It'll be nice to have an established poker site taking Bitcoins. Not that I want to disparage the current bitcoin poker sites (I like seals with clubs) but they just don't have the polish and finish to which I've become accustomed.

Actually I take that back, as I just realised it was in the summary...

+1 This is what I came here to say.

You have hit the nail on the head, but I'll elaborate for those people playing along at home.

The price of oil is mainly dependent on the cost to get the last gallon out of the ground. If 90% of the worlds oil can be dug up for $20 a barrel, but that last 10% costs $140/bbl then everyone pays $140/bbl. If you can expand your $20/bbl oil to the whole world's supply then you can lower the price, and the guys sitting on the $140/bbl oil won't be able to make any money. With the consumption rate of oil going up, there is the possibility of the current oil sources not being sufficient, so we'd need to go find some more oil, which would probably be more expensive.

The price of oil may not come down, but without the oil from frakking it would have gone through the roof in fairly short order.

I thought it was fairly well understood why there was such a bad outbreak this year: the flu season hit earlier than usual so a lot of people haven't had the shot yet.

a) Ilsaloving never mentioned his own health. Us humans generally get upset when bad things happen to other people.

b) He's upset because what I said is basically common knowledge for most people and the recent outbreaks are just the logical result of not enough people getting vaccinated.

Yes. New cars are quite expensive purchases and are usually done by people with relatively high disposable incomes. There exist people like your adoptive mother who (I assume) don't see the need to carry a computer with them every where they go. For the most part they probably don't care about the toys on a new car either and are more interested in the reliability aspect.

The statistics speak for themselves, most people with enough disposable income (and quite a few who can't really afford it) have smart phones.

Bear in mind that we are talking about new cars.

But it was the anti-vaxxers who reduced the number of people by enough that the transmission rates have gone up. I am vaccinated, but I know that it is not 100% effective. If it's 90% effective and I'm the only person who has it I still have a 10% risk. If everyone around me has also had it my risk drops to 1%. These statistics matter when you start talking about outbreaks and pandemics.

Thank you for your wonderfully informative and thought out response. How in any way is it not true that reducing the numbers of guns in society will reduce the total number of nutcases who end up in possession of a gun. Are you trying to tell me that basic statistics do not hold?

They will probably whack themselves off, does that count for anything?

It's not that guns are the only way to cause mass death and fear, it is that they make it easier.

Nutcase+ability to do lots of damage=a bad day. If we reduce the number of nutcases (by making access to mental health more prevalent) and reduce the number of ways to create lots of damage (partly by restricting guns) then we will reduce the number of bad days we have.

probably knows how to spell.

If only there was some way we could make decisions based on the specific details of the particular circumstance rather than relying on some universal ideals about what should happen every time. We'd have to hire a whole force of people to go about and look at specific situations and police what happens.