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by aestra 13y ago
> It's not hard to identify someone's mother on Facebook This is by design. You can identify "relationships" in Facebook, and they will display who your mother, brother, sister, even cousins are.
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by aestra 13y ago
They never taught me in school the FBI and the NSA wiretapped and had excessive surveillance on Martin Luther King Jr. to 'neutralize' him as an effective civil rights leader. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart
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by aestra 13y ago
>For whatever reason, this year was a turning point. There's a few reasons for that. The banking crisis in Cypress The opening of BTCChina The US Senate hearing on Bitcoin The explosion of price caused by the abo
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I don't understand why naive people won't understand there is real potential to do harm here.
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by aestra 13y ago
>"approved by the FDA" is still a considered a trusted metric not requiring much further thought This is a false statement. See the Dietary Supplement Health And Education Act of 1994 which is a failure of government to protect
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by aestra 13y ago
No it isn't a metaphor. Not a good one anyway. Medical screening tests are a costs benefits analysis. Science does this. There is a cost for everything. If you have a disease that isn't causing any symptoms, do you treat it, even
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by aestra 13y ago
Actually, there is the term "civil service" that denote all other government jobs that are nonmilitary. I always referred to my mother as a civil servant (she held a government job for 35 years before retiring) My husband is a car
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Yes. Or same if you agreed to pay in diamonds or gold or jewelry. If the original item can't be recovered (it was sold) I am guessing the worth in USD would be substituted.
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by aestra 13y ago
http://www.bugmenot.com/ is useful for such a case, registration required for a download.
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I don't have an opinion on either, I am just presenting what most people talk about when they speak about the rising prison population of the United States. It can be a snowball effect as well, putting people in prison early for say, d
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by aestra 13y ago
Throwing many millions of dollars on a non-existent problem is fine? Checked bags get screened. They sometimes get opened and rooted through by hand. Sometimes they leave notes saying they have rooted through your checked bags just for &quo
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by aestra 13y ago
9/11 was different. People cooperated because that was protocol at the time for a plane hijacking. Nobody expected them to use the plane as a weapon with no regard to their own lives. This was an unprecedented attack. http:/&#x2F
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by aestra 13y ago
It is well know the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Both per capita and by sheer numbers. All the breakdown you can ever ask for is here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_S
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by aestra 13y ago
Not too too many. There aren't very many executions in the US, is is losing popularity in public opinion and not practiced in all states. However, it is legal for federal crimes and military courts. For example, New York had a death pe
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I accidentally overdosed on benadryl as a kid. I was given the adult dose by my aunt who meant well but wasn't thinking just read a label and followed the instructions quickly. I was particularly small so I probably had a specifically
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by aestra 13y ago
It is thought of as harmless and it is in a lot of combo medicine. So you can take a cold/flu medicine with it in it, then some tablets for headache, then maybe another cold med, and my headache is really bad, more headache medicine,
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by aestra 13y ago
Yes, I do. From the Journal of Social History. A "Real Man's Ring": Gender and the Invention of Tradition http://www.jstor.org/stable/3790353 It wasn't until 1944 when a Catholic priest asked if a d
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by aestra 13y ago
Here's the deal. Yes, diamond ring existed before De Beers' ad campaign. They declined after WWI and especially during the Great Depression, and engagement rings were starting to go out of style, period. De Beers changed that. I
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by aestra 13y ago
Except that parents, caregivers, and strangers treat baby girls different than they treat baby boys. And they usually dress them differently (girls get girl clothes, boys get boy clothes). http://www.newsweek.com/why-parents
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This is annoying. If anything because "too girly" boys can't use it anymore too. For example, the formally boys names of Alexis and Evelyn. Girls started to outnumber boys with that name and suddenly you couldn't give yo
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by aestra 13y ago
>There are considerably more people having pre-marital sex, too. No there isn't. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/16287113/ More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, accor
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by aestra 13y ago
Thank you for sharing the diamond story. It really was one of the first national marking campaigns. De Beers paid celebrities to wear diamond engagement rings and talk about their diamond engagement rings, and now everyone "has" t
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by aestra 13y ago
Does one presume there is a "pink gene"? Pink is an artificial societal constrict of recent invention.
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People "in the industry" call them UAVs so I am so used to that term that drone sounds so weird.
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2003? First of all, I have no idea why people insist on calling UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) drones. It's a stupid term. Secondly, UAVs are much much much older than 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_a
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by aestra 13y ago
This isn't the first time it has happened. I don't have the link, but a teen streamed a completed a suicide a while back while hundreds watched. There was a question if some of the onlookers knew he was serious/it was real.
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Some more stats about American's understanding of various concepts: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind12/c7/c7s2.htm 74% of Americans could read a simple chart correctly and 66% understood the concept o
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Sources?
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Article One of the United States Constitution guarantees the writ of habeas corpus. If their conviction was based on the "strengthened" evidence, I believe not releasing them would be unlawful detention and be unconstitutional. I
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by aestra 13y ago
It really depends on the person. People are different, some may get flow from coding and others from knitting. An important point is to achieve flow you have to find what you are doing intrinsically rewarding. It is really ok that some peop

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