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You think war is clean and sanitary?

So the US should just sit back and take it?

Has nothing to do with the point being made.

Has nothing to do with my point. Quit pretending the Russians don't have a spy agency.

Has nothing to do with my point.

How many government employees does it take to track and analyze my every movement?

So you think using any of that protects you from the Chinese, KGB, etc.? Did you forget to block localStorage, too?

I feel the same about the KGB and China's spy agencies. How come I have no say in how they operate?

And when we visit your site for the first time, having never heard of you before, why should we trust you?

That's the point. Having some authority who did at least some minimal checking, to extensive checking, and who will verify you really are who you purport to be. Trust but verify probably plays a part in this.

But, remember, you don't have to go to HTTPS. There is no requirement for you to do so.

On Stackoverflow, I scan down the list of questions on the first page and all I see is a myriad of questions about tools I have no idea about and, therefore, cannot help with. Most of these questions have no, or one, answer; most of which aren't helpful.

So the problem with choice is the number of people who also know that tool who can help you.

Again, you may not be correct. I would have to ask my bookkeeper what our labor cost is, I'm not that involved in mine anymore, but it's not that much higher than food cost.

Quit guessing. Your estimate of food costs is wrong. The bacon and bread at high end restaurants is not the bacon and bread you get at the grocery store. For one thing, the bread at the restaurant just may have been made from scratch and baked in the kitchen a couple of hours earlier. The eggs may have been shipped in from a special farm picked out by the chef. The bacon might have the chef's name on it, too, cause he hand selected it himself when he visited the farm.

And there's nothing frozen and you won't find any microwave ovens either.

Food cost varies but can easily be 28 to 33% of your bill. Now add up how much a couple of slices of your Wonder bread, an egg from your $2/dozen eggs and $5 package of bacon is and then try and figure out why the restaurant food costs so much more.

Let's not forget, too, that, in higher end restaurants, the people in the back room aren't high school kids playing on their phones and dancing to hip-hop while making your food. They are most likely professionally trained with an experienced background. None of them are making $10/hour until they find their "real job". This IS their real job.

How can you tell? You can taste the difference. That's all the proof you need. You may think $15 for a bacon and egg sandwich is high until you taste that sandwich. Then you really know what a $15 sandwich tastes like.

I've traveled all over this country for business and visited cities large and small as well as cheap and expensive restaurants. I'll say it again, I have never, ever seen this or heard of any such thing from anyone I've ever known. What you encountered could only have been a low-class dump from your description.

Let's not cherry pick. I'm talking about menu items overall.

You don't understand. When you wait tables, you are in a little fiefdom of your own that you are responsible for and no one else's. Helping others takes time away from your space and, potentially, your own income. When your income isn't based on helping yourself alone, then you can form a team to help each other when they run into problems.

Note that I am not saying waiters never help each other out.

You're on the right track but it must also be remembered the time of year affects this along with seniority of the waiter (how many hours they get) and their own availability. Waiters can have great days and weeks followed by poor ones but waiters at good restaurants can make decent money on tips. Too many bad stories are from IHOP.

High end restaurants don't get their ingredients from the same place you do or McDonald's does. The quality there is above and beyond.

You do NOT have to pay a "minimum service fee". This is the third time I've read, recently, someone from Europe say that and it's totally false. Tips are a gift, if you will, to the waiter for giving good service and NO ONE will get into a "loud argument" with you for not leaving one, despite the online stories from anonymous posters who say they have at some pretentious dump they went to.

In addition, tips are given AFTER service and the customer is on his way out the door. Rarely does the waiter even know a tip was left till they collect the check and the guest is gone.

Note: I have been in the restaurant business on the side for 31 years. If anyone got into an argument with one of our guests, I would fire them on the spot.

Also, when I eat out, I tip what I wish; typically 15% except for exceptional service and then it's 20% but I have tipped less and nothing at all. I have NEVER been confronted about it and I NEVER expect to.

Well ... uh ... I think ... I think ... uh ... everyone can hear me? ... I'll wait till the guys in the back ... oh and the girls, too, right hahahahahah ... OK ... let's get started...

Sure. I know Facebook wouldn't put out videos like that but it seems 80% of all videos linked to do start out like that and that's the quality you're going to get from anyone worth listening to. Even the polished ones, though, blatter on about things I don't care about but I can't skim ahead in the video without worrying I'm skipping something I really do want to hear.

Thus, the advantage of text. To the point. Skimmable, both forward and backward with the ability to understand what you are skipping over.

Have you ever read transcripts from talks given? Don't you wish someone would have edited out all the garbage talk beforehand? And doesn't your mouse wheel finger hurt scrolling down the page, only to be told "to hear the rest of the video, click here".

Now let's talk about the weight of video files ....

I believe England still has the largest number of video surveillance cameras in the world, owned and operated by the government.

Microsoft was still under US Federal oversight as of 2010. Two years ago, Ballmer was still CEO. It takes a long time to turn a big ship.

I was going to make a joke about Microsoft violating privacy as they scan your search queries and are able to ID you but I see HN posters, here, have already taken up that torch.

I used to design and build whole systems from TTL logic in the 70s and 80s. The most integrated part was the ALU from AMD, otherwise, it was mostly NAND and NOR gates. Great fun, especially cause we knew how everything worked.

The Harvey character and shadow are one of the most creative things I have seen in a long time. Bravo!

You are saying that what I am doing will get me blacklisted, etc., but I am here to tell you it is not any of the things you say.

As I said, for display, too, film beats them all.

iow, they are attempting, again, to emulate the capabilities long available in film. This is reason #9179 why film STILL is the best medium.

I run email for most of my web clients. We have never been blacklisted and my email servers were set up without any help but the docs from day one.

The first time I hosted my own email, on sendmail, it just worked. So I don't understand the question about setting it up. Configuring it for security took some study but it wasn't difficult. No more difficult than any other serious program I use.

Calendars are similar to forms on the web. Again, no more issues than normal so I don't get it.

Navigation Timing API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigation_...

I have a feeling there is something else but I have trouble remembering it, too, and I bet I have it bookmarked to study when I have the need to use it.