You know you can make that $4 cup of coffee people buy from Starbucks for about $0.50 at home, but Starbucks is still in business, right? Some people are stupid and/or lazy enough to pay for anything. They should turn this into a general delivery service, and brings other items like fresh produce and milk to people's homes... remember in the 50's when they used to deliver everything to your home?
Yep, driving across the bridge from Vancouver to the Portland Costco saves about 20 cents a gallon, and is only a few miles. Of course, I go there all the time to save 8.4% sales tax on any large purchases anyway.
That explains another phenomena I've been seeing: self serve stations appear to be disabling the printers built into the pumps, so when you ask for a receipt, it tells you "Come inside the store and pick it up, asshole!" Sort of defeats the purpose of paying at the pump with my card, doesn't it?
And when EVERBODY gets an electric car, good luck getting access to the free electric hookup at work! I want a plug-in hybrid only because the recharging stations at work are closer to the front door than the handicapped parking spaces! But by the time I get one, I'm probably going to have to get to work 3 hours before anyone else to park in front of the charger anyway. And of course, I can walk to work in about 10 minutes anyway...
Not every apartment dweller has access to a 240V circuit or a natural gas connection to refuel their vehicle at home. On the other hand, when I was a kid, my dad changed his mind and put in electric baseboard heat instead of heating oil, which meant we had this 500 gallon tank in the corner of the property he repurposed for for gasoline. It was up on a stand, so it would gravity feed into the car, and once or twice a year he would have a gasoline tanker truck come fill it up. Don't know how many places would let you do that now; this was a village in rural Alaska. Point is, there are lots of different ways to refuel at home, but not all of them are available to everyone.
Microsoft pretty much dictated a lot of industry standards too... and that was one of the GOOD things they did! Would you rather have standards like those compiled by CCITT, which were both ambiguous and impossible to implement?
I'm _still_ not having any problem finding free porn on the web, so I'm not seeing a problem here. Isn't search one of those industries that should be considered a "natural monopoly"? Yes, government regulators do need to keep an eye on Alphabet (It's not just Google anymore) to make sure they are serving the public good, but regulators are doing that, at least in Europe.
Your statements are based on the assumption that home value increases fast enough to keep up with the money you've spent on interest and properties taxes, and that rent is not rent-controlled to be below market value and a losing proposition for the property owner. In other words, although buying is in general a wiser choice, it is not guaranteed to always be so, especially when opportunity costs are taken into consideration.
At night, with any mist in the air, it seems like you would be able to detect it, provided you have some idea what frequency it is (i'm assuming it's not visible light).
If they use the same techniques used in laser surveying equipment, they would be able to detect a change in the length of the beam path. However, I suspect that would be really pricey. I assume the actually transmit a modulated signal instead of a constant beam, so you can't fool it just be flooding the receiver with light. I still think digging a trench and driving under the beam is the easiest way to sneak across. But then, the question is, why use laser beams at all, instead of IR cameras with motion detection? Technology to recognize movement in a video image has been around for at least 35 years, since I maintained a system used on the Alaska Pipeline to monitor pumps for failure 35 years ago.
Which suggests another attack mode: release windblown chaff constantly for several weeks to constantly trigger the alarm, then when you've sufficiently trained the operators to ignore the alarm, waltz on across the border.
Can't invading armies simply go over, or more likely, under the laser beam? Dig a trench and drive on through, the beam is a straight line, but the terrain isn't.
The Galaxy S7 has a much better fingerprint scanner than the S5, which worked on the "swipe you finger 20 times then type in your passcode" principle. However, they omitted the infrared transmitter, which probably saved them a whole 25 cents in parts costs. In general, I agree that the latest phones offer no compelling reasons to upgrade.
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You know you can make that $4 cup of coffee people buy from Starbucks for about $0.50 at home, but Starbucks is still in business, right? Some people are stupid and/or lazy enough to pay for anything. They should turn this into a general delivery service, and brings other items like fresh produce and milk to people's homes... remember in the 50's when they used to deliver everything to your home?
Yep, driving across the bridge from Vancouver to the Portland Costco saves about 20 cents a gallon, and is only a few miles. Of course, I go there all the time to save 8.4% sales tax on any large purchases anyway.
That explains another phenomena I've been seeing: self serve stations appear to be disabling the printers built into the pumps, so when you ask for a receipt, it tells you "Come inside the store and pick it up, asshole!" Sort of defeats the purpose of paying at the pump with my card, doesn't it?
And when EVERBODY gets an electric car, good luck getting access to the free electric hookup at work! I want a plug-in hybrid only because the recharging stations at work are closer to the front door than the handicapped parking spaces! But by the time I get one, I'm probably going to have to get to work 3 hours before anyone else to park in front of the charger anyway. And of course, I can walk to work in about 10 minutes anyway...
Not every apartment dweller has access to a 240V circuit or a natural gas connection to refuel their vehicle at home. On the other hand, when I was a kid, my dad changed his mind and put in electric baseboard heat instead of heating oil, which meant we had this 500 gallon tank in the corner of the property he repurposed for for gasoline. It was up on a stand, so it would gravity feed into the car, and once or twice a year he would have a gasoline tanker truck come fill it up. Don't know how many places would let you do that now; this was a village in rural Alaska. Point is, there are lots of different ways to refuel at home, but not all of them are available to everyone.
Unless you are surfing in incognito mode... which you probably should be if you're worried about how much data Google is collecting on you.
Microsoft pretty much dictated a lot of industry standards too... and that was one of the GOOD things they did! Would you rather have standards like those compiled by CCITT, which were both ambiguous and impossible to implement?
I'm _still_ not having any problem finding free porn on the web, so I'm not seeing a problem here. Isn't search one of those industries that should be considered a "natural monopoly"? Yes, government regulators do need to keep an eye on Alphabet (It's not just Google anymore) to make sure they are serving the public good, but regulators are doing that, at least in Europe.
Your statements are based on the assumption that home value increases fast enough to keep up with the money you've spent on interest and properties taxes, and that rent is not rent-controlled to be below market value and a losing proposition for the property owner. In other words, although buying is in general a wiser choice, it is not guaranteed to always be so, especially when opportunity costs are taken into consideration.
1) Shit flows downhill.
2) Payday comes on Friday.
3) Don't bite your fingernails!
Internet Explorer is STILL the most popular browser used to download Chrome so that you can install it! (But Edge is gaining...)
"World's first living brain donor!"
Doesn't have to; she knows where all the bodies are buried!
NEVER ask a genie, "How about a little head?"
Since I"m bald, nearsighted, and have a skin condition on my face, I'd just LOVE to be able to have a new head transplanted onto my body!
At night, with any mist in the air, it seems like you would be able to detect it, provided you have some idea what frequency it is (i'm assuming it's not visible light).
If they use the same techniques used in laser surveying equipment, they would be able to detect a change in the length of the beam path. However, I suspect that would be really pricey. I assume the actually transmit a modulated signal instead of a constant beam, so you can't fool it just be flooding the receiver with light. I still think digging a trench and driving under the beam is the easiest way to sneak across. But then, the question is, why use laser beams at all, instead of IR cameras with motion detection? Technology to recognize movement in a video image has been around for at least 35 years, since I maintained a system used on the Alaska Pipeline to monitor pumps for failure 35 years ago.
Which suggests another attack mode: release windblown chaff constantly for several weeks to constantly trigger the alarm, then when you've sufficiently trained the operators to ignore the alarm, waltz on across the border.
I doubt that they are Trump supporters, I don't expect most Trump supporters would be smart enough to even be able to log into Second Life.
Anybody who still thinks Second Life matters, really, really, REALLY needs to get a first life!
Can't invading armies simply go over, or more likely, under the laser beam? Dig a trench and drive on through, the beam is a straight line, but the terrain isn't.
Superdelegates. Sure as hell isn't democratic!
The Galaxy S7 has a much better fingerprint scanner than the S5, which worked on the "swipe you finger 20 times then type in your passcode" principle. However, they omitted the infrared transmitter, which probably saved them a whole 25 cents in parts costs. In general, I agree that the latest phones offer no compelling reasons to upgrade.
You realize that smart phones can now send the video to smart TVs, right? Ever heard of Chromecast?
My landline phone does everything I need a phone to do. My computer does computer stuff. I see no need to mix the two.
That's just great, since you never leave your mom's basement!