In New York State at least, a prescription is required for an optometrist to provide you with eyeglasses.
However one is not required to purchase eyeglasses from the provider of the prescription; you can get your eye exam and then buy your eyeglasses online with the prescription that the optometrist is legally required to provide to you after the exam. (Of course you can buy online without a prescription if you fill in whatever numbers you want, but most people want to get a prescription first so they know what numbers to fill in.)
Eyeglasses or lenses for the correction of vision or non-corrective contact lenses may be sold by any person, firm or corporation at retail, only on prescription of a licensed physician or licensed optometrist and only if a licensed physician, optometrist or ophthalmic dispenser is in charge of and in personal attendance at the place of sale. This article shall not apply to binoculars, telescopes, or other lenses used for simple magnification; except, that a seller of non-prescription ready-to-wear magnifying spectacles or glasses shall have the following language attached to each pair of glasses or spectacles displayed or offered for sale and in at least ten point bold type permanently affixed in plain view to the top of any point of sale display or, if there is no display, in the area of sale: "ATTENTION; READY-TO-WEAR NON-PRESCRIPTION GLASSES ARE NOT INTENDED TO REPLACE PRESCRIBED CORRECTIVE LENSES OR EXAMINATIONS BY AN EYE CARE PROFESSIONAL. CONTINUOUS EYE CHECK-UPS ARE NECESSARY TO DETERMINE YOUR EYE HEALTH STATUS AND VISION NEEDS." As used in this subdivision, "non-prescription, ready to wear magnifying spectacles or glasses" means spherical convex lenses, uniform in each meridian, which are encased in eyeglass frames and intended to ameliorate the symptoms of presbyopia. The lenses in such glasses shall be of uniform focus power in each eye and shall not exceed 2.75 diopters.
Above all, the Nazis were German white nationalists. What they stood for was the ascendancy of the “Aryan” race and the German nation, by any means necessary. Despite co-opting the name, some of the rhetoric, and even some of the precepts of socialism, Hitler and party did so with utter cynicism, and with vastly different goals. The claim that the Nazis actually were leftists or socialists in any generally accepted sense of those terms flies in the face of historical reality.
I went to Lenscrafters a couple of years ago to burn up the remainder of an FSA on the last day of the year. They did that very well: two pairs at more than $300 per pair (low correction single vision reading and distance) using their $99 frames (the only cheaper frames they had were in their reject pile). This was on top of the $115 examination fee.
Engraved on the inside of the "temples" (the things that go from the lens frame to your ears): Made in China:-)
Wearing eyeglasses that are too strong or have the wrong prescription will damage the eyes: Eyeglasses change the light rays that the eye receives. They do not change any part of the eye itself. Wearing glasses that are too strong or otherwise wrong for the eyes cannot harm an adult's, although it might result in a temporary headache. At worse, the glasses will fail to correct vision and make the wearer uncomfortable because of blurriness, but no damage to any part of the eye will result.
That URL takes me to an article titled "Increased glymphatic influx is correlated with high EEG delta power and low heart rate in mice under anesthesia".
Absolutely not my point. Your right wing must have hit you in the eye while reading my reply.
It was this part of your post that I was responding to:
You're a liberal. Any excuse to justify your moronic behavior is acceptable to you.
In case you still fail to understand, check the political leanings of Wilbur Ross, one of the best people that our Dear Leader (also crooked) hired to MAGA!
Exactly right. My work computer has a mechanical keyboard, vertical mouse, and USB3 hub that I bought at various times for relatively little expense. I have additional HDD USB-SATA docks and external DVD drives that I use and loan out. I've purchased memory for a server on eBay, again, cheaply. Why do I do this? Because it's so much easier and faster than requesting that the company purchase this stuff; I trade a little cash in place of a little annoyance.
The report released Tuesday notes that one of the power plant manufacturers that could benefit from a nuclear deal, Westinghouse Electric, is a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management, the company that has provided financial relief to the family of Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and a senior White House adviser. Brookfield Asset Management took a 99-year lease on the Kushner family’s deeply indebted New York City property at 666 Fifth Ave.
In my area there are some small stores that sell pretty much nothing but fresh fruit and vegetables. And some larger stores that include packaged (jar, can, frozen, refrigerated) foods and bread in addition. They don't sell toothpaste or household goods or electronics. Yet they seem to be doing OK.
If I understand the article correctly, the grades that are being compared were issued to the students by the very same professors who were being categorized as "fixed" or "growth" mindset.
I expect that a "fixed mindset" professor would obviously assign a lower grade to students they considered of lower intelligence.
If that really is the takeaway from this study then I fail to see cause for surprise in the result.
TINA.org investigated a national marketing campaign for Gillette, owned by Procter & Gamble, which is focused on its Boston factory and the people who work there, and found that the company is making the unqualified claim that the Gillette product line is made in the United States. However, the overwhelming majority of Gillette products (as represented on its website) that include origin information on their packaging are not entirely made in the United States. Most of these products are entirely made in foreign countries, such as China, Poland, Brazil, and Mexico, while others contain non-U.S. components. In fact, only a small minority of Gillette products that contain origin information on packaging meet the FTC’s legal definition of made in the United States.
A bit of a tangent but w.r.t. your mention of sushi buffets ("all you can eat") demanding that you eat all the rice, that's really not the same thing. They are trying to avoid a customer eating more fish (an expense for the restaurant) by insisting that they fill up on rice. In the case of the airlines here, the passenger who skips the last leg of the itinerary isn't using up more fuel or more cabin space by doing so.
Other buffet style ("all you can eat") joints serve food that is loaded with fat for the same reason as the sushi joint. The more (cheap) fat you eat the less (more expensive) protein you will be able to consume, saving the restaurant money. Not the same as the airline case.
It seems that you did not understand or perhaps did not read the article you cited on "The Dacau Hypothermia Experiments". The concluding paragraph emphatically states that the "research" was useless:
If the shortcomings of the Dachau hypothermia study had been fully appreciated, the ethical dialogue probably would never have begun. Continuing it runs the risk of implying that these grotesque Nazi medical exercises yielded results worthy of consideration and possibly of benefit to humanity. The present analysis clearly shows that nothing could be further from the truth.
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Maybe installing some public toilets would ameliorate the situation?
'Cause we all hate those long boring interviews, don't we?
You go on ahead. I still have some /. articles to finish reading.
1. Go to a hospital (not that I'm wishing you ill health, this is just an example).
2. Stay long enough to learn the names of about ten nurses and janitors in addition to several doctors.
3. Develop an antibiotic resistant infection.
Voila! The apocalypse has arrived for you. Get well soon.
It's curious what that 100,000 number means.
But there are more than 100,000 flights per day globally, so I think there is a lot of potential for a rare failure to occur.
Good luck. Seriously.
"Man Who Led FDA Team to Approve LASIK Now Says It Was a Mistake"
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/909011
In New York State at least, a prescription is required for an optometrist to provide you with eyeglasses.
However one is not required to purchase eyeglasses from the provider of the prescription; you can get your eye exam and then buy your eyeglasses online with the prescription that the optometrist is legally required to provide to you after the exam. (Of course you can buy online without a prescription if you fill in whatever numbers you want, but most people want to get a prescription first so they know what numbers to fill in.)
http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/od/article144.htm
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists
Executive summary:
I went to Lenscrafters a couple of years ago to burn up the remainder of an FSA on the last day of the year. They did that very well: two pairs at more than $300 per pair (low correction single vision reading and distance) using their $99 frames (the only cheaper frames they had were in their reject pile). This was on top of the $115 examination fee.
Engraved on the inside of the "temples" (the things that go from the lens frame to your ears): Made in China :-)
The worst that out of spec lenses can do to an adult is produce headache and/or eyestrain; no permanent eye damage.
https://mayoclinichealthsystem.org/locations/la-crosse/services-and-treatments/ophthalmology/myths-and-facts
You might consider reading this first:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/well/lasik-complications-vision.html
Ah, one of the references suggests why this might be a relevant article.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29101220?dopt=Abstract
That URL takes me to an article titled "Increased glymphatic influx is correlated with high EEG delta power and low heart rate in mice under anesthesia".
Absolutely not my point. Your right wing must have hit you in the eye while reading my reply.
It was this part of your post that I was responding to:
In case you still fail to understand, check the political leanings of Wilbur Ross, one of the best people that our Dear Leader (also crooked) hired to MAGA!
I'll take WHOOSH! for 100, Alex.
Thank you for standing up for honesty! Make America Great Again!
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/wilbur-ross-alleged-to-have-siphoned-more-than-120-million-from-associates-forbes-report-2018-08-07
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/08/wilbur-ross-stole-money-from-colleagues-sweetn-low-from-restaurants
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2018/08/06/new-details-about-wilbur-rosss-businesses-point-to-pattern-of-grifting
Oh, the humanity!
Exactly right. My work computer has a mechanical keyboard, vertical mouse, and USB3 hub that I bought at various times for relatively little expense. I have additional HDD USB-SATA docks and external DVD drives that I use and loan out. I've purchased memory for a server on eBay, again, cheaply. Why do I do this? Because it's so much easier and faster than requesting that the company purchase this stuff; I trade a little cash in place of a little annoyance.
Yessir. Here is an example of the innuendo about "potential conflicts of interest":
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-trump-appointees-promoted-selling-nuclear-power-plants-to-saudi-arabia-over-objections-from-national-security-officials-house-democratic-report-says/2019/02/19/6a719762-3456-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html
In my area there are some small stores that sell pretty much nothing but fresh fruit and vegetables. And some larger stores that include packaged (jar, can, frozen, refrigerated) foods and bread in addition. They don't sell toothpaste or household goods or electronics. Yet they seem to be doing OK.
If I understand the article correctly, the grades that are being compared were issued to the students by the very same professors who were being categorized as "fixed" or "growth" mindset.
I expect that a "fixed mindset" professor would obviously assign a lower grade to students they considered of lower intelligence.
If that really is the takeaway from this study then I fail to see cause for surprise in the result.
"A few hundred thousand .." ? It looks like your count may be a bit low. Here's a report just about a single ethnic group in China:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/22/chinas-mass-internment-camps-have-no-clear-end-in-sight/
Maybe cross "Gillette razors" off your list?
https://www.truthinadvertising.org/gillette-summary-action/
Bummer.
A bit of a tangent but w.r.t. your mention of sushi buffets ("all you can eat") demanding that you eat all the rice, that's really not the same thing. They are trying to avoid a customer eating more fish (an expense for the restaurant) by insisting that they fill up on rice. In the case of the airlines here, the passenger who skips the last leg of the itinerary isn't using up more fuel or more cabin space by doing so.
Other buffet style ("all you can eat") joints serve food that is loaded with fat for the same reason as the sushi joint. The more (cheap) fat you eat the less (more expensive) protein you will be able to consume, saving the restaurant money. Not the same as the airline case.
Sounds OK so far but how do they make sure that the cow isn't being forced but consents to having sex with the farmer?
It seems that you did not understand or perhaps did not read the article you cited on "The Dacau Hypothermia Experiments". The concluding paragraph emphatically states that the "research" was useless: