They probably have another way of getting money out of you. Oregon does it by having terrible roads.
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…and taxing shocks and struts and tires
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Oh sure. And high income taxes.
The claim was simply that the $899.99 tv price wasn’t the real price because it omits sales tax. If you bought that tv in a no-sales-tax state then that IS the price you actually pay.
Having lived in both Oregon (high income tax & no sales tax) as well as Washington (no income tax & high sales tax) it’s certainly easier to pay a little at the cash register than to have to prepare an income tax return. But the sales tax is more regressive so the income tax is probably the better method. 
OLED TVs are still expensive in the US. LEDs are cheap. I can see the difference side by side in a store but I don’t think I have ever looked at my LED screen at home and thought “I really wish I spent 2-4x as much for the OLED version of that TV”
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Yep just got a 65 inch LED from the grocery store for $299. Yes, grocery store
Only complaints are that the remote feels flimsy and the sound quality is meh
I remember going to my friend’s house some 20 years ago to watch TV on his dad’s 50 inch plasma that he bought for $10K
Good times
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The controls to my stove are off to the right of the stove in a single column. From top to bottom the order is:
Rear Right
Rear Center
Rear Left
Front Left
Front Center
Front Right
Why?!?!
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Sounds like a six-burner world problem to me.
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Oh it’s definitely a First World Problem. In fact, I considered starting a thread called First World Problems and posting it there but the overlap with this thread would be huge, so I decided not to.
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We had a stove like that, where it was not intuitively arranged and different from other stoves I’ve used. Quite a few times I turned on a burner to heat up something and 10 minutes came back to check on it and it was the wrong burner.
Now we have our new induction stove and only burners with pans on them give you the option to turn them on.
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It might be an easier path. Imagine the gas lines running to the center from each eye and the left lines meeting first in the rear/front center, then the center lines meeting those left lines, running next to them, then finally the right lines on toward the front/rear of the six lines. Then they peel off in the same pattern/order as they came in. So I am guessing they prioritzed ease of design/production over ease of use.
ETA, you could think of them as 1-6, ordered in a sideways U (proper subset) symbol. Might help.
it should be easier enough to take off a couple of the knobs and switch them to a more reasonable order
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Knobs, meh, too much work. Label-maker FTW.
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Also I’m guessing that if you bought a four-burner stove from the same manufacturer (Viking) it would still be
Rear Right
Rear Left
Front Left
Front Right
So probably not specific to 6-burner stoves although I don’t specifically know. I didn’t pick the stove out; it’s just what was here when I bought the house and it’s certainly not worth replacing.
I considered rewiring it to be the way I want, but then the labels would all be wrong, which is probably worse. So I’m leaving it. But I do turn on the wrong burner from time to time.
Posts crossed … yeah I considered this but then the labels would be wrong which would be an even bigger annoyance, so I’m not going to.
They are labeled correctly currently.
Correct in that what the knob says it controls is what it actually controls… the labels reflect the weird order. And they’re integral to the stove… not easily replaced.
If you have to explain it, @meep says it’s not a joke.
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also relevant for this thread. i am still adjusting. and it isn’t easy to find a sqare griddle to make 4 pancakes/slices of french toast that is “induction compatible”.
Getting polling robo calls on the house line and my cell. 
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What kind of polling?
I always answer polls if they’re from reputable polling organizations.
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Gubmint of Ontario provincial election happening February 27.
Call display never shows a name. I don’t have time for pollsters, real estate agents, telemarketers, scammers, etc. Answering phone calls from unidentified callers is for suckers. 
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