Yes, in Australia what and how much of it a doctor can prescribe is tightly regulated. Many medications require a specialist referral and approval. Any medical procedure requires a specialist to sign off on it.
That and there is often a 'gap' that needs to be covered for GP and specialist services, although that tends to be balanced out by much cheaper prescription costs. (Prescriptions in Canada for example easily cost 2X as much).
However, Australia has a two-tier system where you can buy private insurance cover that can cover the costs of gaps and allow you access to private hospitals. This insurance is much cheaper than the equivalent US versions.
Even a large confluence of connections like this would likely still have had local switchboards.
When you made a call, your local operator would have connected you either to a local number on their own board, or to another local board as needed. That second operator would have then connected you to the desired number.
Each board would only have limited connection lines to each other board (or to a branch exchange). So if all the connections from board A to board B (or to the branch exchange) were in use, the caller would have to try again later.
My school had one, it wasn't perfect and there were occasionally gaps between scanned lines but it let us scan in photographs and newspaper clippings for local history projects.
I drove down to SF a couple years back and people there drive like lunatics.
> About half of the drivers who got tickets were going between 16 and 20 miles an hour over the speed limit, a Chronicle analysis found, which incurs a $100 fine, though the amount is lower for people who qualify as low-income or receive public benefits.
Get caught here doing 30km/h over the speed limit and they suspend your license.
Ah yes, that old Russian chestnut that any moves to make Western civil society more resilient are portrayed as an omen of military aggression against them. Sorry Boris, not everything is about you.
Hey, Suno SWE here — I realize this wording might be slightly ambiguous, but you do not need to maintain a perpetual license to have commercial rights. That blurb is saying that songs created while you are subscribed are granted commercial use rights.
> If you made your songs while subscribed to a Pro or Premier plan, those songs are covered by a commercial use license.
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