I met my wife online (in a chat channel...). If internet dating tools had been prevalent then,a nd if we had used them... we never would have turned up as a compatible match.

Sometimes it's the things that you disagree on that make you a good match, as well as the things that you agree on. I suspect that only a narcissistic few would be truly fulfilled with someone who had the exact same way of thinking, likes, dislikes, etc as themselves.

You have a valid point, but you decided to devolve into random insults and sarcasm while making it. A shame.

To play a bit of devil's advocate here: could not the nurse make the exact same argument? The patient's right to be protected ends when it involves injecting a substance into the caregiver. Especially when you consider that if the same caregiver is following proper hygiene for someone in his or her position, chances of infection are already minimal -- even if they got the flu, and even if they actually came into work while infected with the flu.

Not saying that I agree with the nurses' decisions here, but certainly I can understand them from that perspective.

Without the middle-man:

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

On the surface, there are *minor* visual similarities. Having used both I'm fairly comfortable saying that RIM didn't draw inspiration from MS here. It actually is an evolution of what they had in their playbook OS - released almost 2 years ago now.

Also, Monsanto paid top dollar for him to reconsider his opinions!

I'd like to believe he's telling the truth, but it's so rare - and he's now glossing over actual potential problems with GM foods, which is another flag.

See, there you go, losing what credibility you may have had. Couldn't just be that they saw an opportunity and took it, could it?

It would be great if you provided some actual citations for the studies you referenced.

All that aside, I too am suspicious of turnarounds in opinion like this - it's very rare that a person can admit that he was wrong on such a scale.

You operate on the belief that children think like rational adults. They *can* - but many don't, and certainly not where their own well-being is concerned. That's why we don't turn them out at 12 to fend for themselves.

You may stop to consider that this was not for your benefit, so much as for your parents'.

We need a *break* at the end of the day. Even from parenting our oh-so-precocious and darling children ;)

Aren't you late for Social Studies?

I knew someone(s) would bring up the "don't be evil" thing. But for it to be a mantra, they'd have to actually keep repeating it. When was the last time they actually said that? 5 years ago? 10? Longer?

Genesis vs S-Class - here's a picture for the visual comparison: http://www.thecarconnection.com/car-compare-results/hyundai_genesis_2010-vs-mercedes-benz_s-class_2010. You can also search sonata and cls550.

They have also mimicked BMW, Jaguar. (Obviously in different cars - or I'd assumed it was obvious anyway...) I'm also assuming you don't need me to google every one for you ;)

That was because the Feds cared about both the law and PR when it came to the Branch Davidians. They could just as easily have leveled the place in a few minutes.

D'oh. Need more coffee.

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