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Clarke's Third Law applies, obviously
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Damn, that's impressive!
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And also campaigns against healthcare reform.
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Would you like some oxygen free cables to go with that?
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Some 36% thought homosexual acts were "always" or "mostly" wrong, down from 62% when the British Social Attitudes survey was first carried out, in 1983.
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 11:31 am (UTC)And yes, me too. :/
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Date: 2010-01-27 11:31 am (UTC)All of which is rubbish, but during the 50s America indoctrinated people so well against communism that government is still seen as being eeeeevil by a large chunk of the population.
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Date: 2010-01-27 12:44 pm (UTC)They're against it because death panels bureaucrats killing grandma aborted Mozart no freedom to choose.
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Date: 2010-01-27 01:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 01:30 pm (UTC)I like weetabix. Or Muesli.
Cornflakes are clearly for the Wrong Kind Of Person.
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Date: 2010-01-27 01:31 pm (UTC)I think I told you about a friend who spent a year in a Nicaraguan village in 1980 or so, and then visited a supermarket. Freaked out.
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Date: 2010-01-27 01:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 01:55 pm (UTC)Crunchy / nutty / fruity / pencil shavings (aka bran flakes): these are tangible differences that you can have a preference for. But a lot of things (toothpaste, say, or headphones where I am currently paralyzed by the options), the choice is meaningless. I have no way of rating the different headphones, and there are dozens upon dozens of models at all manner of prices. I can't fathom what the choice represents and so I shirk from it, and have been doing so for over a year now since my iPod headphones broke.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:17 pm (UTC)As for toothpaste - I hate really minty toothpaste, and don't like the texture of whitening toothpaste that Julie uses, so we have different toothpastes. If you don't care which kind you use then just buy the cheapest one - and then if you don't like it throw it away and buy a different one.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:20 pm (UTC)BTW the whitening ones wear away your enamel.
Thanks for the tips. These would be exclusively for being out, so better noise reduction would be better. I tried Katie's which were maybe the Sennheiser.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 03:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 02:31 pm (UTC)Whereas I'm stuck trying to find a laptop for a friend. Needs to run Windows 7, minimal use - surfing, some movies. 15 inch. Keyboard with lots of travel and depth. Cheap shipping. €400. Not easy, as it turns out.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:38 pm (UTC)http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179694
£350 - 15", comes with Windows 7. My keyboard is fine for me, but it's hard to know without trying it what this one is like. It has a ATI Radeon Mobility in it, which isn't up to Modern Warfare (I'd imagine) but happily plays World of Warcraft.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:48 pm (UTC)This is one of the many places it gets interesting. Now, Laptops Direct have it, but I'd really like to scrape off that excess €34.79.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:51 pm (UTC)How was your keyboard? Lots of depth and movement?
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Date: 2010-02-12 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 10:56 am (UTC)Similar to the ones I have, but I'll give them a go when these wear out :->
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Date: 2010-02-12 11:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-12 01:18 pm (UTC)And they work well for Wagner you say... that's good to know. Some speakers sound great for pop but at soon as you put classical through them they're crap.
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Date: 2010-02-12 01:26 pm (UTC)But for £15...
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 02:50 pm (UTC)And competition is inherently wasteful anyway.
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Date: 2010-01-27 02:14 pm (UTC)Also much of the US is very much a society where you are responsible for everything about your life. Every man for him/herself would be an apt description. Can't afford healthcare, then you should get a better job.
Finally, an awful lot of people are already wealthy enough to have healthcare insurance, usually through their employer, and simply don't want to pay taxes to provide it to those less fortunate.
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Date: 2010-01-27 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 05:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 05:36 pm (UTC)And people with insurance may not always have it, particularly since it is often tied to employment, which again is addressed by the public option (which isn't the same as a state-funded insurance policy, merely a universal, affordable private insurance scheme).
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Date: 2010-01-27 05:24 pm (UTC)Note: not that I agree in any way, just trying to answer a good question.
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Date: 2010-01-27 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-27 11:47 am (UTC)Whilst they're a useful source of veggie food in Nowheresville, USA, the quality is terrible. Their organic dates taste of precisely nothing - an excellent way of putting someone (me) off a healthy snacking habit.
What the holy effing f*&%?
Date: 2010-01-27 12:26 pm (UTC)The advantages of offering a further discount to people who _may_ need to eat more healthily are potentially troublesome, but at least they COULD be seen as a non-judgemental helping hand. And would work EQUALLY WELL in terms of setting targets. (If you want to lose weight as an achievement, then LOSING your discount is equally an achievement. Unless there are people who are sufficiently-money tight that they can be FORCED into losing weight by holding their fiscal solvency hostage.)
I'm not great at helping people who have some (benign or serious) addiction, but I've seen both the approaches of "YOU SUCK! HERE, HAVE SOME MORE PAIN JUST TO RUB IN HOW MUCH YOU SUCK!" and "No big deal, hey, wanna hang out doing X," and I think the second works better.
Of course, I'm basing this impression mainly on the name of the company and that the products are supposed to be healthy -- assuming they're lying about the quality of their foods, then this is possibly only insulting, not necessarily worse than useless.
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Date: 2010-01-27 04:57 pm (UTC)