mike carey

The question is not whether we like it or not, but about whether standard etiquette is moving away from phone calls without a heads-up being socially acceptable. I tend not to accept calls from unknown numbers now, but generally will accept them if I know who the caller is. Even then I'll decline if I can't conveniently take the call. Those of us who are in the dinosaur community need to be aware of what current social norms are for calls even if we can ignore them among ourselves!.

Because this is a personal finance forum and not a global politics forum (which is against the rules), I'll just say that I will comply with paying all the personal income tax I owe.

The question is not whether we like it or not, but about whether standard etiquette is moving away from phone calls without a heads-up being socially acceptable. I tend not to accept calls from unknown numbers now, but generally will accept them if I know who the caller is. Even then I'll decline if I can't conveniently take the call. Those of us who are in the dinosaur community need to be aware of what current social norms are for calls even if we can ignore them among ourselves!.

The question is not whether we like it or not, but about whether standard etiquette is moving away from phone calls without a heads-up being socially acceptable. I tend not to accept calls from unknown numbers now, but generally will accept them if I know who the caller is. Even then I'll decline if I can't conveniently take the call. Those of us who are in the dinosaur community need to be aware of what current social norms are for calls even if we can ignore them among ourselves!.

The question is not whether we like it or not, but about whether standard etiquette is moving away from phone calls without a heads-up being socially acceptable. I tend not to accept calls from unknown numbers now, but generally will accept them if I know who the caller is. Even then I'll decline if I can't conveniently take the call. Those of us who are in the dinosaur community need to be aware of what current social norms are for calls even if we can ignore them among ourselves!.

And there's a swimming pool named in his honour by Woolloomooloo Bay in Sydney Harbour.
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If I read carefully between the lines, I think I can tell you're not a fan.
I'm not a fan either.  I have definitely heard her say funny things, but I find that the vulgarity she relies on gets in the way of any meaningful humour.  I'm not some Pollyanna - I do enjoy humour that can be dark and even vulgar, if it is done well.  Some of the grotesque and vulgar skits in Little Britain would have me rolling on the floor.  But rather than creating laughable vulgarity - which is not easy -  she aims low and goes for shock value and offensiveness.  It's sort of lazy in my opinion.  I almost think of her as the female version of Andrew Dice Clay, minus the biker persona.  

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I think Mike was replying to Rod Hagen, not to you.

I was visiting a friend in New Zealand, wasn't concerned with  points

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Were you perhaps staying on the Isle of Islay?

Is that the Scottish island just off the coast of Saudi Arabia?  Part of the Extremely Outer Hebrides? 

Were you perhaps staying on the Isle of Islay?

Just an FYI follow-up, I just now uninstalled and reinstalled the ExpressVPN app and it seems to have resolved everything (fingers crossed).

Glad @sync you are back in sync.

Thanks but on my last hepatitis test I didn't do too good, I only got a C!

When was that? Today 200 Swiss francs is almost 240 US$.

Wow! Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
I’m sure all are interested in the ‘y’ axis values! Good on you to omit those.

Per annual tradition: 
2023 revenue was down 12% from year prior. 
44% of 2023 revenue came from the year’s top three clients, up from 36% in 2022. 
Kevin Slater

From the Shingles vax thread.
Public health advice, in Australia at least, differs and recommends Covid updates in many cases, and is generally based on the value of the updated vaccines in mitigating the severity of the disease if you catch it, not preventing you from doing so.
Herd immunity is a population level protection, and is different from a general level protection derived from the immunity that most everyone (you included) would have from exposure to the disease and from earlier vaccinations. That may have been what your PCP was talking about.
Herd immunity results from a high enough proportion of the population having a level of immunity (however acquired) that means that it is unlikely those without, or with a low level of immunity will be exposed to the disease and contract it. It is also localised, not necessarily regional or national level. If you travel to a city or country where the disease is prevalent, your home herd immunity doesn't protect you, you depend on your individual level of immunity.
By way of examples, most of Australia has measles herd immunity, but cases occur in regions with low immunity levels, or when unimmunised people travel to overseas regions where it is prevalent and bring it back. Pertussis, or whooping cough, has herd immunity (mainly from childhood vaccinations) but vaccinations are highly recommended for certain groups of previously vaccinated people who are not at risk of severe disease (eg grandparents) but who even with a mild case would pose a significant risk to unvaccinated people (their new-born children too young to be vaccinated).
None of that is to diminish the importance of the advice of your PCP or your decision on taking their advice. Their advice would be tailored to you personally and not simply be a statement of general immunity in your community.

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

And of course @nycman, as a renowned opera critic, can be trusted to know such things. Tee hee.

And of course @nycman, as a renowned opera critic, can be trusted to know such things. Tee hee.

It might sound weird given my age, but I'm not 100% sure where I fall on the identity spectrum, which I do believe is a spectrum that can fluctuate.  People have asked me if I'm married or have kids, or if I'm dating.  Those questions have never bothered me and never flustered me.  What has annoyed me was when the follow up question would be, "Why not?"  That's more than anyone needs to know, whether they are speaking to someone who's straight, gay, bisexual, asexual or undetermined.