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Eh, not really. The trend is very clearly against religion. With the internet, everyone can look and see everything that is wrong with it on their own. From self-contradictions to huge tracts of it filled with ideology that is completely foreign to modern (superior) morality. No, we don't stone people to death for eating meat on Fridays, nor for being gay, nor for any number of other idiotic things.

I laughed about the butt cut. I used to have that. Some of those 11 things are taken out of context as the author eventually alludes to. They are correct about some, such as divorce. The Leviticus items such as pigs and shellfish were laws given to them when they had to sacrifice animals to atone for sins. Later in the Bible, Christ's perfect blood is shed to cover sins so that no more sacrifices need to be made. Shortly after that, in Acts chapter 10 and 11 we see God showing Peter that this old law specifically goes away and it's okay to eat all animals.

Eh, not really. The trend is very clearly against religion. With the internet, everyone can look and see everything that is wrong with it on their own. From self-contradictions to huge tracts of it filled with ideology that is completely foreign to modern (superior) morality. No, we don't stone people to death for eating meat on Fridays, nor for being gay, nor for any number of other idiotic things.

Their ideas are wrong, but they're hardly a threat. Most people don't take them seriously, and only 80-95% (depending on the disease) of a population needs to be immunized to achieve herd immunity.

I think you are grossly underestimating the ability of people to be complete morons. This link is a little dated, but in 1999, a poll showed that 18 percent of Americans think the Sun revolves around the Earth. In 2011, seven percent of people said they believe more than half of the federal government's budget goes to public broadcasting. Another four percent thought it was 31 to 50 percent of the budget. Is is easy to get 10-15% of the population to believe in absolute rubbish despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The MMR vaccine has an effectiveness of only around 95%- meaning 5% of people do the right thing, get vaccinated, but could still get the disease. MMR is given at 12-15 months of age, so roughly 1.5% of the population who will get the vaccine hasn't gotten it yet. Some people (no idea what %) are very poor and never go to doctors, even if the vaccine is free. That 5-20% "margin" of herd immunity starts to look awfully shaky if you consider all the people who already can't or don't get a vaccine.

Finally, the anti-vaxxers tend to live in pockets of people who believe as they do. This means the disease can get a foothold in those neighborhoods, and survive. There is a very real risk that some diseases could thrive long enough to mutate enough so that the vaccine doesn't work anymore.

Even if this doesn't become a "big" problem, the consequences can be very damaging on an individual basis. My daughter is only 6 months old. She hasn't gotten many vaccinations yet because she is just too young. If some clown passes on the measles to her, her death is a very real possibility. Can you justify a death like that as not being "a serious threat"? The stakes too high to ignore these idiots.

But I thought that vans were from Flowers By Irene? [sorry, there's no screen cap of the Simpon's Flowers By Irene van at that link]

1. You can be relatively certain from the summary. And there's a huge problem if it takes a team of lawyers a week to determine presumed patent validity.

2. This is incorrect. Since you wish to straw-man, allow me to refer you to a list of cool patents that aren't trivially represented by the existing functionality of their constituent components (ie: not obvious).

3. That's actually not how jury selection works. Potential jurors are afforded a lot of privacy. They certainly didn't (can't?) do background checks on every person. They simply ask a few questions. So this guy could have a clear conflict of interest but because of privacy concerns, it may not be discovered during voir dire. That said, if it's later determined that a juror had a conflict of interest, the jury should be re-selected, a mistrial should occur, or any convictions nullified. If this man was indeed asked if there were any conflicts of interest or any circumstance that would impact his impartiality (I don't have the text of the voir dire, so I can't really determine what he was asked) and denied that claim, he should be tried for perjury. The 6th amendment clearly requires the impartiality of the jury.

Look at the various companies and individuals that supported the Nazis in some way or another, either by direct allegiance or by doing business with them. I don't know if this information is accurate (its on the web after all) but I found this page pretty quickly on google:
http://www.11points.com/News-Politics/11_Companies_That_surprisingly_Collaborated_With_the_Nazis

Sorry for the bad netiquette, but this article hilights the differences between Apple and Sony

http://orange-envelopes.com/blog/2011/01/08/sony-failed-because-of-sony-not-bad-timing/

For proof, simply look at the litany of missed opportunities that should have been directly in Sony's sweet spot:
- game players as mobile phones (Sony missed it entirely, while the Apple iPhone is now the world's largest selling portable gaming platform, eclipsing the multi-year headstart of Sony's PSP),
- notebook computers (Sony's insistence on incorporating proprietary components relegated them to single digit market share),
- MP3 players ( a market that Sony owned and surrendered entirely),
- digital cameras (again, an insistence on proprietary components limited their appeal, and they're now an also ran),
- ebooks (they had the early lead with a gorgeous product that made the Kindle look like a cheap plastic toy, but again Sony's insistence on proprietary software and file formats allowed Amazon's Kindle to grab a dominant position they will not relinquish)
- digital music sales (Sony has an enormous catalog, but their feeble attempts to sell digitally were hampered by proprietary software and file formats, fanatical concern for piracy and a miserable user experience in finding, buying and syncing music.)

This article drives the point home: "Cheap and long always beats expensive and high-quality."
http://www.11points.com/Web-Tech/11_Famous_Sony_Products,_Ranked_From_Worst_Failure_to_Biggest_Success

I'll bet it reads like Kim Jong Il wrote it.

You think this guy writes his own resumes? Pfft... I'll bet you a year's salary that he hires a headhunter and doesn't do anything but lunch interviews.

I'll bet it reads like Kim Jong Il wrote it.

I already have his Kim Jong Il authored farewell speech (excerpt below):

I'm the smartest most crever most physicarry fit
But nobody else seems to rearize it
When I change the world maybe they'll notice me
But until then I'rr just be ronery
Rittle ronery, poor rittle me

If anyone, and I mean anyone gets a copy of his resume sent to their HR department...they must post it.

I apologize for the brusque tone, but this is not optional - you have to do it. In it's entirety, unedited.

I'll bet it reads like Kim Jong Il wrote it.