We live in a convenience obsessed world where people expect to get what they want immediately.
The alternative is a technology-fueled, convenience-charged world of overmarketed, indulge-now-take-a-vitamin-pill-later foodlike products, each less healthy than the next.
Liberia's ship registry, which sells "flags of convenience" to the world's maritime fleets and has long been a major source of the country's revenue, was and still is administered by Americans.
"One of the new futures of e-commerce is no longer just convenience and the world's largest warehouses, but of telling a story," he says.
Plus, urinal-side delivery pretty much tops the list in terms of my top 5 needs for real-world convenience features.
And here's the upside: America wouldn't have to pretend anymore that nations are anything but administrative conveniences for the world's real owners -- international corporations.
You'll find all the First World conveniences you're used to, including modern supermarkets, shopping malls and high-tech hospitals.
But, growing up under Momma's watchful eye in the American South, these orphans of convenience lived in a world that was, in Angelou's recollection, largely untroubled by social ambiguity — a world neatly divided between black and white and between women and men, which is to say, between good and evil.
The company, based in Dallas, is one of the largest operators of convenience stores in the world.
