There were quite a few programs that synced iTunes playlists to non-Apple phones. This supports your assertion that people were dependent on iTunes for library management, but not that there was lock-in to Apple hardware. I feel that it was the seamless ease of iTunes/iPod/iPhone that won, rather than a hard moat.
I have been searching for this track for decades, but I fear it is lost forever. My favorite 'mod' track, created with the Farandole Composer software.
My first, selfish question: When will the article that examines cognitive function in recovered people who were fully vaccinated before contracting COVID arrive?
Reading the results, the less severe the case the less severe the impact. Effects were severe for hospitalized patients, and mild for mild cases. Hospitalization is rare among vaccinated people.
Since the vaccines are excellent at preventing serious outcomes, a fairly large share of the infected won't even go to a physician, and therefore getting a representative sample of infected people will be all of difficult, expensive and time-consuming.
Maybe there exists a set of people who ⓐ resembles the general population and ⓑ will be tested routinely and often for years to come, such that an accurate statistical picture can be found. But I can't think of any now.
OT - how do you make those circled symbols? A tool or do you have a nice keyboard combo for it? It makes this in-line summing up of points much clearer, I like it at least at first sight.
I really like those ;) They're not as practically useful as —, ⅓, → and a few others, but I really like them. I type compose (a) to get ⓐ. See https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/xcompose for how I did it, it's mostly a matter of using someone else's .xcompose file from github.
I completed the uBiome test in 2017. My insurance was billed $2535.02 and I subsequently owed $434.98, in addition to the uBiome test fee (I forget what that was). When I received the results I saw that there was no trace of the type of bacteria that was contained in my probiotic that I had been taking religiously for a long time.
Total scam from start to finish. Throw the book at them.
> no trace of the type of bacteria that was contained in my probiotic that I had been taking religiously for a long time.
That's not how it works. The probiotic you took was full of bacteria DNA (maybe, probiotics rarely hold up to their advertised claims) which had to make it through your stomach, several meters of small bowel, and then to your large bowel. The DNA in that probiotic was likely snipped apart so many times its just in the noise at this point.
Fun fact: your small bowel and large bowel have significantly different biomes. Your small bowel has more in common with mouse stool than it it doesnt with your small bowel!
Anecdata: I've had the unfortunate need to have my gut biome taken a look at. Honestly, I'm not certain how the process was done, but my pro-biotic at the time showed up clearly in the results I was given.
Waiting for the announcement of the formation of the 'Confederacy of Southern States' (I don't believe for a moment that Trump and the Republicans would hesitate to seize the opportunity and claim that it's simply 'parity'). In these times of hyper-partisanship, in the midst of a global pandemic, on the tip of a great recession or depression with untold economic hardship; I shudder at the potential for what politically aligned states banding together could lead to.
I hope I am overreacting, but my parameters for what I used to consider normal and possible have been shifted significantly and there seems to have formed a great open space of terrible possibility to be filled.
What about this inspired you to compare it to the civil war? Seems hyperbolic given states cooperate in similar ways all the time. It makes sense for bordering states to be on the same page here, especially given the erratic behavior exhibited by federal officials who will remain nameless.
in the current moment, the "confederacy of southern states" is the federal government. I do not expect to see them different from a federal response due to their loyalty to trump.
I have also used this exact mirror for about five years. And I agree that its great. And it will continue to be because the hot water inside will always be the same temp as the hot water outside, and thus no fogging. That really can't be improved on.
