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Comment #14378009
Chemotherapy will probably cure your cancer but since it isn't 100% effective you'd decline?
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Comment #14372614
What else would it be? A pastry? I think because the elements (hot dog and bun) are cooked separately it has to be a sandwich. If you baked the hotdog within the bun and severed it…
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Comment #14360942
Prior to that you had feudalism where you farmed land and shared the spoils with a king, prior to that we simply murdered the unproductive and socially unacceptable by removing the…
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Comment #14360515
Because if you think critically about that concept for a moment it falls apart. If people didn't have to work to earn wages in order to survive and simply had their needs provided …
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Comment #14360354
The average global income is half that number. 71% of the world lives on less than $10 a day.
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Comment #14359762
I can solve that problem and I dropped out of high school. Simple math is something that has to be studied for at the college level?
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Comment #14359069
No place is safe considering the majority violent cause of death among trans people is suicide.
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Comment #14358570
Isn't one intended for public consumption primarily among youth and the other a private conversation? There is probably a better example to prove your point.
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Comment #14357543
There is another aspect to this. Consider 911, you had 4 planes full of people and yet it is believed that only 2 - 3 people on a single plane did anything to stop the hijackers (u…
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Comment #14350520
Or move to Android.
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Comment #14349294
Mayo Clinic recommended you do not exceed 400 - 600mg of caffeine a day. It's a drug like anything else.
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Comment #14349081
You act as if the alternative is free. Will you maintain the same "life at any cost" mentality when your insurance premiums or taxes increase to the point that you can no longer af…
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Comment #14342093
Just the number I found, what do you say it is? 71% of the world lives on less than $10 a day, average globally yearly income is less than $1,500. Even the worst off Americans are …
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Comment #14342033
You'll note that many of those expenses are things the majority of the world lacks (homes with electricity, internet and running water/education expenses/entertainment budgets larg…
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Comment #14341992
Talk to these guys: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615...
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Comment #14341415
I never understood the wealth redistribution argument from (USA) Americans. If you make $32,400 a year you are in the top 1% globally. Thus you have the power to fix it, at least o…
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Comment #14326734
If Berkeley police weren't told to stand down some of the violent anarchists would have been arrested and this distinction would have been proven.
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Comment #14326662
>Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives It is your contention that the violence at Berkeley was committed by Milo supporters? Do you have evidence for th…
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Comment #14325020
Blood letting should have a similar effect no?
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Comment #14323402
I wonder if this applies to non copy left licenses as well.
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Comment #14323364
Seems that deregulation is sorely needed here. Car dealerships are working with the same enthusiasm as the DMV.
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Comment #14320657
>How many deaths occur from solar once it is built/installed? Well if we are talking about what would happen if energy was produced entirely with solar/wind wouldn't you have to in…
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Comment #14315495
>Then imagine that it's not a company, but a government agency doing that. I think that is the key takeaway here.