Earthquake off Northern California

merger writes "A 7.0 earthquake (7.4 according to NOAA) occured off of the northern California coast occured at 7:50 p.m. PST triggering a tsunami warning (which was then downgraded to a tsunami bulletin). While searching Google News for information I learned about an earthquake preparedness study for the area which was just published today."

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[Anonymous Coward]

Wow. Now let's go back in time 5 hours when this was relevant information!

Ugh. Delete this story please.

Offtopic response to sig

[Joseph_Daniel_Zukige]

Circumcision must be outlawed [mgmbill.org]

I am aware of a young boy who developed a what could have been a life threatening infection due to the parents' failure to have circumcision performed. First doctor to examine him thought he had a hernia. By the time the parents got him to a urologist, he had suffered two bouts with high fevers and was close to losing more than the foreskin. Cleaning things up was very painful for the poor kid, but at least he wasn't disfigured permanently.

I'll grant that female circumcision is not generally advisable. But there are a lot of things that aren't just black and white in this world.

Re:Offtopic response to sig

[CaptainCarrot]

The objection is to unnecessary circumcision, not those that are needed. Circumcision is the only prophylactic surgery that's not regarded as medically unethical. Are we to cut off every body part that's not immediately useful on the off-chance it might become diseased? How about automatic mastectomies for all post-menopausal women? It'll prevent lots of breast cancers. No?

Fact is, routine circumcision was instituted for a completely spurious reason, and one that most people would not now even consider desirable. (It was believed to reduce masturbation. The opposite is in fact true.) Modern rationalization for continuing the practice are different, but the only reason they exist is because there's this huge population of mutilated men to study. No doubt if for some reason female circumcision were to become common you could find plenty of justification for continuing it long after whatever initial stupid reason you had for doing it in the first place fell out of favor.

The US is the only industrialized nation where routine circumcisions are performed at birth. It is a surgery, and there are risks associated, especially when they're performed by doctors. (Jewish mohels are typically better at it, with lower complication rates and less pain to the recipient.) The benefits, such as they are, simply do not justify the risks or the undesirable side effects.

Re:Offtopic response to sig

[Hognoxious]

I am aware of a young boy who developed a what could have been a life threatening infection due to the parents' failure to have circumcision performed.

No you aren't. You're aware of a little boy [who|whose parents] didn't wash "under the farmer's hat".

Re:MJ!

[Anonymous Coward]

What retard modded this as informative? Funny, maybe, but INFORMATIVE?

Wow.

Re:MJ!

[Mycroft_VIII]

Well YOU got the funny mod at least. However he's up to +3 Insightfull now.

Mycroft

Re:MJ!

[xtracto]

OMFG! INSIGTHFUL?? lmao hahaahah
MOD PARENT'S MODERATOR +5 FUNNY

Re:You're an idiot for not knowing CAPE.

[thedogcow]

Thanks. Single?