Sorry, @enoch. *kill per DMCA take-down.

Sorry, @enoch. DMCA take-down *kill

I watched that take down at least a dozen times.

Yes, I was wondering when you would trot out Hooker's paper and the 'CDC whistleblower" bit. You see, in the lack of clear scientific fact, conspiracy theorists tend to grab whatever they can to prove that they are right. I'll dissect your attempt right now.

First, Hooker's paper was covering the data involving African-American children with supposed predilection towards autism. The sample size was small, the math was ludicrous, and he incorrectly analyzed a cohort study. Because of the NUMEROUS failures to appropriately conduct a true scientific study, his paper was retracted. So, when exposed to the light, his theory was decidedly lacking in content and was canned.

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/08/27/journal-takes-down-autism-vaccine-paper-pending-investigation/

This incompetent study was the result, allegedly, of discussions between Hooker and a senior psychologist at the CDC named William Thompson. Hooker then teamed up with Andrew Wakefield to cherry pick bits to make it sound as though Thompson were confessing to some horrible crime of data manipulation to hide this “bombshell” result reported by Wakefield. Thus was born the “CDC whistleblower".

In February 2010, the General Medical Council in the U.K. recommended that Wakefield be stripped of his license to practice medicine in the U.K. because of scientific misconduct related to his infamous 1998 case series published in The Lancet, even going so far as to refer to him as irresponsible and dishonest, and in May 2010 he was. He is a now doing everything he can to prove his theories, like possibly illegal recording of conversations, so that he can regain some credibility. The guy is a hack.

Thompson has admitted to being prone to anxiety disorders, being delusional, and has shown that he is more scared of being 'the bad guy' then doing his job. His career is pretty much finished at the CDC, because he has shown that he will waffle if confronted by angry people who can't understand science. I feel sorry for him, but he has issues.

So, now we can address your link. A congressman, not a scientist, has received information from people who have been laughed out of the scientific community for multiple reasons. He sees buzzwords and decides to get ahead of the bandwagon, calling for further investigation and research. I can, of course, show you knee-jerk reactions by multiple members of congress similar to this, like Ted Cruz calling for immediate investigation into Planned Parenthood over the recent videos. You know, the ones that were chopped and spliced together to make it sound like PP was selling aborted babies? Do you see a pattern with the chop and splice for sensationalism? I hope you do.

In other words, you don't have any scientific facts. Like all anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists, you rely on a few items that seem to tie together to form a true fact, but they don't. When confronted with this, you will say that it's all big pharma and money trails, etc. Do you not see the fallacy in that logic? It's like saying that the the earth was created 9000 years ago...because RELIGION!

Btw, if you want to place your trust in politicians trying to be scientists, I leave you with this gem from former congressman Paul Broun.

"You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don't believe that the earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says."

Certainly you understand that a mayor (or anyone, really) can request that the governor send them in. I didn't see or hear about any of that. It doesn't have to be done in front of a camera, but if it happened it would have been reported that the mayor had requested that the governor send them in...at least that's how it usually happens.

Have they been deployed now? They had not been last night, the last I saw. I can't understand how the city on fire, cops on the run and injured, and thousands of destructive looters on the streets doesn't meet the requirements, that happened early on. Instead of doing something, they announced a curfew for the next (5?) days and basically let the rioters do their thing on day one. Anyone injured is going to have a good case against the police/city/state for not taking action to stop it.
EDIT: I see now, they sent in 160 national guard members this morning (Tuesday) with more to come...zero on Monday or Monday night/Tuesday early morning.

When it's obvious that local law enforcement is outnumbered 10 to 1 or worse, and the "protestors" have become violent rioters attacking police, citizens, cars, and businesses, and lighting buildings and cars on fire, it's time. That was 3pm, and came with plenty of warnings online. There was pretty good indication that there would be exactly that problem, they should have had serious backup at the ready, they did not.

I can't fathom why there wasn't a curfew last night, there was plenty of time to see it was needed. I also can't fathom why the national guard wasn't requested (yes, I'm sticking with that being proper and normal, but not necessary) by the mayor, or why it wasn't sent in by the governor or the fed without being requested.

It really seemed the authorities could have foreseen there would be severe problems (they've been claiming they have serious credible death threats against the entire police force by numerous factions...that's enough right there to call/send in the National Guard yesterday, before the funeral). Waiting for the problems to happen, then allowing it to continue over night is shirking their duty because they're scared, IMO.

EDIT:from http://www.wsj.com/articles/national-guard-deployed-in-baltimore-amid-riots-after-freddie-grays-funeral-1430218096
Protests over Mr. Gray’s death had been largely peaceful until Saturday, when pockets of violence led to 35 arrests and caused minor injuries to six police officers.
Mr. Batts, the police commissioner, said late Monday that 250 to 300 officers assembled in West Baltimore after a social-media message called on high-school students Monday to stage a “purge”—an anarchic protest based on a film called “The Purge” that includes a period of lawlessness—at 3 p.m. starting at the Mondawmin Mall and ending downtown.
Baltimore police also said they received a threat that city gangs would join together to “take down” law-enforcement officers.

Looks like someone has been spending too much time with the bikers they're taking down.

Brilliant!

I'm mostly tired of religion take-downs because I've heard all the arguments, and make them often enough when I debate Jehova's Witnesses. But this was really funny.

I understand the emotion especially when someone else's inconsiderate, selfish douchebaggery is putting your children at risk, but you can't allow it to overtake your behavior.

Don't let emotions turn into actions, at least not uncontrolled rageful actions. (It'd be better to take down his license plate, find him later, and take your time teaching Homes the error of his ways with the help of some hard pipe-hitting motherfuckers, a pair of pliers, and a blow torch.)

To the father, two words: Dude, maintain.

To the long-hair pink jacket and green beanie wearing Kevin Smith wannabe who finds amusement in endangering other people then watching them get upset, I hope you encounter someone who will wipe that fucking grin off your face in a way you'll never forget.

I'm curious why this is being described as a racially motivated attack. Just because the assailant was ignorant of his own state's law(s) and an idiot doesn't make him a racist. He may very well be a racist but that can hardly be determined from a silent video; just because the man he tackled is black, doesn't mean the victim couldn't have just as easily been a Caucasian (or Asian, Hispanic, etc.)

I understand the current racial tensions and situation in the US is pretty volatile right now, but not every act of black-on-white or white-on-black violence is racially motivated. By making these assumptions and posting them as facts (e.g. dailykos website), all it does it stir the pot even more and shows a huge lack of journalistic integrity.

Unless there is evidence to suggest that Mr Foster, the assailant, targeted Mr Daniels, the grandfather, because he was a black man carrying a firearm then people should treat it for what it is: an over-zealous wannabe hero who is ignorant of the law. He was arrested, so it's not like he got away with his crime. Maybe more information will come to light (prior arrests, complaints, etc) that will reveal it to be a racially motivated attack.

As for the others being arrested, there were only two other people in physical contact with Mr Daniels, after the initial take-down, and I don't believe that they struck him; they only held him down, which is probably well within the confines of a citizen's arrest. The other bystanders just removed the gun from the area. Big deal. The cops did the right thing in this situation.

Alright, I'm by no means against kids eating healthy, but this is a truly dumb and hypocritical way of going about it.

How the hell is food designed to be addictive? Welp, mostly by making it actually delicious. Fast food doesn't control the market on that, mostly anything that tastes good can be considered "addictive".

Then we go into a graph that seemingly gets larger and larger, implying that these diseases are HUGELY on the rise (which for all I know, they could be. But there's no actual evidence, just a rising graph that turns into a heart rate monitor.)

Infact, just perusing their website they have a whole whack of bogeymen arguments and excuses with nothing that really backs them up. Two parts stand out, One, they want to take action against the CEO of mcdonalds by telling him to take down a website about happy meals. The site has a bunch of stupid videos, games, and even a couple educational things about recycling and animals... very little to do with actually pushing the food on kids.

The second part was about something also somewhat touched on in the video: Food companies say that it's the parents responsibility to determine what their kids eat. Is it really up to the parents?

The answer for them is basically a long winded ":Yes, but because businesses decide to use marketing targeted at our kids, they made it REALLY hard, and therefore, technically, no."


Look, end of the day, parents are responsible for their kids. It doesn't matter HOW much advertising goes into the kids, when you determine what their breakfast will be (by buying it at a store, i.e. cereal), what their lunch will be, and then cooking them dinner, you 100% are responsible for what your kids eat.

The alternative is saying "Here's 10 bucks, get yourself something at school" which is ALSO determining what your kids eat. Kids are weak, given the option they WILL go for the fries with gravy for lunch.

Both versions determine what your kid is going to eat, and both are decided upon by YOU. Stop blaming corporations for doing what corporations do, and just take responsibility.

Actually, that's just my Halloween mask. I haven't gotten around to pulling off my beautiful leprechaun head yet. (And I usually wait until the fall to take down my Christmas lights.)

Though I do very much love The Walking Dead.

With extra clips in his office to boot. The account I just sifted goes into detail on the Max Payne-ish moves he pulled to take down the shooter. Amazing.

I'll bet that thing can take down a whole herd of deer!

I don't think that "Anonymous" exists as such any more, but i do believe in the ingenuity of a bunch of people on 4chan if they decide they want to do something. But it's kinda (obviously) limited to "whatever you can do, over the internet, before you get found out." So a lot of the threats are empty. The biggest threat i'd consider to be releasing information about the employees, because i think that is something that could possibly be done and could possibly be damaging. By comparison, DDOSing/otherwise taking down or altering a website for a few hours is mostly meaningless.

It sounds like a good idea in theory (entertainment wise) But in practice...a lot of a fight gets taken out...

-Your on a short time limit so endurance doesn't come into full effect

-The notion of balance is different, which might be interesting, but take downs or throws become less useful. However, posturing to compensate for wind comes into effect.

-Safety, what happens if someone gets hit to hard near parachute time. I've heard there are altitude activated parachutes but it still comes down to what can go wrong. How much of an actual fight gets removed to accommodate the jump?

-What constitutes a victory? You have a short amount of time to knock someone out? Let out some anger on your opponent?