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  1. Re:Overcome by events on DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The idea is that since the ballot is put in the envelope at home the procedure can be supervised by the party paying, the problem is that it doesn't scale and that is why it also doesn't happen. Add to that that you can go to the polling station later and cast a different vote that replaces the vote-by-mail vote which also makes this far to "unsecure" for the vote buyer.

    It does however open the door for abusive spouses to force other members of the same household to vote in a specific way, apply the same to cults and corporations (everybody bring in your vote by mail ballot to the big meeting in the canteen or you will loose your job). The corproate one would of course be a huge scandal which is why few if any would attempt that route.

  2. How does "no amounts of elections can "correct" what the EU chooses to do" actually work? As a EU citizen I vote for who will represent my country in the EU Parliament in the upcoming EU elections and in the last national election I voted on who will represent me locally in our local government which is the same people that constitutes my country:s part of the EU Council.

    That is the two decision making powers within the EU, one of which I as a EU member can vote on directly and one that I can vote on indirectly. So how does this play out with your delusional notion that it's some kind of dictatorship?

  3. Re:Less studies, more laws. on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? So sure that you don't even link to a single "study"...

    Meantime in the real world:

    However, investigators from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now say there is new-found evidence that links the growing number of incidences in the U.S. to a sizable measles outbreak that recently occurred in the Philippines. The CDC reports that specimens from 30 California patients are a direct genetic match to the strain of the virus in the Philippines. Both are classified as measles genotype B3.

  4. Re:You know what's frustrating? on Decade-Long Study: Measles Vaccine Doesn't Cause Autism, Even in High-Risk Kids (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    One problem is that some of them have begun to spread the idea that the plagues never happened and that big pharma simply (being the omnipotent powers that they are) rewrote every history book and falsified the stories of people dying from various deceases.

  5. There have been no "vaccine strains being spread around", don't you know the basic fact that the strains used in most vaccines are dead? That a vaccinated kid can get the same symptoms as being infected by the "real thing" is just because his body reacting to the killed strain from the vaccine, not because the kid actually got infected.

    The measles outbreaks where 100% due to the anti-vaxxers.

  6. No it won't. Back when thimerosal where removed from all new vaccines the leaders of the anti-vaxx movement agreed in debates with the skeptic community that if autism levels would not drop 5 years later then they would agree that they had no case against vaccines. 5 years went by and the levels didn't drop but of course instead of agreeing that they where wrong they started to claim some insane stuff such as "crematoriums increasing their release of mercury in levels that compensates for the removal of thimerosal from vaccines"...

    Source for this was an 2007 episode of SGU.

  7. As you well know, those countries are only socialist if some one in the US want's to point to something bad in said country, when they want to point to something good then they are capitalistic with "some socialist programs".

  8. Re: Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry but all of that is just anti-vaxxer crap. There does not exist a single controlled peer-reviewed study that indicates that the Mumps vaccine is anything but 90+% effective. E.g we have this one: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

    Recently, numerous large-scale mumps outbreaks have occurred in vaccinated populations. Clinical isolates sequenced from these outbreaks have invariably been of genotypes distinct from those of vaccine viruses, raising concern that certain mumps virus strains may escape vaccine-induced immunity. To investigate this concern, sera obtained from children 6 weeks after receipt of measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine were tested for the ability to neutralize a carefully selected group of genetically diverse mumps virus strains. Although the geometric mean neutralizing antibody titer of the sera was lower against some virus strains than others, all viruses were readily neutralized, arguing against immune escape.

    The HPV vaccines are not given to newborns, the lowest age to get it are 9 years of age. And it's 100% vital to give it before the girl becomes sexually active

    The flu vaccine story is also fake, or rather there where a single study that once showed a potential link but then further studies where done (this is how science works, you cannot draw conclusions from a single study), that showed that there where no link: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/...

    There was one study (published in 2012) that suggested that influenza vaccination might make people more susceptible to other respiratory infections. After that study was published, many experts looked into this issue further and conducted additional studies to see if the findings could be replicated. No other studies have found this effect. For example, this article [99 KB, 5 pages] in Clinical Infectious Diseases (published in 2013). It’s not clear why this finding was detected in the one study, but the preponderance of evidence suggests that this is not a common or regular occurrence and that influenza vaccination does not, in fact, make people more susceptible to other respiratory infections.

  9. Re:NO. on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Free speech is far from useless if no one hears it. E.g the problem with speaking your mind in North Korea or Iran is not that no one will hear you but that you risk getting jailed, tortured and/or killed and with the added fun that it also might be extended to your whole family. And not being on Amazon, Facebook or Youtube is not to "kill the public space", stuffing you at the back of my van when you try to speak your mind at the public square is killing the public space.

  10. Re:Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I can agree with all of that, however my concern is when "normal" people start to see these documentaries and falsely believe that they are informal and factual and thus makes the wrong decision. Or in other words, I want to keep this idea as fringe and not risk it getting even close to mainstream. The anti GMO- and anti gluten-crowd have already shown that such a risk is quite real.

  11. Re:What is wrong with systemd? on Linux 5.0 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    You can execute bash scripts with systemd if what you are trying to accomplish does not fit within a unit file. Btw if you haven't seen this video about systemd from a FreeBSD developer than I can highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  12. Re:What is wrong with systemd? on Linux 5.0 Released (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that you can find answers to both questions (and why many admins like systemd) in this interesting video from a FreeBSD developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  13. Re: Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    This have nothing to do with profits, most other conspiracies does not have the fatal outcome that the antivaxxer movement have and are not as dangerous to society. 911 truthers, flat-earthers, moon hoaxers and people who believe in ghosts might be spewing crazy shit but they are not a danger to any one.

  14. Re:NO. on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That big pharma measure profits over human life have exactly nothing to do with my post. That big pharma works that way is the reason why we have governmental regulations on the pharma industry that costs big pharma billions in order to prove that their drugs work and that they are safe. And no this is not a "pattern of acceptable censorship", no one here is denying the antivaxxers from making their voice heard, this is just a private company not letting the antivaxxers use their store as a platform for their propaganda.

  15. Re:Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't regard theories as a sort of infectious agent. Perhaps you are not aware of the common English saying of "spreading ideas"?

    Finding reasonable ways of dealing with it is for one having this shit being removed from Amazon so fewer people are getting exposed to plain misinformation like these so called documentaries. Combating these ideas through persuasion and reasoned arguments have been shown time and time again to not work, the people who have fallen for these conspiracy theories only get more hardcore the more you talk with them.

  16. Re: Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because when the false "vaccines causes autism" craze started in the 1980:ies the large amount of lawsuits in the US caused several large manufacturers planning to leave the US: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/...

    So the US government initiated the "National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program" instead where the manufacturers put money into a large fund that makes payouts to everyone claiming to have been injured by a vaccine.

    And for your second claim, no the pharmacologists that tests wheather vaccines are safe or not are not he climatologists that make claims about Global Warning. And Science does not work that way anyway, there never existed any scientific evidence that Manhattan would be submerged by now. Whoever said that to you lied their pants off.

  17. Re:Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not about changing any ones mind but trying to prevent the conspiracy theories from spreading.

  18. Re:Just what we need..... on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you honestly wondering how something that is factual correct can be damaged by false information and slander? Have you really thought this through?

  19. Re:Multiple problems with this on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There exists exactly 0% legitimate anti-vaccine content in these movies and/or books. The information that there are people that are allergic to certain vaccines or that there exists health conditions that may prevent some people from safely receiving vaccines will be given to you by your real doctor when you talk to him/her about vaccinating your child. That information is not hidden.

    Actually I do think that hindering the spread of these "documentaries" will have an affect since the anti-vaxxers are fortunately still such a small group that need platforms such as Amazon and Youtube in order to spread their message. It's when their shit is displayed on Amazon and Youtube that some people start to believe that their claims are believable.

  20. Re:Censorship begins on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    I know that the threat of violence makes me automatically loose the argument but as the father of a autistic son, if I where ever to share say an elevator with one of the MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) peddlers then only one of us would be leaving that elevator. Those people are beyond horrible.

  21. Re:Vaccines: So Safe Questioning Them Is Prohibite on Amazon Removes Anti-Vaccine Movies After CNN Inquiry (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    That reasoning only works if these so called documentaries actually contained valid questions but the truth is that they are nothing more than pure slander and misinformation that cause actual harm to people (mostly children).

  22. No one claimed that Amazon was _required_ to give back. This is just _complaining_ that they don't.

  23. Re:SO happy the theatrical cut is included on Ridley Scott's 'Alien' Will Finally be Released in 4K HDR For Its 40th Anniversary (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    As I heard it back when they release the Bluray version which also uses 4.1 the claim was that early 70mm 6-track mixes where actually 4.2 (3 fronts, mono surround and 2 LFE channels) and since you cannot encode 2 LFE channels into AC3 it became 4.1. Then there are other claims that the 4.1 mix comes from the 4 channel master that where used for the Theatrical Dolby Surround mix since Ridley wanted to correct some sound errors in the 6-channel mix that where not present in the 4 channel mix.

  24. You can even go one step further. I once performed a test with the 1080P bluray version of Blade Runner where I forced the bluray player to downscale to 720P to my UHD 4k 65" TV and it was very difficult to spot the difference between that and when the player sent the whole 1080P image.

  25. Re:Some good stuff over here .... on European Governments Approve Controversial New Copyright Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The EU Parliament elections are being held in May so every one should rally for people to only vote on parties that are against article 13 (e.g the pirate party).