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  1. Re:Animal House on A Software Project Full of "Male Anatomy" Jokes Causes Controversy · · Score: 1

    no it isn't. aggressive sexuality, dick jokes to women you don't know, is an immediate uncomfortable put off to all women as it tells them something about the male no female wants to deal with.

    So you are saying that all women are weak minded little pussies that can't take a joke! Are you sure you believe they are equals to men or do you actually believe that they are substandard and we should all tip-toe around them because they can't handle adult conversations. Are they allowed to hunt and kill animals if they want, or should we keep them locked up in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant? Your views seem old fashioned to me.

  2. Re:And the almond trees die. on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 2

    Don't forget the flakes!

  3. Re:This doesn't work on In Response to Pollution Spike, Paris Temporarily Halves Traffic By Decree · · Score: 1

    Which the article summary itself mentions happened last year at this time. If I lived there and found this to be a large inconvenience, I would certainly look at getting an older second car just to avoid this stupid law. Thus the rest of the year there are possibly more cars on the road and not less. And on these days of even-odd cars, you will have more than you would have had if people didn't buy a second car. It is called unintended consequences, and it happens a lot when politicians get involved in things.

  4. Re:So? It's a good corporate move. on Is Microsoft Trying to Become "King of Search" With Cortana Strategy? · · Score: 1

    Bing also likes to return pages of malware infested software instead of the real product you are looking for. I noticed this the first time when I accidentally installed a malware infected version of Chrome because IE put it at the top of the search. I suspect that they will figure people won't want to use Chrome if it comes with all the pop-up ads and crap, but I just attribute it to Microsoft's evil underhanded ways and refuse to use IE or Bing anytime I have a choice.

  5. Re:Slashdot Overrun by Luddite Barbarians on "Hello Barbie" Listens To Children Via Cloud · · Score: 1

    Why would a company make a locally run version of Siri only to loose out on all the extra money they could make from analyzing the "Big Data". I don't think it is as simple as saying if they could do it, they would. Stand-alone GPS units from a decade ago could hold a map of all the roads in the USA for routing you to your location. Does Google Maps have the roads locally stored or do they send your current location and target destination to their servers so they can get more data on you?

  6. Re:Cody, just stop. on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    Or they could just move to a country without the freedoms that they fear so greatly!

  7. Re:1st Amendment on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    Except back then even cannons were owned by private citizens. Had a battle coming up and needed a cannon? Start talking to the well-to-do in the town to see who can bring out their big weaponry.

  8. Re:I'm mad at him on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    This is about the stupidest response I have heard. How long are you going to wait while being killed or raped for the chance to get a phone to call the police and then wait some more for them to show up. If you get the chance to grab the phone, you also have the chance to grab the gun. One situation you might save your life, the other is where the police inspect your dead body for clues as to who did it. Police don't prevent crime, they chase after it when it is all over.

  9. Re:Cody Wilson wants to help you make a gun on Cody Wilson Wants To Help You Make a Gun · · Score: 1

    Yeah, us Americans had such an easy time with those simple minded desert dwellers in Iraq, didn't we. Just take a look at the combat we have been in lately and you can easily see that a bunch of guys with AR-15s can do quite a lot against the full on US military.

  10. Re:System worked, then? on On the Dangers and Potential Abuses of DNA Familial Searching · · Score: 1

    And in this very case the people that were first put behind bars were thought to be innocent and the police did a horrible job at actually using evidence to figure out who did it. So yeah, being innocent does not mean you won't end up in prison.

  11. Re:not the first time on Photo First: Light Captured As Both Particle and Wave · · Score: 1

    Cats also display wave-particle duality when stuck into a box with a radioactive particle, Geiger counter, hammer, and a vial of poison gas.

  12. Extra Sleep! on Adjusting To a Martian Day More Difficult Than Expected · · Score: 1

    To me it sounds like everybody can just get an extra 40 minutes of sleep each day. What is wrong with that!

  13. Re:yes. on Study: Peanut Consumption In Infancy Helps Prevent Peanut Allergy · · Score: 1

    Kids who were raised with cats don't have allergies. Some of them develop a sensitivity when they go off to college and aren't around cats every day like they used to be. I think your medical research needs work!

  14. Re: Even with the new outbreaks on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    You go ahead and listen to the people that tell you what to do. They told you to avoid peanuts when young so you won't die from an allergic reaction. Well it turns out they created a bunch of allergic people who now have to worry for the rest of their life about dying if they touch a peanut. They certainly know what's best, don't they.

    You can avoid every germ out there and we'll see who ends up healthier. I will take the germs, because that makes your immune system stronger.

  15. Re: Even with the new outbreaks on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Right, in third world countries. How many die in countries with hospitals that can give simple things like fluids and antibiotics. . . almost none. That is my point. If they have to lie to you to try to get you getting the vaccine, then there must be some alternative reason besides it is just a good idea!

  16. The premise is that they are coming to Earth to attack it. They must have a reason to attack us if they are doing it, right? Then what could that reason be? Material, food (including us), planet to live on, possibly a few others. If they would like to live on what we would consider an inhabitable planet and want nothing from us, then they would not be attacking us in the first place and you missed the whole point of the question.

  17. Re:Spike boots on Breakthrough In Face Recognition Software · · Score: 1

    That's right out of Wallace & Gromit's "The Wrong Trousers".

  18. But be sure to get any and all injections they say on Unearthing Fraud In Medical Trials · · Score: 1

    But we still should all go out and get every damn flu shot that they say we should. Because even though there is fraud, it is still very sound science and there is no fraud going on. Their trust is and always will be at the highest levels. And if you don't have the required levels of trust then you must report for your social mind reconfiguration training.

    Thank you citizens!

  19. Re: Its politics/emotions not intelligence level on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1
    I don't mean to imply that I feel that vaccines are not great things. I agree they did huge benifit to health and our society in general. In fact, I plan on getting my daughter immunized to some things.

    When this measles thing started up in the news, I even thought it was time for MMR. But a little research and I find the stats they are touting all over the news are such misleadings that I feel they are lying about it. The death rate they give is for the world, where our country has nowhere near the problems with getting the disease.

    So, if they are trying to mislead us that much, then I know it's for alternative reasons. Trying to cover for their horrible fuck-up with the flu vaccine, or they want to make even more money by telling us that it is going to need another booster to be truley efective. I'll save my limited number of injections for the truely serious.

  20. Re: Its politics/emotions not intelligence level . on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    The rate of measles infection was going down drastically before the vaccine was created. The antibiotics are for the secondary problems, not the measles. Better general health and healthcare will also have atbig impact on modern cases. Just because you aren't aware of the latest studies on the effectiveness of multiple vaccinations does not make it incorrect.

  21. Re:Your rights versus my rights on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    So why is it that I can't send my child to preschool with a peanut butter sandwich, but yet I am expected to respect your decision to send your unvaccinated child to be with mine?

    If your child is vaccinated, then what is the problem? You do have faith in your leaders right. They would not lie to you and give you vaccines that don't work. So if your child is vaccinated then they are protected from all the unwashed masses out there and you should not have any fear.

    That's not even counting the fact that the vaccinated people can become carriers and show either no symptoms or very mild ones. Then they keep going about their day as they infect many other people, while a sick person will be confined to bed!

  22. Re:Spectre of Autism... on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, the success of vaccinations seems to have been blunted everyone's memory of why we did it in the first place.

    Or perhaps it has made us forget how much of a little deal it was to start with. As I have been researching measles I have come to the conclusion it is another thing that is blown way out of proportion and it would be better to just get it rather than try to prevent it needlessly. Ask your parents how many of them and their friends got it and what happened to them all. Everybody got it! And nobody died!

  23. Re:Even with the new outbreaks on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Your fatality rate is as misleading number meant to scare you. There are over 600 cases of measles each year in the US (going by 650 last year alone). In the last decade there have been only 2 deaths. That puts it much lower than your 0.1% number. In countries that don't have medical care it can be worse.

  24. Re:Its politics/emotions not intelligence level .. on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    Some might be straight out denying. Others see how the facts we are told about what is healthy have been wrong so many times we don't want to just believe any old crap being spread about by companies that make money from it. Eating fat will make you fat, eggs are bad for you, carbs are good, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is the best thing ever invented for your health. Take antibiotics for everything, we don't have any gut bacteria or anything that is important for our health, and antibiotic resistant strains are not a concern. Well all these decades of taking their advice has led people down the wrong path and masses of people are sick and fat because of it.

    This measles scare is just that, a scare. 50 something cases this year, 650 cases last year. I didn't hear about them. Measles is not a bad disease, our parents got it as a routine thing during their childhood. Very few turn serious or deadly, especially when you have modern medical care such as antibiotics. I have heard recently even the MMR is found to be not that long lasting and they are probably going to ask people to get it a third time. Plus, each time you get a vaccine they are less and less effective. People who get the flu vaccine each year are going to be in trouble when they are elderly and really need the extra protection if that is true.

    It's like the chicken pox vaccine, which in a couple of generations will be just as scary as measles is purported to be. So they get everyone taking a vaccine for it, which runs out so you have to keep getting it. Or you just get chicken pox and get better. Then when you are elderly you get the vaccine for shingles. So you either take a vaccine your whole life, or just get it when you are old and your immune system is weaker. I'll opt for less crap being injected into my body, thanks! Besides, not getting sickness just keeps your immune system weak and screwed up. Some people have been cured of auto-immune diseases by getting a tape worm. If your immune system doesn't learn what it should be fighting, it will start fighting everything, even stuff it should not be.

  25. Re:More liberal than libertarian on Low Vaccination Rates At Silicon Valley Daycare Facilities · · Score: 1

    But the peoples children who don't have the option to vaccinate will also be kept out of public schools. We can't really condone discrimination can we? So if the sickly and dying kids are not in school, then what harm is there for the opt-out crowd? That they make the vaccinated ones sick? Then that just shows the vaccine doesn't work. If that's the case then you really should not be getting it.

    You do realize that the vaccinated people have been found to be much more harmful spreaders of the diseases, right? They don't get symptoms, or get very mild ones. But they are still carriers and pass it onto many more people than someone who is sick and stays at home. So I guess the vaccinated people should be held accountable for their actions when they infect others.