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lke  ·  3304 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Doomsday Scam

"Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ" is what I've been told.

lke  ·  3305 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: American Medical Association backs prescription drug ad ban

France, all advertisement must vetted by National Agency for the Safety of Medical products (ANSM). No advertisement for prescription drugs, nor for anything under mandatory coverage of the social security. Also any médication requiring the help of a professional for the diagnostic, the initiation or the surveillance of the treatment cannot get an ad. Ads must be factual and present proper usage of the medication.

Exceptions exist are made for vaccines, and drugs to help stop smoking.

The ANSM also vets publicity done to the Doctor, but with a different sets of rules

(source : http://ansm.sante.fr/Activites/Publicite-pour-les-medicaments/Modalites-de-controle-de-la-publicite/%28offset%29/0 in French obviously)

No the piece doesn't tell you what you should use. But what you need to consider when working with strings.

The author mention using UCS2 (UTF-16) in his products but exporting any products to UTF-8.

lke  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This site is reporting that self aware robots have been created.

I can't figure if there's any point or purpose in having self-aware robots. Also I'm not sure what a self-aware robot is supposed to be, or what that even means. And I can't tell in which order should these questions be tackled.

Automatons sensing whether they what they say can be heard is not exactly new, that's the core of CSMA but network switches are not considered self-aware.

I agree that for an Automaton to be able to answer the question sense it had answered and correct the answer accordingly is impressive, but I'm king of iffy on what that has to do with self-awareness.

lke  ·  3430 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ireland passes law allowing trans people to choose their legal gender

Well that's about to change it seems.

lke  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Americans United for Life Is Reshaping States' Abortion Laws - The Atlantic

Well the Texas case should come to the court before the end of the year if i understand correctly.

lke  ·  3431 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: How Americans United for Life Is Reshaping States' Abortion Laws - The Atlantic

    Thanks to AUL, Arizona doctors are now required to tell women who undergo chemical abortions that the procedure can be reversed midway through if the woman changes her mind. Some pro-life doctors claim to have executed this procedure successfully, but the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says it is not safe, or even routinely possible

    The law also includes AUL-suggested language instructing doctors to tell women that a fetus can feel pain at 20 weeks of gestation—even though ACOG says it’s unlikely pain is felt before 29 weeks.

It's kind of terrifying the amount of hypocrisy shown this group who rails against the supposed unsafeness of abortion but won't take the opinion of any medical association into account.

    All Roe v. Wade did was tell states they can’t make abortion illegal outright. Almost every other half-measure is fair game. Roe v. Wade didn’t solve the abortion question, in other words. It just “created 40 years of trench warfare,” McConchie said.

That's an interesting point considering how people riled up by the recent same-sex marriage decision left no wiggle room at all. This make me wonder if the court realizes the mess that the abortion debate became after Roe v. Wade. Speaking of the supreme court they also recently granted a reprieve to the clinics tageted by the laws sponsored by the AUL.