Or it could be related to "Digital Rights Management", which is code for "we don't trust you enough to let you have your own copy, and instead you must rely on us and hope we never go out of business, make a mistake, or decide your purchase is obsolete".
Wrong. Very very incredibly wrong. Substantially more than half of all incidents of cancer are the result of random mutation. No amount of "eating right" will change that.
Careful, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
(Almost) all cancers are the result of random mutation (there's a few infectious cancers in dogs and Tasmanian devils which aren't). And eating right can decrease the rate of random mutation, directly (antioxidants) or indirectly (general health, note also that stress increases mutation rate). Most likely the main benefits of eating right are metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease and general health, but those are themselves very good reasons.
Like with smoking, there are certain things you can eat which will increase your rate of mutation. Not eating those means you're less likely to get cancer than those who do. Agreed with you about the "organic foods" farce; those are sometimes better and sometimes worse, and worse is usually cheaper.
I love my country, America, but I fear my Government.
Too bad all those 2nd Amendment nutjobs forget about their fear of the government that they need guns so as to violently overthrow a tyrannical government, when the government tells them that someone is opposing the NSA's plot to secretly spy on Americans to find out which of them owns guns/"are a threat to national security".
I'm 34 and I say give him the guillotine.
I say we give him the guillotine, and all the heads of the NSA who lied to us and to Congress about the illegal violations of the Fourth Amendment.
I guess I'll have to vaccinate my kid, but as a protest I'll give him a spray bottle with measles virus to go spraying around the school.
You're conflicted because you're stuck on the idea of public schools. Imagine what outcry there would be, if the government decided that students can only receive financial assistance for state colleges. Why can't they do a similar system with education at the school level?
Put a different way:
What are the odds that a terrorist does something nasty to you?
What are the odds that your government does something nasty to you?
Any sane person* would be more terrified if their company was aiding their government, than if they were aiding the terrorists.
* except of course for people living in countries with daily terrorist attacks
They could just use the (totally non-Orwellian) cameras on the TVs to identify when you go away, and automatically pause the advertizement until you get back. I wonder, if one company did this, would the others immediately follow suit because of higher profits this quarter and nevermind the backlash?
Install my security software at http://nsa.gov/download/backdoor.exe it is guaranteed to reduce hacking attempts on your systems by 99%.
Second, the site uses a multiple signature escrow system to assure an exploit is real. The presumption being the site is real and is not itself a means to pirate Bitcoin by them being put in escrow.
Any idea how that works? The only way I know of to produce partial keys has one person entirely in charge, which wouldn't work for an untrusted escrow service.
And unlike most Dark Web markets, it allows only so-called multisignature transactions. That means the bitcoins are held at an address jointly controlled by the buyer, the seller, and the market’s admins. For the money to be moved to the seller’s account, two out of three of those parties must sign off on the deal, giving the administrators the tie-breaking vote to resolve disputes.
If you like this new initiative, click "like" on the post announcing it. Also do so if you don't like the new initiative.
Only psychopaths think like this.
Nah, I bet you just realized that you value human life at less than $560 of your dollars to the life of one human being in a poor country.* But that makes you feel uncomfortable, so you prefer to drive that sort of thought out of your mind.
*According to a random study I found on the internet:
A 2006 study estimated the cost per DALY [year of healthy life] averted with the traditional EPI vaccines ranges from US$ 7 to US$ 438 The cost per death averted ranges from US$ 205 in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa to US$ 3,540 in Europe and Central Asia.
So if you choose the most cost-effective vaccine to save 80 years of life, you could spend $7*80 = $560.
Imprisonment is irreversible too. Go ahead and see if you can give someone the years of their life back, the skills they lost, their previous psychological state, their job, their wife and friends they may have lost.
Not everyone has a price measured in dollars, i assure you. I may have a price, but i have yet to see a dollar amount that matches what im worth.
Almost everything has a price measured in dollars. Including human life.* I assume you simply haven't thought about it (or are trying to brag), since it is unlikely you'd be one of the few people who wouldn't "sell out" to save millions of lives.
*you can spend money to save a number of human lives, and may or may not choose to do so. This sets upper and lower bounds on how much you value human life.
It's a breath of fresh air to a dying industry.
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"
