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Comment Re:I think people get used to it... (Score 1) 200

This is also my experience. The one at Wade Green Road and 75 can be a shit show at times. Confused drivers hesitate which seems to cause a lot if minor accidents. Hopefully, as these intersections become more common, everyone will get more comfortable with the odd feeling of being on the wrong side of the road.

Comment Re:Some interesting moral questions here. (Score 1) 189



<quote><p>A parallel might be drawn to Railway engineers, half of whom have killed people with their trains. They often suffer PTSD, and other mental issues</p></quote>

Half of all railway engineers have killed people with their trains? I feel as though I would have heard more about these crazy engineers and their murder trains.

Comment Re:major doubt (Score 1) 163

<quote><p>Used to live with 3 cats and between them, they'd kill a bird every couple months, and those are just the ones I knew about. One of them actually ate the birds and once bagged a hummingbird.</p></quote>

Respectfully, how could you possibly know? If you saw them kill three then you have a minimum number, the actual number is surely unknown.

Comment Re:Thoughts and prayers. (Score 1) 163

<quote><p>I have never understood the mentality of one who professes great fealty to their deity to guide them through the trials of life such that they shun modern prevention, and then subsequently run to a hospital to seek modern medical treatment. If your belief is that your great creator(s) are the ones who will save you from affliction, wouldn't it make more sense to instead run to your house of worship and give alms, hymns, and/or prayer?</p></quote>

That is why I have the tiniest bit of respect for Christian Scientists and the like when they just let themselves die. Oh, to be clear, I think they are idiots but at least they seem to believe in their nonsense. The worst are people who do what you described which is talk a good game but never back it up with action.

Well, they are the 2nd worst. The worst on the ones that force crazy on their children.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 3, Interesting) 163

<quote>Vaccine-derived strain. So if the spreader had been an anti-vaxxer this wouldn't have happened?</quote>

No, almost certainly not. This idiot was caught in a perfect storm of stupidity mixed with bad luck.

Had he had the non-live virus vaccine here in the US then would have been (almost entirely) protected from the virus whether it came come an infected person, a person who received the live-virus vaccine, or a random sketchy goat.

While the live virus vaccine has its issues, it is generally considered better than nothing and a shit load better than praying the polio away. At least they still try injecting bleach.

Even if the person is an adult, child protective services should force* the parents to live in wheelchairs for the rest of their lives for not vaccinating their child. This is\was\and is again abuse.

*Unless there was a VALID reason that the child couldn't get it.

Comment Re:Research (Score 2) 344

<quote><p>A principled argument for redistribution here is missing: why should the taxpayers or other subscribers pay that $27K to service a single customer?</p></quote>

Because they sanctioned the monopoly from which Comcast benefits. The taxpayers (via the government) may also be able to force Comcast to pay for this. It would depend on the wording of the monopoly allowance.

Comment Re:I stopped paying my debt (Score 4, Insightful) 272

<quote><p>I refuse to pay (directly or indirectly) for 20 year years of slack-jawed SJWs taking Gender Studies or Racial Studies. That's how we're in the stew we are now, and I will not pay a fucking penny to help them deal with the hole they dug willingly, on their own, to use your own metaphor.</p><p>I think that bunch should put down the phones, the placards, the bullhorns, the Molotovs and the rest of the outrage shit, find respectable jobs, pay down their debt like the rest of us did.</p><p>Majoring in Outrage Creation and People Manipulation is not a valid or profitable career choice and is setting up this country for either a political upheaval the likes of which we've not seen since 1980, or worse -- a war of the sort we hadn't seen since 1865.</p><p>Put the fucking shovel down when you're in a hole, people! What that bunch is doing is already turning people against them. Not just right-wing radicals -- the screechy child-like loons getting all the headlines are alienating the center, too.</p><p>Soon they won't have any friends, other than themselves.</p></quote>

Does your refusal to pay also apply to my liberal arts degree? I am a disabled veteran, Army Infantry. I am gainfully employed and am only using my GI Bill because I earned it and I enjoy going to school. Personally, I think your naivete is cute. How exactly do you think you get to decide how your tax dollars, to the penny, are spent?

I also am tired of hearing the same old nonsense that studying certain subjects provides no benefit to society. Gender Studies, Racial Studies, even Medieval Music are worthy of the pursuit of knowledge. If no one studies these subjects in depth then we as a society become dumber. Half of the US is actually proud that they are stupid. It is sad.

Comment Re:"The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 1) 164

I have this great idea for a new TV show. The premise is simple. Just toss a liberal celebrity into the ring with a couple of Marines, and spend about an hour filming him getting the living shit beat out of him. Wouldn't it be great, every night you can turn on your TV and watch some loathsome parasite like Gavin Newsom or Chuck Schumer getting a Front Street Face Lift? If that's not a hit, I don't know what is!

You do know that there are liberals in every branch of the US military including the Marines? As an Army Infantry combat veteran I can confirm this. Serving your country does not require one to be on the Republican, libertarian, fascist, etc. spectrum. Or are those Marines not eligible for your cage match fantasy?

Comment Re:Since device backups are encrypted in the cloud (Score 1) 164

When you say things like "That's why the UK violates human rights, early and often, as it does with this Irish law", it suggests that you don't know what's happening here. Eire is not part of the UK. You seem to be confusing Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK, with Eire (aka Southern Ireland), which is not.

And as someone else noted Just because the UK doesn't have a single document that you would consider a constitution doesn't mean they don't have one. Our constitution is comprised of numerous laws, edicts and proclamations spanning hundreds of years.

Please stop referring to the Republic of Ireland as Eire unless you want to move this discussion to the Irish language. I would hope that you do not also say Espana, Deutschland, Magyarorszag, etc. when speaking English...

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