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  1. Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 2

    It should be modded as mean, short sighted, egotistical and troll.

  2. Re:So there's 100 or so unimmunized? on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 1

    Nice speculation. Wrong.and stupid..in fac it's not nice at all just wildly ignorant.

  3. Re:Mexico Vaccinates Better Than The US on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 2

    And you should learn to evaluate the methodology and statistics in a study instead of assuming the abstract is correct.

    Also, you should reread it. It has more to do with closed population group in low income.

    That said, it's irrelevant. We should immunizes everyone.

    People can prattle on and how 'wrong' illegal immigration is bottom line, it happens. If something more the a review study should indicate it is largely due to illegal entry, is that enough not to vaccinate and disease that doesn't care about legal status? Especially since non-vaccinate people are a vector for mutation?

    So maybe the study is on a specific sub group and not on a cross population?

  4. Re:Mexico Vaccinates Better Than The US on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "...and was speaking from personal experience."
    This is a huge red flag. He probably is not a trained epidemiologist, and as such his observation bias is no different in that area then anyone else.

    Of course, he wears a white coat so you assume is an expert in all things.

     

  5. Re:Mexico Vaccinates Better Than The US on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 0, Troll

    What are you trying to imply? that people who can't vote and have no money somehow influance the govt,?

    You are a fucking moron who couldn't think his way out of a wet paper bag with a map.

    You-> "durp. Let blame all my probl;em on someone else because I can't be wrong. herp derp."

    You are a horrible anti-American human being and will remain so until you learn to think,

  6. Re:Mexico Vaccinates Better Than The US on California Whooping Cough Cases "an Epidemic" · · Score: 0

    High. The rates for all people in Mexico are higher. This includes illegals.
    Stop blaming American stupidity on illegals immigrates.

  7. Re:Progenitors? on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unlikely.
    There is so much a water and other elements key to life as we know it that have been floating around for billion of years.

  8. NO it does not. on Aliens and the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's meaningless.
    Space is REALLY BIG. In fact, space s bigger than time is long.
    You could have started sending out robots 12 billion years ago and they wouldn't have even made a scratch in colonizing the universe.

  9. Next headline: on TweetDeck Hacked · · Score: 2

    everything everywhere has been hacked. Deal with it.

  10. Re:Fuck Amazon on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 2

    It's even easier when you realize no company is evil. or good.
    They are companies.

  11. Re:Barnes and Nobles still lets you preorder on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    You don't get free 2 day shipping from Amazon.
    You pay 40 dollars a year.

  12. Re:Barnes and Nobles still lets you preorder on Amazon Dispute Now Making Movies Harder To Order · · Score: 1

    Except in this case, they're terms are being dictated to WB; and the customer will win.

    And there can't be a monopoly on digital goods.
    WB could sell it from their own site, as an example.

  13. Re:Dry rocks 'r us on A Scientist Is Growing Asparagus In Meteorites To Prepare Us For Space Farming · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...less plants and bacteria..."
    really? I think if thatw as an issue the headline would ahve said:

    "OMFG! Scientists discovers bacteria and plants in meteor! WORLD CHANGED FOREVER!"

    Neil DeGrasse Tyson was quoted as saying "This is the greatest discovery in all of human history, and stop blaming me for Pluto."

  14. Re:Small Question on A Scientist Is Growing Asparagus In Meteorites To Prepare Us For Space Farming · · Score: 1

    It's all fun and games until it stands up, walks out of the perti dish and says "'allo govner!"

  15. Alternative Headline on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Aspyr Media inflicts Civ V on Linux users!

    When asked for commit, the CEO simple said:"MUAAAHahahahha".

  16. Re:Yay DRM on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    and you can get 'pong' pretty much everywhere. Same with 'Tetris'

  17. Re:Yay DRM on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    the second one applies to all games, regardless if they use steam or not.

  18. Re:Yay DRM on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Look harder. I can download many 'Steam Only' games and play wihtout steam becasue they have been cracked. And you don't need to crack the encryption, only have the OS skip the check, or be fed a false positive.
    So, a good hex editor and time and you will be good to go.

  19. Re:Yay DRM on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    A) Steam as taken that into account and can remove DRM if they go out of business
    B) Every one of those games is available via some sort of download mechanism. I won't bat an eye at downloading a game I already purchased.
    C) Many of the games today require steam in order to install. So if you have those disks, but Steam is shut down, it won't exactly do you any good. On the other hand, if I have downloaded it, and Valve turns off the steam DRM I'll be able to play.

  20. Re:About damn time! on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Civ V? it stinks. I've played all of them to death, but less then 100 hours in Civ V, mostly during the first month.
    Boring, simple, and boring.

  21. Re:So glad it's over on $3000 GeForce GTX TITAN Z Tested, Less Performance Than $1500 R9 295X2 · · Score: 1

    I have 180 dollar gaming card that plays everything very well.
    This is, frankly, stupid.There is no gain, and professional gamers want all the particulates and distractions turned off.

  22. 3000? on $3000 GeForce GTX TITAN Z Tested, Less Performance Than $1500 R9 295X2 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Gamers spending 3000 on a video card aren't overly burdened with intelligence.

  23. Re:Alama being sensationalist again... on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would give my left testicle to have had google glass when I took my , then fiance, to a theater filled with 50 of her friends as a surprise. To have that 25 years later would be awesome. TO see her face when we sung Happy Birthday to her and a theater of hundreds joined in.

    And yes, that was all before the previews started. They didn't have ads then.

    So stop telling me what I want to record. People are just as inconsiderate as when you where a kid, they just have another outlet.
    I don't like lights from personal devices in the theater, but it's still better then when they allowed smoking.

  24. Re:Alama being sensationalist again... on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    "... other than discreet piracy."
    or they need glasses to, you know, see.
    or they want to record their one year anniversary date for latter?
    or..well a thousand thing that have nothing to do with piracy.

    Not that a movie filmed on google glass would stop anyone from seeing the movie.

  25. Re:Alama being sensationalist again... on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 4, Informative

    "no one minds someone discrtely checking there phone"
    I do. I mind very much. Guess what? A bright light in a dark theater is NEVER not distracting. And a phone at any dimmed level that is readable is bright in a theater.

    A cinema is where we go to quietly enjoy immersion into a film.
    You are being a distraction, you need to grow up.
    The fact that you are telling people who want other people to be polite to 'grow up' must require a huge ego to muster that much cognitive dissonance

    " and enjoy the movie."
    That's the problem, douche bags like you make it so we can't enjoy the movie.
    Watch it at home if your damn phone is so important.