morganm's comments

Four days is a long weekend. I personally would welcome a forced vacation.

But if 1 piece of machinery really is that critical to your business, you'll have an identical standby ready to go when your primary one eventually craps out.

I've decided to let Apple handle inventorying my standby machine. I can walk into an Apple store and 5 minutes later be ready to go again. Then the high resale value of my old machine makes it easy to sell on craigslist.

From my view, the lifetime guarantee meant that REI's incentives were aligned with mine: stock only the highest quality items and have an extremely knowledgable staff to access my needs and pair me with said products.

I've had a couple instances were a product failed well outside of 1 year. I could have warrantied through the manufacturer, but REI handled it for me and I had a replacement in 5 minutes. That outstanding service is no longer.

Are they really a co-op any more, or has the organization been co-opted by executives?

Members can vote for board members, but only after they have been approved by the "Nominating and Governance Committee". Executive pay is also not disclosed.

REI used to offer a lifetime guarantee on every product they sold. Sadly, this was abused by many people which I believe left no other option than to limit it. This used to make up for paying full retail for everything. Backcountry.com soon followed suite by reducing their warranty accordingly.

As a climber, I've noticed their selection in that department has dwindled quite dramatically over the years.

Maybe these things aren't practical in today's world. For me, they are slowly transitioning from an amazing store I would plug every chance I got, to just another retailer.

If you're ever in Canada, be sure to check out MEC. They still have a lifetime guarantee and their house brand is top-notch and of exceptional value.

Open-net pen farmed salmon is done in the same water sources that wild salmon swim through. Farmed salmon have no natural predators so viruses are more readily transmitted to their wild counterparts. For more information: http://www.salmonconfidential.ca/

See Oceanwise's salmon recommendations:

http://www.oceanwise.ca/seafood/salmon

Not better, but could also be written as:

  find ~/.ssh -name '*.pub' | xargs ssh-keygen -lf

Here's a simple bash function to check all your GitHub keys:

  function check_github_keys {
    username=$1
    i=0
    curl -sw "\n" "https://github.com/${username}.keys" | while IFS="\n" read -r line ; do
      tmp=`mktemp -t githubkey`;
      echo "$line" > $tmp
      res=$(ssh-keygen -lf $tmp)
      rm $tmp
      ((i=i+1))
      echo "${username}.keys:${i}  ${res/ $tmp/}"
    done
  }

Invoke as:

  check_github_keys <username>

I'm sure there's a better way to write that one though!

It really didn't cost him $30k to close the project.

I'm sure Patrick felt a certain obligation to his users to ensure BCC was transitioned to someone who would look after them.

He could just stop answering support requests or flip off the domain, but then he's just paying with his integrity.

Very interesting info on how the heart and blood vessels can keep up with such an exaggerated animal.

The first episode of BBC's "Africa"[1] (Kalahari) features a stunning scene of two males rutting.

The behind the lens clip at the end also covers the giraffe scene.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa_(TV_series)

It sounds like he looped/threaded the midpoint of the rope around something and then rappelled on both strands. Once back in the building he could pull either end to retrieve the rope.

I recently watched DamNation [1] and was quite surprised at the shear number of dams located in the United States. The film claims that most have outlived their purpose. I can't recall the exact cost stated per fish to divert them around dams or raise them in a hatchery, but it was fairly high. The film's production quality was quite high and was fairly eye opening.

While doing a little googling, I found an article [2] claiming $7 million in fish ladder work after structural damage forced a reduction in water level. So perhaps this solution could be cost effective or quickly put in place in case damage occurs just before a run.

[1] http://damnationfilm.com/ [2] http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/apr/12/crack-in-dam-force...

Correct. Only 17 states protect against gender identity discrimination in the private sector. The Wikipedia article has a nice map of what is protected by state: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination...

Attempts to prohibit discrimination of sexual orientation and gender identity at the federal level (the same as sex, age, handicap, race, color, religion or national origin) via the Employee Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) have failed since 1994. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employment_Non-Discrimination_... for details.

I've been using Traveling Mailbox (travelingmailbox.com) for about a year and they've been great. First class customer support and very reasonable prices. My only complaint would be that using the NV satellite address introduces some lag as they forward items to NC for processing. Their web interface is functional and easy to use.

I used to be an ECM customer way back when, before they tripled their pricing as you mentioned.

While growing up, my dad took me and my two sisters on a family vacation. At the beginning of the trip he handed us each $100 and told us we were free to spend the money as desired, but first we had to treat the family to a single meal.

I went first with a pizza lunch. When the waiter asked what we all wanted to drink, those $2 pops suddenly had a very real impact on my bottom line. Water would be fine for everyone!

My youngest sister opted for bagels the next morning, but it took a bit of convincing to get her to spring for cream cheese!

The other sister, being the sweetheart she is, sprang for a real meal and didn't give us too much grief.

Now we all look back and laugh at the experience, but it certainly had a very real impact in the value we place on a dollar.

I'm receiving a bunch of errors when trying to sign up. Seems to be related to the following:

  XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://api.coffeestrap.com/api/v1/users/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://boards.coffeestrap.com' is therefore not allowed access.

The site also tends to go into 404 redirect loops which eventually crash the tab. Not sure if that's related to the above. This is happening loading http://boards.coffeestrap.com/ in an incognito tab.

Also, don't see Thai as a language. :(

I retrieved my iPad phone number as per the other comment and logged into the website. Their site says my info is being shared and when I try to switch this it says the settings can not be saved. Calling the 800 number says I am already opted out.

I tried speaking with a CS agent who had no idea what privacy settings I was talking about and then said it does not apply to pre-pay customers. I think she was just trying to get me off the line.

So I'm not sure if this applies to iPad customers or if it is possible to opt out.