Comment Re:I suppose the general point of (Score 1) 1469
That is a good point. His opponent is Claire McCaskill and you can donate to her campaign here: http://clairemccaskill.com/
Comment Re:the basic fact is that Akin is a dumb hick (Score 1) 1469
And something must be wrong with his opponent because the race is very close..
His opponent is Claire McCaskill, who billed the state for some personal political trips she took and also didn't pay personal property tax on the airplane she was using for the trip. She says both things were just an oversight...
But the thing that is _really_ wrong with her is that she is running for election in Missouri, which leans Republican.
Comment Re:"Unclean. Un-Unclean..." (Score 1) 136
I do understand your point. I have a biochemistry background so I do understand antibiotic overuse is a problem. I didn't mean to "take you down a notch" so much alert you to the fact that there might be more to the story than you were thinking about.
Comment Re:"Unclean. Un-Unclean..." (Score 1) 136
I was on chemo and had a suppressed immune system for a couple of years. I slathered both myself and my toddler with antibacterial sanitizer every time we went in public. I got lots of disapproving looks from people who I know thought I was "needlessly" using it, but better that than catching the flu or pneumonia which my body wouldn't have been able to fight off.
_Lots_ of people have compromised immune systems for one reason or another. Please keep that in mind the next time you see someone using that hand gel. It is very likely that he or she has an incredibly good reason for doing so.
Submission + - MIT Develops Tiny Water Purifying Chip (inhabitat.com)
ByronScott writes: Researchers at MIT have developed a postage stamp-sized water purifier made out of soft silicone that separates out contaminants using magnetic fields. A single device can only process tiny amounts of water, but MIT researchers imagine that they could be lined up in arrays–1,600 units placed on an 8 inch diameter wafer, for example, could generate 15 liters of water an hour. Researchers have successfully tested a single unit, which removed 99% of contaminants from seawater.
Comment Re:I wonder if it is the diseases.. (Score 1) 349
Still, I wish you good luck in solving your problem. I don't mean to seem disrespectful, but I am curious. . . Have you looked at the obvious stuff? --Like getting a job which you love, doing lots of exercise outdoors for the fun of it, eating properly and generally diving into the work of cleaning out all the false automatic crap from the machine of your mind?
-FL
This is one of the most offensive questions I have read in a long time. Wow. Have you considered what it must be like to live with a terrible illness?
I don't have RLS, but I can promise you that any person with a nasty chronic disease has devoted more time than you can imagine trying to figure out how to solve their problem. They probably spend most of their free time researching and coming up with ways to alleviate just a teeny tiny portion of the misery that they are experiencing. They have spent hours talking to doctors and all of their free time on message boards talking to other people in the same situation.
Before you give random medical advice to someone about a disease they have lived with for _years_, consider that their life probably revolves around it and if 'doing exercise outdoors' was a solution, they would certainly already be doing it.
Faction Changes Coming To World of Warcraft 209
A Blizzard representative today announced that they're working on a service for players to switch factions in World of Warcraft, going from Horde to Alliance or vice versa. "There's still much work to do and many details to iron out, but the basic idea is that players will be able to use the service to transform an existing character into a roughly equivalent character of the opposing faction on the same realm. Players who ended up creating and leveling up characters on the opposite factions from their friends have been asking for this type of functionality for some time, and we're pleased to be getting closer to being able to deliver it." They also said there would be "some rules involved with when and how the service can be used."
Comment Re:parents? (Score 1) 716
I have to wonder if the parents became more involved with their kids once money was brought into the picture.
I think another study needs to be done to see if there is a way to encourage parents to be good parents and if that affects kids' scores
Good thought. What about paying the parents if the their kid gets good grades?
