so they usually do a bunch of vaccines all in the same visit, which possibly exposes the child to much more aluminum
Really? If true, this is a local problem for you. Many vaccines can safely be given together, in the same jab or at different sites. Many do not even contain the aluminium that you fear - including the varicelle (chicken pox) one. Doctors should be following the guidelines for that. Doesn't your country or state have a standard schedule?
Our reasoning is that the vacine is highly likely to actually cause a case of Chicken Pox, while it does not provide an actual immunity worth the term.
You were misinformed in multiple ways. The varicella vaccine is especially safe, and does not cause pox. It is possible for the vaccine strain to cause shingles later in life, but the risk is much lower than not being vaccinated (and this possible contracting the wild strain). Vaccinated adults are much less likely to get shingles.
Immunity can drop with time, or it may last decades. Even a single dose is highly beneficial.
And finally the big kicker is
Now you are just rationalising! That is no reason to refuse vaccination now. If true, it just means the population will need boosters later. Either way, you are better to vaccinate now. Having said all that, varicella is far from being the most important vaccine recommended for children.
Personally the Nobel lost its purpose for me after Barack Obama received it.
The Nobel peace prize has always been different - very political. The amazing thing is that you still respected it before Obama's award (AKA the inaugural not-being GW Bush award). Past winners include Yasser Arafat (peace in Palestine) and Henry Kissinger (Vietnam war).
One thing I know about IQ tests in my experience is that they seem biased toward people who a) have a particular math and science educational history, and b) have a lot of time on their hands to think abstractly.
Or, and I'm going out on a limb here, the tests could just be biased towards people with a high IQ? (Which may correlate to the other factors you mentioned)
The fact is that IQ tests are a better predictor of many things than educational history or free time. This make it scientifically valid.
What does median tell us? The majority of homeowners are in mortgage debt, and the majority of renters have very little in financial assets. It is their income that matters for most people.
Plans sold to the Middle East? The naval architects are now really going to regret putting in that big funnel that leads directly to the main reactor of the carrier.
It is all a conspiracy, like the anti-tobacco lobby. Noone has ever been able to point to a single case of lung cancer that can be proved to have been caused by smoking.
I expect Russia has already got everything out of Snowden that it ever will.
What they get from Snowden is PR. Makes it harder for the US to criticise Russia on human rights. And it gives a big middle finger to the US administration, showing that Russia is one of the few countries who can afford to not be subservient to the US.
Do you think Snowden had much that the Russians were not already well aware of? He did not research military secrets. If he is helping the Russians technically, it is in teaching them how to spy on their own people more efficiently.
THEN you see an inability to process ethanol that has,
This is a bit of an urban legend. Plenty of populations have similarly reduced abilities to process alcohol, but not a big problem with alcoholism. A better explanation is that being invaded and outnumbered by a more sophisticated race that relegates your humiliated culture to the fringes would drive anyone to drink. I'm very nervous about SETI.
Finland is also dropping the handwritten long division algorithm in 2016.
Now that's just stupid. People will need to use their smartphone's calculator to figure out everything from restaurant tips
Funny, but I think some people have forgotten what long division is. Most people never, ever use it. It was a huge waste of time in schools, and should be limited to the advanced classes, because at least they will learn it quickly. But even the maths geniuses will pull out a calculator or smartphone rather than do a tedious _long_ division on paper.
Nobody is dropping handwriting (headline is click-bait), and nobody is dropping short division (e.g. splitting a check). But cursive running-writing is a lot more useful than long division.
Finding out what happened is well worth a few hundred million,
How do you expect that to happen? Even if they managed to find the wreckage and black boxes, they will yield little or no data. The is very different from the Air France crash.
physics. Our progression in the last 100 years is more than 1000 fold all previous years combined
You think!? In 1914 we already had quantum mechanics and relativity (which limited speed to 'c' ). Since then... a bit of refinement. General relativity was published in 1916, but I would not call that a thousand-fold increment. Now the greatest minds of our generation bang their heads against the brick wall of string theory.
You could kind-of build your own architecture on a breadboard using bit-slice chips. Each chip does 4 bits of ALU. Put your own microcode in EEPROM, some high speed registers, lots of glue,... Not quite the same as discrete logic, but more achievable at home.
That said it was a wise choice. Kept the Russian rocket scientists out of Arab employment.
Which Arabs would that be? Iraq was already contained. What other Arabs could have developed a long-range missile program? Unless you mean the Pakistani or Iranian "Arabs".
The first is that if something goes wrong on takeoff you risk what is effectively a 'dirty bomb' going off somewhere in the Earth's atmosphere which is not good.
Its not nearly as bad as you think. The biggest impact of a dirty bomb in a city would be psychological. In the atmosphere, less important.
had better make sure that the craft does not return for Earth for a few billion years otherwise, again, it is like a dirty bomb going off in the atmosphere.
Uh, nuh. Pu238 half-life is 88 years. Here is the most basic clue about radioactivity: radiation intensity is inversely related to halflife. If it has a billion-year half-life, it is barely radioactive at all. A dirty bomb needs something with lots of radiation, and so a short half-life.
Even bigger difference: the white woman is in Australia and the black woman is in the US.
Yes, its much less of an issue here. Very rare for anyone to object to public breastfeeding, even if they don't like it. I read that while almost all Australian mothers breastfeed (though some not for long), the majority of black American mothers do not. Why is that?
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so they usually do a bunch of vaccines all in the same visit, which possibly exposes the child to much more aluminum
Really? If true, this is a local problem for you. Many vaccines can safely be given together, in the same jab or at different sites. Many do not even contain the aluminium that you fear - including the varicelle (chicken pox) one. Doctors should be following the guidelines for that. Doesn't your country or state have a standard schedule?
Our reasoning is that the vacine is highly likely to actually cause a case of Chicken Pox, while it does not provide an actual immunity worth the term.
You were misinformed in multiple ways. The varicella vaccine is especially safe, and does not cause pox. It is possible for the vaccine strain to cause shingles later in life, but the risk is much lower than not being vaccinated (and this possible contracting the wild strain). Vaccinated adults are much less likely to get shingles.
Immunity can drop with time, or it may last decades. Even a single dose is highly beneficial.
And finally the big kicker is
Now you are just rationalising! That is no reason to refuse vaccination now. If true, it just means the population will need boosters later. Either way, you are better to vaccinate now.
Having said all that, varicella is far from being the most important vaccine recommended for children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
Personally the Nobel lost its purpose for me after Barack Obama received it.
The Nobel peace prize has always been different - very political.
The amazing thing is that you still respected it before Obama's award (AKA the inaugural not-being GW Bush award).
Past winners include Yasser Arafat (peace in Palestine) and Henry Kissinger (Vietnam war).
The Stockholm science prizes are not the same.
If it is, its not racist - a fact is not racist.
Actually, to steal from Cobert, facts have a well-known racial bias. Life is not fair.
One thing I know about IQ tests in my experience is that they seem biased toward people who a) have a particular math and science educational history, and b) have a lot of time on their hands to think abstractly.
Or, and I'm going out on a limb here, the tests could just be biased towards people with a high IQ? (Which may correlate to the other factors you mentioned)
The fact is that IQ tests are a better predictor of many things than educational history or free time. This make it scientifically valid.
What does median tell us? The majority of homeowners are in mortgage debt, and the majority of renters have very little in financial assets.
It is their income that matters for most people.
Plans sold to the Middle East?
The naval architects are now really going to regret putting in that big funnel that leads directly to the main reactor of the carrier.
It is all a conspiracy, like the anti-tobacco lobby.
Noone has ever been able to point to a single case of lung cancer that can be proved to have been caused by smoking.
Wrong company, wrong continent. Why are ACs so dumb?
That might be funny except Target Pty Ltd does not sell the bible, or any religious fiction.
I expect Russia has already got everything out of Snowden that it ever will.
What they get from Snowden is PR. Makes it harder for the US to criticise Russia on human rights.
And it gives a big middle finger to the US administration, showing that Russia is one of the few countries who can afford to not be subservient to the US.
Do you think Snowden had much that the Russians were not already well aware of? He did not research military secrets.
If he is helping the Russians technically, it is in teaching them how to spy on their own people more efficiently.
No! I refuse to believe Earth has over 30% vegemite filling!
It'd explain why the oceans are so salty.
THEN you see an inability to process ethanol that has,
This is a bit of an urban legend. Plenty of populations have similarly reduced abilities to process alcohol, but not a big problem with alcoholism.
A better explanation is that being invaded and outnumbered by a more sophisticated race that relegates your humiliated culture to the fringes would drive anyone to drink. I'm very nervous about SETI.
Sounds like more nurture than nature to me.
Do you drop a bomb in zero gravity?
You need a smart bomb. A _very_ smart bomb. The Japanese have developed Bomb #20.
Finland is also dropping the handwritten long division algorithm in 2016.
Now that's just stupid. People will need to use their smartphone's calculator to figure out everything from restaurant tips
Funny, but I think some people have forgotten what long division is. Most people never, ever use it. It was a huge waste of time in schools, and should be limited to the advanced classes, because at least they will learn it quickly. But even the maths geniuses will pull out a calculator or smartphone rather than do a tedious _long_ division on paper.
Nobody is dropping handwriting (headline is click-bait), and nobody is dropping short division (e.g. splitting a check).
But cursive running-writing is a lot more useful than long division.
Finding out what happened is well worth a few hundred million,
How do you expect that to happen?
Even if they managed to find the wreckage and black boxes, they will yield little or no data. The is very different from the Air France crash.
But you wouldn't know anything about numbers, because you're a fucking bogan moron. You are too stupid to be here, fuck off.
Nice argument. Never has the schoolyard retort "takes one to know one" been more apt :)
I haven't read how they know it's from Mars, just how exactly do they know?
Luckily I RTFA. Isotope ratios is the main way. e.g. deuterium in water in the rock.
physics. Our progression in the last 100 years is more than 1000 fold all previous years combined
You think!? In 1914 we already had quantum mechanics and relativity (which limited speed to 'c' ). ... a bit of refinement. General relativity was published in 1916, but I would not call that a thousand-fold increment.
Since then
Now the greatest minds of our generation bang their heads against the brick wall of string theory.
You could kind-of build your own architecture on a breadboard using bit-slice chips. ...
Each chip does 4 bits of ALU. Put your own microcode in EEPROM, some high speed registers, lots of glue,
Not quite the same as discrete logic, but more achievable at home.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...
That said it was a wise choice. Kept the Russian rocket scientists out of Arab employment.
Which Arabs would that be? Iraq was already contained. What other Arabs could have developed a long-range missile program?
Unless you mean the Pakistani or Iranian "Arabs".
The first is that if something goes wrong on takeoff you risk what is effectively a 'dirty bomb' going off somewhere in the Earth's atmosphere which is not good.
Its not nearly as bad as you think. The biggest impact of a dirty bomb in a city would be psychological.
In the atmosphere, less important.
had better make sure that the craft does not return for Earth for a few billion years otherwise, again, it is like a dirty bomb going off in the atmosphere.
Uh, nuh. Pu238 half-life is 88 years. Here is the most basic clue about radioactivity: radiation intensity is inversely related to halflife. If it has a billion-year half-life, it is barely radioactive at all. A dirty bomb needs something with lots of radiation, and so a short half-life.
market cap is 25Billion, and has some 50000 employees.
Nokia wasn't just a phone company you know?
Wow! I had no idea the rubber boot business was so lucrative.
I think the only target audience is the Russian public, most of whom believe everything that Putin's propaganda machine feeds them.
They don't even have to believe it. Disinformation works even it it only serves to create confusion and cast doubt on the facts.
Even bigger difference: the white woman is in Australia and the black woman is in the US.
Yes, its much less of an issue here. Very rare for anyone to object to public breastfeeding, even if they don't like it.
I read that while almost all Australian mothers breastfeed (though some not for long), the majority of black American mothers do not.
Why is that?