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  1. Re:Hmmmm on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 1

    I don't think hand washing is going to magic away the germs a patient coughs out and you breath in. Handwashing (again) is a fine thing.

  2. Re:Good on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WTF? Again cheers for handwashing - as long as you aren't doing it 1000 times a day. But cites on your extraordinary claims please. And links to articles from Tijuana College of Naturopathy, Voodoo and Assorted Bullshit don't count.

  3. Dumbass on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing wrong with hand washing. But... it sounds like you're a germ-o-phobic dumbass. Where's you're evidence that flu shots compromise your immune system? Links to the weekly world news don't count.

  4. Re:Flu shots in the era of John Holdren on For Some Medical Workers, a Flu Shot Or Possible Job Loss · · Score: 1

    Have you stopped killing hookers yet?

  5. Re:Paper. on Thanks For the ... Eight-Track, Uncle Alex · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'll bet you can read an ISO9660 CD that's 15 years old. If it's not hopelessly scratched, anyway.

  6. Re:This is honestly a problem? on "Smart" Parking Meters Considered Dumb · · Score: 2, Insightful

    1> I resent paying four times more for parking than I did last year. 2> I resent having to go out of my way to feed the new system, a couple months ago I didn't have to. 3> What garages friend? Those are mostly many miles away, down town. 4> And generally, any system put into place by Daley and his cronies is a sweetheart deal to rape the taxpayer. Fuck Richard Daley, his secret deals and his midnight bulldozers.

  7. Even still, the BSA is kinda douchy on Why the BSA Is Less Reviled Than the RIAA · · Score: 1

    True, the BSA isn't nearly as reviled as the RIAA. But who hasn't looked at a BSA ad in a magazine (or even, shudder, on /.) and thought: gee, the BSA is kinda douchy.

  8. Re:dog lover science. on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    Any number of euthanized strays, terrified ferals, and bags of surplus barn cats thrown in the river might disagree.

  9. Re:right to vote on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    How do you think it killed that mouse? Kindness? And have you seen the video of that cat that treed a brown bear?

  10. Re:right to vote on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    No. Cats have very distinct opinions on how other people should live their lives.

  11. Re:The value of life on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    It's not a distinction I'm entirely comfortable with. It's more of a zeroth aproximation of a pramatic aproach to the problem.

  12. Re:The value of life on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 1

    But a dog (or a cat) is peaking at that level. A toddler is just going to blow through those limits and move on. I'm not happy about putting down companion animals, but that's a pretty weak argument. Now there are limits beyond this reasoning, to forbid euthanizing the developmentally retarded, but I'm comfortable with that.

  13. Re:dog lover science. on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm imagining your two year old nephew has been two for a while. They grow up pretty fast at that age. But my two year old nephew just turned two, and he's probably a hair past most dogs smarts wise, and will soon be on a totally different plane. But for now, I can totally grant the idea that at 24 months +/- a couple months a child has parity with a fairly clever dog.

  14. Re:dog lover science. on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cats really haven't been bred for thousands of years like dogs have. They probably pretty well self domesticated a few thousand years ago and hung around in a more-or-less self domesticated state around the edge of our society for most of the intervening years, too pleasant and useful to get rid of, not nearly obedient enough to put to any orderly sort of work like a dog.
    Having three cats and a two year old nephew, I'd say that cats are about as smart as an eighteen month old child. They understand simple concepts, a few words, and enough problem solving to be interesting, but not as much as a dog.
    I think the role of cats as pets is one that they're uniquely suited for though, and there is a lot of material available to breed very convivial animals.

  15. Re:right to vote on Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I must concede that cats are clearly Republicans. They are intensely conservative and set in their ways. They think that everybody should conform to their view of social norms. They're intensely territorial and a bit smug about it. They like hunting, big families, and the right to bear arms. And they don't like to share unless it's their idea. And trust me - I really do love cats - I'm just telling it like it is.

  16. Re:as far as cheap delivery methods go on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    That magic way for smokers to get their nic without most of the nasties is Electronic Cigs. It's still a bit ugly, but we expect pure chemically synthesized nicotine mixed with pure propylene glycol to be an easy to find option soon, as suppliers wise up the the tetchyness of being caught between small Chinese suppliers and the FDA.

  17. Re:Also Helps With... on Nicotine Improves Brain Function In Schizophrenics · · Score: 1

    You might want to look at getting an electronic cigarette. Nobody knows the long term consequences, but short term they're a fairly clean nic delivery method that give a pretty solid sort of smoking experience.

  18. Re:Free speech on Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts · · Score: 1

    I appreciate your input, be you j.random braininajar or Horizon Realty. I have no opinion about the dispute in question. I do have some concerns about any vendor that asserts a "sue first, ask questions later" philosophy.

  19. Re:Free speech on Real-World Consequences of Social Networking Posts · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually - the Sun-Times article has a quote that I'd say is way more damaging than the accusation: Tweet about apartment mold draws lawsuit:
    He said that while she moved out recently, the company never had a conversation about the post and never asked her to take it down.
    "We're a sue first, ask questions later kind of an organization," [italics mine] he said, noting that the company manages 1,500 apartments in Chicago and has a good reputation it wants to preserve.

  20. Re:Ironic dichotomy of Apple's Family Values on Apple Update Means Palm Pre Can No Longer Sync With iTunes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Apple has always envied Microsoft's virtual monopoly position.

  21. What's the LD50? on The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's the LD50?

  22. Sounds Like Cold Fusion on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll believe it when I see it replicated.

  23. Re:Evidence-based medicine is in your hands. on Why Doctors Hate Science · · Score: 1

    ????

  24. Re:Wesley Willis on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 1

    I definitely thought of Wesley - he'd have totally ripped this shit right up.

  25. Re:Looking to dabble into a bit of photography mys on The Presidential Portrait Goes Digital · · Score: 1

    Larger sensors make for lower noise, higher sensitivity, and more depth of field control. Larger camera with more knobs and buttons is easier to manage on the fly. The SLR configuration lends itself to alternate auto focus modes. It's fun to slap an old all-manual lens onto the camera, run out and shoot some pics.