Google will protest SOPA using home page

Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by jQueryIsAwesome on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:15PM (#3475808)

Sometimes is better to do both.

For example: Intoxication by adulterated liquor can cause strong headache and (permanent) blindness; but if you search in Google you may find out that drinking pure Whisky right away can neutralize its effects.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by VMG on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:25PM (#3475854)

This sounds suspicious - care to cite any references?

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by nsr on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:39PM (#3475919)

Well, wikipedia has references in this section:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol#Toxicity

Specifically, anything with a strong ethanol content will help, as the damage caused by drinking methanol results from the byproducts of you body processing the poison. The biological pathways that process methanol have a greater affinity for ethanol, so drinking whisky (or everclear or 151) or any other strong alcohol will keep you alive until your body has a chance to eject the methanol as a waste product.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by jQueryIsAwesome on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:55PM (#3476003)

It was just and hypothetical example, being honest: right now the only thing i could find is this link in Spanish:

http://www.bio-nica.info/Biblioteca/Gutierrez-Intoxicacion-M...

The theory is this: The consumption of ethyl alcohol (whisky/vodka) can prevent the conversion of methanol to formaldehyde and formic acid plus it extracts the toxic substance and neutralizes its metabolic effects.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by Bootvis on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @01:22PM (#3475839)

Really? cool! Honest question: do you have a reference for that? I can't find one Google but would like to know more.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by chc on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @05:09PM (#3476724)

Please do note that the GP said "adulterated spirits" — that is, rubbing alcohol and the like, which contain methanol. If you have normal alcohol poisoning (i.e. from ethanol drinks like beer, wine, vodka, etc.), drinking whiskey is a terrible idea.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by baddox on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @09:01PM (#3477491)

Are you a doctor?

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by chc on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @01:35AM (#3478340)

Well, no, but the fact that more ethanol isn't the cure for ethanol poisoning is not exactly MD-level subject matter.

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Re:Google will protest SOPA using home page by atakan_gurkan on Tuesday January 17, 2012 @04:13PM (#3476495)

http://www.politedissent.com/archives/905

See the 2nd paragraph after the warning banner. It might not look serious, but it is. This review is written by an MD.

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