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  1. Re:why does it matter? on New York City Orders Mandatory Measles Vaccinations in Brooklyn (providencejournal.com) · · Score: 1

    Babies inherent their parents immunity, when the parents are actually exposed instead of vaccinated.

    Forcing generations of people to vaccinate ensures newborn babies have to get vaccinated as their system has been essentially weakened

    Keep that in mind as well

  2. Re:Ear-splitting sound on NASA Captures Unprecedented Images of Supersonic Shockwaves (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid fighter jets would occasionally create a sonic boom over the small town I grew up in. As a kid I thought this was cool as hell.

    A few times they were low enough it felt like light thunder

  3. ... and math isnt illegal.

    Good luck stopping it when the entire world runs on computers.

  4. Re:Guess I'll need to find on European Governments Approve Controversial New Copyright Law (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    When I am in the EU and try to look at US sites I constantly run into GDPR blockage, so much so I setup a VPN in the US just so I didnt run into this.

    I wonder if this means even more will join ?

  5. Re:I thought bookface was supposed to on Facebook Becomes 'A Haven For the Anti-Vaccination Movement' (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is there's no convincing these people with education or evidence. Anything that contradicts their world view is considered a conspiracy by "big pharma."

    It would be much easier if there wasnt any collusion in big pharma to make money.

    A single trip to Mexico to buy medication will prove there is.

  6. Pretty sure you just used math to prove why there is no real threat from terrorism

  7. Re:The Problem with preventing any throttling on Texas Lawmaker Wants To Ban Mobile Throttling In Disaster Areas (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Too many civilians are acting as first responders for this to be a good idea. Better idea would be to require everyone to maintain a telephone line to be used during emergencies.

    We pay taxes to support just that

  8. Cockroaches could be the food of the future.

  9. Re:Believe? on Ask Slashdot: Could Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower Have Worked? · · Score: 1

    Do some antenna work. I have been "bitten" more than 1 time from metal in the sky collecting juice

  10. Re:Understood on Hundreds Rally For Their Right To Not Vaccinate Their Children (msn.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    While we are at it lets banish the folks with hepatitis and aids to an island as well.

    Perhaps we should also isolate the cancer folks since we really dont have a handle on that.

  11. Yet you can do complete overhauls of mechanical cars legally.

    Personal responsibility is what is missing here. If you don't have the skill to do it. Don't

  12. Re:Sue them senseless on Marriott Says Hackers Stole More Than 5 Million Passport Numbers (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Certain countries require you give your passport information to the hotel

  13. Thing is... the earth might have not always rotated the same way ?

  14. C/C++ isnt the problem.... on The Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Javascript is... Entire Internet is a mess because of that crap. Who thought it was a good idea to let javascript get to the cpu ?

  15. Re: Work close to where you live as a priority on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    2 People work in most households so divide that wage by 2

    I saw my dad support us during the 60-70s easily with blue collar work and mom get a part time job when the 80s S&L bust impacted the mortgage.

    She never stopped working after that

  16. Where you live... on Has the Love Affair With Driving Gotten Stuck in Traffic? (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ... changes your view on this.

    Rural American a car / truck is mandatory as walking 15 miles to the store to get a pair of pants during snow or 100+ degree days simply isnt feasible walking / biking.

    Many states dont have enough people to subsidize public transit in medium sized cities let alone small town USA

    Big city areas.... driving a car to work always ended up being stressful. Having a car to do weekend stuff was a huge benefit

    I enjoy driving in rural America. Cant stand driving in cities where all you road boulders are parked in the left lane or worse where you are bumper to bumper while bicycles pass you by

  17. Re:Freedom means content you don't like on US Declines in Internet Freedom Rankings (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Simply horse kaka

    No one man defined the moral compass for the planet.If it is your room you are free to shit in the middle of it

    That is freedom. Your freedoms end where others begins.

    Problem being other people want their freedoms to invade your space

  18. Re:Driving is a privilege, not a right on The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data (qz.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    You do realize when driving first started it was a right. Somehow the courts ruled away your rights.

    That somehow is because we let them. You only have rights as long as you protect them from the govt. usurping them

    Keep in mind the constitution strictly defines the limits of the federal govt and the 10th amendment declares this quite clearly.

    Hint... everything not prohibited by law is a right ;) We let them pass laws removing our rights

    So you dont have to google it... the 10th

    The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

  19. This is the most retarded argument for stealing IP I've seen in a while. You do realize we have two separate concepts of intellectual property: Public and private. Of course things like language, math and history, that's public knowledge. Hell, even a lot of 'public knowledge' isn't free. I suggest you head down to your town hall or records department to see that even public knowledge housed within will cost you to have copies made of, for you. Now what happens in the next episode of Game of Thrones, you need to give up some time and effort to find out.

    What happens when you point out the content is actually a mathematical formula using a shared algorithm to render the content into a video ?

    Math being public.

  20. Re:Tech companies don't care on 58% of Silicon Valley Tech Workers Delayed Having Kids Because of Housing Costs (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Having just left the Bay area I can confirm there is a huge difference in hiring outside the Bay. The speed you get hired in the Bay is usually 1 week or less. A full day interview session after the initial phone screen and typically before I get home ( thanks bay area traffic ) I would have an offer.

    Outside the bay area people ask so many questions before the phone screen. Take 3 weeks to decide to interview you. Then another couple weeks to move forward.

    I found a remote gig for a bay area company faster than any outside the Bay area company finished interviewing.

  21. Re:Makes perfect sense on Startups Ditching Silicon Valley For New Cities (economist.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Having just left the Bay area and starting to look for work hard I have this observation.

    The Bay moves exponentially faster in the hiring process. It is really hard to not go back simply due to the fact companies outside the bay want to take 3 - 4 weeks to hire you.

  22. Re:Yes, but other property is increasing in value. on Sea Level Rise Already Causing Billions in Home Value To Disappear (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the highest mountain is only 160 ft above sea level ?

    *squint*

  23. Re:Go Tell it to Steam Train Engineers on It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I missed the coal tenders and the guy in the caboose

  24. Re:Drawing in people with free services on Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We're All At Risk (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Should give you an idea of how they fingerprint you. There are several other metrics especially with javascript

    $ echo ' 192.168.1.245 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.106 Safari/537.36' | md5
    ff218f1f924e6eb7d71cf3cdfe8ddb29

  25. Re:Should law infocement be hard? on Amazon Pushes Facial Recognition to Police, Prompting Outcry Over Surveillance (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Law Enforcement is there to enforce the laws. Laws should help the public, many times they do not