stepintomydojo

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FYI, the suspected origin is South America, not on board the ship. Cruise ships do seem to be perfect environments for further spreading disease, though.

On Thursday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, head of the World Health Organization, said the Dutch couple, who were the first two cases, had travelled through Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on a bird-watching trip “which included visits to sites where the species of rat known to carry the virus was present”.

on Let's Buy Spirit Air · c/hackernews · 14 pts · 123d

"The quickest way to become a millionaire is to start out a billionaire and buy an airline." - Richard Branson

I don't think ownership by the people is going to solve this problem.

If I'm not mistaken this part of the trail is also pretty steep, more so than it looks in the picture. The views are amazing when the weather is clearer.

As the other responder pointed out, this is not a simple issue (also at some point we switched from Slovenia to Czechia). There are at least two ways the east/central/west distinction applies. The first is geographical - every point that claims to be the middle of Europe is in or to the east of Czechia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_midpoint_of_Europe), so geographically it's pretty clearly not eastern (which again, the original Wikipedia link also says - pretty sure they're not all Nazis).

Politically it's a more complex thing. A common American interpretation is "part of the Soviet bloc". By that definition, yes, eastern Europe. But, there's also a not uncommon perception that this means it's a not well off country that is behind because of communism (see the movie Eurotrip for an example in pop culture). People who are in those countries would like to not have this association, so "central" is a way to avoid the Cold War era east/west split.

where a helicopter took her 20,945 feet above Mount Everest. After strapping in to her board and freefalling for several minutes, she landed on a flat runway at 12,356 feet

This makes no sense. That puts the starting height at 29029+20945=~50k feet. The Guinness record for highest helicopter flight is 40,820'.

This article says 20945 was the starting height. Saying this is "over" Mt. Everest is rather misleading.