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Forum: Current Events Topic: How climate change made humans who we are |
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:23 am
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| Human evolution is still on going but it's now being directed into lower biological cost less survivable paths due to the medical support structure for the sick, weak and over sensitive. People that would have died from their overreacting immune systems now can live mostly normal lives. People with ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: 106 teen car crash deaths prompt B.C. coroner to call for li |
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:15 am
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Replies: 12
Views: 274
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| The only reform to driving testing and licencing I will support is one that forces all drivers to take and pass to the new standard. I'd be fair, any current driver could challenge the tests but they would need to score 95% or higher on the practical and written tests, or else be required to enter t... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: French Artist’s Calls For Peace End in Brutal Beating |
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Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:09 am
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Replies: 5
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PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9: Sounds like the work of some rogue Christians. Either that or some Buddhists felt left out.
Could have been some Jainist, you know how they get.
Also their symbol makes a much better x than the Star of David. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Google offers 2GB free storage for security check |
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:28 am
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Replies: 34
Views: 490
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DrCaleb DrCaleb: This requires you give them your real name, and phone number. Something I will not do.
Where did you read that?
From the link it seems that you just have to run the security check thingy, you don't actually have to do anything or give them any more real information. |
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Forum: General Jibber Jabber Topic: Obama asks U.S. Congress for war powers |
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Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:26 am
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Replies: 54
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| When does Obama need to do things constitutionally? |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Thief nabs $17,000 from B.C. woman using only a stolen drive |
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:49 am
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Replies: 3
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| TD has frightfully bad security. The online banking has a character limit of 8 and doesn't allow anything but letters and numbers. They also don't do IP authentication which is nice to use but scary. I'd hope that a computer with an IP address from outside of Canada that has never logged into my onl... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Scrapping of long-form census causing long-term issues for b |
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:43 am
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Replies: 10
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| I don't mean to be rude or confrontational, and these long quoting back and forth can become a bit much. But I see the right to privacy as equal to any other right and I feel strongly about protecting all of them. My simple view is that census data is required by the government to operate effectivel... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Scrapping of long-form census causing long-term issues for b |
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 8:32 pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 286
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| I disagree. It may seem immaterial to you, but there are numerous government agencies that rely on this sort of information in order to make the most efficient use of resources possible. Same goes with the business community. That said, I do hope the business community is paying for this informatio... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Scrapping of long-form census causing long-term issues for b |
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 6:02 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Frankly, I don't see how any of those questions are wildly inappropriate. They might seem obscure to you, but to a statician they make sense. I'm not saying that the information they want to collect is obscure, I'm saying it's private and being forced by law to tell them is wrong. If they want to c... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Scrapping of long-form census causing long-term issues for b |
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:41 pm
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| Well there's a thought. What if there were financial incentive to complete one? What were some of those questions? If you have a store reward card that's just one of the store's method of tracking your spending habits. A fair trade in my mind, and one I always opt out of. Some of the questions to q... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Extremist links to Muslim Students Association |
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 1:28 am
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Replies: 7
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| Well on the upside, at least it's easier to make up a watch list. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Search and Resue technician missing. |
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 1:20 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 350
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| If you want to do stuff in the mountains in an area that's at high risk for an avalanche then be sure you're doing it in the ground that's not going to be in path of an avalanche. Another death of someone that didn't follow the advisories. The only thing left to do is to try and learn from this avoi... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Scrapping of long-form census causing long-term issues for b |
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2015 12:58 am
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| If a business wants my information to make a profit they can pay me for it, not have the government hold a gun to my head and force me to tell them. Some of the questions on the long form were wildly inappropriate, overly intrusive and personal. Privacy is a right we have, I won't give it up to spie... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Dad Refuses to Give Up Newborn Son With Down Syndrome |
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 6:55 pm
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Replies: 14
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andyt andyt: I doubt it was done, or there would be no baby. But who knows what they do in Armenia.
Either way the outcome is a real shame. |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: US family 'stages mock abduction of boy, six, for being too |
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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2015 5:39 pm
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Replies: 3
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| What a waste of police time and social services. The charges filed fail all of the basic requirements for those laws within the state of Missouri. Also if the kid was dumb enough to get into a car, maybe this was a good lesson. I predict all charges dropped, but state social workers to try and take ... |
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