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Country Time sells powered lemonade in US supermarkets.

Separately, there’s a US tradition of children setting up lemonade stands to make pocket money during the summer. Typically parents help buy the supplies, the idea being that the kids are learning to work for money instead of being just given it outright.

Some US cities have strict permit requirements for selling food & beverage which has lead to silly looking photos/stories of police giving 10 year old kids tickets.

This is basically a publicity stunt by Country Time lemonade.

My experience (mostly BART & SF Muni Metro) is that “smelly person” is a euphemism for homeless person.

That’s not too different than Azure/Office 365, is it?

A few states are getting ready to try just that: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/health/death-penalty-nitr...

Different OSes handle it differently. Windows tries the primary, waits 1 second and then starts trying secondaries.

The best yelp engagement I saw worked with customers directly: a property manager ran a raffle for half off a months rent. To enter, you just had to leave a review on yelp. They didn’t explicitly ask for good reviews, but the majority were pretty positive.

For about the same amount that yelp wanted for sponsorship, they got over 30 real, quality reviews that complimented the recent improvements that had been made.

No, they usually give the name of the restaurant. People giving their name is less common.

Office 365 is pretty close to that, actually. You need Premier support to get anything useful.

My favorite O365 support story is where first level support dicked around so long with a missing mailbox that by the time they escalated the ticket, their backup had been overwritten. Luckily it was a user’s archive mailbox and we still had their source PSTs, so not a lot was lost.

A short story about the USPSIS:

I was downloading Postal Service mp3s from Kazaa and ended up downloading some USPS disciplinary reports on accident. I shared them with a friend because I thought they were funny, and he posted excerpts on a message board. From there it somehow got to the USPSIS who tracked down my friend’s cell phone #. I eventually agreed to meet, so the inspector flew out from DC and met us at a diner in Santa Cruz. He showed us his badge and went over how I ended up with the files. The whole thing was sort of bizarre, but he was pretty friendly and seemed more interested in figuring out how the files got out than throwing the book at me or my friend.

My experience with AT&T was that they were overly bureaucratic but outside of those rules anything goes. For example, they didn't ask for an LOA for BGP announcements of other people's IP space. When we were turning up a new Comcast circuit we accidentally leaked Comcast's customer routes (~5000) to AT&T and they were accepted.

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

And yet they allowed me to accidentally double-sell bitcoin cash from my account, leaving me with a negative BCH balance for months now.

His bail was revoked for offering $5000 for her hair with the follicle attached, but he had already been found guilty and was awaiting sentencing.

It was a last straw, not a sole offense.

Yup! I worked for a property management company that was rolling out check scanning (X9 imaging, not ACH/ARC) to 150 locations. In every group that was rolled out there was inevitably at least one person that would scan a batch of checks and enter the amounts really incorrectly.

I would expect that the wholesale change from Darwin to Linux would introduce an amazing number of new and awful bugs. It's not like their development processes will suddenly be fixed when it's been touched by Linux.

Isn't an NDA a lifetime contract?

Oddly enough, not always. I have a just-for-me app working on my phone that I last built on December 3rd.

Between 2006 and 2017 the first class letter rate has gone up eight times and down once. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_United_States_posta...

The user root always existed as a disabled user. The problem was that the logic error (whatever it was) resulted in the user being enabled.

> non-IP packets (ex. DHCP)

DHCP is IP/UDP.

Or even create a self-fulfilling prophecy. What if someone is listed as "may leave" when they have no intent to do so. If the employer then starts freezing the employee out, that could lead the the employee eventually leaving, even if they didn't originally want to.

I had a slightly different experience, luckily, I guess. When I was in recovery after having a brain tumor removed, I was first being given fentanyl once every hour or two. I found that for the few minutes I was lucid (before the next dose), I really didn't have much pain and asked for something less strong. They moved me to norco, which still seemed too strong. After another request for something less, they moved me to plain tylenol.

I did get a big script for norco when I was discharged, but their instructions were to take it if the pain became distracting.

The nursing and medical staff at the hospital (CPMC Davies) overall seemed great, so it may just be the difference between staff that listens/tries and staff that doesn't.

> pro-democrat hashtag #RNCinCLE

What? That was the official hashtag, being promoted by Twitter [1].

[1] https://imgur.com/a/7SX7j

I think they're a mixed bag, probably depending on some customer profitability / value score. I've heard other people complain about trouble when packages were stolen, but the few times it's happened to me, I've gotten replacements overnighted without even having to talk (chat or phone) to anyone.

And you no longer have to store the paper / electronic signatures.

I believe you need to sign up for their beta program at

https://account.ubnt.com/manage/settings

They're not alone. I spent about five hours (across several meetings) trying to convince a CFO that giving an employee no annual increase was a negative signal. I think he only gave in when he realized I wasn't going to let it go.

Focused has to mean really focused ... REITs need to make 75% of their income from rents and 95% of their income from rents, dividends and gains from securities sales. Income from other sources is referred to as 'bad income' and is carefully watched.

What stopped the Nazis?

My guess was that they wanted to reduce the chance of news leaking before they announced it. If they're like other large companies I've seen from the inside, changes to the main website involve lots of meetings and lots of people/stakeholders.