And a wonderful world it is. I have a 500 GB SSD and a 1 TB spinning HD stuffed in my (now aging) 17" MacBook Pro. A wonderful combo for serious work. I might have to look at the Dell when this thing finally dies as Apple has decided that svelte trumps strength and that nobody needs more than 15 inches. Having two drives (or at least 1.5 TB of storage) is going to be a requirement.
And Gatekeeper is fine (for individual use, it's not an Enterprise solution). If you don't understand the concept of walled garden or malware, then the DEFAULT secure position is to protect you from you lack of computer sophistication.
If you pass computer kindergarten and can now walk along the road unchaperoned, then you are one simple click away from freedom.
A perfectly sensible approach. I suspect that anyone posting here using OS X has unclicked Gatekeeper, but we are not it's target audience. Remember, it is still Eternal September out there.
No, the science community doesn't need to do anything. Your thesis that once a paper passes peer review it is automatically inserted into the canon is just completely wrong. You need to understand what science is.
I believe the anti-vaccine group do not say ALL vaccines are bad. They are saying that they suspect that one of the vaccines or a some yet undetermined factor(s) coupled with a particular vaccine may cause autism. This study indicates that the MMR vaccine is not the culprit. The pertussis vaccine was a notorious vaccine that caused high fevers in many children. If it has been studied and found to be safe (which I doubt), I hope someone will educate me. Does everyone here believe all vaccines are absolutely safe?
Nothing is absolutely safe. Absolutely nothing. Pertussis is a straw-man argument; Yes the OLD vaccine caused fevers and discomfort, no, the fevers and discomfort were not particularly dangerous. No one has used whole cell pertussis vaccine for a couple of decades now.
Is the risk-benefit ratio highly skewed towards benefit with general pediatric vaccinations - yes.
And you are exactly right. The OP does have one reasonable point in his post - now that we've knocked out the 'big' childhood infectious diseases (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and haemophilus) through vaccinations, we are working on immunizations where the cost - benefit ratio is much less clear.
Hepatitis B, Varicella (Chicken pox), pneumococcus, rotovirus and Hepatitis A are all safe and effective. Whether or not they need to be given to everyone is an interesting question. Hepatitis B is certainly reasonable for persons living in areas where the virus is endemic (South Asia in particular) and is reasonable for persons who plan on being drug addicts or health care workers. The problem is that most people who end up in the former life style aren't the type to seek medical attention early on. Varicella immunization, as you point out, wanes after a decade or so (as does tetanus, diphtheria and especially pertussis) and chicken pox is a largely benign illness (although complications do occur). The pediatric community has decided that a nuanced approach to this won't work so it's "everybody gets everything all of the time".
This appears to be pretty safe (again, the number of distinct antigens in all vaccines is dwarfed by the number of different proteins presented to your immune system every time you go out in a crowd) but there are theoretical concerns. You can make the argument that antigens presented by a vaccine are qualitatively different from your garden variety protein. You can also note that autoimmune diseases (where the body overreacts to antigens) is common, sometimes severe and undoubtedly increasing in the Western world. Thus, one can be concerned that pissing off the immune system could cause problems.
It, however, has never been demonstrated that vaccines are causally related to any autoimmune phenomenon or disease.
So, in the best of all worlds, one would have an informed discussion about the risks and benefits of all 14 recommended vaccines. Which would take a couple of hours. Which, of course, doesn't happen.
It might go better for you in the future if you manage to move away from 'ZombieDonut' to a real doughnut. Cops like real doughnuts, Zombies not so much.
What is 'general intelligence'? (Anything like Colonel Panic?)
Yes, if you can't read, can't figure out a bus schedule you are in a world of hurt in this society. It does not follow that being able to understand calculus gives you peace, happiness and longevity. There is going to be some broad mean that societal requirements dictate that you need. Other than than, you are at the mercy of lots of other vagaries of life.
Standard procedure. Every time. If something MIGHT be involved in a crime, the first thing law enforcement is going to do is put that thing someplace where they can prove provenance. It can be annoying and law enforcement over reaches at time, but I have a hard time getting mad at the FBI for this one. Especially the field guys - they aren't doing the detailed forensics or anything, they are just their to make sure that the scene is safe and secure.
Tunnels are expensive and cranky of maintenance. It's why municipalities don't build Roman-Era quality roads with 10 feet of grading and hand packed rocks that last 1000 years.
It's called a budget. An extraordinarily annoying concept.
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Ewww. Gross. A 'ketchup smoothie'. Just thinking about that makes me nauseated.
Thankyouverymuch.
I take it that Windows 2000 keyboards don't have a return key?
And a wonderful world it is. I have a 500 GB SSD and a 1 TB spinning HD stuffed in my (now aging) 17" MacBook Pro. A wonderful combo for serious work. I might have to look at the Dell when this thing finally dies as Apple has decided that svelte trumps strength and that nobody needs more than 15 inches. Having two drives (or at least 1.5 TB of storage) is going to be a requirement.
Let them have my cache. They can eat it, too.
The cache is a lie.
"Waist not, want not."
Is that a peculiarly American turn of phrase?
Yep, the point and click version of SUDO.
And Gatekeeper is fine (for individual use, it's not an Enterprise solution). If you don't understand the concept of walled garden or malware, then the DEFAULT secure position is to protect you from you lack of computer sophistication.
If you pass computer kindergarten and can now walk along the road unchaperoned, then you are one simple click away from freedom.
A perfectly sensible approach. I suspect that anyone posting here using OS X has unclicked Gatekeeper, but we are not it's target audience. Remember, it is still Eternal September out there.
Slashdot needs a "+1 Hey everybody, look at this idiot!" moderation.
No we don't - it's just assumed.
But, in the case of measles remember it also tends to cause men to be sterile if caught at the wrong age.
Close, no cigar. You're thinking of mumps (the other 'M' in MMR).
No, but we did ask Bennet Haselton.
No, the science community doesn't need to do anything. Your thesis that once a paper passes peer review it is automatically inserted into the canon is just completely wrong. You need to understand what science is.
I believe the anti-vaccine group do not say ALL vaccines are bad. They are saying that they suspect that one of the vaccines or a some yet undetermined factor(s) coupled with a particular vaccine may cause autism. This study indicates that the MMR vaccine is not the culprit. The pertussis vaccine was a notorious vaccine that caused high fevers in many children. If it has been studied and found to be safe (which I doubt), I hope someone will educate me. Does everyone here believe all vaccines are absolutely safe?
Nothing is absolutely safe. Absolutely nothing. Pertussis is a straw-man argument; Yes the OLD vaccine caused fevers and discomfort, no, the fevers and discomfort were not particularly dangerous. No one has used whole cell pertussis vaccine for a couple of decades now.
Is the risk-benefit ratio highly skewed towards benefit with general pediatric vaccinations - yes.
And you are exactly right. The OP does have one reasonable point in his post - now that we've knocked out the 'big' childhood infectious diseases (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and haemophilus) through vaccinations, we are working on immunizations where the cost - benefit ratio is much less clear.
Hepatitis B, Varicella (Chicken pox), pneumococcus, rotovirus and Hepatitis A are all safe and effective. Whether or not they need to be given to everyone is an interesting question. Hepatitis B is certainly reasonable for persons living in areas where the virus is endemic (South Asia in particular) and is reasonable for persons who plan on being drug addicts or health care workers. The problem is that most people who end up in the former life style aren't the type to seek medical attention early on. Varicella immunization, as you point out, wanes after a decade or so (as does tetanus, diphtheria and especially pertussis) and chicken pox is a largely benign illness (although complications do occur). The pediatric community has decided that a nuanced approach to this won't work so it's "everybody gets everything all of the time".
This appears to be pretty safe (again, the number of distinct antigens in all vaccines is dwarfed by the number of different proteins presented to your immune system every time you go out in a crowd) but there are theoretical concerns. You can make the argument that antigens presented by a vaccine are qualitatively different from your garden variety protein. You can also note that autoimmune diseases (where the body overreacts to antigens) is common, sometimes severe and undoubtedly increasing in the Western world. Thus, one can be concerned that pissing off the immune system could cause problems.
It, however, has never been demonstrated that vaccines are causally related to any autoimmune phenomenon or disease.
So, in the best of all worlds, one would have an informed discussion about the risks and benefits of all 14 recommended vaccines. Which would take a couple of hours. Which, of course, doesn't happen.
It might go better for you in the future if you manage to move away from 'ZombieDonut' to a real doughnut. Cops like real doughnuts, Zombies not so much.
A moose once bit my sister.
Sure dad, whatever you say.
What is 'general intelligence'? (Anything like Colonel Panic?)
Yes, if you can't read, can't figure out a bus schedule you are in a world of hurt in this society. It does not follow that being able to understand calculus gives you peace, happiness and longevity. There is going to be some broad mean that societal requirements dictate that you need. Other than than, you are at the mercy of lots of other vagaries of life.
Synthetic vaccines? They're all synthetic. We haven't used 'natural' vaccines since Jenner's day.
And speaking of crackpots....
I'm missing .net on OSX and Linux.
I'm not. .Net 1.0, .Net 1.2, .Net 1.4, .Net this, .Net that. Only one .Net version on the machine else nasty things happens.
Microsoft is doing us a big favor leaving .Net to Windows.
At least we didn't sink it off the coast of Japan.
That would have been way foolish.
Standard procedure. Every time. If something MIGHT be involved in a crime, the first thing law enforcement is going to do is put that thing someplace where they can prove provenance. It can be annoying and law enforcement over reaches at time, but I have a hard time getting mad at the FBI for this one. Especially the field guys - they aren't doing the detailed forensics or anything, they are just their to make sure that the scene is safe and secure.
"The FBI doesn't have a sense of humor that we are aware of, mam."
Now, this is a theory, a thesis. It seems plausible, but you haven't advanced any data to see if it is indeed true.
This is precisely what these folks are trying to do.
Tunnels are expensive and cranky of maintenance. It's why municipalities don't build Roman-Era quality roads with 10 feet of grading and hand packed rocks that last 1000 years.
It's called a budget. An extraordinarily annoying concept.
It was there a minute ago! It's a conspiracy I tell you!