Are you implying that ""The spirituality and soul of music is truly found when the sound engulfs you and that is just what 2012 will bring. It is a physical thing, a relief that you feel when you finally hear music the way artists and producers did when they created it in the studio. The sound engulfs you and your senses open up allowing you to truly feel the deep emotion in the music of some of our finest artists. From Frank Sinatra to the Black Keys, the feeling is there. This is what recording companies were born to give you and in 2012 they will deliver."" is mushy bullshit?
No, I think he's implying that the recording studios are going to push Obama to legalize marijuana.
Just last week my father sent me an article from a motorcycle magazine that proposed that EM energy (including wifi, cell phones, et cetera) is harmful to the human body. My father is a logical person who can listen to reason...he just isn't well informed on this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions on scholarly reference material I can link to when I rebut this article? So far I haven't found anything well written that wasn't behind a paywall.
A motorcycle magazine? They're worried about cell phones and they tolerate the 60kv from the coil that's busily building charge (and a field) up right between their legs?
Nope. The NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc) ARE analgesics - they work directly on the pain pathways. They ALSO are (weak) anti inflammatories and inflammation often plays a part of pain.
And it's also in your head (where else would it be?).
Oh, I don't agree with what Purdue did and I'm glad they got caught on it. They did cross the line but the line is pretty blurry. I don't like that line and we would be much better off figuring out how to get medications out without the disaster that big Pharma has created.
I was whining about the breathless nature of the article - it's more complex that it seems.
No it's not addiction, it's habituation. Addiction is defined as inappropriate use of a drug. Habituation is when you need more and more of a drug to get the same effect and suffer from ill effects when you stop the drug.
The terms are, unfortunately, poorly understood.
Note that habituation can occur with a lot of drugs that one might not expect - caffeine, antidepressants and many other drugs that work on the brain.
If it was OxyContin, then he probably died from acetominophen overdose. They add huge amounts (near lethal doses) to keep people from taking too many pills. Unfortunately, some people don't read the label nor understand the toxicity of Tylenol.
And unfortunately, reading comprehension is a problem with at least some ACs.
Oxycontin DOES NOT have acetaminophen (Tylenol for USer's, paracetamol for the rest of the world).
Percocet, Roxicet and various other short acting formulations do.
Another Slashdot 'article' full of slant and hyperbole.
Yep, Purdue over marketed the drug, Pharma always does that. No, it was never considered 'safe' - oxycodone has always been DEA schedule II (the most 'dangerous of legal drugs'). What isn't discussed is that the reason that long acting opiates were allowed by the FDA was the increasing realization that medicine has done a historically poor job of treating pain.
Now, allopathic medicine has used, and continues to use a very immature and inadequate model both pain control and addiction. The former is hobbled by limited good research on the issue and the fact that the opiates (heroin, morphine, oxycodone and similar drugs) have been the most effective against serious pain while being significantly addictive. The latter hobbled by addiction being both a legal and a medical problem in the US. The legal system and the medical system tend to work poorly with each other and this is not an exception to that rule.
And I've not even started on the human propensity to stuff whatever it can down it's collective gullet in order to achieve some different level of consciousness.
Yep, Purdue did some poor marketing and a lot of docs (for some bizarre reason) fell for it, but they are hardly the only players in the game.
Better yet: Just eliminate the men and the planes. They take-up too much room. Replace them with self-guided missiles that don't need to eat or sleep. You can carry thousands of them in the space of an aircraft carrier and project power as quickly as you press a button. No need to wait for waking-up the men, fueling the planes, moving them into position, et cetera. Missiles are ready near-instantly.
"Skynet was originally installed by the military to control the national arsenal on August 4, 1997, at which time it began learning at a geometric rate. On August 29, it gained self-awareness[1], and the panicking operators, realizing the extent of its abilities, tried to deactivate it...."
"Well enough"? That's a laugh. I can't leave a Slashdot story open on my netbook without it bringing it to its knees a couple of hours later. This site needs a code enema.
Maybe you need a new netbook?
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Not so hot a deal. I have three phones on my account - an iPhone 4s, a 3G and some idiot little dumbphone. Unlimited texting, some data cap that I never even get close too and a bunch of minutes. $100/month. The only downside (and it's a big one) is that it's AT&T so there are numerous times when we can't actually use those minutes / bytes.
The differences in prices with American carriers aren't very impressive.
The problem is that iPhones have historically sold out and then remain hard to get for a few weeks after. So if you want a newly released iPhone, you have to either get in really early, stand in line all day at a store, or wait about a month or more.
And the rest of us really have to give you beta testers a hand. Thanks for all the hard work!
For example, can anyone name a single high-end chinese fashion designer, or a movie director? LOL.
So, your vision of the US is "Movies, microcode and pizza delivery"? I am rather sure that there are both well known Chinese movie directors and Chinese fashion designers -- in China. Hollywood and NYC aren't the only places on the planet with cameras and scissors.
A high technology country doesn't need everyone to be at a PhD level nor do they need most of their PhDs to be able to do stunning, world shattering things. Much of technology and innovation is iterative. You buy a silicon fab from Nikon, take it apart, put it together. Learn how to make the lenses, the steppers and whatever. It takes a certain amount of talent but more it takes money and dedication. So a country that isn't necessarily wedded to the next quarter's financial results has a big advantage, no matter how smart you aren't - just assuming that your graduating adequately trained people.
Just having a legal environment that, for examples, encourages rather than discourages stem cell research may make more difference than graduating a dozen Richard Feynmans. This isn't to say that China is guaranteed to be the next Big Bad Guy, nor is it any guaranty that the civilization that China is creating is better for it's members than ours is but these sorts of education pissing contests are really a small part of the overall picture.
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Headphones. Good headphones. Even an iPod with a decent preamp and a pair of Sennheiser 650's sounds pretty good.
Are you implying that ""The spirituality and soul of music is truly found when the sound engulfs you and that is just what 2012 will bring. It is a physical thing, a relief that you feel when you finally hear music the way artists and producers did when they created it in the studio. The sound engulfs you and your senses open up allowing you to truly feel the deep emotion in the music of some of our finest artists. From Frank Sinatra to the Black Keys, the feeling is there. This is what recording companies were born to give you and in 2012 they will deliver."" is mushy bullshit?
No, I think he's implying that the recording studios are going to push Obama to legalize marijuana.
It all fits if you look at it that way.
Don't Bogart that joint, my friend.
Just last week my father sent me an article from a motorcycle magazine that proposed that EM energy (including wifi, cell phones, et cetera) is harmful to the human body. My father is a logical person who can listen to reason...he just isn't well informed on this issue. Does anyone have any suggestions on scholarly reference material I can link to when I rebut this article? So far I haven't found anything well written that wasn't behind a paywall.
A motorcycle magazine? They're worried about cell phones and they tolerate the 60kv from the coil that's busily building charge (and a field) up right between their legs?
My head aslpode. Again.
Among other things, Slashcode doesn't handle sarcasm well. A known bug.
Well, jeez. Just sign me right up. Monster cables are big and fat and have a directional arrow for the electrons. They even say "MONSTER" on them.
Boy, did my ship just come in.
Hopefully, they aren't very strong magnets.
This is the dumbest comment I've read all week
You must be new here.
Nope. The NSAIDs (ibuprofen, etc) ARE analgesics - they work directly on the pain pathways. They ALSO are (weak) anti inflammatories and inflammation often plays a part of pain.
And it's also in your head (where else would it be?).
Oh, I don't agree with what Purdue did and I'm glad they got caught on it. They did cross the line but the line is pretty blurry. I don't like that line and we would be much better off figuring out how to get medications out without the disaster that big Pharma has created.
I was whining about the breathless nature of the article - it's more complex that it seems.
No it's not addiction, it's habituation. Addiction is defined as inappropriate use of a drug. Habituation is when you need more and more of a drug to get the same effect and suffer from ill effects when you stop the drug.
The terms are, unfortunately, poorly understood.
Note that habituation can occur with a lot of drugs that one might not expect - caffeine, antidepressants and many other drugs that work on the brain.
Acetaminophen
Aspirin
NSAIDS (Ibuprofen and it's relatives)
The problem is that they don't work as well and have other medical issues.
The only countries that don't use the ICD 10 are the US and North Korea.
I'll leave it up to you to decide what that means.
applied neurology. And hence a very hard, clean and proper science. Not different from any other. Plain and simple for your simple, simple mind.
You're crazier than a cocaine addled psychiatrist. We're working on making psychology applied neurology but we are quite a long ways away from it.
If it was OxyContin, then he probably died from acetominophen overdose. They add huge amounts (near lethal doses) to keep people from taking too many pills. Unfortunately, some people don't read the label nor understand the toxicity of Tylenol.
And unfortunately, reading comprehension is a problem with at least some ACs.
Oxycontin DOES NOT have acetaminophen (Tylenol for USer's, paracetamol for the rest of the world).
Percocet, Roxicet and various other short acting formulations do.
Another Slashdot 'article' full of slant and hyperbole.
Yep, Purdue over marketed the drug, Pharma always does that.
No, it was never considered 'safe' - oxycodone has always been DEA schedule II (the most 'dangerous of legal drugs').
What isn't discussed is that the reason that long acting opiates were allowed by the FDA was the increasing realization that medicine has done a historically poor job of treating pain.
Now, allopathic medicine has used, and continues to use a very immature and inadequate model both pain control and addiction. The former is hobbled by limited good research on the issue and the fact that the opiates (heroin, morphine, oxycodone and similar drugs) have been the most effective against serious pain while being significantly addictive. The latter hobbled by addiction being both a legal and a medical problem in the US. The legal system and the medical system tend to work poorly with each other and this is not an exception to that rule.
And I've not even started on the human propensity to stuff whatever it can down it's collective gullet in order to achieve some different level of consciousness.
Yep, Purdue did some poor marketing and a lot of docs (for some bizarre reason) fell for it, but they are hardly the only players in the game.
Better yet: Just eliminate the men and the planes. They take-up too much room. Replace them with self-guided missiles that don't need to eat or sleep. You can carry thousands of them in the space of an aircraft carrier and project power as quickly as you press a button. No need to wait for waking-up the men, fueling the planes, moving them into position, et cetera. Missiles are ready near-instantly.
"Skynet was originally installed by the military to control the national arsenal on August 4, 1997, at which time it began learning at a geometric rate. On August 29, it gained self-awareness[1], and the panicking operators, realizing the extent of its abilities, tried to deactivate it...."
The rest is an instructional video.
As someone who regularly downloads multi-gig Linux ISOs on my phone, I have to disagree.
You must be the same guy I saw hauling six full size pieces of plywood on top of his Cooper mini. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
"Well enough"? That's a laugh. I can't leave a Slashdot story open on my netbook without it bringing it to its knees a couple of hours later. This site needs a code enema.
Maybe you need a new netbook?
(insert Ads for netbooks here)*
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Funny thing about noise. You gain bring up the gain, but it's still noise.
Oh grub. If you hadn't outed yourself as Dr. Bob, DC, this would never have happened.
It's Obama's fault.
Not so hot a deal. I have three phones on my account - an iPhone 4s, a 3G and some idiot little dumbphone. Unlimited texting, some data cap that I never even get close too and a bunch of minutes. $100/month. The only downside (and it's a big one) is that it's AT&T so there are numerous times when we can't actually use those minutes / bytes.
The differences in prices with American carriers aren't very impressive.
The problem is that iPhones have historically sold out and then remain hard to get for a few weeks after. So if you want a newly released iPhone, you have to either get in really early, stand in line all day at a store, or wait about a month or more.
And the rest of us really have to give you beta testers a hand. Thanks for all the hard work!
More to the point would we recognize intelligent life even if it was in front of our face.
There's a television joke in here somewhere....
Too late. Paul Ryan got tapped for the Vice President spot.
For example, can anyone name a single high-end chinese fashion designer, or a movie director? LOL.
So, your vision of the US is "Movies, microcode and pizza delivery"? I am rather sure that there are both well known Chinese movie directors and Chinese fashion designers -- in China. Hollywood and NYC aren't the only places on the planet with cameras and scissors.
A high technology country doesn't need everyone to be at a PhD level nor do they need most of their PhDs to be able to do stunning, world shattering things. Much of technology and innovation is iterative. You buy a silicon fab from Nikon, take it apart, put it together. Learn how to make the lenses, the steppers and whatever. It takes a certain amount of talent but more it takes money and dedication. So a country that isn't necessarily wedded to the next quarter's financial results has a big advantage, no matter how smart you aren't - just assuming that your graduating adequately trained people.
Just having a legal environment that, for examples, encourages rather than discourages stem cell research may make more difference than graduating a dozen Richard Feynmans. This isn't to say that China is guaranteed to be the next Big Bad Guy, nor is it any guaranty that the civilization that China is creating is better for it's members than ours is but these sorts of education pissing contests are really a small part of the overall picture.