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  1. Re:Painkillers? on Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Eliminating the symptoms while not curing the disease seems like the holy grail of drug companies.
    After all, if you a drug solves your problem, you don't need to buy it again.
    But, if a drug only temporarily removes the symptoms, you have to keep buying the drug, and the drug company makes major $$$.

  2. Re:The check-in agents can get you selected too on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    Here is the $100 question.

    If It is the SSSS on the boardimg pass that says you are to be searched,
    And I (or any terrorist) can print out a boarding pass from my home computer,
    Why couldn't I (or any terrorist), just remove the SSSS from the boarding pass I print out,
    Thererby insuring that I (or a terrorist) will not be randomly searched.

  3. Its Simple - Pay CS Majors More on The Continuing American Decline in CS · · Score: 1, Insightful


    In the US, we are motivated by one thing - Money.
    If CS Majors made as much as doctors or lawyers, more people would take math and Computer science courses.