I was going to say something very mean here, but I can't bring myself to do it.

*nerd solidarity*

Chuck a zero on the end of that first number, and change the 3 to at least a 6, then you have WOW. (And that's underestimating their current subscribers.)

Eve would burn to the ground if even half that number tried to use it.

Because they're MINE!!! MWAHAHA!

Signed, Stephen Harper...

The peroxide question isn't dumb. Hydrogen peroxide is often used as an antiseptic, and can be used to treat ear infections.

Yep. I've had actual doctors say that too. And that you're better off getting H1N1 than seasonal flu.

I've had flu multiple times in my life. Interestingly the only people I know who've had H1N1 have never had flu before.

This marketing is great. Sow the seed earlier in the year, then let it grow, then stir up the hype. Viral marketing if you will. And now they crank up the fear.

And a lot of people involved in production of the vaccine are saying they won't take it.

Of course they can.

Bollocks can they. The ideal that pharma wants is to keep you alive as long as possible in ill health.

Pharma doesn't make a dime from healthy people. If you think otherwise, you are an idiot.

This is an industry which has been shown repeatedly to lie about the efficacy of their products, with faked peer review journals, suppressed negative results, lawsuits, corruption etc...

And yet people trust that the companies who patented the H1N1 vaccine BEFORE the Mexico event have done testing and would never release a defective product, or put out a seasonal vaccine which is anything less than claim, despite the fact that the inserts accompanying their very own products state that vaccines have not been tested for long term carcinogenic, mutagenic and other effects.

The reason cancer hasn't been cured, and I've had medical professionals agree with me on this, is because they've yet to figure out how to make the cure more profitable than the treatment of the disease.

Sure, pharma don't want you dead. They just want you using their products for as long as possible, and have no interest in your good health. They want you in poor health, but not quite ready to die.

In no other avenue of life would people blindly trust a company to not mislead or try to make as much money as possible off them. Pharma answers to one thing just like every other capitalist venture. Shareholders. Their entire existence is to make money first.

I just get so angry with this blind worship of the pharmaceutical industry when they are not better than used car dealers who willingly sell you something which might kill you so long as there's profit to be had. McDonalds do it. Smith and Wesson do it. General Motors do it. Pfizer do it. GlaxxoSmithkline do it.

You're best interests are purely secondary.

Truly amazing game that. Sadly I've not played in a while which means I've completely forgotten how to play it! The game is deeper than a very deep thing.

Only game I have ever played for 18 hours straight. (The original DOS version.) Definitely a fantastic game.

What astounds me is how this even happens. "You made something that could be used to break the law." Yeah, and so do Smith and Wesson etc...

Of course the odds of winning a case in court against one of the gun makers is nil, though I'm amazed nobody has apparently made that defense.

I've had several laptops and to be brutally honest, the best Windows based laptop I've found is... My Macbook. Seriously, I've not had Windows run as well on any dedicated PC laptop. And of course you can nuke OSX and put anything you want on there really as it is, essentially, a PC. Yes it's a bit pricey but build quality, stability... The thing kicks the ass of the other laptops. (And in one case the Macbook cost LESS than the PC laptop I replaced it with.)

This is the basic white Macbook. Bottom of the range, which was better than my mid to high range previous HP.

I'm always impressed by Havok. Whenever I pick up a game that uses it I always smile as I know I'm going to enjoy the physics if nothing else.

This is a bonehead move from nVidia as they've essentially just killed PhysX.

Tupperware? Microsoft is more like Amway.

Quality of education is important, not quantity.

And the education secretary might want to get their facts right.

From that article:

There is a homespun myth, treated as fact, that the annual school calendar, with three months off for both teachers and students, is based on the rhythm of 19th-century farm life, which dictated when school was in session. Thus, planting and harvesting chores accounted for long summer breaks, an artifact of agrarian America. Not so.

Actually, summer vacations grew out of early 20th-century urban middle-class parents (and later lobbyists for camps and the tourist industry) pressing school boards to release children to be with their families for four to eight weeks or more.

Such a lame, unfunny comedic gimmick.

It's a great video. I found it oddly relaxing. Also, watch the clock on the oven. The time leaps all over the place on it.

They didn't even have the sense to shoot without a clock there to show that one will ask a question, then the answer will be from seven minute prior, then we leap back two hours etc...

Just absolutely absurd.

This is yet another worthless study given credence by being run on Slashdot. Like the one about how sugar is going to kill us. And obesity causes alzheimers, a study done on less people than attend your average wedding. And how gamers aren't adolescents. You know, the study that only looked at results in people over 19.

It's another example of preconceptual science. They decide the conclusion they want, then discard all the evidence that contradicts it.