ONE hydrocodone every 5 days is a serious problem?
The typical prescription is 1 every 4 hours, sometimes 2 so you get 6-12 pills per day. When I've gotten these, I usually get 3 days worth which works out to 18-36 pills per RX..... That means they are passing out 1 RX for hydrocodone every 90 - 180 days per person (or about ~2 RX per year if my math is right).
Getting two RX scripts for pain each year doesn't sound too bad for an average, especially if the demographics favor older people. I got three pain med scripts last year myself though I only filled one. My daughter got about 5 scripts, but she was in a car accident that broke her arm and had it re-set once before they gave up and did surgery so there's good reason for this.
I'm with you on this.. They will claim to not be technically lying because what they said is actually true, but they sure messed with the numbers to make a story out of something that wasn't a story..
The town's population is 3,100. This city is the largest city in the county which has a population of about 30,000.
Surely these pills didn't get distributed only to those living in the city.... So Why do we discuss the size of the town only and not the county which the pharmacies obviously serve too? I'm pretty sure more than just city folks get their prescriptions filled in town.
Somebody is being misleading here....Very misleading. I think on purpose.
Your math is correct but the article is wrong. The population of the town is 3,100+ as of 2010. Also, this town is the largest city in the county which has a total of 27,000 people, surely some of those used those pills too.
My guess is the authors of the article where trying to make a point by skewing the population numbers lower. This is misleading to the max as for the county the pills/person works out to about 1/5th a pill per day per person.
Oh please spare me the Social utopian clap trap and class envy. It doesn't help your case.
On most of this we disagree. I guess we will simply have to wait and see if the "trickle down" part actually works. I think it will, you don't. Seems that it's doing pretty darned good right now and things are looking to get better, but you don't. So let's discuss how things are going in two more years or so...
Also, remember one simple fact.... Bulls and Bears are both eventually right. Which means that if you stick with your "It's going to crash!" mantra long enough, it's going to be true. The issue here is if the theory that we used to generate our forecast actually works. I dare say yours doesn't. I remember the hordes of prognosticators that said the Republicans and Trump would kill the stock market and the economy with their reckless policies all though the election and into the first year of Trump's presidency. This was based on your theories. Problem is, the forecast has so far been totally wrong. Could it be there is actually some truth over here on the right? I see evidence of it myself.
Well, look at it from my perspective having been raised in the mid-west, read the previous posts and I think you will see that I'm not dissing you specifically, unless you think the shoe fits. I'm dissing the guy who basically said all us folk in the Midwest are uneducated and stupid.
I think ignorance abounds on both coasts and the middle and the ignorance is about exactly who we are as individuals and the inherent value each person has. If you wish to lecture me about my views of liberals, I suggest you consider that perhaps I'm not all that different from you. However, if you are the type that thinks I was talking smack about you; if the shoe fits, then I cannot help if you wish to wear it and be offended. Either way, I don't see why you care. If I am just a back woods hick, what do you care if I call you names? If I wasn't talking about you, what's your problem?
Apologies to you.. I was talking to the previous poster who dissed the Midwest as full of stupid people.
I don't talk about it much, but most of my family is in California and although I grew up in the mid-west I was born on the left coast myself. In my experience, liberal/Conservative, left/right, Democrat/Republican or from a red or blue state doesn't really matter. We are generally all the same. Though I must admit, I do find the liberal mindset to be a bit more "we are better than you" in general and liberals tend to cluster at the coasts. This isn't a hard and fast rule, though my coastal liberal family members sure fall into that category.
Read it and weep my coastal friend.. BTW this article is not discussing everything. Amazon is looking at the Dallas area for it's second regional headquarters and there are a pile of companies who may not be moving their head quarters to north texas, but are sure expanding their operations here. I got to ask, why do you think all this is going on here? Yea, we are all just poor stupid folks with southern drawls and cowboy boots...
Feel free to stay where you are though.. With an attitude like yours, you won't fit in all that well here and we have a tendency to shoot folk we don't like.
As you say, it's unlikely you would be able to hide any kind of military installation anyway, and entry and exit points or sniper vantage points are all externally visible. I'm just guessing here but I'm pretty sure that if the adversary is capable of knowing the value of the information you outline, they are likely capable of doing the surveillance necessary to obtain it. Pattern of life data around any reasonable sized military base is pretty easy to obtain.
That doesn't mean advisories wouldn't exploit the web to obtain the data if they thought of it and had the means, but I seriously doubt this is a huge security issue in most cases...
The Midwest is just fly over country to you I guess... Have you even been here? Of course not.
What breathtaking ignorance you have...This is why we make jokes about the idiot liberals on the coasts who think they are better than everybody else, only we do so in private and with obvious sarcasm and just don't blurt out such nonsense as facts. I was raised in the mid west and have spent time on both coasts. There are smart and stupid people every place I've ever lived, in roughly the same mix. I do find arrogance in abundance on the coasts though.
Shall I give you a list of the companies who are moving to my Midwest state or the ones who abandoned the likes of California for humble Texas? Naw... You wouldn't believe stupid little me because you don't think intelligent people live in the Midwest.
Just imagine how much more productive and happy their workers would be if they'd invested $3.7 billion in the salaries of workers in Seattle.
Or, just dumped Seattle and went to the Midwest with that $3.7 Billion where labor is cheaper and the standard of living easier to maintain.
So I've got to ask, when you say "invest" in salaries of workers you mean give them raises right? The problem with handing out $3.7 Billion all in one year is that you have just increased your baseline costs unless you just hand out a one time bonus. One time bonuses are only have a short term benefit on employee's good feelings towards the company. Give them a few months and the benefit is all gone.
So Amazon spent $3.7 Billion on a hopefully better facility to improve the working environment. It might be that this has a longer term effect on how the employees feel about work and it might be just as effective as handing out cash.
I have a feeling that we ARE better than this when and where it really counts., but I do expect some additional "social media" direction to be given out that includes exercise tracking devices and cell phones.
I'm pretty sure that if you are on active duty in a war zone, PT with your FitBit or Apple Watch isn't high on the list of desired activities. If you are on a recon team actually working, you won't be running the perimeter fence of the base three times a week and I doubt they will let you take your fitbit and cell phone.
Then there is the whole, let's stuff the app's data angle here. I know of an application that spoofs your cell phone's GPS receiver and can place you anyplace you want in the world. Seems like a way to provide any data you want to the application... Makes me wonder if the military isn't capable of making it appear like their resources are vastly different than they actually are.
Ah, you assume way too much.. I hired on at a telecom that had just been merged from two companies in 2000 and kept that job for 12 years while the company went from 1200 employees to less than 500. I finally got the ax just before one of our customers purchased us to save money. The company apparently knew what was going to happen so they took pre-sale steps to adjust their books. So I've been there, done that. I've been left behind and the victim of a layoff. (The layoff was the best financial thing that ever happened to me, but that was because of the severance package.)
The reason we've not seen an uptick in wages is because we've had abysmal GDP growth numbers from 2008 though most of 2016, there was little hiring over attrition plus new people entering the labor pool. There was a huge pool of under employed and folks who where not in the labor market (where neither counted as unemployed or in the labor participation numbers). This pool is rapidly depleting. Since about November or 2016 the momentum has been growing and GDP growth has been ticking up close to 3%. This rate seems to be ticking up and anything over 2.5% is good for labor.
Raises will come. This year is my guess. But I will warn you that inflation will ALSO come along with higher interest rates. We've effectively been printing trillions of dollars and this will have an inflationary effect as or GDP grows, labor becomes scarce and productivity increases will be what drives GDP growth.
LOL... In the current labor market we are approaching nearly full employment. Historically, you simply don't get much under 4% nation wide because about that many are unable/unwilling to actually work at any wage. A bit of churn isn't going to be a huge issue, nor is it going to blow up the unemployment numbers. Mergers in this situation don't create unemployment, but grows productivity and drives GDP increases, which is an all around good thing.
Currently we are starting to see labor shortages in some job markets, where qualified applicants are getting difficult to find. This is driving wages up and sucking people who'd not normally work, back into the market. The labor participation rate is going up, unemployment is approaching historical lows. The last time we had this rate was 17 years ago. IF it drops much more, it will be the lowest unemployment rate seen in my 50+ year life. A few layoffs won't be a huge issue, unless it happens to be you getting laid off, but you will likely find a new job quickly.
Yes. Good time to invest in the mid/large cap US market. It is going through the roof! Big business won.
And I'm winning as a stockholder and employee of same.... Wages/bonus increases, income tax reduction and my stock portfolio is doing very well. So big business won, and I won too as a result.
As I under stood PRISM, it was only connected in ways that allowed the collection of call data as it traversed to/from foreign soil. Only calls that originated or terminated on foreign soil where subject to monitoring. Domestic to domestic call could not be collected.. Also, I thought the program was officially ended.
As I understand the law here, data collection on foreign targets who are on foreign soil is NOT subject to search warrants. However, callers located on US soil ARE afforded the protections and disclosing them needs a warrant. So what happened was that the PRISM system would collect data on foreign targets, and incidentally would end up collecting on US citizens. This was legal because the domestic party wasn't the target of the collection effort. Disclosing information about the domestic party required a warrant. At least, that's how it worked in theory.
It does seem that this capacity WAS used inappropriately for political reasons, but I don't know of any suspected cases where this information was used in a criminal investigation. Which, in my view, is really the issue. Criminal prosecutions of cases built out of information collected in this way should not be allowed, unless a warrant pre-dates the collection. I think this is why PRISM was publicly killed, though I doubt the capability was totally dismantled, but changed to require warrants and specific targets to drive collection.
You do know that if Trump doesn't do that, the democrats will find a reason to do it. Remember, Trump is ALWAYS wrong, regardless of your past views on the question of the day...
LOL.. Here in the US they just chain them to the back of a stolen 4W Drive SUV or large pickup truck and yank them out through the front of the store. So the backhoe thing seems a bit slow to me. Who needs a backhoe and 10 min when you have a 5,000 LB SUV and a logging chain?
I made NO CLAIMS about MacBooks or anything I have no personal experience with. My Kindle wasn't glued shut.
My kindle was simply snapped together and the back came off easily by prying in the right place with a guitar pick while puling with a suction cup. Disassembly was easy... Extracting the battery was actually the biggest issue. Seems the assembler used a lot of double sided tape so it took some effort to carefully pry the old battery out w/o causing it to short and catch fire on my kitchen table.
Are Ink cartridges next? Come on, HP/Cannon/Brother et all, cannot seriously think those things cost that much to make.... Shall we make it illegal to create a printer that detects third party or refilled cartridges and refuses to use them?
Try easily replacing the battery in an iPhone, iPad, Kindle, MacBook, etc.
I-phones are easy, Kindles are too, I've done both multiple times.. Never tied any of the rest. Seriously, replacing a battery in an I-Phone may LOOK daunting, but it's not that hard.
Sometimes such things are done as a fail safe and the device is supposed to be externally fused at a lower level. In this case, the fuse is there to protect from users doing things they shouldn't. I've seen this design used to protect from reverse polarity accidents, where a cleverly placed diode will cause the internal fuse to blow before the device can be destroyed.
Also, in high vibration and environmentally uncontrolled environments, sometimes a soldered in part is preferred for reliability.
So there IS a good reason for this *sometimes*... Though I suspect that the real reason amounts to "it's cheaper to build" more often than not.
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ONE hydrocodone every 5 days is a serious problem?
The typical prescription is 1 every 4 hours, sometimes 2 so you get 6-12 pills per day. When I've gotten these, I usually get 3 days worth which works out to 18-36 pills per RX..... That means they are passing out 1 RX for hydrocodone every 90 - 180 days per person (or about ~2 RX per year if my math is right).
Getting two RX scripts for pain each year doesn't sound too bad for an average, especially if the demographics favor older people. I got three pain med scripts last year myself though I only filled one. My daughter got about 5 scripts, but she was in a car accident that broke her arm and had it re-set once before they gave up and did surgery so there's good reason for this.
I'm with you on this.. They will claim to not be technically lying because what they said is actually true, but they sure messed with the numbers to make a story out of something that wasn't a story..
Figures never lie, but liars figure...
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There are lies, damnable lies and statistics..
The town's population is 3,100. This city is the largest city in the county which has a population of about 30,000.
Surely these pills didn't get distributed only to those living in the city.... So Why do we discuss the size of the town only and not the county which the pharmacies obviously serve too? I'm pretty sure more than just city folks get their prescriptions filled in town.
Somebody is being misleading here....Very misleading. I think on purpose.
Your math is correct but the article is wrong. The population of the town is 3,100+ as of 2010. Also, this town is the largest city in the county which has a total of 27,000 people, surely some of those used those pills too.
My guess is the authors of the article where trying to make a point by skewing the population numbers lower. This is misleading to the max as for the county the pills/person works out to about 1/5th a pill per day per person.
Oh please spare me the Social utopian clap trap and class envy. It doesn't help your case.
On most of this we disagree. I guess we will simply have to wait and see if the "trickle down" part actually works. I think it will, you don't. Seems that it's doing pretty darned good right now and things are looking to get better, but you don't. So let's discuss how things are going in two more years or so...
Also, remember one simple fact.... Bulls and Bears are both eventually right. Which means that if you stick with your "It's going to crash!" mantra long enough, it's going to be true. The issue here is if the theory that we used to generate our forecast actually works. I dare say yours doesn't. I remember the hordes of prognosticators that said the Republicans and Trump would kill the stock market and the economy with their reckless policies all though the election and into the first year of Trump's presidency. This was based on your theories. Problem is, the forecast has so far been totally wrong. Could it be there is actually some truth over here on the right? I see evidence of it myself.
Shall we agree that "time will tell"?
Of course not.. But Amazon apparently has considered a number of locations and Dallas is the obvious choice according to the Wall Street Journal:
https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2017/11/wall-street-journal-says-amazon-is-totally-coming-to-dallas/
Would you like some mustard on that crow you are eating? :)
Well, look at it from my perspective having been raised in the mid-west, read the previous posts and I think you will see that I'm not dissing you specifically, unless you think the shoe fits. I'm dissing the guy who basically said all us folk in the Midwest are uneducated and stupid.
I think ignorance abounds on both coasts and the middle and the ignorance is about exactly who we are as individuals and the inherent value each person has. If you wish to lecture me about my views of liberals, I suggest you consider that perhaps I'm not all that different from you. However, if you are the type that thinks I was talking smack about you; if the shoe fits, then I cannot help if you wish to wear it and be offended. Either way, I don't see why you care. If I am just a back woods hick, what do you care if I call you names? If I wasn't talking about you, what's your problem?
Apologies to you.. I was talking to the previous poster who dissed the Midwest as full of stupid people.
I don't talk about it much, but most of my family is in California and although I grew up in the mid-west I was born on the left coast myself. In my experience, liberal/Conservative, left/right, Democrat/Republican or from a red or blue state doesn't really matter. We are generally all the same. Though I must admit, I do find the liberal mindset to be a bit more "we are better than you" in general and liberals tend to cluster at the coasts. This isn't a hard and fast rule, though my coastal liberal family members sure fall into that category.
LOL... https://www.thehtgroup.com/ht-...
Read it and weep my coastal friend.. BTW this article is not discussing everything. Amazon is looking at the Dallas area for it's second regional headquarters and there are a pile of companies who may not be moving their head quarters to north texas, but are sure expanding their operations here. I got to ask, why do you think all this is going on here? Yea, we are all just poor stupid folks with southern drawls and cowboy boots...
Feel free to stay where you are though.. With an attitude like yours, you won't fit in all that well here and we have a tendency to shoot folk we don't like.
As you say, it's unlikely you would be able to hide any kind of military installation anyway, and entry and exit points or sniper vantage points are all externally visible. I'm just guessing here but I'm pretty sure that if the adversary is capable of knowing the value of the information you outline, they are likely capable of doing the surveillance necessary to obtain it. Pattern of life data around any reasonable sized military base is pretty easy to obtain.
That doesn't mean advisories wouldn't exploit the web to obtain the data if they thought of it and had the means, but I seriously doubt this is a huge security issue in most cases...
The Midwest is just fly over country to you I guess... Have you even been here? Of course not.
What breathtaking ignorance you have...This is why we make jokes about the idiot liberals on the coasts who think they are better than everybody else, only we do so in private and with obvious sarcasm and just don't blurt out such nonsense as facts. I was raised in the mid west and have spent time on both coasts. There are smart and stupid people every place I've ever lived, in roughly the same mix. I do find arrogance in abundance on the coasts though.
Shall I give you a list of the companies who are moving to my Midwest state or the ones who abandoned the likes of California for humble Texas? Naw... You wouldn't believe stupid little me because you don't think intelligent people live in the Midwest.
Just imagine how much more productive and happy their workers would be if they'd invested $3.7 billion in the salaries of workers in Seattle.
Or, just dumped Seattle and went to the Midwest with that $3.7 Billion where labor is cheaper and the standard of living easier to maintain.
So I've got to ask, when you say "invest" in salaries of workers you mean give them raises right? The problem with handing out $3.7 Billion all in one year is that you have just increased your baseline costs unless you just hand out a one time bonus. One time bonuses are only have a short term benefit on employee's good feelings towards the company. Give them a few months and the benefit is all gone.
So Amazon spent $3.7 Billion on a hopefully better facility to improve the working environment. It might be that this has a longer term effect on how the employees feel about work and it might be just as effective as handing out cash.
I have a feeling that we ARE better than this when and where it really counts., but I do expect some additional "social media" direction to be given out that includes exercise tracking devices and cell phones.
I'm pretty sure that if you are on active duty in a war zone, PT with your FitBit or Apple Watch isn't high on the list of desired activities. If you are on a recon team actually working, you won't be running the perimeter fence of the base three times a week and I doubt they will let you take your fitbit and cell phone.
Then there is the whole, let's stuff the app's data angle here. I know of an application that spoofs your cell phone's GPS receiver and can place you anyplace you want in the world. Seems like a way to provide any data you want to the application... Makes me wonder if the military isn't capable of making it appear like their resources are vastly different than they actually are.
Ah, you assume way too much.. I hired on at a telecom that had just been merged from two companies in 2000 and kept that job for 12 years while the company went from 1200 employees to less than 500. I finally got the ax just before one of our customers purchased us to save money. The company apparently knew what was going to happen so they took pre-sale steps to adjust their books. So I've been there, done that. I've been left behind and the victim of a layoff. (The layoff was the best financial thing that ever happened to me, but that was because of the severance package.)
The reason we've not seen an uptick in wages is because we've had abysmal GDP growth numbers from 2008 though most of 2016, there was little hiring over attrition plus new people entering the labor pool. There was a huge pool of under employed and folks who where not in the labor market (where neither counted as unemployed or in the labor participation numbers). This pool is rapidly depleting. Since about November or 2016 the momentum has been growing and GDP growth has been ticking up close to 3%. This rate seems to be ticking up and anything over 2.5% is good for labor.
Raises will come. This year is my guess. But I will warn you that inflation will ALSO come along with higher interest rates. We've effectively been printing trillions of dollars and this will have an inflationary effect as or GDP grows, labor becomes scarce and productivity increases will be what drives GDP growth.
LOL... In the current labor market we are approaching nearly full employment. Historically, you simply don't get much under 4% nation wide because about that many are unable/unwilling to actually work at any wage. A bit of churn isn't going to be a huge issue, nor is it going to blow up the unemployment numbers. Mergers in this situation don't create unemployment, but grows productivity and drives GDP increases, which is an all around good thing.
Currently we are starting to see labor shortages in some job markets, where qualified applicants are getting difficult to find. This is driving wages up and sucking people who'd not normally work, back into the market. The labor participation rate is going up, unemployment is approaching historical lows. The last time we had this rate was 17 years ago. IF it drops much more, it will be the lowest unemployment rate seen in my 50+ year life. A few layoffs won't be a huge issue, unless it happens to be you getting laid off, but you will likely find a new job quickly.
Yes. Good time to invest in the mid/large cap US market. It is going through the roof! Big business won.
And I'm winning as a stockholder and employee of same.... Wages/bonus increases, income tax reduction and my stock portfolio is doing very well. So big business won, and I won too as a result.
As I under stood PRISM, it was only connected in ways that allowed the collection of call data as it traversed to/from foreign soil. Only calls that originated or terminated on foreign soil where subject to monitoring. Domestic to domestic call could not be collected.. Also, I thought the program was officially ended.
As I understand the law here, data collection on foreign targets who are on foreign soil is NOT subject to search warrants. However, callers located on US soil ARE afforded the protections and disclosing them needs a warrant. So what happened was that the PRISM system would collect data on foreign targets, and incidentally would end up collecting on US citizens. This was legal because the domestic party wasn't the target of the collection effort. Disclosing information about the domestic party required a warrant. At least, that's how it worked in theory.
It does seem that this capacity WAS used inappropriately for political reasons, but I don't know of any suspected cases where this information was used in a criminal investigation. Which, in my view, is really the issue. Criminal prosecutions of cases built out of information collected in this way should not be allowed, unless a warrant pre-dates the collection. I think this is why PRISM was publicly killed, though I doubt the capability was totally dismantled, but changed to require warrants and specific targets to drive collection.
You need to re-read the part that says "without a warrant"... Of course carriers hand over data when they receive a warrant for it, I would.
I hope Trump sends him to the gallows.
You do know that if Trump doesn't do that, the democrats will find a reason to do it. Remember, Trump is ALWAYS wrong, regardless of your past views on the question of the day...
Bunch of pussies. In the UK, they dig the damn thing out with a backhoe http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/u...
LOL.. Here in the US they just chain them to the back of a stolen 4W Drive SUV or large pickup truck and yank them out through the front of the store. So the backhoe thing seems a bit slow to me. Who needs a backhoe and 10 min when you have a 5,000 LB SUV and a logging chain?
I made NO CLAIMS about MacBooks or anything I have no personal experience with. My Kindle wasn't glued shut.
My kindle was simply snapped together and the back came off easily by prying in the right place with a guitar pick while puling with a suction cup. Disassembly was easy... Extracting the battery was actually the biggest issue. Seems the assembler used a lot of double sided tape so it took some effort to carefully pry the old battery out w/o causing it to short and catch fire on my kitchen table.
Are Ink cartridges next? Come on, HP/Cannon/Brother et all, cannot seriously think those things cost that much to make.... Shall we make it illegal to create a printer that detects third party or refilled cartridges and refuses to use them?
I want an iPhone that runs on AA batteries. It will run for days and recharge by just replacing the batteries.
You and Apple...
No way you are getting enough power from a stack of AA batteries you'd be wiling to carry around that rivals the internal battery in an I-phone.
Try easily replacing the battery in an iPhone, iPad, Kindle, MacBook, etc.
I-phones are easy, Kindles are too, I've done both multiple times.. Never tied any of the rest. Seriously, replacing a battery in an I-Phone may LOOK daunting, but it's not that hard.
What? You don't replace with circuit breakers?
Sometimes such things are done as a fail safe and the device is supposed to be externally fused at a lower level. In this case, the fuse is there to protect from users doing things they shouldn't. I've seen this design used to protect from reverse polarity accidents, where a cleverly placed diode will cause the internal fuse to blow before the device can be destroyed.
Also, in high vibration and environmentally uncontrolled environments, sometimes a soldered in part is preferred for reliability.
So there IS a good reason for this *sometimes*... Though I suspect that the real reason amounts to "it's cheaper to build" more often than not.