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  1. In an unrelated study on 1 in 8 Take Fake Phone Calls to Avoid Talking to Others · · Score: 1

    1 in 8 people found to be incredibly boring to converse with

  2. LF24M! ICC 25! on Gamers Pay To Play With Girls · · Score: 1

    9 bucks for one game? You figure that's what 10 minutes? 54 bucks an hour, 216 bucks for four hours(average raid time) That's 5,184 bucks for a four hour raid with 24 ladies. I could absolutely see that happening haha.

  3. Absolutely Terrifying on PA School Defends Web-Cam Spying As Security Measure, Denies Misuse · · Score: 1

    This kind of behavior scares the bejesus out of me. I can't believe they attempted it in the first place and then had the insanity to try and defend their actions in a press release. Absolutely un-defendable actions

  4. Re:Vitamin D deficiency does not cause rickets on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    Vitamin D is a crucial component in aiding the body's absorption of calcium, so it's quite probably that there would be a link between rickets and lack of properly activated Vitamin D in your body

  5. Sunlight Explanation, via Wikipedia on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    Vitamin D is a prohormone, meaning that it has no hormone activity itself, but is converted to the active hormone 1,25-D through a tightly regulated synthesis mechanism. Production of vitamin D in nature always appears to require the presence of some UV light; even vitamin D in foodstuffs is ultimately derived from organisms, from mushrooms to animals, which are not able to synthesize it except through the action of sunlight at some point in the synthetic chain. For example, fish contain vitamin D only because they ultimately exist on calories from ocean algae which synthesize vitamin D in shallow waters from the action of solar UV.

  6. Re:Video Games? Really? on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    er ratios, not rations, sorry about that

  7. Re:Video Games? Really? on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    It's the lack of sunlight, I used to have an iguana, they required certain rations of calcium to phosphorous and a decent amount of Vitamin D in their diet, but they also required sunlight to make them active in their body. You either needed to buy a special UV lamp, which wasn't quite as effective, or get them to a window at some point during the day so they could soak up some rays.

  8. This just in! on Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise · · Score: 1

    As a follow up to this story, apparently smoking cigarettes has also been linked to a higher chance of being diagnosed with lung cancer, heart disease and other terminal ailments

  9. Re:So that's how it works! on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, first the women get you, then the power gets you, then the sugar gets you!

  10. So that's how it works! on US Blocking Costa Rican Sugar Trade To Force IP Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.

  11. Re:Hey come on! on A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads · · Score: 1

    No thank you! I already have a copy I'll never end up reading...

  12. Hey come on! on A Decade of Dreadful Microsoft Ads · · Score: 2, Funny

    The scene where Gates is reading Code Complete as a bedtime story to the little girl single handedly made me want to buy the book

  13. Re:No Problem... on Extinct Ibex Resurrected By Cloning · · Score: 5, Funny

    And since they're all females, there's no way they can reproduce! I'm 100% certain that the Ibex will never escape this remote Costa Rican island

  14. Re:Laws on Comcast's New Throttling Plan Uses Trigger Conditions, Not Silent Blocking · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because we've gotten so complacent we just take it? Nothing is probably going to change about this until corporations as a whole have their guts and power ripped out and customers gain some sort of leverage back from them