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This needs to stop
From Reddit/imgur

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Vanderbilt University – bionic leg
(Vanderbilt.edu) New lower-limb prosthetic developed at Vanderbilt University allows amputees to walk without the leg-dragging gait characteristic of conventional artificial legs.
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MABEL’s got nothin on Petman
We are so screwed.
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I just donated $20 to Justice for Maryanne Godboldo fund.
Read about how Child Protective Services and Detroit Police caused a 12 hour armed standoff because a mom courageously refused to allow her teenage daughter to be force medicated with anti-psychotic drugs.
The psych drugging industry and welfare nanny state have joined forces with police to prey on innocent children, using tax dollars to fund their operation.
Please donate to her legal defense fund. The fight is here.
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Message from Anonymous: Operation Facebook, Nov 5 2011
This ought to be interesting. I’ll get the marshmallows.
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Bill Still on the debt “ceiling”
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Ron Paul on unconstitutional “Super Congress” provision in debt bill
Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of this deal is the “Super Congress” provision. This is nothing more than a way to disenfranchise the majority of Congress by denying them the chance for meaningful participation in the crucial areas of entitlement and tax reform. It cedes power to draft legislation to a special commission, hand-picked by the House and Senate leadership. The legislation produced by this commission will be fast-tracked, and Members will not have the opportunity to offer amendments. Approval of the recommendations of the “Super Congress” is tied to yet another debt ceiling increase. This guarantees that Members will face tremendous pressure to vote for whatever comes out of this commission– even if it includes tax increases. This provision is an excellent way to keep spending decisions out of the reach of members who are not on board with the leadership’s agenda.
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Study: Internet Explorer Users Less Intelligent*
* By “study” I mean publicity stunt.
AptiQuant Psychometric conducted an online study (IQ-Browser-AptiQuant-2011.pdf) to determine the intelligence of users of various web browsers. When I saw this article at first on Consumer Affairs about it, I was all, like, duh!
Being a programmer, I know IE is a big piece of garbage, and personally I use Firefox, but after taking a step back from the ego-stroking I was forced to admit there is major bias in this study, the most obvious being the comparison of IE versions 6-9 with newer add-on browsers. IE6 is 3 years older than version 1 of Firefox and Opera. IE 6 was released in 2001 and Firefox 1 was released in 2004, as was Opera. Google released Chrome in 2008.
Their conclusion is invalid because they’re over-selecting users for the IE group who don’t/can’t update software (less intelligent people are less capable of updating software). This doesn’t speak to the choice of browser, it speaks to inability to install and update software.
IE is installed by default with Windows, and other browsers actually require you to do something to install them. Less intelligent people are less capable of downloading and installing software. A lot of people don’t even know what a browser is so they would have no idea how to install something additional. They will just use the default browser, whatever it is. How about people using Safari, the default browser on Macs. Are they stupid too? Perhaps.
I think it goes without saying that surfing the web with IE6 is dangerous and not a very bright idea, due to the amount of malware out there on web servers, but this is not obvious to all people. No offense if you don’t update your IE. There’s no need for anyone to call you stupid, because you’ll find out the hard way on your own when your computer stops working. If you like re-installing Windows over and over, who am I to judge?
To summarize, this is bologna. If you read the conclusions it sounds like they are angry at M$ for integrating IE into the Windows Explorer like a brain slug that can’t be removed. Aptiquant developers seem to have a bone to pick with IE (who doesn’t) but they should re-examine the data and attempt to control for some of these confounders or they’re going to insult a lot of users and not learn anything useful. Then again, no publicity is bad publicity, right?
You’ll pay the price for it.
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