The EU is unique in the world in that an extensive array of explicitly enumerated human rights are protected constitutionally
And it, and countries violate them all the time. Restricting everything from speech, to political groups, to denying a political soap box, and publication of materials it deems unfit. Arresting and detaining people for wrong think, wrong speech, wrong public opinions.
Jesus was all about sacrifice for the greater good. Something today's Americans just don't understand or accept while Canadians can't accept anything but. It's why Canadians have a real healthcare system and Americans have to decide between life and debt. Because Canada is a Christian country and Americans are just filthy atheists.
lol
Really? So why don't you explain why the average family here in Canada drops upwards of $200/mo per-person for private healthcare insurance. On top of that, going broke from paying for medications happens a lot up here. Dropping dead from not being able to get any care at all, hell the US has Canada beat on that one. If you're dirt poor at least in the US you can still get treatment, in Canada you're on the waiting list with everyone else. But hey, if you think waiting 17 months to hit a pain clinic, 16 months for cataract surgery, waiting 6mo for heart surgery, and upwards of 3mo to even start cancer treatment is good. Well I've got news for you, oh and round it out that a few years ago in many Canadian provinces, they stopped paying GP's when they left for the day for their practice and did hospital rounds.
Yes...very endearing situation. Oh and I haven't even got to the point where the medial organizations are now engaging in witch hunts against doctors who prescribe opiates for pain, to the point where doctors are saying "welp, time to retire." Enjoy that 2-10 year wait for a new GP sucker, unless you get damned lucky.
And 3000 years ago it was Europe, repeatedly. Then more recently, the dark ages, 1:2 dead from plagues, collapse of societies, organized states, and so on really did a banger on Europe. What should surprise you is after the total collapse of society to the point where the graveyards were overflowing with the dead, European society didn't regress backwards at a screaming rate like say middle eastern countries, northern africa, and so on did.
That would certainly help to explain why China remains completely unable to build enormous modern cities, high-speed trains, hypersonic missiles, supercomputers, satellites, etc.
Well it's easy to build something when you require companies to share their technology for access to their markets, and manufacturing isn't it. So really, they are unable to build those. They're able to make knockoffs that are "good enough."
So where's it say that some form of religion is mandated by the state in the US? Right. Canada has a heavier influence of religion on it's state then the US, to the point that Catholics were guaranteed protected rights, including a fully functional and separate education system funded by general revenue taxes. And *is* mandated by the state and constitutional law that it must exist.
Somehow I figure the young will grow up eventually and will be saying the same things to their kids, in about 20 years..
Well here's the question then. 20 or 30 years ago, when you were in school do you remember kids demanding that teachers refuse to teach content because it scared them? Or silence speakers because it would hurt their feelings? In high school and university, students actively fought against these things. So did the student groups and unions. Today, those groups and unions are at the front of silencing other people.
Further, isn't ÃoeExposure therapyà commonly used as a behavior therapy to help treat anxiety disorder?
Yes, and people who've have PTSD. One of the key components of social anxiety disorders is "easing the person into the world" to the point where they are comfortable enough to do so on their own. They don't have to interact, it's removing the fear that something bad is waiting out there for you. Because once you're already out there, you eventually realize that the only thing stopping you from doing something was you.
Why link to a blog post when you can go to the precise details of the vote itself?
Easy answer. You're fundamentally ignorant of what's going on around you, and need someone to hold your hand with an actual opinion of what it says, especially after your previous comment.
It appears to be mis-worded and will likely be corrected in future, stating "individual words" rather than the proposed exemption for snippets
Nope. Because they voted down an amendment that would have changed it. Go on keep reading.
I'm pretty sure you can point out how having a gun would change anything.
In the same way that lords at one time feared the armed mob dragging them out, finding a tree and grabbing some rope. I understand France did a much better job with guillotines, and guns did tip that in the favor of the reformers.
As an European I am all for it, because Wild West model of Internet currently in use gave us here rise of extreme right-wing nuts, comparable to Trump. Obviously, freedom on Internet looked nice in those times, when proffesors and students chat and shared some data on Usenet and FTP. Now, it is pretty much destroying democracy. Fsck all that and censor fake news to the ground, that is the priority, not movies and music, there is torrent for that. Real problem is millions of mindless internet-informed zombies in polling place.
Translation: I really wished that either the communists, nazi's or fascists had won. I'm too damn stupid to think for myself, and need someone to tell me what to think. Filtering out, challenging my points of view? Real people know that the only truth comes from The Party! The Party knows best!
::screams:: in the distance as should_be_linear is dragged away for deviation from party guidelines::
Considering that Canada's priorities seem to be womens issues, and payments to natives as a core component of NAFTA? I'm perfectly fine with Trump crashing it so fucking hard that the Liberal Party of Canada won't exist by next year.
It's been coming to boil for a while, but it's now the new fashionable moral panic in the U.S.
You mean it's a fashionable moral panic in most western countries, and was led by a person who has no business in being involved with it. That of course was a quack chiropractor.
Watch the vote. The MEP's were clapping and cheering as it was passed, this isn't a case of voting. They were clapping and cheering as each amendment was defeated. This is a case of politicians being so bought and paid for, that they went along with what special interest groups told them to do. People like to complain about how bad it is in the US, there's no comparison.
Nope. Because this has already had a "test phase" in Spain. Google news doesn't exist there because of it and has no plans coming back, don't be surprised if they simply fold up shop and don't service EU users on it.
If only there were a small device that only took pictures and could then transfer them to the laptop.
Well, for most people a tablet or cellphone has "good enough" resolution for people to take pictures with. It's easy, fast, they can publish it right from the device. That's one of the reasons why cameras are kinda on a decline. I still do plain old 35mm black and white photography, the stuff I learned in high school as a hobby. But it's becoming mighty expensive, it's around $100 for 100 sheets of B&W 8x10" photopaper, it was around $10 a decade ago. That's not counting on the difficulty to get some of the chemicals, fixer and developer can easily hit $50/kg/L depending on scarcity. Though luckily it's back around $12-15 right now, and makes some hobbyists get into groups to bulk-buy.
Once you know what the miner is, it's trivial to figure out what the infection vector is. I ran across a server used for an insurance company a month back doing the same thing. How'd it get on there? Because someone decided to take it for a tour on the web using an unpatched version of IE.
Obama was spot on. Trump is a symptom of our current political situation, but let's remember that Trump's populism is lagging behind other countries because they were doing it first. Especially in European countries. Trump didn't sweep to power by exploiting a republican base. He swept to power by exploiting the people that both parties ignored, and were absolutely tired of it. The republicans with the "rinos" who are more like democrats, or pawns of special interests. They had their mini-revolution with the tea party driving out the neocons, they won in the end. The democrats on the other hand, are in the middle of a civil war and being overtaken by communists and socialists. They're doubling down on special interests, corporate interests, ignoring the people that were their traditional voting block. Ask yourself, why democrats are flocking to Hollywood and actors from "fly over country" to craft their message for rural voters. Doesn't that just scream they have no fucking clue? They're not out in the streets, or meeting up with people to find out the issues. They're having someone else craft and tell them what the issues are.
Oh and they also invited those neocons in with open arms. Funny how all those people who the democrats hated, are now all over the leftwing pundit sphere preaching the same message isn't it and the rank and file democrats who haven't quit are fine with it, even though they were protesting in the streets ~15 years ago.
So what's this "current political situation" that he's making a point on? That citizens are tired of governments that allow immigration of people who don't integrate into society. That governments have become far over-reaching, in some cases enacting laws that suppress freedom of speech/movement/property. That said governments aren't representing the people that are electing them, instead they're acting in a fashion across multiple countries all in tandem. Coincidence? Possibly. But when the same policies and politics and attacks(you're a racist, sexist, islamophobe, misogynist, etc) against people are repeated like coming off a script? People start noticing it, even those who don't follow politics. That believing illegal immigration, or migrants, or whatever else has become a serious social problem. That they're tired of the politically correct garbage, being attacked for flying a flag, being nationalist. That corps lie through their teeth to avoid paying their share. They're tired of police, courts and governments who are so afraid of being labeled "racist or sexist" by special interest groups, that they ignore crimes by particular social groups. Oh and haven't even gotten to the bullshit of sanctuary cities or anything and the massive increases in crime from it.
socioeconomic categories that are disposed to opioid abuse. I'm not sure what causes what, but it is interesting.
That's the easy part, if you've ever worked a dirty job. It's because those people have damaged bodies from years of hard work. Ruined knees, elbows, wrists, feet, ankles, lower and upper back problems. The options are pain medication, or replacing the damaged joints, spinal fusion, etc. Since those aren't likely covered in any form of healthcare as preventative/rehabilitation, the health care provider will only cover medication to suppress the problem. This doesn't make it abuse either, but a chronic condition. It's the "opioid crisis" that makes it "abuse" now, because getting a scrip to kill the pain is bad. Go take some aspirin and two shots of whiskey for it, just like people did back prior to the 1930's you filthy addict.
So using that reasoning, people vote for Democrats and Hillary, mainly because they live in large cities. Which have higher levels of lead and mercury in the water, and surface contamination from cadmium and other heavy metals. This of course explains why so many people vote for Democrats, they're mentally retarded and easily influenced because of heavy metal poisoning.
But let's make actual sense of what is being said: People who are prescribed medications for chronic pain, are the same people who've worked long years in factories or other hard labor jobs and have severe damage to joints, tendons, and so on. In turn, they're more likely to vote for someone who believes there is nothing wrong with hard work. And believe that hard work, is a perfectly acceptable career path. Now, keeping this in mind. How many decades have educators, guidance councilors, teachers, and so on been pushing "don't go into trades, don't work in factories. They're all dead end jobs that will be taken over by robots." Now, by all means, explain why your average tradesman makes more then your average programmer today, and aren't facing the issue of having their job offshored by the company they're working for.
I half wonder if the people that claim it helps aren't just making this shit up to sell it.
They're not. It's either hit or miss, that's why say a person with migraines can be treated easily with stuff like Fiorinal c(asprin/barbiturates/codine/caffine) in one mix. And other people are on everything from sandomigraine to gabapentin and still have problems. It's why lyrica works for some people with nerve damage, and for others it increases the pain, or doesn't work at all. Why some people can get away with simply using tramadol for their pain, while others require oxycontin.
That's a crock of shit. Doctors are so afraid of prescribing opiates, that the pain clinic I goto is now shutting down. The wait for a new pain clinic another 85km away(the one I went to was 30km away), the waiting list for the 1st appointment is now 17 months. That left me in one hell of a spot, because my neurologist handed my pain treatment off to them while she continued to monitor my spine damage(broke my back in two spots about a decade back now). Let me make it clear, testicular torsion rated at a 7 out of 10 on the pain scale in my book when I was a teen. That's when my nut swelled up to the size of an apple. The two shattered vertebra that sliced into my spine, is a 9 or 10 out of 10 nearly all the time. The damage is bad enough I have a baclofen pump to reduce the muscle spasms, cramps, and loss of motor control. Luckily my neurologist had no problems picking up the prescriptions I was on, or replacing the ampules every 2-3 months.
I'm not alone in this. It's absolutely rife in Canada and the US over junkies causing those of us with long-term pain control use problems. The whole "opioid epidemic" is hurting those of us the most, who need pain management. The ONLY way I function is by having something that will suppress the pain enough that I can work(even then I take a long term pill, and a short-term pill for breakthrough pain), and I'd rather work then not even being able to get out of bed, being on welfare/disability and other forms of social assistance. Read this article. Chronic pain patients are the ones being most fucked over by all the hand wringing of habitual drug abusers popping themselves off with illicit drugs, laced with heavier drugs.
The people I know who have serious chronic pain? The ones that are using opiates so they can just function day-to-day? There's an awful lot of "well if they cut me off, what's the easiest way to commit suicide" going around. Those are people who suffer from chronic migraines(I have those too), to the people who've had serious spine injuries, or other issues related to diseases or complications like diabetics that have severe nerve damage to their feet/hands due to poor blood circulation. Again, read that article. The people who are saying "you don't need those drugs" are the ones who don't know what constant, unbearable pain is like. They simply think "you'll get over it."
Wheel bearing and hub assembly are exactly as they state.
Nope. Those are two different pieces, your links show that. Know why? Because not all wheel bearing are already pressed into the hub, in some cases they come as separate parts because the hub assembly is another one-off manufactured component. GM/Opel/Suzuki/Toyota for example used both in various on-off model years. In the last decade it's only become standard to use a pressed bearing into a wheel hub assembly because of the integrated components and the possibility of destroying things that are attached to it. A good example is the ABS system which is also attached to the hub, and is standard on pretty much all cars since 2006(minus the very cheapest of models). The problem, is that trying to remove the bearing itself is more likely to destroy the toothed ring. Which means you've just trashed the assembly anyway, on top of that since many wheel hubs also include speed sensors, the chances of destroying the speed sensor is also high on pretty much any vehicle that's seen a year on the road.
Trucks(semi) are the exception, they all come in individual parts because sometimes blowing $4800 on a wheel hub is too much vs the $300 for a wheel bearing. And many trucks may or may not have ABS as a standard feature, even on high end models. Especially since ABS on trailers isn't heavily in use, and there's millions of old trailers in use and will be until they fall apart.
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The EU is unique in the world in that an extensive array of explicitly enumerated human rights are protected constitutionally
And it, and countries violate them all the time. Restricting everything from speech, to political groups, to denying a political soap box, and publication of materials it deems unfit. Arresting and detaining people for wrong think, wrong speech, wrong public opinions.
Asians are Schrodinger's minority. They're considered "white" by progressive leaning outlets usually in days ending in y.
That explains a lot when you think about it.
Jesus was all about sacrifice for the greater good. Something today's Americans just don't understand or accept while Canadians can't accept anything but. It's why Canadians have a real healthcare system and Americans have to decide between life and debt. Because Canada is a Christian country and Americans are just filthy atheists.
lol
Really? So why don't you explain why the average family here in Canada drops upwards of $200/mo per-person for private healthcare insurance. On top of that, going broke from paying for medications happens a lot up here. Dropping dead from not being able to get any care at all, hell the US has Canada beat on that one. If you're dirt poor at least in the US you can still get treatment, in Canada you're on the waiting list with everyone else. But hey, if you think waiting 17 months to hit a pain clinic, 16 months for cataract surgery, waiting 6mo for heart surgery, and upwards of 3mo to even start cancer treatment is good. Well I've got news for you, oh and round it out that a few years ago in many Canadian provinces, they stopped paying GP's when they left for the day for their practice and did hospital rounds.
Yes...very endearing situation. Oh and I haven't even got to the point where the medial organizations are now engaging in witch hunts against doctors who prescribe opiates for pain, to the point where doctors are saying "welp, time to retire." Enjoy that 2-10 year wait for a new GP sucker, unless you get damned lucky.
And 3000 years ago it was Europe, repeatedly. Then more recently, the dark ages, 1:2 dead from plagues, collapse of societies, organized states, and so on really did a banger on Europe. What should surprise you is after the total collapse of society to the point where the graveyards were overflowing with the dead, European society didn't regress backwards at a screaming rate like say middle eastern countries, northern africa, and so on did.
That would certainly help to explain why China remains completely unable to build enormous modern cities, high-speed trains, hypersonic missiles, supercomputers, satellites, etc.
Well it's easy to build something when you require companies to share their technology for access to their markets, and manufacturing isn't it. So really, they are unable to build those. They're able to make knockoffs that are "good enough."
So where's it say that some form of religion is mandated by the state in the US? Right. Canada has a heavier influence of religion on it's state then the US, to the point that Catholics were guaranteed protected rights, including a fully functional and separate education system funded by general revenue taxes. And *is* mandated by the state and constitutional law that it must exist.
Somehow I figure the young will grow up eventually and will be saying the same things to their kids, in about 20 years..
Well here's the question then. 20 or 30 years ago, when you were in school do you remember kids demanding that teachers refuse to teach content because it scared them? Or silence speakers because it would hurt their feelings? In high school and university, students actively fought against these things. So did the student groups and unions. Today, those groups and unions are at the front of silencing other people.
Further, isn't ÃoeExposure therapyà commonly used as a behavior therapy to help treat anxiety disorder?
Yes, and people who've have PTSD. One of the key components of social anxiety disorders is "easing the person into the world" to the point where they are comfortable enough to do so on their own. They don't have to interact, it's removing the fear that something bad is waiting out there for you. Because once you're already out there, you eventually realize that the only thing stopping you from doing something was you.
Why link to a blog post when you can go to the precise details of the vote itself?
Easy answer. You're fundamentally ignorant of what's going on around you, and need someone to hold your hand with an actual opinion of what it says, especially after your previous comment.
It appears to be mis-worded and will likely be corrected in future, stating "individual words" rather than the proposed exemption for snippets
Nope. Because they voted down an amendment that would have changed it. Go on keep reading.
I'm pretty sure you can point out how having a gun would change anything.
In the same way that lords at one time feared the armed mob dragging them out, finding a tree and grabbing some rope. I understand France did a much better job with guillotines, and guns did tip that in the favor of the reformers.
Just read the law itself, it's the exact of what the summery states. The link's in that article and it also explains in small words that this is a link tax. It's an exact mirror of the existing German law that does the same thing.
As an European I am all for it, because Wild West model of Internet currently in use gave us here rise of extreme right-wing nuts, comparable to Trump. Obviously, freedom on Internet looked nice in those times, when proffesors and students chat and shared some data on Usenet and FTP. Now, it is pretty much destroying democracy. Fsck all that and censor fake news to the ground, that is the priority, not movies and music, there is torrent for that. Real problem is millions of mindless internet-informed zombies in polling place.
Translation: I really wished that either the communists, nazi's or fascists had won. I'm too damn stupid to think for myself, and need someone to tell me what to think. Filtering out, challenging my points of view? Real people know that the only truth comes from The Party! The Party knows best!
Considering that Canada's priorities seem to be womens issues, and payments to natives as a core component of NAFTA? I'm perfectly fine with Trump crashing it so fucking hard that the Liberal Party of Canada won't exist by next year.
It's been coming to boil for a while, but it's now the new fashionable moral panic in the U.S.
You mean it's a fashionable moral panic in most western countries, and was led by a person who has no business in being involved with it. That of course was a quack chiropractor.
Watch the vote. The MEP's were clapping and cheering as it was passed, this isn't a case of voting. They were clapping and cheering as each amendment was defeated. This is a case of politicians being so bought and paid for, that they went along with what special interest groups told them to do. People like to complain about how bad it is in the US, there's no comparison.
Nope. Because this has already had a "test phase" in Spain. Google news doesn't exist there because of it and has no plans coming back, don't be surprised if they simply fold up shop and don't service EU users on it.
Sounds like a PC to me. Man what will people think of next? Calculators on wrist watches again?
If only there were a small device that only took pictures and could then transfer them to the laptop.
Well, for most people a tablet or cellphone has "good enough" resolution for people to take pictures with. It's easy, fast, they can publish it right from the device. That's one of the reasons why cameras are kinda on a decline. I still do plain old 35mm black and white photography, the stuff I learned in high school as a hobby. But it's becoming mighty expensive, it's around $100 for 100 sheets of B&W 8x10" photopaper, it was around $10 a decade ago. That's not counting on the difficulty to get some of the chemicals, fixer and developer can easily hit $50/kg/L depending on scarcity. Though luckily it's back around $12-15 right now, and makes some hobbyists get into groups to bulk-buy.
Once you know what the miner is, it's trivial to figure out what the infection vector is. I ran across a server used for an insurance company a month back doing the same thing. How'd it get on there? Because someone decided to take it for a tour on the web using an unpatched version of IE.
Yeah and I finished my mechanics apprenticeship in 1993, I might have an idea on what I'm talking about too.
Obama was spot on. Trump is a symptom of our current political situation, but let's remember that Trump's populism is lagging behind other countries because they were doing it first. Especially in European countries. Trump didn't sweep to power by exploiting a republican base. He swept to power by exploiting the people that both parties ignored, and were absolutely tired of it. The republicans with the "rinos" who are more like democrats, or pawns of special interests. They had their mini-revolution with the tea party driving out the neocons, they won in the end. The democrats on the other hand, are in the middle of a civil war and being overtaken by communists and socialists. They're doubling down on special interests, corporate interests, ignoring the people that were their traditional voting block. Ask yourself, why democrats are flocking to Hollywood and actors from "fly over country" to craft their message for rural voters. Doesn't that just scream they have no fucking clue? They're not out in the streets, or meeting up with people to find out the issues. They're having someone else craft and tell them what the issues are.
Oh and they also invited those neocons in with open arms. Funny how all those people who the democrats hated, are now all over the leftwing pundit sphere preaching the same message isn't it and the rank and file democrats who haven't quit are fine with it, even though they were protesting in the streets ~15 years ago.
So what's this "current political situation" that he's making a point on? That citizens are tired of governments that allow immigration of people who don't integrate into society. That governments have become far over-reaching, in some cases enacting laws that suppress freedom of speech/movement/property. That said governments aren't representing the people that are electing them, instead they're acting in a fashion across multiple countries all in tandem. Coincidence? Possibly. But when the same policies and politics and attacks(you're a racist, sexist, islamophobe, misogynist, etc) against people are repeated like coming off a script? People start noticing it, even those who don't follow politics. That believing illegal immigration, or migrants, or whatever else has become a serious social problem. That they're tired of the politically correct garbage, being attacked for flying a flag, being nationalist. That corps lie through their teeth to avoid paying their share. They're tired of police, courts and governments who are so afraid of being labeled "racist or sexist" by special interest groups, that they ignore crimes by particular social groups. Oh and haven't even gotten to the bullshit of sanctuary cities or anything and the massive increases in crime from it.
socioeconomic categories that are disposed to opioid abuse. I'm not sure what causes what, but it is interesting.
That's the easy part, if you've ever worked a dirty job. It's because those people have damaged bodies from years of hard work. Ruined knees, elbows, wrists, feet, ankles, lower and upper back problems. The options are pain medication, or replacing the damaged joints, spinal fusion, etc. Since those aren't likely covered in any form of healthcare as preventative/rehabilitation, the health care provider will only cover medication to suppress the problem. This doesn't make it abuse either, but a chronic condition. It's the "opioid crisis" that makes it "abuse" now, because getting a scrip to kill the pain is bad. Go take some aspirin and two shots of whiskey for it, just like people did back prior to the 1930's you filthy addict.
So using that reasoning, people vote for Democrats and Hillary, mainly because they live in large cities. Which have higher levels of lead and mercury in the water, and surface contamination from cadmium and other heavy metals. This of course explains why so many people vote for Democrats, they're mentally retarded and easily influenced because of heavy metal poisoning.
But let's make actual sense of what is being said: People who are prescribed medications for chronic pain, are the same people who've worked long years in factories or other hard labor jobs and have severe damage to joints, tendons, and so on. In turn, they're more likely to vote for someone who believes there is nothing wrong with hard work. And believe that hard work, is a perfectly acceptable career path. Now, keeping this in mind. How many decades have educators, guidance councilors, teachers, and so on been pushing "don't go into trades, don't work in factories. They're all dead end jobs that will be taken over by robots." Now, by all means, explain why your average tradesman makes more then your average programmer today, and aren't facing the issue of having their job offshored by the company they're working for.
I half wonder if the people that claim it helps aren't just making this shit up to sell it.
They're not. It's either hit or miss, that's why say a person with migraines can be treated easily with stuff like Fiorinal c(asprin/barbiturates/codine/caffine) in one mix. And other people are on everything from sandomigraine to gabapentin and still have problems. It's why lyrica works for some people with nerve damage, and for others it increases the pain, or doesn't work at all. Why some people can get away with simply using tramadol for their pain, while others require oxycontin.
That's a crock of shit. Doctors are so afraid of prescribing opiates, that the pain clinic I goto is now shutting down. The wait for a new pain clinic another 85km away(the one I went to was 30km away), the waiting list for the 1st appointment is now 17 months. That left me in one hell of a spot, because my neurologist handed my pain treatment off to them while she continued to monitor my spine damage(broke my back in two spots about a decade back now). Let me make it clear, testicular torsion rated at a 7 out of 10 on the pain scale in my book when I was a teen. That's when my nut swelled up to the size of an apple. The two shattered vertebra that sliced into my spine, is a 9 or 10 out of 10 nearly all the time. The damage is bad enough I have a baclofen pump to reduce the muscle spasms, cramps, and loss of motor control. Luckily my neurologist had no problems picking up the prescriptions I was on, or replacing the ampules every 2-3 months.
I'm not alone in this. It's absolutely rife in Canada and the US over junkies causing those of us with long-term pain control use problems. The whole "opioid epidemic" is hurting those of us the most, who need pain management. The ONLY way I function is by having something that will suppress the pain enough that I can work(even then I take a long term pill, and a short-term pill for breakthrough pain), and I'd rather work then not even being able to get out of bed, being on welfare/disability and other forms of social assistance. Read this article. Chronic pain patients are the ones being most fucked over by all the hand wringing of habitual drug abusers popping themselves off with illicit drugs, laced with heavier drugs.
The people I know who have serious chronic pain? The ones that are using opiates so they can just function day-to-day? There's an awful lot of "well if they cut me off, what's the easiest way to commit suicide" going around. Those are people who suffer from chronic migraines(I have those too), to the people who've had serious spine injuries, or other issues related to diseases or complications like diabetics that have severe nerve damage to their feet/hands due to poor blood circulation. Again, read that article. The people who are saying "you don't need those drugs" are the ones who don't know what constant, unbearable pain is like. They simply think "you'll get over it."
What the hell is a piston bearing?
That's a piston bearing, note not bushing.
Wheel bearing and hub assembly are exactly as they state.
Nope. Those are two different pieces, your links show that. Know why? Because not all wheel bearing are already pressed into the hub, in some cases they come as separate parts because the hub assembly is another one-off manufactured component. GM/Opel/Suzuki/Toyota for example used both in various on-off model years. In the last decade it's only become standard to use a pressed bearing into a wheel hub assembly because of the integrated components and the possibility of destroying things that are attached to it. A good example is the ABS system which is also attached to the hub, and is standard on pretty much all cars since 2006(minus the very cheapest of models). The problem, is that trying to remove the bearing itself is more likely to destroy the toothed ring. Which means you've just trashed the assembly anyway, on top of that since many wheel hubs also include speed sensors, the chances of destroying the speed sensor is also high on pretty much any vehicle that's seen a year on the road.
Trucks(semi) are the exception, they all come in individual parts because sometimes blowing $4800 on a wheel hub is too much vs the $300 for a wheel bearing. And many trucks may or may not have ABS as a standard feature, even on high end models. Especially since ABS on trailers isn't heavily in use, and there's millions of old trailers in use and will be until they fall apart.