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Comment Smother (Score 2, Insightful) 1092

I understand that you're concerned for the safety of your child, but you're really assuming the worst will happen. You're also overlooking the fact that your daughter is a bright individual and that she can take care of herself so much as finding her way home or reaching you. Besides, if you start tracking your daughter when do you draw the line? Are you going to make sure that all of her friends are ok to play with? Are you going to pick out what she eats so it's what you think is healthy? At what age do you stop tracking your daughter? What about dating in the future? Are you going to lock your daughter in a tower?
As a parent I'd rather trust my children and they'd rather have me trust them.

Comment Re:Ignoratio Elenchi (Score 1) 369

The inability to disprove something that also can not be proven is a moot argument and holds no merit.

And what happens when all these points previously used to defend ID start to disappear one by one, where eventually the entire evolutionary chain is complete without conscious intervention?

Comment Re:This needs to get press. (Score 1) 904

First off, chill out. The internet is serious business and all, but that's pretty lame.
Second, you acted as if ArcherB (ArcherB, not Archer8 if you want to play precise prick. Unless that 8 is supposed to be some kind of ironic) was completely off the mark about the 8 years. Sure, you didn't say anything about 8 years but that doesn't really change the merit of what he was saying. Maybe the 8 was made up shit, but the years part wasn't.
Look at this statement. "No, you said that Bush had eight years to build up a reputation. His inauguration protests prove that the hatred toward him had nothing to do with anything he did in office as they started before his inauguration!"
If I change that statement to "No, you said that Bush had years to build up a reputation. His inauguration protests prove that the hatred toward him had nothing to do with anything he did in office as they started before his inauguration!" does that somehow make the statement invalid?
Chill out dude, everyone's friends here.
Cellphones

Submission + - Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mista (appleinsider.com)

MBCook writes: "AppleInsider has posed a great article explaining that Wired's story about Japanese iPhone hate (/. discussion) was completely false and has been edited at least twice. The comments in the article were recycled and taken out of context, with those interviewed blogging about the mistakes. The piece then goes on to analyze the iPhone's standing in Japan, as well as some of the major factors working for and against it. At last it points out that the Wall Street Journal tried the same myth of failure just after the phone's launch in Japan, recycled from the myth the year before, pushed by a research company with a possible anti-Apple agenda."
Medicine

Submission + - Why Doctors Hate Science

theodp writes: "A 2004 study found some 10 million women lacking a cervix were still getting Pap tests. Only problem is, a Pap test screens for cervical cancer — no cervix, no cancer. With this tale, Newsweek's Sharon Begley makes her case for comparative-effectiveness research (CER), which is receiving $1 billion under the stimulus bill for studies to determine which treatments, including drugs, are more medically and cost-effective for a given ailment than others. Physicians, Begley says, must stop treatments that are rooted more in local medical culture than medical science, embrace practices that have been shown scientifically to be superior to others, and ignore critics who paint CER as government control of doctors' decision-making."

Comment Re:grey goo (Score 2, Insightful) 149

You realize that microbes already in nature have been evolving the moment they've showed up?
Any sort of creation we make in the lab right now will ultimately be weaker than any successful microbe.

Green goos already exist, they cause common colds.

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