Metformin ER was what I started with. Didn't tolerate that at all, and tried the smallest tablets of the basic formula. That sucked, too, so I tried the syrup in very small doses, and tried to endure mild symptoms for a week, before ramping up to larger doses, but I never could build a tolerance to it.
Acknowledged. I'm sorry you had to endure that. I hope you kicked its butt.
However, metformin wouldn't be a treatment, but a prophylactic. And it's well-established that few people who will persist in taking something as a preventative course if they do not tolerate it well.
Ideally, they'll learn something from the action of metformin on cancer stem cells and derive a more tolerable drug.
... and Metformin was one of the first drugs I tried. Too bad it made me feel HORRIBLE.
Not just all caps horrible, but bold and italic horrible, too. Fever, nausea, chills, cramps, and headache. We even tried ramping up the dose, starting in very small amounts, to no avail. Only afterward did the doctor tell me that a significant fraction of the population has the same reaction.
(I finally broke down and just took insulin and Actos. Works great to control blood sugar. Also works great for gaining weight.)
The high energy rays and penetrate deep into the atmosphere where they create nucleation points which increase cloud over. The inreased cloud cover reflects more energy into space and the planet will cool.
Thirty seconds with google and the keywords "cosmic rays global warming" brought a wealth of stories describing research which found no correlation of any kind between cosmic ray flux and cloud cover. Sure, you'll find articles describing this theory, but it's called a "hypothesis," and "controversial" at best. And all those stories are older than the 2008 analysis of MODIS data.
Slashdot's headline "Porn Surfing Rampant" is exactly the kind of exaggeration that the Washington Times was hoping secondary media would slap on this story. "Rampant" is just not true, there's no possible way seven cases in a year can be described that way.
Jamie, you have "@slashdot.org" after your name. You have a staff icon on your message header. Why can't you correct this?
I can't believe that slashdot is about spreading misinformation over honoring an editor's decision to greenlight a headline.
My boss likes to tell a story about his job flight testing an airborne X-band synthetic aperture radar system in Nevada, and one occasion when they were attempting to troubleshoot intermittent noise that saturated the receiver. It was like a perfect ECM system messing with their radar.
After confirming that it was from an external source, they sent black suburbans to survey the countryside for foreign or domestic agents testing out a new countermeasure. Turns out it was a country farmer with a diesel-powered arc-welder from 1908 or something, working on his trailers. When operating, the thing radiated from DC to UV.
Long story short: His firm bought the farmer a new welding rig.
I'm designing a directional system that reflects audio frequency signals below 40 Hz back at their source, but in the form of high energy RF, strong enough to drive subwoofer speaker coils at a range of 100 yards. The goals are to establish a feedback loop that results in failure of the subwoofers, and to leave no other evidence.
I'm all for promoting homegrown electronic countermeasures, as I've long fantasized about building a directional, subsonic-targeting HERF weapon to discourage noise pollution on my residential street.
However, I think promoting Counter-countermeasures is equally important: Faraday cages, attenuators, reflectors, and EMP-hard electronics. If you're gonna play with fireworks, then learn how to make a fire extinguisher, too.
In fact, one of the simplest HERF designs (a hi current coil compressed suddenly by igniting an explosive surrounding the coil) has a dual-lobed bidirectional radiation pattern. So yes, without some sort of reflector or attenuator, it certainly can work both ways.
I believe the rule is turn on red in the US because the roads are new and built with good visibility. When there is no visibility turn on red is forbidden. Whereas in France at most intersections turn on red would be dangerous due to the lack of visibility. Therefore turn on red is the exception.
In California, home of the rolling stop, we also have many double right turn lanes at the end of freeway offramps, where the the two rightmost lanes are for right turns. Californians have come to behave (erroneously) as if a right on red is legal from either lane. Rather than educate the drivers, cities have begun installing NO RIGHT ON RED signage at these intersections.
This leaves those of us who obey the rules stuck waiting for lights to change when we wouldn't have to if it weren't for 1) clueless drivers, and 2) collective punishment.
And even worse than that, there is an intersection near my house where the right turn green arrow is lit simultaneously with the left turn green arrow for oncoming traffic. And in a perverse irony, this intersection is right in front of a California Highway Patrol station. (Windsor Ave at Woodbury Road in Altadena, the right arrow northbound on Windsor, in case you're a local.)
When I worked in software QA in the 1990s, I watched our Project Managers hire young programmers who were willing to kludge a Release 1, and force us to let it out the door. As customers made our support team (often including the same young programmers) aware of the true semi-gluteal nature of the product, these young engineers would change jobs, thereby avoiding maintenance of the code.
As a result the project manager will never fund corrections to any but the worst bugs and poorly-designed features in Version 1. Instead, when the customer wanted Version 2.0, engineering would choose to build a new app pretty much from scratch rather than try and fix the original version. Sometimes the product manager would get wise and do some systems engineering up front, but usually not...
And worst of all, this was not commercial software -- this was software for NASA space observatories and their ground systems. Fortunately, by the end of the decade, our customers (the prime contractors) would start requiring more and more software process documentation... and I had moved on to project management.
[Note: I came to this thread by way of metamoderation. I was asked to metamod one of Commodore64_Love's posts further down the thread, and it was clear that I needed to see the post in its context thread in order to metamod accurately.]
Are there astroturfers from political lobbies or healthcare companies active here or is it just a bunch of opinionated people who are trying to abuse the mod system to shout down people who disagree with their party?
I can tell you that in the long run, politically based down-moderation is not sustainable. Correcting for abuses like that is what metamoderation is for. Moderators who frequently run afoul of metamoderation do not keep getting mod points. To wit, I get mod points nearly every day, but only if all of the following remain true: 1) I metamoderate more than the minimum 10 every day, 2) I post, moderate or submit a story every day, and 3) I do not get metamoderated negatively. (If the consensus of metamods disagrees with one of my mods, I get a system message telling me so.) And I suspect that the above only earns you mod points with any dependable frequency if your UID is sufficiently low.
So, if I were a sockpuppet intent on using mod points to promote or demote threads based on my agenda, I wouldn't be very successful over the long run, and I would have needed to create an account many years ago in prescience of my needs.
Also, my experience on the other side of the coin, as a poster, is insightful, too. Generally, over time, the moderations for a well-read thread will average out to a rather fair net score. Reactionary moderations by moderators with an axe to grind usually come very early (or very late), usually giving time for the more objective moderators to correct the score. That's why we are asked to "Browse at -1 to keep an eye out for abuses," and to concentrate on promoting rather than demoting.
Unsuprisingly, that appears to be what has happened here over the hours. By 1500 EDT, I didn't see any need to spend my own mod points here to correct abuses; metamoderation will suffice. I don't agree with all the scores as they currently appear, but nobody has been "abused" by the moderators.
Gee! I better stop doing that in most of my emails, done in the interests of the conservation of scarce electrons. Bah! Typical US extravagance.
No, they're at best as annoying as top-posters. Nobody's *more* annoying than top-posters... Unfortunately, top-posting has even started happening on web forums too.
We used to play Bong Pong in college, on a 15-year old atari Pong machine. Every time you scored a point, you got to do a bong hit.
Of course, the game started out with people trying hard to points, but after a while it became hypnotic and mesmerizing as the players found the "BongPong Zone," which lasted until players forgot how operate the paddles.
I have no illusions that the implied presumption of guilt hasn't been brought up previously, especially wrt Canadian CD-R fees. But the arrogance of it never ceases to amaze me. Same goes for the acceptance of it.
If this kind of logic were applied to a car, then there'd be a "excessive speed fee" applied to every new or used automobile, and perhaps even a "getaway car penalty" for particular models.
Pray tell me how one is going to learn a technique that has never been seen?
Aye. Now, I don't have any illusions that AB invented Avocado Ice Cream, but I would have never encountered the concept if it weren't for his show. And yes, it's as awesome as it is odd. (The ice cream, too.)
And it's not just the concealed vote-counting; these companies now also produce polling place check-in software (electronic pollbooks), voter registration software, and vote-by-mail authentication software.
All the ingredients necessary and sufficient to engineer an election result undetectably and without pesky statistical red flags. George Orwell himself couldn't have designed a more riggable system.
While I can appreciate the aesthetic behind your choice of corridors, my favorite corridor is still the Laser Corridor from Resident Evil... it even has a sense of humor.
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Metformin ER was what I started with. Didn't tolerate that at all, and tried the smallest tablets of the basic formula. That sucked, too, so I tried the syrup in very small doses, and tried to endure mild symptoms for a week, before ramping up to larger doses, but I never could build a tolerance to it.
Right. The weight gain comment was sarcastic. I forgot to use the sarcasticon :P
Acknowledged. I'm sorry you had to endure that. I hope you kicked its butt.
However, metformin wouldn't be a treatment, but a prophylactic. And it's well-established that few people who will persist in taking something as a preventative course if they do not tolerate it well.
Ideally, they'll learn something from the action of metformin on cancer stem cells and derive a more tolerable drug.
... and Metformin was one of the first drugs I tried. Too bad it made me feel HORRIBLE .
Not just all caps horrible, but bold and italic horrible, too. Fever, nausea, chills, cramps, and headache. We even tried ramping up the dose, starting in very small amounts, to no avail. Only afterward did the doctor tell me that a significant fraction of the population has the same reaction.
(I finally broke down and just took insulin and Actos. Works great to control blood sugar. Also works great for gaining weight.)
Why didn't you provide any citations? Perhaps because it was disproved in 2007.
Thirty seconds with google and the keywords "cosmic rays global warming" brought a wealth of stories describing research which found no correlation of any kind between cosmic ray flux and cloud cover. Sure, you'll find articles describing this theory, but it's called a "hypothesis," and "controversial" at best. And all those stories are older than the 2008 analysis of MODIS data.
Jamie, you have "@slashdot.org" after your name. You have a staff icon on your message header. Why can't you correct this?
I can't believe that slashdot is about spreading misinformation over honoring an editor's decision to greenlight a headline.
I like how they disabled comments on the video.
Because, of course, the video's obvious coolness needed no acknowledgment from the viewers.
Oh yea.
My boss likes to tell a story about his job flight testing an airborne X-band synthetic aperture radar system in Nevada, and one occasion when they were attempting to troubleshoot intermittent noise that saturated the receiver. It was like a perfect ECM system messing with their radar.
After confirming that it was from an external source, they sent black suburbans to survey the countryside for foreign or domestic agents testing out a new countermeasure. Turns out it was a country farmer with a diesel-powered arc-welder from 1908 or something, working on his trailers. When operating, the thing radiated from DC to UV.
Long story short: His firm bought the farmer a new welding rig.
While effective, a shotgun lacks finesse.
I'm designing a directional system that reflects audio frequency signals below 40 Hz back at their source, but in the form of high energy RF, strong enough to drive subwoofer speaker coils at a range of 100 yards. The goals are to establish a feedback loop that results in failure of the subwoofers, and to leave no other evidence.
Now that's finesse.
I'm all for promoting homegrown electronic countermeasures, as I've long fantasized about building a directional, subsonic-targeting HERF weapon to discourage noise pollution on my residential street.
However, I think promoting Counter-countermeasures is equally important: Faraday cages, attenuators, reflectors, and EMP-hard electronics. If you're gonna play with fireworks, then learn how to make a fire extinguisher, too.
In fact, one of the simplest HERF designs (a hi current coil compressed suddenly by igniting an explosive surrounding the coil) has a dual-lobed bidirectional radiation pattern. So yes, without some sort of reflector or attenuator, it certainly can work both ways.
I stand corrected. Thank you, sir.
In California, home of the rolling stop, we also have many double right turn lanes at the end of freeway offramps, where the the two rightmost lanes are for right turns. Californians have come to behave (erroneously) as if a right on red is legal from either lane. Rather than educate the drivers, cities have begun installing NO RIGHT ON RED signage at these intersections.
This leaves those of us who obey the rules stuck waiting for lights to change when we wouldn't have to if it weren't for 1) clueless drivers, and 2) collective punishment.
And even worse than that, there is an intersection near my house where the right turn green arrow is lit simultaneously with the left turn green arrow for oncoming traffic. And in a perverse irony, this intersection is right in front of a California Highway Patrol station. (Windsor Ave at Woodbury Road in Altadena, the right arrow northbound on Windsor, in case you're a local.)
Agreed - as in, they never get to it.
When I worked in software QA in the 1990s, I watched our Project Managers hire young programmers who were willing to kludge a Release 1, and force us to let it out the door. As customers made our support team (often including the same young programmers) aware of the true semi-gluteal nature of the product, these young engineers would change jobs, thereby avoiding maintenance of the code.
As a result the project manager will never fund corrections to any but the worst bugs and poorly-designed features in Version 1. Instead, when the customer wanted Version 2.0, engineering would choose to build a new app pretty much from scratch rather than try and fix the original version. Sometimes the product manager would get wise and do some systems engineering up front, but usually not...
And worst of all, this was not commercial software -- this was software for NASA space observatories and their ground systems. Fortunately, by the end of the decade, our customers (the prime contractors) would start requiring more and more software process documentation... and I had moved on to project management.
"...from which to spy."
I think that's the prepositional phrase you're looking for."
I just assumed you had a cold.
(And a speech-to-text interface.)
[Note: I came to this thread by way of metamoderation. I was asked to metamod one of Commodore64_Love's posts further down the thread, and it was clear that I needed to see the post in its context thread in order to metamod accurately.]
I can tell you that in the long run, politically based down-moderation is not sustainable. Correcting for abuses like that is what metamoderation is for. Moderators who frequently run afoul of metamoderation do not keep getting mod points. To wit, I get mod points nearly every day, but only if all of the following remain true: 1) I metamoderate more than the minimum 10 every day, 2) I post, moderate or submit a story every day, and 3) I do not get metamoderated negatively. (If the consensus of metamods disagrees with one of my mods, I get a system message telling me so.) And I suspect that the above only earns you mod points with any dependable frequency if your UID is sufficiently low.
So, if I were a sockpuppet intent on using mod points to promote or demote threads based on my agenda, I wouldn't be very successful over the long run, and I would have needed to create an account many years ago in prescience of my needs.
Also, my experience on the other side of the coin, as a poster, is insightful, too. Generally, over time, the moderations for a well-read thread will average out to a rather fair net score. Reactionary moderations by moderators with an axe to grind usually come very early (or very late), usually giving time for the more objective moderators to correct the score. That's why we are asked to "Browse at -1 to keep an eye out for abuses," and to concentrate on promoting rather than demoting.
Unsuprisingly, that appears to be what has happened here over the hours. By 1500 EDT, I didn't see any need to spend my own mod points here to correct abuses; metamoderation will suffice. I don't agree with all the scores as they currently appear, but nobody has been "abused" by the moderators.
for you.
IDWTK, but one would imagine it involves locking themselves in the server room and access to unfiltered content.
We used to play Bong Pong in college, on a 15-year old atari Pong machine. Every time you scored a point, you got to do a bong hit.
Of course, the game started out with people trying hard to points, but after a while it became hypnotic and mesmerizing as the players found the "BongPong Zone," which lasted until players forgot how operate the paddles.
Good times. Good times. Lasting brain damage.
I am hereby handing you the "+1 Car Analogy" token I received yesterday - pass it on in good faith.
I am also giving you another, honorary, +1 for making a Flying Car Analogy.
I have no illusions that the implied presumption of guilt hasn't been brought up previously, especially wrt Canadian CD-R fees. But the arrogance of it never ceases to amaze me. Same goes for the acceptance of it.
If this kind of logic were applied to a car, then there'd be a "excessive speed fee" applied to every new or used automobile, and perhaps even a "getaway car penalty" for particular models.
Astounding.
Aye. Now, I don't have any illusions that AB invented Avocado Ice Cream, but I would have never encountered the concept if it weren't for his show. And yes, it's as awesome as it is odd. (The ice cream, too.)
All the ingredients necessary and sufficient to engineer an election result undetectably and without pesky statistical red flags. George Orwell himself couldn't have designed a more riggable system.
Say goodbye to democracy.
While I can appreciate the aesthetic behind your choice of corridors, my favorite corridor is still the Laser Corridor from Resident Evil... it even has a sense of humor.