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  #2770765 2-Sep-2021 19:29
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Running into Zeno's dichotomy paradox when billing a client: They don't just want a total of the hours worked (a relatively small figure, I'm way undercharging them since they're a good client and it's very intermittent work in any case so it's a token amount), they want a spreadsheet of the hours worked every day over a six-month period. So now I have to spend a lot of time digging up info from the diary for which days the work was done on, and since they're annoying me I'll be billing them for that time. This increases the time worked, so I need to go back and adjust that, in billable time. Which increases the time worked, so I need to go back and adjust...

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  #2770840 2-Sep-2021 22:26
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Ensure your admin charges are greater than the actual working time charges.

If they query the admin charges, just advise that any time justifying the charges will be extra admin charges... it's all billable. Just ask a lawyer or an architect..



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  #2770902 3-Sep-2021 09:06
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duckDecoy:

 

Handsomedan:

 

Bottles and/or tubes that get squeezed from the middle and left in that state. 

 

 

Do they also take pills out of blister packs in random order?

 

 

 

 

Yes they do...and they use multiple sheets of said blister packs from a box, seemingly at random.





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  #2770904 3-Sep-2021 09:12
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Do they also read books in random order? Chapter 4, followed by chapter 7, then chapter 2?

 

An interesting it might story make for!


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  #2771097 3-Sep-2021 10:48
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Behodar:

 

Do they also read books in random order? Chapter 4, followed by chapter 7, then chapter 2?

 

An interesting it might story make for!

 

 

Please. The Universe is not big enough for more than one Yoda. Even one.

 

 





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  #2771112 3-Sep-2021 11:21
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Behodar:

 

Do they also read books in random order? Chapter 4, followed by chapter 7, then chapter 2?

 

An interesting it might story make for!

 

 

Tablets in a blister pack are fungible, book chapters are not - so that's an unfair question. 😀





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  #2771236 3-Sep-2021 12:26
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freitasm:

 

Technofreak:

 

Not just rural areas. Just to think the powers that be thought single use plastic bags were the root cause plastic pollution when in fact it's attitudes like this that are the real problem.

 

 

Our household still uses plastic bags to collect rubbish before placing the bin. The difference is that now we have to buy the bags. So instead of a bag being used twice it is now used once only.

 

It seems only one entity profits from this: the supermarkets.

 

 

We use the old toilet paper bags with a couple of bits of paper in the base.  We also avoid putting anything wet / smelly directly in the bin.  This way the toilet paper bags last 3 or so weeks before we need a new one.





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  #2771501 3-Sep-2021 15:36
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I am still using the 'single-use' plastic bags I collected with my shopping when the supermarkets were still giving them out for free. I ought to be good for another year or so.

 

 





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  #2771554 3-Sep-2021 16:34
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Rikkitic:

I am still using the 'single-use' plastic bags I collected with my shopping when the supermarkets were still giving them out for free. I ought to be good for another year or so.

 

 

 

 

Just be aware that those things are biodegradable and if you leave them for too long you'll end up with a pile of waxy flakes, or if it doesn't get that far some incredibly brittle bags that tear if you look at them.

 

 

So we've gone from use-twice biodegradable bags to single-use non-degradable bags. Marvellous.

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  #2771570 3-Sep-2021 17:02
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They are stored in a darkened drawer and so far they are holding up fine. If that changes, so will I.

 

 





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  #2771586 3-Sep-2021 17:22
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neb:
Rikkitic:

 

I am still using the 'single-use' plastic bags I collected with my shopping when the supermarkets were still giving them out for free. I ought to be good for another year or so.

 

 

 

Just be aware that those things are biodegradable and if you leave them for too long you'll end up with a pile of waxy flakes, or if it doesn't get that far some incredibly brittle bags that tear if you look at them. So we've gone from use-twice biodegradable bags to single-use non-degradable bags. Marvellous.

 

 

 

They seemed to stop with that degradble carryon once they realized that it created microplastics in massive quantity.

 

I have some recent single use ones that have hungon ok despite sunlight etc.





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  #2771860 3-Sep-2021 23:06
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Hitting a speed trap at 426.87kmph to be told you didn't get the third star because you were 1kmph too slow!


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  #2771901 4-Sep-2021 08:46
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I can't resist...

 

People that list speeds in Kelvinmega per picohour.


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  #2772565 5-Sep-2021 16:57
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No plastic bags anymore. I just use a shopping bag or a foldable box ;-)





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  #2772593 5-Sep-2021 19:15
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Behodar:

 

I can't resist...

 

People that list speeds in Kelvinmega per picohour.

 

 

That would be KM(ph)[sup]-1[/sup]

 

I hate it when people talk about connection speeds in millibits per second.  I know some ISPs are slow, but they're not that bad


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