I'll admit I don't feel much twinge about losing a language. Now, cultures dying out, maybe, and associated stories and traditions, definitely, I can see how there's some value being lost. But at some level I feel like more languages just leads to more confusion, and the fewer of them we have, the more likely it is we'll understand each other.
So why are Americans losing the speaking of English. Are you gonna tell me it ain't so?
Arguably, Russia's involvement in the US elections was aimed at this goal, at least in part. It has long been Russia's intent to smear the "great experiement" that is the United States of America's democracy; claims that the US is as corrupt and venal as anyone else have been part and parcel of their dialog for nearly a century.
This is not only an attempt to weaken the US but also to make Russia's own politics look better in comparison. After all, if the United States - long champion of democracy - can't ensure honest elections, it is hardly fair to expect any other nation to do so either. Putin's own political maneuverings were suspect long before 2016. While Navalny, an anti-corruption activist isn't expected to win in the 2018 Russian elections, he has gathered a sizeable following who threaten Putin's absolute power. They will be very suspicious of Putin's victory, even were it completely on the up-and-up (which, it is widely believed, will not be).
But by casting blame on the US, Putin can misdirect the blame; if the US can't secure their own elections from foreign influence, it's no surprise if poor impoverished Russia is even more vulnerable. Thus, if Putin wins/despite/ such influence, it only further legitimizes his victory.
How many congress men have the Koch brothers bought? And senators too? Where is American democracy if the congressman looks to only respond to his next election financiers.
Oh, I was unaware the Orange One brought any tech jobs back. The U.S. will still be the high cost producer of many things and U.S. business will still either leave or move more heavily into automation and AI. The tax reduction will probably get matched in any countries harboring American business so don't count on any moves back because of that. The recent announcements of income hikes for U.S. workers were all from a handful of companies looking to butter up the Orange One because he can understand that. And those hikes are easily retrenched by those companies not giving increases in the following years. The Orange One is being scammed, I doubt he understands that...but he should given his history.
The Orange one knows he is being scammed, but it will allow him to get re-elected.
It may be nice to have a programmable thermostat to raise/lower temperature, but it definitely isn't a necessity.
I'd really like to kill the heat when I go to bed and have it kick back on about an hour before my alarm goes off. If I owned the thermostat in my apartment, that would be worth the upgrade. That does not require IoT access. Being able to control the temperature in my apartment from work seems like a useless feature.
What gets me is that there are thermostats out there that would malfunction or not work if they didn't have a constant internet connection.
What good's a thermostat that can't help with a DDoS attack?
Every major thermostat manufactuerer (Honeywell, et al), offer off-line 7 day programable thermostats. The one I have is set to warm the house up for 7am. (19C to 22C)., The thermostat learns how long it takes on the average, and starts turning on the furnace beginning around 1.5 hours early to up to2 hours before 7am each day. We have -23C outside and with the wind-chill, its like -35C. (The setback is working just fine and in short time. Recovery is slow, needing more than 2 hours to reach 22C. We also have it set to 21C until 5pm and down to 19C at 11:15pm. Saturday and Sundays we follow a different program because we have a different schedule.
And the A/C program is similar, but with higher temp settings.
I have known polygamous relationships of two women for one man. The women actually liked the situation. Sex is enjoyable for man seven days per week, but not for women. The women were able to divide the household chores. Cleaning, cooking, making beds, courses in university, time for hobbies. The woman between them decided which of them would sleep with the husband that night.
If you work until 5pm, and it gets dark at 5:10pm, you've swepnt all your daylight inside. If it gets dark at 6:10pm, at least you have a bit of daylight.
Here at the leading (left) edge of EST. December 21.2017, daylight arrives at 7:15am. By 16:00 (4pm) its dark. I would prefer that the savings time be the time all year around. Thus daylight at 8:15am when the kids are on the way to school, and at 3pm when they leave and have 2 full hours to play outdoors.
Whoops!! Kids no longer play outdoors. They go home to use their cellphones with texting, facebook, etc. That is why they are so many fat kids.
Driverless cars are possible, but not on streets where there are teenagers who are always in a hurry. Its sad, but it's true. And in the snow belts, I would really be impressed if a car could manage drifts, salt spray clogging up the cameras or detectors that guide the vehicle. Perhaps the safest way to have driverless cars is to have an overhead system that monitors each vehicle in its range, and can control the vehicle, instead of that software residing within the vehicle. Far less complicated, and safer, as the overhead system could communicate with it's neighbour at street corners to determine safety. Pedestrians will try to outsmart these vehicles, so expect a few casualties before the pedestrians are trained.
Ordered a Terrabyte hard disk. It arrived in the blister bubble wrap package. Plugged it in and saw a DOA drive. What was a good drive when it left Amazon in that envelop mentioned, I would guess, ended up being tossed into a pile, perhaps dropped on the floor, etc. The drive arrived without physical blemishes, but the innards were in-operational. And if the drive survived rough handling, how long after being put into service will it fail? I had one drive fail at exactly 2 hours past it's first power-on.
I have never changed the oil when recommended My Honda civic is driven 10 k miles per year, and all I do is top up the oil, when necessary. I do change the air filter annually. I use the standard grade of oil that one gets at Walmart
I am a physician, and I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
My office sends out about 20-30 prescriptions a day. Unless it's for a controlled substance (ie: narcotics), there's NEVER a call back to the office to check if a script is legit.
And even if it is a controlled substance there's no call to the office unless the script comes in an unusual format (ie: a printed out script rather than an original signature of the provider).
Where I live, all prescriptions are entered into the government's database. Its a database setup for pharmacists. Any prescription is checked for contra-indications. If you took the same prescription to more than one pharmacist within too short a renewal time, that pharmacist gets a redflag warning. If I was taking one prescribed medication and the doctor (or another doctor) issued a script that would be in conflict with my existing prescriptions, a redflag is raised. That db is encrypted, and each licensed pharmacist has to log in at start of shift and log out at end of shift. I believe that the pharmacist has a smart card that he/she takes home at end of shift. The smart card contains the access key and some personal info about the pharmacist. (For example, cant be active in two stores at the same time).
That's what FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Acting FTC Chair Maureen Ohlhausen are counting on. "Instead of saddling the Internet with heavy-handed regulations, we will work together to take targeted action against bad actors,"
They must be illusionary or joking. Its like telling someone working in a bakery to not sample the cookies.
I have a friend who rents out apartments. In one case, he put a fairly new computer into it's purchase container, and put the item in the cupboard for later retrieval. One month later, and 4 groups of guests, he went to fetch the box with the computer, to find the box was there, but the computer was missing. That was a simple $400 loss. C'est la vie.
This is not a good argument. You can't elect every public official, there are 22 million public employees in the united states. How many of those are managerial-level, with decision-making power? You're intending to have elections for all of those? It's perfectly reasonable for congress to delegate responsibility for tasks which they can't handle, either because they don't have the time or because they don't have the expertise. That is what they have done here and, for the most part, that is what they do every time they handle anything.
You included the congress, the senate, but forgot to include the judical system. When you load the supreme court with Republicans, as is done, you have a dictatorship. A dictatorship is where there is no opposition, no debate, just ramming through of legislation. Welcome to little Russia.
Further, by framing it this way you're implying that this as a failure of government. The FCC is working exactly as intended: these commissioners were nominated by a Republican president and confirmed by a Republican senate. For some reason, Network Neutrality has become a partisan issue and Republicans are on the side of wanting to kill it. So this result is a predictable one, as a consequence of last year's election.
Congress can overrule the FCC any time they want. The Senate also could have rejected Pai's nomination, or the other commissioners, if they didn't want to see net neutrality killed. It's not like this is a surprise, we knew that Pai was going to do this and they knew that Pai was going to do this too. So the grandparent is spot-on here: if we're looking for people to blame for this, it starts with the commissioners, but it's also the people who appointed them (the president and senators), then the people who appointed them (the voters), then the people who are really in charge of all of this (the ISPs).
There has been tons of outrage. It's falling on deaf ears.
This is the era of Trump. Public opinion doesn't matter. Truth doesn't matter.
It's an agenda.
I agree. It is eerily reminiscent of the era of Obama. I remember things like "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" and "the average American family will save $2500 per year in healthcare costs" and "you will have more and better choices for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act" and "we will cover more people with better coverage and it will cost less".
It turns out that every single one of those things was false, that millions of Americans were outraged at the effort to have government take over healthcare and that outrage fell on deaf ears. Remember the legislative chicanery to get the ACA rammed through the Senate before Senator Ted Kennedy's replacement, Republican Scott Brown, could be seated?
Sheesh. And liberals are upset when the Republicans do things along party lines without Democratic support.
The only hope is that it will be reversed, as soon as possible.
The same can be said of the Affordable Care Act, which is decidedly unaffordable for practically every American it affects.
Obama was hoping that the Americans would look to Canada and how our health care system does what he is quoted as saying.
We have some dual citizen families returning to Canada. Vis, Husband is American, wife Canadian. After 6 months of employment, the family is covered for medicare. No discussion about pre-existing conditions or limits to coverage.
Her 4 kids will be going to McGill University for around $3000/kid. University here is 3 years for a bachelor degree as first year is covered in a college that is post high school-pre-university. Want to be a trades person, or trades professional, policeman, you need that first year equivalent of University.
Why is the discussion a ALL or NOTHING one. I am definitely certain that parts of a woman's brain dealing with her body, with her emotions, and motor skills are very different from a man's brain in that area. Is the difference learned, or society imposed for these areas.
When it comes to learning skills, both men and women, in my view, learn according to their interests (motivations) and their ages. As a teenager, both sexes can learn information at a phenomenal rate. Both are like wicks, that soak up information. And at maturity (age 30+), I believe that both sexes have almost equivalent logic problem solving skills. Women solve technical problems at the same speed and sophistication as men. Women however, when dealing with social problems, in general, have a more empathetic approach, while men are more to "rule based".
Take a 100 million homes and just cover 100Watts of sustained power. What does that amount to? You can probably power NY city for a few hours with just that consumption. Bitcoin mining normally requires around 500 to 600 Watts of power. So do the arithmetic.
I thought that government was "By the people, for the people". Here we want a billionaire to bypass the people, to bypass the CIA, and then congress and the senate. Give it 8 years and the USA will be more of a dictatorship than it already is.
Hey, we've given capitalism a fair shake all over the world, and *every time* the same sorts of problems arise, the only variation is in how aggressively anti-capitalistic sentiment fights back.
Contrast with communism, which has never actually been tried at the national scale, and yet gets blackwashed with the abuses of the authoritarians that rose to power fraudulently claiming the banner.
Capitalism at least earned virtually every black mark against it on its own merits.
Your home phone is probably a VIOP phone, and when you are going to need to make a 911 or other emergency call, GOOD LUCK TO YOU.
Equivalent to using the kettle is a "French Press" Its sold at TJMAX, IKEA for around $10.00. Some high end "French Presses" are sold in businesses that sell high priced kitchen ware. Don't buy a French press with a plastic base. The coffee cools down to fast in that design. The more expensive FP has a shutter on the top of the filter ring to prevent heat loss. If you are curious as to differences, visit a coffee retailer.
I actually buy a can of Kirkland Coffee (3 lbs) and a can of Folgers (3 lbs) and mix the two grinds together. That's in my airtight coffee can with a two spoon measuring cup. One cup = 1 serving. Been doing that for 10 years. My personal "French Press" can make two 10 oz coffee cups at one time
Occasionally I try other brands and grind beans, but I tend to go back to my home mixture.
Quebec Canada is blessed with James Bay, a phenomenal watershed. From it, Hydro-Quebec, the only electric company, government owned, generates electricity for Quebec, parts of Ontario, and parts of Vermont and New York State. I understand that the wholesale export price is US 4.5 cents / kwh. We residents pay around 7.5 cents per KWH, and 35 cents per day for meter rental. Industrial users pay up to two cents less than residents per kwh. Here is where export dumping is beneficial to all parties.
My home contains a basement plus two story duplex, all electric, well insulated. My heating and hot water costs are lower with electricity than with Natural Gas or Oil. We cannot justify the cost of solar or wind with our abundance of power and its low cost. However, in new startup smaller towns, wind and solar are installed, as thousand mile transmission lines are impractical. Our big city electric costs subsidize the smaller towns.
In winter we do not bother to close lights, as any heat from the light bulbs offsets the heat from the electric boilers or radiators. In summer, to assist A/C, we insure that lights are not left on indiscriminately.
The DNS server is an address book, any nation today, by shrewdness, can redirect an address to their own location, copy the information and forward on the message. The server is too critical for world trade, and needs appropriate backups.
Since the volume of traffic is huge, there is a hierarchy of servers, spreading the load. Running this system is a good-will gesture and as mentioned, essential for trade and for every government to contact it's departments. A server backup/alternative that is 12 hours offset from LA is a good thing. The two servers will remain in sync.
You build enough excess solar and wind capacity that even under the worst conditions you still have enough for the entire continent (Canada and Mexico should be part of this grid also).
As a Canadian, I can already tell you that it will never work. Up north, we use metric electricity.
Are the electrons square or oval? They told me that electrons are in the shape of very small (microscope sized) ice-cubs
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I'll admit I don't feel much twinge about losing a language. Now, cultures dying out, maybe, and associated stories and traditions, definitely, I can see how there's some value being lost. But at some level I feel like more languages just leads to more confusion, and the fewer of them we have, the more likely it is we'll understand each other.
So why are Americans losing the speaking of English. Are you gonna tell me it ain't so?
Arguably, Russia's involvement in the US elections was aimed at this goal, at least in part. It has long been Russia's intent to smear the "great experiement" that is the United States of America's democracy; claims that the US is as corrupt and venal as anyone else have been part and parcel of their dialog for nearly a century.
This is not only an attempt to weaken the US but also to make Russia's own politics look better in comparison. After all, if the United States - long champion of democracy - can't ensure honest elections, it is hardly fair to expect any other nation to do so either. Putin's own political maneuverings were suspect long before 2016. While Navalny, an anti-corruption activist isn't expected to win in the 2018 Russian elections, he has gathered a sizeable following who threaten Putin's absolute power. They will be very suspicious of Putin's victory, even were it completely on the up-and-up (which, it is widely believed, will not be).
But by casting blame on the US, Putin can misdirect the blame; if the US can't secure their own elections from foreign influence, it's no surprise if poor impoverished Russia is even more vulnerable. Thus, if Putin wins /despite/ such influence, it only further legitimizes his victory.
How many congress men have the Koch brothers bought? And senators too? Where is American democracy if the congressman looks to only respond to his next election financiers.
Oh, I was unaware the Orange One brought any tech jobs back. The U.S. will still be the high cost producer of many things and U.S. business will still either leave or move more heavily into automation and AI. The tax reduction will probably get matched in any countries harboring American business so don't count on any moves back because of that. The recent announcements of income hikes for U.S. workers were all from a handful of companies looking to butter up the Orange One because he can understand that. And those hikes are easily retrenched by those companies not giving increases in the following years. The Orange One is being scammed, I doubt he understands that...but he should given his history.
The Orange one knows he is being scammed, but it will allow him to get re-elected.
It may be nice to have a programmable thermostat to raise/lower temperature, but it definitely isn't a necessity.
I'd really like to kill the heat when I go to bed and have it kick back on about an hour before my alarm goes off. If I owned the thermostat in my apartment, that would be worth the upgrade. That does not require IoT access. Being able to control the temperature in my apartment from work seems like a useless feature.
What gets me is that there are thermostats out there that would malfunction or not work if they didn't have a constant internet connection.
What good's a thermostat that can't help with a DDoS attack?
Every major thermostat manufactuerer (Honeywell, et al), offer off-line 7 day programable thermostats. The one I have is set to warm the house up for 7am. (19C to 22C)., The thermostat learns how long it takes on the average, and starts turning on the furnace beginning around 1.5 hours early to up to2 hours before 7am each day. We have -23C outside and with the wind-chill, its like -35C. (The setback is working just fine and in short time. Recovery is slow, needing more than 2 hours to reach 22C. We also have it set to 21C until 5pm and down to 19C at 11:15pm. Saturday and Sundays we follow a different program because we have a different schedule.
And the A/C program is similar, but with higher temp settings.
I have known polygamous relationships of two women for one man. The women actually liked the situation. Sex is enjoyable for man seven days per week, but not for women.
The women were able to divide the household chores. Cleaning, cooking, making beds, courses in university, time for hobbies. The woman between them decided which of them would sleep with the husband that night.
There were no threesomes.
If you work until 5pm, and it gets dark at 5:10pm, you've swepnt all your daylight inside. If it gets dark at 6:10pm, at least you have a bit of daylight.
Here at the leading (left) edge of EST. December 21.2017, daylight arrives at 7:15am. By 16:00 (4pm) its dark.
I would prefer that the savings time be the time all year around. Thus daylight at 8:15am when the kids are on the way to school, and at 3pm when they leave and have 2 full hours to play outdoors.
Whoops!! Kids no longer play outdoors. They go home to use their cellphones with texting, facebook, etc. That is why they are so many fat kids.
Driverless cars are possible, but not on streets where there are teenagers who are always in a hurry. Its sad, but it's true. And in the snow belts, I would really be impressed if a car could manage drifts, salt spray clogging up the cameras or detectors that guide the vehicle.
Perhaps the safest way to have driverless cars is to have an overhead system that monitors each vehicle in its range, and can control the vehicle, instead of that software residing within the vehicle. Far less complicated, and safer, as the overhead system could communicate with it's neighbour at street corners to determine safety.
Pedestrians will try to outsmart these vehicles, so expect a few casualties before the pedestrians are trained.
Ordered a Terrabyte hard disk. It arrived in the blister bubble wrap package. Plugged it in and saw a DOA drive.
What was a good drive when it left Amazon in that envelop mentioned, I would guess, ended up being tossed into a pile, perhaps dropped on the floor, etc. The drive arrived without physical blemishes, but the innards were in-operational. And if the drive survived rough handling, how long after being put into service will it fail? I had one drive fail at exactly 2 hours past it's first power-on.
I have never changed the oil when recommended My Honda civic is driven 10 k miles per year, and all I do is top up the oil, when necessary. I do change the air filter annually. I use the standard grade of oil that one gets at Walmart
Latest speed tests put Firefox as fastest. Beginning with version 57.1 It is so good that Mozilla has taken out some adverts to toot-their-horn,
I would agree with you if there is a standard for the level of radiation that is emitted from the 6 sides of the cellphone is below a certain level.
I wonder what is that criticl level?
I am a physician, and I'm pretty sure you're wrong.
My office sends out about 20-30 prescriptions a day. Unless it's for a controlled substance (ie: narcotics), there's NEVER a call back to the office to check if a script is legit.
And even if it is a controlled substance there's no call to the office unless the script comes in an unusual format (ie: a printed out script rather than an original signature of the provider).
Where I live, all prescriptions are entered into the government's database. Its a database setup for pharmacists. Any prescription is checked for contra-indications. If you took the same prescription to more than one pharmacist within too short a renewal time, that pharmacist gets a redflag warning. If I was taking one prescribed medication and the doctor (or another doctor) issued a script that would be in conflict with my existing prescriptions, a redflag is raised. That db is encrypted, and each licensed pharmacist has to log in at start of shift and log out at end of shift. I believe that the pharmacist has a smart card that he/she takes home at end of shift. The smart card contains the access key and some personal info about the pharmacist. (For example, cant be active in two stores at the same time).
That's what FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and Acting FTC Chair Maureen Ohlhausen are counting on. "Instead of saddling the Internet with heavy-handed regulations, we will work together to take targeted action against bad actors,"
They must be illusionary or joking. Its like telling someone working in a bakery to not sample the cookies.
I have a friend who rents out apartments. In one case, he put a fairly new computer into it's purchase container, and put the item in the cupboard for later retrieval.
One month later, and 4 groups of guests, he went to fetch the box with the computer, to find the box was there, but the computer was missing. That was a simple $400 loss. C'est la vie.
This is not a good argument. You can't elect every public official, there are 22 million public employees in the united states. How many of those are managerial-level, with decision-making power? You're intending to have elections for all of those? It's perfectly reasonable for congress to delegate responsibility for tasks which they can't handle, either because they don't have the time or because they don't have the expertise. That is what they have done here and, for the most part, that is what they do every time they handle anything.
You included the congress, the senate, but forgot to include the judical system. When you load the supreme court with Republicans, as is done, you have a dictatorship. A dictatorship is where there is no opposition, no debate, just ramming through of legislation. Welcome to little Russia.
Further, by framing it this way you're implying that this as a failure of government. The FCC is working exactly as intended: these commissioners were nominated by a Republican president and confirmed by a Republican senate. For some reason, Network Neutrality has become a partisan issue and Republicans are on the side of wanting to kill it. So this result is a predictable one, as a consequence of last year's election.
Congress can overrule the FCC any time they want. The Senate also could have rejected Pai's nomination, or the other commissioners, if they didn't want to see net neutrality killed. It's not like this is a surprise, we knew that Pai was going to do this and they knew that Pai was going to do this too. So the grandparent is spot-on here: if we're looking for people to blame for this, it starts with the commissioners, but it's also the people who appointed them (the president and senators), then the people who appointed them (the voters), then the people who are really in charge of all of this (the ISPs).
There has been tons of outrage. It's falling on deaf ears.
This is the era of Trump. Public opinion doesn't matter. Truth doesn't matter.
It's an agenda.
I agree. It is eerily reminiscent of the era of Obama. I remember things like "if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" and "the average American family will save $2500 per year in healthcare costs" and "you will have more and better choices for healthcare under the Affordable Care Act" and "we will cover more people with better coverage and it will cost less".
It turns out that every single one of those things was false, that millions of Americans were outraged at the effort to have government take over healthcare and that outrage fell on deaf ears. Remember the legislative chicanery to get the ACA rammed through the Senate before Senator Ted Kennedy's replacement, Republican Scott Brown, could be seated?
Sheesh. And liberals are upset when the Republicans do things along party lines without Democratic support.
The only hope is that it will be reversed, as soon as possible.
The same can be said of the Affordable Care Act, which is decidedly unaffordable for practically every American it affects.
Obama was hoping that the Americans would look to Canada and how our health care system does what he is quoted as saying.
We have some dual citizen families returning to Canada. Vis, Husband is American, wife Canadian. After 6 months of employment, the family is covered for medicare. No discussion about pre-existing conditions or limits to coverage.
Her 4 kids will be going to McGill University for around $3000/kid. University here is 3 years for a bachelor degree as first year is covered in a college that is post high school-pre-university. Want to be a trades person, or trades professional, policeman, you need that first year equivalent of University.
Why is the discussion a ALL or NOTHING one. I am definitely certain that parts of a woman's brain dealing with her body, with her emotions, and motor skills are very different from a man's brain in that area.
Is the difference learned, or society imposed for these areas.
When it comes to learning skills, both men and women, in my view, learn according to their interests (motivations) and their ages. As a teenager, both sexes can learn information at a phenomenal rate. Both are like wicks, that soak up information.
And at maturity (age 30+), I believe that both sexes have almost equivalent logic problem solving skills. Women solve technical problems at the same speed and sophistication as men.
Women however, when dealing with social problems, in general, have a more empathetic approach, while men are more to "rule based".
By the way, I am a man,
Take a 100 million homes and just cover 100Watts of sustained power. What does that amount to?
You can probably power NY city for a few hours with just that consumption. Bitcoin mining normally requires around 500 to 600 Watts of power. So do the arithmetic.
I thought that government was "By the people, for the people". Here we want a billionaire to bypass the people, to bypass the CIA, and then congress and the senate.
Give it 8 years and the USA will be more of a dictatorship than it already is.
Hey, we've given capitalism a fair shake all over the world, and *every time* the same sorts of problems arise, the only variation is in how aggressively anti-capitalistic sentiment fights back.
Contrast with communism, which has never actually been tried at the national scale, and yet gets blackwashed with the abuses of the authoritarians that rose to power fraudulently claiming the banner.
Capitalism at least earned virtually every black mark against it on its own merits.
Your home phone is probably a VIOP phone, and when you are going to need to make a 911 or other emergency call, GOOD LUCK TO YOU.
Equivalent to using the kettle is a "French Press" Its sold at TJMAX, IKEA for around $10.00. Some high end "French Presses" are sold in businesses that sell high priced kitchen ware.
Don't buy a French press with a plastic base. The coffee cools down to fast in that design. The more expensive FP has a shutter on the top of the filter ring to prevent heat loss. If you are curious as to differences, visit a coffee retailer.
I actually buy a can of Kirkland Coffee (3 lbs) and a can of Folgers (3 lbs) and mix the two grinds together. That's in my airtight coffee can with a two spoon measuring cup.
One cup = 1 serving. Been doing that for 10 years. My personal "French Press" can make two 10 oz coffee cups at one time
Occasionally I try other brands and grind beans, but I tend to go back to my home mixture.
Dominos where I live give a discount for a phone order with delivery. Some days its 50% off if you text or phone the order and then pick it up.
If you walk into the restaurent, there is no deal. Perhaps it's because there is too much traffic or the place is not clean enough at the time
Quebec Canada is blessed with James Bay, a phenomenal watershed. From it, Hydro-Quebec, the only electric company, government owned, generates electricity for Quebec, parts of Ontario, and parts of Vermont and New York State. I understand that the wholesale export price is US 4.5 cents / kwh.
We residents pay around 7.5 cents per KWH, and 35 cents per day for meter rental. Industrial users pay up to two cents less than residents per kwh.
Here is where export dumping is beneficial to all parties.
My home contains a basement plus two story duplex, all electric, well insulated. My heating and hot water costs are lower with electricity than with Natural Gas or Oil. We cannot justify the cost of solar or wind with our abundance of power and its low cost. However, in new startup smaller towns, wind and solar are installed, as thousand mile transmission lines are impractical. Our big city electric costs subsidize the smaller towns.
In winter we do not bother to close lights, as any heat from the light bulbs offsets the heat from the electric boilers or radiators. In summer, to assist A/C, we insure that lights are not left on indiscriminately.
The DNS server is an address book, any nation today, by shrewdness, can redirect an address to their own location, copy the information and forward on the message.
The server is too critical for world trade, and needs appropriate backups.
Since the volume of traffic is huge, there is a hierarchy of servers, spreading the load.
Running this system is a good-will gesture and as mentioned, essential for trade and for every government to contact it's departments. A server backup/alternative that is 12 hours offset from LA is a good thing. The two servers will remain in sync.
As a Canadian, I can already tell you that it will never work. Up north, we use metric electricity.
Are the electrons square or oval? They told me that electrons are in the shape of very small (microscope sized) ice-cubs