If it's your first keyboard it should give you a countdown. "You have plugged in a keyboard devioce. If that's not what you want, unplug in 5 seconds. 4...3....2....1"

There is a lot to that. It's amazing how overpriced anything medical is, often inflated by orders of magnitude.

I'm sure people knew how to do that. What they didn't know was that by doing that they could match the results of a $1000 solution. They're no doubt thinking "It can't be that simple, there must be a trick to it". So they sell a pre-made unit at low cost.

Not really. They need only prove to be slightly better than placebo in a flawed study.

For example, in the SSRI studies, the side effects of the drugs effectively unblinded all of them.

That's why we see expensive new drugs get to the market when less expensive drugs with equal or better effectiveness and a better history of safety already exist.

When I saw Brave New World, I thought I might never again hear someone speak so chreerfully about death as the teacher conditioning the children. Then I heard the voiceover disclaimer lady in drug ads...

Or, much worse for us (but probably to the delight of the pharmaceutical industry), the terrible side effects will be masked by the symptoms of exposure, malnutrition and chronic alcohol abuse.

And if they try to charge your credit card again, report it as fraudulent.

The tax on cigarettes already makes up the majority of the retail price. Meanwhile, since smokers tend to die before needing long term medical care, they are actually less expensive than non-smokers. Especially when you consider that they also spend less time eligible for social security.

Of course, those taxes are spent on just about anything but medical care for smokers but you can't blame the smokers for that.

It will harm the economy. Less tax revenue for starters. Later on, higher medical costs and more social security costs. Smokers tend to die before collecting a lot of social security and before they get expensive ongoing medical care.

It's not absolutely safe (is anything), but it meets the criterion of being a little safer than password/key alone.