You can't control if peanuts are or are not in a school at this level of allergy. I eat peanuts every morning at breakfast. If I had a child go to school with peanut residue on his hands and face (even a small amount) then the ban becomes effectively useless. In cases like these (and we're talking what, 1 in 100,000 schools at a generous estimate?) the kid shouldn't be in a public school. I'll put it this way: 150 people (adult and child alike) die in America annually from food related allergies, meaning you're more likely to die from a bee sting or a lightning strike. To put it in further perspective, 2,000 children drown every year: but we still have public pools.

I guess the kid can't go to a gas station, grocery store, or any other store for that matter as well since most places these days have bagged peanuts in the checkout isle. In which case, the kid probably shouldn't be in a public school and instead be homeschooled since they have an allergy that will mean they die just about everywhere they go. Since, as you said, they don't have to be removed from the bag for the peanut to kill the person.

The CDC uses a flawed method of measuring "obese" honestly.

This method of calculating BMI puts many people into the obese category that aren't actually at an unhealthy weight. Not only are normal people you see regularly at a 30BMI based on this type of scale, but this includes all people who do any form of highly competitive sport, body building, or other activity that would increase muscle mass or require you to store extra weight (including long distance swimmers). Based on BMI height/weight measurements, just about every single navy seal is fat.

I'd be fine with that actually, since I don't agree with mandatory health care. Affordable yes, but that is a hard thing to define and not something that can be guaranteed since the current system has a profit motive which also goes against the idea of affordable (since everyone MUST have it, why make it affordable?)

Actually when you go to rob someone taking a gun (since they can't legally own one) is the best move to both passify the home owner and / or murder them if needed. In these instances there won't be anyone to see you do it. The only person who did see you is now dead on the floor (or people if you murder a whole family). Criminals don't think "what is the minimal amount of defense I can take into this robbery", no they think "What can I do to make sure I get away without being caught". A gun pretty much ensures that when you tell the home owner to bury his face in the pillow while you tie him up, he does it.

This is why Americans don't want to give up weapons. We know the "kind criminal" is a myth, and we don't intend to be a victim while we hope that someone shows up to save us.

No actually, it doesn't make anything your business other than the fact that you're being over charged for insurance based on a faulty and quite honestly questionable business practice. If they needed to raise the cost of insurance, it wouldn't be such a profitable industry. Instead it is extremely profitable because people like yourself get confused and blame other customers.

The weight of the people around you is :: drum roll :: none of your business! Yes, if someone works to earn a paycheck, they get to spend it in any way that they want. If a 450lb man wants to buy a 600oz mega-ultra-gulp I guess he's going to die of diabetes, but the transaction is between him and the seller. Similarly if you don't want to be around fat people then don't be around fat people. Leave, walk somewhere else. It isn't like 8 of 10 people standing on the sidewalk are giant tubs of lard. You notice fat people because they aren't the norm and are not nearly as common as people think. If they were, you wouldn't call them "fat", you'd call them "normal".

If you don't like what people spend money on then change careers and become a financial advisor so that the people who care to listen can receive your sage-like advice. Otherwise you need to realize that how people spend their money is between them and the people they spend it with. If you don't like it, well tough shit. Life is hard, get a helmet.

Just get a coffee machine with multiple startup times.

Microsoft won't purchase the Lumia line because it would immediately create a conflicting interest to their main product (the OS) being used on other devices. I know that if I made smart phones I wouldn't want to use someone else's OS when they are already competing with me in the market (also I think MS agreed to not actually manufacture their own hardware when they started signing up manufacturers, but I don't have a source available).

I'm certainly not saying that Nokia shouldn't consider diversifying, but I think quitting is a horrible idea. The problem with taking on another OS like android however is that it may harm their relationship with MS, which would definitely sink them at this point. The Lumia 900 is a really great phone and I see quite a few of them every day when I'm out and about, so I know they are selling well which may be the ticket that Nokia needs to keep going. Dropping MS so soon after a serious flagship release would be suicide and basically cripple the potential for their 900 and 710 devices to really take off. I know the AT&T store near my house can't keep the 900 in stock which kills the other WP7 devices that I've heard of lately.

Marketing has been the real difference (I think) when comparing Nokia and the other WP7 manufacturers. Before the 900 and 710 I hadn't heard any WP7 ads on the radio, never noticed any real push from sales staff, no premium display location in AT&T stores (they were usually in the back corner near the cases), and definitely no TV spots that made any sense (the initial TV ads were confusingly crappy). Nokia seems to have their head in the game for this push, and I think they can probably pull through just fine as they are if they keep up the pace in their marketing campaign.

People said the same thing about the XBOX because of their massive initial losses, and swore MS would fail and they should 'just give up'. Now the XBox360 is one of the top entertainment mediums for not just games but also other forms like music and movies. People complain and cry 'just give up' because windows phone 7 (which has barely been on the maret for what, not even two years now?) isn't the top pick for phones. That quitting attitude is why critics are just that, critics, and they don't own or run major global corps.

WP7 might fail and it might not, but to assume that MS and Nokia should just give up because they can't take over a market in one year is, well, pathetic.

Look into any forum, bbs, email chain, web server, or telnet session, and there you will find him.

Yes the novices will go to prison and learn from the experts everything you could imagine about exploiting holes.

Mind uploading is essentially extinction since once we're all in machines our physical bodies will wither and die. Fortunately slashdot will live on beyond all of us.

Don't fret, AC is a bipolar schiz with DID. While one personality shuns us, there are surely thousands of others that will continue to contribute greatly to the body of /. knowledge and social atmosphere.

You know after spending some time in SlashBI curious george wasn't nearly as curious.