In NC, if some one plays "Ice Ice Baby" too loud, the schools all close.
The IRS won't, no. The head of the company, whose HR manager had to be fired for all sorts of wonderful reasons, like not paying insurance premiums or not setting up employees' HSA disbursements, or just plain never actually doing anything, might meet me half-way.
Grr... just got in an argument with a friend because she posted a stupid anti-vax blog, and was when I started refuting her points, she was like, "You can't believe everything you read"... and I'm now so pissed that I kind of wish I could make her head explode with the power of my mind.
me: We let medical professionals advise on medical choices BECAUSE THEY HAVE STUDIED MEDICINE. They have spent years learning about medicine - 4 years of college, usually 4 years of medical school, a year or so interning / doing a residency at a hospital, plus additionally schooling if they become a specialist, such as an immunologist. So if I'm looking at a medical issue, I'm gonna take the viewpoint of people who have spent 10 years or so learning about it, instead of some random dude on the bus. And there is no vaccine for Chicken Pox, by the way. How did people survive all the time without vaccines and modern medicine? A LOT OF THEM DIDN'T! Infant and child mortality rates used to be extremely high because of uncontrolled infectious diseases - as in maybe half of all kids would reach adolescence.
https://leviquackenboss.wordpress.com/2015/02/03/my-kid-isnt-unprotected-ok/HER said:
me: We let medical professionals advise on medical choices BECAUSE THEY HAVE STUDIED MEDICINE. They have spent years learning about medicine - 4 years of college, usually 4 years of medical school, a year or so interning / doing a residency at a hospital, plus additionally schooling if they become a specialist, such as an immunologist. So if I'm looking at a medical issue, I'm gonna take the viewpoint of people who have spent 10 years or so learning about it, instead of some random dude on the bus. And there is no vaccine for Chicken Pox, by the way. How did people survive all the time without vaccines and modern medicine? A LOT OF THEM DIDN'T! Infant and child mortality rates used to be extremely high because of uncontrolled infectious diseases - as in maybe half of all kids would reach adolescence.
Me: Show me the statistics on ANY of that, Peppers. Your argument is full of shit.HER said:
Me: http://www.harpocratesspeaks.com/2012/10/demystifying-vaccine-ingredients-msg.html (to refute her assertation that MSG being used as a stabilizer in some vaccines is dangerous)HER said:
HER said:
Me:- No, Peppers. If you're going to say, "Well this is bad because of this," you need to be able to back it up. You say that vaccines are bad because some vaccines use MSG as a stabilizers, so it doesn't spoil when exposed to heat and humidity. I post information that shows that the amount of MSG in a vaccine is harmless, since it takes more than 6 grams per kilogram to have an adverse effect. And then you quit the argument? Nice.
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So I can't believe articles written by researchers, but you can cite from people with no qualifications whatsoever?
- No, Peppers. If you're going to say, "Well this is bad because of this," you need to be able to back it up. You say that vaccines are bad because some vaccines use MSG as a stabilizers, so it doesn't spoil when exposed to heat and humidity. I post information that shows that the amount of MSG in a vaccine is harmless, since it takes more than 6 grams per kilogram to have an adverse effect. And then you quit the argument? Nice.
GasBandit
Staff member
I loved that episode of House, too
So, after my little close encounter with sinusitis a couple of weeks back, I was put on a course of antibiotics and the nasty smell of pus in my nose went away. But it's come back in the last two days, faintly, but it's definitely there. There aren't any other symptoms, just the smell. I have no idea if I'm smelling the remnants of my previous sinusitis, or if I'm suffering a relapse, or maybe the antibiotics didn't catch all the germs, or maybe I'm infected by antibiotic resistant bacteria. But it's annoying.
Time for the neti pot, IMO.
A fun little browser game that lets you play with herd immunity --> http://www.shanekillian.org/apps/herd.htmlHere you go, send her this link.
And tell her you'll be there to comfort her at her childrens' funerals.
Interesting and fun...But the tone and manner of the speech of the guy in the video isn't likely to convince anyone.
So I'm living in a hotel for the next few months or so.
The desk lamp they provided me is only rated for 25 watt bulbs or lower.
The management has helpfully "upgraded" this fixture with a 25W spiral fluorescent.
This means that the light emitted from said bulb is about equivalent to a 60-75W incandescent bulb.
This means I have a really hard time seeing my computer screen, and my wife has a hard time seeing my face due to the specular glare when we are video chatting making it look like my face is fully in its third quarter.
Today I bought a 25W equivalent LED bulb at Target, figuring I would swap my white dwarf out for something much more gentle.
Went to unscrew the spiral bulb and the spiral snapped whilst I was unscrewing it.
Also discovered the bulb has a GU24 base instead of the standard "medium" screw base, so I can't install my semi-expensive LED anyway.
Grr.
--Patrick
The desk lamp they provided me is only rated for 25 watt bulbs or lower.
The management has helpfully "upgraded" this fixture with a 25W spiral fluorescent.
This means that the light emitted from said bulb is about equivalent to a 60-75W incandescent bulb.
This means I have a really hard time seeing my computer screen, and my wife has a hard time seeing my face due to the specular glare when we are video chatting making it look like my face is fully in its third quarter.
Today I bought a 25W equivalent LED bulb at Target, figuring I would swap my white dwarf out for something much more gentle.
Went to unscrew the spiral bulb and the spiral snapped whilst I was unscrewing it.
Also discovered the bulb has a GU24 base instead of the standard "medium" screw base, so I can't install my semi-expensive LED anyway.
Grr.
--Patrick
GasBandit
Staff member
Don't those spiral flourescents have so much mercury in them you have to call in a hazmat team if you break one?
Yes, and knowing this ahead of time would've been nice, but I never even bothered to check because it was just a desk lamp.
Also, the adapter I would need would be one to take a standard bulb and use it in a funky socket, not the other way around.
These days, "...so much Hg" seems to mean "...any detectable amount of Hg at all" which is complete crap. Unless you're breaking bulbs frequently (or unless you're the guy whose job is to change all the bulbs)O, it shouldn't be an issue. Also, modern bulbs use less mercury than they used to, so the amount present has been going down over time.
--Patrick
Trying to get my parents to let us pay for anything is the most frustrating annoying thing. Sent my parents a cashier's check to pay for 2/3 of the condo we are staying in when we go skiing, my dad says he won't accept it, my mom says she'll take care of it at least, but says it's too much money. They continuously mistake my husband being cheap for us being poor, since they assume since I don't work, we must not have a lot of money.
I actually witnessed a woman making this same rant at a Lowe's employee about 2 weeks ago. She kept berating the guy because fluorescent bulbs, if broken, would require " removing kids and animals immediately from the house because of the fumes and having to call 911 to get a hazmat clean up". She got mad because he didn't know what "brand"of fluorescent caused this reaction.
Bought a 6-pack of cfl bulbs from walmart about a month ago. Needed one yesterday. The one I pulled out was broken already, in the box.
My reaction
My reaction
GasBandit
Staff member
I only brought it up because I remembered reading stories about the hazmat teams actually showing up for the broken bulbs.
Now we know who called them.
I can't wait until LED lightbulbs achieve a reasonable price.
Dave
Staff member
Why do game devs think that lives for things like trivia games are a good idea? My sister invited me to play Trivia Crack and I like it. But today I got the "you need to buy a life for $.99 or have a friend gift it to you." SO I informed her this was my last game and I'm removing it. How fucking stupid.
There you go, highlighted the answer in your own rant