This is a country, after all, who insisted on running their own domain system for years, with the name components opposite in order from what everyone else was using.
I'm skeptical they could pull it off.
I've done a phone screen with Google twice separated by a handful of years -- both with the same conceited twit. On neither occasion did he ask questions related to the profession for which I was applying.
We were paying attention to Germany who shut down their reactors but nonetheless had enough solar and wind to export power to nuclear France when their reactors couldn't run because there wasn't enough cooling water in summer or frozen in winter.
While some grocery chains like Safeway do delivery, they're not very good at it. They're picking from store shelves. So they don't know, when the order is taken, if the item is in stock. Safeway tends to deliver with some items missing. Automated warehousing operations know what they have in stock when the system takes the order.
I've used Amazon Fresh a number of times. Experiences include
o High individual item cost
o Progressively increasing per-delivery cost
o Limited and unreliable item selection
o Low item quality for fresh produce
o Flaky web site, eg. not displaying a "continue" type button in some instances, leaving one to start over from scratch from a different browser hoping for it to work
o Ignoring container preference (bags vs plastic boxes)
o Dropping multiple huge rigid tote boxes with a couple of items each in them, refusing to take them back. I once had to run out to the street with a couple of these and beg a driver to take the damned things. Nowhere even to drop them off, they expect me to hang onto them indefinitely.
o Stock presented on the web site != what they will come up with on order day. More than once I've had them accept an order for something only for them to not deliver it
o Unilateral and unannounced substitutions: more than once they substituted an unacceptable product for one that I needed.
The need to exit security, hit up the kiosk and pay a feed exceeding the value of the item, then return to the back of the long security line limits the utility of these services.
That said, who has a legitimate need for a pocketknife on an airplane?
Solaris' move from init.d scripts to SMF *years ago* was a fine thing, this is a reimplementation of the same idea. The root cause of the vitriol is Linux kids living in a conceptual and temporal vacuum.
I roll my eyes every time that I see "Linux" considered to be different from "Unix". Trademark lawyers notwithstanding, it's mostly about pretension, like the way that the San Francisco area calls itself "northern California" to distance itself from LA, despite clearly being more central than northern.
The FSA is a stupid joke of a health care policy - how can anyone accurately predict their out of pocket medical expenses for the following year?
You don't have to accurately predict, you just need to pick a number that won't be higher than OOP expenses. The most one can divert into an FSA is $2500/year, which is easy for many people to use: co-pays, the 10-50% of each claim that insurance doesn't pay, etc. Remember that it can be used for dental and vision expenses for one's whole family - and most vision plans don't cover all that much.
Fixed expenses like medicines can be predicted, but I just paid for expensive dental work mostly out of pocket with no way to deduct it because I didn't have the forsight [sic] to predict that a dental condition would exhaust my meager Dental Insurance annnual [sic] cap.
You have no other medical/dental/vision expenses over the course of a year? Even diverting, say, $1000 to an FSA if one doesn't have many dental/vision/medical expenses saves a couple hundred bucks.
Rather than an FSA where I have to lock up money in a bank account
Who said anything about locking up money in a bank account? My current FSA funds fully up front. I guess maybe the rationale of the FSA game is to give a break to people who aren't in a position to itemize deductions.
I'd like to see medical expenses be fully deductible without having to reach the 7.5% AGI limit. Why should Jane get to deduct her $1200 of predictable $100/month medications, but John can't deduct his $2000 of unexpected dental work? John probably needs the deduction more since his was an unplanned expense.
On top of the standard deduction, for people without, say, mortgage interest that lets them itemize?
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Galileo though was seriously crippled by stupidity.
This is a country, after all, who insisted on running their own domain system for years, with the name components opposite in order from what everyone else was using. I'm skeptical they could pull it off.
I've done a phone screen with Google twice separated by a handful of years -- both with the same conceited twit. On neither occasion did he ask questions related to the profession for which I was applying.
What I've been told is that if you don't ask all applicants the same set of questions, there's potential for a discrimination suit.
Far from. But life has only become more peaceful and in general a lot has improved
The size of the meat counter in most grocery stores leads me to disagree.
We were paying attention to Germany who shut down their reactors but nonetheless had enough solar and wind to export power to nuclear France when their reactors couldn't run because there wasn't enough cooling water in summer or frozen in winter.
Germany, who burns friggin *lignite*?
... or just get real and use GMT
While some grocery chains like Safeway do delivery, they're not very good at it. They're picking from store shelves. So they don't know, when the order is taken, if the item is in stock. Safeway tends to deliver with some items missing. Automated warehousing operations know what they have in stock when the system takes the order.
I've used Amazon Fresh a number of times. Experiences include o High individual item cost o Progressively increasing per-delivery cost o Limited and unreliable item selection o Low item quality for fresh produce o Flaky web site, eg. not displaying a "continue" type button in some instances, leaving one to start over from scratch from a different browser hoping for it to work o Ignoring container preference (bags vs plastic boxes) o Dropping multiple huge rigid tote boxes with a couple of items each in them, refusing to take them back. I once had to run out to the street with a couple of these and beg a driver to take the damned things. Nowhere even to drop them off, they expect me to hang onto them indefinitely. o Stock presented on the web site != what they will come up with on order day. More than once I've had them accept an order for something only for them to not deliver it o Unilateral and unannounced substitutions: more than once they substituted an unacceptable product for one that I needed.
The need to exit security, hit up the kiosk and pay a feed exceeding the value of the item, then return to the back of the long security line limits the utility of these services. That said, who has a legitimate need for a pocketknife on an airplane?
You must not have a 5D2 -- metering on mine is nothing short of pathetic. I have EC set at +1 most of the time.
The obvious question really is as to why he doesn't just work from home.
What I'd really like is for them to fix their friggin' IMAP so that it works properly, eg. so that messages can be undeleted.
How's about charging the parents with letting their kid go to a booze party and get shitfaced in the first place?
Solaris' move from init.d scripts to SMF *years ago* was a fine thing, this is a reimplementation of the same idea. The root cause of the vitriol is Linux kids living in a conceptual and temporal vacuum.
By the organization, or by individuals?
I roll my eyes every time that I see "Linux" considered to be different from "Unix". Trademark lawyers notwithstanding, it's mostly about pretension, like the way that the San Francisco area calls itself "northern California" to distance itself from LA, despite clearly being more central than northern.
Feh, I've never seen a company-supplied meal that was edible.
And people don't die "regularly"
Indeed, just the once I should think.
The FSA is a stupid joke of a health care policy - how can anyone accurately predict their out of pocket medical expenses for the following year?
You don't have to accurately predict, you just need to pick a number that won't be higher than OOP expenses. The most one can divert into an FSA is $2500/year, which is easy for many people to use: co-pays, the 10-50% of each claim that insurance doesn't pay, etc. Remember that it can be used for dental and vision expenses for one's whole family - and most vision plans don't cover all that much.
Fixed expenses like medicines can be predicted, but I just paid for expensive dental work mostly out of pocket with no way to deduct it because I didn't have the forsight [sic] to predict that a dental condition would exhaust my meager Dental Insurance annnual [sic] cap.
You have no other medical/dental/vision expenses over the course of a year? Even diverting, say, $1000 to an FSA if one doesn't have many dental/vision/medical expenses saves a couple hundred bucks.
Rather than an FSA where I have to lock up money in a bank account
Who said anything about locking up money in a bank account? My current FSA funds fully up front. I guess maybe the rationale of the FSA game is to give a break to people who aren't in a position to itemize deductions.
I'd like to see medical expenses be fully deductible without having to reach the 7.5% AGI limit. Why should Jane get to deduct her $1200 of predictable $100/month medications, but John can't deduct his $2000 of unexpected dental work? John probably needs the deduction more since his was an unplanned expense.
On top of the standard deduction, for people without, say, mortgage interest that lets them itemize?
Agreed, I really don't use all that much Arm & Hammer anyway.
I miss having cut/paste work. I really don't know WTF they were thinking when they broke that.
All the cultured meat I've read about so far is grown in an animal product medium so there isn't much point. When that changes they can let me know.
The latter is certainly plausible. They claimed they couldn't figure it out.
At my wife's last job, MS Exchange sent out 20 copies of any single invitation she sent out. With 20x redundancy, of course messages don't get lost.
The real question is "Who gives a shit?"