Yea, sure, that's great and all, until some jackass angel goes all "Why do you like humans more than us? We want free will too!" and Hell literally breaks loose and Heaven becomes a war zone.
Maybe not, but the vaccine companies won't tell you the truth of the matter either
That's a pretty poor logical jump. I could make some extreme, fraudulent claim ("Vaccines cause flipper babies and a second head to grow out of your neck"), they could deny it, and your logic would state that what they said can't be trusted, therefore avoid vaccinations. The problem is the entire link to autism was fabricated. It wasn't the companies coming out and disproving data that showed a link - there was never a link in the first place.
Some of the vaccines stop super rare diseases that are no worse than getting a cold
This is actually a legitimate complaint. There are some things being vaccinated for that aren't needed. There are also some things they refuse vaccination for if you request it without determining prior exposure. My sister works in the health service industry, and she requested a vaccination for her children due to her exposure to the disease at work (I want to say it was tuberculosis). The doctor refused to do so until he did an exposure test to verify that her family was already exposed to the disease.
Society has lost the herd immunity we used to have from Whooping Cough.
The Whooping Cough problem you're referring to was due to the vaccination being less effective than previously thought. They also suggested modifying the vaccination schedule to maintain the immunity in society. However, antivaxers took the proposed schedule change as "it didn't work" (just like your post) and used that as an excuse to avoid it all together. So instead of fixing the schedule problem, they (and you) are saying throw it out entirely, because that must be the better option.
Did you read the full sentence you're referring to summary?
After being vigorously screened and questioned multiple times, Arijit says he was finally given permission, once more, to board his plane
Once more, as in this wasn't his first time through. I also read the article, his first time through security was "routine and without incident" (his own words, not mine). It was at the gate that everything went bad, and it wasn't started by the TSA.
I await the inclusion of anti-class action language in virtually all individual-facing contracts. It's virtually guaranteed to happen as there's no downside whatsoever for the corporations.
The last time I checked, just about every contract or agreement I enter into has this clause already. This includes companies where I have no alternative due to a government-granted monopoly (my gas company and my electric company have both done this). So much for saying "no thanks" and finding an alternative...
The really sad part is since corporations got away with this, I've actually started seeing companies slipping in waiving your right to any legal action, class action or individual lawsuit. I would say I'm waiting for the day that gets struck down in court, but knowing the current state of things, I'm not optimistic about it going our way (by 'our,' I mean us consumers and citizens).
So, we need to keep religion completely out of education standard.
Not entirely. You can religion as long as you classify it as a subject of philosophy, not science. But if you try to, say, rewrite a biology test because it's rooted in facts and not faith, then yes, religion needs to stay out of it.
Well that's a copyright issue. Specifically, the IOC being abusive with their copyrights.
Originally, when the story came out, all of the articles linked to the race videos. They were all pulled by the time I got around to reading the story because of copyright claims by the IOC. So there's plenty of footage out there of the race, we're just not permitted to view it by the IOC.
Great. I didn't have enough problem trying to explain the difference between Outlook and Outlook Express to people. Now I need to also include Outlook.com in the "Yes, they're from Microsoft and named the same, but no they're not the same" conversation.
To the person who will inevitably point out that OE is discontinued, it's still on enough workstations out there that I still receive "Why won't my OFT work in 'Outlook'" support calls.
After watching the video in the article, I have to say "what lock design?" 2 were unlocked by simply jarring the safe, the 3rd has an easily accessible pin that pops the top open.
If those videos are true to what they show, that safe manufacturer is in for some hefty lawsuits.
The general consensus about Metro no the Xbox is it sucks. It's an enormous pain to use, and a step back over the previous dashboard - more button presses/menus to do the same things, less information on screen than previously, removal of filtering options, caching bugs, etc. The guide menu, in all of its limited hideousness, is more functional than the Metro dashboard.
It seems that if the studios keep raising their streaming licensing fees then DVDs eventually will be cheaper for Netflix to handle than streaming.
That's a good way to make DVD piracy popular again.
Most average users I know only got into copying DVDs (via Netflix mail discs) so they had movies on hand when they wanted to watch them. Streaming took that need away for most people since they could just fire up their device (Xbox, PC, PS3, Wii, TV) and watch what they wanted. Take away that ability with streaming, people will just start copying DVDs again.
Always remember Betteridge's Law of Headlines whenever you see a question mark at the end of a headline like this. Question headlines have always been a trademark of poor article writing.
The whole Unix/non-Unix user space is a misconception. What you are referring to is an X/Motif, Gnome, KDE, Android, or shell UI
Or he was referring to the Unix concept of user space vs kernel space. User space where the user's programs are loaded and executed with the user's permissions, which is entirely independent and separated from the kernel space. Sounds like you're confusing user space with UI.
The first comic is bad advice. I thought so the first time I read it, and I still think so.
Of course a password will be harder to crack if it's longer, but you also choose to artificially reduce the complexity. Instead of "correcthorsebatterystaple" you could just come up with a scheme, something really simple like capitalize all first letters, '_' in place of spaces, and replacing 'e' with '3': "Corr3ct_Hors3_Batt3ry_Stapl3" Just stick with that scheme for all of your passwords, and it will be easy enough to remember.
Or, if that's too complex for Average Joe, just have them pick a sentence with a number. Add a three period 'pause' in there, and you're golden: "The answer to life is... 42!"
You can also validate the number with the checksum algorithm before trying to authenticate. That number pool gets even smaller when you remove the invalid combinations.
I love people who say this in regards to the forced class action waivers in my agreements. Sure, it's a fine theory for, say, gaming, software, etc - I would just have to return to a simpler life without those luxuries.
However, if I declined all agreements that added this clause after the AT&T decision, I'd be without electricity, natural gas, various insurances, bank accounts, and so on.
The issue is that this clause is now standard in all terms and agreements. No sane person can look at SCOTUS's decision and say, "well this isn't totally abusive to US citizens."
A really disturbing trend we're starting to see is they've been expanding the clause to include any tort against the company (still untested, but I'm not confident in the courts). Essentially, you are being forced to waive all civil recourse you have to prevent the company from abusing you.
You're modded funny, but you speak the truth. A buddy of mine did one of those "what candidate do you align with" things yesterday and was talking about it. He got Gary Johnson, to which everyone replied, "who is Gary Johnson?" On paper, he's the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. In reality, he is a Republican who got beaten badly in the primaries, so he's running third party.
This is shaping up just like last year's presidential election - We're only getting candidates who are R's and D's, even in the third party nominations.
Well, there's an election coming up. With Osama's death and Iraq supposedly dwindling down, they needed to make some statement to put a positive spin for their "War on Terror."
I know database concepts are difficult for some people, but it's by no means magic.
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But will anything really change?
I doubt it. But anything that gets Average Joe and Jane starting to notice something the tech community has been railing against all along isn't a bad thing.
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All my data is in Heaven administered by God!
Yea, sure, that's great and all, until some jackass angel goes all "Why do you like humans more than us? We want free will too!" and Hell literally breaks loose and Heaven becomes a war zone.
Name the drug that you think should be kept illegal, and I will explain to you why it should be legalized.
Crystal Meth.
Bath Salts.
PCP.
Maybe not, but the vaccine companies won't tell you the truth of the matter either
That's a pretty poor logical jump. I could make some extreme, fraudulent claim ("Vaccines cause flipper babies and a second head to grow out of your neck"), they could deny it, and your logic would state that what they said can't be trusted, therefore avoid vaccinations. The problem is the entire link to autism was fabricated. It wasn't the companies coming out and disproving data that showed a link - there was never a link in the first place.
Some of the vaccines stop super rare diseases that are no worse than getting a cold
This is actually a legitimate complaint. There are some things being vaccinated for that aren't needed. There are also some things they refuse vaccination for if you request it without determining prior exposure. My sister works in the health service industry, and she requested a vaccination for her children due to her exposure to the disease at work (I want to say it was tuberculosis). The doctor refused to do so until he did an exposure test to verify that her family was already exposed to the disease.
Society has lost the herd immunity we used to have from Whooping Cough.
The Whooping Cough problem you're referring to was due to the vaccination being less effective than previously thought. They also suggested modifying the vaccination schedule to maintain the immunity in society. However, antivaxers took the proposed schedule change as "it didn't work" (just like your post) and used that as an excuse to avoid it all together. So instead of fixing the schedule problem, they (and you) are saying throw it out entirely, because that must be the better option.
After being vigorously screened and questioned multiple times, Arijit says he was finally given permission, once more, to board his plane
Once more, as in this wasn't his first time through. I also read the article, his first time through security was "routine and without incident" (his own words, not mine). It was at the gate that everything went bad, and it wasn't started by the TSA.
I await the inclusion of anti-class action language in virtually all individual-facing contracts. It's virtually guaranteed to happen as there's no downside whatsoever for the corporations.
The last time I checked, just about every contract or agreement I enter into has this clause already. This includes companies where I have no alternative due to a government-granted monopoly (my gas company and my electric company have both done this). So much for saying "no thanks" and finding an alternative...
The really sad part is since corporations got away with this, I've actually started seeing companies slipping in waiving your right to any legal action, class action or individual lawsuit. I would say I'm waiting for the day that gets struck down in court, but knowing the current state of things, I'm not optimistic about it going our way (by 'our,' I mean us consumers and citizens).
So, we need to keep religion completely out of education standard.
Not entirely. You can religion as long as you classify it as a subject of philosophy, not science. But if you try to, say, rewrite a biology test because it's rooted in facts and not faith, then yes, religion needs to stay out of it.
I want to know what kind of retailer carries HDTVs and assault rifles?
Wal-Mart.
Well that's a copyright issue. Specifically, the IOC being abusive with their copyrights.
Originally, when the story came out, all of the articles linked to the race videos. They were all pulled by the time I got around to reading the story because of copyright claims by the IOC. So there's plenty of footage out there of the race, we're just not permitted to view it by the IOC.
Great. I didn't have enough problem trying to explain the difference between Outlook and Outlook Express to people. Now I need to also include Outlook.com in the "Yes, they're from Microsoft and named the same, but no they're not the same" conversation.
To the person who will inevitably point out that OE is discontinued, it's still on enough workstations out there that I still receive "Why won't my OFT work in 'Outlook'" support calls.
After watching the video in the article, I have to say "what lock design?" 2 were unlocked by simply jarring the safe, the 3rd has an easily accessible pin that pops the top open.
If those videos are true to what they show, that safe manufacturer is in for some hefty lawsuits.
The general consensus about Metro no the Xbox is it sucks. It's an enormous pain to use, and a step back over the previous dashboard - more button presses/menus to do the same things, less information on screen than previously, removal of filtering options, caching bugs, etc. The guide menu, in all of its limited hideousness, is more functional than the Metro dashboard.
It seems that if the studios keep raising their streaming licensing fees then DVDs eventually will be cheaper for Netflix to handle than streaming.
That's a good way to make DVD piracy popular again.
Most average users I know only got into copying DVDs (via Netflix mail discs) so they had movies on hand when they wanted to watch them. Streaming took that need away for most people since they could just fire up their device (Xbox, PC, PS3, Wii, TV) and watch what they wanted. Take away that ability with streaming, people will just start copying DVDs again.
No, he did not
Always remember Betteridge's Law of Headlines whenever you see a question mark at the end of a headline like this. Question headlines have always been a trademark of poor article writing.
The whole Unix/non-Unix user space is a misconception. What you are referring to is an X/Motif, Gnome, KDE, Android, or shell UI
Or he was referring to the Unix concept of user space vs kernel space. User space where the user's programs are loaded and executed with the user's permissions, which is entirely independent and separated from the kernel space. Sounds like you're confusing user space with UI.
If you're looking for places to buy because NewEgg gets uppity about installing other OSes on laptops, I somehow doubt Apple would be the place to go.
Did I miss the memo where Oregon became California?
The first comic is bad advice. I thought so the first time I read it, and I still think so.
Of course a password will be harder to crack if it's longer, but you also choose to artificially reduce the complexity. Instead of "correcthorsebatterystaple" you could just come up with a scheme, something really simple like capitalize all first letters, '_' in place of spaces, and replacing 'e' with '3': "Corr3ct_Hors3_Batt3ry_Stapl3" Just stick with that scheme for all of your passwords, and it will be easy enough to remember.
Or, if that's too complex for Average Joe, just have them pick a sentence with a number. Add a three period 'pause' in there, and you're golden: "The answer to life is... 42!"
No anonymous mailer service in the world will save you from getting your plaintext password sniffed out of those e-mail messages.
You can also validate the number with the checksum algorithm before trying to authenticate. That number pool gets even smaller when you remove the invalid combinations.
You have the right to not buy their crap
I love people who say this in regards to the forced class action waivers in my agreements. Sure, it's a fine theory for, say, gaming, software, etc - I would just have to return to a simpler life without those luxuries. However, if I declined all agreements that added this clause after the AT&T decision, I'd be without electricity, natural gas, various insurances, bank accounts, and so on. The issue is that this clause is now standard in all terms and agreements. No sane person can look at SCOTUS's decision and say, "well this isn't totally abusive to US citizens."
A really disturbing trend we're starting to see is they've been expanding the clause to include any tort against the company (still untested, but I'm not confident in the courts). Essentially, you are being forced to waive all civil recourse you have to prevent the company from abusing you.
You're modded funny, but you speak the truth. A buddy of mine did one of those "what candidate do you align with" things yesterday and was talking about it. He got Gary Johnson, to which everyone replied, "who is Gary Johnson?" On paper, he's the Libertarian Party's presidential candidate. In reality, he is a Republican who got beaten badly in the primaries, so he's running third party.
This is shaping up just like last year's presidential election - We're only getting candidates who are R's and D's, even in the third party nominations.
Well, there's an election coming up. With Osama's death and Iraq supposedly dwindling down, they needed to make some statement to put a positive spin for their "War on Terror."
I see this comment a lot and I don't get it.
Here you go. Now you'll get why it's funny, and not serious.
not using arcane tools
I know database concepts are difficult for some people, but it's by no means magic.
But will anything really change?
I doubt it. But anything that gets Average Joe and Jane starting to notice something the tech community has been railing against all along isn't a bad thing.