I've lived my entire adult life in the USA (international student -> non-immigrant temp worker -> resident -> citizen). People are delusional if they think the USA is split in half about immigration. The anti-immigrant sentiment among whites, blacks and some naturalized immigrants (like Cubans in FL) is truly the only thing that crosses political boundaries here.
Anywhere else. If Canada finds out you have a DUI in your past, and they WILL find out because they are an advanced Western country with the resources and intelligence to do so, they will turn you away at the border. This is a well known fact and such a routine occurrence it has its own page on the Canadian government's website:
I'm proud to have helped implement the brand new dedicated ERP system that is used to build these trucks. Nice to see the final product is hitting the streets.
I think you owe us some information to satisfy 'intellectual curiosity'! :)
I'll start: Why did they create a brand-new and why a dedicated ERP system? Didn't the manufacturer have an ERP system used for manufacturing other vehicles?
My own definition of AGI - when the first computer commits suicide. Then I'll know it has realized it's a slave without any hope of ever achieving freedom.
"The American glass, also known as the 'Nadir Figueiredo® glass', due to the family name of the first industry to manufacture it, contains a rather low volume (190 ml) and is exceptionally ugly (Fig. 8)."
Glad to see this one mentioned. In fact, it is so popular that it has become a standard unit of measure in Brazilian recipes. The reason it is so popular is because most beer sold in Brazil comes in 600 ml bottles to be shared by everyone at the table. Beer drinking in Brazil is mostly a social activity.
I grew up finding those glasses the most horrible thing. Even though they were always popular, they became fashionable recently when new sizes were introduced.
I somehow started to find they kind of beautiful when I worked at a company that only had pint-sized American glasses at their office. Now most cups in my house have this design. They are dirty cheap and very easy to replace.
> The reason it is so popular is because most beer sold in Brazil comes in 600 ml bottles to be shared by everyone at the table.
Hum... I'm not sure.
I believe the reason it is so popular is that it is cheap and widely distributed.
But also, none of the other solutions on the article are good enough to support large temperature differences. What matches very well with it being the "daily" glass, while tulips are more refined, "nightly" ones.
Oh, and it also has a viable size for coffee, water, and cahcaça (where usually only the bottom is filled).
There is also a smaller version of the tulip that is popular South of São Paulo, where other companies got more reach than Nadir Figuereido.
> It maintains the beer cold through the most primitive of the processes: due to its low capacity, the beer is consumed so quickly it has no time to get warm.
Which as the link describes is the traditional glass used for serving Kölsch in Köln. When I visited the typical service was to have servers constantly circulating with kranz trays, delivering cold beers every few minutes, so that your drink was always cold and full.
I always thought of that shape as the Luminarc working glass design. Which I assumed came from the Duralex Picardie design. Are these all related, and if so how and in what order of lineage?
(I think the year of design goes 48 luminarc, 54 picardie, 56 nadir)
