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Comment Re:Hmmmm, color me confused.... (Score 1) 1025

by simplexion (#41108315) Attached to: Study Finds Unvaccinated Students Putting Other Students At Risk
Umm... you definitely are confused. Other children at risk are ones that can't be vaccinated due to genuine medical reasons. Vaccines do not stop you from being infected. They will reduce the severity and length you are infected but will not stop it.

I agree that they shouldn't be mandatory but educating people is extremely difficult, especially when it is education in moderately difficult to understand science. We have people that believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old and evolution by natural selection is equivalent to a chimpanzee giving birth to a Homo sapien.
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Samsung Opens New Apple Store In Australia 154

Posted by samzenpus from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Samsung opened its first retail 'Experience' store in Sydney, Australia today and its design and ethos, even in the most generous light, bear an uncanny resemblance to those of the Apple Store. Now, to be fair, Samsung’s corporate color is blue and there are only so many ways you can design a retail experience. That said, it seems difficult to look at Samsung’s store and not immediately be reminded of Apple’s understated chain of brick-and-mortar retail stores which, at the time it debuted, was considered pioneering. And it’s awfully hard to imagine that the similarities between the two won’t further bolster Apple’s allegations that Samsung is a 'copyist.'" This comes on the heels of both companies claiming the other is "anticompetitive" during Tuesday’s summations in the Apple-Samsung trial.
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A Critical Examination of Bill Gates' Philanthropic Record 370

Posted by samzenpus from the good-but-not-great dept.
sam_handelman writes "The common perception among Slashdotters is that while Bill Gates may cause us some professional difficulties, he makes up for it with an exemplary philanthropic record. His philanthropic efforts may turn out to be not as altruistic as one may think. Edweek, not ordinarily an unfriendly venue for Gates, is running a series of blog post/investigative journalism pieces into what the Gates' foundation is doing, and how it is not always well received by stakeholders."

Comment Re:Not Regulated... (Score 4, Interesting) 281

by simplexion (#40366257) Attached to: Testing for Many Designer Drugs At Once
I love you.
A while ago I was speaking with overheard someone talking about a friend being fired for being high at work. I asked him more about it. Apparently the guy had been working in the same job (welder) for around 15 years. He had consumed cannabis at work over that entire time. It wasn't until a new manager came in and decided to fire him for this. It had nothing to do with his performance, he apparently did his job very well.

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