It's a pity you can't understand my sig then. But you go ahead and keep advocating bad medicine because it adds up in your mind.

Oh do tell, what other mandatory medical procedures that have no proven efficacy in the situation do you want to support? Colonoscopes for 10 year olds? After all there are recorded cases.... Pre-emptive Gall Bladder removal? Cheaper and safer to do when you are not ill after all.

"One must raise the question of whether anyone has the right to risk getting an illness themselves." Did you support the NY drink ban? How about we make fatty food illegal? How about we add just plain injury to that? Motorcycles, gone. Extreme Sports, gone. Cars, gone.

"Is there any good reason?" How about Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness any damn way I want without your boot on my neck? Any who gives a crap why they refused? Does your opinion change if they are deathly afraid of needles or seeing their own blood?

"there is no evidence showing that vaccinated workers are less likely to transmit virus

should also be considered as

there is no evidence showing that vaccinated workers are more likely to transmit virus"

So you advocate the mandatory use of medicine that shows no efficacy. That puts you right in league with Authoritarian Homeopaths, what great company you keep.

<blockquote>Here's one thing that you neglected to mention about e-books: They cost almost nothing to publish. It means a lot of rubbish makes it through, but a lot more good authors will get published. With paper books, I guarantee, that over the past hundred years millions of manuscripts became forgotten, because of the printing costs.</blockquote>

And here is a thing about that that you gloss over, the sheer amount of rubbish. The signal to nose ratio will increase a hundredfold and the few good authors we get out of it won't be worth the amount of garbage people have to wade through to find it. those millions of unpublished you refer to? Sure it might have been cost to prin, after all who would pay money to publish total schlock writing.

And over 10,000 people that year were killed by gun violence. You would need 60 McVeighs a year to match that.

In other words, you just proved Frosty's point.

Creationism is the belief (regardless of source) that humans were created by a super-being 6000 years ago, despite insurmountable evidence humanity is far older.

There are at least three things wrong in that sentence. Perhaps you should apply your analytic skills before you type and especially before you create your own set of beliefs.

Because oil has a hell of a lot more uses than just fuel. Something has to grease the wheels.

"Unions have no place for the programming industry.. except in government where we expect cost overruns and shoddy results. "

Yeah, look at what a cluster fuck Duke Nukem Forever was. Rotten Government garbage programmers. And the Flight Sim tucked inside your governement spread sheet software, more lazy Governemnt turds. Diablo 3, do I need to go on? If you really think software cost overruns and shoddy results are the halmark of governemt you need to dig a little deeper.

They kept child labor in the mines but made more money for the children's parents and for the union bosses.

uh?

"Unions Helped End Child Labor: “Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined” in U.S. history, with organization’s like the “National Consumers’ League” and the National Child Labor Committee” working together in the early 20th century to ban child labor. The very first American Federation of Labor (AFL) national convention passed “a resolution calling on states to ban children under 14 from all gainful employment” in 1881, and soon after states across the country adopted similar recommendations, leading up to the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act which regulated child labor on the federal level for the first time."

Sorry, jill. Stop with the internet, Go read a book.

Fantasia Mathmatica It was out of print forever but should be on the shelf of everyone who loves math or teaches math.

Truely you are a well read person quite deserving of mod points I sadly cannont give.

Who is it? Plug man, plug away!!

"Is that a lot of CSci depts (particularly at community colleges and other places that have associate's degrees) across the country have received grant money from Microsoft itself."

[Citation Needed]

That is not true in any of the 28 Community colleges I am associated with, so that is an entire state that says you are wrong.

Why is this modderated +4? Its sources are crap.

"Poorest Paid Professional? Google: http://www.teacherportal.com/teacher-salaries-by-state/ [teacherportal.com]"

  Yeah, here is a group I am going to trust. Who owns the site? Oh an ad company. What three colleges are on their site, oh, on-line for profits. Yeah, no bias there to drag the numbers up.

Heres one to try: MYTH: Teachers make just as much as other, comparable professions. It says:

"FACT: According to a recent study by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the teaching profession has an average national starting salary of $30,377. Meanwhile, NACE finds that other college graduates who enter fields requiring similar training and responsibilities start at higher salaries:

        Computer programmers start at an average of $43,635,
        Public accounting professionals at $44,668, and
        Registered nurses at $45,570."

Don't like that? Try this:

"The average salary for full-time public school teachers in 2010–11 was $56,069 in current dollars (i.e. dollars that are not adjusted for inflation). In constant (inflation-adjusted) dollars, the average salary was about 3 percent higher in 2010–11 than in 1990–91. " nces.ed.gov

"Average HOUSEHOLD income? Google: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]"

Now for Google, yeah lets look at that average Household. in 2003 (horribly old as shit data) Households with a person with a professional degree was $100,000 so our average teacher has a spouse making ~$44,000 which means in general the spouse has either a Bachelors or a Masters. What a shock, two college educated people make good money - the horror

"And 6-8 weeks of PTO?"

This old saw? Try 6-8 weeks of unemployment where you are STILL doing your job to get ready for the next year.

"As an IT PM, 50-70 hours. 15-20 days PTO + 10 holidays."

No wonder you are so confused, you are sleep deprived.

"BUT COME ON, "consistently one of the least respected, poorest paid professionals... longest hours of anyone"? BULL! Go see a few episodes of Dirty Jobs."

I don't know the show but do they have lots of PROFESSIONALS on dirty jobs? I had no idea.

"As a consumer of insurance I don't want to pay for the things I will never use "

You could have saved your keyboard and just typed:

"I have no idea how insurance actually works. Oh, and I got mine."

He is far right, get over it. You don't get to drag the marker of the middle to the right until you get to claim the middle. "This causes polarization, hatred, alienation and isolation. It also makes collabortation almost impossible."

You have never seen the left at all. Ever. I voted for every time and I happily told people that though I didn't agree with him even 80% he was as far left as I could vote.

"Don't demonize your political adversareis." You first. Call Rush and a sundry.