Yesterday, the news broke that pop star John Mayer, an avid watch collector, is suing a well-known watch dealer based in Los Angeles – a longtime "expert" in vintage and ultra-high-end timepieces – over seven very expensive timepieces sold to him, which Rolex confirmed as containing "non-authentic" components.
And then after, over a very expensive slice of cake and a terrible mug of Nescafe, she tells you that she thinks modern art is "nonsense", and you've been annoyed because you don't think modern art is nonsense.
As extreme expenses such as those for housing modifications (one observation over $20,000) and very expensive hearing aids had the potential to significantly influence estimates, observations with quarterly costs of $5,000 or over were excluded when estimating total costs (removing 26 observations or ~1% of observations reporting total expenditure).
One Belt and One Road, as it's also known, amounts to a very expensive do-over, an effort to bring the Silk Road back to prosperous life and put China at the center of a vast trading network.
Otherwise, only high users will enroll and any program will become very expensive over time.
Similar existing system are GPS (using satellites), and Radio triangulation (using antennas on buildings), but these are very expensive (over $600 for Lojack car security system).
It's worth it, however, to regularly send a person to the site to per- form these checks because small mistakes can amplify over time and become very expensive.
"Living in Scandanavia may seem very appealing," writes Matthew Limbert, "but is beer very expensive over there, and as that seems to feature heavily in a Guardian journalist's diet, that may cause some problems".
