I see that you have absolutely no scientific background. What's it like to be so sure of yourself with little to know knowledge of the subject?

It's undoubtedly true. Go look at the numbers. You'll be surprised.

Just like BlackBerry was not very long ago...

No, you're still wrong.

Here's how it works:

See how easy that is?

Yeah, everyone here knows that. They've known it for years. No one is arguing that. That said, I should point out that sometimes it's benign, sometimes tragic, and sometimes it's helpful. The same can be said about any medical decision, made by anyone involved, for any reason.

But they can be the same thing! The JW bit is just really obvious, which is why you choose to focus on that.

What you really want to do is bash religious people because it makes you feel smart and important. Yes, the JW's restrictions have caused countless unnecessary child deaths. We get it. Even the parents get it. It's a shitty thing.

What you propose to prevent it, however, is far more dangerous -- and far more harmful.

But how can that be?! Let's start with the most obvious: JW's may simply opt out of the medical system completely, for fear that their children will be violated. Possibly relying on home remedies and black market medicine and medical care.

No, I'm saying that you'll be less willing to blindly trust the care of your children to someone else.

See, it's really easy to make up rules that apply to others and not yourself. I seriously doubt you'd be willing to live by the same rules you're proposing if they actually affected you.

Yes, yes you would. Which is *exactly* why you wouldn't want to abide by the same rules you'd impose on others!

Let me know if you feel the same way after you have children of your own.

No. I didn't even know that "TruBood" was a thing until I saw it referenced endlessly in this thread. Since that strange Ann Rice movie, I just assumed that vampire related media was intended for teenage girls and middle-aged lonely women. Being neither of those two things, I never bothered.

I guess you don't know many MD's.

Competence is ... uncommon.

Deaf culture is destructive.

Except sign is a con lang -- strike that -- a bunch of different con langs incompatible with one another.

That's funny. Not only is the deaf community a tiny minority (unlikely to have any impact at all), the issue of hearing aids is enough to divide them! If they found out you could get a cochlear implant with insurance purchased through an exchange, you'd see little other than opposition. (Yeah, they're that crazy.)

Not that they're likely to be aware of the issue, as illiteracy is so prevalent. Still, if they found out, they'd oppose it.

How do you sign: Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all?

Wow! Apple will throw away my old third-party cable and allow me to buy a new one from them!? Why, that's just like repairing or replacing hardware not made by them!

Let me call you a cab. You're too far gone to even stumble home safely.

"Prove"? He's clearly just directing readers to more information about the codec. (He mistakenly thought Slashdot users could read, research, and make their own judgments.) What better place to start than the official website?

Would you rather he linked to Wikipedia or some blog entry? Would that make you feel better? Probably not ...

"So to prove this Opus codec is the best, you link to... the website wikipedia.org? I could employ that same methodology to prove that Surface is the best tablet ever,"

Did I just blow your mind? You might not be able to handle this one:

"So to prove this Opus codec is the best, you link to... some website? I could employ that same methodology to prove that Surface is the best tablet ever,"

So what was the point of your post? To warn others that they shouldn't blindly accept everything they read on the internet? Are you going to dutifully repeat this warning every time someone offers a link?

I guess it's way easier than making useful contributions...