bats feed on mosquitoes bats live in caves where they poop bat poop makes classic black powder. what will we kill the zombies with when we need to make our own gunpowder and bullets (assuming that the factories that produce smokeless powder are not resurrected and the chemicals for smokeless powder are not available)

that link includes smartphone sliders. http://www.lg.com/us/cell-phones/lg-VN271-extravert is the verizon popular 'feature' phone

http://www.lg.com/us/touch-screen-phones?cmpid=sem%7Cmu%7Cmuao_2014campaign%7Cbing%7Cbr%7Cfeatures%7Ctscreen&s_kwcid=TC-18467-15408061578-bb-2102835509

the highly rated models i think are good enough. qwerty slider keyboards i prefer to 'swype'

I'd love to hold society to the standard that no child should have to risk death due to parental stupidity. That's just not California. If you really want to uphold this ideal, you'll have to crusade for myriad causes, including gun control, obesity-fighting measures, tighter distribution of driver's licenses, promotion of breastfeeding, etc, etc. On the list of annual deaths in California caused by parental stupidity, lack of vaccination is near the bottom of the list.

All of this is true. However, lack of vaccination will rapidly climb the lists if America's current anti-science, anti-education and anti-logic trends are allowed to continue.

IIRC there was a raw feed dump where everything going into the database was shown live -- i don't recall the url for it, but now they have the firehose... too lazy to check the source for how they do it, and google was no help finding it.

I don't think there's a downside to a minimum wage, or at least, not a compelling one.

As to specific implementation details. I really don't know. Not my field. My lay opinion would be that, well, it needs to be tied to the local cost of living and what not, but it would be a bitch to administrate. But no, having the minimum wage in Buttfuck Arkansas and Los Angeles be the same is probably sub-optimal.

I intended more to point out that while a small increase is basically a cost-of-living raise, a large increase will, indeed, likely do more harm than good.

I don't think there's any downside. But there are all sorts of upsides to working towards eliminating preventable, fatal diseases.

No child should have to risk death because their parents are stupid.

Since apparently there is no downside to drinking water, some, why not drink a bunch?

If some is good, more is better, and much more is much more better, right?

Why not a minimum water intake of 5 gallons/hour?

I'd support a bill like this if it also included provisions for criminal charges against parents who 'opt out' and their child winds up having long-term effects, or dying, of preventable diseases.

Say, do you also believe that, say, seatbelts are a matter of personal choice?

DHI? Dick Heads Incorporated?

I think the idea is that it would eventually render bad cops uninsurable, and thus, unemployable.

Really, though, these are all suggestions to get around the central issue; cops look out for their own, even in the face of blatantly criminal behavior. It's a cultural issue, more than anything.