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I'm sorry. I hope you have some answers today... :grouphug: :grouphug:
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That's a full house! Welcome!
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Hi! Welcome!
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Hotmail would worry me. Does anyone still use hotmail? My 80 year old grandmother finally switched to gmail. But honestly, most email servers are prone to security breaches. I've got more faith in Gmail than the weird (though very nice) guy who does our law firm IT. Confidentiality is relative, and I think of it more in legal terms (can this person testify regarding this information) than actual privacy.
I am interested to know why Secretary Clinton and Governor Bush et al hosted private domains instead of using the government accounts. It just seems like such an obvious thing for someone to try to scandalize. Surely they knew the NSA and hackers could get at anything, so it can't be that they were doing nefarious junk with them. They either had a good reason for it or else were clueless. Sec. Clinton doesn't strike me as clueless!
In my mind, there is one reason for this. To control the flow of information that makes it out into the public domain. Even now the AP is having to threaten to sue to get access to her emails. AND if I understand it correctly, IF the Benghazi committee is just now subpoenaing her emails, they didn't know until just now that she even had a private server that she used for her emails.
http://news.yahoo.com/benghazi-committee-to-subpoena-clinton-s-emails-192823541.html
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[email protected]<script cf-hash='f9e31' type="text/javascript"> /* */</script> = fine
[email protected]= unprofessional, especially if typed in purple Comic Sans with a floral wallpaper background
I would defer to the employer's preference.
Side note: when I quoted you, look how it turned out.... weird! Maybe the forum just commented on this topic???
FloozyMcBoobBuckets@FuzzyNavel.comTHIS though, I wanted to call out and say .... :lol:
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In regards to the not-mentioned-name-but-we-all-know-who-we're-talking-about - she's a public employee performing public duties, therefore YES, all of her public duties and email should have been on the governments server whether there was a law in place or not. If she wanted a personal email for all things that didn't fall under her public life - like pics of the grandkid - then she could have whatever personal account she wanted.
My dh a private citizen, works for a private company and even he is required to have all of his work email and correspondence go through his given email.
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Those parents were letting their kids walk around in the sunshine (literally and figuratively). I'm more worried about the parents who never let their kids see the light of day. The ones CPS knows nothing about until they find the bodies.
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I've been know to use my water pick with a bleachy solution in it to clean grout.....
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*sips from her wine*
It's been a long week.....
I see pink with purple polka dots....
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Urg, my library has it. But there was little summary that read:
Geisler and Turek argue that Christianity requires the least faith of all worldviews because it is the most reasonable. A valuable aid to those interested in examining the reasonableness of the Christian faith.
Based on that, I'm going to go ahead and tap out now. Sorry, Albeto. :closedeyes:
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I don't know anything about it myself, but this thread raised the topic and while I am desperately curious, I'm afraid to talk on that thread any more!
I'll check to see it is at my library....
That thread, 10 posts in, made my head hurt. I may not have the stamina for a long discussion if this thread deteriorates that rabidly. I'm good with circular thinking but not when it's not in fun...
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I haven't read the book, and I'm not sure I'm willing to commit to the time requirement BUT I might if I understood the premise of the book a bit more. Can you elaborate what this book is about? Based on the amazon reviews the central theme seemed a little murky. Is this a book that is supposed to lead me to understand that the christian faith is more "right" than being an atheist? How does this relate to children specifically - I didn't see where it was an educational resource?
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I think we should listen to dissenting opinions.
There. Was that so hard?
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What you describe is called "science". Science is never a guarantee against being wrong; it's just a description of what you do when new evidence comes in: you reevaluate your position in light of that evidence. It's the best way any human culture has found to eventually reach objective truth that we know of. If you can suggest a better one *that actually works* you'll be a very rich woman.
If it helps you, think of the things mainstream science says not as "truths" but rather "true based on the best currently available evidence."
A critic is "informed" not because they were right (which for any given yes/no fact can be no better than a coin flip) but because their opinions were based on evidence, and not magical thinking. The problem with vaccine deniers is not simply that they're generally wrong, but that their opinions are not science-based.
This is exactly what I'm talking about. There is no guarantee that the conventional scientific "theory" of today will hold up tomorrow. My post did not ask to cast aside the scientific process. I only disagree with that we should not listen to disagreeing/dissenting opinions.
I just don't want to be told that I have to listen to ONLY a certain subset of scientists that are deemed to be the most mainstream which has been determined to have the best, most right idea - based on whose opinion? Yours? Your colleagues? Why should I think that your opinion is the best opinion? How are your credentials, your degree, your experiences better than the scientists down the street?
As a side note, your condescending tone in your post to me is without merit. I do not actually disagree with "current available evidence" and a "reevaluation of opinions" I DO however disagree with using that tone and suggesting that I might be listening to critics who use "magical thinking" in order to negate and belittle my statement that we should listen to dissenting opinions. Because to not listen to them is folly, imo. Spanish Inquisition, much?
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There's a difference between "I'm not sure about this for this well-thought-out reason" or "I'm continuing to look into research" and covering your ears and engaging in argument for argument's sake. There is no place for people who insist the world is not round, for example.
I do not disagree with you. Yes, covering one's ears and singing "lalalalala" is getting us no where. I'm "just" disagreeing with the sentiment that we should only listen to the conventional wisdom authoritative powers that be and none of the (educated scientists who also happen to be) critics. That's all. Failing to listen to a dissenting opinion is a path I'm not going to down.
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Here's the big thing with the vaccine debate --
Everyone should be making their vaccination decision from an INFORMED position.
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I'm sorry, but I got stuck on this statement.
Please define "an informed position"?
Many "truths" that have been espoused by scientists and doctors have proven false or at least misguided - it just took decades or additional research to finally come around to the (more) right answer. So who was the "informed position" then - the critics whom we were told not to listen too?
Again I site the idea that there was a time when they thought that vaccines conferred LIFETIME immunity to the disease they were inoculated against and they now know this is NOT true for a variety illnesses and vaccines.
And to think that "now-a-days" doctors and scientists and researchers are more informed or smarter or better equipped and that the fallacies of old would not happen in this day and age is folly, imo. (and before you get upset, I know you said nothing of the kind, but in my mind, saying that I should accept "informed position" from those in authority NOW is, in a way, telling me that)
There is a place, imo, for critics even if the conventional wisdom of the time disagrees.
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Well, yeah, I homeschool :D
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I saw that yesterday!!! What were they thinking??? I could (maybe, kinda, sorta, in a way)explain away the "kidnapping" but the undressing and putting him in the basement part and the gun and the bag on his head and the... :huh: :blink: :scared: :eek: :mad: :(
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I had the mmr series when I was a child. Upon entering college I was tittered and found to be not immune. I was given a mmr shot. 2 years later, I was pregnant and was tittered again and found to be not immune. After the birth I was given another mmr shot. 6 years after that, pregnant and tittered again, and again found to be not immune. Again I was given another mmr shot. 5 years after that I was pregnant again and guess what I was tittered again and found to be not immune. This time I refused another shot.
My dd was given the chix pox vaccine and developed chix pox two years later. My ds was given the chix pox vaccine and he too developed chix pox.
Lots of vaccines were "thought" to confer lifetime immunity and were found later that they do not. Tetanus. Pertussis.
I'm not sure I want to lay all the blame for "outbreaks" on the feet of non-vaxxers.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/06/17/measles-vaccine-failure.aspx
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A baking soda and water paste draws out splinters - you could try that. Make the paste, put it on the pencil part, wrap with a bandaid, wait 12 to 24 hours.
I've known several people to live decades with graphite and even shrapnel pieces in their bodies. I also have horrifying stories of infections and traveling foreign bodies that are life threatening. I would keep trying things but at the first sign of any kind of infection, I would take him in. Also, if it is really bothering him, I would take him to have it lanced out.
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No. He's better though. He wasn't super sick, just in a lot of pain.
Once when my ds9 was 4 he woke up in screaming pain at 11:30pm. Was not a night terror. He was fully awake and was fully aware. He said that it was his stomach. He screamed for a solid half hour before I threw him into the car and drove like a madwoman to the ER. There, he screamed at the top of his lungs while they made us wait for an hour with 3 other people in the waiting area. People kept turning up the tv in the waiting area because of his screaming but they wouldn't get him in the back any sooner. He then screamed at the top of his lungs for 45 minutes while waiting for the doctor in the exam room. He calmed down when they xrayed him ..... annnnnnnd the never could figure out the trouble. Best use of our ER co-pay EVER! Not. He then did it again during daylight hours. He was screaming so loud and hard he literally passed out on the exam table at the peds. She woke him during her exam and he started in again. Nearest she could figure was a hernia of all things.
But since then, nothing.
Moral of my story.... you may never figure out what happened. :grouphug:
Recently vaccinated individuals can spread diseases
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Yes, I knew that recently vaccinated people can shed the "thing" being vaccinated for. BUT, (pulls out soap box) I'm going to say it again (and again and again and again) - vaccinations do not confer lifetime immunity like it was previously thought. I'm still unwilling to place all the blame for "outbreaks" on the feet of non-vaxxers.
http://www.cdc.gov/pertussis/about/faqs.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19324753
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cig-gci/p03-02-eng.php
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cig-gci/p01-12-eng.php#tab6
http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/ESCAIDE/programme/presentations/Documents/3.1%20Sabine%20Vygen%20Evidence%20of%20waning%20immunity%20against%20mumps%20in%20vaccinated%20young%20adults,%20France%202013_S%20Vygen.pdf
http://news.sciencemag.org/health/2014/04/measles-outbreak-traced-fully-vaccinated-patient-first-time