An audio weapon that experts say is impossible to build mind you. All the audio experts the press consulted said the scenario the state department came up with is highly unlikely and probably impossible.Such weapons don't exist and can't because of physics.
Gerty was an AI Robot with a face much like this volleyball one that served to assist the human responsible maintaining He3 mining on the Moon the in the 2009 film Moon.
It's supply versus demand. About half the bitcoins created are in circulation, the rest are believed lost.
There are several whales who own the bulk of the remaining coins with something less than 5% available to all the other investors. That little amount in circulation is what drove prices, the whales started selling with the peak prices and it's been falling since as they move out of bitcoin and in the process increase the available trading coins by about 10times. If all the whales abandon bitcoin the price will be back down to $100 a coin it was before they moved in.
Anyone that puts money into bitcoin with this kind of manipulation possible deserves everything they get.
Maybe the hard part is thinking this is still 1950 and women are happy to be household slaves rather than have their own independent lives and careers. If you want such a women you should be spending all your time at evangelical churches.
The grad ol attack on social services when 80% of all food stamp and temporary assistance recipients are CHILDREN whose parents are underemployed and/or paid an unsupportable wage. The remaining are almost entirely disabled and elderly.
I love how people blame the mystical government when congress deliberately set this up with rules that exempted employers from benefit requirements and allowed them to pay unlivable minimum wages. Congress off loaded the expense of all those low skill jobs onto the tax payer deliberately to help their wealthy business owning friends make more money.
A $15 minimum wage and a requirement that health benefits must be offered for ALL part time workers would do much to eliminate all the people on food stamps and temporary assistance including medicaid. This is a problem created entirely by a system that's favored wealthy employers over the employed.
All the devices you list are part 15, they are required to accept all interference and that guy on the CB is protected unless you can show he's interfering with protected services. That 700mhz band in the story, it's a protected band and subject to the interference rules.
Harshly worded letter? They'll fine him $10,000 and then seize the equipment and destroy it. Don't mess with the FCC where interference is concerned, he's lucky they gave him a warning instead of just outright fining him because they could have just hit him with the $10k fine and seized the equipment on the first contact.
Space mining and ore processing has major advantageous over earth bound processing. The first is the ore's aren't all oxygenated from earth's atmosphere, this means iron can be found in its raw form rather than the iron oxide that exists on earth. One of the biggest challenges in processing ore on earth is getting all the oxygen out and getting back to the raw metal.
Another major advantage is that you can melt that ore with essentially a big magnifying glass and you have much longer to shape it because you don't' have air messing everything up.
There is one major problem though and that's the lack of gravity impeding molding and forming, something that could be addressed on the lunar surface or by building a big enough structure to make artificial gravity work. But overall mining and processing in space is probably easier than on earth and could be jumpstarted with a few tons from earth to setup the basics. The hard part is getting metal-rich asteroids into earth orbit, not the actual mining or processing. We're probably further along on this than people realize, I expect private space companies will make this happen long before a government could probably entirely for space tourism to begin with.
Maybe, maybe not, but those extravagant salaries certainly accelerated the decline. That $40 million in savings from firing 1800 people could have been had by firing a single CEO, and probably triple that could have been had removing the entire management team and replacing them with someone that knew the business and had a vision for the future.
B&N was doomed by an inability by lack of vision, the created the first Android based Ebook reader and they gave up the market through negligence. The management during this period had no vision for the future and was obsessed with the next quarter, not the technological revolution that was going to totally change their industry. B&N never adapted, there are plenty of independent book sellers still in business and actually thriving because they cater to the people that actually read books. B&N's management took the path of selling board games and coffee rather than trying to attract people that actually read books. Rather than focus the business they tried to generalize and drove the real readers to the independent book sellers.
They would have done better to fire all the management and hire one of those independent book sellers to run the chain.
You shouldn't be surprised by that, high marginal tax rates on the highest earning brackets actually helped sustain a growing middle class post war. It was in scaling back those rates and the embrace of trickle down economics that we saw the explosion in wealth inequality that we're now faced with.
The belt tightening you are lauding actually extended the great depression both in terms of absolute unemployment and in length of time. Sensible people with knowledge and respect of history acknowledge that cutting government spending during recessions actually makes the recession worse. This has been proved over and over again, yet its still the default reaction of those people, like you, without the ability to see that government budgeting isn't like balancing your personal finances.
Government Belt tightening should be in times of prosperity and government spending should expanded during slowdowns to blunt the effect of the slowdown on the general market. Otherwise all the government spending does is increase the volatility of the market. Logically either this means hold government spending constant and compensate for overspending during recessions by holding spending down during high growth periods to pay back loans made during recessions.
The most effective way to do this is to dramatically increase infrastructure spending during recessions and scale it back during booms (plus you get the benefit of low interest rates on the infrastructure spending). For example, if this strategy had been done during the great recession it probably wouldn't have shortened the recession by several years because the biggest damage to the economy was done by the complete shutdown of all construction. Construction accounts for more than 10% of the economy and when bank loans dried up in the commercial sector it cratered the construction market and took out 10% of the economy in a single shot.
Had government infrastructure spending expanded with a multi year spending plan to compensate for this drop the recession would have bottomed much sooner than it did. Instead the Republican congress stonewalled infrastructure spending and actually allowed the federal highway spending program to lapse for over two years. I have no doubt in my mind this extended the recession at least a couple years.
The SEC was created precisely to combat the fake company offering that quickly went out of business and kept all the money scam. The laws put in place to stop this are extensive including a massive amount of paperwork that ties the real people behind everything to the offering so if it turns out to be a scam the SEC can go after them and put them in prison.
Maybe at some point the SEC will have charge of crypto-currencies, but the funny thing is the same people getting ripped off will be against SEC regulation because it will add paperwork to the process.
At some point you just have to accept that a fool and their money will soon be parted. You would think with all the offerings that turned out to be scams that people would be cautious but that doesn't appear to be the case.
Do you have any idea how much these Musk branded torches will be worth in 20 years? People buying these things are making an investment.
There's a limited number, they are branded with a Musk company Brand. Musk follows through on his claim to die on the surface of mars and these things will be worth a fortune.
Which as I've already told you is exactly why you should just keep your opinions to yourself. You're wrong and you don't understand and you think you know better than everyone else what the answer is probably because you watched something on TV and are now the expert.
Life is not a cookie cutter system where the same solution works everywhere. Surgery isn't always effective and depending on the type of chronic pain it often can make it worse, far far worse. Conditions like bone spurs are often made worse by surgery and surgeries to improve things like back pain and damaged spinal columns have ridiculously low success rates even with the best surgeon in the world.
You're super pissed about something that has nothing to do with me and I guess this is your outlet, so hope you feel better now. If not, maybe a couple dozen pills per day will fix that problem of yours.
I'm not pissed about anything, I'm responding to you about not getting the point that you don't know it all and that your understanding and suggestion of solutions is uninformed and dangerous. You are ignorant of the subject and keep repeating the same bullshit over and over and your suggestions about how to fix things like chronic pain are improper and if anyone is stupid enough to believe them they could make some seriously misinformed choices.
If not, maybe a couple dozen pills per day will fix that problem of yours.
Yet another demonstration of your ignorance and exactly explains your worldview, everyone that uses opiates to relieve pain is a drug addict and surgery can fix all problems. Take comfort in the fact that your opinions are right up there with Jeff Sessions and the other hypocrites in Congress that think they know it all too, maybe you and he should have a drink and talk about how much you both know about everything. I'm sure your know-it-all attitude will allow you to bond.
My prayer to end the conversation, May God let you experience real chronic pain someday as Karma for your stupidity and judgement of others. Cheers.
Its value is in new construction hence why they are getting an end aisle demo in the home improvement stores. In comparison to a brand new roof on a brand new house, the price is comparable to standard construction. It's not cost-effective in a retrofit because it replaces the decking, underlayments and several other features of a conventional roofing system which you'd have to remove and throw away on a retrofit. Those system changes are what bring its cost into line with conventional roofing systems. Though not as cheap as asphalt it's cheaper than clay or concrete tile and near the price of a metal roof and it's got similar durability to cement tile or clay.
It's a competitive product if you are building a new house and want solar, it saves the cost of all the racking and other costs in a solar installation by placing the solar cells under the roof while being essentially cost competitive with a conventional roofing system. This combined system ends up being signficantly cheaper than a conventional roof and external solar panels because the racking and heavy protection systems on a conventional panel aren't needed.
Yes, I'm sure certain patients with legitimate short-term needs of huge amounts of opiates exist. But we're talking about over 10 years. If you have chronic pain for 10 years you need surgery, not a lifetime of pills.
If you want to be an unsympathetic dick head and personally attack me and everyone else in chronic pain you better be fucking prepared to be called out on it instead of being a whiny little bitch because you can't stand a hard discussion about facts. I stand by my comment, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about and like most people think you're a fucking expert on the subject. As I suggested far earlier in the thread you should shut your fucking mouth until you've personally experienced chronic pain. You don't even understand the problem let alone any type of solution to it.
This town is at the center of mine country, there are likely hundreds of people in permanent chronic pain (and NO SURGERY ISN'T A SOLUTION) in a town of 2,600 let alone a county of 26,000 where these are the primary pharmacies serving the area and that doesn't even include cancer patients. Your bullshit judgements of these people are asinine and just plain unacceptable. I don't know what it is about pain medicine that makes everyone such judgemental pricks but maybe you should think about this superiority complex you've demonstrated, swallow a humility pill and shut the fuck up.
The solution to a drug problem isn't to attack the only legitimate source of pain relief for hundreds of patients and get it shut down.
If you have chronic pain for 10 years you need surgery, not a lifetime of pills.
Here's something no one told me when I started getting chronic pain. Depending on the problem, Surgery effectiveness is often so low it's not even worth the risk because if it fails like it often does it will only make the pain WORSE. For example I had bone spurs surgically removed from each shoulder. I did so only because I became concerned the spurs were tearing the rotator cuff (something that cannot be fixed if it's torn).
The resulting scar tissue from the arthroscopic surgery causes _constant_ pain for me but I can lift my hands above my head now. There's about a 60% chance those same bone spurs will grow right back. At least so far I'm in the lucky 40%. Depending on the problem the surgical effectiveness can be even lower, there are several kinds of back pain where surgery has an effectiveness rate of less than 10% and often in those cases surgery will make it worse if you aren't in that 10%.
Allow me to offer some advice, you don't understand chronic pain and likely never will unless you get to experience it yourself. Stop judging others when you haven't walked a mile in their shoes. I've been to more doctors than I can count as have almost all chronic pain patients. We seek solutions, we do the research and in most cases there is no solution, no treatment and no effective drugs. That's the reality of chronic pain, you are left with pain and no answer to solving the pain only treating it's symptoms or committing suicide and neither option is a good option.
Anyone with chronic pain would being lying if they told you they hadn't considered suicide, because that's how bad the pain is. I even made the decision at one point how I would do it. Have you ever been in so much pain you started fantasizing about suicide? Do you think you are capable of judging the actions of someone in that situation? Or are you so devoid of empathy you can't understand it at all till you experience it first hand?
If Ajit had been smart at all he would have kept the Title II classification and dropped all the regulations except state level restrictions. But he was a good doggy and did what his masters wanted (to make it harder for a future Dem admin to reclassify again) and shot them all in the foot by reclassifying as unregulated and taking away their only ability to stop state level action.
He'll undoubtedly try to stop the states using his claimed regulation and the courts will shoot him down just like they did Wheeler, if it's not Title II the FCC can't regulate wire-line at all.
It's not the majority, it's the county seat and at 2600 people probably the only town in the entire county large enough to support pharmacy locations. When put in that perspective 900 people out of 26000 in the county isn't as bad and reduces the percentage by a factor of 10. You should also keep in mind that's averaging, a half a dozen stage 4 cancer patients would heavily skew the numbers because the volume of pills they'd be taking would skew the average and mean.
That's the point most of the rational posters have been trying to make, this is a statistic manipulation by a politician for political gain. From what I've seen of the Hillbilly Heroin epidemic most of the pharmaceuticals were being traffic'd in from out of state (Florida was a major source point for the entire south) and very few were being obtained with valid prescriptions locally. The addicts were buying their pills from local dealers, not going down to the local pharmacy.
Don't get me wrong, there's always going to be people doctor shopping and trying to abuse the system but their solution to this was to dramatically shut down all pain prescriptions hurting people with real pain and forcing all the addicts onto street drugs instead of pharmaceuticals. In the end the result was shifting the sales to out of country drug cartels with unregulated doses and killing lots and lots of people with those unregulated drugs. If those same people were taking their pharma Oxy they wouldn't be overdosing left and right and there wouldn't be a heroin tainted with fentinyl problem running rampant over the population. The very action to "solve" the drug problem made it 10 times worse. That's what's fucking crazy about this.
And the best part is the politicians are trying to blame pharmacies for filling prescriptions they were given which may not even be out of line for numbers of pills being dispersed because the politician is cooking the statistic to make it look awful. Drop the outrage and look at this logically. Every solution to "fix the problem" ends up making it worse.
Congress specifically gave the FCC the right to regulate antenenas. It doesn't need to be covered under the two regulatory powers I listed. In the 90's "fix" of the law they gave the FCC the specific authority to regulate placement of small sat dishes to block HOAA rules that prohibited them. This was done by congress at the request of the Sat providers.
This authority was specifically granted by congress.
I'm a chronic pain sufferer and I take significantly more than that, but that's what happens when your bones have so many bones spurs on them they look like steak knives. Yes, someone that twisted an ankle shouldn't be taking anywhere near that much but you people have NO IDEA how many people in this country are in chronic unrelenting pain for various conditions. Destroyed nerves, damages joints, blown out muscle groups, out of control immune systems. Pain is a common problem.
The fact is you wouldn't even know if someone around you was on opiate pain treatment. It's highly stigmatized and most people outside an anonymous forum like this wouldn't tell you to save their lives. You probably know several people taking that level of treatment and don't even know it because people with chronic pain usually don't advertise it because of the social stigma.
Be quiet you, the less people know about how fantastic the weather and amenities are in California the better.
Say it with me, there are no beaches in California. Everyone is raped and murdered at least once, the state is hopelessly broke and taxes are at 400% and everyone is ugly plus it snows 24/7/365 often 10' at a time. California is HORRIBLE, don't move there, don't visit and definitely don't even talk about it because it's that horrible.
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An audio weapon that experts say is impossible to build mind you. All the audio experts the press consulted said the scenario the state department came up with is highly unlikely and probably impossible.Such weapons don't exist and can't because of physics.
Power in Iceland is pretty much the cheapest in the world due to all their geothermal energy.
Apparently you aren't aware of these things called timezones or the international date line.
It is April 1st in China right now.
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Gerty was an AI Robot with a face much like this volleyball one that served to assist the human responsible maintaining He3 mining on the Moon the in the 2009 film Moon.
It's supply versus demand. About half the bitcoins created are in circulation, the rest are believed lost.
There are several whales who own the bulk of the remaining coins with something less than 5% available to all the other investors. That little amount in circulation is what drove prices, the whales started selling with the peak prices and it's been falling since as they move out of bitcoin and in the process increase the available trading coins by about 10times. If all the whales abandon bitcoin the price will be back down to $100 a coin it was before they moved in.
Anyone that puts money into bitcoin with this kind of manipulation possible deserves everything they get.
Maybe the hard part is thinking this is still 1950 and women are happy to be household slaves rather than have their own independent lives and careers. If you want such a women you should be spending all your time at evangelical churches.
The grad ol attack on social services when 80% of all food stamp and temporary assistance recipients are CHILDREN whose parents are underemployed and/or paid an unsupportable wage. The remaining are almost entirely disabled and elderly.
I love how people blame the mystical government when congress deliberately set this up with rules that exempted employers from benefit requirements and allowed them to pay unlivable minimum wages. Congress off loaded the expense of all those low skill jobs onto the tax payer deliberately to help their wealthy business owning friends make more money.
A $15 minimum wage and a requirement that health benefits must be offered for ALL part time workers would do much to eliminate all the people on food stamps and temporary assistance including medicaid. This is a problem created entirely by a system that's favored wealthy employers over the employed.
All the devices you list are part 15, they are required to accept all interference and that guy on the CB is protected unless you can show he's interfering with protected services. That 700mhz band in the story, it's a protected band and subject to the interference rules.
Harshly worded letter? They'll fine him $10,000 and then seize the equipment and destroy it. Don't mess with the FCC where interference is concerned, he's lucky they gave him a warning instead of just outright fining him because they could have just hit him with the $10k fine and seized the equipment on the first contact.
Space mining and ore processing has major advantageous over earth bound processing. The first is the ore's aren't all oxygenated from earth's atmosphere, this means iron can be found in its raw form rather than the iron oxide that exists on earth. One of the biggest challenges in processing ore on earth is getting all the oxygen out and getting back to the raw metal.
Another major advantage is that you can melt that ore with essentially a big magnifying glass and you have much longer to shape it because you don't' have air messing everything up.
There is one major problem though and that's the lack of gravity impeding molding and forming, something that could be addressed on the lunar surface or by building a big enough structure to make artificial gravity work. But overall mining and processing in space is probably easier than on earth and could be jumpstarted with a few tons from earth to setup the basics. The hard part is getting metal-rich asteroids into earth orbit, not the actual mining or processing. We're probably further along on this than people realize, I expect private space companies will make this happen long before a government could probably entirely for space tourism to begin with.
Maybe, maybe not, but those extravagant salaries certainly accelerated the decline. That $40 million in savings from firing 1800 people could have been had by firing a single CEO, and probably triple that could have been had removing the entire management team and replacing them with someone that knew the business and had a vision for the future.
B&N was doomed by an inability by lack of vision, the created the first Android based Ebook reader and they gave up the market through negligence. The management during this period had no vision for the future and was obsessed with the next quarter, not the technological revolution that was going to totally change their industry. B&N never adapted, there are plenty of independent book sellers still in business and actually thriving because they cater to the people that actually read books. B&N's management took the path of selling board games and coffee rather than trying to attract people that actually read books. Rather than focus the business they tried to generalize and drove the real readers to the independent book sellers.
They would have done better to fire all the management and hire one of those independent book sellers to run the chain.
You shouldn't be surprised by that, high marginal tax rates on the highest earning brackets actually helped sustain a growing middle class post war. It was in scaling back those rates and the embrace of trickle down economics that we saw the explosion in wealth inequality that we're now faced with.
The belt tightening you are lauding actually extended the great depression both in terms of absolute unemployment and in length of time. Sensible people with knowledge and respect of history acknowledge that cutting government spending during recessions actually makes the recession worse. This has been proved over and over again, yet its still the default reaction of those people, like you, without the ability to see that government budgeting isn't like balancing your personal finances.
Government Belt tightening should be in times of prosperity and government spending should expanded during slowdowns to blunt the effect of the slowdown on the general market. Otherwise all the government spending does is increase the volatility of the market. Logically either this means hold government spending constant and compensate for overspending during recessions by holding spending down during high growth periods to pay back loans made during recessions.
The most effective way to do this is to dramatically increase infrastructure spending during recessions and scale it back during booms (plus you get the benefit of low interest rates on the infrastructure spending). For example, if this strategy had been done during the great recession it probably wouldn't have shortened the recession by several years because the biggest damage to the economy was done by the complete shutdown of all construction. Construction accounts for more than 10% of the economy and when bank loans dried up in the commercial sector it cratered the construction market and took out 10% of the economy in a single shot.
Had government infrastructure spending expanded with a multi year spending plan to compensate for this drop the recession would have bottomed much sooner than it did. Instead the Republican congress stonewalled infrastructure spending and actually allowed the federal highway spending program to lapse for over two years. I have no doubt in my mind this extended the recession at least a couple years.
The SEC was created precisely to combat the fake company offering that quickly went out of business and kept all the money scam. The laws put in place to stop this are extensive including a massive amount of paperwork that ties the real people behind everything to the offering so if it turns out to be a scam the SEC can go after them and put them in prison.
Maybe at some point the SEC will have charge of crypto-currencies, but the funny thing is the same people getting ripped off will be against SEC regulation because it will add paperwork to the process.
At some point you just have to accept that a fool and their money will soon be parted. You would think with all the offerings that turned out to be scams that people would be cautious but that doesn't appear to be the case.
The coins might not be real money but the real money they handed over for coins certainly was.
Do you have any idea how much these Musk branded torches will be worth in 20 years? People buying these things are making an investment.
There's a limited number, they are branded with a Musk company Brand. Musk follows through on his claim to die on the surface of mars and these things will be worth a fortune.
Its value is in new construction hence why they are getting an end aisle demo in the home improvement stores. In comparison to a brand new roof on a brand new house, the price is comparable to standard construction. It's not cost-effective in a retrofit because it replaces the decking, underlayments and several other features of a conventional roofing system which you'd have to remove and throw away on a retrofit. Those system changes are what bring its cost into line with conventional roofing systems. Though not as cheap as asphalt it's cheaper than clay or concrete tile and near the price of a metal roof and it's got similar durability to cement tile or clay.
It's a competitive product if you are building a new house and want solar, it saves the cost of all the racking and other costs in a solar installation by placing the solar cells under the roof while being essentially cost competitive with a conventional roofing system. This combined system ends up being signficantly cheaper than a conventional roof and external solar panels because the racking and heavy protection systems on a conventional panel aren't needed.
You're the jackass that made the comment:
If you want to be an unsympathetic dick head and personally attack me and everyone else in chronic pain you better be fucking prepared to be called out on it instead of being a whiny little bitch because you can't stand a hard discussion about facts. I stand by my comment, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about and like most people think you're a fucking expert on the subject. As I suggested far earlier in the thread you should shut your fucking mouth until you've personally experienced chronic pain. You don't even understand the problem let alone any type of solution to it.
This town is at the center of mine country, there are likely hundreds of people in permanent chronic pain (and NO SURGERY ISN'T A SOLUTION) in a town of 2,600 let alone a county of 26,000 where these are the primary pharmacies serving the area and that doesn't even include cancer patients. Your bullshit judgements of these people are asinine and just plain unacceptable. I don't know what it is about pain medicine that makes everyone such judgemental pricks but maybe you should think about this superiority complex you've demonstrated, swallow a humility pill and shut the fuck up.
The solution to a drug problem isn't to attack the only legitimate source of pain relief for hundreds of patients and get it shut down.
If you have chronic pain for 10 years you need surgery, not a lifetime of pills.
Here's something no one told me when I started getting chronic pain. Depending on the problem, Surgery effectiveness is often so low it's not even worth the risk because if it fails like it often does it will only make the pain WORSE. For example I had bone spurs surgically removed from each shoulder. I did so only because I became concerned the spurs were tearing the rotator cuff (something that cannot be fixed if it's torn).
The resulting scar tissue from the arthroscopic surgery causes _constant_ pain for me but I can lift my hands above my head now. There's about a 60% chance those same bone spurs will grow right back. At least so far I'm in the lucky 40%. Depending on the problem the surgical effectiveness can be even lower, there are several kinds of back pain where surgery has an effectiveness rate of less than 10% and often in those cases surgery will make it worse if you aren't in that 10%.
Allow me to offer some advice, you don't understand chronic pain and likely never will unless you get to experience it yourself. Stop judging others when you haven't walked a mile in their shoes. I've been to more doctors than I can count as have almost all chronic pain patients. We seek solutions, we do the research and in most cases there is no solution, no treatment and no effective drugs. That's the reality of chronic pain, you are left with pain and no answer to solving the pain only treating it's symptoms or committing suicide and neither option is a good option.
Anyone with chronic pain would being lying if they told you they hadn't considered suicide, because that's how bad the pain is. I even made the decision at one point how I would do it. Have you ever been in so much pain you started fantasizing about suicide? Do you think you are capable of judging the actions of someone in that situation? Or are you so devoid of empathy you can't understand it at all till you experience it first hand?
If Ajit had been smart at all he would have kept the Title II classification and dropped all the regulations except state level restrictions. But he was a good doggy and did what his masters wanted (to make it harder for a future Dem admin to reclassify again) and shot them all in the foot by reclassifying as unregulated and taking away their only ability to stop state level action.
He'll undoubtedly try to stop the states using his claimed regulation and the courts will shoot him down just like they did Wheeler, if it's not Title II the FCC can't regulate wire-line at all.
It's not the majority, it's the county seat and at 2600 people probably the only town in the entire county large enough to support pharmacy locations. When put in that perspective 900 people out of 26000 in the county isn't as bad and reduces the percentage by a factor of 10. You should also keep in mind that's averaging, a half a dozen stage 4 cancer patients would heavily skew the numbers because the volume of pills they'd be taking would skew the average and mean.
That's the point most of the rational posters have been trying to make, this is a statistic manipulation by a politician for political gain. From what I've seen of the Hillbilly Heroin epidemic most of the pharmaceuticals were being traffic'd in from out of state (Florida was a major source point for the entire south) and very few were being obtained with valid prescriptions locally. The addicts were buying their pills from local dealers, not going down to the local pharmacy.
Don't get me wrong, there's always going to be people doctor shopping and trying to abuse the system but their solution to this was to dramatically shut down all pain prescriptions hurting people with real pain and forcing all the addicts onto street drugs instead of pharmaceuticals. In the end the result was shifting the sales to out of country drug cartels with unregulated doses and killing lots and lots of people with those unregulated drugs. If those same people were taking their pharma Oxy they wouldn't be overdosing left and right and there wouldn't be a heroin tainted with fentinyl problem running rampant over the population. The very action to "solve" the drug problem made it 10 times worse. That's what's fucking crazy about this.
And the best part is the politicians are trying to blame pharmacies for filling prescriptions they were given which may not even be out of line for numbers of pills being dispersed because the politician is cooking the statistic to make it look awful. Drop the outrage and look at this logically. Every solution to "fix the problem" ends up making it worse.
Congress specifically gave the FCC the right to regulate antenenas. It doesn't need to be covered under the two regulatory powers I listed. In the 90's "fix" of the law they gave the FCC the specific authority to regulate placement of small sat dishes to block HOAA rules that prohibited them. This was done by congress at the request of the Sat providers.
This authority was specifically granted by congress.
I don't need friends taking that many, I do.
I'm a chronic pain sufferer and I take significantly more than that, but that's what happens when your bones have so many bones spurs on them they look like steak knives. Yes, someone that twisted an ankle shouldn't be taking anywhere near that much but you people have NO IDEA how many people in this country are in chronic unrelenting pain for various conditions. Destroyed nerves, damages joints, blown out muscle groups, out of control immune systems. Pain is a common problem.
The fact is you wouldn't even know if someone around you was on opiate pain treatment. It's highly stigmatized and most people outside an anonymous forum like this wouldn't tell you to save their lives. You probably know several people taking that level of treatment and don't even know it because people with chronic pain usually don't advertise it because of the social stigma.
Be quiet you, the less people know about how fantastic the weather and amenities are in California the better.
Say it with me, there are no beaches in California. Everyone is raped and murdered at least once, the state is hopelessly broke and taxes are at 400% and everyone is ugly plus it snows 24/7/365 often 10' at a time. California is HORRIBLE, don't move there, don't visit and definitely don't even talk about it because it's that horrible.
End of discussion.