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  1. Re:Where are they getting the money to buy it? on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    or sell

  2. Re:Two pills a day, per person. on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    WHen adjusted for pregnant women, children, etc. and using the national average of 1 in 3 Americans are on narcotics I worked it out to 8 per person per day.

    This did *not* include the fact there are 7 pharmacies in the town.

    That seems excessive to me.

  3. Re:So lets do some Math. on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I removed 50% of the population due to being children, pregnant, etc. I then divided that number by 3 as the national average for pain med Rx. I got about 8.

    But that did *not* factor in having 7 pharmaceis in town.

  4. Re:They probably weren't all for just that one tow on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    factor in there are 7 pharmacies in the town. I estimated 8 pills per person per day when I factored in children, nursing moms etc. *without* adjusting for those 7 pharmacies.

  5. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Now factor in there are 7 pharmacies in the town itself.

  6. Re:Almost Heaven, West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are 7 pharmacies in that town.

  7. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    There are 7 pharmacies in town. Though no numbers on numbers of doses.

  8. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    per 2010 census 21.3% over age 65. So I don't think that age range had a huge impact.

  9. Update, town has 7 pharmacies on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep 7. No numbers on number of narcotics sent to the other 5.

  10. Re: Spread over 10 years on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    My estimate was 8 after adjusting for national averages (I know, national), children, pregnant women etc.

  11. Re:If I lived in West Virginia on Drug Firms Shipped 20.8 Million Pain Pills To West Virginia Town of 2,900 (foxnews.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    realistically how many people per thousand actually need heavy opiates? How many would be in a town that size? 1 in 3 adults are getting prescriptions from the numbers I am finding. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/m...

    Let's adjust by 50% to cover children, pregnant women, macho men (I can take the pain), masochists, etc. and divide by 3. That works out to about 483.

    483/60 = 8.05 which seems excessive.

  12. This is dangerous! on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    This means the administration, Trump's or others, will have total control of 5G. Backdoors anyone? Traffic monitoring? Incidental eavesdropping? Location tracing of dissidents? Freezing the network to prevent prevent unrest and agitation by subversive elements?

    No one here seems to get it.

  13. Re:Good on Trump Team Considers Nationalizing America's 5G Network (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That was built by contractors. They were supposed to police themselves.

  14. Next up, space billboards

  15. Re:An amusing combination of factors on Rocket Lab Criticized For Launching Their Own Private 'Star' Into Orbit (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Why? Better to say "we just killed your children".

  16. Re:"I stopped after two chapters... on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    I think he got the point

  17. Re:Ot how, but why? on 'How We Made Starship Troopers' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    His point was a militaristic fascist society. If you missed that part, the self parody of action sci-fi, and the fact that the human race was domed in the long run you missed the best parts.

  18. Mostly female on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    It makes no sense to send males up. They tend to have higher average body mass and a higher metabolism. Both of which demand more scarce resources. Male reproductive duties can be easily replaced by sperm banks. Then there is the testosterone aggressiveness.

    For genetic diversity a few select males may be allowed to reach puberty. After which their sperm would be harvested for future generations.

    Then the males can be recycled for food product before the hungry years of late puberty and early adolescence kick in.

  19. Re:They will be just like Star Trek on Ask Slashdot: What Kind of Societies Will the First Mars Colonies Be? · · Score: 1

    you can do that anytime you want to. There is a such thing as dye you know.

    (insert snarky comment about OP being a virgin and living in parents basement)

  20. Bogus scale on The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Where's brand management?
    Leveraging synergies?
    Obesity?
    Strategic reassignment of global presence?
    Operational guidance of private sector management of the state?
    Upward redeployment of economic value propositions with attendent infiltration to lower skilled resources?

    I don't see the point of this survey.

  21. Mmmmmm brain on a chip on Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'Brain-on-a-chip' Hardware (mit.edu) · · Score: 1

    like a pate'

    did I just say that out loud?

  22. Re:For the same reason companies ditch DBAs on Corporate Cultural Issues Hold Back Secure Software Development (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm saying I have seen it. Even in "reputable" companies.

  23. Re:For the same reason companies ditch DBAs on Corporate Cultural Issues Hold Back Secure Software Development (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah until you need a real one. After some programmer who thinks he is clever unleashes an abomination into production and walks away from it.

    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. ; no primary keys, no central tables, spreadsheet normalization, deadlocking, no primary keys, no foreign keys, Oracle databases crippled because no one read the manual explain the difference between; SYSTEM, SYS, and SYSOP; backup disarrays thrashing due to scratch writes to the DB, objects polluting the database sending everything into a crawl, not understanding LVM, expanding extents by 100k, MongoDB. All because they didn't need a DBA. Lost now like tears in the rain.

    Programmers have the discipline of incontinent baboons.

    My background? DBA, Data Modeling, programming (C#, Java, C++, COBOL, VB and more), IT and development management, QA, and BA. So I've seen it all.

     

  24. Re:Stories from a Company Town on Apple and Google Are Rerouting Their Employee Buses as Attacks Resume (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    "90% of them don't go to any state that I know of."

    I think you mis-read

  25. Accurracy!=precision on Has the Decades-Old Floating Point Error Problem Been Solved? (insidehpc.com) · · Score: 1

    People tend to forget that.