LuckyR

Best post in the thread. While there are many factors in why school shootings occur, none of them (except getting rid of all guns) will make much of a difference if implemented and a "gun ban" will never occur in the US. So you have the status quo. Holding parents responsible will reduce a minority of the events and has broad support. That's the only positive I can detect.

What makes for automotive excellence goes far beyond the carbon footprint of it's fuel.

And even the genetic component of psychopathy is likely mostly spontaneous mutations (as opposed to being inherited). Thus cannot be selected out of existence.

Watch Sister Wives on TLC. That's why.

Well the first question is: did people before the 1960s look similar to the way they posed for pictures? Also were the youth in prior eras trying to look older, whereas now everyone wants to look young?

Exactly, but more importantly, the targets of the A 10 don't generally warrant AA batteries let alone expensive, high tech autonomous systems.

Big bullets exist, but you've got to be able to hit the (moving) target first. Good luck with that.

I completely agree, neither of our (CharonY's and mine) opinions are worth much. And since neither of us made the decisions at the executive level at large pharmaceutical corporations, there are no "facts" available here. You're free to discard your meds on their expiration date and rebuy new, I'll keep being invested in the Healthcare sector. Let's see who ends up ahead.

That's one opinion. I and the Department of Defense disagree. The Pharma industry's interest in profit maximization, needs no citation, commonly performed through even shadier techniques.

Have you seen a ghillie suit in Real Life? Amazing.

The A-10 is/was essentially functionally bulletproof. It first flew in 1972.

We're both right. Yes, the FDA "requires" the manufacturer to provide data to support their experation date, but those chosen dates are up to over 20 years too early, likely to boost profits by encouraging repurchasing over reusing. "The best evidence of acceptable potency of the medications beyond their expiration date is provided by the Shelf Life Extension Program (SLEP) undertaken by the FDA for the Department of Defense. The aim of the SLEP program was to reduce medication costs for the military. SLEP has found that 88% of 122 different drugs stored under ideal conditions should have their expiration dates extended more than 1 year, with an average extension of 66 months, and a maximum extension of 278 months.3"

More importantly was the laptop factory reset?

Well it underscores the fact that we see with our brain, not our eyes. My left eye's natural preferred focal length happens to be at infinity whereas my right was about 3 feet so I needed reading glasses, but when I was fitted with regular glasses, the left lens was a blank (since I had perfect distance vision there). The glasses gave me a literal headache. My ophthalmologist explained to me that since the left image was larger than the right one, since corrected images are smaller than uncorrected) my brain was having to reconcile the two, but if I continued to wear them my brain would "learn" to do it and the headaches would go away. I never wore them again.

In my experience not many have the personality to thrive in academia. But if you do, great. Try to attend the most prestigious university in your chosen field because I agree with the previous advice that paid positions are very few and thus any advantage in your application will be important. Good luck.

It really depends on what the OP means by "best". There's no way that any country has a lock on the transfer of undergraduate curriculum. OTOH certain schools located in certain countries will make it easer to get into Grad school or to be hired by prestigious corporations.

True, it's possible to concoct a high protein/low quality dog food. But in the marketplace protein is expensive, plants are (relatively) cheap. So high protein (excluding pea protein) dog foods are generally expensive, boutique and made by companies who are trying to make the best quality food they can. It's a simple way of weeding out the crap brands.

There isn't a firm understanding of who women are attracted to and why without medications, let alone on medications.

There is a robust set of data on the association of sleep deprivation and cardiac arrhythmias (which is how I got out of working nights, back in the day). Of course working nights doesn't necessarily entail sleep deprivation, but it commonly does. The data on working nights is less compelling, but does show negative effects.

In the dog food world, there are micro nutrient requirements (vitamins and minerals) that every dog food must have. Just giving meat isn't going to supply that. However when choosing between dog foods (since all of them meet the micro nutrient requirements), you should choose on the macro nutrients. Basically the higher the protein content (excluding pea protein), the better the food.

It's my understanding that the only product required to have data to back up expiration dates is infant formula. Everything else the manufacturer gets to put whatever date they want. And in my experience there is a financial incentive for the manufacturer to put a date that is much shorter than average. Mostly to have the consumer repurchase rather than reuse, and also (in the case of foodstuffs) to not run the risk that the consumer eats old product and associate suboptimal taste as being the actual quality of the product. Long story short, with a few exceptions, medications still have efficacy long after the "expiration" date.

?? Maybe you're having a bad day. Wishing you the very best.

What do you find extremely odd about using the stipulated terminology of the OP when addressing the OP? Though I stand by my observation that this terminology is both subjective and relative and therefore personal and not universal. News flash, personal opinions are the bailiwick of Internet Forums, btw.

In a practical sense there is no role for level testing in your friend's case. Since the Pill is being written for symptom improvement, if the symptom is improved to her satisfaction the dosage is "effective" or "correct", regardless of what her serum level might be. Similarly, if she is having side effects she doesn't like, her dosage is "too high", again, regardless of her serum level. Level testing is valuable in very specific situations such as replacing hormone levels in those with a deficiency, or in preventing a condition so detrimental that you can't tolerate a single episode, such as seizures.

Money is just a tool for keeping score, it isn't intrinsically on the good/evil continuum. Wealth or sums of money at the high end of the scale, is not evil, per sè, but many who possess wealth, acquired it through evil means or participated in an unjust system that those who do poorly under that system would view as evil.