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  1. Re:The damage is already done on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 2

    What are you talking about? The flu vaccine works pretty well. Its effectiveness is compromised by the relatively small number of people who take it though. It's not perfect but there is protection given by it.

    It's also difficult to say who 'dies' from the flu since often deaths are complications caused by the flu (and not the flu itself).

    And you can't tell me that Jenny McCarthy wouldn't take credit if her quackery turned out to be true? If so then she deserves blame when her quackery causes harm.

  2. Re:The damage is already done on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Children are introduced to hundreds of pathogens a *day* naturally. And you're concerned about 3 dead or disabled viruses (nobody gives vaccines with fully live viruses)???

  3. Re:The damage is already done on Famous British Autism Study an 'Elaborate Fraud' · · Score: 1

    Is there any evidence that spacing them out should be done? Any evidence at all? No? Then you were paranoid and acting irrationally. It may not have caused harm but lets not sugar coat it and say it was a good idea.

  4. Re:Albums versus single songs on Pink Floyd Give In To Digital Downloads · · Score: 1

    Listening to The Wall on shuffle? Isn't that like watching a movie out-of-order? Did you even realize that the music at the beginning of the first track matches the music at the end of the last track and that Comfortably Numb is the only track without a lead-in (including the first track given that the last track if played on a loop leads into the first track)?

    This is what Waters was worried about. All the care they put into the *album* is ignored for the individual tracks.

  5. Re:Licensing and Freedom on Saudi Arabia Requiring License For Online Media · · Score: 1

    That license would have stopped him! Er...

  6. Re:Fairness on Saudi Arabia Requiring License For Online Media · · Score: 1

    Yay! I can play false dichotomy too!

    Corporations are corrupt you say? That must mean you think *the mob* is a bunch of angels and bunnies!

  7. Re:Java, the original sin on The Care and Feeding of the Android GPU · · Score: 3, Funny

    If one is incapable of writing Java/Dalvik code that runs well then I pitty the C code they will churn out.

  8. Re:Playing the game changes the game on Google's Next Challenge, Spam Results · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Believe it or not it's easier to be a good ad company if you're also a good search company. One doesn't have to suffer to the benefit of the other. It's easier to sell a product if it's a good product.

  9. Re:Whats next? on 'No Refusal' DUI Checkpoints Coming To Florida? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes the two are one and the same.

  10. Re:Not going to lie on Word Lens — Augmented Reality Translation · · Score: 1

    Hah! I like Android for exactly the same reason. I'll be able to easily port my Java code to it. But it would be a pain to have to port to Objective C...

  11. Re:From the article.... on Oracle Releases MySQL 5.5 · · Score: 1

    You might want to write your own OS to run it on too.

  12. Re:malicious skepticism on EPA Knowingly Allowed Pesticide That Kills Bees · · Score: 1

    One study without proper controls is pretty useless.

  13. Re:mod parent up on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    And it states that it does *not* enumerate rights. It was never meant to be a list of all rights we have. Legal or otherwise.

  14. Re:Ron Paul on WikiLeaks, Money, and Ron Paul · · Score: 1

    It is about the freedom to release those documents. Which technically may not be 'speech' per se but it's the freedom of press definitely.

    And many (including me) would claim that the government has no problem with having secrets. In fact I think they have too many secrets. The press is supposed to keep the government in check on these issues. Otherwise it is the government telling us "don't worry - we're only keeping important things secret" and we have no way to validate whether what is secret *should* be secret.

  15. Re:Back in Time. on BitTorrent Client Offers P2P Without Central Tracking · · Score: 1

    Is it 1997?

  16. Re:mod parent up on Pentagon Papers Ellsberg Supports Wikileaks · · Score: 1

    Really?

    "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

  17. Re:Raw data, or "adjusted"? on Google Earth Engine To Provide Climate Change Data · · Score: 2

    Especially the "consensus" around gravity. Hah! Intelligent falling is where it's at!

  18. Re:Adam Smith supported copyrights and patents on House Passes TV Commercial Volume Bill · · Score: 1

    Libertarians ARE anarchists. Modern day American Libertarianism derives from the Boston school of anarchism.

    Isn't something that is "derived" from something else a different thing?

  19. Re:Purpose on Wikileaks Booted From Amazon · · Score: 1

    Most != all. And it won't come to you heavilly redacted at wikileaks.com.

    You're basically saying I should just *ask* the fox whether he ate the eggs while he was guarding the hen-house.

  20. Re:Tom Flanagan, Hilarious Idiot on Moscow Has Eyes On WikiLeaks, Too · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Well, given that our glorious leader has generously given himself the power to order assassinations of US citizens at will I should think he may consider extending that power to non-citizens as well. But we'll have to ask nicely.

    http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/07/assassinations

  21. Re:Can't see a reason in the Acceptable Use Policy on Wikileaks Booted From Amazon · · Score: 1

    In what way? Precedent says it's legal and no charges have been raised or even discussed.

  22. Re:Just wondering.... on NASA Finds New Life (This Afternoon) · · Score: 1

    But you'll never be able to alternate the frequencies fast enough to compensate.

  23. Re:Can't see a reason in the Acceptable Use Policy on Wikileaks Booted From Amazon · · Score: 2

    So you agree that what Wikileaks is doing is not illegal then?

    There is precedent here too:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States

  24. Purpose on Wikileaks Booted From Amazon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "which raises the question whether this was requested by the government."

    This is exactly why wikileaks exists. To answer these questions.

  25. Re:I said the same thing about Barak Obama in 2006 on Sarah Palin 'Target WikiLeaks Like Taliban' · · Score: 1

    Actually, defeating Hillary was his greatest challenge. And for that he had to do more than just overcome racism.