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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      Let FedEx and UPS handle this stuff. No need for government mail delivery in this day and age.

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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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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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        • DashrenderD
          Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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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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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
            last edited by

            @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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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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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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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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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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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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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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                  • MattSpellerM
                    MattSpeller
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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

                    chip-0014.png

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                    • tonyshowoffT
                      tonyshowoff @MattSpeller
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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

                      chip-0014.png

                      GAH ILLUMINATI ZIONIST PLOT!

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                      • nadnerBN
                        nadnerB
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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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                        • nadnerBN
                          nadnerB
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                          https://twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI/status/748676246993793024
                          (links to...)
                          https://election.google.com.au/?center=-26.539285,131.314157

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
                            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36710768

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                            • coliverC
                              coliver
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                              http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/global-index/

                              Looks like the US lost three places in a year.

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                              • KellyK
                                Kelly @coliver
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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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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @Kelly
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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.

                                  http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

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                                  • tonyshowoffT
                                    tonyshowoff @coliver
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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.

                                    http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

                                    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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                                    • coliverC
                                      coliver @tonyshowoff
                                      last edited by

                                      @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.

                                      http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/countries/sau/

                                      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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                                      • KellyK
                                        Kelly
                                        last edited by

                                        Hmm, perhaps I'm misinterpreting the graphs. They just had SAU as a pretty dark color in all three categories.

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                                        • coliverC
                                          coliver
                                          last edited by

                                          http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/07/vladimir_putin_has_a_plan_for_destroying_the_west_and_it_looks_a_lot_like.html

                                          Interesting perspective.

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                                          • coliverC
                                            coliver
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                                            brexit-to-the-right.png

                                            Haha. The last panel.

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