Government over reach? When it is corporations and corporate lobbies that wanted it in the first place ( at least the extension in DST...) So it is those pesky things called the people ( since companies are equivalent to people now) that wanted this. By gosh, it we have no one to blame but ourselves!
So now, we just need to convince ourselves, through lots of money donations, that we do not want this anymore. Hope we can raise more money than to those other people...
Come on, car rental companies - particularly Enterprise - have done this extra charge bit, despite plenty of competition. Eventually Enterprise got nailed ( sued - class action? ), but yeah, since then I do not use Enterprise for car rentals anymore.
I stand corrected. I had to check - but you are correct.. My Nexus 4 is only at 5.1.1 For some reason I thought I had gotten a system update several months ago and I was on the latest version. Perhaps the system update was something else.
Remote call center for all that, yeah, I'd like to see that. One thing for some support, but food issues? Doubtful.
When I wrote ATM type, I meant POS... I like you, I just swipe - but pin and chip - see below... . However there are many many more who use cash.
And so far I have not seen a PIN and chip run smoothly for long - cards getting inserted incorrectly, wrong time, etc. Lots of issues that will slow down a drive through line or even in store, even if only 1 in 10 transactions has issues.
I am not a luddite in automation sense - my job success has been on the back of helping automating people's processes sometimes (rarely) to the point of eliminating said person (or job)...
The social consequences of all this are real interesting to think through...
In our case we are a small manufacturing company in the US. 16 years ago when I joined this company we where little over 300 people and extremely inefficient. Now little less than 200, and so lean it has exposed other negatives... Gotta run...
Crew use customer bathrooms - no savings there. Unless the customers are also robots, but what are tehy doing at McDondald's then...
Same HVAC requirements. Customers do still eat at McDonalds. They like to be cool. Robots prefer cool too, generally, for improved longevity.
Building size will still be the same. I see no reason for that shrinkage. Even maintenance service requires space. And people will still have to work in these locations.
Wait times won't change.
Consistency will improve.
Now the secret sauce will possibly be machine lube that drips because of overzealous maintenance workers... Some of our robots where i work... Ugh.
You'll still need more than one person there... Robots clean for crap in places like that. Someone still has to provide customer service. Drive through will still need a person. ATM type payments would really suck in terms of speed. And reduce customers. The only thing that I could see robotized is making of sandwiches at current state of tech.
Competitive against whom? All the other fast food franchises that also have the same cost increase? Like Papa John's who (in)famously said something along the lines he would have to raise the price of a pizza by $x, where x is less than 0.2, iirc? Wendy's issues are not salary related.
But why couldn't each state just create a single interstate commerce tax rate for this situation? That way the complexity businesses complain about is removed (look a table with only 50 -52 entries), then let a state figure out how to divvy up within itself. Simplifies for business, states get the some/most of the revenue they think/know they are currently denied. Well, sucks for the consumer - but puts the consumer in right legal standing, fulfilling the use tax laws.
Alas a lot of administrative costs come out of programs required as a result of parents filing lawsuits for various reasons. The merits of those programs - well that depends on the point of view of course, but they all are started on the road of good intentions.
yeah, maybe run by horrible people. I know you are not implying at all, but this is not limited to government. Working in the private sector (huge manufacturing company in the US, ~$20 billion, albeit our location is a tiny part (~34 million) ).
We have similar issues - basically boils down to: maintenance is not sexy,
unless a machine is brand spanking new. It is amazing how quickly maintenance is seen as a drain of resources rather than a necessary part of business. Even though i work in the offices rather than the floor, I still shake my head when there are complaints about the inability to meet customer deadlines, yet have too many machines running at less than 80% (some only at 50%) capability.
Horrible people or poor management? A little of both I suppose, in our case. I don't know about the DC Metro, but I suspect a similar, maybe exacerbated situation.
Hard to mess up 3 Tablespoons of milk... I made it again tonight as part of dinner (I have a couple of boxes left from a 6 pack) I dunno, still came out watery. And flavorless (as usual). So we added some crispy breadcrumbs and parmesan to make it more palatable.
Never have the problem with Kraft. Not sure why the difference. Never watery, never tasteless - probably more flavorful xxx (cheese?) (and sodium).
Our grocery store's Mac-n-Cheese - yeah, macaroni is a bit overcooked, but the cheddar cheese they use is pretty good, plus they crisp the top a bit with cheese as I would at home. True, overall it can get a bit mushy sitting in the case all that time - but like at home left over mac-n cheese, just needs to be warmed up correctly. I guess we are just lucky here, though their rotisserie chicken is awful - not sure how one messes that up.
For better or worse, Annie's always come out flavorless and watery as opposed to Kraft. Kind of a Pita. So i find it better and easier just to get mac-n-cheese pre-made, home-style, in our local grocery store. Competitively priced to the boxed versions. When I want really good Mac-n-cheese I make it myself, but more often than not the store made version is more than good enough and saves time.
I got me one of these http://imz-ural.com/2013-ural-gaucho-rambler-le.html two years ago - 2013 is the last year of carburetors. Did not think of hacking safe at the time.... but now an increase in resale value?:)
How little do you think this light is? It is USB powered, not USB thumb drive size. According to various sources, this item is 8"x8"x 2.75". Not so small an item to ship, once you factor in the packaging in which this light might come in before it goes int a shipping box. So $7 might be still a bit on the high side but not as ridiculous as it is being made out to be.
Actually you can find both, and there is a qualitative difference, American Cheese and American Cheese Food Product. Deli counters will often have American Cheese, whereas most packed stuff is Cheese Product.
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Well, as I have learned recently if that principal's gender identification is non-binary, then it is correct to say "What did they steal?"
Part of this change is probably to accommodate these gender identifications.
Obligatory shout out to my nephew... who cut his artistic and video creativity with Club Penguin...
One of his classics here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZx2zYk0JsU/
Government over reach?
When it is corporations and corporate lobbies that wanted it in the first place ( at least the extension in DST...)
So it is those pesky things called the people ( since companies are equivalent to people now) that wanted this.
By gosh, it we have no one to blame but ourselves!
So now, we just need to convince ourselves, through lots of money donations, that we do not want this anymore. Hope we can raise more money than to those other people...
And the joke of the day during in this era we had men bragging for the for first time that they had something smaller than someone else...
My daughter plays music loud enough on Alexa that Alexa can't hear us to respond.
I either go over to reduce volume manually or via the app.
Just another possible layer of obfuscation to keep in mind.
Come on, car rental companies - particularly Enterprise - have done this extra charge bit, despite plenty of competition. Eventually Enterprise got nailed ( sued - class action? ), but yeah, since then I do not use Enterprise for car rentals anymore.
I do not see in Obama's words where it says the information based on browser history.
I am sure there are other ways to monitor who is visiting a site besides browser history.
I stand corrected.
I had to check - but you are correct.. My Nexus 4 is only at 5.1.1
For some reason I thought I had gotten a system update several months ago and I was on the latest version.
Perhaps the system update was something else.
Not sure what you are talking about in terms of Nexus... I still get updates and have latest version on my Nexus4
Remote call center for all that, yeah, I'd like to see that. One thing for some support, but food issues? Doubtful.
When I wrote ATM type, I meant POS... I like you, I just swipe - but pin and chip - see below... . However there are many many more who use cash.
And so far I have not seen a PIN and chip run smoothly for long - cards getting inserted incorrectly, wrong time, etc. Lots of issues that will slow down a drive through line or even in store, even if only 1 in 10 transactions has issues.
I am not a luddite in automation sense - my job success has been on the back of helping automating people's processes sometimes (rarely) to the point of eliminating said person (or job)...
The social consequences of all this are real interesting to think through...
In our case we are a small manufacturing company in the US. 16 years ago when I joined this company we where little over 300 people and extremely inefficient. Now little less than 200, and so lean it has exposed other negatives...
Gotta run...
Crew use customer bathrooms - no savings there. Unless the customers are also robots, but what are tehy doing at McDondald's then...
Same HVAC requirements. Customers do still eat at McDonalds. They like to be cool. Robots prefer cool too, generally, for improved longevity.
Building size will still be the same. I see no reason for that shrinkage. Even maintenance service requires space. And people will still have to work in these locations.
Wait times won't change.
Consistency will improve.
Now the secret sauce will possibly be machine lube that drips because of overzealous maintenance workers... Some of our robots where i work... Ugh.
You'll still need more than one person there... Robots clean for crap in places like that. Someone still has to provide customer service. Drive through will still need a person. ATM type payments would really suck in terms of speed. And reduce customers.
The only thing that I could see robotized is making of sandwiches at current state of tech.
Competitive against whom?
All the other fast food franchises that also have the same cost increase?
Like Papa John's who (in)famously said something along the lines he would have to raise the price of a pizza by $x, where x is less than 0.2, iirc?
Wendy's issues are not salary related.
But why couldn't each state just create a single interstate commerce tax rate for this situation?
That way the complexity businesses complain about is removed (look a table with only 50 -52 entries), then let a state figure out how to divvy up within itself.
Simplifies for business, states get the some/most of the revenue they think/know they are currently denied.
Well, sucks for the consumer - but puts the consumer in right legal standing, fulfilling the use tax laws.
Alas a lot of administrative costs come out of programs required as a result of parents filing lawsuits for various reasons. The merits of those programs - well that depends on the point of view of course, but they all are started on the road of good intentions.
yeah, maybe run by horrible people.
I know you are not implying at all, but this is not limited to government. Working in the private sector (huge manufacturing company in the US, ~$20 billion, albeit our location is a tiny part (~34 million) ).
We have similar issues - basically boils down to: maintenance is not sexy,
unless a machine is brand spanking new. It is amazing how quickly maintenance is seen as a drain of resources rather than a necessary part of business. Even though i work in the offices rather than the floor, I still shake my head when there are complaints about the inability to meet customer deadlines, yet have too many machines running at less than 80% (some only at 50%) capability.
Horrible people or poor management? A little of both I suppose, in our case. I don't know about the DC Metro, but I suspect a similar, maybe exacerbated situation.
replying to myself - not form scratch after all - uses chromium as the base...
From the forum re memory usage/optimization:
"Not to burst some bubbles, but I'm afraid that great optimizations will never happen.
Chromium is the base of Vivaldi, and Chromium is resource hungry, period.
Optimize Vivaldi would mean to fork and heavily patch its code base, that would be an effort impossible to sustain for a small company like Vivaldi.
Surely some small optimizations would be possible on the Vivaldi specific code, but don't expect miracles.
If you are on low end/old HW Vivaldi isn't the browser for you, better to look at Otter, Qupzilla, Fifth browser, in that case. "
Oh well.
Will be worth checking out. Was a fan of Opera from back in the Win 3.xx days.
But if it uses JavaScript to do its thing, can JavaScript be turned off for sites? Hmm. I normally run with no-script in Firefox.
Hard to mess up 3 Tablespoons of milk... I made it again tonight as part of dinner (I have a couple of boxes left from a 6 pack) I dunno, still came out watery. And flavorless (as usual). So we added some crispy breadcrumbs and parmesan to make it more palatable.
Never have the problem with Kraft. Not sure why the difference. Never watery, never tasteless - probably more flavorful xxx (cheese?) (and sodium).
Our grocery store's Mac-n-Cheese - yeah, macaroni is a bit overcooked, but the cheddar cheese they use is pretty good, plus they crisp the top a bit with cheese as I would at home. True, overall it can get a bit mushy sitting in the case all that time - but like at home left over mac-n cheese, just needs to be warmed up correctly. I guess we are just lucky here, though their rotisserie chicken is awful - not sure how one messes that up.
For better or worse, Annie's always come out flavorless and watery as opposed to Kraft. Kind of a Pita.
So i find it better and easier just to get mac-n-cheese pre-made, home-style, in our local grocery store. Competitively priced to the boxed versions.
When I want really good Mac-n-cheese I make it myself, but more often than not the store made version is more than good enough and saves time.
I got me one of these http://imz-ural.com/2013-ural-gaucho-rambler-le.html two years ago - 2013 is the last year of carburetors. :)
Did not think of hacking safe at the time.... but now an increase in resale value?
I usually use Tom's guide as a guide. Access with some kind of ad blocker though...
http://www.tomshardware.com/re...
How little do you think this light is? It is USB powered, not USB thumb drive size.
According to various sources, this item is 8"x8"x 2.75". Not so small an item to ship, once you factor in the packaging in which this light might come in before it goes int a shipping box.
So $7 might be still a bit on the high side but not as ridiculous as it is being made out to be.
Only if someone does the updates...
Actually you can find both, and there is a qualitative difference, American Cheese and American Cheese Food Product.
Deli counters will often have American Cheese, whereas most packed stuff is Cheese Product.
Chappie looks a lot like a Warhammer 40K Tau jump suit - mostly the head, but still the overall resemblance is there.
like here: http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/321/8/f/El__Jor_by_squirrel_san.jpg
Combine Chappie's head and the suit form District 9, and voila you have a Tau jump suit, albeit a more rounded and less armored version.