I use mid grade all the time, it’s what’s recommended for my car so I use it. 

Also mid-grade gas is a mix of premium and regular, so you are getting some of whatever they put in the premium tank by default.

There are myriad ways to get screwed over by shitty businessmen, and everyday new methods are invented!

I think Catholics and conservatives would have been very, very pissed off at Kurt Cobain or Eddie Vedder if it had been them. I also think it wouldn’t have hurt their careers at all - sure there’s going to be some fall out but it would also enhance their grunge street cred, and rock and roll has always loved the rebel…

Agree 100%. So many stars seem to make so many compromises for fame, whether it’s artistically or in their personal lives. or even athletes and what they put their bodies through physically. When I see someone just turn their back on the money, glamour, etc. I find myself really rooting for them becuase it seems like…

I don’t know, I think it was pretty effective. It sure as hell got a lot of people’s attention, that’s for sure. At the time there was pretty much no public knowledge of the abuse that had been going on in the church; personally this was probably the first I heard of it. Obviously it took many years and the efforts of…

Well this was his LA mansion, not Paisley Park.

I thought he meant he played 9 hours without getting high. Then I thought he meant without the character getting high, which made me wonder whether or not that's required for 100% completion. But He's not going for 100%, just the main storyline... Fuck. I swear, I'm just drunk. No weed, only bourbon.

Well I wouldn’t presume argue with William Shakespeare but my intention was not to be witty. This is a complicated subject that is not well served by such witticisms as “My sewer authority is able to bill me without manually counting my turds.”

the picture wouldn’t post, let me try this again..

But it creates a vortex! everyone knows the VORTEX is the key!

It’s too late, he already posted it. Soon they’ll be working on 7G to counteract our 6G (if they haven’t already begun). But this time we’re going to get a step ahead of them, with my patented-pending 10G anti- deepstate shark.

Yeah the last paragraph is definitely the point. But people are not going to get there if they don’t understand how inevitable the whole thing was. The next time something like this happens it won’t be OK if only the company is better at accounting, or if they would just make the charitable decision and do the right…

Yes, but that is becuase you purchase sewer service on a monthly basis, not an as-used basis. That makes more sense for sewer service, becuase it doesn’t really matter how much you use it, the sewers are there, they’ve already been paid for, and the only ongoing costs are maintenance which has to happen on a…

That’s not correct; you can’t compromise on accuracy. What happens when you send an inaccurate invoice to a customer? They dispute it and you don’t get paid, becuase you don’t have data to back up your claim. If the customer’s contract requires you to bill them based on the actual amount of gas that they use, you…

You can’t make that assumption though, that could be exactly what the problem is. Valves don’t record flow, meters do. none of us have any clue how their systems work but I can tell you this, of all the places I’ve worked in billing, it was possible to provide customers with unbillable service (meaning it’s turned on…

holy shit, just reading the words “switching to a backup billing system” makes my head hurt. I already knew that most people don’t care to understand how complicated billing systems can be (I don’t blame them, it’s incredibly boring), but they thing we just keep backup systems around, just in case the main one gets…

Probably someone had to manually check meters at various points in the pipeline on a semi regular basis to compile aggregate usage data over a set timeframe. The contracts between the pipeline and the customers probably took into account the fact that usage data was not exact; for example there might have a fixed…

maybe they would have been able to balance the books later, maybe not. it depends on what part of their “billing system” we’re talking about. I work in billing for a data center company, and what generally complicates things is that there are multiple systems in place that have to work together for billing to happen. T…

Am I missing something here or will the proposed changes not actually help traffic get through if another ship runs aground?