Sometimes the cash payer gains 2 cents! "you get a total of 2.97, rounded to 2.95"

Paying electronically uses the exact amount.

Problem with Americans is, they'll try very hard to make their total order gain 2 cents every time. (Both the buyer and the seller will play this game, at first.)

Also, Australia no longer has the penny.

It's true. All vaccine refusers are selfish and put the entire population at risk. (Of course exceptions are made for the few cases of actual vaccine allergies.)

You're correct in that I was unaware just how profitable Prevnar (and the like) is for Big Pharma.

I didn't mean to propose there was no money to be made by the vaccine maker, just that there is much _more_ incentive for Big Pharma to push their more profitable drugs by wining and dining doctors. Of course, for these money-making pneumococcus vaccines like Prevnar (Wyeth), Prevnar13 (Pfizer), and Synflorix (GSKline), Big Pharma wines and dines states and federal governments to buy them. (I didn't realize how much until I looked it up, thanks for the info.)

In responding to the AC, I don't feel doctors are pushing vaccines because of kickbacks.

It should be possible to perform a statistically significant random sampling of the fields in question - from the fringes to the center - and know for sure who is lying about cross-pollination and who is wrongly getting fucked my Monsanto.

No, vaccines are heavily subsidized and made in massive quantities to keep the cost down. Big Pharma wants to sell you drugs that you must keep consuming, not a one-to-three dose vaccine that lasts your lifetime.

I don't think a lot of Jehovah's Witnesses are filling up waiting rooms, only to say "no thanks, I don't want any treatment, especially not a vaccine".

So no, the religious already opted out. These vaccine refusers are being selfish by putting the entire population at risk by not vaccinating their kids.

Yup, if you want to have a "flashlight that only you can see" like the submitter, you can swap out the white LEDs in a flashlight with IR LEDs, then use a digital camera viewfinder / cellphone camera to "see".

(Obviously the backlit screen would give you away if you're trying to be sneaky, but then there's IR goggles and other fun toys.)

They service law enforcement agencies around the world, as well as anyone interested in buying your data.

Right, but no one wants to filter helium from water, they want to filter all sorts of other stuff from water.

But if the membrane is dry, perhaps this could make kick-ass graphene blimps!

Too long, but I still read it!

Just a shout out to thank Carl Malamud for very detailed answers. Thanks also /. Timothy for setting up the interview.

As this article has very few comments, which I assume is because the answers were so well defined (:, it'd be great to see the number of page views.