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Drug companies out drumming up business again eh?
Wonder if they've got anything for a chronic toe stubber?
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Wooly socks?
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Replace one drug with a different drug. Good job. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Pretty much... they're starting to ask all sorts of weird questions at the doctor's office now. They really don't like it when you say, "That's none of your business..."
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: they're starting to ask all sorts of weird questions at the doctor's office now. They really don't like it when you say, "That's none of your business..."
I have a solution, albeit not a popular one. Stop going to the doctor!
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That is kind of my philosophy with the dentist. I haven't had a cavity since I quit going!
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Pualee wrote: I haven't had a cavity since I quit going!
That you know about at least. 
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What you need to remember is that drinking two glasses of wine per night is an extremely healthy thing to do.
Evangelical anti-everything-fun campaigners can't have that, can they? So this uses affirmation of the consequent to imply that it's unhealthy*, stealing the ball from the truthful "small-to-moderate amounts of alcohol are good for you" court.
* "This cures problems caused by moderate amounts of alcohol, therefore moderate amounts of alcohol are bad for you".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Evangelical anti-everything-fun campaigners can't have that, can they?
Why not?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: What you need to remember is that drinking two glasses of wine per night is an extremely healthy thing to do.
If your health goal is to die young from liver failure, sure, go for it.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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two glasses of wine / night == liver failure? I'd like to see the demographics of wine consumption in France...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Is there any evidence that alcohol consumers live longer and healthier lives than non-alcohol consumers?
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RyanDev wrote: alcohol consumers live longer and healthier lives than non-alcohol consumers
Put that quote into google.
Or just do the Maths:
What is one of the major causes of early death? Heart disease.
What is a major cause of heart disease? Arteries clogged with fat.
What does alcohol do? It breaks down fats -- In.The.Bloodstream.
What is another major cause of early death? Stress-related afflictions.
What is one of the effects of alcohol? In small to moderate amounts, it calms you down (and a recent study has demonstrated that the effect is even greater if you're a complete dipsomaniac, but I'm not willing to try that out personally).
What is a major health problem caused by alcohol? Liver trouble.
How much alcohol do you have to consume to get liver trouble? A shipload/week (!= small to moderate).
What is another health problem affected by alcohol? High blood pressure.
How much alcohol do you have to consume to get blood pressure problems? More than a small to moderate amount.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Right. 
I could also lose weight by chopping off my leg. Doesn't make it a good idea.
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... and I wonder what bright spark considered the budget implications of this: cost of an expensive drug + loss of customs duty revenue. It looks like income tax rates are on the rise again!
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Now that's the funny part 
In California, land of the twilight zone, they've been paying for their children's health care programs by way of tobacco taxes. Along comes the "we must teach people the evil of tobacco" crowd. The govt was shocked into hysteria when the antismoking campaign started reducing revenue. Doh!
Also in the US, many of the roads are maintained via gasoline taxes. Biggest concern at the moment? Electric cars. Well, duh.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I'm still waiting for them to invent a drug for stupidity. Maybe it could include a contraceptive as well.
Marc
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I installed Virtual Box last night and created a VM with Windows 10 Technical Preview. It seems OK - the desktop looks familiar and the Start button is back albeit with added "live" tiles.
Some of the apps (Finance and Weather for instance) have this odd sideways scroll thing going on. Its kind of jarring on a desktop.
Multiple desktops is nice but probably should have been built-in years ago.
I still don't like the total flatness and "blockiness" of it all. Much prefer Aero glass. If I'm going to sit in front of a box all day its nice if the box isn't butt ugly. Flat blocks might work OK on a small screen but on the big screen they're just bland.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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Mike Mullikin wrote: I still don't like the total flatness and "blockiness" of it all. Much prefer Aero glass. If I'm going to sit in front of a box all day its nice if the box isn't butt ugly. Flat blocks might work OK on a small screen but on the big screen they're just bland.
The good thing is they let you give feedback. Although with that said they totally ignored the feedback about the start screen and aero in the windows 8 beta.
John
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I totally agree and I didn't see anything that would make me want to upgrade from 7. Sorry uSoft if you continue on this road I can see another 8 on the way.
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Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Mike, I love 8 (and 8.1), but then I do have a touch screen! I wouldn't want it at work (where I don't). It took a little adjustment, but it was amazing how quickly I was poking a non-touch screen and trying to work out why it wasn't responding.
I now find the desktop clunky, but I do appreciate why it's making a comeback in Wen. Swiping a finger to switch apps is neat, although not so much when it doesn't read my mind (Windows 20?) and switch to the right one!
On the multiple desktop front, I've used GoScreen for years: good that I won't need it anymore, but sad that Andrei Guryanov's great little tool will no longer have a market.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Windows should not look or work the same on all platforms, if I don't have a touch screen what good is swiping? And as others have said the boxy look might look good on a touch screen but on a desktop IMHO it looks like sh*t.
PhilLenoir wrote: although not so much when it doesn't read my mind (Windows 20?) and switch to the right one!
If they last that long.
I understand what you are saying and I am sort of agreeing but I just don't want ot spend as many hours in front of a screen that, to me I hate!
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Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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