The real difference is that Siri is supposed to be "natural," where Android requires you to use specific commands (like, "send text to [name] [content]"). How natural? Who knows? If I can say, "Send Laura a text that says I'm running late," which is how it would pop up inside my head, then I'll be impressed. If I can…

Hey, your jewplaint worked! How come that never works when I complain? "Post more articles about blueberries," I say, "They're full of antioxidants." Nothing!

Email... client? That seems vaguely familiar. It brings back memories of slap bracelets and oversized sweaters and high tops... wait, I think it's the 90s!

Yeah, unfortunately tracking production is part of the FDA/DEA war on drugs. Being able to track production allows them to ensure manufactured drugs are being sold, at least by the manufacturers, to legitimate parties. Also, it allows the FDA to ensure the active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) are sourced from…

Heheh... I'm not sure if I feel bad I caught the use of the simple past tense instead of the past participle or not. Generally speaking, I'm with Stephen Fry in that the purpose of language is to convey meaning (rather than to be correct), and thus it's successful as long as it does that... but then I wonder if…

I'm not even sure how to respond to that. Is your position that we should let people die, even if their deaths are preventable, because it somehow improves the species? I'm not sure how survival of the fittest fits into a discussion of drug manufacturing - a business which is predicated on helping people to defy…

I've no doubt that some level of regulatory intervention is involved, although I'm less willing than most to put much stock in it as a major contributor. Contrary to the tone of the article you linked, the FDA expedites approval for drugs during a shortage, and can approve even an increase in the number of production…

I have no idea if you're being facetious (I think it's sad when you can't assume someone calling someone else a commie isn't joking)... but drug shortages have been an issue in healthcare for the better part of a decade (probably longer, I've just only been in health care a decade to notice).

Another issue is the good old free market. As drug manufacturers merge and get bought out we end up with single manufacturers for a lot of drugs. If that manufacturer then experiences production issues (either simply supply chain restrictions or quality control/recall issues) there is no alternative supply chain, and…

I love the smell of spent cartridges as the eject from a shotgun. Smells like grandma's perfume. (seriously, you'd be inhaling your relatives)

By referencing Hamm as an exception to the rule? I'm not particularly offended by Monotreme's generalization, but its existence still seems apparent to me.

The last one has got to be a joke, right? Stop the government funding of The Onion? That's hilarious!

This is, unfortunately, true of many mental health disorders. Schizophrenia, for instance, may not even be one disorder but a variety of neural differences that present similar external symptoms. Different hypotheses about the underlying biology - longloop, dopamine, etc. - may all be true in certain cases. We just…

The fifth is a spare, in case one breaks down. It's a donut, though, so they can't go over 35mph.

Promoted for giving me a plan if I ever come across one of these badboys covered in skinny people.

I'm kind of surprised that in your list of failings of the US system you didn't mention government negotiation of drug prices. The US is the only industrialized nation that doesn't negotiate on behalf of its citizens, and we're charged ridiculously more for prescription drugs as a result. I lived in Canada for 5 years…

Or put a giant fin on the back and slap some racing sponsor stickers on the bumper.

And strong enough to hold itself up without a cup.

I'll take my coffee the old fashioned way, thanks...

What does the DS211+ do that the Netgear didn't? I have a D-Link DNS-323, and it's basically just a network hard drive... but I can't really think of anything else I'd like for it to do. I just want to toss movies and pictures on it and be able to get them from any computer. It even has a web interface if you use…