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Comment Re:I got this (Score 1) 215

Honestly I believe that this isn't from the Chinese government. I believe these attacks are to compromise World of Warcraft accounts as I had a very similar thing happen to me a couple years ago. Blizzard is cracking down more and more on spammers, botters, and gold farmers so they Chinese people are out of jobs. They're resorting to hacking systems to gain access to accounts. That's my $0.02.

Comment Grow up (Score 1) 993

How about you grow up? Who cares if they think it's cute. I'm sure to women that's actually a turn-on. Women operate on a different frequency than men and it's a wonder that you've made it this far in life if you're worrying about you're netbook being straight-looking.

Comment Re:Violent? (Score 1) 205

Again, with only reading the summary I would speculate from my own personal experience that violent video games bring their users into a trance to which it is a fight for virtual survival. The better your reaction time, the better you play at the game and with some games being more focused on not killing/hurting teammates, your visual perception and interpretation needs to have a low latency. A non-violent Battlefield 2, Call of Duty, or BF2: Project Reality isn't going to have the same effect as the original titles.

Comment Re:Been following this for awhile. (Score 1) 1240

Actually the medication itself is OTC, but the strength is not. The infraction of this 'crime' would be minor, even if she did have it on her. 'Prescription' ibuprofen is anything above 200mg in a single dose (so 400mg, 600mg, and 800mg). Taking 4 tablets at once of the over-the-counter ibuprofen is the exact same as taking 1 tablet of 800mg 'prescription' ibuprofen.

While professionally and personally I do not condone the sharing of prescription medications, I find that the reason the higher doses of ibuprofen are prescription-only is so people do not take high-doses of ibuprofen (also naproxen and aspirin, although aspirin is frowned-upon in the medical community). High doses of NSAIDs (ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin, just to name a few) can cause stomach bleeds, acid reflux, stomach ulcers, and (less importantly) thin the blood excessively. These are important issues that need the attention of a medical professional's monitoring - it was just today that I had a patient tell me that she was admitted to the hospital 20 years ago for taking too much aspirin and had a stomach ulcer occur (not suicide-related overdose).

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