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Hawaii also (?) checks for agricultural products when you leave the islands:

http://www.govisithawaii.com/2009/07/16/be-prepared-for-agri...

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.

Apparently chocolate cookies had an unfortunate and inexplicable habit of being crushed under other products and being deemed unfit for sale.

Once the policy changed and staff had to throw damaged products in the garbage compactor, apparently a lot less chocolate cookies were getting damaged.

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.

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 end the big cat naming scheme.

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 to deny entry?

I'm curious to know where you see the line between acceptable and unacceptable...

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 computer. He umm'ed and ahh'ed and called over a manager.

At this point I was thinking they were going to reject the warranty repair for some reason, but the manager ended up apologizing that they didn't have any UK-style MacBook replacement keyboards in stock, and they couldn't work out how to order the part in on their US system.

As it happens I had moved to the US, so getting a US keyboard was actually a bonus. I told them I was happy with a US keyboard, and 10 minutes later I was leaving the store with it installed in my MacBook.

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.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3006147/because-steve-jobss-firs...

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 in their station IDs for a while, which I thought was hilarious.

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!"

> 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?

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 to address that.

> and you can't easily move your followers

So you mean people will keep using Twitter even if they delete some tweets?

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 banners around upset the other customers and are interfering with the business the mall owners are trying to operate.

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.

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.

It's currently up 1.65% in after hours trading.

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 factory and discovering their sausages no longer tasted the same, despite using the same ingredients, etc. and how the eventually worked out what the difference was.

> 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://www.formula1.com/en/championship/inside-f1/rules-reg...

But yes, this Roborace thing seems pointless unless the cars are made by different teams and have different software, etc.

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 cards (via the Barclaycard) became established in the UK before charge cards got a foothold:

http://www.theukcardsassociation.org.uk/history_of_cards/ind...

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 the Underground, but the service operates at longer intervals).

The Wikipedia page has a lot of detail about how it was constructed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tunnel

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.

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 seven freight train services a week going to/from China.

http://tbngroup.de/en/internation-forwarding-logistics-from-...

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 have to put it on a boat and wait 6 weeks you may have missed your chance to sell that item (e.g., people are moving on from summer to autumn clothing, etc.).

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 best to not draw attention to yourself when crossing borders. i.e., don't wear a giant tail when talking to border guards.

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 frustrating to fly over your house repeatedly when all you want to do is get home!

Presumably doing so frees up landing slots at the major hubs and saves on expensive landing fees and operating costs at those larger airports.

I used to get cold calls for after market warranties even when I didn't own a car.

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 you're country is likely to win medals).

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 other foreign corporation, unless the shares of the corporation are listed on a Canadian stock exchange."

It remains to be seen how much effort will go in to enforcement re: determining the ultimate ownership of companies investing in Vancouver real estate.

> According to a release, the government defines a foreign national as someone who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident, "including stateless persons."

Presumably your sister has permanent resident status and is exempt from the new tax because of that.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-vancouv...

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

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 PVC and phthalates with thermoplastic elastomers.

http://www.apple.com/ca/environment/safer-materials/

Right at the bottom in small print it says:

> * Every Apple product is free of PVC and phthalates with the exception of power cords in India and South Korea, where we continue to seek government approval for our PVC and phthalates replacement.

Anyone from India or South Korea care to comment on whether there's a noticeable difference between the quality of the cables on the power cords vs an Apple headphone lead or something?