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by dejb 17y ago
Android?
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I'm surprised you don't mention Windows Mobile. I'm not is the US. Can you guys actually use WinMo phones in the US? Do you have access to something like the 'HTC Touch HD' over there? This isn't a rhetorical question I just don't know. I'
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Wow you iPhone guys sure are sensitive. I see this a playing out much like the Mac from 84 onwards with regards to the UI. > ...which has sold a billion applications in less than a year Actually this is downloads not sales. Most estimat
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> The NEXT next iPhone needs to really be your "personal computer". Would you allow your main personal computer to have such a closed system that you aren't even allow to install unapproved software on it? I agree that this device will
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The Next iphone will still be one generation behind the next crop of smartphones from HTC or other manufacturers. At about the same time they introduce video someone else will be introducing a screen close to the 1024 pixels wide. After the
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I think the description provided in the article is pretty unambiguous. Perhaps other people might want different behaviours but what was described is the article is exactly what I want. I don't care if the cache is valid. I don't care if th
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by dejb 17y ago
All I've ever wanted from adblock was a 'Disable ads on this site' button. Maybe they could even make it social so a central list of blocked sites could be generated. Normally I'm happy to see the ads. For me it is part of the experience.(M
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Yes they would if the title of the article was accurate. But it isn't. The title is a poor piece of sensationalistic journalism. They are only issuing 'take down' notices for direct links. This is stupid enough in itself and should be ridic
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I believe this is inaccurate. After reading through the entire article and the page on EFF there is no indication of a take down notice for anything but a direct link to the 'offending material'. If I've missed something please let me know.
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see my reply to the other post in this thread.
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I think you have misinterpreted my perspective. The point is not whether pork is safe to eat here and now. I was more talking about whether it was originally responsible for the zoonotic transfer from pig to human that must have occurred. T
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I looked up the reference you provided and it says 'Eating properly handled and cooked pork and pork products is safe. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 160°F kills the swine flu virus as it does other bacteria and viruses.' So you
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You might be able to get something going if you release it as open source. I'm sure there are examples of successful open source companies in comparable sectors.
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I found it useful. Better to get another few data points than nothing. They even mentioned themselves that the rates were quite variable.
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> The bigger issue with veganism (and to a lesser extent vegetarianism) is that it requires cleverness to avoid malnutrition. On balance I think it takes less cleverness to be a healthy vegetarian than it does than a healthy meat eater.
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I'm seeing a lot of contradictory indications in the news. 'China bans pork from US/Mexico', reports that 'properly cooked' pork is fine. You would think the original mutation could easily have happened in circumstances that are different f
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Also it is quite an inconveniently long word. If you strongly agree you are a 'singularitarian' which is a bit of a tongue twister.
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I agree with many of your points (uncool, sloganeering). But I find it interesting that you are saying the original idea is not worthy of consideration ('irrelevant') because you think it MIGHT be incorrect ('to the best of my knowledge').
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It is pretty sad to see the knee jerk emotional response that many otherwise rational people have when it comes to the subject of impacts of meat eating. I guess you could call it another 'inconvenient truth'.
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You have this completely wrong. It takes about 10 times the plant calories to produce meat calories. If the world stopped eating meat we would would be able to feed many more people.
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Better to look at the actual Gallup poll. http://www.gallup.com/poll/116590/Increased-Number-Think-Glo...
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> Anyone care to dispute the notion that the risk of getting run over by a bus would be much reduced if you never left the house? Anyone care to dispute the notion that vegetarians live healthier lives than meat eaters? Anyone care to p
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Partially agreed about the vegan part. I wasn't trying to get too technical. However disease transmission mostly seems to occur via eating meat rather than milk or eggs. I do think it is entirely practical and possible that that most of hum
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Possibly true. However there must have originally been some transfer from pigs to humans. Eating pigs and keeping them as livestock almost certainly contributed to the disease occurring. It is too late to stop this one but what about the ne
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You've got to remember this guy is speaking from the perspective of a biologist. To him an economic events like the like the Global Financial Crisis are pretty much irrelevant. Even if global warming had a an effect like 50 years of GFC it
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So where can we get your e-book?
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> Leaving aside for the moment your assumption that eating animals is equal to torturing them I don't assume or believe this. What I referred to was modern factory farming or feedlots. Pigs in particular are subject to some of the most
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On a similar vain I'd like to point out that Mechanical Turk jobs can only be submitted by people from the US. I can't see any reason for this. It does tend to reinforce the image of inequality. Any thoughts and any ways to get around this?
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I am stating reality as I see it and then deriving my morals from that view of reality. Your argument starts from a desired result (the 'elevation of humans') and works back toward reality from there. Humans are meat. That is reality. Even
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It was not a statement of direct equivalence and I stand by the comparison. Do you believe that animals have a lesser capacity for feeling than children? Their is intellectual capacity is at a similar level. Doesn't it make sense that they

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