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Comment Re:I refute (Score 4, Insightful) 243

Let me explain this with science.
You have two groups.
One that is exposed to peanuts as infants.
One that is not.
Fewer children in the exposed group developed peanut allergies.
In other words SOME peanut allergies can be prevented by early exposure.

Your argument is the same as. "My uncle never smoked a day in his life and died of lung cancer. Smoking does not cause lung cancer".

Comment Re:Not Censorship (Score 1) 285

Try editorial control.
"Additionally, saying that only government censorship is bad is simply denying the reality of the modern age. "

Okay tell me which of these acts of censorship is censorship and which is not?
An organic food co-op offers a "free" farmers market every saturday and one of the vendors wants to sell Pepsi?
A tee shirt store refuses to carry KKK tee-shirts.
A drug store refuses to carry tobacco products.

There are multiple blogging platforms so these people are not being prevented from posting on other platforms.

Comment Re:Adult? (Score 1) 285

There are fewer pieces of more obvious Newspeak than so-called "adult" content. When did "this is adult content" become synonymous with "for juveniles only" ?

Never. "Adult content" is an abbreviated version of "adult-oriented content", which is content that is NOT for juveniles. So, "adult content" has always been synonymous with "not for juveniles", and the fact that the adjective "adult" has been applied to the noun "content" should make that obvious. Content for everyone is called just "content"; the adjective is necessary to limit the scope.

Just like people who say "I'd like you to meet my beautiful wife ..." are actually saying they have at least one ugly wife, too. And those "four wonderful children" means there is at least one more who isn't. It's great fun to point this out to the wife or children ...

Comment Re:Oh Sure this will work in the US....eventually (Score 1) 186

Simple we got swipe terminals years before Europe. Chip and Pin is here now in the US. In fact I used it yesterday at a Jon Smiths Sub shop. Most people would not even notice it but I did.
Also credit card fraud was not a big issue in the US until a few years ago. The US will be Chip and Pin by October.
Now bringing the terminal to the table may take a while. Nicer restaurants will probably not want to do that since for some odd reason the taking of the check and bringing it back is a sign of a "quality" restaurant.
Chilie's here in the states has a card reader/tablet at every table and I have seen people complain about it! Frankly I hate waiting for the wait staff to bring the bill, then wait for come back and take my card, then wait for the card to come back!.
It would seem that I am in the minority.

Comment Re:Not Censorship (Score 4, Insightful) 285

Selling guns and live animals is not illegal in the US.
Google said, "We are offering a free service for people to publish blogs that meet these requirements."
It is no difference than if I opened a free market for people to sell organic food and someone wanted to sell cans of Pepsi in their booth.
That is not the rules.
I would say that you are confusing the word suppressing with the word not supporting.
Find a different blog service or get a cheap host and Wordpress...
Google does not say you can not have the blog. You can have the blog but just not on Google's servers.

Comment Re:You are free to have killer robots (Score 1) 318

You act as if the Geneva conventions are a black and white issue, but the people fighting our troops are not soldiers of any UN recognized state-- or recognized by any individual state, for that matter. Also, the rules apply to any signatory nation, even when in conflict with a non-signatory, but only if the latter agrees to accept and apply the conventions. I'd say hacking off the heads of nearly every civilian and POW that comes into their hands as an implicit non-acceptance, and definite non-application. Thus, it's difficult to apply all the rules. I also need to point out if they indeed are soldiers, then the act of putting them in Gitmo itself is, as a POW camp, perfectly legal. Alleged torture is, of course, not.

Comment Re:Not Censorship (Score 5, Insightful) 285

People keep using that word but do not really seem to know what it means.
If I own a store I can decided what is for sale in that store.
If I own a newspaper I can decide what I publish in the paper.
If I own newspaper I can decide what kind of ads are put in the paper.
Ebay does not allow the sale of guns or live animals is that evil?
Craigslist does not allow "adult services" adds anymore.
That is all called editorial control.
The government saying that you can not publish something is censorship.
Google is not preventing them from publishing anything. They are just enforcing their guidelines for their free service. If you do not like it find an hosting service, download a free blogging platform like wordpress and you are good to go.

Comment Re:Fritz Haber (Score 1) 224

I do not see it.
Nobel made a safer explosive. At the time Nitroglycerin as used for tunnel building and mining but often killed workers because it was so dangerous to handle. Nobel wanted to save lives from the start. When it start to be used by the military Nobel felt very guilty " I don't feel he should have felt any guilt" so he took his wealth from dynamite to make the Nobel Prizes.
Haber wanted to fix nitrogen. I am sure he was fine with using it for explosives as well as fertilizer. He actively developed weapons of mass destruction.
I do not see much in common with the two.
What I do see is that Haber seemed to have an issue with the same kind of self loathing I see with a lot of people today. He was a Jew but renounced his religion. He felt that he could not be a good German and a Jew at the same time. A lot of what he did seemed driven by his need to be more German than German. Even Hitler kept him in his lab.

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