What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
Well... Officially, you're American citizens, right? So you don't have to be out in 3 days or anything... right?
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Yeah. But it's expensive! We didn't expedite. But even so still $500!
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Waiting for the kids to go to sleep so i can find my username/password on the sky hub and play with setting up a draytek V130 ready for my EdgeRouterX
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yeah. But it's expensive! We didn't expedite. But even so still $500!
$500 for a few passports? Probably HR costs (NSA|FBI|CIA|Homeland Security|.*) is causing this.
And I thought EUR 80 is expensive for our new passports.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Yeah. But it's expensive! We didn't expedite. But even so still $500!
$500 for a few passports? Probably HR costs (NSA|FBI|CIA|Homeland Security|.*) is causing this.
And I thought EUR 80 is expensive for our new passports.
I know, seems pretty expensive to me, too. And these are just renewals.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
That comes to $125 per passport renewal.
That doesn't seem super expensive, but is it?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
That comes to $125 per passport renewal.
That doesn't seem super expensive, but is it?
Sure does to me. What does it cost in other countries? It was only $90 for a new one last time that I got one. Renewal should be less, they are just re-issuing the same thing again.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
That comes to $125 per passport renewal.
That doesn't seem super expensive, but is it?
Sure does to me. What does it cost in other countries? It was only $90 for a new one last time that I got one. Renewal should be less, they are just re-issuing the same thing again.
The sticker shock stems from the fact that you have too many kids. Less kids = better, cheaper, international travel.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
That comes to $125 per passport renewal.
That doesn't seem super expensive, but is it?
Sure does to me. What does it cost in other countries? It was only $90 for a new one last time that I got one. Renewal should be less, they are just re-issuing the same thing again.
But scott, trying to do basic math is difficult for the current batch of government employees. Getting them to add 2016 + 5 (or 10) is far to difficult.
You have to pay for the fancy adding machines and training on how to use it. And then you have to pay for someone to manually write on the paper that goes into the passport for you...
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@DustinB3403 But you also have to pay for their single-use ink pen, the ink, and the paper too.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
That comes to $125 per passport renewal.
That doesn't seem super expensive, but is it?
Sure does to me. What does it cost in other countries? It was only $90 for a new one last time that I got one. Renewal should be less, they are just re-issuing the same thing again.
The sticker shock stems from the fact that you have too many kids. Less kids = better, cheaper, international travel.
It's the per passport price that is surprising.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just back from filing for our passport renewals. Only $500 for the family. Would have been $750 to expedite!
That comes to $125 per passport renewal.
That doesn't seem super expensive, but is it?
Sure does to me. What does it cost in other countries? It was only $90 for a new one last time that I got one. Renewal should be less, they are just re-issuing the same thing again.
The sticker shock stems from the fact that you have too many kids. Less kids = better, cheaper, international travel.
It's the per passport price that is surprising.
You aren't purchasing a bucket of mangoes at the public market... You're literally asking the government to do work, in which case the response is "grease the wheels and we will".
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Anyone have any experience building kiosks to stop people from stealing cabling etc?
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@wirestyle22 I'm confused, are people stealing the Ethernet from your offices?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone have any experience building kiosks to stop people from stealing cabling etc?
JB Weld everything. The full length of every cable, the underside of every device, etc. No, you won't be able to remove it later, but it will prevent theft.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone have any experience building kiosks to stop people from stealing cabling etc?
JB Weld everything. The full length of every cable, the underside of every device, etc. No, you won't be able to remove it later, but it will prevent theft.
And the cables will stop working as well... so use would be stopped also....
lol
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Anyone have any experience building kiosks to stop people from stealing cabling etc?
JB Weld everything. The full length of every cable, the underside of every device, etc. No, you won't be able to remove it later, but it will prevent theft.
And the cables will stop working as well... so use would be stopped also....
lol
No, the cables will work fine. JB Weld them to the kiosk itself after connecting. Used this trick building many large music retail stores, all cables and gear were literally glued down. Theft proof and still functional.
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Taking the kids out for a sofa ride.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Taking the kids out for a sofa ride.
Pictures please I don't think anyone will truly believe you otherwise.
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@Minion-Queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Taking the kids out for a sofa ride.
Pictures please I don't think anyone will truly believe you otherwise.
Just because he's still online?
