Eric

If you are assigned a prescription for a drug, but the only dosages sold (and covered by insurance) contain double the dosage you actually need, is modifying your insurance-bought drug by removing half from a capsule and putting the remaining in an empty capsule actually illegal in the US?

I'm not regarding the health/safety of the idea, just the legality of it? Could use a reference if it's illegal. Thanks!

I was wondering if the Situation Room was the only SCIF in the White House or if the President is actually allowed to work on/discuss classified information in the Oval Office?

I've seen a clip before of a walk-off HR where (in the 80's??) tons of fans were running onto the field to celebrate and the player who hit the HR could barely finish his trot to home, basically got out of control (I think the last time fans were allowed to do this). I can't find the clip anywhere -- does anyone know what I'm referring to??

My sibling and myself are in our mid-20's, and we travel back to visit the family several times a year. When we are in town, my parents refer to us at "the kids" (ie, let's go to the movies with the kids, the kids are in town for the week, etc). I personally find it to be "cute" or a little silly, but is this a common thing among families?

I need to share a screen to another nearby computer for a presentation, but cannot use Wifi or internet (such as Netmeeting, Webex, or TeamViewer) due to various restrictions. Is there any software that will allow desktop sharing via bluetooth?

I'm a single guy in my mid 20's, and my parents are visiting for close to a week. Although my apartment does have a pull-out sofabed and an air mattress, they find neither comfortable and expect me to give up my room and bed while they are staying there (or go to a hotel room) and have me sleep on my sofabed. I don't want to make my parents get a hotel room, and frankly I don't care if I sleep on a sofabed from a comfort standpoint... but I just found the expectation that I would accommodate them like this to be very strange.

Has anyone else ever been in this situation? If it were just a night or two I wouldn't really think about it but this is almost a full week of essentially giving up my own apartment's bedroom so my parents can sleep there/use it. What do you guys think??

Most public courses have a stimp rating of 4-8, while the PGA tour has a stimp around 8-10 (13 in the US Open this year!!)

I was wondering what the highest possible stimp rating can physically be for a standard dimpled golf ball on an infinitely flat surface?

I can assume the surface would be smooth and solid (probably not grass), but not so smooth that the ball would slip (ie always roll).

Oil comes from dead plants and animals, however a good portion of Alaskan oil is found in areas which are covered by ice year round and currently has few living animals and plants. Does this infer that in the past, the globe was much warmer than it is today?

I understand the approach of conservation of momentum that light reflected directly back from it source results in a greater force (say, on a solar sail) due to solar flux.

However, this doesn't make sense to me from a conservation of energy approach. If the light was 100% reflected from the surface, it would seem to me that this should not affect the kinetic energy of the the material it got reflected off of. When the energy is absorbed, however, convservation of energy could support conversion of light energy to kinetic energy.

Where this idea breaks down for me is the following: say you pointed 2 theoretical 100% reflective surfaces towards eachother, and shined a light between them such that the two mirrors always reflected the energy between them. Since 100% light is reflected the light's intensity (and solar flux) remain the same, yet forces are being applied to each mirror. To me this sounds liek a source of "free" force, but of course nothing is free....so wheres the discrepancy?

I have lived in OC for nearly a year and I'm trying to play as many of the courses around here as I can. What are the nicest OC courses in your opinion (public/semiprivate)?

I just played Coyote Hills and its now one of my favorites in OC. Oak Creek is also nice.

I am a 10 handicap, and during any typical round I make approx 6-7 pars plus 1-2 birdies.-- typically with strings of several pars in a row.

However, every round I seem to have at least 1 or 2 blow-up holes (triple bogey, sometimes worse) and I can't seem to shake these off. During a typical practice round I can usually shrug it off a bit as a mental lapse but this obviously doesn't help in tournaments...

Does anyone else have these tyoes if rounds, and what do you do to eliminate those disaster holes?

Now that Obamacare has passed, its financially smart to not have health insurance and just pay the fines. When you get sick, just call an insurance provider and sign up -- they can't turn you away for pre-existing conditions! Once you are healthy again, just drop the healthcare plan.

So my question is, will these fines be tax deductible?

Specifically, what do the manufacturers change when creating a regular vs stiff shaft? The radius of the shaft, or the material (modulus of elasticity), or something else?

The reason I ask is because I've noticed several different stiff shaft clubs actually feel more or less stiff, so obviously this is not standardized. What physical property categorizes the shaft stiffness (ie is there a "range" and if so, in what units of measure)?

I'm looking to build a strain gauge to measure the bending of a material for a project.

Using a span resistor like one in the link below, how can I wire this exactly? Basically,m I have a 5V output voltage available from my controller, Ground, and an analog pin which will output voltage at a point with respect to ground.

I thought I could use a voltage divider, but the change in resistance is so small its not noticeable in this configuration.

The other idea was to use a wheatstone bridge such as this:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/7130

However, I have a single sensing point wrt ground, I can't measure the difference in voltage between two non-ground points.

So, how can I do this??

http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=SPAN_RESIST...

Moreover, has any olympian ever won a medal in both?

During a recent friendly round, a player hit his ball over a green into a large lateral hazard. There was no available drop point on the other side of the hazard (ie it was out of bounds). Is he allowed to drop on the near side of the hazard (closer to the green) as long as the ball itself is no closer to the actual pin from where it entered the hazard?

Recently, during a friendly game, a player in my group hit a shot into a green-side bunker that was completely filled with free-standing casual water. Normally he would be able to take a free drop no nearer the hole within the hazard, but there was nowhere in the hazard he could drop outside of the standing water.

Our decision was to allow the player to drop the ball in a different bordering (but not attached) bunker no nearer the hole, but we'rent quite sure on the actual ruling here. Was this a good ruling?

I was playing blackjack in Vegas this weekend and noticed an interesting side bet: any player push with the dealer pays 10:1. I never really play side bets because they are always sucker bets, bit this one intrigued me a bit since I feel as if I push around 1 in 10 times at least during a table session. Any ideas if this bet is close to 50:50?

This term really bugs me, because its coming from the viewpoint of a theist. "Skeptical" that a god exists, or skeptical that religious texts are accurate.

From my viewpoint as a secular humanist, I see a "skeptic" as someone who denies the fact that people in the world control what happens in their lives, or that things happen on their own in a scientific basis. A "skeptic" is someone who believes that there is something controlling them, something they must obey to or act for, etc.

Anyone else share the same thought?

In the past range finders were under scrutiy for providing golfers with an "unfair advantage" of knowledge of the course and weren't allowed to be used. Once GPS came into heavy use, I think this rule was dropped, and now GPS devices are legal for use in tournaments.

However, my iPhone has an electronic leveler on it than can help to determine the green slope at certain points. I have never used it during a round (but I have tested it on a practice green), but I was wondering if these are allowed by golf rules?