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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@thwr said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
He didn't bring his laptop with him, which really sucks now.
This would be my very last problem in such a case. Better celebrate an additional birthday per year.
Not having his laptop meant that he couldn't rent a long term place and work from Europe, so not getting back home means he was burning his vacation / holiday time stuck in a hotel sitting by the phone waiting to hear if they got him a flight. If he had had his laptop, he could have used the time as work time and it would not have been too costly of a problem.
He got lucky, some Dutch friends managed to get him a flight back to Atlanta. he should be there tonight.
Considering the cost difference, just buy a computer there and go to work.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.
While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.
While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.
But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.
While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.
But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.
Stopping mailed spam is worth zero to me. The amount of effort to throw away junk postal mail is easily out weighted by the savings I get from letter postage from USPS.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.
While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.
But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.
Stopping mailed spam is worth zero to me. The amount of effort to throw away junk postal mail is easily out weighted by the savings I get from letter postage from USPS.
I get zero from the later. I would seriously rather that the service did not exist.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.
While I like the idea, they are still often 2-3 times more expensive for consumers than USPS is.
But they effectively stop all spam mail. that's worth a lot. And when do consumers need to mail things? Very rarely. So often it is done for no good reason today. I see it as a benefit.
Stopping mailed spam is worth zero to me. The amount of effort to throw away junk postal mail is easily out weighted by the savings I get from letter postage from USPS.
I get zero from the later. I would seriously rather that the service did not exist.
I do a fare amount of trading through the mail. Most of that trading is one to two patches. They are typically under one ounce and cost me a first class stamp. That same envelope would cost me like $5 with UPS, or like 7-8 times as much.
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Beautiful pictures of bare dies
http://www.righto.com/2016/06/inside-tiny-rfid-chip-that-runs-san.html
Modern RFID chip sitting on a 1983 Intel 8051. Click on the below pic to enlarge, it's gorgeous
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@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Beautiful pictures of bare dies
http://www.righto.com/2016/06/inside-tiny-rfid-chip-that-runs-san.html
Modern RFID chip sitting on a 1983 Intel 8051. Click on the below pic to enlarge, it's gorgeous
GAH ILLUMINATI ZIONIST PLOT!
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It's election time in Australia. the twitter tag #ausvotes now also includes a sausage sizzle emoji (on election day aka the democracy sausage) instead of a ballot box emoji.
Also, #democracysausage is trending
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Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
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http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/
Looks like the US lost three places in a year.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/
Looks like the US lost three places in a year.
It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.
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@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/
Looks like the US lost three places in a year.
It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.
It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/
Looks like the US lost three places in a year.
It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.
It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.
Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.
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@tonyshowoff said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/
Looks like the US lost three places in a year.
It is difficult to trust a site that rates Saudi Arabia so highly.
It does? Maybe in comparison to other countries that have a smaller GDP but compared to other countries in its bracket it performs very poorly.
Having been there myself I can tell you there's a huge wealth gap, essentially absolute bottom or fairly high toward the top, much like Russia. They're just really good at pretending the bottom doesn't exist. There are huge slums though.
I don't doubt that. Just from looking at the data presented on this website it looks like there is a massive issue.
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Hmm, perhaps I'm misinterpreting the graphs. They just had SAU as a pretty dark color in all three categories.
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http://satwcomic.com/art/brexit-to-the-right.png
Haha. The last panel.
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Dallas police officer has been killed in the protest going on in Dallas just now.
