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Zircom

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Zircom··on UPS CEO says drivers will avg $170k in pay and benefits at end of 5-year deal
So the $49 is immediate, at the end of the 5 years it should rise to $56.50. And I think a fulltime salary is 40hrs/week is it not?

56.505240 = 117,520, plus overtime and healthcare and pension and other benefits being the other ~55,000 I suppose.

Zircom··on UPS CEO says drivers will avg $170k in pay and benefits at end of 5-year deal
Unions will usually negotiate salaries and pay-raises for several years in advance, e.g. $5000 raise every year for 5 years. So by the end of 5 years their average salary+benefits will reach $170,000.
Zircom··on Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing
>As a Canadian cousin over here, if you can't tell the difference between a smile/a polite "Hi, how can I help you?"/a "have a nice day", and an actual conversation involving smalltalk, then you clearly don't know about what you're criticising.

That's literally his point, the whole friendly-service-with-a-smile thing is forced on them by their managers/corporate, it's not from a sincere desire to have an actual conversation with customers. And people will literally complain and get them in trouble if they don't do it.

Talk about irony, sitting here talking about a superiority complex while defending requiring that kind of stuff of "lowly" service industry workers.

Zircom··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
Mouth swabs are a more reasonably analog to breathalyzers for cannabis, although even with those the detection period can be up to 48-72 hours. But still, much better than the months long detection period for the more common urine tests.

My hope is once its legalized fully, more effort can be put into researching and designing more sensitive tests until we have something that is equally as capable as breathalyzers are(which is questionable in and of itself, but I'll settle for equal treatment under the law for now rather than aiming for perfection).

Zircom··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
To my understanding "being tired" (which is absolutely part of being hungover the next day after a night of heavy drinking) is comparable and according to some sources pretty much equivalent to being "under the influence" in terms of how much it can impair you when operating heavy machinery.
Zircom··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
They've just off-shored the lives lost. It's not any different than off-shoring manufacturing and poisoning some third world country with the waste chemicals and runoff instead of the homeland.
Zircom··on Senate votes to let people who’ve used marijuana work at intelligence agencies
So why is getting shitfaced the night before flying a plane or jumping in a 20 story crane okay but not smoking a joint?
Zircom··on The economics of the Birkin bag (2016)
Do you have to travel to those countries to get fitted or you just send them the measurements and have it shipped to you?
Zircom··on Why Frames Tilt Forward (2015)
Good discussion and an okay diagram in this thread

https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/43338/how-do...

Zircom··on A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work
I don't know about you but I'm mentally exhausted at the end of most days once I'm off work. It's relatively uncommon for me to even have energy to invest in my normal hobbies, let alone self-improvement/ learning new skills.
Zircom··on Insurance company drops customer saying a 'drone' took photos of clutter in yard
Presumably the people trying to recall him?
Zircom··on Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
What do you think "a whole swath of our population" means?
Zircom··on Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings
Homelessness and affordable housing aren't really related in this case. These people can afford and get housing if they wanted to, just not in their preferred area. But it's not like they're gonna just throw their hands in the air and decide to be homeless because they couldn't find a place exactly where they wanted. They'll just move somewhere else they can afford.
Zircom··on A chimpanzee brought Xerox to the masses
Reminds me of the Arthur C Clarke story

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...

Zircom··on PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator
To be fair shadow of the Colossus has pretty bad frame rates even on the original hardware, averaging 15-20 fps. So I'd say if anything that's an accurate recreation of the original experience :)
Zircom··on Higher- than-recommended doses of Vitamin D reduced risk of atrial fibrillation
Caves and trees and other natural shelter were presumably available and used by the 'natural' humans, and clothing/constructed shelter was a thing after not too long as well. So it's not like we were in the sun literally all day bud.
Zircom··on Hipólito Mora, vigilante crusader against Mexico’s cartels, killed in ambush
Just as soon as you give up your computer and your iPhone that were made with exploited and/or slave labor :)
Zircom··on NHTSA: Car crashes cost Americans $340B
80% of our population lives in 3% of the land area. So no need to move anybody.

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america....

Zircom··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
What might be easier than a whole separate Chinese tracker, Plex at least has a pretty robust feature where you can have it automatically find and download subtitles in whatever language you set. Only problem there is sometimes the timing is a little off with the actual video so the subs don't pop up at the right time, but you can change the offset with just a few clicks until it's right and then usually it's the same for every episode going forward.

If you're not using Plex or find it doesn't work so well for Chinese subs, can also try bazarr which does the same thing with subs but is a standalone software.

So with the above setup you can download the actual series from wherever and then it'll fetch Chinese subs for you and add them automatically. Otherwise for actual Chinese trackers try share.dmhy.org and mikanani.me for public trackers.

Feel free to shoot me an email(in my profile) if you need any advice or help setting anything up :)

Zircom··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
There are anime specific trackers that are better for downloading anime from, especially if you're looking for non-English subs, but radarr doesn't have a way to tell it to use a specific tracker for a particular series, so having a separate radarr instance with only those trackers on it ensures it downloads from them everytime.
Zircom··on Jellyfin: Free software media system
I have a separate radarr for anime because there's are anime specific trackers that are much better for downloading anime, especially if you are looking for non-English subs, but radarr doesn't have a way to pick a specific tracker to download a particular series from. So my anime radarr instance only has those specific trackers on it so it will download from them everytime.
Zircom··on Consciousness and Anaesthesia (2009)
I think there is a difference between an already conscious being losing their ability to recall memories vs never having the ability in the first place. Maybe you can technically maintain the state of consciousness without forming new memories once you've already achieved it (for example people with Alzheimer's/other forms of dementia, but that is up for debate how "conscious" they are during it's most advanced stages), but getting to the point of consciousness in the first place doesn't really seem possible without some kind of ability to refer back to previous experiences.
Zircom··on Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
Whenever my partner and I watch a movie we enjoyed we'll search up threads for it on Reddit because there's always people discussing recommendations of similar films, or at least movies that people who enjoyed the other film liked as well, to add to our backlog.

Works especially great for horror movies, for us at least. I don't always quite understand why I may have vibed so well with a particular horror film since they can be so hit-or-miss between individuals, but other people who are more genre-savvy will be in the comments to explain it to me and have some great recommendations :)

Zircom··on Open source hospital price database
From your own link that seems to be only for marketplace plans and maybe select private ones, only applies for scopes done for colorectal cancer screenings specifically (not for any other conditions or risks), and even then only for adults 45 to 75.

So I would say your statement is extremely disingenuous to say the least.

Zircom··on Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world (2014) [video]
I never learned to type formally and also use a limited amount of fingers. On my left hand I use my thumb+middle+index finger for everything except zaq and modifiers which I use my ring finger, and on my right hand I only use my middle and index finger for everything except for backspace/delete which I use my ring finger for. Still manage to hit 100WPM.
Zircom··on Stuxnet (2010) [pdf]
There's a new worm going around aimed at disrupting industrial/energy systems called "CosmicEnergy" that's been in the news the last week or so, I'd assume due to its similar function Stuxnet is getting mentioned in the articles and so is having bit of a resurgence in searches as a result.
Zircom··on Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled
On Android when installing from an unknown/unverified source, the installer can literally prompt you with a link to the correct settings page where you can enable installing from other sources, and once you click it opens the correct page, scrolls to the right toggle switch, and highlights it for you. So I totally believe OPs story.
Zircom··on Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts
I replaced my Hyundai badges with Toyota ones I 3D printed to fit and just completely took off the Elantra lettering
Zircom··on Four of Uranus’ largest moons likely contain an ocean layer
Getting to these planets or moons that have water in the first place is already hard, getting back from them is pretty much such a big nonstarter at the moment it's not worth thinking or worrying about.
Zircom··on Half of vinyl buyers in the U.S. don’t have a record player: study
Cool story, not my point. I'm not questioning the validity of what you're saying or the existence that people think what you're saying, but how you jumped straight to ascribing those views to the original commenter. You can make your own point without the accusations, is my point.
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