generally (and the exceptions are a bitch) an expired drug is safe but its efficacy is reduced. For some products that rate of reduction is low and an expired product can be good for a year or two after the date (Liquamycin for example), for other products the rate of decline is non linear and fast, so are only good a couple months past date with any real efficacy (Covexin®-8. CDT comes to mind).
Epi seems to be between the two, within some limits:
EpiPen's shelf life has been limited by the chemistry of the drug inside it. Epinephrine is an old and cheap medication, but it's also notoriously finicky. If exposed to light, heat or air, it can degrade, turning rust colored. The FDA-approved label warns that if the liquid in the pen is discolored, it should be discarded: "Epinephrine solution deteriorates rapidly on exposure to air or light, turning pink from oxidation to adrenochrome and brown from the formation of melanin."
Great! so there's a way to tell, separate from the date!
But what about an expired EpiPen that looks perfectly normal?
The little published data that exists shows that the drug degrades over time -- and color is not an accurate way to gauge whether the epinephrine inside is still good.
well crap, maybe not.
One study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2000, examined EpiPens one to 90 months after the expiration date. Most were not discolored, but the epinephrine content decreased over time. The study stated that it was best to use EpiPens that had not expired, but found that the pens contained at least two-thirds of the intended dose up to a year after expiration. Even a sub-optimal dose could be better than nothing in a life-or-death situation, the authors concluded.
So... Looks like if stored in *ideal* conditions the pen will last more than 18 months, but under likely real-world conditions 18 months is it. FWIW, elsewhere I found that the manufacturer had targeted 27 months, but data only supported 19 months, they went with 18. That's not a large guard band.
Totally makes sense. Don't know how much waste the recycle process produces, but not having to ship the material but across the street will save a bundle.
I know exactly what *you'll* find on my computer that has been connected to the internet: Noise. Baring an exploit in the disk crypto you will find only noise and I'll be damned if I'm going to enter or tell you the password.
My 5 finally died (the mic not working unless you press the back of the phone issue). Bought a Pixel. Like my Pixel. DO NOT like the price I paid for my Pixel. I would have happily bought another Nexus 5, exact same specs, for $250-$350 instead of the pixel.
Same here. I have 4 sims with T-Mobile: 1 full feature, 3 text/data no voice. The plan I was on those three sims are free to me. I pay 70/mo for the unlimited (no BW or speed caps / 5 gig tether) and the data sims are 200mb each but free and unlimited text.
Had this plan for years now and they've not touched it, even though I've replaced all 4 sims over the years.
Very happy with them overall. Had a hiccup with their warranty replacement service where the replacement phone was crap compared to the Nexus 5 it was replacing. Ultimately they gave me enough service credit to virtually cover the entire cost of a Pixel, so I'm happy again.
I'm curious: Unload truck onto train, ship, unload train onto truck, deliver? or Drive truck onto flatbed railcar, ship, drive truck off railcar, deliver? For trucks that are separate tractor trailer, just the trailer on the flatbed.
Worked with a guy who was from South Africa, White as can be and ex apartheid cop (total asshat too). He put down "African American" on all his stuff. For some reason the government drones didn't accept it... but he did have a good point: He *was* African American, but he wasn't black, so if they wanted black they should have asked it.
About the only redeeming thing about the guy was the hilarity of him in government issues...
only applies to autopilot. Assuming that soon this will be the norm, then all cars will be going the same speed, until then if there is enough traffic that is at a dissimilar speed, just drive instead of autopilot and you're golden.
If they were using it first (I believe they were) then Google won't likely do this. Additionally they are in a different space, one is a phone, one is an OS distro.
Though... Can I run PIXEL on my Pixel to drive my pixels? it's pixels all the way down! (need an ARM derivative named Pixel to run it on:)
Have you ever actually tried to USE one of the ethics hotlines?
Yup
Any actual complaints won't be investigated.
Actually, it was and I was found to be in the right, my management got spanked for it.
Calling the hotline is NOT anonymous and basically puts you on a watch list of employees to be fired.
Correct. While my management go spanked, I got fired (retaliatory termination). They used the cover of the recent layoffs at my former company to hide it (lawyer agreed that it was unfair dismissal, but flatly told me my case would get buried because I was in the layoffs). So an employee of 17 years with nothing but positive reviews was suddenly bottom rank and terminated...
Funny thing is, I knew what I was in for, but didn't know the layoffs were coming (about 5 mo after my initial complaint). I thought they'd be over a year off yet and that would have given me time to bail from that team and find a new berth. Ah well, live and learn. New gig is a *ton* less stressful, but sadly lower pay too.
I had a neighbor who was section 8, first 5 CA (for kids under 5). Total stereotype: Three kids by three dads, all ~5 years apart. I wanted to yell at her to get a damn job, but having actually done the numbers for her (she needed access to a computer, so we used mine, and I did the typing), it was clear that my $55k/yr (at the time) job in effect was $100/mo *less* than her sitting at home on bennies. It ate me up.
Things I paid for that she got *free*: * healthcare for family of four * housing * gas and electricity * groceries ($400/week) * cable TV (yup, it's covered! WTF?!?!?!)
Plus she got a cash stipend of $800/mo in addition to the above. When you added it all up as a P&L statement she came out ahead by nearly $100/mo over me.
Getting a low income job can cause a loss of benefit greater than the income the job provides (under the current system). I was speaking from a position of someone who had recently entered the unemployed pool, not someone who had been living on benefits for a long time.
The root of the reply being that I don't think the "spent on booze" is all that common in people who desire to work, but can't because of the way our current system is biased & that I don't foresee a change in that just because UI was supplanted by UBI.
I also didn't take too much time in wording my reply, so that it appears muddy is quite justified.
Is stormfront doing better SEO than all the other sites? Then without some bespoke editorial control of search they are correctly ranked.
And this is where the slippery slope happens... If Google delists a site that is not illegal (even if distasteful) then you have made the search less a reflection of the web. If Google tweaks page rank to lower the value of their SEO (and applies it globally) then fine I guess.
While I can point and yell "slippery slope" as well as Chicken Little yelled that the sky was falling, I have no decent answer what to do about it.
I would think that ideally Google would put the Wiki page about the Holocaust as the first result, then natural page rank after that? (And yeah, there's that damnable slope again). I don't envy Google in situations like this. -nB
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generally (and the exceptions are a bitch) an expired drug is safe but its efficacy is reduced. For some products that rate of reduction is low and an expired product can be good for a year or two after the date (Liquamycin for example), for other products the rate of decline is non linear and fast, so are only good a couple months past date with any real efficacy (Covexin®-8. CDT comes to mind).
Epi seems to be between the two, within some limits:
EpiPen's shelf life has been limited by the chemistry of the drug inside it. Epinephrine is an old and cheap medication, but it's also notoriously finicky. If exposed to light, heat or air, it can degrade, turning rust colored.
The FDA-approved label warns that if the liquid in the pen is discolored, it should be discarded: "Epinephrine solution deteriorates rapidly on exposure to air or light, turning pink from oxidation to adrenochrome and brown from the formation of melanin."
Great! so there's a way to tell, separate from the date!
But what about an expired EpiPen that looks perfectly normal?
The little published data that exists shows that the drug degrades over time -- and color is not an accurate way to gauge whether the epinephrine inside is still good.
well crap, maybe not.
One study, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2000, examined EpiPens one to 90 months after the expiration date. Most were not discolored, but the epinephrine content decreased over time. The study stated that it was best to use EpiPens that had not expired, but found that the pens contained at least two-thirds of the intended dose up to a year after expiration. Even a sub-optimal dose could be better than nothing in a life-or-death situation, the authors concluded.
So...
Looks like if stored in *ideal* conditions the pen will last more than 18 months, but under likely real-world conditions 18 months is it.
FWIW, elsewhere I found that the manufacturer had targeted 27 months, but data only supported 19 months, they went with 18. That's not a large guard band.
Totally makes sense.
Don't know how much waste the recycle process produces, but not having to ship the material but across the street will save a bundle.
Shift - Del the files /w::\
cipher
done.
because they'd upgraded ram by installing a sodimm in a PCI slot...
W. T. F. ?!?!
really? They don't even *fit* it's not like shoehorning an EISA into an ISA slot or an AGP into PCI... It really doesn't even fit.
Though I have witnessed someone (clueless) dremel a notch into DDR3 RAM so it would fit a DDR2 slot (It's *better* so it should work).
I know exactly what *you'll* find on my computer that has been connected to the internet:
Noise.
Baring an exploit in the disk crypto you will find only noise and I'll be damned if I'm going to enter or tell you the password.
GNAA.
Good grief those were annoying as hell!
Heavy, less space than a petabox, lame.
EMMC spec allows for locking the OS partition. If they do that you *can't* wipe it.
My 5 finally died (the mic not working unless you press the back of the phone issue).
Bought a Pixel.
Like my Pixel.
DO NOT like the price I paid for my Pixel. I would have happily bought another Nexus 5, exact same specs, for $250-$350 instead of the pixel.
I virtually run my life on my phone.
20 gig/mo easy.
I'm 40.
Same here.
I have 4 sims with T-Mobile: 1 full feature, 3 text/data no voice.
The plan I was on those three sims are free to me. I pay 70/mo for the unlimited (no BW or speed caps / 5 gig tether) and the data sims are 200mb each but free and unlimited text.
Had this plan for years now and they've not touched it, even though I've replaced all 4 sims over the years.
Very happy with them overall. Had a hiccup with their warranty replacement service where the replacement phone was crap compared to the Nexus 5 it was replacing. Ultimately they gave me enough service credit to virtually cover the entire cost of a Pixel, so I'm happy again.
it's /.'d now...
Lulz. Didn't know this site still generated that much traffic.
Pick your brain for a bit then?
What is the chemistry for DEF?
I'm curious:
Unload truck onto train, ship, unload train onto truck, deliver?
or
Drive truck onto flatbed railcar, ship, drive truck off railcar, deliver?
For trucks that are separate tractor trailer, just the trailer on the flatbed.
-nB
Worked with a guy who was from South Africa, White as can be and ex apartheid cop (total asshat too).
He put down "African American" on all his stuff. For some reason the government drones didn't accept it... but he did have a good point:
He *was* African American, but he wasn't black, so if they wanted black they should have asked it.
About the only redeeming thing about the guy was the hilarity of him in government issues...
there is a maximum loss on a short too. ;)
It's the point at which you are totally insolvent and declare Ch11.
Granted that's a shitty spot to be in, but it is dischargeable via bankruptcy.
dunno, but it is why my house has one room with no cell signal.
It was by happy accident, but one I don't care to correct.
only applies to autopilot.
Assuming that soon this will be the norm, then all cars will be going the same speed, until then if there is enough traffic that is at a dissimilar speed, just drive instead of autopilot and you're golden.
If they were using it first (I believe they were) then Google won't likely do this.
Additionally they are in a different space, one is a phone, one is an OS distro.
Though... :)
Can I run PIXEL on my Pixel to drive my pixels? it's pixels all the way down! (need an ARM derivative named Pixel to run it on
Have you ever actually tried to USE one of the ethics hotlines?
Yup
Any actual complaints won't be investigated.
Actually, it was and I was found to be in the right, my management got spanked for it.
Calling the hotline is NOT anonymous and basically puts you on a watch list of employees to be fired.
Correct. While my management go spanked, I got fired (retaliatory termination). They used the cover of the recent layoffs at my former company to hide it (lawyer agreed that it was unfair dismissal, but flatly told me my case would get buried because I was in the layoffs). So an employee of 17 years with nothing but positive reviews was suddenly bottom rank and terminated...
Funny thing is, I knew what I was in for, but didn't know the layoffs were coming (about 5 mo after my initial complaint). I thought they'd be over a year off yet and that would have given me time to bail from that team and find a new berth. Ah well, live and learn.
New gig is a *ton* less stressful, but sadly lower pay too.
-nB
I think that's where this would apply...
Certainly not "white hat" behavior (unless they were invited to do so).
I had a neighbor who was section 8, first 5 CA (for kids under 5).
Total stereotype: Three kids by three dads, all ~5 years apart.
I wanted to yell at her to get a damn job, but having actually done the numbers for her (she needed access to a computer, so we used mine, and I did the typing), it was clear that my $55k/yr (at the time) job in effect was $100/mo *less* than her sitting at home on bennies. It ate me up.
Things I paid for that she got *free*:
* healthcare for family of four
* housing
* gas and electricity
* groceries ($400/week)
* cable TV (yup, it's covered! WTF?!?!?!)
Plus she got a cash stipend of $800/mo in addition to the above.
When you added it all up as a P&L statement she came out ahead by nearly $100/mo over me.
Getting a low income job can cause a loss of benefit greater than the income the job provides (under the current system).
I was speaking from a position of someone who had recently entered the unemployed pool, not someone who had been living on benefits for a long time.
The root of the reply being that I don't think the "spent on booze" is all that common in people who desire to work, but can't because of the way our current system is biased & that I don't foresee a change in that just because UI was supplanted by UBI.
I also didn't take too much time in wording my reply, so that it appears muddy is quite justified.
Is stormfront doing better SEO than all the other sites?
Then without some bespoke editorial control of search they are correctly ranked.
And this is where the slippery slope happens...
If Google delists a site that is not illegal (even if distasteful) then you have made the search less a reflection of the web.
If Google tweaks page rank to lower the value of their SEO (and applies it globally) then fine I guess.
While I can point and yell "slippery slope" as well as Chicken Little yelled that the sky was falling, I have no decent answer what to do about it.
I would think that ideally Google would put the Wiki page about the Holocaust as the first result, then natural page rank after that? (And yeah, there's that damnable slope again). I don't envy Google in situations like this.
-nB