Incorrect, although your points were correct. The non-vaccinated population allows diseases to mutate into something that can affect the rest of the population. Many old scourges of humanity have been completely destroyed because of near universal vaccinations. Think about this: if nobody who had a venereal disease ever had sex again, then many venereal diseases would be gone in a generation. (Yes I know there are ways around this...)
Although, I should point out that preventing death in general is a fruitless endeavor in and of itself.
The fight against preventing death has resulted in ever increasing lifespans for humanity. So, obviously, the resources spent have been fruitful, even if we haven't achieved immortality.
No one trusts the government, but everyone seems to want to put it in charge of health care.
Well, most of the human population actually does put a form of government in charge of health care. (Admittedly, most of the human population didn't actively chose that)
Who is in charge of it with private health insurance? When you have private health insurance, the people in charge of it are people who want your money and will sacrifice your health in order to make more money. I prefer dumbass bureaucrats to people with an incentive to not heal you. (see all the stories about the bonuses insurance company workers got for finding ways to deny coverage).
Also, just because I believe a single payer system would be more efficient and better doesn't mean I find bureaucrats completely trustworthy.
But advertisers have some sacred "right" to make a buck that's more important than me making my own decisions. Which is even weirder because, I'm told, the free market depends on informed consumers making free choices.
OK fine. Start paying for every f'ing internet site you visit without advertisements, because they all cost money to operate. Or stop using the internet. Your choice.
The cost matters as it relates to the severity of the crime. Why should we spend a hundred thousand dollars to imprison someone who has stolen a loaf of bread? I am not implying that we should never spend more on fighting crime than the cost of the crime, but instead take a look at that particular law which landed a guy in jail for 15 years for the theft of a few thousand dollars.
1. That's figuring that this guy was good enough to sell 120,000 discs in a year. I, and you probably, highly doubt that. 2. How much does it cost society to house this guy in a prison for 15 years?
I don't think what he did was right. My problem is that our society is spending our money incorrectly.
Regardless of the fighting the criminal act, the loss incurred by 10,000 discs of illicitly copied material is much, much, much less than the cost it will take to house a prisoner in America for 15 years.
I personally have a friend/acquaintance from high school who became a cop after he and some friends were busted by two cops at a standard high school party (nothing really bad going on, probably some drinking or whatever). He decided to become a cop after that incident because he wanted the power and fun that those cops had.
No, he doesn't want to get shot or killed at, but yes, he did become a cop because he had a "desire to bully".
I love this! I am a hardcore developer who's done assembly to Java. I have many non-technical friends who ask, "how does a computer work?" The short answer is that two electrical pulses, which we call either 0 or 1, go through something (a gate like NAND) to get an output of 0 or 1, and you combine that in a massive logic puzzle to get a computer. This course describes everything in detail. Love it. Well, not "everything" but certainly everything non-educated but technical people want to know.
You are so fucked up in so many ways. You believe in religion because it "seems" right without evidence? You chose Bjarne Stroustrup as an exemplar of intelligent programmers, even though he wrote C++ which is a fucked up language?
Good comments, I'm told, are not just a rehash of what is already in the code. Well, if it isn't already in the code, then it isn't much use to the program is it? I don't believe in comments.
You are a fucking moron. RTFM. You are saying you don't like worthless comments. Duh, you dumbass. Good comments are not what is already in the code. Good comments explain why, bad comments explain how. The how part is already in the code and therefore worthless.
The "less AIDS argument" actually holds up in third world countries where there is no access to health care, less hygienic practices, and less education.
It doesn't hold up here in America. There may be like 1-5 cases of the extra foreskin actually causing HIV to be contracted when without it the virus didn't contract - there may be none at all. In all seriousness, the studies cited were not done in the developed world.
T-Mobile has unlimited text and calling and rate-limited unlimited data. I pay $120/mo for unlimited calls and text and 5GB rate limited unlimited data for two lines.
If he meant direct democracy, he would have said it. There are no direct democracies in this world at any substantial level, so why would he have meant direct democracy?
He obviously has read somewhere that America is a republic and not a democracy, which is an internet rumor and nothing else. America is a democracy.
I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the rich stuff you were saying, but... if guns and violence made people become rich means they became rich by merit of using such means to become rich.
The current combat mechanics... lets just about every class fill any role.
That is a good thing, IMO. It was awful that some classes simply "weren't allowed" in certain dungeons. Now, all classes are allowed. Some are obviously better than others, but the game SUCKS for one of the classes that couldn't play.
Ah, I remember playing a Druid in vanilla - the worst class by far.
ALL of government was designed to make people rich
Actually, I would say governments are originally made to make people safe, and later morphs into something which deals with the control of wealth/power.
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You realize that an hour commute from SF an get you the same?
Incorrect. it only matters to the un-vaccinated.
Incorrect, although your points were correct. The non-vaccinated population allows diseases to mutate into something that can affect the rest of the population. Many old scourges of humanity have been completely destroyed because of near universal vaccinations. Think about this: if nobody who had a venereal disease ever had sex again, then many venereal diseases would be gone in a generation. (Yes I know there are ways around this...)
Although, I should point out that preventing death in general is a fruitless endeavor in and of itself.
The fight against preventing death has resulted in ever increasing lifespans for humanity. So, obviously, the resources spent have been fruitful, even if we haven't achieved immortality.
No one trusts the government, but everyone seems to want to put it in charge of health care.
Well, most of the human population actually does put a form of government in charge of health care. (Admittedly, most of the human population didn't actively chose that)
Who is in charge of it with private health insurance? When you have private health insurance, the people in charge of it are people who want your money and will sacrifice your health in order to make more money. I prefer dumbass bureaucrats to people with an incentive to not heal you. (see all the stories about the bonuses insurance company workers got for finding ways to deny coverage).
Also, just because I believe a single payer system would be more efficient and better doesn't mean I find bureaucrats completely trustworthy.
Why?
In other words, it's a pathetic lie to pretend that 'the internet would not exist without adverts'.
I didn't say that. I said that all websites cost money to operate. So just fuck off with your false dichotomy.
But advertisers have some sacred "right" to make a buck that's more important than me making my own decisions. Which is even weirder because, I'm told, the free market depends on informed consumers making free choices.
OK fine. Start paying for every f'ing internet site you visit without advertisements, because they all cost money to operate. Or stop using the internet. Your choice.
The cost matters as it relates to the severity of the crime. Why should we spend a hundred thousand dollars to imprison someone who has stolen a loaf of bread? I am not implying that we should never spend more on fighting crime than the cost of the crime, but instead take a look at that particular law which landed a guy in jail for 15 years for the theft of a few thousand dollars.
He wasn't a violator. He was a commercial copyright violator!
Dude, don't be a dumbass. You can't compare distributing heroin, gambling, and prostitution as a similar crime which deserves the same sentence.
1. That's figuring that this guy was good enough to sell 120,000 discs in a year. I, and you probably, highly doubt that.
2. How much does it cost society to house this guy in a prison for 15 years?
I don't think what he did was right. My problem is that our society is spending our money incorrectly.
Regardless of the fighting the criminal act, the loss incurred by 10,000 discs of illicitly copied material is much, much, much less than the cost it will take to house a prisoner in America for 15 years.
I personally have a friend/acquaintance from high school who became a cop after he and some friends were busted by two cops at a standard high school party (nothing really bad going on, probably some drinking or whatever). He decided to become a cop after that incident because he wanted the power and fun that those cops had.
No, he doesn't want to get shot or killed at, but yes, he did become a cop because he had a "desire to bully".
there are just as many of us who see recreational drug use for the ... distracting habit it is.
What is wrong with a distracting habit? I watch movies to distract myself from the boredom and suffering of life; so what?
I love this! I am a hardcore developer who's done assembly to Java. I have many non-technical friends who ask, "how does a computer work?" The short answer is that two electrical pulses, which we call either 0 or 1, go through something (a gate like NAND) to get an output of 0 or 1, and you combine that in a massive logic puzzle to get a computer. This course describes everything in detail. Love it. Well, not "everything" but certainly everything non-educated but technical people want to know.
You are so fucked up in so many ways. You believe in religion because it "seems" right without evidence? You chose Bjarne Stroustrup as an exemplar of intelligent programmers, even though he wrote C++ which is a fucked up language?
Good comments, I'm told, are not just a rehash of what is already in the code. Well, if it isn't already in the code, then it isn't much use to the program is it? I don't believe in comments.
You are a fucking moron. RTFM. You are saying you don't like worthless comments. Duh, you dumbass. Good comments are not what is already in the code. Good comments explain why, bad comments explain how. The how part is already in the code and therefore worthless.
The "less AIDS argument" actually holds up in third world countries where there is no access to health care, less hygienic practices, and less education.
It doesn't hold up here in America. There may be like 1-5 cases of the extra foreskin actually causing HIV to be contracted when without it the virus didn't contract - there may be none at all. In all seriousness, the studies cited were not done in the developed world.
T-Mobile has unlimited text and calling and rate-limited unlimited data. I pay $120/mo for unlimited calls and text and 5GB rate limited unlimited data for two lines.
If he meant direct democracy, he would have said it. There are no direct democracies in this world at any substantial level, so why would he have meant direct democracy?
He obviously has read somewhere that America is a republic and not a democracy, which is an internet rumor and nothing else. America is a democracy.
I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the rich stuff you were saying, but... if guns and violence made people become rich means they became rich by merit of using such means to become rich.
Please see my signature, dumbass.
Aren't they rather antiquated? We don't need them - what about http://google?
+1
The current combat mechanics... lets just about every class fill any role.
That is a good thing, IMO. It was awful that some classes simply "weren't allowed" in certain dungeons. Now, all classes are allowed. Some are obviously better than others, but the game SUCKS for one of the classes that couldn't play.
Ah, I remember playing a Druid in vanilla - the worst class by far.
Haha, couldn't have said it better myself!
ALL of government was designed to make people rich
Actually, I would say governments are originally made to make people safe, and later morphs into something which deals with the control of wealth/power.