Mild stretching/exercise (as recommended by a physical therapist would be best), then pain management, then other things.
First I detached a ligament, because I had been sitting for 16 hours a day and my back was tight. I continued to live my life but since the ligaments were detached, all the pressure was on one side of my disks and two of them ruptured. Then I had those chiselled out and replaced with giant titanium screws. And I am screwed. I am in more pain now than when I had two ruptured discs. As a result, I have had a lot of time and done a ton of research into back pain.
Have hope, 99% of people with back pain will get better no matter what treatment they do or don't do. This is why there are rational people convinced they were cured by everything from homeopathy to psychic healers. The only treatment that statistically reduces the length of time that you will be in back pain is physical therapy, it is a very small statistical improvement. Mild stretching and exercise are good. Everyone knows this. Do it. I would recommend going to a physical therapist and working together to design a stretching/exercise program.
That said, there are things that doctors can do to help. If you are having muscle spasms, a muscle relaxant will help. Ibuprofen can reduce swelling. I would not recommend trying anything more serious until you have tried exercise and stretching for a long time and it has not worked. I would then recommend a pain management program before doing anything but the most minor procedures. Surgery is a last resort. Many people have good results from surgery. What the surgeons don't tell you is that some people end up way worse from surgery, way worse. I did not believe there could be more pain than having two ruptured disks, I have since learned I was wrong. And I did go to the very best surgeons.
Mild stretching/exercise, as recommended by a physical therapist, then pain management, then other things.
db
"No one is forced to eat there"
When I was making minimum wage and only had half an hour for lunch, I could eat at Mcdonalds or Burger King or go hungry.
db
(Don't feel bad this was many years ago.)
This is a nice sound bite but that's all it is. Censorship of ideas is bad. Regulating the markets for material things is unrelated. The only connection is that the free market for large Telecomms has resulted in a limited number of pro-corporate ideas being presented. More regulation of large corporations could result in a freer market of ideas, completely consistent goals.
db
If they can not pay their creditors you can force them into bankruptcy, but don't. Threaten to force them into bankruptcy unless they pay you in full. Yes, this is reverse extortion, have your lawyer do it. It will only work if they believe you are serious and they are still trying to delay bankruptcy. It happens in many bankruptcys before the inevitable happens anyways. Do not sign anything until you have talked to a lawyer.
db
The unfair use of Microsoft's monopoly to extend into other markets has hurt consumers. Whether these examples are illegal I will leave for those more qualified to decide.
Hardware companies could not sell DR DOS and MS DOS because MS would not allow it.
Stacker won their lawsuit over having their compression algorithm stolen. They had been basically out of business for a couple of years by the time they got this couple hundred million. A small cost for MS wipe out a competitor.(Okay, so disk compression is irrelevant, MS didn't know that when they wiped stacker out.)
Borland made the best compilers but every time MS upgraded DOS, and later Windows, there was a six month delay for Borland to rewrite their compiler because they didn't have access to the OS as early as the MS compiler teams did. This is a pattern with all software MS makes. Remember Word Perfect? Lotus?
Apple could turn itself into a competing OS except MS would pull its Office software. Windows would not exist if Apple was not forced to sign over some OS patents with the same threat.
All of these competitors are gone or minor now. It is impossible to say what any of these companies would have done if they were competing on a level field but their existence alone would give everyone more choices which would mean everyone would find a choice closer to exactly what they want. This is the harm MS has done to consumers
When NASP was cancelled it was because the US military plane Aurora was already successfully hypersonic. Janes originally published about this in December 1992 and there is much more evidence now. Do you really believe that the US military would stop all research into scramjets if they didn't have something?
db
As soon as they hook up those scent chips so I can smell the sweet girls at those faraway arcades I am there.
Honestly
Desperate
or is this more than desperate?
Mr. Allchin's arguments are specious but that is not important. Bloomberg News didn't seek a single quote from someone in the Open Source community. Good objective American journalism. The American way is that if something is repeated by enough newspapers it becomes the truth.
Bill Gates started his business career by ending free software. He honestly believes that without monetary incentives there will be less innovation. This will be repeated again and again. Those of you who dismiss this because you believe differently miss the point. This is the beginning of a PR war against Open Source software with the aim of branding it un-American and dangerous to our economy.
db
The worst areas for drug abuse are not the suburbs, it is the really rural areas far from a city, where there is really 0 to do except get wasted. At least that is what I heard.
db
In CA the police have digitized pictures of everyone with an drivers license or id as well as a mug shot. Once this system is accurate and a few more traffic light cameras are installed they will be able to track where everyone is all the time. Of course they will only keep track of this information to catch criminals. After every crime they will be able to print out a list of everyone who was in the area-- Suspects.
db
1. Apple ports to x86 or Amd or a net machine or anything MS wants now or in the future.
2. MS stops selling MS Office and any other applications for any Apple operating system.
3. Oooops!
Having spent 10 years programming in a Hospital I have yet to save 1 single life or improve a single medical procedure. Almost all the work is managing insurance and finances, in a non-profit hospital. Not much different than any other business.
db
If I use Zapcryption(c) to protect all the new movies I release it is illegal to make something to circumvent that. Using Zapcryption(c) I release all my old movies, where copyright has expired-- presto! infinite copyright.
This is the same theory as the Terminator gene. Even after a patent expires, companies will be able to control who grows a seed. Well, they will also need a law making it illegal to bypass the terminator gene.
Freedom of the press is required because no Government is perfect and only an outside agency has an interest in exposing the imperfections. No
computer system is perfect either. The widespread publication of computer security faults, with proof, which often means a program, is the only way to ensure that faults are fixed. This will not be allowed under Article 6 of this treaty.
I have been using the logitech wireless keyboard and trackball for a few months. Although the radio system is proprietary it works with everything I have tried. Most importantly the keyboard and trackball are fast enough to play games with which I have been told some of the ir systems are not.
db
Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Thief were all great games that also pushed the envelope of gameplay. They all had good sequels. I can only believe that if Looking Glass management had been half as good as the game designers and programmers they would all be filthy rich. db
If you spent a couple of years on a project which was ruined because your boss forced you to put it out while it was in beta, how would you feel? Ultima IX was a great game when it worked. Although Garriott has not burned his bridges by saying this, there can be very little doubt about why he left. db
Unbelievable! If echelon was spying on people in the US, and I'm not saying it isn't, there would be nothing but outrage. Instead I see attacks on France and Europe and claims of US superiority. Many of these posts display the shocking level of ignorance of my countrymen. This is about the US government spying on people who have responded in a legal manner that will expose more of the truth than we have now. If what they claim is true and they prove it they deserve to be compensated. If you can prove the French spied on you, please do, you also deserve to be compensated, otherwise stop your ignorant xenophobic ranting. db
After all the viruses that only ran on MS machines, MS had to try and trumpet the fact that this appears to have been run on Unix boxes. This may be their only chance to make such an accusation. db
Hard drive speed is not one of the specs that most consumers look at. Of those who do most only look at the channel bandwidth or maybe the RPMs. You won't find seek times or other specs in most retail stores. Until people realize that the HD can be the bottleneck in many situations SCSI will be relegated to a few niches.
Many people who would presently benefit from a SCSI drive do not have one. If more of them did, SCSI prices would come down and they would make financial sense for even more people. This will never happen unless there is a widely accepted, easy to understand, single benchmark number. This number would have to encompass all the different specs. that effect HD speed in a weighted average for some broad range of uses.
Whatever weighted average was chosen it would obviously not be true for all situations. It would be better than bandwidth and RPMs or nothing as most people use today. The full specs would still be there for those of us who care. The next step would be to get all the manufacturers to use this benchmark. This should be as easy as getting a peace settlement in the Middle East.
Until you get information from a source that is not funded or owned by a large corporation you have only heard the corporate perspective on the WTO protests. Maybe you should broaden your reading.
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The subject says it all. Accept tobacco ads for /. You'll be rich. Until we all die. Only a minor problem.
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First I detached a ligament, because I had been sitting for 16 hours a day and my back was tight. I continued to live my life but since the ligaments were detached, all the pressure was on one side of my disks and two of them ruptured. Then I had those chiselled out and replaced with giant titanium screws. And I am screwed. I am in more pain now than when I had two ruptured discs. As a result, I have had a lot of time and done a ton of research into back pain.
Have hope, 99% of people with back pain will get better no matter what treatment they do or don't do. This is why there are rational people convinced they were cured by everything from homeopathy to psychic healers. The only treatment that statistically reduces the length of time that you will be in back pain is physical therapy, it is a very small statistical improvement. Mild stretching and exercise are good. Everyone knows this. Do it. I would recommend going to a physical therapist and working together to design a stretching/exercise program.
That said, there are things that doctors can do to help. If you are having muscle spasms, a muscle relaxant will help. Ibuprofen can reduce swelling. I would not recommend trying anything more serious until you have tried exercise and stretching for a long time and it has not worked. I would then recommend a pain management program before doing anything but the most minor procedures. Surgery is a last resort. Many people have good results from surgery. What the surgeons don't tell you is that some people end up way worse from surgery, way worse. I did not believe there could be more pain than having two ruptured disks, I have since learned I was wrong. And I did go to the very best surgeons.
Mild stretching/exercise, as recommended by a physical therapist, then pain management, then other things. db
"No one is forced to eat there" When I was making minimum wage and only had half an hour for lunch, I could eat at Mcdonalds or Burger King or go hungry. db (Don't feel bad this was many years ago.)
This is a nice sound bite but that's all it is. Censorship of ideas is bad. Regulating the markets for material things is unrelated. The only connection is that the free market for large Telecomms has resulted in a limited number of pro-corporate ideas being presented. More regulation of large corporations could result in a freer market of ideas, completely consistent goals. db
If they can not pay their creditors you can force them into bankruptcy, but don't. Threaten to force them into bankruptcy unless they pay you in full. Yes, this is reverse extortion, have your lawyer do it. It will only work if they believe you are serious and they are still trying to delay bankruptcy. It happens in many bankruptcys before the inevitable happens anyways. Do not sign anything until you have talked to a lawyer. db
Hardware companies could not sell DR DOS and MS DOS because MS would not allow it.
Stacker won their lawsuit over having their compression algorithm stolen. They had been basically out of business for a couple of years by the time they got this couple hundred million. A small cost for MS wipe out a competitor.(Okay, so disk compression is irrelevant, MS didn't know that when they wiped stacker out.)
Borland made the best compilers but every time MS upgraded DOS, and later Windows, there was a six month delay for Borland to rewrite their compiler because they didn't have access to the OS as early as the MS compiler teams did. This is a pattern with all software MS makes. Remember Word Perfect? Lotus?
Apple could turn itself into a competing OS except MS would pull its Office software. Windows would not exist if Apple was not forced to sign over some OS patents with the same threat.
All of these competitors are gone or minor now. It is impossible to say what any of these companies would have done if they were competing on a level field but their existence alone would give everyone more choices which would mean everyone would find a choice closer to exactly what they want. This is the harm MS has done to consumers
When NASP was cancelled it was because the US military plane Aurora was already successfully hypersonic. Janes originally published about this in December 1992 and there is much more evidence now. Do you really believe that the US military would stop all research into scramjets if they didn't have something? db
As soon as they hook up those scent chips so I can smell the sweet girls at those faraway arcades I am there. Honestly Desperate or is this more than desperate?
Mr. Allchin's arguments are specious but that is not important. Bloomberg News didn't seek a single quote from someone in the Open Source community. Good objective American journalism. The American way is that if something is repeated by enough newspapers it becomes the truth. Bill Gates started his business career by ending free software. He honestly believes that without monetary incentives there will be less innovation. This will be repeated again and again. Those of you who dismiss this because you believe differently miss the point. This is the beginning of a PR war against Open Source software with the aim of branding it un-American and dangerous to our economy. db
The worst areas for drug abuse are not the suburbs, it is the really rural areas far from a city, where there is really 0 to do except get wasted. At least that is what I heard. db
In CA the police have digitized pictures of everyone with an drivers license or id as well as a mug shot. Once this system is accurate and a few more traffic light cameras are installed they will be able to track where everyone is all the time. Of course they will only keep track of this information to catch criminals. After every crime they will be able to print out a list of everyone who was in the area-- Suspects. db
1. Apple ports to x86 or Amd or a net machine or anything MS wants now or in the future. 2. MS stops selling MS Office and any other applications for any Apple operating system. 3. Oooops!
Having spent 10 years programming in a Hospital I have yet to save 1 single life or improve a single medical procedure. Almost all the work is managing insurance and finances, in a non-profit hospital. Not much different than any other business. db
If I use Zapcryption(c) to protect all the new movies I release it is illegal to make something to circumvent that. Using Zapcryption(c) I release all my old movies, where copyright has expired-- presto! infinite copyright. This is the same theory as the Terminator gene. Even after a patent expires, companies will be able to control who grows a seed. Well, they will also need a law making it illegal to bypass the terminator gene.
Freedom of the press is required because no Government is perfect and only an outside agency has an interest in exposing the imperfections. No computer system is perfect either. The widespread publication of computer security faults, with proof, which often means a program, is the only way to ensure that faults are fixed. This will not be allowed under Article 6 of this treaty.
I have been using the logitech wireless keyboard and trackball for a few months. Although the radio system is proprietary it works with everything I have tried. Most importantly the keyboard and trackball are fast enough to play games with which I have been told some of the ir systems are not. db
Ultima Underworld, System Shock and Thief were all great games that also pushed the envelope of gameplay. They all had good sequels. I can only believe that if Looking Glass management had been half as good as the game designers and programmers they would all be filthy rich. db
If you spent a couple of years on a project which was ruined because your boss forced you to put it out while it was in beta, how would you feel? Ultima IX was a great game when it worked. Although Garriott has not burned his bridges by saying this, there can be very little doubt about why he left. db
Unbelievable! If echelon was spying on people in the US, and I'm not saying it isn't, there would be nothing but outrage. Instead I see attacks on France and Europe and claims of US superiority. Many of these posts display the shocking level of ignorance of my countrymen. This is about the US government spying on people who have responded in a legal manner that will expose more of the truth than we have now. If what they claim is true and they prove it they deserve to be compensated. If you can prove the French spied on you, please do, you also deserve to be compensated, otherwise stop your ignorant xenophobic ranting. db
After all the viruses that only ran on MS machines, MS had to try and trumpet the fact that this appears to have been run on Unix boxes. This may be their only chance to make such an accusation. db
Many people who would presently benefit from a SCSI drive do not have one. If more of them did, SCSI prices would come down and they would make financial sense for even more people. This will never happen unless there is a widely accepted, easy to understand, single benchmark number. This number would have to encompass all the different specs. that effect HD speed in a weighted average for some broad range of uses.
Whatever weighted average was chosen it would obviously not be true for all situations. It would be better than bandwidth and RPMs or nothing as most people use today. The full specs would still be there for those of us who care. The next step would be to get all the manufacturers to use this benchmark. This should be as easy as getting a peace settlement in the Middle East.
db
Until you get information from a source that is not funded or owned by a large corporation you have only heard the corporate perspective on the WTO protests. Maybe you should broaden your reading.