Look, it's mainstream US media, they got the general concept and the branch of the military correct. They're lucky they didn't confuse it with the Space Shuttle or Disneyland (both in Florida).
Yep, and they've changed their tactics to deal with that (and other) situations. This is why one does these sorts of exercises. To learn before it's too late.
Contrary to popular opinion, there are a lot of intelligent people in the military (on all sides). Makes life interesting.
No, because a significant number of 'those' drugs are the same drugs that Nurse Ratchet was dispensing, or, at best, their slightly better behaved cousins. It's not just amphetamines (and they're pretty potent in and of themselves). It's haloperidol (Haldol), respiridone (Respirdol), Quetiapine (Seroquel) - all somewhat improved versions of Chlorpromazine (Thorazine).
Drugs that I think twice of giving in the ER with an acutely psychotic person.
This stuff goes well beyond antidepressants and benzos. It is more than a little concerning.
As no one seems to believe these numbers are real, I'll quote the source: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000, authored by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
That study, which is twelve years old -- and drug deaths have risen considerably since then -- documents 106,000 deaths per year from the "adverse effects" of FDA-approved prescription medications.
To reach this number from outbreaks of violent shootings, you'd have to see an Aurora Colorado Batman movie massacre take place every HOUR of every day, 365 days a year.
Not surprising. The (only good) reason they are prescription medications is that they are dangerous. A 'drug' is just a poison with a useful side effect.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus - from the 17th century, IIRC.
And modern medicine is all about drugs. So those numbers don't surprise me a bit.
You are over generalizing (on Slashdot? The Horror) and mixing up symptom and cause.
One of the several root causes for academic failure is social failure. The vast majority of human children need a consistent, controlled and supportive environment if they are to get as much as possible out of schooling. Chaos doesn't work well for most. Since we've not done such a good job with the society at large, especially for economically disadvantaged people, we now try to take it out on the schools which are forced to be in loco parentis for a while. That hasn't been working out well either.
So we turn to drugs. Simple. Easy. Better living through chemistry and all that.
Ought to be an interesting experiment.
If I were the DEA or persons of similar persuasion, I would be shaking in my combat boots. Another generation even more attuned to psychotropic medication than the last couple of generations - who were doing pretty good with just amateur status. How are you going to get these kids to try to make the artificial distinction between 'good' and 'bad' drugs. Especially since a lot of these are pretty 'bad' drugs - they can make you feel crummy, they have significant side effects. They work in the brain (natch) so somebody is going to actually like the way they make you feel and want to buy them off of you. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
Which is precisely why the FAA hasn't approved the drones flying over populated areas. FTFA the original FAA plan required the Seattle PD to stay away from pretty much everything. The idea seemed to be that the department needed to show that they were interested and capable of using these potentially dangerous devices.
All well and good, but then the Seattle PD just dropped everything (according to the publicly available documents) and the program is sitting there, essentially collecting rust (it is Seattle after all) all the while asking for two new drones.
Seems like the Seattle PD started out OK (testing program, limited objectives) but now has backed off, shut up and wants to spend more. Perhaps their taking cues from the TSA.
Likewise, if we were up to our fucking necks in "antiquities", there'd probably be a lot less concern about preserving them.
Watch what you say there, Mr. 4 digit UID. You're not getting any younger. You may want to be preserved a bit longer even if there are a lot of us baby boomers flopping around.
As someone who flies small planes in the Alaska brush on a regular basis, I thank you and everybody else involved. It allows everybody to fly safer and once everyone else is on board, it will keep the other nemesis of Alaska bush flying - mid air collisions - from happening.
The company that flies the plane that I part own (Harris Air) was one of the first small operators to use Capstone. They love it.
I'm really debating about ordering 20 Scud missiles. On one hand, where would I put them? The wife is would be more upset than the last time I tried to bring a sailboat home.
If one you could get one or two. Shipping wouldn't be nearly the hassle. I'm sure UPS could handle a couple of them.
Very cool in the Alaska brush. If GPS went out it would be like tossing Alaska general aviation back 50 years when they crashed into mountains a lot. Now we only crash into mountains on rare occasions.
Not really true - I do it occasionally in my 19" skiff in heavy water - I'll tail a bigger fishing boat like a 60 -70' seiner. He's bouncing around at 10 - 15 knots and not having a care in the world. In such seas, I would be limited to 7-8 knots and the boat (and my back) would be getting clobbered. I sit about 100 feet back in the wake and as long as the wind isn't blowing so that I have inhale his diesels, it saves fuel, my back and gives me a speed boost.
The nice thing about water is you can see the wake 'vortex', no additional software required.
These boys were said to have taken immunosuppressants for nine months before beinig injected with the stem cells. Given this, and that the disorder is genetic, I'm assuming the stem cells are from an external source.
From the Fine Linked Article, the stem cells were allogenic - ie, not from the patient.
Since the stem cells are turning into neurons, I wonder how this will affect them in the future. Would the neurons remain without immunosuppressants? Or would the boys slowly lose these foreign cells growing up, and ultimately revert back to their original selves.
Good question, likely they will be on suppressants the rest of their lives.
The nervous sytem is a dangerous thing to manipulate. The effects could range from nothing to the boys taking on traits of their donor. While it's great stem cells can provide relief for this disorder, I hesitate to call it a cure. And if things go south later in their lives, it may very well be a curse.
That's why they are doing this on an invariably fatal disease. They are going to die of this disease (and quite early on IIRC) without treatment. So it is considered a 'compassionate' protocol (not withstanding philosophical discussions on whether or not this really is a compassionate thing to do). So you get to do things that are much more dangerous than your average clinical trial. But this really is the only way to approach it - well, the only way our consistent with current ethical guidelines in the US.
American society has in the past considered a telephone connection to be essentially a human right. Aside from outliers who lived far from any pretense of civiliation (which is difficult to do these days, because people keep fucking) everyone got a phone..
You aren't defining a 'right' at all - you are simply elucidating a benefit that society has decided to confer on it's members. It may well be an excellent benefit with clear societal advantages, but it's not a right.
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Look, it's mainstream US media, they got the general concept and the branch of the military correct. They're lucky they didn't confuse it with the Space Shuttle or Disneyland (both in Florida).
Yep, and they've changed their tactics to deal with that (and other) situations. This is why one does these sorts of exercises. To learn before it's too late.
Contrary to popular opinion, there are a lot of intelligent people in the military (on all sides). Makes life interesting.
Wooo hooo! A Marine who can type!
Wonders every day.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Romeo,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Although, I will the first to admit that you're a persistent little cuss.
No, because a significant number of 'those' drugs are the same drugs that Nurse Ratchet was dispensing, or, at best, their slightly better behaved cousins. It's not just amphetamines (and they're pretty potent in and of themselves). It's haloperidol (Haldol), respiridone (Respirdol), Quetiapine (Seroquel) - all somewhat improved versions of Chlorpromazine (Thorazine).
Drugs that I think twice of giving in the ER with an acutely psychotic person.
This stuff goes well beyond antidepressants and benzos. It is more than a little concerning.
As no one seems to believe these numbers are real, I'll quote the source: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000, authored by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
That study, which is twelve years old -- and drug deaths have risen considerably since then -- documents 106,000 deaths per year from the "adverse effects" of FDA-approved prescription medications.
To reach this number from outbreaks of violent shootings, you'd have to see an Aurora Colorado Batman movie massacre take place every HOUR of every day, 365 days a year.
Not surprising. The (only good) reason they are prescription medications is that they are dangerous. A 'drug' is just a poison with a useful side effect.
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison.
The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
Paracelsus - from the 17th century, IIRC.
And modern medicine is all about drugs. So those numbers don't surprise me a bit.
You are over generalizing (on Slashdot? The Horror) and mixing up symptom and cause.
One of the several root causes for academic failure is social failure. The vast majority of human children need a consistent, controlled and supportive environment if they are to get as much as possible out of schooling. Chaos doesn't work well for most. Since we've not done such a good job with the society at large, especially for economically disadvantaged people, we now try to take it out on the schools which are forced to be in loco parentis for a while. That hasn't been working out well either.
So we turn to drugs. Simple. Easy. Better living through chemistry and all that.
Ought to be an interesting experiment.
If I were the DEA or persons of similar persuasion, I would be shaking in my combat boots. Another generation even more attuned to psychotropic medication than the last couple of generations - who were doing pretty good with just amateur status. How are you going to get these kids to try to make the artificial distinction between 'good' and 'bad' drugs. Especially since a lot of these are pretty 'bad' drugs - they can make you feel crummy, they have significant side effects. They work in the brain (natch) so somebody is going to actually like the way they make you feel and want to buy them off of you. Whatcouldpossiblygowrong?
(Complacently sips caffeinated beverage).
Which is precisely why the FAA hasn't approved the drones flying over populated areas. FTFA the original FAA plan required the Seattle PD to stay away from pretty much everything. The idea seemed to be that the department needed to show that they were interested and capable of using these potentially dangerous devices.
All well and good, but then the Seattle PD just dropped everything (according to the publicly available documents) and the program is sitting there, essentially collecting rust (it is Seattle after all) all the while asking for two new drones.
Seems like the Seattle PD started out OK (testing program, limited objectives) but now has backed off, shut up and wants to spend more. Perhaps their taking cues from the TSA.
Likewise, if we were up to our fucking necks in "antiquities", there'd probably be a lot less concern about preserving them.
Watch what you say there, Mr. 4 digit UID. You're not getting any younger. You may want to be preserved a bit longer even if there are a lot of us baby boomers flopping around.
Yeah, I keep telling my wife that. Grrrr.
As someone who flies small planes in the Alaska brush on a regular basis, I thank you and everybody else involved. It allows everybody to fly safer and once everyone else is on board, it will keep the other nemesis of Alaska bush flying - mid air collisions - from happening.
The company that flies the plane that I part own (Harris Air) was one of the first small operators to use Capstone. They love it.
I'm really debating about ordering 20 Scud missiles. On one hand, where would I put them? The wife is would be more upset than the last time I tried to bring a sailboat home.
If one you could get one or two. Shipping wouldn't be nearly the hassle. I'm sure UPS could handle a couple of them.
The new system relies on GPS ADS-B
Very cool in the Alaska brush. If GPS went out it would be like tossing Alaska general aviation back 50 years when they crashed into mountains a lot. Now we only crash into mountains on rare occasions.
For the birds...
Not really true - I do it occasionally in my 19" skiff in heavy water - I'll tail a bigger fishing boat like a 60 -70' seiner. He's bouncing around at 10 - 15 knots and not having a care in the world. In such seas, I would be limited to 7-8 knots and the boat (and my back) would be getting clobbered. I sit about 100 feet back in the wake and as long as the wind isn't blowing so that I have inhale his diesels, it saves fuel, my back and gives me a speed boost.
The nice thing about water is you can see the wake 'vortex', no additional software required.
OK, just to be fair to the editors (this one time). If TF summary had mentioned early onset Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease, would that have helped?
I suppose they could have included the Wikipedia Link to it, but really, if you were at all interested, you could have done this yourself (I hope).
The Internet - it's a wonderful thing.
These boys were said to have taken immunosuppressants for nine months before beinig injected with the stem cells. Given this, and that the disorder is genetic, I'm assuming the stem cells are from an external source.
From the Fine Linked Article, the stem cells were allogenic - ie, not from the patient.
Since the stem cells are turning into neurons, I wonder how this will affect them in the future. Would the neurons remain without immunosuppressants? Or would the boys slowly lose these foreign cells growing up, and ultimately revert back to their original selves.
Good question, likely they will be on suppressants the rest of their lives.
The nervous sytem is a dangerous thing to manipulate. The effects could range from nothing to the boys taking on traits of their donor. While it's great stem cells can provide relief for this disorder, I hesitate to call it a cure. And if things go south later in their lives, it may very well be a curse.
That's why they are doing this on an invariably fatal disease. They are going to die of this disease (and quite early on IIRC) without treatment. So it is considered a 'compassionate' protocol (not withstanding philosophical discussions on whether or not this really is a compassionate thing to do). So you get to do things that are much more dangerous than your average clinical trial. But this really is the only way to approach it - well, the only way our consistent with current ethical guidelines in the US.
Peru? You must be American.
Of course we're you're biggest threat. Just think of us as your psychotic big brother, off his meds and rooting around your room for pocket change.
Pleasant nightmares!
But if you think the mosquitoes are bad now. wait until the entire country is a pestilential swamp. You'll be begging for snow.
Maybe they should try their hands at rings. They have a volcano or two around there, do they not?
Well, I've moved a couple of time since then, so I'm safe.
Right?
What? You've never felt a negative vibe before?
American society has in the past considered a telephone connection to be essentially a human right. Aside from outliers who lived far from any pretense of civiliation (which is difficult to do these days, because people keep fucking) everyone got a phone..
You aren't defining a 'right' at all - you are simply elucidating a benefit that society has decided to confer on it's members. It may well be an excellent benefit with clear societal advantages, but it's not a right.
No, being a productive member of society isn't a 'right'. All societies have classes of people that can't access certain things.
I can be more productive if I have access to a private jet - is society supposed to provide me one?