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  1. Re:Dumb fundie article on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    I saw an idiot make a decision that killed 5 people.

    Idiot are a danger to everyone. Usually in unexpected ways.

  2. Re:Dumb fundie article on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Studied by thousands of scientists. or
    Some nut with Google?
    Which to choose, which to choose...

    "Are you 100% certain that the vaccine shot that you are willing to take, or that you are willing to give your children is really safe enough to put into your body?"
    Yes.

    ", why is it that vaccinations that are given to children are the same dose that are given to adults? "
    Some are less some are the same and some are more. This is done for medical sound and scientific reasons.
    Uptake can be different, and vaccines aren't drugs. meaning it's not how much column in your blood. Vaccines go to a lymph node and collect immune cells.

    "The last thing, do you really think that the companies that make these really care if you have ANY health problems from whatever vaccine they make for you when in the US they are protected by law from harming you?"
    yes. There is special legal circumstances around vaccines. One of those reason is that their isn't a lot of money in producing most vaccines.

    Question about vaccines? go to the CDC, learn about them, learn how they work, learn how the immune response works, learn about the numbers. Learn from actual sources and not second hand anecdotes from people acting stupid.
    We live in a glorious age. We have the Internet and you have no excuse from finding accurate data and facts.

  3. Re:Hasn't this been solved? on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Hey now, he didn't go to school for years to be a 'Mr Repugnant evil man"

  4. Re:Insane on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    "5. Ron Paul doesn't think he's nuts, and worked with him regularly on bipartisan initiatives."
    Talk about your low bar.

  5. Re:Hey! Now we know on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some points, cause you are wrong.
    1) Vaccines aren't 100% - Elderly aren't as effective, children before vaccinated are at risk. Which is, of course, unvaccinated but somethines peopel forget that includes infants.

    2) Un-vaccinated people can be a vector for mutation, rendering the vaccination less effective.

    3) Un-vaccinated people cost all of us tremendous amount of money. Lost work, hospitalization, etc...

  6. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 3, Interesting

    No, but I wish they could. Oprah and Jenny McCarthy should be sent to prison for manslaughter.

  7. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    There are no death panels.
    Having people find out what kind of End of life actions you want is a GOOD thing. DO you want resuscitation? Do you want to be unplugged if 'brain dead'? and so on.

    Much better then 1000s dying from the current insurance death panels. i.e. service denied.

    Death panels is a scare term invented by republican and hyped through fox. There aren't people denying you services, or putting you to death.

    You \have to be an idiot to hear someone say 'death panel' and actually believe it means someone is killing you.

  8. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 0

    Canada takes just as long as the US. There is no difference.
    While you anecdote is cute and all, but this shit as actually been studied.

  9. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Y)OU cite sources. What rationing? what are you calling rationing?

    Right now, in the US Rationing is happening in the form of '30+million people getting no health care.
    Every country with government healthcare has better health care.

  10. Re:Is Microsoft the Great Satan? Betteridge says on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 1

    Except I have copies of all the apps I have every bought, so even when something is pulled I can, and have, load it from my copy.

    Doesn't Apple store a copy for you or allow you to back up your copy to you computer?

  11. Re:The first rule of semiconductor manufacture is. on Research Discovery Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    " "will it come while we still have Moore's law?""
    we don't have it now. Haven't for years. as a reminder: Double the transistors for half the price per cm2.
    When was the last time the number of transistors per cm2 doubles in 18 months? 2203? 2004?

  12. Re:Vast Majority? on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    ". I am just saying that I have not seen compelling, non-biased evidence that man-induced"
    Then you aren't looking.
    Let me sum up:
    Every external source does not hold up to the data.
    So it's internal reason the world is warming up. Normal cycle are from external sources. i.e. the earth position relative to the sun.
    The outer atmosphere isn't changing. gain, we would expect a change there is the source was external.

    ". "If a scientist, or a vast majority of scientists, say something is true, it is considered heresy to even dare to question it.""
    More accurately:
    "Vast majority of scientist who expertise is in the field being discussed come to consensus, then it is ignorant to question it with out supporting data or evidence of your position."
    history is full of times when consensus changed when new data became available.
    .

  13. Re:Vast Majority? on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    Actually the data supporting anthropogenic global warming is very compelling.

    All other ideas of what is causing this trend to happen on top of normal cycles have not been supported by the data.

    We know how much energy comes from the sun, we know the earths rotation and wobble determine cooling into or out of an ice age.
    The outer most atmosphere is not warming. Only the atmospheres close to the earth. So it's not external.
    Not. External.

    He looks like a boob now. Pile of flesh with no brains.

  14. Re:My apologies. on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    Makes you weep for his pour home schooled children.

  15. Re:My apologies. on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    His brain?

  16. Re:What makes you qualified to say he's unqualifie on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    IS religion believes that god won't let anything jn happen to the world, so Global Warming isn't real.
    Soon to be: Global warming is gods plan.

  17. They do. But people can only make decision on the data they have.
    That is why media manipulation is a problem. GIGO.

  18. Re:Skeptic is ok... on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 5, Informative

    " but in this case knowledgeable people are divided"
    NO! they are not. It's is a fake controversy manufactured for rating and the illusion of debate. Nothing more.
    The experts in the field have consensus.

    "So basically you're saying that what you believe to be true is a "well established fact" "
    no. AGW is a well established fact.

    As the poster stated: Anyone who opposed something that has a well established facts is a denier. The ONLY exception is if you bring forth a different testable idea. At which point you see if the data fits and have actual scientific debate.

    You may have never heard the term 'denier' before the holocaust denier issue, but it has been used for other things for at least 30 years that I personally know of.
    A denier is someone who denies facts. YOU are the one that tried to connect to the holocaust. There is a logical fallacy there, you might want to look it up.

    If you want real world examples look at China. AGW harm there growth more then anyone on the country, and they say it's real. Look at the predictions, there only fault is that they are turning out to be too conservative.

    But you don't understand the literature, so you refuse to believe the community they is experts in the field.
    That makes no sense. I'ts like not understanding set theory so you refuse to accept that Cartesian product is real, and the Georg cantor was on the doll of big Maths.

  19. Re:Skeptic is ok... on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "and various logical fallacies coming from both sides I don't think I'll know for a very long time. "
    or you could, you know, read the the actually climatologist are saying.
    Scientifically there is no debate. AGW is real. So you can stick you head in the sand becasue pundits blather about nonsense, but that's cowardly and short sighted.

  20. Re:To Be Fair, He's Replacing Texan Ralph Hall on Lamar Smith, Future Chairman For the House Committee On Science, Space, and Tech · · Score: 1

    Thoughts, doubly slow.

  21. Re:Wrong on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    Google just want slight more branding control. That's it.
    It did not limit what iOS developers could do with it.

    Apple HATES other peoples branding. They want their users to not do anything with any other brand unless the brand gives Apple money every time it's used.

    Apple wants to be the internet's toll road.

  22. Re:Wrong problem? on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 2

    But it was better then anything else that was out.
    So In would expect the next map to be better then the current ones. Not perfect, just better.
    I think Apple was concerned more about looks then accuracy.

    I think Tim Cook is on the second letter.

  23. Re:Google Maps was bad when it first appeared on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    Using mapquest to get you someplace in Laguna Hills was a nightmare.
    "While I could make a left here, I would plummet 50 feet to my death."

  24. Re:Does this Google statement make sense? on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It's based on man hours, so yes it is true.

  25. Re:Does this Google statement make sense? on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    Yes, its true:

    "I don’t think I am one of Apple’s favorites at the moment, but if I could help I would.
    I had a great laugh yesterday on this same topic. I was being interviewed for a national radio program in Australia on the topic of Apple Maps and the host asked me what did I really mean by the use of “400 years” and then added that there had been a lot of discussion there about what I had really meant. I was embarrassed, as I had to tell him that “400 years” had no real significance, while admitting that I was being “cheeky” and only meant to infer that this would not be a quick fix.
    Thanks,
    Mike"

    And it's based on man hours. so 100 people working 1 year would be 100 years.