I can't speak for all 50 states of the country I live in, but I have lived in two that have addressed that matter in a way. Both states have a check (or initial) box for "dispense as written", ie no generic substitutions allowed for a given drug. The default behavior - with the box left alone - is to allow pharmacists to provide the patient with the generic substitute of the drug if it is available.

Not once have I seen a physician fill in that box, and I've had a fair number of prescriptions over the decades.

Granted, that only applies to generics when they are available. It doesn't apply to similar drugs; for example if you're physician prescribes you the sexiest new antidepressant the pharmacist does not have the ability to substitute generic prozac in its place. However this seems to suggest, at least based on my experience with health care professionals, that there are not as many doctors on the cut as some would have us believe.

Not sure if you've seen other discussions I've been in here on slashdot or not (and I know your reply was to smitty but I opted to chime in anyways), but I have been campaigning for single payer for a long, long, time. I was actually pushing for it before slashdot even existed. I am one of many American Liberals who find the "affordable care act" a travesty for not doing enough.

Interesting that registrars will threaten sites that assist in obtaining illegal copies of software or media, but will do nothing whatsoever when they are shown that their customers are selling kiddie porn, illegal / counterfeit drugs, counterfeit anything else, etc...

If all they did was edit the field then it should have still not been able to make it through, as it still would have exceeded the length limit. The new title is longer than the original truncated version.

Regardless of how they did it, though, the point remains that slashdot was willing to go the extra mile to excite the conservative base and propagate another anti-Obama conspiracy theory on the front page of what used to be a tech news site.

Yawwwwwn.... Can't you find a different conspiracy theory? The Lawnchair Administration has been moving at glacial speed since inauguration. If they were going to make a play towards jettisoning the Health Insurance Industry Bailout Act of 2010 in favor of something that isn't pro-business, they would have needed to do it before now. You need to either accept that your FUD on the matter is baseless or find someone else to magically pin it to.

Of course, the latter would require you to forecast a future president who is also not from your party.

It has been that, yes.

How can everything be without purpose, and yet be capable of generating purpose? I'm perpetually challenged, trying to remember that I am the unreasonable one in this conversation.

Culminating, of course, in the one that the ultimate goal of it all is other than Single Prayer.
But who will bother with wallets anymore, once paradise is fully legislated? Private property is so capitalist.

I'm relatively confident that somebody opened the /. article table in phpMyAdmin and just edited the title field.

The Argument Clinic.

If it was only a bug, it was a very peculiar one at that. I was able to pretty much declare relationships with any other ID during the time when I could not do so with you. I was wondering if perhaps they intentionally changed the code so as to make it impossible to pick a relationship with an account that is less than X days old?

A more interesting bug, IMHO, was seen here on the front page very recently. That article exceeded the character limit for an article title when it first hit the front page (and of course Timothy, in his infinite wisdom, did not notice it). The solution apparently was to change the code (perhaps only for that story? who knows...) to allow for a longer title for that story.

Notice that of course they did that for a story that aims to make the democratic party look bad. Had the story been aimed at the republicans ... well, it wouldn't have ever made it to the front page anyways.

"while you are here, in your non-dirt phase, make the best of it"

It's like The Best of Bread, with less nutrition.

Dirt is without purpose.

Indeed, hyper-materialism means nothing. I've never denied my origin, or current existential status. Nor am I fogged in, dead, or asleep. I anticipate your simple Argument Clinic contradiction, and will keep praying for your escape.

I don't know what the wait was supposed to accomplish, but I was finally able to put you on my friends list today.