You'd have a wonderful case against the makers of binoculars or 3D movies!

Wait. Adorable cows and genocide? They don't tell you this important shit on reviews! I'm gonna pick this up. Adorable genocide is awesome!

Faith that everything will always turn out fine.

I don't think a belief in Jesus would keep them from feeling that they are entitled to the wealth of the world. It certainly never stopped the Catholic Church.

I mean try something new. Two screens? Touchscreen? My Microvision had that back in '83 after I took a hit of acid. Get with the times, Nintendo!

The problem is that if you are treating me in an ER, I have no clue if you've protected yourself against catching or spreading a disease that could kill me if my body is already weakened by illness. This is a flu shot. No one is asking you to amputate your arm.

Science being what it is, no one can give you ironclad proof that the flu shot will work for you or that it absolutely won't harm you, but the same is true for any drug or medical procedure you undergo. I'm usually not one to trot out a Wikipedia page to prove my point, but this one is referenced very well, and I have neither the time nor the inclination to spend my Sunday at the library reading the New England Journal of Medicine.

While stories of neglectful unsanitary conditions are upsetting, it has no bearing on the argument at hand. Two wrongs don't make a right. You and I both know that the flu is an airborne illness, and washing your hands or cleaning equipment can only do so much. On another note, have you brought what you wrote here to your boss or whomever accepts that information at your work?

As for "scene safety," I would presume that is important, because you can't help anyone if you are dead. In that case, your logic falls apart. You are far more likely to die of the flu than you are from the flu shot. If the risks of the flu shot were as high as running up to a burning car, you'd have a point. As it is, you do not, because the flu shot is protective.

You opt-in to working in a hospital where, unless you are a moron, you realize regulations like this can be made.

They chose to work in a hospital. Hospitals need to prevent the spread of disease to their already ill patients. This is common sense. Every health care contract should have an immunization clause, and if they don't, it needs to be put in. If you don't want the shot, you are free to quit.

How is that like abortion?

I don't have to get a shot, because I don't work in a hospital. But I also have asthma, and I'm not a moron. So I'm getting the shot.

Mandatory vaccines in hospitals make a lot of sense. You don't want a doctor or nurse showing up to work in the ICU and spreading the flu. It is really common sense. For those people who claimed that requiring a vaccine was some sort of invasion of their civil rights, most medical workers I know have to take a lot of vaccines when they start they start the job. Hell, I had a list of vaccines I had to have just to go to college.

As a health worker, your first responsibility is to your patients, and getting the flu shot is part of that.

How do software pirates act like "vandals and thugs"? Take some time, look up those two words, and get back to me with a thoughtful retraction.

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For a phone to be a huge success, it does not have to match the sales of the iPhone, but if you get 4 or 5 phones that get more than a quarter of the users of the iPhone, Android is suddenly winning.

I didn't say it was inevitable, but if you look at the plans of attack of the two companies, The iPhone is monolithic and rigid and Android is numerous and flexible. Google is playing a game of numbers that Apple has refused to play for the last 30 years. It will be interesting.

That you can go to a state university on an honors scholarship, work the entire time, and leave with $40,000 in debt. Since primary education is a joke and a bachelor's is required for most decent jobs, something has to be done about this.

Article aside. The Android platform has a real chance of dethroning the iPhone platform as well as the Blackberry platform for many of the same reasons that PCs beat our Macs. It is only a matter of time before a blockbuster Android phone comes out because any company can make one for any network. Then it will only be a matter of time before another one comes and another one and so on. Not one of these phones may have the popularity of the iPhone, but put together they may leave Apple in the dust. The tipping point will be when software developers shift resources from Apple aps to Android aps. If that happens, Android will start running away.

What the hell does "whimpish dispositions" mean?

I can tell you that there were a lot of things in my childhood that didn't kill me and made me weaker. Is that because I'm a wimp? I'm sorry. Sometimes the kid with asthma needs medicine to live. Am I a pussy for owning an inhaler?

Get bent.

And don't expect them to actually restrict your data or inform you when you are over limit.

I don't disagree with you that she should be punished. However, what law would you suggest they use? Is it considered harassment? I would have guessed that would be the first place prosecutors would go if they could use it.

I don't think the law is set up to handle such a weird crime of intent. We are allowed to be cruel with one another in America. We could not build enough prisons if we made being an asshole against the law. The difference here is an adult intending to cause mental distress to a minor. There need to be laws against this, but those laws will necessarily be pretty weak and hard to prove. Here we have a woman who deserves punishment, but I'm not sure that we as a society can easily legislate a punishment for what she has done.

In the end, she has been punished. Our overactive news media has been used to its fullest, distributing her name and her actions to every house in America and many throughout the world. Unfortunately, there are others like her, but those stories don't end as outrageously. At least she will start to understand what it is like to be the subject of another's hate. If there is any justice in the world, it will drive her to the same fate.