I dunno. Put the ghost of C. Everett Koop on TV for 30 seconds a night on every major network saying "Jenny McCarthy is an idiot, and you're stupid if you think some actress knows more about medicine than thousands of reputable scientists. Go vaccinate your kids, or they'll end up deaf with curved legs! Rich people, go to your doctor tomorrow....and don't worry poor people, it's free at a clinic near you with a short wait."
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If C. Everett's ghost isn't available, the one who likes masturbation is still alive.
I still don't understand why anyone would turn to insurance for predictable expenses - that's like getting car insurance that covers gas and tires. Just seems crazy to me.
While I don't love that insurance is used for predictable things, insurance companies know that people who see the doctor regularly, get the tests their doctors recommend for them and take their prescribed medication cost less to insure when the unpredictable [well, unpredictable in small numbers] happens.
So, to make sure that you cost as little as possible to insure, your insurance covers predictable expenses.
Because insurers know this, they can buy in bulk -- sending you to in-network doctors, hospitals and pharmacies at a discount over their standard fee rate, further reducing the total cost (to them) to insure you.
You could argue that your premium should be lower, and you should perhaps be required to comply with doctors orders, but I'm pretty sure we know how that'd turn out.
What if I told you I know a very well educated micro biologist who refuses to vaccinate his 7 kids?
I'll tell you he's either (a) a kook, or (b) a visionary genius, and that only you get to decide which to believe when it's time to decide who your kids get to play with.
[Hint: Let them play with kids who had their vaccinations...]
I'm not sure what that has to do with what I said (idiots deserve an education), but if atheists as a whole were generally predisposed to a particular stupid behavior, I'd be happy to generalize for the sake of conversation, yeah.
Yup. Some of us actually believe in supporting the sites we use, which in some cases means submitting to their advertising in exchange for their content.
...and doing so without a rant about how the HTTP standard means I can only pull the parts I want because I lack the understanding of how society works.
This means that an EV is only suitable as a second car. If you only own one car, forget it - you need to buy a universal, gas car that will take you anywhere.
I barely know where to start shedding light on your ignorance.
First, I'm absolutely certain that plenty of people get to and fro every day without a car to begin with, so this idea that you can't handle the big bad word without a gas car is as ignorant as the day is long.
Moving on...If you can afford a new car to begin with, you can deal with the sudden unexpected realities of the world that might require you to drive more than 100 miles into unknown territory. I went from Phoenix to Albuquerque a couple weeks ago in my electric...and by that I mean I went to the airport and rented a gas car for the weekend for $20 a day. It's rare that you're ever using your entire electric range unless you weren't a good candidate for an electric car to begin with. I can count on one hand the number of times my electric car has had a range below the distance to the nearest hospital. [The cost of that $20/day rental was perfectly offset by my gas savings for the rest of the week, so all was well in my wallet...]
You also need to own a house, with a garage, if you want an EV - this is where your home charger will be mounted.
Perhaps you don't understand this. Your charger isn't mounted anywhere except inside the car. That fancy plug on the wall is just a plug with a switch or two in it, man. But, yes, if you're stuck with a carport only, or you have to park away from where you live, you're probably screwed -- and not a candidate for an all-electric car. The rest of us can plug in our cars anywhere there's a 110 outlet (that we're allowed to use) with an extension cord.
You have this idea that nobody could ever live with a bicycle alone, or only have a motorcycle because their kid might get sick.
All-electric cars have caveats too, but with way fewer restrictions that just taking the bus.
If you drive like an old lady, you can get 132 miles on a full charge. If you drive like I do, freeway+city mix, some "normal" speeding, you get about 80. I get 3.9 miles per kWh with a 21 kWh capacity battery. Plenty of mileage crazy Leaf owners get more. Plenty of lead-footed drivers get less.
...but here's how it works: I start the day with 82 miles of range. When I go out for lunch, I sometimes pick a location with a free charger in the parking lot; I get a solid 30-40 charge on a Level 2 EVSE charger -- not a "fast" or "supercharger," but the sort of charger we have 500+ of in my city - which gets my range to 90+ without doing anything except driving my car where I want to go. Going to to the movies? I'll not only park in the front row, but I'll use the free charger there and most likely have a full charge 2 hours later. Grocery store? Same thing as lunch.
From a financial standpoint not everything is free. There's plenty of pay chargers too, and they end up costing somewhere around 8 cents a mile for the electricity from them, which is about the same cost of gas as a car that gets 45mpg.
All of the *lock keys are mostly useless. Plenty of people (myself included) have remapped our Caps Lock key to TAB. The number of times I've wanted Caps Lock has greatly outweighed the number of times I've sit hitting it 1-2-3 times making sure it's not toggled wrong. Ditto for Scroll Lock. The number of times I've wanted it on versus the number of times I've said, "Hey, why isn't that scrolling right?!?"
Using those keyboard lights for notifications is OLD NEWS. We've been doing it forever......for about £15 less than the £15 in the slashvertisement.
Now that thousands of other anon's know that if you get caught, you get royally shafted, they might think twice...
If a thousand men bum-rush a guy, each sticking a pin into him, and the man dies the death of a thousand needles, and 986 of the pin attackers escape, do you charge the 14 that you caught with his murder -- or should they be let off the hook? [Now, of course I know that DDOSing a website isn't murder, but this is/. and I'm fresh out of car analogies.]
This is like the guy who stole a nickle yesterday. He's still a thief. Try these kids for the crime, and dole out the right amount of justice on each of them based on their records (or lack of records) appropriately....but understand their crime is still "murder," not just battery.
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I dunno. Put the ghost of C. Everett Koop on TV for 30 seconds a night on every major network saying "Jenny McCarthy is an idiot, and you're stupid if you think some actress knows more about medicine than thousands of reputable scientists. Go vaccinate your kids, or they'll end up deaf with curved legs! Rich people, go to your doctor tomorrow. ...and don't worry poor people, it's free at a clinic near you with a short wait."
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If C. Everett's ghost isn't available, the one who likes masturbation is still alive.
Why? 0 of the 159 people with measles in the US this year died. She should likely just be in general population, doing a few years for battery.
I still don't understand why anyone would turn to insurance for predictable expenses - that's like getting car insurance that covers gas and tires. Just seems crazy to me.
While I don't love that insurance is used for predictable things, insurance companies know that people who see the doctor regularly, get the tests their doctors recommend for them and take their prescribed medication cost less to insure when the unpredictable [well, unpredictable in small numbers] happens.
So, to make sure that you cost as little as possible to insure, your insurance covers predictable expenses.
Because insurers know this, they can buy in bulk -- sending you to in-network doctors, hospitals and pharmacies at a discount over their standard fee rate, further reducing the total cost (to them) to insure you.
You could argue that your premium should be lower, and you should perhaps be required to comply with doctors orders, but I'm pretty sure we know how that'd turn out.
Uh, so, if my doctor just didn't happen to stock any vaccines, he wouldn't have to administer them ever, right?
How is this informative?
3/1000 isn't "a tiny fraction?"
That 0.3% number is worldwide. Of the 159 cases reported in the US this year, ZERO died -- a rate of (roughly) 0.00%.
What if I told you I know a very well educated micro biologist who refuses to vaccinate his 7 kids?
I'll tell you he's either (a) a kook, or (b) a visionary genius, and that only you get to decide which to believe when it's time to decide who your kids get to play with.
[Hint: Let them play with kids who had their vaccinations...]
Outside of their belief in Poseidon or Zeus or whatever, sure, there's plenty of smart religious people.
I'm not sure what that has to do with what I said (idiots deserve an education), but if atheists as a whole were generally predisposed to a particular stupid behavior, I'd be happy to generalize for the sake of conversation, yeah.
Nobody deserves to suffer.
Plenty of people deserve to suffer.
The religious idiots (and those who believe morons who link vaccinations to autism), don't deserve to suffer. They deserve a fucking education.
It does not "beg" any questions.
*sigh*
...to say the .gif is mesmerizing, and I have no clue what I'm looking at.
If you later said, "Lol, that's a false color prostate exam camera," I wouldn't be shocked.
Yeah, going after organized crime seems a total waste...
Yup. Some of us actually believe in supporting the sites we use, which in some cases means submitting to their advertising in exchange for their content.
[Cue the hosts file spam...]
Also, the nav system in the car knows the nearest station and is updated OTA - provided you're not in the budget-model Leaf.
This means that an EV is only suitable as a second car. If you only own one car, forget it - you need to buy a universal, gas car that will take you anywhere.
I barely know where to start shedding light on your ignorance.
First, I'm absolutely certain that plenty of people get to and fro every day without a car to begin with, so this idea that you can't handle the big bad word without a gas car is as ignorant as the day is long.
Moving on...If you can afford a new car to begin with, you can deal with the sudden unexpected realities of the world that might require you to drive more than 100 miles into unknown territory. I went from Phoenix to Albuquerque a couple weeks ago in my electric...and by that I mean I went to the airport and rented a gas car for the weekend for $20 a day. It's rare that you're ever using your entire electric range unless you weren't a good candidate for an electric car to begin with. I can count on one hand the number of times my electric car has had a range below the distance to the nearest hospital. [The cost of that $20/day rental was perfectly offset by my gas savings for the rest of the week, so all was well in my wallet...]
You also need to own a house, with a garage, if you want an EV - this is where your home charger will be mounted.
Perhaps you don't understand this. Your charger isn't mounted anywhere except inside the car. That fancy plug on the wall is just a plug with a switch or two in it, man. But, yes, if you're stuck with a carport only, or you have to park away from where you live, you're probably screwed -- and not a candidate for an all-electric car. The rest of us can plug in our cars anywhere there's a 110 outlet (that we're allowed to use) with an extension cord.
You have this idea that nobody could ever live with a bicycle alone, or only have a motorcycle because their kid might get sick.
All-electric cars have caveats too, but with way fewer restrictions that just taking the bus.
First, yes, you can go well over 100 miles in a Leaf on a single charge, although it depends greatly on the sort of driving you intend to do.
http://www.mynissanleaf.com/viewtopic.php?p=101293
If you drive like an old lady, you can get 132 miles on a full charge. If you drive like I do, freeway+city mix, some "normal" speeding, you get about 80. I get 3.9 miles per kWh with a 21 kWh capacity battery. Plenty of mileage crazy Leaf owners get more. Plenty of lead-footed drivers get less.
From a financial standpoint not everything is free. There's plenty of pay chargers too, and they end up costing somewhere around 8 cents a mile for the electricity from them, which is about the same cost of gas as a car that gets 45mpg.
...which is why I was clear to mention that 7% of us were still alive and kicking...
In that case, I suggest a used second keyboard, for about $2, complete with LEDs taped to the top of your monitor. :)
All of the *lock keys are mostly useless. Plenty of people (myself included) have remapped our Caps Lock key to TAB. The number of times I've wanted Caps Lock has greatly outweighed the number of times I've sit hitting it 1-2-3 times making sure it's not toggled wrong. Ditto for Scroll Lock. The number of times I've wanted it on versus the number of times I've said, "Hey, why isn't that scrolling right?!?"
Using those keyboard lights for notifications is OLD NEWS. We've been doing it forever... ...for about £15 less than the £15 in the slashvertisement.
They will, without a doubt, die...
Or at least 93% of us, since 7% of all humans who have ever existed are alive today.
There's a difference between wanting them killed and finding them dead as a result of their crime a convenient outcome.
Every time a would-be-criminal ends up killing themselves because of their own stupidity, I smile.
....given that Microsoft isn't going to open their source to the world, this seems a reasonable step from them.
I mean, nobody here's going to give them the tiniest lick of credit for it, but such is /.
Of course making things more illegal is a deterrent
Legal is a binary function.
Now that thousands of other anon's know that if you get caught, you get royally shafted, they might think twice...
If a thousand men bum-rush a guy, each sticking a pin into him, and the man dies the death of a thousand needles, and 986 of the pin attackers escape, do you charge the 14 that you caught with his murder -- or should they be let off the hook? [Now, of course I know that DDOSing a website isn't murder, but this is /. and I'm fresh out of car analogies.]
This is like the guy who stole a nickle yesterday. He's still a thief. Try these kids for the crime, and dole out the right amount of justice on each of them based on their records (or lack of records) appropriately. ...but understand their crime is still "murder," not just battery.