Correct. The $60,000 is post-tax, the $100,000 is post-tax, the $200,000 is post-tax.
The way I hear it pronounced most often makes me think the proper spelling should be “a’right”.
In the Europe to West-coast-US poll, due to great circle flights I’m pretty sure changing on the west coast is more likely to give the least amount of travel time… for example Amsterdam to Salt Lake was about the same duration as Amsterdam to Seattle, give or take an hour. Curious if that is always true or if someone else has contrary experience…
For flights, I picked the Europe to West coast option. The reason, is that even as an American, I HATE American travelers. The few times I have flown internationally, the international contingent have been more polite, more considerate, and more willing to let each person QUIETLY do their own thing.
Given that, and all else being equal, the less time I spend in a US domestic flight with people blasting noise, their own, or their children’s, making trouble for the staff, or (increasingly) trying to crash a plane, the better.
Yes, I’m generalizing from a small sample size, but this isn’t Great Debates.
Whether I’d prefer a long flight and a short flight or two medium flights depends on the time of day. It depends on the airline and the equipment on the two flights. Also, when i have to change planes, i tend to pick O’Hare when i have a choice. There are a lot of flights from there, the airport has decent amenities, and most important, i have friends who live very close, so if things go badly wrong and I’m stuck there, i can stay with friends and not at some depressing and expensive airport hotel.
I think the poll was set up to get opinions on whether you’d prefer 1) two long flights or 2) one longer flight and one shorter flight, with travel time being equal. I picked the longer first flight, to settle in, sleep, enjoy a nice meal, etc. (I assume I got the upgrade).
This. International flights have meals, free drinks, quiet passengers, often more seat room (that depends on the airline). Domestic flights are cattle cars of rude loud passengers, shitty seats, no food. Barely tolerable.
Aight.
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You’re probably right. Just ballpark estimates, something like London - New York would probably be something like 8ish hours, and then something like 6 hours to get to the West Coast from there. Whereas London - San Francisco would be around 11ish hours, and then say an hour to fly to your destination from there.
But I did say all other things were equal, including total travel time, so assume the connection on the West Coast has a longer layover. Yes, @Procrustus has the right idea; the point is do you prefer two longish flights, or one really long flight and one short flight. And the fact that one of them is domestic is a factor, too.
That was my reasoning as well. Long haul international flight have more amenities. I would prefer to spend as much time on that flight as possible, and as little time as possible on the domestic flight.
You’re about right. Paris to NY is 8:40ish, Paris to SFO is 11:40ish. I’ll stay on that plane longer, thanks.
If I have a really long journey, I prefer a nice break between airplane trips. What I actually do is a direct flight from the West Coast to a major European hub, then overnight, then a short flight to my destination in the morning — but I am lucky enough to live near a West Coast airport with direct flights to Europe. When I lived in San Diego, I’d fly from Europe to Phoenix and then do a short flight home. This is mostly because San Diego is surprisingly hard to fly to from L.A. airports—lots of flights, but just always expensive / long layovers/ some other issue.
And I am in the opposite situation (which might have influenced why I framed the poll the way I did). Sacramento doesn’t have any flights to Europe. In fact I’ve heard we’re one of the biggest cities in the US with no flights to Europe whatsoever. So I have to fly to a major US hub (or drive / take the train to SFO, but I find when you factor in the driving time it barely makes a difference in total travel time), then fly to a major European hub, then maybe catch a third flight to my destination if my destination isn’t a major European hub.
I don’t follow baseball, and have absolutely no opinion about who should be in baseball’s hall of fame.
“Alright” annoys me mildly; but I don’t think it does so for any reason other than “it’s not what I grew up being told was correct” and I don’t think that’s a good reason; so it’s true both that it bothers me and that I think it’s a perfectly cromulent spelling.
I would pick the flight pattern that had me change planes in the airport I’d least mind being stuck at for a while. It might also depend on the times of day of ETA’s/EDA’s, the lengths of layovers, the availability of window seats, and the reputation of the airlines.
“Alright” is the exclamation as in: “Alright, time to go.”
“All right” is the state of being, as in: “He is feeling all right.”
I wonder how many people agree with you. Do you have any kind of official cite?
“Already” and “all ready” are different words with different meanings. “Altogether” and “all together” are different words with different meanings (as in “It’s an entirely different kind of flying, all together.”) By analogy, “alright” and “all right” should have different meanings. Yet, as far as I can tell, “alright” is just used as an alternative spelling for “all right,” and as far as I can remember I’ve never seen any official source (like a dictionary) that makes a distinction.
My specific objection is that when I use the phrase, the words have a brief pause, though “right” has heavier stress. It’s “all right,” not “alright,” for the same reason that I can distinguish “already” and “all ready” or “everyday” and “every day” by ear. The spelling system is kind of dumb, but I prefer it to be consistent.
Thinking about it further, I usually say “all right” as two words, but when I say it fast it comes out “awright,” clearly one word. So maybe I should rethink my snobbery on this issue.
This is my hill, and I will die for it.
Not that it really matters - it's just how my brain looks at it.I may use them that way, too
I didn’t answer that poll because I didn’t know what “strings” he was referring to.
Migrant workers have made everyone in the USA lives better.
Cheaper produce and meat.
Clean hotel rooms, etc.
They do dirty jobs that Americans dont want to do at low pay. What’s not to like?