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vixin
12y ago
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 progeny performing?
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vixin
12y ago
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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12y ago
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 let's stop talking about 'what society thinks'
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12y ago
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 paraphernalia of modern life and a cast dressed i
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12y ago
This is its JS port.
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12y ago
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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12y ago
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 and minimize your tax bill. Google'
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12y ago
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 running fully on renewable, is it?
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12y ago
You are notes in Markdown? What Sir, a mere note?
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vixin
12y ago
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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12y ago
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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12y ago
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 the US, the appropropriate agencies should get to w
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12y ago
'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 sevices (as perceived by others) which may or may
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12y ago
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 for integrity? You have a s
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12y ago
Private link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel
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12y ago
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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12y ago
'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 women who by custom, habitually cover themselve
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12y ago
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 majority. If the vote is YES the Prime Minister in office when ind
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12y ago
'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. Congratulations on knocking
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12y ago
Why "technology" in inverted commas? That's an unwarranted sneer.
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12y ago
That may be your belief but there are plenty of people who think otherwise. http://biasedbbc.org/
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12y ago
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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12y ago
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 capital" which compares to city populatio
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12y ago
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 Mississippi )
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12y ago
its pad.
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12y ago
I believe this is cause #31: others cited include http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/07/30/list-of-excuses-for-th... Main thing is to keep the show (and funding) ticking along nicely. I'm sure it will.
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12y ago
Nice to know you're sure of the cause. Nothing to do with anything other factors of course. Meawhile this https://www.taxpayers.org.au/tophers-latest-the-true-cost-of... - a cost/benefit analysis - suggests re-ev
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12y ago
I think you mean 'subject to further studies, we think that .... x and y levels of these substances are safe'.
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http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/08/02/global-temperature-upd... gives 'data from RSS dataset for the 214 months October 1996 to July 2014'. You can make your own projections: they are likely to be a
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12y ago
Sociologist Hector Vera has called the metric system “more popular than Jesus.”. I'd rather not have my name associated with such a crass comment.
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