Your imune system knows how to deal with naturally occuring herbs.

I don't know how to break this to you, but some plants are poisonous. The notion that natural == safe is nonsense.

And it is NOT in any way trying to say dilute it till it doesn't exist. Only stupid people, like all you idiots who beleive sensationalist healines, would buy into that bullshit.

No, it has nothing to do with believing sensationalist headlines. It has to do with knowing at least high school chemistry and being able to do basic math. That is more than enough to get you to "dilute it till it doesn't exist".

Not every crazy theory needs a full-fledged study, but I suspect a lot of good could be done by taking the top "fad" populist beliefs and making simple, definitive studies. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if a doctor could say "we studied it and there's no effect" instead of "there's no evidence that this has any effect".

We did this. We did this a long time ago. You know what we called the "fad populist beliefs" that were found to work?

Medicine.

Saying "there is no evidence..." is nothing more than scientific honesty. It leaves open the door that maybe someday evidence will be found, but now there isn't any. I can't prove the Loch Ness monster isn't real, but after a lot of study, there's no evidence it is.

I agree with you, and disagree very much with the dissenting views in the decision. It should never be ok to offer an "unlimited" plan, then in the fine print explain what the limits are. If you call it unlimited and it's limited, that's deceptive.

Now if both men had to spend a week in jail we would have equality in the system.

This is absolutely not true.

If the poor man has to spend a week in jail, he almost certainly loses his job. His kids may have no one to care for them, take them to school, make dinner, etc. Having a record will make it much harder to find a job in the future. Going to jail is ruinous.

If the rich man goes to jail, well, the nanny's already there anyway. Maybe the cook sets one fewer place. Maybe they order in. It's an inconvenience. Finding some jobs will be harder, but if he's rich, chances are he's not dependent on working for someone else anyway.

Right, so you're aware of the metric system. So am I. So is everyone. Your point is quite valid that having two sets of tools (which I do, too) is a small inconvenience and expense. Overall, though, it's just not that big a deal.

Actually, it would do us a lot more good to standardize on one language, if we're going to worry about enforcing standardization.

You're pushing an unimportant issue nobody cares about.

Really, with all the important issues that should occupy a president's attention, if this is even on your radar, you're not qualified for the job.

Because Bob can't legally give you permission to spam Alice and Mary.

I don't think you need any permission to send someone an email at all.

But yeah, I'd absolutely never agree to those terms. I'm willing to exchange money for a ride. I'm not willing to exchange money AND let you spam my friends. I'm not even willing to exchange spamming my friends if you give me the ride for free, Uber.

Exactly. Or who assumes that SLAs are immutable laws of nature, not promises.

Sometimes it involves adding capabilities to those services that you didn't have in your own data center, like geographic redundancy.

A lot of nontechnical people don't understand that "moving services to the cloud" is sometimes precisely moving services to someone else's servers in someone else's rack in someone else's datacenter(s).

Nothing brings a species together like breaking the moon into lots of tiny bits and dropping them on the planet we live on.

The claim is that the insured made a bunch of medical records available to the public on the internet, presumably by accident. Unless that happened before the policy was in place, due diligence wouldn't have revealed a mistake that was going to be made later.

There does seem to be a valid business need for "my employee screwed up" insurance. Companies that want that kind of coverage should probably make sure that's what they're buying.

They weren't hacked. They accidentally put a bunch of medical records online according to http://www.noozhawk.com/articl... (linked from the article). If they bought an insurance policy that only pays out if they follow "minimum required practices", and they didn't, then of course it shouldn't pay out.

You're missing the whole "innocent until proven guilty" part. He doesn't have to prove he wasn't driving. They have to prove he was. That's how it works here. Well, in theory, anyway...

After all, the school organized and funded (invested) these events.

They most certainly did not. I checked, and that school district and therefore that school is funded by tax revenue. Taxpayers funded those events. The school employees organized them, yes, but because they were paid by taxpayers to do so.