I always found it funny that there's literally about 50 different drug names on office supplies around the average doctor's office. Sometimes I ask them what one is and half the time the answer is "oh that, hell, I don't know. I think it's some new [drug type here], they just sent the post-its with the pills the pharmacy ordered."
Of course, it could be random coincidence or that you just happen to have a stronger immune system than the average person, but I guess your nonsense rationale sounds better. Also, remind me never to have dinner with you. You might enjoy the taste of your own shit, but I don't.
Vaccinations aren't related to antibiotics and don't result in these resistant superbugs. Vaccines trigger an immune response in your body pretty much identical to what happens if you were to actually get infected with the virus.
Please, stop spreading your bullshit, uninformed nonsense. Thank you.
"If you treat it with Tamiflu right away your body cannot build natural antibodies, and you are at risk for another infection."
Who told you this? Seriously, did you hear this from a doctor or are you parroting something you heard from a friend or a friend? I'm just wondering if you've bothered to even do a google search of if you're just another one of the public that spreads this misinformation like wildfire to the point that it's more dangerous than the disease it's talking about.
"It's a bit different because polio is a crippling, life-threatening illness. It can kill and it can maim for life. By contrast, in my amateur not-a-doctor opinion and speaking only for myself, the swine flu has been blown totally out of proportion."
Swine flu deaths: "Deaths totaled more than 7,820 as of Nov. 22" SOURCE: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=akODnI6cicxw
The flu can, and does, kill. Sure, not most completely healthy 20 year olds, but it can kill a good deal of people.
Vaccinations and antibiotics are NOT the same thing and work completely differently. I'm willing to bet that the people that wrote "bullshit" on the fliers probably changed their tune when they got infected. Not to mention that not a single one of them has and medical training whatsoever. There's so much nonsense "medical information" being spread by people that haven't even opened a medical textbook in their entire life.
Before anyone rails on powerpoint here I'm going to say that it is a useful tool. Yes, a lot of kids make completely crap presentations with powerpoint. But it's no easier to make better presentations with poster board. Powerpoint gives you a bunch of blank slides and it's up to you to put the relevant material on them to make a good presentation, exactly the same as blank pieces of poster board.
Powerpoint makes making presentations easier, thus it makes it easier to make a bad presentation. Previously, someone wouldn't bother to even make a presentation, they'd just give a bad speech. Now they give the same speech but have some worthless pictures in the background at the same time. When the majority of users aren't going to put in the necessary amount of effort to make a good presentation, it's no wonder that most powerpoint presentations suck. That's no reason to blame powerpoint though, it's just lazy users.
As for student presentations, it's the fact that teachers don't bother correcting a student when they make a shit presentation. A student making a well thought out presentation with helpful slides usually gets an A. A student that copy and pastes text onto the slides, and then stares at the screen and reads the text to the class also usually gets an A. The teacher doesn't have the time to explain how to use powerpoint well because they're busy teaching the subject that they're supposed to be teaching. (i.e. econ teacher is busy teaching econ and can't take a week out of the curriculum to explain how powerpoint works). So if the teacher were to give the kid an F, then the parents show up bitching about how the teacher didn't explain powerpoint and how dare they give their kid an F, etc.
Summary: When someone builds a shitty house, you don't blame the hammer. Same with shitty presentations and powerpoint.
That would cost something on the order of a few million dollars. You have to design the arm, build the arm, test the arm, and then fly the arm into space. Every kilogram of mass adds something on the order of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars to launch costs.
And then it also has to run off of the solar panels, draining more power. There really isn't anything to justify the cost of it. The rovers have already lasted a hell of a lot longer than they should have without any arm. Moving rocks isn't going to do you any good, the landscape is a lot more barren than it is here on earth. You could achieve the same results by studying the top of the rock, or just digging down a little bit by spinning the wheels or something. You'd only get different results if you drill down several meters, and that takes more than a robotic arm.
Are you fucking serious? Let's make this simple for you. This is Mars, a PLANET. Planets have GRAVITY because they're VERY BIG and have a lot of MASS (mass is STUFF).
They'll only realize that when people actually start revolting against the TSA violently for this kind of thing.
When a violation of someone's rights leads to a protest in Washington that results in the riot police being called, maybe they'll listen. They're going to be more than happy to do this exact same thing int he future. They'll go after someone, get the information they want, then "apologize" and blame it on poor judgment of some random whipping boy in the agency. They'll insist that they were still justified because of TERRORISTS BE AFRAID!! 9/11!!!
And you know this... how? Can you tell me how long the fuel supply at my CO is rated for? Didn't think so, because if you did you wouldn't have made the comment.
It's easier to dial a VOIP phone than a cell phone? Are you fucking serious? It's "911" vs. "911 send". That's ONE button press extra. You might want to rethink your reasoning here.
"The whole reason for the 2nd amendment is to allow for the citizens of the country to have the power to overthrow the government at such a point in time that it no longer serves the people." That is not at all the purpose of the amendment. The point of that amendment is because the constitution was written in a time when the military wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today. There was no effective guarantee that the military could blow the bejesus out of any army attempting to invade the united states. Today the military does a little point and click stateside and something in Iraq blows up 30 seconds later. It wasn't like that roughly 150 years ago. There was still a need for citizens to be ready to defend themselves should Britian show up again attempting to reassert their control over the US.
Because there's a bunch of republicans that call themselves democrats. They came up with the term "blue dog", which literally means "I'm getting a lot of money from insurance companies and have to justify this legislation without mentioning the fuckload of bribes I've received"
The issue is that there is no longer a public option and you can charge a sick person 2 or 3 (depending on which version of the bill you read) times as much as a healthy person. So really they haven't changed a god damn thing except to give the insurance companies more money, less regulation, and absolutely nothing to fear from a government run plan.
I voted for Obama and I still agree with that choice, but this bullshit legislation is making me fucking sick. I mean, McCain would have put us straight into another war, a depression, and removed all restrictions on insurance companies, but what we have now is only a little bit less shitty.
Methinks perhaps a better idea would have been to leak it to wikieaks, rather than a US citizen that could be arrested and possibly tortured (gotta love that "patriot" act) into giving up the information. Even if the US journalist or blogger had no desire to reveal his source (as is the case here), the government seems to think that it has the right to force them to.
This is a lesson. Only leak things to places that aren't easily within the US's reach.
That's not cause for concern at all. In fact, it's cause for hope. It means that there's still someone ethical enough to not blindly follow the "this is classified don't tell the public" method of keeping illegal policies from public view. This policy isn't necessarily illegal, but it does illustrate that the TSA is not acting in the public's best interest and that sort of thing does need to be leaked.
Sure, a virus can propagate, but that's not all their is to it. Fuckloads of people died from the black plague. The ones that survived didn't survive because they somehow didn't come into contact with it, but because their immune system fought it off.
Same thing can happen here. A virus propagates, but doesn't actually kill everyone. Thus, people survive.
"no trait in nature exists solely for the enjoyment of humans"
Not true. If humans enjoy it then they're likely to select animals with such a trait for pets. If they humans then destroy the ones without that trait (i.e. destroying their natural habitat), then that trait will become more common in future generations.
Hold on there. They said that the animal would only link to one person. They mentioned nothing about breeding. Unless the blue guys were fucking the quazi-dragons, they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other.
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I always found it funny that there's literally about 50 different drug names on office supplies around the average doctor's office. Sometimes I ask them what one is and half the time the answer is "oh that, hell, I don't know. I think it's some new [drug type here], they just sent the post-its with the pills the pharmacy ordered."
Of course, it could be random coincidence or that you just happen to have a stronger immune system than the average person, but I guess your nonsense rationale sounds better. Also, remind me never to have dinner with you. You might enjoy the taste of your own shit, but I don't.
Vaccinations aren't related to antibiotics and don't result in these resistant superbugs. Vaccines trigger an immune response in your body pretty much identical to what happens if you were to actually get infected with the virus.
Please, stop spreading your bullshit, uninformed nonsense. Thank you.
"If you treat it with Tamiflu right away your body cannot build natural antibodies, and you are at risk for another infection."
Who told you this? Seriously, did you hear this from a doctor or are you parroting something you heard from a friend or a friend? I'm just wondering if you've bothered to even do a google search of if you're just another one of the public that spreads this misinformation like wildfire to the point that it's more dangerous than the disease it's talking about.
"It's a bit different because polio is a crippling, life-threatening illness. It can kill and it can maim for life. By contrast, in my amateur not-a-doctor opinion and speaking only for myself, the swine flu has been blown totally out of proportion."
Swine flu deaths: "Deaths totaled more than 7,820 as of Nov. 22" SOURCE: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601124&sid=akODnI6cicxw
The flu can, and does, kill. Sure, not most completely healthy 20 year olds, but it can kill a good deal of people.
Vaccinations and antibiotics are NOT the same thing and work completely differently. I'm willing to bet that the people that wrote "bullshit" on the fliers probably changed their tune when they got infected. Not to mention that not a single one of them has and medical training whatsoever. There's so much nonsense "medical information" being spread by people that haven't even opened a medical textbook in their entire life.
Before anyone rails on powerpoint here I'm going to say that it is a useful tool. Yes, a lot of kids make completely crap presentations with powerpoint. But it's no easier to make better presentations with poster board. Powerpoint gives you a bunch of blank slides and it's up to you to put the relevant material on them to make a good presentation, exactly the same as blank pieces of poster board.
Powerpoint makes making presentations easier, thus it makes it easier to make a bad presentation. Previously, someone wouldn't bother to even make a presentation, they'd just give a bad speech. Now they give the same speech but have some worthless pictures in the background at the same time. When the majority of users aren't going to put in the necessary amount of effort to make a good presentation, it's no wonder that most powerpoint presentations suck. That's no reason to blame powerpoint though, it's just lazy users.
As for student presentations, it's the fact that teachers don't bother correcting a student when they make a shit presentation. A student making a well thought out presentation with helpful slides usually gets an A. A student that copy and pastes text onto the slides, and then stares at the screen and reads the text to the class also usually gets an A. The teacher doesn't have the time to explain how to use powerpoint well because they're busy teaching the subject that they're supposed to be teaching. (i.e. econ teacher is busy teaching econ and can't take a week out of the curriculum to explain how powerpoint works). So if the teacher were to give the kid an F, then the parents show up bitching about how the teacher didn't explain powerpoint and how dare they give their kid an F, etc.
Summary: When someone builds a shitty house, you don't blame the hammer. Same with shitty presentations and powerpoint.
"Drama queens suck diseased donkey balls"
Wow, really? They get down on their knees and actually start sucking the balls of a diseased donkey?
Why don't you follow your own advice?
That would cost something on the order of a few million dollars. You have to design the arm, build the arm, test the arm, and then fly the arm into space. Every kilogram of mass adds something on the order of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of dollars to launch costs.
And then it also has to run off of the solar panels, draining more power. There really isn't anything to justify the cost of it. The rovers have already lasted a hell of a lot longer than they should have without any arm. Moving rocks isn't going to do you any good, the landscape is a lot more barren than it is here on earth. You could achieve the same results by studying the top of the rock, or just digging down a little bit by spinning the wheels or something. You'd only get different results if you drill down several meters, and that takes more than a robotic arm.
The difference is between "stuck" and "stuck and dead".
Are you fucking serious?
Let's make this simple for you.
This is Mars, a PLANET. Planets have GRAVITY because they're VERY BIG and have a lot of MASS (mass is STUFF).
They'll only realize that when people actually start revolting against the TSA violently for this kind of thing.
When a violation of someone's rights leads to a protest in Washington that results in the riot police being called, maybe they'll listen. They're going to be more than happy to do this exact same thing int he future. They'll go after someone, get the information they want, then "apologize" and blame it on poor judgment of some random whipping boy in the agency. They'll insist that they were still justified because of TERRORISTS BE AFRAID!! 9/11!!!
"Next time we'll remember to get a gag order too"
And you know this... how? Can you tell me how long the fuel supply at my CO is rated for? Didn't think so, because if you did you wouldn't have made the comment.
You could make them run on gerbils. Attach a hamster wheel to a generator and hook it up to the switch and you've got gerbil based phone service.
It's easier to dial a VOIP phone than a cell phone? Are you fucking serious? It's "911" vs. "911 send". That's ONE button press extra. You might want to rethink your reasoning here.
"The whole reason for the 2nd amendment is to allow for the citizens of the country to have the power to overthrow the government at such a point in time that it no longer serves the people." That is not at all the purpose of the amendment. The point of that amendment is because the constitution was written in a time when the military wasn't nearly as powerful as it is today. There was no effective guarantee that the military could blow the bejesus out of any army attempting to invade the united states.
Today the military does a little point and click stateside and something in Iraq blows up 30 seconds later. It wasn't like that roughly 150 years ago. There was still a need for citizens to be ready to defend themselves should Britian show up again attempting to reassert their control over the US.
Because there's a bunch of republicans that call themselves democrats. They came up with the term "blue dog", which literally means "I'm getting a lot of money from insurance companies and have to justify this legislation without mentioning the fuckload of bribes I've received"
The issue is that there is no longer a public option and you can charge a sick person 2 or 3 (depending on which version of the bill you read) times as much as a healthy person. So really they haven't changed a god damn thing except to give the insurance companies more money, less regulation, and absolutely nothing to fear from a government run plan.
I voted for Obama and I still agree with that choice, but this bullshit legislation is making me fucking sick. I mean, McCain would have put us straight into another war, a depression, and removed all restrictions on insurance companies, but what we have now is only a little bit less shitty.
Methinks perhaps a better idea would have been to leak it to wikieaks, rather than a US citizen that could be arrested and possibly tortured (gotta love that "patriot" act) into giving up the information. Even if the US journalist or blogger had no desire to reveal his source (as is the case here), the government seems to think that it has the right to force them to.
This is a lesson. Only leak things to places that aren't easily within the US's reach.
That's not cause for concern at all. In fact, it's cause for hope. It means that there's still someone ethical enough to not blindly follow the "this is classified don't tell the public" method of keeping illegal policies from public view. This policy isn't necessarily illegal, but it does illustrate that the TSA is not acting in the public's best interest and that sort of thing does need to be leaked.
"There's a bigger chance to get hit by Apophis then to win the lottery.
Yet, people win the damn lottery every day."
People do not win the lottery every day. It goes for months on end with no winners.
Sure, a virus can propagate, but that's not all their is to it. Fuckloads of people died from the black plague. The ones that survived didn't survive because they somehow didn't come into contact with it, but because their immune system fought it off.
Same thing can happen here. A virus propagates, but doesn't actually kill everyone. Thus, people survive.
"no trait in nature exists solely for the enjoyment of humans"
Not true. If humans enjoy it then they're likely to select animals with such a trait for pets. If they humans then destroy the ones without that trait (i.e. destroying their natural habitat), then that trait will become more common in future generations.
Hold on there. They said that the animal would only link to one person. They mentioned nothing about breeding. Unless the blue guys were fucking the quazi-dragons, they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other.