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Small town in the middle of nowhere. When I was in highschool there were something like 75-100 students living 25+ miles out of town. The furthest out kids had 2-3hour bus rides (due to stops). Combine with winter temperatures that sometimes strands normal buses by freezing the diesel fuel into a gelatinous blob, I sadly predict electric buses will never come to this chunk of the US.
Though I do hope electric buses take off in places that can utilize them. The bus barns that maintain a school's fleet would be wonderful sources of performance data. Info like that could help design better systems for all electric vehicles.
I remember getting big whiffs of diesel exhaust while crossing between busses when I was in school (not on purpose, had to twice daily to get to/leave school). That can't be good for developing minds. Too bad 80-100 miles doesn't cut it for out here. Half of our busses go 20-30 miles out of town to pick up kids, some go 50 miles out. Great for in town routes though.
Too bad the MAFIAA, like debt collectors, don't give a flying fuck who actually did something as long as they have someone they can bully/lie to/scream at until they get paid what they believe they are owed.
To a MAFIAA lawyer an IP address might as well be a mugshot, fingerprints, DNA, and confession all wrapped into a neal little package. And they will spend as much money as it takes to make the courts agree with them.
I was going to say only long mission military jets do mid-air refueling so the point is irrelevant, but then I re-read your post.
How exactly does an airplane refuel itself in mid air? Magic second tank that stores extra fuel in a way that doesn't take up the same weight/space a normal tank does?
Unless you created a pocket universe, started a creation event, formed stars from the resulting big bang cloud, fused a solar system worth of hydrogen into heavier matter, collected the matter into a planet in the perfect orbit, formed a primordial soup, created life from the soup, evolved the life to create coffee bean producers, harvested the beans, processed and roasted the beans, ground them, and finally pressed them yourself, then it's not proper coffee.
But without going through annoying changes like that they'll never stumble on that one "Oh yeah, this is much better" change they can patent and make a fortune off of.
You know, it's really insensitive of you to want a product that works nicely when they're only trying to find their way to dominate the industry and get a slice of everyone else's pie.
Oh I know, crazy huh? How could they let this patent get by with the clearly obvious prior art of all those blue LEDs that helped light up gadgets in the 80s.
Not like every consumer product featuring LEDs prior to 1994 or so was using red, green, yellow, and amber because depositing the gallium mix required for the blue spectrum bandgap could only be done on a ruby substrate at the time due to the normal process destroying a silicon substrate, thereby making blue LEDs insanely expensive.
Over 60 CFLs in my place, and over the last 12 years we've has to replace roughly 2-3 a year on average. We even buy the el cheapo walmart brands, whic is probably why we have to replace that many. Hell our garage is lit by a ring style screw in florescent my grandpa bought over 20 years ago.
Mainly you just use a bit of empathy. If someone is waiting on you, doing work you would be doing, then it's a good idea to tip.
Drivers- These guys use their own cars with little to no compensation from the restaurant for gas and vehicle maintenance, half the time going out in weather that prompted you to order delivery instead of getting it yourself, and in most areas they might as well have a big bullseye on them saying "I carry money, come mug me!" Generally a good tip is $1-2 per item delivered. Though when you get your food check it first thing, making sure the order is correct (so the delivery guy knows first instead of getting the call back from the restaurant) and also just to be sure it wasn't damaged or tampered with in transit. This is a job I have done for pizza hut. It's pretty thankless, you can get some horrible customers (one coworker delivered to a place and was greeted by a 300lb 50 year old lady in see-through lingerie), you spend most of your time on the road trying not to get hit by some idiot driver, and the delivery charge pizza hut adds is used as an excuse to not tip you. Which is completely bogus, pizza hut keeps 75% of the delivery charge to supposedly pay for the bags and signs drivers use, even though they replace them maybe once every 5 years and yet enough delivery fees are taken in a week to replace them all twice over.
Wait staff- As long as they aren't rude then it's a good idea to tip atleast something. Remember that your waitress didn't cook your food, the cooks in the kitchen did. If your waitress is honestly making an effort to give you a pleasant dining experience then they shouldn't be punished because your order was goofed up. Now if the person is rude, dismissive, and/or lazy then by all means withhold a tip.You do sometimes get wait staff who give preferential service based on looks, gender, race, party size/composition, and/or final bill tally. And some are just plain lazy, expecting that as long as you get some sort of food and they interact with you atleast once then they deserve their 15-20%
Large groups- Tip. As long as they don't completely ignore you then tip. Good waitstaff can bus a normal table in a single trip with just a minute or two, but a party of 10+ is always a long cleanup job. Even worse if you have a lot of kids in the group. Every birthday party I serviced had atleast one little shit who thought it completely hilarious to try the unscrewed cap trick on every salt/pepper/whatever shaker in the place. If the restaurant has an automatic gratuity then make a judgement if their level of service is deserving of a bigger tip.
Complicated orders- This is more of a service quality indicator than anything any special tipping situation. A good waiter will use a note pad to write your order down and be able to handle a complicated order as well as they would "large pepperoni, thick crust". If they don't write your order down and it comes back wrong, it's their fault for not being prepared. If they do write it down and it comes back wrong then you can generally blame the kitchen. Just don't punish the wait staff for a kitchen problem.
One final note, if the service is good but the food is bad (low quality, multiple mistakes by the cooks, ect...) then don't punish the wait staff. If you skimp on the tip then they assume you're just an asshole who can be ignored. But if you tip them nicely and tell them what you think of the food it goes a long way towards getting things fixed.
The IRS has a minimum reporting amount they expect you to make. A bad week with a couple huge parties that stiff you and you can work your ass off for no tips then get irate calls from corporate threatening to fire you.
School busses are the worst. Many coaches refuse to tip (claiming they can't despite the voucher having instructions for doing so), some to be asses, some to save activity budget, and some to later report the tip was paid out of their own money so they can enjoy a $50-100 bonus.
Other groups can be almost as bad. The sunday after-church rush tends to leave you with maybe $5 from that old lady who still remembers what being a waitress was like. But mainly you get nothing from god's flock (because if you were a good christian you would be in church too, because only evil sinners are saddled with low end jobs). Family with a higher income having a birthday for their angel and his friends, with the 9 year old getting expensive shit and all 20 kids tearing up the place because they can, you'll be lucky if they actually pay their bill instead of bitching at the manager on duty about crappy food and the mess the place is in as they leave (never mind who caused it), and scream trying to demand their food be free.
Infact the only people who reliably tip are the people receiving welfare. The ones who order once a month at most as a huge treat for their kids. The ones who can barely afford food are the ones most generous to others in shitty dead-end jobs.
And i have NEVER seen a politician tip when cameras weren't involved.
Depending on the state you can work 40hr a week and still easily qualify for food stamps. That's not saying food stamps have a high max income limit, but min wage is so far below the poverty line it's a joke. Hell some states are much worse than others, with laws that allow restaurants to pay wait staff $3 an hour. Yes the difference is meant to be covered by tips, but get a bad schedule or just a stingy tipping crowd (fun fact, the more someone makes the less likely they will tip drivers and waitstaff in low end restauraunts) it's not uncommon to take home an average of $4 an hour for a full work schedule.
Guessing they've got a dedicated acronym guy as part of the PR department. Tell a congressman you're sending a refrigerator into space and they think they know as much about it as you do, and therefor why should it cost more than $299 at sears? Instant budget cut.
I can, but you won't be able to decipher it without the magic seer stones of Itsajokelaughdamnit. Those seer stones are also good for translating ancient gold tablets that detail how to create your own religion.
You're missing the point of this advertisement. Only an Enterprise class Intel drive will save your data. All other factors of the test are irrelevant, like the other drives being consumer grade or that all the other drives were beaten with a rubber mallet for 5 minutes before each test while the intel was handled with silk mittens attached to 7 grounding point. And you definitely don't need to pay attention to the fact the power loss with the Intel drive was carried out via software shutdown while the other drives were done by power surging the computer until the motherboards burst into flames. Nope, pay no attention to that irrelevant information. Just remember that only official certified and authorized Intel drives can protect your data. Now please wait while the next advertisement queues up, which will explain how the Intel drives protext your data with a computer rendering of the drive tucking your data into bed at night before turning off the lights.
China is cashing in on that debt quite often, buying up american businesses and the physical assets associated with. Trading land for trinkets is a time honored american tradition.
While I personally agree tobacco has no place in society, alcohol is a different matter.
Some forms of alcohol are beneficial to your health in small regular doses, and after the initial developmental years have passed almost all detrimental effects to your health are caused by abuse of alcohol. But say you did decide to ban alcohol, where would that ban stop? Vinegar is basically wine that has gone bad, so would it be banned? What about flavor extracts used in baking? Sourdough? Yeast leavened goods? Fruit juice (you'd be surprised)?
I'll take mismanaged contractors over monopoly seeking groups lead by people specificallt chosen for their lack of empathy and inability to consider another human being as anything but a ledger entry. Say they did farm it out to private corps:
Any bank: It presents you options based on your credit rating. Car company: You can shop on their website but you have to visit an authorized dealer to purchase. Walmart: Only HMOs that emphasize continued treatment are listed, others are strong armed into getting rid of long term cure coverage. Verizon: It works for the most part but they leave a gaping hope in the system that lets spammers send fake messages to you claiming to be your insurance. Oil company: Premiums double after a natural disaster or any sort of middle eastern unrest. They never go down. Amazon: Site works fine but the mandatory Prime membership for every covered person is a bit excessive. Microsoft: Site is slower than it should be and gets infected with malware 38 minutes after launch. Apple: You have 3 plans to choose from, all of them bronze plans prices like a gold. Atleast the website is pretty. Ebay: 50/50 chance the plan you bought is actually some rocks in a PS3 box. Google: The influx of data from users is the last piece needed for the search engine to reach sentience. Maybe we shouldn't have emphasized drone warfare...
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Always wear your iGlove protective gear when taking your iPhone 7n out of your iPants pocket.
If an accident does occur you can treat small injuries with your iMedkit. More severe injuries you are contractually bound to seek service at your local iCare medical facility. There you can be assured prompt professional service from a certified Apple iDoc.
Small town in the middle of nowhere. When I was in highschool there were something like 75-100 students living 25+ miles out of town. The furthest out kids had 2-3hour bus rides (due to stops).
Combine with winter temperatures that sometimes strands normal buses by freezing the diesel fuel into a gelatinous blob, I sadly predict electric buses will never come to this chunk of the US.
Though I do hope electric buses take off in places that can utilize them. The bus barns that maintain a school's fleet would be wonderful sources of performance data. Info like that could help design better systems for all electric vehicles.
I remember getting big whiffs of diesel exhaust while crossing between busses when I was in school (not on purpose, had to twice daily to get to/leave school). That can't be good for developing minds.
Too bad 80-100 miles doesn't cut it for out here. Half of our busses go 20-30 miles out of town to pick up kids, some go 50 miles out.
Great for in town routes though.
Too bad the MAFIAA, like debt collectors, don't give a flying fuck who actually did something as long as they have someone they can bully/lie to/scream at until they get paid what they believe they are owed.
To a MAFIAA lawyer an IP address might as well be a mugshot, fingerprints, DNA, and confession all wrapped into a neal little package. And they will spend as much money as it takes to make the courts agree with them.
I was going to say only long mission military jets do mid-air refueling so the point is irrelevant, but then I re-read your post.
How exactly does an airplane refuel itself in mid air? Magic second tank that stores extra fuel in a way that doesn't take up the same weight/space a normal tank does?
How about we just skip to the end of the chain?
Unless you created a pocket universe, started a creation event, formed stars from the resulting big bang cloud, fused a solar system worth of hydrogen into heavier matter, collected the matter into a planet in the perfect orbit, formed a primordial soup, created life from the soup, evolved the life to create coffee bean producers, harvested the beans, processed and roasted the beans, ground them, and finally pressed them yourself, then it's not proper coffee.
Actually the democrat view is "Give a man a fish so his kids don't starve to death while he learns to fish."
All the better to get a standard. A captive audience will get used to a shitty design as they forget what a non-shitty design looks like..
But without going through annoying changes like that they'll never stumble on that one "Oh yeah, this is much better" change they can patent and make a fortune off of.
You know, it's really insensitive of you to want a product that works nicely when they're only trying to find their way to dominate the industry and get a slice of everyone else's pie.
Oh I know, crazy huh? How could they let this patent get by with the clearly obvious prior art of all those blue LEDs that helped light up gadgets in the 80s.
Not like every consumer product featuring LEDs prior to 1994 or so was using red, green, yellow, and amber because depositing the gallium mix required for the blue spectrum bandgap could only be done on a ruby substrate at the time due to the normal process destroying a silicon substrate, thereby making blue LEDs insanely expensive.
Over 60 CFLs in my place, and over the last 12 years we've has to replace roughly 2-3 a year on average. We even buy the el cheapo walmart brands, whic is probably why we have to replace that many.
Hell our garage is lit by a ring style screw in florescent my grandpa bought over 20 years ago.
I believe you meant to say "At what pint does the brawl start?"
Mainly you just use a bit of empathy.
If someone is waiting on you, doing work you would be doing, then it's a good idea to tip.
Drivers- These guys use their own cars with little to no compensation from the restaurant for gas and vehicle maintenance, half the time going out in weather that prompted you to order delivery instead of getting it yourself, and in most areas they might as well have a big bullseye on them saying "I carry money, come mug me!" Generally a good tip is $1-2 per item delivered. Though when you get your food check it first thing, making sure the order is correct (so the delivery guy knows first instead of getting the call back from the restaurant) and also just to be sure it wasn't damaged or tampered with in transit.
This is a job I have done for pizza hut. It's pretty thankless, you can get some horrible customers (one coworker delivered to a place and was greeted by a 300lb 50 year old lady in see-through lingerie), you spend most of your time on the road trying not to get hit by some idiot driver, and the delivery charge pizza hut adds is used as an excuse to not tip you. Which is completely bogus, pizza hut keeps 75% of the delivery charge to supposedly pay for the bags and signs drivers use, even though they replace them maybe once every 5 years and yet enough delivery fees are taken in a week to replace them all twice over.
Wait staff- As long as they aren't rude then it's a good idea to tip atleast something. Remember that your waitress didn't cook your food, the cooks in the kitchen did. If your waitress is honestly making an effort to give you a pleasant dining experience then they shouldn't be punished because your order was goofed up.
Now if the person is rude, dismissive, and/or lazy then by all means withhold a tip.You do sometimes get wait staff who give preferential service based on looks, gender, race, party size/composition, and/or final bill tally. And some are just plain lazy, expecting that as long as you get some sort of food and they interact with you atleast once then they deserve their 15-20%
Large groups- Tip. As long as they don't completely ignore you then tip. Good waitstaff can bus a normal table in a single trip with just a minute or two, but a party of 10+ is always a long cleanup job. Even worse if you have a lot of kids in the group. Every birthday party I serviced had atleast one little shit who thought it completely hilarious to try the unscrewed cap trick on every salt/pepper/whatever shaker in the place.
If the restaurant has an automatic gratuity then make a judgement if their level of service is deserving of a bigger tip.
Complicated orders- This is more of a service quality indicator than anything any special tipping situation. A good waiter will use a note pad to write your order down and be able to handle a complicated order as well as they would "large pepperoni, thick crust". If they don't write your order down and it comes back wrong, it's their fault for not being prepared. If they do write it down and it comes back wrong then you can generally blame the kitchen.
Just don't punish the wait staff for a kitchen problem.
One final note, if the service is good but the food is bad (low quality, multiple mistakes by the cooks, ect...) then don't punish the wait staff. If you skimp on the tip then they assume you're just an asshole who can be ignored. But if you tip them nicely and tell them what you think of the food it goes a long way towards getting things fixed.
Damn mobile browser, replied to the wrong one.
The IRS has a minimum reporting amount they expect you to make. A bad week with a couple huge parties that stiff you and you can work your ass off for no tips then get irate calls from corporate threatening to fire you.
School busses are the worst. Many coaches refuse to tip (claiming they can't despite the voucher having instructions for doing so), some to be asses, some to save activity budget, and some to later report the tip was paid out of their own money so they can enjoy a $50-100 bonus.
Other groups can be almost as bad. The sunday after-church rush tends to leave you with maybe $5 from that old lady who still remembers what being a waitress was like. But mainly you get nothing from god's flock (because if you were a good christian you would be in church too, because only evil sinners are saddled with low end jobs).
Family with a higher income having a birthday for their angel and his friends, with the 9 year old getting expensive shit and all 20 kids tearing up the place because they can, you'll be lucky if they actually pay their bill instead of bitching at the manager on duty about crappy food and the mess the place is in as they leave (never mind who caused it), and scream trying to demand their food be free.
Infact the only people who reliably tip are the people receiving welfare. The ones who order once a month at most as a huge treat for their kids. The ones who can barely afford food are the ones most generous to others in shitty dead-end jobs.
And i have NEVER seen a politician tip when cameras weren't involved.
Depending on the state you can work 40hr a week and still easily qualify for food stamps. That's not saying food stamps have a high max income limit, but min wage is so far below the poverty line it's a joke.
Hell some states are much worse than others, with laws that allow restaurants to pay wait staff $3 an hour. Yes the difference is meant to be covered by tips, but get a bad schedule or just a stingy tipping crowd (fun fact, the more someone makes the less likely they will tip drivers and waitstaff in low end restauraunts) it's not uncommon to take home an average of $4 an hour for a full work schedule.
Guessing they've got a dedicated acronym guy as part of the PR department.
Tell a congressman you're sending a refrigerator into space and they think they know as much about it as you do, and therefor why should it cost more than $299 at sears? Instant budget cut.
I can, but you won't be able to decipher it without the magic seer stones of Itsajokelaughdamnit.
Those seer stones are also good for translating ancient gold tablets that detail how to create your own religion.
Steve Jobs created UPS technology?
You're missing the point of this advertisement. Only an Enterprise class Intel drive will save your data. All other factors of the test are irrelevant, like the other drives being consumer grade or that all the other drives were beaten with a rubber mallet for 5 minutes before each test while the intel was handled with silk mittens attached to 7 grounding point. And you definitely don't need to pay attention to the fact the power loss with the Intel drive was carried out via software shutdown while the other drives were done by power surging the computer until the motherboards burst into flames.
Nope, pay no attention to that irrelevant information. Just remember that only official certified and authorized Intel drives can protect your data. Now please wait while the next advertisement queues up, which will explain how the Intel drives protext your data with a computer rendering of the drive tucking your data into bed at night before turning off the lights.
China is cashing in on that debt quite often, buying up american businesses and the physical assets associated with.
Trading land for trinkets is a time honored american tradition.
You can't feed pork to hamsters!
It gives them horrible gas...
Nah. Android users just save enough from not paying an apple brand tax that they can afford an actual computer to make purchases from.
While I personally agree tobacco has no place in society, alcohol is a different matter.
Some forms of alcohol are beneficial to your health in small regular doses, and after the initial developmental years have passed almost all detrimental effects to your health are caused by abuse of alcohol.
But say you did decide to ban alcohol, where would that ban stop? Vinegar is basically wine that has gone bad, so would it be banned? What about flavor extracts used in baking? Sourdough? Yeast leavened goods? Fruit juice (you'd be surprised)?
And the only side effect is global genocide of endangered species as poachers harvest the magic storing organs to mix in with those magic herbs.
Atleast homeopathic treatments promote conservation. Their treatments don't even contain a single molecule the active ingredient they claim.
I'll take mismanaged contractors over monopoly seeking groups lead by people specificallt chosen for their lack of empathy and inability to consider another human being as anything but a ledger entry.
Say they did farm it out to private corps:
Any bank: It presents you options based on your credit rating.
Car company: You can shop on their website but you have to visit an authorized dealer to purchase.
Walmart: Only HMOs that emphasize continued treatment are listed, others are strong armed into getting rid of long term cure coverage.
Verizon: It works for the most part but they leave a gaping hope in the system that lets spammers send fake messages to you claiming to be your insurance.
Oil company: Premiums double after a natural disaster or any sort of middle eastern unrest. They never go down.
Amazon: Site works fine but the mandatory Prime membership for every covered person is a bit excessive.
Microsoft: Site is slower than it should be and gets infected with malware 38 minutes after launch.
Apple: You have 3 plans to choose from, all of them bronze plans prices like a gold. Atleast the website is pretty.
Ebay: 50/50 chance the plan you bought is actually some rocks in a PS3 box.
Google: The influx of data from users is the last piece needed for the search engine to reach sentience. Maybe we shouldn't have emphasized drone warfare...