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It would be nice if this kind of lofty smear on a man who has just died, could be avoided on HN. You imply that we know, understand and agree that Moore was indeed xenophobic and sexist - as if a) thi…

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Precisely the point - we have a choice. Thank you for that reminder. I am looking to buy a laptop and will do likewise.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. What could be simpler?

"Thuster"?

Heck! That’s around forty million ignorant bigots including myself! The Daily Mail has the second largest English language readership worldwide, a figure which must contribute to a pessimistic view of…

And who is the grand 'We'? Seems to me that you, along with some others, are getting a tad overheated. He goes on to say "The idea that Alzheimer’s might be Type 3 diabetes has been around since 2005,…

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These findings and proposed hypotheses likely influence policies which financially hit just about everyone. Billions of tax dollars have been diverted on the basis of climate research. Is it really an…

Presumably we are not forgetting that Google is simply a business responding to the overall reaction of its customers in Libya and Egypt. Why do some people appear to believe as a subtext message that…

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He specifically says 'The Cairo Declaration subordinates all human rights to sharia law, and almost every islamic country in the world has signed the Cairo Declaration. ....It beggars belief that Amne…

It's also no place for gratuitously throwing around words like fuck and dick. Try extending your vocabulary.

With some exceptions: http://www.economist.com/node/21558220 Hardly a 'slip'.

Does he actually have to spell out for you that he is one person who screams the blindingly obvious that he can only generalize on the basis of his experience? So when he says 'All of it. The entire c…

No,I didn't know that. Can you give chapter and verse?

The article tells us that lives in the US were valued at $4.85 billion. So what was the payoff for victims in China that permits the conclusion that 'American lives are quite cheap unlike those in Chi…

In the UK at least, they get a bad press.thanks to the criminal element who find lucrative pickings in Britain.Go to a popular newspaper such as the Daily Mail, search and count the negative stories a…

'Only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education'? Not unless universities abandon the teaching of history, literature, philosophy, politics, economics, whatever etc., or perhaps Thrun i…

As with being pregnant, either unique or not.

When I’m an old man, I think most people will have the ability to program.". Busy period ahead required to achieve this in the UK! Recently reported that '49% of the working population have the maths …

Going public means ....going public.

Colorful!

One of your hero's what?

Look on the bright side. Never before in human history have there been opportunities as abound today for finding resources, acquiring & leveraging skills and changing situations. Yes, there can be…

"In fact, this is a general problem of capitalism: over any interval, people who provide money to an operation at the beginning reap rewards far above the value of any managerial abilities they contri…

As an individual you can't get a UK bank account unless you can prove you have a UK physical address. Maybe there is a way round but I doubt the restrictions are any less rigorous for businesses.

Anyone idiot or indeed a wise man can crank out an opinion or even cliched abuse but don't you find it more interesting when they bother to offer a counterpoint or an argument or pertinent further evi…

Health crisis won't lead to family poverty? Is this true for all 27 member states? I've already pointed out that it isn't in Romania. What about the other East European members? Can anyone tell us?

Healthcare for all? Not in Romania where in many cases you'll simply die if you can't afford to pay for treatment and very often for diagnosis as well if it involves advanced checks taken for granted …