Whoops, wrong paper. Try this one:

http://aac.asm.org/content/45/2/428.abstract

You can find more if you like. Sublethal exposure to antimicrobials like triclosan has been shown to select for drug resistant bacteria. If that scares people, good.

You've managed to screw up the basic tenant of homeopathy. Like cures like. So people immune to polio peeing in the water wouldn't do any good. Only people WITH polio peeing in the water. Since there aren't many of those around anymore, we should be seeing huge outbreaks of polio, homeopathically speaking.

It's possible, in theory, with some vaccines. But the original pertussis vaccine was a killed bacteria vaccine, which means that the entire organism was present. For it to mutate to survive the immunity it would have to turn into something completely different, so resistance is not a factor in this case.

Some new vaccines may use a limited number of antigens instead of whole organism. If they use few enough, the organism could conceivably mutate to not express that antigen anymore. But even newer vaccines that are in wide circulation include many antigens, so that's still not likely.

"But there is no real relationship between these agents and the kinds of antibiotics that come in pills."

Wrong.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16922622

"feature those products being used by women rather than men."

Lots of products aimed at men feature women too. If you want to sell something to women, put a woman on it. If you want to sell something to men, put a woman on it. We just all like to look at women, rather than men.

There is evidence, including a large Finnish study, that the more variety of microbes you're exposed to as a child, the healthier your immune system as an adult and the less likely you are to have autoimmune diseases.

And then took six years and a few more billions to make them profitable (maybe)?

She's got a multibillion dollar portfolio of people's profiles for... tens of billions of dollars!

Doesn't seem like such a hot plan.

The world disagrees with you.

I'm not sure how having an integrated battery helps track where you go. As for *very* expensive, the last iPhone battery I replaced cost $19, had a higher capacity than the original, and came with a screwdriver. For comparison, the last spare replaceable cell phone battery I bought was for a Razr and cost more like $80.

Yeah, that sounds safe. Just don't charge your wife's cell phone right after yours... oops.

Plus you've only gotten 48 volts into your phone. Now you need to get down to a proper charging voltage somehow, without significant losses or bulk.

Unless you like charging your phone all the time, the supercapacitor will need to hold as much energy as the battery. Since it can discharge it a lot faster, it's inherently more dangerous.

Corporations don't "pay the bills" and then go engage in their hobbies. Google is an advertising company that develops technology to support their business.

Sorry, I was on vacation.

Ok, I am bleeping tired of this.

Why do you look at 1900? What was the population in 1800? Or 1200? Or 3500 BCE?

Because it's the setting for recent events. Duh. What the area was like in 3500 BCE is as relevant as the price of rice in China in 3500 BCE. So why 1900? Because Israel has no claim to legitimacy if it's entirely built on stolen land. It's no different from Manifest Destiny - another ad hoc attempt to justify the unjustifiable.

When you say that only 31% were this group of people, what about when a bunch of upstarts said that the British Colonies were no longer part of Britain? How many people were loyal british citizens, and how many were angry rebels that engaged in high treason?

British colonists rebelling against the British monarchy? Irrelevant comparison. You want to look at that period, you need to look at the colonists stealing land from the native population. Same shit, different day.

So you seem to be saying that this idea, when applied in one spot by the United Nations after WW2, was in error, but every other time was valid?

At no other time has this happened. Nations have been conquered as long as there have been nations, but at no point in history have two major powers (U.S. and Britain) aided a group of immigrants intent on carving a nation out of land where some people already happened to be living.

You are so biased that you really need to hear yourself.

Whatever you say, Pot. Bottom line: there have always been justifications for stealing land from the people who have lived there for thousands of years. Like when the United States started telling native americans to GTFO of the Louisiana Purchase. It was legally bought from France! And besides, we had a flag!

Bullshit then, bullshit in 1948, bullshit in 1967, and another 45 years of illegal settlement bullshit.

Exactly. I'm on the west coast- the Pacific Coast Starlight goes over 1500 miles with NO wifi access at all. And I can drive to Seattle faster in a Prius than on either the PCS or the Cascades.