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This is one of the basic problems - mixing sick leave an vacation.

This thing where you have a certain number of sick days to spend, it often ends up as another kind of vacation. And then when you are out of sick leave, your vacation leave is just another kind of sick leave.

Here in Denmark, there's virtually unlimited sick leave. If you're sick, you take a leave with full pay. No "max 14 days of paid sick leave". If you need to go to the doctor and you can't do it outside working hours, it's sick leave.

Then your vacation leave is for vacation. And sometimes errands, but with 25-30 days per year, there should be time for both.

I'm in Denmark, if I need to go to the doctor, dentist etc during working hours, it is usually counted as sick leave. This means full pay and no deduction in vacation time, and here we don't run out of sick leave.

Although we do have a dury to try doing it outside office hours.

Meanwhile, here in Denmark any manager I've ever had insists that I take sick day when I'm sick. Not for my sake, for the company.

And i have virtually unlimited sick days, I don't loose any money or vacation days by taking sick leave.

Also, if the place is understaffed because just one person is on sick leave, that's a management decision. Why would anyone who cares about you, be pissed at you for acting sick while being sick...

XD

It went up BY 18%, not up TO 18%. This says nothing about how bad it is, only that it's getting worse.

It went up TO 0.23%.

The price wasn't too bad for me. I didn't have a very high income, but I paid for my ISDN myself.

But I do remember the improvement after switching to DSL, even if this was the early days of DSL that didn't work thaaat great, it was still way better than analog modem or ISDN.

Oooh yeah, ISDN. My cable solution that I got in year 2000 (to answer OP's question) didn't work very well, and DSL wasn't an option yet I think.

For those ready to listen to my nostalgia:

ISDN was awesome because even the smallest solution had two channels. So two phonecalls on one line. Great for businesses. Also, a channel had 64 kbit, slightly faster than the analog modems which I think maxed out at 54 kbit, which was often unlikely to be reached.

But the trick is, the two channels could be combined to 128 kbit. An incoming or outgoing phonecall would simply reduce the speed back to 64, instead of interrupting the connection.

Although I paid by the minute, and using two channels doubled the cost, so I usually only used it when I was literally waiting for a data transfer and would be paying the same price anyway.

Actually, I think my ISDN would count as dial-up, as I paid by the minute.

If he's anything like me, that time would be spent on ranting about microwave ovens.

That is how the first ones (that I saw) worked. I was so happy when I saw that not only do they still exist, my local grocery store started selling them. I bought my second one a few days ago.

I assume the "somewhere else" has attainable jobs and affordable housing?

Right?

...right?

I hear many (different) attempts at saying it the Turkish way.

And to be fair, neither Germany or Japan is the name of an animal.

Most companies don't listen, these guys did. Many times when people did the right thing, they had to go through a process first.

It would have been if they did it completely on their own, maybe even designed the system for this possible outcome from the beginning.

But it's the end result that matters. They can release the source or they can not. They chose to release it, and that's great!

But in both cases they need landlords, right?

Until that exists, we need landlords. Right?

On the other hand, rented homes has lots of demand, and that is only possible if someone else owns it.

Landslords provides a service that people need. Although not all landlords does it well.

Ah yes, that is an important distinction. Although for now, I'd say recycling instead of trashing is a big improvement. Especially if the trash ends up in nature.

Here is in Denmark they are at 100%, because that's our law. As far as I know (as a consumer), it works just fine.

All soda bottles and cans can be returned in (almost?) any store that sells them. When we buy, a small deposit is added. When we return the container, we get the deposit back.

The deposit is adjusted every now and then to keep it small enough to not significantly affect customers buying power, but big enough that most people want the money back.

"It's on 3 now, I should do something."

Does something

Waits two hours

AMS says 2

"Is it at 2.0 and dropping to 1 any moment now, or is it stabilized at 2.9? Or..."

I guess it's not important, but I really would like to have some decimals. It's not that I care about accuracy, but I would like to be able to see which direction it's going.

So 1920 rows x 1080 columns.

No, it's definitely 1920 columns and 1080 rows.

So yeah the sticker is right but OP is wrong.

I don't know what the sticker is trying to say. I can read it in two ways, and one of them is kind of correct while the other is definitely wrong. And that is unnecessarily confusing, and therefore mildly infuriating.

I don't know what you think OP is wrong about.

These numbers refer to the rows, so the horizontal resolution.

Yes, that is the number of rows. But that makes it the vertical resolution. There's 1080 pixels from top to bottom. If the arrows/triangles are indicating the direction of measurement, they are wrong.

I suspect that it's an attempt at indicating a wide screen. 16:9, 16:10 etc was fairly new at the time, many buyers would be expecting their usual 4:3 screen ratio.