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  1. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    Obviously, didn't you read his post? His parents signed it on his behalf anyway.

  2. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    Individual rights always result in better outcomes than collectivist rights. You seem to think the latter is preferred, even when I pointed out where using such a principle can lead.

    One of the hard things is that 99% of the people who say that are lying. They strongly believe in collectivist rights. Just not the liberal ones, like unions. But the conservative ones, like corporations. Because 99% of libertarians (at least 100% of the ones I've met) believe people have no rights, only property has rights, and all "human rights" are derived from property and property rights

  3. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    What rights can "society" take away?

    Why don't you go to Somalia or DPRK and see what rights "society" has taken away.

  4. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1
    Arsenic and asbestos are 100% natural as well. Doesn't make "natural" blameless. Plenty of people have been sued for using 100% natural asbestos, or prosecuted for giving someone too much 100% natural arsenic.

    You cannot and should not be able to prosecute people for spreading it without proving actual malicious intent (spitting in food to spread it purposefully).

    So it was wrong to isolate Typhoid Mary, and she should have continued as a cook, infecting others for the rest of her life? Shouldn't harm those who didn't do it deliberately.

  5. Re:Free choice != Consequence-free choice on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    Way to go straight to the absurd and irrelevant extreme.

    If the theory doesn't work at the extremes, why should we assume it works in the middle?

  6. Re:its a tough subject on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    I held the gun to his head and politely requested his wallet "or else". It wasn't robbery because he gave it to me as a gift.

    Nope, your assertion doesn't pass a basic BS test. "Or else" means it isn't free choice.

  7. Re:Hospitals require testing on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    Most retail has a smaller number of daily people, and a more repeat customer base. The level of "travel the world to go there once" is tiny. People come from all over the US to go there (yes, locals more often) then go home to spread things. In places like movie theaters, most people come from 5 miles away or less (at least in the city, where there's one multiplex every 5 miles). So if you spread a disease to everyone who went to the theater that day, you'd likely not spread it far.

    That's the real difference for how disneyland affects the spread of disease. Also, there is much more touching than most retail. You don't have a metal bar you are told to grab, that 10,000 people have already touched that day.

  8. Re:Hospitals require testing on Should Disney Require Its Employees To Be Vaccinated? · · Score: 1

    I went to disneyland back when H1N1 was big. I got it there. I think that if the government passed rules that you could sue the places you get diseases from (disease negligence), then they'd be requiring vaccinations tomorrow.

  9. Re:Yep it is a scam on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    DDT is a very good indoor insecticide. It is cheap, mostly harmless to humans, and stable. Widespread use in the wild leads to problems, but indoor use does much more good than harm.

  10. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    ocean acidification which ultimately may be a bigger problem than global warming.

    What did the fishes look like the last CO2 spike? The problem with looking at the oceans is that the deep ocean floor recycles relatively fast.

  11. Re:No way! on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 1

    If you and your wife are illegal immigrants, and have a baby, you'll find that you can be deported. Your child will be deported with you, for lack of family to take care of him or her.

    Nope. They can't "deport" a US citizen. That's illegal (under US and international law). They can threaten to hold the child in jail (or worse) for 18 years if the parents don't "voluntarily" take it with them, but you can't "deport" a citizen. That's called "exile". And the US doesn't practice exile.

    When your child turns 18, said child will be able to enter the US freely. He or she still won't be able to get you and your wife in on a permanent basis.

    I didn't realize that they ended the family paths. Or they didn't, and you are lying for effect? I honestly don't know, as a US citizen, I've looked at the issue before, but don't spend every waking hour researching it.

    And I know more than one family that came to the US illegally, had a child, got "caught", but was allowed to stay, and eventually all got citizenship. And it never took an "amnesty", though they may have been in the US for one of the previous ones, but didn't take advantage of it at the time, as many treat it like the NRA nuts treat gun registrations. Don't raise your hand, you'll make it on a permanent list.

  12. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    I think his response was a joke too. A powered snorkel, like a submarine one, would work fine for large distances, but a human-connected snorkel is good to about 2 feet (and impractical at that, as a wide one for good flow will having you inhaling your exhaust)?

  13. Re:More proof on US Senate Set To Vote On Whether Climate Change Is a Hoax · · Score: 1

    What size is 5-gauge wire? What size is 15-gauge wire?

  14. Re:No way! on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 1

    Fuck you. I'm a genious. I just need a minute to figure out how to put these pants on. Why make them with two legs, if you can't hop in both legs at the same time? A branching leg system or button up like the old navy pants would be more efficient. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Adidas...

    And these danmed pants don't come with instructions. What kind of fool is expected to know how to put his own pants on?

  15. Re:In related news on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    If the US ever does default, social security checks will start bouncing.

    Printing money isn't defaulting.

    "If A, then B"
    "but C isn't B"

    Thanks for your comment, but I see no relation between it and any comment that came before. "They'll never 'default', they'll just print money to cover the debt" would have been on-topic.

    The funny thing is, that the way they've set up how money enters the economy, they'll actually not be able to make it work very well to pay of money with printed money.

    Print money. They essentially give it away for free to banks (with the assumption that the banks will use it to buy government bonds). but when the bonds are worthless because of the hyper-inflation caused by the hundreds of trillions of dollars printed to cover the debt, there will be better ways to spend the money.

    The trillion dollar coin trick will work to avoid budget caps, but won't work to actually pay down debt. And if it did work, the economy would collapse anyway. The mechanisms they put in place to stabilize the economy prevent printing money to directly cover debt.

  16. Re:Legit reasons on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    "Spoof" to me doesn't mean "re-write". It means "re-write to an invalid value". I would not consider re-writing a CLID to a valid one that reaches you "spoofing" even if it's re-written.

    If I meant that re-writing should be illegal, not spoofing, then I'd have said "people should be banned by law from sending CLID, and all lines should be identified by their ANI or equivelent"

    Nobody calls NAT "IP Spoofing". IP spoofing is used to refer to IP-re-writing where the resultant IP is unrelated to the actual origin of the packet. Re-write IPs all you want. That's not spoofing (unless done for nefarious reasons that break the end-to-end nature of IP).

  17. Re:Cardholder services on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    They should enforce standards. If your CLID doesn't match one of the numbers you get from me as a provider (and you haven't discussed it with me), as the provider, I strip your CLID and put your ANI on instead. It might not be the right number to reach you back at, but it'll guarantee that any fraudulent number you list will be gone and the number presented will be consistent, so that you'll be more easily blockable.

    And I support the right to sue carriers for their negligence in this manner, allowing it to continue, because they know they make money from it, and nobody is forcing them to, so they are willing and open participants in the fraud, in most cases.

    The fixes for this are easy, and would work. Someone just has to demand that the fraud stops. And too many profit from it.

  18. Re:Cardholder services on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    You don't "spoof" caller ID. You reassign it from one valid number that reaches you, to another valid number that reaches you. The same as if a Fortune-500 were to assign all outgoing calls from DIDs to 1-800-front-desk, so that anyone who calls you back from number alone would see the official corporate HQ number.

    That's not fraud. You aren't lying for gain. You are telling the truth. "Bob" is really calling, and his preferred number is GV#.

  19. Re:Cardholder services on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 1

    Does it tell you how much of that "entitlement" spending goes to retirees and disabled veterans?

    More goes to VA than SS, so the "solution" to the entitlement problem is to put the VA under military spending. That'll cut more than 50% off the "entitlement" budget.

    Problem solved. You can even double the VA at the time.

    Nobody ever says "no" to a bump in military funding

  20. Re:Imagine all the people on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 1

    I'd guess it was either the guns, the sense of entitlement, or both.

  21. Re:Cardholder services on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It should be illegal to spoof caller ID. It's fraud. Lying for gain. They know that their real number would get blocked/ignored.

  22. Re:No way! on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 1

    Living is on the path to citizenship. Every student I knew but one tried to get on the citizenship path, despite student visas not being on the citizenship path. That doesn't mean that student visas are on the citizenship path.

  23. Re:In related news on Dish Network Violated Do-Not-Call 57 Million Times · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And we only need another 20 to do it to solve the debt problem.

  24. Re:Imagine all the people on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 1

    The US wasn't much better under Laissez faire. The middle class fixed that. When the middle class has enough power, they'll be able to push back against the corruption. So building the middle class (at the expense of the 1%) will improve the world, including the corrupt areas.

  25. Re:No way! on Senator Who Calls STEM Shortage a Hoax Appointed To Head Immigration · · Score: 0

    Failing to define a term while asserting someone else's definition is wrong is disingenuous, and given your condemnation, in this case, hypocritical.