"To get around this, Royal Games, formerly King and publisher of Candy Crush, from an older company whose game bears no resemblance to either of the games in question."
Is it just me or does this sentence have no verb?
Yes, it's actually kind of astounding that no-one in the poll-editing crew seems to have considered that anyone might recycle the things. Talk about missing options...
They get separated from their batteries. Batteries and devices get put in separate Tupperware bins, and every year or so the bins are taken to the local recycling center. After that I expect they wind up in the Far East where child labourers get poisoned as they disassemble them.
In my mind it centers around this question:
Assume an arbitrary community of 100,000. Leaving out natural deaths, let's say you have an annual death rate of 10 by gun, 3 by knife, and 5 by other (beating by trout, scissors, whatever), for a total of 18.
Then remove all the guns. Does the death rate stay at 18, with just the distribution of causes changing, or does it go down, because some who would have died from gunshots now don't (from e.g. mass shootings, gun accidents).
Annual number of handgun-related deaths per 100,000 people by selected country (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate)
Australia: 1.06
Canada: 2.38
Germany: 1.24
Israel: 1.87
Japan: 0.06
Netherlands: 0.46
United Kingdom: 0.25
United States: 10.3
Actually that's not as big a contrast as I expected -- I thought the US was 20-50 times higher than the norm, but it's significantly less than that for most western countries. The worst mostly in Central America, but Mexico is only slightly higher than the US at 11.17.
50% more usable
Ok, you're right.
Perhaps I should have said "included in the cover charge". But the cover charge is largely paid by the healthy, capable members of society, while the services are needed by, and provided to, the more needy and less capable members. Whether one considers this to be better or worse than the "user pays" model depends on your politics.
That being said, it could be worth a reasonable payment if one could get it done in three minutes at the local pharmacy rather than taking 15 minutes at the clinic (which is just above said pharmacy).
You must live in the USA to have to pay for blood work. It's free in all the civilized countries.
Very interesting. Now can we please have those rules properly expressed in BNF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_Form ?
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