OK - for the grand ole USA equivalent issue / abuse - look at the absurdly (criminally) high price of a standard EpiPen - for histamine-reactions - and what a domestic manufacturer has been able to do after closing out competition in the US market ! ! !
WILLFUL - not negligent - homicide charges need to be brought ! ! !

later . . .

ps - yeah I am on Levithyroxine for thyroid failure

BINGO !
Someone needs a basic physics refresher course on definitions - MORE THAN ONE ATOM in a substance ==> MOLECULE.

What I want to know is why none of the GENIUS readers have asked about the spin-orientation capability/control of the electrons - - - can this be modified to either generate or propagate Cooper pairs?

Now THAT would be REAL NEWS - and an actual room-temperature superconductor, producible as a process stream (instead of batch) similar to fiber optic cables.

cheers

Note that China is becoming a real world player in space (and other global areas), and has the ability - with it's current leader apparently installed for life - to do things LONG-TERM/MULTI-YEAR that just aren't viable projects under the USA's system of 4-year rotating government and concurrent changes in research/long-term projects/space & research development projects. They have already put a space lab into operation, and are continuing to push development in R&D and rocket science.

DUH - Hello class. Can we say 'DON'T SHARE'
ALWAYS keep vulnerable/critical material isolated from the 'friendly' web of (dis)trust !
ANYONE with more than 5 functional neurons would NEVER connect vital material to such an exploitable link as the FRIENDLY INTERNET ! ! !

Dude, I'm 70, and I HAVE Shingles. Consider yourself LUCKY that your pains were only a few days each for a couple of sessions ! ! !

My initial symptoms were buried in my spinal/back damage pains, and I lived with it for over a decade. Unfortunately, by that time the neuropathic damage was permanent - and it really sucks.
Every day, every night, burning nerve channel pains down the left leg - and even opiates don't do more than dull this pain.

Yeah, sometimes the remedy has a seriously disabling (temporarily) side effect - everywhere. BUT, IF the issue is serious enough - like nerve channel pains for life - you'll deal with it. The medical community just has to be up-front about the issues.

Now, IF the Covid-19 vaccine grants long term immunity it just MIGHT be worth it - BUT if it's an annual dick-in-the-dirt pain for inoculations - EVERY YEAR, then KEEP SEARCHING ! ! !
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ONE BIG THING that jumped out at me, being a chronic pain sufferer, is the AMOUNT of acetaminophen administered - which is 4 GRAMS in 24 HOURS - OVER the medically recommended safe level of 3 grams in 24 hours.

    - https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-g...
McNeil Consumer Healthcare (the maker of Tylenol) lowered their recommended maximum daily dose to 3,000 mg

    - https://www.healthline.com/hea...
Adults should not take more than 3,000 mg of single-ingredient acetaminophen a day

    - https://medlineplus.gov/ency/a...
The recommended maximum dose per day has dropped from 4000 mg to 3000 mg

    - https://www.emedicinehealth.co...
Acetaminophen Poisoning (Tylenol Overdose) Symptoms, Causes, Treatments, and Recovery

Remember folks - most of the docs on this medication are from the BIG PHARMA guys, and it IS a proven liver killer. Why is Tylenol still allowed when less toxic alternatives are available - duh - $$$$$$$
Hell, the only real reason it was allowed on the market was because of the complications from Reye's Syndrome.
Aspirin has been linked with Reye's syndrome, so use caution when giving aspirin to children or teenagers for fever or pain. Though aspirin is approved for use in children older than age 3, children and teenagers recovering from chickenpox or flu-like symptoms should never take aspirin.
    - https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis...

These are healthy, young adults in this test.
What is going to happen to the general population of less-healthy, obese, older, clinically/medically weakened couch potatoes who get this and chug down 4 grams of acetaminophen to slam into their alcohol (and/or drug) abused livers - and they turn orange from Jaundice ? ? ?

cheers

Jerk. Where's the open access link to the story - instead of being buried behind a 'pay-me' link to the NYTIMES !

OK, essentially - but a couple of caveats . . .

1) Solar - PLUS WIND - PLUS TIDAL - ALL clean and renewable

2) NOT the current 'cold war' style nuclear reactors - which are legacy designs, to MAKE BOMBS (Plutonium)
    Invest heavily in THORIUM-style fluidized-bed reactors, that 'burn' well over 90% of the radioactive components, leaving just a small amount of left-over waste to deal with (OK, so SMALL is a relative term). STILL, it is a shit-load better than dealing with 97% WASTE (for 1,000's of years) from the current Uranium fueled reactors ! ! !

Thank you - there are MANY valid issues you bring out.

ONE POINT that is brutally obvious to anyone with more than 3 functional neurons is the FALSE POSITIVE cases that still happen - ALL THE TIME.
Some poor SOB barely making a living is going to be absolutely destroyed trying to defend themselves against one of the 'ooopsies' by this WONDERFUL TECHNOLOGY - that ALMOST WORKS - best case is about 90% for white - and dropping progressively lower into less than the 70%'s as your skin tone gets darker.

Let's see - what color did you say YOU were ???
What financial status do YOU occupy (lawyer on call)?
How many 'friends' in the establishment can YOU call on to get this type of 'false positive' corrected?

FIX THE FUCKUPS, . . .THEN come back and offer your advice - otherwise FOAD !

Read a newspaper, as my old man used to say, or read a book - nowadays, just watch the news online to see how many poor sods get raked over the coals and their lives destroyed from being mistaken for a CRIMINAL !

Just have to pipe in and AGREE - now the text drivel passing for 'NEWS' is going to provide total surround-sound environment saturation !
Maybe,just MAYBE, the mindless 'droids following all this just MIGHT be so distracted on their phones as to do the human race a favor, and walk in front of a bus or truck or into an open manhole.

Yes, Martha, stupidity and ignorance ARE potentially fatal conditions.
Hell, at least ignorance is correctable with personal effort to educate themselves.
STUPIDITY, on the other hand, is ignorant, aware of it, and PROUD of it !

I'm retired, haven't worked in the industry since 2000 - disabled veteran with serious back and knee problems.
OK, so much for the basic issue of qualifications - - - yet I remain an active home/hobbiest engineer in the computer, electronic, and bio-med fields, with continuous contact with leading engineers in half dozen companies.
The following BOTE off-the-top of my head calculations have been examined, and accepted, by these engineers, and the issue has been incorporated as product-purchase holds on ALL WD devices for the duration.

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1) ASSUME an 8 layer shingle - which I believe is the standard

2) randomized data position for updates will be 1/2, or 4 layers

3) data has to be READ and buffered before WRITING - 4 revolutions of the platter to READ
    ASSUMING a single-track step is within the time interval of a single spin - 8.33 mSec @ 7200 RPM
    7200 RPM is the sweet spot for speed & longevity - anyway, not too relevant to the time PENALTY

4) Then you need a revolution to reset the heads for WRITE - MAYBE TWO TWIRLS if it's a full 8-track

5) 4 more spins for the WRITE set

6) TOTAL = 9 or 10 spins, call it 9.5? - 8-track change may need 10+ mSec

7) 17 hours for a Conventional format rebuild - X - 9.5 (spin ratio factor) == 6 days, 17.5 hours for SMR

8) NOW add-in the diddle factor added for some use during rebuild, and it's 8 to 9+ days ! ! !

THIS IS EQUAL TO THE OBSERVED REBUILD TIME IN THE ARTICLE === 9+ days, AND it describes the processing that causes the excess time for Shingle format rebuilds.

ALSO, remember that this assumes only a few contiguous sectors. IF there are too many, then you will get ANOTHER spin tacked onto the rebuild time factor.

BTW - here's a short list of the SMR WD drives if you didn't get to it
3.5 WD Red 2TB, 3TB, 4TB, 6TB (SKUs: WD20EFAX, WD30EFAX, WD40EFAX, WD60EFAX)
3.5 WD Blue 2TB, 6TB (SKUs: WD20EZAZ, WD60EZAZ)
2.5 WD Blue 1TB, 2TB (SKUs: WD10SPZX, WD20SPZX)
2.5 WD Black 1TB (SKU: WD10SPSX)

cheers, y'all . . .

Sadly, it is starting to add a whole new meaning to the concept of . . . static FIRING !

Sorry, just couldn't resist

cheers . . .

Maybe - just a thought . . .

  REQUIRE these 'social media' sites/services to carry a PROMINENT flag IN THE URL and SITE NAME
  - - - "THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY NEWS _OR_ ACCURATE !" - - -
  - - - Management and Ownership does not insure accuracy or truth of ANY POSTS ! - - -

This would go a long way towards removing any form of validity to the brutally ugly trash being posted - and turn these 'businesses' into the actual "GOSSIP COLUMN" labeled type of back-biting and radicalizing industries they really are, posting for yellow-sheet flavored sensationalism only, with a VERY lose relationship to actual truth.

If they refuse to carry prominent notification similar to this, then they are implicitly lending credence to the posts, and SHOULD be held accountable for the posts' content.

Hell, /. should set the example and start doing this now -grin-

cheers

Before we go accusing Russia of interfering with our satellites / shadowing our satellites - - - maybe we should find out what the X-37B has been doing all these years in orbit - hmmm?

Here's a quick run-down of fast-found sites worth a quick read -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.space.com/25275-x3...
https://www.airspacemag.com/sp...
https://www.livescience.com/48...
https://www.theguardian.com/sc...
https://www.popularmechanics.c...

That little autonomous mini-shuttle can remain in orbit for over 2 years, and is fueled for orbit-translation operations (changing orbits) - it just HAS to be checking up on the orbital hardware of everyone that has put anything into LEO trajectories.

cheers . . .

Oooops! - Looks like we got hacked ! ! !

Guess this is a sure-fire way to 'leak' the database to dark web corporate insider 'friends', who can then MARKET the dataset - - - without fear of reprisal or legal consequences - - - - - a guaranteed WIN$$$ for management!

Got to give them credit for an ingenious strategy for 'getting out in front' of the lawsuits headed their way from privacy advocates.

Never, EVER, pass up the chance to feed the data-whores false / misleading information - - - even if it is as simple as a free newsletter application form - mis-type your name / address.
Remember Lilly Tomlin's famous ma-bell skit - just briefly steam iron the punch card bill and it will cause the little holes to shrink a teeny, tiny bit - - - just enough to jam the card readers ! ! !
SABOT-age

Sorry - a bit bitter nowadays. Been dealing with the VA for over a year on veteran health care.