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Re:No such thing as 'vaccination'... by SleazyRidr · 2012-10-31 01:47 · Score: 2 · on Scientists Move Closer To a Universal Flu Vaccine

Everything Dr. Hadwen said has been thouroughly debunked, many times over. If you've deluded yourself enough to think otherwise I know you won't read these, but I'll leave the links here just in case:
https://draust.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/who-needs-facts-these-vaccine-conspiracy-pieces-write-themselves%E2%80%A6/
http://skepticalsurfer.blogspot.com/2007/09/terminology-aggressive-vs-conservative.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vaccine_controversies/Archive_2
http://reasonablehank.com/2012/02/06/judy-judy-judy-are-you-attempting-to-censor-others-right-to-free-speech/

Re:For the umpteenth time... by mattack2 · 2012-10-30 11:54 · Score: 1 · on Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic?

Why did your property taxes go up? They shouldn't've.

http://calestateplanning.blogspot.com/2010/03/property-taxes-and-prop-13.html

Re:For the umpteenth time... by mattack2 · 2012-10-30 10:22 · Score: 1 · on Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic?

when the children can't afford the taxes on the inflated real estate

WAAAAAIT a second. Don't the children get to keep the same tax valuation for Prop 13 when they inherit a house?

(The first result of my google searches, http://calestateplanning.blogspot.com/2010/03/property-taxes-and-prop-13.html, does say that "it is not necessarily true that the value of the home will be re-assessed for property tax purposes".)

cherry picking by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 03:59 · Score: 0 · on Brain Scans Show the Impact of Neglect On a Child's Brain Size

Oh that's nothing. Look at these two animals: (elephant, flounder). The one on the right, experts claim, is smaller purely due to receiving less motherly love.

Re:For the umpteenth time... by khallow · 2012-10-29 18:54 · Score: 1 · on Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic?

Self-regulation has failed in almost every industry

See "payment card industries" or PCI for a widespread counterexample of self-regulation that works. It doesn't keep businesses from losing or exposing credit card numbers, but it does, especially for the largest businesses, provide nasty and credible consequences. The biggest is simply that the business, if it continues to fail to meet PCI standards, simply can't do credit card transactions.

Government regulation is failing as well. In recent years, US regulatory agencies have been adding somewhere around 70-80k new pages per year. From that graph, I'd also characterize the growth rate in regulation as vaguely exponential over time with a doubling every 30-40 years.

Re:Distinguishing conflict from disagreement by WOOFYGOOFY · 2012-10-29 11:46 · Score: 1 · on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting

Incorrect. When Jesus said "love your neighbor as yourself", no exception was made for those committing specific sins. I may think someone a sinner and still follow the tenets of christian charity.

Wherever you are getting your information on the bible is either deliberately lying to you or else is ignorant; either way I suggest you rely on your own reading of the bible, not someone else's.

Incorrect. Wherever you are getting your information on the bible is either deliberately lying to you or else is ignorant. Either way I suggest you Google for contrary opinions who will support their position with plain quotes from the Bible. It's not a love fest,in fact, it's a work of supreme cruelty advocating amongst other things slavery, genocide, killing innocent children

(Exodus 21:15 "And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.")

and

(Billy Graham and Mark 7:9: "No picking and choosing allowed! You must stone to death your disobedient children." http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2012/08/billy-graham-and-mark-79-10-no-picking.html ) ,

and murdering people of other faiths because they don't believe in Him

Kings 20:28 "And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD. (20:28) "A man of God ... said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD." (20:29) "The children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day."

Christianity and other irrational belief systems like Communism and Maoism and Nazism have killed hundreds of millions of people over the years. Basing your morality on a Bronze Age book filled with Bronze-Age ideas about the nature of reality authored by and about sheep and goat herders from that time . Many of the Bible's authors can be presumed to have been suffering from chronic malnutrition and the chronic confusion and epileptic-like rage, that condition subtends,. They also certainly suffered from various mental illnesses including schizophrenia (hearing voices, seeing visions ) .

So how any adult today can base their morality on that politically-pieced together collection of insane rantings and fairy tales and still consider themselves to be responsible is the only real mystery surrounding the Bible.

Some Moldbug by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-29 03:58 · Score: 0 · on Dr. Richard Dawkins On Why Disagreeing With Religion Isn't Insulting