Why should everybody else be subjugated to medical procedures to allow some sickly person to exist where they don't need to be. If some kid can't get vaccines because of illness, then they should not be in school. If you want to exclude people without vaccines from attending school, then that includes the sickly one. I see no reason they should be allowed to attend if you are going to exclude the others. But once you stop them from going, then there is no reason for the others to be mandated to get anything. If you want to protect yourself and your children then go ahead. And that included the sick kid, they can stay home and out of public if they want to stay germ free.
This measles thing in the news is some sort of push to control us. Last year there was 650 cases in the US. Did we hear about them in the news? I sure didn't. This year there are 51 cases and it is all over the place. What is the big deal. Measles is not a dangerous disease if you have standard medical care. Sure, people in outback Africa will have more serious infections, but we have antibiotics and saline drips. Our parents got it as a routine thing and it didn't result in death and disability as the news portrays it. It was basically like getting chicken pox. Of course in another generation that will be a big scary thing also.
Truly smart people know that there is so much they don't know and tend to be humble as a result.
I've seen so many Google engineers from Mountain View who took themselves big experts in a field and that didn't even realize that what they were saying on the topic was ridiculous to any researcher who worked on that topic.
Now if we could get the people trying to push non-needed vaccines onto everybody to realize they don't know what they are talking about perhaps we could have some civil discussions.
Sure indentation can help. But at the last place I worked they would have so many nested if statements that it would indent all the way across the screen. It was quite hard to keep track of which set of braces you were inside of. I don't know if goto's would have helped in their case, but too many nested groups definitely hurts readability.
The only people inspiring fear among the public are the ones calling out bomb squads to blow things up while they tell people how dangerous every bush and soda can is. Everybody must be afraid all the time or they might just realize how ridiculous they are behaving.
I believe the main point that might lead to good outcomes for homeschoolers is that there is no way you are getting as good of a student to teacher ratio in a classroom. 30-1 or more is what some of the schools in the city near me have now. Even in a good school you will still be looking at 12-1 at the best. 1-1 or 2-1 is such a huge difference that it makes up for the lack of experience on the part of the parent in teaching. Plus the parent knows the child and how to get them to pay attention to the material they should be learning. You also have the option of holding off on a topic if they aren't ready to grasp that concept yet. In class everyone must progress together. Likewise, you can go deeper into a topic if it is something they find interesting.
I do think eventually the material will get beyond our ability to teach it effectively. Sometime before high school we are planning on transitioning our children to public school. But to start I see homeschooling as a huge benefit, even if it is extra work for us.
In general the public school system discourages any type of thinking on the part of the student. If you think differently than the teacher you get in trouble. It is basically a power struggle with the teacher telling the student that they must respect their authority! Of course there are good teachers out there also, but the school system churns out people who are taught not to think for themselves because that will not get you the good grades that memorizing and regurgitating will get you. Just look at the cases of kids like the one in the news earlier in the week who was suspended for bringing an encyclopedia of knowledge to school. Way too disturbing of class when you have a kid that loves learning like that!
That's an easy game then. Just don't ever eat anything and the other team will never get any points at all. Of course you end up dead in the end, but that doesn't matter, does it!
As for the nutrition, I stick to the good ole food pyramid. My (slightly high) cholesterol went to norm in the first year, and no problems whatsoever in 5 consecutive yearly checkups since I started the routine.
Within the chosen margin of error of measurement, it works, bitches.
The food pyramid is the exact same ratio of nutrients that farmers give their cattle to fatten them up. They recommend way too many carbs and grains in the food pyramid.
No, it is teaching the kid that you must respect their authority! Many people in positions of power, in the school system and elsewhere in society, want people to do what they tell them to without any thinking or delay. If you have an imagination and don't want to be the perfect little drone that society wants to make you into then you will run into a lot of trouble like this. This is the primary reason my wife and I have decided to homeschool.
The tired light theory is an interesting one, and I can see how it can fit well with observations. I like the tired light because it does seem to make the expanding universe less certain. Even the Big Bang becomes questionable and I see the CMBR as a possible detection of light that has given up the last of it's energy due to traveling too far.
I was more thinking about red-shifting accumulating due to the distance from the object. They always mention that further objects are more red-shifted due to them moving away from us faster. But if the red-shift accumulates over the distance due to more and more red-shifting coming from the expansion of space itself, then that doesn't tell us speed of the distant object, just the distance. I guess perhaps I always misunderstood what they meant by the red-shift being due to the objects traveling away from us. It's kind of a subtle difference perhaps. Does the red-shift happen at the point of departure of the object that is moving away from us due to the expansion, or does the red-shift happen during the journey from source to destination. Now that I write it out the first scenario makes little sense as different destinations would need to see different red-shifting amounts. I guess it would be: a) red-shift is due to the difference in speed, or b) red-shift is due to space stretching out underneath the light waves as the travel. Obviously the speed would have an additional effect or you could never see something blue-shifted due to it's actual motion relative to us.
Upon reading this article and thinking about the red-shift I had a new thought that I was wondering about. If the space is expanding while the light is travelling through it, what says that the red-shift is from the movement of the original object and not the movement of expanding space underneath the light. Water waves would be shifted with both a moving wave generator and a stationary wave generator in a stream. The waves upstream would be compressed while the waves downstream would be lengthened. This would lead to greater red-shifts for further objects not because they are travelling faster away from us, but because they have spent more time in expanding space. Do we know that the expansion of space does not effect a change in the frequency of EM radiation?
Not that people should be forced to rely on the police, they should be able to defend themselves. But some people opting to defend themselves shouldn't release society (thru the police) from an obligation to assist.
The courts have already ruled that the police do not have any obligation to assist.
Except the dual analog sticks are always pushed to their limits. What's the point of analog if it almost impossible to use them gently. Walking on a game system controller is difficult. It is easier to just tap the stick full for a brief moment rather than try to edge it up until your guy starts walking, but oops, you moved it too far and you just ran off the cliff!
A certain irreducible background incidence of cancer is to be expected regardless of circumstances
I think you have mutations and cancer confused. If cancer was a unavoidable fact then we would not have creatures like the naked mole rat that does not EVER
get cancer. I remember hearing that sharks don't get cancer either, but they are not being used in labs to study why they don't get cancer like the naked mole rat is, so it is perhaps less of a scientific fact and more conjecture.
I had to send a fax the other day to a website. I attempted to use their web form to send a copy of ID required for a purchase. Twice it failed through the form, once using an Android phone and again using a desktop PC. I even tried to reply to the customer service person that told me the email had no attachment and send it that way. I eventually sent it in using a fax and they got it right away.
The theaters already said they would not show it. So what is Sony to do? Release it anyway with only showing in obscure theaters and it gets bad box office earnings, or don't release it until next year sometime when everything has blow over and it can get a shot at a normal opening weekend.
Nothing makes me angrier than the cops that shoot first and ask questions later. But according to the coroner's report, the thug was never shot from behind. Plus, 9 black witnesses reported that he was charging the officer during the last of the shots fired.
The very gasses that the say separated out from the galaxies have the ability to cause the bending of light also. It is just like refraction through a medium like glass, but there is no solid boundary that it passes through. Instead it has a varying index of refraction which leads to the very same bending of light that has been attributed to the dark matter that they keep saying is there. The bullet cluster isn't quite the nail in the coffin that the news will put it out as.
To me it sounds like a little circular reasoning. Physicists were looking for an aether and couldn't find one. Einstein comes along and explains that one isn't needed because of relativity. He first adds then removes the cosmological constant. We find things expanding too much so add the cosmological constant back in by the process of dark energy which supposedly involves vacuum energy of the aether, so we have added that back in also. And now we need dark matter to fix gravity also. So the need to get rid of the aether has led us around to putting it back in. Perhaps we went astray someplace back then and are heading off in the wrong direction.
I'm not trying to say I know more than the people working on this. I find it interesting either way though. But I have seen examples of scientists following the wrong trail for a while before it gets figured out. We are just starting to understand that the whole fat makes you fat thing was bad science and isn't really true. And we are all told the pyramids are tombs when no mummys have ever been found in one. No frescas or writing of the person buried there either like in all the other tombs of that time. Some guy in the past makes some claim and everyone buys it for quite a long time before it gets figured out that we took a wrong turn back then.
Did you even look at the links? What a fuckwit! They see the silent carrier in studies where the test subjects were vaccinated. And you then say it doesn't happen. What a asshole. And right there in the CDC page, 8x more likely, and you bump that up to 20 for whatever fuck reason your stupid little sheep brain thinks!?! They also say the unvaccinated are not the cause of the outbreaks. But you can't understand such simple language as that because it isn't put into terms of how many terr'ists are out to get you!!!! Go crawl under a rock somewhere you dumb ass!
If you don't get the booster, you run the risk of getting the disease and dying.
Nice way to fall for the lies. Everything is just soo dangerous and trying to kill you. The terrorists are full of these diseases and we must let the TSA inject shit into everybody who walks down the sidewalk.
So you are saying, what, because some vaccines Are not permanent, why bother getting it?
According to the CDC's site: Even though children who haven't received DTaP vaccines are at least 8 times more likely to get pertussis than children who received all 5 recommended doses of DTaP, they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks or epidemics. However, their parents are putting them at greater risk of getting a serious pertussis infection and then possibly spreading it to other family or community members. So it isn't the unvaccinated that are the problem.
In a study done by Oxford University for all pertussis outbreaks in San Rafael California between March and October 2010, 81% were completely up to date on their vaccinations, 8% were unvaccinated, and 11% were partially vaccinated. So people are hyping up the fear for something that isn't even the problem. If you want a prevention, then you need to focus on making a better vaccine, not forcing more people to take risks for something that is ineffective.
That is not how viruses work. If you are immunized the virus gets killed by your immune system and you do not become a "carrier".
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Why should everybody else be subjugated to medical procedures to allow some sickly person to exist where they don't need to be. If some kid can't get vaccines because of illness, then they should not be in school. If you want to exclude people without vaccines from attending school, then that includes the sickly one. I see no reason they should be allowed to attend if you are going to exclude the others. But once you stop them from going, then there is no reason for the others to be mandated to get anything. If you want to protect yourself and your children then go ahead. And that included the sick kid, they can stay home and out of public if they want to stay germ free.
This measles thing in the news is some sort of push to control us. Last year there was 650 cases in the US. Did we hear about them in the news? I sure didn't. This year there are 51 cases and it is all over the place. What is the big deal. Measles is not a dangerous disease if you have standard medical care. Sure, people in outback Africa will have more serious infections, but we have antibiotics and saline drips. Our parents got it as a routine thing and it didn't result in death and disability as the news portrays it. It was basically like getting chicken pox. Of course in another generation that will be a big scary thing also.
Truly smart people know that there is so much they don't know and tend to be humble as a result.
I've seen so many Google engineers from Mountain View who took themselves big experts in a field and that didn't even realize that what they were saying on the topic was ridiculous to any researcher who worked on that topic.
Now if we could get the people trying to push non-needed vaccines onto everybody to realize they don't know what they are talking about perhaps we could have some civil discussions.
Sure indentation can help. But at the last place I worked they would have so many nested if statements that it would indent all the way across the screen. It was quite hard to keep track of which set of braces you were inside of. I don't know if goto's would have helped in their case, but too many nested groups definitely hurts readability.
And why does the FBI need to hide this?
If you aren't doing anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide! Right! I guess they know they are doing something wrong then.
The only people inspiring fear among the public are the ones calling out bomb squads to blow things up while they tell people how dangerous every bush and soda can is. Everybody must be afraid all the time or they might just realize how ridiculous they are behaving.
I believe the main point that might lead to good outcomes for homeschoolers is that there is no way you are getting as good of a student to teacher ratio in a classroom. 30-1 or more is what some of the schools in the city near me have now. Even in a good school you will still be looking at 12-1 at the best. 1-1 or 2-1 is such a huge difference that it makes up for the lack of experience on the part of the parent in teaching. Plus the parent knows the child and how to get them to pay attention to the material they should be learning. You also have the option of holding off on a topic if they aren't ready to grasp that concept yet. In class everyone must progress together. Likewise, you can go deeper into a topic if it is something they find interesting.
I do think eventually the material will get beyond our ability to teach it effectively. Sometime before high school we are planning on transitioning our children to public school. But to start I see homeschooling as a huge benefit, even if it is extra work for us.
In general the public school system discourages any type of thinking on the part of the student. If you think differently than the teacher you get in trouble. It is basically a power struggle with the teacher telling the student that they must respect their authority! Of course there are good teachers out there also, but the school system churns out people who are taught not to think for themselves because that will not get you the good grades that memorizing and regurgitating will get you. Just look at the cases of kids like the one in the news earlier in the week who was suspended for bringing an encyclopedia of knowledge to school. Way too disturbing of class when you have a kid that loves learning like that!
That's an easy game then. Just don't ever eat anything and the other team will never get any points at all. Of course you end up dead in the end, but that doesn't matter, does it!
As for the nutrition, I stick to the good ole food pyramid. My (slightly high) cholesterol went to norm in the first year, and no problems whatsoever in 5 consecutive yearly checkups since I started the routine.
Within the chosen margin of error of measurement, it works, bitches.
The food pyramid is the exact same ratio of nutrients that farmers give their cattle to fatten them up. They recommend way too many carbs and grains in the food pyramid.
As attractive as the diet is in the French Quarter, Voodoo lacks the je ne sais quoi of the Catholic "fish on fridays" ethic.
Just sayin'
Right! Because supporting the Pope's cousin is such a great ethical thing to do!
No, it is teaching the kid that you must respect their authority! Many people in positions of power, in the school system and elsewhere in society, want people to do what they tell them to without any thinking or delay. If you have an imagination and don't want to be the perfect little drone that society wants to make you into then you will run into a lot of trouble like this. This is the primary reason my wife and I have decided to homeschool.
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The tired light theory is an interesting one, and I can see how it can fit well with observations. I like the tired light because it does seem to make the expanding universe less certain. Even the Big Bang becomes questionable and I see the CMBR as a possible detection of light that has given up the last of it's energy due to traveling too far.
I was more thinking about red-shifting accumulating due to the distance from the object. They always mention that further objects are more red-shifted due to them moving away from us faster. But if the red-shift accumulates over the distance due to more and more red-shifting coming from the expansion of space itself, then that doesn't tell us speed of the distant object, just the distance. I guess perhaps I always misunderstood what they meant by the red-shift being due to the objects traveling away from us. It's kind of a subtle difference perhaps. Does the red-shift happen at the point of departure of the object that is moving away from us due to the expansion, or does the red-shift happen during the journey from source to destination. Now that I write it out the first scenario makes little sense as different destinations would need to see different red-shifting amounts. I guess it would be: a) red-shift is due to the difference in speed, or b) red-shift is due to space stretching out underneath the light waves as the travel. Obviously the speed would have an additional effect or you could never see something blue-shifted due to it's actual motion relative to us.
Upon reading this article and thinking about the red-shift I had a new thought that I was wondering about. If the space is expanding while the light is travelling through it, what says that the red-shift is from the movement of the original object and not the movement of expanding space underneath the light. Water waves would be shifted with both a moving wave generator and a stationary wave generator in a stream. The waves upstream would be compressed while the waves downstream would be lengthened. This would lead to greater red-shifts for further objects not because they are travelling faster away from us, but because they have spent more time in expanding space. Do we know that the expansion of space does not effect a change in the frequency of EM radiation?
Not that people should be forced to rely on the police, they should be able to defend themselves. But some people opting to defend themselves shouldn't release society (thru the police) from an obligation to assist.
The courts have already ruled that the police do not have any obligation to assist.
Except the dual analog sticks are always pushed to their limits. What's the point of analog if it almost impossible to use them gently. Walking on a game system controller is difficult. It is easier to just tap the stick full for a brief moment rather than try to edge it up until your guy starts walking, but oops, you moved it too far and you just ran off the cliff!
I'm sure according to your logic whale oil will soon be feasible again too.
Sure! Once all the oil in the ground has been used up, then we will have to get it from the whales again.
If simple communication is not language, then why is it called body language?!
I've posted this in another post, and yet again.
A certain irreducible background incidence of cancer is to be expected regardless of circumstances
I think you have mutations and cancer confused. If cancer was a unavoidable fact then we would not have creatures like the naked mole rat that does not EVER
get cancer. I remember hearing that sharks don't get cancer either, but they are not being used in labs to study why they don't get cancer like the naked mole rat is, so it is perhaps less of a scientific fact and more conjecture.
I had to send a fax the other day to a website. I attempted to use their web form to send a copy of ID required for a purchase. Twice it failed through the form, once using an Android phone and again using a desktop PC. I even tried to reply to the customer service person that told me the email had no attachment and send it that way. I eventually sent it in using a fax and they got it right away.
The theaters already said they would not show it. So what is Sony to do? Release it anyway with only showing in obscure theaters and it gets bad box office earnings, or don't release it until next year sometime when everything has blow over and it can get a shot at a normal opening weekend.
Nothing makes me angrier than the cops that shoot first and ask questions later. But according to the coroner's report, the thug was never shot from behind. Plus, 9 black witnesses reported that he was charging the officer during the last of the shots fired.
The very gasses that the say separated out from the galaxies have the ability to cause the bending of light also. It is just like refraction through a medium like glass, but there is no solid boundary that it passes through. Instead it has a varying index of refraction which leads to the very same bending of light that has been attributed to the dark matter that they keep saying is there. The bullet cluster isn't quite the nail in the coffin that the news will put it out as.
To me it sounds like a little circular reasoning. Physicists were looking for an aether and couldn't find one. Einstein comes along and explains that one isn't needed because of relativity. He first adds then removes the cosmological constant. We find things expanding too much so add the cosmological constant back in by the process of dark energy which supposedly involves vacuum energy of the aether, so we have added that back in also. And now we need dark matter to fix gravity also. So the need to get rid of the aether has led us around to putting it back in. Perhaps we went astray someplace back then and are heading off in the wrong direction.
I'm not trying to say I know more than the people working on this. I find it interesting either way though. But I have seen examples of scientists following the wrong trail for a while before it gets figured out. We are just starting to understand that the whole fat makes you fat thing was bad science and isn't really true. And we are all told the pyramids are tombs when no mummys have ever been found in one. No frescas or writing of the person buried there either like in all the other tombs of that time. Some guy in the past makes some claim and everyone buys it for quite a long time before it gets figured out that we took a wrong turn back then.
Did you even look at the links? What a fuckwit! They see the silent carrier in studies where the test subjects were vaccinated. And you then say it doesn't happen. What a asshole. And right there in the CDC page, 8x more likely, and you bump that up to 20 for whatever fuck reason your stupid little sheep brain thinks!?! They also say the unvaccinated are not the cause of the outbreaks. But you can't understand such simple language as that because it isn't put into terms of how many terr'ists are out to get you!!!! Go crawl under a rock somewhere you dumb ass!
If you don't get the booster, you run the risk of getting the disease and dying.
Nice way to fall for the lies. Everything is just soo dangerous and trying to kill you. The terrorists are full of these diseases and we must let the TSA inject shit into everybody who walks down the sidewalk.
So you are saying, what, because some vaccines Are not permanent, why bother getting it?
According to the CDC's site: Even though children who haven't received DTaP vaccines are at least 8 times more likely to get pertussis than children who received all 5 recommended doses of DTaP, they are not the driving force behind the large scale outbreaks or epidemics. However, their parents are putting them at greater risk of getting a serious pertussis infection and then possibly spreading it to other family or community members. So it isn't the unvaccinated that are the problem.
In a study done by Oxford University for all pertussis outbreaks in San Rafael California between March and October 2010, 81% were completely up to date on their vaccinations, 8% were unvaccinated, and 11% were partially vaccinated. So people are hyping up the fear for something that isn't even the problem. If you want a prevention, then you need to focus on making a better vaccine, not forcing more people to take risks for something that is ineffective.
That is not how viruses work. If you are immunized the virus gets killed by your immune system and you do not become a "carrier".
And here we have a completely ignorant statement from someone who wants to tell me what to put into my body. Here are some links to the evidence that you do become an unknown carrier after getting the pertussis vaccine. Acellular pertussis vaccines protect against disease but fail to prevent infection and transmission in a nonhuman primate model and Whooping Cough Study May Offer Clue on Surge