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Comment Re:This is the problem with religious people. (Score 1) 903

Those who don't think contraception is morally wrong should not be held hostage by employers and the health insurance companies they choose. In this case, the rights of the employee clearly trump your perceived rights of the employer and insurance company to meddle in other people's lives.

Comment Re:I'm 40 and what is this? (Score 2) 112

Basically, it was like e-mail meets something like version control.

Basically, it was a wiki with access control and live updates. But most people were not comfortable with the fact that they might miss a change somewhere within the page, so most waves I followed had rules posted at the top that basically said "add your comments at the bottom", making it look more like a facebook comments feed.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 147

People used to do this for chickenpox specifically, because getting it as a young child is usually unpleasant, while getting it as an adult can be life threatening. These days we have vaccinations which achieve the same result without the unpleasant side effects.

But for allergies, the point isn't exposure to specific diseases, but to build up a young child's immune system to the point where it learns how to react to different pathogens instead of spending most of their life in an overly sterile environment and the immune system overreacting every time it comes across anything unknown.

Comment Re:Perhaps recent moves by the Indian Govt. made G (Score 1) 75

I have just suffered personally from this, I was in Bangalore two days ago where I got serious food poisoning from a McDonalds

Tip for healthy eating in the developing world. Stay away from places staffed by 19 year old high school dropouts who couldn't care less if their employer's reputation goes down the toilet (literally). That means hotels and chain restaurants. You're much better off at a roadside stall where the owner/operator's livelyhood depends on their reputation for cheap, great tasting food that doesn't make people sick.

Comment Re:Android OS rescrictions? (Score 1) 62

Android has Chromecast. It's a bit different than AirPlay in that it is designed to let apps on an Android device work together with corresponding apps on a smart TV, and the focus so far has been pulling content from the cloud, rather than playing back local content (even Play Music can only play music that you have stored in the cloud, not locally stored music yet). There are python implementations of the server that work with YouTube, Netflix and Google Play Music.

Comment Re:Fireworks in 3...2...1... (Score 1) 1251

Since the subject here is Christianity, they can be distilled into "love they neighbor" and "love thy God" which are hardly objectionable, considering a believer already believes.

Since we're distilling, why not go all the way to single word distillations like "assimilate" and "obey".

Comment Re:No popcorn yet (Score 1) 462

Normally they require you to either have a return ticket or a long term visa, specifically to cover them in case they are required to bring you straight back. In that case you get no refund if you are refused entry to the destination country, but that is different than the case where you are not allowed on the plane in the first place.

Comment Re:No popcorn yet (Score 1) 462

This is one area where credit card companies are actually quite good at backing up their customers. She paid for a service, turned up at the airport on time and basically followed all the requirements of the contract on her side. The airline denied her boarding, claiming they were told by a third party that she could not travel on that flight. The credit card company would just refund her and tell the airline to file a court case against her if it thought she owed them money. Malaysian consumer law is weak compared with most Western countries, but not so weak that the airline would be stupid enough to pursue her through the courts.

Comment Re:No popcorn yet (Score 1) 462

From Malaysia to US there are dozens of airlines she could use. If she doesn't mind a coast to coast flight within US, she has the choice of flights via Europe to the East Coast, or via Japan, Taiwan or Korea to the West Coast. The only difficulty would be if she if somewhere remote and needs an extra flight to an international airport, then she probably only has a choice between Malaysian Airlines+subsidiaries, and AirAsia.

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