A simple spit test can determine your HLA markers and all sorts of stuff. The fact that you can also test for genetic vulnerabilities is pretty mundane. The consumer genetic testing services already do a great deal of this including much more obscure stuff.
This isn't news. This is the dull side of a butter knife.
You're blind faith in your own party line is disturbing. This isn't religion. We should expect fallibility and not pretend that the priesthood can do no wrong.
The fact that we can so spectacularly fuck up targeted cancer therapies based on a mechanism we think we understand is a great demonstration of our own hubris.
Equality doesn't scare me. It does scare "feminists". They screech "oppression" any time they are held to an equal standard.
This crap was in full effect during the Presidential election. A certain contingent tried to make Hillary into more of a victim than an equal. Equality doesn't work like that. You jump into the Octagon and you take your licks and make some of your own.
One of Hitler's key issues was universal health care.
The real problem is that most statists don't realize that it's pretty much all the same. Only a few relevant details differ. Motivations might be radically different but that's fairly irrelevant.
You are trying to distract people on "what they think" versus "what they do".
In this regard, fascists and communists are the same animal. You will end up with similar results. The excuses will just be different.
So socialists trying to use "Nazi" as an insult really miss the point entirely.
You underpay doctors and nurses. You don't have enough hospitals or A&E wards. You ration cancer meds. You ration and waitlist people for surgery including heart surgery. You still need charities to pick up the slack (Teenage Cancer Trust). You don't have enough diagnostic equipment and people flee to the private market (although you at least have one versus Canada).
The way you underpay your nurses is a national disgrace.
Socialism is bad. ANY monopoly is bad. Big anything is a problem. Large systems don't scale in general. It doesn't matter if the Robber Baron in question is a private citizen or part of government.
Socialism doesn't really work past the scale of a commune. If you really want to be a do-gooder then do so locally and step up yourself.
The American taxpayer is far too much of a deadbeat to trust with my cancer treatment.
Trump may be factually correct but I am not sure that's the point. We do outnumber you 10:1 and I can understand why you would want to preserve your own industries. The rationale would be the same that Trump himself uses. It's all about looking out for yourself (and your own people) first.
Although taxing your own people has it's own problems.
> Lol, the uneducated right winger at his finest, cant spell, doesnâ(TM)t know what grammar is and utterly clueless about history. Is that you Donnie, perhaps those tiny hands canâ(TM)t make it all around the keyboard.
Your insults don't alter the fact that this is a pre-existing condition. This didn't get solved during your "Age of Aquarius".
Most of the rhetoric regurgitated by partisans on this or any issue these days is just deranged nonsense intended to sell ads. It's pure intellectual garbage of no value (informative or otherwise). It's the intellectual and data equivalent of Twinkies.
Sure. A "proud communist" is all the Democrats needed on their ticket. That's all the rest of the country needed to get over it's dislike of Trump. Hillary was already the "Palin" moment for the DNC. Adding Bernie to the ticket would have been a "Palin on steroids" moment.
Both parties seem to have this strange delusion that they can foist their biggest nut bags on the rest of us and that's somehow going to go over.
If you can look past the nearest franchise coffee bar, that's not really a problem.
People have continually escalating expectations. They act like they are suffering from "participation trophy syndrome". They want the best of all possible worlds with no trade offs or personal responsibility. They are narcissistic and think they are the only generation that ever had things rough starting out. They want it all handed to them without any effort or work.
Better jobs are out there. They just require real work and a willingness to look past the franchise coffee bar on the next corner.
Stop swimming in the Kool-Aid. Vile leftist nonsense is pervasive in the liberal media. Hollywood, comedians, and most journalists are all eagerly competing to out troll Trump.
The idea that the media doesn't give a platform to young SJWs is just insane. They will eagerly latch onto and exploit any kid that sees things their way. Hogg is an epic example of this. The same media will also downplay viewpoints it doesn't approve of.
> So since you can name a few rich guys who committed suicide, that means suicide has nothing to do woth social inequalities? Ok.
It contradicts your fantasy. That's what your narrative is. It's a total fantasy backed up by nothing. The mega corps push it because it sells ads. You push it because it suits your political agenda.
Even rich people get poisoned by this nonsense and fixate on class envy while ignoring their own relative good fortune.
Beyond that, the liberal media actively sabotages sane financial behavior. They encourage people to financially harm themselves. This sabotages upward mobility. They are a big part of this so-called problem.
While that's true, the court could have called bullshit on YouTube in a more substantial fashion. What they actually objected to is nothing remotely like "curation". It's a stupid ruling because of that.
> This is Slashdot so I'm waiting for all the "Piracy shouldn't be a crime... it's not theft...
How about having a little perspective. WHO GIVES A SHIT about software piracy in a failed state where slavery is being openly practiced? People really need to get their priorities straighted out.
...or you just don't care anymore because that particular cat is out of the bag already.
Although this really only becomes a problem if DNA based discrimination is allowed. If that's the case, then you will be coerced into creating this data. Would be abusers won't need to depend on a data breach.
The ancestry data is pretty much public. So that's no real loss. These services all share that kind of stuff quite widely. It's kind of why they are even remotely useful at all.
The DNA data is a bit more interesting/private though.
People like to currently whine that Trump is corrupt for inviting members of industry to serve in government. This is another great example of liberal "selective outrage". This kind of crap has been going on for decades and Monsanto has been been riding that particular revolving door quite a bit.
If you think that Obama was any less corrupt than the rest then you need to listen to less superficial news outlets. I suggest NPR.
Sure. A poison is just harmless. This is the kind of nonsense that makes you "science groupies" look no better than members of the American Family Association or the Taliban.
We have plenty of examples of things we once thought were harmless that didn't turn out to be so harmless later. We also have good examples of "science" driven by political and corporate agenda.
Anyone that's ever taken a stats course should be well aware of that great line attributed to Clemens & Disraeli.
Your blind faith is unwarranted and unbecoming anyone that understands science as a methodology rather than a body of unassailable doctrine.
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A simple spit test can determine your HLA markers and all sorts of stuff. The fact that you can also test for genetic vulnerabilities is pretty mundane. The consumer genetic testing services already do a great deal of this including much more obscure stuff.
This isn't news. This is the dull side of a butter knife.
You're blind faith in your own party line is disturbing. This isn't religion. We should expect fallibility and not pretend that the priesthood can do no wrong.
The fact that we can so spectacularly fuck up targeted cancer therapies based on a mechanism we think we understand is a great demonstration of our own hubris.
Equality doesn't scare me. It does scare "feminists". They screech "oppression" any time they are held to an equal standard.
This crap was in full effect during the Presidential election. A certain contingent tried to make Hillary into more of a victim than an equal. Equality doesn't work like that. You jump into the Octagon and you take your licks and make some of your own.
One of Hitler's key issues was universal health care.
The real problem is that most statists don't realize that it's pretty much all the same. Only a few relevant details differ. Motivations might be radically different but that's fairly irrelevant.
You are trying to distract people on "what they think" versus "what they do".
In this regard, fascists and communists are the same animal. You will end up with similar results. The excuses will just be different.
So socialists trying to use "Nazi" as an insult really miss the point entirely.
> the NHS can keep lid on the cost of medicines
You underpay doctors and nurses.
You don't have enough hospitals or A&E wards.
You ration cancer meds.
You ration and waitlist people for surgery including heart surgery.
You still need charities to pick up the slack (Teenage Cancer Trust).
You don't have enough diagnostic equipment and people flee to the private market (although you at least have one versus Canada).
The way you underpay your nurses is a national disgrace.
Socialism is bad. ANY monopoly is bad. Big anything is a problem. Large systems don't scale in general. It doesn't matter if the Robber Baron in question is a private citizen or part of government.
Socialism doesn't really work past the scale of a commune. If you really want to be a do-gooder then do so locally and step up yourself.
The American taxpayer is far too much of a deadbeat to trust with my cancer treatment.
Trump may be factually correct but I am not sure that's the point. We do outnumber you 10:1 and I can understand why you would want to preserve your own industries. The rationale would be the same that Trump himself uses. It's all about looking out for yourself (and your own people) first.
Although taxing your own people has it's own problems.
> Lol, the uneducated right winger at his finest, cant spell, doesnâ(TM)t know what grammar is and utterly clueless about history.
Is that you Donnie, perhaps those tiny hands canâ(TM)t make it all around the keyboard.
Your insults don't alter the fact that this is a pre-existing condition. This didn't get solved during your "Age of Aquarius".
Most of the rhetoric regurgitated by partisans on this or any issue these days is just deranged nonsense intended to sell ads. It's pure intellectual garbage of no value (informative or otherwise). It's the intellectual and data equivalent of Twinkies.
Sure. A "proud communist" is all the Democrats needed on their ticket. That's all the rest of the country needed to get over it's dislike of Trump. Hillary was already the "Palin" moment for the DNC. Adding Bernie to the ticket would have been a "Palin on steroids" moment.
Both parties seem to have this strange delusion that they can foist their biggest nut bags on the rest of us and that's somehow going to go over.
> All we ask for in return is a livable wage
If you can look past the nearest franchise coffee bar, that's not really a problem.
People have continually escalating expectations. They act like they are suffering from "participation trophy syndrome". They want the best of all possible worlds with no trade offs or personal responsibility. They are narcissistic and think they are the only generation that ever had things rough starting out. They want it all handed to them without any effort or work.
Better jobs are out there. They just require real work and a willingness to look past the franchise coffee bar on the next corner.
> Just because it is better does not mean that it is good. And even if it is good, it does not mean that it can't be better.
In other words you are a raving ingrate with zero perspective.
You would find the dark cloud in any silver lining. Your kind of nonsense is why the suicide rate is up.
Stop swimming in the Kool-Aid. Vile leftist nonsense is pervasive in the liberal media. Hollywood, comedians, and most journalists are all eagerly competing to out troll Trump.
The idea that the media doesn't give a platform to young SJWs is just insane. They will eagerly latch onto and exploit any kid that sees things their way. Hogg is an epic example of this. The same media will also downplay viewpoints it doesn't approve of.
> So since you can name a few rich guys who committed suicide, that means suicide has nothing to do woth social inequalities? Ok.
It contradicts your fantasy. That's what your narrative is. It's a total fantasy backed up by nothing. The mega corps push it because it sells ads. You push it because it suits your political agenda.
Even rich people get poisoned by this nonsense and fixate on class envy while ignoring their own relative good fortune.
Beyond that, the liberal media actively sabotages sane financial behavior. They encourage people to financially harm themselves. This sabotages upward mobility. They are a big part of this so-called problem.
Sounds like concrete foam given a "sexy" new name. Utter mindless hype.
> Private parties and companies can censor all they want.
Your eagerness to replace a government tyrant with a corporate tyrant is duly noted.
The problem with that is that such censorship nullfies even American protections given to "common carriers".
While that's true, the court could have called bullshit on YouTube in a more substantial fashion. What they actually objected to is nothing remotely like "curation". It's a stupid ruling because of that.
You could complain that the law shouldn't exist or that it's a bogus prosecution. The gibberish you just posted is completely worthless.
> You do not make legal threats on the Internet. It should be rule 71. Or 86.
You don't make threats against free speech unless you have something to hide.
> This is Slashdot so I'm waiting for all the "Piracy shouldn't be a crime... it's not theft...
How about having a little perspective. WHO GIVES A SHIT about software piracy in a failed state where slavery is being openly practiced? People really need to get their priorities straighted out.
...or you just don't care anymore because that particular cat is out of the bag already.
Although this really only becomes a problem if DNA based discrimination is allowed. If that's the case, then you will be coerced into creating this data. Would be abusers won't need to depend on a data breach.
The ancestry data is pretty much public. So that's no real loss. These services all share that kind of stuff quite widely. It's kind of why they are even remotely useful at all.
The DNA data is a bit more interesting/private though.
How can you assume anything if you don't have the content of the messages in question? You are assuming guilt because it suits your political agenda.
> These products are why rampant starvation is a thing of the past. Your statement is a REAL example of white privilege.
Quit swimming in the kool-aid. "Rampant starvation" ended well before the rise of Monsanto, their herbicide, or their franken-plants.
Their products mainly fuel the Western junk food industry. They don't "feed the world". They make your Coke and Twinkies cheaper.
The vast majority of nutrient dense foods are not GMO.
People like to currently whine that Trump is corrupt for inviting members of industry to serve in government. This is another great example of liberal "selective outrage". This kind of crap has been going on for decades and Monsanto has been been riding that particular revolving door quite a bit.
If you think that Obama was any less corrupt than the rest then you need to listen to less superficial news outlets. I suggest NPR.
Sure. A poison is just harmless. This is the kind of nonsense that makes you "science groupies" look no better than members of the American Family Association or the Taliban.
We have plenty of examples of things we once thought were harmless that didn't turn out to be so harmless later. We also have good examples of "science" driven by political and corporate agenda.
Anyone that's ever taken a stats course should be well aware of that great line attributed to Clemens & Disraeli.
Your blind faith is unwarranted and unbecoming anyone that understands science as a methodology rather than a body of unassailable doctrine.
It's ignorant of history too.