How does that compare to slurping some soylent ?

People are weird. Really, really weird.

I've known people who consider eating little more than a chore of cramming calories into their gut, and would probably go for something like this at least two meals of the day.

I've also known people who prefer heavily processed foods because of a sense that there's more consistent quality control. Seriously. One guy flat out said he preferred to go to McDonalds where he knew the staff couldn't mess with his burger than eat the shawarma the guy at the Lebanese restaurant a few doors down makes every day, because "who knows what he might be doing behind that counter? What if he's not washing his hands?"

I'm quite sure the larger contributing factor to the flu spreading is people going to work while sick, not a suppressed fever.

They aren't necessarily unrelated. If you can't suppress symptoms enough to be functional, going to work while sick is a lot more difficult. I'd hope the study accounted for that effect.

Anyone who resorts to violence over somebody who is simply being annoying...

That's not the point.

The point is that if you have behaviour that is known to pretty near universally annoy the shit out of people, and that behaviour isn't a consequence of some kind of necessity (i.e. the reason we cut crying babies a lot of slack), and you combine that behaviour with a pile of stressed out people in an enclosed, unescapable environment for a few hours, then you're inevitably going to have some nasty situations.

No, that doesn't excuse people resorting to violence, but so what?

The fundamental goal of flight safety is to take reasonable steps to prevent problems from happening in the first place. I'd like to think that something like this is a no-brainer for the airlines, but I'm not entirely sure I trust them not to fuck it up somehow for reasons involving money (i.e. "yeah, you can talk on your phone, but you'll have to use our premium wi-fi calling service at $x/minute").

Should the FCC deal with BO as well?

I said FAA, not FCC.

But yeah, you could also just let the airlines deal with it. I don't know how much I trust them to get it right, though.

AFAIK they don't allow weapons on planes, so I doubt that will be a real problem.

They don't allow most lethal weapons on planes. Plenty of other weapons are available. Fists, feet, luggage straps, pens, etc.

We don't need the FCC legislating cell phone use in movie theaters and cell phone use in planes can be dealt with the same way

Well... I'd like to think the FAA should become involved. Allowing behaviour which is pretty much guaranteed to piss of passengers and crews to the point of pulling out weapons (i.e. that shooting in a Florida theater the other day over texting) should be considered a flight safety issue and should be regulated by air safety authorities.

Yeah, here in NE Ohio we're expecting lows about the same as we saw in 1994, while this is an unusual cold pattern it's not like it's unprecedented.

Here in eastern Ontario, we're expecting lows roughly the same as the highs we saw last week. If it weren't for all the #$^*@! ice it'd actually be a nice week.

They're probably as lactose intolerant as the rest of the canine population. But the real problem is that they're more than a little bit food driven, and one's a hound.

I have a feeling the roadkill rate might go up a bit, and I'd hate to think about trying to walk my dogs on a sidewalk or street coated with processed dairy...

Android might have been designed for the touchscreen, but it's pretty solid as a singletasking desktop too.

Not without a touchscreen.

I've tried various versions of Android x86 over the years, and (ignoring hardware compatibility bugs and stuff like suspend not working), it's nowhere near "pretty solid" without touch. Scroll bars, for example, seem to appear randomly. If I had to compare it to something, I'd say it's about as usable as KDE 4.0.1.

I fail to see why a desktop or laptop maker would use Android and not Chromium OS.

Because Android has a gazillion name-brand apps, and Chromium OS... doesn't? Granted, many of those apps have web versions which will work fine on Chrome, but it's not even close to the same number.

I'm also thinking that PC makers (who, in many cases, are also tablet and even phone makers) have a lot more product experience with Android than ChromeOS. Yeah, there are some ChromeOS device makers, but nowhere near as many and they haven't been doing it as long.

The shell company that holds the patents itself produces no products, but Apple and Microsoft certainly doÃ"it's just that they hold the patents jointly through this 'Rockstar' entity.

None of the patents held by Rockstar were invented by Microsoft or Apple and none of the parts of Nortel that actually built products based on the patents were purchased by Rockstar, Microsoft, nor Apple.

That's pretty much the essence of a patent troll. That the owners might do some of their own stuff doesn't really change anything.

Just don't stop taking your meds. The reason you are feeling better is because of the meds. Just don't stop.

Amen.

My mother did community mental health outreach work for years (post-release patients, etc), and by a good margin, the number one cause of problems in followups was people not taking their medications.

The number two cause appears to have been incredibly abusive, unsupportive or just generally dysfunctional families, which fortunately doesn't sound like an issue for the OP.

Before we try and get and that additional freshwater - has anyone found another possible _deposit_ location for all the rubbish and toxic waste we're producing?

China?

Transit riders and drivers/pedestrians are all navigating... they're just navigating entirely different sets of routes. The transit rider has a much simpler set of possiblt paths, but with the added complexity of time constraints (i.e. last subway at 3am, this bus line doesn't run on the weekend, if I catch this one I have to wait an extra 45 minutes *here*, etc).