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    Comment #8722261

    My husband uses ladies restrooms regularly, because that's where the baby change tables are.

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    Comment #6045162

    It's definitely better then not open source, but still I'd love to know more about those "world's best" developers and who pays them. Open source is the necessary but not the suffi…

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    Comment #6045085

    It's not exactly him. In my experience most Russians are homophobic to the core, unless they know some LBGT personally.

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    Comment #6044736

    But who does inspect it, not me for sure. So, how safe actually is Linux? And how safe is any distribution?

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    Comment #5994729

    Why, even the Spiegel article says right at the beginning that it's just playing with words for the sake of elections: "But for this change of course to be more than just an electi…

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    Comment #5904689

    http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/medicine_01

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    Comment #5879536

    Reminds me very much of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge Well, as a possible consequence.

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    Comment #5879332

    Oh no, the people with ideas are the more dangerous. People with guns might kill a few people, but people with ideas can influence a lot more people.

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    Comment #5778953

    So, where can you sign up as an open source / creative commons artist? There are a lot of great hobby artists, but who will introduce the artists to the projects?

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    Comment #5699121

    Whenever I see photos of suffering children in a political context for me it is the "look at those poor children, clearly the [opposing group] are poor evil" argument. Which is not…

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    Comment #5698915

    What's more despicable about killing children than about killing people of other ages? Yet it's the children that are frequently used for political arguments. And that is disgustin…

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    Comment #5685462

    Here in Germany I saw people up to 26 years old being referred to as adolescents. That's the typical age when you're done with the university.

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    Comment #5663360

    I doubt that parents abusing their kids or the kids being abused are even aware that some people would think of the relationship as abusive. What if it's just verbal bullying? And …

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    Comment #5550750

    Oh yes. Even with documentaries which should usually be better researched there is so many inaccuracies on the subjects I do know something about that I'm careful to remind myself …

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    Comment #5550728

    I don't have TV at home and don't read any news online, except maybe once a month while procrastinating. I rarely find anything that really concerns me there and if I do I usually …

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    Comment #5406537

    > It doesn't have anything to do with financial security. Look, if your man is spending three months worth of salary on a piece of shiny rock, he is exercising poor financial judgm…

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    Comment #5147392

    What if depression is the evolutionary solution to overpopulation?

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    Comment #4941890

    I suppose you could use that for stylistic effect. Like a change of mood in the story, or a changed attitude of the character.

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    Comment #4570652

    > By the way, being able to publish is especially necessary to receive public funding in the first place. Being published in Nature gives you bonus points when it comes to funding.…

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    Comment #4570621

    My professor argued that keeping even publicly funded research and data behind paywalls will keep at least some of the people who have no idea about the scientific method from doin…

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    Comment #4223621

    Yes, "to share the media's/state's opinion", forgive my bad english.

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    Comment #4222712

    Unfortunately, the public is being continuously brainwashed by the state controlled media to share their opinion.

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    Comment #3273899

    What about all the smileys? Does that account for the 34%?

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    Comment #3033020

    This video illustrates his progress much better then the original thread. Could you do the same thing for this guy: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=114449

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    Comment #2811833

    I have had a similar experience. I don't mind at all if they talk about the best way to catch a girl at the next party or how cool it would be to hide the word penis in the final v…