Yeah, but then they'll charge more.

From TFA:
"...the maximum significant wave height—a measure of a storm's intensity—is 2.2 meters, but individual waves may top out at 4.5 meters."

How could I forget Notepad++? I write all my Bash scripts with it at work. Also, some of the alternatives I might want require KDE and I need to stick with XFCE for my older hardware, so no go there. (e.g. Okular)

Some of the above work OK in Wine or have passable native alternatives, but those are some I've recently wished for in my day-to-day work and hobby time.

Hm. Well, I stand corrected. It's just surprised me that the roads in Oregon sometimes seem quite a bit worse that roads in my previous home, Upstate NY. I guess in NY the roads deteriorate faster so you get new roads more often?

Ok, I'm mostly just whining, but studded tires are what make Oregon roads kind of sucky. Folks get their tires switched over to studs in mid-fall and ruin the roads from then 'till mid spring, rarely, if ever having need of them (and the rest of us just pull out the chains for the occasional icy or snowy day or trip over the mountains). I often drive as close as I safely can to the center line or almost on the shoulder to try to stay out of the ruts the studded tires make. ...Though the log trucks probably have a big impact too. That said, it does make sense that all users of roads should be responsible in some way for their upkeep, commensurate with how much those roads are used. How to do this without unfairly taxing those who do long-distance out-of-state travel would be tricky. Its absurd to say that this unfairly targets owners of efficient vehicles. Everyone gets charged the same tax per mile, efficient-vehicle-owners still pay less for gas.

Perhaps, but I'd consider myself a mediocre programmer, so that's probably where the paradigm differences matter...

Pedantic N.B. - Saint Nick is/was real: Saint Nicholas

"Vinyl album sales smashed records on both sides of the Atlantic in 2014..."

Sure, which is why my kids are getting vaccinated (that and the guilt-trip from our PCP about "herd immunity").

My problem is that I'm not so sure that in the long term the "small risk of some weird side effect" is simply that. My impression is that the science is way too thin in that area. I may be wrong on that point, in which case my argument does indeed fall apart.

It seems like the knee-jerk reaction here is to call any doubters in vaccine safety "anti-science" or whatever else. It seems to me that the ones who are "anti-science" are those who don't think it's necessary to explore the possible long-term effects and side-effects of vaccines, both at the individual and societal levels. I thought it was cool on Slashdot to be skeptical, especially when large, powerful organizations like the FDA and Big Pharma are involved...

How is this a troll? Just because it's a different opinion than most of the rest of the \. readers?

I wish I could vote this up. I think the whole Autism freakout thing unfairly devalues the argument that the science on vaccine safety is severely lacking.

I also am not against vaccines on principle, but am nervous about them in practice.

...as if the U.S. Government actually follows the Constitution anyway. (I'm lookin' at you, 10th Amendment) I have little faith that anything can really hold the U.S. federal government back from doing whatever the heck it wants to do.

Furthermore, I believe that doodling can sometimes help someone listen better who is a kinesthetic learner. It's somewhat like underlining or highlighting parts of a text. It might help you to find important parts more quickly when re-reading, but also the action of underlining tickles that kinesthetic part of your brain.

Doodling may not provide much in the way of a useful reference for later, but might be better than just sitting there. I'm no expert, but for certain learning styles, it might even be better than stenographer-style note taking, since the brain isn't trying to get every last word copied down.

n.b.: I say I "believe" this because it's sort of an amalgam of ideas I've picked up from various books at various times, as well as my experiences as a (primarily) kinesthetic learner.