It's time we started treating addiction, to anything, as a medical problem.
False. No one held these people down and shot them full of heroin to make them an addict, no one shoved cocaine up their nose, no one jammed some unknown pill down their throat. These people chose to use drugs. They are the ones who ignored the overwhelming mountain of evidence that drugs are bad for them and could very well kill them. They are the ones who cry, "It's my body. The government has no right to tell me what to put in it."
That was their choice. I shouldn't be penalized for their bad choices. They didn't want the government telling them how to live, the government should abide by their wish. It's all about choice, isn't it? That's what is said on here every day by the multitudes.
A medical problem is cancer which no one chooses to get. Or spine bifida, or alzheimers, or a whole host of other conditions which no one chooses to get but has no choice in the matter. Addiction is not a medical condition since the solution is very simple: don't do drugs.
As the hits keep coming, it might benefit Ms. Holmes to openly admit she's been a fraud from day one. She's ripped off investors with false claims and has endangered people's lives with her false results.
To date, Theranos has never allowed a peer review of her process, has never submitted to government tests and has admitted they don't use their own testing procedures, instead going back to the tried and true method.
stop being corrupt and people will stop hating you.
Don't be a criminal and you won't have to worry about police shooting you.*
*I'm not making a judgement about this particular case since the facts are not yet known. But when it comes to criminals like Michael Brown who attack police, they shouldn't expect to be treated with velvet gloves.
How many times have we heard about tens of thousands, millions, of people having their data stolen/purloined/misappropriated/whatever because of private industry? Anyone remember the millions who were affected by the Target fiasco? How about T.J. Maxx? Barely a murmur is heard.
Yet let a few thousand people have their data swiped through a government breach and people go apoplectic.
Based on the evidence it appears government is doing substantially better than private industry in protecting our data.
Good grief. Could you Russian trolls be any more pathetic? The U.S.did not fund any of these countries in trying to move away from Russia. Russia did it itself through actions such as the law in question. These countries were tired of living under the thumb of Russia and the massive amount of interference in their affairs that went along with it.
The best one could say is the U.S. was happy to see more countries trying to move away from an authoritarian, backwards looking country such as Russia to a more conventional, democratic-style process.
As to Ukraine, the people were most definitely sick and tired of being the Russian punching bag. The people, most especially the younger generation, saw the stark differences between the West - its openness, its vibrancy, its much better standard of living - compared to the dreary, servile existence which exists in Russia. This doesn't take into account the outright theft of Ukrainian money by their leader who was nothing but a lap dog for Putin.
He is the one who, while stealing from the Ukrainian people, let the Ukrainian army fall into disrepair which then allowed Russian sympathizers, with the vast resources of Russia behind them, to make initial gains. Once the Ukrainians got their feet and were on the verge of removing the terrorist threat in the East, Russia sent in its own troops into Ukraine, a sovereign country recognized by the world community and who had not attacked Russia.
So yes, you are justifying Russia's actions. Your claim that Russia had every right to attack and invade sovereign countries is flat out false. You know why Georgia joined NATO? Because of Russia attacking its neighbors.
Your logic is backwards, as usual. The response by the West is the direct result of Russia's, i.e. Putin's, actions. Had Putin not tried to reinvent the Soviet Union none of this would be happening. Russia is the only one to blame for its own misery but as usual they'll try to blame everyone except themselves.
As we have seen by Russia's aggression against its neighbors (Georgia and Ukraine specifically), with Putin in charge they have sunk back to the old ways of repression and oppression. This law is only one of many designed to give absolute power to the one in charge, reminiscent of days past when the person in the Kremlin had the final say on anything.
The Soviet Union is dead yet Putin is insistent on trying to resurrect it, attacking its neighbors, sending in little green men to capture land, disruption of those who have left the oppression of Russia or those trying to crawl out of the hole dug for them by sycophants of Russia.
As we have seen in Crimea, where Putin has decreed the Tartars are not allowed to speak their own language or have schools which teach the Tartar language, where Tartars are beaten for speaking out against the indignities thrust upon them, where his oligarch minions have swooped in to steal at gunpoint the businesses people have built up, where the only news broadcast is what Putin says can be broadcast, everything possible to suppress people is being done all, ostensibly, to protect them.
Yet how protected can they be if their own government treats them as vassals? When Putin orders the murder of those who point out the endemic corruption in his government (such as Boris Nemtsov), when his estimated net worth, based on those who directly worked for him and managed his accounts, to be in the billions of dollars despite his salary, when he denies the deaths of thousands of soldiers when they invaded Ukraine, when he denies his own troops who admit they have been captured during the aggression against Ukraine, even going so far as to make it a crime for the mothers to talk about their son's deaths, it is quite clear he cares not for the Russian people but only himself and his legacy.
This law is nothing more than another step on Putin's march to returning to the past where neighbor spied on neighbor, where freedom of speech is only so much as he says is freedom of speech, where opposition newspapers, television and radio stations are routinely silenced to prevent the people from hearing anything other than state sponsored "news", where he and his oligarch buddies steal the country blind and live in lavish homes while the common man can barely afford a decent meal.
Is it any wonder the world doesn't take Russia seriously and why Russia, to this day, has still not advanced to a first world status.
I hit a construction traffic control thing with the drivers side mirror
Don't drive well, do ya?
I was actually holding the mirror casing
That explains hitting the construction traffic control thing. You weren't driving safely. No doubt the single hand on the steering wheel was either stiff-armed at the noon position or crossed over your body, which means you had limited control of your vehicle and the reason you hit the traffic control thing. Lesson learned (probably not).
As I have said for a very long time, this company is nothing but a scam. Holmes set up elaborate, fake, testing processes to make it seem as if she had the 'miracle' process yet didn't think far enough ahead to realize she'd have to prove the process works.
To this day Theranos has not submitted its process for peer review nor has it submitted to government tests to verify its claims.
If you have two white flags, that should be enough to tell you she's a fraud.
"I definitely forsee a future like this," Kowslowski said. "Driving manually doesn't make a whole lot of sense. People used to wash clothes by hand. But if you did it today, people would think you're crazy."
That's because Kowslowski is too slow to think that maybe not everyone wants to be coddled by software. Just because he's too lazy (or incompetent) to drive a manual vehicle doesn't mean everyone else is the same.
Driving manual makes far more sense than letting software decide what gear to be in (usually the wrong one). One has far greater control with a manual car than an automatic for several reasons, not the least of which one has to think how to drive with a manual, unlike with an automatic where one presses a pedal.
As to washing clothes by hand, funny, there are daily articles on why washing clothes by hand is far more beneficial than letting a machine, run by software, do the same thing. As any woman if she'd rather wash her more delicate clothes by hand or take a chance on having them torn to shreds in a washing machine.
And no, I don't care that he's a VP at Gartner. He's still an idiot for suggesting people become even less capable drivers and relying on software created by other people to think for them.
If your car has been driving perfectly for a whole year, . . . just in case the car's computer has a nervous breakdown?
Yes, because I don't trust other people. No matter I've never had an accident in the decades I've been driving, it's the people around me I have to watch out for because I don't know what they might do in the next second.
I'm sure it's partially true and partially perception, but since I've been driving there appears to be an increase in the number of people who don't grasp the basics of driving safely (i.e yielding when necessary to enter a highway, stopping at red lights/stop signs, not randomly changing lanes without signalling, not having your wrist slung over the top of the steering wheel, etc)
Especially the kind of persons that takes the train at 7:30 in the morning.
That's because the criminals are still asleep after the previous night's activities. It's the same reason I go out and take pictures early in the morning. The chances of being attacked are greatly reduced when the criminals are still in bed.
"But I read on the internets that GMO food is made by Big Corporation whose only motive is to line their pockets, not help people. These foods will change our DNA to make us docile and less fertile so the elites can lord over us. And the food tastes like crap, too."
Yet when asked to show the evidence for such statements they always come back with, "I can't remember" or we find out the source they read is nothing but a conspiracy web site or a completely discredited report.
But they'll continue to maintain they're right and everyone else, including every scientist who performed a study showing there is no issue with GMO food, is wrong and is only saying things are okay because they're in the pocket of Big Corporation.
Apparently neither can those who claim they can do.
Which leads to the question, is it better to overpay someone who can't do but at least they're out of the way and not screwing up things, or to overpay someone who claims to be a doer yet continually screws up?
From the near daily reports of developers who leave these gaping holes in software, then try to blame someone else for the problem, it seems the answer is clear.
Get rid of the hard core criminals and those who are repeat offenders. If you keep going back to jail you either have never learned from your first mistake or you have chosen not to live within the bounds of civil society.
The cost to remove criminals from society will be cheaper than paying to keep them around.
For instance, they'll skew predictions based on your gender or age -- how does that reflect the actual offender...?
Insurance companies use the same statistics to charge people for insurance. New drivers, regardless of their race, are more likely to be involved in accidents than more experienced drivers.
However, once a person reaches a certain age their experience is outpaced by their declining health (poor eyesight, slower reflexes, impaired mental conditions, etc) at which point insurance rates rise.
I have never had an accident in my decades of driving yet the cost of my insurance is based on the totality of everyone in my age group. How is that fair?
All of the above is the same thing when it comes to criminals. Certain age groups have a propensity for committing crimes and gender plays a role as well. Having people charged based on these statistics is exactly the same as being charged for your insurance. If you're going to claim someone should be treated based on their crime rather than what others in their group have done then the same should apply to insurance.
Handbrake isn't even necessary, and in fact I simply never touch it.
And you're a complete idiot for doing so (as are the others above who say they do the same thing). You are putting the entire weight of your vehicle on your transmission by doing so which will lead to premature wear and possibly having your transmission damaged.
The parking brake is there for a reason. The folks who designed this feature wouldn't have put it there just for looks.
But don't believe me, believe the experts and these guys as well. In fact, ask any driving school instructor anywhere in the country and I can guarantee they will say the exact same thing.
Since the Uber and Lyft ride-sharing apps stopped service in Austin, drunk driving has increased, . ..in the three weeks since Uber and Lyft left Austin, 7.5% more people have been arrested for drunk driving.
From a 2014 story from Telluride immediately after legalization:
"In my first 10 years of work in emergency departments, I did not see one case of a patient who took too much marijuana to the point that it resulted in an emergency department visit," says Daniel Hehir, a physician. "Now it is a frequent occurrence."
Yet oddly, that will never be reported on here. Only a story about an illegal cab company.
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It's time we started treating addiction, to anything, as a medical problem.
False. No one held these people down and shot them full of heroin to make them an addict, no one shoved cocaine up their nose, no one jammed some unknown pill down their throat. These people chose to use drugs. They are the ones who ignored the overwhelming mountain of evidence that drugs are bad for them and could very well kill them. They are the ones who cry, "It's my body. The government has no right to tell me what to put in it."
That was their choice. I shouldn't be penalized for their bad choices. They didn't want the government telling them how to live, the government should abide by their wish. It's all about choice, isn't it? That's what is said on here every day by the multitudes.
A medical problem is cancer which no one chooses to get. Or spine bifida, or alzheimers, or a whole host of other conditions which no one chooses to get but has no choice in the matter. Addiction is not a medical condition since the solution is very simple: don't do drugs.
because admitting it first means you have to believe it and I don't think she does.
Delusional psychopaths* generally have this problem.
* I'm probably not using the correct term but you get my meaning
As the hits keep coming, it might benefit Ms. Holmes to openly admit she's been a fraud from day one. She's ripped off investors with false claims and has endangered people's lives with her false results.
To date, Theranos has never allowed a peer review of her process, has never submitted to government tests and has admitted they don't use their own testing procedures, instead going back to the tried and true method.
Give it up, Holmes. Your days are numbered.
Yes, the church did some horrible things throughout history,
They still are:
One case, and another, and a few more, and a few more, just for good measure. Even down under boys aren't safe. Nor are dogs.
Even the UN called out the Vatican for its systemic adoption of policies allowing priests to rape and sexually abuse tens of thousands of children.
But as always, these are just isolated cases.
stop being corrupt and people will stop hating you.
Don't be a criminal and you won't have to worry about police shooting you.*
*I'm not making a judgement about this particular case since the facts are not yet known. But when it comes to criminals like Michael Brown who attack police, they shouldn't expect to be treated with velvet gloves.
Such as molesting and raping boys, a practice which has been going on for over a thousand years.
Siphoning of tithes for their own personal use (such as buying young boys to molest and rape).
This doesn't include the abuse and sexual degradation against girls by nuns, a practice condoned by the priests.
How many times have we heard about tens of thousands, millions, of people having their data stolen/purloined/misappropriated/whatever because of private industry? Anyone remember the millions who were affected by the Target fiasco? How about T.J. Maxx? Barely a murmur is heard.
Yet let a few thousand people have their data swiped through a government breach and people go apoplectic.
Based on the evidence it appears government is doing substantially better than private industry in protecting our data.
Good grief. Could you Russian trolls be any more pathetic? The U.S.did not fund any of these countries in trying to move away from Russia. Russia did it itself through actions such as the law in question. These countries were tired of living under the thumb of Russia and the massive amount of interference in their affairs that went along with it.
The best one could say is the U.S. was happy to see more countries trying to move away from an authoritarian, backwards looking country such as Russia to a more conventional, democratic-style process.
As to Ukraine, the people were most definitely sick and tired of being the Russian punching bag. The people, most especially the younger generation, saw the stark differences between the West - its openness, its vibrancy, its much better standard of living - compared to the dreary, servile existence which exists in Russia. This doesn't take into account the outright theft of Ukrainian money by their leader who was nothing but a lap dog for Putin.
He is the one who, while stealing from the Ukrainian people, let the Ukrainian army fall into disrepair which then allowed Russian sympathizers, with the vast resources of Russia behind them, to make initial gains. Once the Ukrainians got their feet and were on the verge of removing the terrorist threat in the East, Russia sent in its own troops into Ukraine, a sovereign country recognized by the world community and who had not attacked Russia.
So yes, you are justifying Russia's actions. Your claim that Russia had every right to attack and invade sovereign countries is flat out false. You know why Georgia joined NATO? Because of Russia attacking its neighbors.
Your logic is backwards, as usual. The response by the West is the direct result of Russia's, i.e. Putin's, actions. Had Putin not tried to reinvent the Soviet Union none of this would be happening. Russia is the only one to blame for its own misery but as usual they'll try to blame everyone except themselves.
As we have seen by Russia's aggression against its neighbors (Georgia and Ukraine specifically), with Putin in charge they have sunk back to the old ways of repression and oppression. This law is only one of many designed to give absolute power to the one in charge, reminiscent of days past when the person in the Kremlin had the final say on anything.
The Soviet Union is dead yet Putin is insistent on trying to resurrect it, attacking its neighbors, sending in little green men to capture land, disruption of those who have left the oppression of Russia or those trying to crawl out of the hole dug for them by sycophants of Russia.
As we have seen in Crimea, where Putin has decreed the Tartars are not allowed to speak their own language or have schools which teach the Tartar language, where Tartars are beaten for speaking out against the indignities thrust upon them, where his oligarch minions have swooped in to steal at gunpoint the businesses people have built up, where the only news broadcast is what Putin says can be broadcast, everything possible to suppress people is being done all, ostensibly, to protect them.
Yet how protected can they be if their own government treats them as vassals? When Putin orders the murder of those who point out the endemic corruption in his government (such as Boris Nemtsov), when his estimated net worth, based on those who directly worked for him and managed his accounts, to be in the billions of dollars despite his salary, when he denies the deaths of thousands of soldiers when they invaded Ukraine, when he denies his own troops who admit they have been captured during the aggression against Ukraine, even going so far as to make it a crime for the mothers to talk about their son's deaths, it is quite clear he cares not for the Russian people but only himself and his legacy.
This law is nothing more than another step on Putin's march to returning to the past where neighbor spied on neighbor, where freedom of speech is only so much as he says is freedom of speech, where opposition newspapers, television and radio stations are routinely silenced to prevent the people from hearing anything other than state sponsored "news", where he and his oligarch buddies steal the country blind and live in lavish homes while the common man can barely afford a decent meal.
Is it any wonder the world doesn't take Russia seriously and why Russia, to this day, has still not advanced to a first world status.
which should prevent you from deciding what everyone likes and wants based on your predilection for said chore.
In other words, the very thing the whiner at Gartner and many thousands of others want to do: prevent me from deciding what I want.
I hit a construction traffic control thing with the drivers side mirror
Don't drive well, do ya?
I was actually holding the mirror casing
That explains hitting the construction traffic control thing. You weren't driving safely. No doubt the single hand on the steering wheel was either stiff-armed at the noon position or crossed over your body, which means you had limited control of your vehicle and the reason you hit the traffic control thing. Lesson learned (probably not).
As I have said for a very long time, this company is nothing but a scam. Holmes set up elaborate, fake, testing processes to make it seem as if she had the 'miracle' process yet didn't think far enough ahead to realize she'd have to prove the process works.
To this day Theranos has not submitted its process for peer review nor has it submitted to government tests to verify its claims.
If you have two white flags, that should be enough to tell you she's a fraud.
From the article:
"I definitely forsee a future like this," Kowslowski said. "Driving manually doesn't make a whole lot of sense. People used to wash clothes by hand. But if you did it today, people would think you're crazy."
That's because Kowslowski is too slow to think that maybe not everyone wants to be coddled by software. Just because he's too lazy (or incompetent) to drive a manual vehicle doesn't mean everyone else is the same.
Driving manual makes far more sense than letting software decide what gear to be in (usually the wrong one). One has far greater control with a manual car than an automatic for several reasons, not the least of which one has to think how to drive with a manual, unlike with an automatic where one presses a pedal.
As to washing clothes by hand, funny, there are daily articles on why washing clothes by hand is far more beneficial than letting a machine, run by software, do the same thing. As any woman if she'd rather wash her more delicate clothes by hand or take a chance on having them torn to shreds in a washing machine.
And no, I don't care that he's a VP at Gartner. He's still an idiot for suggesting people become even less capable drivers and relying on software created by other people to think for them.
or new users from purchasing once it becomes common and word gets around.
Such as using a torrent or The Pirate Bay causes a lost sale for a song or movie because torrents and TPB are common and word gets around.
Uber, as a cab company, is monitoring its employees to see they provide a decent service.
Too bad Uber the cab company doesn't provide benefits or a living wage to its employees.
If your car has been driving perfectly for a whole year, . . . just in case the car's computer has a nervous breakdown?
Yes, because I don't trust other people. No matter I've never had an accident in the decades I've been driving, it's the people around me I have to watch out for because I don't know what they might do in the next second.
I'm sure it's partially true and partially perception, but since I've been driving there appears to be an increase in the number of people who don't grasp the basics of driving safely (i.e yielding when necessary to enter a highway, stopping at red lights/stop signs, not randomly changing lanes without signalling, not having your wrist slung over the top of the steering wheel, etc)
but that was my own fault for not paying attention to my bag
It's your fault someone tried to rob you? Are you, the victim, blaming yourself instead of the criminal? How screwed up is that?
Especially the kind of persons that takes the train at 7:30 in the morning.
That's because the criminals are still asleep after the previous night's activities. It's the same reason I go out and take pictures early in the morning. The chances of being attacked are greatly reduced when the criminals are still in bed.
"But I read on the internets that GMO food is made by Big Corporation whose only motive is to line their pockets, not help people. These foods will change our DNA to make us docile and less fertile so the elites can lord over us. And the food tastes like crap, too."
Yet when asked to show the evidence for such statements they always come back with, "I can't remember" or we find out the source they read is nothing but a conspiracy web site or a completely discredited report.
But they'll continue to maintain they're right and everyone else, including every scientist who performed a study showing there is no issue with GMO food, is wrong and is only saying things are okay because they're in the pocket of Big Corporation.
Those who can't do get promoted.
Apparently neither can those who claim they can do.
Which leads to the question, is it better to overpay someone who can't do but at least they're out of the way and not screwing up things, or to overpay someone who claims to be a doer yet continually screws up?
From the near daily reports of developers who leave these gaping holes in software, then try to blame someone else for the problem, it seems the answer is clear.
Get rid of the hard core criminals and those who are repeat offenders. If you keep going back to jail you either have never learned from your first mistake or you have chosen not to live within the bounds of civil society.
The cost to remove criminals from society will be cheaper than paying to keep them around.
For instance, they'll skew predictions based on your gender or age -- how does that reflect the actual offender...?
Insurance companies use the same statistics to charge people for insurance. New drivers, regardless of their race, are more likely to be involved in accidents than more experienced drivers.
However, once a person reaches a certain age their experience is outpaced by their declining health (poor eyesight, slower reflexes, impaired mental conditions, etc) at which point insurance rates rise.
I have never had an accident in my decades of driving yet the cost of my insurance is based on the totality of everyone in my age group. How is that fair?
All of the above is the same thing when it comes to criminals. Certain age groups have a propensity for committing crimes and gender plays a role as well. Having people charged based on these statistics is exactly the same as being charged for your insurance. If you're going to claim someone should be treated based on their crime rather than what others in their group have done then the same should apply to insurance.
Handbrake isn't even necessary, and in fact I simply never touch it.
And you're a complete idiot for doing so (as are the others above who say they do the same thing). You are putting the entire weight of your vehicle on your transmission by doing so which will lead to premature wear and possibly having your transmission damaged.
The parking brake is there for a reason. The folks who designed this feature wouldn't have put it there just for looks.
But don't believe me, believe the experts and these guys as well. In fact, ask any driving school instructor anywhere in the country and I can guarantee they will say the exact same thing.
The defect is not having a manual transmission.
Since the Uber and Lyft ride-sharing apps stopped service in Austin, drunk driving has increased, . . .in the three weeks since Uber and Lyft left Austin, 7.5% more people have been arrested for drunk driving.
Since Colorado legalized marijuana there has been a 300% increase in hospital visits related to marijuana usage.
From a 2014 story from Telluride immediately after legalization:
"In my first 10 years of work in emergency departments, I did not see one case of a patient who took too much marijuana to the point that it resulted in an emergency department visit," says Daniel Hehir, a physician. "Now it is a frequent occurrence."
Yet oddly, that will never be reported on here. Only a story about an illegal cab company.