Sorry. I was being facetious. One of the arguments anti-vaxxers put up is that the dramatic decline of polio, measles, etc. infections had nothing to do with the vaccines we began administering en mass, but rather because we all started washing our hands. Which is, of course, absolute hogwash.

How can they be sure that these monkeys haven't been cured simply by practicing better hygiene?

But why vaccinations? Maybe it's tap water. Maybe it's video games. Maybe it's birth control pills. Maybe it's Flying Spaghetti Monster causing autism. All these anti vaxers are looking for a way to blame vaccines for autism. Maybe instead of looking for a link to autism which, so far, has not been established, leave it up to scientists to find a link to anything? One million concerned mommies on the internet willing it so are not going to somehow create the link to vaccines that you all have collectively decided must be the cause. Leave science to the scientists.

Well it's a thought not supported by the empirical evidence witnessed over the decades of vaccine use that had seen the decline and near eradication of many human and other animal diseases that once plagued entire populations. Or maybe all these virii and bacteria got bored and decided to stop procreating spontaneously? Wake up, anti-vax anti-science conspiracy theorists. Maybe all you lay moms and dads out there DON'T know better than your doctor what's best for your baby. We've taken this "mom knows best" mentality off the deep end.

For the most part, but I expect the droplets of water increase the surface area of your cold beer container, thereby accelerating the warming process.

I call your call of bullshit. I have an iphone 5 with sprint, and I can say that cell phone audio quality is NOT ridiculously good. I do have difficulty understanding people sometimes, and it is certainly distracting. And hands free texting is even more distracting than hands on, in my experience. Because Siri is so often wrong, I must always visually confirm the text. And when it's wrong, it typically takes a great deal of tapping and dragging and typing to replace the words that were in error. That is I do the manual correction after about three attempts at getting Siri to work. Needless to say, I don't use Siri anymore. Google speech recognition was much better in my experience but still not good enough to talk and hit send without looking.

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You're overlooking the fact that Yellow Pages are a proven and effective means of advertising. Businesses wouldn't spend BILLIONS annually advertising in the Yellow Pages if they didn't work. They don't work for every business, but for many businesses Yellow Pages are practically required. Businesses like pizza delivery, insurance, plumbing, self-storage, healthcare, legal services, etc where most customers are not walk-ins (first contact is made through telephone) the return on investment on Yellow Pages dollars is very good. For some businesses it's not as good and a Yellow Pages presence is more of a service to the customers than advertising. Think Best Buy or other large retail chains where most if not all transactions are done without any sort of advance phone call. Here a small ad is a convenience for the customer to use to find the address of the business, hours of operation or service number. Are there too many books with overlapping distribution? Yeah, probably. Most often these books only partially overlap. Therefore it is necessary to advertise in two overlapping books in order to advertise to your entire market. These are almost always competing publishers so it is unlikely they will ever cooperate to reduce the number of books printed. There's no way to work that out so that all publishers come out ahead. Disclaimer: I work in the Yellow Pages industry.