mentioned highways as a counterpoint to my argument that the rail line would not be profitable. Highways - especially freeways - are an example of government-funded, government-financed infrastructure that people seem to be mostly happy about. Why raise the bar for rail?
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Without the background task, you'll have no hope of keeping up-to-date. By the time I finished downloading 28, 29 was released.
And now it's 30. Crap.
We only spend future money. Take that, kids!
We have a caretaker, but he doesn't answer the door for deliveries.
Genuinely curious; why not? If he's there, why wouldn't he accept deliveries? Even my suburban rental complex accepted deliveries at the rental/maintenance office. The delivery guys (UPS, Fedex, Postal Service, etc) would put a sticker on the main door to your complex and drop it at the office.
Yes, that sounds similar to Fresh Direct. The problem with Fresh Direct is that all of the convenient hours fill up very quickly, so I wasn't sure how Amazon was going to pull off "same day" delivery... that's why I mentioned the doorman, which would allow delivery even if you weren't home.
I'd not feel confident that someone picking out produce, or seafood or meat would pick out the best looking selections, but instead would be looking more to rotate stock so that oldest is going out.
That was the main point of my post, actually. I was skeptical, but the produce that showed up was actually pretty nice - usually nicer than what I could scrounge up at our local grocery store... though there were nearby "gourmet" markets with better produce at higher prices.
As for doormen... I can't imagine how a building with hundreds of apartments could run without a small army of staff, including someone manning the entrance. The building that I lived in while I was in NYC had a higher population than my home town! The cost to staff the entrance is miniscule when divided by a couple of hundred apartments...
He made up a ridiculous product, but his scorn for upper-crusties getting grocery delivery to their doormen was very real.
I think it is because I flamed him back. If I'd stayed more civil, I wouldn't have gotten the troll mod.
A doorman (or some kind of director) is almost a necessity in a building with 400 apartments. They choreograph an amazing dance of deliveries, people moving, traffic, security, etc. The cost of the doormen is insignificant when divided by so many apartments. We have huge buildings with no doormen, and these are called public housing projects :)
I haven't been in NYC for a few years, but when I lived there the prices were similar to Food Emporium, and they would frequently issue coupons for like $25 off of a $100 order. Regarding the doormen, I meant delivery while you weren't at home... those evening time slots fill up fast!
Actually we were living in subsidized hospital housing while my wife did her training, and we used Fresh Direct for the price and quality. There were no shortage of "organic" and gourmet overpriced groceries where the other half shopped. But thanks for revealing your biases so transparently... makes it easier to filter what you have to say.
We used "Fresh Direct" when we lived in NYC and we were usually happier with the produce than if we got it at the grimy Food Emporium. It was quite popular, so I don't think it would take long for people to get used to grocery delivery. The one hang-up: in NYC there are doormen. I'm not sure how you get groceries without a doorman unless they just leave it on your front stoop!
Why shouldn't Linux desktop users have a solution to allow them to subscribe to watch movies without resorting to piracy.
Who cares? A news server costs only a little more than Netflix, has no DRM, and has better and more recent selection (not to mention a sane way to browse!). If they don't want to market to you, why go out of your way to throw money at them?
Nah, they had ambitions of beating Adobe Flash. If that was going to happen, they couldn't ignore so many laptop, yuppie, and college users.
Anyone who is frustrated that they can't watch for-pay TV streaming is probably not doing a lot of hacking apart DRM algorithms. If it was a free encrypted stream they'd be all over it, just for the challenge.
My mom's real estate office still runs it. I was helping her restart Apache and I was floored she logged me in and it said SCO. Rooting around (pun intended), it seemed pretty primitive - it wasn't even set up to recycle the log files, and they were HUGE.
It's powered by the users own sense of self importance.
Did the BMW patents expire already?
Why would the US government have anything to do with it. They already limit your liability to $50, the rest falling on the credit card companies and merchants. If fraud were such a big, expensive problem, then they would have fixed it. Or not - I could care less, since it is their problem.
Anyway, chips, magnetic strips, what is the difference when ordering stuff via internet?
What the hell are you talking about? Protein? All of 0.3% you mean? Before lecturing me about checking MY facts, you might want to at least read the Wikipedia page on honey and corn syrups. Honey is almost entirely sugar, and the largest single component is fructose at about 38%. Regular corn syrup is almost identical with around 42% fructose, and HFCS-55 is 55% fructose. The rest of honey is mostly glucose at about 31% - again, almost identical to regular corn syrup, though glucose can vary quite a bit. HFCS-55 is around 42% glucose. Honey also contains small amounts of other sugars like maltose and sucrose, but sucrose almost immediately converts to fructose and glucose in your body - it is table sugar. Maltose almost immediately converts to glucose - maltose is often used in high concentrations to make hard candies.
doesn't mean rail in general is useless.
Good point. But I'm pretty sure this thing, whatever it's form, will end up in either Amtrak or Caltrans's hands.
"build it and they will come".
There is some truth to that. It might take a while, but people will always develop around infrastructure. We do it with highways now, in any event.
Planes cost a lot to lift in the air and get on the ground and there's no easy answer to both of those so the cost per trip is going to be high no matter what is spent in infrastructure.
And yet the cost of a flight vs an Amtrak ticket is very competitive. The only reason intercity trains ever make sense is because you don't have the security hassles, or in the rare event that one needs to travel from a downtown to a downtown. If this thing attracts the TSA, it is all over.
It's beginning to look like you don't have to consider very many years for even 1968 Japanese rail to be a better idea than planes between LA and SF, but that's where it gets political and Boeing even had the clout to get some spies to work for it at taxpayers expense against Airbus.
Is LA to SF really such a big route? SF is not a very big city. LA is colossal, but do enough people really hop between them? They seem like totally different worlds to me.
It is not really all that similar at all. The Northeast Corridor is full of people from one end to the other - almost a constant Metropolis - and the people are largely familiar with public transit. The Northeast Corridor was completely privately funded until Amtrak took over all passenger rail in the 70s. The region grew up around rail - my suburb is even centered around a train station, but the nearest highway is about 10 minutes away, and it doesn't even go toward the city center.
Baklava is also full of chopped nuts. I've had baklava made with simple sugar and baklava made with corn syrup, and it does the same thing to me.
Still, I have a chuckle whenever I read one of these funny food health websites railing about how unhealthy corn syrup is, recommending that you substitute the nearly-chemically-identical honey. But, you know, it has micro-nutrients... LOL.
It's easy for them to be financially sustainable because they were built with public money.
Those airports have no problem generating enough cash to finance their construction, operations, maintenance and improvements. I seriously doubt that a train line built between the two cities could even cover operations - much less construction, maintenance, or improvements.
They aren't profitable.
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I mentioned highways as a counterpoint to my argument that the rail line would not be profitable. Highways - especially freeways - are an example of government-funded, government-financed infrastructure that people seem to be mostly happy about. Why raise the bar for rail?