Random Thoughts Part 5: Time to Split Again

[Astronuc]

Apple CEO says Chinese manufacturers have better skills (in addition to lower wages) than US manufacturers.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/apple-ceo-says-chinese-have-more-skill-making-072102588.html

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Wonder if the missions that work in the South Pole use refrigerators to store their food, or if they just leave their food out somewhere.

Talking about storing food during winter, I had some time living in the north of Japan (Hokkaido) where I used to leave my covered ready-made fish or chicken outside my window the whole snowy night such that I could save some pennies for not having to use the fridge. I guess some people might have done the same.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Lol I meant a real furry 4-legged cat .i said it because they are so independent and it is often said that they own you and they let you use their furniture etc.
Anyway, it would be funny if it meant a woman!

I prefer dogs. But I don't like chihuahua .

 

[wolram]

Apple CEO says Chinese manufacturers have better skills (in addition to lower wages) than US manufacturers.
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/apple-ceo-says-chinese-have-more-skill-making-072102588.html

The Chinese people work them selves to death, and their working conditions are far below the west, it is no wonder.

http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/wages-china

 

[WWGD]

Talking about storing food during winter, I had some time living in the north of Japan (Hokkaido) where I used to leave my covered ready-made fish or chicken outside my window the whole snowy night such that I could save some pennies for not having to use the fridge. I guess some people might have done the same.

Closest to that I have done is leaving food out of the fridge during cold nights (I use a heavy blanket to keep me warm).

P.S: Anyone else having trouble finding the scroll bar for this page?

 

[Sophia]

Closest to that I have done is leaving food out of the fridge during cold nights (I use a heavy blanket to keep me warm).

P.S: Anyone else having trouble finding the scroll bar for this page?

Me. the scroll bar is the same colour as page background

 

[wolram]

Any one following Robot Wars, to me it is a spectacle of mechanical mayhem with a touch of mechanical innovation.

 

[WWGD]

Me. the scroll bar is the same colour as page background

Only option I can think of is using the up, down arrow keys for now.

 

[Borg]

Only option I can think of is using the up, down arrow keys for now.

I'm not having any problem using Firefox 38.5. Maybe it's browser-specific?

 

[WWGD]

I'm not having any problem using Firefox 38.5. Maybe it's browser-specific?

I am using Chrome

 

[WWGD]

Speaking of winter weather, it looks like a Big Ol Snow Storm is headed for the east coast this weekend. We've haven't gotten any for the last few years so it will be nice to have a BOSS or two pass through this winter.

Maybe just coincidence, but it seems next storm will be named HUGO, so we will have HUGO BOSS, the first storm with a fragrance, I guess.

 

[fresh_42]

Someone else weird enough: celebrating his anti-birthday, the day in the year farthest from his birthday ( July 17 ). And I glazed off when he started explaining why he felt the need to celebrate it. Another ride on the subway.

No mathematician, for sure. A mathematician would have called it co-birthday.

 

[WWGD]

No mathematician, for sure. A mathematician would have called it co-birthday.

I heard it named that ... at Co-KFC, the Cokernel's place, while eating Co-Chicken?

 

[Borg]

Maybe just coincidence, but it seems next storm will be named HUGO, so we will have HUGO BOSS, the first storm with a fragrance, I guess.

Where did you see that? Hugo was retired as a Tropical Storm name in 1989 but I don't know if it applies to Winter Storm names also. This is the list that I found on the Weather Channel's site.

 

[fresh_42]

I heard it named that ... at Co-KFC, the Cokernel's place, while eating Co-Chicken?

co-eating! Don't forget the co-morphisms!

 

[fresh_42]

This is the list that I found on the Weather Channel's site.

Here they used to call the deep pressure systems by female and the high pressure systems by male names ... until a few years ago PC ruled in.

 

[WWGD]

Where did you see that? Hugo was retired as a Tropical Storm name in 1989 but I don't know if it applies to Winter Storm names also. This is the list that I found on the Weather Channel's site.

I may have just imagined it, I guess.

 

[OCR]

P.S: Anyone else having trouble finding the scroll bar for this page?

Seems to be there... Firefox version - 43.0.4.

 

[lisab]

A few weeks ago, I was in a rural area of Costa Rica, in a jungle village. It was a village with mostly indigenous people. My husband and I visited a place where they make traditional pottery. No electricity is used in making these pots: they grind the clay, spin the potting wheel, and decorate the pots all by hand; they're fired in a hand-made kiln made of horse poop and clay, heated with wood.

We wanted to buy two pots but didn't have enough cash. No problem - the guy swiped our debit card in his phone, and voila we were on our way with two beautiful pots.

Today, I drove a couple hours to a car dealership near Seattle, to buy a car. The time comes to do the deed, and -- WHOOPS! -- they don't take cards. I had to drive home and back to get my freakin' checkbook. Paper checks...they needed a paper check. Sheesh.

oh and i bought a car today .

 

[Astronuc]

oh and i bought a car today .

Congratulations!

 

[HomogenousCow]

The Chinese people work them selves to death, and their working conditions are far below the west, it is no wonder.

http://www.clb.org.hk/en/content/wages-china

I've actually been to these factories, and they are hardly as abysmal as people are making them out to be. For most of those workers, working in factories is far better than what they'd instead be doing (subsidiary farming). Wages aren't even that low these days, far higher than in other developing countries.

 

[WWGD]

Seems to be there... Firefox version - 43.0.4.

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Scroll bar is back, fortunately, I was using Chrome, tho.

 

[WWGD]

Me. the scroll bar is the same colour as page background

Are you also using Chrome? Is it back?

 

[WWGD]

Heard that Moore's law may not still apply. Maybe this is why I cannot find a new PC with more RAM and higher processor speed for the same price as the one I bought just a year ago.

 

[WWGD]

After a big issue had been made on my throwing a banana peel in a tree planted in a public street, a followup ( original place where I posted is locked): plenty of cigarette buts, regular trash, animal feces... but no banana peels.

 

[Sophia]

Are you also using Chrome? Is it back?

I'm using firefox on Linux. But fortunately, I noticed it is the same colour as background only yesterday after reading your post. I use that small wheel on mouse to move the page so I don't need it.

 

[Sophia]

A few weeks ago, I was in a rural area of Costa Rica, in a jungle village. It was a village with mostly indigenous people. My husband and I visited a place where they make traditional pottery. No electricity is used in making these pots: they grind the clay, spin the potting wheel, and decorate the pots all by hand; they're fired in a hand-made kiln made of horse poop and clay, heated with wood.

We wanted to buy two pots but didn't have enough cash. No problem - the guy swiped our debit card in his phone, and voila we were on our way with two beautiful pots.

Today, I drove a couple hours to a car dealership near Seattle, to buy a car. The time comes to do the deed, and -- WHOOPS! -- they don't take cards. I had to drive home and back to get my freakin' checkbook. Paper checks...they needed a paper check. Sheesh.

oh and i bought a car today .

I'm not sure about the US but here only bigger shops can afford accepting credit cards. It's quite expensive and they have to pay a fee for each transaction or even some % from the transaction, I'm not sure now.
Anyway, one would expect a car seller to sacrifice a few cents or even dollars from his profit when selling a car :-)

 

[Borg]

We wanted to buy two pots but didn't have enough cash. No problem - the guy swiped our debit card in his phone, and voila we were on our way with two beautiful pots.

Today, I drove a couple hours to a car dealership near Seattle, to buy a car. The time comes to do the deed, and -- WHOOPS! -- they don't take cards.

Love the irony in that one. Congratulations on the new car.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I've actually been to these factories, and they are hardly as abysmal as people are making them out to be. For most of those workers, working in factories is far better than what they'd instead be doing (subsidiary farming). Wages aren't even that low these days, far higher than in other developing countries.

The parts that disturbed me were the ones about payment of wages being 'delayed', and the abandonment of middle aged and older workers. It's one thing to be officially making a certain wage but another when that wage ends up never getting paid. Also, if, upon reaching the age of 40, employers start to marginalize you, what hope do you have for the future?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

I was very energetic working on my slime mold lab culture and all of a sudden the alert bell rang. Now all my enthusiasm to continue the work disappears. What the...!.
Off I go to watch TV.

 

[Sophia]

Meet my first bonsai trees that I got today and Murko. His left eye is not really as dark as in this picture.
There's a towel to prevent draft from the window on the trees and seeds for birds on the left side :)
Murko was investigating the bonsais very carefully for a long time and - what a relief!- finally decided he would not eat them :) (he likes my dracenas, tough, he eats them like grass if he gets a chance!)

 

[S.G. Janssens]

I was very energetic working on my slime mold lab culture and all of a sudden the alert bell rang. Now all my enthusiasm to continue the work disappears. What the...!.
Off I go to watch TV.

How did the slime mold feel about that?

 

[Silicon Waffle]

How did the slime mold feel about that?

Nothing but my teacher is getting mad. She actually is quite schizophrenic, if you know where to turn her on.

 

[WWGD]

A few weeks ago, I was in a rural area of Costa Rica, in a jungle village. It was a village with mostly indigenous people. My husband and I visited a place where they make traditional pottery. No electricity is used in making these pots: they grind the clay, spin the potting wheel, and decorate the pots all by hand; they're fired in a hand-made kiln made of horse poop and clay, heated with wood.

We wanted to buy two pots but didn't have enough cash. No problem - the guy swiped our debit card in his phone, and voila we were on our way with two beautiful pots.

Today, I drove a couple hours to a car dealership near Seattle, to buy a car. The time comes to do the deed, and -- WHOOPS! -- they don't take cards. I had to drive home and back to get my freakin' checkbook. Paper checks...they needed a paper check. Sheesh.

oh and i bought a car today .

Congratulations. Maybe you should have paid them in pennies to show them how convenient their payment methods are. So much for pleasing the customer.

 

[Silicon Waffle]

Congratulations. Maybe you should have paid them in pennies to show them how convenient their payment methods are. So much for pleasing the customer.