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  1. Re:This is Texas! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's generally best to move to a middle-lower part of the best school district you can find. The report I saw indicated that the bad school in a good district is usually better than the good school in a bad district. So which school isn't nearly as important as good district.

  2. Re:simple solution on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Seriously, it's a well documented problem. Most people think that they are above average. They think that crashes will happen to "someone else". This causes risk-taking behavior because humans can't process low-probability risk. The probability is low, but the exposure is high.

    That you also don't understand the risks doesn't mean they are somehow wrong.

  3. Re: Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 2

    Because the experts are not saying it. They leave it to the professional spokespeople to say it.

    Are you saying you don't believe the President of the United States has competent advisors?

  4. Re:Only if they pay for infections this causes on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    If 100% of other people are vaccinated, it's in my best interest to not vaccinate. If 0% of other people are vaccinated, then it's in my best interest to be vaccinated.

    The problem is that if everyone acts in non-enlightened self-interest, then the total damage is much greater to everyone than if we act selflessly.

  5. Re:Mandate on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    Non vaccine schools would work, so long as the school closes for a week every time a child shows any cold symptoms (on the chance that it's something "stronger"). The question becomes, how many school days will be left?

  6. Re:Barack Obama: on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 1

    http://xkcd.com/882/

    Wait, so what's wrong with trusting a 5% confidence study done 20 times?

  7. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 2

    Then they can just join Christian Scientists, or similar, if available. There are multiple religions that refuse modern medical care.

  8. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not sure why you are being a dick. The guy asked a question and nothing more.

    It was a dumb question. The answer is easily found on the Internet. It also implies an anti-vaccine stance. If he (and you) are too dumb to recognize that, then he's worthy of the abuse for that alone.

  9. Re:Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 2

    You may have missed the AC the GP is responding to. The AC stated that more people die from the flue vaccine than from the flu. That's what (I presume) the source is being asked for.

  10. Re: Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Obama -- another self-appointed public health expert

    You are confised. Obama is not (and never claimed to be) a public health expert. But He would claim to be a spokesperson for his advisors who are certified public health experts.

  11. Re: Backpedalled? on New Jersey Gov. Christie: Parents Should Have Choice In Vaccinations · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, anecdotal data. Every parent I've met who claimed their little angel was allergic or sensitive to something had never actually had any tests done to verify that. So I'll presume a self-diagnosis to be wrong, until proven otherwise.

  12. Re:simple solution on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Yes, getting killed by car is common. That just means people have an irrational non-fear of cars, not that a fear of getting shot is irrational.

  13. Re:Hyperbole Sunday on The NFL Wants You To Think These Things Are Illegal · · Score: 1

    So what contact above the waist is allowed? I see it all the time, without ever being called.

  14. So, if he were to give or sell that to the government, is that "bad"?

  15. Re:simple solution on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    An irrational fear is the fear of being kidnapped by aliens. It's not irrational to fear death by firearm in the USA.

  16. Re:Token troll argument on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    That's not how language works. They were planning it, but not planning to do it. It's the difference between planning what one would do if they won the lottery, and planning on rigging the lottery.

  17. Re:The DEA is just doing their job on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    Guns were never outlawed in Venezuela. Sales were stopped. There's a difference.

  18. Re: The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    At the national level, the NRA pretends the other 9 don't exist. The ACLU and NRA work together to cover all 10, each specializing in different ones. The ACLU does defend the 2nd, just not very vigorously.

  19. Re:What world do you live in? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    So, does that include the States in 1776? How about Afghanistan in the '80s? Today?

  20. Re:Countdown on The Pirate Bay Is Back Online, Properly · · Score: 1

    So Kim didn't have assets seized anywhere else in the world?

  21. Re:The sad part? on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    You aren't responsible for interpreting the constitution.

    Yes, I am. Everyone is. That was known at the time, and it took the Executive and Legislative branches giving that power to the judiciary for the mess we are in now. Presidents and legislators pass laws they know are unconstitutional. That is unconstitutional.

    It's all our responsibilities to judge the constitutionality of everything.

  22. Re:not New news on DEA Planned To Monitor Cars Parked At Gun Shows Using License Plate Readers · · Score: 1

    But doesn't prove it started when Obama took office.

  23. When things have been proven to have happened, like Regan making traitorous deals with Iran, and yet, anyone who brings that up is called a conspiracy theorist by the Right. So the Right works really hard against their own interests by being one of the first to call other conspiracy theorists. Just like Nixon's actions were dismissed, until fully proven, despite the massive cover-up.

  24. Next, you'll tell me that Reagan didn't make a deal to commit treason by trading arms to Iran in exchange for holding Americans hostage for a *longer* time (either one of the two events alone treason). But I guess two treasons makes a hero.

  25. Re:xkcd on The NFL Wants You To Think These Things Are Illegal · · Score: 1

    No, it's a comment that most of the "sports watchers" aren't video game watchers. The argument works because of the lack of overlap in the groups, not because there are no video game watchers.