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by goatforce5 9y ago
Hawaii also (?) checks for agricultural products when you leave the islands: http://www.govisithawaii.com/2009/07/16/be-prepared-for-agri...
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by goatforce5 9y ago
I knew someone who worked at a supermarket many years ago when they were in college. Apparently staff were allowed to take home products that were damaged (crumpled/torn packaging, etc.), rather than just throwing them in the trash. Ap
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by goatforce5 9y ago
I'm sitting in Toronto, and am in the process of getting my Canadian citizenship. One of the things I was looking forward to was getting a Canadian passport and having easier jaunts in to upstate New York for Trader Joe's runs.
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by goatforce5 9y ago
I think they missed a trick by not naming Mavericks as Los Gatos, which is a suburb quite close to Cupertino and has some connections to Apple. Los Gatos translates as "The Cats" so it seems like it would have been a nice way to e
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by goatforce5 9y ago
Assuming you agree that this would be a valid reason to deny a visa to the US, are you able to provide examples of other phrases that should get you denied entry to the US? And phrases that might be critical of the President, but not enough
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by goatforce5 9y ago
I bought a MacBook in the UK and some time later when I was in the US they keyboard became faulty. I walked in to a US Apple store and explained the problem. The Genius person agreed there was a fault and then started tapping away at their
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by goatforce5 9y ago
Apparently Steve Jobs calling Starbucks (during the reveal of the first iPhone) to order 4,000 lattes was an actual call to an unsuspecting Starbucks. Years later they were still getting people calling up trying to order 4,000 drinks. http
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by goatforce5 9y ago
That quote was from 30 Rock, when Steve Martin's character was trying to convince Liz Lemon to move to Toronto. http://www.hark.com/clips/ssxbqzctpx-toronto-is-just-like-ne... One of the local TV stations used it
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by goatforce5 9y ago
In a funny way, i'd be happy if it got to a point where they just sent the dirty/charred rockets back up. "It's a rocket - of course it's going to get dirty!"
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by goatforce5 9y ago
> I likely agreed to in their ToS If they're saying you can't agree to the ToS when you're under 18, should they be able to hold on to the monies for 180 days because that's what the ToS said when you agreed to them?
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Twitter is a service that allows advertisers to spend money to put their ads in front of people. If people are using services of Twitter to upset their customers (i.e., the advertisers), it's only logical that Twitter will do something
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by goatforce5 10y ago
It's like a privately owned shopping mall telling the anti-abortion protestors to move on. The mall owners probably like free speech as a concept and may even be anti-abortion themselves, but people yelling and waving objectionable ban
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by goatforce5 10y ago
If you run a bar or cafe and someone is spouting racist crap, you can say "Free speech is great and all, but i'm not paying to host you and it's damaging my business" and kick them out.
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Hinting at possible future litigation (and ultimately winning damages from Apple) is them trying to offer some light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
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by goatforce5 10y ago
It's currently up 1.65% in after hours trading.
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Search for 'Act Fifteen'. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/241/... It's a short tale about a sausage factory that moved from an old facility to a brand new state of the f
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by goatforce5 10y ago
> you don't close them off in a way to deliberately cause a crash. Basic politeness. Typically the rules of racing will say you don't block faster cars or deliberately drive dangerously, etc. e.g. Forumla 1 says: https:/&
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Elsewhere a 'deferred debit card' would be called a 'charge card' and were in widespread use before credit cards became popular. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_card It seems as though credit c
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Slight tangent: The world's first tunnel under a river was completed by Brunel in 1843 and is still in use today by Transport for London for as part of the London Overground network (ignore the confusing naming - the Overground is like
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by goatforce5 10y ago
There was an amusing tidbit in CNN's High Profits (I think it was) where the Colorado tax department was having to put on extra security because the pot shops were having to pay their taxes by physically handing over bags of cash.
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by goatforce5 10y ago
I can't find anywhere that mentions the frequency of the service, but I think it's safe to assume they don't wait for a container to do a complete round trip before the next shipment leaves. Google tells me that Germany has s
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Yes, I was thinking this would be useful for fashion. If you suddenly find a particular style/colour of item is popular and selling out it might make sense to get more items shipped via train and have them arrive in 2 weeks. If you ha
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by goatforce5 10y ago
An episode of Border Security had a furry trying to enter Canada, complete with the border guards trying to work out if furry porn counted as bestiality porn. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y_5b1JsIs4 It's probably b
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by goatforce5 10y ago
I was on a BOS-LHR flight once that picked up a good tailwind and we arrived well ahead of schedule, only to sit in a holding pattern for 30-ish minutes so we could land after the airport noise restrictions were loosened at 6am. Super frust
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Presumably doing so frees up landing slots at the major hubs and saves on expensive landing fees and operating costs at those larger airports.
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by goatforce5 10y ago
I used to get cold calls for after market warranties even when I didn't own a car.
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by goatforce5 10y ago
The annoyance may come from the fact that the various broadcasters pay an ungodly amount of money for the rights to show the Olympics, and then do a poor job of actually showing those sports (unless you're interested in sports where yo
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by goatforce5 10y ago
re: setting up Canadian corporations with foreign money > The release defines foreign corporations as companies "not incorporated in Canada or, incorporated in Canada, but controlled in whole or in part by a foreign national or othe
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by goatforce5 10y ago
FWIW, pre-agreed termination agreements like this are void in Ontario. I suppose it's to avoid exactly the situation you describe. http://www.ontariotenants.ca/law/act05.phtml
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by goatforce5 10y ago
Apparently Apple changed the make-up of the rubbery/plastic insulation of their cables to cut some toxins from the manufacturing process: > Both are still used by other companies in power cords and headphone cables. We have replaced

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