They do in the US too, but contractors use their own vehicles. Imported right-hand drive cars can be imported, but their use is rare.
This is partially because the car dealer lobby convinced congress to prevent the importation of cars less than 25 years old. Ironically, they did so using safety regulations, so a brand-new car meeting current European safety regulations is legally unsafe, but a 25-year-old car, complying with what European safety regulations were 25 years ago, less any deterioration in those safety systems, is legally safe.
Famous British philosopher Andrew Zaltzman put it like this: if you leave a man alone in a room an electric socket he will eventually try to stick his dick into it.
BASIC only ruins you if you have no intellectual curiosity. BASIC was my first language and with each new language I’ve learned since I’ve always been excited at the new possibilities and paradigms it opened up.
At university my formal methods lecturer once said, presumably in jest, "no software developer should be allowed to use an actual computer until they are 40 years old."
Ah, the memories! I did a spell of that, too, when a few of us launched a (short-lived) school magazine.
We had two options to create the stencil: there was a special machine that used some kind of electrical process (I don't remember details) to scan a printed sheet and "burn" a stencil from it, so you could copy arbitrary originals; or you could cut the stencil directly on a typewriter (with no ribbon), which gave a sharper result -- but you really didn't want to make too many typing errors, there's only so much you can do with stencil correcting fluid.
Thank god I'm self employed and decide myself when and what to exercise. I can't imagine having to dance to the pipes of these corporate clowns. 18 people being scrutinized by their bosses collectively lose 150 lbs (25 of which are accounted for by 1 person)? I can't say I'm impressed.
They were 18 people participating in a scientific study. There's nothing in the article that suggests that they were forced to participate. They were almost certainly volunteers.
On the other side, I really wish my office were like this. I hate having to sit down all day - my back really does start to hurt. I have a stand-up desk at home and I like it much better.
Even better than a stand-up desk is having a small treadmill. It's not like they go fast - it would be about the same as a slow walk. Suits would be fine, you don't sweat at all.
I had a cube at one point at a company who wouldn't buy me a stand-up desk, so I just put a box on top of my desk and put the monitor / keyboard / mouse on it. I obviously don't know your situation, but unless you are explicitly told you can't stand-up, you should try.
For me, I looked ridiculous standing up in the cube farm, but by the time I left, five people on my floor were standing.
