Comment Re:I came for pictures.... (Score 1) 55
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Depth charges dropped from a plane
A submarine without stealth is an expensive missile boat.
The FDA should have it's scope limited somewhat, focusing more on purity of things is regulates and less on effectiveness and uses.
Prior to 1962 the FDA only required proof of safety before a drug could be sold and marketed. The mandate was changed in 1962 to include efficacy, and the excuse for doing so were the birth defects caused by thalidomide in Europe. Note that thalidomide was quite effective, but not safe, which is why the FDA already didn't allow it to be marketed or sold in the United States. The FDA pounded its own chest and asked congress for more control even though it didn't need it to prevent thalidomide birth defects in the States, and thus congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendment.
Thats it right there. Before 1962 the FDA didn't care about efficacy. After 1962 it did, and all because the FDA's safety mandate was good enough.
A group of people rigs the game to the where where they have a stranglehold, to the detriment of ALL others. That same group (or their progeny) then cries that those not-so-fairly won advantages shouldn't be taken away for the sake of the industry
In this case, the group is the misogynist nerds.
Their power and influence is legendary, especially their power to discriminate against women.
I have an idea. Think about things before you say them. Then we will get less of this bullshit from your kind.... the kind that finds victims to feel good about defending literally everywhere. I dont have to use the label. Everyone knows it.
by what they can do for that group.
So you agree that men define themselves by their actions....
Why is it more acceptable now
Thats the problem right there. People think that if engagement in a particular activity by gender is changing over time, that its because of some nebulous hand-wavy idea like it being "acceptable now."
This push to get girls in tech should be aimed at the real problem which is the culture of female girls and females in general that don't take tech seriously in the first place.
Its not "culture."
This should be obvious to anyone whose lived 4 or more decades in a mixed society.
Men tend to define themselves by their actions.
Women tend to define themselves by their relationships.
Any attempt to change these natural tendencies through manipulation is a disservice to our nature, and probably should be considered criminal if the State does it.
I would only consider a "No Fly Zone" for drones above my house if it specifically (and especially) includes Government Drones.
Even if such a law existed, the government would just break it. Probably through the "unless approved by a rubber-stamped warrant" clause of the law.
I would suggest that, once again, things mentioned as "government fraud" are actually that great free market taking advantage of a situation.
Its not the free market which forced this specific food labeling. Are you following along at all?
The title of this story isnt "Free Market To Withdraw Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol"
Is it a jealousy issue? Do they not want other people to have things they don't have, so they want things they don't want banned on the grounds that they, themselves, will never have them?
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis
Its so petty that some actively seek to make verboten certain sizes of soda. If they are willing to do that, then there really isnt any limitations on the breadth of tyranny that they will support.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
