But the elephant in the room is that we (here in the UK) don't pay anything for consultations, hospital accommodation or treatment (over and above what we've already paid in general taxes). Nor do we have to find or negotiate with an insurance company. In fact we generally never see the bill.
According to this indicative - but fixed rate - price list, the lower end of the range for coronary angioplasty in the UK is £8800, which is about $14,000 so it's certainly in the same ball park as your bill for heat stroke.
And you are willing to pay extra taxes to subsidize your less lucky peers ? A nationwide problem is your problem too. Ah, I forget, you happily admit to gloating. Sorry, what was the national deficit again ?
No the problem's not delivery, that's well understood. The problems's relationships with suppliers, which for groceries is essentially farmers.
In the UK, as several people have mentioned, all the big supermarkets do home delivery. And they all have close supplier relationships. To keep prices down they prefer to deal directly. See for example http://www.tescofarming.com/
There might be space for another one, but the competition's fierce - here's a selection of major chains which already have fully debugged delivery chains:
http://www.tesco.com/grocerieshttp://groceries.asda.com/http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/grocerieshttp://www.ocado.com/webshop
(Note that Asda is owned by WalMart and that WalMart and Tesco are the first and second most profitable retailers in the *world* measured by profits.)
But the story, if you chose to read it, would tell you that the research was conducted by a British university and the devices they monitored were in fact lifts.
And to be pedantic, American is the regional dialect.
I think you may be missing the point. Suicide is legal in the UK; assisting suicide is not, for the fairly obvious reason that a murderous relative could claim that 'they asked me to do it.' The police choose not to prosecute on occasion and that is a subtlety some people dislike. They would like to know exactly when it's okay to help somebody to die. As it stands the police and the courts will always ask questions; there is no exact formula for 'assisting' being legal. Generally though a doctor will increase the opiates as they are more and more tolerated, until they reach a lethal dose. It's possibly unfortunate that the people demanding clarity are destroying flexibility.
He also, apparently, thinks that I could be held criminally and civilly liable for revealing this information. So, this entire post is just my way of saying, "Hey, go fuck yourself" to that judge.
Uncompressed 4k film comes out at more than a gigabyte per second. It takes a fair amount of hardware (e.g. striping across 128 disks) to process (e.g. cross-fade between, in software) multiple 4k streams on the fly, but it can be done. See e.g. BaseLight used for film finishing. It has its own CentOS-derived Linux distribution, primarily for its xfs support.
But that's like a car rental company saying you have unlimited mileage and then saying you can't go at more than fifteen miles per hour. The distance you can travel is very clearly being limited by them and not by the car's capabilities or by legal speed limits.
Towards the end of the accompanying license file, you'll find...
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE ARX FATALIS GPL SOURCE CODE.
While GPL3 authorises some flavours of additional term, these ones contain spelling errors - DAMAEGS, LIABLITY - which suggest they really haven't spent much time on this.
TFA was originally published on a UK website, so this is British English speaking. 'kit' in this context means 'equipment'.
EMC presumably refers to www.emc.com; and BL trading would be www.bltrading.com
Here's the (draft) - final report - which explains the rationale behind the conversation test they used.
They echo your point - "There may be some concern that the phone conversations in this study were harder than typical in-car conversations. The material was difficult and the conversations, although not continuous, lasted for the duration of the test drive."
Read the report for the follow-up 'however...'.
Regardless of whether you consider this a valid test, they fairly convincingly show that for certain mobile phone tasks, a test subject's driving performance - albeit in a simulator - is worse that when the same driver is over the legal alcohol limit (0.08% in the UK).
In real life, the majority of people WILL stop talking if they need to concentrate for a busy intersection / dangerous road and if there's an "OH SHIT!" situation, they won't keep holding the phone, they'll drop the phone and grab the wheel (or wheel and shifter for those of us who drive real cars) with both hands to take whatever measures are necessary.
Citation needed.
And even if what you state were true, there would still be a minority of people who simply wouldn't see the intersection because they were using their phone.
"driving behaviour is impaired more by using a mobile phone than by being over the legal alcohol limit"
The referenced footnote describes how the research was performed. The drivers were in a real car in a simulated environment so presumably they too had an opportunity to drop the phone.
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But the elephant in the room is that we (here in the UK) don't pay anything for consultations, hospital accommodation or treatment (over and above what we've already paid in general taxes). Nor do we have to find or negotiate with an insurance company. In fact we generally never see the bill.
According to this indicative - but fixed rate - price list, the lower end of the range for coronary angioplasty in the UK is £8800, which is about $14,000 so it's certainly in the same ball park as your bill for heat stroke.
But anybody else is fair game ?
The universe hiding its secrets again...
When there are jobs.
> I am not saying I am better than anybody else Yes you are.
No, it's the American economy. Obama might represent it, but he didn't design it.
And you are willing to pay extra taxes to subsidize your less lucky peers ? A nationwide problem is your problem too. Ah, I forget, you happily admit to gloating. Sorry, what was the national deficit again ?
Waiting for a case where the wife or significant other finds the device and disabled it, then the car is stolen.
Roundabouts are not rotaries or traffic circles. As the story says, 'the first *British style* roundabout appeared in the US in 1990.
No the problem's not delivery, that's well understood. The problems's relationships with suppliers, which for groceries is essentially farmers. In the UK, as several people have mentioned, all the big supermarkets do home delivery. And they all have close supplier relationships. To keep prices down they prefer to deal directly. See for example http://www.tescofarming.com/ There might be space for another one, but the competition's fierce - here's a selection of major chains which already have fully debugged delivery chains: http://www.tesco.com/groceries http://groceries.asda.com/ http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries http://www.ocado.com/webshop (Note that Asda is owned by WalMart and that WalMart and Tesco are the first and second most profitable retailers in the *world* measured by profits.)
But the story, if you chose to read it, would tell you that the research was conducted by a British university and the devices they monitored were in fact lifts. And to be pedantic, American is the regional dialect.
I think you may be missing the point. Suicide is legal in the UK; assisting suicide is not, for the fairly obvious reason that a murderous relative could claim that 'they asked me to do it.' The police choose not to prosecute on occasion and that is a subtlety some people dislike. They would like to know exactly when it's okay to help somebody to die. As it stands the police and the courts will always ask questions; there is no exact formula for 'assisting' being legal. Generally though a doctor will increase the opiates as they are more and more tolerated, until they reach a lethal dose. It's possibly unfortunate that the people demanding clarity are destroying flexibility.
He also, apparently, thinks that I could be held criminally and civilly liable for revealing this information. So, this entire post is just my way of saying, "Hey, go fuck yourself" to that judge.
So why did you post anonymously ?
Disclaimer - I work for FilmLight.
No, it's a measure of energy absorbed - Joules per kilogram
http://www.sizes.com/units/sievert.htm
But that's like a car rental company saying you have unlimited mileage and then saying you can't go at more than fifteen miles per hour. The distance you can travel is very clearly being limited by them and not by the car's capabilities or by legal speed limits.
The light has been travelling for 14 billion years. But it might have got half way in the first nanosecond.
313 (miles per Imperial gallon) = 110.8 kilometers per litre (says Google). So 0.90 litres for 100 km. That's quite a lot less than a litre.
why, for the love of god, the European standard for fuel economy is liters/100km?
Because it's a measure of fuel consumption.
Towards the end of the accompanying license file, you'll find...
END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS
ADDITIONAL TERMS APPLICABLE TO THE ARX FATALIS GPL SOURCE CODE.
While GPL3 authorises some flavours of additional term, these ones contain spelling errors - DAMAEGS, LIABLITY - which suggest they really haven't spent much time on this.
Here's a link to the same story in American
TFA was originally published on a UK website, so this is British English speaking. 'kit' in this context means 'equipment'. EMC presumably refers to www.emc.com; and BL trading would be www.bltrading.com
Here's the (draft) - final report - which explains the rationale behind the conversation test they used.
They echo your point - "There may be some concern that the phone conversations in this study were harder than typical in-car conversations. The material was difficult and the conversations, although not continuous, lasted for the duration of the test drive."
Read the report for the follow-up 'however...'.
Regardless of whether you consider this a valid test, they fairly convincingly show that for certain mobile phone tasks, a test subject's driving performance - albeit in a simulator - is worse that when the same driver is over the legal alcohol limit (0.08% in the UK).
Citation needed.
And even if what you state were true, there would still be a minority of people who simply wouldn't see the intersection because they were using their phone.
See this UK car insurance company's take on the problem:
"driving behaviour is impaired more by using a mobile phone than by being over the legal alcohol limit"
The referenced footnote describes how the research was performed. The drivers were in a real car in a simulated environment so presumably they too had an opportunity to drop the phone.