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13y ago
He is familiar with Thailand and might go back there.
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13y ago
Hopefully this decade we will be reading a news story about polio's global eradication.
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I think they mean manages because it was a very difficult achievement with significant hurdles. It's like if I had a difficult time with school but I worked hard at it and I say "I managed to graduate."
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13y ago
Let me put it this way: It is NEVER worth putting at risk even one GLOBAL humanitarian campaign that has been going on since 1988 and is so far 99.9% effective, has cost billions of dollars, has saved thousands, if not millions of lives, an
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13y ago
Not only with people refuse vaccination, but more importantly entire governments will refuse vaccinations on its people, even if its people are willing to receive them because of distrust of vaccination programs. This is huge, really real
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13y ago
I permanently rented an apartment for 4 of the 5 years I was in college why wasn't that my address? I lived there full time yes during summer.
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13y ago
I have no debt and significant savings/investments but that is because I don’t own a house. We have this social expectation in the USA that one must be a homeowner or they are nobody or haven't made it. Even those who can't a
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13y ago
Excuse me? Do you know how close we are to eradicating polio? Eradication. Nobody will ever die or suffer from polio again, forever. This will save millions of lives over the years, more people than Bin Laden could ever kill. We are so clo
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13y ago
Only if you consider 17 cases in the past year "massive" and no cases in the last 3 months. http://www.polioeradication.org/Dataandmonitoring/Poliothisw...
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13y ago
I feel this is the ultimate end result of every single "consumer" organization such as this. Its sad really...
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True Christianity? Let's not invoke the no true Scotsman fallacy here. Yes it is true that some Christians at some times thought celebrating birthdays was wrong. Notably the Puritans and Quakers and currently the Jehovah's witnes
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13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_age_reckoning Everyone is born 1 year old too.
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People's review habits in general are bizarre. I have read reviews like "I haven't gotten a chance to use the product yet" with a 3 star rating. One wonders what exactly they are reviewing. Or recipe reviews are the wei
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13y ago
Citations for this?
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At my doctor and pharmacy they look me up by birthdate only in the computer. I assume they only need more data if there is a collision.
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13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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13y ago
Define doesn't censor results. They censor results by blocking content mills and related sites, for example. http://www.technologyreview.com/view/419965/the-search-engin... The content he’s blocking includes
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13y ago
>But what if real name was forced, like on facebook Facebook doesn't force real names in practice, I know a bunch of people who have Facebook pages under non-real names and a bunch of joke ones, ones for dogs, one for a trash can. R
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Hey, that's the BBB we are talking about here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8kfV9kONw Watch the whole video if you haven't seen it before.
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13y ago
Some customers take themselves too seriously. I've worked in the service industry, and the vast majority of customers are great, but some just want to cause trouble and blame it on the business because they are in a bad mood or somethi
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13y ago
Haha I'm sorry! I didn't know that, that's why I said "what?" I don't read the bottle because I am a huge beer snob who doesn't ever touch a Budweiser. But I'm just one of those beer snobs who really
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13y ago
>US citizens are only 313 millions and the US law protects you against surveillance. This actually isn't true. The USA PATRIOT Act, Title II expanded surveillance procedures greatly so that pretty much anything is covered under it,
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13y ago
What? Is this a plug for Budweiser? They are a terrible beer that is getting more terrible. www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-10-25/the-plot-to-destroy-americas-beer
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13y ago
Overstock is great I've bought a lot of things from them in the past including my bed and mattress. I like going to them equal to Amazon. Good prices, good selection, $2.29 shipping on all all orders. One of my favorite online places
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13y ago
For someone with a password manager and auto fill is most definitely is.
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I am waiting for an insured bitcoin bank. One that is as easy to use or easier to use as debit credit or even better paypal. I only use paypal because it is just so friggin easy. Login, done. No sharing through third party, no typing number
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13y ago
Thank you.
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>I believe it is a common strategy for (especially) women to exploit this in order to gain some sort of advantage over their partners following a breakup. The data is here. Common? You decide. http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/ort
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Men seek restraining orders, as well, women at a slightly higher rate... http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/ortner/docs/sorenson_doc2.pdf Each year, more than one million people in the United States obtain restraining order
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13y ago
>If someone is out to kill you, go hide with relatives, some ways not too close. Define not too close. My closest relatives are over 200 miles away. Am I expected to quit my job? Take my children (If I had them) out of school? For how lo
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