It's time to stop buying these game consoles that cannot be hacked and these DVD's they don't want us to watch.
I have resisted setting up the DVD player since we moved (4 months ago) because the restrictions placed on me (Macrovision!) by the manufacturer inconveniences me. If I could buy a DVD without previews that I could have playing within 10 seconds of loading into the drive, I might be interested in spending money, but it just annoys me and I would rather not support an industry that treats their customers this way.
Easy solution! Don't worry about trying to fix the player, fix the disks instead. Rather than buying the crappy infested disks they want to sell, rent them or borrow them from the library and make a copy. It gets rid of all that crap-ware and gives you a good product instead. No previews and no restrictions. As a side benefit, the producers don't get any money from your extra copy either.
Also consider printing something like a shoe that would be worth wearing. Last I checked my shoes are not made from one material in some unibody design, it contains many components and different types of materials, least of which includes leather which is just not going to be printed out of a machine. I could print something that looks like a shoe, but I am not going to find it enjoyable to wear or as stylish as what Nike is going to sell me.
You seem to have forgotten about the terribly popular Crocs. I think they are quite ugly, but they are made from one hunk of material and could be printed from a machine.
I think after seeing how the automated take down systems work for video, they will mark anything they feel like as protected and un-printable. Maybe they will instead make a list of the models that are printable, it's probably a smaller database.
That music was broadcast over sound waves and is recorded without intention by anyone nearby with recording devices or even ears. Maybe Universal needs to take responsibility for their actions. Either stop broadcasting their music, or accept that it will end up being recorded.
What I found interesting is that the reports of a newly tropical arctic area did not also include the information that the Antarctic ice pack is larger than we ever have seen it and still growing, This sort of omission is typical in the highly political discussion that surrounds climate discussions now.
As I have found out from other posters in this thread, the Antarctic ice that is growing is sea ice. If that sea ice is being formed by the land ice sliding into the sea and breaking off, then it doesn't help your position it hurts it.
The climate has changed drastically over the centuries, sometimes warming, sometimes cooling. I am willing to bow to the evidence that the globe is warming by fractional degrees each year -- though the Northern hemisphere just experienced one of the coldest winters we have had for a very long time
Now I feel you are just straight up lying! Here in the Chicago area we had snow for only a day or two at a time. Probably less than two weeks total for the whole winter. And we didn't have the usual few weeks of -20 degrees, so I think it was one of the warmest winters I have ever seen.
I wonder if this isn't a good thing to have happening as frequently as it is and to highly visible victims. Maybe some laws will get passed/changed to make automatic detection/takedown illegal. It is hard to send a computer program to jail for fraudulent takedown notices, but if a person or lawyer (are they people?) signs the takedown notices then there is someone to blame and send to jail for fraud.
I guess I don't actually believe what I wrote because I am too cynical of our current corporation/politician love fest, but one can dream!
But what about Tesla? He invented free universal wireless energy distribution that nobody's ever been able to duplicate!
Probably for the same reason that no one's ever been able to duplicate perpetual motion, time travel or cold fusion devices.
And nobody has been able to figure out how the machine made sheets of chain mail that existed back in the medieval ages. We have records describing how a spool of wire was fed into a machine and when cranked it would link the rings into a sheet that just need to be stitched into a shirt. Today we have to create them by hand link by link.
Tesla also had a machine that made ball lightning. Spectators would watch the ball lightning come out of the machine and float around the room. We don't know how this machine worked and cannot recreate it today.
I think you are being a little bit flippant about ancient machines that we have lost the capability to manufacture.
Compare to Windows - one driver binary and it can run on everything from Win2k to Win8.
Compared to Linux, where no drivers are even necessary. USB sticks, Android phones, printers, all are much easier to use on Linux. On Windows, if you don't have the driver install, you can't even use the devices. Yeah, seems so much easier to me!
What I take exception to is being called mentally deficient.
If you would rather die than choosing an iPhone, be it under any circumstance, as the original poster did not specify, my statement stands: you, let alone anyone else, would clearly exhibit a dearth of faculties, as you would be willing to forfeit your existence over something so trivial as a piece of technology.
And if you would buy an Apple iPhone even if they are using the spleens of newborn babies as snacks for the assembly line workers, then you show a dearth of faculties also. I think it is wise to think about what companies you wish to support and do business with.
I certainly believe in science, but I'd suggest that my fathers medical history is a lot more relevant to my future health than reasearch done on the population level.
That, and the fact that the science done to show saturated fat is bad for you was faked to high heaven. It's more of a propaganda push that science.
"Hmmm, I have data points all over the chart. If I throw out the ones in the upper-left and lower-right quadrants I can fit a nice line showing increased saturated fat leads to increased heat disease."
It seems like you have a point. I do want to understand if I have something wrong. To me it seems like 50% people vaccinated vs 50% non-vaccinated would mean the vaccine is ineffective. I guess that does not take into account how much of the source population is vaccinated. Like you said, if 99.9% are vaccinated, then it would be very difficult to find people that are non-vaccinated and then having 50/50 would be very unlikely. I guess that does make sense and the article I read was a little misleading. Thanks for pointing out my oversight. This is why I love/. so much. It's the most rational thinking group of people I have come across.
This isn't in the same ballpark as say, not getting your kids a whooping cough vaccine. So help me if I find those fuckers at daycare who sent their little outbreak monkeys in....
Ironically, it's the whooping cough vaccinated people that are getting sick. In 2010 California has a huge outbreak of whooping cough. A study found that 81% of the cases of people under 18 where in those who were fully up to day on the vaccine. There are more people getting sick who are vaccinated than who are not. I'm not against all vaccines, but I think they should actually do the job they say they do. All vaccines carry some risk. But if they don't provide any benefit, or even make things worse, then they don't make sense.
Face it, the average pickup truck driver is some suburban cowboy poser who is commuting to his office park.
Ironically, a lot of pickup/SUV owners aren't necessarily "cowboy posers", but just people who think that if they ever do get in an accident, they'd rather be driving the bigger car when it happens. So smaller cars are more dangerous because there are so many big trucks on the road because so many people are afraid of getting hit by big trucks, thus perpetuating the problem.
Letting stupid people swarm around like sheep have any relation to your own thought process is just perpetuating the stupid! If you actually look at the crash statistics for different types of vehicles, the smaller cars are much safer. For one, they get into less accidents. Would you rather be in a vehicle that is so heavy that you can't turn or brake in an emergency (partly due to their tailgating), or one that can maneuver and avoid the accident. If you think you are going to get into an accident, you probably will. I drive small efficient cars and motorcycles and I don't get into accidents. I guess that is only anecdotal, so it isn't worth much. But the statistics I pointed to sure do.
It becomes a bit more complicated than just "speed kills" or don't be a distracted driver. The safest period on Montana's Interstate highways was when there were no daytime speed limits or enforceable speed laws. Once they set speed limits, the accident rate more than doubled. The problem with politicians passing speed laws is that they themselves don't follow the law. The US title 23 federal law states that sound engineering standards and practices be followed. When you lower a speed limit and the accident rate increases you aren't following sound engineering standards. Traffic engineering professionals have known this for more than 50 years, but the politicians don't really care about making us safer. It's about the appearance (safety theater) and the revenue. The German Autobahn has lower fatality rates than comparable US highways, so it's not speed that is the problem.
One of the most interesting things I learned from reading this article was what is suspected as the cause of the increase in accidents. The measured vehicle speeds only changed a few miles per hour. But what changed more was the lane courtesy and seat belt use. Without speed limits people would wear the seat belts for safety. Once the government tells people that driving at this speed is safe, they don't feel the need to take their own precautions. The lane courtesy makes sense to me also. With no speed limits, you move over or you get squished. With speed limits in place, people stay in the left lane (passing lane) even though there are people behind them who want to go faster. "Hey Asshole! I'm going the speed limit and I'll make damn sure you do also," I think that is the type of attitude that comes into play. People don't magically drive faster than they feel the road is safe for just because the speed limit is raised. They also don't drive slower just because some politician lowers it.
In short: AGW is one more environmental problem that we face, and in the end it will be overcome with a low to moderate impact to the economy, just like all the others. There will be no end of civilization, no mass famines, no apocalypse.
That is just what the dinosaurs said when they were facing extinction!
Focus on teaching them how to analyse problems and then look up the information they need, rather than trying to know everything.
I can see a problem with this method. If you don't have some basic understanding of the information related to the area you are analyzing, you won't be able to think in broad enough terms to come to any type of solution or analysis. You could very easily get caught up in all of the details of the information you have to keep looking up. If you can't memorize the information you looked up, you won't have it all in your head an once for the analysis anyway. I would personally rather understand how a formula works or how it was created than just memorize it. Then, years later, I have a good chance of being able to re-create it when I need it. But without plenty of understandings of the areas around that formula, I would not be able to do that, so there is some sort of memory needed to have a good understanding of an area of study.
now it's multiple dozens of shots for all kinds of pointless things.
I think you're quite nicely illustrating fuzzy's point: you have never actually SEEN the impact of a measles, dyptheria or whopping cough epidemic. That's the only reason you could think that those vaccinations are for things that are kinda pointless. All those diseases are not 100% deadly, but they are nasty enough and spread easily enough that the impact on society is very, very expensive, with a death toll that does make people sit up and take notice.
Sure, measles, dyptheria, polio, and other serious diseases. Whooping Cough might be one, but the last article I listened to made it sound like the problem is getting worse due to the vaccinations. Another one I think is making things worse is the chicken pox vaccine. The number of cases of shingles, a very serious and possibly deadly disease, are going up from what they were prior to the vaccine being created. Previously everyone got chickenpox as a child, which is a much less deadly disease. Those people would be immune from shingles for life. Now people's vaccine runs out and they get shingles and die!;-) I do realize that sometimes chickenpox can be serious, but if we look at the bigger picture, which way makes the person safer overall.
I also think that there is some development that needs to happen with the childs immune system before it is as effective at utilizing a vaccine. So I would wait a little longer than the recommended time for some of the vaccines. Especially if you don't travel over-seas.
I am glad to see one other logical thinking person in this discussion. There is such venim on the forced vaccine side. I never mentioned anything about vaccines causing autism, but the words are put into my mouth so they can argue against me.
Nadler's bill would effectively make sure that no one else in that market would be profitable either. The end result? Many of these services don't exist or never get started. That would actually mean fewer services, fewer listeners and lower royalties. It's almost as if he has no concept of price elasticity. Lower prices can create higher total income.
This is too simplistic of a view. By limiting the number of stations that can play music you licence, you will make less money on the licencing, sure. But you also will have more control over what plays on the airwaves (or satallite waves, etc). By playing king-maker for what's hot and what's not you end up making far more money in the long run. The music industry has to compete with it's back catalog, all the way back to when music was first recorded. They need some way to get people to buy current music over the greatest of the past. They do this by controlling what becomes popular.
there has never been a proven link between vaccines and autism
Maybe not, but the vaccine companies won't tell you the truth of the matter either. The company that makes the popular MMR vaccine was just discovered to have been lying about it's effectiveness for the last several decades. They ran tests in faulty ways to exaggerate the effectiveness score. You think they won't lie about any side effects or problems that it causes also. They are immune from lawsuits if there is anything wrong with the vaccine, so what do they care.
the diseases vaccines prevent are far worse than autism
Some of the vaccines stop super rare diseases that are no worse than getting a cold. Yeah, stopping polio is great. Give them the shot at 3 or 5 years old, not at one day old. And don't give 1001 shots for all kinds of pointless things. They want to give infants shots to prevent sexually transmitted disease (one of the hepatitus versions). Sure, that would be bad if they got it, but I don't think my 2 year old is having sex yet!
The fact is that risk that vaccines pose is minuscule (and mainly limited to allergic reactions or slight fevers)
See above comments about unkown risks due to company testing their own vaccines in secret.
and the threat these diseases pose is huge should they make a comeback.
Some are making a comeback due to the vaccines. Society has lost the herd immunity we used to have from Whooping Cough. The vaccines don't work as well as we were told and lots of people that got them are getting sick. Somethink like 80% of the cases of Whooping Cough are for vaccinated people. The unvaccinated are much less likely to get it. In the past, before vaccination, more people would have gotten the real disease and been immune for life.
Just remember that society has lost the herd immunity we used to have from Whooping Cough. The rise in cases of this is from people getting the vaccine. In the olden days more people would have gotten the cough and been immune for life. Now that most people have been vaccinated we are seeing a much larger spread of the disease due to the vaccine wearing off and not being as effective as the company says.
I'm not anti-vaccine, but I do think we should think about what vaccines are appropriate. When I was a kid we got half a dozen vaccines, now it's multiple dozens of shots for all kinds of pointless things. Some of the diseases are super rare, and if the kid catches it, it's as bad as getting a cold. Why do we need to shove crap into a developing child's body and immune system when it isn't life saving in some way.
I also don't think we should allow the government to enforce laws that tell us what we have to put into our bodies. Wasn't it called "Bliss" in A Brave New World, but at least it wasn't mandatory. They just gave you your daily allowance. But you were looked at as being a weirdo if you didn't take your Bliss.
It's a formal and serious allegation which he is avoiding answering to by hiding. If he's innocent, why is he hiding? Read up on the extradition laws and you'll find it's *harder* to be extradited from Sweden than the UK, and that if he gets extradited to Sweden then *both* Sweden and the UK have to consent to extradition to the US on charges that haven't even been brought yet.
You are assuming that the powers that be will follow the rules. We have seen plenty of examples where the U.S. does not bother to follow the rules. In fact, sometimes they even break the law to get what they want. But since they are the "good guys", any law breaking is OK. It wasn't too long ago when we were talking about the data from the Mega Upload servers that were stolen by U.S. feds while the Australian judge was deciding if the U.S. could have it. When you have proof that the other side does not follow the laws, then you can't believe that they will mysteriously follow the laws this time, just because it's your ass on the line instead of some "dirty pirate".
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It's time to stop buying these game consoles that cannot be hacked and these DVD's they don't want us to watch.
I have resisted setting up the DVD player since we moved (4 months ago) because the restrictions placed on me (Macrovision!) by the manufacturer inconveniences me. If I could buy a DVD without previews that I could have playing within 10 seconds of loading into the drive, I might be interested in spending money, but it just annoys me and I would rather not support an industry that treats their customers this way.
Easy solution! Don't worry about trying to fix the player, fix the disks instead. Rather than buying the crappy infested disks they want to sell, rent them or borrow them from the library and make a copy. It gets rid of all that crap-ware and gives you a good product instead. No previews and no restrictions. As a side benefit, the producers don't get any money from your extra copy either.
Also consider printing something like a shoe that would be worth wearing. Last I checked my shoes are not made from one material in some unibody design, it contains many components and different types of materials, least of which includes leather which is just not going to be printed out of a machine. I could print something that looks like a shoe, but I am not going to find it enjoyable to wear or as stylish as what Nike is going to sell me.
You seem to have forgotten about the terribly popular Crocs. I think they are quite ugly, but they are made from one hunk of material and could be printed from a machine.
I think after seeing how the automated take down systems work for video, they will mark anything they feel like as protected and un-printable. Maybe they will instead make a list of the models that are printable, it's probably a smaller database.
That music was broadcast over sound waves and is recorded without intention by anyone nearby with recording devices or even ears. Maybe Universal needs to take responsibility for their actions. Either stop broadcasting their music, or accept that it will end up being recorded.
And none of these "improvements" are related to having the entire UI screwed up. These should have been implemented in Windows 7.
What I found interesting is that the reports of a newly tropical arctic area did not also include the information that the Antarctic ice pack is larger than we ever have seen it and still growing, This sort of omission is typical in the highly political discussion that surrounds climate discussions now.
As I have found out from other posters in this thread, the Antarctic ice that is growing is sea ice. If that sea ice is being formed by the land ice sliding into the sea and breaking off, then it doesn't help your position it hurts it.
The climate has changed drastically over the centuries, sometimes warming, sometimes cooling. I am willing to bow to the evidence that the globe is warming by fractional degrees each year -- though the Northern hemisphere just experienced one of the coldest winters we have had for a very long time
Now I feel you are just straight up lying! Here in the Chicago area we had snow for only a day or two at a time. Probably less than two weeks total for the whole winter. And we didn't have the usual few weeks of -20 degrees, so I think it was one of the warmest winters I have ever seen.
I wonder if this isn't a good thing to have happening as frequently as it is and to highly visible victims. Maybe some laws will get passed/changed to make automatic detection/takedown illegal. It is hard to send a computer program to jail for fraudulent takedown notices, but if a person or lawyer (are they people?) signs the takedown notices then there is someone to blame and send to jail for fraud.
I guess I don't actually believe what I wrote because I am too cynical of our current corporation/politician love fest, but one can dream!
But what about Tesla? He invented free universal wireless energy distribution that nobody's ever been able to duplicate!
Probably for the same reason that no one's ever been able to duplicate perpetual motion, time travel or cold fusion devices.
And nobody has been able to figure out how the machine made sheets of chain mail that existed back in the medieval ages. We have records describing how a spool of wire was fed into a machine and when cranked it would link the rings into a sheet that just need to be stitched into a shirt. Today we have to create them by hand link by link.
Tesla also had a machine that made ball lightning. Spectators would watch the ball lightning come out of the machine and float around the room. We don't know how this machine worked and cannot recreate it today.
I think you are being a little bit flippant about ancient machines that we have lost the capability to manufacture.
Compare to Windows - one driver binary and it can run on everything from Win2k to Win8.
Compared to Linux, where no drivers are even necessary. USB sticks, Android phones, printers, all are much easier to use on Linux. On Windows, if you don't have the driver install, you can't even use the devices. Yeah, seems so much easier to me!
What I take exception to is being called mentally deficient.
If you would rather die than choosing an iPhone, be it under any circumstance, as the original poster did not specify, my statement stands: you, let alone anyone else, would clearly exhibit a dearth of faculties, as you would be willing to forfeit your existence over something so trivial as a piece of technology.
And if you would buy an Apple iPhone even if they are using the spleens of newborn babies as snacks for the assembly line workers, then you show a dearth of faculties also. I think it is wise to think about what companies you wish to support and do business with.
I certainly believe in science, but I'd suggest that my fathers medical history is a lot more relevant to my future health than reasearch done on the population level.
That, and the fact that the science done to show saturated fat is bad for you was faked to high heaven. It's more of a propaganda push that science.
"Hmmm, I have data points all over the chart. If I throw out the ones in the upper-left and lower-right quadrants I can fit a nice line showing increased saturated fat leads to increased heat disease."
The funny part is everything but the bun is good for you...
I would bet that the oily yellow plastic stuff they call cheese is not so good!
Why is it 1,000 fold more expensive to get 800 hp out a F1 car than it is to get 800 hp out of a 1950s era NASCAR engine?
It's called the law of diminishing returns. There is also a rule of 80/20 that could apply somewhat.
It seems like you have a point. I do want to understand if I have something wrong. To me it seems like 50% people vaccinated vs 50% non-vaccinated would mean the vaccine is ineffective. I guess that does not take into account how much of the source population is vaccinated. Like you said, if 99.9% are vaccinated, then it would be very difficult to find people that are non-vaccinated and then having 50/50 would be very unlikely. I guess that does make sense and the article I read was a little misleading. Thanks for pointing out my oversight. This is why I love /. so much. It's the most rational thinking group of people I have come across.
This isn't in the same ballpark as say, not getting your kids a whooping cough vaccine. So help me if I find those fuckers at daycare who sent their little outbreak monkeys in....
Ironically, it's the whooping cough vaccinated people that are getting sick. In 2010 California has a huge outbreak of whooping cough. A study found that 81% of the cases of people under 18 where in those who were fully up to day on the vaccine. There are more people getting sick who are vaccinated than who are not. I'm not against all vaccines, but I think they should actually do the job they say they do. All vaccines carry some risk. But if they don't provide any benefit, or even make things worse, then they don't make sense.
Face it, the average pickup truck driver is some suburban cowboy poser who is commuting to his office park.
Ironically, a lot of pickup/SUV owners aren't necessarily "cowboy posers", but just people who think that if they ever do get in an accident, they'd rather be driving the bigger car when it happens. So smaller cars are more dangerous because there are so many big trucks on the road because so many people are afraid of getting hit by big trucks, thus perpetuating the problem.
Letting stupid people swarm around like sheep have any relation to your own thought process is just perpetuating the stupid! If you actually look at the crash statistics for different types of vehicles, the smaller cars are much safer. For one, they get into less accidents. Would you rather be in a vehicle that is so heavy that you can't turn or brake in an emergency (partly due to their tailgating), or one that can maneuver and avoid the accident. If you think you are going to get into an accident, you probably will. I drive small efficient cars and motorcycles and I don't get into accidents. I guess that is only anecdotal, so it isn't worth much. But the statistics I pointed to sure do.
It becomes a bit more complicated than just "speed kills" or don't be a distracted driver. The safest period on Montana's Interstate highways was when there were no daytime speed limits or enforceable speed laws. Once they set speed limits, the accident rate more than doubled. The problem with politicians passing speed laws is that they themselves don't follow the law. The US title 23 federal law states that sound engineering standards and practices be followed. When you lower a speed limit and the accident rate increases you aren't following sound engineering standards. Traffic engineering professionals have known this for more than 50 years, but the politicians don't really care about making us safer. It's about the appearance (safety theater) and the revenue. The German Autobahn has lower fatality rates than comparable US highways, so it's not speed that is the problem.
Read more here.
One of the most interesting things I learned from reading this article was what is suspected as the cause of the increase in accidents. The measured vehicle speeds only changed a few miles per hour. But what changed more was the lane courtesy and seat belt use. Without speed limits people would wear the seat belts for safety. Once the government tells people that driving at this speed is safe, they don't feel the need to take their own precautions. The lane courtesy makes sense to me also. With no speed limits, you move over or you get squished. With speed limits in place, people stay in the left lane (passing lane) even though there are people behind them who want to go faster. "Hey Asshole! I'm going the speed limit and I'll make damn sure you do also," I think that is the type of attitude that comes into play. People don't magically drive faster than they feel the road is safe for just because the speed limit is raised. They also don't drive slower just because some politician lowers it.
In short: AGW is one more environmental problem that we face, and in the end it will be overcome with a low to moderate impact to the economy, just like all the others. There will be no end of civilization, no mass famines, no apocalypse.
That is just what the dinosaurs said when they were facing extinction!
Focus on teaching them how to analyse problems and then look up the information they need, rather than trying to know everything.
I can see a problem with this method. If you don't have some basic understanding of the information related to the area you are analyzing, you won't be able to think in broad enough terms to come to any type of solution or analysis. You could very easily get caught up in all of the details of the information you have to keep looking up. If you can't memorize the information you looked up, you won't have it all in your head an once for the analysis anyway. I would personally rather understand how a formula works or how it was created than just memorize it. Then, years later, I have a good chance of being able to re-create it when I need it. But without plenty of understandings of the areas around that formula, I would not be able to do that, so there is some sort of memory needed to have a good understanding of an area of study.
now it's multiple dozens of shots for all kinds of pointless things.
I think you're quite nicely illustrating fuzzy's point: you have never actually SEEN the impact of a measles, dyptheria or whopping cough epidemic. That's the only reason you could think that those vaccinations are for things that are kinda pointless. All those diseases are not 100% deadly, but they are nasty enough and spread easily enough that the impact on society is very, very expensive, with a death toll that does make people sit up and take notice.
Sure, measles, dyptheria, polio, and other serious diseases. Whooping Cough might be one, but the last article I listened to made it sound like the problem is getting worse due to the vaccinations. Another one I think is making things worse is the chicken pox vaccine. The number of cases of shingles, a very serious and possibly deadly disease, are going up from what they were prior to the vaccine being created. Previously everyone got chickenpox as a child, which is a much less deadly disease. Those people would be immune from shingles for life. Now people's vaccine runs out and they get shingles and die! ;-) I do realize that sometimes chickenpox can be serious, but if we look at the bigger picture, which way makes the person safer overall.
I also think that there is some development that needs to happen with the childs immune system before it is as effective at utilizing a vaccine. So I would wait a little longer than the recommended time for some of the vaccines. Especially if you don't travel over-seas.
I am glad to see one other logical thinking person in this discussion. There is such venim on the forced vaccine side. I never mentioned anything about vaccines causing autism, but the words are put into my mouth so they can argue against me.
Nadler's bill would effectively make sure that no one else in that market would be profitable either. The end result? Many of these services don't exist or never get started. That would actually mean fewer services, fewer listeners and lower royalties. It's almost as if he has no concept of price elasticity. Lower prices can create higher total income.
This is too simplistic of a view. By limiting the number of stations that can play music you licence, you will make less money on the licencing, sure. But you also will have more control over what plays on the airwaves (or satallite waves, etc). By playing king-maker for what's hot and what's not you end up making far more money in the long run. The music industry has to compete with it's back catalog, all the way back to when music was first recorded. They need some way to get people to buy current music over the greatest of the past. They do this by controlling what becomes popular.
Your close, but forget about a few key points.
there has never been a proven link between vaccines and autism
Maybe not, but the vaccine companies won't tell you the truth of the matter either. The company that makes the popular MMR vaccine was just discovered to have been lying about it's effectiveness for the last several decades. They ran tests in faulty ways to exaggerate the effectiveness score. You think they won't lie about any side effects or problems that it causes also. They are immune from lawsuits if there is anything wrong with the vaccine, so what do they care.
the diseases vaccines prevent are far worse than autism
Some of the vaccines stop super rare diseases that are no worse than getting a cold. Yeah, stopping polio is great. Give them the shot at 3 or 5 years old, not at one day old. And don't give 1001 shots for all kinds of pointless things. They want to give infants shots to prevent sexually transmitted disease (one of the hepatitus versions). Sure, that would be bad if they got it, but I don't think my 2 year old is having sex yet!
The fact is that risk that vaccines pose is minuscule (and mainly limited to allergic reactions or slight fevers)
See above comments about unkown risks due to company testing their own vaccines in secret.
and the threat these diseases pose is huge should they make a comeback.
Some are making a comeback due to the vaccines. Society has lost the herd immunity we used to have from Whooping Cough. The vaccines don't work as well as we were told and lots of people that got them are getting sick. Somethink like 80% of the cases of Whooping Cough are for vaccinated people. The unvaccinated are much less likely to get it. In the past, before vaccination, more people would have gotten the real disease and been immune for life.
Just remember that society has lost the herd immunity we used to have from Whooping Cough. The rise in cases of this is from people getting the vaccine. In the olden days more people would have gotten the cough and been immune for life. Now that most people have been vaccinated we are seeing a much larger spread of the disease due to the vaccine wearing off and not being as effective as the company says.
I'm not anti-vaccine, but I do think we should think about what vaccines are appropriate. When I was a kid we got half a dozen vaccines, now it's multiple dozens of shots for all kinds of pointless things. Some of the diseases are super rare, and if the kid catches it, it's as bad as getting a cold. Why do we need to shove crap into a developing child's body and immune system when it isn't life saving in some way.
I also don't think we should allow the government to enforce laws that tell us what we have to put into our bodies. Wasn't it called "Bliss" in A Brave New World, but at least it wasn't mandatory. They just gave you your daily allowance. But you were looked at as being a weirdo if you didn't take your Bliss.
It's a formal and serious allegation which he is avoiding answering to by hiding. If he's innocent, why is he hiding? Read up on the extradition laws and you'll find it's *harder* to be extradited from Sweden than the UK, and that if he gets extradited to Sweden then *both* Sweden and the UK have to consent to extradition to the US on charges that haven't even been brought yet.
You are assuming that the powers that be will follow the rules. We have seen plenty of examples where the U.S. does not bother to follow the rules. In fact, sometimes they even break the law to get what they want. But since they are the "good guys", any law breaking is OK. It wasn't too long ago when we were talking about the data from the Mega Upload servers that were stolen by U.S. feds while the Australian judge was deciding if the U.S. could have it. When you have proof that the other side does not follow the laws, then you can't believe that they will mysteriously follow the laws this time, just because it's your ass on the line instead of some "dirty pirate".