Platinum Guarantee - Walked from Hotel & Unable to Get New Booking - Slept in Car
Aug 20, 2018, 5:19 am
#196
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If dude is doing month-long stays in the Bay Area as one of his earlier posts indicated, he probably realized at some point that his time is worth more than arguing about this. Hopefully he got some comp, which he deserves, but if it's going to take hours and hours of fighting an uphill battle, sometimes just not worth it.
Aug 28, 2018, 10:03 am
#197
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Doesn't everyone learn this is school?
Aug 28, 2018, 10:27 am
#198
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I'm not convinced by the statement about Massachusetts. My guess is that, if we think of the state as roughly a rectangle, it's much more than 60 miles from north to south (maybe a hundred miles?) and at least several times that from east to west. So if I rearrange some little rectangles, it looks to me like an inscribed circle, which should of course have less area than the square containing it. This is without using pencil and paper or looking up distances, so my estimates might be wrong.
Another way of thinking about the area is that if we put the center in San Francisco, 60 miles takes us close to Sacramento and we would get a circle that's roughly half under water since SF is on the coast, again by moving some little pieces of "pie" around since the coastline isn't a straight line from north to south in the Bay Area--although we shouldn't forget that the bay itself is under water too.
Another way of thinking about the area is that if we put the center in San Francisco, 60 miles takes us close to Sacramento and we would get a circle that's roughly half under water since SF is on the coast, again by moving some little pieces of "pie" around since the coastline isn't a straight line from north to south in the Bay Area--although we shouldn't forget that the bay itself is under water too.
Aug 28, 2018, 10:33 am
#199
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I did this once when traveling with my family as a kid; I thought it was fun and my parents were relieved to just have some clean and safe place to spend the night. It was the source of family stories for years.
Aug 28, 2018, 10:44 am
#200
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I'm not convinced by the statement about Massachusetts. My guess is that, if we think of the state as roughly a rectangle, it's much more than 60 miles from north to south (maybe a hundred miles?) and at least several times that from east to west. So if I rearrange some little rectangles, it looks to me like an inscribed circle, which should of course have less area than the square containing it. This is without using pencil and paper or looking up distances, so my estimates might be wrong.
Another way of thinking about the area is that if we put the center in San Francisco, 60 miles takes us close to Sacramento and we would get a circle that's roughly half under water since SF is on the coast, again by moving some little pieces of "pie" around since the coastline isn't a straight line from north to south in the Bay Area--although we shouldn't forget that the bay itself is under water too.
Another way of thinking about the area is that if we put the center in San Francisco, 60 miles takes us close to Sacramento and we would get a circle that's roughly half under water since SF is on the coast, again by moving some little pieces of "pie" around since the coastline isn't a straight line from north to south in the Bay Area--although we shouldn't forget that the bay itself is under water too.
Aug 28, 2018, 10:57 am
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OK, way off. It's a half circle that fits in the rectangle, with just a bit of room to spare.
Nov 8, 2018, 2:54 pm
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I believe you miss read what I stated, MI will make it right even though they'll hold the hotel accountable - seems to fit with the case you quoted