Sure, its "UN-NECESSARY", in the same way vaccines are. You take a small risk to reap larger rewards. If 0.0001% of kids have a lethal reaction to vaccines (I totally fabricated that number, btw, and I am 100% pro-vaccine), does that mean all kids should stop getting vaccines? OF COURSE NOT!
Benefits of circumcision:
Eliminates the risk of phimosis, which affects 1 in 10 older boys and men. This condition refers to a tight foreskin that cannot be pulled back fully, so making cleaning under it, and passing urine, difficult. Phimosis also greatly increases the risk of penile cancer, and is the cause of foreskin and catheter problems in nursing homes.
Reduces by 3-fold the risk of inflammation and infection of the skin of the penis. One in 10 uncircumcised men get infl ammation of the head of the penis and foreskin. This rises to 1 in 3 if the uncircumcised man is diabetic. (Diabetic men also have other severe problems.) In contrast only 2% of circumcised men get this condition.
Over 10-fold decrease in risk of urinary tract infections in infants. Whereas risk of this is only 1 in 500 for a circumcised boy, 1 in 50 uncircumcised male infants will get a urinary tract infection. This very painful condition is particularly dangerous in infancy, and in 40% of cases can lead to kidney inflammation and disease; blood poisoning and meningitis can also result.
Over 20-fold decrease in risk of invasive penile cancer, which has a high fatality rate. One in 600 uncircumcised men get penile cancer, which often requires penile amputation.
Uncircumcised men have 1½ â" 2 times the risk of prostate cancer, which affects 1 in 6.
Reduces by approximately 3-fold the risk of getting HIV (AIDS), during sex with an infected woman. HIV enters via the vulnerable inner lining of the foreskin of a healthy penis, but can also infect via sores anywhere on the penis (caused for example by genital herpes). In countries such as the USA that have a low prevalence of HIV the risk of a heterosexual man being infected with HIV sexually is generally low. His risk, especially if uncircumcised, will be much greater if he engages in unsafe sex with people of countries in which HIV abounds.
Circumcision also affords substantial protection against sexually transmitted infections such as papilloma (wart) virus, syphilis and chancroid.
Circumcision reduces by up to 5 times the risk of the manâ(TM)s female partner being infected by chlamydia or getting cervical cancer (which is caused by human papillomavirus). The load of infectious bacteria and viruses that accumulate under the foreskin is delivered into the female genital tract during sex. Chlamydia has more than doubled over the past 5 years and can cause infertility (in both sexes), pelvic inflammatory disease, and ectopic pregnancy.
If not circumcised soon after birth, up to 10% will later require one anyway for medical reasons.
Credible research shows that most women prefer the appearance of the circumcised penis. They also prefer it for sexual activity. Hygiene is one reason.
Most studies reveal no significant difference in sensitivity between a circumcised and uncircumcised penis.
In general, sexual function is the same or better.
1) Get a router that supports Tomato firmware (e.g. WRT54G).
2) Set up access restrictions to whatever sites, services, games, whatever that you want to never touch again (farmville, facebook, youtube, warcraft, whatever it is that makes you want to quit the internet) at the router level, for all clients on your network.
3) Have a good friend or significant other enter a password on the router's config screen
4) Friend keeps password so you can't cheat and disable the settings.
Nope, it's actually the opposite. "Too fast" neutrons don't react very well (they just speed away), so you need something to slow them down and make them more reactive.
i'm not sure if they have zedbra crossing's either.
We do, but they're not exactly the same. You do not have the right to cross against the light when using one at an intersection, hence the "WALK" and "DONT WALK" signals.
Human rights are for EVERYONE, otherwise you'll very quickly see the list of those who aren't entitled to them expand. It might eventually include you.
Nonetheless, I think almost everybody understands on a gut level that this sort of thing is ethically wrong.
I think that's only because modern copyright law has conditioned you to think that way.
If copyright was a grand total of, say, 15 years, and you were conditioned to know that from a young age, would you feel bad downloading that Nirvana album? Of course not!!! It would be legal, and since it would be accepted by society as THE NORM, no one would think it's wrong.
"Yesterday I dropped the soap in the shower. A heads up to everyone out there, don't pick up the soap if you drop it. Oh by the way I have a new boyfriend"
Actually, you probably absorb more radiation from the altitude of the flight than any checkpoints.
That's probably true. The issue is that in-flight radiation is a NECESSARY part of flying, while scanning is completely useless and provides no benefit whatsoever.
Speaking for myself, I have... let's call it an "above average" character in terms of education and intellect, and yet public schools couldn't be bothered with me. Had it not been for the fact that my parents had worked hard enough to be able to afford very expensive private schooling, I would never have graduated from High School.
No offense, but it sounds like you're, let's call it "below average", on a number of other skill-sets, if you were unable to graduate from public school, especially High School.
Don't tell me, you were "soooo bored" with school that you just couldn't hack it....right? Do what the rest of us did and read during class, program on your TI85 during class, hell do diffeq in your head if you feel like it. "I'm soooo smart but can't do the work" rings, well, false.
I homeschooled my kids and they have a larger and more diverse circle of friends than you can possibly imagine....My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.
You must go to a really big fundamentalist church!
For every homeschooling parent who is keeping their kids in the basement, I'll show you 10 school kids who are wasting their lives and potential without any help from their parents at all.
Or you could have the best of both world...have your kid in school AND help them reach their potential.
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Does it eliminate the need for bulk-baseload power? Again No...
Charge batteries
Heat molten salt
Pump water uphill
This is a SOLVED PROBLEM
Awesome, so I assume you're also for not giving children vaccines until they're 18? It's the exact same concept:
Very slightly risky procedure that the child do not consent to that reaps a lifetime of benefits.
Sure, its "UN-NECESSARY", in the same way vaccines are. You take a small risk to reap larger rewards. If 0.0001% of kids have a lethal reaction to vaccines (I totally fabricated that number, btw, and I am 100% pro-vaccine), does that mean all kids should stop getting vaccines? OF COURSE NOT!
Benefits of circumcision:
1) Get a router that supports Tomato firmware (e.g. WRT54G).
2) Set up access restrictions to whatever sites, services, games, whatever that you want to never touch again (farmville, facebook, youtube, warcraft, whatever it is that makes you want to quit the internet) at the router level, for all clients on your network.
3) Have a good friend or significant other enter a password on the router's config screen
4) Friend keeps password so you can't cheat and disable the settings.
5) Use internet for useful things when needed.
The end.
Nope, it's actually the opposite. "Too fast" neutrons don't react very well (they just speed away), so you need something to slow them down and make them more reactive.
Kids? House? Shared commitments?
We're not all 23 and dating, you know.
I can barely stream Netflix movies, let alone consider making phone calls with it.
You do realize a VOIP voice call used a few orders of magnitude less bandwidth than streaming a Netflix video.....right?
i'm not sure if they have zedbra crossing's either.
We do, but they're not exactly the same. You do not have the right to cross against the light when using one at an intersection, hence the "WALK" and "DONT WALK" signals.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswalks#In_North_America
A blood test later revealed that he had recently taken a Viagra.
Wow. Is that a non sequitur or what? Just what the hell are they screening for in Ohio?
Erection fraud?
Nah, they only have erection fraud in China.
These things are expensive - on the order of $1000 plus fees for the cell phone connection.
ROFL. Expensive? To the FBI? Give me a fucking break.
Bzzt, but thanks for playing.
Human rights are for EVERYONE, otherwise you'll very quickly see the list of those who aren't entitled to them expand. It might eventually include you.
Nonetheless, I think almost everybody understands on a gut level that this sort of thing is ethically wrong.
I think that's only because modern copyright law has conditioned you to think that way.
If copyright was a grand total of, say, 15 years, and you were conditioned to know that from a young age, would you feel bad downloading that Nirvana album? Of course not!!! It would be legal, and since it would be accepted by society as THE NORM, no one would think it's wrong.
Gut level = conditioned by culture.
When will they be changing the API again? Am I supposed to be psychic when setting the maxVersion number?
I'd just set it to 99 or whatever and patch shit as it breaks.
I'd rather have an app that's buggy on a new version of FF than one that *would* have worked fine but had maxVersion set too low...
"I've got a cute boyfriend"
"Yesterday I dropped the soap in the shower. A heads up to everyone out there, don't pick up the soap if you drop it. Oh by the way I have a new boyfriend"
Rape isn't funny or justified. Ever.
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This is basically why all the lower-end houses (i.e., less than $1 million)
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So, do you live in the DC metro area? LA perhaps?
Yes, sure, I know they have different positions, but they both want to tell me how to live my life.
That's because, shockingly, how you live your live affects OTHER PEOPLE. Crazy, eh?
Tada!!
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That's a lot of toilets...
Do something about jobs and housing already.
FTFY
I heard Germany has a lot of...furnaces that aren't being used anymore. Any way we can find fuel for them and use them to generate electricity?
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I kid, I kid.
I didn't stop flying. I went out and got my pilot's license, then I built an airplane. Now I fly every chance I get!
It must be nice to have a million dollars.
Actually, you probably absorb more radiation from the altitude of the flight than any checkpoints.
That's probably true. The issue is that in-flight radiation is a NECESSARY part of flying, while scanning is completely useless and provides no benefit whatsoever.
Speaking for myself, I have... let's call it an "above average" character in terms of education and intellect, and yet public schools couldn't be bothered with me. Had it not been for the fact that my parents had worked hard enough to be able to afford very expensive private schooling, I would never have graduated from High School.
No offense, but it sounds like you're, let's call it "below average", on a number of other skill-sets, if you were unable to graduate from public school, especially High School.
Don't tell me, you were "soooo bored" with school that you just couldn't hack it....right? Do what the rest of us did and read during class, program on your TI85 during class, hell do diffeq in your head if you feel like it. "I'm soooo smart but can't do the work" rings, well, false.
I homeschooled my kids and they have a larger and more diverse circle of friends than you can possibly imagine....My daughter's 16th birthday party had more than 70 kids and 30 adults on the guest list - and these really are close friends who she has spent more quality time with growing up than anything you get out in the school yard between classes.
You must go to a really big fundamentalist church!
For every homeschooling parent who is keeping their kids in the basement, I'll show you 10 school kids who are wasting their lives and potential without any help from their parents at all.
Or you could have the best of both world...have your kid in school AND help them reach their potential.