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vixin

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    Comment #8464562

    Possible to check this out. Society is polarizing and smart people are now tending to associate with other smart people to an extent that did not occur earlier. How are their proge…

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    Comment #8455137

    Can we stop these generalizations? Elsewhere in these comments we have a 'society that thinks'. Now we have the views of 'everybody'. Thanks but no.

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    Comment #8455124

    There is no such thing as society. There are individuals who have views which may or may not be properly or partially informed. So whose view shall we take on fairness? Whatever le…

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    Comment #8452615

    Each to their own. I find it depressing to watch yet another clueless director desperately trying to make his reputation as a 'fresh talent in opera' with a stage littered with the…

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    Comment #8445163

    This is its JS port.

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    Comment #8443381

    I'm 'people' as well and am not alienated. Nothing to stop you offering a mini-lecture on PR but for myself, rather you didn't. I can make up my own mind on Kaya as presented.

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    Comment #8437219

    If Google 'should' pay taxes and have not, why haven't they been taken to court? That's tax evasion. Tax avoidance is what sensible people do. You look at the rules, follow them an…

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    Comment #8425899

    It's terrible at night when there's no wind and during the day when there's cloud cover and no wind. So you run the capital intensive parallel generators - and that's called runnin…

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    Comment #8392999

    You are notes in Markdown? What Sir, a mere note?

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    Comment #8388939

    What a load of begging questions. I wonder what you have to be, to be special according to the flavor of meaning you just happen to prefer?

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    Comment #8387833

    Implosion Sphere for Fat Man nearly assembled and about to be placed inside it's casing. "Its casing". Why do people have such a problem with it's and its?

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    Comment #8384545

    If Putin is indeed immensely rich then it's difficult to see how he could accumulate such wealth other than by corrruption. If corruption is responsible for some folk's wealth in t…

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    Comment #8379353

    'With industrial society, on the other hand, we work as much as possible because it is labor that gives us money. '. Labor doesn't give us money. Creation of value in goods or sevi…

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    Comment #8345534

    But this scenario doesn't seem to have convinced the governments of the world does it? Maybe they've taken on the argument in http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/ Your test …

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    Comment #8321171

    Private link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel

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    Comment #8312752

    How about David Lindsay's Arcturians (Voyage to Arcturus) who were able to see two extra colors namely jale and ulfire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus

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    Comment #8311825

    'the body can make Vitamin D by itself'. Sorry for underlining the obvious but no, it can't. It needs sunlight and the prevalence of rickets (as a result of vit D deficiency) in wo…

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    Comment #8283820

    Not true. They will once they understand the significance of the Westminster parliament losing 52 Scottish Labour MPs which would leave the rest of the UK with a strong Tory majori…

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    Comment #8280572

    'Is it possible alcohol could just be killing bacteria enough to reduce the effect?' Answer: 'yes it is possible'. The strawman of 'association and causation' is introduced by you.…

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    Comment #8272656

    Why "technology" in inverted commas? That's an unwarranted sneer.

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    Comment #8267491

    That may be your belief but there are plenty of people who think otherwise. http://biasedbbc.org/

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    Comment #8263886

    Maybe I've missed something but where is the exaggeration in the headline 'Methylphenidate Exposure Induces Dopamine Neuron Loss in Mice '? You mean it doesn't and they're wrong?

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    Comment #8256907

    I don't know about 'unfriendly' but these appear to be the numbers: "The French consulate in London estimates between 300,000 and 400,000 French citizens live in the British capita…

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    Comment #8248992

    In that case the UK is in an even worse predicament: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/fraser-nelson/2014/08/why-brita... ( Why Britain is poorer than any US state, other than Mississip…

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    Comment #8222021

    its pad.