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spatulan

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    24th September 2014

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    I'm on Cyproterone Acetate. Does it say anywhere in the paper if certain anti-androgens are worse than others?

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    "And before you downvote, ask yourself: Senseless violence to stop outsiders who are just trying to survive: is it really any less bad when the outsiders are animals?" Yes, it is.

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    I use the equivalent thing on Firefox. Partly so I can use or not use different groups of addons quickly and easily, but also so I can be logged into the same websites multiple tim…

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    Not in my experience

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    Comment #12196585

    Assuming the economy doesn't weaken and we find ourselves with less money to spend.

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    Or you can import the two images into graphics software like gimp. Invert the colours in the top image, then knock transparency for that layer down to 50%. If the images are identi…

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    It would help if Linux games actually worked on Linux, instead of only on single version of Ubuntu that's usually a few years out of date, and you have to have libraries X, Y and Z…

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    I thought the Lunar Guidance computer used cooperative multitasking.

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    Comment #12032887

    The Germans fired nearly as many shells, 1,100,000, in just the first five hours of the 1918 Spring Offensive.

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    Because nations tend to avoid starting wars they'll obviously lose. If the US military falls behind technologically, other nations might start thinking defeat isn't so obvious any …

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    Are most drone operators experts on bird of prey escape tactics?

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    The US Army's version might be new, but the general idea isn't. The Russian Drozd is the earliest of this type of system I'm aware of, and that was fielded in the late 70s.

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    Comment #11587966

    That's more conspiracy theorist, than cynic.

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    I'd recommend Altirra even if you're on Linux, it works well through WINE.

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    There probably isn't enough data to render a full image, but how many lines do we need to draw to give the impression of a person, or a tree? Surprisingly few. Couldn't the same ap…

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    We might be looking for sentences and words that just aren't there. Dolphins see with sound, so maybe all those clicks and whistles are their way of sketching images for each other…

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    I though slat armour worked because RPGs only had a detonator in the nose, so unless you were very unlucky and the tip of the RPG hit a slat, the RPG would just jam itself between …