I hate to say that I've met psychiatrist who believed these studies. When asked directly about it, I got the story that "No, this wasn't a classic SSRI, but a new class of SNDRI." It wasn't, mind you, but getting to that information would have required picking up a heavy chemistry book or something, instead of a light-weight journal.
Give your father a pat on the back. Both for not believing that article, and for passing the information along to someone else.
I couldn't answer that question without knowing what the drug was. But, in general, she may have gotten it if the doctor she went to was willing to participate in the drug trials.
Some doctors do, some don't. My understanding is that some branches of medicine are more willing to try new treatments, while others are less so. Older doctors, in my experience, tend to be less willing to put patients on something that hasn't been proven while younger doctors are more willing.
Because doctors in the American system work for profit, they have more to lose from participating in a trial of an unproven medicine. Imagine the hell you would have raised if this new drug had made her problems worse. Now imagine the problems the doctor in America would have faced under our litigation happy, high payout, medical 'protection' society.
Personally, I can't blame the doctors or the insurance for making the choices they make under this system. The system is the problem.
And many people are seriously underestimating the value of medicine. Take a long hard look at your self. How many of you would have survived your first 10 years without, what was then, modern medicine? I know I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have my it the first three days.
To answer the issues you raise, Aspirin sucks as a pain killer, and is only marginally better than the willow bark it replaced. It can cause or contribute to, over the long term, multiple stomach and blood disorders. It inhibits clotting of the blood, promotes stomach bleeding which can lead to other problems. APAP, the other common pain killer, may do more for fevers but does nothing for swelling, and causes liver damage in high doses. And those 'high doses' are fairly close to what is listed, on the bottle, as a daily dose.
Milk, calcium. As humans live longer, we no longer have the calcium supply in our bones to last our entire adult life. Wasn't a problem when most people died before 10, and adults lived to 30 to 60. And beyond that, how long have humans been drinking milk for? 2000 years? A quick google search turned up references suggesting 9000 years ago. If this is 'modern diet' then I suggest you also give up your cultivated grains; modern corn that doesn't need to be soaked in lye to be eaten, domesticated grains that produce a usable yield per acre, modern fruits with larger eatable portions and more vitamins.
Sure, your rabbit hole goes deeper, but you are following it to conspiracy-thinking that doesn't make one bit of sense. While you want to justify avoiding 'modern medicine', you are making arguments that simple logic will prove are not true. For the sake of the rest of the people who might read this, continue with your lifestyle of choice on your own, but present your next argument supported with facts and not just your opinion of how bad medicine is.
Lithium is found naturally in some spring water. Being that it's an an ionic element, as the water filters through certain rocks it can pick up natural lithium salts.
Some bottled spring water even has trace amounts. Not the "spring water" that is actually from a tap in New Jersey, but real natural springs. Lithium Springs were once all the rage.
You don't have to add it to the water anymore. Just implement a 'waste water treatment' plant to purify the water enough for watering lawns and golf courses. Then treat the local river water for municipal drinking supply. Wait till the pill popping house wives take lithium, and presto, profit!
And if you have to ask what ??? step is, read up on the high levels of birth control hormones in tap water and how they got there.
You are right, I am being harsher on them just because they are cops. The fact that it was two officers who took the pictures is exactly why they should be punished more than a journalist. If a journalist happens upon a crime scene there is usually police there to keep them back. The police, on the other hand, are immune to that boundary.
They were using their privilege, as law enforcement officials, to obtain information, they should not have had, and to distribute it. Because they did all of this while acting under color of the law, they should be punished harsher than a normal person.
Look, I know cops are normal people. They have good days and bad days just like everyone else. But, as long as they are privileged in their jobs then they need to be held more accountable for the actions they take while in the line of duty.
Kinda, maybe. How hard is it to completely anonymize anything? The picture might have contained just enough detail to identify the family even without the girl's name being attached. Say, car color, model, approx age of victim, and location of the accident by the county the cops work in. From that, and knowing the day of the accident, you could probably find the family just by reading the paper.
No, I don't think they could have been make completely anonymous. Not to the point where griefers and trolls couldn't have caused problems. And as Penny Arcade taught us, that's what the internet is made up of.
Good. We're past due for another big shake up. When was the last time a major nation-state was shaken up? Not elections that happen to pick the opposing party for once in 10, 20, or 30 years. But an actual revolution? The "White Western World"* is due for a good upheaval.
Persons of authority should be held to more account than the citizens they protect. This was not a mistake, accidentally leaving the files on a vulnerable computer or on an internal server that happened to be externally visible for a day.
This was an effort by those officers to distribute the files to people outside the police department who, frankly, had no business seeing them. They say it was to discourage their own family from driving drunk or speeding, but who's to say. If they had been informed about normal procedure and knew these pictures should not be distributed then they should be held accountable for it.
Don't charge them for mistakes. Charge them if they willfully breached protocol for their own fun. And make it harsh.
I wish SOE would do that. Instead, if you got into beta as a guild you are doing the raids when a dev clears them and warps you in. If you got in through application, you aren't going anywhere because no one knows who you are.
Real, serious beta testing would do wonders for MMOs. Too bad they go about it in such convoluted ways.
I some how get into every Everquest Beta I apply for. I get the email the first day of closed beta. Then, about 3 days before it goes live, I get another one for the patcher so I can actually play. Some how, I've still managed to get in to the game before release, find a glitch, bug, wall-hack, or something that doesn't work, and then eventually see it patched a year or two later. It's the Everquest way.
The nunchuck port is just a fancy I2C socket, and the remote can be directed to address any chip attached to it, which is what lets the various drum kits and guitar controllers each be unusable in other games. As for what it adds, any gyroscope would be an upgrade over the plain 3 axis accelerometer that is in the remote. A 3 axis gyro, with the values accessible at the same location as the nunchuck's accelerometers, would be very nice.
If they redesigned it from scratch, they still couldn't make old games support it. The Wii does not really have the ability to inform a game about new features that the console might offer. As for why it was easier to not redesign it, they did do a good job making the Wii remote extendable. The Nunchuck port is I2C, and the Wii remote can be directed to talk to many I2C devices connected to that port.
I think if the new device were just accelerometers, as the other poster believe, they would be able to place them in the same address as the accelerometers in the nunchuck, and old games would get something. I would suspect they have moved to gyros. Paired with the three axis accelerometer in the Wii remote already, that would provide 6 degrees of movement.
There is a program going on at my university to teach Taiji using the balance board and wii removes. Friend was working with them, hacking the Max-MSP code to read from the balance board. Dunno how much further it's gone, but I know she had a deal with the instructor to record Taiji jian form once the motion plus was released.
Then I recommend MythBuster's Free Energy episode, where they did pull a tiny bit of electricity out of the air from radio waves.
In general terms, it's how a crystal radio gets the power to run. You didn't think the 100 or 300 or how ever many watts the radio stations brag about broadcasting just vaporised?
Simple banner ads, text or even animated gifs, usually get a pass on my system, but only on sites I like. My favorite webcomics and novels have their advertisers allowed, as long as they are just pictures and texts.
Strangely, as people who are profiting from the ads, those artists and authors also want to not annoy their readers. They know that, as the ads get more annoying, the readers start to block them, and the ratio between ad hits and page views starts to separate. The advertisers do not see that. They might, if they really pay attention, notice that their views are going down. But they can attribute that to the website becoming less popular and therefore worth less advertising dollars. Or because the website is only showing their ad some of the time. Basically, they can create in their heads any number of reasons that it is 'not their fault'.
Several years back, and sorry I can't find the link to it right now, there were several studies showing that OTC cold medicines of all sorts were ineffective for children under 3. The conclusion was that their bodies had not developed the proper pathways for the drugs to take effect.
Now, how would those same drugs work on adults? At the OTC doce, not well. For one, DXM is a weak cough suppressant. Codeine is better, codeine and atropine is the works. The OTC dose of DXM is, by my experience, a placebo dose. It does nothing for a cough that needs fixing, and only helps you ignore the milder ones. The 12 hour powdered pills of it, however, when taken every 4 to 6 hours, do a lot more. For my money, though, I call the doctor once the cough gets near 'rib breaking level' and get the strong stuff. 2 days later, and if the cough isn't gone at least I feel better.
As for an antihistamine or antihistamine/decongestant combo helping a cough. . . I'm not even a med student, and I can tell they are testing the wrong medicine. Here's another ground breaking study, APAP doesn't cure a cough. Neither does ibuprofen. Give me grant money to prove it, please.
Transaction One: Write foo_tmp.bar and sync
Transaction Two: Delete foo.bar, rename foo_tmp.bar to foo.bar and sync
I think that might be the wrong order for transaction two, unless you can accomplish all of that with a single write to the disk. Might it be better to rename foo_tmp to foo.bar, then delete the original? That way, if the power were to fail between the delete and the rename cycle you would still have a file.
Or, with a journal, you could do it in three steps, just like you said: 1: journal that foo_tmp.bar will become foo.bar if foo.bar is gone. 2: write foo_tmp.bar and sync. 3: delete foo.bar, rename foo_tmp.bar, and sync.
So the distortions of vinyl are a mistake, or are they just the flavor of the medium? If the artists are releasing the music as MP3-128 and not as FLAC, or MP3-320VBR, is that enough to consider the clicks and "grzk" sounds to be intentional?
And, with young people not knowing the difference between an artist release and a pirated copy floating on the internet, how is the audience going to know what was an intentional sound effect choice, and what is an artifact? If the MP3s are tacked on by the label at the last second, does that make it distortion or an artifact?
Not everyone listens to music to enjoy every subtle nuance of the sound. They listen in their cars, for gods-sake. They'll never hear the cymbals over the road noise. Sure, I'd be insulted if I went and bought a digital copy of a piece of highly artistic music meant to be listened to over and over while finding new layers to it, and found that it was all compressed to hell and had MP3 artifacts against the artist's wishes. But for pop music, who cares?
As a user of high-level languages, do not directly access the I/O API without knowing what it does. Use a higher level wrapper that properly interacts with the low level functions, and does all of the fsync and similar calls for you.
If those high level wrappers do not exist, then do not blame the API developers for you not knowing how they work.
If an MP3-128 introduces a rapid-paced but very-audible "grzk" sound at random points in a song, this is not a "quality" of the sound. It's an error. A mistake. I don't see how an error can be considered proper or even desirable.
I'm certain someone said the same thing about guitar distortion when it first came on the scene. Remember, the first guitar distortion was done by poking holes in the speaker cone. That would certainly be called an error by many people, but they did it anyways because *gasp* they liked the sound.
I'm not saying I agree with the folks who like the over compressed MP3 buzz. I like my music to sound . . . well, I like what I like. Even the hums and clicks of vinyl sound better to my ears than the buzz and whatever-mp3-does-to-cymbals click that occurs in low bit rate mp3. But, that only applies to me.
I'm always amazed that human vision sees so much range and tone in just under one octave range, while our hearing is tuned to near 10 octaves. Imagine the paintings that could come about if we could extend our visual range.
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I hate to say that I've met psychiatrist who believed these studies. When asked directly about it, I got the story that "No, this wasn't a classic SSRI, but a new class of SNDRI." It wasn't, mind you, but getting to that information would have required picking up a heavy chemistry book or something, instead of a light-weight journal.
Give your father a pat on the back. Both for not believing that article, and for passing the information along to someone else.
I couldn't answer that question without knowing what the drug was. But, in general, she may have gotten it if the doctor she went to was willing to participate in the drug trials.
Some doctors do, some don't. My understanding is that some branches of medicine are more willing to try new treatments, while others are less so. Older doctors, in my experience, tend to be less willing to put patients on something that hasn't been proven while younger doctors are more willing.
Because doctors in the American system work for profit, they have more to lose from participating in a trial of an unproven medicine. Imagine the hell you would have raised if this new drug had made her problems worse. Now imagine the problems the doctor in America would have faced under our litigation happy, high payout, medical 'protection' society.
Personally, I can't blame the doctors or the insurance for making the choices they make under this system. The system is the problem.
And many people are seriously underestimating the value of medicine. Take a long hard look at your self. How many of you would have survived your first 10 years without, what was then, modern medicine? I know I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have my it the first three days.
To answer the issues you raise, Aspirin sucks as a pain killer, and is only marginally better than the willow bark it replaced. It can cause or contribute to, over the long term, multiple stomach and blood disorders. It inhibits clotting of the blood, promotes stomach bleeding which can lead to other problems. APAP, the other common pain killer, may do more for fevers but does nothing for swelling, and causes liver damage in high doses. And those 'high doses' are fairly close to what is listed, on the bottle, as a daily dose.
Milk, calcium. As humans live longer, we no longer have the calcium supply in our bones to last our entire adult life. Wasn't a problem when most people died before 10, and adults lived to 30 to 60. And beyond that, how long have humans been drinking milk for? 2000 years? A quick google search turned up references suggesting 9000 years ago. If this is 'modern diet' then I suggest you also give up your cultivated grains; modern corn that doesn't need to be soaked in lye to be eaten, domesticated grains that produce a usable yield per acre, modern fruits with larger eatable portions and more vitamins.
Sure, your rabbit hole goes deeper, but you are following it to conspiracy-thinking that doesn't make one bit of sense. While you want to justify avoiding 'modern medicine', you are making arguments that simple logic will prove are not true. For the sake of the rest of the people who might read this, continue with your lifestyle of choice on your own, but present your next argument supported with facts and not just your opinion of how bad medicine is.
Lithium is found naturally in some spring water. Being that it's an an ionic element, as the water filters through certain rocks it can pick up natural lithium salts.
Some bottled spring water even has trace amounts. Not the "spring water" that is actually from a tap in New Jersey, but real natural springs. Lithium Springs were once all the rage.
You don't have to add it to the water anymore. Just implement a 'waste water treatment' plant to purify the water enough for watering lawns and golf courses. Then treat the local river water for municipal drinking supply. Wait till the pill popping house wives take lithium, and presto, profit!
And if you have to ask what ??? step is, read up on the high levels of birth control hormones in tap water and how they got there.
You are right, I am being harsher on them just because they are cops. The fact that it was two officers who took the pictures is exactly why they should be punished more than a journalist. If a journalist happens upon a crime scene there is usually police there to keep them back. The police, on the other hand, are immune to that boundary.
They were using their privilege, as law enforcement officials, to obtain information, they should not have had, and to distribute it. Because they did all of this while acting under color of the law, they should be punished harsher than a normal person.
Look, I know cops are normal people. They have good days and bad days just like everyone else. But, as long as they are privileged in their jobs then they need to be held more accountable for the actions they take while in the line of duty.
Kinda, maybe. How hard is it to completely anonymize anything? The picture might have contained just enough detail to identify the family even without the girl's name being attached. Say, car color, model, approx age of victim, and location of the accident by the county the cops work in. From that, and knowing the day of the accident, you could probably find the family just by reading the paper.
No, I don't think they could have been make completely anonymous. Not to the point where griefers and trolls couldn't have caused problems. And as Penny Arcade taught us, that's what the internet is made up of.
Your sig is strangely apropos. Anyways . . .
Good. We're past due for another big shake up. When was the last time a major nation-state was shaken up? Not elections that happen to pick the opposing party for once in 10, 20, or 30 years. But an actual revolution? The "White Western World"* is due for a good upheaval.
WWW* borrowed from a cyber feminist.
Potentially 420 million people at "Just 7%". I'd say that's pretty high.
Persons of authority should be held to more account than the citizens they protect. This was not a mistake, accidentally leaving the files on a vulnerable computer or on an internal server that happened to be externally visible for a day.
This was an effort by those officers to distribute the files to people outside the police department who, frankly, had no business seeing them. They say it was to discourage their own family from driving drunk or speeding, but who's to say. If they had been informed about normal procedure and knew these pictures should not be distributed then they should be held accountable for it.
Don't charge them for mistakes. Charge them if they willfully breached protocol for their own fun. And make it harsh.
I wish SOE would do that. Instead, if you got into beta as a guild you are doing the raids when a dev clears them and warps you in. If you got in through application, you aren't going anywhere because no one knows who you are.
Real, serious beta testing would do wonders for MMOs. Too bad they go about it in such convoluted ways.
I some how get into every Everquest Beta I apply for. I get the email the first day of closed beta. Then, about 3 days before it goes live, I get another one for the patcher so I can actually play. Some how, I've still managed to get in to the game before release, find a glitch, bug, wall-hack, or something that doesn't work, and then eventually see it patched a year or two later. It's the Everquest way.
The nunchuck port is just a fancy I2C socket, and the remote can be directed to address any chip attached to it, which is what lets the various drum kits and guitar controllers each be unusable in other games. As for what it adds, any gyroscope would be an upgrade over the plain 3 axis accelerometer that is in the remote. A 3 axis gyro, with the values accessible at the same location as the nunchuck's accelerometers, would be very nice.
If they redesigned it from scratch, they still couldn't make old games support it. The Wii does not really have the ability to inform a game about new features that the console might offer. As for why it was easier to not redesign it, they did do a good job making the Wii remote extendable. The Nunchuck port is I2C, and the Wii remote can be directed to talk to many I2C devices connected to that port.
I think if the new device were just accelerometers, as the other poster believe, they would be able to place them in the same address as the accelerometers in the nunchuck, and old games would get something. I would suspect they have moved to gyros. Paired with the three axis accelerometer in the Wii remote already, that would provide 6 degrees of movement.
There is a program going on at my university to teach Taiji using the balance board and wii removes. Friend was working with them, hacking the Max-MSP code to read from the balance board. Dunno how much further it's gone, but I know she had a deal with the instructor to record Taiji jian form once the motion plus was released.
So we should just put our fingers in our ears and shut our eyes and pretend it doesn't exist? Yeah that's going to do all of jack and shit.
But that is what everyone outside the tech world does when we talk about a problem. Why shouldn't it work for us too?
Then I recommend MythBuster's Free Energy episode, where they did pull a tiny bit of electricity out of the air from radio waves.
In general terms, it's how a crystal radio gets the power to run. You didn't think the 100 or 300 or how ever many watts the radio stations brag about broadcasting just vaporised?
Simple banner ads, text or even animated gifs, usually get a pass on my system, but only on sites I like. My favorite webcomics and novels have their advertisers allowed, as long as they are just pictures and texts.
Strangely, as people who are profiting from the ads, those artists and authors also want to not annoy their readers. They know that, as the ads get more annoying, the readers start to block them, and the ratio between ad hits and page views starts to separate. The advertisers do not see that. They might, if they really pay attention, notice that their views are going down. But they can attribute that to the website becoming less popular and therefore worth less advertising dollars. Or because the website is only showing their ad some of the time. Basically, they can create in their heads any number of reasons that it is 'not their fault'.
Only if you'll settle for ones made from flax seed. I hear they have lots of natural mucilage.
Several years back, and sorry I can't find the link to it right now, there were several studies showing that OTC cold medicines of all sorts were ineffective for children under 3. The conclusion was that their bodies had not developed the proper pathways for the drugs to take effect.
Now, how would those same drugs work on adults? At the OTC doce, not well. For one, DXM is a weak cough suppressant. Codeine is better, codeine and atropine is the works. The OTC dose of DXM is, by my experience, a placebo dose. It does nothing for a cough that needs fixing, and only helps you ignore the milder ones. The 12 hour powdered pills of it, however, when taken every 4 to 6 hours, do a lot more. For my money, though, I call the doctor once the cough gets near 'rib breaking level' and get the strong stuff. 2 days later, and if the cough isn't gone at least I feel better.
As for an antihistamine or antihistamine/decongestant combo helping a cough. . . I'm not even a med student, and I can tell they are testing the wrong medicine. Here's another ground breaking study, APAP doesn't cure a cough. Neither does ibuprofen. Give me grant money to prove it, please.
Transaction One: Write foo_tmp.bar and sync
Transaction Two: Delete foo.bar, rename foo_tmp.bar to foo.bar and sync
I think that might be the wrong order for transaction two, unless you can accomplish all of that with a single write to the disk. Might it be better to rename foo_tmp to foo.bar, then delete the original? That way, if the power were to fail between the delete and the rename cycle you would still have a file.
Or, with a journal, you could do it in three steps, just like you said:
1: journal that foo_tmp.bar will become foo.bar if foo.bar is gone.
2: write foo_tmp.bar and sync.
3: delete foo.bar, rename foo_tmp.bar, and sync.
So the distortions of vinyl are a mistake, or are they just the flavor of the medium? If the artists are releasing the music as MP3-128 and not as FLAC, or MP3-320VBR, is that enough to consider the clicks and "grzk" sounds to be intentional?
And, with young people not knowing the difference between an artist release and a pirated copy floating on the internet, how is the audience going to know what was an intentional sound effect choice, and what is an artifact? If the MP3s are tacked on by the label at the last second, does that make it distortion or an artifact?
Not everyone listens to music to enjoy every subtle nuance of the sound. They listen in their cars, for gods-sake. They'll never hear the cymbals over the road noise. Sure, I'd be insulted if I went and bought a digital copy of a piece of highly artistic music meant to be listened to over and over while finding new layers to it, and found that it was all compressed to hell and had MP3 artifacts against the artist's wishes. But for pop music, who cares?
As a user of high-level languages, do not directly access the I/O API without knowing what it does. Use a higher level wrapper that properly interacts with the low level functions, and does all of the fsync and similar calls for you.
If those high level wrappers do not exist, then do not blame the API developers for you not knowing how they work.
If an MP3-128 introduces a rapid-paced but very-audible "grzk" sound at random points in a song, this is not a "quality" of the sound. It's an error. A mistake. I don't see how an error can be considered proper or even desirable.
I'm certain someone said the same thing about guitar distortion when it first came on the scene. Remember, the first guitar distortion was done by poking holes in the speaker cone. That would certainly be called an error by many people, but they did it anyways because *gasp* they liked the sound.
I'm not saying I agree with the folks who like the over compressed MP3 buzz. I like my music to sound . . . well, I like what I like. Even the hums and clicks of vinyl sound better to my ears than the buzz and whatever-mp3-does-to-cymbals click that occurs in low bit rate mp3. But, that only applies to me.
I'm always amazed that human vision sees so much range and tone in just under one octave range, while our hearing is tuned to near 10 octaves. Imagine the paintings that could come about if we could extend our visual range.