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Comment Re:It's my choice to kill my kid! (Score 3, Insightful) 616

Did you not read my post? It isn't just anti-vaxxers, there's other people who are susceptible to these diseases: people who can't take the vaccine (allergic or immune-compromised), and also the unlucky 1-2% who *did* get the vaccine, and it simply didn't work for them.

Also, we're talking about kids here; the anti-vaxxers' kids don't deserve to catch diseases. If it were just anti-vax parents catching diseases themselves because of their stupid choice to not vaccinate, then yeah, who cares? Hoist by their own petard and all that. But this isn't the case; it's innocent people, mainly kids (both theirs and other peoples'), who are suffering because of these idiots.

Comment Re:Progressive Fix 101 (Score 1) 622

Many of the vehicles that anyone looking at them would classify as full size SUVs use unibody construction, especially at the higher end.

Then the OP's statement about them is correct. They're gas guzzlers and symbols of conspicuous consumption. At least the CUVs actually get pretty decent fuel economy (they get about the same economy now as regular cars got 10 years ago, mid-high 20s). As for crash statistics, how many of these:
* Lexus RX 350 4WD midsized luxury SUV
* Mercedes-Benz GL-Class 4WD large luxury SUV
* Volvo XC90 4WD midsized luxury SUV
* Audi A4 4WD luxury midsized car

are actually on the road? Of course the fatality rate is going to be small or zero on something where so few people drive them, compared to things like the Versa and Civic where everyone and his brother has one. These statistics aren't adjusted for the relative sales rates.

And what's with this one, anyway?
* Chevrolet Silverado 1500 crew cab 4WD pickup truck, 79 deaths

Obviously, a big huge vehicle isn't necessarily any safer, unfortunately for Chevy drivers.

Comment Re:It's my choice to kill my kid! (Score 5, Insightful) 616

That's total BS. There's always some small portion of the population who can't handle the vaccine (like the egg-allergic guy above), or for whom the vaccine just plain doesn't work. They do just fine in school. Being allergic to eggs is not a major problem for a schoolkid, and doesn't make them more susceptible to other diseases. None of this was a problem in years past, thanks to herd immunity: with ~97% of the kids immunized, the disease just never popped up in civilized society, and everything was great. We almost forgot about measles until recently because of the effectiveness of these immunizations, even though not 100% of kids were immunized. But now, with all the idiotic anti-vaxxers, measles is back.

Comment Re:Progressive Fix 101 (Score 1) 622

You have a few good points here, but the gay vs. straight thing is totally wrong. It's the right wing fracturing society on that issue, because they refuse to treat gays as equals. What's happening is they're finally sick of being treated as second-class citizens and are demanding equal rights (as they should), and the religious conservatives are having a cow over it. Then they run around and scream about the "gay agenda", which I guess is like the "negro agenda" back before the Civil Rights Act. Can't have those minorities demanding equal rights and treatment, now can we?

Comment Re:AdBlock Edge. uBlock. AdBlock Latitude. (Score 3, Insightful) 286

Firefox is becoming less and less stable.

What the hell are you talking about? Firefox has become more stable; I abandoned FF several years ago because it crashed so often, and switched to Chromium; in the last year, I've switched back because Chromium is such a memory hog and crashes so much, and Firefox isn't and doesn't. FF is better with memory, and rarely crashes (esp. compared to Chromium). It's not perfect by any means, but it's a lot better than it used to be.

When was the last time you used Firefox?

That said, I also switched from AdBlock Plus to uBlock, and that's helped a lot too. ABP is a hog. (But I switched back to FF well before I dumped ABP.)

Comment Re:lol, Rand sucking up to the dorks (Score 2) 206

No one in 1983 outside of a few academics in collegiate CS departments had any idea what the Internet was, and it sure as hell wasn't "spreading quickly" unless perhaps you mean that some more college CS departments were getting connected. It was completely unknown to the general US public until 1988 or 89, when Kevin Mitnick made the national news for his worm and the newscasters had to explain to everyone what the Internet was and why his crime was a crime. Even then, people forgot about it pretty quickly. It didn't really become part of the national consciousness until around 1994 when AOL got on the internet and we had the Eternal September, and then it became commercialized in the Dot-Com boom.

Comment Re: Instead... (Score 1) 356

Yes, it is a bit out-of-date at this point; due to a huge backlash, they've changed their strategy with G+ recently. But it's not like they've suddenly changed their entire overall corporate strategy, they've just found out they had to back off on the forced-G+ and real-name policies, and are probably pursuing more insidious strategies now.

Comment Re:Instead... (Score 1) 356

As the other responder pointed out, there's still 50% of your users using PCs to view your site. In addition, a large fraction of those mobile users are using larger-screen devices like tablets, and might not want to see your crappy feature-limited mobile site, and want to see the normal one instead. Do you have an easy way for them to see the desktop site, or do you make it impossible?

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