Point fingers at "anti-vaxxers" all you want, that's not the root of the issue (not to say that it's not an issue). So long as we keep cramming more and more humans into smaller and smaller areas, we're just begging for a pandemic to come through and wipe out a fair amount of the population.
Think about new "super-diseases" like MRSA, or H041 Gonorrhea, which some experts are saying is a worse STD than AIDS.
No vaccination is going to save you from disease-related death if you're all crammed together like cattle in a slaughter shoot.
- no insurance coverage for treatment if you are not vaccinated
Insurance companies would love that, but I'm pretty sure it would violate the ACA
- fines for not vaccinating your children
Unconstitutional.
That leaves stupidity as the only reason not to get vaccinated./p>
Stupidity, ignorance, religious preference (which I know a lot of people 'round these parts will lump in with stupidity), lack of access, distrust of the government, distrust of doctors, etc.
Just because you can only think of one reason doesn't mean it's the only reason.
there should be child abuse laws for not giving your child required medical care that kick in.
Look, bud, if you don't like living in a country that promotes and supports individual liberty, you're free to either try and amend the Constitution or expatriate. But don't be a self-righteous, dickhead fundamentalist who demands laws be passed to support your opinion by taking rights and freedoms away from other people. 'Cuz that's fucked.
You could also reverse it, i.e. a tax deduction for vaccination, in case the psychology works better that way.
That's your best bet - provides the right incentive, and is Constitutionally sound. The flat-taxers won't like it, but since when does anyone care what a flat-taxer thinks?
Did you actually click the link? If anything the paid results are more obvious in my opinion. There's a bright yellow icon marking them out explicitly as "ADS" versus a light grey border labeled euphemistically "sponsored results". This is, at most, a step to the side, not a step backwards.
That's what I thought, too.
Heck, personally speaking I find the new ADS icon a lot easier to notice than the background-color-ever-so-slightly-different-than-the-non-ad-background-colors they used in the past.
Also, if you want to see an example of actual shady behavior regarding ads, go over to Yahoo.com and click the "News" link. about every third or fourth "article" in the feed is an advertisement, but apparently the marketing drones over there allow advertisers to make their ads look exactly like the other news feed items.
They aren't treasonous. Do you even know what that word means?
Sure - a traitor is someone who either aids and abets enemies of America, or one who declares war on the same.
Per the Constitution, "America" is defined by her people, so you can equate "enemies of America" to "enemies of the American people."
As the NSA is routinely violating the civil liberties of American citizens, with impunity, they are de facto enemies of the American people, and thus, they and anyone who assists them are traitors. Same goes for the "War on Drugs" folks, albeit due to the other kind of treason.
It's just a weird post - you go from implying that it's not worth worrying about, because a number not associated with a name is not identifiable, to pointing out how trivially easy it is to identify what person that number belongs to, then saying that it's not so trivially easy because "more and more people are not putting their cell phones into the phone book."
Then something about an internet connection. It's very mercurial and hard to follow.
It was different around here, too, 10-20 years ago. The condoms were proudly displayed on the impulse aisle, and as far as I know there was no age restriction at the time; I remember buying a pack of them at 13 or 14, just to prove to a friend that I could.
where we thought the Baptists were too liberal
Ha, fantastic. Y'all would have found my Catholic upbringing positively heretical.
Why would anyone think the Government could run healthcare? Is there any sign of competence or efficiency in Medicare, Medicade, or the VA? All are inefficient and fraud ridden with time wasted by reams of worthless paperwork. There is not one single thing that the Government of the US has ever done more efficiently than the private sector.
Sure there is! National parks and the military, for example.
Availability is a loaded word in this case. Go buy condoms as a 14 years old in an area where religious people want to burn people who use contraceptive on a stake....good luck (of course IMO they shouldn't need it at that age but the reality is different). You may also be in an area where your doctor will try to convince you not to get contraception. They'll prescribe it if you INSIST....
Compare that to an area where schools have someone on staff who can prescribe pills, or doctors will insist you consider it...
You end up with 2 totally different world. They're available in both cases, its just a different definition of available.
FWIW, those both sound like horrible, horrible places, and I'm glad I don't live there.
Around these parts, which I like to refer to as the Buckle of the Bible Belt, they lock the "generic" contraceptives (condoms, spermicide, etc.) up in a glass cabinet (because of theft), and I'm pretty sure you have to be at least 16 to buy them. For the "strong stuff," i.e. birth control or Plan B, you've got to go talk to either your doctor, or the nice folks down at Planned Parenthood.
Ignore the one guy sitting on the sidewalk with a protest sign, here's there every week.
If Google requires a credit card to create an account (I do not have a Google Play account so I do not know if that is the case); set the default to require a password before charging the card each time. You could allow users to change that to add a grace period but then they knowingly opened themselves up to multiple charges.
Pretty sure that's the problem - the default is "open for half an hour," and the user doesn't have the option to change it.
Which is a legitimate bitch, lack of parenting skills notwithstanding.
Yeah, that was my first take as well. This telephone number called that telephone number. Big whoop. Unless we have the name of the person who owns that first telephone number it's still just a number. Granted, matching a name to a phone number is trivially easy, except more and more people are not putting their cell phones into the phone book so it at least requires an Internet connection.
Did you really just say that you think clandestine government agencies are using the White Pages?
Or, to put it another way, infinitesimally reducing demand isn't really in any way equivalent to infinitesimally contributing to a blockade of supply.
Really? Either way you're spending money to see no notable effect; seems pretty equivalent to me, unless... does giving money create more Smug than changing habits?
Make all the apples-to-monster-trucks comparisons you want
And you can make all the false choice assertions you want. It doesn't mean that we can't work to pull ourselves out of the dark ages and stop burning dirt and spewing its byproducts into the air.
I'm sorry, what false choice? For some people, myself included, it's coal power or no power. Unless you're planning on putting up the cash to build an alternative energy plant around here, that's the only choice we have.
if you, personally, aren't limiting your own electricity use, not only are you not serious about the environment, you don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to telling other people how they should be getting their power.
I have been limiting my use.
Proof? Because from what I see, you're using a power-devouring computer to send an electronic message across a number of electricity-gorging networks, most of which are likely powered by coal.
So it looks like I'm justified in telling you that you ought to be working towards getting a better source of power, not just spouting off about the status quo being inevitable.
Ah, this must be where that Smug I heard about on the Weather Channel is originating from...
Tell you what, bro-heem, you come up with some new power source that is equal in production to coal, without the environmental effects, and I'll happily lobby my local government to use it instead of what we have. But there's nothing that justifies telling other people, "you shouldn't do that," unless you have an alternate, better way already in mind. It's just snarky, smug bitching at this point.
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Hm. Intelligent and well reasoned.
I was not expecting that. Great response, yo.
Ha, knew that one would get y'all riled up.
Let the Hunger, er, Slashdot Games Begin! Choose your weapons of fallacious logic!
It's got what plants crave!
Just tell them that the vaccine is... gluten free.
Is it really, or is that snark? I mean, I know you're making fun of treehuggers, but "gluten free" is a legitimate health concern for a lot of people.
Point fingers at "anti-vaxxers" all you want, that's not the root of the issue (not to say that it's not an issue). So long as we keep cramming more and more humans into smaller and smaller areas, we're just begging for a pandemic to come through and wipe out a fair amount of the population.
Think about new "super-diseases" like MRSA, or H041 Gonorrhea, which some experts are saying is a worse STD than AIDS.
No vaccination is going to save you from disease-related death if you're all crammed together like cattle in a slaughter shoot.
- free vaccinations
That could work
- no insurance coverage for treatment if you are not vaccinated
Insurance companies would love that, but I'm pretty sure it would violate the ACA
- fines for not vaccinating your children
Unconstitutional.
That leaves stupidity as the only reason not to get vaccinated./p>
Stupidity, ignorance, religious preference (which I know a lot of people 'round these parts will lump in with stupidity), lack of access, distrust of the government, distrust of doctors, etc.
Just because you can only think of one reason doesn't mean it's the only reason.
there should be child abuse laws for not giving your child required medical care that kick in.
Look, bud, if you don't like living in a country that promotes and supports individual liberty, you're free to either try and amend the Constitution or expatriate. But don't be a self-righteous, dickhead fundamentalist who demands laws be passed to support your opinion by taking rights and freedoms away from other people. 'Cuz that's fucked.
You could also reverse it, i.e. a tax deduction for vaccination, in case the psychology works better that way.
That's your best bet - provides the right incentive, and is Constitutionally sound. The flat-taxers won't like it, but since when does anyone care what a flat-taxer thinks?
Did you actually click the link? If anything the paid results are more obvious in my opinion. There's a bright yellow icon marking them out explicitly as "ADS" versus a light grey border labeled euphemistically "sponsored results". This is, at most, a step to the side, not a step backwards.
That's what I thought, too.
Heck, personally speaking I find the new ADS icon a lot easier to notice than the background-color-ever-so-slightly-different-than-the-non-ad-background-colors they used in the past.
Also, if you want to see an example of actual shady behavior regarding ads, go over to Yahoo.com and click the "News" link. about every third or fourth "article" in the feed is an advertisement, but apparently the marketing drones over there allow advertisers to make their ads look exactly like the other news feed items.
If I ever find myself charged with treason, I think I'll have bigger concerns than my choice of representation.
Like applying for asylum.
BTW, snide remarks don't really provide a counterpoint to my statements or reasoning.
They aren't treasonous. Do you even know what that word means?
Sure - a traitor is someone who either aids and abets enemies of America, or one who declares war on the same.
Per the Constitution, "America" is defined by her people, so you can equate "enemies of America" to "enemies of the American people."
As the NSA is routinely violating the civil liberties of American citizens, with impunity, they are de facto enemies of the American people, and thus, they and anyone who assists them are traitors. Same goes for the "War on Drugs" folks, albeit due to the other kind of treason.
Really? Nobody else is gonna say it? Fine, I'll be that guy:
Day 1 event schedule:
- Using the Force to Grow your Leads - Sales Manager Kenobi
- 2 Meters Across: Beating the Niche Market Slump - Marketing VP Skywalker
- The Dark Side... of IT Infrastructure - CTO Vader
- It's A Trap! Avoiding Common Security Mistakes Keynote Speech - Adm. Ackbar
I wonder if I can make a solar powered UV flashing light to scare away animals?
A couple UV LED's and a 555 timer. Hell, you might be able to mod one of those solar-powered outdoor lights.
Or just use a bug zapper. Of course, that might kill off the pollenators as well.
Yea, that could be a problem. Then again, it begs the question, what effect do the UV light pulses have on pollinators such as bees?
It's just a weird post - you go from implying that it's not worth worrying about, because a number not associated with a name is not identifiable, to pointing out how trivially easy it is to identify what person that number belongs to, then saying that it's not so trivially easy because "more and more people are not putting their cell phones into the phone book."
Then something about an internet connection. It's very mercurial and hard to follow.
I wonder if I can make a solar powered UV flashing light to scare away animals?
A couple UV LED's and a 555 timer. Hell, you might be able to mod one of those solar-powered outdoor lights.
I didn't think I needed to put the word "exclusively" at the end of my sentence, since OP's post pretty much implies it.
It was different around here, too, 10-20 years ago. The condoms were proudly displayed on the impulse aisle, and as far as I know there was no age restriction at the time; I remember buying a pack of them at 13 or 14, just to prove to a friend that I could.
where we thought the Baptists were too liberal
Ha, fantastic. Y'all would have found my Catholic upbringing positively heretical.
Why would anyone think the Government could run healthcare? Is there any sign of competence or efficiency in Medicare, Medicade, or the VA? All are inefficient and fraud ridden with time wasted by reams of worthless paperwork. There is not one single thing that the Government of the US has ever done more efficiently than the private sector.
Sure there is! National parks and the military, for example.
OK, so maybe just those two things...
here's there every week.
Plugh.
Brain not work right; need more caffeine.
Availability is a loaded word in this case. Go buy condoms as a 14 years old in an area where religious people want to burn people who use contraceptive on a stake....good luck (of course IMO they shouldn't need it at that age but the reality is different). You may also be in an area where your doctor will try to convince you not to get contraception. They'll prescribe it if you INSIST....
Compare that to an area where schools have someone on staff who can prescribe pills, or doctors will insist you consider it...
You end up with 2 totally different world. They're available in both cases, its just a different definition of available.
FWIW, those both sound like horrible, horrible places, and I'm glad I don't live there.
Around these parts, which I like to refer to as the Buckle of the Bible Belt, they lock the "generic" contraceptives (condoms, spermicide, etc.) up in a glass cabinet (because of theft), and I'm pretty sure you have to be at least 16 to buy them. For the "strong stuff," i.e. birth control or Plan B, you've got to go talk to either your doctor, or the nice folks down at Planned Parenthood.
Ignore the one guy sitting on the sidewalk with a protest sign, here's there every week.
If Google requires a credit card to create an account (I do not have a Google Play account so I do not know if that is the case); set the default to require a password before charging the card each time. You could allow users to change that to add a grace period but then they knowingly opened themselves up to multiple charges.
Pretty sure that's the problem - the default is "open for half an hour," and the user doesn't have the option to change it.
Which is a legitimate bitch, lack of parenting skills notwithstanding.
A Nintendo DS with a library of used games would have prevented all these problems.
So would a stick, a frisbee, and a quarter-acre to play with them on.
I found a way to circumvent this issue on an Android device:
Don't link your friggin' credit card to it - go buy one of those Google Play $X Credit cards at the green grocer, and load that to your account.
I don't have kids, but do this anyway. Google doesn't need access to my bank account.
Yeah, that was my first take as well. This telephone number called that telephone number. Big whoop. Unless we have the name of the person who owns that first telephone number it's still just a number. Granted, matching a name to a phone number is trivially easy, except more and more people are not putting their cell phones into the phone book so it at least requires an Internet connection.
Did you really just say that you think clandestine government agencies are using the White Pages?
Or, to put it another way, infinitesimally reducing demand isn't really in any way equivalent to infinitesimally contributing to a blockade of supply.
Really? Either way you're spending money to see no notable effect; seems pretty equivalent to me, unless... does giving money create more Smug than changing habits?
You understand that for a significant portion of the global population, coal == electricity, right?
LOLWUT?
No, I've researched this. Coal is used heavily in the US midwest and some areas in China.
China alone makes up "a significant portion of the global population," you know.
I'm sure it's a lot easier to have the "coal bad" mentality when you're not one of those people who wouldn't have electricity without coal.
2nd most important.
The most important question would be, "How well does it run Crysis?*"
* I haven't kept my finger on the pulse of gaming for some time; is Crysis still the benchmark for ridiculously complex and detailed graphics?
Make all the apples-to-monster-trucks comparisons you want
And you can make all the false choice assertions you want. It doesn't mean that we can't work to pull ourselves out of the dark ages and stop burning dirt and spewing its byproducts into the air.
I'm sorry, what false choice? For some people, myself included, it's coal power or no power. Unless you're planning on putting up the cash to build an alternative energy plant around here, that's the only choice we have.
if you, personally, aren't limiting your own electricity use, not only are you not serious about the environment, you don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to telling other people how they should be getting their power.
I have been limiting my use.
Proof? Because from what I see, you're using a power-devouring computer to send an electronic message across a number of electricity-gorging networks, most of which are likely powered by coal.
So it looks like I'm justified in telling you that you ought to be working towards getting a better source of power, not just spouting off about the status quo being inevitable.
Ah, this must be where that Smug I heard about on the Weather Channel is originating from...
Tell you what, bro-heem, you come up with some new power source that is equal in production to coal, without the environmental effects, and I'll happily lobby my local government to use it instead of what we have. But there's nothing that justifies telling other people, "you shouldn't do that," unless you have an alternate, better way already in mind. It's just snarky, smug bitching at this point.