The government only spends money trying to decrease the inequity between the middle and lower class. This just makes the problem worse, just as this H1B visa suggestion is only designed to decrease inequity between the middle and lower class while increassing the disparity between the upper and middle/lower class. I have not seen any programs that address the disparity between the truly wealthy and the poor.
That is not true. Colleges have already made it well down the path of 'paper mill'. Yes, even the 'legit' ones. I don't care how many years you go to college to hone your cullinary kills, you will never get any better at flipping McDondald's burgers because of it. That is what we are facing. College has stopped being an efficency and productivity enhancer. It is now just causing employers to start demanding degrees for jobs that a college education brings no benifits to. Even worse, the colleges are now giving degrees to people that are not even close being qualified to have recieved the degree.
They probably did that because Slashdot doesn't have enough storage online to support listing all the examples of people who got degreees and went nowhere with it.
College and the debt that has become synonymous with it has become a tragidy of the commons. It isn't that college is bad. It isn't that taking on debt for college is bad. It is that it is bad when lots of people are doing it.
Agreed. I blame the medical industry for that. If their response to Wakefield would have been to just let anyone who was worried about his report, get the three vaccines seperately, the anti-vaccination movement would have been less likely to get any foothold. Instead, the medical industry relied on lies, scare tactics, and insults and it has blown up in all of our faces. Besides, the pro-vaccination group is supposed to be the smart ones, so they should know better than to lump all vaccines together. So, instead of blaming Jenny Mcarthy for people not getting measle vaccination, looke at every person on this site who lumps all vaccines into a single argument and blame them. They are far more effective at convincing people not to get vaccinations than Jenny Mcarthy ever was.
BTW, I am in favor of imunization. I'm not in favor of denying unimmunized children healthcare because their parents did not have them immunized.
Yeah, reading your post, you don't say you are agaist providing care. I'm pretty sure that my response was to a different post. Strange.
Anyway, to answer your questions...
Death by kitchen fire alone is 3x greater than pre-vaccine chicken pox. No doubt that including various other ways people die would increase that number. Even worse is that while 95% of all chicken pox cases were in children, 50% of all deaths were in adults. Then add to it that the chicken pox vaccine does not offer life long immunity, and you have a situation where, for that perticular vaccine, the numbers just don't pan out for childhood immunization. If they offered it to adults who never caught chicken pox as children, the numbers would come out entirely different.
This is why I find it highly irresponsible for doctors to try to scare people into getting 'vaccinations'. Not all vaccinations are created equal, and not all diseases with available vaccines are equally dangerous. When doctors (and anti-anti-vaxers) equate chicken pox with something like polio or small pox, they lose credibility. When they lose credibility, they are far less effective at convincing people to vaccinate against the real threats.
The number of people opting out of mumps vaccines can also be set at the feet of the medical industry. A doctor (you know, one of the 'experts') indicated that the combined mumps, measles and rubella vaccine caused autism. He recommended taking the vaccines seperately. The response from the medical industry was to rely on brow beatings, insults, and lies. They assumed that everyone would just fall into line due to their appeal to authority. If they had just shrugged their shoulders and offered the three vaccines seperately, the movement against vaccines as a group would not have gotten as much of a foothold has it has.
More data... Approximately 300 people a year die in the US from residential kitchen fires. Approximately 100 people a year died of Chicken Pox prior to the development of the vaccine. Residential kitchen fires are 100% preventable by banning kitchens in homes. Giving the chicken pox vaccine to children (as apposed to adults) has driven the death rate down by approximately 25 deaths a year while increasing the rates of shingles.
One of the big problems with the pro-vaccine argument is that 99% of the time all vaccines get lumped into a single entity when all vaccines are most certainly not created equal.
More people will die from non-emergency driving by a wide margine than from not being able to be vaccinated and catching a disease from someone who chose not to be vaccinated. As long as the Anti-anti-vaxers use poor arguments, they will gain no traction with those they are trying to convince.
That is the problem with the anti-anti-vaxers. They equate the flu vaccine and the chicken pox vaccine with small pox and polio. They then start suggesting things like anyone who doesn't get every single vaccine should be denied medical coverage while they go on about their far more dangerous activities like non-emergancy driving and having kitchens in their homes.
Unless you are prepared to also deny firefighting and insurance to those people who irresponsibly have kitechens in their homes, you are being a hypocrate. The odds of dying from a home cooked meal is more than 3x as likely as dieing from chicken pox if every single person on the planet decides not to vaccinate.
Your comment is a good example for why it is so hard to get people to vaccinate for the important diseases.
Since that hasn't been done yet, we don't know. It just might. Having the medical industry tell obvious and verifiable lies, and then having the anti-anti-vaxers spew ignorant hatred is far more damaging to the vaccination efforts than some celebrity or a single study by a now 'discredited' doctor who never said that vaccines were bad.
Heck, you can laugh when they get lectured about the need for water conservation in books that act like California and California are equivlent biomes.
It goes way beyond that. The fact that you are using it for deslanization and pumping of that water means that the uneven production of renewable resources don't matter. So, you produce more fresh water during the day than at night. A step further is that by pumping the fresh water to dams, you would be abe to use that fresh water as a giant clean battery for any renewable energy sources that are built as well
I've come to the conclusion that we are past the point of that being necessary. I don't consider myself a great typist. Decent, but not great. When I am in practice, I can accurately type 65 wpm. In the real world, I doubt I average 45 words a minute, as there are other factors than the physical act of typing that slow me down below the 65 wpm mark.
To be fair, their computers will have fully functional voice recognition systems that will be able to do anything the touch system can do. The touch systems will be for 'open floorplan' work spaces where people would be talking over each other, places where you want the data is at least somewhat confidential, and places that you just don't want the noise of people talking.
The way that Khan Academy makes math fun is by making it easy. Not easy problems, but easy to learn. It drops the crap busy work, and when you don't know how to do something, it walks you through it in simple plain English.
Getting the Chicken Pox vaccine as a child does not protect you from shingles as an adult. Getting the Chicken Pox vaccine as an adult protects you from getting shingles as an adult, and that is true whether you have had the chicken pox, the chicken pox vaccine, or neither as a child. The death rate among infected adults are 10 times greater than the death rate in children, and the Chicken Pox vaccine has shown to only offer temporary protection.
The numbers show that the Chicken Pox vaccine should only be used on adults, yet when someone wants to skip that vaccine, they get the
information from health authorities about the lack of evidence for a connection, information about the danger of the three diseases the MMR vaccine protects against, pictures of children who had one of those three diseases, or a story about an infant who almost died from measles
speech with chicken pox replaced with Measles. In other words, they are lied to by the various health organizations. It is no wonder that people become more skeptical when they are being told horror stories that if not always outright lies, are often half truths designed to make them make decisions out of emotional fear instead of reason.
I have been saying for a long time that the pro-vaccine people are their own worst enemies when it comes to convincing people to get vaccinated. For example, the MMR vaccine. Instead of trying to convince people that Wakefield had been discredited, (which looks mighty suspicious on it's face), they should be pointing out to the parents that don't want the MMR vaccine that Wakefield did not recommend against Measles vaccines. He just advised against the mixed vaccine. Then offer individual vaccines for the same diseases that Wakefield did not accuse of causing autism. And outright stop telling parents that chicken pox will kill their children when a home cooked meal is more than 3 times more likely to kill your kid than if no one ever got immunized against the disease. Getting caught lying removes all credibility.
No, it has not been known for a long time. The anti-meat brigade has been if full force for a couple of generations now. Their theories on meat have proven to be a joke. We have been told for decades that high meat diets will make you fat. Then the Atkins diet started catching on and there was an almost 100% success rate at losing weight by dropping the medical/insurance/government suggested sugar and eating fat/protein. In response to the high success rate of the Atkins diet, the anti-meat brigade started trying to convince people that if you go on the Atkins diet you will die. That never happened either. The government/insurance/medical industries have lost credibility with studies concerning the health effects of meat, as their last 40 years of research has been empirically proven wrong consistently.
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The government only spends money trying to decrease the inequity between the middle and lower class. This just makes the problem worse, just as this H1B visa suggestion is only designed to decrease inequity between the middle and lower class while increassing the disparity between the upper and middle/lower class. I have not seen any programs that address the disparity between the truly wealthy and the poor.
College and it's debt has become a tragidy of the commons.
That is not true. Colleges have already made it well down the path of 'paper mill'. Yes, even the 'legit' ones. I don't care how many years you go to college to hone your cullinary kills, you will never get any better at flipping McDondald's burgers because of it. That is what we are facing. College has stopped being an efficency and productivity enhancer. It is now just causing employers to start demanding degrees for jobs that a college education brings no benifits to. Even worse, the colleges are now giving degrees to people that are not even close being qualified to have recieved the degree.
They probably did that because Slashdot doesn't have enough storage online to support listing all the examples of people who got degreees and went nowhere with it.
College and the debt that has become synonymous with it has become a tragidy of the commons. It isn't that college is bad. It isn't that taking on debt for college is bad. It is that it is bad when lots of people are doing it.
Agreed. I blame the medical industry for that. If their response to Wakefield would have been to just let anyone who was worried about his report, get the three vaccines seperately, the anti-vaccination movement would have been less likely to get any foothold. Instead, the medical industry relied on lies, scare tactics, and insults and it has blown up in all of our faces. Besides, the pro-vaccination group is supposed to be the smart ones, so they should know better than to lump all vaccines together. So, instead of blaming Jenny Mcarthy for people not getting measle vaccination, looke at every person on this site who lumps all vaccines into a single argument and blame them. They are far more effective at convincing people not to get vaccinations than Jenny Mcarthy ever was.
BTW, I am in favor of imunization. I'm not in favor of denying unimmunized children healthcare because their parents did not have them immunized.
Yeah, reading your post, you don't say you are agaist providing care. I'm pretty sure that my response was to a different post. Strange.
Anyway, to answer your questions...
Death by kitchen fire alone is 3x greater than pre-vaccine chicken pox. No doubt that including various other ways people die would increase that number. Even worse is that while 95% of all chicken pox cases were in children, 50% of all deaths were in adults. Then add to it that the chicken pox vaccine does not offer life long immunity, and you have a situation where, for that perticular vaccine, the numbers just don't pan out for childhood immunization. If they offered it to adults who never caught chicken pox as children, the numbers would come out entirely different.
This is why I find it highly irresponsible for doctors to try to scare people into getting 'vaccinations'. Not all vaccinations are created equal, and not all diseases with available vaccines are equally dangerous. When doctors (and anti-anti-vaxers) equate chicken pox with something like polio or small pox, they lose credibility. When they lose credibility, they are far less effective at convincing people to vaccinate against the real threats.
The number of people opting out of mumps vaccines can also be set at the feet of the medical industry. A doctor (you know, one of the 'experts') indicated that the combined mumps, measles and rubella vaccine caused autism. He recommended taking the vaccines seperately. The response from the medical industry was to rely on brow beatings, insults, and lies. They assumed that everyone would just fall into line due to their appeal to authority. If they had just shrugged their shoulders and offered the three vaccines seperately, the movement against vaccines as a group would not have gotten as much of a foothold has it has.
That is the exact opposite of what they should. Doctors are already doing that, and all it does is make them lose all credibility.
Your HMO is doing the right thing. Your kid will servive the two extra shots.
More data... Approximately 300 people a year die in the US from residential kitchen fires. Approximately 100 people a year died of Chicken Pox prior to the development of the vaccine. Residential kitchen fires are 100% preventable by banning kitchens in homes. Giving the chicken pox vaccine to children (as apposed to adults) has driven the death rate down by approximately 25 deaths a year while increasing the rates of shingles.
One of the big problems with the pro-vaccine argument is that 99% of the time all vaccines get lumped into a single entity when all vaccines are most certainly not created equal.
More people will die from non-emergency driving by a wide margine than from not being able to be vaccinated and catching a disease from someone who chose not to be vaccinated. As long as the Anti-anti-vaxers use poor arguments, they will gain no traction with those they are trying to convince.
That is the problem with the anti-anti-vaxers. They equate the flu vaccine and the chicken pox vaccine with small pox and polio. They then start suggesting things like anyone who doesn't get every single vaccine should be denied medical coverage while they go on about their far more dangerous activities like non-emergancy driving and having kitchens in their homes.
Unless you are prepared to also deny firefighting and insurance to those people who irresponsibly have kitechens in their homes, you are being a hypocrate. The odds of dying from a home cooked meal is more than 3x as likely as dieing from chicken pox if every single person on the planet decides not to vaccinate.
Your comment is a good example for why it is so hard to get people to vaccinate for the important diseases.
Since that hasn't been done yet, we don't know. It just might. Having the medical industry tell obvious and verifiable lies, and then having the anti-anti-vaxers spew ignorant hatred is far more damaging to the vaccination efforts than some celebrity or a single study by a now 'discredited' doctor who never said that vaccines were bad.
Add an extra laser and you double the read/write speed. Add three extra lasers and you have a 4x speed increase.
Heck, you can laugh when they get lectured about the need for water conservation in books that act like California and California are equivlent biomes.
It goes way beyond that. The fact that you are using it for deslanization and pumping of that water means that the uneven production of renewable resources don't matter. So, you produce more fresh water during the day than at night. A step further is that by pumping the fresh water to dams, you would be abe to use that fresh water as a giant clean battery for any renewable energy sources that are built as well
I've come to the conclusion that we are past the point of that being necessary. I don't consider myself a great typist. Decent, but not great. When I am in practice, I can accurately type 65 wpm. In the real world, I doubt I average 45 words a minute, as there are other factors than the physical act of typing that slow me down below the 65 wpm mark.
To be fair, their computers will have fully functional voice recognition systems that will be able to do anything the touch system can do. The touch systems will be for 'open floorplan' work spaces where people would be talking over each other, places where you want the data is at least somewhat confidential, and places that you just don't want the noise of people talking.
Your refusal to work with a business does not mean the business does not exist.
I haven't experienced a good Dukes of Hazard analogy in a long time.....
The way that Khan Academy makes math fun is by making it easy. Not easy problems, but easy to learn. It drops the crap busy work, and when you don't know how to do something, it walks you through it in simple plain English.
That's what you would like to believe anyway.
The numbers show that the Chicken Pox vaccine should only be used on adults, yet when someone wants to skip that vaccine, they get the
information from health authorities about the lack of evidence for a connection, information about the danger of the three diseases the MMR vaccine protects against, pictures of children who had one of those three diseases, or a story about an infant who almost died from measles
speech with chicken pox replaced with Measles. In other words, they are lied to by the various health organizations. It is no wonder that people become more skeptical when they are being told horror stories that if not always outright lies, are often half truths designed to make them make decisions out of emotional fear instead of reason.
I have been saying for a long time that the pro-vaccine people are their own worst enemies when it comes to convincing people to get vaccinated. For example, the MMR vaccine. Instead of trying to convince people that Wakefield had been discredited, (which looks mighty suspicious on it's face), they should be pointing out to the parents that don't want the MMR vaccine that Wakefield did not recommend against Measles vaccines. He just advised against the mixed vaccine. Then offer individual vaccines for the same diseases that Wakefield did not accuse of causing autism. And outright stop telling parents that chicken pox will kill their children when a home cooked meal is more than 3 times more likely to kill your kid than if no one ever got immunized against the disease. Getting caught lying removes all credibility.
No, it has not been known for a long time. The anti-meat brigade has been if full force for a couple of generations now. Their theories on meat have proven to be a joke. We have been told for decades that high meat diets will make you fat. Then the Atkins diet started catching on and there was an almost 100% success rate at losing weight by dropping the medical/insurance/government suggested sugar and eating fat/protein. In response to the high success rate of the Atkins diet, the anti-meat brigade started trying to convince people that if you go on the Atkins diet you will die. That never happened either. The government/insurance/medical industries have lost credibility with studies concerning the health effects of meat, as their last 40 years of research has been empirically proven wrong consistently.