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Comment Re:Not sure there's a case (Score 1) 257

Given the sorority was founded in 1913, it is perfectly possible that a member wrote this information down decades ago and this has then passed down to someone who is not bound by any NDA and person who wrote it down is now dead. Good luck suing a dead person.

It would also be tricky a member wrote this information down and then had it stolen from them, and the thief then published the information.

Comment Re:School me on well water (Score 1) 328

And people have been dying from drinking contaminated water for several thousand years as well.

From a UK perspective so much angst about contaminated water wells is odd, because practically nobody here has them, and frankly if it where a problem if/when fracky starts in the UK then a simply solution would be to put in proper mains water for the handful of properties effected.

Comment Re:Darwin by proxy (Score 1) 616

Actually you are an uninformed twit who has never had measles and has no idea what the complications might be.

I had the Measles vaccination as a small child and was unlucky enough to come down with full blown measles the week before my final exams at University.

The disease itself is completely unpleasant and I had it pretty mild due to having at least some protection from the vaccine.

The lifelong medical side effects are frankly something I could do without.

The problem is YOU ARE NOT INFORMED and have no idea or comprehension as to what the REAL risks are and are consequently a selfish moron.

Comment Re:Not sure about cause of whooping cough epidemic (Score 1) 616

Yes, but in this particular case the some of the strains of whooping cough that are circulating now appear to have mutated away from those that the vaccine in common use protects against. As such the vaccine has work as described it just provides little to no protection against the circulating strains of whooping cough and out breaks have started occurring.

To put it another way vaccine resistant strains of whooping cough have developed/appeared.

The solution is to reformulate the whooping cough vaccine against the strains that are now circulating. Just upping the vaccination rate with the existing vaccine is an exercise in futility and a waste of resources and money.

Comment Re:Correlation is not Causation (Score 1) 324

When a seven year old child in response to the question "What do you want to be when you grow up", answers in all seriousness and without a hit of shame or wrongdoing "a burglar" you will understand that the child is unlikely to make good life choices. I would add that even if you attain great wealth breaking out of the destructive lifestyle formed when growing up is very hard. This is a famous alumni of the primary school in question.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...

In short if your upbringing does not equip you to make good choices you have little chance of actually making the good choices if life presents them.

Comment Re:Correlation is not Causation (Score 2) 324

It is more likely to be down to the input from the parents, or in the case of poverty lack of input. The basics are that poor parents are on average less well educated and don't have either the inclination or knowledge to give their children quality input especially in early years.

The is also a growing problem with the children of wealthy/educated parents who are too busy with their jobs to give their children the quality input they need to thrive.

Diet has very little or nothing to do with it. Any sensible early years teacher could tell you this in an instance. If you arrive at school knowing your letters, being able to count to 10, recognizing your name when written down, being able to hold a pencil properly etc. you have a massive head start in life and this can NEVER EVER be closed by anything the state can do in the educational system.

The reality is that the children of wealthier and/or better educated parents are more likely to turn up on their first day at school being able to do all those things. The cost of getting your child to be able to do these things is minimal and "poverty" in the western world is not a barrier to achieving it either.

Even when we get to school the attitude that the parents hold to the value of an education and behaviour of their children has a huge impact on the how well a child will perform throughout their school career.

Poverty is a symptom of low educational achievement on average and it breads low educational achievement on average. How you break the circle is difficult to know, but throwing money on diet and/or the educational system won't work and does not work.

Comment Re:First principle - who pays? (Score 2) 137

I would also point out that selling the content in other territories around the world has been an importance source of revenue for the BBC for many decades. Without it the license fee would have to be much higher to support the content that is produced.

In effect the license fee payers in the United Kingdom only pay for part of the production of a program. As such giving the program away for free to those that did not contribute to it does in fact hurt.

Comment Re:Amazing post (Score 2) 496

Show me the obese Tour de France cyclist? These guys consume around 10,000 calories a day. The only and I repeat ONLY way these guys are not obese is because they are exercising. Sure this is an extreme example but the point is that even at 10,000 calories a day sufficient exercise will burn it all off, and myths about exercise and weight loss are proved false.

The exercising does nothing for weight loss is an excuse for lazy obese people not to exercise.

Comment Re:Move more, eat less (Score 1) 496

For those in the UK,

http://www.channel4.com/progra...

Basically confirmed what I always thought, 99.99% of obese people eat too much. Worse than that when asked to keep an accurate food diary of everything they eat, they don't. Diary typically says 2000 calories, they are actually eating 5000+ calories. The other people eat the same as me and are not over weight is total nonsense.

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