Maybe T-Mobile and Sprint work where you are, but there's a reason they are cheaper. If you want coverage almost everywhere in the US, you can get Verizon or AT&T (preferably one of each; this is why my wife and I are on separate accounts). There's approximately zero chance that I would switch to a provider with bad coverage just so I could keep getting worthless notifications from a kid's school.
The businesses don't allow it. The city does, because businesses need customers, and the city wants to have businesses. Maybe the city should set aside one parking spot per intersection for these things, but expect a payment from the scooter company for the loss of parking available to other citizens. Seems like a reasonable compromise.
This would be true in a parliamentary system, but the President isn’t elected by Congress, and may very well (as here) be actively disliked by a large fraction or even a majority of his own party. Even if he is well-liked, they may not go along with his ideas, because they are jealous of their own power. Look at LBJ - got a lot of his stuff through, no doubt due to his experience in the Senate, but was so far in the hole when 1968 rolled around that he didn’t even run despite being eligible.
It is entirely legal to do so. You can even buy semi-finished kits that only require you to do some drilling in order to manufacture an AR-15 lower receiver (the one part that legally makes it a firearm) yourself. The other parts are available without a federal firearms license (FFL). You can’t sell it, but you can use it.
Because you can make good money? A large number of people rent out their houses in Augusta, GA, during the Masters golf tournament. They take a vacation somewhere else, fully financed by the renters, and they don’t have to deal with traffic and crowding. Of course, those are mostly middle-aged golf fans, not 20-somethings, so you wouldn’t expect much worse than some spilled whisky.
For smaller packages, they have drop boxes everywhere that work very much like a regular postal service drop box. You find them in office complexes, usually. Prepaid label and done. As for delivery, a surprising amount comes through the US Postal Service, because they are already going to most houses most days. It’s cheaper to leverage their infrastructure.
When was that? The Hearst era of “you provide the pictures, I’ll provide the war”? Or perhaps the venerable NYT and Walter Duranty’s whitewash of the Soviet Union? No, journalism has always been shoddy, because it has always been about selling ads. Truth was merely a coincidental byproduct, if it emerged.
People don’t know how to cook, and they aren’t willing to learn. So fake, ultra-processed “food” is what they get. Take a look at/r/cooking on Reddit some time, and notice how many people say something like “I am 22, living alone, and I have no idea how to cook, plz halp”. Those are the motivated ones.
Human surgery is more expensive for a wide variety of reasons. A simple example: you have to have anesthesia machines serviced with new parts for human use. For vet use, you can buy several old ones and cannibalize them for parts as needed. Or sterilization: if your hospital or surgery center takes Medicare/Medicaid, you have to be accredited by The Joint Commission. One of their requirements (based not at all on any research) is that you can’t sterilize instruments in an autoclave located in or near the operating room; they have to be sent to a central sterilization facility and processed there.
That seems dumb. Toyota/Lexus will not allow you to lock the car from the outside with the key fob inside if the battery in it is still working, and it doesn't auto-lock until you're in gear.
The US Postal Service is explicitly authorized in the Constitution as a federal service; interfering with it does not need an "interstate commerce" nexus in order to qualify as a federal crime.
That's... strange. One would think that railroad ties alone would be adequate to deter such behavior. Unless you buried them, it's hardly a booby trap - it's a clearly visible hazard. Like those Severe Tire Damage things.
We played it over IP network on some of the chemistry department’s SGI workstations. SGIXDOOM upgraded by pulling the full version WAD file off one of our PCs.
The history alone is perfectly adequate for the diagnosis. His father is a physician, and I was in medical school at the time. Neither of us had any question about what happened, and there would not necessarily be any premonitory symptoms - cf. Len Bias.
The reason that Americans are so anti-union is that US labor law sucks. US unions are political machines, not practical means for workers to improve their lives.
Maybe in your jurisdiction. Not in mine. Laws vary by state. There was nothing suspicious about his death; he was in publc, his pregnant wife was next to him, and the most likely cause of death was Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
No, they are not. Autopsies are done when the family or the coroner requests one. I had a high school friend drop dead at the age of 24. He was not autopsied. His death was not mysterious or suspicious; he had a previously-unknown heart arrhythmia that manifested itself. He wasn’t doing anything unusual at the time. He was just unlucky.
Probably. In the US, Global Entry will get you close (it includes TSA PreCheck, a huge benefit for domestic travel). If your airport has Clear, that will get you even closer. My airport is tiny, and although flying is expensive, the security is easy and fast. Especially with PreCheck.
Lots of modern cars have fobs that don't have to be pulled out of a pocket or purse. I can walk up to my car, and as long as the fob is very close (in my case, about a foot), putting your hand inside the door handle will unlock the car. It definitely recognizes which side of the car it's on, and might even recognize which door (haven't tried). If you use this technique on the driver's door, it will only unlock that door. Any other door, it opens all four. Then it's a normal push-to-start fob. That's a 2009 Lexus, so the tech has been around a while.
40 miles outside of a major metro, as specified by parent, is not going to have bumper-to-bumper traffic. That's not to say that a car-centric lifestyle is for everyone, but it does give you a great deal of flexibility.
At an academic hospital that trains residents, pagers are quite common as the frequent personnel rotations make it a lot harder to keep good phone lists, and the wide variety of origins (and thus area codes) means that hospital lines limited to local calls only won't be able to reach them. You can hand off a pager, so that there's only one number to remember when you need the anesthesiologist on call, or a respiratory therapist who's actually in the hospital.
In a private hospital, you'll still see some handed-off pagers (like that respiratory therapist), but the doctors won't carry them; they'll all be reached by phone. ER doctors basically never carried them; if they're on-duty, they have to be in the ER (unless it's a quick run to the cafeteria or doctor's lounge for a snack), and they don't really take call - they have to have someone in house 24/7. Where I trained, the ER doctors' pagers were mostly used among themselves to send text jokes to each other (we had alphanumeric paging with a web interface).
The real advantage of pagers was, as others have noted, that they would last a month or two on a single AA battery, and that they had excellent penetration of walls (and the ability for the hospital to install repeater equipment fairly inexpensively). If you were a big enough client, they would allow you to program your own - so if someone accidentally dropped their pager in a toilet, the telecom people at the hospital could immediately reconfigure a new one to the same number. It took until WiFi Calling became prevalent for there to be a decent alternative when you're in the bowels of the hospital.
So why would she want to get an expensive satellite TV option when she can do anything over a fairly decent wireless internet connection?
She wouldn't, but there are an awful lot of parts of the country where wireless is minimal or absent, and satellite is pretty much it. Not very many people in them, of course, but services like this have been a huge boon to RV'ers and hunting camps across the country. They will be sorely missed.
He was one of two fentanyl-using anesthesiologists I've known. The other used it to soak gauze pads and then stuck them between cheek and gum, like he was dipping tobacco. Certainly an easier solution, and it results in slower absorption.
The guy in this story eventually relapsed and lost his DEA license. He ended up getting a job overseeing the preop nurses that get the basic history and evaluations on patients coming in for surgery at a big university hospital - that way, he can still kind-of practice anesthesia, but no exposure to his demon.
Fentanyl is a terrible substance. It has its uses, but they are very limited. It's an extremely short-acting drug, so it doesn't provide good long-term pain relief unless used in a patch, in which case why not use extended-release morphine? It's really good for the induction of anesthesia, because it blunts the painful process of being intubated but doesn't last so long that it keeps you from breathing at the end of the case. Other than that, I don't use it on my patients, and I'm an anesthesiologist.
Dilution isn't a bad idea, and it's what we do - hospital fentanyl comes in 50 mcg/mL, so for one gram of solution you have 50 mcg of agent. 0.005%. Easy to fuck it up, or make it uneven. Even if you recrystallize it yourself to get clean product... it's risky as hell. I'd pump myself full of naloxone (opioid antagonist) before I'd even consider working with the powdered drug unless it was in a fully sealed drybox or similar.
I knew one guy who used to shoot fentanyl - the hospital-grade, known-strength stuff. He'd start an IV on himself. He'd then squirt a vial of naloxone into a small bag of saline, and hook that up to the IV. Then he would pinch it off and shoot up. If he passed out, the naloxone would start flowing, and he'd come back to life... that's roughly the level of precaution required when you know exactly what you're getting.
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Maybe T-Mobile and Sprint work where you are, but there's a reason they are cheaper. If you want coverage almost everywhere in the US, you can get Verizon or AT&T (preferably one of each; this is why my wife and I are on separate accounts). There's approximately zero chance that I would switch to a provider with bad coverage just so I could keep getting worthless notifications from a kid's school.
The businesses don't allow it. The city does, because businesses need customers, and the city wants to have businesses. Maybe the city should set aside one parking spot per intersection for these things, but expect a payment from the scooter company for the loss of parking available to other citizens. Seems like a reasonable compromise.
This would be true in a parliamentary system, but the President isn’t elected by Congress, and may very well (as here) be actively disliked by a large fraction or even a majority of his own party. Even if he is well-liked, they may not go along with his ideas, because they are jealous of their own power. Look at LBJ - got a lot of his stuff through, no doubt due to his experience in the Senate, but was so far in the hole when 1968 rolled around that he didn’t even run despite being eligible.
It is entirely legal to do so. You can even buy semi-finished kits that only require you to do some drilling in order to manufacture an AR-15 lower receiver (the one part that legally makes it a firearm) yourself. The other parts are available without a federal firearms license (FFL). You can’t sell it, but you can use it.
Because you can make good money? A large number of people rent out their houses in Augusta, GA, during the Masters golf tournament. They take a vacation somewhere else, fully financed by the renters, and they don’t have to deal with traffic and crowding. Of course, those are mostly middle-aged golf fans, not 20-somethings, so you wouldn’t expect much worse than some spilled whisky.
For smaller packages, they have drop boxes everywhere that work very much like a regular postal service drop box. You find them in office complexes, usually. Prepaid label and done. As for delivery, a surprising amount comes through the US Postal Service, because they are already going to most houses most days. It’s cheaper to leverage their infrastructure.
When was that? The Hearst era of “you provide the pictures, I’ll provide the war”? Or perhaps the venerable NYT and Walter Duranty’s whitewash of the Soviet Union? No, journalism has always been shoddy, because it has always been about selling ads. Truth was merely a coincidental byproduct, if it emerged.
People don’t know how to cook, and they aren’t willing to learn. So fake, ultra-processed “food” is what they get. Take a look at /r/cooking on Reddit some time, and notice how many people say something like “I am 22, living alone, and I have no idea how to cook, plz halp”. Those are the motivated ones.
Human surgery is more expensive for a wide variety of reasons. A simple example: you have to have anesthesia machines serviced with new parts for human use. For vet use, you can buy several old ones and cannibalize them for parts as needed. Or sterilization: if your hospital or surgery center takes Medicare/Medicaid, you have to be accredited by The Joint Commission. One of their requirements (based not at all on any research) is that you can’t sterilize instruments in an autoclave located in or near the operating room; they have to be sent to a central sterilization facility and processed there.
That seems dumb. Toyota/Lexus will not allow you to lock the car from the outside with the key fob inside if the battery in it is still working, and it doesn't auto-lock until you're in gear.
The US Postal Service is explicitly authorized in the Constitution as a federal service; interfering with it does not need an "interstate commerce" nexus in order to qualify as a federal crime.
That's... strange. One would think that railroad ties alone would be adequate to deter such behavior. Unless you buried them, it's hardly a booby trap - it's a clearly visible hazard. Like those Severe Tire Damage things.
We played it over IP network on some of the chemistry department’s SGI workstations. SGIXDOOM upgraded by pulling the full version WAD file off one of our PCs.
Out of curiosity, where has this locals-only thing been implemented? I know it’s in effect in Holy Island/Lindisfarne, but that’s it.
The history alone is perfectly adequate for the diagnosis. His father is a physician, and I was in medical school at the time. Neither of us had any question about what happened, and there would not necessarily be any premonitory symptoms - cf. Len Bias.
The reason that Americans are so anti-union is that US labor law sucks. US unions are political machines, not practical means for workers to improve their lives.
Maybe in your jurisdiction. Not in mine. Laws vary by state. There was nothing suspicious about his death; he was in publc, his pregnant wife was next to him, and the most likely cause of death was Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
No, they are not. Autopsies are done when the family or the coroner requests one. I had a high school friend drop dead at the age of 24. He was not autopsied. His death was not mysterious or suspicious; he had a previously-unknown heart arrhythmia that manifested itself. He wasn’t doing anything unusual at the time. He was just unlucky.
Probably. In the US, Global Entry will get you close (it includes TSA PreCheck, a huge benefit for domestic travel). If your airport has Clear, that will get you even closer. My airport is tiny, and although flying is expensive, the security is easy and fast. Especially with PreCheck.
Lots of modern cars have fobs that don't have to be pulled out of a pocket or purse. I can walk up to my car, and as long as the fob is very close (in my case, about a foot), putting your hand inside the door handle will unlock the car. It definitely recognizes which side of the car it's on, and might even recognize which door (haven't tried). If you use this technique on the driver's door, it will only unlock that door. Any other door, it opens all four. Then it's a normal push-to-start fob. That's a 2009 Lexus, so the tech has been around a while.
40 miles outside of a major metro, as specified by parent, is not going to have bumper-to-bumper traffic. That's not to say that a car-centric lifestyle is for everyone, but it does give you a great deal of flexibility.
Hospitals are variable.
At an academic hospital that trains residents, pagers are quite common as the frequent personnel rotations make it a lot harder to keep good phone lists, and the wide variety of origins (and thus area codes) means that hospital lines limited to local calls only won't be able to reach them. You can hand off a pager, so that there's only one number to remember when you need the anesthesiologist on call, or a respiratory therapist who's actually in the hospital.
In a private hospital, you'll still see some handed-off pagers (like that respiratory therapist), but the doctors won't carry them; they'll all be reached by phone. ER doctors basically never carried them; if they're on-duty, they have to be in the ER (unless it's a quick run to the cafeteria or doctor's lounge for a snack), and they don't really take call - they have to have someone in house 24/7. Where I trained, the ER doctors' pagers were mostly used among themselves to send text jokes to each other (we had alphanumeric paging with a web interface).
The real advantage of pagers was, as others have noted, that they would last a month or two on a single AA battery, and that they had excellent penetration of walls (and the ability for the hospital to install repeater equipment fairly inexpensively). If you were a big enough client, they would allow you to program your own - so if someone accidentally dropped their pager in a toilet, the telecom people at the hospital could immediately reconfigure a new one to the same number. It took until WiFi Calling became prevalent for there to be a decent alternative when you're in the bowels of the hospital.
So why would she want to get an expensive satellite TV option when she can do anything over a fairly decent wireless internet connection?
She wouldn't, but there are an awful lot of parts of the country where wireless is minimal or absent, and satellite is pretty much it. Not very many people in them, of course, but services like this have been a huge boon to RV'ers and hunting camps across the country. They will be sorely missed.
He was one of two fentanyl-using anesthesiologists I've known. The other used it to soak gauze pads and then stuck them between cheek and gum, like he was dipping tobacco. Certainly an easier solution, and it results in slower absorption.
The guy in this story eventually relapsed and lost his DEA license. He ended up getting a job overseeing the preop nurses that get the basic history and evaluations on patients coming in for surgery at a big university hospital - that way, he can still kind-of practice anesthesia, but no exposure to his demon.
Fentanyl is a terrible substance. It has its uses, but they are very limited. It's an extremely short-acting drug, so it doesn't provide good long-term pain relief unless used in a patch, in which case why not use extended-release morphine? It's really good for the induction of anesthesia, because it blunts the painful process of being intubated but doesn't last so long that it keeps you from breathing at the end of the case. Other than that, I don't use it on my patients, and I'm an anesthesiologist.
Dilution isn't a bad idea, and it's what we do - hospital fentanyl comes in 50 mcg/mL, so for one gram of solution you have 50 mcg of agent. 0.005%. Easy to fuck it up, or make it uneven. Even if you recrystallize it yourself to get clean product... it's risky as hell. I'd pump myself full of naloxone (opioid antagonist) before I'd even consider working with the powdered drug unless it was in a fully sealed drybox or similar.
I knew one guy who used to shoot fentanyl - the hospital-grade, known-strength stuff. He'd start an IV on himself. He'd then squirt a vial of naloxone into a small bag of saline, and hook that up to the IV. Then he would pinch it off and shoot up. If he passed out, the naloxone would start flowing, and he'd come back to life... that's roughly the level of precaution required when you know exactly what you're getting.