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Comment Re:It Remains a Journalism Scandal. Deal With It. (Score 1) 164

Actually, everybody or nearly everybody involved here played dirty.
BTW, anybody who's not an SWJ should be ashamed of that fact (and won't get into Christian paradise as the Christ was crucified for being a SWJ)... but I'm not sure that living-room SWJ* are not worst than those who do not even pretend to care.

(*) How do you translate "guerillero de salon"?

Comment Re:I don't get it... (Score 1) 187

I don't understand your point...
Batman Begins was quite a good Batman movie if you can tolerate some incoherences, and Dark Knight is an extraordinary good movie even for non-geeks...
(and I have to confess that I loved the first two X-men movies due to the exceptionnal performance of Wolverine and good performances of many characters like Xavier and Mystique)

Comment Re:Contact tracing the second nurse (Score 1) 381

A travel ban would kill more people than Ebola ever would.

Panic will always kill more people than the disease. Think critically before you demand action. The cable news networks are reveling in the profit they are making off of your panic.

As much as I consider that the Liberian government is making a recipe for disaster by banning travels without trying to ensure that food and other vital supply still comes from abroad, your statement may not be true.
Ebola is beginning to be no more an epidemic disease but a disease of under-development (that's why it spreads in Texas...), which means it will probably kill millions as nobody in power cares about Africa's underdevelopment.
You are right to point the disastrous effects of travel bans in highly interconnected countries, but you should not underestimate Ebola's death toll.

The actual argument against travel bans (which was proposed to Senegal too, which by the way was quite efficient to stop its own Ebola outbreak) is that travel bans make people cheat and so are less efficient than traveler's security measures (external thermometers at each entry point like Senegal and Gambia and other african countries do).

Comment D&D, really? (Score 1) 239

AFAIK, only a very small minority of women became gamers through D&D.
Call of Cthulhu, though, attracted a lot of women to role-playing, mainly because the game was actually about role-playing (and solving mysteries) rather than trying to find who had the bigger sword.

Comment Re:Ebola is airborne (Score 1) 487

You may want to take into notice that the 7400 cases and 3000 deaths are those of people with identified ebola virus disease. No one actually knows how much people died (or recovered) in the wild and in the small villages...

Comment From Hell (Score 1) 135

If true, that would invalidate Alan Moore's theory...
I'm not knowledgeable enough about the era or the facts to have a definitive opinion about the validity of his interpretation, but I do have to say that if the next-to-last victim was using the name of the last victim for her nickname (as Moore says), it is indeed a strong indication that the murders were not random.

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