Nearly all the places we go to eat are one-of-a-kind or have maybe 2 or 3 locations. This new law will have very little impact on us. We just don't frequent fast food joints and chain restaurants.
Going out to eat costs more than eating at home, and if I'm going to spend the money eating out, I'm going to spend it on a meal that's worth it. Of course, we average eating out only a couple of times a month.
"53 linear miles of shelving" Shelving. Shelving. Shelving. Not text, unless somebody wrote with really big letters.
That's a lot of shelving. I own a LOT of books and I don't have anywhere near that much shelving, maybe a few hundred feet of it tops. Plus, I have about 30 or 40 boxes of books that I don't have room on the shelves for yet.
I'll renew before the price goes up, so I'll get this next year for $99. And then next year about this same time I'll pay the increased price. I've been a Prime member since the beginning of Prime, and always felt it was a good value.
Amazon has been more than worth it for me. I have averaged 10 orders per month for the past several years. I check prices locally and online. Sometimes I'm willing to pay a little bit more at Amazon simply to keep from driving to the store. Other times Amazon has the best price even though the item is a Prime item. I recently bought 8 cans of sliced black olives cheaper than Dollar General had them. I've found that on a ton of items I'd usually buy from Lowe's or Home Depot that Amazon's price works out to be the same or only off by a dollar or two.
I do wish they'd just drop USPS delivery or at least give Prime members a choice of shippers. Around here UPS is the most reliable. I'd be willing to wait another day to get UPS all the time. My regular UPS guy knows me, knows my boss, knows where I used to live, etc.. He's always here about the same time every day, so I know when to expect deliveries.
We watch quite a bit of Prime Video. I don't care about the other Prime benefits much at all. They could drop everything except delivery and streaming, and lower the price a bit and I'd be a happy camper.
It's not just the current generation. People in general have a dislike of any job requiring manual labor and they tend to look down on those who have jobs where you might actually work up a sweat.
It goes the other way, too. I hear blue-collar workers say that people who have desk jobs aren't really working. They joke about it when one of their own moves up into management by saying stuff like, "Yeah, he's got a job now with all the work slung out of it."
All work is valuable and we need people to do all types of jobs, from desk jockey to ditch diggers. It's best to appreciate anybody who works for a living no matter what they do.
You can joke about plumbers until you need one. You can joke about doctors until you need one. You can joke about slashdot forever because nobody really needs it.
That's great in theory, but we need people who will collect garbage, dig ditches, clean out chicken houses, shovel horse shit, cut grass, build houses, install cable, etc.. Civilization won't work when everybody is an artist doing his own thing.
Tax the purchase at the location of the item. That's how it should be. If I drive to another city in my home state that has a higher sales tax than my hometown, I can't demand to pay the lower rate because of where I live. Sales are taxed where the transaction takes place in brick-and-mortar stores. Keep it that way for online purchases.
Let the states, counties, and cities compete to lure internet businesses to their locations. The ones with low sales tax would have an edge on the ones with outrageous tax rates. For a company like Amazon that has warehouses in a bunch of states, tax the item at the warehouse location that it's shipped from.
Local governments probably wouldn't like it that way, but I would remind them that 5% of something is always more than 10% of nothing.
If it can eat polyethylene, there go thousands of miles of natural gas main and services. Can you say "BOOM"?
It may be better to bring the plastic to the bacteria in a controlled environment than let the bacteria loose in the wild. They have a way of mutating into different strains really fast. Today PET, tomorrow the world!!
He does a pretty good job dressing as a human to disguise his real identity - a snake.
Comey's loyalty is to the state and himself. He doesn't know God. He has nothing but disdain for ordinary citizens. He hates Trump with a passion few have. He's a big man wrapped up in himself. I pray for his soul.
I think their misunderstanding is that they think a "state" is simply a subdivision of a national government. It's not. "State" is another term for "country". We're a union of semi-independent countries that came together for common defense and free trade across state lines. The goal of the Constitution was to limit the power of the central government and keep most governing at the state and local level. It has failed, mainly through apathy and ignorance.
You may be quite normal. They're the ones with a problem.
It's really bad when you're in the break room with 15 other people and there's no conversation because they've all got their noses in their phones. You look around and wonder if they're actually humans or bizarre copies of the people you thought you knew.
If you buy that load of BS, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas you might like.
It's more like - people with good or bad traits saw Hillary for what she really was and voted for the lesser of two evils. Few people really like Trump, but they were willing to give him a chance. They knew FOR SURE what they'd get with Hillary and rejected her.
A future Supreme Court could always reverse the decision. Supreme Courts have a history of reversing previous decisions. Rights granted by government can be taken away by government. I prefer my rights be ones I was born with - natural rights.
And nobody has a right to kill. Period. End of discussion.
They are not trustworthy. Even if you pay they could still do whatever they please with your data. If they're so devious that they would create "shadow accounts" for people who've never registered, then what makes anybody think they'll honor anything, including payments?
I'm all for businesses making money. I'm invested in several businesses. Facebook is free to make as much as they can, but they're so dishonest that I'd never trust them as far as I could throw them. You're free to pay them if you wish, but in my opinion you'd be getting screwed twice.
ALL of the states, usually called the United States.
Hillary Clinton joked to reporters in Las Vegas about whether she wiped her email server clean before giving it to the FBI. What? Like with a cloth or something? she asked, then laughed (more like cackled).
According to Google, I'm a 22 year old black female college student. That would really surprise my white great-grandson.:)
Doesn't anybody know how to lie? Unless it's absolutely unavoidable, lie through your teeth when you're online. Lie about everything. Make up fake answers for security questions. Only your bank and online retailers need to know your real name. Lie, lie, lie about everything else. Yes, my real name IS reboot246.
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You're absolutely right.
Nearly all the places we go to eat are one-of-a-kind or have maybe 2 or 3 locations. This new law will have very little impact on us. We just don't frequent fast food joints and chain restaurants.
Going out to eat costs more than eating at home, and if I'm going to spend the money eating out, I'm going to spend it on a meal that's worth it. Of course, we average eating out only a couple of times a month.
I'm still looking for something that doesn't affect Earth's climate!
No, it's not. Anybody can Google the price of the stock and see that it's not back up, though it has been much lower in the recent past.
"53 linear miles of shelving"
Shelving. Shelving. Shelving. Not text, unless somebody wrote with really big letters.
That's a lot of shelving. I own a LOT of books and I don't have anywhere near that much shelving, maybe a few hundred feet of it tops. Plus, I have about 30 or 40 boxes of books that I don't have room on the shelves for yet.
I was going to test that for you, but they didn't want their books getting wet.
I'll renew before the price goes up, so I'll get this next year for $99. And then next year about this same time I'll pay the increased price. I've been a Prime member since the beginning of Prime, and always felt it was a good value.
Amazon has been more than worth it for me. I have averaged 10 orders per month for the past several years. I check prices locally and online. Sometimes I'm willing to pay a little bit more at Amazon simply to keep from driving to the store. Other times Amazon has the best price even though the item is a Prime item. I recently bought 8 cans of sliced black olives cheaper than Dollar General had them. I've found that on a ton of items I'd usually buy from Lowe's or Home Depot that Amazon's price works out to be the same or only off by a dollar or two.
I do wish they'd just drop USPS delivery or at least give Prime members a choice of shippers. Around here UPS is the most reliable. I'd be willing to wait another day to get UPS all the time. My regular UPS guy knows me, knows my boss, knows where I used to live, etc.. He's always here about the same time every day, so I know when to expect deliveries.
We watch quite a bit of Prime Video. I don't care about the other Prime benefits much at all. They could drop everything except delivery and streaming, and lower the price a bit and I'd be a happy camper.
It's not just the current generation. People in general have a dislike of any job requiring manual labor and they tend to look down on those who have jobs where you might actually work up a sweat.
It goes the other way, too. I hear blue-collar workers say that people who have desk jobs aren't really working. They joke about it when one of their own moves up into management by saying stuff like, "Yeah, he's got a job now with all the work slung out of it."
All work is valuable and we need people to do all types of jobs, from desk jockey to ditch diggers. It's best to appreciate anybody who works for a living no matter what they do.
You can joke about plumbers until you need one. You can joke about doctors until you need one. You can joke about slashdot forever because nobody really needs it.
You don't have backups?!?
I've been a Smugmug customer for years and they have really good terms of service, the best of which is they don't claim rights to my photographs.
That "education" thing is not optional.
That's great in theory, but we need people who will collect garbage, dig ditches, clean out chicken houses, shovel horse shit, cut grass, build houses, install cable, etc.. Civilization won't work when everybody is an artist doing his own thing.
Silicon Valley was out of touch way before Trump was elected. They've been out of touch since pretty much the beginning.
Tax the purchase at the location of the item. That's how it should be. If I drive to another city in my home state that has a higher sales tax than my hometown, I can't demand to pay the lower rate because of where I live. Sales are taxed where the transaction takes place in brick-and-mortar stores. Keep it that way for online purchases.
Let the states, counties, and cities compete to lure internet businesses to their locations. The ones with low sales tax would have an edge on the ones with outrageous tax rates. For a company like Amazon that has warehouses in a bunch of states, tax the item at the warehouse location that it's shipped from.
Local governments probably wouldn't like it that way, but I would remind them that 5% of something is always more than 10% of nothing.
If it can eat polyethylene, there go thousands of miles of natural gas main and services. Can you say "BOOM"?
It may be better to bring the plastic to the bacteria in a controlled environment than let the bacteria loose in the wild. They have a way of mutating into different strains really fast. Today PET, tomorrow the world!!
He does a pretty good job dressing as a human to disguise his real identity - a snake.
Comey's loyalty is to the state and himself. He doesn't know God. He has nothing but disdain for ordinary citizens. He hates Trump with a passion few have. He's a big man wrapped up in himself. I pray for his soul.
Yep, he's a snake.
Why would they put stickers on that would catch fire? Inflammable and flammable mean the same thing. Maybe you meant nonflammable?
I think their misunderstanding is that they think a "state" is simply a subdivision of a national government. It's not. "State" is another term for "country". We're a union of semi-independent countries that came together for common defense and free trade across state lines. The goal of the Constitution was to limit the power of the central government and keep most governing at the state and local level. It has failed, mainly through apathy and ignorance.
Well, that's changing pretty fast now. Are they a Muslim-run country yet? If not, wait a few years.
You may be quite normal. They're the ones with a problem.
It's really bad when you're in the break room with 15 other people and there's no conversation because they've all got their noses in their phones. You look around and wonder if they're actually humans or bizarre copies of the people you thought you knew.
It's almost like smartphones were invented for people who were too stupid to use a real computer (kind of like all Apple products).
If you buy that load of BS, I have some oceanfront property in Kansas you might like.
It's more like - people with good or bad traits saw Hillary for what she really was and voted for the lesser of two evils. Few people really like Trump, but they were willing to give him a chance. They knew FOR SURE what they'd get with Hillary and rejected her.
A future Supreme Court could always reverse the decision. Supreme Courts have a history of reversing previous decisions. Rights granted by government can be taken away by government. I prefer my rights be ones I was born with - natural rights.
And nobody has a right to kill. Period. End of discussion.
They are not trustworthy. Even if you pay they could still do whatever they please with your data. If they're so devious that they would create "shadow accounts" for people who've never registered, then what makes anybody think they'll honor anything, including payments?
I'm all for businesses making money. I'm invested in several businesses. Facebook is free to make as much as they can, but they're so dishonest that I'd never trust them as far as I could throw them. You're free to pay them if you wish, but in my opinion you'd be getting screwed twice.
ALL of the states, usually called the United States.
Hillary Clinton joked to reporters in Las Vegas about whether she wiped her email server clean before giving it to the FBI. What? Like with a cloth or something? she asked, then laughed (more like cackled).
According to Google, I'm a 22 year old black female college student. That would really surprise my white great-grandson. :)
Doesn't anybody know how to lie? Unless it's absolutely unavoidable, lie through your teeth when you're online. Lie about everything. Make up fake answers for security questions. Only your bank and online retailers need to know your real name. Lie, lie, lie about everything else. Yes, my real name IS reboot246.
I wish I had mod points. That's the best thing I've read in a long time around here. Your neighborhood is about like my neighborhood.
Guns everywhere and nobody getting shot. I wonder why . . .
Until the anti-gun crowd can answer that question honestly, I don't care to hear anything they're screaming.