Hey moron, who are you going to blame for spontaneous abortions? Whose lives are you going to impoverish because they can't afford to support a child, especially if the child is going to have extreme defects requiring continuous connection to expensive medical equipment?
Most people claiming "all abortions are crimes" are basing their statements on their religious beliefs. Take your religion and shove it into that dark, moist place where your head already is.
I consider myself a religious Christian. I believe that all optional abortions should be illegal (or at least not funded by tax dollars). At the same time, I will fight for clean and safe places to perform legal abortions under certain circumstances. If the pregnancy was the result of rape, the women should have the option to terminate the pregnancy without being shamed. If the mother's very life is in jeopardy because of some complication, she should have the option to terminate the pregnancy. If there is something seriously wrong with the baby, abortion should be an option (and in many cases is the most humane option). I personally wouldn't abort a baby with Down's Syndrome, but others might. As to poverty, I don't consider that a valid reason to abort, especially given the number of couples wanting to adopt. If a couple can't afford to take care of a child, they should be taking precautions to not get pregnant.
Spontaneous abortions (aka miscarriages) are a natural occurrence; it's a woman's body's way of saying something isn't going right. I don't know of anyone seriously talking of criminalizing miscarriages, so that part of your retort was a strawman.
One big issue I see with charging by the kilo is actually booking the flights. Most of us book online with at least one layover. Do you trust people to accurately / honestly report their weight at the time of purchase? Weight of luggage is only accurately known at the time of travel. What happens at the airport if some under reported or over reported their weight? Could a couple use their average weight (one is overweight and the other under), or do they pay normal fare for the lighter person (no discount) and pay a surcharge for the heavier partner?
Let's see, gasoline costs 3 times as much, eggs cost double, bread is almost double.
At a rough 3% CPI index, it'd take 24 years for consumer prices to double. If that's the sort of time frame you're referring to, and your wages have risen only 25%, then yeah - you're getting screwed - but we already knew that.
According to US Inflation Calculator, the CPI has risen by 39.7% from 2000 to 2014. Note that this is an index; individual items may have a higher or lower inflation rate. That is why I mentioned a few specific products. When I entered the workforce after college, gasoline was about 90 cents a gallon; it's now $2.80.
So you entered the workforce in the mid 2000s, when it was $5.15, and are unhappy it got up to $7.25. Your 25% raise is probably the result of 2%ish raises over a period of roughly a decade.
Close, I entered the workforce in July 2000, minimum wage of $5.00 / hour. Most of my raises have been based on inflation, with me jumping jobs a couple of times to earn more.
Meanwhile the "40% rise" number is pretty much entirely a result of Congress ignoring poor people?
The problem is I earn too much to be helped out by Democrats and too little to benefit from the Republican loopholes. I'm in the diminishing middle class that no one is afraid of attacking. You can't tax the poor more because they don't have the money. You can't tax the rich more, because of trickle-down economics (not to mention the rich make bigger contributions to the political parties).
What happens is that inflation goes up. Since the minimum wage does not go up, it's buying power is reduced. Then every decade or two Congress has to go back and update the minimum wage to take into account the full decade's worth of inflation. They generally don;t make up for all of it, sop the actual buying power of the $7.25 minimum wage is less then the 1968 version ($8.24 in 2014 dollars). Heck, it would take an 8% jump to make up for inflation since 2009.
But don't worry. In 5 to 10 years they'll do another 25% raise of it, not index the new number to inflation to inflation, piss off a bunch of people who didn't get 25% raises that year (and don't realize that minimum wage earners hadn't gotten a Federal raise since 2009), and generally turn what should be a low-drama automatic process into a high-drama, high-BS debate about the Future of the Republic.
One of the things I loved about Ohio's one-term Governor Ted Strickland is that he linked his minimum wage hike to inflation, so that instead of being an opportunity for politicians to pretentiously pontificate, it just kinda happens.
I actually agree that minimum wage should be tied to inflation. I just also happen to wish that my salary was defined as a multiple of minimum wages instead of a set amount. People in this thread seem to think I'm upset about minimum wage increases, when in reality I am upset that my own salary doesn't keep up. I'm upset that in our field it seems you have to switch companies in order to earn more. I'm upset that bonuses are almost unheard of. I'm upset that companies generally don't offer a pension. I'm actually lucky that my company does a partial match in our 401(k).
If you're having that much trouble paying your mortgage, then why did you buy such an expensive house? I'm just curious because 50% of Americans are behind on one or more bills. In my own experience with many levels of society, people tend to outspend their means. Over my career I have seen many people get a promotion to full time that included a near doubling of salary, and damned if almost all of them didn't show up with a brand new car less than a week later... Getting that windfall may very well not be too good for the long term financial health of the individuals who got it, especially if this company folds or lays them off...
That's just it, my house isn't that expensive. I bought it when it was worth $150k and I had what appeared to be a stable job for nearly a year. The market readjusted, there was a hostile take-over at the company which cost me my job, financial burden of legally bringing in wife in country, then a son arrived. Gas prices doubled but I was upside down in the house so I couldn't move closer to the new office (nearly 30 minutes additional commute). Perfect storm that I'm still tring to recover from.
No, it's common: It's called the middle-class and it's not automatic that everyone will join it, even with half the population getting a degree. Study isn't the only road to success: A good tradesman can earn as much as a good educated professional.
Being wealthy is the rare exception because it is not based solely on sweat and skill.
If I had mod points and hadn't already commented in the thread, I would mod you up.
But I don't want those people to be "equal" to me. I want to always be better than them.
I want hard work and dedication to be rewarded, not punished. I want people earning minimum wage to learn a skill so they can progress. I want them to be equal by raising them up, not by lowering me down.
It's fine to want a good wage for yourself, of course. It's less fine to grumble about how people on minimum wage have managed a higher percentage gain than you have.
Their income != your buying power. How much has inflation gone up over that same period?
Let's see, gasoline costs 3 times as much, eggs cost double, bread is almost double.
US income inequality is a hot topic these days. It's good to see the people struggling at the bottom doing a little better - but if all the higher income jobs also saw the same gains, that wouldn't be addressing the inequality at all.
That's fine and good, but shouldn't that be going after the upper class instead of the middle class? The upper class earns enough that they can handle it. I am in the middle class.
Most of our engineering jobs pay more because of the skills required. I paid dearly for a college education so that I could be financially stable. If an unskilled job (such as flipping burgers) pays as well as a skilled job (writing software), where's the incentive to get an education?
How does that relate to anything? If you were happy with your financial security before the other person got a raise why is it suddenly a concern now?
My financial situation becomes less secure each time minimum wage increases faster than my own salary. Every time minimum wage increases, the cost of goods go up (do you really expect companies to swallow the cost of paying employees?). As the cost of goods goes up faster than my salary, I am able to buy less and less.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I don't' earn a 6-figure salary despite 15 years as a software engineer. I am not rich enough to eat these increases to minimum wage without my own salary matching on a percentage basis. My latest increase works out to $1 / hour (assuming a 40-hour work week). Minimum wage is jumping $7 / hour.
Yep, only 4% of workforce even make the minimum to start with. And it was never designed to raise a family of 4 as some spout off. Its a temp wage essentially while you learn to pull up your pants and grow the fuck up, then shut up.
Yes, minimum wage versus living wage. Flipping burgers doesn't require specialized skills and should be seen as a job and not a career.
But you don't understand! it's absolutely unfair that Timmy had 3 marbles and got 3 more, and he had 10 marbles and only got 2 more! ITS NOT FAIR!!1! He demands at least 4 marbles or he's going to flip his shit and go full on ballistic temper tantrum followed by pouting for the rest of the afternoon!
Is it wrong to become financially secure? Is it wrong that someone gets ahead due to study and hard work? Is it wrong to want to be able to afford to put money away for retirement instead of becoming a burden on society? I don't aspire to be a millionaire; I just want enough to pay off my mortgage survive two or three months should I become unemployed.
One thing that often is missing from discussions about raising minimum wage / minimum salary is what to do with those already making more than the new value. I (like most engineers) make more than minimum wage. I've seen minimum wage go up by 40% since I entered the work force, but my own salary has only gone up by 25% in that same period. Minimum wage goes up, but my buying power goes down.
If it's so hard to do, why are we the only western country that doesn't provide any guaranteed paid maternity/paternity leave AT ALL? There are small companies in Europe, and if it's available for both men AND women then that mitigates the hiring bias you are concerned about. There is already some hiring bias against women based on the possibility that they may become pregnant; I don't think this would make that any worse. Pregnant women are also a protected class for the purposes of hiring/firing decisions.
I thought the law requires that companies cannot fire new fathers who take three months off; note that the law does not dictate that any portion of this be paid. My company recently got bought out, and the new company provides two weeks paid leave for birth of a child, adoption, or successfully bringing in a family member from out of country. For my son's birth, I took 1 week of PTO.
Consider replacing the electric commuter-car battery with a flywheel. We have the tech to do this for ranges of 50 miles or so.
That "50 miles or so" limit is holding me back. I commute almost 30 miles each way (housing near my office is prohibitively expensive), so I need a longer range. I need even longer range for road tripping or weekend outings. I'm not saying everyone has the same needs, just that this solution doesn't (yet) work for me.
But the kid is black, did he wait until a pair of black hands came up on the market so he (or someone making a decision for him) wouldn't have honkey hands ?
-1 for the use of honkey. Before your comment, I never knew the child's race. A child who lost his hands and feet to a terrible infection received new hands (and forearms). Do you honestly think that he or his parents made a big deal about the race of the donor? Would it be easier for him to explain how he lost both hands, or explain why his hands have a different pigmentation than the rest of his body? And if it really mattered, they could do skin drafts at a future date so his new arms and hands would be covered with his own skin. As it is, the donor was from the same race, so the previous questions are moot.
Let this article be about an advancement in pediatric surgery instead of playing the race card.
Don't forget about how Merck was found to be lying about the effectiveness of the Mumps part of the MMR. It is more like 35% effective. So you can believe the lies if you want. I would rather have the facts and would like to see true scientific studies done on these things. Something like a double blind study, which is not allowed with vaccines since they are assumed to work, so we can't withhold treatment of them for a study. Sounds like circular reasoning to me.
Merck was accused of lying about the effectiveness of the Mumps component of the MMR. Mumps Vaccine Effective Waning Immunity has links to three peer-reviewed research papers on the effectiveness of the effectiveness of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine and found it to be about 85-88%. These studies had nothing to do with Merck, so whether they were fudging numbers or not is irrelevant.
My son got his first vaccinations at 1 month... By the time he was 2 years old he had over a dozen... We *did* choose to stretch out the vaccination schedule a bit (to avoid giving 4 vaccinations at once, etc.) and we've been very careful to screen which drug company's vaccines we use as many contain "non-medical' ingredients that are actually drugs (below the minimum dosage for adults) that are not otherwise approved for use in children.
You did read the post you were replying to, right? It was talking specifically about the measles outbreak at Disneyland. My son is 10 months old, so I'm going through this right now. Different vaccines are tested as "safe" for different ages. We have been following the CDC's Recommended Immunizations for Children from Birth through 6 years old. The first vaccine (HepB) is given within days of being born. MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) is not recommended until the infant is 12 months old.
If all possible, look at all the headers in the email to verify that it truly is coming from that cable company. Also, when you call the company, do they really have an account for her?
My cell has been on the NDC list for over 10 years, with me verifying its status every year. Somehow a company got a hold of my name and cell number and called me up offering a free sample of some product. They hung up as I was in the middle of telling them I had no prior experience with their company and that I am on the NDC list. They did not give me time to demand to be removed from their calling list. Same company called back four times, and only on that last call did they not hang up before I was able to request to be removed from their calling list and threaten to report them for not honoring the DNC list. I was unable to determine how they got my information. It's now been three weeks without hearing from them (knock on wood).
Perhaps the CC companies permit you to pass along swipe fees there, but in much of the world, they don't. They should probably be prohibited by law from prohibiting you from passing those fees on, but ha ha ha
Gas stations here (in the US) used to give a discount of a few cents per gallon for paying with cash instead of a debit or credit card. Swiping a debit card generally carries a set fee per transaction while credit card companies charge a certain percentage.
Uhhh... Português (brasileiro) é a minha lingua nativa. E eu coloquei o acento no "mú" só por diversão. Vai saber se a vaca em questão está mugindo de tédio (sem acento) ou com raiva (com o acento para enfatizar)? hehehe
Legal. Eu servi missão religiosa no estado de São Paulo por dois anos, e minha esposa (odeio que vcs usam "mulher") é cearense.
The problem is that they tend to ignore the human rights of children in places like that. Cutting parts of their bodies off, refusing to give them a proper education, causing them mental illnesses with horrific stories and threats from X-rated books etc.
Children have rights and are not property. Religious people can do what they like, as long as their children's rights are respected.
I do hope you're trolling and not seriously as ignorant as your post suggests. Circumcision (I'm assuming that's the "cutting parts of their body off") was resolved over 1,800 years ago - back in the Apostolic Age. We are told that circumcision of the flesh avails nothing if we aren't circumcised of heart. We are taught that if a Gentile (non-Jew) converts to Christianity, he does not need to be circumcised (indeed, if circumcision is part of the conversion, the convert puts himself under the Law of Moses).
As for the other charges, extremists are dangerous regardless of their creed. My sect teaches that "the glory of God is intelligence" and that our lot in the next life will be all the better the more intelligence we obtain. We invented the modern TV, helped with open heart surgery, etc.
For (useless or funny, your decide) information, never trust the google translator for grammar and spelling. where it says "vocês todos são vacas. vacas dizer mú", the correct form is "Todos vocês são vacas. Vacas dizem mú". The english->portuguese translation from Google is shit.
Você acertou! The verb dizer (to speak / say) conjugates to dizem for second person plural. I did not know you needed an accent in mú as a terminal u generally already pulls the stress (unless part of a diphthong).
Comcast Business, which only got me dynamic ipv6 a couple months ago, and still haven't gotten around to static allocations to match my static v4 allocation. Also, a lot of people's home routers. But mostly apathy.
I'm in the same boat. I have a static IPv4 from Comcast, but don't even get a dynamic IPv6 on that connection. I don't want to give up my static IPv4 until almost all my customers have IPv6.
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Hey moron, who are you going to blame for spontaneous abortions? Whose lives are you going to impoverish because they can't afford to support a child, especially if the child is going to have extreme defects requiring continuous connection to expensive medical equipment?
Most people claiming "all abortions are crimes" are basing their statements on their religious beliefs. Take your religion and shove it into that dark, moist place where your head already is.
I consider myself a religious Christian. I believe that all optional abortions should be illegal (or at least not funded by tax dollars). At the same time, I will fight for clean and safe places to perform legal abortions under certain circumstances. If the pregnancy was the result of rape, the women should have the option to terminate the pregnancy without being shamed. If the mother's very life is in jeopardy because of some complication, she should have the option to terminate the pregnancy. If there is something seriously wrong with the baby, abortion should be an option (and in many cases is the most humane option). I personally wouldn't abort a baby with Down's Syndrome, but others might. As to poverty, I don't consider that a valid reason to abort, especially given the number of couples wanting to adopt. If a couple can't afford to take care of a child, they should be taking precautions to not get pregnant.
Spontaneous abortions (aka miscarriages) are a natural occurrence; it's a woman's body's way of saying something isn't going right. I don't know of anyone seriously talking of criminalizing miscarriages, so that part of your retort was a strawman.
One big issue I see with charging by the kilo is actually booking the flights. Most of us book online with at least one layover. Do you trust people to accurately / honestly report their weight at the time of purchase? Weight of luggage is only accurately known at the time of travel. What happens at the airport if some under reported or over reported their weight? Could a couple use their average weight (one is overweight and the other under), or do they pay normal fare for the lighter person (no discount) and pay a surcharge for the heavier partner?
Let's see, gasoline costs 3 times as much, eggs cost double, bread is almost double.
At a rough 3% CPI index, it'd take 24 years for consumer prices to double. If that's the sort of time frame you're referring to, and your wages have risen only 25%, then yeah - you're getting screwed - but we already knew that.
According to US Inflation Calculator, the CPI has risen by 39.7% from 2000 to 2014. Note that this is an index; individual items may have a higher or lower inflation rate. That is why I mentioned a few specific products. When I entered the workforce after college, gasoline was about 90 cents a gallon; it's now $2.80.
So you entered the workforce in the mid 2000s, when it was $5.15, and are unhappy it got up to $7.25. Your 25% raise is probably the result of 2%ish raises over a period of roughly a decade.
Close, I entered the workforce in July 2000, minimum wage of $5.00 / hour. Most of my raises have been based on inflation, with me jumping jobs a couple of times to earn more.
Meanwhile the "40% rise" number is pretty much entirely a result of Congress ignoring poor people?
The problem is I earn too much to be helped out by Democrats and too little to benefit from the Republican loopholes. I'm in the diminishing middle class that no one is afraid of attacking. You can't tax the poor more because they don't have the money. You can't tax the rich more, because of trickle-down economics (not to mention the rich make bigger contributions to the political parties).
What happens is that inflation goes up. Since the minimum wage does not go up, it's buying power is reduced. Then every decade or two Congress has to go back and update the minimum wage to take into account the full decade's worth of inflation. They generally don;t make up for all of it, sop the actual buying power of the $7.25 minimum wage is less then the 1968 version ($8.24 in 2014 dollars). Heck, it would take an 8% jump to make up for inflation since 2009.
But don't worry. In 5 to 10 years they'll do another 25% raise of it, not index the new number to inflation to inflation, piss off a bunch of people who didn't get 25% raises that year (and don't realize that minimum wage earners hadn't gotten a Federal raise since 2009), and generally turn what should be a low-drama automatic process into a high-drama, high-BS debate about the Future of the Republic.
One of the things I loved about Ohio's one-term Governor Ted Strickland is that he linked his minimum wage hike to inflation, so that instead of being an opportunity for politicians to pretentiously pontificate, it just kinda happens.
I actually agree that minimum wage should be tied to inflation. I just also happen to wish that my salary was defined as a multiple of minimum wages instead of a set amount. People in this thread seem to think I'm upset about minimum wage increases, when in reality I am upset that my own salary doesn't keep up. I'm upset that in our field it seems you have to switch companies in order to earn more. I'm upset that bonuses are almost unheard of. I'm upset that companies generally don't offer a pension. I'm actually lucky that my company does a partial match in our 401(k).
If you're having that much trouble paying your mortgage, then why did you buy such an expensive house? I'm just curious because 50% of Americans are behind on one or more bills. In my own experience with many levels of society, people tend to outspend their means. Over my career I have seen many people get a promotion to full time that included a near doubling of salary, and damned if almost all of them didn't show up with a brand new car less than a week later... Getting that windfall may very well not be too good for the long term financial health of the individuals who got it, especially if this company folds or lays them off...
That's just it, my house isn't that expensive. I bought it when it was worth $150k and I had what appeared to be a stable job for nearly a year. The market readjusted, there was a hostile take-over at the company which cost me my job, financial burden of legally bringing in wife in country, then a son arrived. Gas prices doubled but I was upside down in the house so I couldn't move closer to the new office (nearly 30 minutes additional commute). Perfect storm that I'm still tring to recover from.
No, it's common: It's called the middle-class and it's not automatic that everyone will join it, even with half the population getting a degree. Study isn't the only road to success: A good tradesman can earn as much as a good educated professional.
Being wealthy is the rare exception because it is not based solely on sweat and skill.
If I had mod points and hadn't already commented in the thread, I would mod you up.
But I don't want those people to be "equal" to me. I want to always be better than them.
I want hard work and dedication to be rewarded, not punished. I want people earning minimum wage to learn a skill so they can progress. I want them to be equal by raising them up, not by lowering me down.
It's fine to want a good wage for yourself, of course. It's less fine to grumble about how people on minimum wage have managed a higher percentage gain than you have.
Their income != your buying power. How much has inflation gone up over that same period?
Let's see, gasoline costs 3 times as much, eggs cost double, bread is almost double.
US income inequality is a hot topic these days. It's good to see the people struggling at the bottom doing a little better - but if all the higher income jobs also saw the same gains, that wouldn't be addressing the inequality at all.
That's fine and good, but shouldn't that be going after the upper class instead of the middle class? The upper class earns enough that they can handle it. I am in the middle class.
Most of our engineering jobs pay more because of the skills required. I paid dearly for a college education so that I could be financially stable. If an unskilled job (such as flipping burgers) pays as well as a skilled job (writing software), where's the incentive to get an education?
How does that relate to anything? If you were happy with your financial security before the other person got a raise why is it suddenly a concern now?
My financial situation becomes less secure each time minimum wage increases faster than my own salary. Every time minimum wage increases, the cost of goods go up (do you really expect companies to swallow the cost of paying employees?). As the cost of goods goes up faster than my salary, I am able to buy less and less.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I don't' earn a 6-figure salary despite 15 years as a software engineer. I am not rich enough to eat these increases to minimum wage without my own salary matching on a percentage basis. My latest increase works out to $1 / hour (assuming a 40-hour work week). Minimum wage is jumping $7 / hour.
Yep, only 4% of workforce even make the minimum to start with. And it was never designed to raise a family of 4 as some spout off. Its a temp wage essentially while you learn to pull up your pants and grow the fuck up, then shut up.
Yes, minimum wage versus living wage. Flipping burgers doesn't require specialized skills and should be seen as a job and not a career.
But you don't understand! it's absolutely unfair that Timmy had 3 marbles and got 3 more, and he had 10 marbles and only got 2 more! ITS NOT FAIR!!1! He demands at least 4 marbles or he's going to flip his shit and go full on ballistic temper tantrum followed by pouting for the rest of the afternoon!
Is it wrong to become financially secure? Is it wrong that someone gets ahead due to study and hard work? Is it wrong to want to be able to afford to put money away for retirement instead of becoming a burden on society? I don't aspire to be a millionaire; I just want enough to pay off my mortgage survive two or three months should I become unemployed.
One thing that often is missing from discussions about raising minimum wage / minimum salary is what to do with those already making more than the new value. I (like most engineers) make more than minimum wage. I've seen minimum wage go up by 40% since I entered the work force, but my own salary has only gone up by 25% in that same period. Minimum wage goes up, but my buying power goes down.
If it's so hard to do, why are we the only western country that doesn't provide any guaranteed paid maternity/paternity leave AT ALL? There are small companies in Europe, and if it's available for both men AND women then that mitigates the hiring bias you are concerned about. There is already some hiring bias against women based on the possibility that they may become pregnant; I don't think this would make that any worse. Pregnant women are also a protected class for the purposes of hiring/firing decisions.
I thought the law requires that companies cannot fire new fathers who take three months off; note that the law does not dictate that any portion of this be paid. My company recently got bought out, and the new company provides two weeks paid leave for birth of a child, adoption, or successfully bringing in a family member from out of country. For my son's birth, I took 1 week of PTO.
Consider replacing the electric commuter-car battery with a flywheel. We have the tech to do this for ranges of 50 miles or so.
That "50 miles or so" limit is holding me back. I commute almost 30 miles each way (housing near my office is prohibitively expensive), so I need a longer range. I need even longer range for road tripping or weekend outings. I'm not saying everyone has the same needs, just that this solution doesn't (yet) work for me.
But the kid is black, did he wait until a pair of black hands came up on the market so he (or someone making a decision for him) wouldn't have honkey hands ?
-1 for the use of honkey. Before your comment, I never knew the child's race. A child who lost his hands and feet to a terrible infection received new hands (and forearms). Do you honestly think that he or his parents made a big deal about the race of the donor? Would it be easier for him to explain how he lost both hands, or explain why his hands have a different pigmentation than the rest of his body? And if it really mattered, they could do skin drafts at a future date so his new arms and hands would be covered with his own skin. As it is, the donor was from the same race, so the previous questions are moot.
Let this article be about an advancement in pediatric surgery instead of playing the race card.
You still use torches? Get with the times, use a flashlight, you savage :)
In British English, flashlights are called torches. I can't tell if you were serious with your comment.
Don't forget about how Merck was found to be lying about the effectiveness of the Mumps part of the MMR. It is more like 35% effective. So you can believe the lies if you want. I would rather have the facts and would like to see true scientific studies done on these things. Something like a double blind study, which is not allowed with vaccines since they are assumed to work, so we can't withhold treatment of them for a study. Sounds like circular reasoning to me.
Merck was accused of lying about the effectiveness of the Mumps component of the MMR. Mumps Vaccine Effective Waning Immunity has links to three peer-reviewed research papers on the effectiveness of the effectiveness of the mumps component of the MMR vaccine and found it to be about 85-88%. These studies had nothing to do with Merck, so whether they were fudging numbers or not is irrelevant.
My son got his first vaccinations at 1 month... By the time he was 2 years old he had over a dozen... We *did* choose to stretch out the vaccination schedule a bit (to avoid giving 4 vaccinations at once, etc.) and we've been very careful to screen which drug company's vaccines we use as many contain "non-medical' ingredients that are actually drugs (below the minimum dosage for adults) that are not otherwise approved for use in children.
You did read the post you were replying to, right? It was talking specifically about the measles outbreak at Disneyland. My son is 10 months old, so I'm going through this right now. Different vaccines are tested as "safe" for different ages. We have been following the CDC's Recommended Immunizations for Children from Birth through 6 years old. The first vaccine (HepB) is given within days of being born. MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) is not recommended until the infant is 12 months old.
If all possible, look at all the headers in the email to verify that it truly is coming from that cable company. Also, when you call the company, do they really have an account for her?
My cell has been on the NDC list for over 10 years, with me verifying its status every year. Somehow a company got a hold of my name and cell number and called me up offering a free sample of some product. They hung up as I was in the middle of telling them I had no prior experience with their company and that I am on the NDC list. They did not give me time to demand to be removed from their calling list. Same company called back four times, and only on that last call did they not hang up before I was able to request to be removed from their calling list and threaten to report them for not honoring the DNC list. I was unable to determine how they got my information. It's now been three weeks without hearing from them (knock on wood).
Perhaps the CC companies permit you to pass along swipe fees there, but in much of the world, they don't. They should probably be prohibited by law from prohibiting you from passing those fees on, but ha ha ha
Gas stations here (in the US) used to give a discount of a few cents per gallon for paying with cash instead of a debit or credit card. Swiping a debit card generally carries a set fee per transaction while credit card companies charge a certain percentage.
Uhhh... Português (brasileiro) é a minha lingua nativa. E eu coloquei o acento no "mú" só por diversão. Vai saber se a vaca em questão está mugindo de tédio (sem acento) ou com raiva (com o acento para enfatizar)? hehehe
Legal. Eu servi missão religiosa no estado de São Paulo por dois anos, e minha esposa (odeio que vcs usam "mulher") é cearense.
The problem is that they tend to ignore the human rights of children in places like that. Cutting parts of their bodies off, refusing to give them a proper education, causing them mental illnesses with horrific stories and threats from X-rated books etc.
Children have rights and are not property. Religious people can do what they like, as long as their children's rights are respected.
I do hope you're trolling and not seriously as ignorant as your post suggests. Circumcision (I'm assuming that's the "cutting parts of their body off") was resolved over 1,800 years ago - back in the Apostolic Age. We are told that circumcision of the flesh avails nothing if we aren't circumcised of heart. We are taught that if a Gentile (non-Jew) converts to Christianity, he does not need to be circumcised (indeed, if circumcision is part of the conversion, the convert puts himself under the Law of Moses).
As for the other charges, extremists are dangerous regardless of their creed. My sect teaches that "the glory of God is intelligence" and that our lot in the next life will be all the better the more intelligence we obtain. We invented the modern TV, helped with open heart surgery, etc.
For (useless or funny, your decide) information, never trust the google translator for grammar and spelling. where it says "vocês todos são vacas. vacas dizer mú", the correct form is "Todos vocês são vacas. Vacas dizem mú". The english->portuguese translation from Google is shit.
Você acertou! The verb dizer (to speak / say) conjugates to dizem for second person plural. I did not know you needed an accent in mú as a terminal u generally already pulls the stress (unless part of a diphthong).
Comcast Business, which only got me dynamic ipv6 a couple months ago, and still haven't gotten around to static allocations to match my static v4 allocation. Also, a lot of people's home routers. But mostly apathy.
I'm in the same boat. I have a static IPv4 from Comcast, but don't even get a dynamic IPv6 on that connection. I don't want to give up my static IPv4 until almost all my customers have IPv6.