Because in any given year, there are multiple strains of the flu. The strain that is picked for vaccines is based on an educated guess of what the prevalent strain might be for this year. This year it looks like they were wrong when they picked the strain. This is not rocket science

If you breathe in air every day, swallow water from a water fountain, touch dirt, foreign objects are penetrating your body all the time without consent.

Generally safe, yes. Safe for 100% of the population: no, no medication is. You are aware that every vaccine's studies are published right? Or did you even look?

Again there are studies if you bother to look.

Sigh. The money angle. Yes the corporations that make vaccines make some profit; however, it is far less than they would make if you were required to take them all the time. For example, the drug companies would rather have you take a daily pill like Lipitor at $50 a week than one $25 vaccine and maybe a booster in 10 years.

I fear you haven't but are raising questions without looking for the answers,

Except your viewpoint ignores the fact that a parent not giving a child penicillin or aspirin only affects that child. Not vaccinating affects everyone that child comes into contact with which by proxy also means the parents. Unless the family wants to withdraw from the entire world, there is not really a "safe" option then is there?

Again you missed the part where a woman who has an abortion is in the same room with me doesn't affect me does it? Her not getting a vaccine does affect me if we are in the same room.

One of main objection of the anti-vaxxers is that there are side effects for some and that the vaccines are "not safe" thus they should not be forced to take them. The voluntary part is just an excuse.

So your explanation to the eradication of smallpox is not the worldwide campaign to vaccinate but "better hygiene". What about places like 3rd world countries where "better hygiene" is still a problem today? Cholera is still a problem today in India because of lack of hygiene yet smallpox is gone.

And what are these "dirty fingerprints" that you speak of? Vaccines are different in that medicine has changed, yes. For examples the flu vaccine has a much more manufacturing focus as tens of millions of them of a new strain has to be produced every year.

Could you be more specific in which diseases you speak of? If you are talking about austism, no less than 8 separate studies around the world could not find a link. That and the original study appears to have fabricated the data.

And what is your exact objection here? Some of the cell lines that can be used to test vaccines may come from fetuses 40 years ago. But vaccines are not the only things they use those lines for and not all vaccines use the same lines. However, it is not the same as using fetuses to source the vaccine.

Remember the cell lines are derived from fetuses from 40 years ago; fetuses are not actually used. My best explanation is that they were discarded tissue (no owner) and the easiest to obtain. Also they are embryonic cells which may make some testing easier.

And your answer to it is?

I would assume it is the same as "Vaccines have never been tested." BS that Jenny McCarthy was spewing. Someone should have called her out on that. It's one thing to say that you don't think vaccines are safe enough, it's another to deny that any testing was done before a vaccine was issued. It's not like it is hard to get the studies if you looked.

Well by your logic then we should not use aspirin or penicillin because there is a small minority of people who are allergic to them.

Fact Check: Any medication has side effects. No medication whether it is a vaccine or aspirin works on 100.0% of the population. Vaccines are generally safe for majority of the population. Sorry if you are in the small percentage who has a bad reaction, spreading fear mongering does not help your cause.

It appears that the UI was also overhauled in addition to switching to QNX so Ford is fixing their problems.

Only if Apple could prove intent. I'm not saying that the judge or Apple would have let it through but it would tremendously helped the plaintiff if she could prove she "bought" the iPods and not someone else.

Well Ford's "Sync" is just the name of their infotainment system not Google's Sync. Confusing, yes.

Um, no. Blackberry bought QNX to upgrade up their phone OS after QNX had a history of being a solid, reliable realtime OS. I think they were just way too late to answer Apple/Android and that their first efforts to do so were really buggy which drove away any last loyal customers.

Also if this article is to be believed, Microsoft's system was slow and unintuitive. It appears that MS in all their wisdom used hidden corner touches for functions (like they do in Metro/Modern).

In the case the two iPods that were qualified, Apple was able to produce receipts that showed they were purchased by a credit card owned by the law firm. The plaintiff responded that she had permission to use the cards but that's not enough. The plaintiff was not able to produce a check or receipt where she paid the law firm back for the purchase which would have helped her case.