Did you read my post? Work is starting at 8 and it's *still* too dark at the end of the day during the four months of EST... I've noticed this problem in other time zones as well (JST, AST). I am guessing that the pre-alarm clock "up with the sun" mindset is why the time zones are the way they are, but if you poll people with a simple question "do you prefer sunlight before work or after" the answer is a resounding after.
During EST, my upstate NY city has hardly any sunlight after 4:30 PM. As a result, it seems the local businesses are all on a 8-4:30 work schedule. A few weeks ago I overslept and was amazed at how freely traffic flowed when trying to get to work at 9.
And, we *still* want it to be EDT year round. I don't care if it's completely dark on the drive in to work, but driving home in the dark is depressing (it's dark because "the day is already over" versus "the day hasn't begun yet").
It does make the situation worse; by adding sources it drives down the price of the weapons, allowing the cartels to to be better armed for less money.
And to pre-empt any response that says "flying is not a right", you can't take a bus to Hawaii and the U.S. Territories...
In sortof agreement with what you said: this seems to be a simple case of jury nullficiation, but in the opposite direction
More, a drunk passenger is safer than a sober driver. Pity the intercity buses in the US disallow consumption of alcohol...
This is a very good point, replying to hopefully make it more visible.
If he wanted a hip, trendy city Seattle would have worked nicely, while not as cheap as Portland it's still a better bang for the real estate $ than SF... hell, any city would be better, even NYC (outside Manhattan)...
The cost is because it is "on an airplane" meaning it needs to be certified by FAA and other alphabet soup agencies around the world. And forget about firmware updates...
You can use downforeveryoneorjustme.com, though it will use its own DNS and routing so it will still require you to figure out which of those is the problem.
The side effect of the rule is perpetuating no longer correct information. For example: a wikipedia entry states that a building is slated to be demolished, but the demolition hasn't begun, since that is what the last cited source has. However, looking out my window, I can see they have finally started demolishing it. Even if I provide a picture of the demolition, I cannot update the article and be within the rules, until the local paper is bored enough to run a story about it (which may never happen).
They once added an extra 19% discount to my bill. Remarkably, after about four bills, they fixed the error without me having to call them.
Ah well, it was nice while it lasted... and at least they never asked for the money back. That "billing errors in your favor" are honored was enough to keep me as a customer...
Since they are essentially a "New York Company" they tended to get a lot of state contracts. Because of this, it would be a big mistake for IBM to lay off too many employees within the state. Right now there are IBM consultants working in many state agencies, babysitting mainframes. Consultants are pretty much free money for IBM; if there were suddenly a huge pool of IBM trained individuals entering the local job market, it'd be easy to replace the expensive consultants with cheaper ex-IBM employees (via cheaper consulting firms, or direct hire) of comparable skill.
Bonuses are *not* taxed as capital gains; bonuses get handled the same way as overtime or other "supplemental wages". Here is one source.
No, the solution is to invalidate all the exclusivity agreements and allow anyone with a sound business plan to get a permit to run their own fiber/coax/copper/whatever (including municipal governments). The reason the market isn't sorting itself out is *because* of regulation.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
