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Comment Re:To Quote Woody allen (Score 1) 382

Since you're an EMT and should know what you're talking about, is this site bogus?

What are the symptoms of heroin withdrawal?
Regardless of dosage, these reactions may appear:

Convulsions
Increased heart rate
Abnormal heartbeat
Heart attack
Sudden, sharp blood pressure increase
Stroke
Extreme depression
Suicidal behaviour

Yeah pretty much. Sounds a lot like advertising too. If I'm given that kind of scare, I might just pay those guys a bunch of money to give me detox.
More accurately, here is a good reference of what you can expect with opiate withdrawal http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000949.ht

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Comment Re:To Quote Woody allen (Score 1, Informative) 382

Death is not a side effect of opiate withdrawals. Usually related deaths seem to be tired to a combination of the withdrawal, and a predisposition. Methadone is an opiate just like heroin, hydrocodone, etc. You'll get high with it.

There is suboxone, which is a commonly used drug thagt combines an opiate with something else that blocks the reward systems so you don't get high. Maybe that's what you were thinking of?

Just so we are clear, I'm an EMT, and I work at a medical detox/ crisis center. I deal with drug use and everything that comes with it.

Comment Re:If they were manned aircraft would it be an iss (Score 1) 405

Paparazzi do this all the time. I guess the difference being they are not Government necessarily. But if paparazzi can do this without actually trespassing, than any non-government volunteer can do this. Then just pass the info along. So, what if the people operating the aircraft are third party?

Comment What is there to gain. (Score 4, Interesting) 338

Here we are owing all sorts of money, and now we are giving a whole lot of money that doesn't exist, to a program that has yielded no worth? What's to gain? I've heard all of the bad news about TSA, and all the molesting, and violations that they commit, with no reprocutions. But please, someone explain to me what is it that the Government really benefits from this.

Perhaps a bad comparison, I support owning a firearm. I have family and friends who have use their guns in defense, so I see some benefit, among all the risks. But I do not own a gun, or have one in my home. Why? Because I have never been in a situation that I required a gun.
This is like posting armed guards in my upper middle class neighborhood home!

Comment Re:To be fair (Score 1) 484

Maybe not of the whole earth. Perhaps Noah's flood happened somewhere in the area that early humans inhabited, and Noah built the boat for that small region. That area could have been the whole world to that people.
I believe the Bible was written by man, with only some of it being inspired by God, the rest being historical.
I am a Christian, and I am one of many who see science as being the best way to understand the how. I won't limit my God to quick work and tons of diception to test my faith.

Comment Re:Proof of Intelligent Design (Score 1) 131

I should point out that there is a silent sizable chunk of religious folk that embrace science and evolution as the how. Starting with the big bang (maybe) a little (or maybe a lot) of influence to eventually create humans (but not necessarily just home sapien). What we have in scripture as to how it all happened is (at least in my opinion) the way who ever wrote it understood what was being said, or written. If God created the universe, it would be foolish to limit how he did it.

Comment Re:Better Press Release (Score 1) 204

I have to disagree. If I hear same size as Jupiter, I think same dimensions. Trying to determine if that was my educated opinion, or if that was a common sense opinion, I asked my Mom, who knows very little about this stuff I told her we have 2 balls that weigh 2 pounds each, one is a beach ball, and one is a golf ball. Which one is bigger? She answered the Beach ball, but understood that they weigh the same.

Regardless of the common understanding (or misunderstanding), we should be clear that mass and size are 2 different measurements.

Comment Re:Propaganda Bullshit Disinfo (Score 1) 297

Just wait for what exactly? What is the tsa for? I have been reading a lot of speculation and accusation, but see no dots being connected. Every reply to you, seems to make you react with mocking, as if the whole world except for a handful of counter-cultural windbags are blindfolded.

Please, connect some dots for me, give me some hard facts that validate your theories. Show me why Occam's Razor doesn't seem to apply here.

Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 45

I agree, the idea is flawed. Though maybe if they have the TV series airing sometime after events in the MMO. Say the MMO starts recording and noting events happening starting in Feb 2012. But the TV series waits till later in the year to start airing episodes. Making the TV series months, behind the actual game. Might be too long to wait for that satisfaction of having a part in the plot, but it also makes room for 3 different demographics: The viewers, the players, and the ones that are actively following both, and trying to play/watch in accordance. I see this being hard to pull off.

Comment Game Name? (Score 1) 45

If I were a player, would I have to sign a release, or agree to something, that says they can use my handle in their TV show? I just don't think they are going to take it well when 'ThEBigB@LLA2121!!11!!' seems to be wreaking havoc in San Francisco. Hopefully they have the sense to...ehem...correct any names of players that have significant impact on the universe. But correcting my also be bad as well.

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