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Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 1140

by hereticia on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:33AM (#19309695) Attached to: Best Presidential Candidate for Nerds?

Mormon 72 24
Married for third time 67 30
72 years old 57 42

So the 3 front-runners for the Republican nomination have some serious problems getting elected (best case, Romney, still has 1/4 of Republicans who won't vote for him based on his religion). For me it looks like it is time to finally vote Libertarian - I don't have the usual excuse of "I'm throwing my vote away for somebody who won't get elected" because voting for a Republican looks like the same thing this time around.

Seriously, I'm a Mormon Republican and even *I* don't want to vote for Romney.

Second-gen iPhone Confirmed? 186

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @11:20AM from the getting-ahead-of-themselves-a-bit dept.

gadgetopia writes "ITWire is reporting that the Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta has seemingly confirmed a second generation of the Apple iPhone. Another report referenced by the article suggests the new model could come with a different case design. 'Quanta and Apple already enjoy a strong relationship, with Quanta building both MacBooks and iPods for Apple to sell worldwide, although Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is reported to be building the first batch of iPhones due to arrive in the US market by the end of June. Reports suggest Quanta has received an order for 5 million iPhones which are to be shipped in September ... Presumably this could entail a 3G or even 3.5G HSDPA iPhone for European markets due to get the iPhone by the end of the year, or even the addition of more memory - imagine a 16Gb or even 32Gb iPhone, unlikely though those will be this year mainly due to the high cost of 16 or 32Gb of flash memory.'"

Submission + - Drive for Altruism is Hardwired, Like Sex or Food

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Dekortage

on Tuesday May 29, 2007 @10:08AM

Dekortage writes: "Your brain is pre-wired to enjoy placing the interests of others ahead of your own. At least, that's what neuroscientists are claiming in the Washington Post. In studies, "generosity activated a primitive part of the brain that usually lights up in response to food or sex.... Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable." Such neuroscience "has opened up a new window on what it means to be good," although many philosophers over recorded history have suggested similar things. Are you hardwired for good?"

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