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Yeah, because you need industrial strength security to download Java or protect your precious NCAA brackets.

>I had to create one at some point simply to be able to download something for free.

I only use bugmenot for those sites.

> Work from home is almost common in the US and basically non-existent in Europe.

1) I live in the US and only one person I know works from home but she is a very special case (her employer made an exception). When I mention I have the option of working from home once in a while (and I mean once in a while, like a few times a year) everyone is like "REALLY!? THAT SOUNDS AMAZING!"

2) "Europe" isn't a single entity.

>how can you claim to have better standard of living and live happier life in a small house without any space

OH BOY.

Having a huge house doesn't actually make you happy. You only think it does.

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/qa-stuffocation-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/dont-indulg...

>Plenty of people died because of the disproportionate powers of employees to dictate conditions.

This is extremely important and often overlooked. Those pesky government regulations save lives. The idea that dangerous conditions and unsafe product won't happen in the free market because that's "bad for business" is a pipe dream.

Most of us weren't alive when regulations for safety wasn't a "thing" and can't appreciate them.

Capitalism if done wrong can be just as shitty.

Diaper rash is not alway a fungal infection (and could potentially be a bacteria infection in addition to/instead of a fungal infection). It is usually a contact dermatitis and a fungal infection is only a secondary infection.

Where do you live where you've never seen a passenger train? The Northeast has a busy train route between cities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Corridor

Some cities (even some small ones) have EXCELLENT public transport but some places have zero public transport. And with widespread suburban sprawl it gets worse since you generally need a car to live in suburbia.

The average for the US is a little over 25 minutes.

http://www.treehugger.com/cars/average-commute-times-usa-int...

Probably but at some point you get diminishing returns. The human body needs rest to recover.

I'm sure the fatigue that sets in after (say) 15 hours would be a serious factor in accident risk. I mean truckers are required to stay under a certain work day/week and get enough sleep for safety reasons. Sure if they drove 24 hours straight they would get there faster and in theory be more productive but there are serious safety concerns both with the driver and with the truck (less time for maintenance or inspection)

Maybe that's not it. I think it is American politics value businesses more than people.

athletes foot cream (which depending on the type there are 2-3 drugs to choose from. clotrimazole, tioconazole, Miconazole... When my husband had jock itch they just told him to use OTC athletes foot cream on it.

>brands that clearly aren't safe tend to disappear pretty quickly from store shelves. (Because poisoning your customer is bad for business.)

Obviously not.

> Almost a decade ago, experts were talking about how these supplements often contained “just a fraction of the ingredient on their labels–if any at all,” along with pesticide and heavy metal contamination. Just this year, news emerged that dietary supplements are tops in drug recalls for containing ingredients that pose a risk of “severe adverse health consequences or death.”

Plus only 2 companies from the study had 100% authentic ingredients. Pretty sure there are still more than two supplement companies still around.

Plus all the weight loss and body building supplements that contain drugs keep coming out and it doesn't effect sales of other products.

And anyways it is playing a game of whack a mole.

Plus you have a complete and total misunderstand about how supplement research is carried out.

The thing about those two drugs is there are already OTC drugs that treat the same thing.

>As does Acetaminophen (Paracetamol), Ibuprofen

Correct but those are "grandfathered" drugs so they don't count.

>Metronidazole

Doesn't look like its OTC except for cats and dogs.

>far worse potential side effects.

Have you looked at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%E2%80%93Johnson_syndrom... ?

Oh good god... NOT this again. That's already the case with supplements and we know how that turned out...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2013/11/07/study...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/opinion/sunday/skip-the-su...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/science/herbal-supplements...

http://www.bottomlinepublications.com/content/article/health...

Oh by the way "the informed consumer" just doesn't happen. 95% of people just grab something off the shelf and expect it to be safe and effective. Even if it isn't.

If your acne is bad you can go to a doctor to get a prescription.

Guessing. Perhaps because both those medications list Stevens–Johnson Syndrome and other deadly skin reactions as a rare side effect?

Ebay actually has automatic flagging to keep illegal products off their site.

I know this because I once tried to sell a pulse oximetry meter there and it got autoflagged and taken down. Apparently you can't sell (some?) medical supplies on ebay even though I bought the pulse ox meter from the store.

I have a doctor friend. He absolutely will NOT prescribe antibiotics for the sniffles. And I wish my copay was only $15.

Did you miss this part?

>are endangering public health, such as by breeding antibiotic resistance.

Yeah, because every asshole with a sniffle should not be able to self medicate with antibiotics.

>ensure proper gut colonization in new borns after labor that involves antibiotics

Babies get their intestinal bacteria during the birthing process from the vagina, their mother, the mother's feces, etc. That's why C-section infants have vastly different gut flora initially. They never made that trip down the vagina to be exposed to vaginal bacteria and are exposed to different types of bacteria during the first few weeks of life. I'm not sure the effect of antibiotics are the same or similar to that of a c-section baby. I'm not sure we know the long term effects of c-section babies and gut flora especially later in life. I would think c-section would be much more disturbing to gut flora than antibiotics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora#Acquisition_of_gut_fl...

Depends on the beer.

Every single day? She saw her father every day? Didn't this kid go away on weekend trips? Camping? Didn't her father go on travel or something? I wonder if this affected her growing up, her father never letting her explore the outside world without him for fear that he'll miss a picture??

I remember spending weekends at my friends houses, whole weeks during the summer with my grandma and some weeks with my cousin and her family. Going to overnight summer camp. Went on a few overnight trips with my aunt and uncle and one with my friend's family. Those are some of the very very best times of my childhood. I'm sad she missed out.

I know quite a few people who spent several summers growing up with family in a completely different geographical location on the other side of the country.

The pictures can be alright as long as they are in moderation and not embarrassing.

The thing that really really irks me the wrong way is people complaining about their kids on social media. "Johnny is being SUCH a brat today and raising hell." In my opinion that is just really unacceptable to publicly broadcast that in a manner that basically archives it (somewhere) forever. What will Johnny feel when he reads that comment in the future? I understand calling/emailing/texting a friend to vent, but not publicly. I know someone who basically all she uses facebook for is 1) posting pictures of her in yoga class doing all the positions wrong 2) bitching about her children non-stop and 3) talking about how WONDERFUL her husband is.

> who cares if people are posting on Facebook and Twitter

It is the sheer volume of photos that I believe bothers a lot of people. "oversharing." You get sick of the same baby every single day. Also craving extreme volumes of attention makes you come off as narcissistic. A lot of the time those photos aren't for them, they are to present to others in order to gain attention.

>impose penalties on any entity that does business in the United States, or holds assets in the United States.

Or even does business with US citizens.

False sense of urgency.

>Doing 'whatever the fuck you want' costs money too, and its something you'll have avoided due to the frugal life style.

Hrm?

Going without a fancy car and electronics isn't the same thing as "doing whatever the fuck I want."

For me, I consider myself frugal in a sense. I don't have hardly any material wants and I try hard not to buy much of anything. I don't want a fancy car, I went for a cheap efficient one. I basically don't have any wish to keep buying "stuff." I don't care what anyone thinks of me because I don't have good "stuff." I drove a beat up car FOREVER even when everyone made fun of me for it.

What I do is I spend my money on fun. Taking weekend trips at least once a month for example as something that costs money or going out with my friends. I'm not frugal in that sense, but it is what I choose to spend my money on. I try to do things cheap as possible. I have plenty of money and way more than I need even with these expenditures because I don't acquire "stuff" or want or need a big house for all my "stuff."

In all honesty from what I noticed just from the people I know that the "I'm so busy" people are the same people who are running on the hedonistic treadmill faster and faster.