What if a parent used the vaccine schedule of Denmark, Norway, Japan or Finland -- countries that give one-third the shots we do (12 shots vs. 36 in the U.S.)?
That's funny because EXACTLY DUE TO THIS TYPE OF STUPID REASONING, Japan split up the MMR vaccine into three separate vaccines given over a period of three years, and their autism rates just keep going up regardless. There's not even correlation between vaccination rates and autism, much less causation.
Yeah, but you only have to buy this monolith once. The hungry will just be hungry again tomorrow... Unless you stop feeding them, then it eventually solves itself.
In my view, they peddle mostly crap solutions for problems that are best prevented.
I'm not sure how to parse that sentence. Are you saying most solutions presented by pharmaceutical companies are crap, AND that most health problems are preventable anyway, or are you saying that for PREVENTABLE problems their solutions are mostly crap? Both statements are WRONG, but the second one least so.
Once I realized that the reason I was constantly suffering from allergies and getting sick were caused mostly by what I was eating and drinking, I stopped consuming those things...
Good for you. Most people with allergies aren't so lucky. For those people, anti-histamines are a godsend. But in either case we're just talking about COMFORT. You're saying instead of using medicine to make yourself more COMFORTABLE you changed your lifestyle. Whoopdie-fucking-do.
What the people suffering from malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, etc. through no fault of their own? Is curing them via drugs a "crap solution"? Should they just change their lifestyle? What about people who would be completely mentally disabled without treatment? Should they just accept a lifestyle of being in a straight jacket in a rubber room for the rest of their lives?
Get over yourself. There are people with real problems being provided real solutions that allow them to live lives they'd otherwise not even be able to dream of. Just be glad you're apparently healthy, and hope that's always the case. Don't badmouth people who aren't as lucky as you.
How this helps us must be over my head. I can't see $20 or $30 per PC price difference even filtering down to us.
You know you can order your own RAM sticks and put them in a computer yourself, right? It's not like you have to buy a pre-assembled system from a licensed dealer or something...
Cox sued... BellSouth sued... then several "concerned citizens completely and totally unconnected with Cox or BellSouth, we promise, honest!" sued, as well. I didn't recall them pointing to any specific law, though, just general angst over the whole thing...
The sad thing is I was working in the local government at the time and I know for a fact that the Fiber-to-Home initiative was only started AFTER the local government went to Cox and BellSouth and tried to work out a deal for either one of them to deliver fiber service. Only after they both laughed the government out of their offices did LUS pursue delivering it by itself.
And yeah, that's one of the things that makes me kick myself for leaving Lafayette as well. Especially since the neighborhood my apartment was in was picked as the first for fiber rollout about three months AFTER I left...
The cable and telcos bribed Congress to outlaw such "unfair competition" and in that Bill Congress gave the cable and telcos $200 Billion to finish what the local governments had started.
I wasn't an iPhone fanboy before, but after getting the Android phone, I'm seriously considering becoming one.
Do what you've got to do, but it really sounds like your problems are completely unrelated to Android and solely down to Sony being incapable of making a good phone.
As a (non-car) analogy, if you went to the store and bought a five dollar bottle of scotch that came in a tin can, would it be fair to say all scotch is bad, that it's unreasonable to expect you to look at the different brands, and you'll be sticking to tequila?
You know, I just remembered an even better example. My Grandfather was in a hospital about three hours away from his home recovering from a brain injury a few months ago. My parents were there visiting him, and were telling him that his great-granddaughter had started walking. He became sad that he had missed such a milestone, being 1500 miles away and in a coma at the time. My Mom just pulled out her iPhone, called me up, and within minutes he was able to watch her walking and talk to her in real-time. You can't believe how much that meant to him! In no way would a webcam or dedicated video camera have been a useful substitute for a phone with video capability.
Don't move the goal posts. We're talking about video chatting, not recording video. If I wanted to record video, obviously I would use a video camera. (Except my phone's quality isn't much worse, and posts to Youtube significantly more easily...)
It's just you. The Knocking app on our phones has brought loads and loads of joy to my parents, as they're able to watch their 11 month old granddaughter play with her Christmas presents from 1500 miles away... Having the option for two-way communication with it would only be better.
And I don't know what sort of shape Bank of America is in - are they part of the general morass that US banking has sunk into over the last couple of years?
They need to die. They're incompetent AND fraudulent. Unfortunately for me they bought my mortgage back in June (something I'm still cranky with TD Bank about). I just got called by them again last night (by a robot) claiming my mortgage is past due. Problem? I paid the mortgage over a week early. But they can't handle that. This is the fifth month in a row they haven't been able to figure out my mortgage is actually paid up in full, and they will (once again) have to admit and apologize to me that they were in error by claiming I was behind on payments... again... I'm calling them again Monday to do this dance again, but first I'm calling my state's Department of Banking and Insurance to file a complaint. This has gone beyond the pale. Then I'm calling them, informing them ONCE AGAIN that they are abject MORONS, and demanding to see proof that they actually hold the promissory note on my mortgage as chances are with this level of incompetence they never actually bothered to get the note when they bought the damn thing, and if they don't have the note they don't own the mortgage and they can kiss my ass.
When have the Republicans worked towards compromise?
Bush (much to everyone's chagrin) pretty much let Ted Kennedy write the No Child Left Behind act. McCain-Feingold? Another stellar example of Republican led bipartisanship... Hell, the first President Bush sunk his presidency enacting Democrat led tax policy as an olive branch to Congress...
The telecoms tried that very hard in my hometown... Even had several "concerned citizens" suing the city after their own lawsuits failed. Ended up pushing back the start date by two years. In the end, though, we won... And completed the build-out ahead of schedule.:)
Hell of a deal... Still kicking myself for moving to this hellhole right before the build started. The neighborhood my apartment used to be in was the picked as the initial test case!
Did anyone else hear something? Hmm... weird... Guess I might have my AWESOME HIGH DEFINITION STREAMING VIDEOS turned up too loud...
P.S. Until BBC starts simulcasting new Dr. Who episodes on their website to the entire world, I could care less what you non-American subhumans think.:)
That's funny, I work with (note: not FOR) the FAA, my primary customer is an FAA employee with decades of experience and years preceding that of military service. He's the GA equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel. And his health care is twice the cost (to him) of my private plan and SUCKS. I know it's just an anecdote, but you might want to check your assumptions a little better...
Now if we want to talk about the health plans CONGRESSMEN/SENATORS benefit from, that's a horse of a different colour!
Sarcasm aside, what troubles me is that those defensive weapons are not about defense, it's about eliminating any (by any I mean literally 100%) risk for defender.
Why should a defender expose himself to risk when by definition he is likely not the one at fault here? How can such a defensive solution be "applied" except by an attacker first attacking?
It's not like they're going to turret crawl to Pyonyang... Wait...
The national passtime of South Korea is StarCraft... Siege Tank crawl... My God, it suddenly makes sense! Oh hell! WE'RE FUCKED!
1) Massive watering down of the healthcare bill - like removal of the public option.
Changing a bill because not even enough members of your own party will vote to pass it isn't exactly bipartisanship. That's just politicking. Bipartisanship would be developing the bill with input from the other side from the BEGINNING, not giving in just enough to get your bill passed after failing to force it down people's throats. Even "massively watered down" the bill is still a terrifying monstrosity.
2) Looks like he's going to continue the Bush tax cuts even for the highest income brackets.
Only because, once again, not even enough members of his own party are voting to pass the version of the bill without the extensions. Extending the tax cuts for two years is also attached to continued unemployment funding, so this isn't so much compromising as trading favors. Props to him for at least doing something to get the bill passed, and I hope the payroll tax holiday idea comes to fruition. Won't help employment any, since it won't affect the employer's share, but at least it's passing some relief down to the taxpayers.
And, despite the political polarisation of present-day America, he has tried to reach across the aisle but the opposition are holding the voters hostage to their elitist agenda.
Do you seriously believe that? Is saying your opponents need to get in the back of the bus reaching across the aisle? Is calling those who disagree with you 'enemies' reaching across the aisle? Those are just the two most recent examples I can think of... What exactly can you hold up as his efforts at bipartisanship?
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That's funny because EXACTLY DUE TO THIS TYPE OF STUPID REASONING, Japan split up the MMR vaccine into three separate vaccines given over a period of three years, and their autism rates just keep going up regardless. There's not even correlation between vaccination rates and autism, much less causation.
Only if you're willing to learn.
Yeah, but you only have to buy this monolith once. The hungry will just be hungry again tomorrow... Unless you stop feeding them, then it eventually solves itself.
I'm not sure how to parse that sentence. Are you saying most solutions presented by pharmaceutical companies are crap, AND that most health problems are preventable anyway, or are you saying that for PREVENTABLE problems their solutions are mostly crap? Both statements are WRONG, but the second one least so.
Good for you. Most people with allergies aren't so lucky. For those people, anti-histamines are a godsend. But in either case we're just talking about COMFORT. You're saying instead of using medicine to make yourself more COMFORTABLE you changed your lifestyle. Whoopdie-fucking-do.
What the people suffering from malaria, tuberculosis, cancer, etc. through no fault of their own? Is curing them via drugs a "crap solution"? Should they just change their lifestyle? What about people who would be completely mentally disabled without treatment? Should they just accept a lifestyle of being in a straight jacket in a rubber room for the rest of their lives?
Get over yourself. There are people with real problems being provided real solutions that allow them to live lives they'd otherwise not even be able to dream of. Just be glad you're apparently healthy, and hope that's always the case. Don't badmouth people who aren't as lucky as you.
By that argument, you should stop wearing your seat belt. After all, you haven't been in a car accident lately, right? So they're pointless!
Honestly, I wish you would. You'd be doing us all a favor.
You know you can order your own RAM sticks and put them in a computer yourself, right? It's not like you have to buy a pre-assembled system from a licensed dealer or something...
Yes. Every time. I can't grep books.
Cox sued... BellSouth sued... then several "concerned citizens completely and totally unconnected with Cox or BellSouth, we promise, honest!" sued, as well. I didn't recall them pointing to any specific law, though, just general angst over the whole thing...
The sad thing is I was working in the local government at the time and I know for a fact that the Fiber-to-Home initiative was only started AFTER the local government went to Cox and BellSouth and tried to work out a deal for either one of them to deliver fiber service. Only after they both laughed the government out of their offices did LUS pursue delivering it by itself.
And yeah, that's one of the things that makes me kick myself for leaving Lafayette as well. Especially since the neighborhood my apartment was in was picked as the first for fiber rollout about three months AFTER I left...
http://lusfiber.net/
What you talkin' 'bout? My hometown was quite successful in doing exactly what you claim is now illegal. Are you sure that bill actually exists?
I think you seriously underestimate the capability of PC manufacturers to sell unusable crap to people.
Remember that Wal Mart sells PCs.
Do what you've got to do, but it really sounds like your problems are completely unrelated to Android and solely down to Sony being incapable of making a good phone.
As a (non-car) analogy, if you went to the store and bought a five dollar bottle of scotch that came in a tin can, would it be fair to say all scotch is bad, that it's unreasonable to expect you to look at the different brands, and you'll be sticking to tequila?
You know, I just remembered an even better example. My Grandfather was in a hospital about three hours away from his home recovering from a brain injury a few months ago. My parents were there visiting him, and were telling him that his great-granddaughter had started walking. He became sad that he had missed such a milestone, being 1500 miles away and in a coma at the time. My Mom just pulled out her iPhone, called me up, and within minutes he was able to watch her walking and talk to her in real-time. You can't believe how much that meant to him! In no way would a webcam or dedicated video camera have been a useful substitute for a phone with video capability.
Don't move the goal posts. We're talking about video chatting, not recording video. If I wanted to record video, obviously I would use a video camera. (Except my phone's quality isn't much worse, and posts to Youtube significantly more easily...)
Yes, 11 month olds are so good at doing that "sit down in front of a web cam or something" thing you are talking about...
It's just you. The Knocking app on our phones has brought loads and loads of joy to my parents, as they're able to watch their 11 month old granddaughter play with her Christmas presents from 1500 miles away... Having the option for two-way communication with it would only be better.
They need to die. They're incompetent AND fraudulent. Unfortunately for me they bought my mortgage back in June (something I'm still cranky with TD Bank about). I just got called by them again last night (by a robot) claiming my mortgage is past due. Problem? I paid the mortgage over a week early. But they can't handle that. This is the fifth month in a row they haven't been able to figure out my mortgage is actually paid up in full, and they will (once again) have to admit and apologize to me that they were in error by claiming I was behind on payments... again... I'm calling them again Monday to do this dance again, but first I'm calling my state's Department of Banking and Insurance to file a complaint. This has gone beyond the pale. Then I'm calling them, informing them ONCE AGAIN that they are abject MORONS, and demanding to see proof that they actually hold the promissory note on my mortgage as chances are with this level of incompetence they never actually bothered to get the note when they bought the damn thing, and if they don't have the note they don't own the mortgage and they can kiss my ass.
Then you should be able to give me an example.
Bush (much to everyone's chagrin) pretty much let Ted Kennedy write the No Child Left Behind act. McCain-Feingold? Another stellar example of Republican led bipartisanship... Hell, the first President Bush sunk his presidency enacting Democrat led tax policy as an olive branch to Congress...
The telecoms tried that very hard in my hometown... Even had several "concerned citizens" suing the city after their own lawsuits failed. Ended up pushing back the start date by two years. In the end, though, we won... And completed the build-out ahead of schedule. :)
http://www.lusfiber.com/
Hell of a deal... Still kicking myself for moving to this hellhole right before the build started. The neighborhood my apartment used to be in was the picked as the initial test case!
FAA isn't armed services, chief. :)
Did anyone else hear something? Hmm... weird... Guess I might have my AWESOME HIGH DEFINITION STREAMING VIDEOS turned up too loud...
P.S. Until BBC starts simulcasting new Dr. Who episodes on their website to the entire world, I could care less what you non-American subhumans think. :)
That's funny, I work with (note: not FOR) the FAA, my primary customer is an FAA employee with decades of experience and years preceding that of military service. He's the GA equivalent of a Lieutenant Colonel. And his health care is twice the cost (to him) of my private plan and SUCKS. I know it's just an anecdote, but you might want to check your assumptions a little better...
Now if we want to talk about the health plans CONGRESSMEN/SENATORS benefit from, that's a horse of a different colour!
Why should a defender expose himself to risk when by definition he is likely not the one at fault here? How can such a defensive solution be "applied" except by an attacker first attacking?
It's not like they're going to turret crawl to Pyonyang... Wait...
The national passtime of South Korea is StarCraft... Siege Tank crawl... My God, it suddenly makes sense! Oh hell! WE'RE FUCKED!
Changing a bill because not even enough members of your own party will vote to pass it isn't exactly bipartisanship. That's just politicking. Bipartisanship would be developing the bill with input from the other side from the BEGINNING, not giving in just enough to get your bill passed after failing to force it down people's throats. Even "massively watered down" the bill is still a terrifying monstrosity.
Only because, once again, not even enough members of his own party are voting to pass the version of the bill without the extensions. Extending the tax cuts for two years is also attached to continued unemployment funding, so this isn't so much compromising as trading favors. Props to him for at least doing something to get the bill passed, and I hope the payroll tax holiday idea comes to fruition. Won't help employment any, since it won't affect the employer's share, but at least it's passing some relief down to the taxpayers.
Do you seriously believe that? Is saying your opponents need to get in the back of the bus reaching across the aisle? Is calling those who disagree with you 'enemies' reaching across the aisle? Those are just the two most recent examples I can think of... What exactly can you hold up as his efforts at bipartisanship?