I admit this a weird edge case, but a few years ago I fractured my left elbow and could only use one hand. When typing one handed, typing speed was a bottleneck.
The Wire also showed the importance of modifying Roberts Rules to meet the needs of a particular organization. In this case, not taking minutes, because they were discussing a criminal conspiracy to buy and sell large quantities of drugs.
> If they go to that effort why not, you know, fix the intersection/road?
It's several orders of magnitudes different amounts of effort. Putting up a cross can be done one person in an hour. Fixing a road or intersection is months of work for tens of people,several machines, tonnes of material. Source: I've worked on making several dangerous intersection less dangerous
I guess I worded that badly, I more meant "surely a number of white crosses on an intersection, and the deaths of several people is enough to take action and rework the intersection". It's a failing of a government/council to have several people die at a junction that's clearly dangerous and then decide to do nothing about it.
Economics/value of human lives at play, I guess...
As a counter example, look at how many countries have state funded healthcare with restricting unhealthy food or behaviour. By my count 66 countries have state funded health care and 0 have restrictions on unhealthy food or behaviour, (I admit my count was limited)
We do have those restrictions. Consider the UK's Bradford Sweet Poisoning of the 1858 when the standard of putting gypsum as cheap filler in sweets instead of more expensive sugar lead to an accident of using arsenic instead, and lead to regulations on danerous behaviour by chemists and on the adulterations of foodstuffs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1858_Bradford_sweets_poisoning
And of course there are regulations on insect contamination, mould and fungal contamination, on use by dates, on permitted/banned additives and preservatives, on quality of packaging material, on preparation and handling of eggs; the most egregious "unhealthy food" that causes serious sickness and death quickly has been restricted. What's left is a lot of "compounds over a lifetime of it" kinds of things.
And, of course, public smoking bans are an unhealthy behaviour restriction, so are drug bans.
So in the 66 countries you're referencing, none have restrictions on alcohol or tobacco? No warning labels, taxes or restrictions on sale?
None have different tax rates for staple foods than for packaged snacks or fast food? None have regulations about labeling of food for health claims or disclaimers?
Because all of those things are common throughout all the European countries I'm familiar with, but maybe your list didn't include any European countries
I assumed it meant to send the output of the command as mail.
That's vaguely useful instead of piping to a cmdline MUA. I couldn't
believe I'd been missing this for 30 years and so I tried it on few
things like
ps aux --mail=me@domain
error: unknown gnu long option
Looked in my inbox. Nothing.
Then I got to the bottom of the page for the punchline.
