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Comment Re:Not just redheads (Score 1) 265

Had the same thing (though I still have red hair). After the third shot the dentist opted to just wait for the sedative to take effect. It did, eventually. Same thing with other local anesthetics. It usually takes about the triple amount.. I also had my tonsils removed a few months ago. I woke up before I was supposed to (thankfully not during the surgery like my grandmother had, also a redhead) and completely clear-headed and didn't have the "groggy" effect everybody complains about. The strange thing I find though that almost no doctor I spoke too knows about "redheads". Only one nurse who, trough education and experience, knew that people with red hair are more likely to need a bit more anesthetics.

Comment Re:I stopped reading the responses after... (Score 1) 920

As others have pointed out: addiction is way to vague. Are we talking physiological or psychological addiction? And addicted to what degree? Several medical studies have also pointed out that it's no more physiologically addictive then a pack of cookies. Now, I'll grant you that psychological addiction may occur with marijuana, but the same thing can be said of any one thing in the world. Your hand waving about how it's addictive has just about as many facts in it as people who claim it's not addictive (without the sources to back it up). So, what are your sources for your claims that "Find me a meth or Heroin user that did not smoke pot first" and "It's about getting "high", and that eventually ends up into finding alternative highs."? I'm genuinely curious about this "gateway theory". Also, where I'm from smoking pot is legalized here, oddly enough, we don't really have a problem withe heroine usage skyrocketting., in fact, if this site is to be believed we actually had a decline! (http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/67)
The Internet

Submission + - Finally, porn is coming to the internet (motherboard.tv)

HansonMB writes: If you’ve ever sat around staring at the ol’ webs thinking, damn, this would be a great place to distribute porn, you’ve been vindicated: the .xxx domain is live as of Friday. Despite costing way more than a .com domain and having really no point aside from allowing conservative governments an easy censorship target, there’s currently 600,000 reservations for URLs under .xxx.
Open Source

Submission + - Can Open Source Hardware Feed The World? (itworld.com)

jfruhlinger writes: "When it comes to food scarcity in the developing world, one of the major problems is production capacity: land that could be arable using modern techniques goes underutilized because locals don't have the abbility to build or buy equipment. A group calling itself Open Source Eclology is trying to solve that problem. They've developed a set of open source hardware specs for 50 different industrial machines, which they're calling the Global Village Construction Set."

Submission + - Titan May Have Ocean (technologyreview.com)

olsmeister writes: In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been a particular focus of attention because of its dense, complex atmosphere, its weather and its lakes and oceans.

Now it looks as if Titan is even stranger still. The evidence comes from careful observations of Titan's orbit and rotation. This indicates that Titan has an orbit similar to our Moon's: it always presents the same face towards Saturn and its axis of rotation tilts by about 0.3 degrees.

Together, these data allow astronomers to work out Titan's moment of inertia and this throws up something interesting. The numbers indicate that Titan's moment of inertia can only be explained if it is a solid body that is denser near the surface than it is at its centre.

Submission + - Is Sitting a Lethal Activity (nytimes.com)

AgentSmith writes: We all know daily sitting in the cube farm (or other sedentary activity) isn't always healthy, but James Levine, a researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn studied the less than obvious results of inactive sitting .

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