Non-IT News Thread

Minion Queen

I have lived where people do not get vaccinations. It is horrible to see people with Polio etc and dying of simple to cure things. Vaccinations for deadly things are an amazing part of modern medicine. However don't for the love of all that is good overload your immune system all at once. Jeeze that is just stupid. Parents that allow their kids to get 10 shots in a visit are idiots.

Minion Queen

As a parent of a child on the Autism Spectrum did the vaccinations cause it? No! Did they make things worse when he had too many at once yes! Did that have permanent affects? No. Shots don't cause Autism can they trigger issues if you are an idiot? That is the question.

nadnerB

It's the lazy, selfish, arrogant, do-gooder, self centered, hands off, ironically overprotective asshat parents that cause most of the issues today. They are the real reason that society is degrading.

There is so much help and information available but because of ^ reasons (and probably more), they don't/won't take any of it on board IF they even go looking.

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I think I'll stop here.

coliver

Has this been posted yet?

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page

Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

art_of_shred

@coliver said:
"digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years"

Have they field-tested that?

stacksofplates

@coliver said:

Has this been posted yet?

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2016/02/5d-data-storage-update.page

Scientists at the University of Southampton have made a major step forward in the development of digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

I saw that on my Google Now yesterday. That's really cool. Now celebrity naked pictures will last forever.

brianlittlejohn

Man caught trying to smuggle 40 turtles in his pants.

http://m.aol.com/article/2016/03/01/man-caught-trying-to-smuggle-almost-40-turtles-across-the-borde/21321053/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058

scottalanmiller

http://www.khou.com/story/news/traffic/2016/03/07/naked-dancing-woman-shuts-down-highway-290/81430358/

coliver

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--dAHCxtIH--/msildbtmoedgszullfdi.gif

Good-bye expensive drone.

scottalanmiller

If this is this dumb, do we really want him back?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/16/north-korea-sentences-us-student-to-15-years-hard-labour

DustinB3403

@coliver That's just great... "oh now i'm 20 feet in the air, no way are we at risk here.... "

"OH S**T Jetski!"

brianlittlejohn

@scottalanmiller I don't understand why people want to go to N Korea to begin with...

DustinB3403

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller I don't understand why people want to go to N Korea to begin with...

Religious reasons mostly I imagine....

Or maybe they want to see that Unicorn that North Korea keeps talking about.

scottalanmiller

@brianlittlejohn said:

@scottalanmiller I don't understand why people want to go to N Korea to begin with...

They seem to all be nutters of one kind of another. I get the desire to see a place that no one else has seen, but they really never seem to be there to learn about it but to cause problems.

scottalanmiller

Belgium's main Zaventem airport has been hit with two bomb blasts this morning, more bombs have been found already in a sweep of the airport. The Maelbeek Metro Station has also had a bomb explosion. Rail, metro and flights into the city are all halted or diverted. Belgium is now on its highest level of alert.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35869254