So you aren't aware that shingles can occur in adults from an infection of chicken pox they had when they were children?
She could get chicken pox naturally at, say, 3 or 4 and recover from it. Then when she's thirty it can reactivate and she'll get to deal with shingles.
Chicken pox isn't a trivial disease when you consider the damage shingles can cause.
I don't know what's more frightening, your willful ignorance or the fact that someone modded it insightful.
By your logic, airbags don't work because they don't work 100% of the time in all circumstances. Or plants don't grow anywhere at all because they won't grow in battery acid.
As long as a large enough portion of a population is vaccinated against known strains there won't be enough hosts for a new strain to emerge that the vaccine is ineffective against.
Even people who were vaccinated can get it if there immune system has been compromised by something else. If most of the population is vaccinated the chance of being exposed to it while you have a compromised immune system is low. If the population was made up of ignorant fools, there'd be a good chance of coming into contact with it while you have a compromised immune system. Now there's a chance for a strain to develop that can handle the antibodies of someone who has had the vaccine. Then you give it to your kids, they spread it to the school, and so on until it's an epidemic.
Please, for the love of whatever invisible space man you believe in, don't breed. If you have, your invisible space man god told me to tell you to sacrifice them to him. Then they can play in space with the invisible pink unicorns.
If you get enough people that aren't vaccinated you might provide the critical mass of hosts for enough slightly different from the vaccine strains to mutate enough so the vaccine is no longer effective for the new strains.
I've started to wonder if the reason earlier cultures had some of those bad evil non-pc ideas wasn't to just be mean evil patriarchal societies.
Maybe they figured out that bad things tended to happen if they had too many engineers having kids with other engineers. That it was better keep similar occupation men and women apart so you'd get the mathematically minded engineer procreating with the socially orientated receptionist. Like the shallow/deep roller spiel in Red Dragon (or was it Hannibal?). Shallow/Shallow or Shallow/Deep was okay. Deep/Deep, not so much...
There's been some research that has shown by certain ages a person's capability to learn an initial language drastically cuts off.
Barney, and the rest of his never-change-facial-expressions-non-human-faced friends, deprive babies of the non-verbal cues normal human interaction produces. If non-verbal language follows verbal language, sticking a baby in front of Barney or Dora or any of those other disturbing computer animated baby shows is feeding the kid a language that doesn't sync with the human world.
Does Barney express pain with facial expressions? You wonder why "autistic" kids can't tell when they are hurting other kids? They don't speak the same language as the rest of humanity.
Of course something like this means that when mommy and daddy let Dora and Barney babysit the kid they were partly responsible for their kid's lack of development, and we can't have that...
I didn't vote for Coleman and after his temper tantrums even if he wins this time around I won't ever be voting for him.
It was a damned close race, well within the margin of error for all the voting methods involved. He didn't have a choice with the by state law automatic recount but he sure didn't have to drag it out with challenges once the automatic recount said he lost. We're down one senator thanks to his reluctance to lose.
I didn't vote for Franken either and he'd get the same treatment if he was dragging out the process like Coleman is.
The by state law automatic recount said he lost. He should suck it up, concede, and let Minnesota have two senators. His pride and arrogance have cost the state half of their representation in the senate.
On the Venn diagram of people, I doubt there is any intersection between honest or integrity with politician.
Competent would depend on if it meant they were competent at being a politician, which we have many examples of (Ted Kennedy, Strom Thurman) or if they were competent at faithfully representing the wishes of their constituents, which we really don't have examples of (since politicians seek re-election above all other purposes).
So I doubt we'd have to worry about term limits affecting honest, competent politicians with integrity.
Why do we need to group a light bulb efficiency bill with a car fuel efficiency bill? Especially when the overall bill is passed on an all or none basis?
It's not like you can't have a legislative platform with individual single purpose bills as planks if you want to be able to group a large number of bills together for referential convenience but each bill should stand on its own merit and not whether it is grouped with a more popular or vital bill that no one seeking re-election would vote against.
This, amongst the other chicanery of congress, is yet another example of why we need to impose single purpose limitations on the bills congress tries to pass.
They can take their riders and try to get them passed as stand alone bills.
Sometimes I wish you free market nuts would get exactly what you are wishing for, though only after I have sufficient supplies and ammunition to ride out the ensuing dark age.
Are you ranting about ILECs that are *forced* to provide service within their area or CLECs that don't have their own infrastructure and really aren't forced to do anything they don't want to do?
At least in the sticks, ILECs provide the overwhelming majority of the infrastructure. There still are small local ILECs out there as they are the ones still covering the very rural areas since it isn't profitable for a CLEC to come in or for some major telco company to buy them out. They cannot cut infrastructure. And generally they need every customer the can keep to meet operating costs. The move to cell only has been brutal and no one needs a second line anymore for their modem.
Lose your local ILEC (especially if it is a coop) and then you're at the mercy of a major telco where you have no say at all, other than not having any service.
And if you happen to live in an area that isn't profitable to run service to I suppose you should just move then, right?
The reason everyone has access to a landline totally wasn't because ILECs were required by the government to provide dialtone to anyone, anywhere within their service region, nope. It was totally because it was absolutely profitable to run copper fricken everywhere man!
And just imagine all the complaints if every tom, dick and startup were given permission to plow in new cable or fiber. We'd go back to gravel roads. Then all we'd have to do is dig down in the trench with a shovel and add yet another layer of soon-to-be-dark fiber or copper.
We're a geographically big nation once you step outside of the starbucks ridden cities. The population can get pretty damn sparse. It seems easy if you're going the CLEC route and just buying access to already existing infrastructure. But you'd be in for one hell of shock if you suddenly had to start plowing out to every customer.
I hate to break it to ya, but dropping fiber to every home is very, very, very expensive. You think that a non-governmental for profit company is going to take a massive guaranteed permanent loss to give Joe Redneck in the sticks a 20mb/s connection?
Have you used Windows Mobile? That's something I reserve for inflicting on only my worst enemies and only as a last resort. It's the Jack Bauer option of OSs.
And as a consumer I don't want to see OS X on a Dell. OS X works so well because it doesn't have the problem of supporting every crappy piece of hardware known to man like Windows has.
Fortunately for me, civilization has moved past the point where the survival of reproductive females determines the survival of the clan/tribe/community/city-state.
For the society, losing an adult male, who is a productive member, is a bigger blow than losing a child, which is nothing more than a consumer and hasn't yet had massive amounts of resources sunk into training and professional experience. Lose a kid, you wait nine months and you've got a replacement. Lose a doctor and you're out more than just time.
Also, if you're bringing genetics and animal behavior into it I'd advise you to watch the documentary Idiocracy.
I would have considered women and children as uberhuman since they always get a special listing and treatment.
If you have a headline of "200 killed in the attack" you know that no one important enough mention specifically was killed, that only adult males were killed. If you have "200 killed in the attack, including one woman and two children" you know there were three people important enough to actually mention as people, the woman and two children while once again the 197 adult males don't even get to qualify as human.
Then you have the rights of the subhumans (adult males) being continually trampled in favor of the uberhumans (women and children).
To paraphrase Stalin, killing a woman or child is a tragedy, killing men is a statistic.
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So you aren't aware that shingles can occur in adults from an infection of chicken pox they had when they were children?
She could get chicken pox naturally at, say, 3 or 4 and recover from it. Then when she's thirty it can reactivate and she'll get to deal with shingles.
Chicken pox isn't a trivial disease when you consider the damage shingles can cause.
When she develops shingles I hope she thanks you.
I don't know what's more frightening, your willful ignorance or the fact that someone modded it insightful.
By your logic, airbags don't work because they don't work 100% of the time in all circumstances. Or plants don't grow anywhere at all because they won't grow in battery acid.
As long as a large enough portion of a population is vaccinated against known strains there won't be enough hosts for a new strain to emerge that the vaccine is ineffective against.
Even people who were vaccinated can get it if there immune system has been compromised by something else. If most of the population is vaccinated the chance of being exposed to it while you have a compromised immune system is low. If the population was made up of ignorant fools, there'd be a good chance of coming into contact with it while you have a compromised immune system. Now there's a chance for a strain to develop that can handle the antibodies of someone who has had the vaccine. Then you give it to your kids, they spread it to the school, and so on until it's an epidemic.
Please, for the love of whatever invisible space man you believe in, don't breed. If you have, your invisible space man god told me to tell you to sacrifice them to him. Then they can play in space with the invisible pink unicorns.
The initial automatic recount was mandated by state law. Neither candidate initiated the recount. Hence, by state law, there was an automatic recount.
Herd Immunity.
If you get enough people that aren't vaccinated you might provide the critical mass of hosts for enough slightly different from the vaccine strains to mutate enough so the vaccine is no longer effective for the new strains.
I've started to wonder if the reason earlier cultures had some of those bad evil non-pc ideas wasn't to just be mean evil patriarchal societies.
Maybe they figured out that bad things tended to happen if they had too many engineers having kids with other engineers. That it was better keep similar occupation men and women apart so you'd get the mathematically minded engineer procreating with the socially orientated receptionist. Like the shallow/deep roller spiel in Red Dragon (or was it Hannibal?). Shallow/Shallow or Shallow/Deep was okay. Deep/Deep, not so much...
Personally, I blame Barney.
There's been some research that has shown by certain ages a person's capability to learn an initial language drastically cuts off.
Barney, and the rest of his never-change-facial-expressions-non-human-faced friends, deprive babies of the non-verbal cues normal human interaction produces. If non-verbal language follows verbal language, sticking a baby in front of Barney or Dora or any of those other disturbing computer animated baby shows is feeding the kid a language that doesn't sync with the human world.
Does Barney express pain with facial expressions? You wonder why "autistic" kids can't tell when they are hurting other kids? They don't speak the same language as the rest of humanity.
Of course something like this means that when mommy and daddy let Dora and Barney babysit the kid they were partly responsible for their kid's lack of development, and we can't have that...
Ease and efficiency aren't always good things.
Law enforcement isn't supposed to be easy and it stops being what it should be when it does become easy.
I didn't vote for Coleman and after his temper tantrums even if he wins this time around I won't ever be voting for him.
It was a damned close race, well within the margin of error for all the voting methods involved. He didn't have a choice with the by state law automatic recount but he sure didn't have to drag it out with challenges once the automatic recount said he lost. We're down one senator thanks to his reluctance to lose.
I didn't vote for Franken either and he'd get the same treatment if he was dragging out the process like Coleman is.
The by state law automatic recount said he lost. He should suck it up, concede, and let Minnesota have two senators. His pride and arrogance have cost the state half of their representation in the senate.
For Ted, it's seniority. Good, bad or ugly the state doesn't want to lose its position of power in the committees he's on.
On the Venn diagram of people, I doubt there is any intersection between honest or integrity with politician.
Competent would depend on if it meant they were competent at being a politician, which we have many examples of (Ted Kennedy, Strom Thurman) or if they were competent at faithfully representing the wishes of their constituents, which we really don't have examples of (since politicians seek re-election above all other purposes).
So I doubt we'd have to worry about term limits affecting honest, competent politicians with integrity.
Why do we need to group a light bulb efficiency bill with a car fuel efficiency bill? Especially when the overall bill is passed on an all or none basis?
It's not like you can't have a legislative platform with individual single purpose bills as planks if you want to be able to group a large number of bills together for referential convenience but each bill should stand on its own merit and not whether it is grouped with a more popular or vital bill that no one seeking re-election would vote against.
I'd take it a bit further and say no consecutive terms, including the president. They can run for re-election on their own dime and time.
This, amongst the other chicanery of congress, is yet another example of why we need to impose single purpose limitations on the bills congress tries to pass.
They can take their riders and try to get them passed as stand alone bills.
Maybe they took those stupid Coke Zero ads seriously and decided the text-to-speech thing sounds too much like their product...
If so, perhaps they should hire some better voice actors for their books on tape.
Sometimes I wish you free market nuts would get exactly what you are wishing for, though only after I have sufficient supplies and ammunition to ride out the ensuing dark age.
Are you ranting about ILECs that are *forced* to provide service within their area or CLECs that don't have their own infrastructure and really aren't forced to do anything they don't want to do?
At least in the sticks, ILECs provide the overwhelming majority of the infrastructure. There still are small local ILECs out there as they are the ones still covering the very rural areas since it isn't profitable for a CLEC to come in or for some major telco company to buy them out. They cannot cut infrastructure. And generally they need every customer the can keep to meet operating costs. The move to cell only has been brutal and no one needs a second line anymore for their modem.
Lose your local ILEC (especially if it is a coop) and then you're at the mercy of a major telco where you have no say at all, other than not having any service.
And if you happen to live in an area that isn't profitable to run service to I suppose you should just move then, right?
The reason everyone has access to a landline totally wasn't because ILECs were required by the government to provide dialtone to anyone, anywhere within their service region, nope. It was totally because it was absolutely profitable to run copper fricken everywhere man!
And just imagine all the complaints if every tom, dick and startup were given permission to plow in new cable or fiber. We'd go back to gravel roads. Then all we'd have to do is dig down in the trench with a shovel and add yet another layer of soon-to-be-dark fiber or copper.
We're a geographically big nation once you step outside of the starbucks ridden cities. The population can get pretty damn sparse. It seems easy if you're going the CLEC route and just buying access to already existing infrastructure. But you'd be in for one hell of shock if you suddenly had to start plowing out to every customer.
I hate to break it to ya, but dropping fiber to every home is very, very, very expensive. You think that a non-governmental for profit company is going to take a massive guaranteed permanent loss to give Joe Redneck in the sticks a 20mb/s connection?
Have you used Windows Mobile? That's something I reserve for inflicting on only my worst enemies and only as a last resort. It's the Jack Bauer option of OSs.
And as a consumer I don't want to see OS X on a Dell. OS X works so well because it doesn't have the problem of supporting every crappy piece of hardware known to man like Windows has.
But that's like saying people don't have the inalienable right, nay, the god given duty to spawn regardless of their social and economic status!
You can't go around spouting heresies like having to take responsibility when you breed! That's just un-American!
Fortunately for me, civilization has moved past the point where the survival of reproductive females determines the survival of the clan/tribe/community/city-state.
For the society, losing an adult male, who is a productive member, is a bigger blow than losing a child, which is nothing more than a consumer and hasn't yet had massive amounts of resources sunk into training and professional experience. Lose a kid, you wait nine months and you've got a replacement. Lose a doctor and you're out more than just time.
Also, if you're bringing genetics and animal behavior into it I'd advise you to watch the documentary Idiocracy.
I would have considered women and children as uberhuman since they always get a special listing and treatment.
If you have a headline of "200 killed in the attack" you know that no one important enough mention specifically was killed, that only adult males were killed. If you have "200 killed in the attack, including one woman and two children" you know there were three people important enough to actually mention as people, the woman and two children while once again the 197 adult males don't even get to qualify as human.
Then you have the rights of the subhumans (adult males) being continually trampled in favor of the uberhumans (women and children).
To paraphrase Stalin, killing a woman or child is a tragedy, killing men is a statistic.
I think there's some quote by some dead guy that goes on about essential liberties and temporary safety that might answer your question.