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Comment: Re:...why? (Score 1) 1263

by Spectre (#39050459) Attached to: Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers

Believe it or not, most doctors actually care about keeping people healthy. They're not just in it for the money.

Besides, does any doctor really want kids with polio, smallpox, etc. running around their office -- potentially getting other patients sick?

If everyone else is vacinated what do they have to worry about?

You do understand there are people who CAN'T be effectively vaccinated due to being immuno-compromised? All kinds of people from organ donor recipients to cancer patients may have temporarily-to-permanently compromised immune systems. This is part of the "why" the people with a healthy immune system need to be vaccinated, to help protect the people with a weakened immune system.

Comment: Re:what do you need all this stuff for anyway? (Score 1) 342

To my knowledge, breast milk and formula have always been allowed on planes...? Did you make this up or did you have a TSA agent that did not know their own rules (believable)?

Airport security is not TSA at many airports, which is where a lot of the mish-mash of methods of enforcement tend to arise. My local airport is MCI (Kansas City International), security is some local company hired to perform that function, not "real" TSA. The local company is years behind the TSA guidelines for what is permitted to be carried on. As an example, the TSA allows a typical cigarette lighter to be carried aboard on your person, but they get confiscated if you go through security at MCI.

Comment: Re:And next thing we know: (Score 1) 284

by Spectre (#39038427) Attached to: Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication

Unless you have a Playstation(TM) or some other Sony(TM) or Sony(TM)-licensed for access product plugged in, all your power sockets will shut down.

Or, alternatively, if you haven't installed the latest DMCA-laden update to your PlayStation, it is no longer "authorized" to power up at all ... or, it powers up, but your non-Sony stereo can't ... the craziness this could be put to is nearly infinite.

Comment: Re:"Normal" vision is very subjective (Score 4, Interesting) 310

by Spectre (#39034845) Attached to: Followup: Ultraviolet Vision After Cataract Surgery

I cannot tell you how many specialists I have either called or visited over the years, but the response is generally "I don't know" or "well, just live it it". It almost seems to me that if you cannot treat it or fix it right away, and you aren't going to die from it, why bother with it.

Call around, find some more specialists. One of the simplest and least expensive treatments for color blindness is to consistently wear a red contact lens on one eye (always the same eye) and a clear contact lens on the other. Even if you don't need contact lenses to correct a different vision problem. Sure, it looks a bit weird, but only people who right in front of you and look you in the eyes are going to notice. It doesn't take too long for the brain to adapt the difference in signals from the two eyes to provide a "color cue" that restores a lot of the capability for the typical red-green colorblind-afflicted individual.

I don't know if there are similar treatments for other forms of color-blindness, but there likely is ... don't give up!

Comment: Re:Mostly carrying useless junk (Score 3, Interesting) 183

When I fly, I take off my (not quite so heavily loaded) jacket and toss it in a bin to go through the scanner ... what's awesome is, you don't NEED to unload the pockets and re-load them on the other side. At least, that is true for the two airports I frequent most.

Comment: Re:Stop selling debt to China (Score 1) 269

by Spectre (#38832831) Attached to: WikiLeaks Cable: NASDAQ Folded To Chinese Pressure

Indeed. Who's the better doctor, the guy who misdiagnoses the terminally ill patient, or the guy who gives him a clean bill of health?

Well, obviously it's the ...
Wait ...
What ...
Interesting.

At least the guy who gave him the clean bill of health isn't costing the patient a lot of cash for treatments that are likely to be harmful.

I like that question, plus it works well with my slacker attitude: If you aren't sure what to do, do nothing!

Comment: Re:Why is this against the law? (Score 1) 287

by Spectre (#38832549) Attached to: Top Google Executives Approved Illegal Drug Ads

You see, when they say "globalism" and "global economy" what they mean is that corporations can off-shore to get the cheapest prices available for human labor.

When humans want to do things the other way around by making an "off-shore" international purchase to get the cheapest prices available for goods, that's a crime and suddenly the government wants to enforce a brand of protectionism.

It's standard hypocrisy.

I've not thought about it this way before, so thank you.
That is a great observation.
Corporations don't want to be held captive to their local suppliers for labor, but they want their consumers held captive to their suppliers for goods and services.

It doesn't really matter which way you believe governments should push that (global economy centric or local economy centric), but the same rules should apply to "real" people as to "virtual" people (corporations).

My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the New York Times, either. -- E.B. White

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