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  1. Re:screw itunes on Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? · · Score: 3, Funny

    How is babby duck formed?

  2. Re:Vaccinations discriminate against middle class on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Thank you for that story from 2009. Perhaps you are not aware that since then there have been huge changes in healthcare with something called the Affordable Care Act. Plans that don't fully cover recommended immunizations are not ACA compliant. "Fully cover" does not mean pretend to cover at ridiculous reimbursements.

  3. Re:The really sad thing is vaccines improving on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    That's great and is all obvious information, and completely irrelevant. It doesn't address your core assertion than I am questioning about this "one time" tetanus vaccine you supposedly received. There is no FDA approved (meaning legal to distribute outside of clinical trials) Tetanus vaccine that provides lifetime effectiveness. It doesn't exist for anyone. If you could point me to such a vaccine, that would be great and I would happily concede you are correct. But odds are very high that you simply mistook the one time aspect of Tdap.

  4. Re:The really sad thing is vaccines improving on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    According to your Facebook page you are a database manager at a university. You're saying because you are an employee of the University of Washington you "have access" to non-FDA approved drugs that you are somehow unaware that "civilians" (which you are yourself) don't have access to?

  5. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I was making a general statement about vaccination. Not a specific endorsement of every vaccine available. Not all things we can vaccinate for are public health hazards so there is certainly room to disagree about those.

  6. Re:Vaccinations discriminate against middle class on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    This story is a total lie.

  7. Re:The really sad thing is vaccines improving on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    There are no childhood vaccines that are not available without thimerosol, including the MMR vaccines that are the subject of this article. Even flu vaccines are available thimerosol free.

  8. Re:The really sad thing is vaccines improving on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Neither do you. According to a document published this week by the Department of Defense, the DoD policy is a one time Tdap and Td boosters every ten years for all personnel.

    Every other document on the MILVAX tetanus page also refers to the same protocol. You are probably confused by the one time Tdap and not realizing that Td boosters will be necessary.

  9. Re:Duh on U.S. Measles Cases Triple In 2013 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Vaccination is basically the most studied and most well understood type of medical intervention there is. After public sanitation, mass vaccination against common deadly/crippling illnesses has been one of the most societal changing public health projects ever in history.

    The only unclear one here is you.

  10. Re:You are still making my point for me on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    You're too stupid to realize how stupid you actually are. The fact that you think I'm trying to "trick" you is pretty insane. That you've gone to such great lengths to deny that you simply misunderstood a common English word is also a sign that you probably have some sort of mental illness beyond your simple stupidity though. Rather than admit to an obvious error you've spun this incredible story of an alternate reality. I can't wait for each new installment.

  11. Re:What a great man on Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 · · Score: 1

    Thatcher never called Mandela a terrorist,

    She called the ANC a terrorist organization, which isn't much different.

  12. Re:I am astonished on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    No, I've never been to Vancouver. For some reason I thought it was closer and there was a bridge. In any case, comparing it to some place like Hawaii is still crazy.

  13. Re:Lots use "loose" for "lose" too on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    You're delusional. The fact that I'm fascinated by how obsessed you are with this is the only reason I've kept posting. Watching your reality distortion field activate every time facts get in your vicinity is amazing. The contradiction inherent in your accusation that I am posting solely to trick people, yet simultaneously insisting you're the only one reading my posts is just another hilarious example of your total detachment from reality, I'm waiting for you to declare that I'm working with the Illuminati to destabilize world currency or something. Ooh, or maybe I'm a Reptoid?

    Please say more, yes. This is the most fun I've ever had on Slashdot.

  14. Re:You are still making my point for me on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    Do you have such a limited brain capacity that information from earlier in the conversation has already been lost? I told you this. I don't own Bitcoin. I have no investment in it. I don't give a shit if anyone buys it. You're so terrified of being fooled and looking foolish that you have gone completely in the other direction (and ended up looking dumb and foolish). Anything your little brain can't process is obviously someone trying to scam you. It must be a frightening existence when anyone smarter than you is viewed as a lurking boogeymen around every corner.

  15. Re:Lots use "loose" for "lose" too on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    I meant in the world at large, obviously. I've repeatedly shown you through examples how the world works in a way that reflects the reality I am explaining to you. You have provided nothing but your own insistence.

  16. Re:Making my point for me on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    No shit. I can't take BerkShares of IthacaBucks to any random vendor and negotiate a purchase either. We went over this. You didn't grasp the concept then and you are unlikely to now.

  17. Re:Lots use "loose" for "lose" too on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    Stamp your feet. Hold your breath. Facts don't change. You're still wrong. I don't have to set you up for anything. I just keep giving you rope and you just keep wrapping it around your neck.

    It's telling that no one has supported you in this bizarre crusade. I have provided countless ways for you to substantiate reality. You have provided....a bad attitude? Arrogance? Holding your breath and insisting you're right? I would love to see some sort of support for this bizarre position you've taken that exists outside of your mind.

  18. Re:Lots use "loose" for "lose" too on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand how language or dictionaries work. When everyone consistently over time uses a word to mean a particular thing, and holds that thing to be the correct usage, that's what the word means. It is entirely possibly that "loose" will eventually be accepted as a word for misplacing something, but it's not yet considered so. The word "currency" is used to refer to Bitcoin by countless groups that make every effort to use language correctly and no significant number of people (is there even anyone but you?) claiming it is not correct means that that's what the word means.

    Even if "currency" once meant something else (though it didn't) it wouldn't now. Like the word "egregious". When I tell you you are an egregious human being you are well aware I am not referring to you as eminent or distinguished. I'm referring to how "extraordinary in a bad way" your critical thinking, reasoning and debate skills (such as they are) are.

  19. Re:No popcorn yet on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 2

    You are barred from US airspace, which might complicate flying to Canada. But you are not barred from Canada. Canada explicitly states it does not use the US no fly list.

  20. Re:I am astonished on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    seems to me that Hawaii, Rhode Island and Alaska could do with a bit of that action too (although the ferry trip from Hawaii to Rhode Island would be a bit of a chore)...

    Prince Edward Island and Vancouver Island are more akin to Manhattan than Hawaii or Alaska. They are served by bridges. Hawaii is 2500 miles from the west coast of the US mainland and Rhode Island is a (non-island) state on the US east coast. There actually is a ferry between Alaska and Washington, primarily for travel without the need of a passport.

  21. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    It's actually spelled j-o-k-e, after the thing you didn't get.

  22. Re:Let's see what the judge says... on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 2

    He was arrested in Virginia on those charges, yes, however while he in custody he was also arrested on the Federal charges

    Adam Kokesh, a controversial activist seen loading a gun in D.C.'s Freedom Plaza in a video posted to YouTube July 4, has been transferred from Fairfax County and charged in D.C. with openly carrying a shotgun in violation of D.C. laws.

    He is specifically being charged with violating the following offense:

    Carrying a Rifle or Shotgun (outside Home or Place of Business), in violation of 22 D.C. Code Section 4504 (a-1) (2001 ed.)).

  23. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really have to congratulate you. Reading the long string of replies from idiots who didn't follow the link and/or get the joke is hilarious.

  24. Re:Just drive there on Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So · · Score: 1

    You googled the link that was supplied in the parent of the article you replied to?

  25. Re:Context on Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes · · Score: 1

    Wow. I thought you finally realized how embarrassed you should be and slunk off to forget about this. I should have known someone someone so mentally ill as to be delusional would insist red is blue until the day he dies.

    Look, basically everyone in the fucking world refers to bitcoin as currency. That's a fact. You can stamp your feet, hold your breath, and rant and rave on the internet for as long as you'd like. Why you have such a hard-on for doing that, I have no clue. Why don't you go write angry letters to all these news organizations and tell them to stop using my "personal definition":

    The Wall Street Journal
    Forbes
    National Review
    The Economist
    Slate
    The Atlantic
    the New York Times
    The Washington Post
    Reuters
    CNN
    Fox News
    Oh and also, the US Federal and State Governments.