Read more carefully. They aren't banning acetaminophen, but rather painkillers that also include acetaminophen (notice the list explictly said Tylenol with codeine rather than just Tylenol). As a fellow warfarin user, my jaw dropped for a second, too, until I realized what they are actually doing.
If you are a fan of any of those mixed meds, you'll just need to take the med and the tylenol separately instead of having it conventiently pre-mixed.
Acetaminophen is the safest pain reliever to take with warfarin (Coumadin, Jantoven). It does not cause bleeding of the lining of the gastrointestinal tract as many other pain relievers do.
I'd agree if all vehicles were gas powered, but now we are looking at other fuels. Most of those could be taxed similarly, but you run into a little hitch with electric plugins. The only way to tax them appropriately would be to mandate that they only be charged via special, separately metered outlets but it's going to be pretty difficult to prevent people from plugging it in to the normal outlet. Even if you change the plug configuration, people will just use adapters. The only solutions I see are:
1) make some sort of DRM-like system for the meter to communicate with the car, where the car will only initiate charging once the meter authenticates itself. Good luck with that.
2) have a system where non electric cars are taxed on the fuel, but electrics meter their own use and report back (like this proposed GPS system, except without the GPS).
Or you can just outright give up on the fuel tax and go to a mileage tax as this article discusses.
Fish tank? Fuck that, I've got a swimming pool, and I'll be damned if I didn't come home from vacation last weekend and find it glowing green like a vat of toxic waste. I had no idea there were options other than dumping several pounds of chlorine in the pool.
Some people merely separate without getting a divorce (due to various reasons...avoiding cost of divorce, being able to keep medical insurance, etc). My parents separated when I was 4 and didn't get divorced until I was about 16. My dad paid child support the entire time.
But you see, that's the thing. As I've said many times before (sometimes it gets modded up, sometimes down), I can most certainly tell the difference between 480 and and 1080 when I'm looking for it, but when I throw in a movie, I'm usually not watching the movie for the technical merits of the media format. I'm watching for the story. As soon as I forget about trying to see how much better or worse one is, I completely forget about how much better or worse it is.
I suspect the difference between DVD compressed audio and BR lossless audio is imperceptible to most people, especially given the quality of the audio system components they are run through in the average living room setup.
United States Justice Department's 2002 statistics:
More than 797,500 children abducted 25 percent, were family abductions Only 58,200 were abducted by someone other than a family member Of those, 115 were taken by complete or partial strangers
So for the math impaired, 99.99% of kids that are abducted are NOT abducted by a stranger.
Well, if your kid dies by some oddball method, you can mourn their passing, but don't feel guilty that you didn't protect them from that 1 in a million chance. Otherwise, you need to be consistent and protect them from every oddball possibility. Make them wear a helmet at all times in case some meteorite hits them. They should have a kevlar vest on even while sleeping, in case some gangbangers do a driveby on the wrong house. Make sure you boil all tap water, just in case the water refinery lets a pathogen through that is lethal to the young. Etc.
PS. Statistics lesson for the day: Small odds are still small, even if they happen to you.
Well, being that the term "infant" is defined as up to the age of 1, I don't think GPS tracking would have a whole lot of effect on infant mortality statistics, no matter whether you live in Africa or Hicksville.
And you didn't even read my post. For crying out loud, I didn't say a damn thing about the OP. I said the AC asked a question. You seem to be having trouble remembering the context just a few posts into the thread, so I'll summarize it all here for you:
argent: Monday June 01, @08:05AM Post #28166277
...the soft power pushbutton goes through the OS...
Anonymous Coward Monday June 01, @08:25AM Post #28166403
...So, how does it happen that the "soft power pushbutton" works when the computer is off?
argent Monday June 01, @10:10AM Post #28167523
It doesn't. The computer is never off, it's just in idle mode
Oh my god! Put on the wrong bus. The horror. As if the driver, when he/she got to the end of the route, wouldn't have noticed "hey, I've made all my stops and there is STILL a child on the bus. Perhaps I should do something about it".
I had a similar bus mishap when I was in kindergarten, and that's exactly what happened. I was waiting and waiting for my stop. Eventually the bus driver asked me where I was supposed to be and handled the issue. She got me back to where I was supposed to be let off. No GPS tracking necessary. Instead, my mom retold me what I needed to do to make sure I was on the right bus. After being a bit scared that time, I learned rather quickly and it never happened again.
So, how does it happen that the "soft power pushbutton" works when the computer is off?
It doesn't. The computer is never off, it's just in idle mode
But I think you missed the point. You said the soft power pushbutton goes through the OS. However, when the machine is shut down there is no OS loaded. When you first plug it in, there is no possibility of any part of the OS still being resident in memory, yet the power button still turns it on.
No, you are wrong. The button doesn't go through the OS. It goes through the BIOS. The BIOS will then send ACPI messages to the loaded OS and allow the OS to handle the response to the power button. However, when you hold it down for 4 seconds, that is not treated as an ACPI event. That gets handled internally by the BIOS. The BIOS just then cuts the power without giving the OS the opportunity to do anything.
Every computer I've ever used since the soft power button came into use has behaved this way. Even if the computer has completely locked up, holding the power button for 4 seconds shuts it off. I'm nearly 100% certain that the specification says it should work this way. If you have a computer that doesn't do this, I'd claim your motherboard is defective (either in manufacture or in design). Either that or user error.
Since they are working on Hubble, and Wikipedia says Hubble has an orbital period of 96-97 minutes, and the circumference of the earth is about 24,900 miles, that means it orbits at a ground speed of around 15,500 mph. The continental US is roughly 3000 miles across between the 2 furthest points (Florida Keys to Washington Olymplic Peninsula) so you are talking about 12 minutes max to cross the US
Digital downloads are a bit difficult to sell at a concert. Yeah, you could give them a flyer showing them where to go an itunes/amazon/whatever, but then you have to hope they actually bother to go make the purchase when they get home. Selling it to them on the spot, while they are still excited about your music, is probably better.
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Read more carefully. They aren't banning acetaminophen, but rather painkillers that also include acetaminophen (notice the list explictly said Tylenol with codeine rather than just Tylenol). As a fellow warfarin user, my jaw dropped for a second, too, until I realized what they are actually doing.
If you are a fan of any of those mixed meds, you'll just need to take the med and the tylenol separately instead of having it conventiently pre-mixed.
Won't somebody PLEASE think of the child^H^H^H^H^Hpharmaceutical companies
http://www.warfarinfo.com/New_Folder9/acetaminophen.htm
Well, here you go:
Oral sex makes pregnancies safer and more successful - study
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/infopg/mirrors/repro/sm_514317.html
I'd agree if all vehicles were gas powered, but now we are looking at other fuels. Most of those could be taxed similarly, but you run into a little hitch with electric plugins. The only way to tax them appropriately would be to mandate that they only be charged via special, separately metered outlets but it's going to be pretty difficult to prevent people from plugging it in to the normal outlet. Even if you change the plug configuration, people will just use adapters. The only solutions I see are:
1) make some sort of DRM-like system for the meter to communicate with the car, where the car will only initiate charging once the meter authenticates itself. Good luck with that.
2) have a system where non electric cars are taxed on the fuel, but electrics meter their own use and report back (like this proposed GPS system, except without the GPS).
Or you can just outright give up on the fuel tax and go to a mileage tax as this article discusses.
Fish tank? Fuck that, I've got a swimming pool, and I'll be damned if I didn't come home from vacation last weekend and find it glowing green like a vat of toxic waste. I had no idea there were options other than dumping several pounds of chlorine in the pool.
Although I've never tried it to verify, won't this also fail for anybody who has their web browser set to remember and autofill form fields?
Some people merely separate without getting a divorce (due to various reasons...avoiding cost of divorce, being able to keep medical insurance, etc). My parents separated when I was 4 and didn't get divorced until I was about 16. My dad paid child support the entire time.
He's talking about recordable discs for a BluRay burner, for people who want to pirate BluRay movies.
But you see, that's the thing. As I've said many times before (sometimes it gets modded up, sometimes down), I can most certainly tell the difference between 480 and and 1080 when I'm looking for it, but when I throw in a movie, I'm usually not watching the movie for the technical merits of the media format. I'm watching for the story. As soon as I forget about trying to see how much better or worse one is, I completely forget about how much better or worse it is.
I suspect the difference between DVD compressed audio and BR lossless audio is imperceptible to most people, especially given the quality of the audio system components they are run through in the average living room setup.
The most ironic part of this whole thread is that it's not irony you 2 are talking about, but rather sarcasm.
I beleive the color you are looking for is amber:
www.amberalert.gov
Yeah, because you know how difficult it can be to find children unless you've got a tracking signal leading you to them.
I'm sure you meant this as a joke, but who the fuck are the (currently 2) moderators who modded this Interesting?
Of course, you should provide something to back that up. How about:
http://www.life-prints.com/ChildAbductionPrevention.html
United States Justice Department's 2002 statistics:
More than 797,500 children abducted
25 percent, were family abductions
Only 58,200 were abducted by someone other than a family member
Of those, 115 were taken by complete or partial strangers
So for the math impaired, 99.99% of kids that are abducted are NOT abducted by a stranger.
Well, if your kid dies by some oddball method, you can mourn their passing, but don't feel guilty that you didn't protect them from that 1 in a million chance. Otherwise, you need to be consistent and protect them from every oddball possibility. Make them wear a helmet at all times in case some meteorite hits them. They should have a kevlar vest on even while sleeping, in case some gangbangers do a driveby on the wrong house. Make sure you boil all tap water, just in case the water refinery lets a pathogen through that is lethal to the young. Etc.
PS. Statistics lesson for the day: Small odds are still small, even if they happen to you.
Well, being that the term "infant" is defined as up to the age of 1, I don't think GPS tracking would have a whole lot of effect on infant mortality statistics, no matter whether you live in Africa or Hicksville.
And you didn't even read my post. For crying out loud, I didn't say a damn thing about the OP. I said the AC asked a question. You seem to be having trouble remembering the context just a few posts into the thread, so I'll summarize it all here for you:
argent:
Monday June 01, @08:05AM
Post #28166277
Anonymous Coward
Monday June 01, @08:25AM
Post #28166403
argent
Monday June 01, @10:10AM
Post #28167523
Oh my god! Put on the wrong bus. The horror. As if the driver, when he/she got to the end of the route, wouldn't have noticed "hey, I've made all my stops and there is STILL a child on the bus. Perhaps I should do something about it".
I had a similar bus mishap when I was in kindergarten, and that's exactly what happened. I was waiting and waiting for my stop. Eventually the bus driver asked me where I was supposed to be and handled the issue. She got me back to where I was supposed to be let off. No GPS tracking necessary. Instead, my mom retold me what I needed to do to make sure I was on the right bus. After being a bit scared that time, I learned rather quickly and it never happened again.
But I think you missed the point. You said the soft power pushbutton goes through the OS. However, when the machine is shut down there is no OS loaded. When you first plug it in, there is no possibility of any part of the OS still being resident in memory, yet the power button still turns it on.
No, you are wrong. The button doesn't go through the OS. It goes through the BIOS. The BIOS will then send ACPI messages to the loaded OS and allow the OS to handle the response to the power button. However, when you hold it down for 4 seconds, that is not treated as an ACPI event. That gets handled internally by the BIOS. The BIOS just then cuts the power without giving the OS the opportunity to do anything.
Every computer I've ever used since the soft power button came into use has behaved this way. Even if the computer has completely locked up, holding the power button for 4 seconds shuts it off. I'm nearly 100% certain that the specification says it should work this way. If you have a computer that doesn't do this, I'd claim your motherboard is defective (either in manufacture or in design). Either that or user error.
I've heard some of the newer designs are using pushbuttons instead of switches. I know....it sounds absurd, but apparently it's true.
If that is really what the line was for, then nobody would have told you that's what it was for.
Since they are working on Hubble, and Wikipedia says Hubble has an orbital period of 96-97 minutes, and the circumference of the earth is about 24,900 miles, that means it orbits at a ground speed of around 15,500 mph. The continental US is roughly 3000 miles across between the 2 furthest points (Florida Keys to Washington Olymplic Peninsula) so you are talking about 12 minutes max to cross the US
Cool. So you've limited your market to people that own iphones. What about EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE WORLD?
Digital downloads are a bit difficult to sell at a concert. Yeah, you could give them a flyer showing them where to go an itunes/amazon/whatever, but then you have to hope they actually bother to go make the purchase when they get home. Selling it to them on the spot, while they are still excited about your music, is probably better.