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"

He made rockets out of prisoners?

You don't get to call someone a sociopath just as an insult; it has a technical meaning.

If you think you can still be friends with addicts/users, you are mistaken. If they can't get clean, screw them, they will only pull you down.

I suppose it can work with hard drugs or alcohol - I am not, and never was, a user or either, so I'm no specialist though.

However, I AM a nicotine addict. I say nicotine and not tobacco, because I have switched to vaping as a risk mitigation strategy (and quit smoking for good as a result).

One thing I can tell you as a former smoker is, when you're hooked on tobacco, there's no escaping it. You can't avoid being with other smokers, because the smell of cigarette is everywhere. When I quit smoking, it'd only take some random guy who had just smoked outside, walking past me, reeking of cold cigarette smoke, to send me craving like there was no tomorrow.

Random guys who smell of tobacco are everywhere. You just can't escape the smell. You're constantly bombarded with reminders that, yes, you'd really REALLY want to smoke one just right now.

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.

Oh wait... they haven't passed the bar yet.

Upgrading laptops every year. Desktop is still a dusty Core 2 Duo. So, 7 years ago at least.

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.

They are trying to cash in on public ignorance and the hype surrounding the Hobby Lobby ruling, for their own purposes (fund raising and PR). There is no legal precedent established by Hobby Lobby that they can use to make their case, but there are people who will swallow their story They won't get anywhere with this.

So this is WAY off topic.... So I'm done on this sub-thread...

So, HR isn't looking out for my best interest? Shocker! (not!)

Just in case you don't already know, HR is NOT there to protect you, they are there to protect the company. So be VERY careful when you take a "problem" to them to solve, because you can bet they won't be looking out for your interests.

Yea, but if you READ the article, it's pretty clear what the summary means..

Lesson learned? Yep, READ the article before posting comments.....