nilram

I'm finding myself more in agreement than disagreement; there's no logic and the system is stupid. Tipping is a convention that's enshrined in minimum wage law (in many jurisdictions) for food service / tipped workers and that established convention guides my own tipping decisions. I'd rather that a minimum wage supported a better minimum standard of living.

I help a line cook with finding employment, so I learn about the pay and conditions. The wages make it nearly impossible for him to find housing.

No service provided? Like, the line cook isn't juggling 8 orders in order to package your stuff and get it to you in a timely and accurate way? Agree that you don't really know how well they did until you open up your order, but I also disagree that the tip is based only on "good" service. The idiotic wage structure we have right now makes workerbees dependent on some level of tips.

I don't find that to be a valid reason. After all, some low paid (but still decently skilled) workerbee prepared the food and packaged it up. When I tip, I'm tipping for both the food and the service. It's a crap shoot about whether it's the practice for the servers to tip the kitchen very well, but they usually tip them something.

Maybe send it to them as a bug. Seems more like a mistake than malevolence.

Although there's other's that are a little more true to Bisson's dialog, that's my favorite for the actors, and especially the background music.

Having accumulated points on various platforms, in my experience, United and Alaska had much better availability for close-in flights than Delta. Dunno if there's a difference between redeeming on the Chase site versus transferring to United and then redeeming, but might be worth playing with.

Not great waveforms, to my ear. Decent UI for a first cut -- trying it out, I found it really addictive. Makes me want to learn more about beats.

Unasked & unanswered: over what range of myopia will these be effective? Minus 5, -7, -13? Can they handle astigmatism, either automatically or from an initial prescription? They need to send a high-myope reporter in to ask questions.

>The solution is a non-national global reserve, calculated on a basket of national currencies. This was Keynes argument at Bretton Woods, but the US would not have it then, and does not want it now.

But what does the US want now? It's government's actions are making it more difficult for other countries to trust it for the global reserve currency. If it really wanted manufacturing to return to it's shores, there's other ways to accomplish that without rewiring the global economy: carrots, not sticks.

"admitting" could also be in the sense of "disclosing". I wouldn't expect anyone, even an elected leader, to immediately disclose a health issue that requires some amount of understanding and decision-making.

There's a segment of the population that thinks he knew while he was running for president but didn't disclose or "admit" the issue to the public. Given that this is an aggressively metastatic cancer, and Biden's campaign ended nearly 10 months ago, I think that's implausible to the point of being ludicrous.

Thanks for the replies re OO's security issues, they're lighting a fire under me to make the move.

I started using OpenOffice a couple decades ago when I got tired of pirating the market leader. Not wanting to start any religious wars, but I still haven't made the leap to Libre.

My HP 1320m Laser Printer is still printing after 20 years. No streaks or blotches. It has issues when drawing paper from the lower tray, but still printing and duplexing fine. No proper drivers for newer OSX versions, but the generic driver is working fine. I usually use 600dpi, but it's fine with 1200dpi (and so am I).