How many people vote for presidents anyway? 35%? So if the winner is elcted with 51% of the votes, about 16% of the americans support him?
Presidential elections get more voters, in the high-50s to low-60s. You're thinking the mid-term elections (house and senators only, like 2010) which have absurdly low turnouts (40% in 2010).
So... we give it to the kid well after the "primary method of transmission" for what reason? It's 2 months, 4 months, etc.. after the transmission!
I think you're reading the schedule wrong. It's at birth, then again at 2 and yet again at 4 months. The initial at-birth vaccination is able to work faster than the at-birth infection (think tetanus or rabies vaccinations, which are effectively used in a post-infection manner) and, with the additional ones at 2 and 4 months, will prevent about 90% of cases of mother-to-child transmission.
You've got some vaccinations which make absolutely no sense for this reason, like a flu vaccine. Why would you want your kid to get that, for your 'convenience'? Horribly, horribly selfish. It makes a lot of sense if someone is immunodeficient, such as if the individual is elderly. But outside of that? No, it's just feeding the pharma system and costing you money.
What deficient logic are you utilizing to suggest that vaccinating immunodeficient individuals is a useful idea? That's ineffective pretty much by definition. You protect those individuals by vaccinating everyone who would come in contact with them.
Also, universal flu vaccinations make a whole lot of sense. Ontario started offering flu vaccines to everyone for free about a decade ago at a cost of about $40 million/year. About 42% of people take them up on that offer.
Comparing pre and post program information, the universal vaccination program prevents approximately 35,000 flu cases (about 61% of cases), 111 deaths, 786 hospitalizations, 7,745 emergency room visits, and 30,000 doctor visits every year. Even just from direct costs there (and not counting the costs of sick days from work), it's a money saver.
If a vaccination is supposed to keep someone from becoming ill with a specific illness, why would someone with that illness impact them at all? I thought that was kind of the whole point of a vaccination, yes?
Why is it people fail to think about this logically and instead resort to knee jerk reactionary insults?
Because your logic leads you to an incorrect conclusion due to lack of data.
Specifically, the fact that vaccines are not 100% effective at producing immunity
The two-dose measles vaccination is about 95% effective. That means that even with a 100% vaccination rate, 1 in 20 can still catch it. But given that low rate of non-immunity, the odds of a person with measles being able to come in contact with a non-immune person and pass it along are low.
But if that non-immune rate rises, so does the odds of that outbreak being able to be sustained. And with a long-term sustained outbreak, there's a substantial risk that the virus will mutate into a new form the vaccine would not protect against.
Justify why a newborn needs a hepatitis b vaccine. Go ahead call me stupid when I've done the research.
1. The major forms of transmission for hepatitis b are anal sex and iv drug use.,
1. Primary method of transmission is mother-to-child, via bodily fluids (you know, stuff the infant is utterly coated in when they're born?) or breastfeeding. 2. Testing for Hep B can be unreliable at certain phases of the disease.
in certain states it's impossible for you to sign away your rights. So look into your current state's laws. In those states even if you sign a EULA that says you won't take any legal action against the corporation, the EULA is void.
Not anymore. The supreme court decision said that the federal law allowing forced arbitration (Federal Arbitration Act of 1925) overrides state laws prohibiting it.
That it is. Especially combined with automatic multiple account detection. They can keep making more accounts and they just get detected and automatically added to the GI until they give up and go away.
I believe miserable users is a different trick or at least it is on Vbulletin. Miserable users adds a lengthy delay to all of the user's actions, kicks them to error pages, etc.
Nice functionality, or it would be if it didn't do unfortunate things to server load on 3.x.
I think that may still be in trials in the USA. I think remember reading something about it last year, might have been popular science. The technique in question used some sort of injected gel to block the vas deferens and was reversed by a second injection to dissolve the gel.
A buddy of mine told me that if you're mom's not a Jew, Israel won't recognize you as a Jew. Does that count as preventing me to worship their god?
Your buddy's not quite right. What he's referring to is an unusual provision in Israeli citizenship law (Called the Law of Return). Anyone who has a Jewish grandparent (and hasn't practiced another religion) or has converted to Judaism is eligible for automatic Israeli citizenship, rather than having to go through the naturalization process.
Because its the densest material around that isn't also absurdly expensive (Platinum, Iridium, Osmium, or Gold), or radioactive (Plutonium), so they can use smaller weights.
How will that work when you've got an entire apps ecosystem based on the assumption that the phone has a large touchscreen? Only way I can think of is you make the phone with both a large touchscreen and a keyboard and you have the thing somehow open up, but then you usually wind up with something about the size and weight of a housebrick.
Look at the Torch 9810. 3.2" screen, slide keyboard, 14.6mm thick. A small screen is less of a problem if you don't have a keyboard taking up half of it.
1. One good example, assuming it wasn't Verizon exclusive and thus actually available outside the US. 2. "Coming soon" with Gingerbread? That does not make me optimistic about their level of continuing software support. 3. You don't call that a "low to mid range" phone? Furthermore, it'll never get ICS. 4. T-mobile exclusive and again, no ICS in sight.
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Yep, those ridiculous Europeans violating the laws of physics with their fuel efficient vehicles. Real Americans won't stand for it!
2012 Ford Fiesta diesel 4 door, seventy-fucking-one miles per gallon, purchasable today, if you're not on this continent.
As I said, those were the mid-term elections in 2002 and 2006, which got about 34% and 37% turnout respectively.
Turnout for the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections were 54% and 57% respectively, and 63% in 2008.
How many people vote for presidents anyway? 35%? So if the winner is elcted with 51% of the votes, about 16% of the americans support him?
Presidential elections get more voters, in the high-50s to low-60s. You're thinking the mid-term elections (house and senators only, like 2010) which have absurdly low turnouts (40% in 2010).
So... we give it to the kid well after the "primary method of transmission" for what reason? It's 2 months, 4 months, etc.. after the transmission!
I think you're reading the schedule wrong. It's at birth, then again at 2 and yet again at 4 months. The initial at-birth vaccination is able to work faster than the at-birth infection (think tetanus or rabies vaccinations, which are effectively used in a post-infection manner) and, with the additional ones at 2 and 4 months, will prevent about 90% of cases of mother-to-child transmission.
You've got some vaccinations which make absolutely no sense for this reason, like a flu vaccine. Why would you want your kid to get that, for your 'convenience'? Horribly, horribly selfish. It makes a lot of sense if someone is immunodeficient, such as if the individual is elderly. But outside of that? No, it's just feeding the pharma system and costing you money.
What deficient logic are you utilizing to suggest that vaccinating immunodeficient individuals is a useful idea? That's ineffective pretty much by definition. You protect those individuals by vaccinating everyone who would come in contact with them.
Also, universal flu vaccinations make a whole lot of sense. Ontario started offering flu vaccines to everyone for free about a decade ago at a cost of about $40 million/year. About 42% of people take them up on that offer.
Comparing pre and post program information, the universal vaccination program prevents approximately 35,000 flu cases (about 61% of cases), 111 deaths, 786 hospitalizations, 7,745 emergency room visits, and 30,000 doctor visits every year. Even just from direct costs there (and not counting the costs of sick days from work), it's a money saver.
Who, the vaccinated kids?
If a vaccination is supposed to keep someone from becoming ill with a specific illness, why would someone with that illness impact them at all? I thought that was kind of the whole point of a vaccination, yes?
Why is it people fail to think about this logically and instead resort to knee jerk reactionary insults?
Because your logic leads you to an incorrect conclusion due to lack of data.
Specifically, the fact that vaccines are not 100% effective at producing immunity
The two-dose measles vaccination is about 95% effective. That means that even with a 100% vaccination rate, 1 in 20 can still catch it. But given that low rate of non-immunity, the odds of a person with measles being able to come in contact with a non-immune person and pass it along are low.
But if that non-immune rate rises, so does the odds of that outbreak being able to be sustained. And with a long-term sustained outbreak, there's a substantial risk that the virus will mutate into a new form the vaccine would not protect against.
Good luck with achieving eradication without using vaccines.
Justify why a newborn needs a hepatitis b vaccine. Go ahead call me stupid when I've done the research.
1. The major forms of transmission for hepatitis b are anal sex and iv drug use.,
1. Primary method of transmission is mother-to-child, via bodily fluids (you know, stuff the infant is utterly coated in when they're born?) or breastfeeding.
2. Testing for Hep B can be unreliable at certain phases of the disease.
in certain states it's impossible for you to sign away your rights. So look into your current state's laws. In those states even if you sign a EULA that says you won't take any legal action against the corporation, the EULA is void.
Not anymore. The supreme court decision said that the federal law allowing forced arbitration (Federal Arbitration Act of 1925) overrides state laws prohibiting it.
Total logic fail. A 15 year old male having sex with a 15 year old female is not statutory rape. You lose.
That depends on the state. For example, in New York state, both would be charged with statutory rape.
Whether said law is a logic fail itself is a different matter.
That it is. Especially combined with automatic multiple account detection. They can keep making more accounts and they just get detected and automatically added to the GI until they give up and go away.
I believe miserable users is a different trick or at least it is on Vbulletin. Miserable users adds a lengthy delay to all of the user's actions, kicks them to error pages, etc.
Nice functionality, or it would be if it didn't do unfortunate things to server load on 3.x.
Vbulletin implements this with their global ignore (a.k.a. Tachy Goes to Coventry) function.
Don't they have reversible vasectomies now?
I think that may still be in trials in the USA. I think remember reading something about it last year, might have been popular science. The technique in question used some sort of injected gel to block the vas deferens and was reversed by a second injection to dissolve the gel.
A buddy of mine told me that if you're mom's not a Jew, Israel won't recognize you as a Jew. Does that count as preventing me to worship their god?
Your buddy's not quite right. What he's referring to is an unusual provision in Israeli citizenship law (Called the Law of Return). Anyone who has a Jewish grandparent (and hasn't practiced another religion) or has converted to Judaism is eligible for automatic Israeli citizenship, rather than having to go through the naturalization process.
Facts are rarely as complete, consistent, or simple as a well-made falsehood.
When it concerns data about me.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 is not the preamble.
As long as you're not shifting to a different base version or bug hunting, there's generally no need to wipe the data partition.
And why tungsten anyway?
Because its the densest material around that isn't also absurdly expensive (Platinum, Iridium, Osmium, or Gold), or radioactive (Plutonium), so they can use smaller weights.
All the new phones are coming out with Android 4.x
Except Samsung who pushed out the new Rugby and the Captivate Glide with 2.3 for some inscrutable reason.
No, just clarifying.
it's all GPL so you can use as much or as little of it as you want
You're a little off there. The kernel and other Linux bits are GPL. The Android stuff is under the Apache license.
How will that work when you've got an entire apps ecosystem based on the assumption that the phone has a large touchscreen? Only way I can think of is you make the phone with both a large touchscreen and a keyboard and you have the thing somehow open up, but then you usually wind up with something about the size and weight of a housebrick.
Look at the Torch 9810. 3.2" screen, slide keyboard, 14.6mm thick. A small screen is less of a problem if you don't have a keyboard taking up half of it.
1. One good example, assuming it wasn't Verizon exclusive and thus actually available outside the US.
2. "Coming soon" with Gingerbread? That does not make me optimistic about their level of continuing software support.
3. You don't call that a "low to mid range" phone? Furthermore, it'll never get ICS.
4. T-mobile exclusive and again, no ICS in sight.