Ease of use my arse. Obfuscating an interface under big, shiny buttons is not "ease of use". Not to mention no batterly life on the iPhone 4s and a charging cable so short you have to put your $500+ phone on the floor wherever you charge it.
I agree, and it's amazing how many posts I had to read before seeing one that matched my observation. Subjects were allowed to place themselves into the rich/poor category according to how they answered online survey questions. There was no follow up to see if they were being truthful about their "wealth" or not. End result: liars continue lying and trolls continue trolling.
Gravity exists. But you are in free fall falling back towards the earth at exactly the same rate, so you don't perceive the effects of gravity. But "zero gee" does not mean the absence of gravity - only the absence of its observed effects.
I suggest you lay off the brown before it takes you down
Quite insightful - you are assuming I use this drug. Insightful, but completely wrong. The only drugs I do are cholesterol pills, blood pressure pills, blood thinners and when I really want to party, nitro glycerine.
You mean there are no heroin addicts in the world today? Tell me something, do you think that handing out needles to heroin addicts - a policy that was begun by several governments to help stop the spread of HIV - do you think this policy increased heroin use because now they could get free/clean needles?
You fail to accept that if you put a group of people in a field, people will eventually wander off to different parts of the field. That's human nature. And if you put a fence in the middle of the field and tell people "you're not allowed on the other side of the fence", there will always be people who will ignore you and find a way over the fence. That is also human nature. Now you can get mad about this and start shooting everyone who tries to jump over the fence - but who is the real criminal here? The guy following his instincts or the manipulative sadist who is willing to kill people to have his lack of understanding of human nature respected?
There are drug addicts in the world. There will ALWAYS be drug addicts in the world. It doesn't matter what you do, they will find a way. Calling them evil, pointing fingers at them, stigmatizing them and trying to put roadblocks in their way is not going to stop them. Funny though how many very creative people were/are drug addicts. Poets, writers, scientists, painters, composers... These are all evil people?
No this is not about what I "feel". It's about my work in palliative care with opioids, my own experience as a chronic and severely ill cardiac patient with hospital-administered opioids months in intensive care, open heart surgery, and opioid withdrawal, and what I have studied about opioids. Feeling has nothing to do with it. I don't think there would be much point asking you what you "feel" because I expect it to be the standard answer everyone is trained to repeat. Opioids are from the devil. Baa baa baa.
IS point 4 really caused by point 1 and 2? I mean would you consider cigarette smokers to have the same violent tendencies? After all cigarettes are quite addictive. There are a lot more cigarette smokers for a lot longer period of time than there are heroin addicts. In fact you are much more likely to continue smoking for 10 or even 20 years if you use tobacco as a teen, than to use heroin for 20 years if you use it as a teen.
As for point 3, that is because it's an IV drug you buy on the street. The dose is dependent in no small part on the purity of your batch, which varies highly. It is VERY hard to accidentally overdose on opioids if you have used them regularly due to tolerance. The problems arise when you've been off heroin for a while (even as little as a couple weeks) and the tolerance diminishes again and you resume at your previous dose (which your body can no longer tolerate), or when your dealer gives you a less cut batch without telling you and you unwittingly prepare a dose far too strong for what you can tolerate. Heroin addicts can easily tolerate doses that would kill you or me, however, and they show absolutely no signs of depressed vital signs. In fact pharmacology and anesthesiology books state that there is no maximum dose of opiods. The dose can be titrated upwards forever over time, and the body can adapt. The curve just shifts to the right. This is often done in terminal patients.
The human trafficking, etc, is actually caused by the drug dealers, not by the drug. You see human trafficking in prostitution, in factories - hell you even see it on fishing boats. Human trafficking is caused by evil men, not by drug addicts.
You seem to present the "standard" argument. I was curious because I am a physician with a lot of experience in opioids and opiates. I am surprised and somewhat shocked by the fact that the mere mention of them will cause whispers even among supposedly educated colleagues. Opioids are highly useful in many situations, they are the best pain killer, the best cough suppresant, the best anti-diarrheal medication AND one of the least dangerous/toxic anesthetics, all rolled into one. But I see that instead of learning about these compounds the propaganda has made people afraid of them, and I have seen people suffer with un-necessary pain because their physician was AFRAID to use them.
Just think that as little as 100 years ago grandmothers all over the world were REGULARLY dosing their children with Paregoric. Paregoric is opium dissolved in alchohol. Paregoric would cure everything, from tummy aches to headaches to whatever was wrong with the child. Of course it did, the kids would stop feeling pain. It wasn't a real "cure", but it was enough to shut the kid up until his body healed itself. Still the point is that even though pretty much every kid in the world was an opium user 100 years ago, somehow the world failed to descend into the chaos and anarchy the anti-drug people would have you think is associated with these drugs. And there certainly was no revolution when opium was removed from the market. So how addicted were they? Remove tobacco from the market overnight and see what happens.
Anyway my $0.02 worth. It's amazing how much you can learn about something when you actually study it instead of repeating what someone else told you to say.
While heroin has never struck me as a terribly wise drug of choice
Why? I'd like to know what you base your criteria on. Apart from the fact that heroin is the most villified, demonized of the drugs (when actually cocaine and methadone deserve that slot) and that because heroin is an iv drug, contaminants and dosage variations can have a serious effect on its users. But apart from these points what is it about heroin that makes it worse than say, LSD? I'm curious.
The euphoric effect is controlled by entirely different receptors than the analgesic and anesthetic effects. My worry is that people will not be able to experience pleasure from non-heroin means either. This could create a problem worse than addiction when you start making people who just don't give a damn anymore and also have a grudge...
The lab mice failed to mention this minor detail. I guess we'll have to wait for the human trials. Well blacks in the Southern US and Guatemalans are out. Where can we do this?
Methadone is typical for people so addicted that cold turkey would kill them
This is not true. No one dies from opiod withdrawal. Oh sure you FEEL like you're going to die, and I'm sure some have comitted suicide because of this. But the withdrawal itself is relatively harmless unless you already have severe circulatory problems (some patients can develop hypertension in the first few days).
Benzodiazepine (like valium, ativan, etc) (seizures), alcohol (seizures, hypoglycemia, arrhythmias) and cocaine (long QT syndrome leading to fatal arrhythmia) withdrawal can all kill you. But not opioids. Your whole body will ache, you will have the shits, you will feel like you are on fire, your head will feel like it is exploding and you will feel like you have a cold and be coughing like crazy. But you won't die.
Yes I want to move all my data to a country that has proven it is willing to roll over for foreign governments - nay, foreign movie industries... What could possibly go wrong. Of course one the data is all in Sweden I can imagine that suddenly Sweden will be receiving a lot of "terrorism-related enquiries and please hand over all the servers" by the US and other countries.
Presumably there would also be a number of locations where different types of house-hold appliace would provide 50% survival. It would be interesting to compare 50% survival in a washing machine to say 50% survival by standing behind a vacuum cleaner and 50% survival by beating the air with a broom.
Assuming that the survival rate function is continuous, then the intermediate value theorem would prove you right. I also stipulate that there must be a spot where the survival rate is exactly 66.667%
Increased cockpit security and more aware citizens is more than good enough for me.
100% agree. It took 9/11 to make pilots lock the damned cockpit door. This means 9/11 is never happening again - unless it's done by legitimate airline employees. Let's hope airlines screen their personnel with a bit of common sense. Of course any number of things short of 9/11 can happen. But another thing 9/11 did is educate passengers. Before, people would sit around because you had a fair chance, after a few hours/days, of going home safe and sound. Now people have realized that it's up to them to stop this sort of thing, and no one will think twice of punching someone in the face if they are acting suspiciously.
Therefore it can be argued that the TSA, DHS, and "official government response" to 9/11 has been hype, over-reacting and needlessly engaging in shenanigans grounding aircraft, blowing up suitcases full of underwear, and closing airport terminals "out of an abundance of caution" whereas all terror attemtps so far have been thwarted by - the passengers. So why do we need even MORE government again?
Out next experiment, called "nuking the server", was carried out successfully. Oh I love a good slashdotting in the evenings. Now, anyone care to calculate the temperatures on the server at this time?
No he's not dumb. He realizes that if he says 50-50, then millions of people will believe him and tell everyone they know about this "fact" they have discovered. He's actually quite smart. Completely incorrect - but when did that ever get in the way of making a buck?
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Ahh those overlapping confidence intervals.
Ease of use my arse. Obfuscating an interface under big, shiny buttons is not "ease of use". Not to mention no batterly life on the iPhone 4s and a charging cable so short you have to put your $500+ phone on the floor wherever you charge it.
I agree, and it's amazing how many posts I had to read before seeing one that matched my observation. Subjects were allowed to place themselves into the rich/poor category according to how they answered online survey questions. There was no follow up to see if they were being truthful about their "wealth" or not. End result: liars continue lying and trolls continue trolling.
You didn't go to school with the rich. You went to school with their children.
Gravity exists. But you are in free fall falling back towards the earth at exactly the same rate, so you don't perceive the effects of gravity. But "zero gee" does not mean the absence of gravity - only the absence of its observed effects.
I suggest you lay off the brown before it takes you down
Quite insightful - you are assuming I use this drug. Insightful, but completely wrong. The only drugs I do are cholesterol pills, blood pressure pills, blood thinners and when I really want to party, nitro glycerine.
But what about being addicted in the first place?
You mean there are no heroin addicts in the world today? Tell me something, do you think that handing out needles to heroin addicts - a policy that was begun by several governments to help stop the spread of HIV - do you think this policy increased heroin use because now they could get free/clean needles?
You fail to accept that if you put a group of people in a field, people will eventually wander off to different parts of the field. That's human nature. And if you put a fence in the middle of the field and tell people "you're not allowed on the other side of the fence", there will always be people who will ignore you and find a way over the fence. That is also human nature. Now you can get mad about this and start shooting everyone who tries to jump over the fence - but who is the real criminal here? The guy following his instincts or the manipulative sadist who is willing to kill people to have his lack of understanding of human nature respected?
There are drug addicts in the world. There will ALWAYS be drug addicts in the world. It doesn't matter what you do, they will find a way. Calling them evil, pointing fingers at them, stigmatizing them and trying to put roadblocks in their way is not going to stop them. Funny though how many very creative people were/are drug addicts. Poets, writers, scientists, painters, composers... These are all evil people?
No this is not about what I "feel". It's about my work in palliative care with opioids, my own experience as a chronic and severely ill cardiac patient with hospital-administered opioids months in intensive care, open heart surgery, and opioid withdrawal, and what I have studied about opioids. Feeling has nothing to do with it. I don't think there would be much point asking you what you "feel" because I expect it to be the standard answer everyone is trained to repeat. Opioids are from the devil. Baa baa baa.
IS point 4 really caused by point 1 and 2? I mean would you consider cigarette smokers to have the same violent tendencies? After all cigarettes are quite addictive. There are a lot more cigarette smokers for a lot longer period of time than there are heroin addicts. In fact you are much more likely to continue smoking for 10 or even 20 years if you use tobacco as a teen, than to use heroin for 20 years if you use it as a teen.
As for point 3, that is because it's an IV drug you buy on the street. The dose is dependent in no small part on the purity of your batch, which varies highly. It is VERY hard to accidentally overdose on opioids if you have used them regularly due to tolerance. The problems arise when you've been off heroin for a while (even as little as a couple weeks) and the tolerance diminishes again and you resume at your previous dose (which your body can no longer tolerate), or when your dealer gives you a less cut batch without telling you and you unwittingly prepare a dose far too strong for what you can tolerate. Heroin addicts can easily tolerate doses that would kill you or me, however, and they show absolutely no signs of depressed vital signs. In fact pharmacology and anesthesiology books state that there is no maximum dose of opiods. The dose can be titrated upwards forever over time, and the body can adapt. The curve just shifts to the right. This is often done in terminal patients.
The human trafficking, etc, is actually caused by the drug dealers, not by the drug. You see human trafficking in prostitution, in factories - hell you even see it on fishing boats. Human trafficking is caused by evil men, not by drug addicts.
You seem to present the "standard" argument. I was curious because I am a physician with a lot of experience in opioids and opiates. I am surprised and somewhat shocked by the fact that the mere mention of them will cause whispers even among supposedly educated colleagues. Opioids are highly useful in many situations, they are the best pain killer, the best cough suppresant, the best anti-diarrheal medication AND one of the least dangerous/toxic anesthetics, all rolled into one. But I see that instead of learning about these compounds the propaganda has made people afraid of them, and I have seen people suffer with un-necessary pain because their physician was AFRAID to use them.
Just think that as little as 100 years ago grandmothers all over the world were REGULARLY dosing their children with Paregoric. Paregoric is opium dissolved in alchohol. Paregoric would cure everything, from tummy aches to headaches to whatever was wrong with the child. Of course it did, the kids would stop feeling pain. It wasn't a real "cure", but it was enough to shut the kid up until his body healed itself. Still the point is that even though pretty much every kid in the world was an opium user 100 years ago, somehow the world failed to descend into the chaos and anarchy the anti-drug people would have you think is associated with these drugs. And there certainly was no revolution when opium was removed from the market. So how addicted were they? Remove tobacco from the market overnight and see what happens.
Anyway my $0.02 worth. It's amazing how much you can learn about something when you actually study it instead of repeating what someone else told you to say.
would that turn them into THE definition of a psychopath
Better yet do it without their consent so they have an axe to grind against "society".
While heroin has never struck me as a terribly wise drug of choice
Why? I'd like to know what you base your criteria on. Apart from the fact that heroin is the most villified, demonized of the drugs (when actually cocaine and methadone deserve that slot) and that because heroin is an iv drug, contaminants and dosage variations can have a serious effect on its users. But apart from these points what is it about heroin that makes it worse than say, LSD? I'm curious.
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The euphoric effect is controlled by entirely different receptors than the analgesic and anesthetic effects. My worry is that people will not be able to experience pleasure from non-heroin means either. This could create a problem worse than addiction when you start making people who just don't give a damn anymore and also have a grudge...
The lab mice failed to mention this minor detail. I guess we'll have to wait for the human trials. Well blacks in the Southern US and Guatemalans are out. Where can we do this?
Methadone is typical for people so addicted that cold turkey would kill them
This is not true. No one dies from opiod withdrawal. Oh sure you FEEL like you're going to die, and I'm sure some have comitted suicide because of this. But the withdrawal itself is relatively harmless unless you already have severe circulatory problems (some patients can develop hypertension in the first few days).
Benzodiazepine (like valium, ativan, etc) (seizures), alcohol (seizures, hypoglycemia, arrhythmias) and cocaine (long QT syndrome leading to fatal arrhythmia) withdrawal can all kill you. But not opioids. Your whole body will ache, you will have the shits, you will feel like you are on fire, your head will feel like it is exploding and you will feel like you have a cold and be coughing like crazy. But you won't die.
Yes I want to move all my data to a country that has proven it is willing to roll over for foreign governments - nay, foreign movie industries... What could possibly go wrong. Of course one the data is all in Sweden I can imagine that suddenly Sweden will be receiving a lot of "terrorism-related enquiries and please hand over all the servers" by the US and other countries.
On second thoughts our test subjects would be in serious trouble if in fact survival is not continuous but obeys its own quantum probability...
Presumably there would also be a number of locations where different types of house-hold appliace would provide 50% survival. It would be interesting to compare 50% survival in a washing machine to say 50% survival by standing behind a vacuum cleaner and 50% survival by beating the air with a broom.
Assuming that the survival rate function is continuous, then the intermediate value theorem would prove you right. I also stipulate that there must be a spot where the survival rate is exactly 66.667%
Increased cockpit security and more aware citizens is more than good enough for me.
100% agree. It took 9/11 to make pilots lock the damned cockpit door. This means 9/11 is never happening again - unless it's done by legitimate airline employees. Let's hope airlines screen their personnel with a bit of common sense. Of course any number of things short of 9/11 can happen. But another thing 9/11 did is educate passengers. Before, people would sit around because you had a fair chance, after a few hours/days, of going home safe and sound. Now people have realized that it's up to them to stop this sort of thing, and no one will think twice of punching someone in the face if they are acting suspiciously.
Therefore it can be argued that the TSA, DHS, and "official government response" to 9/11 has been hype, over-reacting and needlessly engaging in shenanigans grounding aircraft, blowing up suitcases full of underwear, and closing airport terminals "out of an abundance of caution" whereas all terror attemtps so far have been thwarted by - the passengers. So why do we need even MORE government again?
Out next experiment, called "nuking the server", was carried out successfully. Oh I love a good slashdotting in the evenings. Now, anyone care to calculate the temperatures on the server at this time?
Match point to you, sir. Well done :)
No he's not dumb. He realizes that if he says 50-50, then millions of people will believe him and tell everyone they know about this "fact" they have discovered. He's actually quite smart. Completely incorrect - but when did that ever get in the way of making a buck?
How high would the overpressure be under the nuclear blast?
These links provide some food for thought.
So does the article - in fact it provides the actual numbers.
I'd like to see them test the ripping out a man's heart one,
Not something you do successfully in your average weird cultist temple, but this is done in heart transplants all the time...