The average joe doesn't want poor quality at a cheap price. They'd take good or even great quality at a cheap price. But if you need a book shelf, and have $20 to spend on it, you buy what you can get. But I agree with you otherwise, spend $40 if you can, and just buy cheap generic covered plywood from a box store; it's better quality than they use in flat-pack.
How would I stain and dry a bookcase in my apartment?
See, in an apartment, I couldn't wait for wood stain to dry, since my book room is also the bedroom, and at that time the living room and dining room too. At least that place had a closet and a kitchen *shudder*. Your's requires more than you accounted for, like a garage. And drilling evenly spaced holes is not something I would count on teaching to someone who has never held a drill before. So you'd need a template, or peg board. And you wouldn't want to use treated lumber instead of furniture lumber, what with the anti-rot vapors. So, more knowledge that the novice doesn't have on hand. Sure, I geeked out and figured the weight of the books and the strain on the shelves to figure out where I could put the supports, but that was more testing what I learned in engineering classes rather than real brain work. Eyeballing it turned out to be close enough for mine. But still, to compete against flat-pack, don't just consider the cost, but also the space and knowledge required.
Nails in particle board? With the humidity here you would have those slipping in no short time. Screws bite into the wood better. But that's for cheap wood, which is exactly why I compared it to flat-pack furniture and that price. As for a drill, walk into a box store not knowing what kind of drill to buy, and see what price you see. It'll be a kit with a saws-all, a drill, and something else like a circular saw or flashlight for $99.99 or so. Now, ask someone who doesn't know carpentry whether they should buy that kit, or one of the random drills on the aisle that they also know nothing about.
Want to know why some people don't build their own stuff? Because they don't want to! Same reason some people buy tomatoes and zucchini at the store instead of growing their own. And the same reason why a lot of you will have a pre-fab MP3 player instead of building one yourself. Once you factor the time it takes to learn a skill, whether carpentry or gardening or soldering and coding; and the cost of equipment, like drill and saws and bits and blades or pots and dirt and fertalizer or a soldering iron and programming cable and IDE and breadboards; and divide that cost by the number of things you are going to produce, it doesn't add up. So if someone wants just a bookshelf, should they buy $10 of lumbar and screws and a $100 drill and do it themselves? Or should they buy a $15 flat-pack and just put it together? They look at it and work out the cost of the drill over how many things they can expect to assemble with it. Sure, maybe they get that part wrong and don't think of all the other bookshelves they'll need because the cheap one falls apart. Or maybe they value the time spent learning carpentry and want to do something else with it.
What is the next complaint? That Makers are so busy printing enclosures that nobody is bending and welding sheet metal anymore? That no one forges their own hinges now, and everyone just buys them? Or remember the "good old days" when people assembled their hi-fi from the best parts available, and now no one builds or codes their own MP3 players. Computers used to have just a BIOS and a maybe little scripting language, now you buy this beige box and get a whole OS and games, why isn't anyone typing in games from magazines anymore? Because we have better things to do with out time. Me, for instance, I like building my own bookshelves and painting and lacquering my desk, and fixing old cameras. You want kids to be good with tools? Raise your taxes and put woodshop and technical classes back in schools. And make sure to add back in some technology and music too, while your at it.
3 pieces of wall-paper covered particle board, and a inch-and-a-half wooden dowel covered with a matching color shelf paper covering it. Took about an hour to locate the right drill bits (dad's garage, I don't have one) and another hour for us to argue over the best way to line up the shelf supports. I got 2 three-shelf units made for the price of a cheap flat-pack bookshelf that I would have had to reinforce with dowels in a year or so. Seriously, hard back computer text books and reference manuals wreck havok on flat pack bookcases. And I didn't visit the lumber yard at all, just a Home Depot.
(c) Dilution by blurring; dilution by tarnishment
(1) Injunctive relief
Subject to the principles of equity, the owner of a famous mark that is distinctive, inherently or through acquired distinctiveness, shall be entitled to an injunction against another person who, at any time after the owner’s mark has become famous, commences use of a mark or trade name in commerce that is likely to cause dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment of the famous mark, regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion, of competition, or of actual economic injury.
Trade Dress. Slightly different than Trademark, slightly similar. Has to be protected against dilution or you lose it like trademark, but applies to everything about your product and/or logo. I, for instance, can not stick a DKNY logo on an energy drink, just because Donna Karan hasn't done it yet.
The term for it is "trade dress" and it was codified in the same act that created and enforces trademarks in the US. You can spot it at Title 15 1125 US Code. Part "c- 1 Dilution by blurring; dilution by tarnishment" is probably what they were acting under.
Depends on the viral genetics. Type 1 is harder to cure, but most prevalent in the USA. Then a specific pattern inside the type (pair of codons in the DNA, either TC, CT, TT, or CC) can make it harder or easier to cure. Type 1 A has something above 50% success rate with the new three drug treatment, I've been told up to 75% after 6 months (as you mentioned) but with the possibility of knowing if it will work after 2. The viral load reduces by at least log2 at 2 months if it is going to respond well. Other genotypes respond much better, with one (i think 3 or 4) having a response rate over 90% to just interferon.
It's only sexually transmitted if one of the people was shooting up.
Allow me to add: fuck you.
The only needles I ever had in my veins were in the hospital, and unless they were shooting me up with heroin in used needles at age 2, your drug use reference is insulting, wrong, and simply moronic.
Realize this: until the 1989, Hep C wasn't even a recognized virus; at least as far as the patient was concerned. The diagnosis was viral non-A non-B hepatitis. Whether it was even contagious, or how it was transmitted other than blood-to-blood was not known; how long you were infectious wasn't know; whether the virus was only there when symptoms were apparent or whether it stayed active but hidden wasn't really known. I don't even have a blood transfusion on record, clean family all around, and somehow still managed to contract it as a child. Mid-90s they developed a PCR test that could tell you that you had it. And then they learned that not all non-A non-B was C viral (see Hep-D and Hep-E, GBvirusC). See this article from two years ago to see that in 20% of cases, the source of infection isn't even known!
Maybe it's just my luck with laptops, but I've never had one who's hard drive survived more than a year or so of being unpowered. They tend to take power and boot up, then start making that horrid metal read-head on spinning glass sound. As someone else suggested, in 25 years you will be looking back going "wow, look at what we used to use" and caring less about the data stored on it. The physical object will mean more. Think of it like your notebooks from senior year; the notes you took mean very little now, but the doodles and the notes to friends and the things that seemed inconsequential at the time are what matter.
Here? Every major disaster seems to damage the water supply somewhere. One county or another will have to boil water after a hurricane swings inland, or an icestorm or wind knocks over trees or anything else. Maybe there is just something wrong with the water pipes in SW VA, but the fact that it happens every year is an arguement against putting the power lines there as well.
It is a major expense to disaster proof all utilities, and doing so in a way that would prevent damage against 100-year high winds costs a ton. Would you pay double the taxes on electricity for 10 years to protect against something that statistically shouldn't happen again in your life time?
Combine that with insane amounts of damage. My electricity comes through underground wires in one direction, and that's why I still had power sunday. Sunday night, though, the wind took out more substations, and snaped a live line on the other side of the property. And with that, power was gone. It wasn't just the snapped line, but the trees that pulled up underground cables when they fell; it isn't just a single line broken, but 10s of breaks just to restore power to a few people. And the areas hit aren't all dense urban areas, but at least here it is lots of power lost in rural farms.
The breaks in water mains, the boil water notices, and the sewage treatment plant leaking waste into rivers suggests that even underground utilities were effected in this storm.
Trimming sick trees works great. Except for those times when even healthy trees are knocked sideways. Or when the top of every tree is sheered off at the same height, and those pieces go flying.
The same Romney who voted in Romney-care for Massachusetts? The state that now requires you to have insurance or pay into the state insurance pool? The guy responsible for the law that Obama based this act on? Or are you talking about a different Mitt Romney?
Is restricted by lung disease to such an extent that forced (respiratory) expiratory volume for one second, when measured by spirometry, is less than one liter, or the arterial oxygen tension is less than 60 millimeters of mercury on room air at rest.
Has a cardiac condition to the extent that functional limitations are classified in severity as Class III or Class IV according to standards set by the American Heart Association
Is legally blind or deaf.
Cannot walk without the use of or assistance from any of the following: another person, brace, cane, crutch, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or other assistive device.
Is severely limited in ability to walk due to an arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition
Has been diagnosed with a mental or developmental amentia or delay that impairs judgment including, but not limited to, an autism spectrum disorder.
Has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or another form of dementia.
Other condition that limits or impairs the ability to walk.
Specific condition description must be specified below
Not California's exactly list, but it applies to at least one state. And before you flip out that "OMG someone with Alzheimer's is driving!", the placard need not be permanent to the car. The form allows a person to get a temporary tag that allows them to park in the handicap spaces in what ever vehicle they are in. I go to the store with family, I can park close. I leave my tag by accident in their car, and they use it when I'm not around, they get a ticket. And I can see how a state like California might end up with 10% of drivers (not people in total) with placards. If they don't remove dead drivers from their database, and the article does mention people using dead relatives placards, that would be a problem.
there's no reason why someone with severe heat sensitivity or inability to walk over a certain distance *couldn't* be in a wheelchair when going to a store with a gigantic parking lot (most places like restaurants, convenience stores, strip malls, gas stations etc don't have giant parking lots anyway.. is an extra 20 feet going to mean the difference between making it or not? if so then that person probably shouldn't be walking to begin with)
There is no reason why they should have to be in a wheelchair just to make your reality feel better, either. This is how I know you are acting as just some libertarian shill, or are an uncaring individual who doesn't actually know anyone with a handicap. You do not get to decide whether a person should be walking or not. You do not have that right. The individuals have that right. By your quote, even though I don't need a wheelchair I should get one just so I can comfortably park in the middle of the lot . . . so what? So you can park closer? So there can be less laws?
"The person pushing the wheelchair?" Where did you get the idea that all - or even most - people who qualify to use accessible parking are wheelchair bound and have able-bodied aides? One of the purposes of the ADA is to allow disabled people to do things like grocery shopping unaided.
I hope you are replying to someone else by mistake, because I don't think I mentioned anyone pushing grandma's wheel chair. Mine was arm powered when I needed it, and grandma's is electric.
I walk with a cane, not a wheelchair. The pain of standing means that having the parking space close to the building lets me walk less before I can take the weight off my bad joints. Other people with handicap stickers have heart problems, severe asthma, or arthritis. Any number of reasons exist that makes walking a shorter distance helpful.
Yeah, because all those people who are going to the track to run shouldn't have to walk the extra 9 feet reserved for a handicap parking space. I mean, you are there to run, right? Why should you have to spend any more time walking to or from your car than necessary, just in case someone else needs that space. How dare grandma, in her wheel chair, show up to watch her grandkid run. Doesn't she know your legs will be tired and you need to park closer?
If I had a dollar for every paper published in a peer-reviewed social sciences journal which totally abused statistics, I'd retire and use my extra cash to fund organizations directed at basic logic and math education, trying to help with the situation.
What is your sample size for this decision; and psychologically is there any cost to you for papers where it is applied correctly? What is your confidence value? How varied is your sample; all from the school(s) you attended, or from multiple? Self selected and memorable misuses in articles, or actual comparisons, or even meta-analysis of other papers?
Oh, you didn't apply statistics to your complaint about misuse of statistics? Consider yourself the first stat in my new study "People who whing about statistical misuse don't actually consider statistics and self-psychology in their complaints".
I wanted to mod you up, but I'd rather add this: Psych students need to know statistics. Statistical analysis is 90% if their later term research; my sister spends paper writing time compiling data on people, analyzing how patterns stack up into behavior predictions. Yes, you can look at a group of people and predict what the chance is that one will have a mental illness, or who is suicidal, etc. It's not soft science, it's actuarial math. Combining individual research into meta-analysis to see how certain medications affect both groups and individuals. Seeing how changes in groups affect individual members. Even at the undergrad intern level, that was what her last two years of psychology classes were.
My advice to the poster is simple. They aren't idiots, and they need to know how stats work. Don't start classes with intense set-theory notation unless they have that as a pre-req. Don't pull a Taylor series out to explain something if the school doesn't require a course with that as a pre-req. Use lots of people examples, instead of abstract "X is a part of set S"; and as someone else suggested gambling stats are also good. And for their sake, don't talk down to them unless you want them to fail. Or if you have tenure. These are psych students, they can manipulate the hell out of you if you seem to be annoyed with them.
Note: if you pace from one side of the lecture hall/room to the other a lot, watch for them to drop papers and pencils when you do. Classic psych prank to get a teach to stop pacing. They can have you trained by the end of a semester if they want.
Black pepper, or morphine, or dilaudid, or a codeine metabolite? If this test can't tell, then it is dangerously flawed. Cause I don't think the trace of metabolite from poppy seed muffins is illegal yet. But now that I've said this, black pepper will probably be the name of the next designer opiate.
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The average joe doesn't want poor quality at a cheap price. They'd take good or even great quality at a cheap price. But if you need a book shelf, and have $20 to spend on it, you buy what you can get. But I agree with you otherwise, spend $40 if you can, and just buy cheap generic covered plywood from a box store; it's better quality than they use in flat-pack.
How would I stain and dry a bookcase in my apartment?
See, in an apartment, I couldn't wait for wood stain to dry, since my book room is also the bedroom, and at that time the living room and dining room too. At least that place had a closet and a kitchen *shudder*. Your's requires more than you accounted for, like a garage. And drilling evenly spaced holes is not something I would count on teaching to someone who has never held a drill before. So you'd need a template, or peg board. And you wouldn't want to use treated lumber instead of furniture lumber, what with the anti-rot vapors. So, more knowledge that the novice doesn't have on hand. Sure, I geeked out and figured the weight of the books and the strain on the shelves to figure out where I could put the supports, but that was more testing what I learned in engineering classes rather than real brain work. Eyeballing it turned out to be close enough for mine. But still, to compete against flat-pack, don't just consider the cost, but also the space and knowledge required.
Nails in particle board? With the humidity here you would have those slipping in no short time. Screws bite into the wood better. But that's for cheap wood, which is exactly why I compared it to flat-pack furniture and that price. As for a drill, walk into a box store not knowing what kind of drill to buy, and see what price you see. It'll be a kit with a saws-all, a drill, and something else like a circular saw or flashlight for $99.99 or so. Now, ask someone who doesn't know carpentry whether they should buy that kit, or one of the random drills on the aisle that they also know nothing about.
Want to know why some people don't build their own stuff? Because they don't want to! Same reason some people buy tomatoes and zucchini at the store instead of growing their own. And the same reason why a lot of you will have a pre-fab MP3 player instead of building one yourself. Once you factor the time it takes to learn a skill, whether carpentry or gardening or soldering and coding; and the cost of equipment, like drill and saws and bits and blades or pots and dirt and fertalizer or a soldering iron and programming cable and IDE and breadboards; and divide that cost by the number of things you are going to produce, it doesn't add up. So if someone wants just a bookshelf, should they buy $10 of lumbar and screws and a $100 drill and do it themselves? Or should they buy a $15 flat-pack and just put it together? They look at it and work out the cost of the drill over how many things they can expect to assemble with it. Sure, maybe they get that part wrong and don't think of all the other bookshelves they'll need because the cheap one falls apart. Or maybe they value the time spent learning carpentry and want to do something else with it.
What is the next complaint? That Makers are so busy printing enclosures that nobody is bending and welding sheet metal anymore? That no one forges their own hinges now, and everyone just buys them? Or remember the "good old days" when people assembled their hi-fi from the best parts available, and now no one builds or codes their own MP3 players. Computers used to have just a BIOS and a maybe little scripting language, now you buy this beige box and get a whole OS and games, why isn't anyone typing in games from magazines anymore?
Because we have better things to do with out time. Me, for instance, I like building my own bookshelves and painting and lacquering my desk, and fixing old cameras. You want kids to be good with tools? Raise your taxes and put woodshop and technical classes back in schools. And make sure to add back in some technology and music too, while your at it.
3 pieces of wall-paper covered particle board, and a inch-and-a-half wooden dowel covered with a matching color shelf paper covering it. Took about an hour to locate the right drill bits (dad's garage, I don't have one) and another hour for us to argue over the best way to line up the shelf supports. I got 2 three-shelf units made for the price of a cheap flat-pack bookshelf that I would have had to reinforce with dowels in a year or so. Seriously, hard back computer text books and reference manuals wreck havok on flat pack bookcases. And I didn't visit the lumber yard at all, just a Home Depot.
I don't know if you mean that the way most people hear it, or the way most Southerners mean it. Either way, bless your heart for trying.
Title 15, 1125
(c) Dilution by blurring; dilution by tarnishment
(1) Injunctive relief
Subject to the principles of equity, the owner of a famous mark that is distinctive, inherently or through acquired distinctiveness, shall be entitled to an injunction against another person who, at any time after the owner’s mark has become famous, commences use of a mark or trade name in commerce that is likely to cause dilution by blurring or dilution by tarnishment of the famous mark, regardless of the presence or absence of actual or likely confusion, of competition, or of actual economic injury.
Trade Dress. Slightly different than Trademark, slightly similar. Has to be protected against dilution or you lose it like trademark, but applies to everything about your product and/or logo. I, for instance, can not stick a DKNY logo on an energy drink, just because Donna Karan hasn't done it yet.
The term for it is "trade dress" and it was codified in the same act that created and enforces trademarks in the US. You can spot it at Title 15 1125 US Code. Part "c- 1 Dilution by blurring; dilution by tarnishment" is probably what they were acting under.
Depends on the viral genetics. Type 1 is harder to cure, but most prevalent in the USA. Then a specific pattern inside the type (pair of codons in the DNA, either TC, CT, TT, or CC) can make it harder or easier to cure. Type 1 A has something above 50% success rate with the new three drug treatment, I've been told up to 75% after 6 months (as you mentioned) but with the possibility of knowing if it will work after 2. The viral load reduces by at least log2 at 2 months if it is going to respond well. Other genotypes respond much better, with one (i think 3 or 4) having a response rate over 90% to just interferon.
It's only sexually transmitted if one of the people was shooting up.
Allow me to add: fuck you.
The only needles I ever had in my veins were in the hospital, and unless they were shooting me up with heroin in used needles at age 2, your drug use reference is insulting, wrong, and simply moronic.
Realize this: until the 1989, Hep C wasn't even a recognized virus; at least as far as the patient was concerned. The diagnosis was viral non-A non-B hepatitis. Whether it was even contagious, or how it was transmitted other than blood-to-blood was not known; how long you were infectious wasn't know; whether the virus was only there when symptoms were apparent or whether it stayed active but hidden wasn't really known. I don't even have a blood transfusion on record, clean family all around, and somehow still managed to contract it as a child. Mid-90s they developed a PCR test that could tell you that you had it. And then they learned that not all non-A non-B was C viral (see Hep-D and Hep-E, GBvirusC). See this article from two years ago to see that in 20% of cases, the source of infection isn't even known!
So, in conclusion, piss off wanker
Maybe it's just my luck with laptops, but I've never had one who's hard drive survived more than a year or so of being unpowered. They tend to take power and boot up, then start making that horrid metal read-head on spinning glass sound. As someone else suggested, in 25 years you will be looking back going "wow, look at what we used to use" and caring less about the data stored on it. The physical object will mean more. Think of it like your notebooks from senior year; the notes you took mean very little now, but the doodles and the notes to friends and the things that seemed inconsequential at the time are what matter.
Here? Every major disaster seems to damage the water supply somewhere. One county or another will have to boil water after a hurricane swings inland, or an icestorm or wind knocks over trees or anything else. Maybe there is just something wrong with the water pipes in SW VA, but the fact that it happens every year is an arguement against putting the power lines there as well.
You thought I meant someone cutting the trees to an even height? No, the storm did that here, pretty efficiently.
It is a major expense to disaster proof all utilities, and doing so in a way that would prevent damage against 100-year high winds costs a ton. Would you pay double the taxes on electricity for 10 years to protect against something that statistically shouldn't happen again in your life time?
Combine that with insane amounts of damage. My electricity comes through underground wires in one direction, and that's why I still had power sunday. Sunday night, though, the wind took out more substations, and snaped a live line on the other side of the property. And with that, power was gone. It wasn't just the snapped line, but the trees that pulled up underground cables when they fell; it isn't just a single line broken, but 10s of breaks just to restore power to a few people. And the areas hit aren't all dense urban areas, but at least here it is lots of power lost in rural farms.
The breaks in water mains, the boil water notices, and the sewage treatment plant leaking waste into rivers suggests that even underground utilities were effected in this storm.
Trimming sick trees works great. Except for those times when even healthy trees are knocked sideways. Or when the top of every tree is sheered off at the same height, and those pieces go flying.
The same Romney who voted in Romney-care for Massachusetts? The state that now requires you to have insurance or pay into the state insurance pool? The guy responsible for the law that Obama based this act on? Or are you talking about a different Mitt Romney?
Not California's exactly list, but it applies to at least one state. And before you flip out that "OMG someone with Alzheimer's is driving!", the placard need not be permanent to the car. The form allows a person to get a temporary tag that allows them to park in the handicap spaces in what ever vehicle they are in. I go to the store with family, I can park close. I leave my tag by accident in their car, and they use it when I'm not around, they get a ticket. And I can see how a state like California might end up with 10% of drivers (not people in total) with placards. If they don't remove dead drivers from their database, and the article does mention people using dead relatives placards, that would be a problem.
there's no reason why someone with severe heat sensitivity or inability to walk over a certain distance *couldn't* be in a wheelchair when going to a store with a gigantic parking lot (most places like restaurants, convenience stores, strip malls, gas stations etc don't have giant parking lots anyway.. is an extra 20 feet going to mean the difference between making it or not? if so then that person probably shouldn't be walking to begin with)
There is no reason why they should have to be in a wheelchair just to make your reality feel better, either. This is how I know you are acting as just some libertarian shill, or are an uncaring individual who doesn't actually know anyone with a handicap. You do not get to decide whether a person should be walking or not. You do not have that right. The individuals have that right. By your quote, even though I don't need a wheelchair I should get one just so I can comfortably park in the middle of the lot . . . so what? So you can park closer? So there can be less laws?
And you were replying to someone else, and somehow it's just showing up as a reply to mine too.. Never mind, disregard the previous comment.
"The person pushing the wheelchair?" Where did you get the idea that all - or even most - people who qualify to use accessible parking are wheelchair bound and have able-bodied aides? One of the purposes of the ADA is to allow disabled people to do things like grocery shopping unaided.
I hope you are replying to someone else by mistake, because I don't think I mentioned anyone pushing grandma's wheel chair. Mine was arm powered when I needed it, and grandma's is electric.
I walk with a cane, not a wheelchair. The pain of standing means that having the parking space close to the building lets me walk less before I can take the weight off my bad joints. Other people with handicap stickers have heart problems, severe asthma, or arthritis. Any number of reasons exist that makes walking a shorter distance helpful.
But go ahead, keep propping up straw men.
Yeah, because all those people who are going to the track to run shouldn't have to walk the extra 9 feet reserved for a handicap parking space. I mean, you are there to run, right? Why should you have to spend any more time walking to or from your car than necessary, just in case someone else needs that space. How dare grandma, in her wheel chair, show up to watch her grandkid run. Doesn't she know your legs will be tired and you need to park closer?
prick
If I had a dollar for every paper published in a peer-reviewed social sciences journal which totally abused statistics, I'd retire and use my extra cash to fund organizations directed at basic logic and math education, trying to help with the situation.
What is your sample size for this decision; and psychologically is there any cost to you for papers where it is applied correctly? What is your confidence value? How varied is your sample; all from the school(s) you attended, or from multiple? Self selected and memorable misuses in articles, or actual comparisons, or even meta-analysis of other papers?
Oh, you didn't apply statistics to your complaint about misuse of statistics? Consider yourself the first stat in my new study "People who whing about statistical misuse don't actually consider statistics and self-psychology in their complaints".
I wanted to mod you up, but I'd rather add this: Psych students need to know statistics. Statistical analysis is 90% if their later term research; my sister spends paper writing time compiling data on people, analyzing how patterns stack up into behavior predictions. Yes, you can look at a group of people and predict what the chance is that one will have a mental illness, or who is suicidal, etc. It's not soft science, it's actuarial math. Combining individual research into meta-analysis to see how certain medications affect both groups and individuals. Seeing how changes in groups affect individual members. Even at the undergrad intern level, that was what her last two years of psychology classes were.
My advice to the poster is simple. They aren't idiots, and they need to know how stats work. Don't start classes with intense set-theory notation unless they have that as a pre-req. Don't pull a Taylor series out to explain something if the school doesn't require a course with that as a pre-req. Use lots of people examples, instead of abstract "X is a part of set S"; and as someone else suggested gambling stats are also good. And for their sake, don't talk down to them unless you want them to fail. Or if you have tenure. These are psych students, they can manipulate the hell out of you if you seem to be annoyed with them.
Note: if you pace from one side of the lecture hall/room to the other a lot, watch for them to drop papers and pencils when you do. Classic psych prank to get a teach to stop pacing. They can have you trained by the end of a semester if they want.
Black pepper, or morphine, or dilaudid, or a codeine metabolite? If this test can't tell, then it is dangerously flawed. Cause I don't think the trace of metabolite from poppy seed muffins is illegal yet. But now that I've said this, black pepper will probably be the name of the next designer opiate.