That's pretty easy to disprove. Look at all the people on Medicare and Medicaid, does the government get to say what they can do with their health, more so than the rest of us? Not that I've seen. Look at Canada, most of Europe, and any other place that has socialized medicine. Does the government have more say is what they can do with their health than the US government has over its citizens? Not that I've seen.
It's their kid, so I find it unsurprising that parents are simply skipping the vaccines as long as there's the shadow of a doubt.
But that's just the thing. There's the shadow of a doubt both ways! Why is the one better than the other? Well that's easy, it's because measles sounds like something from a fairy tale, whereas autism immediately conjures up evening-news images of blank-faced kids spinning plates.
This is something that has annoyed me for some time now: the idea of "playing it safe" has been hijacked and now means "favoring the danger I'm more familiar with". 99% of the time, when someone tries to "play it safe" or "err on the side of caution" all they end up doing is accepting a greater but more familiar risk. Just because it makes you more comfortable doesn't mean it's the smart move!
A great example of this when it comes to parenting is the current scare about child predators and the almost complete destruction of childhood independence. That article a few months ago by a mother who let her boy take the NYC subway alone shows exactly what I'm talking about. Everybody freaked out about this "dangerous" ride she let him take. But in fact the risk to him was absolutely minimal, and nobody was thinking about the risk should he be sheltered to the point where he grows up stunted and is thereby never able to accomplish anything with his life, something which I fear will start to happen to millions of children when they face maturity in another decade or so.
So don't let people take this cop-out. If the facts support one decision as being safer then that's reasonable. But refusing vaccines isn't playing it safe or avoiding the shadow of a doubt, it's cowardly destroying public health because parents are incapable of acting rationally.
It would be a little unclean, but there's nothing that says you can't put generated docs into the repository too, and it would make sense if you want the repository to have everything you need to get started, rather than just the source.
I think you should read the first post in this thread again.
You mean the one which reads "Yet, there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy..."? What is that supposed to prove?
And also read up on the Rhine experiments, as only one example.
Said experiment's results have never been successfully replicated. When faced with that fact, the reasonable conclusion is that the experiment was flawed, not that ESP is real.
Strange things happen all the time, and they don't have to all simply be misperception.
Sure, they don't have to be. But there's no reason to think that it's anything else.
Sure, our brains are great at making connections which aren't really there. But there also *countless* probability-defying examples of people's minds making connections which ARE there - but which they would have no possible way of knowing, if our brains are really "just meat".
Name three documented examples.
After all, consciousness itself is a metaphysical phenomenon. It is generated by physical means, as far as we know; and it very well may not outlast our physical components. But it still is something that is more than merely matter; that in itself should tell you that other forms of more-than-matter are at least *possible*, if not probable.
I admit that it's possible. Now what? That has absolutely no bearing on the rest.
Because draconian punishments work so well to prevent all these other crimes.
Anti-virus software only works against known threats. As far as I know, there is no software intelligent enough to detect that a piece of unknown software is a threat.
Therefore it doesn't matter if the climate is changing. Until a threatening piece of software is actually released into the wild (and antivirus vendors start protecting against it) there is absolutely no point to installing anti-virus software on a Mac.
Hey genius, ever consider that I act differently on Slashdot than when dealing with the rest of the world?
It would be really great if they would send you an e-mail telling you that they were shipping you a replacement motherboard and firing the representative who handled your case initially.
I've been through similar trouble with other companies. I had one idiot drone ask me what version of the operating system I was running four or five times in a row, when I was answering him each time. I finally asked for a supervisor and directly asked the supervisor to fire this moron. I doubt it happened, though. Most companies care not even the slightest bit for providing non-terrible customer service.
And you think the 1GB/sec quoted in the title is actual performance in all situations, not just raw read speed?
I'd like to know what area you live in where the precise boundary of a town can be sighted from so far off.
Around where I live, there are these things called hills and trees which often prevent me from sighting a collection of dwellings until I am essentially in it. A drastic change in speed limit with no warning placed in the right location will have me driving at what appears to be a safe speed for conditions and terrain, and suddenly have to heavily brake for the changed speed limit.
If they want to lower the speed limit in town, fine. Post the sign in a place which gives me sufficient warning to slow down smoothly.
One cannot grow to be her age without coming to know that there are scammers in the world, that a deal which is too good to be true almost certainly is, and that taking money which isn't yours is wrong. That she chose to ignore all of these in her reckless pursuit of Twenty! Million! Dollars! is sufficient to place blame on her head.
Should be obvious when you consider that there are events for for which nobody is to blame, but alas, rational thinking is not most people's strong point.
Why do you want to punish those people? They're free people, doing what they want to do, and it hurts nobody. Why not just let them continue?
The idea that the used games market should somehow be bypassed is something I can't even grasp. You don't get to control your product once you sell it. That's just a basic fact of life. If you really don't want people selling your game used, make it so good that they want to keep it. The used market also serves to support prices in the new market, so it's not as if game makers derive no benefit from it.
A good company will make money by building a great product that people want to buy. A mediocre company will think that they're building a great product, will see that they don't enjoy the same success as a great company, and will start searching for ways to punish their customers or their potential customers for not giving them more money. Obviously these tactics never work out in the long term, but it doesn't stop them.
And if the draft had been in place, I think this nonsense of a war in Iraq would have never started, and if it did, it would not have lasted this long.
Because the draft sure kept us out of Vietnam....
My God, how dare a member of the government use the government domain to inform people of his intended activities as part of the government?
Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file.
