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  1. Re: end the nonsense on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Spoken like someone who has never seen anyone die from either one. Spend a few months in a children's hospital. Oh I will grant you death is rarer than having to live on with some permanent defect. But when either case is entirely preventable, your argument is like saying "yeah but drunk driver's don't kill all THAT many people a year what's the big deal"...

  2. Re:It's hilarious on Researchers Develop AI To Predict Hospital Readmission Rates From Clinical Notes · · Score: 1

    Who do you think understands law better.

    I can find you any number of layers that will argue either case.

  3. It really is. Instead of dedicating their effort to improve humanity and put lawyers out of business, software engineers are throwing major efforts towards putting doctors out of business. Which just goes to show that they can't think further than the last curly brace in their programs. Once all the doctors are out of business, just exactly who you they think become the next target for all the starving lawyers out there left without doctors to sue?

  4. we need to leave

    And go where?

  5. It's Russia again. Just when Russia was finally out of the headlines. Color me shocked. Call me when you have more proof than all the last times it was supposed to be Russia.

  6. Re:Turning Huawei into a cuss word on US Firm Wins Bid To Block Huawei From Subsea Pacific Cables (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    What is the caution supposed to be? Your interpretation may be very different from mine.

  7. I'd say I leaked it by accident too. Funny how it only got "accidentally" leaked to those who would most want it, though.

  8. Re: Science, Agendas and Lies on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    "Is that why you made me bring a Coke bottle and loose clothing today, Father?"

  9. Re:Aren't black holes three dimensional structures on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow I wish you had mentioned this 50 years ago. Billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of man-hours would have been saved...

  10. Re:You don't know anything about how it was taken. on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it's the last bit of "stuff" that actually CAN manage to escape the black hole. Anything past that does not escape. You realize that to go from being able to do something to not being able to do something, there is an instant in time that is the last instant you can actually do something right?

  11. Re:You don't know anything about how it was taken. on Black Hole Picture Captured For First Time in Space 'Breakthrough' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Learn the skills and you are free to go and double-check their work, if you wish. Until you do that, it's just blather. Then some idiot will come up to you and say you're lying, it's all just religion.

  12. Re: Absolultely shocking... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    The US doesn't respect the sovereignty of other countries, do you think it will respect yours? LOL just do that. Enjoy prison.

  13. Re: Absolultely shocking... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    So you have to resort to fantasy and imagination to make what you said seem true. I see.

  14. Re:The best government money can buy... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    Cronyism isn't a thing.

    Sure it isn't The word crony has only been around 300 years or so, don't let that bother you.

  15. Re:Absolultely shocking... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    If the government essentially gives them a monopoly, they will just pass that extra cost onto you directly.

  16. Re:Absolultely shocking... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    If you're under the poverty line you're usually tax exempt in most countries. Why do you think it would be different with flat tax? You merely start it at the edge of the poverty line. Everyone who earns $25 or below (or whatever) is tax exempt. Everyone else pays the flat rate. Done.

  17. Re:Absolultely shocking... on Congress is About To Ban the Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing (propublica.org) · · Score: 1

    While corporations never actually pay taxes (their stockholders or their customers do, duh),

    You realize that stockholders only pay for stock once, and usually they buy it from other stockholders, not directly from the company. And when a customer gives you money it doesn't belong to the customer anymore. What you're saying is like saying I don't have to pay any taxes, my employer does that.

  18. Communication problem on The ISS Is a Cesspool of Bacteria and Fungi, Study Finds (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    They're still waiting for the cleaning lady to show up.

  19. Wait... on Viewers Who Stream More Also Go To Cinemas More (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    So people who tend to watch a lot of movies..... watch a lot of movies? Next: fat people who eat a lot at home also eat food more often from restaurants.

  20. Re:Why aren't public displays monitored 24/7? on London's BT Tower Broadcasted Windows 7 Error Message Over the Weekend (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No one is going to die or be maimed.

    Unless of course they're posting the social media gibberish while driving...

  21. Next week, porn!

  22. Re: Now you see the true power of the Tesla on Fiat Chrysler Will Pay Tesla To Dodge Billions In Emissions Fines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Kind of like carbon offsetting. A polluting company buys a chunk of forest and then claims it's offsetting its pollution. But the forest was there before, so nothing has changed except for this "accounting trick". Even if they plant a forest, the biggest CO2 fixation happens in the first few years of growth. Mature trees remove much less CO2 from the atmosphere.

  23. Re: Now you see the true power of the Tesla on Fiat Chrysler Will Pay Tesla To Dodge Billions In Emissions Fines (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Buyers want affordable. Otherwise we'd all be driving Rolls Royce. The volume in sales is at the bottom end of the market for any given category where lower price is more important than value for money.

  24. Re:Realistic number on Why Airlines Make Flights Longer On Purpose (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The 3 hour gate hold was a bit much though...

  25. Re:Canary Edge on Microsoft Launches First Chromium Edge Builds (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    You should have bought a rescue bird from a shelter...