@RegDwigнt Are you talking about spiccato?

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Can you imagine a world without hypothetical situations?

> The Federal Law FZ No. 61 dd 12.04.2010 “On Drug Circulation”;

Do I need The there, in the beginning?

Or is it unnecessary?

Depends on context.

The context is a list of different laws to which a particular Standard Operating Procedure complies.

> Risk-benefit ratio — the evaluation of the positive therapeutic effects of the drug product in relation to the risks associated with its use.

Can we use a instead of the in this definition?

Would it be all the same in meaning?

@CowperKettle You could use either a or the ... or, to really throw you a curve, you could ditch them both and pluralize: *the evaluation of the positive therapeutic effects of drug products in relation to the risks associated with their use."

And why "drug product" anyway"? Why not just "drug" or even "pharmaceutical"?

@Robusto because the staff editor of the translation agency said so

And they pay me zero cents for each instance of arguing with editors, so I don't care

@Robusto I'm talking about staccato. Especially Mr Heifetz's staccato. Where the bow is jumping extremely hectically and yet is so controlled, in every part of the bow, that it appears to be completely glued to the string. Even when it plays like a dozen notes in rapid succession. At the bow tip.

Spiccato is, like, easy.

As in, I can't really play it yet, but I do have to practice it already.

Staccato is in like 0.01% of the repertoire. So even orchestra musicians don't practice it very heavily. And certainly not to the level of Heifetz.

Spiccato is like, you half-throw your bow at the string though not really, in a rather generous arc, back and forth, only playing one tone at a time. Like a grandfather's clock's pendulum, albeit faster. It's much more controllable, and you usually do it in just one specific part of the bow, where you have the most control. The bow comes from above and one side, touches the string, and goes up again. It may or may not look like much from the side, but it always feels like a generous arc.

And now I have said "like" so often I shall hang my head in shame and go back to the Valley.

Anyway, the bow is constructed such that it is extremely jumpy by design. So making it jump is not the hard part. The hard part is to make it stop again.

It wants to shake, and the moment it starts shaking, you lose all control. It becomes impossible to even play one long held note. Let alone play twenty, in quick succession, in sync with the left hand, and in time.

So, for example, in ricochet, which sounds very similar to this, yet is a completely different technique, you just throw the bow at the string, and let it jump. It sounds very brilliant and exciting. But you don't really know how many notes you'll get, and at what rhythm and tempo. It is a box of chocolates.

Here every note is on the page, and every note needs to be played, in time, but not a note more.

And yes, everything I just said is a bit oversimplified, but just a bit. I'd actually want to oversimplify it much more. But it is difficult.

A very good overview.

@Robusto ^

No idea why YouTube is suggesting it to me. Are they spying on this chat or what.

@RegDwigнt I always thought spiccato was how violinists rendered staccato. I stand corrected.

@RegDwigнt Interesting. The system there sounds much like what the Affordable Care Act (a/k/a "Obamacare") was aiming for.

I will say, though, that the difference in statistical outcomes is not really due to the health care system. It's more about the fact that Germany has a much more homogeneous population than does the United States.

Even taking into account the recent influx of refugees into Germany, the US population is much more diverse and spread out, which makes the averages skew differently.

For example, the US is often compared, unfavorably, with countries like Switzerland or Denmark or Japan, for the educational system. And it's true that, on average, US educational outcomes fare worse, sometimes much worse. Yet the segment of the population that I grew up in (white, middle-to-upper class) holds its own quite well against the rest of the world.

For example, James Fallows, writing about the Japanese educational system, sums it up by saying that Japan has the best-educated bottom 50% of its population. In other words, the guy who fixes flat tires in Japan is better educated overall than those who perform the same function in the US or France or Germany.

I know that is a good thing. But it isn't everything.

Would I like to have a healthcare system more like Germany's than America's? Sure. But I would also like to have one more like Great Britain's, or France's as well. What I would settle for would be an acknowledgement from the government that its business should be to protect its citizens from all threats, not just military ones. And not just from threats that will make big business lots of profits.

As the guy in the video sums it up, "You have to make the commitment to provide healthcare for everybody." That is where the US falls woefully short. And it does so because rich people in the US don't want to pay more taxes, and have convinced enough of the populace (through so-called "news organizations" like Fox) that white, lower-middle-class citizens will be forced to pay for black women to have dozens of babies and blah blah blah.

It amounts to the plutocracy convincing stupid people that their interests will not be served by having their interests served.

So, all in all, a very astute video. Thank you.

Why is it "of a confidential nature" and not the?

or without articles - "documents of confidential nature"'

Because it's non-specific. If there were only one possible confidential nature you could use the.

Do they really pay $1200 per person in the USA to each person due to the virus situation?

@CowperKettle More or less.

In Russia, Putin announced that $150 will be paid to some businessmen per each worker. But they would have to jump through hoops to get the money.

To middle- and small-sized businesses.

I classify as self-employed and thus get no money.

In Russian parlance, "Individual Entrepreneur". Such persons must have a special account in a bank and pay taxes calculated from the sum of payments on that account.

On top of that, two social taxes - the pension system tax and the healthcare tax.

RIP cool jazz.

@Robusto they have like five or six ways to render staccato. I can't even tell you half the names off the top of my head, would have to go look them up.

There's like two dozen bowing techniques and articulations, but the sheet music is the same as for any other instrument, so you have to somehow map them to the comparatively few articulation symbols available. Or just write them down in plain text. (Spiccato in particular is quite guilty of that.)

And of course on top of that you have the Tower of Babel. The default interpretation of a given symbol can vary from nation to nation. The default interpretation of a plain word, even.

For example, the original meaning of détaché in French was "staccato". Not, you know. Détaché.

So when a Russian or a German say détaché, they're on the same page. When a Frenchman bursts in, you have to first question him on which century he's from, or which school, or both.

And never mind Italians with their Italian.

And then there's the thing that some of the techniques are remarkably similar to some other techniques. Just different, but otherwise the same. And so there's gray areas, and different people can use the same name for different things. Or even occasionally the same people.

My solution to the mess is to play the violin so poorly that any name you attach to my technique is as good as any other name. Except maybe "good". That would be a very bad name indeed.

> Does anyone know of any scores of TOP music? I can't really find any for the flute :(

That's a really weird question to read until you realize that TOP stands for Twenty One Pilots.

@CowperKettle "drug product" rolls eyes

What does "we got hitched once through our probation" mean ? said by a detective in a book books.google.co.uk/…

(hitched=married)

@barlop You omitted "we were".

We got married once we had finished our probation.

Whatever that probation is.

I got it now. I hadn't realised that probation can mean any activity where one is supervised, abilities tested for a new job/role

Cops typically have a probationary period.

@Educ What restrictions did you government put on you all there? Here in the US it all depends on the state. In Massachusetts where I am, all non-essential businesses are closed and if it is possible to work from home (like office type work) then you must. That leaves a lot of leeway for other work, but the highways are empty, and every kind of shopping area seems totally dead (except for grocery stores).

Masks are not yet mandatory, and there's no stay at home order (except maybe a curfew 9pm to 5am which I can't imagine affects many people since usually the only people out at that time probably work for essential businesses.

But whatever the rules are, -nobody- is out. Well, there do seem to be a smattering of people outside for exercise, but frankly no more than usual.

Other states... like I'm sure New York has much more restrictive rules. And in the South, I feel like the rules there are pretty lax, or whatever they are people tend not to follow them.

That's why I'm a bit pessimistic about how things will turn out for the US.

I hear that in European countries, the rules are stricter, like in France where you can't go more than a kilometer from home, unless you have some very official excuse.

a shopping mall nearby would give you a mask if you enter.