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Comment: Re:Saturn (Score 1) 126

by MightyYar (#46487727) Attached to: Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban

They approached existing dealers first. Only if existing dealers refused to build a dedicated facility would they offer up the territory to a new dealer. I'm sure you could find Saturn dealers who owned no other GM franchises, but I am under the impression that this was rare. I do know one Chevy/Cadillac/Oldsmobile/Pontiac/GMAC dealer who told them to go pound sand.

Comment: Re:Anti-Vax home schoolers (Score 1) 610

by Just Some Guy (#46485685) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC

I'm not a homeschooler (all my kids are in public), but I've known a few. One of my best friends is a family practice doc. His family homeschools because they believe they can give a better education than the local schools in his small town, but he's adamantly in favor of vaccination.

Homeschooling absolutely doesn't imply anti-vax (although the Venn diagram does overlap a fair bit).

+ - Target Ignored Signs of Data Breach->

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puddingebola writes "Target ignored indications from it's threat-detection tools that malware had infected it's network. From the article, "Unusually for a retailer, Target was even running its own security operations center in Minneapolis, according to a report published Thursday by Bloomberg Businessweek. Among its security defenses, following a months-long testing period and May 2013 implementation, was software from attack-detection firm FireEye, which caught the initial November 30 infection of Target's payment system by malware. All told, up to five "malware.binary" alarms reportedly sounded, each graded at the top of FireEye's criticality scale, and which were seen by Target's information security teams first in Bangalore, and then Minneapolis." Unfortunately, it appears Target's security team failed to act on the threat indicators."
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Comment: Re:A bit of common sense maybe? (Score 4, Insightful) 610

by Just Some Guy (#46484129) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC




Comment: Re:Anti-Vaxxers? Try Population Density (Score 4, Insightful) 610

by Just Some Guy (#46483985) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC



Comment: Re:A bit of common sense maybe? (Score 0) 610

by Just Some Guy (#46483915) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC

Anti-vaxxer here. Convince me that I and my entire family should vaccinate.

That's not our collective job. Convince me that you should have the right to spread diseases that could otherwise easily be eradicated.

I don't want all the toxins

Full stop here. "Toxin" is something that a bacteria squirts out, like botulinum toxin. That's the only thing it means. The only people who use "toxin" in any other context are the ones who want to sell you treatments to remove them from your body. No doctor or scientist refers to toxins as meaning anything else.

and animal byproducts used in creating these vaccines injected into me or my children. Nor the aluminum components.

Why aluminum, specifically? I just drank a can of highly flammable hydrogen in compound with ridiculously dangerous oxygen, containing among other things a hell's blend of reactive sodium and deadly chlorine. And it tasted good. You've probably had many a pickle brined in vinegar (acetic acid! corrosive!) and alum (aluminum, potassium, sulfur, and oxygen again!), so why is aluminum as one chemical in a compound of many a particular concern in this context?

You probably wouldn't want to sit down and eat half a pound of aluminum powder by itself, but you and your kids have almost certainly ingested some as food ingredient recently.

Nor many others. Why do any vaccines need monkey kidneys in it?

Because that's a more convenient incubator for poliovirus than a human kidney.


by Just Some Guy (#46483751) Attached to: Measles Outbreak In NYC


Not remotely. Public health has long been accepted as a legitimate concern of the government.


Of these, lack of access is the only legitimate excuse and it's self limiting and easy to address. Many places offer mobile free vaccination clinics.


I can just about guarantee I'd win a "more Libertarian than thou" contest, but your idea of individual liberty is severely flawed. That old saying about your right to swing your fists ends where my nose begins? Well, your right to carry around dangerous pathogens for the hell of it ends where my immune system begins. You don't have the right to willfully take steps to make people around you ill.
