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FaddiCat

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    Comment #5399287

    >>>I'd like to see some surveys on how many Americans support abortions in which terms and why, but haven't found any. Yeah, me too. Anecdotally, most people seem to be fine with f…

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    Comment #5398676

    Abbott Nutrition has a range of nutritionally complete drinks called Ensure. If you just can't be bothered eating that's probably the best way to go. http://www.abbottnutrition.com…

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    Comment #5392998

    >>> Those progressive people are generally thinking beings who have morality. They think about things rather than accepting an arbitrary criteria such as whether someone is born or…

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    Comment #5392902

    > In the animal kingdom, isn't death due to predators rather quick? Not always. A lot of predator species are known to play with their prey.

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    Comment #5372737

    The Old Reader actually looks really good. If only it had an Android app...

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    Comment #5355414

    >>> I'm not sure if this is meant to be an attack on fireplaces that uses an analogy with religion, or an attack on religion that uses an analogy with fireplaces. Maybe it's both. …

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    Comment #5354948

    >>> So, is that an example of reclaiming the word "bible thumper" for the moderate wing - very classily done btw. Well I'm accused of being a Bible thumper far more often than I'm …

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    Comment #5342390

    Bible thumper here. As science it's pretty interesting. Because it seems to say that all humanity comes from one father it's also interesting, and I'm sure I'll hear plenty about i…

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    Comment #5278043

    I have a UX31E. The trackpad was atrocious when I first got it, but they rolled out some driver updates and now it's really good. The keyboard is sub-par but doesn't bother me too …

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    Comment #5186986

    Would game developers really want to make games for a VM? Don't most big games usually try to squeeze as much out of the hardware as possible? (Genuinely curious... I know next to …

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    Comment #5142904

    > I'm not sold on the argument that customers even desire the ability to produce long-form text content on a touch-based device, or that it's ergonomic to do so. Not with a tablet,…

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    Comment #5127453

    Microsoft was doing that with their consumer software for a while. The biggest issue is that people think the software is out of date as soon as the next year comes along.

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    Comment #5078062

    Yeah, I agree. That's the reason why I stay away from Samsung phones. In practical terms they're great, but they're shockingly un-aesthetic. In hardware and software.

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    Comment #5077711

    > Touchwiz is not a bad product, though it adds actually very few to stock experience. Not anymore, anyway. But TouchWiz added quite a bit before ICS came out. Off the top of my he…

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    Comment #5077633

    I got a Nexus S specifically because I wanted stock Android... but is TouchWiz really that bad? What can you do on stock Android that you can't do on TouchWiz?

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    Comment #5077172

    I've been to this website a few times and I've never gotten past the loading throbber.

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    Comment #5053019

    Those little cheap Nokias are great for what they are. I had a Nokia 1800 for a long time and it did its job perfectly: good reception, battery lasted forever, screen was always ea…

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    Comment #4820793

    > Interesting that what you described is reminiscent of the Jahiliyyah In what way?

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    Comment #4310209

    I'd be more interested in what she's decided he WON'T change. What redeeming qualities does Yahoo have? (That's not a rhetorical question; I'm genuinely interested.)

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    Comment #4310205

    >>> Free food is a bonus. It's also good for Yahoo. It encourages employees to stay on campus for longer, so Yahoo gets more value out of them.

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    Comment #4032476

    Why is number 1 better than just: [x*2 for x in range(1, 11)]