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  1. Re:sure. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    "All other causes" is the sum total of every other disease that leads to death; including pneumonia, measles, mumps, malaria, hepatitis, HIV, drug abuse, etc. None of them are linked to vaccine-related death.

    Quite the conjecture, considering the complete lack of empirical data to support it.

    Where does the graphic specify which maladies that "all other causes" constitutes, and what evidence is given to support the claim that it does not include vaccine-related deaths? Oh, that's right. it doesn't, and there is none; you just arbitrarily decided what is and is not included, because to factually state that you do not know would run counter to validation of your assumption. That is politics, not science, my friend.

    Thanks for playing.

  2. Re:Other Firings? on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    If my doctor believes in X and I believe in !X it would seem to be a better move for me to find a doctor who thinks like I do vs. wasting people's time and energy. Why would I, as a patient, want to waste my time if every time I talk to them it's the doctor's way or the high way (and vice versa).

    Totally agree with you there. I think most of the issues we see in the medical field could be solved if society would take down the ivory tower healthcare is set upon, and see the field as we would any other business: As the patient, I am a customer, and I expect a certain level of customer service. If I do not receive the level of service expected from X, I, as a logical and prudent consumer, should take my business elsewhere instead of wasting both my time and the time of X.

    A big medical expense savings could be care/disease management. Preventing people for getting type 2 if they show the pre-stage symptoms or how to manage it better if they get it.

    Hey, now, that sounds dangerously close to socialized medicine. Not that I have any issues with the concept (personally I think it could work out quite well if de-politicized), but you're opening up a helluva can of worms there.

    Given the shortage of nurses, doctors, etc. At some point firings makes 100% sense.

    Still disagree with this on the premise that such an attitude is a flagrant violation of the Hippocratic Oath, coupled with the fact I'm old-skool enough to still think a person's word or oath should be worth something.

  3. Re:sure. on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    for example, the leading cause of infant death is congenital malformations (birth defects), followed by low birthweight and gestational problems, and so on.

    Not according to the image you linked to; in it, the category "All Other Causes (residual)" significantly outpaces the causes mentioned in your post.

    If you're going to use a source to back your contention, you should probably make sure it actually backs said contention, rather than debunking it.

  4. Re:Great Idea... on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    Immaterial in regards to the Hippocratic Oath.

    That's like saying it doesn't matter if the military honors their pledge to defend the Constitution, because some politician is probably going to pull it from its case and take a shit on it someday.

  5. Re:Other Firings? on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    And, as we all know, doctors are always 100% honest, and never, ever fuck up.

    Having unquestionable faith in another human being, just because they have a certain collection of letters after their name, is just as stupid as the total lack thereof.

  6. Re:as well they on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Stupidity is not a protected group.

    Don't be so sure of that...

  7. Great Idea... on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 0

    That way, when the kiddo becomes deathly ill from some disease they weren't vaccinated against, their parents will have no where to turn for help, what with being blackballed by the pediatrician.

    What ever happened to "First Do No Harm?"

  8. Re:So.... wait.... what? on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 1

    1. Sell tons of smart phones.
    1a. Profit

    2. Discover that the infrastructure is overtaxed.
    2a. Profit some more from 'overage charges'

    3. Blame the customers.
    3a. Even more Profit while simultaneously screwing the few who were smart or lucky enough to have gotten an unlimited plan prior to the new "screw the customers as much as possible" policy took effect

    4. ?!?!?!
    4a. More inexplicable Profit derived from future morally questionable corporate ethic decisions

    FTFY.

  9. Re:What part can't the court's comprehend? on Female Passengers Say They Were Targeted For TSA Body Scanners · · Score: 1

    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever.

    -- George Orwell, 1984

  10. Hardware is less an issue... on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... than being charged for 200+ channels I will never watch.

  11. Rube Goldberg on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    [Sony] has developed a new power outlet that can identify who is connecting to it, and therefore allows for an individual to be charged for use.

    Obviously nobody at Sony has ever heard of a fucking switch.

    Here you go, internet cafe owners considering this new technology; I just saved you thousands in retrofitting costs.

    You're welcome.

  12. Re:That's the point on Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 · · Score: 1

    They say they consider it a fine on premature releases.

    Careful, lest you give hookers any ideas...

  13. Re:Now selling anti-cyber attack amulets! on "Cyberwar" As a Carrot For Those Selling the Stick · · Score: 1

    Hmm, that would compliment my Ninja Repellant Entertainment Center quite nicely...

    I'll take a dozen!

  14. Re:21st century--The era of perpetual war on "Cyberwar" As a Carrot For Those Selling the Stick · · Score: 1

    Except that, in a rather profound way, it's not funny at all.

  15. Re:This looks like pure BS on "Liberated" Tunisia Still Censoring Websites · · Score: 1

    ...support for the normalization of pedophilia is entering the stage that homosexuality was in 50 years ago.

    I was planning on offering a response, until I read that line.

    Bigotry isn't worth my time.

  16. Re:Bush did what? on Obama Budget Asks For 1% Boost In Research · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Politicians love (insert buzzword here) as long as it's something they can monetize and doesn't conflict with their social agenda.

    FTFY.

  17. Re:A limit to censoring on "Liberated" Tunisia Still Censoring Websites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In regards to the previously mentioned Ohio law, it was passed last year in part of a "defense of 'traditional' marriage" legislative package intended to keep homosexuals from wedding.

    The term 'irony' doesn't even begin to describe the situation there.

  18. Remember a Time... on Apple Launches New Legal Attack On Samsung · · Score: 2

    ... When tech companies actually sold products consumers wanted, instead of suing each other over the common features of said products?

    Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  19. Re:Let's test the censorship of the US on "Liberated" Tunisia Still Censoring Websites · · Score: 2

    Yes, censoring shouldn't exist. Like censoring when someone calls for the assassination of the president, and maybe all the rest of Washington's elected officials, of all abortion doctors you can think of, of all Jews, of all right wing [A]mericans who start wars, against all drug dealers and everything else I've forgotten.

    Of course such speech should not be censored; if people holding such attitudes were not allowed to express them, how would we know who is a violent bigot, and who is not?

    For good measure this should be done from a CBSABCFOX broadcast at 8 in the evening in a nationwide program with lots of "fuck", "piss", "cunt" and "barf" thrown in to a standing picture of the goatse man.

    There's an old saying: Just because something can be said, doesn't mean it must be said.

    You obviously don't know the difference between censorship and tactful expression.

    Or you're intentionally being obtuse.

  20. Re:A limit to censoring on "Liberated" Tunisia Still Censoring Websites · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just for your reference purposes, most Western countries actually have 15 or there about as the age of consent. The USA is the only country in the West being a serious prude about it.

    In the state of Ohio, it is perfectly legal for an adult to take guardianship of a minor (14-18), and subsequently use said guardianship to give themselves permission to marry said minor, granted they are of opposing genders. Seriously.

    In the state of Arkansas, you can marry a 13 year old (of the opposite sex) if you have written parental consent. I couldn't make this stuff up if I wanted to.

    Something tells me our "prudish nature" is nothing more than lip service.

  21. Well, shit on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 4, Funny

    There goes my business of selling oregano by the ounce in sandwich baggies...

  22. Re:Police will be ordering this soon on Smart Camera Tells Tobacco From Marijuana · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am more concerned about them increasing the number of helicopter patrols. Where I live now, the state sends out helicopters to look for cannabis plants, then indiscriminately arrests anyone who has a cannabis plant on their property.

    What's the ROI on that, you think?

  23. Re:Toxilogical Info on Skin Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice · · Score: 1

    Lesson learned, for sure.

    Out of curiosity, what was the lesson?

    (I'm not being a wiseass BTW. Just wondering how that experience has changed your behavior since then -- mainly, how you've protected yourself from having the same thing happen again, while still doing first-rate work in an efficient manner.)

    The lesson is that one should not let ones excellence and work ethic overshadow ones need for income.

    Put more simply, never do such a great job that you curb your own usefulness.

    That, or just build time-bombs into every script you write, that way there's always something that needs "fixing." Anyone who claims that's an inappropriate attitude to have towards a job is either A) in management (and thus, by association, a moron), or B) not good enough at what they do.

  24. Re:Toxilogical Info on Skin Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer's Symptoms In Mice · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you have a lot of wanderers in your family, check out Project Lifesaver.

    They have a wrist-mounted transmitter that lets police and caregivers (who have the receivers) find wandering patients quickly and safely. 100% success rate.

    I definitely will, thanks a lot.

    I wrote the code for the transmitters; it was done so well that they didn't need me anymore. (They got Microchip to program them by the reel.)

    Same thing happened to me at one of my old sysadmin jobs; they hired me because the last guy couldn't distinguish telephony (or anything else, for that matter) from his own ass, but as soon as I had everything running ship-shape, they sent me down the road.

    Lesson learned, for sure.

  25. SUV? on Tesla Reveals Its Model X Gullwing SUV · · Score: 1

    What's its towing capacity? It takes more than a third row of seats to make an SUV, you know.

    Also, did anyone else have trouble getting through the first link? I swear, with all that unbridled fawning I half expected the 'article' to be punctuated with an image of Nelson Ireson giving Elon Musk a B.J. in the back seat.