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HomogenousCow said:What a pleasantly bizarre week.
Thank you for saying it like that.
HomogenousCow said:What a pleasantly bizarre week.
dlgoff said:I remember just how self-conscious Borek was about his English when he first joined?
WWGD said:Next in line for literature Nobel prize?
I think it was a good complimentBorek said:You mean it has changed?
Your English, yes. Your self-consciousness, ...Borek said:You mean it has changed?
Maybe the Burn Notice one is not out yet. That's a great one too.dkotschessaa said:I actually hate that Netflix carries the complete twilight zone series. The marathons used to be this magical event. Now that I can watch it any time I want it's just not the same.
Pretty amazing nonetheless. FTL?Borek said:About as likely as FTL.
Faster Than Light travel?WWGD said:FTL?
I don't know, since FTL has no vowels, I thought it may be a Polish word, or a Polish name? You know, likeBorg said:Faster Than Light travel?
Of course, it is an exaggeration, but seems vowels are less likely in Polish words than in English (middle of page):Borek said:It's a common lie there are no vowels in Polish. "Ala ma kota" - which is a first phrase I was taught how to write (Ala has a cat) has more vowels than consonants.
And yes, FTL = Faster Than Light.
?WWGD said:My 'Deleted Items' folder went from having around 514 items yesterday to 14 today.
Silicon Waffle said:?
Oh I see it now, You can go back to your Account Settings, and select your email account that you're using at the moment, then click Change button of the Email tab to bring up the Change Account property page.WWGD said:In Outlook, when you delete a program, it is not completely removed, but instead, it is sent to a folder called 'deleted' (similar to the way you can send files in your desktop to the 'Recycling Bin' , so that they are not immediately deleted). Outlook keeps these deleted files for some time, after which it actually deletes them . This time somehow it decided to delete a large chunk in a single shot, I am not clear on why it did so.
No idea why I continue to use Outlook mail.WWGD said:No idea why Outlook decided to delete them all in a single shot.
I was born on the 16th, Happy holidays to you tooSilicon Waffle said:There should be some people on PF who were born on around Christmas day. I would like to say Happy (belated) Birthday and Merry Christmas to them !
I continue because most of my contacts, official and otherwise know this address. Particularly Jarring is thedlgoff said:No idea why I continue to use Outlook mail.
I recently saw a pedestrian safety unit van (from the local PD) almost run someone over.Borg said:I love irony. My company sent me a bluetooth speaker for Christmas that I can't use with my work computer - security restrictions don't allow installing the necessary drivers.
And Merry Christmas everyone!
dlgoff said:No idea why I continue to use Outlook mail.
Good point, it is 8.875% , so the savings are around $5.20.Ibix said:If your sales tax is more than about 6% then you save more than $5, in fact.
Ibix said:Coming from a country where VAT - our equivalent of sales tax - is included in the price of everything, I always find a visit to the US a challenge for my mental arithmetic. I don't have any quick look-ups in my head for something like "What is 1.08875 times $7.43?"
That's right. But personally, I would scrutinize things even further.WWGD said:A good answer for next time a high school kid asks why s/he needs to know Math:
I ordered a pizza at Papa Johns. A large garden is $20 + tax. It has 6 veg toppings.
There was a deal for a large one , 1 topping for $7.80. Each extra topping is $1.50.
So if I got the one for $7.80 with 1 topping + the 5 toppings for $1.50 each, for a total
of $15.30 vs $20. A saving of almost $5. Math ( at least arithmetic) paid off.
zoobyshoe said:That's right. But personally, I would scrutinize things even further.
I am almost positive no veggie topping would cost them $1.50 to add, so they make profit there. Additionally, when they add topping #2, I bet they cut back on how much of topping #1 they use (by at least 5%, say). By that logic and procedure, each additional topping allows them to obfuscate how much of each topping they add, such that they make more and more profit per topping the more toppings you order (by topping #6 they are only adding 60% of topping #1, say). So, one topping is the hardest for them to play 3 card monty with, and you get the most mass for the least amount with one veggie only.
It could be I'm wrong and that each topping is pre-measured regardless of the number of toppings, but I would be on the lookout for this tactic
WWGD said:It may be hard to implement unless done very carefully. Workers are either Mexicans whoo don't speak English well, or high school kids who
can barely do Math. But if management wants to be cheapskates, they can always figure out a way of doing it I guess. And the pizza is pretty tasty too, so at least it seems I am getting reasonable quality.
True - "somewhere between 8 and 9 percent" would probably do for most purposes. And then taking a quarter of the difference between 8 and 9 percent would get me the rest of the way. The problem is that it never even occurs to me to think about it until I'm stood at the till with my $10 item and my $10 bill wondering why they're charging me $10.88.WWGD said:I am good at mental arithmetic, but there are some tricks: you can take 1.1 , the 10% and then subtract a bit more than 1% from it, which may not be too hard. Or, if doubling is easier for you, you can double three times , to figure out 8% and then add a bit less than 1%. But you have a good point, it is kind of complicated.