1. Minimizing your opponent in an argument is an old, ineffective tactic that does not display any of the alleged merit in your argument. 2. This disclosure was in Europe, where the EPA has absolutely no jurisdiction.
so when I give them the email address 'roundfile@' and only use that account for their stupid bullshit, they'll get nothing.
Yes, it's an asshat thing to do, but there's a million ways around it. Setting up a junk mailbox takes me 10 seconds, and allows me to see exactly what Nvidia plans to do with it by way of analyzing what junk arrives in it.
Yeah, that might work for seasonal allergies, the same as immunotherapy. It doesn't work for all allergies, such as those of us that are ridiculously allergic to dust mites.
There's basically nothing you can do except manage symptoms and common sense stuff like vacuuming all the time and deleting carpet from your house.
The antihistamine can help prevent the congestion that necessitates using a decongestant, but not always. This is why you can get things like Claritin-D and Allegra-D that combine the decongestant and antihistamine.
There are also generics that do this - I have a box of 24-hour generic Allegra-D on my desk right now.
Now what are the effects of garlic on allergy sufferers? Not everyone that uses decongestants are fighting a virus. Some of us have over-active immune systems that thing very benign things like pollen and dust are threats that need to be destroyed at all costs.
Posting an anonymous "Nuh - uhh!" to a story that shows scientific evidence otherwise isn't useful.
If you are one of the distinct minority that actually gains benefit from Phenylephrine, good for you. The rest of us have been sold something completely ineffective. Your single data point doesn't refute a double-blind study of 277 people.
That's the beauty of FUD - you don't need to cite any actual evidence! You just spout out the absolute worst possible thing that could ever happen as if it's an inevitability.
Well here's the real problem - pseudoephederine is a short cut to making meth. Meth cooks made meth before they figured out you could use decongestants. Meth cooks still make meth after the so-called restrictions.
In fact, meth cooks in Mexico make meth using extract from natural ephedera plants that grow like weeds, and then smuggle it across the border the same as anything else.
In the end, we've just made it harder for legit use, just like practically all other "think of the children" and drug war legislation. Oh, and the pharma companies were able to perpetrate a multi-billion dollar placebo scam for the last 10 years by selling a decongestant that does NOTHING.
You're absolutely correct - my mother became dependent on Afrin when she had an undiagnosed deviated septum. Once she (and her doctor) figured out what was going on (and a surgery later) all was well and the Afrin was no longer necessary.
Unfortunately, the usual thing given for recovery from that type of surgery for inflammation? Afrin.
Depending on the corticosteroid they prescribed, you may be able to get that over the counter now too.
I just don't see it as much of an issue to take the card to the pharmacist to get pseudoephedrine once a month or so. I'm fine with the federal law the way it is. The real punch in the balls was when the State of Oregon passed a 'fight meth' law that made Pseudoephederine prescription only. When I lived in Portland that meant that I either had to get a script from a doctor / nurse practitioner and then wait an hour for a pharmacy technician to get to filling my script, which I then got to pay extra for; or drive across a bridge to Vancouver, WA and buy it for $5 with a driver's license.
Phenylephrine is fucking snake oil - it doesn't do shit, and never has. I wouldn't mind seeing a class-action lawsuit against these pharma motherfuckers for the billions they've made selling a placebo to hundreds of millions of people.
One of the most painful things I've experienced was a cross-country flight with plugged Eustachian tubes. Not so bad going up to altitude as pressure comes off, but landing was excruciating.
et an old timey phone book, close your eyes, flip to a random page, and point to a name.
I used to know a guy that was in radio, and when he was starting as a teenage intern, some crusty old disc jockey from the payola era told him that his name sucked, and he should do exactly this.
So he became "Rick St. James" bringing you all the hits etc. blah blah.
I don't have thoughts one way or the other on this - I don't give a shit if the characters I'm looking at in a movie are black or white because in the end, if the story is any good, that's what matters.
But why aren't new characters being created? Because it's much easier to repave the road someone else already cut than create something new. Hollywood wants to squeeze every drop out of what already exists before they take a flyer on something new.
Why do you give a flaming fuck if he's black or not? Is there some meaningful point in the Buck Rogers story that depends on race, or is the character white simply because when he was created, all lead characters in every story were white?
I can't help but wonder why that was posted anonymously...
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1. Minimizing your opponent in an argument is an old, ineffective tactic that does not display any of the alleged merit in your argument.
2. This disclosure was in Europe, where the EPA has absolutely no jurisdiction.
Thanks for the post.
so when I give them the email address 'roundfile@' and only use that account for their stupid bullshit, they'll get nothing.
Yes, it's an asshat thing to do, but there's a million ways around it. Setting up a junk mailbox takes me 10 seconds, and allows me to see exactly what Nvidia plans to do with it by way of analyzing what junk arrives in it.
If the standard was "don't ship until it's perfect" then nothing, including everyone's beloved Linux, would ever ship.
Sometimes "good enough" is exactly that.
It is not.
Click the handy "Parent" link on my post.
You are describing a bastion host; and yes, it's a good practice to use. Well done!
With any VPN worth using, you can use two-factor authentication.
Oh, I'm sure they knew where it was the whole time. The question becomes what the fuck you do about it.
And hurricanes coming out of the Pacific, absolutely do not cross the entire continent dropping inches of rain on everything in their path.
Is this article a magnet for stupid or something?
And they would never be testing things at a place called the "Aberdeen Proving Ground"
Your tinfoil hat slipped a bit - better get it centered again.
Yeah, that might work for seasonal allergies, the same as immunotherapy. It doesn't work for all allergies, such as those of us that are ridiculously allergic to dust mites.
There's basically nothing you can do except manage symptoms and common sense stuff like vacuuming all the time and deleting carpet from your house.
antihistamines != decongestants
The antihistamine can help prevent the congestion that necessitates using a decongestant, but not always. This is why you can get things like Claritin-D and Allegra-D that combine the decongestant and antihistamine.
There are also generics that do this - I have a box of 24-hour generic Allegra-D on my desk right now.
Great!
Now what are the effects of garlic on allergy sufferers? Not everyone that uses decongestants are fighting a virus. Some of us have over-active immune systems that thing very benign things like pollen and dust are threats that need to be destroyed at all costs.
Posting an anonymous "Nuh - uhh!" to a story that shows scientific evidence otherwise isn't useful.
If you are one of the distinct minority that actually gains benefit from Phenylephrine, good for you. The rest of us have been sold something completely ineffective. Your single data point doesn't refute a double-blind study of 277 people.
That's the beauty of FUD - you don't need to cite any actual evidence! You just spout out the absolute worst possible thing that could ever happen as if it's an inevitability.
I hear that Google and Wikipedia are hard to use.
No seriously, don't expect everything to always be handed to you. Learn to do some legwork yourself.
Well here's the real problem - pseudoephederine is a short cut to making meth. Meth cooks made meth before they figured out you could use decongestants. Meth cooks still make meth after the so-called restrictions.
In fact, meth cooks in Mexico make meth using extract from natural ephedera plants that grow like weeds, and then smuggle it across the border the same as anything else.
In the end, we've just made it harder for legit use, just like practically all other "think of the children" and drug war legislation. Oh, and the pharma companies were able to perpetrate a multi-billion dollar placebo scam for the last 10 years by selling a decongestant that does NOTHING.
Allegra-D is just regular Allegra with a good shot of Pseudoephederine. That's the 'D' - for Decongestant.
You're absolutely correct - my mother became dependent on Afrin when she had an undiagnosed deviated septum. Once she (and her doctor) figured out what was going on (and a surgery later) all was well and the Afrin was no longer necessary.
Unfortunately, the usual thing given for recovery from that type of surgery for inflammation? Afrin.
Depending on the corticosteroid they prescribed, you may be able to get that over the counter now too.
I just don't see it as much of an issue to take the card to the pharmacist to get pseudoephedrine once a month or so. I'm fine with the federal law the way it is. The real punch in the balls was when the State of Oregon passed a 'fight meth' law that made Pseudoephederine prescription only. When I lived in Portland that meant that I either had to get a script from a doctor / nurse practitioner and then wait an hour for a pharmacy technician to get to filling my script, which I then got to pay extra for; or drive across a bridge to Vancouver, WA and buy it for $5 with a driver's license.
Phenylephrine is fucking snake oil - it doesn't do shit, and never has. I wouldn't mind seeing a class-action lawsuit against these pharma motherfuckers for the billions they've made selling a placebo to hundreds of millions of people.
One of the most painful things I've experienced was a cross-country flight with plugged Eustachian tubes. Not so bad going up to altitude as pressure comes off, but landing was excruciating.
As an allergy sufferer, and a nerd, it matters to me. And go fuck yourself besides. Your comment adds nothing.
If you don't like the submissions here, then find better stuff for them to post. Don't just bitch about it, do something.
et an old timey phone book, close your eyes, flip to a random page, and point to a name.
I used to know a guy that was in radio, and when he was starting as a teenage intern, some crusty old disc jockey from the payola era told him that his name sucked, and he should do exactly this.
So he became "Rick St. James" bringing you all the hits etc. blah blah.
I don't have thoughts one way or the other on this - I don't give a shit if the characters I'm looking at in a movie are black or white because in the end, if the story is any good, that's what matters.
But why aren't new characters being created? Because it's much easier to repave the road someone else already cut than create something new. Hollywood wants to squeeze every drop out of what already exists before they take a flyer on something new.
Why do you give a flaming fuck if he's black or not? Is there some meaningful point in the Buck Rogers story that depends on race, or is the character white simply because when he was created, all lead characters in every story were white?
I can't help but wonder why that was posted anonymously...
Maybe not, but he certainly took it to a level rather unprecedented, what with the gas chambers and incineration...