Except that the consequences of large numbers of people not vaccinating their children is the breaking of herd immunity and the potential serious threats to children who for a number of reasons cannot be vaccinated.
Or, to put it another way, complete Libertarianism is evil and its adherents are sociopaths.
Yup, we're already seeing instances when herd immunity is being compromised. Not only is Wakefield a murderer, but every one of those fucking retards who bought his line of crap could become one too.
This is like teaching history as simply isolated events, without showing any relationships between them. Yes, people learn about the Protestant Reformation and the Test Acts and about the First Amendment, but they're never shown the thread between them, and thus none of it has any context. You're not educating people if you're just throwing facts at them without a larger context. What you're claiming is that Trivial Pursuit-style teaching is an education.
Evolution belongs in the science class because it is the integral unifying theory of biology. Otherwise, you might as well be teaching via board game.
The media always goes after the biggest target. For much of the last two decades that has been Microsoft, but now as they're browser share slips badly and their latest foray into the smartphone market still isn't lighting fireworks, well, Apple is the guy to beat on. Google and Facebook get a lot more heat in Europe than here, maybe because everyone here has already sold their souls to those particular privacy devils already.
Frankly, I'm seeing a lot less negative MS stories on Slashdot these days. To some extent, I'm seeing a lot less Microsoft stories period. Desktops aren't sexy things any more, nobody really gives a crap about the next version of Windows. Windows 8 buzz lasts exactly as long as the space between the latest story on Google being bashed by German courts or Apple being nailed for the number of Chinese get buried for every thousand iPods produced. Microsoft is a middle aged company now, and it really isn't doing anything terribly interesting or even inflammatory, or at least nothing that's nearly as interesting as Apple getting nailed as part of an e-book cartel.
And how precisely does evolution do that? Be specific here. What part of the theory of evolution says "Social animals that innately and instinctively create codes of conduct cannot exist."
If he didn't teach evolution, then he wasn't teaching biology.
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution" - Theodosius Dobzhansky (who on top of being one of the most important modern evolutionary theorists was also a devout Orthodox Christian)
And what compromise is there when the First Amendment and a number of Federal court and SCOTUS decisions have banned the teaching of Creationism in classrooms? This isn't just the scientists saying Creationism is purely religious, it's also the courts. Science class is for science, public schools are not to be turned into indoctrination centers for a local or state government's favorite religion, end of story.
In my experience, there is only a limited amount of time in a high school class, whether it be history, science, art or whatever, to teach. So having teachers wasting a good deal of that precious time on something that hasn't been a scientific controversy for a few generations, pretending that some controversy actually exists, seems an utter waste. If someone is interested in the "other side" they are perfectly capable of going to their pastor and asking all about Creationism.
Unless you think a fair chunk of the history of the WWII era should be taken up with Holocaust Denial claims, you know, to be fair.
How many high school teachers do you suppose are capable of challenging biological evolution in a substantial and meaningful way? We all know what this means. It means Creationist teachers can pass around Answers in Genesis pamphlets and Jack Chick comics.
It will, of course, be overturned, as such attempts have repeatedly been, but is there no sense of shame in Tennessee, no sense that the only people on your side elsewhere in the world are the kinds of lunatics that preach that it's good to strap nail bombs to your chest and blow yourself up in night clubs where Jewish kids are dancing? Is there no sense that the state and its inhabitants look like contemptible fucking retards?
What's there to talk about. There is no controversy in the scientific community. Creationism was rejected more than a century ago. It's only a real controversy when a meaningful number of authorities in the same or similar fields disagree, like say, string theory. That's a scientific controversy. But no one in any of the sciences related to biology has seriously thought Creationism was rational, let alone, scientific in generations. Even one of ID's chief formulators, Michael Behe, doesn't disagree with evolution or common descent. There's certainly no generic conflict with Christianity, as most of the major churches have had no objection to evolution for decades.
So "balkanized" is an absurd word to use, because it to somehow suggests there is a middle ground. But there is no middle ground.
I was against the idea at one time, but I'm thinking the time is come to make it a crime to pass legislation that blatantly violates the constitution. Obviously it will always boil down to intent, but the judge did manage to find intent in the Dover decision, that the school board had deliberately set out to teach a specific set of religious beliefs, thinly masked to be true. If they could be criminally prosecuted, say, for violating the constitution, as opposed to just escaping with a court loss, I'd wager this would disappear pretty fast, along with all sorts of other legislation.
Well, if nothing else, Southerners will be so pig-ignorant in a few generations that they will make much more compliant domestics and pool cleaners for the Mexican-Americans when they take over.
GWB won his second term because the Democrats threw in an unbelievably weak candidate, sort of like what the GOP are doing now. Ultimately the Republicans paid for it with the 2006 mid-terms.
Look. Anyone with any sense knew that the Tea Party was going to hamstring the Republicans in the 2012 race. The Democrats knew it, which is why Obama isn't sweating, and hasn't been since he saw how the Republican True Believers all fell in love with a moron (namely Sarah Palin). For the core Republican leadership and strategists, it was equally clear. The Tea Party wasn't some general movement, no matter how much its advocates stated, it was a Libertarian populist movement that was sucking the blood out of the Republican party.
The only thing that was going to cure that was to let the lunatics run the asylum for a while. Everyone knew Romney was going to get the nod, but would be badly damaged in the process. By having the likes of Santorum and Gingrich, men who never ever ever ever ever ever had even the slightest chance of becoming President, cut him to pieces, all that happened was the Tea Party movement managed to hamstring the whole party. But by November of this year, the Tea Party and a goodly chunk of the retrograde social conservatives will be utterly discredited. Romney will limp through to a loss, but the message will be clear; "America does not want extremists, or even people who play extremists on TV."
After this year, the sane candidates will come out of hiding, they're careers and reputations not utterly savaged like Romney's. The next GOP candidate won't have an incumbent to deal with and won't have the Tea Party cancer eating away at the party's strength. I think this whole race has been nothing more than a tactical day at the nut house, and the Republicans will have learned their lesson.
I mean, the Republicans came back from Goldwater. Of course, it was with Nixon, so maybe they don't want to have it map that closely to elections past.
If you're an idiot or insane. For normal functional human beings who are not either semi-retarded or sociopaths, he's what you might call a very dangerous, foolish, ignorant man.
I'll make them equals, but they're really two different kinds of shows. Kids in the Hall was much more in the Pythonesque tradition; absurdist skit-based comedy, but TPB, well, since it was story-arc based and involved the same cast of characters, was a different kind of comedy.
Mr. Lahey: Julian, don't just stand there in your sexy shirt. There's a solar shit storm coming. Can you hear it, Randy? It's the sound of the solar shit winds.
And the other pollinators, but they're just as numerous or effective. While you're right that near extinction of bees would not cause an overnight crash, in the long term it would certainly be among the nastier things humans have done to themselves.
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Except that the consequences of large numbers of people not vaccinating their children is the breaking of herd immunity and the potential serious threats to children who for a number of reasons cannot be vaccinated.
Or, to put it another way, complete Libertarianism is evil and its adherents are sociopaths.
Yup, we're already seeing instances when herd immunity is being compromised. Not only is Wakefield a murderer, but every one of those fucking retards who bought his line of crap could become one too.
Please prove 100% you didn't rape and kill a young woman some time in the last six months.
Andrew Wakefield needs to be shot is what needs to happen. Many serial killers could only dream of the body count this greedy monster is piling up.
This is like teaching history as simply isolated events, without showing any relationships between them. Yes, people learn about the Protestant Reformation and the Test Acts and about the First Amendment, but they're never shown the thread between them, and thus none of it has any context. You're not educating people if you're just throwing facts at them without a larger context. What you're claiming is that Trivial Pursuit-style teaching is an education.
Evolution belongs in the science class because it is the integral unifying theory of biology. Otherwise, you might as well be teaching via board game.
The media always goes after the biggest target. For much of the last two decades that has been Microsoft, but now as they're browser share slips badly and their latest foray into the smartphone market still isn't lighting fireworks, well, Apple is the guy to beat on. Google and Facebook get a lot more heat in Europe than here, maybe because everyone here has already sold their souls to those particular privacy devils already.
Frankly, I'm seeing a lot less negative MS stories on Slashdot these days. To some extent, I'm seeing a lot less Microsoft stories period. Desktops aren't sexy things any more, nobody really gives a crap about the next version of Windows. Windows 8 buzz lasts exactly as long as the space between the latest story on Google being bashed by German courts or Apple being nailed for the number of Chinese get buried for every thousand iPods produced. Microsoft is a middle aged company now, and it really isn't doing anything terribly interesting or even inflammatory, or at least nothing that's nearly as interesting as Apple getting nailed as part of an e-book cartel.
And how precisely does evolution do that? Be specific here. What part of the theory of evolution says "Social animals that innately and instinctively create codes of conduct cannot exist."
If he didn't teach evolution, then he wasn't teaching biology.
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"
- Theodosius Dobzhansky (who on top of being one of the most important modern evolutionary theorists was also a devout Orthodox Christian)
Your teacher should have been fired.
And what compromise is there when the First Amendment and a number of Federal court and SCOTUS decisions have banned the teaching of Creationism in classrooms? This isn't just the scientists saying Creationism is purely religious, it's also the courts. Science class is for science, public schools are not to be turned into indoctrination centers for a local or state government's favorite religion, end of story.
In my experience, there is only a limited amount of time in a high school class, whether it be history, science, art or whatever, to teach. So having teachers wasting a good deal of that precious time on something that hasn't been a scientific controversy for a few generations, pretending that some controversy actually exists, seems an utter waste. If someone is interested in the "other side" they are perfectly capable of going to their pastor and asking all about Creationism.
Unless you think a fair chunk of the history of the WWII era should be taken up with Holocaust Denial claims, you know, to be fair.
How many high school teachers do you suppose are capable of challenging biological evolution in a substantial and meaningful way? We all know what this means. It means Creationist teachers can pass around Answers in Genesis pamphlets and Jack Chick comics.
It will, of course, be overturned, as such attempts have repeatedly been, but is there no sense of shame in Tennessee, no sense that the only people on your side elsewhere in the world are the kinds of lunatics that preach that it's good to strap nail bombs to your chest and blow yourself up in night clubs where Jewish kids are dancing? Is there no sense that the state and its inhabitants look like contemptible fucking retards?
What's there to talk about. There is no controversy in the scientific community. Creationism was rejected more than a century ago. It's only a real controversy when a meaningful number of authorities in the same or similar fields disagree, like say, string theory. That's a scientific controversy. But no one in any of the sciences related to biology has seriously thought Creationism was rational, let alone, scientific in generations. Even one of ID's chief formulators, Michael Behe, doesn't disagree with evolution or common descent. There's certainly no generic conflict with Christianity, as most of the major churches have had no objection to evolution for decades.
So "balkanized" is an absurd word to use, because it to somehow suggests there is a middle ground. But there is no middle ground.
I was against the idea at one time, but I'm thinking the time is come to make it a crime to pass legislation that blatantly violates the constitution. Obviously it will always boil down to intent, but the judge did manage to find intent in the Dover decision, that the school board had deliberately set out to teach a specific set of religious beliefs, thinly masked to be true. If they could be criminally prosecuted, say, for violating the constitution, as opposed to just escaping with a court loss, I'd wager this would disappear pretty fast, along with all sorts of other legislation.
Well, if nothing else, Southerners will be so pig-ignorant in a few generations that they will make much more compliant domestics and pool cleaners for the Mexican-Americans when they take over.
GWB won his second term because the Democrats threw in an unbelievably weak candidate, sort of like what the GOP are doing now. Ultimately the Republicans paid for it with the 2006 mid-terms.
Look. Anyone with any sense knew that the Tea Party was going to hamstring the Republicans in the 2012 race. The Democrats knew it, which is why Obama isn't sweating, and hasn't been since he saw how the Republican True Believers all fell in love with a moron (namely Sarah Palin). For the core Republican leadership and strategists, it was equally clear. The Tea Party wasn't some general movement, no matter how much its advocates stated, it was a Libertarian populist movement that was sucking the blood out of the Republican party.
The only thing that was going to cure that was to let the lunatics run the asylum for a while. Everyone knew Romney was going to get the nod, but would be badly damaged in the process. By having the likes of Santorum and Gingrich, men who never ever ever ever ever ever had even the slightest chance of becoming President, cut him to pieces, all that happened was the Tea Party movement managed to hamstring the whole party. But by November of this year, the Tea Party and a goodly chunk of the retrograde social conservatives will be utterly discredited. Romney will limp through to a loss, but the message will be clear; "America does not want extremists, or even people who play extremists on TV."
After this year, the sane candidates will come out of hiding, they're careers and reputations not utterly savaged like Romney's. The next GOP candidate won't have an incumbent to deal with and won't have the Tea Party cancer eating away at the party's strength. I think this whole race has been nothing more than a tactical day at the nut house, and the Republicans will have learned their lesson.
I mean, the Republicans came back from Goldwater. Of course, it was with Nixon, so maybe they don't want to have it map that closely to elections past.
If you're an idiot or insane. For normal functional human beings who are not either semi-retarded or sociopaths, he's what you might call a very dangerous, foolish, ignorant man.
Most of the OS wasn't written by Google at all.
The Xbox is only a success because Redmond bought it's market position.
If you read the article, you will find that Adam's brother built a custom 16-bit PC.
I'll make them equals, but they're really two different kinds of shows. Kids in the Hall was much more in the Pythonesque tradition; absurdist skit-based comedy, but TPB, well, since it was story-arc based and involved the same cast of characters, was a different kind of comedy.
Mr. Lahey: Julian, don't just stand there in your sexy shirt. There's a solar shit storm coming. Can you hear it, Randy? It's the sound of the solar shit winds.
I figure they had me tagged when I came here.
Maybe they're pissed Murdoch's guys never returned their agent's calls.
"Look baby, I'm telling, Rupert and my boy, we can make things happen. Osama on O'Reilly. It's dynamite, baby. Dynamite!"
Christ, those dirty bastards at N.I. didn't even try to hack al-Zawahiri's cell phone. No wonder al Qaeda's so pissed.
And the other pollinators, but they're just as numerous or effective. While you're right that near extinction of bees would not cause an overnight crash, in the long term it would certainly be among the nastier things humans have done to themselves.