I had an ECG test done as part of a routine annual checkup last week. It took a student doing an internship about three minutes, and would have taken less except that they did two runs because I have an unusual heart condition. Now, I don't know how much the device cost (I would guess on the order of 10kEUR), but I'm sure that it gets amortised over a lot of patients, and the cost of the intern's time would be far less than a cup of coffee.
Firstly, I think you might be using an overly narrow definition of "public transportation". The private sector runs air and long-distance bus transport in much of the world without subsidies.
Secondly, an urban bus system must surely be profitable at peak usage when it's standing room only. Urban bus subsidies are about ensuring that busses still run at off-peak times of day.
And thirdly, even restricting to urban rail, Hong Kong's metro is an interesting exception which makes money through a rail plus property model.
But if your 5 minute drive became 9 minutes because you spent 4 minutes not moving, you might start to get impatient. TFS says 33 hours in traffic jams, not 33 hours in the car.
Most of your post was informative and interesting, so thank you for that. But I disagree with the conclusion in the last paragraph. I learnt the hard way about 15 years ago that if you refuse to take strong enough painkillers for chronic pain the result is nerve sensitisation which means that the pain can continue for months after the root cause has healed. I'm currently being treated for a different chronic pain, and because of my previous experience I didn't hesitate when my doctor prescribed tramadol. However, I'm being disciplined in my use of it. When she tried lowering the dosage and the pain in the part of the day which wasn't covered began to be a real problem I asked permission before going back to the initial dosage. An earlier Guardian article about the opioid epidemic implies that part of the problem is people self-medicating an increased dosage.
Addiction is indeed a curse, but so is chronic pain. I think the correct conclusion should be to discuss changes in dosage with your doctor first, and if you experience symptoms of dependency when ending the treatment then go back to the doctor and ask about weaning off rather than going to the dark web.
They've had that for ages, although it's about 3 seconds rather than 6. And some advertisers ( Apple comes to mind) apparently pay more to disable the skip altogether. As if there weren't enough reasons to hate Apple already.
It's not a very useful measurement. Is that two tablespoons of ground beans, instant granules, espresso, or the milk and ice with about 1ppm of actual coffee which places like Starbucks sell?
If someone refuses informal requests to appear before a select committee of the House of Commons with the power to send for persons, papers and records then they can formally summon him. Failure to appear when summoned would make him liable to be declared in contempt of Parliament. In theory, Parliament has the power to imprison those it finds in contempt, which would mean that Zuckerberg would probably want to avoid entering the UK. In practice, I think it would be unprecedented for the committee to issue a formal summons to a non-citizen non-resident. If you want a longer discussion, I found a Commons briefing document from 2016.
That's not quite correct. The only countries which have to legislate together on the succession are the 16 countries where Elizabeth is the monarch. They're a minority of the Commonwealth countries.
Paper ballot, voter ID, absentee ballots need to be applied for each election
That last one would be quite irritating, because sometimes elections are called outside of the usual timetable (e.g. to replace someone who died in office). I think I prefer the system in my country, where you have to renew your application each year. I get a reminder three months before my postal ballot registration expires, and as long as I don't sit on it for ten weeks I can be sure that my renewal is received before the registration expires.
How could llamas help immunize against diseases which didn't exist on the continent?
I think the proposed mechanism is that people from cultures with exposure to domesticated animals tended to have stronger immune systems in general (either because their immune systems had to work harder, or because individuals with weaker immune systems didn't survive childhood). I can't vouch for the argument, but I have previously seen it given as an explanation for why the Colombian exchange had far more of an impact in disease deaths among the Americans than the Europeans (who came from cultures which domesticated more than half a dozen species).
My initial reaction on reading the summary was that there were no surprises, but then it referred to cultural differences and it suddenly struck me that actually it is surprising that there was universal preference to save the young. Certainly historically there have been cultures which valued the old (with their wisdom and experience) over the young.
No other country I know of in this hemisphere also wants to be called America. So what's the problem?
If you will forgive my bluntness, the problem seems to be your ignorance. The phrase nuestra América crops up frequently in official Cuban media, for example.
Not all Androids are phones. I know that some people use an app I develop for Android tablets in an emulator running under Windows. The interesting question is whether this is better than blueStacks et al.
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Nobody mentioned Montreal in 1989, and it's not very effective as an alibi. What were you doing yesterday?
You shouldn't personify gravity. It doesn't like it.
I had an ECG test done as part of a routine annual checkup last week. It took a student doing an internship about three minutes, and would have taken less except that they did two runs because I have an unusual heart condition. Now, I don't know how much the device cost (I would guess on the order of 10kEUR), but I'm sure that it gets amortised over a lot of patients, and the cost of the intern's time would be far less than a cup of coffee.
Firstly, I think you might be using an overly narrow definition of "public transportation". The private sector runs air and long-distance bus transport in much of the world without subsidies.
Secondly, an urban bus system must surely be profitable at peak usage when it's standing room only. Urban bus subsidies are about ensuring that busses still run at off-peak times of day.
And thirdly, even restricting to urban rail, Hong Kong's metro is an interesting exception which makes money through a rail plus property model.
But if your 5 minute drive became 9 minutes because you spent 4 minutes not moving, you might start to get impatient. TFS says 33 hours in traffic jams, not 33 hours in the car.
Most of your post was informative and interesting, so thank you for that. But I disagree with the conclusion in the last paragraph. I learnt the hard way about 15 years ago that if you refuse to take strong enough painkillers for chronic pain the result is nerve sensitisation which means that the pain can continue for months after the root cause has healed. I'm currently being treated for a different chronic pain, and because of my previous experience I didn't hesitate when my doctor prescribed tramadol. However, I'm being disciplined in my use of it. When she tried lowering the dosage and the pain in the part of the day which wasn't covered began to be a real problem I asked permission before going back to the initial dosage. An earlier Guardian article about the opioid epidemic implies that part of the problem is people self-medicating an increased dosage.
Addiction is indeed a curse, but so is chronic pain. I think the correct conclusion should be to discuss changes in dosage with your doctor first, and if you experience symptoms of dependency when ending the treatment then go back to the doctor and ask about weaning off rather than going to the dark web.
As in POW! CRASH! BANG! or as in prisoner-of-war labour?
I don't know what they make medals from where you live, but if I melted down my great-grandfather's medal I would have 200€ worth of silver.
They've had that for ages, although it's about 3 seconds rather than 6. And some advertisers ( Apple comes to mind) apparently pay more to disable the skip altogether. As if there weren't enough reasons to hate Apple already.
Republic is the opposite of monarchy, not of democracy.
It's not a very useful measurement. Is that two tablespoons of ground beans, instant granules, espresso, or the milk and ice with about 1ppm of actual coffee which places like Starbucks sell?
If someone refuses informal requests to appear before a select committee of the House of Commons with the power to send for persons, papers and records then they can formally summon him. Failure to appear when summoned would make him liable to be declared in contempt of Parliament. In theory, Parliament has the power to imprison those it finds in contempt, which would mean that Zuckerberg would probably want to avoid entering the UK. In practice, I think it would be unprecedented for the committee to issue a formal summons to a non-citizen non-resident. If you want a longer discussion, I found a Commons briefing document from 2016.
That's not quite correct. The only countries which have to legislate together on the succession are the 16 countries where Elizabeth is the monarch. They're a minority of the Commonwealth countries.
That last one would be quite irritating, because sometimes elections are called outside of the usual timetable (e.g. to replace someone who died in office). I think I prefer the system in my country, where you have to renew your application each year. I get a reminder three months before my postal ballot registration expires, and as long as I don't sit on it for ten weeks I can be sure that my renewal is received before the registration expires.
I think the proposed mechanism is that people from cultures with exposure to domesticated animals tended to have stronger immune systems in general (either because their immune systems had to work harder, or because individuals with weaker immune systems didn't survive childhood). I can't vouch for the argument, but I have previously seen it given as an explanation for why the Colombian exchange had far more of an impact in disease deaths among the Americans than the Europeans (who came from cultures which domesticated more than half a dozen species).
And haut cuisine: Deli llama.
You may be confusing sadism with masochism.
Using a signed 64-bit type.
My initial reaction on reading the summary was that there were no surprises, but then it referred to cultural differences and it suddenly struck me that actually it is surprising that there was universal preference to save the young. Certainly historically there have been cultures which valued the old (with their wisdom and experience) over the young.
One obvious question would be whether it replaces Valium only in treatment of mental health or also in its treatment of muscular injuries.
Ask Hensel.
The salmon louse is a crustacean, a member of the phylum Arthropoda. Jellyfish are members of the phylum Cnidaria.
If you will forgive my bluntness, the problem seems to be your ignorance. The phrase nuestra América crops up frequently in official Cuban media, for example.
Are you sure it's not because she's the best? She won half of the prize, and the other two shared the other half.
Not all Androids are phones. I know that some people use an app I develop for Android tablets in an emulator running under Windows. The interesting question is whether this is better than blueStacks et al.