I am dealing with a rare side effect from a fluoroquinolone, (think cipro, levaquin) called peripheral neuropathy. I plugged the antibiotic into google health and the side effect was not listed on the package insert. While its good to have drug interactions listed, lots of people have side effects from drugs and they need to be explicitly spelled out, not hiding in a sub menu.
I know for a fact that there is explicit warnings on the packages about this particular reaction and I'm livid it isn't warning about it on the package insert in google. Especially since it can be permanent.
I've racked up a couple thousand dollars in medical bills already from this side effect, and it was a pain to get doctors to admit it happened until I went to a major university hospital. At that hospital they diagnosed me right away and basically said I'd have to wait it out.
If you are curious, basically I couldn't walk for over a week, terrible joint pain for months along with numbness in my hands, face, and body. Its a known side effect with this class. Rare, but known.
I don't want it on every product. Just on alcohol, tobacco, places of gambling and MMORGs.
Its not a lack of will power, its serious. All I want is some sort of warning to avoid a potentially problem for myself. Its not blame shifting, its a heads up so I can make good choices and avoid something I am prone to.
Absolutely. I'd like those two years I played warcraft back.
Alcoholism runs in my family. It was pretty easy enough to avoid that potential fall. I had no idea that warcraft was just as addictive. I'm not saying everyone who plays warcraft is addicted or prone to it, but I certainly was. I'd get the shakes if I stopped playing for a while.
You can say its my personal responsibility to limit my game playing time. I don't disagree, but when you are addicted to something its very difficult to stop. Call it a flaw in my personality, or whatever, but I think a warning would go along way to letting people know of potential problems and allow them to make good decisions ahead of time.
I think that the warcraft addiction is much like gambling. pull lever get purple.
obviously its just the government in a pissing contest with china.
its not like there are pesky differences between the two, like one was in high orbit, one is about to enter the atmosphere with toxic cargo and the potential to kill people if it lands in the wrong area.
slashdot needs a whiner tag. it seems like we get a couple of these each month, where people are outraged over some injustice that on closer inspection is the person posting being an idiot and making a series of bad decisions.
this dude is an idiot, but i still bet apple gets him his drive back somehow because of all his whining.
of course this was after i bet sobokon and the gnomish mines and did pretty much everything else right.
game of the year that was made this year, i'm digging super mario galaxy and wii sports. multiplayer wii tennis rules.
nethack rules. i busted it out again this year only to have it once again totally kick my ass after i thought i'd reached the point where i was tough enough. floating eye i accidently walked into + warg in big room level > me.
I like the concept of knowing what I might be susceptible to. Depending on what I maybe susceptible to I could easily save a grand knowing that now. That would allow me to change my behavior and lower my risk factors. High blood pressures, awesome, I'll work on that now. Cancer? I'll do what I can to lower my risk.
I think the price will come down and that the amount of useful knowledge will go up, its only a matter of time before it becomes worth your time and money.
I'd demand privacy from such a service. I'd hope that insurance companies wouldn't be able to charge me extra because of some gene.
That requires you to actually turn off the phone. Apparently these people bought the phone and never bothered to read the instructions on how to power down the phone.
Seriously? Did these people think that when the screen is off the phone is off? If that was the case then the phone must power on whenever they got a call, because the screen is always off.
Its total BS. The people didn't shut off the phone, they just clicked the button to shut off the screen. They didn't put it on airplane mode. They didn't even notice that they were getting mail for two weeks? What were they doing? Charging their iphone for the whole time they were on the cruise and never touching their phones?
1.) Publish story about something untrue about the iphone to get people's emotions up 2.) ???? 3.) Profit from being on slashdot.
Selling a green car in a state that doesn't have increased emissions standards would put them at a competitive disadvantage. Its the patchwork regulation of the market that's causing the problem here.
Who actually pays $5 a month for Tivo? Comcast charges $16 a month for a dvr too.
I just looked it up, Tivo starts at 16.95 a month with a year commitment and ranges to 8.31 if you prepay for 3 years in advance. So yea, not quite $5 a month like everyone is saying. This service is way cheaper than Tivo.
They could just put the games on a real network instead of Versus. Half of the Detroit market couldn't see half the playoff games the Wings were in.This works too, I'll be able to actually watch games instead of having to drive to my folks house. This won't help the NHL from continuing to alienate their less technical audience.
My understanding is that the spike in Mexican corn prices had to do with manipulation of the market by a few select wholesalers who had cornered (lolcat) the market. Corn used to make ethanol is not used in human consumption. Its a legit worry, but please people, check the facts. I feel like I'm reading rumordot.
Modders can't fix the fact that the videos purchased from the itunes store suck in quality. After I purchased Battlestar season 1 from the itunes store, I've refused to buy any more videos. Sure it looked great on my ipod, but it looked painful on my powerbook. There are artifacts everywhere. You can get much better videos from bittorrent sites on the web.
As someone who runs the incoming mail machines for a large university, I have found that spammers pick the highest and lowest IP to hammer away on, regardless of MX preference. Many spammers specifically target the high MX. I fail to see how making the low mx unavailable will deter spammers. If they can alter each image they send with each spam, they can alter which IP/MX their botnets deliver to.
the article states that lower levels of testosterone are linked to diabetes, so could higher levels of diabetes in the population be a factor in the lower testosterone?
Cognitive dissonance is a theory of human motivation that asserts that it is psychologically uncomfortable to hold contradictory cognitions. The theory is that dissonance, being unpleasant, motivates a person to change his cognition, attitude, or behavior.
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I am dealing with a rare side effect from a fluoroquinolone, (think cipro, levaquin) called peripheral neuropathy. I plugged the antibiotic into google health and the side effect was not listed on the package insert. While its good to have drug interactions listed, lots of people have side effects from drugs and they need to be explicitly spelled out, not hiding in a sub menu.
I know for a fact that there is explicit warnings on the packages about this particular reaction and I'm livid it isn't warning about it on the package insert in google. Especially since it can be permanent.
I've racked up a couple thousand dollars in medical bills already from this side effect, and it was a pain to get doctors to admit it happened until I went to a major university hospital. At that hospital they diagnosed me right away and basically said I'd have to wait it out.
If you are curious, basically I couldn't walk for over a week, terrible joint pain for months along with numbness in my hands, face, and body. Its a known side effect with this class. Rare, but known.
I don't want it on every product. Just on alcohol, tobacco, places of gambling and MMORGs.
Its not a lack of will power, its serious. All I want is some sort of warning to avoid a potentially problem for myself. Its not blame shifting, its a heads up so I can make good choices and avoid something I am prone to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addiction
Absolutely. I'd like those two years I played warcraft back.
Alcoholism runs in my family. It was pretty easy enough to avoid that potential fall. I had no idea that warcraft was just as addictive. I'm not saying everyone who plays warcraft is addicted or prone to it, but I certainly was. I'd get the shakes if I stopped playing for a while.
You can say its my personal responsibility to limit my game playing time. I don't disagree, but when you are addicted to something its very difficult to stop. Call it a flaw in my personality, or whatever, but I think a warning would go along way to letting people know of potential problems and allow them to make good decisions ahead of time.
I think that the warcraft addiction is much like gambling. pull lever get purple.
aren't most entries controlled?
obviously its just the government in a pissing contest with china.
its not like there are pesky differences between the two, like one was in high orbit, one is about to enter the atmosphere with toxic cargo and the potential to kill people if it lands in the wrong area.
its hilarious slashdot has a script to tag when a reply is a duplicate, but no script to stop duplicate stories on the front page.
hey its a dupe
slashdot needs a whiner tag. it seems like we get a couple of these each month, where people are outraged over some injustice that on closer inspection is the person posting being an idiot and making a series of bad decisions.
this dude is an idiot, but i still bet apple gets him his drive back somehow because of all his whining.
I guess you are right. I've only ascended once. I'm a total noob.
of course this was after i bet sobokon and the gnomish mines and did pretty much everything else right. game of the year that was made this year, i'm digging super mario galaxy and wii sports. multiplayer wii tennis rules.
nethack rules. i busted it out again this year only to have it once again totally kick my ass after i thought i'd reached the point where i was tough enough. floating eye i accidently walked into + warg in big room level > me.
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They should try to trademark the Florida tag.
I like the concept of knowing what I might be susceptible to. Depending on what I maybe susceptible to I could easily save a grand knowing that now. That would allow me to change my behavior and lower my risk factors. High blood pressures, awesome, I'll work on that now. Cancer? I'll do what I can to lower my risk.
I think the price will come down and that the amount of useful knowledge will go up, its only a matter of time before it becomes worth your time and money.
I'd demand privacy from such a service. I'd hope that insurance companies wouldn't be able to charge me extra because of some gene.
That requires you to actually turn off the phone. Apparently these people bought the phone and never bothered to read the instructions on how to power down the phone.
Seriously? Did these people think that when the screen is off the phone is off? If that was the case then the phone must power on whenever they got a call, because the screen is always off.
Its total BS. The people didn't shut off the phone, they just clicked the button to shut off the screen. They didn't put it on airplane mode. They didn't even notice that they were getting mail for two weeks? What were they doing? Charging their iphone for the whole time they were on the cruise and never touching their phones?
1.) Publish story about something untrue about the iphone to get people's emotions up
2.) ????
3.) Profit from being on slashdot.
Selling a green car in a state that doesn't have increased emissions standards would put them at a competitive disadvantage. Its the patchwork regulation of the market that's causing the problem here.
which state are you in?
Who actually pays $5 a month for Tivo? Comcast charges $16 a month for a dvr too.
I just looked it up, Tivo starts at 16.95 a month with a year commitment and ranges to 8.31 if you prepay for 3 years in advance. So yea, not quite $5 a month like everyone is saying. This service is way cheaper than Tivo.
They could just put the games on a real network instead of Versus. Half of the Detroit market couldn't see half the playoff games the Wings were in.This works too, I'll be able to actually watch games instead of having to drive to my folks house. This won't help the NHL from continuing to alienate their less technical audience.
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http://sportsbiznews.blogspot.com/2007/05/nhl-spo
My understanding is that the spike in Mexican corn prices had to do with manipulation of the market by a few select wholesalers who had cornered (lolcat) the market. Corn used to make ethanol is not used in human consumption. Its a legit worry, but please people, check the facts. I feel like I'm reading rumordot.
Modders can't fix the fact that the videos purchased from the itunes store suck in quality. After I purchased Battlestar season 1 from the itunes store, I've refused to buy any more videos. Sure it looked great on my ipod, but it looked painful on my powerbook. There are artifacts everywhere. You can get much better videos from bittorrent sites on the web.
When did Gates predict that we were going to beat spam?
As someone who runs the incoming mail machines for a large university, I have found that spammers pick the highest and lowest IP to hammer away on, regardless of MX preference. Many spammers specifically target the high MX. I fail to see how making the low mx unavailable will deter spammers. If they can alter each image they send with each spam, they can alter which IP/MX their botnets deliver to.
the article states that lower levels of testosterone are linked to diabetes, so could higher levels of diabetes in the population be a factor in the lower testosterone?
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what about the higher levels of artificial hormones in the environment? could all the estrogen we are dumping make us less manly?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Cognitive dissonance is a theory of human motivation that asserts that it is psychologically uncomfortable to hold contradictory cognitions. The theory is that dissonance, being unpleasant, motivates a person to change his cognition, attitude, or behavior.