Interesting. Lots of possibilities for error in this sort of sampling - I'm not sure that a longitudinal study really is the same as a prospective study of a defined population group an of course you can have significant reporting bias, but one could assume that the number is sort of correct. Interestingly, still doesn't support Aiken's little missive.
I might have to look up 21 CFR but I'm going to avoid it for a while if at all possible....
Are you trying to say that web sites like this stroke risk score are illegal?
"intended for the use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals" is one hella broad category. Frankly, I just can't see the FDA wanting to touch this area with a 10 meter colonoscope.
Uh, the other guy who DIDN'T think that regulations were needed was - also a doctor.
Personally, I don't think you should regulate these. Who's going to do it? How many friggin 'lawyer' screens are you going to create (hint: more than we already have)?
Do you then regulate every 'medical' website? Most of these apps either could be duplicated by a web site or already have been.
Where, exactly, do you stop?
What happens when doctors or even medical professional societies disagree (think stroke treatment with clot busting drugs - the American Academy of Emergency Physicians and the American Neurologic Society (or whatever prof society the neurologists hang out on) disagree pretty vehemently. That's fine, it's expected but how do you 'regulate' that?
I'm also curious why the dosage-by-weight tables seem to assume that everyone over 100lbs needs the same dose.
KISS. You can get away with this with a few drugs who have large 'therapeutic windows' - concentrations in the blood where the drug is both safe and effective. Fortunately our bodies tend to be smarter than the rest of us.
It's generally considered a continent. It may be remote from the US and Europe, but it is certainly closer to China and Japan where Most Things are made.
The other issue is warranties. I don't know Canon's take on this but Nikon will refuse to fix a grey market camera or lens. In fact, if you were Australian, purchased your camera from Nikon Australia and then moved to the US, dropped the camera and sent it to Nikon, they would not touch it.
So it gets even more annoying and more complex....
You are most definitely hanging out with the wrong crowd if you think that's 'normal'. It's batshit insane.
Do we pick up batshit insane people and carefully evaluate them? Yes we do when they are making dramatic, aggressive and clearly homicidal statements. Especially when they have an apparent motive and means to execute their diatribes.
Remember, he wasn't jailed. He was placed in a psychiatric detention. This happens on a regular basis around the US - it can be abused which is why the courts go to great lengths to make sure the case is strong enough. You have the right to counsel, you get the public defender if you can't afford a private attorney.
Is it perfect? No. Can it be abused? Sure. But the checks and balances have been worked on for many years and, IMHO, they're pretty reasonable.
Yes. However the big problem is setting up the study. Can't be double blind, obviously (cue jokes about blind politicians), be awfully hard to be prospective. So, I'm going to guess that the study in OB/GYN was a questionairre study. Those are terrible from a statistical point of view - multiple types of selection bias, poor recall, etc.
Further, if it was done in 1965, that is pretty much in the middle of the paleolithic era as far as OB's are concerned. They were invariably male and generally chauvinistic. The primary US textbook for OB, William's Obstetrics had an index entry "Male Chauvinism, voluminous amounts, pages 1-1120" (the entire book). So the veracity of the data is a tad suspect.
Anyway, the actual number really is not all that significant. If it's true that 'real rape' tends not to support pregnancy, unless the effect is essentially 100%, the argument against abortion falls flat.
Substances in this schedule have a high potential for abuse, have no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Some examples of substances listed in schedule I are: heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), peyote, methaqualone, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (“ecstasy”).
Most of the stronger opiates (morphine, demerol, oxycodone) are Class II drugs. Weaker opiates and some benzo's are Class III. Weaker benzos and a whole raft of other oddities are in IV and V.
The higher the classification, the more stringent the reporting / prescribing rules. Most physicians / Nurse Practitioners / PA's in the US have Class 2-5 licenses. Trying to get a Class I ticket is likely to get you a nice, personal meeting with somebody with a gun, a tie and a DEA ID card.
Note that marijuana is listed right along with heroin (which is just substituted morphine). USA! USA! USA!
No, he was a doctor - he wrote prescriptions, just not for valid medical reasons.
So the 'patients' could likely not be prosecuted. But when you get a DEA license (and a state medical license) you agree to prescribe drugs for valid medical issues. That's why we have 'medical' marijuana. The bar is pretty low, but the bar is there.
Businessmen are always trying to make military analogies. Makes them feel macho and in charge, I suppose. There is, however, a clear difference between some coke addled suit and an ex-marine with a bunch of weapons.
I know everyone thinks that this is a punitive move, but at least on the face of it, the psych detention is for diagnostic purposes. We put people in this situation routinely when they are 1) an danger to themselves or others (likely the rationale here) or 2) gravely disabled (think sitting in the middle of the freeway).
From the limited info presented, it may well be the most reasonable thing to do. Perhaps he's just blowing off steam. Perhaps he is having a bad day.
Or perhaps he has a couple of fully auto M-16s, a couple thousand rounds of ammo, a couple of grenades and maybe some other souvenirs of the Middle East. It's a difficult balance between letting people do what they feel is right and allowing mass murder, even if it's justified to some people's minds.
And on my 17" 2011 MBP I can replace the primary HD with an SSD (done it), up the RAM (done it), pulled the optical drive and replaced it with a 1 TB HD and pulled the battery out and put it back just to ensure that I can.
Now, if Apple takes all of the MBP line and turns them into glorified Airs then I'll be pissed (wouldn't be the first time). But if you want to play Road Warrior, go right ahead.
Just leave me my 17 inch glossy screen you slimy retards.
OS X 10.6 Server added a lot onto 10.6. Starting with 10.7 they removed a lot of this and replaced it with a heavily dumbed down replacement. Up until that point, from at least 10.2, each release of OS X Server was a nice improvement over the previous. 10.7 and 10.8 have seen it regress heavily.
Because Apple looked at who bought OS X Server and has attempted to reconcile that demographic with the software. Let's face it, even 10.6 server was pretty 'light'. Nobody in their right mind would use it for much except SOHO type stuff - and that's where Apple is trying to hit. Put it on a mini and you have a painless, brainless email / web / print / file service for dummies.
I think most Slashdotters would agree that they could roll up a better solution given almost any flavor of Linux and some remaindered desktop, but 'we' aren't their potential customer base - the rest of the planet is.
McAfee, hmm? I even remember the good ol' days on Win98, when after installing McAfee the darn thing simply refused to boot. Now you won't be able to turn on your engine, or what?
Well, one could argue that with WIn98, that was the appropriate response.
No, he's not kidding and what2123 shouldn't be downmodded as a troll. Just because we aren't terribly successful at winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people doesn't mean we do not have a formidable military presence in the rest of the world.
The wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan were totally stupid and failed to meet the vast majority of political and military objectives that were publicly stated. They do manage to show the world that we will spend untold trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives (both ours and everyone elses) on fairly stupid, limited goals. China well knows that if it really tried to piss us off it could be turned into a vast repository of active nuclides so they won't.
It's going to be much like the "Cold War" which really was a warm warm using proxies (like Afghanistan). Look at China's attempts at getting at Africa's mineral resources. If they get terribly successful at it, plan on various guerrilla groups and proxy governments to join the fray.
I personally don't think this strategy is economically viable nor particularly sane, but then again, nobody votes for me....
These sorts of sensors would be enormously useful for diving, especially people using rebreathers. The military would absolutely be interested in non-invasive blood monitoring for gas levels.
A common problem with rebreathers is that hypoxic conditions often arise without warning, leading to an unconscious diver. Being able to monitor blood oxygen levels from outside the body would greatly help, as the current solution of oxygen sensors in the breathing loop often have trouble when exposed to water.
"Hey John: You're starting to glow again. Better start for the surface."
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Pregnancy is subjective?
Interesting. Lots of possibilities for error in this sort of sampling - I'm not sure that a longitudinal study really is the same as a prospective study of a defined population group an of course you can have significant reporting bias, but one could assume that the number is sort of correct. Interestingly, still doesn't support Aiken's little missive.
Thanks for the link.
I might have to look up 21 CFR but I'm going to avoid it for a while if at all possible....
Are you trying to say that web sites like this stroke risk score are illegal?
"intended for the use in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions, or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, in man or other animals" is one hella broad category. Frankly, I just can't see the FDA wanting to touch this area with a 10 meter colonoscope.
Uh, the other guy who DIDN'T think that regulations were needed was - also a doctor.
Personally, I don't think you should regulate these. Who's going to do it? How many friggin 'lawyer' screens are you going to create (hint: more than we already have)?
Do you then regulate every 'medical' website? Most of these apps either could be duplicated by a web site or already have been.
Where, exactly, do you stop?
What happens when doctors or even medical professional societies disagree (think stroke treatment with clot busting drugs - the American Academy of Emergency Physicians and the American Neurologic Society (or whatever prof society the neurologists hang out on) disagree pretty vehemently. That's fine, it's expected but how do you 'regulate' that?
I'm also curious why the dosage-by-weight tables seem to assume that everyone over 100lbs needs the same dose.
KISS. You can get away with this with a few drugs who have large 'therapeutic windows' - concentrations in the blood where the drug is both safe and effective. Fortunately our bodies tend to be smarter than the rest of us.
If Australia is an island, so is America....
It's generally considered a continent. It may be remote from the US and Europe, but it is certainly closer to China and Japan where Most Things are made.
The other issue is warranties. I don't know Canon's take on this but Nikon will refuse to fix a grey market camera or lens. In fact, if you were Australian, purchased your camera from Nikon Australia and then moved to the US, dropped the camera and sent it to Nikon, they would not touch it.
So it gets even more annoying and more complex....
You are most definitely hanging out with the wrong crowd if you think that's 'normal'. It's batshit insane.
Do we pick up batshit insane people and carefully evaluate them? Yes we do when they are making dramatic, aggressive and clearly homicidal statements. Especially when they have an apparent motive and means to execute their diatribes.
Remember, he wasn't jailed. He was placed in a psychiatric detention. This happens on a regular basis around the US - it can be abused which is why the courts go to great lengths to make sure the case is strong enough. You have the right to counsel, you get the public defender if you can't afford a private attorney.
Is it perfect? No. Can it be abused? Sure. But the checks and balances have been worked on for many years and, IMHO, they're pretty reasonable.
Yes. However the big problem is setting up the study. Can't be double blind, obviously (cue jokes about blind politicians), be awfully hard to be prospective. So, I'm going to guess that the study in OB/GYN was a questionairre study. Those are terrible from a statistical point of view - multiple types of selection bias, poor recall, etc.
Further, if it was done in 1965, that is pretty much in the middle of the paleolithic era as far as OB's are concerned. They were invariably male and generally chauvinistic. The primary US textbook for OB, William's Obstetrics had an index entry "Male Chauvinism, voluminous amounts, pages 1-1120" (the entire book). So the veracity of the data is a tad suspect.
Anyway, the actual number really is not all that significant. If it's true that 'real rape' tends not to support pregnancy, unless the effect is essentially 100%, the argument against abortion falls flat.
Which real name?
Oops. Slashcode's lack of editing strikes again!
"The higher the classification" is actually wrong. The lower numbers are the more restricted drugs.
The terminology the DEA uses is Classes 1 through 5 drugs
Class I's are the big no-no's
Substances in this schedule have a high potential for abuse, have no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and there is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Some examples of substances listed in schedule I are: heroin, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), marijuana (cannabis), peyote, methaqualone, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (“ecstasy”).
Most of the stronger opiates (morphine, demerol, oxycodone) are Class II drugs. Weaker opiates and some benzo's are Class III. Weaker benzos and a whole raft of other oddities are in IV and V.
The higher the classification, the more stringent the reporting / prescribing rules. Most physicians / Nurse Practitioners / PA's in the US have Class 2-5 licenses. Trying to get a Class I ticket is likely to get you a nice, personal meeting with somebody with a gun, a tie and a DEA ID card.
Note that marijuana is listed right along with heroin (which is just substituted morphine). USA! USA! USA!
No, he was a doctor - he wrote prescriptions, just not for valid medical reasons.
So the 'patients' could likely not be prosecuted. But when you get a DEA license (and a state medical license) you agree to prescribe drugs for valid medical issues. That's why we have 'medical' marijuana. The bar is pretty low, but the bar is there.
Axes?
Businessmen are always trying to make military analogies. Makes them feel macho and in charge, I suppose. There is, however, a clear difference between some coke addled suit and an ex-marine with a bunch of weapons.
I know everyone thinks that this is a punitive move, but at least on the face of it, the psych detention is for diagnostic purposes. We put people in this situation routinely when they are 1) an danger to themselves or others (likely the rationale here) or 2) gravely disabled (think sitting in the middle of the freeway).
From the limited info presented, it may well be the most reasonable thing to do. Perhaps he's just blowing off steam. Perhaps he is having a bad day.
Or perhaps he has a couple of fully auto M-16s, a couple thousand rounds of ammo, a couple of grenades and maybe some other souvenirs of the Middle East. It's a difficult balance between letting people do what they feel is right and allowing mass murder, even if it's justified to some people's minds.
And on my 17" 2011 MBP I can replace the primary HD with an SSD (done it), up the RAM (done it), pulled the optical drive and replaced it with a 1 TB HD and pulled the battery out and put it back just to ensure that I can.
Now, if Apple takes all of the MBP line and turns them into glorified Airs then I'll be pissed (wouldn't be the first time). But if you want to play Road Warrior, go right ahead.
Just leave me my 17 inch glossy screen you slimy retards.
Oh, and a Mac Pro update if you please.
OS X 10.6 Server added a lot onto 10.6. Starting with 10.7 they removed a lot of this and replaced it with a heavily dumbed down replacement. Up until that point, from at least 10.2, each release of OS X Server was a nice improvement over the previous. 10.7 and 10.8 have seen it regress heavily.
Because Apple looked at who bought OS X Server and has attempted to reconcile that demographic with the software. Let's face it, even 10.6 server was pretty 'light'. Nobody in their right mind would use it for much except SOHO type stuff - and that's where Apple is trying to hit. Put it on a mini and you have a painless, brainless email / web / print / file service for dummies.
I think most Slashdotters would agree that they could roll up a better solution given almost any flavor of Linux and some remaindered desktop, but 'we' aren't their potential customer base - the rest of the planet is.
Call it the "Ford Paranoia" or the "Chevy Technophobe".
I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
McAfee, hmm? I even remember the good ol' days on Win98, when after installing McAfee the darn thing simply refused to boot.
Now you won't be able to turn on your engine, or what?
Well, one could argue that with WIn98, that was the appropriate response.
Sigh. English is much too complicated. Either way, it's hard to pronounce and spell. We should just drop the 'F' word and call it 'glowy'.
I say it's pretty good when Kernel Panics are so infrequent that you can remember each of the system-wide OS failures in over a decade of use.
An issue with selective memory perhaps?
705,000 hits for "Kernel Panic OS X"
No, he's not kidding and what2123 shouldn't be downmodded as a troll. Just because we aren't terribly successful at winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people doesn't mean we do not have a formidable military presence in the rest of the world.
The wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan were totally stupid and failed to meet the vast majority of political and military objectives that were publicly stated. They do manage to show the world that we will spend untold trillions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives (both ours and everyone elses) on fairly stupid, limited goals. China well knows that if it really tried to piss us off it could be turned into a vast repository of active nuclides so they won't.
It's going to be much like the "Cold War" which really was a warm warm using proxies (like Afghanistan). Look at China's attempts at getting at Africa's mineral resources. If they get terribly successful at it, plan on various guerrilla groups and proxy governments to join the fray.
I personally don't think this strategy is economically viable nor particularly sane, but then again, nobody votes for me....
These sorts of sensors would be enormously useful for diving, especially people using rebreathers. The military would absolutely be interested in non-invasive blood monitoring for gas levels.
A common problem with rebreathers is that hypoxic conditions often arise without warning, leading to an unconscious diver. Being able to monitor blood oxygen levels from outside the body would greatly help, as the current solution of oxygen sensors in the breathing loop often have trouble when exposed to water.
"Hey John: You're starting to glow again. Better start for the surface."
Could work.