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Perhaps you could contact someone like ScreenSafeUK and have them do a more detailed analysis of your blood. I don't know if they test food but I would imagine they could help you locate someone who does.
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Are you talking about doing something like this? Found these on bose.com.
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http://rt.com/news/torture-eu-amnesty-international/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1508662/Europe-involved-with-100-torture-flight-prisoners.html http://www.voanews.com/english/news/europe/Rights-Report-Condemns-European-Attitude-to-Torture-97393294.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/703670.stm
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Which one is ok and which one is not? Both are legal and both are illegal depending on the circumstances.
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I'm not sure that the statement of one person proves your implication (below) that Americans are stupid.
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Goods and Services... http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/199.asp
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Topics that I treat with extreme caution: Your money. How you raise your kids. My wife's mother. Holy grail of feminine gratification. Feminine fantasies. Generalizations about what women want. Suggestions that women feel attractiveness is their number one goal. Suggestions that women desire to be put on a pedestal. I think I may just watch this from the sidelines.
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To use an extreme example... If 90% of the mass of the earth were at the north pole, are you saying that no matter where you stood on the surface of the earth, you would feel gravity equally?
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I think that many times people use the negative vote as a polite way to say, "I am trying to see things from your perspective but I can't get my head that far up my ass!".
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You are mistaken. Read what Spyman posted.
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You are mistaken. Read what Spyman posted.
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It shouldn't be that alien of a concept. Most of us run our romantic relationships that way. "You can go to the party without me, we both know that temptation will be there, and what I hope you will do is ignore that temptation and remain faithful to me. Or there will be hell to pay!" Knowing someone chooses to be faithful means a lot.
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Not as far as I know. The only thing I can think of is when Bush got just a wee bit carried away in 2003 and declared that hostilities in Irag were over. I don't recall any similar declaration regarding the war in Afghanistan, or the 'War on Terror'. Do you have any reason to believe this is true other than it is how you would react? I don't know the mindset of moderate backers of terrorism, but I wouldn't be surprised if the long term humiliation of putting bin Laden on trial according to Western secular laws, and then finally executing or imprisoning him for life, might instead turn moderate supporters into hard core supporters. I'd be happy to hear of any data that points one way or the other. I will go along with the idea that we can and should act better than we do. I'm just not prepared to concede the point that the killing of bin Laden is acting bad. They shot at us, we shot at them. I don't feel the distinction of relative rank within the beligerents is an obvious cutoff. At one time combatants would not purposely target any officers because it was believed they were needed to maintain control of their troops. And you don't mind us killing the lower ranking people, but not the top ranking. Too fuzzy for me. I don't know if I can make a compelling argument that you should be able to target bin Laden, but I also don't believe a compelling argument can be made for not targeting bin Laden. And so I don't second guess this decision made by Obama and the military. Either way a sizable portion of the populace will think you were wrong. If you attack a foe you have to expect the foe will fight back. I seriously doubt that bin Laden's last thoughts were that the Americans were not being fair to him by not taking him into custody.
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What is the Physiological Function of Toothache?
zapatos replied to Dekan's topic in Anatomy, Physiology and Neuroscience
The pain in the tooth also prompts you to take the appropriate action. The pains are not specific to the actions we should take, and they cannot 'know' if there is something that can be done or not. The burning finger pain did not say 'move your hand', it just said something was wrong and you then made the decision to move your hand. Likewise, the pain in your tooth is just saying something is wrong, and you have to decide what to do; bash out the tooth, go to the dentist, or spit out the red hot coal that was stuck to your freshly grilled mastodon and is now burning your tooth. -
Aspirin, a light beer (if no risk of return), and oxygen from my mother's oxygen tank.
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Different types of oil sell for different prices, but the base price of comparable oil is pretty much the same for all countries on the open market. Of course if you own the oil you can easily sell it for less to certain customers, as many state run oil industries do within their own country to keep the price of oil products down for their citizens. The price of oil is determined by its value to others, supply, demand, fear, OPEC, stockpiles, the economy, refining capabilities, war, technology, etc.
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I was in a bit of a twist that day. My apologies for my sarcasm. I don't recall that being the case. What specific declaration are you speaking of? I just read an interesting commentary on the celebrations. It pointed out that the majority of those celebrating were young and in grade school or high school at the time of 9/11. To that group of people bin Laden was the face of the enemy, similar to the way Hitler was during WWII. To them the elimination of public enemy #1 was worthy of celebration just as people would have done in '43 if Hitler had been taken out. Would you have found it acceptable to drop a bomb on the compound from 40,000 feet? Did you feel we had to try to take him alive? Is it acceptable to kill other known terrorists in Pakistan with drone attacks or do we have to try to capture them also?
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African violets are small, cheap, easy to grow, and flower a lot. They like higher humidity so you can add in the new task of 'misting' the plant, or you can set the flower pot on a pan full of pebbles and keep water in the pebbles to create a micro environment of humidity. If you do vegetables you get to eat it at the end, but some are interesting when they flower. If you let brocolli grow beyond when you normally harvest it you'll see the entire head bloom.
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It's not a competition between which deaths are the worst. No one is suggesting these other problems not be addressed. It was just a call to be cognizant of the feelings of those who have suffered a loss. Knowing that more people die in car accidents or of cancer does not do much to help those who have suffered a loss due to a less pervasive problem. The feelings of all survivors deserve respect. Please take into consideration the feelings of the family of a cancer victim (or the victim of anything that is not our #1 priority) before saying that the cause of their death "...was never really that important...can we please focus on the more important things please?" I apologize for letting my emotions come through on my previous post.
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When the twin towers came down thousands died, and in the years since tens of thousands have suffered as a result of it. Spouses, parents, children. Someone close to my son died because of bin Laden, and now my son is joining the military so that he will be in a position to help keep others safe. So now I get to worry about him every day. Keeping it in perspective is not easy to do when it happens to you. And then being told that what happened is not important, and that we should get back to the more important topics we discuss on this site is somewhat hard to swallow. Especially when it's only been two days since bin Laden died, and those more important topics include such weighty matters as 'Eyelash Length' and 'Music Downloading'. I understand the need to keep things in perspective, and I know no one is being disrespectful to those who are affected, but I also think we need to remember what happened to people and try to see things from their perspective.
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So if I ask what is in the basement of a house that has not yet been built, you believe 'empty space' to be the correct answer? Or are you just ignoring my suggestion that the question may be meaningless? I am almost speechless. You are happy to use the argument on me that perhaps I just can't comprehend some things and therefore should not rule out the possibility that my idea is wrong. That I should keep an open mind. Yet when I suggested that to you previously, you barely took the time to ignore me. So back at you. Just because you cannot imagine finite space, that does not make it infinite.
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Tell it to the victims (number of dead in parentheses), their families and friends. But as long as it is not personally an issue for you, then by all means everyone else should move on. 13 Dec 1921: bombing of Bolgard palace in Bessarabia (modern Moldova) (100) 16 Apr 1925: bombing of cathedral in Sophia, Bulgaria (160) 18 May 1973: mid-air bombing of Aeroflot airliner, Siberia (100) 4 Dec 1977: crash of hijacked Malaysian airliner near Malaysia (100) 20 Aug 1978: arson of theater in Abadan, Iran (477) 20 Nov-5 Dec 1979: hostage taking at Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (includes 87 terrorists killed) (240) 23 Sep 1983: crash of Gulf Air flight following mid-air bombing over the UAE (112) 23 Oct 1983: truck bombings of U.S. Marine and French barracks, Beirut, Lebanon (301) 14 May 1985: armed attack on crowds in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (150) 23 Jun 1985: mid-air bombing of Air India flight off Ireland, and attempted bombing of second flight in Canada (331) 18 Apr 1987: roadway ambush near Alut Oya, Sri Lanka (127) 21 Apr 1987: bombing of bus depot in Columbo, Sri Lanka (106) 29 Nov 1987: mid-air bombing of Korean Air flight near Burma (115) 21 Dec 1988: mid-air bombing of Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland (270) 19 Sep 1989: mid-air bombing of French UTA flight near Bilma, Niger (171) 27 Nov 1989: mid-air bombing of Avianca flight in Bogota, Columbia (110) 3 Aug 1990: armed attack at two mosques in Kathankudy, Sri Lanka (140) 13 Aug 1990: armed attack at mosque in Eravur, Sri Lanka (122) 2 Oct 1990: crash of hijacked PRC airliner in Guangzhou, PRC (132) 12 Mar 1993: 15 bombings in Bombay, India (317) 22 Sep 1993: crash of airliner struck by missile in Sukhumi, Georgia (106) 19 Apr 1995: truck bombing of federal building, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA (169) 14-19 June 1996: hostage taking in Budennovsk, Russia, and two failed rescue attempts (143) 23 Nov 1996: crash of hijacked Ethiopian Air flight off Comoros (127) 29 Aug 1997: attacks at Sidi Moussa and Hais Rais, Algeria (238) 22 Sep 1997: attack at Ben Talha, Algeria (277) 30 Dec 1997: attack at Ami Moussa, Algeria (272) 4 Jan 1998: attacks at Had Chekala, Remka, and Ain Tarik, Algeria (172) 11 Jan 1998: attack on movie theater and mosque at Sidi Hamed, Algeria (103) 8 Aug 1998: truck bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Saalam, Tanzania (303) 13 Sep 1999: bombing of apartment building in Moscow, Russia (130) 31 Oct 1999: intentional crash of Egypt Air flight off Massachusetts, USA, by pilot (217) 10 Aug 2001: attack on train south of Luanda, Angola (152) 11 Sep 2001: crashing of hijacked planes into World Trade Center, New York City, New York, Pentagon in Alexandria, Virginia, and site in Pennsylvania, USA (2,993) 12 Oct 2002: car bombing outside nightclub in Kuta, Indonesia (202) 26 Oct 2002: hostage taking and attempted rescue in theater in Moscow, Russia (includes 41 terrorists killed) (170) 29 Aug 2003: car bombing outside mosque in Najaf, Iraq (125) 1 Feb 2004: two suicide bombings of political party offices in Irbil, Iraq (109) 21 Feb 2004: armed attack and arson at refugee camp, Uganda (239) 27 Feb 2004: bombing and fire on ferry near Manila, Philippines (118) 2 Mar 2004: multiple suicide bombings at shrines in Kadhimiya and Karbala, Iraq (188) 11 Mar 2004: bombings of four trains in Madrid, Spain (191) 24 Jun 2004: multiple bombings and armed attacks in several cities in Iraq (103) 1-3 Sep 2004: hostage taking at school in Beslan, Russia (includes 30 terrorists killed) (366) 28 Feb 2005: car bombing outside medical clinic in Hilla, Iraq (135) 14 Sep 2005: multiple suicide bombings and shooting attacks in Baghdad, Iraq (182) 5 Jan 2006: bombings in Karbala, Ramadi, and Baghdad, Iraq (124) 11 Jul 2006: multiple bombings on commuter trains in Mumbai, India (200) 16 Oct 2006: truck bombing of military convoy near Habarana, Sri Lanka (103) 23 Nov 2006: multiple car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq (202) 22 Jan 2007: multiple bombings in Baghdad area, Iraq (101) 3 Feb 2007: truck bombing in market place in Baghdad, Iraq (137) 6 Mar 2007: two bombings and other attacks on pilgrims, Hilla, Iraq (137) 27 Mar 2007: two truck bombings in Tal Afar, Iraq (152) 18 Apr 2007: bombings in Baghdad, Iraq (193) 3-10 Jul 2007: hostage taking and subsequent storming of mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan (102) 7 Jul 2007: bombings in Baghdad and Armili, Iraq (182) 14 Aug 2007: multiple truck bombings in Al-Qataniyah and Al-Adnaniyah, Iraq (520) 18 Oct 2007: bombing of motorcade in Karachi, Pakistan (137) 17 Feb 2008: bombing at dogfighting festival in Kandahar, Afghanistan (105) 26-29 Nov 2008: multiple gun and grenade attacks and hostage takings in Mumbai, India (174) 19 Aug 2009: multiple bombings at government sites in Baghdad, Iraq (102) 25 Oct 2009: two vehicle bombings at government buildings in Baghdad, Iraq (155) 28 Oct 2009: bombing at marketplace in Pakistan (118) 8 Dec 2009: five car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq (127) 10 May 2010: multiple bombings in Hilla, Basra, al-Suwayra, and other cities, Iraq (102) http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/globalterrorism1.html http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/0805/Last-year-10-999-terrorist-attacks-worldwide-a-decline-from-2008
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Perhaps nothing lies beyond the closure. Not the nothing like empty space, but the nothing of it being a meaningless question. Similar to the question of "What is in the basement of a house that has not yet been built?".
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Yes, yes, its our fault. If only we hadn't celebrated they would have stopped their attacks. What were we thinking? Are you seriously suggesting that simply killing bin Laden was not enough motivation for future attacks? They had to see us celebrating to put them over the top? It's a dirty business and if you lead attacks you have to expect that violence will come your way. Celebrations in the street are a side show to the people making the decisions. Obama would have approved the attack whether people celebrated the 9/11 destruction or not. And there will be retaliation on us whether Americans celebrate or sit quietly at home.
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You will have no problem getting a home equity loan, and it will consolidate your debt with a lower interest rate. Smart move.