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  1. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Does this look like a graph describing a system that has been working?

    But since you asked for an specific citation, there are thousands of cities in america where the unwed birth rate for Black children is over 90%. For example Fremont, a city with a quarter of a million citizens where 100% of the Black children are born to unwed mothers. And this is a city where the sex-ed was so progressive two years ago that it included instruction in bondage. How is instruction in bondage supposed to prevent teenage pregnancy?

  2. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not just about goals. It is not about getting people to do what you want. You are OK with the government using reverse physiology to trick children into abstaining, but are you OK with the government lying to you to trick you into doing something else? If the most effective way to get people to not drink and drive was to tell them it was OK to drink and drive, if they turn on they warning lights while doing so, would you support that?

  3. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The too long didn't read version of your post is:

    Sexual freedom, and teaching condom usage to infants don't work, but you don't care.
    Decades latter, billions spent, and the US has many times worse statistics for divorce rates, for children raised by single parents, and only really horrible third-world countries have worse rates of STDs. Their are places in the US, the big cities where this is really pressed on the children, where 90% of the children are raised by single parents. Making stability and the chance at a bright future literally a single digit percent of that for children raised in nuclear families. So yes, I don't care how many teens get unwanted pregnancies, I care how many children are denied a future free of jail and drug abuse because their parents are not married. I care that STDs are running rampant, and will continue to do so no matter how many condoms we manufacture. I care that all of these trends started around the same time.

  4. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I meant that many STDs do not care at all if you have a condom on, the only prevention we have is abstinence. So literally if abstinence preaching prevented one sexual act, it would have a better STD prevention history than any teaching that got 100% condom usage (for those specific STDs). And similarly for all other STDs, since no one uses anything that prevents oral STDs, and most of them do not care which orifice they are enter through, abstinence again is the only thing that works in practice at prevention.

    The idea is not to get the best outcome, Some African tribes perform some pretty invasive circumcision on their infants to try and completely prevent the pleasure that sex would normally cause. I imagine this can be pretty effective. But it completely destroys the entire point, the point of allowing self-respect and self agency to work in at least a few of the cases.

  5. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    "That is why the rate of teen pregnancies are the highest in areas where abstinence is preached the most."

    Which is beside the point. Abstinence is not ever just preached because the preacher hates babies and/or teen pregnancy*.

    Abstinence is also the single most effective STD preventative, maybe more teens get pregnant, but many of those teens who used condoms and did not get pregnant still got crabs and scabies, and since they were sexually active they got anything and everything doing oral (I sort of get the impression no one uses those oral condoms). And more than anything their is the moral and physiological argument, many people, cultures, etc. simply do not believe in unbridled hedonism, and many studies show the damage unmarried sex can cause (even if you avoid all physical problems that can sometimes go with it.

    It is about agency and respect. We can give people all the facts up front. Many of them will still screw up, in some categories many more statistically than if we lied to them. But doing so is the only way to give each one a choice to make up their own mind and potentially follow the correct path. Rather than measuring teen pregnancy, measure the number of abstinent teens under each method. The one with the highest number of abstinent teens, in my book, is the clear winner.

    * Teen pregnancy is such a horrible term. My sister had two teen pregnancies while married and wanting children. I imagine she is included in some teen pregnancy statistics.

  6. Re:Going by the data in the summary... on Male Birth Control Shot Found Effective (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that is way more effective than what you get with a condom when you factor in how it cannot fall off or rip during use, hell you cannot even forget to bring one. So holistically, it is probably orders of magnitude better at preventing pregnancy.

  7. Re:Is it just an American thing on Rich People Pay Less Attention To Other People, Says Study (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    Um, no. Typically in the entire Western sphere class is defined precisely by income. India is really the only remaining major country where you are born into a class and cannot leave it.

  8. It seems to me that the primary reason to look at strangers you pass is if you feel insecure and scared of assault of theft from them.
    Their is probably also a large correlation to mating behavior.

    Most likely this just shows that Rich people are more likely happily in a relationship and trusting of strangers.

    Anyone trying to correlate staring at strangers you pass in the street with caring about these strangers is doing so with no evidence or theory.

  9. The claim was not that he created the virus. It was that the virus survived in one or two hosts for years, until it got to someone who had sex with thousands to tens of thousands of unprotected sexual partners.

    People absolutely should be blamed for spreading viruses when they purposely do so, or when they do so through massive negligence.

  10. 1% on Tesla Posts Second Profitable Quarter Ever (bgr.com) · · Score: 0

    Wow, less than a 1% return on investments. Hell, I make several times that in my investments.

  11. Re:So says every SJW attacking Peter Thiel on Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I cannot tell if you are lying, or are so deluded and uninformed you actually believe the things you say.

  12. Corporations are allowed to have agendas, but politicians are not allowed to sell favors for corporate money or bias.

  13. Re:That is How the Law is Supposed to Work on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe so, you in general must comply with all directives (in and out of warrant situations). Like how resisting arrest is illegal and can and will be added on to any other charge if you do not comply. The one thing that they cannot force you to do is communicate anything to them.

  14. That is How the Law is Supposed to Work on Feds Walk Into a Building, Demand Everyone's Fingerprints To Open Phones (dailyherald.com) · · Score: 1

    I am fairly certain that you are supposed to comply with a search warrant. When you have a search warrant, they can unlock or get you to unlock a safe, as long as unlocking that safe does not require you to communicate anything, since they cannot force your compliance in anything related to speech/communication.

    A fingerprint/finger is a physical object, a key, and not communication.

  15. Yes, this is best thing to do with old relatives. My Grandmother now spends like every other day in a Apple Genius Bar trying to figure out how to use her computer, but that is what they are there for.

  16. I call Bullshit Because I have owned half a dozen windows PCs, and so far have zero tech support cost. I call bullshit because I have worked in tech support and people do not have problems with windows. You get a hard drive failure every so often, they need to be restarted sometimes, but most of the time you just need to teach the user about how to use some program like word or how to insert a % sign in a html document. A big problem with Macs is teaching people how to use them and do basic things that they already know how to do for windows. Try to install a printer driver on a MAC, and suddenly you have your entire IT department crowding around the one computer trying to figure out how to do anything at all. I have worked in two companies where we got a shipment of Macs while I was working there. And each time not everything just worked. And when this happens you had a room full of tech support people staring at a Mac with no idea of how to fix it.

  17. Re:Both countries have content regulations on All the Good Netflix Movies Are in Canada and Brazil (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://top250.info/stats/?6/41...
    In the current 250, ZERO of them come from Canada. A few of them (like 1-2%) Canada helped in the production (mostly in cooperation with some big name countries). Brazil does even worse.

  18. Re:Both countries have content regulations on All the Good Netflix Movies Are in Canada and Brazil (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I would be extremely surprised if Canada accounted for as much as 1% of IMDB's top 250. We have produced some good films, but the amount of watchable Canadian Films is minuscule compared to America. The UK is the only country that does OK in comparison to America. Most other countries produce very little that has any Western appeal. Hollywood has gotten very bland, but they still have the shear quantity.

  19. Re:Good, but... on Netflix's Big Bet on Original Shows Finally Seen Paying Off (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    It does not matter how many flops they get. You only need one show that you own exclusive rights to that everybody wants to watch.

  20. Re:Luke Cage and Daredevil Season 2 were awesome on Netflix's Big Bet on Original Shows Finally Seen Paying Off (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    > instead of having to wait to pirate it.

    You could not wait an hour?

  21. Re:Give Out an Official Recording on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    This is about more than just, "am I negatively effected by other recorders". I think the biggest issue here is, "is watching the show through your tablet as you record as entertaining as just watching the show"? I think the answer is absolutely no. The biggest reason to figure out some way to get people to put down their phones is to get them to actually watch and enjoy the show.

  22. Re:what about security? on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Have doctors really gotten rid of their pagers?

  23. Give Out an Official Recording on More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    In this day and age, with cheap cameras and practically free storage, performers should record everything, and they should give out the recordings to their audiences. Every joke Dave Chappelle ever makes is going to be on YouTube, their is nothing he can do about that. If he is unwilling for the public to hear something he says, then he probably should not say it in front of an audience of several hundred.

  24. Re:Anita Sarkeesian: Destroyer of Shareholder Valu on No One Wants To Buy Twitter (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    From what I understand many of Trump's posts are shadow-hidden; Completely or in regard to geographic areas. Like for example, last I heard if you sign in from Florida Trump had not posted anything in months, as per a week ago, or something like that.

  25. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? on 4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    >Wikileaks has ALWAYS had an agenda

    Don't they just leak anything and everything they can get their hands on? And do not themselves get the leaks, just publish them? I don't think they are hacking Hillary campaign leaders themselves, or turning down juicy leaks from Trump.