Casually watching the autism debate, I see that autism is:

- Now a spectrum, not a syndrome or disease. This has enlarged the affected population, enhancing the power of their advocates and increasing the urgency of finding a solution;

- Being blamed (root cause) on vaccines, diet, environmental effects, technology, with a de-emphasis on genetics and prenatal care.

- Used to describe many more behaviors, hence becoming a 'spectrum', not a syndrome or disease or even a process.

- Described as a growing treat, capable of potentially impacting a majority of the population, being caused by a multitude of toxins, exposures, and behaviors, hence the urgency to find 'a cure'.

This pattern is familiar to me. Have you other /.rs seen this before?

You can't deny coverage in a single-payer system. You just crank up the deductible/copay, for punishment. Accept the consequences of that action or get out of the business of governing.

And those who do not vaccinate are costing us all money in a single-payer system, which is reason to compel vaccination.

Which is reason to decide on a single-payer healthcare system based not on supposed cost savings, nor even charity/indigent care, but on the inevitable loss of individual choice. Remember, those who do not vaccinate their children put their children at risk, but these are THEIR children, not 'ours'. If they want the freedom to choose how to raise their children, they need to accept the responsibility for their actions.

Yes, radical ideas, that you are responsible for your choices, that if you exercise that right you are subject to the consequences and deserve no shelter from them, and that asking the State to impose your choices on others is always an exercise in using force to impose your will.

All legislation is someone's morality. All if it.

Californians are sending their alfalfa, and thus their water, to Asia.' Alfalfa growers are now exporting some 100 billion gallons of water a year from this drought-ridden region to the other side of the world in the form of alfalfa. "

Yes, and changing Asian rang habits will not be any rather than changing Californian eating habits.

I'm a little tired of this.

Is there a difference between someone using their camcorder and someone outfitting a fleet of vehicles with cameras to record your license plate, location, and time/date? Yes - the fleet is able to track you without alerting you so easily.

Should I expect that the government be permitted to track my activities in public without a warrant? No.

Why should I expect a business to be permitted to do the same thing?

And why should I permit such a business to do this for profit? I should not. While this considered to be 'in public', most parking lots are actually private property.

This seems wrong a level that trouble me greatly.

You offered the examples. You can defend them, or not.

Yes, it is complex. We have representatives who should be seeking advice, and let the process work. And yes, the lobbyists arr a problem. Citizen involvement is critical, and we are largely not involved.

We shouldn't be intruding in other people's business"

Ok, make your case. Why should we not be involved in those regions?

And don't try and frame my challenge as a defense of any of this. You imply that we have no business on those regions. Explain please. If you can.

How about we stick to the script. Or you make your own reality. And not on my lawn.

Typically liberal fallacy. You claim, because I want lower taxes, that I want NO taxes. Wrong. I want necessary taxes, minimum waste, minimum government intrusion where it should not intrude.

Hey, I would support NASA spending the money, if only for the scientific exercise of figuring this out. Though they may want to enlist the ham community to help - maybe help design a SDR?

Whoosh.

A little more work with the jammer and the police will not easily figure out who it was, nor find the device.

I'm intrigued. Low power radar ain't that hard to defeat. Lidar isn't either, and you don't need flares.

In the absence of rules against it, best available is the choice - the criteria being most important. I suspect all other software is not as 'good'. And if the crashing IS caused a DNF or lost places, it would be changed out. F1 has a low tolerance for failure.

So by your logic Formula One teams use Windows Embedded because it introduces one more small vulnerability.

No. They. Do. Not.

Every component on a Formula One car is chosen to win with. Even the driver.

"selector fork forcibly readjusted my spine"

Stop sitting on the gearshift lever.

You're welcome.

There is so much wrong with this.

If rising tuition is the problem, subsidies don't fix it.

If financing tuition is the problem, where is the pressure to reduce tuition?

If taxation is the solution, why not a generall tax again?

My libertarian friends are nearly combusting over this, and I understand why. I'm not convinced that a degree is necessary to find a good job, and perpetuating that belief aids the institutions primarily, not the students.