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Same thing happened with chimps and the discovery of tool use. Jane Goodall was met by the same resistance. It is a characteristic, I would assume of the social organism as a whole. We have a lot in common with our little burrowing socia
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Nope SteveJobs is still working on it... https://github.com/stevejobs/Windows-8
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Conventional farming has many costs such as pesticides, fertilizer, fuel for farming equipment, transportation costs (fuel), and don't forget land. Allowing food to be produced anywhere with limited resources is amazing and with 7 billion m
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IQ-like tests reward speed, and as such all alternative/possible answers are not explored. In his story, he failed because he quickly devised the pattern from the deaf-mute and extrapolated gestures as the method of communication. Delibera
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My 0.02: Buy the woman a new home, what ever she wants, furnish it as she wants and pay her a largish sum of money to compensate for those things that cannot be replaced. Get insurance to cover the renters in future cases of theft or damage
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Well isn't this a pickle, according to ars the two patents that the judge have been found infridged have been ruled invalid... http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/itc-judge-says-mac... ... [Litigating Apple] noted that on the very s
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Yes, and I imagine a large number of individuals, white supremacists or not, are going to do some mental gymnastics to reconcile this finding.
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15y ago
But if you used Vonage it would count? Same type of service, different application of rules.
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Now this makes sense, thanks for pointing this out, now I don't have to cancel and get cable tv.
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The author forgot to do one very important step, send out invites to people in your closest circles that aren't on G+ yet.
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Until there is a law on the books or a judicial precedent it's debatable. The state/prosecution understands this process and will move forward until the above debate is settled. I understand it as providing your passphrase/word is providing
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Only thing I can think of that is also aneutronic pB11 fueled fusion reactor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell#Possibility_of_net_pow...
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15y ago
Polywell?
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16y ago
Since you brought up suggestions on how to improve, using the front facing camera to reflect the surrounding area on the blades, would add a touch of realism that would be ire.
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Make it easy and you 'may' just make it happen. ;)
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My point was to highlight the subtlety of the CNN statement, alluding that the very concept of looting is alien in the Japanese culture, so much so that a word does not exist for the act. It is false, of course but the announcers lack of s
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Word or no Word, its part of the culture, atleast from my small sliver from way over here in the US. Remember the scenes from 'Grave of the Fireflies'? During the fire-bombings, the boy, Sieta, would run and loot the homes of fleeing civil
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No, the private profile is essentially a public profile. If you delete a public/private profile, all access to buzz is gone, and all past 'buzzes' will not be accessible (effectively deleted).
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I used it regularly to 'buzz' interesting articles for myself and for my daughter. Its a shame that I am forced to delete my private profile, and loose my ability to use 'buzz'. We will have to strictly rely on news reader to share informa
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"I did it for the lulz" -God
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Cortisol + Epigenetics = shit we are just starting to understand. Myself included. Point being is that how we react to our environment has a profound affect on the expression (or suppression) of genes in our DNA, and can be passed on throug
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This is awesome stuff, esp. in regards to epigenetics. wiki: "In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of inherited changes in phenotype (appearance) or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in the u
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Key word being "ordinary". Once you are free of that limitation, applications of this technique on varying scales opens up a new "world" of possibilities. Pipelining/Parallelization could be achieved by throwing more bots at the problem.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminium "To create transparent aluminium, more power than is used by an entire city had to be focused into a dot with a diameter of less than one-twentieth the thickness of a human hair, and then
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That's a simple one, chicks dig scars...
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Gave it a whirl and tried to upload a smallish collection of reference ebooks. The java app failed after the first file (of 50+). Cancelled my account 15 seconds later... Reason: "It doesn't Work!"
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Customer Feedback for Search Engine Blacklist : http://seblacklist.uservoice.com/forums/94117-general
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A smaller iteration would be the ability to import/export your black lists.
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I'm going to buy a corduroy suit just for the occasion. I can't wait to walk around the office. "Vvvrrrip, vvvrrrip, vvvrrrip"
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