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17th May 13, 10:32 AM

Moe replied to a thread Talk to me about laptops in The Workshop

Thorno: does it have to be portable? I would imagine that you won't be playing games in class or at the library. I'm asking because in terms of...

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14th May 13, 6:54 PM

Moe replied to a thread Talk to me about laptops in The Workshop

If you're going to take it to class and to the library, don't go for 17 inches. It's heavy, clumsy, and not all that portable. Honestly I think for...

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13th May 13, 9:39 AM

Moe replied to a thread How do we revitalize this place? in General Discussions

No seriously they all moved to Florida.

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12th May 13, 3:59 PM

Moe replied to a thread How do we revitalize this place? in General Discussions

BYOB: This thread wasn't started by us though. There's stuff going on behind the scenes which at this point wouldn't benefit from user input. For...

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10th May 13, 4:37 PM

Moe replied to a thread Relicnews GD lifetips in General Discussions

LIFETIPS: Don't listen to random strangers on the internet giving you tips without any form of explanation or sources to back them up.

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10th May 13, 9:01 AM

Moe replied to a thread Ex-military Vet offers Arlington plot to Tsarnaev!?!? Thoughts? in General Discussions

Biologically speaking it is. There's a logical reason for loving and bonding with your offspring, which is hard-coded into all higher animals,...

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8th May 13, 9:41 AM

Moe replied to a thread Google Glass in General Discussions

Yeah I think they'll run into massive trouble abroad. Look at the issues Street View is having in Europe. This is probably going to be much worse.

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8th May 13, 9:38 AM

Moe replied to a thread Ex-military Vet offers Arlington plot to Tsarnaev!?!? Thoughts? in General Discussions

Pretty sure she offered her plot to get people like Exetus to react exactly the way he did, so mission accomplished.

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8th May 13, 9:32 AM

Moe replied to a thread And in other news, a great big Fuck You! to science from Congress in General Discussions

That's not the point. You said that a publicly traded company would not pull such a stunt. They have, multiple times. Whether they can hide behind...

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2nd May 13, 8:36 AM

Moe replied to a thread And in other news, a great big Fuck You! to science from Congress in General Discussions

I wouldn't call that deception, that's rather drastic. And no it wouldn't net you jail time, see below. That is not an apt analogy, it's a very...

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1st May 13, 6:56 PM

Moe replied to a thread And in other news, a great big Fuck You! to science from Congress in General Discussions

When you say 5% - when does their fiscal year start? NIH was asked to cut 8% or so, but because sequester didn't hit until halfway through their...

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30th Apr 13, 5:59 PM

Moe replied to a thread And in other news, a great big Fuck You! to science from Congress in General Discussions

This part is key, and it's my favorite statistic. Congress was 11% not too long ago, so 89% of Americans thought Congress sucked. Yet in the last...

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29th Apr 13, 10:00 PM

Moe replied to a thread And in other news, a great big Fuck You! to science from Congress in General Discussions

The authors acknowledged the mistake but said that it doesn't change the overall findings. That is plausible, so it may still be relevant.

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29th Apr 13, 8:16 PM

Moe started a thread And in other news, a great big Fuck You! to science from Congress in General Discussions

The Chairman of the House Committe on Science, Space and Technology, one Mr. Lamar Smith, is proposing a new way to do science in the US. Mr. Smith...

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26th Apr 13, 7:07 AM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

That's because generally speaking, people with lower incomes tend to eat more junk food. Maybe it's because many of them work several jobs and don't...

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25th Apr 13, 10:19 PM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

Those are generally not the best thing for you. They're reactive species with the potential to incur DNA damage, similar to indirect UV damage.

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25th Apr 13, 6:13 PM

Moe replied to a thread Explosion at Boston Marathon in General Discussions

Again, "hate crime" is a pretty specific, pretty drastic thing. Nothing in that video qualified as hate crimes, at best that's considered...

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25th Apr 13, 8:08 AM

Moe replied to a thread Backup of old QDB. in Forum Issues

Hey rofl, we're looking into it. I'm hoping there's a backup somewhere but stuff got misplaced at the last office party super important staff...

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24th Apr 13, 3:47 PM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

I can't disagree with anything you said there, really :) Nutrition is almost like psychology in that it's really hard to account for the bajillion...

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24th Apr 13, 8:17 AM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

No, my point is that it's not all that the trans-fat story isn't all that crazy - this is how these things work. Your post made it sound like...

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24th Apr 13, 8:11 AM

Moe replied to a thread Explosion at Boston Marathon in General Discussions

MrCarrot: That article kind of misses the point though, doesn't it? There's a whole spectrum of responses, and hate crimes are at the extreme end...

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23rd Apr 13, 8:45 PM

Moe replied to a thread Explosion at Boston Marathon in General Discussions

Okay so what is a reasonable monetary value for a human life then? 1 billion dollars is too much, but what if you save 1,000 lives? That's 1...

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23rd Apr 13, 8:43 PM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

When you put it like that, it sounds like that's somehow novel or special. We do the same thing in a lot, if not most, of medicine. We do this...

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23rd Apr 13, 4:19 PM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

Okay I'd like to hear why "refined" or "processed" foods are necessarily evil in and of themselves.

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23rd Apr 13, 8:25 AM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

Well you bolded the important part. The placebo effect is not to be underestimated. For instance, you could start taking a multivitamin a day...

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23rd Apr 13, 6:57 AM

Moe replied to a thread Explosion at Boston Marathon in General Discussions

If I steal your stuff or whack you over the head with a bat, that's a crime against you. If I detonate WMD in a crowded area, that's a crime against...

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23rd Apr 13, 6:54 AM

Moe replied to a thread Nutrition in General Discussions

Those are very broad questions, and kind of hard to answer since individuals differ greatly, and a lot of this stuff is based on statistics. Much...

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