The fact is that the antivax advocates have managed to convince a statistically significant portion of the population to forego vaccines, which has resulted in a lowering of herd immunity, which has led to measles outbreaks in various areas of the US. I'll continue to err on the side of caution, thanks...
"Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love... Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I — I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence."
The problem with a misinformed public is that they rapidly become the pitchfork and torch wielding public when it comes to public funding for science endeavors ("We don't need no moar money wasted on that thar space thingy!!!")
I'd have to say that the whole "drug using welfare junkie" meme is a fallacy. They tried to do the drug testing for welfare checks thing here in Florida, and the program essentially lost significantly more than it would have saved. In the article I read, only 2.3% failed the drug tests, which seriously undermines the assertion that everyone who collects a welfare check is a junkie.
Even worse than that, why should a customer who is actually generating power, and providing the power company more product to sell at its exorbitant rates, be charged more for electricity than a customer who generates no power at all and is simply a draw on the system? This is what I don't get. Solar surplus from the household gets dumped onto the grid, power company has more power to sell, and the household supplying this additional product is charged for having supplied it. Seems to me that in OK there is no good reason to go solar, since you have to foot the cost of the solar installation, and then pay more for power on top of it.
Yes, but if you brand it capitalism, you remove the ability for people to shout "SOCIALIST" and negate whatever views you have because McCarthyism... I'm personally getting sick and damn tired of hearing the word socialist tossed around simply because it's become a dog whistle for the far/extreme/one ass cheek hanging off the table right to use to rally the troops in a state of outrage that someone is acting un'merican
I think the chief distinction represented by the Citizens United ruling versus the previous status quo was that the sources of the money could be kept secret following that ruling.
Yeah, Civil Rights act was the last one I could think of, which was why I set the bar at 50 years. I was more responding to the hyperbolic allusion to drones being included in the 2nd amendment by the previous commenter.
If you read the previous comments, it's mentioned that this particular teacher was a thorn in the administration's side, being a union representative that wasn't rolling over for whatever management's flavor of koolaid was this week. I think it was absolutely an excuse to get rid of an obstacle, especially since he's no longer in charge of those negotiations because of this. People are always looking for grand conspiracies to take their guns away, when the truth is much less insidious. I guess they'll take any excuse they can to beat that drum...
Got one right here. I have children, so I don't have guns. I felt it was the simplest way to guarantee their safety while not inconveniencing myself in the process. That, and that guns are fracking expensive. I will say there are a number of people I've known who were gun owners, that scared the living hell out of me. Such as the MENSA candidate that lived next door to me, and loved to pull his Desert Eagle out on 4th of July to fire rounds into the ground in the easement (15 feet of it) between our houses...
He's also conveniently forgetting the "Southern Strategy" (where the southern republicans suddenly decided to turn racist in order to court the southern white vote) while tossing the word "racist" and "democrat" around in conjunction with each other. Obvious agenda is obvious.
This is disingenuous, IANAL, but I can't think of a single piece of legislation enacted in the last 50 years that increased our rights. Decreased, sure...
Damn, I wish I'd known about that trick back then, that was exactly the problem I was having with mine. I've had a couple of 100$ all in one laserjets (both HP) since then. The one I've got now (I forget the model) is pretty decent, and obviously doesn't require its own nuclear reactor to print, but I do miss the reliability of that 30 pound monstrosity. I do, however, not miss the 5 degree increase in temperature around the thing when it was running though, lol
I had to move my LaserJet 4P from the power outlet all I had my server and workstation connected to because it would trip the breaker, but that bastard lasted in my living room for 6 years, after my company had tossed it on the garbage pile because they considered it EOL after they'd used it for 5. Of course, I could watch my power meter spin about 50% faster whenever it cranked up, but that was a damn fine printer.
I was mercilessly bullied when I was in high school. When I finally had enough and lashed out, I was labeled as "emotionally handicapped" and stuck in one of these classrooms. Let me tell you, it's pure pandemonium in them. There is little to no control, the teacher is usually a "counselor" of some sort, but is woefully undertrained to handle a class of 15 or 20 where the majority of them act literally like animals. We had kids set fire to things in class, fights break out, whatever, and the teacher would ineffectually wave her hands around asking them to stop. Meanwhile, normal old me, who just got sick of hearing disgusting rumors about himself, getting tripped in the hall and then stepped on (repeatedly), beat up after school by groups of "Lord of the Flies" wannabes, etc., just wanted to escape this hell and graduate. Thank FSM I didn't go to school during the internet era, when the whole "cyberbullying" thing started up. I'm 40 now, and it still hurts to think back on how a relatively small group of jackasses managed to get a graduating class of 200 something to unequivocally loathe me.
I would venture to say that human nature is human nature wherever you go in the world. The thing that reigns human nature in is human compassion. Some are born with more than others, some are born with none at all (sociopaths), and some have it stamped out of them by indifferent or abusive parents. The latter two cases can result in bullies, who either act out their aggression to vent their rage at all that's unfair in their lives or just act cruelly because it's amusing to them. Bullies have existed as long as society has. Probably as long as humans have.
What society has to decide is how much we want to have in common with cro magnon man. We have had the ability to curtail this sort of behavior for ages, but it's far cheaper in effort and finance to pay the issue lip service, and then actually do nothing at all.
For me it's less about "I don't care" and more about "I have limited resources, and what I have is already dedicated 100% toward my own, and my family's survival"
First rule of walking the streets of San Francisco. Don't make eye contact with the panhandlers. You'll be broke within a block. I lived there for 5 years, walked (or took public transit) everywhere, and couldn't go two blocks without passing a half dozen of them. When I first moved there, I'd give some, but it got so annoying to be getting up at 6am, and asked for spare change 12 times between my apartment and the bus stop where I caught the bus to work that I just gave up on it. I'll be the first to admit that there are a number of homeless in SF that are genuinely unable to provide for themselves, but there are far more that are. I lived in the Haight for a while, and I regularly used to get panhandled by teenagers wearing 180$ Doc Martins. I've got loads of sympathy for the homeless, but that doesn't extend to putting myself on the streets in order to feed/clothe/house them.
Slashdot Mirror
Too late... http://www.cdc.gov/measles/out...
I think at that point they would be meteorites, and not meteoroids ;)
The fact is that the antivax advocates have managed to convince a statistically significant portion of the population to forego vaccines, which has resulted in a lowering of herd immunity, which has led to measles outbreaks in various areas of the US. I'll continue to err on the side of caution, thanks...
"Do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk, ice cream? Ice cream, Mandrake? Children's ice cream!...You know when fluoridation began?...1946. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works. I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love... Yes, a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I — I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence. I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women, er, women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake...but I do deny them my essence."
The problem with a misinformed public is that they rapidly become the pitchfork and torch wielding public when it comes to public funding for science endeavors ("We don't need no moar money wasted on that thar space thingy!!!")
I'd have to say that the whole "drug using welfare junkie" meme is a fallacy. They tried to do the drug testing for welfare checks thing here in Florida, and the program essentially lost significantly more than it would have saved. In the article I read, only 2.3% failed the drug tests, which seriously undermines the assertion that everyone who collects a welfare check is a junkie.
Even worse than that, why should a customer who is actually generating power, and providing the power company more product to sell at its exorbitant rates, be charged more for electricity than a customer who generates no power at all and is simply a draw on the system? This is what I don't get. Solar surplus from the household gets dumped onto the grid, power company has more power to sell, and the household supplying this additional product is charged for having supplied it. Seems to me that in OK there is no good reason to go solar, since you have to foot the cost of the solar installation, and then pay more for power on top of it.
Indentured servants do... Just enough to allow them to survive, but not enough to be free.
Yes, but if you brand it capitalism, you remove the ability for people to shout "SOCIALIST" and negate whatever views you have because McCarthyism... I'm personally getting sick and damn tired of hearing the word socialist tossed around simply because it's become a dog whistle for the far/extreme/one ass cheek hanging off the table right to use to rally the troops in a state of outrage that someone is acting un'merican
I think the chief distinction represented by the Citizens United ruling versus the previous status quo was that the sources of the money could be kept secret following that ruling.
Yeah, Civil Rights act was the last one I could think of, which was why I set the bar at 50 years. I was more responding to the hyperbolic allusion to drones being included in the 2nd amendment by the previous commenter.
If you read the previous comments, it's mentioned that this particular teacher was a thorn in the administration's side, being a union representative that wasn't rolling over for whatever management's flavor of koolaid was this week. I think it was absolutely an excuse to get rid of an obstacle, especially since he's no longer in charge of those negotiations because of this. People are always looking for grand conspiracies to take their guns away, when the truth is much less insidious. I guess they'll take any excuse they can to beat that drum...
Got one right here. I have children, so I don't have guns. I felt it was the simplest way to guarantee their safety while not inconveniencing myself in the process. That, and that guns are fracking expensive. I will say there are a number of people I've known who were gun owners, that scared the living hell out of me. Such as the MENSA candidate that lived next door to me, and loved to pull his Desert Eagle out on 4th of July to fire rounds into the ground in the easement (15 feet of it) between our houses...
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I'm really surprised this lot missed the chance to scream about unions too...
He's also conveniently forgetting the "Southern Strategy" (where the southern republicans suddenly decided to turn racist in order to court the southern white vote) while tossing the word "racist" and "democrat" around in conjunction with each other. Obvious agenda is obvious.
This is disingenuous, IANAL, but I can't think of a single piece of legislation enacted in the last 50 years that increased our rights. Decreased, sure...
Damn, I wish I'd known about that trick back then, that was exactly the problem I was having with mine. I've had a couple of 100$ all in one laserjets (both HP) since then. The one I've got now (I forget the model) is pretty decent, and obviously doesn't require its own nuclear reactor to print, but I do miss the reliability of that 30 pound monstrosity. I do, however, not miss the 5 degree increase in temperature around the thing when it was running though, lol
I had to move my LaserJet 4P from the power outlet all I had my server and workstation connected to because it would trip the breaker, but that bastard lasted in my living room for 6 years, after my company had tossed it on the garbage pile because they considered it EOL after they'd used it for 5. Of course, I could watch my power meter spin about 50% faster whenever it cranked up, but that was a damn fine printer.
I was mercilessly bullied when I was in high school. When I finally had enough and lashed out, I was labeled as "emotionally handicapped" and stuck in one of these classrooms. Let me tell you, it's pure pandemonium in them. There is little to no control, the teacher is usually a "counselor" of some sort, but is woefully undertrained to handle a class of 15 or 20 where the majority of them act literally like animals. We had kids set fire to things in class, fights break out, whatever, and the teacher would ineffectually wave her hands around asking them to stop. Meanwhile, normal old me, who just got sick of hearing disgusting rumors about himself, getting tripped in the hall and then stepped on (repeatedly), beat up after school by groups of "Lord of the Flies" wannabes, etc., just wanted to escape this hell and graduate. Thank FSM I didn't go to school during the internet era, when the whole "cyberbullying" thing started up. I'm 40 now, and it still hurts to think back on how a relatively small group of jackasses managed to get a graduating class of 200 something to unequivocally loathe me.
I would venture to say that human nature is human nature wherever you go in the world. The thing that reigns human nature in is human compassion. Some are born with more than others, some are born with none at all (sociopaths), and some have it stamped out of them by indifferent or abusive parents. The latter two cases can result in bullies, who either act out their aggression to vent their rage at all that's unfair in their lives or just act cruelly because it's amusing to them. Bullies have existed as long as society has. Probably as long as humans have. What society has to decide is how much we want to have in common with cro magnon man. We have had the ability to curtail this sort of behavior for ages, but it's far cheaper in effort and finance to pay the issue lip service, and then actually do nothing at all.
For me it's less about "I don't care" and more about "I have limited resources, and what I have is already dedicated 100% toward my own, and my family's survival"
First rule of walking the streets of San Francisco. Don't make eye contact with the panhandlers. You'll be broke within a block. I lived there for 5 years, walked (or took public transit) everywhere, and couldn't go two blocks without passing a half dozen of them. When I first moved there, I'd give some, but it got so annoying to be getting up at 6am, and asked for spare change 12 times between my apartment and the bus stop where I caught the bus to work that I just gave up on it. I'll be the first to admit that there are a number of homeless in SF that are genuinely unable to provide for themselves, but there are far more that are. I lived in the Haight for a while, and I regularly used to get panhandled by teenagers wearing 180$ Doc Martins. I've got loads of sympathy for the homeless, but that doesn't extend to putting myself on the streets in order to feed/clothe/house them.