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  1. Re:Believe? on Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked? · · Score: 1

    Ahhh... sarcasm sometimes doesn't quite take to the written word up to our expectations. A lesson i've learned many times over myself.

    Normally i would have thought sarcasm first, but pretty much ANY thread with anything about electricity or gravity brings out the nutcase electric universe bullshitters, and they seem to actually think that 100+ years of corroboration and subsequent usable technologies are actually a sign Einstein was completely wrong.... no sarcasm and no hyperbole there.

  2. Re:Believe? on Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked? · · Score: 1

    Let's do Einstein next.

    Go wild, knock yourself out. 100+ years of people doing just that without issues gives me pretty good confidence that he was right.... and my GPS unit concurs.

  3. Re:Believe? on Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked? · · Score: 1

    If an invention doesn't work for it's intended purpose, you've still at least invented a different shape for a paperweight.

  4. I had some gym socks back in junior high that did the same thing; how is this news?

  5. Re:They are intelligent because they are liberal on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 2

    ....and you're the definition of a partisan piece of shit. I don't give a fuck if they're conservative or liberal, anti-vaxxers are fucking idiots.... like you, only for a different reason. And no, they're not "almost all" liberals, only a stupid fucking idiot would say that when you have all these religious conservatives refusing to vaccinate their kids against HPV. But then, you are a partisan piece of shit.. so there's that.

  6. Re:Study must be deeply flawed on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1
  7. Re: One-eyed among the blind. on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The booster is given at 4-6 years old, and is called a chicken poxbooster.

    Shingles, on the other hand, is an older persons thing. People who had chicken pox as kids are susceptible to having the virus reactivate when they get older giving them shingles. The shingles vaccination (typically suggested for anyone over 60 who actually had chickenpox, not the chickenpox vaccine) reduces that risk, and if they do end up having shingles, it reduces the severity.

    So to sum up your question: not getting the vaccine, and getting chickenpox puts you line to get shingles later in life; getting the vaccine (as a child) means you're not in line to get shingles later in life; having chickenpox and then getting the shingles vaccine as an older person means you have a lower chance to get shingles, and it will be less severe if you do.

  8. Re: One-eyed among the blind. on Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated (go.com) · · Score: 1

    The chicken pox vaccine is given between 12-15 months, and the booster is given at 4-6 years.

  9. My first hunting trip with my dad was when i was 9 in 1972. No, i didn't get my whitetail, neither did my dad. But thanks for asking.

    Try placing yourself back in time 100,000 years when the neanderthal population may have been 100,000 (total for everywhere). Do you think animals then had the same conditioning to fear us as they do now? You work with what you have; they had spears. If they couldn't throw far enough to take down their prey, i'm sure they'd come up with a different way of doing things... or all die of starvation in a couple months. As the species lasted a couple hundred thousand years, that ELE starvation obviously didn't happen.

    You're thinking like a modern human, not a neanderthal who's only going to eat if they're successful; no pressure.

  10. I'll combine my response to you with my response to the AC right above you. The AC is suffering from the myopia of now, which you don't realize you've answered.

    .... animals will flee at a certain distance of a perceived threat. For most animals this is less than 30 m.

    .... Animals learn to associate the characteristic noise from firing an arrow from a bow with danger....

    The neanderthal population peak for Eurasia was a couple hundred thousand; unlike today, they weren't so ubiquitous. Animals don't posses some supernatural ability to identify predators when they first encounter them (as a species).... see what happened to the dodo when it first met humans. It takes time and constant reinforcement for that to happen. What we see "now" is hundreds of thousands of years of reinforcements; what was then was at best a minor nuisance. Add into that the mega-fauna that was still present, and you have larger animals that would have an even more limited reason for learning humans were dangerous.

  11. I seems lost in this is the fact that you don't have to throw a spear to use it to hunt; any animal that will charge a hunter can be taken down with a firmly planted spear.... well... any animal a thrown spear can take down. Really big animals would take a team effort.

  12. Re:Neanderthals Are People Too on Neanderthals Were Likely Able To Hunt Over Significant Distances With Spears, Study Finds (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I call some of my relatives neanderthals too.

  13. Re: Lets be antivax! on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The bible doesn't say using a computer is permissible, therefore using a computer is not permissible. Yet, here you are..... why do you hate god so much?

  14. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a conservative sinkhole, but it is a right leaning county. Only their treasurer and attorney are democrats, while all the rest of their elected officials are republican. Calling the county an urban area is also a problematic description.

  15. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Barely conservative. It's a lot nicer there than a number of other counties in the state.

  16. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 2

    Nope, again. Clark county is a lean republican county currently....not by a large amount, but definitely a lean.

  17. Re:Right wing religious nuts on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, not exactly.... Franklin county is over on east side of the state, Clark county is on the west side. I had to go look up your reference, i honestly didn't think opium poppies would grow in this climate.

  18. Re:Mix the anti vax idiots with on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Well sure, 73.2% of the time they're only 47.1% true.

  19. Re:Vaccinations are bad on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I can't tell if you're attempting sarcasm,or just being really, really, fucking stupid. I say this only because there are some people that fucking stupid out there.

  20. Re:Use single-dose vaccines. on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1
    https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesaf...

    Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines do not and never did contain thimerosal.
    Varicella (chickenpox), inactivated polio (IPV), and pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have also never contained thimerosal.
    Influenza (flu) vaccines are currently available in both thimerosal-containing (for multi-dose vaccine vials) and thimerosal-free versions.

  21. Re:Vaccinations are bad on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    .... you'd never have salt .... as it would both explode and poison you....

    My doctor sure as hell makes it seem that that's going to be the end result of my salt consumption.

  22. Re:Lets be antivax! on State of Emergency Declared in Washington State Over Measles Outbreak (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. Clark county is fairly split, but is currently leaning republican, with all the elected officials being republicans except their prosecuting attorney and treasurer. At the very least do 20 seconds of research before typing.

    But lets be a bit clearer... when people say anti-vaxxer they immediately think of the dipshits who don't get their kids the measles or TDaP vaccines. They don't think about all the fundamentalist religious freaks who refuse to get the HPV vaccine for their kids... obviously opting to have their kids die in the excruciating agony from several completely preventable diseases, instead of saving their lives because "sex bad, mkay," and they somehow think their kids will all turn into prostitutes and porn stars if they did get the vaccine.... which i think just shows how little they think of their own parenting skills.

    So, no, anti-vaxxers aren't predominately left-wing.... but all of them, left or right, are predominantly stupid.

  23. Re:Torture and kidnappings on US Will Seek Extradition of Huawei CFO From Canada (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    No, he actually can't BECAUSE OF the constitution. The constitution restricts what he can and can't do, BUT (because you're stupider than fuck i'll spell it out) he doesn't care about the rule of law... which is why he keeps getting slapped down by the courts. You're as much of a fucking idiot as he is. I get it, you fucking neonazi's love his authoritarian bullshit because the only card you have is trying to be the bully... but you're not, you're pathetic little incels who are stupider than a fucking rock....and quite frankly, you obviously don't know jack shit about the constitution.

    Canada may very well look at his comments as an admission that the US asked for her to be detained purely to be used as trade war leverage... purely because of his stupidity in making that comment.

  24. Re:Torture and kidnappings on US Will Seek Extradition of Huawei CFO From Canada (reuters.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    What rule of law? Trumps already said he might use her as a pawn in his stupider than fuck trade war against China....that's not the rule of law, that's outright authoritarian bullshit. He may very well have given Canada every reason to not extradite her right there. You can be stupider than fuck and ignore what he said, but other people in the world are not as fucking clueless as his followers..... he fucked up because he's a fucking narcissistic idiot who doesn't know a fucking thing about the "rule of law," and he doesn't care.

  25. Re:That's because on A Meteorite Hit the Moon During Total Lunar Eclipse (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    A little plutonium nyborg and we'd all have the same problem.