After re-reading the question I don't think she lives at an assisted living center. I believe the "Senior Center" mentioned is not where she lives at all, but a place outside the home that she can go to and be around other seniors. Based on how the question was written, I believe the implication is that she lives at home, on her own.
Of course, it is a bit confusing since I think the posting editor made the same assumption when he suggested a repeater.
So the question can more reliably be reduced to "what high speed service can I get in a residential home for the $65/mo range without usage restrictions?"
Serve them right for what....offending your sensibilities? Doing something you can't understand that caused you to jump to idiotic conclusions? Yes, clearly the problem is them.
Then perhaps we should jail the idiots who think that AP names matter so much? I would love to see some of these idiots who think that its A-OK and unintended consequence free to deal with the public, a public that is supposed to be free people capable of saying what they want and representing any ideas they want, in a ham handed fashion?
You should have seen me almost give myself whiplash a few months back, I was on my way home from work. There was a guy looking to turn left and I passed him on the right at the intersection. Not just "the intersection" but, an intersection I have been driving through for my entire adult life, and which I grew up and live within 1/4 mile of.
I get pulled over "Do you know why I pulled you over" "No clue" "You rolled through that stop sign back there" and my head spun so fast, I am surprised I didn't have a chiropractor trying to hand me his card.
lol um reread the quote I used, it is pretty clear the "less than a handful" is not potential evacuees, but the subset of them who have indicated that they do not already have accommodations to evacuate too.
Kind of like, if my area of town was evacuated, I would head over to the house of a friend or relative nearby, or if the need arose, to family a few hours away. There are very few scenarios where I would actually need to find shelter for longer than it would take for me to make arrangements for my physical travel.
OTOH I know people who don't have nearby family and whose friends would likely mostly be in the same boat as them.
The vast majority of residents contacted had identified places where they could go, with "less than a handful" saying they may need to go to a shelter, he said.
Really? I mean, I can only hold one average adult "in hand" with a single hand....and even that is being rather generous about "in hand", I can at best grab a wrist, fore arm, ankle, or windpipe/jugular, maybe hair or a nose. However, any one of these takes up my entire single hand.
Even if we assume the people are all babies, I can, at most, heft one of them in a single hand as well, and even that isn't the recommended proper way to carry a baby.
Then you will learn to appreciate older cars....or at least honest mechanics.
I had a similar experience except, for me it wasn't the muffler. No no, it was the mount for the flexpipe connecting my cat to the exhaust manifold. Of course, being a newer car, this entire flexpipe piece was not considered its own part but, part of the cat itself.... awesome.
Of course, I went to a small shop who said "the cat alone is over $1000 for this car, I can weld that piece for you and have you on the road again for $250. So I had him weld it. Awesome.
The weld job lasted for 3 years, but thats more than I expected. After that he told me the price came down and he could get me the cat for $750 installed. What he didn't tell me was this time he was getting me a cheap after market cat that only was going to last 1 year. I left thinking he saved me money twice, didn't find out how wrong he was until he botched fixing it up for inspection a year later and I ended up having to have it towed to another shop.
rotfl, my wife and I were at an event and some dude had an odd sound on his phone that he just had to talk about, and he said it was the turbo engaging on an engine, to which I turned to my wife and said "its one of the sounds you would hear our car make on the highway if our car had no sound insulation".
Last time I was I was going just a hair faster than the other cars, all doing 40 I was doing like 42. Turns out the area was a 30 MPH zone for just....no reason at all. On one side of the road, is parking lots with stores on the other side, on the other side of the road.....the huge wall of an onramp to the raise highway section. No houses, nowhere to walk.... no reason to cross the road.
I have never seen a car do 30 or less on that road unless it was gridlocked.
Because in this case we are essentially talking about values. Values are, actually, just opinions.
You are starting from a premise that the only thing that matters in a financial transaction is doing it the most cheaply. I reject the premise, which is, entirely based on values. Which....again....are opionions.
Perhaps because the people who find them interesting are smart enough not to comment? I mean, you come out and talk about politics and frankly, the people who do it professionally are hardly experts compared to the common man the way astronomers and astrophysicists are.
I mean, I have only read a couple of articles and bullshit on here about red light cameras. I suspect the average professional politicians know only a scant amount more about them than I do, if anything the main "gap" in my knwoledge is the names and faces of the people who peddle them.
The gap between the average idiot and the politician is a hares breath compared to that between even an above average idiot and an astrophysicist on the subject of astrophysics.
Even now, shit, I eat stuff like this up. This is a cool finding.....but....fuck if I don't have anything to add, so I comment on the comment about comments, because that....I am much closer to an expert on:)
actually I do but, it requires some investment funds in order to get enough negative matter to work. I would be happy to give you the once in a lifetime opportunity however to get in on the ground floor in this world changing investment.
They are just cells. I just took my fingernails, scraped some from my body, and tossed them on the floor to dessicate and die. Human cells! So what?
The only thing special about am embryo is what it is capable of doing under very specific conditions, it is only really special after it has done those things and created a living being capable of participation in a society. Until it does that, its really no different from an apple seed.
Why does it matter either way?
That is the thing... if there is any reason for moral outrage here, then that reason necessarily extends to taking the cells in the first place. If destroying an embryo has any moral outrage attached to it at all, then it can ONLY be permissible when there is a reason for it that negates the outrage.... the old "for the life of the mother" argument.
However, I see no reason for such an outrage, so whether they are destroyed or used, sold or given away, created or harvested opportunistcally....these are ALL morally exactly the same.
I dunno, I still think the ignorant asses are the people arguing that a clump of cells without so much as a functioning brain stem can somehow be so special as to deserve special consideration.
Hmmm I don't understand why the distinction matters or why "tractor beam" needs to mean something so specific. At a very high level the overall effect is "I turn on the beam, and this object is moved towards me"
As long as the manipulated object is manipulated by the beam and is passive in its interaction (that is it is not appreciably changed and contributes no energy of its own that was not imparted by the beam), then "tractor beam" seems just fine to me.
whether it is some sort of attractive force or slightly heating the object asymmetrically to produce a force due to air is just implementation details and doesn't change the overall function.
I really do think Budgeting is one of the places that one has to be the most careful about creating perverse incentives.
Frankly, cities should not be using fines in budgeting, but rather, should have a designated fund for ALL fines and fees to go into, which should simply be added to next years base tax income or, used to offset an entirely unrelated portion of the budget to the fine.
In this way, while there may be a sort of general incentive to increase general revenue, but the one thing you don't want, is the budget of any department with any control over either enforcement or policy making seeing any direct effect on his budget from the making or enforcing of the policy.
Of course, perhaps the fact that so many people throw around the term entrapment is indicitive of a general feeling of unfairness at these actions and that they should be illegal actions for the police.
It reminds me of an incident a couple of years back where a man was found not guilty on a technicality after taking some upskirt shots with his phone. Everyone thought it was illegal, even the police and prosecutor, in the end, the law was flawed and the state legislature lept into action and had it fixed within a couple of days.
Thing is, this seems to be more a general public thought this was covered under the law, and feel its wrong but, nobody in power has any impetus at all to fix it or correct people's perceptions, not at all.
> the odd historical trend of certain folks employed in mortuary roles adding embalming fluid to recreational > substances in the 90s (is that still a "thing?"),
I don't believe this was ever "a thing" as much as an old wives tale. Now, its not exactly unheard of for something to start as a rumor and then for some idiot to try it. Hell, once, long ago, I spent a good hour laughing my ass off at some guy who came into a chat room exclaiming that he was, right that moment, engaged in the process of making "Bananadine". We egged him on for a while before he realized what an idiot he was.
It may be a few idiots did this, but I always suspected "Embalming fluid" was street slang for PCP.
Anyway yes, laminar flow cabinets are easy enough to make, but, remember this activity goes back many decades before internet access was a thing and so, is it really any surprise there are MANY techniques? In fact, its very similar to any sort of gardening....ask people about something as mundane as tomatoes and you will find several different methods people use and claim are the best.
You can call me all the names you want, it wont change the fact that you are the one who is pretending that a rational person can't have different values or come to different rational conclusions than you.
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After re-reading the question I don't think she lives at an assisted living center. I believe the "Senior Center" mentioned is not where she lives at all, but a place outside the home that she can go to and be around other seniors. Based on how the question was written, I believe the implication is that she lives at home, on her own.
Of course, it is a bit confusing since I think the posting editor made the same assumption when he suggested a repeater.
So the question can more reliably be reduced to "what high speed service can I get in a residential home for the $65/mo range without usage restrictions?"
Serve them right for what....offending your sensibilities? Doing something you can't understand that caused you to jump to idiotic conclusions? Yes, clearly the problem is them.
Then perhaps we should jail the idiots who think that AP names matter so much? I would love to see some of these idiots who think that its A-OK and unintended consequence free to deal with the public, a public that is supposed to be free people capable of saying what they want and representing any ideas they want, in a ham handed fashion?
You should have seen me almost give myself whiplash a few months back, I was on my way home from work. There was a guy looking to turn left and I passed him on the right at the intersection. Not just "the intersection" but, an intersection I have been driving through for my entire adult life, and which I grew up and live within 1/4 mile of.
I get pulled over "Do you know why I pulled you over"
"No clue"
"You rolled through that stop sign back there"
and my head spun so fast, I am surprised I didn't have a chiropractor trying to hand me his card.
"When did they put THAT in!?!"
"Oh last night"
-Steve
lol um reread the quote I used, it is pretty clear the "less than a handful" is not potential evacuees, but the subset of them who have indicated that they do not already have accommodations to evacuate too.
Kind of like, if my area of town was evacuated, I would head over to the house of a friend or relative nearby, or if the need arose, to family a few hours away. There are very few scenarios where I would actually need to find shelter for longer than it would take for me to make arrangements for my physical travel.
OTOH I know people who don't have nearby family and whose friends would likely mostly be in the same boat as them.
Really? I mean, I can only hold one average adult "in hand" with a single hand....and even that is being rather generous about "in hand", I can at best grab a wrist, fore arm, ankle, or windpipe/jugular, maybe hair or a nose. However, any one of these takes up my entire single hand.
Even if we assume the people are all babies, I can, at most, heft one of them in a single hand as well, and even that isn't the recommended proper way to carry a baby.
So "less than a handful" would be 0 people.
Then you will learn to appreciate older cars....or at least honest mechanics.
I had a similar experience except, for me it wasn't the muffler. No no, it was the mount for the flexpipe connecting my cat to the exhaust manifold. Of course, being a newer car, this entire flexpipe piece was not considered its own part but, part of the cat itself.... awesome.
Of course, I went to a small shop who said "the cat alone is over $1000 for this car, I can weld that piece for you and have you on the road again for $250. So I had him weld it. Awesome.
The weld job lasted for 3 years, but thats more than I expected. After that he told me the price came down and he could get me the cat for $750 installed. What he didn't tell me was this time he was getting me a cheap after market cat that only was going to last 1 year. I left thinking he saved me money twice, didn't find out how wrong he was until he botched fixing it up for inspection a year later and I ended up having to have it towed to another shop.
rotfl, my wife and I were at an event and some dude had an odd sound on his phone that he just had to talk about, and he said it was the turbo engaging on an engine, to which I turned to my wife and said "its one of the sounds you would hear our car make on the highway if our car had no sound insulation".
Last time I was I was going just a hair faster than the other cars, all doing 40 I was doing like 42. Turns out the area was a 30 MPH zone for just....no reason at all. On one side of the road, is parking lots with stores on the other side, on the other side of the road.....the huge wall of an onramp to the raise highway section. No houses, nowhere to walk.... no reason to cross the road.
I have never seen a car do 30 or less on that road unless it was gridlocked.
Makes me glad I never stopped doing it. Sadly, I can't remember the last time I saw anyone else engage in this time honored tradition.
Yah I know, I just knew that would raise the hares on the back of somebodies neck :)
Well.... a minor amount of temporary bad publicity.
Its not exactly nothing but, it sure is close.
Because in this case we are essentially talking about values. Values are, actually, just opinions.
You are starting from a premise that the only thing that matters in a financial transaction is doing it the most cheaply. I reject the premise, which is, entirely based on values. Which....again....are opionions.
Perhaps because the people who find them interesting are smart enough not to comment? I mean, you come out and talk about politics and frankly, the people who do it professionally are hardly experts compared to the common man the way astronomers and astrophysicists are.
I mean, I have only read a couple of articles and bullshit on here about red light cameras. I suspect the average professional politicians know only a scant amount more about them than I do, if anything the main "gap" in my knwoledge is the names and faces of the people who peddle them.
The gap between the average idiot and the politician is a hares breath compared to that between even an above average idiot and an astrophysicist on the subject of astrophysics.
Even now, shit, I eat stuff like this up. This is a cool finding.....but....fuck if I don't have anything to add, so I comment on the comment about comments, because that....I am much closer to an expert on :)
actually I do but, it requires some investment funds in order to get enough negative matter to work. I would be happy to give you the once in a lifetime opportunity however to get in on the ground floor in this world changing investment.
and yet, without it nothing at all matters.
but....why?
They are just cells. I just took my fingernails, scraped some from my body, and tossed them on the floor to dessicate and die. Human cells! So what?
The only thing special about am embryo is what it is capable of doing under very specific conditions, it is only really special after it has done those things and created a living being capable of participation in a society. Until it does that, its really no different from an apple seed.
Why does it matter either way?
That is the thing... if there is any reason for moral outrage here, then that reason necessarily extends to taking the cells in the first place. If destroying an embryo has any moral outrage attached to it at all, then it can ONLY be permissible when there is a reason for it that negates the outrage.... the old "for the life of the mother" argument.
However, I see no reason for such an outrage, so whether they are destroyed or used, sold or given away, created or harvested opportunistcally....these are ALL morally exactly the same.
Ok man, I am handing it over, but if I had one more swamp to tap you would be in a world of hurt.
Plus come on.... N=1 is anecdote not data! :)
I dunno, I still think the ignorant asses are the people arguing that a clump of cells without so much as a functioning brain stem can somehow be so special as to deserve special consideration.
Hmmm I don't understand why the distinction matters or why "tractor beam" needs to mean something so specific. At a very high level the overall effect is "I turn on the beam, and this object is moved towards me"
As long as the manipulated object is manipulated by the beam and is passive in its interaction (that is it is not appreciably changed and contributes no energy of its own that was not imparted by the beam), then "tractor beam" seems just fine to me.
whether it is some sort of attractive force or slightly heating the object asymmetrically to produce a force due to air is just implementation details and doesn't change the overall function.
I really do think Budgeting is one of the places that one has to be the most careful about creating perverse incentives.
Frankly, cities should not be using fines in budgeting, but rather, should have a designated fund for ALL fines and fees to go into, which should simply be added to next years base tax income or, used to offset an entirely unrelated portion of the budget to the fine.
In this way, while there may be a sort of general incentive to increase general revenue, but the one thing you don't want, is the budget of any department with any control over either enforcement or policy making seeing any direct effect on his budget from the making or enforcing of the policy.
Of course, perhaps the fact that so many people throw around the term entrapment is indicitive of a general feeling of unfairness at these actions and that they should be illegal actions for the police.
It reminds me of an incident a couple of years back where a man was found not guilty on a technicality after taking some upskirt shots with his phone. Everyone thought it was illegal, even the police and prosecutor, in the end, the law was flawed and the state legislature lept into action and had it fixed within a couple of days.
Thing is, this seems to be more a general public thought this was covered under the law, and feel its wrong but, nobody in power has any impetus at all to fix it or correct people's perceptions, not at all.
> the odd historical trend of certain folks employed in mortuary roles adding embalming fluid to recreational
> substances in the 90s (is that still a "thing?"),
I don't believe this was ever "a thing" as much as an old wives tale. Now, its not exactly unheard of for something to start as a rumor and then for some idiot to try it. Hell, once, long ago, I spent a good hour laughing my ass off at some guy who came into a chat room exclaiming that he was, right that moment, engaged in the process of making "Bananadine". We egged him on for a while before he realized what an idiot he was.
It may be a few idiots did this, but I always suspected "Embalming fluid" was street slang for PCP.
Anyway yes, laminar flow cabinets are easy enough to make, but, remember this activity goes back many decades before internet access was a thing and so, is it really any surprise there are MANY techniques? In fact, its very similar to any sort of gardening....ask people about something as mundane as tomatoes and you will find several different methods people use and claim are the best.
You can call me all the names you want, it wont change the fact that you are the one who is pretending that a rational person can't have different values or come to different rational conclusions than you.