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I keep reading online polls on websites like this

My biggest issue is, i want two extra options, "I don't know who these people are" and "I really don't care" I'd be interested to see what the statistics would show if that was put into more polling.

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Its almost midnight, and its still overly hot.

If i go to the front of the apartment, its like an oven... i'm torn between turning the air conditioner off, and keeping it on... but i'll probably be environmental and turn it off.

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Found this via Shakenbysound

-6 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Poor (Failure) Take the test!

I take it as a matter of pride.

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As anyone who's in troy has noticed, summer has arrived, late as usual, and on overdrive to make up for missed time. (Humidity 82%, 30-35C, less that 6mph winds)... However i took it as an excuse to wash my lovely car
Next time tho i may get them to do a whole works rather than a basic scrub, but its gonna rain with a vengance some time in the next week so that would seem a bit of a waste. So i got home after getting a few bits and pieces (no noro sock yarn as yet, most yarn stores round here seem to be closed on sundays) and turned on the air conditioner.
But because its only in the kitchen, and my apartment is huge and been heated all day, it did struggle a bit, so i ended up finding a creative use for my knitting needles and a fairly useless sheet....
So now the back rooms are segmented off with the sheet, so its a lot more survivable back here. Anyway, i hope in a little while it cools down...

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Okay it may not be a volcano, but its a pretty dawn, and today was a pretty morning...

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I was reading in the Daily Mail this morning that a young woman died as a result of refusing blood transfusions post birth due to her Jehovah's Witness beliefs. Initially i was thinking what I would have done if i'd been the attending doctor. If the woman had been conscious, i'd have probably tried to get a court order to get her declared clinically insane (or trying to commit suicide). Once she'd lapsed into unconsciousness, i would have tried to arrest the family for acting against their charge's interests. However now i'm wondering how i'd feel, if someone tried give me a procedure i didn't ethically agree with, even if it was to my own benefit. Blood transfusions are a very moral consequence free treatment, since the person who gives the blood is not harmed, and it has huge benefits, wearas organ transplants can have serious or even fatal consequences for the donors. I suppose the closest example for me would be a treatment developed by either higher primate or human experimentation. I believe we have no place experimenting on higher primates (or possibly lower primates) for our own selfish benefit. That said its a bit of an ethical dilemma for me whether use of such knowledge garnered from such in-human activities is justifiable. I think i would probably claim a form of moral superiority, because my example is actually a relevant ethical question, while the Jehovah's Witness's prohibition is based on a questionable interpretation of the bible that was written thousands of years before the possibility of blood transfusions existed. It is an act of extreme selfishness to ask doctors to stand by and do nothing while someone is dying. For the time of medicine, doctors have wrestled with "Do Not Resuscitate", and most have found this to be fair, because there are certain situations where more medical intervention is just prolonged suffering. However this was not like this, it was a young woman dying because a procedure could save her life was refused on very questionable grounds. It is barbaric to force medical staff to do nothing because of a belief, if you don't want medical help, then stay away from a hospital, because doctor's have to go through too much to have to put up with people committing senseless suicide in front of them.

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Maybe its me, but i always see the "Mac vs PC" adds as a little bit self reflective humor, slightly poking fun at the holier than thou Mac User "a true macologist does not need to expound the values of the mac, for just by being, it is great" -Book of Self Righteousness, Chapter 27, Verse 3 as contained with the Book of Jobs I can't really complain too much, i'm a fair mac evangelist myself, as much as i wish i wasnt, but they do a good job. Its rather funny however when people try to parody the ads, and don't realise the humor directed at the Mac Guy. For example To me, the "christ follower" comes across as a bit of an ass, just by his nature, because he's doing the Mac attitude. Also as is kinda expected, i feel really sorry for the christian because he's just the butt of a bad joke. Anyway, just my random thought for the moment.

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I came across this brilliant short film on the internet

Its a little long, but well worth the time to watch.

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For those of you who don't know about the situation of women in Saudi Arabia, shame on you for being ignorant. For those of you who do, congratulations on being a passable attempt of a world citizen. For those women in Saudi Arabia, don't take no for an answer, its time to take to the open road, they don't have enough police to stop all of you at once!

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I had this thought a month ago when i first watched the Sound of the Drums, and that was this symbol everywhere throughout the finale. Admittedly made sense given it was mostly shown on the Valiant, but places like this on the gas mask are not on the Valiant.

The way i see it there are 2 main options, firstly simply since he took the technology from the Valiant, it had the same label, and this was a red herring, which RTD is good at setting up. However there is a second possibility. brought up by mentioning that as Harold Saxon, he was an industrialist, and so presumably in order to build the Archangel technology, he had to have some kind of industrial base. Therefore its entirely possible he took over "V" systems/incorporated/plc, and used his knowledge to create the satellite network. As a result its likely as H C Clements had access to Torchwood technology, Vcorp has access to limited quantities of Timelord technology. My feelings are that this is a red herring, since it would re-hash a previous plotline, but still i thought i should make the observation...

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health insurers would make the arch dukes of hell feel dirty for associating with them...

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