This wasn't a borderline case. Here's some news coverage from back in the day: Drugging The Poor
Angulo and four other Miami-Dade doctors accounted for about $4 million of the $31 million Medicaid spent statewide on the drug [OxyContin] last year, according to the Sun-Sentinel's analysis.
The department of health order said state investigators found an "extensive and troubling" pattern in which Angulo prescribed OxyContin and other dangerous drugs in "excessive quantities to many of his patients, including multiple members of the same families and to persons of varying ages who shared the same address."
These cases are usually extremely clear cut, because the records are already on file. The good news is that better enforcement is reducing the use of Oxy. The bad news is that it's being replace on the street with heroin.
The practice goes by several other names I can't recall, but I know it as a "shadow ban" Basically, you tick a box and nobody but that poster can see their nonsense.
Some forum software already includes the feature, others require a plugin or a roll-your-own solution.
The trifling cost aside, this seems to suggest that the DEA is aware that their case is fatally weak, and relies on sifting mountains of data that no jury on earth is capable of understanding in the hope of finding some faint pattern in the data that suggests intent. If there were obvious infractions, it would be easy to prove by pointing out 20 or 30 of them and call it a day. If it is so subtle that you need two terabytes to prove it, you probably don't have much of a case anyway.
He spent five years writing and endless stream of perscriptions for painkillers and sedatives/anti-anxiety meds. So an alternative theory, which fits the facts, is that the two TB and boxes of files reflect the massive scale of the the Doctor's illegal acts.
Something is rotten about this whole story, and I suspect its a huge smoke screen for some other operation, or perhaps proceeding with the case would put methods or undercover operatives at risk, or require personnel that are current not available. Or maybe they know the Doctor is on his death bed or will soon contract some fatal disease, at which will make the whole point moot. Or maybe the doctor is singing like a canary these days.
This is conspiracy theory fabricated out of thin air. A journalist wrote an article about the Doctor's habit of perscribing pills, then the fraud unit of the US Attorney General started looking into his practice. The DEA and Medicare had all the perscriptions on file, the illegal acts were out in the open. There's no smoke screen or undercover operations.
I'm going to be honest. Based on your posts in this thread, I think you have zero idea what Net Neutrality means. Maybe if you can tell us specifically what you think Net Neutrality does, we can have a reasoned conversation.
Think of a non-neutral internet as one with regulations enforced by corporations. Think of a neutral internet as one with fewer corporate regulations, because the government said "No."
You seriously cannot see how Net Neutrality is the enforcement arm for SOPA?
I sure as hell can't. Net Neutrality means that your ISP cannot discriminate based on content, services, hardware, applications, etc etc etc. Further, they cannot interfere with your connection because of any of the aforementioned reasons.
SOPA has nothing to do with that. If you'd care to explain how a law/regulation that prevents discrimination = the copyright police, I'm all ears.
1. If someone thinks the regulations we have are bad, the solution isn't no regulation, but good regulation
2. The oil, loan, and investment industries are mostly self regulated, as their regulatory bodies do not have the manpower or resources to actually verify the things they do. Hence the constant string of disasters in finance and the dumping of unfiltered wastes by the oil/fracking and mining industries.
The Australian embassy asking for advanced warning? That's not evidence. That's barely above speculation. Actually, no, it is speculation.
Continue speculating:
American responses to the embassy's representations have been withheld from release on the grounds that disclosure could "cause damage to the international relations of the Commonwealth".
What could America have possibly said that, upon disclosure, would harm international relations?
[ ] We're interested in extraditing Assange [ ] We're NOT interested in extraditing Assange [ ] Other
Top-down control when taken to its logical conclusion also means having Congress order you to install thermostats in your home which they can turn-off at any point (like on a hot day when the power grid is overloading... goodbye A/C). Or ordering you to buy a Prius or similar hybrid. Or outlawing SUVs. Or ordering you to buy a Windows PC so you can do online voting/polling. And so on.
There are a lot of things in our society that, when taken to their logical conclusion, would result in a terrible infringement of our most basic rights.
The Brady Campaign hasn't outlawed guns. MADD hasn't banned alcohol. The FDA hasn't banned fried food. Jack Thompson hasn't banned violent music or video games. The EPA hasn't banned gasoline powered cars. And so on.
Luckily, we're not simpering idiots and are capable of balancing modest restrictions and modest social benefits with the modest infringements they require.
This man deserves a medal for ingenuity under extreme hardship.
"lost his hands in a fishing-related explosion" is the polite way of saying "lost his hands while building a bomb to fish illegally" There's a reason that blast fishing is illegal almost everywhere in the world, China included.
In the meantime the rest of us will set about setting our slideshows, presentations, home movies and youtube clips to this public domain classical music.
And probably will get it taken down or muted because Youtube's filter system isn't smart enough to know the difference.
Remember when AOL bought Nullsoft and released Winamp 3.0? This is almost exactly the same story, but BitTorrent Inc. also thought including advertising would be a good idea.
People are passionate about the tools they interact with every day.
so this move suggests Apple's lawyers are now finishing off with enough material to make the appeal trial that much more interesting.
If it's not presented at trial (this includes testimony), it doesn't get looked at in the Appeals court. I don't see how an Appeals judge could send the case back to the original court because rebuttal witnesses could not be called during the alloted time for the trial. That's not an error of law.
In all seriousness, it's cheaper and easier to send a rocket to Mars than it is to undertake the kind of legislative and social engineering required to fix Delhi's traffic and India's electrical problems.
Isn't there any love for police here being able to do their job more effectively?
The police should have just enough resources to do their job. So to find stolen cars or cars used in recent crimes, do you need a license plate database stretching back 1 week? 6 months? 2 years? 10 years?
The problem isn't the police doing their job more effectively, it's the lack of limits on the information they are gathering to do their job.
In the past, limited law enforcement resources prevented the cops from taking pictures of everyone and everything at every moment of the day. Society's basic expectations of privacy and the laws that followed, are based upon this assumption that you could not be tracked at every second.
Not "would not be track," but "could not be tracked." As a result, the police are operating in a grey zone. What they're doing may be legal, but only because the law did not anticipate this.
You know what's better than having to use off-the-shelf cryogenic equipment? Not having to use it.
IMO, this is the real news:
He came across a decade-old publication by Japanese researchers suggesting that when the electrons in pentacene are excited by a laser, they configure such that the molecule could work as a maser, possibly even at room temperature.
I wonder how many other scientific breakthroughs are just sitting around waiting for anyone to conduct basic followup on a research paper.
the real benefit is in doing graduate research with a mentor, making connections,
Something like 70%~80% of jobs are acquired through referrals. If you're not the top 10% of your field, who you know is what will separate you from everyone else trying to get that same job.
Starting working your professional contacts and see what's available.
In the beginning, the main difference between a feature phone and smart phone was that one was also a bad PDA. Increased screen size, cameras, web browsing, mp3 players, and touch screens came later.
Nowadays, there's no firm line that separates feature phones and smart phones. Generally the difference is price, which reflects on the features.
I still carry around a feature phone, but the US market has mostly abandoned it. Your choices nowadays are almost entirely basic phones or smart phones.
The original idea behind US democracy was that the guy in charge changes every 4 years as to not need violent regime change.
You need to brush up on your history. There were no term limits when the government was founded. Further, the people writing the Constitution knew the dangers of unlimited terms and chose not to set limits.
George Washington gracefully resigned and set the precedent for two terms as the limit... but for 164 years this precedent was not binding until the 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951. The 22nd Amendment was conveniently ratified years after FDR died at the beginning of his 4th term as President.
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This wasn't a borderline case. Here's some news coverage from back in the day:
Drugging The Poor
Angulo and four other Miami-Dade doctors accounted for about $4 million of the $31 million Medicaid spent statewide on the drug [OxyContin] last year, according to the Sun-Sentinel's analysis.
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Doctor Hit With Pill Ban By State
The department of health order said state investigators found an "extensive and troubling" pattern in which Angulo prescribed OxyContin and other dangerous drugs in "excessive quantities to many of his patients, including multiple members of the same families and to persons of varying ages who shared the same address."
And here's the Florida Dept of Health Emergency Order (PDF) being reported upon in the previous story
These cases are usually extremely clear cut, because the records are already on file.
The good news is that better enforcement is reducing the use of Oxy.
The bad news is that it's being replace on the street with heroin.
The practice goes by several other names I can't recall, but I know it as a "shadow ban"
Basically, you tick a box and nobody but that poster can see their nonsense.
Some forum software already includes the feature, others require a plugin or a roll-your-own solution.
The trifling cost aside, this seems to suggest that the DEA is aware that their case is fatally weak, and relies on sifting mountains of data that no jury on earth is capable of understanding in the hope of finding some faint pattern in the data that suggests intent. If there were obvious infractions, it would be easy to prove by pointing out 20 or 30 of them and call it a day. If it is so subtle that you need two terabytes to prove it, you probably don't have much of a case anyway.
He spent five years writing and endless stream of perscriptions for painkillers and sedatives/anti-anxiety meds.
So an alternative theory, which fits the facts, is that the two TB and boxes of files reflect the massive scale of the the Doctor's illegal acts.
Something is rotten about this whole story, and I suspect its a huge smoke screen for some other operation, or perhaps proceeding with the case would put methods or undercover operatives at risk, or require personnel that are current not available. Or maybe they know the Doctor is on his death bed or will soon contract some fatal disease, at which will make the whole point moot. Or maybe the doctor is singing like a canary these days.
This is conspiracy theory fabricated out of thin air.
A journalist wrote an article about the Doctor's habit of perscribing pills, then the fraud unit of the US Attorney General started looking into his practice.
The DEA and Medicare had all the perscriptions on file, the illegal acts were out in the open.
There's no smoke screen or undercover operations.
I'm going to be honest.
Based on your posts in this thread, I think you have zero idea what Net Neutrality means.
Maybe if you can tell us specifically what you think Net Neutrality does, we can have a reasoned conversation.
Think of a non-neutral internet as one with regulations enforced by corporations.
Think of a neutral internet as one with fewer corporate regulations, because the government said "No."
You seriously cannot see how Net Neutrality is the enforcement arm for SOPA?
I sure as hell can't.
Net Neutrality means that your ISP cannot discriminate based on content, services, hardware, applications, etc etc etc.
Further, they cannot interfere with your connection because of any of the aforementioned reasons.
SOPA has nothing to do with that.
If you'd care to explain how a law/regulation that prevents discrimination = the copyright police, I'm all ears.
1. If someone thinks the regulations we have are bad, the solution isn't no regulation, but good regulation
2. The oil, loan, and investment industries are mostly self regulated, as their regulatory bodies do not have the manpower or resources to actually verify the things they do.
Hence the constant string of disasters in finance and the dumping of unfiltered wastes by the oil/fracking and mining industries.
I'd say that it depends on if the satellite is made out of 2 pounds of feathers or 2 pounds of lead.
The Australian embassy asking for advanced warning? That's not evidence. That's barely above speculation. Actually, no, it is speculation.
Continue speculating:
American responses to the embassy's representations have been withheld from release on the grounds that disclosure could "cause damage to the international relations of the Commonwealth".
What could America have possibly said that, upon disclosure, would harm international relations?
[ ] We're interested in extraditing Assange
[ ] We're NOT interested in extraditing Assange
[ ] Other
If it were me, I would go for the refund and be thankful for 6 years of free use.
Free?
Six years of 5% interest on $499 is worth about $170
Inflation means $499 in 2006 dollars is worth about $40 more in 2012
Just getting his money back = a loss.
Top-down control when taken to its logical conclusion also means having Congress order you to install thermostats in your home which they can turn-off at any point (like on a hot day when the power grid is overloading... goodbye A/C). Or ordering you to buy a Prius or similar hybrid. Or outlawing SUVs. Or ordering you to buy a Windows PC so you can do online voting/polling. And so on.
There are a lot of things in our society that, when taken to their logical conclusion, would result in a terrible infringement of our most basic rights.
The Brady Campaign hasn't outlawed guns. MADD hasn't banned alcohol. The FDA hasn't banned fried food.
Jack Thompson hasn't banned violent music or video games. The EPA hasn't banned gasoline powered cars. And so on.
Luckily, we're not simpering idiots and are capable of balancing modest restrictions and modest social benefits with the modest infringements they require.
This man deserves a medal for ingenuity under extreme hardship.
"lost his hands in a fishing-related explosion" is the polite way of saying "lost his hands while building a bomb to fish illegally"
There's a reason that blast fishing is illegal almost everywhere in the world, China included.
In the meantime the rest of us will set about setting our slideshows, presentations, home movies and youtube clips to this public domain classical music.
And probably will get it taken down or muted because Youtube's filter system isn't smart enough to know the difference.
Remember when AOL bought Nullsoft and released Winamp 3.0?
This is almost exactly the same story, but BitTorrent Inc. also thought including advertising would be a good idea.
People are passionate about the tools they interact with every day.
so this move suggests Apple's lawyers are now finishing off with enough material to make the appeal trial that much more interesting.
If it's not presented at trial (this includes testimony), it doesn't get looked at in the Appeals court.
I don't see how an Appeals judge could send the case back to the original court because rebuttal witnesses could not be called during the alloted time for the trial.
That's not an error of law.
In all seriousness, it's cheaper and easier to send a rocket to Mars than it is to undertake the kind of legislative and social engineering required to fix Delhi's traffic and India's electrical problems.
Isn't there any love for police here being able to do their job more effectively?
The police should have just enough resources to do their job.
So to find stolen cars or cars used in recent crimes, do you need a license plate database stretching back 1 week? 6 months? 2 years? 10 years?
The problem isn't the police doing their job more effectively, it's the lack of limits on the information they are gathering to do their job.
In the past, limited law enforcement resources prevented the cops from taking pictures of everyone and everything at every moment of the day.
Society's basic expectations of privacy and the laws that followed, are based upon this assumption that you could not be tracked at every second.
Not "would not be track," but "could not be tracked."
As a result, the police are operating in a grey zone.
What they're doing may be legal, but only because the law did not anticipate this.
I understand we were thanked by the citizens of Afghanistan in New York a few years back, in September, for a similar action.
Saudi Arabia: fifteen hijackers
United Arab Emirates: two hijackers
Lebanon: one hijacker
Egypt: one hijacker
You know what's better than having to use off-the-shelf cryogenic equipment?
Not having to use it.
IMO, this is the real news:
He came across a decade-old publication by Japanese researchers suggesting that when the electrons in pentacene are excited by a laser, they configure such that the molecule could work as a maser, possibly even at room temperature.
I wonder how many other scientific breakthroughs are just sitting around waiting for anyone to conduct basic followup on a research paper.
As an Anarcho-Cyclist I object to car companies so I respectfully request that we remove the .car and .carinsurance TLDs.
Here's a similar tale of toilet trouble
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Low-flow-toilets-cause-a-stink-in-SF-2457645.php
the real benefit is in doing graduate research with a mentor, making connections,
Something like 70%~80% of jobs are acquired through referrals.
If you're not the top 10% of your field, who you know is what will separate you from everyone else trying to get that same job.
Starting working your professional contacts and see what's available.
In the beginning, the main difference between a feature phone and smart phone was that one was also a bad PDA.
Increased screen size, cameras, web browsing, mp3 players, and touch screens came later.
Nowadays, there's no firm line that separates feature phones and smart phones.
Generally the difference is price, which reflects on the features.
I still carry around a feature phone, but the US market has mostly abandoned it.
Your choices nowadays are almost entirely basic phones or smart phones.
Maybe I missed the /. thread on the ReaderCon fiasco, but here's the original complaint
http://glvalentine.livejournal.com/340623.html
The original idea behind US democracy was that the guy in charge changes every 4 years as to not need violent regime change.
You need to brush up on your history.
There were no term limits when the government was founded.
Further, the people writing the Constitution knew the dangers of unlimited terms and chose not to set limits.
George Washington gracefully resigned and set the precedent for two terms as the limit...
but for 164 years this precedent was not binding until the 22nd Amendment was ratified in 1951.
The 22nd Amendment was conveniently ratified years after FDR died at the beginning of his 4th term as President.