Local politicians, assuming they even wanted things to change, can’t affect federal courts much. Fed judges are appointed for life and are not subject to local control. I suppose the local cops could harass the employees, jury members, and judges, but that’s about it.
Only if they’re guaranteed to be your problem forever. In the US, with so many people using employer-subsidized insurance, that person could be off your books in a year or two if the employer changes insurers. Boy, did you save the next company a bunch of money if you did that.
A fair point, but at the point you change your model, you have become a dollar store. And they’ve been doing it for longer than you have.
The fundamental problem is “food deserts” isn’t that fresh food is especially hard to get, or overpriced compared to what you would pay elsewhere. It’s that the cultural knowledge of “how to cook” has been lost. Beans and rice is a pretty boring diet, but it is a staple of poor cultures all over the world for a reason: the ingredients are cheap and provide almost complete nutrition by themselves. But when you don’t cook, and your parent didn’t cook, and the same is true of all your friends, that processed junk is a lot quicker, and probably tastes better, and sure does keep a long time.
There aren't many markets big enough to support A380s that aren't big enough for multiple airports. Houston, Dallas, Chicago, LA, Bay Area, NYC, South Florida, all have multiple commercial airports, and that's just in the US.
These are custom made, not mass produced, so they won't be cheap. And there's probably only one machine in the shop that can be used to make the screws. One employee, eight hour shift, two screws a minute equals 960 screws a day, so it's in the right ballpark.
Also: they do this instead of school buses, which the vast majority of American school districts have. So you don't have to equip a fleet of specially-designated buses to get children from home to school; you just give them a transit pass, and they can work it out themselves. This would never work in America; the hoops I have to jump through to pick my niece up from school - despite the fact that she comes over and gives me a hug when I show up - include being on the "allowed pickups" list (which her mom can't OK over the phone; she has to email it), and showing photo ID. There's no way in hell they would just let her leave of her own accord, although she lives no more than two miles from the school, and there are dedicated bike trails (not lanes on the road - actual dedicated trails) for 90% of that trip. No, she has to be picked up by a responsible adult on the approved list.
Screw that nonsense. When I was her age (third grade), I was riding my bike to school if the weather was clear, getting a ride from my mom if it was nasty. If I was late, she would take me, but with the expectation that I would walk home unless it was raining. And the only reason it took until third grade is that the two other kids I rode with were a year younger than me, and their parents wanted to wait until they were in second grade to start biking unsupervised to school, and my parents didn't want me totally alone.
he tapped-out his Oyster card at London’s Marylebone station, without having tapped-in
Never had an Oyster card, so please fill me in: how do you get into the station without tapping in? Every variable-fare system I've used requires you to swipe/tap/whatever your card when you get on board. Was he just hoping that the conductor from wherever in Oxfordshire to the Underground transfer station simply would never come around and ask for his ticket?
My car is parked next street... did not use it in 7 or 8 months...
That's... a terrible idea. Even if you don't want to drive, you can't just let a car sit there unused. You need to keep the battery charged, you need to make sure that oil and other fluids have a chance to circulate instead of drying out in the lines, you need to use up fuel so that condensation does not accumulate, you need to move it periodically so that it's not sitting on the exact same patch of tire. I have a spare car, and I typically take it (rather than my normal car) to work about once every other week for these very reasons. I also take it on a ride long enough to get the engine properly hot and help burn off any residue that may have accumulated within.
Of course, I live in an American city with few sidewalks and no effective public transportation (we have buses, but you don't want to ride them), so owning a car is essential, and I have plenty of space, so storing an extra vehicle isn't really a problem, but in your case: if you haven't driven it in two months, you probably should just sell it. Cheaper to rent when you truly need one.
Guess who owns a 2009 Lexus? I’ve been tempted to dig through boxes of old crap to see if.i have any tapes left. I’ve never actually used it. The six-CD changer has Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories in it, only CD I’ve ever played in there. It’s from the bastard era in which Bluetooth for phones was well-established, but for audio, not so much. Thankfully the center console has a power outlet and aux port inside, so I just plugged in a cheapo BT receiver to catch the music.
Cassettes had two things in their favor: they were small, and they were simple. Sound quality was awful, but you could carry a lot of them, and the players were pretty cheap (relatively speaking). Optical media were far superior in sound, and minidisc was absolutely amazing (though always horribly expensive). After I got my first MD recorder around 2001, I never bothered with making mix CD’s, even though it took longer to make the MD’s. Still have a few lying around, and there’s a minidisc player in my home audio system.
Highly variable in the US. In some states, renewing a tag (yearly sticker) is a major local tax source; my first tag on my current car cost roughly 3% of purchase price, though it goes down every year. And yes, that’s on top of the sales tax charged. Some states, it’s practically nothing. Some states, the tag stays with the owner; some states, the tag stays with the car; some states, you have to get a new tag for every combination of owner and car; and some states require a completely new plate every X number of years so that police can easily spot people who aren’t paying their taxes (the year stickers are quite small and not noticeable at highway speed from the roadside, but an old design sure is).
I can think of a use case: fleets. You can assign a reserved tag to a new vehicle on the fly. Company gets to know where all its cars are. This isn’t really something that an individual would ever have a use for, but if you’re Hertz, things start to look a little different.
With a driveway that appears to belong to the house next door as your only access. And it sold in four days. Does Seattle have laws like CA, where as long as one wall is left standing, it’s technically a renovation rather than new construction, and the permitting process is a lot simpler?
Keys and wallet are up front. Don't always wear a jacket, or a shirt with a pocket. Leaves you without a lot of options, and anyway, it's not like I'm tucking it in the waistband of my underwear. The trousers are clean.
The whole point of residency is that you have fully-qualified specialists telling you what to do, and when you start, they watch you like a hawk would a mouse. If you fuck up - which is pretty unlikely, given that they're watching you with a gimlet eye - they are right there to fix the problem. As you gain experience, they start letting you do more stuff by yourself. By the last year of my residency, the staff doctors handed me the main pager and told me to wake them up if someone was about to die. Otherwise, it was on me.
To answer your other question: you could put a trocar in a chicken, but their abdomens are tiny, and it wouldn't be much useful practice. Pigs might be.
Depends on where you live. I haven't reported my mileage to any government, ever, except at a vehicle sale. No inspections. If you want to dig through the records of every oil change place in town, have fun.
The taxes on electric cars are going to be a nightmare. Gasoline taxes are really, really simple, and have a direct relationship with how much you drive. They are unobtrusive (nobody needs to read your odometer), and the rates can be manipulated if efficiency goes up in order to keep the revenue stream roughly the same. Electric? I think the best idea I've heard of is taxing tires, but those are such an infrequent expense that putting 60k miles of tax on four tires is going to make them insanely expensive. At least gasoline tax is spread out over the time you use the car.
Yeah, I travel in a lot of rural areas, and there is coverage - on the interstate. Get even a few miles off that, though, and you can forget it with the low-cost carriers. VZW and ATT, despite all their nefarious fuckery, do actually cover those areas.
Here's the thing about "robotic surgery": it's actually really good for a few things, like stuff in the pelvis (prostates, complicated hysterectomies). Anywhere else in the abdomen, it doesn't offer much more than plain laparoscopy does, except cost. I work with surgeons who can have a gallbladder or appendix out laparoscopically before you could even get the robot docked to all the instruments, and it doesn't decrease the number or size of incisions.
Sure, in theory, you can do it remotely. Here's the catch: you still have to have someone on site who can put the trocars in (most surgeons will not let an assistant do this until they have worked with them extensively, as it is one of those things that you can royally fuck up if you don't know what you're doing) and close the incisions afterward. And that assumes that you actually can do the surgery laparoscopically/robotically, which is not a guaranteed thing. We end up performing open operations from time to time once we get in there and see what's going on. Bigger tumor than you thought? You're not going to be able to pull it out through a 12 mm camera port. Someone is going to have to make a bigger incision.
Oh, and I haven't even started the discussion about when things start going badly and you need to act quickly. So: if you have to have a fully-qualified surgeon on site anyway, along with these gigantic, expensive machines, why not just have them do the surgery, and skip the gigantic, expensive machine? It's a neat party trick to say you're doing it remotely, but in practice... it doesn't add much.
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Local politicians, assuming they even wanted things to change, can’t affect federal courts much. Fed judges are appointed for life and are not subject to local control. I suppose the local cops could harass the employees, jury members, and judges, but that’s about it.
Only if they’re guaranteed to be your problem forever. In the US, with so many people using employer-subsidized insurance, that person could be off your books in a year or two if the employer changes insurers. Boy, did you save the next company a bunch of money if you did that.
A fair point, but at the point you change your model, you have become a dollar store. And they’ve been doing it for longer than you have.
The fundamental problem is “food deserts” isn’t that fresh food is especially hard to get, or overpriced compared to what you would pay elsewhere. It’s that the cultural knowledge of “how to cook” has been lost. Beans and rice is a pretty boring diet, but it is a staple of poor cultures all over the world for a reason: the ingredients are cheap and provide almost complete nutrition by themselves. But when you don’t cook, and your parent didn’t cook, and the same is true of all your friends, that processed junk is a lot quicker, and probably tastes better, and sure does keep a long time.
There aren't many markets big enough to support A380s that aren't big enough for multiple airports. Houston, Dallas, Chicago, LA, Bay Area, NYC, South Florida, all have multiple commercial airports, and that's just in the US.
These are custom made, not mass produced, so they won't be cheap. And there's probably only one machine in the shop that can be used to make the screws. One employee, eight hour shift, two screws a minute equals 960 screws a day, so it's in the right ballpark.
I’ve been here almost that long, though my UID doesn’t reflect that. It’s turned into a less-entertaining version of 4chan lately.
Also: they do this instead of school buses, which the vast majority of American school districts have. So you don't have to equip a fleet of specially-designated buses to get children from home to school; you just give them a transit pass, and they can work it out themselves. This would never work in America; the hoops I have to jump through to pick my niece up from school - despite the fact that she comes over and gives me a hug when I show up - include being on the "allowed pickups" list (which her mom can't OK over the phone; she has to email it), and showing photo ID. There's no way in hell they would just let her leave of her own accord, although she lives no more than two miles from the school, and there are dedicated bike trails (not lanes on the road - actual dedicated trails) for 90% of that trip. No, she has to be picked up by a responsible adult on the approved list.
Screw that nonsense. When I was her age (third grade), I was riding my bike to school if the weather was clear, getting a ride from my mom if it was nasty. If I was late, she would take me, but with the expectation that I would walk home unless it was raining. And the only reason it took until third grade is that the two other kids I rode with were a year younger than me, and their parents wanted to wait until they were in second grade to start biking unsupervised to school, and my parents didn't want me totally alone.
he tapped-out his Oyster card at London’s Marylebone station, without having tapped-in
Never had an Oyster card, so please fill me in: how do you get into the station without tapping in? Every variable-fare system I've used requires you to swipe/tap/whatever your card when you get on board. Was he just hoping that the conductor from wherever in Oxfordshire to the Underground transfer station simply would never come around and ask for his ticket?
That's price, not cost.
My car is parked next street ... did not use it in 7 or 8 months ...
That's... a terrible idea. Even if you don't want to drive, you can't just let a car sit there unused. You need to keep the battery charged, you need to make sure that oil and other fluids have a chance to circulate instead of drying out in the lines, you need to use up fuel so that condensation does not accumulate, you need to move it periodically so that it's not sitting on the exact same patch of tire. I have a spare car, and I typically take it (rather than my normal car) to work about once every other week for these very reasons. I also take it on a ride long enough to get the engine properly hot and help burn off any residue that may have accumulated within.
Of course, I live in an American city with few sidewalks and no effective public transportation (we have buses, but you don't want to ride them), so owning a car is essential, and I have plenty of space, so storing an extra vehicle isn't really a problem, but in your case: if you haven't driven it in two months, you probably should just sell it. Cheaper to rent when you truly need one.
By the company, not by the government, at least not officially.
Guess who owns a 2009 Lexus? I’ve been tempted to dig through boxes of old crap to see if .i have any tapes left. I’ve never actually used it. The six-CD changer has Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories in it, only CD I’ve ever played in there. It’s from the bastard era in which Bluetooth for phones was well-established, but for audio, not so much. Thankfully the center console has a power outlet and aux port inside, so I just plugged in a cheapo BT receiver to catch the music.
I know it’s a joke and all, but IIRC Lexus included cassette players until the 2010 model year.
Cassettes had two things in their favor: they were small, and they were simple. Sound quality was awful, but you could carry a lot of them, and the players were pretty cheap (relatively speaking). Optical media were far superior in sound, and minidisc was absolutely amazing (though always horribly expensive). After I got my first MD recorder around 2001, I never bothered with making mix CD’s, even though it took longer to make the MD’s. Still have a few lying around, and there’s a minidisc player in my home audio system.
Highly variable in the US. In some states, renewing a tag (yearly sticker) is a major local tax source; my first tag on my current car cost roughly 3% of purchase price, though it goes down every year. And yes, that’s on top of the sales tax charged. Some states, it’s practically nothing. Some states, the tag stays with the owner; some states, the tag stays with the car; some states, you have to get a new tag for every combination of owner and car; and some states require a completely new plate every X number of years so that police can easily spot people who aren’t paying their taxes (the year stickers are quite small and not noticeable at highway speed from the roadside, but an old design sure is).
I can think of a use case: fleets. You can assign a reserved tag to a new vehicle on the fly. Company gets to know where all its cars are. This isn’t really something that an individual would ever have a use for, but if you’re Hertz, things start to look a little different.
With a driveway that appears to belong to the house next door as your only access. And it sold in four days. Does Seattle have laws like CA, where as long as one wall is left standing, it’s technically a renovation rather than new construction, and the permitting process is a lot simpler?
Keys and wallet are up front. Don't always wear a jacket, or a shirt with a pocket. Leaves you without a lot of options, and anyway, it's not like I'm tucking it in the waistband of my underwear. The trousers are clean.
The whole point of residency is that you have fully-qualified specialists telling you what to do, and when you start, they watch you like a hawk would a mouse. If you fuck up - which is pretty unlikely, given that they're watching you with a gimlet eye - they are right there to fix the problem. As you gain experience, they start letting you do more stuff by yourself. By the last year of my residency, the staff doctors handed me the main pager and told me to wake them up if someone was about to die. Otherwise, it was on me.
To answer your other question: you could put a trocar in a chicken, but their abdomens are tiny, and it wouldn't be much useful practice. Pigs might be.
Depends on where you live. I haven't reported my mileage to any government, ever, except at a vehicle sale. No inspections. If you want to dig through the records of every oil change place in town, have fun.
Tires are pretty predictable in terms of lifespan. There are exceptions, as you note, but the government DGAF about that, so eat it, sucker.
Unlike pay-per-mile, it doesn't involve massive invasions of what little privacy we have left.
Better than a random surgical tech who's being advised over a mobile link, that's for sure.
The taxes on electric cars are going to be a nightmare. Gasoline taxes are really, really simple, and have a direct relationship with how much you drive. They are unobtrusive (nobody needs to read your odometer), and the rates can be manipulated if efficiency goes up in order to keep the revenue stream roughly the same. Electric? I think the best idea I've heard of is taxing tires, but those are such an infrequent expense that putting 60k miles of tax on four tires is going to make them insanely expensive. At least gasoline tax is spread out over the time you use the car.
Yeah, I travel in a lot of rural areas, and there is coverage - on the interstate. Get even a few miles off that, though, and you can forget it with the low-cost carriers. VZW and ATT, despite all their nefarious fuckery, do actually cover those areas.
Here's the thing about "robotic surgery": it's actually really good for a few things, like stuff in the pelvis (prostates, complicated hysterectomies). Anywhere else in the abdomen, it doesn't offer much more than plain laparoscopy does, except cost. I work with surgeons who can have a gallbladder or appendix out laparoscopically before you could even get the robot docked to all the instruments, and it doesn't decrease the number or size of incisions.
Sure, in theory, you can do it remotely. Here's the catch: you still have to have someone on site who can put the trocars in (most surgeons will not let an assistant do this until they have worked with them extensively, as it is one of those things that you can royally fuck up if you don't know what you're doing) and close the incisions afterward. And that assumes that you actually can do the surgery laparoscopically/robotically, which is not a guaranteed thing. We end up performing open operations from time to time once we get in there and see what's going on. Bigger tumor than you thought? You're not going to be able to pull it out through a 12 mm camera port. Someone is going to have to make a bigger incision.
Oh, and I haven't even started the discussion about when things start going badly and you need to act quickly. So: if you have to have a fully-qualified surgeon on site anyway, along with these gigantic, expensive machines, why not just have them do the surgery, and skip the gigantic, expensive machine? It's a neat party trick to say you're doing it remotely, but in practice... it doesn't add much.